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Review: 'This Land' – A cynic's story of defeatism
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Owen Jones' latest book chronicles the Corbyn years, offering an insider's view on the problems faced by the Labour left. But the author fails to draw the key lesson from these events: that we need bold and militant leadership.
In his new book This Land: The Story of a Movement, Owen Jones, a long standing figure on the Labour left, provides his musings on the rise and fall of the Corbyn movement. Impressively, however, for someone so integrally tied to the Corbyn phenomena, he manages to spend over 300 pages entirely missing the point.
The Guardian journalist gets into the nitty gritty of what happened at the top of the Labour left during the Corbyn era. In the process, he exposes some unsurprising – but nonetheless interesting – stories about the battles inside the PLP.
But in doing so, he completely overlooks the real political content of this struggle. Instead of explaining the class interests at play, he dumbs down Labour's civil war to one of personalities.
If anything, this book shows the political weakness of those like Jones himself. Despite claiming to want to break from parliamentary cretinism, he and other similar trendy 'lefts' consistently buy into this broken status quo.
In short, Jones has learnt nothing from the past five years. And as the current struggle in the Labour Party and timidity of the left leaders show – those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Figures such as Jones fear mobilising a movement outside of the structures of Parliament. Yet, ironically, it was precisely the idea of breaking from Westminster's establishment politics that was the basis for Corbyn's popularity.
Jones writes that "we captured the top of the party by accident". As a result, he says, the leadership of the Corbyn project was inexperienced. Throughout these years, therefore, it struggled to hold its head above the water.
However, the author's solution to this is the suggestion that Corbyn and co. should have attempted to look and behave more like traditional, 'respectable' parliamentarians. In other words, Jones believes that Corbyn should have moderated himself more, and 'played the game'.
In reality, it was the opposite. What the leadership of the left lacked, and what Jones fails to recognise, is the need for audacity and boldness. Far from restraining themselves and compromising, Corbyn and McDonnell should have pushed farther, and had confidence in the movement behind them.
Anti-establishment
Throughout the first section of the book, 'The Rise', Jones focuses on the most superficial elements of the Corbyn phenomena, discussing the personality traits of various left wingers around the leadership campaign.
The author spends almost an entire page recalling how Corbyn gifted jam from his allotment to the Queen on her birthday. His aim is to use this story as an allegory for the inexperience of the Corbyn project.
But what this passage really lays bare is the conservatism of those in Corbyn's team, who constantly pushed for the Labour leader to take up the cultures and norms of Britain's cretinous political system.
Of course, what should be clear from the Corbyn years is workers and youth were not looking for someone to abide by the norms of establishment politics. For those who flooded into the Labour Party after 2015, the attraction of Corbyn was precisely that he represented a break with this rotten political setup.
Indeed, Jones even pays lip service to this fact, saying: "What attracted so many to this strikingly unconventional leader – apart from his politics – was a sense of decency and integrity."
Jones' critiques of Corbyn – for not understanding parliamentary cultures – do not hold up in the slightest. The 'strategists' in Corbyn's team, those pushing him to look and sound more like a 'normal' politician, were the ones out of step with the anti-establishment mood in society.
People looked to Corbyn because he campaigned around the idea that the current system is broken. Grassroots activists did not want a 'clever' strategic campaign, but a movement based on a socialist vision of society.
Jones then goes on to provide his analysis of Brexit in his chapter 'The Brexit Bandersnatch'. But this chapter is hardly worth discussing. The author's entire conclusion is that it was a difficult question, which was always going to cause the Corbyn movement problems.
In effect, Jones takes a defeatist attitude, implying that this issue was always going to tear the left apart. As in the Black Mirror episode that the chapter is named after, he says, whatever decision is taken, things will always turn out badly for the protagonist.
There is no mention, however, of how Labour's turn towards a Remainer second referendum position – which Jones himself pushed – paved the way for the party's December 2019 electoral defeat. Nor of how Labour and the left could have cut across the Brexit divide with class-based politics.
Instead, the journalist's fatalistic suggestion is effectively that we should all just hang up our hats and head home.
Next up, Jones dedicates an entire chapter to 'The Anti-Semitism Crisis'. This deserves extensive attention in a book about the Corbyn movement, especially since this question is now being used as the pretext for a purge of the left – starting with Jeremy Corbyn himself.
Drawing the appropriate lessons from these events is therefore vital for orienting ourselves in the midst of today's chaotic civil war.
Once again, however, Jones superficially examines the surface of what took place, attributing blame in the wrong places and to the wrong ideas.
He begins this chapter by suggesting that Jews have fallen out of favour with the left and have been thrown into the bracket of 'whiteness'. In turn, he believes anti-semitism has become tolerated where other forms of racism are not.
But this is false on two accounts. Firstly, this is a complete misunderstanding of what claims about 'institutional anti-semitism' regarding the Labour Party were ever really about. In reality, the question of anti-semitism was cynically weaponised and exaggerated by Corbyn's right-wing opponents in order to politically attack and discredit the left.
Secondly, this is a complete misrepresentation of what racism is, and where the left should stand on it. Socialists are not fighting to liberate non-white people while exploiting and oppressing white people more. We stand for the liberation of all people, no matter what skin colour or ethnicity.
Jones goes so far as to disparage left-wing Jews who have defended Corbyn, accusing the left of using them for political point scoring. But at no point does he expose the reality that is obvious to members everywhere: the issue of anti-semitism was whipped up by the right wing to attack the Corbyn movement.
In fact, it was the right wing who used Jewish Labour members as political pawns.
'Acceptable'
The recent suspension of Corbyn has demonstrated all of this clearly. And true to form, Jones has responded to recent events extremely weakly, taking an equivocal position and refusing to defend the very movement that brought him to prominence.
In fact, Jones has actively blamed left-wingers who tell the truth for "making matters worse". It is clear what Jones is suggesting here, as he does throughout this whole book: that the left should retreat and retreat until they are no different from the 'acceptable' right wing of the party.
"Acceptable to who?", is what we ask. The 'acceptable' politicians have all been proven – time and time again – to be cranks and liars; puppets of the bourgeoisie. Corbyn expressed something different: a mood of dissent from the masses.
Owen Jones has firmly sided with the 'pragmatists' – those who neuter the movement by making the left conform to 'normal' politics as much possible. Socialists, on the other hand, should be fighting for bold, radical ideas in the movement, based on mass grassroots mobilisation.
Activists can no longer afford to accept the retreats, compromises, and defeatism of those like Jones. We must fight on the basis of militant working-class struggle and clear socialist policies. The anger and dissent that fuelled the Corbyn movement has not gone away. What is needed is to harness this energy in order to drive out the right wing and fight for real change.
Lessons for today
In Jones' final analysis, he admits that the 'centre ground' cannot hold. He rightly addresses the rapidly deteriorating material conditions of the world we live in, and states that the old centrist politics of Blairism are dead in the water.
But the author does not draw the necessary conclusions from this, nor from the experiences of the past five years.
Throughout his writings, Jones criticises the Corbyn leadership for failing to operate like the rest of the parliamentary machinery. But he refuses to do more than pay lip service to the fact that this was exactly why people voted for Corbyn.
The lessons from the Corbyn era for today are clear. The left must reject the idea of 'unity' with the Blairites. Instead, we must stand firm and organise a bold socialist fightback against the Labour right wing. This should be the real story of our movement.


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"Gujranwala's name has made it to the Guinness Book of World Records" with the green initiative by students, said the PM's special assistant on climate change Malik Amin Aslam who led the tree plantation event.
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Q: How to test camel route that only set properties I have a route builder that depending on the content of a message sets specific properties. It doesn't send it to other endpoints so I cannot mock them and check what they got.
I can produce a message or exchange but is there a way to check it after it was transformed by this route builder?

A: Assuming that your route is synchronous (i.e. not from:seda), you can simply check that the property was updated on the exchange that you send via the ProducerTemplate.
Let's assume that you need to check the value of the property TestProp:
package com.example.demo;

import org.apache.camel.CamelContext;
import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
import org.apache.camel.Produce;
import org.apache.camel.ProducerTemplate;
import org.apache.camel.builder.ExchangeBuilder;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

@SpringBootTest
class PropertyUpdateTest {
    @Produce("direct:testProps")
    ProducerTemplate template;

    @Autowired
    CamelContext camelContext;

    @Test
    void verifyRouteUpdatesProperty() {
        Exchange exchange = ExchangeBuilder.anExchange(camelContext)
                .withProperty("TestProp", "InitialVal")
                .build();

        template.send(exchange);

        assertThat(exchange.getProperty("TestProp")).isEqualTo("UpdatedVal");
    }

}

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Although it is not an actual piece of clothing, a good pair of polarized sunglasses are very important for fly fishing. Not only will they cut down on the glare from the sun, but they will also make it easier to read the water.
Wearing gloves for fly fishing presents a contradictory problem. Gloves keep the fingers and hands warm, however, while fly fishing it is necessary to have full, or almost full, sensitivity in your fingers. Fly fishing gloves leave the last joint of the fingers free allowing for the sensitivity that is needed.
To a fly fisherman, his hat is very important. It should be wide brimmed so it protects your face, ears, and the back of your neck. It protects not only from the weather, but also from hooks if a poor cast or a gust of wind carries the fly toward your head.
Wearing the correct clothing will not only keep you safer and drier, but it will add to your enjoyment of the sport of fly fishing.


I've worked along Keith Kisler at Finnriver, helping produce artisanal hard cider for most of my month on the farm. OK, well I'm not making the cider, but rather assisting with bottling and other tasks that I cannot turn into a catastrophe. Working on the line also gives me a chance to learn more about Keith's interest in, and passion for, cider. What follows are his responses to some questions that I've been thinking about after being here for nearly a month.
How did you get first interested in making cider? Was there a cider you tasted that was your "A ha!" moment that changed your perception of it?
In college my friends and I experimented with homebrew beer making and then that hobby went mostly idle post-college, until moving here to Finnriver where our neighbors Lige and Kay had planted several heirloom and true cider apple trees and exposed us to the virtues of hard cider. The farm crew and I started making hard cider in 5 gallon batches. Some were wonderfully complex and rich in tannin with a full and round mouthfeel. But some of those first batches were better suited for vinegar making….
But my first "a-ha!" cider was a bottle-conditioned cider made by Lige. It was light, bubbly, with a bracing acidity. It was clean and refreshing and perfect for the moment, on that summer evening while BBQ-ing at a friend's house. The next cider that caught my attention was Wandering Aengus' Dry Oak cider. It's got a subtle oak spice and the balance of acid and tannin was perfect.
What issues and challenges do you face being a small, artisanal producer in terms of both production and sales?
Economy of scale. The infrastructure and human power required to produce, market, and sell cider on a commercial scale is extremely expensive. We've been lucky in many ways that craft cider is seeing a revival, especially in the Northwest. The increased popularity of cider over the past few years has allowed for the growth of our company. Our initial business plan was very modest and simple, but it quickly became apparent that it would take a significant jump in production to cover the costs of equipment and labor required to grow our capacity so that it could be economically viable. But even with our growth we are still a very, very small producer in the grand scheme of things. Whenever my wife is describing our cidery to someone and she uses the term craft or artisan scale I always feel compelled to remind them that we are truly a nano-cidery.
Tell me a little about the cider conference you will be attending in Chicago and what you and other artisanal producers hope to achieve.
How does sustainability and organic agriculture impact and inform your cider making?
I've come to making cider from the perspective of being a farmer, and having grown up on a farm in Eastern Washington. I naturally lean towards a low intervention approach to cider making and appreciate the inherent virtues of the fruit and the basic elegance of fermentation.
Are you able to tell me about any new ciders/wines that will debut this year?
We are excited to introduce a couple of seasonal limited release products this year. I can't really say exactly what they will be because one, that would spoil the surprise, and two, things are in a constant state of evolution around here. I will say we are actively working on a few new ciders, and some format changes are in the works….
A big new development is we will be taking over a label from Red Barn Cidery, whose cider-maker is retiring after a very successful and important cider career. Finnriver is now fermenting, under Drew's watchful eye, the regionally popular and award winning Fire Barrel Cider. The cider will be released in late spring under our brand. We're really excited to be carrying this cider into the future and to be working with Drew to ensure its quality and consistency continue for years to come.
What do you want people to experience when they are drinking your ciders? What do you want people to take away from a visit to the farm and tasting room?
I want their taste buds to say- yes! I love it when people are surprised by how refined, or complex, or delicate a cider can be. I like when people come into our tasting room as self-proclaimed beer or wine drinkers and leave as self-proclaimed cider drinkers.


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How to calculate critical mass?
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How (or if) I can calculate critical mass with the information I'm given?
I have to write a criticality safety evaluation for an assignment. The assignment is about decomissioning a dissolver which was used to recover plutonium. On the contingencies section I need to apply 'magic merv'. These are the parameters which can effect criticality - mass, absorption, geometry, interaction, concentration, moderation, enrichment, reflection and volume.
For the mass section I'm not sure if I need to calculate the critical mass to determine how much solution (which contains some plutonium nitrate) should go in a storage drum. I don't know how to do this.
I have calculated that there is 36.5 gallons of liquid in the dissolver which includes plutonium nitrate. I intend to put the liquid into a 55 gallon (lead-lined 2 inch thick) drum measuring 43 inches in height and 31 inches in diameter. I need to know if this is safe.
I am told that plutonium nitrate concentrations are less than 1 kg/L.
I have attached text from the assignment.
assignment.docx
anorlunda
Many people here wisely refuse to open a .docx file from an unknown person on the Internet. Can you convert it to .PDF and post that? Or better still, can you make it text/latex in the body of your post?
I've attached the pdf below.
In the mid-1960s a secret nuclear research facility was built around a remote inlet on the Russian Arctic coast. Shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union decommissioning of the facility commenced and. Due to its remote location, and a lack of road access, it was decided to transport these drums to a reprocessing site by sea through the use of. The drums were loaded onto the barge where, due to the political and economic turmoil of the time, they were left and forgotten until 2013. After successful removal of the drums it was decided by the authorities that remediation of the rest of the plant should be undertaken and, after initial site surveys, two steel skips containing fissile materials were removed from the site yard, two waste dumps were cleared, and a fuel pond was emptied.
Adjacent to the main facility building, in a separate building, is a metal machining and recovery lab. This lab was used to recover and machine plutonium that is (originally) from natural uranium metal fuel rods irradiated in a graphite moderated reactor. This lab was in use from 1964 until abandonment of the site. The lab had low throughput and there is no criticality alarm system in place. Previously, during operations, neutron monitors were used when handling fissile materials. The nine metre square, six metre high lab was on the ground floor and had 30 cm thick floors, walls and ceilings. The site was susceptible to flooding of no more than 6" at a frequency of once per decade.
In the middle of the lab, surrounded by a steel mezzanine, and accessed (to fill) by a ladder, there is a batch dissolver. Made of 1" thick 316 stainless steel, this 60 cm diameter, Teflon-lined, dissolver is mounted on four, 2" diameter steel legs (located on a 90 degree pitch), as shown in Figure 2. The dissolver has a lid which can be removed and repositioned using a block and tackle (not shown), mounted directly above. When used previously, decanting of fissile liquors from the dissolver was accomplished by opening a valve (tap) at the bottom of the dissolver (flow under gravity). Debris was removed from the liquor by use of a filter placed between it and the receiving container. This dissolver currently remains half-filled with liquid (assumed to be nitric acid, potentially bearing fissile material) and the lid remains in place. Inspection indicates that, over time, debris has settled at the bottom of the dissolver. Directly beneath the dissolver is a spherical, Teflon-lined 180 cm diameter, 1" thick walled, stainless steel sump. The sump is filled to the top with borosilicate glass Raschig rings with diameter and height both 4 cm. The glass wall thickness is 0.5 cm. Spillages have accumulated in the sump over the many years of use although the waste volume or evaporation rates are not known. Access to the sump is via a 15 cm diameter drain from a sloped floor. The sump is buried in the ground beneath the floor. Previous experience showed that soluble boron was frequently used on site and that solutions with concentrations <1 kg/L plutonium nitrate were often present. The total fissile mass in the lab is not known.
The dissolver is scheduled for demolition and hence it, and the sump, needs to be drained and decontaminated. A chemical waste removal company has tendered for the work. The proposed process is to drain the sump into the dissolver using a binda-super-lario-b-piston-hand-pump and a 2" diameter nylon hose. This will be diluted with light water as required. The dissolver will then be drained in the normal way into any number of 15 cm diameter, 30 cm tall flat-topped polypropylene bottles (each of which has a 1" diameter, 1" tall cap protruding from its top). The waste engineers propose transporting the filled bottles from site in 45 x 30 x 35 cm cardboard boxes. They propose stacking these boxes three high, starting in the corner, in the north east corner of the room. As the bottles are filled, the process states that they are immediately placed into a cardboard box. Due to difficulties in shipping, the timetable for removal of the fissile waste from the room is not known and hence you should assume that the boxes will remain in position throughout.
assignment.pdf
Thanks, but the assignment is not your attempt at solution. You must show your attempt.
You haven't read my post. I'm asking for help on how (or if) I can calculate the critical mass with the information I'm given. I don't want someone to do my assignment for me I just need direction regarding critical mass.
It sounds like you think there is just a formula to plug into. How much nuclear engineering have you studied so far? It is hard to imagine a professor giving that assignment without you having the proper background first.
There are some very simple examples here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass#Critical_mass_of_a_bare_sphere
But the real answer is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_criticality_safety#Calculations_and_analyses said:
To determine if any given system containing fissile material is safe, its neutron balance must be calculated. In all but very simple cases, this usually requires the use of computer programs to model the system geometry and its material properties.
The analyst describes the geometry of the system and the materials, usually with conservative or pessimistic assumptions. The density and size of any neutron absorbers is minimised while the amount of fissile material is maximised. As some moderators are also absorbers, the analyst must be careful when modelling these to be pessimistic. Computer codes allow analysts to describe a three-dimensional system with boundary conditions. These boundary conditions can represent real boundaries such as concrete walls or the surface of a pond, or can be used to represent an artificial infinite system using a periodic boundary condition. These are useful when representing a large system consisting of many repeated units.
Computer codes used for criticality safety analyses include COG (US),[2] MONK (UK),[3] KENO (US),[4] MCNP (US),[5] and CRISTAL (France).[6]
I have studied very little of it so far.
Without access to a programme like MCMP what should I say regarding critical mass? I have formula for geometric buckling, dimensions of the storage drums and the density of plutonium, but there isn't much else to go on...
I have a formula in the notes given as critical mass/density = volume... can this be applied to a storage cylinders?
richphys said:
Normally, I would say no that is not good enough. But you must assume that your assignment requires only methods that you have been taught so far, so it should be in your notes.
anorlunda said:
Are there any tips you could offer regarding a discussion on critical mass, given the data I have? The data I have is as follows:
Plutonium nitrate exists in concentrations < 1 Kg/L
The total mass of plutonium nitrate is unknown.
There will be 36.5 gallons of plutonium nitrate waste from the dissolver.
The plutonium nitrate waste will be moved from the dissolver to 30 gallon drums measuring 39.25 inches in height by 27 inches in diameter.
Raschig rings will be added in concentrations from 4-85 g/L.
There are others here on PF who have professional experience with radiation safety. I'll leave it to them to answer. It may take some time before they read this thread.
By the way, what kind of course are you taking where they gave you that assignment? It seems illogical to ask you to do that if you have not studied nuclear engineering.
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More than 95 percent of streetlights in Oceania will have been converted to LEDs, while 70 percent will be networked to become "smart", leading to cumulative investment of $780m over the next decade, a new study finds.
According to the Oceania LED and Smart Street Lighting: Market Forecast (2018-2027), published by Northeast Group, regulations are helping accelerate deployments of LED and smart street lighting market across Australia and New Zealand.
In Australia, the move to develop smart city infrastructure has been a key driver. Streetlights are primarily owned by utilities in Australia, but as smart city plans increase, smart street lighting will provide a critical foundational layer.
In New Zealand, smart street lighting growth is already accelerating due to government funding, but cities will be looking to layer additional smart city and Internet of Things (IoT) applications upon their existing networks.
"Oceania had previously been a slow mover in smart street lighting, held back by higher prices, technical hurdles, and streetlight ownership challenges," said Ben Gardner, president of Northeast Group.
"But the New Zealand government is now funding 85 percent of the cost of streetlight projects and Australian states have come up with new financing mechanisms and lighting codes that are encouraging deployments. New Zealand already has over 25 percent of its streetlights networked."
The leading vendors so far in the region are Telematics Wireless, Telensa, Itron, Sylvania Connected Solutions, and SELC. Many of these vendors have an early lead in the quickly developing New Zealand market, but the Australian market is expected to be more competitive.
There are already smaller projects underway using LoRa and NB-IoT communications, implying a wide variety of vendors could participate. Other leading vendors with a presence in the region include Cisco, DimOnOff, GE, Eaton, Flashnet, Harvard Engineering, Landis+Gyr, LED Roadway, Schréder, Sensity, and Signify (formerly Philips Lighting).
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All Write, Columns
Rock on! And I don't mean in a chair
July 2, 2018 Cindy Hval
Derek and I had a peaceful easy feeling in May when we joined several thousand of our closest friends to hear the Eagles in concert at the Spokane Arena.
From the moment the opening a cappella strains of "Seven Bridges Road" soared through the venue, till the final sweet notes of "Desperado" echoed, we were enthralled and entertained.
The Eagles are a band even my parents would have approved of … except for the somewhat controversial "Hotel California."
When I was growing up parental approval did not extend to the "devil's music," so I started rocking later than most of my peers.
Our home was filled with the music of the Gaither Vocal Band and Dottie Rambo, and of course, Elvis – gospel and hymn recordings only.
In the '80s backward masking was on the nightly news. We teens were told the subliminal messages contained in albums by certain bands would turn us into devil worshippers.
We attended seminars at the Spokane Convention Center where speakers warned us that subliminal messages weren't limited to records. Even eating crackers could send one spiraling into sin due to the word "SEX" being spelled out in the dots of a Ritz cracker.
That explains why I still prefer Wheat Thins, and why my first concert was Ronnie Milsap. I'd never heard of him, but my best friend really wanted to go. My parents thought country music wasn't as dangerous as rock 'n' roll.
Of course, I listened to the American Top 40 on the radio so I could keep current with the sinful state of the world. That radio rebellion must have corrupted me. How else to explain the first album I purchased was Quiet Riot's "Metal Health."
But metal never moved me much, especially once I discovered Bon Jovi. Their music was the soundtrack of my teen and young adult years.
My husband was an avid concertgoer in his teens, and when we met he was astonished by my rock 'n' roll ignorance.
"Just think if you hadn't married me you would know nothing about Van Halen. Nothing!" he often says.
During our early married years, the cost of raising four kids put concert attendance out of our reach.
We did splurge on Jim Brickman tickets when he came to the INB Performing Arts Center around the time of our anniversary one year. My parents would also approve of Jim; our children, however, were mortified.
"My gosh! If John Denver was still alive, you'd probably pay money to see him, too!" our teenager groaned.
"Well, duh!" I replied, and launched into a spirited rendition of "Grandma's Feather Bed."
As our kids grew older, our wallets grew less lean, but I was still shocked when five years ago Derek surprised me with tickets to Bon Jovi.
He'd already taken the boys to see Van Halen when they were in Tacoma the previous year, and he wanted me to be able to hear my favorite band in concert, too.
But the biggest surprise was how much Derek, a Bon Jovi-scoffer, loved the show.
"That was absolutely amazing! Best concert I've ever attended!" he said afterward.
Since then we've seen a slew of bands and performers. Our son treated us to Bob Dylan in Seattle. And we got our '80s groove on with Foreigner, Styx, Loverboy, Joan Jett (twice), Pat Benatar and Melissa Etheridge when they've performed at Northern Quest.
But it was seeing Blondie in 2015 that reminded Derek of the passage of time.
"Debbie Harry is still so hot!" he enthused.
I grinned.
"Not bad for 70, huh?"
Stricken, Derek gasped, "She's almost as old as my mother!"
Time has not been good for all bands, however.
Derek was delighted when the newspaper asked me to review Def Leppard when they came to town last summer with Tesla and Poison.
The show was fine, and Leppard fans were pleased, but there was a lot of sweat and a lot of screaming – both on stage and in the audience. For the first time, we both had to wear ear plugs.
The difference between metal bands and more mellow bands becomes apparent as the members age.
"You can actually understand the lyrics when the Eagles and Bon Jovi sing," he said. "Van Halen and Def Leppard just play louder to compensate for their fading vocals."
There you have it. We've reached the age where the words matter just as much as the music.
Some folks do their rocking in chairs, but we're going to keep doing ours at concert venues – at least while we can still hear the lyrics.
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NEW DELHI/BEIJNG - Mahindra & Mahindra is re-thinking the strategy for its loss-making Korean automaker Ssangyong Motor Co, tapping the brakes on its planned push into the United States to focus instead on China.
Mahindra's Executive Director Pawan Goenka told Reuters the company was in talks with Chinese firms to enter into a contract manufacturing agreement or form a joint venture to build Ssangyong vehicles in China, where it currently exports to from Korea and sells through a local distributor.
Mahindra rescued Ssangyong from near-insolvency in 2011, acquiring a stake of just over 70 percent, but South Korea's No. 4 car maker has struggled to break even, reporting a net loss of 61.9 billion won ($51.6 million) for 2015, although it made a net profit in the final quarter.
Making cars in China would mean Ssangyong could lower its prices there, and Goenka said it made sense to focus on expanding sales in an existing market before going to the United States and building a distribution network from the ground up.
"China is easier to look at right now because Ssangyong already has a presence there. We have some traction and need to ramp up our products for local manufacturing," Goenka told Reuters.
"China is here and now, US is the future. We are still deciding what it takes for us to launch in the US"
Boosting overseas sales has taken on a greater urgency for Ssangyong due to slumping sales in Russia, once its biggest export market contributing more than 20 percent of total shipments.
Exports made up only a third of Ssangyong's total sales of144,764 vehicles in 2015, down from more than half in 2014, when it sold 141,047 vehicles, and substantially short of its target for exports of 60 percent of total sales.
Also, the Korean car maker does not currently have a vehicle that meets US regulatory requirements, Goenka said.
"The US is not somewhere you can go in without significant investment in product and brand development. Given the various priorities we have, the US is now somewhat on the back burner, but not stopped," Goenka said.
Goenka, who is also chairman of Ssangyong, did not give details about which Chinese companies it was talking to.
Under Mahindra's ownership, Ssangyong is investing nearly $1billion in refreshing its product line-up.
Mahindra hopes the launch of its new compact sport-utility vehicle (SUV) Tivoli, which has seen strong demand in South Korea, will help drive up sales in China, where smallish SUVs are booming.
While the China market might appear a good fit for Ssangyong's budget-focused models, growth in the world's biggest car market has slowed significantly and an effort to set up production there faces challenges.
Most global car makers already have a joint venture or production agreement with local companies, which could make it tough for Ssangyong to find the Chinese partner it needs to build cars there.
Also, given rampant excess auto production capacity, China's industrial policymakers are no longer so generous in allowing foreign automakers to form a joint venture with a Chinese firm.
Because imported cars are subject to high duty, Ssangyong's share of the Chinese car market is miniscule compared with market leaders such as Volkswagen AG and General Motors Co.
Overall, China car sales rose a relatively sluggish 3 percent to 24.6 million vehicles in 2015. Ssangyong sold some 2,460 cars in China in last year, down from 11,976 in 2014.
"Yes, right now China is down, but if we can get the rightpricing then I think we should be able to benefit there," Goenka said.
Mahindra had said in 2014 it was studying the possibility of selling Ssangyong cars in the United States.
Because imported cars are subject to high duty, Ssangyong's share of the Chinese car market is miniscule compared with market leaders such as Volkswagen AG and GM.
An executive at Ssangyong's team working on its US strategy said he was not aware of any plan to put the project on the back burner, pointing out it did not envisage entering that market until around 2020.
"I have never heard that before. Never. As far as we are concerned, we are going ahead with the project," said the executive, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
"In fact we are supposed to discuss it in the upcoming Ssangyong board meeting in March, and we have been preparing for it since mid-January."
Goenka said the company was working with consultants on assessing the US market and a final proposal had yet to be made to Ssangyong's board of directors.
Another source familiar with the matter told Reuters that "there could be a difference of opinions" between the management teams at Ssangyong and parent company Mahindra regarding the United States.
"My understanding is that Mahindra wants Ssangyong to take a breather in the US entry plan, while Ssangyong is making progress in the project," the source said.
A Ssangyong spokesman in Seoul declined to comment.
In 2014, Ssangyong held talks with Geely Automobile Holdings about the possibility of contracting the Chinese firm to manufacture its cars in China, according to three individuals involved in the discussions.


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Step 5: You can also adjust the parameters of the chosen format. There's an Edit button on the aforesaid drop-down menu. Click on it to open the Profile Settings panel where you can adjust video and audio parameters of the chosen format.
Step 6: Go back to the main interface, click the green Convert button and a sidebar would come up from the right side of the interface. Set the output directory for the output video on the sidebar and click the Convert button below to start converting DVD to video.
When it finishes converting, you can transfer the converted video to a flash drive. Basically all TVs that came out in recent years have USB port and are able to play the videos and audios on other devices that are connected to the TV through USB. So all you need to do is plug the flash drive in your TV and you'll be able to enjoy the movie on your flag TV.


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Experimental investigation into the effect of supports and overhangs on accuracy and roughness in laser powder bed fusion
Overhangs are one of the most critical features in the design of parts for Powder Bed Fusion. In particular, accuracy and roughness of these geometrical elements are the main concerns while designing for this process. Support structures are the most common solutions adopted to preserve the quality of overhangs and ensure the appropriate completion of the whole process. This work aims to correlate geometrical parameters of overhangs and supports to the distortion and roughness of parts. For this purpose, an experimental campaign is carried out on specimens manufactured via a powder bed fusion of stainless steel. Appropriate process parameters have been chosen thanks to preliminary experimental tests. Both displacement and roughness are measured using optical and contact systems. The two methods show considerable differences that are examined in the light of process features. The analysis of results highlights that the design of support structures has to be carried out in accordance with the thickness and inclination of the overhangs in order to minimise distortions. Local defects occurring on the edges are also highlighted by comparing contact with optical measurements. An upward warping of all the geometries is observed after annealing. Roughness underlines the fact that the inclination of surfaces is the only influential factor, since the support design can efficiently dissipate the thermal energy from the overhangs. Comparative analysis of contact and optical measurements also highlights the limitations of the first type of measurements in detecting small surface defects.
Titolo: Experimental investigation into the effect of supports and overhangs on accuracy and roughness in laser powder bed fusion
Autore/i: Mele, Mattia; Bergmann, André; Campana, Giampaolo; Pilz, Tony
MELE, MATTIA
Bergmann, André
CAMPANA, GIAMPAOLO
Pilz, Tony
OPTICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGY
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optlastec.2021.107024
Abstract: Overhangs are one of the most critical features in the design of parts for Powder Bed Fusion. In particular, accuracy and roughness of these geometrical elements are the main concerns while designing for this process. Support structures are the most common solutions adopted to preserve the quality of overhangs and ensure the appropriate completion of the whole process. This work aims to correlate geometrical parameters of overhangs and supports to the distortion and roughness of parts. For this purpose, an experimental campaign is carried out on specimens manufactured via a powder bed fusion of stainless steel. Appropriate process parameters have been chosen thanks to preliminary experimental tests. Both displacement and roughness are measured using optical and contact systems. The two methods show considerable differences that are examined in the light of process features. The analysis of results highlights that the design of support structures has to be carried out in accordance with the thickness and inclination of the overhangs in order to minimise distortions. Local defects occurring on the edges are also highlighted by comparing contact with optical measurements. An upward warping of all the geometries is observed after annealing. Roughness underlines the fact that the inclination of surfaces is the only influential factor, since the support design can efficiently dissipate the thermal energy from the overhangs. Comparative analysis of contact and optical measurements also highlights the limitations of the first type of measurements in detecting small surface defects.


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Nino Sulaberidze () bolj znana pod psevdonimom Nina Sublatti, gruzinska pevka, tekstopiska in manekenka, * 31. januar 1995

Sublatti je zmagala leta 2013 v gruzijski različici Idols. Mednarodno pozornost je dosegla leta 2015 saj je bila gruzijska predstavnica na Pesmi Evrovizije 2015. Na Evroviziji je nastopila s pesmijo »Warrior« s katero se je v finalu prebila na 11. mesto s 51 točkami. Leta 2016 je postala ena od sodnic X Factor Georgia, kasneje pa tudi sodnica version of Idols.

Življenje in kariera

Zgodnje življenje
Sublatti se je rodila 31. januarja 1995 gruzijskim staršem v Moskvi v Rusiji.Njeno pravo ime je Nino Sulaberidze. Kmalu po njenem rojstvu se je njena družina preselila nazaj v Gruzijo, čeprav je Nina nekaj časa kot otrok živel tudi v Rigi v Latviji. Leta 2011 je Sublatti začela sodelovati z vplivno glasbeno hišo Georgian Dream Studio, kjer je sodelovala s pevko Bero Ivanishvili.

2013–2014: Dare to be Nina Sublatti
Leta 2013 je bil Sublatti razglašena za zmagovalko Sakartvelos Varskvlavi, gruzijske različice Idols. Naslednje leto je izdala svoj prvi album Dare to Be Nina Sublatti, ki je postal najbolje prodajani album v Gruziji vseh časov.

Pesem Evrovizije 2015

Po uspehu prvega albuma je bila decembra 2014 razglašena za eno od petih tekmovalcev, ki so se potegovali za predstavnika Gruzije na Evroviziji 2015 s pesmijo »Warrior«. 14. januarja 2015 je Nina nastopila v finalu nacionalnega izbora in tudi zmagala z 38,1% telefonskega glasovanja in 21 točkami gruzijske žirije. Javnost je imela dva tedna časa, da je lahko glasovala (1. januarja 2015 do 14. januarja 2015).  S pesmijo »Warrior« je nastopila v prvem polfinalu Evrovizije in se z 98 uvrstila na četrto mesto ter se uvrstila v veliki finale. V finalu je zasedla enajsto z 51 točkami.

2016-danes
Leta 2016 je postala sodnica gruzijske različice X-Factorja, skupaj z Niko Gvaramia, Sofijo Nizharadze in Giorgijem Gabunijem. Oktobra 2017 je postala tudi sodnica gruzijske različice Idols.

Nina Sublatti je večkrat izpostavila, da so njeni vzorniki Janis Joplin, Brian Molko in Björk. Poročena je z gruzijskim trobentačem Georgeom Shamanaurijem.

Diskografija

Studijski albumi

Pesmi

Sklici
Gruzijska glasba
Rojeni leta 1995
Živeči ljudje
Evrovizijski glasbeniki