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Tides #39; Adams clears the fences
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NAPLES, Uintah County Officers used a Taser to subdue a parolee from Washington state Saturday after they say he crashed through fences at two businesses and tried to steal three trucks.
An officer was on patrol about 3 p.m. near 1500 East and 600 South when she saw a man drive a green pickup truck through a chain link fence at Lone Wolf Wireline Inc., according to Naples Police Chief Mark Watkins.
The man got out of the pickup, climbed into a truck parked outside the business and apparently tried to get it started, Watkins said. When the man spotted the approaching officer, he got back in the green pickup and drove off.
As the officer followed, the man crashed through two chain link fences at nearby Raptor Industries, Watkins said. The man then got out of the green pickup and attempted to take a truck from that business, but went back to his truck and drove off again as the officer closed in, the chief said.
The man circled back to Lone Wolf Wireline with multiple officers pursuing him. He left the green truck a third time, climbed into a large crane truck and drove it a short distance before hitting a cement wall at low speed, Watkins said.
"One of the officers was alongside the crane truck at that point and used a Taser on the guy," the chief said. "It had no effect on him and the fight was on."
Police were able to get the man into handcuffs after one of the officers said the Taser would be used again if the man didn't stop fighting, Watkins said.
James Robert Olson, 30, was taken to Ashley Regional Medical Center where tests confirmed he was under the influence of methamphetamine, the chief said. He is expected to be booked into the Uintah County Jail once he is released from the hospital.
Watkins said a records check run following Olson's arrest showed he is on parole out of Washington state, where he was released from prison in November after serving time for armed robbery and possession of meth. Court records in Utah show Olson has misdemeanor convictions in Duchesne County for assault and violation of a protective order.
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Rob Easton, The Canadian Press Published Saturday, April 26, 2014 1:44PM PDT Last Updated Saturday, April 26, 2014 7:28PM PDT
The first round of changes to B.C.s liquor laws came into effect Saturday to much fanfare from the provincial government.
And while the government touts free-range drinking to become the norm as it tears down beer garden fencing around the province, many local festival organizers say little will change this summer.
"Unless we gated the entire perimeter of the event, then it really makes no sense for us to get too excited about this legislation, said John Orysik, media director at the TD International Jazz Festival that sees thousands of people gather in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
The new rules allow organizers to get rid of separated beer gardens in favour of more open liquor sales including mixed drinks like a gin and tonic that can be carried around festival grounds.
But according to the regulations, festival organizers wanting to allow wider liquor movement must have controlled entry and exit points, which is a non-starter for the jazz fest.
Right now, events are free to the public and accessible to everyone. Thats the whole idea, so its not gated, said Orysik.
The Pacific National Exhibition a prime candidate with its controlled entry and long established vendors will see few changes this year but organizers do have an eye on the future.
"The analysis for an event as large as ours might take several months, even six months to a year to decide if it's the right fit, said spokesperson Laura Balance. "At this point we would be looking at that with an eye to 2015.
The Vancouver Folk Music Festival is gated but organizers are concerned more alcohol would turn a fun family weekend into a booze-fest.
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Rob Easton, The Canadian Press Published Saturday, April 26, 2014 1:44PM PDT Last Updated Saturday, April 26, 2014 7:28PM PDT
The first round of changes to B.C.s liquor laws came into effect Saturday to much fanfare from the provincial government.
And while the government touts free-range drinking to become the norm as it tears down beer garden fencing around the province, many local festival organizers say little will change this summer.
"Unless we gated the entire perimeter of the event, then it really makes no sense for us to get too excited about this legislation, said John Orysik, media director at the TD International Jazz Festival that sees thousands of people gather in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
The new rules allow organizers to get rid of separated beer gardens in favour of more open liquor sales including mixed drinks like a gin and tonic that can be carried around festival grounds.
But according to the regulations, festival organizers wanting to allow wider liquor movement must have controlled entry and exit points, which is a non-starter for the jazz fest.
Right now, events are free to the public and accessible to everyone. Thats the whole idea, so its not gated, said Orysik.
The Pacific National Exhibition a prime candidate with its controlled entry and long established vendors will see few changes this year but organizers do have an eye on the future.
"The analysis for an event as large as ours might take several months, even six months to a year to decide if it's the right fit, said spokesperson Laura Balance. "At this point we would be looking at that with an eye to 2015.
The Vancouver Folk Music Festival is gated but organizers are concerned more alcohol would turn a fun family weekend into a booze-fest.
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Somwarpet (kodagu dist), April 24, 2014, DHNS
Elephants straying from forests into human landscape, is a pointer to the increase in man-animal conflict. Though the Forest department had laid solar fences to check the wild elephant menace, owing to lack of maintenance, the fences have become defunct, in Kajoor in Yadavare near Somwarpet.
Enraged over the failure of the department in checking wild elephant menace, office-bearers of Kajoor Aane Horata Samithi and villagers gheraoed officials from the department recently. Maintenance
Yadavare and Kajoor Aane Horata Samithi has been checking the wild elephant menace for the last five years by maintaining the solar fences in association with the department. However, recently, the maintenance of the solar fences were entrusted to Villager Forest Committee by the Somwarpet ACF.
Aane Horata Samithi Secretary Macchanda Prakash said that the village committee had failed to maintain solar fences. The officials have appointed Krishnappa as the committee President. However, the department has failed to elect the office-bearers of the committee.
The department had convened village forest committee meeting.
However, the villagers were not invited for the meeting. Enraged over the incident, the villagers waylaid the vehicle of the ACF at Yadavare.
The protest was withdrawn after an official promised to solve the problem within two days.
Samithi President K P Ray said that if the authorities failed to respond to the woes within the stipulated time, the protest will be intensified.
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Even conventional industrial robots are becoming safer to work around, making them more likely to collaborate with humans.
Team workers: An employee at Nymann Teknik, a machine shop in Hobro, Denmark, works with a UR5 robot from Universal Robots.
Most industrial robots are far less friendly than the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which is safe enough to be a surprisingly popular means of feline transportation. Industrial robots often sit behind metal fences, their mechanical arms a blur of terrific speed and precision; to prevent serious injury to humans (or worse), these robots are normally shut down when anyone enters their workspace.
In recent years, however, the fences have started to disappear as a gentler breed of robot has entered the workplace and new features have made even conventional industrial robots safer to be around. This shift is altering the dynamics of labor in many factories and workshops, allowing humans and robots to work together in efficient new ways.
Human-robot collaboration is gaining an enormous amount of momentum, says Henrik Christensen, executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech. In the past, robots have penetrated 10 percent of the industry. Theres still 90 percent of the industry, and thats where you need collaborative robots.
The Robotic Industries Association, a U.S. trade group, last week organized its first conference dedicated to collaborative robots, at which robot manufacturers and customers gathered to discuss the trend. Christensen was a keynote speaker.
The most prominent of the simpler, safer robots introduced in the last few years is Baxter, developed by the Boston-based startup Rethink Robotics (see This Robot Could Transform Manufacturing). Baxter, which has two arms and a cartoonish face shown on a touch-screen display, is very easy and safe to work with. To program the robot, a worker simply moves its arms through an operation to show it what to do. And should anyone get in the robots way, it will either stop or, at worst, hit the person too gently to leave a bruise. Most important, Baxter is remarkably cheap, costing just $22,000 when many conventional robots cost several hundred thousand dollars.
Another robot maker, the Danish company Universal Robots, offers small, more conventional-looking robot arms that are similarly cheap ($31,000 each), simple, and safe to operate. But these robot arms also offer greater precision and programmability, meaning they can perform complex work and either step in for a human worker or work alongside one. They can quickly be repurposed for a new job without requiring much reprogramming.
Edward Mullen, national sales manager for Universal Robots, says the company has sold around 2,500 robots since launching in 2009, and he estimates that 80 percent are running unguarded. Many of the robots have been sold to small or medium-sized companies that do not otherwise use robots. RSS Manufacturing, a company in Costa Mesa, California, that produces custom automobile and plumbing components, uses Universal Robots machines for jobs including manipulating pipes in a tube bender and producing valves on a milling machine. The companys production runs can be as short as 24 hours, so the robots have to be swapped quickly between different tasks. None of the robots are placed behind safety fences.
Theres still plenty of work thats too arduous or precise for Baxter or Universal Robots machines. But more powerful conventional robots are starting to work in closer proximity to humans, too. New sensors and software allow these machines to predict collisions and avoid them as humans go about their work.
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It's a basic truth about theater: the best plays are those that are both specific and universal, revealing vivid details about individuals or cultures or historical moments, while giving a glimpse of the common thread that connects us to the characters whose lives are unfolding onstage.
The late August Wilson was among the best practitioners of this art. His "Century Cycle," 10 plays spanning a hundred years, one for each decade, is rooted in the larger African-American experience. The plays are filled with fury and frustration, humor and hope, and recount the heartbreak and resilient spirit of a segment of American society. At the same time, the plays are about fathers and daughters, sisters and brothers, husbands and wives, friends and foes. They explore getting ahead in the world, finding something to believe in, making and losing money, finding and losing love, discovering and losing a sense of one's value and purpose.
As such, August Wilson's plays are about everyone.
His Pulitzer-winning Fences, set in the 1950s, captures that sense of universality in a vibrant, emotionally driven production at the Marin Theatre Company. Directed with graceful attention to the connective tissue that binds a family together, Fences tells the story of Troy Maxson. A proud, deeply angry former Negro Leagues baseball player, Troy is at odds with his teenage son, Cory (Eddie Ray Jackson), who's been offered a shot at a college football scholarship.
Troy is one of the great characters of the modern American stage: petty, mean-spirited and unapologetically unlikable one moment, then gentle, generous and loving the next. Played with combustible complexity by Carl Lumbly, Troy is an achingly believable character, whose strengths and flaws are all frustratingly raw and real.
As his wife, Rose, Margo Hall gives one of the great performances of the year. As aware of Troy's flaws as anyone, Rose also sees what's good and beautiful about him, perhaps even more so than he does. Her gradual evolution from help-mate to standalone powerhouse, a progression that unfolds right alongside Troy's staunch, bitter obstinacy, is absolutely amazing to watch.
Some fences, we are told, are built to keep people out, while others are built to keep people in. In Wilson's shimmering masterpiece, he creates a fence that somehow contains all of us at once.
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