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I have never been someone who pushed the envelope. That is true with things like fashion and other arts like music or movies or really anything.

Or many of the 70s artists that Grohl mentions in the book because I was already familiar with what I would call classic music. I did so with my music app open and whenever he would mention a band or an artist, I would go and listen to the work he was referencing. This past weekend I jumped into alt rock with the help of Dave Grohl’s book, “The Story Teller.”

Hallam Amos' professional rugby career is over, it has been confirmed. Cardiff Rugby have announced the Wales star suffered a high grade hamstring injury ...

Welcoming the explosive backline general, Rohan Janse van Rensburg to our Sharks family on a three-year deal." Dragons boss Dean Ryan said: "He returns with a wealth of experience and will give us a different way of playing the game. He’s fit and available for selection this week, so he’s got through the number one thing. Kristian Dacey (hand) and Garyn Smith (calf) are also likely to miss the remainder of the season after sustaining injuries in training. It is a sad way to end a career of great service, with the full-back and wing having been in fine form in recent weeks. He recently scored twice against the Dragons in their United Rugby Championship win on April 23.

Salem-based group asks to mark Satanic Appreciation Week in July after city's denial of request by Christian activist ruled illegal.

The office of Boston’s mayor, Michelle Wu, declined to comment on the group’s request other than to say it was reviewing the supreme court’s decision while also evaluating its flag-raising program. A Satanic temple is requesting to fly a flag over Boston City Hall after the US supreme court this week ruled the city violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist seeking to fly a Christian flag outside the downtown complex. Spokespersons for the Satanic Temple did not respond to an email seeking comment on Wednesday.

BOSTON (AP) — The Satanic Temple is requesting to fly a flag over Boston City Hall after the U.S. Supreme Court this week ruled the city violated the free ...

Founded in 2013, the Satanic Temple doesn't believe in Satan and describes itself as a “non-theistic religious organization" that advocates for secularism. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The Satanic Temple is requesting to fly a flag over Boston City Hall after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that the city violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist seeking to fly a Christian flag outside the downtown building. The Satanic Temple is requesting to fly a flag over Boston City Hall after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the city violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist seeking to fly a Christian flag outside the downtown building. In 2017, Shurtleff and his Camp Constitution wanted to fly a white banner with a red cross on a blue background called the Christian flag to mark Constitution Day on Sept. 17. The American flag, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts flag, and the City of Boston flag, from left, fly outside Boston City Hall, Monday, May 2, 2022, in Boston. A unanimous Supreme Court has ruled that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court Monday that the city discriminated against the activist because of his "religious viewpoint," even though it had routinely approved applications for the use of one of the three flagpoles outside City Hall that fly the U.S., Massachusetts and Boston flags.

“The Satanic Temple replies to the Supreme Court ruling that found Boston violated First Amendment rights by refusing to fly Christian flag at City Hall Plaza,” ...

The group’s main headquarters is based in Salem, Massachusetts. “The Satanic Temple replies to the Supreme Court ruling that found Boston violated First Amendment rights by refusing to fly Christian flag at City Hall Plaza,” the Satanic Temple tweeted Tuesday, accompanied by a screenshot of a request to raise a flag to celebrate “Satanic Appreciation Week” from July 23-29. The Satanic Temple is requesting to fly a flag over Boston’s City Hall following the recent Supreme Court ruling that the city violated the free speech rights of a conservative group that previously sought to fly a Christian flag over the government building.

The Satanic Temple has applied to fly its flag at City Hall Plaza — a move made immediately in the wake of an unanimous US Supreme Court ruling earlier this ...

The Satanic Temple, which was founded in 2013, does not have ties to the Church of Satan, and its website notes the two are often confused. “We conclude that, on balance, Boston did not make the raising and flying of private groups’ flags a form of government speech,’’ Breyer wrote. “Boston is particularly, and disturbingly, ignorant of those basic constitutional principles.” Its mission is “to encourage benevolence and empathy, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense, oppose injustice, and undertake noble pursuits,” according to its website. The city’s flag-raising program at City Hall was suspended last October. And a city spokesman said this week that Boston officials are reviewing the Supreme Court’s decision “and its recognition of city governments’ authority to operate similar programs.” The Satanic Temple has applied to fly its flag at City Hall Plaza — a move made immediately in the wake of an unanimous US Supreme Court ruling earlier this week that found the city of Boston violated the First Amendment rights of a Christian group by refusing to fly a flag bearing a cross outside City Hall in 2017.

The city was sued after refusing to fly the flag of Camp Constitution on the third pole at City Hall Plaza in 2017.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. The Satanic Temple wants to raise a flag outside Boston City Hall in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that ruled city officials violated free speech rights by refusing to fly a Christian group’s banner. The city was sued after refusing to fly the flag of Camp Constitution on the third pole at City Hall Plaza in 2017

Mayor Michelle Wu's office said it's reviewing the high court's decision and the city's flag raising program.

Founded in 2013, the Satanic Temple doesn’t believe in Satan and describes itself as a “non-theistic religious organization” that advocates for secularism. The organization hasn’t decided which of its official flags it will ask the city to fly, Greaves said, but one likely option echoes the American flag, only with black and white stripes and an emblem of a pentagram and goat skull where the 50 stars would be. BOSTON (AP) — The Satanic Temple is requesting to fly a flag over Boston City Hall after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that the city violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist seeking to fly a Christian flag outside the downtown building.

The Satanic Temple in Massachusetts is requesting that Boston fly its flag, after the Supreme Court ruled this week that the city had violated the First ...

The Satanic Temple said its request was in response to the recent ruling. The Satanic Temple, according to its Twitter account, was founded in 2013 and is the only federally recognized international (non-theistic) religious Satanic organization. A spokesperson from Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's office said the office was "carefully reviewing the Court's decision and its recognition of city governments' authority to operate similar programs," adding: "As we consider next steps, we will ensure that future City of Boston programs are aligned with this decision."

The first overseas deployment of the Vermont Air National Guard's F-35 fighter jets will have the pilots and their aircraft patrolling the skies of Europe ...

Eight Vermont F-35s arrived Monday at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, after making the trans-Atlantic flight from their base at the Burlington International Airport. The model of planes based in Vermont cost about $94 million each. The Air Force describes the F-35 as its fifth-generation fighter that combines stealth technology with the ability to carry out multiple missions. “They’re very capable of doing anything,” said Shepperd. “And they’re also in the best airplane, the best fighter that the United States Air Force has. The Russian aircraft, which often do not transmit a radio code indicating their position and altitude, do not file flight plans, nor do they communicate with air traffic controllers, NATO says. We’re there to posture in defense of NATO and support our allies.”

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The Satanic Temple said its request was in response to the recent ruling. According to a copy of the request tweeted by The Satanic Temple, the group is asking Boston to fly the flag for “Satanic Appreciation Week” on July 23-29. The Satanic Temple in Massachusetts is requesting that Boston fly its flag, after the Supreme Court ruled this week that the city had violated the First Amendment rights of a Christian group when it denied them flying their flag outside of City Hall.

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The first overseas deployment of the Vermont Air National Guard's F-35 fighter jets will have the pilots and their aircraft ...

Eight Vermont F-35s arrived Monday at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, after making the trans-Atlantic flight from their base at the Burlington International Airport. The model of planes based in Vermont cost about $94 million each. The Air Force describes the F-35 as its fifth-generation fighter that combines stealth technology with the ability to carry out multiple missions. That's a real first for them to fly it, the first to deploy it and the first operational deployment." “They’re very capable of doing anything," said Shepperd. “And they’re also in the best airplane, the best fighter that the United States Air Force has. The Russian aircraft, which often do not transmit a radio code indicating their position and altitude, do not file flight plans, nor do they communicate with air traffic controllers, NATO says.

More than 200 Vermont air guard personnel, their equipment and eight F-35s are now in Europe.

Eight Vermont F-35s arrived Monday at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, after making the trans-Atlantic flight from their base at the Burlington International Airport. The model of planes based in Vermont cost about $94 million each. The Air Force describes the F-35 as its fifth-generation fighter that combines stealth technology with the ability to carry out multiple missions. That's a real first for them to fly it, the first to deploy it and the first operational deployment." “They’re very capable of doing anything," said Shepperd. “And they’re also in the best airplane, the best fighter that the United States Air Force has. The Russian aircraft, which often do not transmit a radio code indicating their position and altitude, do not file flight plans, nor do they communicate with air traffic controllers, NATO says.

Led by two hits apiece from senior Katie Keller (Geneva, Ill./Geneva) and Mackenzie Mahy (New Lenox, Ill./Lincoln Way West), the Northern Illinois ...

Western Michigan trimmed the lead in half with a run-scoring single in the bottom half of the first, and later claimed the lead on a two-run home run in the third inning. "The season hasn't gone how we've wanted it to and we just want to finish strong," Sutcliffe said. "But she was able to make an adjustment, attack them later in the game and get us off the field." (Machesney Park, Ill./Harlem) reach on an error. In both games combined, NIU was a perfect 11 of 11 in stolen bases, with Shumaker swiping six bags in the process. "So it was good to see we were successful with that."

Executing safe and precise flight maneuvers in dynamic high-speed winds is important for the ongoing commoditization of uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs).

IEEE Trans. Automatic Control 40, 791–801 (1995). Autonomous Robots 33, 21–39 (2012). Adv. Neural Inform. Process. Syst. 30, 6240 (2017). G.S. and M.O. designed and implemented the metalearning algorithm under the guidance of Y.Y., K.A., A.A., and S.-J.C., while the last-layer adaptation idea was started with a discussion by G.S., M.O., X.S., and S.-J.C. M.O. and G.S. designed and implemented the adaptive control algorithm with inputs from S.-J.C. and X.S. M.O. and G.S. performed experiments and evaluated the results. We thank M. Anderson for help with configuring the quadrotor platform, and M. Anderson and P. Spieler for help with hardware troubleshooting. IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett. 6, 389 (2021). arXiv:2103.01932[cs.RO] (2021). IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett. 6, 3240–3247 (2021). IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett. 6, 1471–1478 (2021). Executing safe and precise flight maneuvers in dynamic high-speed winds is important for the ongoing commoditization of uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, because the relationship between various wind conditions and its effect on aircraft maneuverability is not well understood, it is challenging to design effective robot controllers using traditional control design methods. When evaluated under challenging wind conditions generated with the Caltech Real Weather Wind Tunnel, with wind speeds up to 43.6 kilometers/hour (12.1 meters/second), Neural-Fly achieves precise flight control with substantially smaller tracking error than stateof-the-art nonlinear and adaptive controllers. IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett. 6, 3769–3776 (2021).

Neural-Fly technology could one day build the future of package delivery drones and flying cars.

Neural-Fly was implemented in an onboard Raspberry Pi 4 computer that is the size of a credit card and retails for around $20. It ranks just below a "moderate gale," in which it would be difficult to move and whole trees would be swaying. "The issue is that the direct and specific effect of various wind conditions on aircraft dynamics, performance, and stability cannot be accurately characterized as a simple mathematical model," Chung says. Neural-Fly performed as well in flight tests conducted outside the CAST facility as it did in the wind tunnel. This is classified as a "strong breeze" in which it would be difficult to use an umbrella. Drones have been taught to fly in formation in the open skies, but those flights are usually conducted under ideal conditions and circumstances.

Led by two hits apiece from senior Katie Keller (Geneva, Ill./Geneva) and Mackenzie Mahy (New Lenox, Ill./Lincoln Way West), the Northern Illinois ...

Western Michigan trimmed the lead in half with a run-scoring single in the bottom half of the first, and later claimed the lead on a two-run home run in the third inning. "The season hasn't gone how we've wanted it to and we just want to finish strong," Sutcliffe said. "But she was able to make an adjustment, attack them later in the game and get us off the field." (Machesney Park, Ill./Harlem) reach on an error. In both games combined, NIU was a perfect 11 of 11 in stolen bases, with Shumaker swiping six bags in the process. "So it was good to see we were successful with that."

The Satanic Temple has asked to fly its flag over Boston City Hall after the U.S. Supreme Court this week ruled that the city violated a Christian group's ...

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Plane returns to Heathrow after 'rostering error' meant first officer didn't meet Virgin Atlantic protocols.

Control of an aircraft is usually shared between a first officer and the captain, but the latter holds ultimate responsibility for what happens on a flight. A Virgin Atlantic spokesperson said: “Due to a rostering error, flight VS3 from London Heathrow to New York-JFK returned to Heathrow on Monday 2 May shortly after take-off. A replacement for the first officer was found, and the plane departed again for New York.

This is terrifying ... a transatlantic flight packed with passengers was 40 minutes into the flight, when one of the pilots revealed he was unqualified to ...

Some airline execs say the 1500-hour rule is too high a hurdle, and want the number of training hours reduced. It used to be 250 hours, but after a recent crash, the number was raised to 1500. There's now a push by some airlines to reduce the number of training hours for pilots to qualify in smaller jets. It begs the question ... if they were qualified, why did the plane have to turn around? Currently, there's a 1500-hour rule, requiring pilots to train that long before taking the helm in the cockpit. The Civil Aviation Authority in the UK tried to downplay the incident, saying, "Virgin Atlantic has made us aware of the incident.

A Virgin Atlantic flight from London to New York was turned around Monday after it was determined that the pairing of pilots did not meet airline ...

A spokesperson with the Civil Aviation Authority said that Virgin Atlantic "made us aware of the incident." "The qualified first officer, who was flying alongside an experienced captain, was replaced with a new pilot to ensure full compliance with Virgin Atlantic’s training protocols, which exceed industry standards," the spokesperson said. A Virgin Atlantic spokesperson said that a "rostering error" led to the issue.

A Virgin Atlantic flight returned to Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom Monday because the flight crew's training didn't meet airline standards.

Approximately 40 minutes into the trip, airline employees realized the “rostering error” and the flight began turning back, Virgin Atlantic confirmed to USA TODAY. A Virgin Atlantic flight from the United Kingdom to New York City turned back to London's Heathrow Airport mid-flight on Monday because one pilot on the plane had not completed his final flying test and the other wasn't designated as a trainer for his co-pilot. A Virgin Atlantic flight had to turn back after the pilots weren't allowed to fly together

Just 12 minutes of training data and a deep neural network allow a drone to carry out agile maneuvers in the presence of wind.

From that data, the team created the deep neural network that then allowed their flying machine to be skilled at carrying out maneuvers in the same wind tunnel, like zooming through a gate in a figure-eight pattern or cruising through two gates in ellipse shape. After all, whether the drone is carrying packages or people, it needs to land safely on its pad, even if the wind is blowing in an unpredictable way. The deep neural network flying the drone also has “adaptive control,” Chung notes, calling it a “breakthrough method.” This means that the AI can respond adaptively to what happens in real time with the wind. The scientists first had to gather data to be able to train a neural network in order to make the flying machine pull off the stunts. In a video, the researchers show off a quadcopter drone that, thanks to this software, can pull off figure-eight maneuvers and fly through a small gate, all in the presence of 27-mph-wind in a wind tunnel. Dealing with wind is a part of flying through the air.

The mistake was described as a “rostering error” by an airline spokesperson, as the flight was forced to do a u-turn over Ireland.

"Both pilots were suitably licensed and qualified to undertake the flight," it added. Passengers were safely returned to Heathrow after the ‘first officer’ co-pilot, told the captain he had not yet completed his final flying test. The mistake was described as a “rostering error” by an airline spokesperson, as the flight was forced to do a u-turn over Ireland.

Passengers on a Virgin Atlantic flight from London to New York were in for a shock on Monday.

But for passengers flying on Virgin Atlantic Flight VS3 from London to New York on Monday, a new fear was unlocked as the plane had to be turned when it was found that the two pilots operating the vehicle did not have the proper internal requirements to be operating the plane. Since the captain was not licensed to be a trainer for the final flight, he did not pass the requirements that would have allowed the trip to be the first pilot's final assessment. Passengers on a Virgin Atlantic flight from London to New York were in for a shock on Monday.