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Interleaved is shared control like between a pilot and co-pilot. In a car this would be a case where the car hands off control to the user when it is in trouble.
Parallel this is where both the human and the robot are working together all the time and the robot learns from the human over time until it can operate autonomously. Basically, this would be teaching a car to drive like you would teach a human. The example was of a quadriplegic operator connected to a robotic arm both...
This has resulted in two models. The “chauffer” model where you get in the car and it just drives you operating 100 percent of the time and the “guardian angel” model. This second model is in use today and provides different levels of intervention, today you see it in anti-lock brakes and accident avoidance systems. Th...
NEW DELHI – India has deregulated prices for diesel fuel while raising the cost of natural gas in the biggest-yet economic reform announced by new Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
The decision to allow market control of diesel costs starting Sunday targets one of India's costliest subsidies for one of the world's dirtiest fuels.
Those subsidies have helped make the country reliant on diesel to power at least 50 percent of all vehicles as well as many industrial and retail businesses, where grid connectivity is scarce or power outages common.
Natural gas tariffs went up about 33 percent to $5.61 per mBtu to increase the incentive for drilling, but Finance Minister Arun Jaitley asked state governments on Saturday to revise taxes "so that consumers are not affected by the price rise."
Work is expected to take four days, although the concrete pad poured for the controversial Walker sculpture may remain longer.
Video (01:10) : Dismantling of the controversial "Scaffold" structure at the Walker began after a sacred Native American ceremony.
In just a few days, the gallows-like sculpture will be a pile of chopped wood.
After an hour of prayer and song, the revving of chain saws pierced the air at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Friday afternoon, almost one week to the day that the controversy over “Scaffold” began.
Construction workers started at the top of the structure, chopping the timbers off in chunks, the smell of fresh-cut wood mingling with burning sage and tobacco as the drum circle and chants rang out. The crowd whooped with joy.
A Dakota elders council got the Walker Art Center and artist Sam Durant to agree to the dismantling of the two-story-high steel-and-metal structure, modeled in part on the gallows used to hang 38 Dakota men in Mankato in 1862, the largest mass execution in U.S. history.
“Scaffold” was to have been among 16 new works in the renovated garden. Now the wood will be piled and removed for a ceremonial burning near Fort Snelling, presumably next week, though no timetable has been announced.
The crew, from Straight Line Construction of Lower Sioux, are descendants either of the 38 men or two other Dakota warriors hung at Fort Snelling in 1865. Workers from PCL Construction, in Burnsville, stood by to provide assistance.
The ceremony began around 2 p.m., as Art Owen of the Prairie Island Dakota community looked out at a crowd of at least 300 people.
Owen said prayers as the crowd watched solemnly.
Jack Seiji Rios-Shibata held a bowl of tobacco, an offering to the workers. People were allowed to take small bits or handfuls.
Walker Executive Director Olga Viso, Deputy Director David Galligan and Minneapolis Park Board Superintendent Jayne Miller stood alongside a group of elders, holding tobacco in their palms. The artist was not present for the dismantling.
“It was supposed to be art,” said one woman, dismayed, as she spoke on the phone after the sawing began. People in the crowd seemed in agreement that the piece was not art, but a reminder of death and genocide, as the Dakota contend.
Durant’s work drew objections after Viso belatedly reached out to Indian elders late last week.
“We didn’t hear about this until last Thursday,” said Sheldon Wolfchild in an interview before the ceremony. Wolfchild, a filmmaker from the Lower Sioux Agency northwest of Mankato, was among a group of elders who determined the sculpture’s fate in a meeting Wednesday with Viso and Minneapolis officials. “We had five d...
As part of the agreement, the Walker must discuss any future Native-related art with Dakota or Ojibwe councils.
Work is expected to take four days, although the concrete pad poured for the structure may remain longer — perhaps into the June 10 reopening of the Sculpture Garden, which was postponed a week because of the controversy.
ROCHESTER — Kurt and Cheryl Douglas are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Katie Lynn Douglas, to Joshua Laurence Moore, son of James and Deirdre Moore, of Worcester, Mass.
Miss Douglas is a graduate of St. Anselm College and is employed as a business analyst at Liberty Mutual in Dover.
Mr. Moore is a graduate of Assumption College and is employed with Commonwealth Offices in Worcester, Mass.
Mazda's RX-8, the four-door "coupe" with a rotary engine, has been fed some angry pills during its recent facelift.
Did you pack your angry eyes?
Visually the biggest changes are up front with more rectangular headlights and a more aggressive "face". The vent behind the front wheel arches has also been changed from a vertical column to a triangular shape.
The car's rear-hinged or "freestyle" miniature back doors remain. These are commonly referred to as suicide doors because, in the early years of motorised transport, rear-hinged doors would occasionally fly open at high-speed or during enthusiastic cornering, potentially, propelling the non-seat-belted occupants out on...
The pillar that normally connects the floor to the ceiling at the rear edge of the front doors is not present on the RX-8. This means that the front doors are latched onto the rear doors when closed, thereby preventing the suicide element. It also allows for easier ingress and egress for rear passengers as the front do...
Hidden under an anonymous black plastic shroud is another unique RX-8 element, its rotary engine. Compared to a traditional piston car engine, it is more compact and, arguably, smoother. From its rather meagre 1.3 litres it punches out 170kW when paired with a six-speed manual or 158kW when connected to a six-speed aut...
At the rear, the updated RX-8 gains afterburner-style LED tail-lights.
There are three trim levels: a base model for AU$49,720, the AU$55,520 Luxury, and AU$57,625 GT. The Luxury (pictured here) gains a sunroof, Bose sound system and leather trim over the entry-level model.
Here's a reminder of what the RX-8 looked like prior to its emo update.
ProPublica obtained the chat logs of Atomwaffen, a notorious white supremacist group. When Samuel Woodward was charged with killing 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein last month in California, other Atomwaffen members cheered the death, concerned only that the group’s cover might have been blown.
In a photo obtained by ProPublica, armed Atomwaffen members pose in the desert in Nye County, Nevada, during a weapons training session in late January 2018. They called the three-day gathering the Death Valley Hate Camp.
Update, Aug. 3, 2018: Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas on Thursday announced that Samuel Woodward would now face a hate crime charge as part of his prosecution for the murder of Blaze Bernstein. ProPublica revealed earlier this year that Woodward was a member of a neo-Nazi group called Atomwaffen Divisio...
Through interviews and internal records, ProPublica was able to identify Atomwaffen members in at least 23 states.
John Cameron Denton is the leader of Atomwaffen Division. The 24-year-old grew up in Montgomery, Texas, and lives outside Houston.
Grayson Patrick Denton is the 19-year-old brother of Atomwaffen leader John Cameron Denton. He is a member of the Texas cell.
Hubsky, 29, lives in Las Vegas and leads Atomwaffen’s Nevada cell. In online chats he discussed blowing up the U.S. power grid and natural gas lines.
Atomwaffen’s Washington chapter leader is Kaleb J. Cole. Cole, who owns an AK-47 assault rifle with a large-capacity magazine, helped organize arms training sessions in Washington and Nevada. He also works on the group’s visual propaganda.
Sean Michael Fernandez is a leader of the Texas cell.
SHANGHAI, Aug 1 (Reuters) - China’s main Shanghai stock market and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell on Wednesday, as plans by the U.S. to propose higher tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports brought trade war fears back into focus, and as new manufacturing data underscored a weak outlook for growth.
At 03:32 GMT, the Shanghai Composite index was down 9.07 points or 0.32 percent at 2,867.33. China’s blue-chip CSI300 index was down 0.4 percent , with its financial sector sub-index lower by 0.81 percent, the consumer staples sector down 0.64 percent, the real estate index down 3.38 percent and healthcare sub-in...
The unarmed man fatally shot by a San Diego-area officer suffered a mental breakdown before taking a "shooting stance."
An unarmed California man distraught over his friend's recent death was fatally shot by police Tuesday after pulling a vape smoking device from his pocket that responding officers mistook for a weapon.
Family and friends of Alfred Olango said he suffered an emotional breakdown before police claimed he pulled the smoking device from his pants pocket and took a "shooting stance."
Two El Cajon, Calif., officers responded to a 911 call about a man endangering himself and motorists outside a strip mall in the San Diego suburb around 2:10 p.m. About a minute after arriving on the scene, one officer fired an electric stun gun and another fired his service weapon several times, fatally striking Olang...
Police said the silver electronic cigarette device was collected from the scene as evidence.
El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells said unreleased video taken by a bystander appeared to show the officers' actions were justified, but expressed concern over how quickly deadly force was used.
Olango's family members said the 38-year-old black man was experiencing a breakdown over the recent death of a close friend when he was fatally shot.
The family's attorney, Dan Gilleon, blasted the police department for only releasing a screengrab from video of the fatal shooting captured by a bystander.
The more than 200 protesters who gathered at the scene on Tuesday — and outside police headquarters Wednesday morning — called for full release of the video of the shooting, which follows other high-profile police shootings of black men.
A makeshift altar with candles and flowers had been set up by the bloodstained pavement where Olango was shot. No arrests or injuries had been reported late Wednesday and police in riot gear held their distance as hundreds marched through the streets chanting, "no justice, no peace, no racist police!"
A crying woman who identified herself as Olango's sister described her brother as mentally ill in a Facebook live video posted minutes after the fatal Tuesday shooting.
"I called for help, I didn't call for you guys to kill him. Oh my God, you killed my brother!" the woman shrieked in the video.
Olango's apparent Facebook page said he is from Gulu, Uganda, but lived in San Diego after attending San Diego High School and San Diego Mesa College, a two-year school. He was single and had worked as a head cook at several area restaurants, according to the page.
His cover photo showed two little girls, possibly his daughters. He called them "my 2 beautiful princesses" and said "I'm very proud" after friends complimented them.
"Lol ugly lion always make the prettiest lioness," Olango said.
Another photo showed Olango posing with his arm around a beaming little boy, whom commenters identified as his son.
His mental illness was not immediately clear Wednesday. The crying woman in a nurse's uniform, who said she was his sister in the Facebook video, didn't specify his mental issues amid her grief.
"I just called for help, and you came and killed him!" she screamed at officers at the scene 15 miles from San Diego.
The first officer found Olango behind a taco shop after receiving reports he was "not acting like himself," according to police.
The officer trained his gun on Olango because he refused orders to take one of his hands out of his pocket, police said. The second officer on the scene pulled out the stun gun when he saw what was happening.
Olango paced back and forth, took the smoking device out of his pocket, put his hands together and extended them toward one of the officers in "what appeared to be a shooting stance," according to police. Both officers fired their weapons, and Olango later died at a hospital.
Police released a screenshot of Olango pointing the vaping device, taken from a bystander's cellphone video and voluntarily turned over to investigators. They rejected accounts from witnesses who said Olango had his hands up when he was shot.
The two officers, who are on administrative leave during investigations by police and prosecutors, each have more than 21 years of experience in law enforcement, police told the Los Angeles Times.
The department has not released the names or races of Olango's shooters, and has thus far declined to release the video. San Diego County protocol prohibits releasing footage of officer-involved shootings until the District Attorney's Office completes its investigation.
"It's important that the facts come out right now," Davis said. "We are investigating facts as we know them and implore the community to be patient with us, work with us, look at the facts at hand before making a judgment."
But Agnes Hassan, a refugee from Sudan who spent time with Olango in a refugee camp, had a hard time swallowing the police chief's words.
"If somebody has mental problem, how can you not deal with him with mental problem?" Hassan said, describing Olango as an educated man with mental issues. "This is not right. My heart has just broken."
Information Portsmouth Massage has moved! Now located within the Salix Health and Wellness Centre in Old Portsmouth, in the good company of Karen Morton, Naturopathic Medical Herbalist and other Alternative Therapy Practitioners.
This is an exciting move and Portsmouth Massage offers therapies in a peaceful therapy room on the ground floor. There is a reception area, toilet facilities, and on street parking. It is between the Co-op and the Dental practise at Salix Health and Wellbeing Centre (Double black doors).
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Ida Feldman, who is a resident at Regency, turned 100 years old on Wednesday, and there weren’t many people in the room who had to fight emotion seeing the high school students perform especially for her.
Part of the band from Madison Academic High School was at Regency Retirement in North Jackson on Wednesday as part of their performance tour around the city.
During their Christmas performance, one song was added to their playlist when they chose to celebrate a special birthday.
Ida Feldman, a resident at Regency, turned 100 years old on Wednesday, and there were many people in the room who had to fight emotion seeing the high school students perform especially for her.
"How do you not get emotional when you see something like that?" Regency employee Sabrina Young asked.
Ida’s family is known for having long lives, according to her younger sister, Perrerie Kate McCord, who is 97. Their mother lived to be 104, and they had an older sister who lived to be 100.
“I guess it’s because of hard work and longevity,” McCord said.
Ida has three sons: Kenneth is a pediatrician in Seattle, Roger is a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota, and Robert works with the City of Chicago.
She grew up in Crockett County and went to high school at Humboldt, graduating in the late '30s and working as a school teacher for a couple years before moving to Louisville, Kentucky, for a few years to work as a chemist during World War II. They continued to live up north for much of their adult lives before moving ...
Ida was one of the first master gardeners in a local club, and members of the club sent her birthday cards to celebrate her landmark day.
Ida isn’t able to speak clearly anymore, after something her doctors haven’t yet been able to diagnose happened that took her ability to communicate well.
But the smile was evident on her face as the opening tones of “Happy Birthday” began as she was wheeled directly in front of the band.
“Is it still raining?” Ida asked at the beginning of the conversation and looking out the window at the chilly, gray afternoon that had seen off-and-on rain throughout the morning.

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