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Billie Eilish blasts Roe v Wade abortion ruling as she becomes Glastonbury Festival's youngest headline act
As Billie Eilish mania came to Glastonbury Festival, the Grammy-winning singer used her platform on the Pyramid Stage to criticise the US Supreme Court's Roe v Wade abortion decision, emotionally telling the crowd she "can't bear to think about it".
Bethany Minelle
Arts & Entertainment reporter @BethanyMinelle
Saturday 25 June 2022 16:21, UK
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Billie Eilish has become Glastonbury Festival's youngest ever headline act, with the Los Angeles-born star performing on the Pyramid Stage on Friday night.
During her set, the singer emotionally told the crowd that, despite her pride at performing at the festival, today was "a dark day for America".
Introducing her song Your Power - a track about the abuse of privilege - alongside her brother and the song's co-writer Finneas O'Connell, Eilish told the crowd: "Today is a dark day for women in America. It's all I'm able to say about it. I can't bear to think about it."
The star was referencing the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn the landmark Roe v Wade which has guaranteed women in the US the right to an abortion for almost 50 years.
Dressed in a black-and-white T shirt and shorts set featuring sensationalist newspaper headlines and images including David Bowie and Sharon Tate, the Grammy-winning singer was welcomed to the stage with rapturous applause from the largely Gen-Z crowd.
A stunned-looking Eilish told fans: "There are so many of you guys - Jesus," before putting on a mock English accent and adding: "I love you guys so much, are you ready to have some fun?"
Eilish takes the title of youngest performer from the late Bowie who headlined the festival back in 1971 aged 24. Eilish, who began writing songs at just 11 years old, is no stranger to setting records.
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Aged 18, she became the youngest artist and first woman to score a number one with their 007 theme, No Time To Die, which she wrote with her brother.
The 20-year-old's set came on the first full day of music at the five-day festival at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, which is celebrating its 50th year after two enforced fallow years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
An hour or two before her performance she posted a message for her 104 million followers on Instagram: "GLASTONBURY I AM HERREEEEE so excited!!!! see you soon".
Performing to a heaving crowd of thousands, Eilish opened with the crowd-pleasing When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Her set featured the majority of her Grammy-nominated second album, Happier Than Ever, written during lockdown.
The record explores mental health and relationships, themes that have undergone much scrutiny for Eilish following her sudden and global fame.
Home baby videos of Eilish
In 2020, she spoke about suffering suicidal thoughts and periods of depression in the early stages of her career. She later told CBS News: "I don't want to be too dark, but I genuinely didn't think I'd make it to 17."
She has said she was helped by her mother, and manager, Maggie Baird, as well as the process of working on her second album during lockdown.
In a nod to her career trajectory, the song Getting Older was accompanied by home baby videos of a young Eilish with her family projected onto the large screens at each side of the stage, showing her as a blond infant, singing and playing, while on the stage she sang: "Things I once enjoyed, just keep me employed now."
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As well as tunes from her latest album, Eilish also treated fans to her 2019 hit Bad Guy, which was the biggest selling single globally that year.
This performance follows months of intensive touring in the US and Europe, and the singer is currently in the middle of a sold out, six-show run at London's O2 Arena.
A self-confessed lover of 'moshing', Eilish literally bent over backwards during her first song, as well as writhing on the floor and frequently running around the stage.
There was certainly no evidence of the teenage dance injury, which affected the growth plate in her femur, during the hour-and-a-half set.
Loyal 'Avocado' fans
The Worthy Farm audience was made up both of loyal fans, many of whom had travelled miles to see her despite large-scale rail strikes, and casual festival goers, keen to see what all the fuss is about. There was also a large sprinkling of older children - mainly girls - accompanied by parents.
Eilish made her Glastonbury debut at the Other Stage in 2019, after being upgraded from the smaller John Peel tent due to popular demand.
Despite technical issues back then, the Glastonbury charm clearly won the Bad Guy singer's heart, telling fans: "This looks fun to go to. I would love to go to this… My God."
During this show her attempts at audience interaction fell a little flat, with the UK audience perhaps not fully embracing her Californian tendency to encourage the crowd to "be present in the moment… and take a deep breath in and out".
However, known for her attentiveness to her fans, known collectively as "Avocados" (Eilish is vegan) she frequently told the audience they were loved, and encouraged them to relax, even encouraging them to "scream loud" and "have a tantrum" during one of the songs.
'I'm so undeserving of this'
Eilish temporarily called one of her recent London shows to a halt after fans passed out due to the heat. She also previously stopped a gig in the US earlier in the year to call out for an inhaler after a fan experienced breathing difficulties.
However, this wasn't an issue at Friday's Glastonbury gig. While the last festival in 2019 boasted record temperatures (31.2C) this year has proved a little more temperamental, with weather warnings issued and the threat of rain at regular intervals.
Eilish told the crowd: "I'm so undeserving of this. Thanks for letting me do it," adding, "and you guys are troopers with your tents and s***!"
She closed with Happier Than Ever, which is a love letter to her hometown of LA.
Other performances at Glastonbury on Friday included Sam Fender, Crowded House and Robert Plant & Alison Kraus.
Saturday night will see Paul McCartney headlining the Pyramid Stage, becoming the festival's oldest-ever headliner.
On Friday night the former Beatle performed at a pub in Frome as a warm-up gig.
And Diana Ross plays the legend slot on Sunday afternoon, with Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar closing the 2022 festival that evening.


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Beware Ill-Informed Media Hype By Howard Wheeldon, FRAeS, Wheeldon Strategic Advisory Ltd.
June 1, 2020 by Julian Nettlefold
While there is bound to be an increasing amount of discussion and debate in relation to future UK defence spending in a post COVID-19 environment and particular at a time that we all know that the government will be forced to batten down public spending hatches, it is in my view best to treat any seemingly knowledgeable article, however well-articulated, in relation to future defence spending and the possibility of impending cuts to the defence budget with great caution.
That is not to deny the probability of defence cuts being on the agenda of government – far from it! But whilst it is probably also true to say that press and media can and often do set the agenda of government thinking my recommendation is that before you even start to read any article that portends to already know what the government might be planning in relation to possible cuts you should first ensure that what you may be reading is at the very least credible.
After that ask yourself whether it might be evidence based or not and most likely you will find that the answer to that is that although the specific issues being written on may have emanated from a leaked source within the Treasury, MOD, No 10 itself or, as is quite often the case these days, from the Westminster lobby, remember that it could also have come from someone with an axe to grind acting on his or her own behalf and who may be trying to shape specific political opinion.
Sometimes supposed leaks occur in relation to ongoing interservice rivalries and those that are perhaps attempting to score points over another of the three services in order to get the debate onto the public domain and maybe set the agenda. Often what purports to be a something based on a leak is nothing more than dangerous gossip or wishful thinking designed to ring alarm bells and create fear.
I note particular reference to the words such as the Royal Navy is 'considering decommissioning' to which my answer is that the while the Royal Navy along with the other two primary services can advise and display concern to the Chief of Defence Staff who in turn will either challenge that advice or fight the cause with senior ministers who in turn will attempt to take on the Treasury, while the Royal Navy for instance has no choice but to agree ministerial defence spending strategy decisions it does not make them.
While it is true that the three defence chiefs have, since SDSR 2010, had control and responsibility for their individual budgets and they can still fight as hard as they like to defend what they deem to be absolute need, the ultimate decision in relation to what specific defence programmes might be cut, expanded or pushed back and of future defence strategy will be is not there's to make. Indeed, although I may be shouted down in flames for saying this, truth is that today they have very little power although it is equally true to say that they can still rattle the tree.
That defence will at some point towards the end of this year be in for another radical shake up and that just maybe, past promises made in relation to defence spending being ring-fenced are more than likely to be broken, is all but taken for granted.
However, I defy anyone outside of the Treasury, Ministry of Defence and the top echelons of the military who are based inside the MOD to have specific knowledge of where or on what defence operation, people or procurement programmes the axe may or may not fall.
Not untypically, the Sunday Times led the way in this regard providing dangerous speculation over the weekend suggesting that the Royal Navy is now considering the decommissioning of HMS Vanguard, the first of class Royal Navy Trident submarine which is now in Devonport Dockyard undergoing what had originally been designed to be a four-year refit and unscheduled refuelling of the oldest of four Trident submarines in service.
While the HMS Vanguard refuelling programme has not been without some very complicated issues that have led to significant delay – this caused primarily due to the age of the vessel and problems that had not been envisaged – I would contend that without HMS Vanguard being eventually returned to Royal Navy service that, after 52 years of operation, the UK commitment to CASD (Continuous At Sea Deterrent) would need to be broken. That is something that I personally believe will not be allowed to happen.
If I recall, this was the same newspaper that little over a year ago suggested that Treasury finance chefs were considering scrapping the Royal Navy's second aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, comments that then Secretary of State for Defence, Gavin Williams branded as ridiculous.
Of course, leaks and testing of the water in order to see reaction are normal Treasury and MoD processes but the supposedly leaked notion that the Cabinet Secretary might have arbitrarily decided to cut the size of the army without prior discussion and agreement of the Secretary of State for Defence is surely nonsense in the extreme.
That is not to suggest that the army may well pay a very heavy burden when the Defence and Foreign Policy Review eventually arrives but it is to suggest that with so many checks and balances in the system and that are designed specifically to ensure that however we proceed in matters defence there are no blatant holes capability and capacity, I agree that the suggestion of a Cabinet Secretary acting arbitrarily is nonsense.
CHW (London 1st June 2020)
Howard Wheeldon FRAeS
Wheeldon Strategic Advisory Ltd,
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Skype: chwheeldon
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'TRUTH' With RFK, Jr. and Naomi Wolf: Fighting for Our Constitutional Rights
CHD Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and author, journalist and former political advisor Naomi Wolf weigh in on the battle to maintain the rights put in place by our founding fathers.
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In the latest episode of "TRUTH" with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Kennedy sat down with the iconic Naomi Wolf for a spirited discussion on abuse of power, standing up to tyranny and preserving our Constitution. Wolf explained how tyrants always follow the same predictable route in their attempts to bring democracies to a close and how she believes our society has reached "Step 10" of her "Fascism in 10 Easy Steps."
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We're reaching a point reminiscent of what led to the American Revolution: People were willing to die rather than give up their rights.
The Constitution wasn't written for easy times but for emergencies such as the current COVID crisis.
Arbitrary restrictions are being put in place by those abusing emergency powers at local, state and federal levels.
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Direct-to-consumer advertising that started in 1997 marked the beginning of Pharma's takeover of American media.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation neutralized once-independent media including The Guardian, NPR and public television through financial gifts.
Democrats are leading the "biofascism" charge.
There's no science to back up the widespread suspension of our Constitutional rights.
Non-partisan grassroots efforts are gaining momentum and can preserve our freedom and prevent totalitarian takeover.
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Want the best rubber for your baby but having trouble cutting through the fluff?
One of the more irritating and puzzling decisions anyone has to make in their automotive lives is knowing which set of tyres to pick.
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We've headed back to Sydney Dragway and set up a battery of tests in and around the facility's proper tarmac roads to really assess each of our nine sets of test tyres.
We're bolting them all to a Ford Focus RS, which has the punch and dynamics to really eke the most out of the rubber in the shortest time, and we're plugging in our own Supercars racer – and ridiculously experienced road-car wrangler – Warren Luff to do the hard yards behind the wheel.
On the menu today is a slalom test, a dry braking run, a gymkhana, a wet braking test and a wet lateral-G exam. We're again using a 235/35 R19 sizing, with tyre brands from across the budget and performance spectrum fronting up in the name of scientific research.
The defending champion Dunlop is back for 2017, and it'll be kept honest by other premium tyre makers like Michelin, Dunlop, Continental, Pirelli and Goodyear.
Maxxis, Hankook, Nexen and Kumho are in the mix, too, providing a spread of talent and budget to help you gain the ammo to make an informed choice.
We'll bolt on a set of control tyres throughout the course of the day just to verify track conditions and ambient weather conditions. We used the Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 specced with the Focus RS as an option.
All data was recorded on RaceLogic gear, complete with a duplicate back-up system to eliminate inaccuracies.
On hand once again to facilitate the slightly mind-bending tasking of getting through 40 tyres in a day will be the team from JAX Tyres, who bring not only good humour and large, business-looking Eagle SMF machines, but a wealth of insight and knowledge from inside the tyre game that isn't matched anywhere else.
Oh, and the crew has worked with us before and know how hopeless we are at anything vaguely mechanical.
Set up at the end of Sydney's hallowed drag strip (and well away from the VHT-soaked burnout pad, in case you were wondering), the slalom is a classically simple, yet tortuous test of a tyre's ability to recover from rapid, sustained changes of direction and then respond to a new input.
Lateral recovery is key as well, while sidewalls, shoulders and tread face patterns are equally under the spotlight.
Nine equally placed cones are approached at a V-Box-measured speed of 50km/h, and Luffy takes each tyre set through five times before discarding the best and worst scores and averaging out the remaining three.
The manual RS is left in second gear for the duration of the runs, and its swag of traction and stability modes are turned all the way off, which is a nice feature to have when you're testing the limits of adhesion.
It's the first batch of tests which tell us that perhaps things are going to be a little different this year.
That the Michelin Super Sport ranks so well with a chart-topping 8.43sec time isn't too much of a shock; the fact that the updated version of last year's winner, Dunlop's Sport Maxx RT2, finishes well down the order in sixth with an 8.73sec time is a real eye-opener. "It feels like a harder tyre," confirms Luffy.
The performances of the Pirelli and the Continental means that the Europeans sweep the slalom podium. The Hankook is fourth – continuing its strong form from 2016 – and finishes just a tenth of a second ahead of fellow Korean brand Kumho.
Nexen and Maxxis are next, separated by less than a tenth of a second, with the biggest shock of the slalom component bringing up the tail. Goodyear's Eagle F1 matched the Kumho with a 8.86sec time, but its average was just slightly slower, bumping it from mid-pack performance in 2016 to the bottom of the slalom pile. "I expected more," admitted Wazza.
Track surface temps were getting up toward 38 degrees when the Eagles were bolted on, but the almost-identical performance of the Maxxis was achieved at 9am in the morning with vastly different conditions given the 24-degree track temps.
And this is why we run a control tyre at three points throughout the day: there was just one-sixteenth of a second difference between first thing in the morning and last thing in the afternoon.
Turning and burning on your performance rubber is one thing, but bringing speeds down rapidly, predictably and safely is also a key component in a tyre's performance arsenal. In fact, diminished braking performance is a sure sign that the time is approaching to budget for new boots.
Held on the same section of tarmac track as the slalom – in fact, in between each run of the slalom to ensure that a series of back-to-back stops didn't cause the Focus RS's brakes to fade prematurely – the dry braking component sees our fearless hero line up the braking marker at a real-world speed of 110km/h before wailing on the middle pedal and allowing the RS's four-piston Brembos and the car's brake-force distribution to do its best to rein it all in.
Three runs are measured by the trusty V-Box, and are averaged out to provide a distance-to-zero score.
With ABS simplifying the process of stopping the car and eliminating tyre slip, the only variables in this exercise can be found in the tyres themselves. Compound stickiness, tread pattern and material construction all come to the fore, too.
The win goes to the ContiSportContact 5P, pulling up to an ABS-assisted halt in 35.73m, with the Michelin 60cm behind it in second place. It's another good result for the Conti, after claiming second inthe dry slalom test, while the Michelin adds a silver to its slalom gold.
The third-placed tyre – a great result for the Kumho Ecsta after a mid-pack performance in the slalom – is two metres behind the top-placed Continental, while the P Zero is 40cm further in arrears.
However, now we're talking two big footsteps between pulling up behind an obstacle with a bit of sweat on the brow and carrying a bit of speed as you pile straight into it.
Both the Sport Maxx and the Eagle F1 finish their three runs in the 38m bracket, while the last-placed Maxxis stopped the tape 3.7m behind the best performer with a 39.31m stop.
When you think of motorkhana, you might think about MkII Escorts wailing around on the lock stops in a giant car park, sliding at impossible speeds through tiny gaps with mesmerising precision. Well, we had the giant car park bit sorted out... And a Ford.
Our motorkhana course – laid out in the western corner of Sydney Dragway's vast car park – comprises seven tight radius turns connecting a short, yet quick straight, a fast S-bend, and a short start/finish chute that morphs into a sweeping right.
After a rolling start, the stopwatch is triggered at the start/finish line, three laps are recorded, and the totals are added together. The Focus stays in second gear only again and all driver aids are switched all the way off to get rid of any variances that digital interference may trigger along the way.
Of all the tests on the day, this one puts all of the tyres on test on notice, with cumulative loading, a lot more heat stress and constant cornering asking a lot of front-to-rear balance, edge traction, braking grip and drive.
Watching the Luffster in action, it's hard not to take an extra step back from the water barriers as he hustles the Focus RS around the short, tight track – but his metronomic precision lap after lap is almost impossible not to watch.
It's also interesting to see how the car and driver react to each set of tyres, as Luffy works each corner to get the best from the set without overstepping the mark and compromising the result. And his consistency is why we call him first each year when locking down a driver for our test.
It's a test that's not too dissimilar to the slalom, and unsurprisingly the results are almost a lock across the board. The Michelin gets another one over the Conti Sport for first (1min 18.39sec) and second – the two separated by just one hundredth of a second!
The Kumho pulls off another giant tamer performance, sitting three-tenths back in third with a 1min 18.7sec, with the Pirelli another two-tenths back in fourth.
Hankook's Ventus's fifth place again keeps it ahead of its more fancied rivals from Goodyear and Dunlop, while the Nexen falls a long way back here. A 1min 22.7sec run is 4.3sec off the pace, which in this company is a long way.
"The Michelin recovers between transitions so quickly, and the Contis combine consistency with a lively feel," reckons Luffy. He's not as kind about the Nexens. "The stopwatch tells the story," he says.
Our last two tests set aside the ideal weather conditions on a day spent tearing around long loaded corners in glorious sunshine and focus on an element of performance that's more tangible and beneficial to everyday conditions.
Modern tyres have to do it all, and the science of tread design is all about asymmetry – direction and left/right biased patterns are now the norm, with computer-aided design enabling tyre makers to massage and tweak the length, depth and even the edge chamfers of each block in order to meet the holy grail of handling, ride, noise and comfort.
The wet braking test is again measured in distance, with Wazza hitting a stretch of wetted-down tarmac at 70km/h aboard the Focus RS and throwing out the anchor.
An ingeniously simple method of circuit wetting – long strips of perforated garden hose – ensures that our surface is evenly damp from edge to edge, and again we'll run the measure of passing our control tyre over the same set of track three times during the course of the day.
And even though our 2017 Tyre Test fell around the time of Sydney's run of horrendously hot days, our test day is a much more reasonable one, with air temps in the mid 20s and no wind to speak of (Morley was on a launch somewhere, apparently).
At a stopping distance of 13.96m, the Continental comes up trumps again, posting its second win of the day. The Ecsta again shocked the big players, with Kumho's finest ending up 40cm further along the strip. Korean arch rival Hankook nails third a further 10cm past the Kumho, with Pirelli's P Zero in fourth.
In a shock result, the previously dominant Michelin can only manage fifth, more than 70cm back from the Conti. The Eagle and the Sport Maxx end up in sixth and seventh, with the Maxxis and the Nexen eighth and ninth.
"The Michelin just didn't feel that good in wet braking," Luffy said in summary. "The Conti, on the other hand, showed great wet-weather performance, and the Kumho is really punching above its weight in this group, too.
Our final sequence for the 2017 Tyre Test uses the same strip of Sydney Dragway's wetted tarmac, but this time incorporating a pair of corners linked by a short chute that allows for longer, more consistent applications of load, especially on the outside tyres.
Wazza makes six runs at it – three turning to the left and three to the right – with each of the nine sets, using a 45km/h entry speed, before the top and bottom scores are cast out to remove any spikes or dud runs. The remaining four G readings are averaged, and voila, there's the result, just like that.
Wet lateral-G testing is a new addition in our test playbook, and it reveals the loaded balance of each tyre set more convincingly than the front-axle bias of the wet braking test.
By mixing up the directions, too, Wazza can effectively negate any advantage or disadvantage a tyre may have by being on a loaded or unloaded side of the Focus RS.
The G scores are all grouped pretty tightly in this round of testing, with the Pirelli P Zero breaking through for its first win with a 1.05g reading.
The Conti posts another podium place – this time a second – with a 1.04g score, and the Hankook again splashes itself up past more fancied and storied rollers to post a solid third spot with 1.03g.
The Sport Maxx RT2 finally rallies to score a fourth place – by far its best result of a surprisingly underwhelming defence of its 2016 Tyre Test title – while the Kumho just edges out the Michelin for positions five and six.
The lack of wet-weather performance from the otherwise dominant Super Sport tyres has definitely pulled its overall average down, and this could work against it in the final reckoning.
The Goodyear Eagle has significantly failed to soar today, finishing the 2017 test set with a lowly seventh spot, while the cheaper Nexen finishes above the Maxxis for eight and ninth places respectively.
IT'S ACTUALLY pretty hard to articulate just how much work goes into making sure that the results for this test are as good as we can physically make them.
Unless someone out there has access to a very large, climate-controlled shed that's equipped to run a level-five autonomous car at top speed, it's worth reminding that this is a real world test – and we control or at least factor-in the variables as tightly as we can – but that means there will always be minute vagaries in testing procedures.
However, this year's testing – the result of fine-tuning the methodology behind the event, as well as the consistency of the team who have been together for some time now – really is as objective as it can be.
And there is little doubt about the winner. The Continental ContiSportContact 5P nailed three silvers and two golds to claim 2017 Tyre Test honours.
Interestingly, the Michelin Super Sport and Pirelli P Zero were separated by a single point. Even with the distinct difference in scores between the dry and wet test set, the two tyres finished with a small difference.
The Pirelli couldn't quite match the Michelin's performance in the dry tests, but a low score in the wet tests from the French tyre meant it couldn't capitilise on its dry-weather prowess.
Kumho climbed to the top of the Asian-sourced heap in fourth over the Hankook, while the defending champ Dunlop fell to sixth. The Goodyear Eagle finished seventh, the Maxxis and Nexen equal eighth.
Ultimately, the king is dead. Long live the new king: the ContiSportContact 5P.
With a career stretching back to the 1980s, several national championships to his name and an enduro seat in one of the leading Supercars teams – not to mention the ear of several overseas GT3 teams – Warren Luff remains one of the nicest, most professional and most experienced road test pilots we could ever ask for here at MOTOR.
A long time, card-carrying member of the MOTOR test crew, his ability to repeat tests time and again with the same inputs is almost spooky to watch. He can also fly our data equipment like a pro and always mucks in at the end to get things squared away. His ability to turn a half opportunity into a potential cover shot is pretty impressive as well.
Follow Warren Luff on Facebook, Twitter (@wazzaluff) and/or Instagram (@luffy76).
Getting something like a tyre test up and going is not just a matter of stopping by a tyre place and grabbing a few stockers.
The crew at JAX Tyres have helped us out on a few of these now, and their experience counted when one set went M.I.A at the eleventh hour.
Not ideal indeed. Not only did the lads procure and ship all of our tyres, they also fitted nine sets to our spare sets of Focus rims and had them ready to roll so Luffy could drive straight onto a chassis lifter, get new rubber, check the hair and be back out flogging them senseless in minutes.
Thanks, too, to Eagle SMF, who supplied two tyre-fitting machines that made short work of processing the tyre fits in plenty of time. So Nicholas, Jackson, Chris, Frank and Kerry… seriously, good on you, fellas!


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Q: Type alias vs lambda type Can anybody explain the pros/cons of
type VNel[+A] = ValidationNel[String, A]
x.sequence[VNel, ....

vs
x.sequence[({ type l[a] = ValidationNel[String, a] })#l, ....

From what I understand, using structural types incurs a runtime performance hit of having to use reflection.

A: Type lambda is a way to express complex types inline.
Type alias is way create an identifier for a type. It can be a complex type or be as simple as type UserId = Int. It is useful when you start needing a complex type more than once or you want to simplify a complex signature by breaking it in parts.
Neither type lambdas and type alias are structural typing. but rather a way to express types.
For more details on type lambdas:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/8737611/547564

A: They are mostly equivalent - use whichever you find clearer. IMO the type alias is usually more readable. In the context of a trait (or class) written to be extended, the type lambda can be clearer as it prevents overriding the type, but this is very much an edge case.
Accessing values defined in a structural type in ordinary code would indeed incur the cost of using reflection. But in a type lambda the structural type is only used as a generic type parameter, which will be erased at runtime. So there will be no runtime performance impact.
If you're making extensive use of type lambdas, you might like to consider the kind-projector plugin, which provides a more convenient syntax (and avoids the misleading visual resemblance to a structural type).

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Q: Definition of a integral in a surface $M$ is a surface of class $C^1$.
$L^2(M)$ is the set of 1-forms in M with the following properties:
1) $\omega$ is measurable locally i.e for each chart $(U_\alpha,z_\alpha)$, $\omega$ is $u_\alpha dz+v_\alpha \overline{dz}$ with $u_\alpha,v_\alpha$ measurables
2) there exists a open $A\subseteq M$ such that $A$ is second countable and $\omega\mid_{M\setminus A}=0$ almost everywhere i.e for each chart $(U_\alpha,z_\alpha)$, $u_\alpha\mid_{z_\alpha(U_\alpha\setminus A)}=0$ and $v_\alpha\mid_{z_\alpha(U_\alpha\setminus A)}=0$ almost everywhere.
3) $\displaystyle \int_A \vert \omega(z)\vert ^2 \vert dz\vert ^2<\infty$
I has two questions:
1) what does it mean that $u_\alpha,v_\alpha$ are measurables?
$u_\alpha,v_\alpha$ are defined in $A\subseteq M$
2) what does it mean the integral in 3) the symbol $\vert dz\vert ^2$ and the definition of the integral ?
Thanks you all


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Gigliola Cinquetti (Verona; 20 de diciembre de 1947) es una cantautora y presentadora de televisión italiana.

Biografía

Gigliola Cinquetti nació en la ciudad de Verona el 20 de diciembre de 1947. Debutó a los dieciséis años en el Festival de San Remo de 1964, junto con Patricia Carli, ganando el concurso con la canción Non ho l'età (per amarti) (No tengo edad). Dos meses después vence en Copenhague, con la misma canción, en el Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión, siendo uno de los grandes éxitos de la Historia del certamen.

Ha participado en doce ediciones del Festival de San Remo venciendo en dos ocasiones. La segunda de ellas fue en 1966, en compañía de Domenico Modugno, interpretando la canción Dio, come ti amo (Dios, cómo te amo), perteneciente a una película del mismo nombre y protagonizada por la propia Gigliola. La canción también fue llevada al Eurofestival pero interpretada en solitario por Domenico. En 1973 participa en el programa "Canzonissima" venciendo con la canción Alle porte del sole (en español A las puertas del cielo, en inglés To the door of the sun) siendo la versión inglesa reeditada dos años después por el cantante italoestadounidense Al Martino, que alcanzó la posición número 17 en el Billboard Hot 100.  En 1974 participa de nuevo en el Festival de Eurovisión quedando en segunda posición con la canción Sì (el primer puesto fue conseguido por el grupo ABBA). La versión inglesa del tema llegó a la séptima posición de la lista de ventas inglesa. Durante las décadas siguientes, Gigliola hizo otras apariciones en el festival de San Remo, presentándose por última vez en el año 1995. En 1992 publicó su último álbum de estudio bajo el título de La Poèsie d'une Femme.

Desde los años 1990, trabaja en la televisión pública italiana, la RAI, siendo uno de sus primeros trabajos en este campo el Festival de Eurovisión de 1991 que se celebró en Roma. Está casada con el periodista Luciano Teodori, con quien contrajo matrimonio en 1978. Tienen dos hijos, Giovanni y Constantino.

Gigliola gozó de gran popularidad en numerosos países y es considerada como una de las voces históricas de la Canzone italiana.
Estuvo dos veces en el Festival de la Canción de Viña del Mar los años 1979 y 1980.

Participación en el Festival de San Remo

 1964: Non ho l'età (Per amarti) - junto con Patricia Carli.
 1965: Ho bisogno di vederti - junto con Connie Francis.
 1966: Dio come ti amo - junto con Domenico Modugno.
 1968: Sera - junto con Giuliana Valci.
 1969: La pioggia - junto con France Gall.
 1970: Romántico blues junto con Bobby Solo.
 1971: Rose nel buio - junto con Ray Conniff .
 1972: Gira l'amore (Caro bebè).
 1973: Mistero.
 1985: Chiamalo amore.
 1989: Ciao.
 1995: Giovane vecchio cuore escrita por Giorgio Faletti.

Programas de televisión

 1991: Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión (RAI)
 1991-1992: Festa di Compleanno (TMC)
 1993-1994: Tornando a casa (Rai Radio Due)
 1995: C'era una volta il festival di Napoli (TMC)
 1998: Donne - Viaggio nella storia delle donne italiane (RAI International)
 1998-2002: Vivendo Parlando (Sat2000; capítulos emitidos: 578)
 2004: Di che sogno sei (RAI Sat Extra)
 2004-2006: GAP - Generazioni a confronto (RAI)
 2005: Sliding doors (RAI Sat Extra)
 2005-2006: Elisir (Rai Tre).

Enlaces externos

Sitio fan ruso de Gigliola Cinquetti
GRATTIA (videos)
Sì - Lyric Diggiloo Thrush

Cantantes en italiano
Cantantes femeninas de Italia
Actrices de Italia
Actores de televisión de Italia
Actores de cine de Italia
Artistas ganadores de Eurovisión
Representantes de Italia en Eurovisión
Participantes en Eurovisión 1964
Participantes en Eurovisión 1974
Presentadores de Eurovisión
Ganadores del Festival de San Remo
Presentadores de televisión de Italia
Nacidos en Verona

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From 18th – 23rd September we will be again in: "Hall 2, North Entrance." On an exhibition area of approximately 10,000 square metres DMG MORI will be showcasing around 80 high-tech machines at the EMO 2017 to demonstrate its latest innovations and integral technology solutions – right through to the digital factory.
The key topic at the EMO in Hannover is the "Path of Digitization" from DMG MORI, with which the company smooths the way to the future of the "Digital Factory" for its customers worldwide. The supporting pillars of success here include the APP-based CELOS® control and operating system, the DMG MORI technology cycles and customised software solutions for maximum efficiency in digital production. In line with this the company will also be demonstrating the diversity of the automation solutions in the new unmistakable VERTICO design. DMG MORI will be presenting around half of the machines on show with automation.
With a fully digitalised process chain DMG MORI will be presenting its future technologies in the field of ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING at the EMO. Its offer of both laser deposition welding with a powder nozzle (Laser Metal Deposition) and selective laser melting in a powder bed (SLM) means that DMG MORI has bundled together the most important generative production processes for metallic materials under one roof.
From the "Product to the Process" is the slogan of the EMO branch solutions at the DMG MORI Technology Excellence Center. By integrating customers in the joint process development at a very early stage DMG MORI offers customised technical turnkey solutions in the aerospace, automotive, die & mold and medical sectors.
DMG MORI once again demonstrates its innovative strength with eight world premieres from the technological fields of turning and milling. The latest CTX 2500 | 700 universal turning centre is the prelude to the fifth generation of this successful series, while the CLX 550 enlarges the range of basic turning machines. With the NTX 2500 DMG MORI expands its portfolio in turn-mill machining. In addition the MULTISPRINT 25 and MULTISPRINT 36 multi-spindle automatic lathes stand as examples of automated performance for more efficiency in serial production. The DMU 340 Gantry and DMU 200 Gantry 5-axis universal machines round off the world premieres as two new additions to the XXL range.


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'On political divides and philosophic new beginnings'
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya
From the May-June 2012 issue of News & Letters.
Editor's Note: "On political divides and philosophic new beginnings," written 25 years ago, is the last writing of Raya Dunayevskaya, who died on June 9, 1987. It was first published in the In Memoriam special issue of News & Letters, on July 25, 1987. Footnotes have been added by the editor.
The abysmal lower depths that the Reagan retrogression has sunk the world into throughout the seven years of this decade have polluted the ideological air, not only of the ruling class, but have penetrated the Left itself. Such a deep retrogression urgently demands that, along with the economic and political tasks facing us, we look for philosophic new beginnings.
In the midst of the work I am doing on my new book, "Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy," I have been digging into research on two opposed forms of organization, that is, our opposition to the vanguard party-to-lead, and our support of forms of organization born out of the spontaneous activity of the masses. Suddenly I realized that the relationship between these two opposed forms was exactly what I had posed back in 1982, on the eve of the publication of my third book, Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution. I then (September 1982) added a paragraph to chapter 12 of that just-completed work. It was this articulation, which I reached only after the book was completed, that made me feel that the process of working out such questions demanded a book unto itself.
This became even clearer when I realized that though [Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution] was already at the printer, and had dealt with forms of organization both in Marx's day and in the early 20th century with Lenin, Luxemburg, and the council communists, I nevertheless felt compelled to write a Philosophic-Political Letter to my colleagues on this subject. I called it: "On the Battle of Ideas: Philosophic-Theoretic Points of Departure as Political Tendencies Respond to the Objective Situation" (October 1982).1See The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx by Raya Dunayevskaya, pp. 237-49. Here I would like to take up two points from the Letter, which begins:
I am taking advantage of the fact that we do not yet have the new book in hand, which will plunge us into so many activities that we will have a tendency to forget "abstract" philosophic points of departure . . .
I returned to the final chapter 12 of Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution. Its penultimate paragraph read:
"It isn't because we are any 'smarter' that we can see so much more than other post-Marx Marxists. Rather, it is because of the maturity of our age. It is true that other post-Marx Marxists have rested on a truncated Marxism; it is equally true that no other generation could have seen the problematic of our age, much less solve our problems. Only live human beings can recreate the revolutionary dialectic forever anew. And these live human beings must do so in theory as well as in practice. It is not a question only of meeting the challenge from practice, but of being able to meet the challenge from the self-development of the Idea, and of deepening theory to the point where it reaches Marx's concept of the philosophy of 'revolution in permanence.'"
It was at that point that I asked that the following paragraph be added [to that book]:
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"There is a further challenge to the form of organization which we have worked out as the committee-form rather than the 'party-to-lead.' But, though committee-form and 'party-to-lead' are opposites, they are not absolute opposites. At the point when the theoretic-form reaches philosophy, the challenge demands that we synthesize not only the new relations of theory to practice, and all the forces of revolution, but philosophy's 'suffering, patience and labor of the negative,' i.e. experiencing absolute negativity. Then and only then will we succeed in a revolution that will achieve a class-less, non-racist, non-sexist, truly human, truly new society. That which Hegel judged to be the synthesis of the 'Self-Thinking Idea' and the 'Self-Bringing-Forth of Liberty,' Marxist-Humanism holds, is what Marx had called the new society. The many paths to get there are not easy to work out."2These and a number of other paragraphs which Dunayevskaya wanted to add to Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution were published in the 1991 University of Illinois edition of that work, pp. xxxiii-xxxviii.
I also suggested an addition to the Introduction of the book, to be added directly after I pointed out that, "just as the young Marx, in first turning to what he called 'Economics,' had discovered the proletariat as the Subject who would be the 'gravedigger of capitalism' and the leader of the proletarian revolution, so, at the end of his life, Marx made still newer discoveries as he turned to new, empirical anthropological studies like Morgan's Ancient Society as well as to the imperial incursions into the Orient and the carving up of Africa.
Here is what I proposed to add at that point:
That seems to have been the first point so misunderstood by post-Marx Marxists, beginning with Frederick Engels, who, without having known of the massive Ethnological Notebooks Marx had left behind, undertook to write his own version of Morgan's work—his Origin of the Family—as a "bequest" of Marx. When Ryazanov discovered these notebooks, he rushed, before he ever had a chance to decipher them, to characterize them as "inexcusable pedantry."3David Ryazanov, who edited Marx in Soviet Russia in the 1920s, beginning work on the Complete Writings of Marx and Engels (MEGA), made these remarks in a 1923 report to the Communist Academy. If an Engels, who was a close collaborator of Marx and without whom we could not have had Volumes II and III of Capital, could nevertheless suddenly have gotten so over-confident about his own prowess of interpreting Marx as to assume he was speaking for Marx; if an archivist-scholar like Ryazanov could, at a time when he was actually publishing those magnificent early essays of Marx (the 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts), spend a good deal of his first report of the Archives of Marx in asking for 20 to 30 people to help him sort these manuscripts out, and yet pass judgment before he dug into them—it says a great deal about literary heirs but nothing whatsoever about so great an historic phenomenon as Marx's Marxism. Isn't it time to challenge all of the post-Marx Marxists when even those who have achieved great revolutions—and none was greater than the 1917 Russian Revolution—did not, in thought, measure up to Marx? Isn't it time to dig into what Marx, who had discovered a whole new continent of thought, had to say for himself?
My letter to my colleagues then concluded:
The fact that in my latest work, Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution, I focus on Marx's "translation" of absolute negativity as the revolution in permanence, calling that the absolute challenge to our age, will draw greater criticism from academia and outright attacks from post-Marx Marxists. This makes it necessary to be prepared, not only for that encounter, but for further concretizing that challenge. With this in mind, I decided to add that paragraph quoted earlier directly to the Introduction. For while it is true that the actual events of the 1970s—Women's Liberation on the one hand, and the publication of Marx's Ethnological Notebooks on the other—are what first led to a renewed interest in Rosa Luxemburg; and while it is true also that the Women's Liberation movement helped disclose the feminist dimension in Luxemburg never before recognized; it is not true that that is the goal of the new book.
The need to see all post-Marx Marxists in strict relationship to Marx's Marxism is what revealed that even so great and independent a revolutionary as Rosa Luxemburg did not fully comprehend Marx's dialectic of liberation and thereby committed her biggest error—disregard of the revolutionary nature of Polish desire for national self-determination. Put simply, the determinant of the new book is Marx's philosophy of revolution. This is not for any academic reason, or any sort of orthodoxy, but the fact that his works disclosed a trail to the 1980s and revealed the problematic of this age. The totally new question that Luxemburg posed—socialist democracy after gaining power—pointed to a new aspect of Marxism itself.
The new moments in Marx that the book discloses and that center around what we now call a Third World are not limited to the manner in which Marx revealed an "Asiatic mode of production" in the Grundrisse. Rather, this is extended to the 1880s as Marx was commenting on Morgan's Ancient Society and other then-new anthropological works on India, on the Australian aborigines, as well as his letters both on his visit to Algeria and his correspondence with revolutionaries in Russia on the ancient commune there and its possible transformation into an altogether new type of revolution. In a word, it is to revolution in permanence that the book keeps returning, whether the subject is Luxemburg, or Lenin, or Women's Liberation, or the Hegelian dialectic. At the same time, we must keep in mind that, whereas it is Marx who transformed Hegel into a contemporary, and transformed the Hegelian dialectic into the Marxian dialectic of liberation, the revolution is also present in Hegel. Hard as Hegel tried to confine this to a revolution in thought alone, he made his presence felt in history, even as he spoke of the Philosophy of Mind and History of Philosophy. As Hegel put it:
"All revolutions, in the sciences no less than in general history, originate only in this, that the spirit of man, for the understanding and comprehension of himself, for the possessing of himself, has now altered his categories, uniting himself in a truer, deeper, more intrinsic relation with himself."4Hegel, Philosophy of Nature, trans. by A.V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970), p. 11.
Now return to our own situation, and think of the attacks that we will be facing in 1987, when we state openly that even the one post-Marx Marxist revolutionary who did reach deeply into philosophy—Lenin—nevertheless did not do so on the question of organization. In truth, he never renounced his position on the vanguard party set out in 1902 in What is to Be Done?, though he often critiqued it himself. He profoundly extended his new breakthrough in philosophy to a concretization of the dialectics of revolution, and yet never changed his position on the need for the "thin layer of Bolsheviks" as a vanguard party organization. In 1982 in Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution, we critiqued Lenin politically. To fully work out the dialectics of philosophy and organization for our age, it is now clear that that critique must dig deep philosophically.
The whole truth is that even Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program, which remains the ground for organization today, was written 112 years ago. What is demanded is not mere "updating," after all the aborted revolutions of the post-World War II world, "Ground" will not suffice alone; we have to finish the building—the roof and its contents. This is what I am working on now in the "Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy." I would appreciate hearing from our readers on their thoughts on this.
1. ↑ See The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx by Raya Dunayevskaya, pp. 237-49.
2. ↑ These and a number of other paragraphs which Dunayevskaya wanted to add to Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution were published in the 1991 University of Illinois edition of that work, pp. xxxiii-xxxviii.
3. ↑ David Ryazanov, who edited Marx in Soviet Russia in the 1920s, beginning work on the Complete Writings of Marx and Engels (MEGA), made these remarks in a 1923 report to the Communist Academy.
4. ↑ Hegel, Philosophy of Nature, trans. by A.V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970), p. 11.
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Mohammed Elnaiem says:
This makes me so sad, that book would have been the answer to so many of the problems we face today
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New York Mets pitching prospect Luis Carreno (34) pitches against the Miami Marlins at the Mets Minor League Facility in Port St. Lucie, Fla., May 11, 2015.
The New York Mets signed 16-year-old right-handed pitcher Luis Carreno to a minor-league contract in March 2012.
Carreno made his debut two months later in the Dominican League with three strikeouts in two scoreless innings of work.
Well, things went downhill after that when he was lit up in the next eight games covering 15 innings, surrendering 16 runs on 24 hits with two blown saves.
In 2013 he did not fare much better.
His ERA was 40.50 at the start of the season, but he managed to reduce the toll and finish the season 1-3 with an ERA of 9.98 in 16 appearances.
His lively arm did amass a total of 31 punch-outs in 30.2 innings of work in the Dominican League.
2014 looked like a breakthrough season for Carreno despite a losing record of 2-5.
His 1.60 ERA with 54 strikeouts in 56.1 innings of work as the opposition hit just .203 against him impressed scouts, despite 27 walks.
In 2015 Carreno took a step backward, as he threw grapefruits over the plate, going 0-5 with an 8.64 ERA in 11 games with the Gulf Coast Mets.
He made some opposing prospects into top prospects (his opponents' BA was .300), while walking 13 batters in 16.2 innings on the hill.
At the age of 20, the Venezuelan may end up back in the Gulf Coast League for another year of the Florida heat in 2016.
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Q: Replace specific column values in pandas dataframe df = pd.DataFrame({'Tissues':['a1','x2','y3','b','c1','v2','w3'], 'M':[1,2,'a',4,'b','a',7]})
df.set_index('Tissues')

The dataframe looks like:
         M
Tissues
a1       1
x2       2
y3       a
b        4
c1       b
v2       a
w3       7

How can I replace all as in column M with say a specific value, 2 and all bs to 3?
I tried:
replace_values = {'a':2, 'b':3}
df['M'] = df['M'].map(replace_values)

, but that changed other values not in the keys in replace_values to NaN:
  Tissues    M
0      a1  NaN
1      x2  NaN
2      y3  2.0
3       b  NaN
4      c1  3.0
5      v2  2.0
6      w3  NaN

I see that I can do
df.loc[(df['M'] == 'a')] = 2

but can I do this efficiently for a, b and so on, instead of one by one?

A: Use df.replace:
df = pd.DataFrame({'Tissues':['a1','x2','y3','b','c1','v2','w3'], 'M':[1,2,'a',4,'b','a',7]})
df.set_index('Tissues')

replace_values = {'a':2, 'b':3}

df['M'] = df['M'].replace(replace_values)

Output:
>>> df
  Tissues  M
0      a1  1
1      x2  2
2      y3  2
3       b  4
4      c1  3
5      v2  2
6      w3  7

A: Fix your code by add fillna
df['M'] = df['M'].map(replace_values).fillna(df.M)
df
  Tissues    M
0      a1  1.0
1      x2  2.0
2      y3  2.0
3       b  4.0
4      c1  3.0
5      v2  2.0
6      w3  7.0

A: Use df.replace
replace_values = {'a':2, 'b':3}
df = df.replace({"M": replace_values})

Results:
Tissues  M
0      a1  1
1      x2  2
2      y3  a
3       b  4
4      c1  b
5      v2  a
6      w3  7


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Bertie Ahern
26 June 1997 – 7 May 2008
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The Office of Bertie Ahern
Patrick Bartholomew "Bertie" Ahern (Irish: Pádraig Parthalán Ó hEachthairn; born 12 September 1951, Dublin[1]) is a former Taoiseach of Ireland leader of Fianna Fáil, the Irish Republic's largest political party. He oversaw the largest economic expansion in Irish history and was important in making the Good Friday Agreement.
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Dawson County cross country wraps up regular season
Boys' team takes second over top AAA competitors
Varsity cross country runner Ben McGinnis finished third for the Tigers program during the Oct. 14 Coach Wood Invitational. The boys team was second out of 20 schools competing. - photo by For the Dawson County News
Amy French
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Updated: Oct. 17, 2017, 9:44 a.m.
Over the weekend, the Dawson County High School varsity cross country teams participated in the gold race of the Coach Wood Invitational at the University of North Georgia Oakwood campus.
The boys team placed second out of 20 teams competing, including two top five programs in Class AAA—North Hall and Lovett.
"Both of those teams are very talented and I was proud of the way our boys held up against them, defeating North Hall by 99 points and Lovett by 216 points," said Coach Charles Beusse.
The Tigers were only edged out by Collins Hill, a 7A program.
"Our strongest point right now with the boys team is tight grouping," Beusse said. "We don't necessarily have a front runner who is winning races, but we have the ability to put all of our boys into a scoring position within a tight 45-60 second window which is huge."
On Oct. 14, Cody Wood led for the boys and was followed closely again by Chris Shelp and Ben McGinnis.
"One of the best races of the day came from Nathan Blythe who continues to improve and close the gap on our top three runners. This is huge for us and could help us tremendously during the upcoming championship races," Beusse said.
Beusse said he was also pleased with Wiley Dennis who finished in fifth for the Dawson program.
Nico Poston was suffering from sinus trouble and finished behind Dennis.
Beusse said he thinks that it will be a close battle with Westminster for a state title.
"It's shaping up to be a battle and we are excited to be in this position and be state contenders," he said. "The state race is always exciting and you never know what will happen until race day."
On the girls' side, Dawson County finished 15 out of 19 programs with Frankie Muldoon finishing third out of 169 runners.
Jenna Lecours followed up Muldoon for the Lady Tigers finishing 35th overall.
Marley Hamby finished the entire race with only one shoe.
According to Beusse, she was stepped on at the start and lost her shoe.
"Still, she ran the entire 5K with only one shoe and did very well under the strange circumstances," he said.
Molly Muenchen also had what Beusse called a strong race and said that she is "coming into form just when we need her."
Rounding out the top five was Abby Cotter.
"This is a very young girls' team but I look for them to compete well at region in a couple of weeks," Beusse said. "In a year or two, this team can be one of the strongest in the state."
Beusse said he was also pleased with the efforts at the junior varsity level.
The teams are now preparing for the region meet which will take place on Oct. 26 at Unicoi State Park in Helen.
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Distorter characterisation using mutual inductance in electromagnetic tracking
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Jaeger, Herman Alexander; Cantillon-Murphy, Pádraig
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Citation: Jaeger, H. A. and Cantillon-Murphy, P., 2018. Distorter Characterisation Using Mutual Inductance in Electromagnetic Tracking. Sensors, 18(9), 3059, (25 pp.). DOI:10.3390/s18093059
Published Version: 10.3390/s18093059
Electromagnetic tracking (EMT) is playing an increasingly important role in surgical navigation, medical robotics and virtual reality development as a positional and orientation reference. Though EMT is not restricted by line-of-sight requirements, measurement errors caused by magnetic distortions in the environment remain the technology's principal shortcoming. The characterisation, reduction and compensation of these errors is a broadly researched topic, with many developed techniques relying on auxiliary tracking hardware including redundant sensor arrays, optical and inertial tracking systems. This paper describes a novel method of detecting static magnetic distortions using only the magnetic field transmitting array. An existing transmitter design is modified to enable simultaneous transmission and reception of the generated magnetic field. A mutual inductance model is developed for this transmitter design in which deviations from control measurements indicate the location, magnitude and material of the field distorter to an approximate degree. While not directly compensating for errors, this work enables users of EMT systems to optimise placement of the magnetic transmitter by characterising a distorter's effect within the tracking volume without the use of additional hardware. The discrimination capabilities of this method may also allow researchers to apply material-specific compensation techniques to minimise position error in the clinical setting.
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Q: rails no such column error I have the following app. A Movie has many reviews, a moviegoer has many reviews.
When I try to associate a review with a movie I get the following error
Review Load (0.1ms)  SELECT "reviews".* FROM "reviews" WHERE "reviews"."movie_id" = 5
SQLite3::SQLException: no such column: reviews.movie_id: SELECT "reviews".* FROM     "reviews"  WHERE "reviews"."movie_id" = 5
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: SQLite3::SQLException: no such column: reviews.movie_id:     SELECT "reviews".* FROM "reviews"  WHERE "reviews"."movie_id" = 5

after using a sql gui editor I found that the correct query should be
SELECT "reviews".* FROM "reviews" WHERE "movie_id" = 5

review.rb
class Review < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :movie
  belongs_to :moviegoer
  attr_protected :moviegoer_id
end

movie.rb and moviegoer.rb have

has_many :reviews

in them.
schema.rb
ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20130222225620) do

create_table "moviegoers", :force => true do |t|
t.string   "name"
t.string   "provider"
t.string   "uid"
t.datetime "created_at", :null => false
t.datetime "updated_at", :null => false
end

create_table "movies", :force => true do |t|
t.string   "title"
t.string   "rating"
t.text     "description"
t.datetime "release_date"
t.datetime "created_at",   :null => false
t.datetime "updated_at",   :null => false
end

create_table "reviews", :force => true do |t|
t.integer "potatoes"
t.text    "comments"
t.integer "moviegoers_id"
t.integer "movies_id"
end

end

What am I doing wrong? why is rails querying "reviews"."movie_id" instead of just "movie_id"?

A: You have the wrong column name in your migration. The rails convention is that foreign keys are to be singular. If they are not then you need to tell rails what the foreign key is with an options hash on the association.
Either rollback your migration, fix the column name (moviegoers_id is wrong as well) then migrate again, or tell rails the foreign key.
Class Review < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :movie, :foreign_key => 'movies_id'
  belongs_to :moviegoer, :foreign_key => 'moviegoers_id'
end

And the same has to happen on the has many side of both models.


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MullenLowe Singapore and National Gallery Singapore Transform Void Decks into Art Gateways with AR Technology
Using AR technology, the gallery is able to scale its reach and transform more than 25 housing development boards void decks across eight heartland neighbourhoods
National Gallery Singapore aims to bring art closer to people's hearts and everyday lives by turning void decks into a gateway to art. The People's Gallery, which has rolled out island-wide, was devised and created by MullenLowe Singapore, and transforms more than 25 open spaces into galleries for the public to discover 50 artworks by Singapore and Southeast Asian artists, using QR codes and AR technology.
Void decks are an intrinsic part of everyday Singaporean life. More than 80% of Singaporeans live in public housing, passing through these spaces daily. Leveraging AR technology, the Gallery is able to scale its reach and transform more than 25 Housing Development Boards (HDB) void decks across eight heartland neighbourhoods ̶ Bishan, Toa Payoh, Jurong West, Marine Parade, Serangoon, Pasir Ris, Punggol, and Yishun ̶ into AR art galleries. Each void deck features up to 10 QR codes which will be refreshed with different artworks four times over the three-month run, from 13th September to end-November.
Works shown in The People's Gallery aim to offer the public fresh perspectives on modern Singapore and Southeast Asian art. The works of art pop up in AR, via an interactive microsite, when the public scan the QR codes on the pillars of designated void decks. The works are accompanied by written labels, with several pieces complemented by multi-lingual audio guides and Art in 90 seconds videos – personal stories about the artworks told by people of the Gallery. In the spirit of the Gallery's 5th anniversary theme of bridging divides and finding common ground through art, the AR microsite experience is available in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil.
Commenting on the initiative, Paul Soon CEO, MullenLowe Group Singapore said, "It's been an absolute pleasure for us to bring this to life. There is nothing more powerful than serving the wider community through art. We are heartened by the positive responses since launch from both the public and the town councils."
Ms Chong Siak Ching, chief executive officer of National Gallery Singapore, says: "To be a progressive museum for the people, we must continue to create inclusive art experiences to foster a culture of art appreciation among the public. Leveraging technology has allowed us to 'hang art on walls' without concerns about climate control and security. We hope that this outreach will allow us to connect more widely with our local communities as we bring art to where they are, to every corner of Singapore."
This exciting new outreach initiative is part of the Gallery's continued push, as it marks its 5th anniversary, to extend the positive impact of art to an even broader range of audiences through approachable and personal experiences with art beyond the walls of the museum.
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Introduced in the House on April 21, 2022
Adopted by the House on April 21, 2022
Summary: James Samuel Gibson - Eagle Scout
4/21/2022  House   Introduced and adopted (House Journal-page 40)
TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR JAMES SAMUEL GIBSON OF RICHLAND COUNTY FOR HIS NOTEWORTHY ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA AND TO CONGRATULATE HIM UPON ACHIEVING THE PRESTIGIOUS RANK OF EAGLE SCOUT, THE HIGHEST AWARD IN SCOUTING.
Whereas, the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives are pleased to learn that James Samuel Gibson of Troop 900 at Windsor United Methodist Church has successfully completed the requirements for the rank of Eagle Scout; and
Whereas, to earn the rank of Eagle Scout, a Boy Scout must demonstrate that he lives by the principles of the Scout Oath and Law in his daily life; he must plan, develop, and give leadership to others in a service project helpful to any religious institution, any school, or his community; and he must earn a total of twenty-one merit badges, actively serve in a position of responsibility within his troop for six months, take part in a Scoutmaster conference, and successfully complete an Eagle Scout board of review; and
Whereas, only about 5% of Boy Scouts complete these rigorous requirements to achieve the coveted rank of Eagle Scout; and
Whereas, in the early 1900s throughout the British Empire, the Scout Movement began to form troops as a result of reading Lord Robert Baden-Powell's "Aids to Scouting," written to train soldiers. In 1910, at the age of fifty-three, Lord Baden-Powell retired from a highly successful career as a scout in the British army to give his attention to this work; and
Whereas, as an outgrowth of the Scout Movement in England and with the endorsement of the Chief Scout of the World, Lord Baden-Powell, the Boy Scouts of America was formed in 1910, and for more than a century, it has shaped future leaders of America by combining educational activities with lifelong values and fun; and
Whereas, James Gibson, the son of Connie and Alex Gibson, has been in Scouting since 2010 when he became a Tiger Cub. His Eagle Scout Project involved holding a book drive for Bethel Learning Center as well as cleaning classrooms at the center, and his Eagle Board of Review was held on December 14, 2021; and
Whereas, his Eagle Ceremony is scheduled to be held at Windsor United Methodist Church on May 28, 2022; and
Whereas, the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives are grateful for the legacy of Scouting in America and take great pride in acknowledging the accomplishments of young South Carolinians like James Gibson who selflessly give of their time, talents, and energy to enrich their local communities and our State. Now, therefore,
That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, recognize and honor James Samuel Gibson of Richland County for his noteworthy achievements in the Boy Scouts of America and congratulate him upon achieving the prestigious rank of Eagle Scout, the highest award in Scouting.
Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be provided to James Samuel Gibson.
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This is useful to calculate the total time saved if data is read from the cache.


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Diane Abbott backed victory for the IRA in an interview with a pro-republican journal, The Sunday Times has found.
The interview was found during research by The Sunday Times in Irish and republican archives.
The same files disclose that the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, personally led or took part in at least 72 separate events or actions with Sinn Fein and pro-republican groups during the years of the IRA's armed struggle — far more than previously known.


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America's Losing Russia Strategy
Confronting Putin isn't enough to restore peace on Russia's borders. What's needed is Détente Plus.
Leslie H. Gelb
Updated Apr. 14, 2017 10:19AM ET / Published Jul. 05, 2015 12:01AM ET
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American hawks flapped their wings with joy when Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced recently that more military muscle would be deployed to the Baltics and Eastern Europe, and as word seeped out of significant covert U.S. military aid to Ukraine. And the hawks glowed when President Vladimir Putin telephoned President Barack Obama to discuss common problems in the Mideast. You see, they crowed, Putin is blinking first when faced with U.S. toughness. Get even tougher, do more, they urged in White House meetings and the press. They never addressed what they would do if more and more failed—as it almost certainly would.
Yes, Washington should show more resolve and enhance NATO's military punch. But neither that nor increasing economic sanctions will stop Putin. By themselves, upping military and economic pressure is both a dangerous and losing strategy.
The indisputable fact that hawks in the administration, Congress, and the think tanks simply won't face is this: Russia has military superiority on its borders with the Baltic States and Ukraine. Nothing the U.S. or its European partners can do (or are likely to try) will change this fact. This means that whatever military move NATO makes in this region, small or large, Putin can trump it. Certainly, NATO has clear military superiority beyond Russia's borders, but it is on those borders that the problem lies.
You doubt these facts? Just read what the man who knows most about them—Supreme NATO commander Philip Breedlove—had to say last February in a little noticed interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
Breedlove: So what I would say here, Christiane, is that as we saw in late August, when the Russian forces came across the border, when it appeared that the Ukrainian forces were going to be able to effect a military solution. We will not be able to give the Ukrainian forces enough equipment or time in order to defend against the Russians. If the Russians are completely determined to hold the situation in the Donbas that puts Kiev into a bargaining position where they have to come to the table and meet Russian needs, Russia will apply the necessary pressure just like they did in late August. And so we should not attempt to enter into a situation where we try to match their capability to meet that. They simply will not be able to do that.
Amanpour: Wow, that is a pretty dire assessment isn't it?
Breedlove: It's why we say there has to be a diplomatic and political solution.
Amanpour: Could I just clarify something? Did you actually say to me that in no circumstance will you be able to provide the Ukrainians with the kind of self-defense weaponry and training that they need?
Breedlove: Let's go back, Christiane, to what happened again in August. The Ukrainians were advancing on the separatists, or I call them the Russian-backed-forces in the East. And when it appeared that the Ukrainians were going to be able to accomplish their goal, the Russian forces came across the border in detail, in combined arms effort and defeated the Ukrainian forces and backed them up. I think that if we see another time in the future where the Ukrainian forces are actually able to advance in detail against the separatists, why would we expect any different behavior from the Russians than what we saw in August?
Notice that the general skirted what might happen if U.S. forces were introduced. He and his senior officers believe that might produce more favorable results. But there's no way he and NATO commanders think that direct NATO intervention makes any sense. They most certainly do not want to make Ukraine an American war. And that's true in spades for prime hawk Senator John McCain. There's no way he'd come close to recommending a U.S./NATO war over Ukraine, a non-member of NATO. What sense, then, does it make to call for escalation arms aid by itself when the end result would be the loss of even more U.S. credibilty and power? Thus, General Breedlove would increase arms aid to Ukraine, but pair it with new and realistic diplomacy.
As for the Baltics, Russian military advantages are starker still. Moscow could pour tens of thousands of first-class troops into Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in short order. Worse, U.S. military experts say, Moscow could quickly establish air superiority with anti-aircraft systems and Russian fighters.
To prevail and to bully the Baltic States, however, Moscow doesn't even have to rely on outright force. Accordingly, NATO and U.S. senior military officers expect the Russians to start with their clear-cut advantages in "hybrid warfare," i.e. with cyber warfare, propaganda, and the incitement of internal resistance from local ethnic Russians. NATO forces couldn't do much against these moves.
America's hawks never want to discuss these realities. They simply wish the facts away with their chest thumping and absolute faith in the Zeusian power of toughness. Yet they forever disregard being tough in the context of what General Breedlove called the "diplomatic and political solution." To the hawks, diplomacy simply means capitulation (except if they do it).
What should this new diplomacy look like? To begin with, diplomacy does not mean rolling back economic sanctions against Russia or halting the promised NATO buildup in the Baltics and Eastern Europe. These are essential elements of tough diplomacy. By themselves, however, they merely invite Russian toughness and intransigence. That's the story of the last two years.
The aim of a new diplomatic strategy—I like to call it Détente Plus—is to explore seriously whether Russia is prepared to work with the U.S. in Europe and elsewhere to solve or mitigate genuine common problems based on genuine shared or overlapping interests. Détente Plus, which I have elaborated fully in the current issue of The National Interest magazine, has to proceed from the commonsensical judgment that Russia does have legitimate interests that should not be ignored, and that Russia remains a great power in many parts of the world, if no longer a superpower.
Russia has been helpful to the U.S. in the Iran nuclear negotiations and probably carries more clout in these talks than Washington's other partners. Moscow also has been very helpful in fighting international terrorism, where the Russians have significant capabilities. Indeed they are probably more worried about the rise of Islamic terrorism in the Middle East than is the U.S., because they see a direct and profound connection between these Sunni jihadis and Muslim extremists in the North Caucuses. These shared fears provide a shared interest, say, in working with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria against ISIS. And it's not bad at all to be close enough to Moscow to play it off against China, and of course, vice versa.
None of this, however, solves the matters of Ukraine and the Baltic States. These situations are very dangerous and made much more so by Russia's new and threatening rhetoric and modernized nuclear capabilities. It should make Westerners worry, really worry, when Moscow refers to using nuclear weapons as a "de-escalatory" measure. This kind of talk makes use of nuclear weapons sound too easy. Simply put, the West should not want to test Moscow's underlying intentions here, nor provoke Moscow into testing America's interests.
The Détente Plus strategy is probably the only way to protect Western interests without dangerous confrontations. Here are its key elements: maintaining economic sanctions and, if necessary, threatening to enhance them; strengthening NATO military capabilities throughout the Baltics and Eastern Europe as well as sustaining the non-provocative covert arms pipeline to Ukraine; working with Moscow on future joint economic trade and investment while ceasing European efforts to rip Ukraine's economy away from Russia into Europe; and stepping up efforts to work with Moscow in Syria and Iraq, on non-proliferation (including the Iran negotiations) and on anti-terrorism.
For all this to work, the overall Détente Plus relationship has to be established and blessed by the two presidents. To get results, each should name a special envoy devoted exclusively to this enterprise. The operating principle of Détente Plus has to be that the U.S. gives to Russia as it gets from Russia.
When and as the Détente Plus strategy begins to show results, the U.S. and NATO can begin to take Moscow's interests into good account in Ukraine and elsewhere. Obviously the West should not and cannot give Ukraine or even eastern Ukraine to Russia, but some new formula is needed to settle the Gordian knot of Crimea. Russia has no rights to any of these territories, but it does have legitimate interests in preventing their use against Russia.
The initial step is to put together a U.S. strategy (which the Obama administration simply does not have) and then sit down to fashion a joint strategy with Putin. Doubtless achieving success will surpass climbing Mt. Everest, given Putin's aggressiveness and Western tentativeness. But however difficult, the only alternative is to leave NATO in a position of military inferiority on Russia's borders where sparks could easily turn into explosions. Neither side desires explosions. But with reports of Russian fighter aircraft buzzing Western commercial airliners around Europe, Russian subs penetrating European ports and U.S. B-52s flying over Baltic skies, shootings can easily erupt whatever the intentions.