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Choi Young-il (ur. 25 kwietnia 1966 w Namhae) – południowokoreański piłkarz i trener, reprezentant kraju grający na pozycji obrońcy.

Kariera klubowa
Choi w latach 1986–1988 występował w studenckich drużynach Dong-A University. Od 1989 zaprezentował barwy Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i. Wraz z drużyną wygrał pierwsze w swojej karierze mistrzostwo K League 1 w sezonie 1996. Wygrał także w rozgrywkach o Puchar Ligi w 1995. Przez 7 lat gry w Ulsan wystąpił w 209 spotkaniach, w których strzelił 3 bramki.

W 1997 dołączył do Busan IPark. Już w pierwszym sezonie zdobył z klubem mistrzostwo K League 1. Rok później sięgnął do Puchar Ligi. Sezon 1999 spędził w chińskim Liaoning Hongyun, dla którego zagrał w 20 spotkaniach.

Ostatni sezon w karierze spędził w Anyang LG Cheetahs. Wraz z trzecim koreańskim klubem, w którym występował, zdobył mistrzostwo K League 1 w sezonie 2000. Po tym sukcesie zakończył karierę piłkarską.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
Choi karierę reprezentacyjną rozpoczął 12 marca 1994 w meczu przeciwko reprezentacji USA, zremisowanym 1:1. W tym samym roku otrzymał od trenera Kim Ho powołanie na Mistrzostwa Świata w USA. Na turnieju zagrał w trzech meczach grupowych z Hiszpanią, Boliwią i Niemcami.

Powołany był także na Igrzyska Azjatyckie 1994, na których zagrał w 6 spotkaniach. Miał bardzo duży wkład w awans Korei Południowej na Mistrzostwa Świata 1998, grając łącznie w 11 spotkaniach eliminacyjnych. Znalazł się w kadrze na francuski mundial, gdzie wystąpił w spotkaniu fazy grupowej z Holandią, przegranym 0:5. Był to jednocześnie ostatni mecz w kadrze Choia, dla której w latach 1994–1998 wystąpił w 56 spotkaniach.

Kariera trenerska
Od 2000 jest trenerem na Dong-A University.

Sukcesy

Ulsan Hyundai

 Mistrzostwo K League 1 (1): 1996
 Puchar Ligi (1): 1995

Busan IPark

 Mistrzostwo K League 1 (1): 1997
 Puchar Ligi (1): 1998

Anyang LG Cheetahs

 Mistrzostwo K League 1 (1): 2000

Linki zewnętrzne

 Profil na stronie 11v11.com

Reprezentanci Korei Południowej w piłce nożnej
Piłkarze Ulsan Hyundai FC
Piłkarze Busan IPark
Piłkarze Liaoning Whowin
Piłkarze FC Seoul
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Świata w Piłce Nożnej 1994
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Świata w Piłce Nożnej 1998
Urodzeni w 1966


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The Triumph class is a series of 6 container ships that now operated by the Japanese shipping company Ocean Network Express (ONE). The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of 20,182 TEU.

The ships were ordered by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) in 2015. Four ships were built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. The remaining two were built by Imabari Shipbuilding in Japan and are chartered from Shoei Kisen Kaisha.

List of ships

See also
MOL Bravo-class container ship
MOL Creation-class container ship
MOL Maestro-class container ship
MOL Globe-class container ship

References

Container ship classes
Ships built by Samsung Heavy Industries

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Working as a limited company contractor allows you to operate in very tax efficient manner, enabling you to maximise your potential take-home pay.
If you choose to set up as a limited company contractor your company will be required to pay Corporation Tax on profits which it makes. This will involve the preparation of a set of business accounts, making a Corporation Tax Return and paying the calculated tax to HMRC.
Any unpaid Corporation Tax or late returns can leave your company with possible interest and penalties.
Contractors commonly turn to accountancy service providers such as PayStream, to help relieve this hassle and minimise any risks as well as providing peace of mind that they are receiving the best advice, to ensure that their company tax affairs are being dealt with in the most complaint manner.
Every limited company is expected to pay corporation tax on profits made, the current rate is 20% for profits under £300,000.
According to HMRC taxable profits include "profits from taxable income such as trading profits and investment profits (except dividend income which is taxed differently) and Capital Gains - known as 'chargeable gains' for Corporation Tax purposes".
Corporation tax is based upon your company's taxable profit, which is your total turnover minus deductible expenses and allowances. As a limited company contractor you would deduct your employers NI, VAT, pension payments, allowable expenses and your gross salary to give you your taxable profit.
Your company's Corporation Tax Return is filed each year depending upon the company's accounting year end.
What you need to do regarding Corporation Tax?
When you set up as a limited company contractor you need to inform HMRC within 3 months. If you have an appointed accountant to operate on your behalf you must 'authorise your agent' to process your Tax, VAT and payroll.
Every year HMRC will expect you, as the director of a limited company, to complete a self-assessment tax return which needs to be completed on time to avoid hefty penalties.
As with any good accountancy service provider, PayStream provide a personal tax return service that will complete and submit your return for you.
HMRC expect all limited company contractors to retain all financial and tax records for the previous 6 years including expenses, receipts and invoices.
This does not necessarily mean that you will be expected to keep mounds of paperwork. HMRC accept scanned versions of documents as 'legible alternatives'. With PayStream you are able to upload copies of your receipts to our online portal, PSC Insight, meaning that you'll never misplace a receipt again.
As a limited company contractor it is important to understand what tax implications you will face so that you ensure you are operating compliantly.
This is why with our limited company service, My PSC, you get a dedicated accounts team who are trained to deliver the most up to date advice in order to ensure that you are working in not only the most tax efficient way, but in also the right way. Visit here for more information on how our limited company service can help you.


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require 'spec_helper'

describe ROM::Session::Operand::Update, '#old_tuple' do
  subject { object.old_tuple }

  let(:object) { described_class.new(state, old_tuple) }

  let(:identity)      { double('Identity')      }
  let(:domain_object) { double('Domain Object') }
  let(:tuple)         { double('Tuple')         }
  let(:old_tuple)     { double('Old Tuple')     }

  let(:state) do
    double('State',
      :tuple    => tuple,
      :object   => domain_object,
      :identity => identity
    )
  end

  it { should be(old_tuple) }

  it_should_behave_like 'an idempotent method'
end

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Plant tricks dung beetles into spreading its seeds
Nature Plants
A plant with seeds that look and smell like antelope droppings to attract dung beetles, which then disperse and bury the seeds, is described in a paper published online this week in Nature Plants. The study suggests that since the seeds are hard and offer no reward to the dung beetles, this represents a rare example of deception in plant seed dispersal.
Examples of flowers, especially orchids, that look like other plants or insects in order to attract animals that will pollinate them are numerous, but whether mimicry is used to help disperse seeds is controversial.
Jeremy Midgley and colleagues investigated whether the nut seeds of Ceratocaryum argenteum - which are larger than those of related species and give off a pungent smell reminiscent of antelope droppings - in the De Hoop Nature Reserve of the southern Cape of South Africa, serve as a disguise to aid their dispersal.
The size and texture of the nuts suggest that they could be collected and cached by small mammals, but no such mammals that display this 'scatterhoarding' behaviour are known in the region and camera traps set up by the researchers showed indigenous rodents ignoring the nuts. Instead they saw dung beetles (Epirinus flagellatus) rolling nuts away and burying them.
The authors analysed the volatile chemicals given off by the seeds and found that their concentration and composition were similar to those emitted from eland and bontebok dung. However, the nuts are too hard for the beetles to eat or lay eggs in. By mimicking antelope dung, C. argenteum may be tricking the dung beetles into planting their seeds without reward.
DOI:10.1038/nplants.2015.141 | Original article

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Crime Records System is intended to provide total computerized information system support for the work of the police. Its primary activities are not transparency-related, but help provide police officers with information on criminal cases and on criminals.
Crime Records System allow state and local criminal justice agencies (law enforcement, courts, corrections, and aftercare) to merge and share information. Development of systems that link these agencies can provide for greater access to accurate and complete information, contributing both to government efficiency and public safety.
Present Status of the system The present system is a manual procces.Numerous accounts are to be maintained.
The present system to be maintained deals with lots of paper information when any statistical analysis is to be carried out, for eg: a comparison of the past year's performance with that of the current year. It is also laborious task of referring to many records books carrying out the analysis work.
Manual processing of data is very time consuming and leads to erroneous result at time. In order to over come these snags computers are being used extensively in all fields thereby minimizing manual labor error to a great extent.
Taking all the advantages involved in the computer system the proposed system integrates all the manual activities by linking them under a single head.
ü Integrated criminal history records contain information that is critical to those working in the justice system.
ü Crime Records System is the most effective way to organize, track and access the vast amount of information that flows through police department every day.
ü It also envisages information sharing within the organization and across the States in the country especially the information on Crime & Criminals for effective working of Police. The application is mainly used by police department where the case details are taken in forms.
The entire Crime Records System is mainly categorized in to three modules according to their designation.
To enter a new crime in to the application the authorized user need to login based on his/her id and password. During this process first on receiving a complaint the fir number and case details are filled in the form. And then details like name of the police station where case is registered, date, district, act and section need to be filled. Details of the complainant and their personal information are also recorded. If it is property case ,then property details and its value need to be filled. Depending upon the case the forms are filled which are appropriate for the case. There exists some important forms in the application which helps for bringing complete details at one place and make easy to solve the case. In this module, authorized users can view the reports regarding all the case details based on the FIR number.
Senior officers in the police service could also use this system to monitor case details and progress. All of this affects the transparency of case handling, and the accountability of police officers.
The database can be accessed at a number of individual police stations through a computer network, thus assisting police officers in their investigations, for example to check a criminal's details during interrogation. A user-friendly interface has been developed that enables the system to be handled efficiently.
The main role would be in providing members of the public with disintermediated access to information on case progress via the Web without the need to have any contact with a police officer in case of general complaints where FIR is not required . There is a plan to take this disintermediation further by allowing online registration of cases.
In India, if a crime is committed, the victim (or a witness) must go to the police station where they live, and report the crime which is then said to be registered. The duty officer in the station fills in a First Information Report (FIR): a statement of details as recalled by the victim. Previously, this has been a paper-based process, and paper records were easily manipulated or lost. With this system, a victim could go to any police station (not just their local one) and the duty officer can register the crime direct onto the system.
Crime Records System contribution to transparency would arise from that fact that, once a case has been registered on the system server database it cannot easily be changed. The person who registered the case could also get access to case details and progress at any point, either by going to any police station and requesting an officer to access their case on this system, or by accessing their case details online via the AP Police Web site using an FIR code number that is issued at the time of registration.
Available case details would include the FIR, actions taken, actions pending, other crime details, etc. The victim could lodge a complaint if they see from accessing case details that the case has not been registered properly, or that there has been no progress made on the case since it was last accessed.
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Czarnków – gmina wiejska w województwie wielkopolskim, w powiecie czarnkowsko-trzcianeckim. W latach 1975–1998 gmina położona była w województwie pilskim.

Siedziba władz gminy to Czarnków.

Według danych z 30 czerwca 2004 gminę zamieszkiwało 10 769 osób.

Struktura powierzchni
Według danych z roku 2002 gmina Czarnków ma obszar 347,78 km², w tym:
 użytki rolne: 52%
 użytki leśne: 39%

Gmina stanowi 19,23% powierzchni powiatu.

Demografia
Dane z 30 czerwca 2004:

 Piramida wieku mieszkańców gminy Czarnków w 2014 roku.

Sołectwa
Białężyn, Brzeźno, Bukowiec, Ciszkowo, Gajewo, Gębice, Gębiczyn, Góra nad Notecią-Pianówka, Grzępy, Huta, Jędrzejewo, Komorzewo, Kuźnica Czarnkowska, Marunowo, Mikołajewo, Radolinek, Radosiew, Romanowo Dolne, Romanowo Górne, Sarbia-Sarbka, Śmieszkowo, Średnica, Walkowice, Zofiowo.

Pozostałe miejscowości
Ciążyń, Goraj-Zamek, Hutka, Marunówko, Paliszewo, Sobolewo.

Sąsiednie gminy
Budzyń, Chodzież, Czarnków, Lubasz, Połajewo, Ryczywół, Trzcianka, Ujście, Wieleń

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Strona internetowa gminy


The Citadel will host a local MathCounts competition for Lowcountry students. MathCounts is a national program that promotes mathematical excellence in middle school students.
The fair is held annually to expose Lowcountry middle and high school students to fundamental math and science principles vital to understanding engineering issues and methods.
Model Bridge Competition: 8–11:30 a.m.
The highlight of the week is the National Engineers Week Banquet. The speaker, Dennis Knight of Liollio Architecture Inc., will discuss the city of Charleston climate protection and sustainability plan, which should be adopted by the city council the year end, and the Habitat for Humanity Near Zero Habit Home. The CEJC Engineer of the Year will be presented at this banquet. Ticket prices for the banquet are $15 for students and $25 for adults before February 7. Adult tickets purchased later will have an additional $5 fee. If you would like to know more about the CEJC and National Engineers Week, contact Allen Parker at (843) 277-0516.


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An Overview of Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (SPMS)
More in Multiple Sclerosis
Secondary Progressive MS
Primary Progressive MS
Relapsing-Remitting MS
Clinically Isolated Syndrome
When you stop having relapses but your MS worsens
By Julie Stachowiak, PhD
Medically reviewed by Claudia Chaves, MD
Maybe you've just been diagnosed with secondary progressive MS (SPMS). Or maybe you're one of the 85 percent to 90 percent of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are initially diagnosed with relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) and you're not sure how your doctor will know when (or if) it transitions to secondary progressive MS (SPMS). Either way, it's good to understand how the disease can progress so you can be prepared for the future.
The majority of people with RRMS transition to SPMS, which is characterized by steadier progression of symptoms and disability with fewer or no relapses.
Before disease-modifying treatments (DMTs) became widely available, about 50 percent of people with RRMS eventually developed SPMS within 10 years and about 90 percent within 25 years. However, since the development of disease-modifying therapies, the progression to secondary MS has become less frequently noted.
You can go from having RRMS to SPMS at any time, but the process is gradual and, in most patients, slow. In fact, there's often a gray zone between RRMS and SPMS when you're moving into the progressive phase of MS but are still having occasional MS relapses.
The average age for conversion to SPMS is 40 to 49 years old.
There aren't any guidelines or criteria that define when you move from RRMS to SPMS, but here are some signs that you and your doctor may look for when determining whether this transition is occurring or has already occurred.
Your Medications Don't Work Well
Sometimes, despite your best efforts and adherence to taking your disease-modifying medication, you may begin to show increasing disability without a corresponding increase in the number of lesions on your magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. This could be an indication that you're moving into SPMS.
Some people may worry that they're entering the progressive phase of MS because they stop having relapses. However, if your neurological exam is stable, this is a very good sign, as it means that your disease-modifying treatment is working.
Your Relapses Are Changing
The natural course of RRMS is for the number of relapses you have to actually decrease over time. However, the relapses that do occur may be more severe, bringing multiple symptoms, rather than just affecting one area of function.
Recovery from these relapses also tends to be incomplete, meaning that even after the acute phase of the relapse has passed, you still have some symptoms and/or disability. Additionally, you no longer respond as well to Solu-Medrol during these relapses.
Understanding MS Relapses
There's a Large Amount of Damage Seen on MRI
When you have an MRI, you and your doctor may see these results:
Greater Lesion Burden
This means that there's a greater total number of lesions, which tend to be:
Around the ventricles (the cavities in the brain that are filled with cerebrospinal fluid)
Confluent lesions, meaning small lesions forming larger ones
Concentrated in the brainstem and spinal cord
More Axonal Damage and "Black Holes"
Areas that show up as dark (hypointense) spots on a T1 scan are referred to as "black holes." These are areas where there has been repeated inflammation, leading to complete destruction of both myelin and the axons themselves. These areas strongly correlate with disability.
Enlargement of CSF-Filled Ventricles in the Brain
This is a measure of atrophy. As there is less brain tissue, the spaces around and within the brain get bigger.
A Decrease in Gadolinium-Enhancing Lesions
Paradoxically, the number of new, active gadolinium-enhancing lesions decreases in later stages of RRMS. This is because the disease is most likely becoming more degenerative than inflammatory.
Everything You Need to Know About MRI for MS
You Have a Greater Degree of Disability
When measured by the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), people with RRMS tend to have a score of 4 or less. People with SPMS, on the other hand, usually have a score of 6 or higher, meaning that some form of assistance is needed to walk.
Your doctor will also find more abnormalities during your neurological exam. This shows that your brain can no longer compensate for the demyelination—your immune system's attacks on the myelin sheath, the protective covering around nerve fibers.
Lastly, people that develop SPMS tend to exhibit more cognitive impairment. This is most likely due to the greater degree of atrophy in the brain, which is highly correlated to cognitive dysfunction. What this really means is that your brain can't offset the damage anymore, especially where there's complete axonal (nerve fiber) destruction, resulting in black holes.
Understanding the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS)
As with all types of MS, no one knows what causes SPMS. It's believed to be a combination of factors involving genetics and environmental triggers like infections, vitamin D deficiency, geography, and childhood obesity.
In terms of factors that may influence the transition from RRMS to SPMS, studies show that men appear to develop SPMS more quickly and at a younger age than women. However, both genders end up needing to use a cane at around the same age, so even though they may enter the progressive phase earlier, males don't have a worse outcome.
Smoking has also been found to increase your risk of transitioning from RRMS to SPMS.
Causes and Risk Factors of Multiple Sclerosis
If you've already been diagnosed with RRMS, you probably know that the diagnostic process can be a time-consuming process as your doctor performs tests, rules out other conditions, and puts together pieces of the diagnostic puzzle.
Similarly, diagnosing SPMS requires a combination of strategies, including a thorough neurological examination and repeat MRIs. As with RRMS, there are no definitive diagnostic tests.
When it comes to diagnosing SPMS, your doctor will need to confirm two facts:
You have a history of RRMS: In order to be diagnosed with SPMS, you must have had RRMS first. For some people, confirming this history may be difficult as they may have never realized they had RRMS, thanks to subtle symptoms or even misdiagnosis.
Your MS is now in a progressive state: Once your doctor confirms your RRMS history, he or she must confirm that your disease is progressive, which means that it's gradually getting worse.
Changes in SPMS
In RRMS, inflammatory processes cause demyelination. This inflammation can be seen on your MRIs during relapses in the form of bright white spots (gadolinium-enhancing lesions).
However, in SPMS, there's less inflammation and more degeneration of gray matter and white matter, as well as spinal cord atrophy (nerve damage and loss), which can also be seen on MRI. While there's still demyelination and inflammation happening, it's more widespread.
Spinal cord atrophy is far more prominent in SPMS than it is in RRMS too, and this nerve loss can cause bowel and bladder problems, along with more difficulty walking.
While you experienced relapses in RRMS, these will become less and less frequent. Instead, you'll notice that your condition is gradually worsening. For instance, you might be able to tell that it has gotten harder to walk for the last several months, but you can't pinpoint a time when it suddenly got worse.
The Transition Period
There's often a transition period between when RRMS ends and SPMS begins. This can make it tricky to tell exactly what's going on because there's overlap between the two types. As your MS progressively worsens, you may still have an occasional relapse.
Disease Modifiers
SPMS can also be classified throughout the course of the disease as active, not active, and with or without progression.
Active: You have relapses and/or new MRI activity.
Progression: There's evidence that your MS is getting worse.
So, for instance, if your SPMS is classified as not active without progression, it's stable. If it's active without progression, you've had relapses and/or new MRI activity, but there's no evidence of worsening disability.
Like RRMS, SPMS symptoms are highly variable, and so is the rate at which it progresses. Every situation is different; some people become more disabled more quickly than others.
How Multiple Sclerosis Is Diagnosed
Symptomatic Treatment of SPMS is similar to that of RRMS, though progressive forms of MS are notoriously more difficult to treat.
If your MS is progressing, your neurologist will likely review your rehabilitation interventions with you to see if you need any adjustments or additions. These treatments, which include physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language therapy, and cognitive rehabilitation, can help you function at your best and maintain your muscle strength and mobility.
Rehabilitation Therapies to Manage Your MS
Drug-Modifying Therapies
Most disease-modifying agents have not shown benefit in patients with SPMS. However, recently two drugs were approved by the FDA to be used in patients with SPMS who are still having active disease.
Mayzent (siponimod): This oral medication treats both RRMS and active SPMS. Initial studies have shown that it helps slow down disease progression at three months and six months with SPMS.
Mavenclad (cladribine): Another oral medication, this DMT is generally a second-line treatment if other DMTs aren't effective or you can't take them for some reason.
How Multiple Sclerosis Is Treated
Managing your individual symptoms is an important part of your care too, especially as you transition to SPMS. Your doctor may prescribe some different or additional medications to help with MS-related symptoms such as:
Bowel or bladder problems
Walking difficulties
Emotional and Psychological Symptoms in MS
Even though the treatment for SPMS is currently suboptimal, feel reassured that there are many ongoing research studies trying to come up with treatments that will hopefully stop the progression of this disease as well as improve disability.
Until then, keep being proactive in your care by educating yourself about your disease, looking at treatment options that might work for you, and communicating openly with your doctor about your journey. This can help you live your life to the fullest and empower you to make changes as needed along the way. Our Doctor Discussion Guide below can help you start that conversation.
Multiple Sclerosis Doctor Discussion Guide
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Olek MJ, Howard J. Clinical Presentation, Course, and Prognosis of Multiple Sclerosis in Adults. UpToDate. Updated September 28, 2018. https://www.uptodate.com/contents/clinical-presentation-course-and-prognosis-of-multiple-sclerosis-in-adults.
Olek MJ, Howard J. Evaluation and Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis in Adults. UpToDate. Updated April 5, 2019. https://www.uptodate.com/contents/evaluation-and-diagnosis-of-multiple-sclerosis-in-adults.
Olek MJ, Mowry E. Treatment of Progressive Multiple Sclerosis in Adults. UpToDate. Updated April 24, 2019. https://www.uptodate.com/contents/treatment-of-progressive-multiple-sclerosis-in-adults.
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"""Simple integrity test for the letter language registry."""

import contextlib

from absl import flags
import pycountry

from absl.testing import absltest
from nisaba.scripts.utils import letter_languages

flags.DEFINE_string(
    'input_text_proto', None,
    'Input text proto file in `nisaba.LetterLanguages` format.')

flags.mark_flag_as_required('input_text_proto')

FLAGS = flags.FLAGS

class LetterLanguagesIntegrityTest(absltest.TestCase):

  @contextlib.contextmanager
  def assertNotRaises(self, exc_type):
    try:
      yield None
    except exc_type:
      raise self.failureException('{} raised'.format(exc_type.__name__))

  def setUp(self):
    super().setUp()
    self._letters_proto = letter_languages.read_textproto(
        FLAGS.input_text_proto)

  def test_letters(self):
    """Make sure the unicode letter names map to raw characters correctly."""
    all_letters = set()
    self.assertTrue(self._letters_proto.item)
    for i, item in enumerate(self._letters_proto.item):
      # Letter message should not be empty.
      self.assertTrue(item.letter)
      self.assertTrue(item.letter.uname)
      self.assertLen(item.letter.uname, 1)
      self.assertTrue(item.letter.raw)

      # Check that there are no duplicates and the letters are in the
      # Unicode codepoint order.
      u_char = item.letter.raw
      self.assertNotIn(item.letter.raw, all_letters,
                       f'Letter {i}: Duplicate letter `{u_char}` found')
      all_letters.add(u_char)
      if i:
        this_codepoint = ord(u_char)
        prev_codepoint = ord(self._letters_proto.item[i - 1].letter.raw)
        self.assertLess(prev_codepoint, this_codepoint,
                        f'Letter {i}: Should be in Unicode codepoint order. '
                        f'This codepoint: {this_codepoint}, '
                        f'previous: {prev_codepoint}')
    self.assertEqual(len(self._letters_proto.item), len(all_letters))

  def test_languages(self):
    """Sanity checks for language codes."""
    for i, item in enumerate(self._letters_proto.item):
      for code in item.language:
        # The language code should be in ISO 639 format and consists of
        # two letters for ISO 639-1 languages and three letters otherwise.
        self.assertTrue(code, f'Empty language code in item {item}.')
        self.assertGreater(4, len(code),
                           f'`{code}` is too long a language code.')
        self.assertTrue(code.islower(), f'Language code `{code}` should be '
                        'lower-case.')
        if len(code) == 3:
          lang = pycountry.languages.get(alpha_3=code)
          self.assertTrue(lang, f'Failed to find language for code {code}')
          if hasattr(lang, 'alpha_2'):
            self.fail(f'Letter {i}: Please use two-letter code `{lang.alpha_2}`'
                      f' instead of `{lang.alpha_3}` for {lang.name} ({code})')
        else:
          lang = pycountry.languages.get(alpha_2=code)
          self.assertTrue(lang, f'Failed to find language for code {code}')

  def test_regions(self):
    """Sanity checks for region codes."""
    for i, item in enumerate(self._letters_proto.item):
      for code in item.region:
        # Region codes should be alpha-2 (where possible) or alpha-3 codes as
        # defined by ISO 3166 standard.
        self.assertLess(1, len(code))
        self.assertGreater(4, len(code))
        self.assertTrue(code.isupper(), f'Letter {i}: Region code `{code}` '
                        'should be upper-case')
        if len(code) == 3:
          country = pycountry.countries.get(alpha_3=code)
          self.assertTrue(country, f'Failed to find country for code `{code}`')
          if hasattr(country, 'alpha_2'):
            self.fail(f'Letter {i}: Please use two-letter code '
                      f'`{country.alpha_2}` instead of `{country.alpha_3}` '
                      f'for {country.name}')
        else:
          country = pycountry.countries.get(alpha_2=code)
          self.assertTrue(country, f'Failed to find country for code {code}')

if __name__ == '__main__':
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Once upon a time, there was a small church in Florida. It is attended by about 50 followers, and they have a pastor for a leader. The pastor believes that his beliefs are correct, and that Islam is the product of the devil. And because of that, the Quran must be burned. In fact, he even designated September 11, 2010 to be the International Burn a Quran Day.
So that didn't happen, back then. However, it did happen, a Quran was indeed burned last March 20. And because of that, plenty of Afghan citizens protested due to the fact that they were incited by the mullahs, and the protests turned violent, resulting in UN workers being killed.
That's a very bizarre turn of events, isn't it?
First, let me be clear here. I do not support violent protests. It is sad that several UN workers lost their lives simply because they were the next best thing to typify the West. A mob shouts "Death to America" and perhaps there weren't any Americans around, so the UN was the next best thing to represent Western influences.
I also do not support burning the Quran, or any other holy book, for that matter. While I agree that everyone has the right to burn whatever book we choose, I do acknowledge that there are sensitive issues involved with acts like burning a Quran. There are people who perhaps aren't capable of thinking rationally, that burning a book such as the Quran will just result in dire situations.
Personally, I would like to have the right to burn a Quran, burn a Bible, draw a picture of Muhammad, if I ever want to. It's all about self-determination. I do not want to be censored just because some group will be offended. However, even though I would like to have that right, I would think twice before actually doing that, because I understand that there might be people who cannot think rationally and just grab the nearest weapon out there and kill someone, if not me. I'd rather think that I am thinking logically and the other group isn't, and play it safe.
See, the thing is that this inherent dogmatism that is found in religion might be the ultimate culprit here. It seems that most religions preach the tenet that basically states that people who believe in Religion X is correct, while people who do not believe in Religion X are false and therefore will receive eternal damnation, everlasting destruction, Hellfire, eternal punishment, death, what have you. In short, religion preaches that I am correct and you are wrong. And if you are wrong, you will die.
Islam has the concept of jihad. It's a religious war, where people can actually kill in the name of religion, destroying the ones that do not believe in the faith. The Bible's track record isn't that clean either. There's the Crusades, when armies of European nations went ahead and killed the infidels and the heathens. There's the Taiping Rebellion, when religious fanatics provoked a bloody civil war that destroyed most of southern China. In the root of this is religion, and the idea that I am correct and you are wrong.
Funny, because this idea of infallibility still exists in the present day. Back to the Florida church, their leader is Terry Jones, who uses the term "Doctor" to refer to himself, due to apparently getting an honorary degree from a school that is not accredited. In his website for Stand Up America, there is this little blurb on the side saying that there are many questions and yet there's one answer, many problems and yet there's one solution, and a quote from John 14:6, about Jesus saying that he is the way.
How would I know if that is indeed the correct way? Oh wait, it's the Bible, it must be true.
I don't get it. I don't get how so many people in the world actually just take religion for granted, how so many people in the world claim that they believe that their religion is correct, and yet fail to actually examine whether that is really the case. I don't get how how many people can basically blindly believe that words coming from a certain book is the absolute truth, whether it's the Bible or the Quran, without actually checking it. When I was still involved in a religious organization, I've often heard the metaphor of the key and lock used in these questions. One would know that the Bible for example is correct if it is supported by outside evidence, and there are plenty of arguments that one can give to support this idea.
However, I think that the metaphor has a fundamental flaw. By using that metaphor, one is still under the dogmatic assumption that there is only one truth. One is still operating under the assumption that there is only one key that would open the lock, and every other key out there is false. Thus, the objective is to find the correct key, and once you find it, you'll automatically know that the other keys are fake. However, come to think of it, that is still dogmatism. How do you know that that is the correct assumption to take? Needless to say, I don't believe that there is only one key.
So, after all this, what did I learn? It seems that religion is less of a force for good but more a recipe for disaster. Religion closes the mind to free thinking, religion forces people to think that they are better than the next person. Is that really what we want? Whatever happened to the idea of tolerance and acceptance?
If I had my way, I'd try to eradicate religion for the sake of rational thought. But no, I won't do that. Religion, as much as it is a violent tool that has been used for ages, still has a therapeutic value. There are times when people need to feel that someone higher is watching their acts and keeping track of it, there are times when people feel the need to attribute unexplainable things to something supernatural, and I don't think it is good to take that away from people. Personally, I think that's just being gullible, but my beliefs aren't the only ones available in this planet. It is just sad when the same therapeutic belief system is used for the destruction of other peoples.
Some people need religion though... I used to think the world will be a better place without religions but I came to realize that it's also a way for people to accomplish great things. So I try not to focus on the negative, even though it's hard sometimes.
I totally agree. Some people need religion, or some other thing to rely on when things go insane or crazy. When there are things that happen in the world that they otherwise cannot explain, then of course, the idea of a supernatural reason is very comforting I presume.
We saw it in the news here because some Norwegians died during the attack in Afghanistan. I really hate it when people use the bible to further justify their sick claims, bigotry and hatred.
Religion does not equal Belief does not equal Faith.
I echo your sentiment. The sad thing is that not all people think like you. There are others out there who use either the Bible or the Quran or whatever holy book they have in their hands to tell others that they are correct and the rest are wrong.
Well said! As has already been mentioned here, there are times in which religion actually is a good thing and brings good results. Unfortunately, religion is not standardized, and it still produces various shades of faith, from the most liberal to the most radical.


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One of the most well-known and beloved vocalists of our time, Tony Bennett is an American icon. Now, in this rich and beautiful memoir, the legendary Grammy and Emmy Award?winning singer takes us behind the scenes of his multi-platinum career. Revealing, insightful, and always moving, Life Is a Gift tells the stories of Bennett?s experiences in the music industry, what he learned, and who he met along the way, including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald,… (more)
One of the most well-known and beloved vocalists of our time, Tony Bennett is an American icon. Now, in this rich and beautiful memoir, the legendary Grammy and Emmy Award?winning singer takes us behind the scenes of his multi-platinum career. Revealing, insightful, and always moving, Life Is a Gift tells the stories of Bennett?s experiences in the music industry, what he learned, and who he met along the way, including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, and Duke Ellington, as well as Amy Winehouse, John Mayer, and Lady Gaga. A "master class in life," this revealing retrospective offers an intimate look at Tony Bennett's journey, from growing up during the Great Depression to carving a career in popular music that has spanned more than six decades as his popularity among all generations continues to grow.
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Ray Chen: Master Class
Originally broadcast Wednesday, November 30, 2022.
Ray Chen is a violinist who redefines what it is to be a classical musician in the 21st Century. With a media presence reaching out to millions, Ray Chen's remarkable musicianship transmits to a global audience that is reflected in his engagements with the foremost orchestras and concert halls around the world.
Students from the School of Music Instrumental Program will work with renowned violinist Ray Chen, performing then receiving feedback.
Satoka Abo, violin
Sonata No. 4 (I. Allemanda)
- Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)
Bright Johnston, violin
Akiko Konishi, piano
Concerto Op. 53 (I. Allegro ma non troppo)
- Antonín Dvorak (1841-1904)
Julimar González, violin
Concerto No. 1 (I. Nocturne, II. Scherzo)
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Satoka Abo, 21, is a violinist from Moscow, Idaho. She completed her undergraduate studies with Ivan Zenaty and Ilya Kaler at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and is currently finishing her master's degree with Syoko Aki and Soovin Kim at the Yale School of Music. Satoka has attended Heifetz Institute, Kneisel Hall, and the New York String Orchestra Seminar, among other festivals. As a chamber musician, she has been coached by Joel Krosnick, Natasha Brofsky, Dmitry Kouzov, and members of the Cavani and Brentano Quartets. In 2019, Satoka earned Honorable Mention in CIM's Concerto Competition, and performed with the CIM Orchestra in the spring of 2020.
Bright Johnston made her orchestral debut at the age of 15 with the Montecito International Festival orchestra. Her past summer studies have included the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Chautauqua School Music Festival. Her recent awards consist of Gold prize in the 2020 MASTA competition and finalist placement in the University of Michigan's 2021 concerto competition. Bright graduated from the Blair School of Music Precollege program with Certificate of Distinction with honors and currently studies with Aaron Berofsky at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance.
Born in 1996 in Maracay, Venezuela. Julimar Gonzalez began her violin studies at the age of 7 with Professor Heemath Jahoor at the world-renowned music program known as 'El Sistema'. She has appeared as a soloist in various cities around Venezuela. She has also performed overseas recitals in Barcelona, Spain at the Vesprades de Tardor Music Festival and she has spent her summers at Chautauqua Music Festival and Bowdoin Music Festival in the United States during consecutive years since 2014. Ms. Gonzalez in 2022 won the concerto competition at Roosevelt University as a graduate student and in the same year she won first place in the Collegiate Strings Division. In 2021 Ms. Gonzalez won The Farewell Trust award by the Musician's Club of Woman competition. In 2019 she won the concerto competition at Chicago College of Performing Arts and got first place at the Illinois American String Teachers Association Competition of the same year. In the past she has also been a semifinalist of the Sphinx Competition in Detroit and a finalist at the SAI concerto competition held at Chautauqua Institution. Since 2013, Ms. Gonzalez has been a student of Almita and Roland Vamos. She earned her Bachelor's degree and Performance Diploma in Violin Performance at Roosevelt University.
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Q: Удаление элементов из списка. Почему не работает код? Добрый день!
Задание было таким:
Напишите программу, которая принимает на вход список чисел в одной строке и выводит на экран в одну строку значения, которые повторяются в нём более одного раза. Например:  Input: 4 8 0 3 4 2 0 3 Output: 0 3 4
Для решения задачи может пригодиться метод sort списка.
Выводимые числа не должны повторяться, порядок их вывода может быть произвольным.
a = sorted([int(n) for n in input().split(' ')])
for i in a:
    b = a.count(i)
    if b>1 :
        print(i, end=' ')
        while i in a:
            del a[a.index(i)]

Причем для " 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 " выводит " 1 2 3 " (все верно), а для " 1 1 2 2 3 3 " - почему-то выводит только " 1 2 ". Весь мозг уже сломала, не понимаю почему. Пожалуйста, помогите!)

A: Т.к. ты идешь по списку a, а потом из него удаляешь элементы, то цикл for работает не правильно, так как он не может перестает ссылаться на то, что он ссылался.
a = sorted([int(n) for n in input().split(' ')])
for i in set(a):
    b = a.count(i)
    if b>1 :
        print(i, end=' ')

тут даже sort не нужен, если порядок не важен

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Punjab Assembly Passed Resolution To Ban Celebrities From Hosting Ramazan Transmissions 2019
Laiba MohsinLast Updated: May 4, 2019
We all know that most of the Pakistani celebrities host Ramazan transmissions every year. Most of the people criticize that only religious scholars should be given permission to host such Islamic TV shows. As a result, the federal government and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has requested that only religious scholars should be invited to the Ramazan programmes instead of focusing on the actors. Moreover, the Punjab Assembly has passed a resolution calling for a ban on showbiz celebrities. Most probably, the celebrities will not be able to host and attend the Ramazan transmissions 2019.
Ramazan Transmissions 2019 Will Not Be Hosted By Actors
According to the latest reports, Muavia Azam Tariq, the lawmaker of Pakistan Rahe Haq Party, had moved the resolution. It was passed unanimously by both treasury and opposition benches on Thursday. The main aim of the resolution was to request Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to impose a ban on showbiz personalities from taking part in Ramazan transmission programmes. It was being stated that:
"In the race for media ratings, Ramazan transmissions are hosted by the people who know nothing about Islam".
So, it is being requested that only religious scholars who have spent their whole lives in teaching and learning Islam should be given the opportunity to host such TV shows. All the other actors, celebrities should be banned from hosting and attending transmissions. Let's see what happens next.
Source: Tribune
Laiba Mohsin
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Sustainability: the pursuit of environmentally sound development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the future!
The 5th Annual IEEE Technologies for Sustainability Conference (SusTech 2017) is designed to explore the development and application of science, engineering and technology in achieving a sustainable lifestyle for humanity. It brings together scientists, engineers, technologists and scholars from multiple disciplines to hold a dialogue on environmental issues and collaborate on ideas to develop and utilize innovative tools and intelligent systems to address them. Attendees will learn about the tools, connections and proactive solutions to take their sustainability programs to the next level.
SusTech 2017 will feature invited presentations, technical papers, student posters (contest) and workshops. A number of prominent experts will be giving keynotes addresses and plenary presentations.
Conference content that meet IEEE quality review standards will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting & Indexing (A&I) databases.
Abstracts are solicited for invited presentations from industry, government and academia covering relevant applied research, technologies, methodologies, tools and case studies. Topics with policy implications are also welcome. Invited speakers bio, abstract, and photo will be posted on the web site. A PDF of the complete set of invited speakers will be included in the proceedings. Optionally, an invited paper can be submitted (to be reviewed and meet IEEE quality requirements) of 8 pages maximum as described at http://sites.ieee.org/sustech/authors/. We can also now publish a 2-page extended abstract in the proceedings that will not count as a formal publication. These can be arranged after abstract acceptance.
Technologies that contribute to sustainability in all applications affecting human life.
Instructions: Submit in PDF or Word form, a one or two page (extended) abstract of the invited presentation via the form below. For information for authors on abstract format and optional paper submission, please visit the conference website at http://ieee.org/sustech/. Select Authors tab.
5. Is there any other information you'd like to provide with your application?
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I primarily use bootstrap to style stuff I am working on (mostly because of my complete lack of any aesthetic ability). I am interested in using the Angular teams material design stuff but its not ready for A2 yet.
Anyways if you like me use the bootstap navbars you might want set which link is currently active.
Bootstrap normally does this via an '.active' class on the li of the link that is active.
Angular 2 sets a class '.router-link-active' on the 'a' element itself.
This will work with bootstraps styling for the navbar.


It should come as no surprise that the Pixel 3's big feature is its camera, and it's quite impressive too. One of the handy new features Google has included allows users to export different frames of a shot, but Pixel 3 Top Shot actually saves these other shots in a dramatically lower resolution.
It's officially Pixel day. After announcing the phones last week and reviews dropping earlier this week , you can officially go out and buy Google's new phones today. Here's where to buy Google Pixel 3 or Pixel 3 XL.
The Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are officially available today , which means we're going to start seeing a lot more ads for what our Stephen called " two of the best phones you can buy ". In this 30-second ad spot, Gordon Ramsay, Riverdale actress Madelaine Petsch, music producer Marshmello, and YouTubers Joey Graceffa and Eva Gutowski all endorse the smartphones just like our own Mr. Hall.


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Increment access levels in selected code. So, private and fileprivate code becomes internal, internal becomes public, and any public code stays as is.
Decrement access levels. private code stays as is, fileprivate and internal become private, and public code becomes internal.
Setters with overriden access levels (for example, private(set) internal var) are treated separately: when incrementing/decrementing access, or making/removing API, overridden setters maintain their current access level. If the underlying entity ends up with the same access level as the overriden setter, the explicit override is removed. When setting code to a single access level, the explicit setter override is removed so the entire entity is set to the desired level.
It's not particularly smart, so for example it doesn't know if a function can't be made public because it relies on an internal type. Or if a subclass can't be made public because its superclass isn't public. And it certainly can't reason about anything going on in any other file. It just operates on the bits of selected Swift code that could, grammatically speaking, have an access control modifier.
It also doesn't support open or final for the moment, mostly because it's a bit more work and just ship it already, and partly because I sort of feel those notations should require a bit more forethought when planning a framework.
From the Organizer window, which should open automatically, click Distribute and export the created archive using the option Copy to use locally. Save wherever you like.
The extension will now be available in System Preferences, under the Extensions pane, listed as an Xcode Source Editor extension. Activate!
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De Europese kampioenschappen kyokushin karate 2005 waren door de International Karate Organization (IKO) georganiseerde kampioenschappen voor kyokushinkai karateka's. De 18e editie van de Europese kampioenschappen vond plaats in het Bulgaarse Varna.

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Never included in Naval Aviation's inventory, the P-40B Tomahawk is displayed to honor those Naval Aviators who joined Colonel Claire Chennault's American Volunteer Group (AVG), better known as the Flying Tigers. Entering combat in December 1941, the AVG quickly gained fame flying against overwhelming odds. As America entered the war, and U.S. units moved into China, the AVG was summarily disbanded on 4 July 1942. In its short life, however, the AVG shot down 299 enemy aircraft and destroyed another 153 on the ground.
The P-40B Tomahawk evolved from the Curtiss Model 75 Hawk, a radial-engined fighter introduced in the mid-1930s. First flown in October 1938, the XP-40 was the fastest U.S. Army fighter at the time, and deliveries of the P-40 began in June 1940. The P-40B first flew in November 1941, and was quickly sent to the Royal Air Force (RAF) under Lend-Lease. The original models lacked self-sealing fuel tanks and carried two .50-caliber cowl-mounted guns and two .30-caliber guns in the wings. The P-40B was improved with self-sealing tanks, pilot armor and two extra wing guns, though the RAF versions of the Tomahawk were armed with six .303-caliber machine guns. B and C-model Tomahawks served with the RAF in North Africa in 1941-1942, where it was quickly discovered that the aircraft was inferior to the German BF-109, except at low altitude. The British turned down further deliveries, preferring to wait for the more powerful P-40D and E "Kittyhawk."
With the signing of the Lend-Lease Act, the Chinese Commissioner of Aviation, T.V. Soong, approached the U.S. to procure aircraft for China's air force. A number of P-40Bs were available, and were sold to a Chinese company. CAMCO, as it was called, shipped crated P-40Bs to Rangoon, Burma, where they were assembled. In a parallel move, CAMCO hired retired Navy and Army officers to travel to U.S. naval air stations and Army fields to recruit pilots, promising better pay than the U.S. military offered, along with getting into the war that America, at the time, resisted entering. In 1937, Claire Chennault, a retired U.S. Army captain, had been hired by the Nationalist Government to train Chinese pilots, then flying both Russian and Italian aircraft far inferior to the Japanese. Forming the AVG, Chennault had new P-40 aircraft and a host of American recruits.
Though initially planned for three groups, the AVG actually fielded only one before America placed a freeze on the release of active duty personnel. Among the Naval Aviators who resigned their commissions to fly with the AVG were David Lee "Tex" Hill, Chuck Older, Dick Rossi, and Gregory Boyington, to name a few. In fact, the majority of the pilots in the AVG were Naval Aviators. "Tex" Hill became one of the top aces in the AVG, Older was a double ace with both the AVG and Army Air Forces 23d Pursuit Group, and Boyington returned to the Marines to become a four-time ace and command the famous "Black Sheep" of Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 214. Another former Naval Aviator who served in the AVG, James H. Howard, eventually became an Army Air Forces pilot and received the Medal of Honor for actions over Europe in 1944. From 20 December 1941 to 4 July 1942, the AVG downed 299 enemy aircraft, and destroyed another 153 on the ground.
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Powerplant: One Allison 1,040 hp V-1710-33 in-line
Length: 31 ft., 8 in.
Height: 12 ft., 4 in.
Wingspan: 37 ft., 4 in.
Wing Area: 235.9 sq. ft.
Empty: 5,590 lb.
Gross: 7,600 lb.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 07:00
Analysis of intercultural relations between Spain, America and the Philippines
The Rey Juan Carlos University organizes a congress to analyze the intercultural heritage resulting from the contact between the Spanish, American and Philippine civilizations.
Nora Fernandez Fernandez
Over the next few days, November 30 and December 1, the International Congress 'Spain in America and the Philippines: The intercultural legacy of missionary linguistics' will be held. The event is organized by the Linguistic and New Media Research Group (Liynmedia) of the Department of Arts and Humanities of the URJC.
The venue for the meeting, in which the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Citizenship and Values Foundation (Funciva) collaborate as organizers, will be the Old Pavía Barracks in Aranjuez.
According to Félix Labrador, professor of Modern History at the URJC and organizer of the event, the most important issues that will be addressed in the Congress have two aspects; "On the one hand, a historical approach where the role of religion in the Castilian expansion will be analyzed. On the other hand, a linguistic aspect, which is based on the cultivation of autochthonous languages and has become an important field of study in recent years".
The Congress, of an international nature, will be attended by professors from Chile, Germany, France and Italy, as well as different Spanish universities. The full program can be seen from the following link: International Congress 'Spain in America and the Philippines'.
The objective of the Congress, as Labrador indicates, is to escape "the revisionist, ideological and non-historiographical crisis that calls into question and condemns without nuance the whole of the Spanish presence in America and the Philippines." The main idea is to recover the great intercultural legacy that has been inherited from the contact between civilizations and that has generated so many cultural exchanges.
"Contrary to what Nebrija had predicted in his Castilian Grammar, in whose prologue he exposes Queen Isabella that the conquest of new territories necessarily follows the imposition of the victor's language, the religious of the different orders strove to learn the natural languages, giving them writing, grammatical codification, elaborating lexicographical repertoires and making many other complementary materials that even include translations of the Bible into those languages", comments Labrador.
On all these aspects, this international and specialized academic event will reflect on the Hispanic monarchy and its relationship with religion, legal developments in defense of native populations, the creation of centers for the study of languages and cultures, their theological elaborations and the writing of historical treatises.


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The difficult second… demo? We'd graduated from living room to local school hall. As with Blink and Miss It and more You than me we recorded with our friend Colin, a man with enormous talent, patience and capacity.
This demo only had four songs, one less than our previous demo. I believe this is because we'd only written another four songs in the intervening period. This time I managed to contribute three of the four, although again, they all got hammered into shape by all four of us. Also Aaron had written half of the words for Enemy of the state as I ran out of steam halfway through.
The title came because we were theoretically breaking up. Aaron was headed to uni in Derby. I was heading down to Brighton. But we were so pleased with this demo and with how things were going that we stayed together and did the long distance band relationship thing instead.
This remains my favourite of our earlier demos. It still (to my unseasoned ears) sounds fantastic. We were well rehearsed and did a great collective job of writing and arranging these songs. The demo nearly led to two videos (for Enemy of the state and I am ready if you're interested), but we never quite got enough footage and there was no youtube in those days. Some of the footage from I am ready made it into the launch promo though.


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Nguyen Van Cuong
Nguyen Van Cuong was born in 1976 in Bac Giang Province, Vietnam. He graduated from the Fine Art Teachers College in 1995 and at the top of his class from the Hanoi Fine Art University in 1999,. He is currently a lecturer at the National College of Music and Painting. Cuong has had over 15 solo and group exhibitions since 1997 and has won numerous honors and awards including first prize in 1996 (Propaganda Paintings) and in 2011 (Self Portraiture).
A majority of pieces we have selected for his Tokyo debut have been selected from his solo exhibition in Hanoi entitled "Make-Up Faces" "Sometimes we can not see the real face of a woman. Her face has become a place where she applies make-up, displays her glasses and perches her hat … Women do all this to 'take care of themselves' but are they actually adorning themselves in an attempt to escape who they really are?
Modern times with our constant exposure to media, airbrushing and models has created an expectation that a certain type of beauty is prescriptive if others are going to see them as 'beautiful'. Satisfying the desire for a perfect beauty is unattainable for most women but many will go to all means in their quest.
Many women feel that the changes they make to themselves will ultimately make them more attractive – but when considering the time and emotional energy it takes to get to this state of beauty, they almost certainly will have lost something in the process. Perhaps they think that beauty will make their existence easier. But it's possible for the "adorning" to go too far… an unsophisticated person who tries to doll herself up to become sophisticated or intellectual may feel uncomfortable with the roll, especially if they find that they are acting instead of being natural and being who they are. Changing ones appearance and then taking on a roll can be not only uncomfortable for the actress but deceitful to others.
My paintings are an attempt to show the contradiction between who women are and who they make themselves up to be. They address contradictions: femininity versus frivolity, truth versus fallacy, purity versus vulgarity, true beauty versus a sheath of deception … I hope that "Makeup Faces" gives the viewer a subtle but provocative message with the aesthetic contained within each piece. Even better would be that the paintings lead to a dialog about "Makeup" and it's implications for beauty." Painter Nguyen Van Cuong


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Doc Cramer
Roger Maxwell Cramer
Born: 7 / 22 / 1905 at Beach Haven, NJ (USA)
Died: 9 / 9 / 1990 at Manahawkin, NJ (USA)
This article was written by Donald J. Hubbard
Like many businessmen in the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash, legendary Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack took a beating financially and, as a result, he dealt his star outfielder Roger "Doc" Cramer to the Boston Red Sox. Cramer joined other Athletics stars such as Lefty Grove and Jimmie Foxx in the exodus to Boston, whose much more financially secure Sox owner, Tom Yawkey, reaped the benefit
Born in Beach Haven, in southern New Jersey, on July 22, 1905, Roger Cramer earned the appellation "Doc" because of his friendship while growing up with a local physician named Joshua Hilliard. Cramer religiously accompanied his friend and mentor on his house calls to patients, often traveling on a "one-hoss dray" in nearby Manahawkin, where he and his family moved to when he was very young. He liked people calling him "Doc" but hated his other nickname, "Flit," given to him supposedly by a sportswriter. Cramer's parents Eva and John R. Cramer (a butcher) had six children, though one died young. The Cramers were mainly of Dutch extraction, with some German, and while Doc Cramer did not pursue medicine, he did apprentice as a carpenter. Even during his major-league career, he built houses as a union man during the offseason, always earning more than he made in any year he played professional baseball.
By the age of eight, Doc had begun to follow baseball obsessively, playing it as often as possible and watching many local games. He probably did not see any major-league games as a child or teenager, as his father did not share in his passion for the game. Perhaps Dad could not figure out why his son threw right-handed and batted left-handed; to his family, this remains a mystery.
Doc Cramer first played baseball on the Beach Haven sandlots with his brother, cousins, and friends, and when he wasn't making rounds with Dr. Hilliard he played ball constantly. When he was in high school (where he was an A student), he and family members even formed a baseball team of their own, the Sprague and Cramer club. Doc also starred on the Manahawkin High varsity team; when not pitching, Doc played center field, second base, and catcher. He married his childhood sweetheart, Helen, on the day after Christmas in 1927 and they raised two daughters together.
Still, Connie Mack, a former catcher himself, must have commiserated with the plight of one of his backup catchers, Cy Perkins, to umpire a semipro doubleheader in 1928. All that Mack asked in return was that if Perkins saw any talented athletes, he let the Athletics know about it. With that caveat in hand, Perkins slipped off to a twin bill between the Manahawkin and Beach Haven clubs.
Perkins had advance knowledge that a special young man named Cramer might help out the major-league club. It seems that some time earlier, Perkins and his teammate Jimmy Dykes had stopped by the office of a realtor named Van Dyke to look for some vacation property, and Van Dyke tipped them off to the local phenom. Doc did not disappoint, and at the end of the second game, Perkins approached the young prospect and asked, "How would you like to come to Philadelphia tomorrow morning and see Mr. Mack?"
Cramer shot back, "What time does Mr. Mack reach the park?"
"About 9 o'clock," replied Perkins.
"I'll be there at 8:30," Cramer promised, and the next day he arrived at Shibe Park to meet Connie Mack wearing a suit his brother Paul had bought him for the occasion. Doc's father tried to persuade him not to go, but he did not listen and headed off for his tryout with his cousin Chris Sprague driving him there. Mack signed up the eager youngster and kept him on the Athletics bench for the rest of the season, then assigned him to the Martinsburg team in the Blue Ridge League.
It was there that in 1929, Doc Cramer began his professional career, in a Class-D minor league consisting of teams primarily from western Maryland. He hit .404 and won the batting championship, beating out future Red Sox teammate Joe Vosmik in the final game of the season. Vosmik needed to have a slightly better day at the plate to win the title. Although he had thrown 30-some innings over the course of the season, Cramer was a fixture in the outfield. An oft-repeated tale, perhaps apocryphal, has Cramer copping the batting crown for himself when his manager started him on the mound for that final game; Cramer kept Vosmik at bay by walking him each time he came to bat.
Apparently Connie Mack liked what he heard about the Blue Ridge batting champion because he secured him to serve as a reserve outfielder for the rest of the major-league season. Cramer debuted on September 18 in a ninth-inning pinch-hit role against the visiting St. Louis Browns. An 0-for-5 game starting in left field against the Senators was his only other appearance. In all, Cramer came to bat six times without a hit in 1929.
Doc accompanied the Athletics to spring training the next year but did not make the cut when the A's broke camp, being optioned to Portland in the Pacific Coast League. Years later Cramer related to Peter Golenbock a spring training incident between himself and the Hall of Fame hurler:
"I remember spring training my first year with the A's. I hit a home run off [Grove] in an intrasquad game. I came up to hit the next time, and Mickey Cochrane said, 'Look out, he's going to throw at you.' He hit me in the ribs. I went into the clubhouse, and after he finished his three innings, he came in and he said, 'You didn't hit that one, did you rookie?'"
Luckily for Cramer, he became "a great friend" to the notoriously moody and taciturn Grove.
Doc hit so well at Portland (.347 in 74 games) that Mack called him up to for another viewing in mid-summer.
For the rest of the 1930 season, Cramer was a utility outfielder, working his way into 30 games and chipping out a .232 batting average. Playing the field for Philadelphia proved most frustrating for Doc, as the A's had three pretty fair veterans standing ahead of him on the depth chart: Al Simmons in left field, Mule Haas in center field, and Bing Miller in right. Otherwise, it was a pretty heady time for Doc to play for the team; besides the legendary manager and starting outfielders, Jimmie Foxx manned first base, Mickey Cochrane caught, and Lefty Grove, George Earnshaw, Eddie Rommel, and Rube Walberg pitched. Cramer did not play in the 1930 World Series, which the Athletics won in six games over the Cardinals.
In 1931, Cramer played on one of the last of the great Philadelphia Athletics teams and his playing time incrementally increased -- 65 games and 223 at-bats for a .260 average. He hit his first major league home run, a solo shot, on August 16 off Sarge Connally at Cleveland's League Park, contributing to a 6-4 Philadelphia win. Earnshaw and Walberg had 21 and 20 wins respectively, and Waite Hoyt came over from Detroit during the season and helped the club win the pennant with 10 wins. Grove remained the ace of the staff with a 31-4 record. To round out this wonderful season, Doc came to bat twice in the World Series that year, getting one hit and two runs batted in as the Athletics lost to the Cardinals in seven games.
In 1932, the Athletics failed to repeat, winning 94 games but finishing second to the Yankees. Mack permitted Cramer to pick up considerably more playing time, at the expense of Bing Miller, and Doc responded with a .336 average in 92 games. His time had finally arrived, but his limited at-bats in his first few seasons undoubtedly cost him a shot at 3,000 hits and an almost certain election to the Hall of Fame.
The country continued to suffer in the '30s under its seemingly intractable Depression, and no team suffered more financially, despite relatively good attendance, than poor Connie Mack's Athletics - despite their excellent rosters and contending teams. Beset with financial issues, Mack began to sell or trade his stars to more prosperous clubs, or at the least more adventurous owners. Outfielders Simmons and Haas both went to the White Sox. The development helped Cramer, who received more playing time. In 1933 he worked in 152 games and batted .295, but the team, shorn of some of its key stars, slipped to mediocrity. In a strange statistical quirk, Cramer, a singles hitter extraordinaire, registered a career-high eight home runs that season.
Lefty Grove departed after the '33 campaign, and in the next year the club really felt the pinch by sliding into the second division, although again Cramer took advantage of his opportunities by batting .311. In 1935, Doc excelled again with a .332 average on a team increasingly unable to protect him in the order. With Jimmie Foxx, he dominated the team's offensive categories. As a reward, he was named to the American League All-Star team for the first time, although he did not get a chance to bat in that year's Midsummer Classic.
Chronic economic difficulties continued to plague the franchise, compelling Mack to deal Jimmie Foxx and talented pitcher Johnny Marcum to the Red Sox. Soon thereafter, Mack traded Cramer and then-promising shortstop Eric "Boob" McNair also to the Red Sox in exchange for $75,000 and throw-ins Hank Johnson and Al Niemiec. McNair had a couple of good seasons for the Red Sox and one very productive season for the White Sox in 1939, when he batted .324, good for 10th in the league. Cramer was voted onto the American League All-Star team each year from 1937 through 1940. He never forgot his first major league manager, though; Doc loved Connie Mack, always considering him a second father.
Philadelphia may have run out of money, but it launched Cramer's career and in his last year there, the club brought onto its roster a catcher named Paul Richards from Waxahachie, Texas, one of the greatest baseball minds of all time and Doc's best friend in baseball.
In 1936, his first season with the Red Sox, Doc had a .292 average, although he hit no home runs that year and did not hit any for more than three years afterwards. He did improve his batting average though, with a .305 mark in '37 and a .301 campaign in '38.
On a personal level, Cramer flourished in Boston, his favorite city. His daughter Joan remembers birthday parties with the players and their children in attendance. In one of her more memorable parties, the young Joan saw Ted Williams walking toward her with his tan pants and brown and white sports coat and in a fit of mischief grabbed a garden hose and sprayed the Splendid Splinter from head to toe. Ted was furious, but he never did catch her.
Another time Doc went to visit a jewelry store in Boston and found it closed. Turning to leave, he stepped on a bag in the foyer, which upon inspection revealed dozens of uncut diamonds. The store had closed for the day, but Cramer contacted the store's owner the next morning and to the merchant's great relief, returned the bag to the grateful owner -- so grateful that he supplied the Cramer family with bracelets and rings free for years thereafter.
No matter how famous or well-known Cramer became, he never forgot the times in his own youth when his family did not have money, so each year before Thanksgiving and Christmas, his wife would buy several bags of groceries and load them into the family's 1937 Chevrolet pickup truck. Then, Doc and daughter Joan drove to folks in town having a tough go of it. Obeying her father's instructions, Joan would go to each house and drop off the groceries on the front porch, never knocking or ringing the bell, and from there they would go to the next needy family until their rounds were complete.
In 1939, it was thought that the Sox might finally overtake the Yankees and win the American League pennant, a hope fostered greatly by the emergence of Ted Williams. No one had to tell Williams how great he was, but on one occasion Doc took exception to the rookie's cockiness and threw a punch at him in a vain attempt to inject him with humility. As a seasoned veteran, Doc could be expected to replicate his usual production, and if the pitching held and this Williams fellow fulfilled his hype, pennant fever would embrace the Hub.
Unfortunately, Doc began the season feebly, swatting away at virtually everything without success, and until mid-May his batting average hovered below .200. Exhibiting his frustration, he attempted to attain superhuman feats in the field, throwing himself into the center-field screen in a vain attempt to snare a Hank Greenberg drive on May 4, and then days later performing a somersault in catching a "fierce liner" off the bat of Rudy York.
Finally, in a game against the Senators on May 14, he went 3-for-7 at the plate, raising his average to .213, thereafter becoming the Doc Cramer of old, with multi-hit games following swiftly after the breakthrough. By the end of the month, he had raised his average close to .300, but by then manager Joe Cronin had taken him out of his customary leadoff spot, supplanting him with a slugging young second baseman named Bobby Doerr.
Cramer was never a prolific base stealer despite being highly-regarded as a swift runner in the outfield. Some have wondered why Doc did not steal more, although catchers threw him out frequently (he stole 62 bases but was caught 73 times). He was well-known as a singles hitter; one also wonders if he often did not try to go for the double and held up at first instead. During the remainder of the summer, Doc had his typical year: strong defense, swift running in the outfield (but woeful in consummating steals), plenty of hits, but no home runs. The Boston Globe's Mel Webb credited him with saving five runs by himself in a game against the Yankees on September 7, and he stoically stayed in a game against St. Louis on September 19 after he tripled home teammate Red Nonnenkamp. On the latter occasion, the Browns' Johnny Berardino had thrown the ball from the outfield to his third baseman but inadvertently hit Doc, who was, in the words of sportswriter Gerry Moore, "so stunned from the blow on the head he was unable to get up and score himself when the ball caromed clear to the grandstand wall off the Cramer cranium."
Yet it was a game against Detroit on the second of June, which seemed to exemplify Doc's year, and indeed his entire career, in a microcosm. In an 8-5 loss, Doc went a perfect 5-for-5 at the plate, a pretty rare feat, and yet the next day's Sox headline in the Globe lauded the team's manager/shortstop, trumpeting the fact that CRONIN POLES 2. Like Rodney Dangerfield, Doc got no respect, and his singles hitting paled in the face of power hitting every time.
Although the Yankees pulled away from the Red Sox and clinched the pennant in September, Cramer continued to play hard in what became, at best, a race for second place. His devotion paid off as he finished the season with a .311 average, a truly impressive statistic given his glacial start at the plate.
As the threat of World War II increased the Sox gathered for the '40 campaign, and Doc batted .303, but the winds had shifted at Fenway, with the advent of another pretty slick outfielder named Dom DiMaggio. Fenway has always been friendly to power hitters but less enamored of singles hitters, and as he grew older, the home park became less tolerant of Doc's style.
Cramer loved Boston and wanted to keep playing there, but after 1940 the Red Sox traded him to the Washington Senators for Gee Walker. Doc always felt that Cronin traded him out of spite, as the two strong personalities never got on. The same day, the Red Sox packaged Walker with pitcher Jim Bagby and catcher Gene Desautels in a deal with the Cleveland Indians for catcher Frank Pytlak, infielder Odell Hale, and pitcher Joe Dobson. Initially the trade seemed to work out a bit better for the Indians as Bagby won 17 games for them in 1942 and 1943, but Dobson proved to be a very good pickup for the Sox, for whom he won more than 100 games through 1950.
Without the luxury of batting in the same lineup with Williams, Foxx, and Doerr, Cramer saw his offensive levels drop off and he never hit over .300 again (he did hit .300 on the nose in 1943). Although many ballplayers joined the armed forces in World War II and the talent pool was diluted significantly during the war years, Cramer, by now in his late 30s, did not really capitalize on this phenomenon and he never made the All-Star Game after the trade.
Cramer's stay in Washington lasted only one year and he hated every minute of his time there, preferring to play in Boston. Although Cramer had led the American League in hits the year before the trade, as a Senator in 1941, he had 20 fewer hits in one less at-bat and his average dropped from .303 with Boston in 1940 to .273 in Washington. In the offseason, the Senators traded Cramer and Jimmy Bloodworth to Detroit for Frank Croucher and Bruce Campbell. Campbell had been a good hitter in the '30s with more power than Cramer, but he played for the Senators only in 1942 and did not play again.
With the Tigers, Cramer experienced more frustration at the plate in 1942, batting only .263. But he rebounded nicely the next year with an even .300 mark. He hit well in 1944, too, tallying up a .292 average. And that year Paul Richards joined the Tigers in 1943 to be reunited with Cramer, and they had a much longer run as teammates than the first time as they played together with the Tigers for the next four years.
Having played for a World Series team early in his career, Doc received one last opportunity to play in another Fall Classic in 1945 when the Tigers won the last crown of the war years. During the regular season, Doc continued to range center field while batting .275, even managing to swat six home runs, turning 40 years old in July. In the World Series against the Cubs, Doc got much more of an opportunity to play than his first time, playing in all seven games, batting a lofty .379 with 11 hits, and even stealing a base as the Tigers bested the Cubs.
In 1946 and 1947, Doc played sparingly, and in 1948, he rounded out his playing days with no hits in four at-bats, although he did walk three times. He closed the book on his career with a .296 batting average and 2,705 hits, only 37 of them being home runs. He had two 6-for-6 games at the plate during his career. He coached for the Tigers in 1948 and then joined his best friend, Paul Richards, who was managing in Triple-A and hired Cramer as player-coach with Buffalo and Seattle. When Richards became manager of the Chicago White Sox in 1951, Cramer joined him as a coach, helping to tutor Nellie Fox and a young Latin Star, Minnie Minoso.
After '53, Cramer left major-league baseball, spending most of the rest of his life as a carpenter; he even built his own house in Manahawkin. He enjoyed watching baseball and tried each year to attend a Phillies game. He also enjoyed attending as many old-timers games as he enjoyed meeting up with old acquaintances, and also stayed in touch regularly with Hank Greenberg, Lou Finney, Paul Richards, Pinky Higgins, Rudy York (who often donated cocker spaniel puppies to the family), and Ted Williams. He always had mixed feelings about the Splendid Splinter, believing that the influence that his old friend Ted exerted over the Veterans Committee kept him out of the Hall of Fame.
A very popular and humble man, he constantly had old ballplayers like Jimmie Foxx over to his house. Babe Ruth was a frequent guest of the Cramers and the Babe often carried a flask of alcohol with him in his shirt pocket. Once Doc asked him to visit a young local boy who had recently lost a leg, and Ruth drove over with Cramer to visit the thrilled youngster.
Doc Cramer died on September 9, 1990, after honoring 12 mailed requests for his autograph, in his beloved Manahawkin, where a street is named after him today.
Interviews with Joan Cramer, March 8 and April 17, 2008. Letter from Joan Cramer dated May 9, 2008.
National Baseball Hall of Fame Doc Cramer file, reviewed March 7, 2008. The first meeting with Perkins is noted in an unidentified article by Harry Edwards.
Golenbock, Peter, Fenway, An Unexpurgated History of the Boston Red Sox, Peter Golenbock (orig. New York: G.P. Putnam's Son's, 1992, paperback reprint, North Attleboro, Massachusetts: Covered Bridge Press, p. 81.) The author thanks Peter Golenbock for sharing his time with him to talk about Cramer and giving his permission to use stories about Cramer from Fenway.
The fight between Williams and Cramer was related to the author by Richard A. Johnson, who has revealed the incident previously in his Red Sox Century, co-written with Glenn Stout.


The New York Islanders announced today that Kael Mouillierat has been recalled on emergency basis from the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League.
Mouillierat, 27, leads all Sound Tigers in goals (18) and points (40) through 51 games this season. The Edmonton, AB, native has yet to make his National Hockey League debut.
A 6'0, 188-pound forward, Mouillierat returned to the Islanders organization as a free agent this offseason after having played 44 games with Bridgeport in 2011-12. In 160 career AHL games with the St. John's IceCaps, Sound Tigers and the Texas Stars, Mouillierat has 120 points (39 goals, 81 assists). He posted a career year last season in St. John's, recording career highs in goals (20), assists (33) and points (53) and helping the IceCaps advance to the Calder Cup Finals with 13 points (seven goals, six assists) in 21 playoff games.
Mouillierat had a four-year collegiate career at Minnesota State University-Mankato. He made his professional debut at the end of his senior season in 2009-10 with the Idaho Steelheads of the ECHL. In 117 career ECHL games, all with Idaho, Mouillierat scored 119 points (55 goals, 64 assists). He was named to the ECHL All-Rookie Team and played in the ECHL All-Star Game in 2010-11.


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Viewpoint / Unst spaceport will bring 'biggest transformation' to isles since arrival of oil and gas
With the first launches from Shetland Space Centre planned for May 2022, chief executive Frank Strang has reflected on the progress so far
4 June 2021 09:39
http://shet.news/pqy9a
IT's hard to believe that in just under a year, the first vertical launch of a rocket carrying small satellites into orbit is scheduled to blast off from Unst.
The UK Pathfinder launch, which Shetland Space Centre will host and our partners Lockheed Martin and ABL will deliver, will be the first of its kind from British soil.
For four years, ever since we laid eyes on the Sceptre Report produced for the UK Space Agency, which singled out Unst as the best location in the country for vertical rocket launches, we have been striving to get to this point.
It has been quite a battle, but that is a story for another day. For now, our focus is 100 per cent on securing our planning permission and submitting our spaceport licence application. With continued support from Shetland Islands Council and the UK and Scottish governments and their various agencies, we will start building out in August to be ready for the first of many small rocket launches in May 2022.
Frank Strang.Frank Strang.
The global demand for payload space for small satellites is growing at an exponential rate, as technological developments broaden the range of human activities that can usefully be supported from space.
There is a perception that spaceflight is not helpful for tackling the climate emergency, but satellites are used in a wide range of ways to help, principally by improving efficiency.
To give one example, satellite data for aircraft flying outwith radar range can, in conjunction with other information such as weather forecasts, help to improve the efficiency of flightpaths, saving fuel and cutting emissions.
With regard to launch, the space sector is looking at the use of environmentally friendly propellants and different types of oxidisers to minimise emissions of hazardous gases. The re-use of materials, through for instance the recovery of rocket stages, is also a prominent development.
The spaceport will result in the biggest transformation in Shetland since the arrival of North Sea oil and gas 50 years ago. It will bring a whole new sector – the new space economy – to the islands.
That is why the Unst and wider Shetland communities have been so tremendously supportive of our project.
This transformative effect of the new space economy is recognised by the SIC, hence the elevation of space to the status of key strategic priority for Shetland and the sector's place in the Islands Deal.
A project board has already been formed between Shetland Space Centre and Shetland Islands Council, with committees covering Economy, Community & Environment, Education & Employment, Contingency Planning and Promotion & Tourism.
As our planning application spells out, there will be hundreds of new jobs, many of them in local companies which have already been demonstrating their excellence for our partner, the German rocket company HyImpulse Technologies, which carried out a series of engine tests at the former Scatsta Airport last month.
There is more of that to come, with HyImpulse due to return in July for further testing and again in September or October to test out a small sounding rocket.
A schedule for sounding rocket launches from other partners is being worked on, and a team of officials from the Civil Aviation Authority, which will have a key role in regulating spaceflight, will be visiting Unst very soon. Similarly, officials from the UK Space Agency will be taking a trip north.
It is imperative that between now and next May, with the support of these agencies, we use the time wisely to test our operating procedures, learn and adapt. Safety will be at the heart of everything we do.
But rocket launches won't be the only thing we do. There is already a huge amount going on, and as the year progresses, things are only going to get busier.
Education is a hugely important strand of our work, and Mike Mongo, the US author of The Astronaut Instruction Manual, will be travelling to Unst to host a virtual summer camp from 5 to 30 July. Aimed at 10-12 year olds who want to live, work and play in space, it will feature astronauts Dr Sian Proctor and Nicole Stott and trainee astronaut Alyssa Carson.
Mike will also hold virtual and in-person sessions with Shetland schoolchildren between 21 and 25 June.
In the tertiary education sector, we are already building partnerships with a range of academic institutes, including the University of Edinburgh, the University of Leicester and the University of Alaska.
If you want to find out a bit more about our work behind the scenes, and hear from a range of people who know their stuff when it comes to space, you can tune in to our weekly podcast.
I'm not allowed to say much more about this, because it is hosted by my daughter Emily along with Bryden Priest, but it's available wherever you download your podcasts or via our website.
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You can launch firmware reflashes by selecting from your server list. It will bring your server offline for approximately 60 minutes while the reflashes are in progress.
In the event of a hardware failure during this test our datacenter engineers will be notified of the problem automatically. They will then replace any failed components to bring your server back online. They will be contact you to ensure that impact on your server is minimal.
hardwareIds array of integers List of hardware ids to have firmware reflashed.
ipmi boolean Flag to determine whether IPMI firmware reflash should occur.
raidController boolean Flag to determine whether raid controller firmware reflash should occur.
bios boolean Flag to determine whether BIOS firmware reflash should occur.


Hearing is one of our basic senses – it helps us communicate and to perceive the world around us — but we shouldn't take it for granted. Approximately 15 percent of Americans between the ages of 20 and 69 (about 26 million Americans) have some kind of noise-induced hearing loss, and much of that loss could have been prevented with a few simple precautions. At this Science on Tap, Dr. Allison Coffin, assistant professor in the neuroscience department at Washington State University Vancouver will talk about the mechanical and neurological process of how we hear and how we can protect our ears. She will also be joined on stage by the band KMX for some live music and demonstrations. Come ready to listen and learn…and maybe dance!


As of April 14th, 50 years to the day will have passed since KEET-TV made its first broadcast. For five decades, community members have poured themselves and their passions into this 3rd smallest PBS station in the continental United States. Money and market size has yet to stop KEET-TV from pursuing creative freedom in Humboldt County, and people from all walks of life have come together for half a century with a similar mission - to serve the communities all along the North Coast. This is the story of the little station that could.
Immediately following the premiere of KEET: 50 Years Strong, stay for an exclusive showing of Wont You Be My Neighbor, an intimate look at Americas favorite neighbor: Fred Rogers.
Seating is limited, so reserve your seat now. We hope to see you there!