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Rolls-Royce welcomes Intel aboard its pursuit of self-navigating ships
By Nick Lavars
Rolls-Royce welcomes Intel abo...
Rolls-Royce imagines using satellite systems as part of ship-to-ship communication networks
Rolls-Royce has previously targeted 2020 as the year that its first robotic vessels will take to the water
Rolls-Royce has announced that it is teaming up with Intel with a view to developing autonomous shipping systems to make operations safer and more efficient
The dangers of the shipping industry is maybe not something you hear a whole lot about, but in the eyes of Rolls-Royce there is room for improvement when it comes to maritime safety. The company has announced that it is teaming up with Intel to accelerate the development of autonomous shipping systems to make operations safer and more efficient.
Intel's ambitions in the autonomous vehicle space are pretty well documented. It's navigation technology can be found in drones, flying taxis and security robots, while last year it splashed US$15 billion on Israeli driverless technology company Mobileye.
Rolls-Royce, too, has made some pretty solid steps toward an autonomous shipping future. Since first unveiling its vision of a robotic cargo ship in 2014, it has partnered with the European Space Agency to work towards satellite systems for ship-to-ship communication, and starting trialing its Intelligent Awareness (IA) systems on vessels operating in Japanese waters.
These systems process data from lidar, radar, thermal cameras, HD cameras, satellites and weather forecasts to make vessels aware of their surroundings. According to Rolls Royce, the IA system trialed at night time in Japan aboard a 165-m (541-ft) passenger ferry enabled onboard officers to detect nearby objects that they wouldn't otherwise have seen in the darkness.
Development of IA is ongoing, and moving forward Intel will now build Xeon Scalable processors to power the servers on board, while data will be stored on Intel 3D NAND SSDs. It will also put its Field Programmable Gate Array technology to use, which Rolls-Royce says will help with the obstacle detection and navigation side of things.
Intel points to the thousand-plus shipping losses over the past decade, many of which it attributes to human error, as motivation for the development of autonomous ships. Rolls-Royce has previously targeted 2020 as the year that its first robotic vessels will take to the water.
"We're delighted to sign this agreement with Intel, and look forward to working together on developing exciting new technologies and products, which will play a big part in enabling the safe operation of autonomous ships," Kevin Daffey, Rolls-Royce, Director, Engineering & Technology and Ship Intelligence. "This collaboration can help us to support ship owners in the automation of their navigation and operations, reducing the opportunity for human error and allowing crews to focus on more valuable tasks."
Sources: Rolls-Royce, Intel
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Nick has been writing and editing at New Atlas for over six years, where he has covered everything from distant space probes to self-driving cars to oddball animal science. He previously spent time at The Conversation, Mashable and The Santiago Times, earning a Masters degree in communications from Melbourne's RMIT University along the way.
Brian M October 16, 2018 09:26 AM
Self-navigating ships at a first glance appear to be a lot easier to design than for self driving cars, but its the exceptions that make it harder to deal with - Weather systems, other ships not obeying the rules and when closer inshore unreliable data.
Plus its a real challenge and if something does go wrong (such as a Microsoft update !) then help might be a long way away and you can't just pull over!
Can't see totally unmanned ships for some time, ships are complex machines, and need the flexibility and creativity of us humans to keep going in the face of the unexpected. However the self navigation for most of a ships route is already here and has been for a while at level 1 (hands on) automation. Switch on auto-pilot, monitor on your ECDIS (Charting system), sonar and radar and let the auto-pilot to the rest.
Although it could be argued on parts of the route its level 2 (hands off) and even level 3 (eyes off) for periods.

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Home/THRILLER/KNOCKING director Frida Kempff takes us through her riveting new thriller
KNOCKING director Frida Kempff takes us through her riveting new thriller
Mayra StankoOctober 16, 2021
Knocking commences with a basic sufficient premise. A younger girl named Molly (Cecilia Milocco) moves into a new condominium creating and starts listening to an incessant knocking audio from the wall higher than. Freshly unveiled from a health care centre pursuing an undisclosed mental well being subject, Molly is back again dwelling on her individual and does not want to rock the boat too considerably. Her neighbours and the building's super do not seem to be to hear any noises is the knocking audio only in her head? Is she gradually losing her thoughts, or is there a risky secret in the developing that no a single else will accept?
Swedish director Frida Kempff (Pricey Child) makes her fictional element debut with Knocking, an unnerving psychological thriller that also serves as an vital remark on how hardly ever ladies are considered about their individual encounters and their possess bodies. Shot virtually entirely in one claustrophobic condominium, the film features lush cinematography and an outstanding and in the long run haunting overall performance from Cecilia Milocco, who undergoes a radical transformation as Molly will become certain that anything awful is taking place just outdoors of her reach.
We caught up with Frida Kempff just in advance of the film's theatrical run to discuss what motivated her move from documentary movies for Knocking, how the Me Way too movement weaves its way via the movie, and enjoying with the audience's expectations by not proving any straightforward responses.
Knocking screened as component of Amazing Fest and is in pick out theaters now. The film comes on VOD on October 19.
Spoiler warning: This interview discusses plot features of the movie.
Terrible Emotion Journal: Knocking is dependent on a short tale how did you come across the story and what originally struck you about the do the job?
Frida Kempff: I started off with documentaries, so social matters. It's significant for me, it has to have a concept, and but I was so annoyed for the reason that I couldn't actually do what I needed to do with documentaries. It is like you have a color palette, and you can only use a pair of the colours. And then people claimed to me, "You ought to try fiction." And I did that, I did limited some limited dramas. And then just by incident, I arrived across this novel. I think you convey to the exact same tales more than and over, and for me, Knocking is about this female who is not getting dependable, and what I favored about it was that you actually put you as a reader in her footwear. I could see that that could actually do the job effectively in a movie, but there were in fact two lead characters in the novel. You experienced the witness, Molly, but you also had the target.
So, you realized from the get started that someone was trapped within an apartment with chains and she was practically naked. Initially, I claimed to the producer, "I like this tale, but I can not do it." And he stated, "Why never you depart that out, and just be with a witness and put the viewers in her shoes." And that was genuinely effective. So, I achieved with my associate author and we did this together. It is a pretty easy tale in a way. A woman moves in hears knocking, and no one particular thinks her. But I assume if you dig further, there's so numerous layers in it, and that was genuinely attention-grabbing, you know, how do you do a movie exactly where you're normally inside of of this person? That was generally appealing for me as a filmmaker can you truly do that?
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For the tale, it is essential that you have this unreliable narrator that you're not confident if you can trust, or if she can even rely on herself. So a great deal of the film relies on Cecilia Milocco, who provides an incredible efficiency you have labored alongside one another prior to, but what made her the suitable decision for Knocking?
Her facial area is just remarkable. I never use a good deal of dialogue in the films. I like to depend on photos a ton. I realized that she could do that. But we also talked for the full summer about this. Who is this character? And the initial point that we agreed to was she isn't insane. She's standard. And you know, she's susceptible, and she'd been by way of stuff, like we all have in a way. But modern society treats her as a outrageous person, and you mirror your self as a result of other people, suitable? And then I place her in a psychiatric ward for a working day. She stayed there, and she talked to individuals who do the job there. And they mentioned, "It's the people exterior that are mad."
Coming there was healthier mainly because you query the system construction and fast paced lifestyle, so that served her. And she claimed, "You know what? I'm completed. I know now, you really don't have to give me any far more investigation. I know." And then on set we didn't speak so considerably. We experienced a colour method. So, I talked to her in colours, so it was like an escalator. Down here it was green, which was pretty healthy. And then on best, there was a darkish pink. So, I experienced to say, "No, no, you're continue to just green, or you're still just yellow." And she could incorporate her own expressions to that. It worked terrific.
The film has these collage-like times and character flashbacks that are weaved in with good effect. It generates tension and paranoia from rather early on the audience has a sense that anything tragic has likely took place, but we really don't know for absolutely sure. How did those factors occur about?
Actually, in the script, the flashback was far more like a complete sequence virtually. It was not shot like it is now. But I realized throughout the enhancing that I can't just observe her, you know, I need anything from her, I require to feel what she will come from. And by adding just a short glimpse of her previous, it aided us to have an understanding of her present.
There are a quantity of means to study the ending of the movie what did you want individuals to consider away from the ending, and do you have a apparent-lower remedy as to what transpires in these last times?
For me, it is really open, and I required it to be a really open ending. Some persons feel that it's essentially, in a philosophic way, that it's in fact her currently being saved. She's saving herself in a way. But my additional uncomplicated assumed was enjoying close to with the viewers. I was hoping in the end that we never have faith in her. But then you know, she was suitable. That was my intention.
You commenced performing on the movie as the Me Way too movement was definitely getting steam around the world how do you consider that ties in with the themes of Knocking?
If I'd have read this 15 years back, I'm not positive if I would have imagined about it in that way, that she's not becoming trustworthy. It's so up in the air now and with so lots of testimonies. So, the entire story for me was, [silencing] females, and not currently being dependable and staying termed a hysterical woman just mainly because you stand out in a way. And that was appealing. It usually takes a woman to pay attention to a further girl in a way. And I hope that will change, and I'm certain it will, quicker or afterwards.
What has the reaction to the movie has been so considerably during the pageant run? Do people today have a good deal of concerns for you about what transpires in the movie or their personal takeaways from the film?
Yeah, I actually had our initial in-man or woman screening listed here in Sweden last Saturday, continue to with restrictions, I think there had been 70 men and women. But after, due to the fact I consider every female has skilled not becoming trustworthy, I just viewed 50 females, and I see all of them nodding mainly because they can genuinely establish with that. And I assume guys as very well, they understand that this is how it is. And that was my intent as properly, in fact putting the viewers in her sneakers. Remaining a man, you can notice, oh, is this how it is?
What do you have coming up future? Apparently, you have a sci-fi project in the performs, is there everything that you can share about that nonetheless?
Yeah, I have a sci-fi film. But now, I truly have another undertaking coming up ahead of the sci-fi. So, that is truly a period of time piece. It's a feminist period of time piece established the week just before the Next Earth War starts off. identified as The Swedish Torpedo. We hope to shoot it this summer time. It is based on a accurate tale about a Swedish girl who swam the English Channel the week ahead of the war started off. That is what I'm doing next.
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It's been quite some time since the Ford Escape was the toast of the compact crossover herd, consistently – and maybe even fairly – taking a backseat to the likes of the Toyota RAV4 and Honda CR-V.
Even the Nissan Rogue has managed to upstage the Escape in recent years, the two swapping spots for third place in the segment sales charts. And after 20 years on the market, most of them ostensibly uninspired, who could blame Canadian shoppers for turning elsewhere? Not that any of its three main rivals are exactly exciting, but the Escape managed to seem more humdrum than the rest.
Thankfully for Ford fans, that's no longer the case, with the redesigned 2020 Escape – gasp! – standing out from the competition thanks to clever packaging, an impressively powerful engine, and a design that's anything but dull.
Styling: 9/10
While the Mazda CX-5 has comfortably taken up residence atop the competitive set when it comes to styling, the redesigned fourth-generation Escape manages to carve out a piece of the proverbial pie in terms of head-turning design. There's been no shortage of comparisons drawn between this new Escape and other vehicles on the market – some accurate, some outlandish – but it certainly stands out at the very least, something it hasn't been known for in the past.
This is probably the most relevant model from Ford since it announced plans to put out to pasture all car models not named Mustang in the Canadian market in favour of SUVs (and, of course, pickup trucks), and it certainly shows. While many sport utilities of this size use cladding around the wheel arches to create an artificial sense of ground clearance and ruggedness, the Escape looks lower and sportier, appearing almost car-like in execution.
Sporting a decidedly European look, the new Escape is one of the largest generational changes in recent memory, ditching a design that blended in with the competition for one that's sleek and modern. The elongated hood helps in that regard, but it's more than just an illusion of low and long; this is the shortest Escape in the model's history, standing as much as 100 mm shorter in terms of overall height than earlier iterations.
Practicality: 8/10
The slightly more car-like roofline does nothing to infringe upon the reasons people buy SUVs in the first place, with a commanding view of the road, decent headroom front and rear, and a reasonable amount of room for stuff.
The Escape could stand to benefit from some additional cubbies and pockets in the passenger area, but its ability to move people in comfort is unquestioned. Rear-seat legroom is generous enough to accommodate adults with ease, but the second row can also be slid forward or back to make more space for stuff or people, depending on the priorities of the day. This is an underutilized feature in this segment, and makes up for the Escape's rather average cargo capacity.
Behind the hatch, there's about 870 L of space, and 1,852 L with them folded – both more than the CX-5 but a good deal less than the CR-V and RAV4. Despite coming up a bit short by the numbers, the space behind the back seats is boxy and practical, and the area is as big and wide as the rear opening, which means fitting all sorts of cargo in the back is a breeze. The Escape is also available with Ford's fancy foot-activated power tailgate, which can be a bit finicky at first, but it does take the hard work out of figuring out how to open the hatch with full hands.
Adding another element to the Escape's improved functionality is its ability to tow, with a rating as high as 3,500 lb depending on drivetrain. Models with the base engine are rated to safely tow 2,000 lb, which is more than the CR-V, but the 3,500 lb the top trim can tug is tied for the most in the segment.
Power: 9/10
The Escape is one of the few entries in this segment to offer an assortment of powertrains. There's the base 1.5L turbo, as well as conventional and plug-in hybrid versions, that trio alone putting the popular Ford in rare company. And then there's the available 2.0L turbo offered in the top-of-the-line Titanium (it's also available as a $2,500 option in the SEL model).
Here's a fun fact that's sure to impress your neighbours: That turbo 2.0L four-cylinder motor makes more output than the entry-level engine in the Porsche Macan. Yes, you read that right: Put premium gas in the tank, and output stands at 250 hp and 280 lb-ft of torque. That's far more than anything the Escape competes with directly, with only the turbocharged Kia Sportage coming close at 237 hp and 260 lb-ft of torque.
By comparison, the base Macan makes 248 hp and 273 lb-ft of torque. No, the Ford's numbers don't surpass the Porsche by much – nor do they mean it outperforms the Macan in any measurable way – but it's a crazy world we live in when an Escape is outmuscling a Macan.
Sadly, the Porsche-beating party trick doesn't go much beyond the numbers, as the Escape can't get the torque down anywhere close to as quickly as the Macan. All the torque isn't delivered until a rather late 3,000 rpm, which means an awful lot of turbo lag lower in the rev range.
Fuel Economy: 7/10
The good news is that dialling up the output does little to impact fuel economy. Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) ratings of 10.4 L/100 km in the city, 7.5 L/100 km on the highway, and 9.1 L/100 km combined aren't bad; though real-world driving conditions yielded slightly worse consumption. A week behind the wheel resulted in combined economy of exactly 10.0 L/100 km, this despite the majority of time being spent on the highway and with the drive-mode selector set to Eco.
It's not unreasonable for NRCan ratings and real-world results to differ, but if it's efficiency you're after, the base 1.5L engine or either available hybrid powertrain might be more to your taste.
Driving Feel: 7/10
Beyond the turbo lag, the 2.0L engine brings with it some growing pains. Some gear changes in the eight-speed automatic can be a bit jarring, especially the jump from second to third. Particularly in the default drive mode – there's also the aforementioned Eco, and a Sport setting, as well as a couple others for varied terrains – there seems to be a momentary breakdown in the symbiosis between engine and transmission before the pair gets back on the same page.
It seems Sport mode does the best job of smoothing shifts, though the revved-up throttle response – not to mention the additional fuel consumption that comes with it – makes this understandably impractical for commuting duty. Eco mode manages to smooth shifts a bit without penalizing throttle response too much in the process.
Regardless of drive mode, however, the throttle mapping appears to chart a course plotted by an ECG, with even the steadiest pedal inputs doing little to quell the seemingly sporadic way the revs rise at lower speeds. Again, the default Normal drive mode seems to be the worst culprit, while the others manage the behaviour a bit better.
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These engine and transmission quirks are likely symptoms of the fourth-generation Escape's newness – problems like these are common in the first model year of new vehicles – and are easily fixable via software updates at the dealership. In the meantime, expect a steep learning curve.
That said, none of the drivetrain issues take away from just how easy the 2020 Escape is to operate. It's a nimble ride overall, and takes little time to grow accustomed to. The steering is feather-light at parking-lot speeds but firms up as velocity increases, providing good response when changing lanes on the highway or cornering on country roads.
Comfort: 7/10
If you've driven a pickup truck in recent years, the ride in this latest Escape will feel quite familiar. While other automakers tout the rigidity of the platforms that underpin their SUVs, the ride here is far stiffer from front to back, resulting in a ride quality that borders on what you get in a body-on-frame vehicle. That's not to say it's uncomfortable, and it does manage to smooth out most surfaces thanks to a well-damped suspension, but the Escape does have something of a seesaw effect over humps and bumps.
Seating position – not to mention the seats themselves – provides good comfort, with lots of headroom and adjustability behind the wheel. The ergonomics of the cabin are also top-notch, with controls for everything from the climate and infotainment systems to the driver-assist features falling readily to hand.
User Friendliness: 8/10
There's nary a feature or function in the Escape that takes much time to figure out, with the infotainment system proving mostly problem-free during testing. That's because the Apple CarPlay compatibility of Ford's latest software, offered on all but base models, proved finicky at best, working sporadically with an iPhone 11 using both Apple and third-party cables.
Just about everything else is as uncomplicated as it should be, without the need for much time thumbing through the owner's manual to sort out the various systems and features offered. It's a mostly uncluttered space inside, and that means a simple layout that's accented by a stylish mix of materials in upper trim grades.
Safety: 9/10
As one of the newest entries in the segment, the 2020 Escape really shines in the safety department. While it failed to earn top marks from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) due to poorly rated headlights, it still scored a Top Safety Pick rating from the organization thanks to good crash-test results and its standard and available safety features.
Standard safety features include blind-spot monitoring, lane-keep assist and automatic emergency braking, while adaptive cruise control that works in stop-and-go traffic is available on higher trims, as is a head-up display and Ford's self-parking system.
Much like Mazda and Hyundai, Ford settles for a plastic screen that pops out of the gauge cluster hood for its head-up display, a style that's cheap-looking and, as one passenger pointed out, doesn't exactly work with your head, well, up. With the need to divert your gaze away from the road and only about six inches higher than the gauge cluster, using the display is no less distracting than the traditional location for the information it shows.
Despite the debate we could have about the long-term effects convenience features like self-parking systems will have on our collective abilities behind the wheel, the system here works well. Offering both perpendicular and parallel parking – as well as help getting out of the latter – the system is practically flawless in the Escape, working in a variety of conditions day and night.
Features: 8/10
Depending on the model you choose – and how much you're willing to spend – you can find most of what you want in this latest Escape. There are a few head-scratchers, however, including the absence of heated seats on the base version (this is all but an industry-standard inclusion nowadays), and no ventilated front seats or heated rear seats offered on any trim. The latter may seem like an odd nit to pick, but it is a feature offered by many competitors (CR-V, RAV4, Subaru Forester, etc.) and its exclusion is notable. Ventilated front seats aren't as common – the RAV4 jumps to mind as one that does include it on its top trim – but it's still something of a disappointing exclusion on an otherwise long list of features.
The options list is filled with other in-demand features that make up for the occasional omission. Leather seats, a heated steering wheel, 10-speaker stereo, massive panoramic sunroof, and head-up display are all available on the Escape, while features like a Wi-Fi hotspot and the aforementioned advanced safety features comes standard. It all makes for a mixed bag offering that can drive the price up above $40,000 without breaking a sweat.
With four trims (S, SE, SEL, and Titanium) and four power sources (two turbo motors and two hybrid systems) to choose from, there are many ways you can outfit your Escape – and it has a price range to match. The base model (and its lack of heated seats) starts at a reasonable $28,549. Adding all-wheel drive will set you back another $1,500, barely cresting $30,000 before freight and fees – not bad.
Move up the trim ladder and watch the price rise steadily to match, with the top Titanium trim carrying a price tag of $40,049. Add the $450 and the $2,300 package that includes the panoramic roof and head-up display, and the tester seen here rings through at $42,799 – $44,749 with freight and fees. That price is comparable with fully loaded competitors, but it is a lot to pay for a small SUV.
It wasn't that long ago that the Escape was giving the RAV4 and CR-V a serious run for their money in this segment, and it seems like Ford may have recaptured some of that magic with this latest version.
As ambassador for the brand's car-free future, the Escape has a lot of roles to play in the showroom. A few missing features aside, it's an impressive offering that does a lot right.
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Dying Light 2 Livestream: Watch Along With Game Informer
by Alex Stadnik on May 27, 2021 at 12:00 PM
Dying Light 2 may have been revealed in 2018, but it was the game's demo the following year that put the industry on notice. Developer Techland's open-world zombie title blew people away with its promise of a deep, choice-filled world set on the backdrop of apocalyptic beauty. But then silence and scandal hit the studio, and Dying Light 2 has faded into the ether, with fans pining for any sort of information on the sequel to the fan-favorite title.
But today is a new day for those excited for this ambitious title. Techland is taking the pre-E3 digital stage (Pre-E3? Is this even a part of E3? Who knows?) and is showing off Dying Light 2 live for all to see. While the Polish developer has been relatively mum on what we'll be seeing today, the hope is that we will finally get a more substantive look at what fans will be playing when they finally get their hands on the game.
While we don't know what Techland will be showing, we do know who will be watching alongside you at Game Informer! Join zombie-enthusiasts Liana Ruppert and Alex Stadnik as they react live with you to all the big news, reveals, and whatever else Techland has up its sleeves.
We're going live at 1:50 p.m. CT with our preshow to discuss our hopes and dreams for Dying Light 2, and we hope you can join us there. For those who haven't heard, we've made the exciting switch to exclusively streaming on Twitch to create better livestream experiences for our lovely audience.
For more on Dying Light 2, be sure to check out Techland's recent update videos featuring info on the map size and story, and a look at the 2019 demo that blasted the levels of hype for the game into the stratosphere!
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After Cincinnati passed a "billboard tax" in June 2018, advertising agencies sued the Ohio city for infringing on their First Amendment rights.
Norton Outdoor Advertising is a digital advertising agency based in Cincinnati that specializes in billboards and other large outdoor posters. Norton was the initial group to sue the city for attempting to implement a billboard tax. Lamar Advertising, which also specializes in outdoor digital marketing, is the other agency that sued Cincinnati after the billboard tax was approved. Norton and Lamar are two of largest advertising companies in the city.
Cincinnati is a city of just over 300,000 in southwestern Ohio. The Cincinnati City Council implements ordinances and tax measures, as well as allocating appropriations.
Require annual permits for billboards, rather than requiring them every other year.
Following the measure's passage, both Norton and Lamar filed lawsuits against the city of Cincinnati. Among other things, the companies and other critics argued that the financial measures unlawfully constrained the exercise of First Amendment rights, including the right to Free Speech.
On July 30, 2018, Judge Curt Hartman of the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court temporarily stopped the measure from taking effect. Although he only ruled on the Norton case, his decision extended to the suit brought by Lamar Advertising, as well.
Acting City Manager Patrick Duhaney estimated that, without the revenue from the billboard tax, the city would need to find a way to address a budget shortfall of $837,000.


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We are trying to create a dynamic of distributed citizens collaborating on the reverse engineering of the Facebook data breach. Given their initial announcement and how misleading it was, we feel it would be unwise to rely solely on FB to disclose information about the breach.
@RedTapeChron who indeed. a federal judge purposefully or accidentally mis-remembering the law?
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Nonviolent Resistance and Culture
Sørensen, Majken Jul
University of Wollongong, Australia.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2311-2473
Vinthagen, Stellan
University West & University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
2012 (English)In: Peace and Change, ISSN 0149-0508, E-ISSN 1468-0130, Vol. 37, no 3, p. 444-470Article in journal (Refereed) Published
This article investigates what culture means for nonviolent resistance. While literature on nonviolence has had a tendency to look instrumentally at culture, this article suggests an intertwined relationship. Activists are themselves embedded in their own cultures, and there is no "outside culture." The authors suggest an innovative model of three strategies for analyzing the cultural aspects of a nonviolent struggle: (1) occasionally borrowing existing powerful symbols and cultural elements, such as flags or religious symbols, which is then applied; (2) partially remodeling"old" culture in the spirit of nonviolence. This strategy is illustrated through the Khudai Khidmatgar of the North-West Frontier Province in the 1930s and shows how the nonviolent struggle there, was "negotiated" with Islam and a traditional code of honor; and finally, (3) systematically creating a nonviolent movement culture, which is a much more complex process, is illustrated through the movement for landless workers in Brazil, the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Vol. 37, no 3, p. 444-470
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-64355DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0130.2012.00758.xOAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-64355DiVA, id: diva2:1145493
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Sri Lanka has been famous the world over for her range of spices and essential oils. Spices was the magnet that drew foreigners to Sri Lanka - first the Arabs, then the Portuguese, the Dutch and finally the British who made her a colony of their far flung empire. In flavour and fragrance, Sri Lanka's spices stand in a class of their own.
As pepper berries ripen, they turn from green to yellow and then to red. If the end product is to be black pepper, the berries are picked while still somewhat immature and then dried. The entire berry or peppercorn is used. As the berries dry, the skin wrinkles and turns deep brown or black. When ground, the peppercorns yield a powder of light and dark particles.
Our black pepper is grown in the wild and as such could be considered organic. Once harvested it is sun dried and vacuum packed to preserve the essential oils.


1. On the weekend of August 18 and 19 we will have the testimonies and baptisms of Nora Hany, Rhonda Schneider and Naomi Schneider. Saturday's member meeting will begin at 6:30 PM. Bro. Curt and Sis. Lyla Frank plan to be with us for the weekend.
2. Sis. Alison Mangold plans to move to Denver, CO area for college this week and our convert Miriam Luginbuhl is moving to the midwest to live this week also. We want to wish both of them God's blessings and nearness in their lives.
3. The brethren in the Philadelphia church area are working on their expansion project. Any who would wish to help volunteer with this effort should consult the bulletin board. If you have any questions, please contact Bro. Dale Gerber.


The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta has reached its target -- the Comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko -- becoming the first spacecraft in history to rendezvous with a comet. And in November, it will accomplish another first when it drops a small probe, Philae, to a soft landing on the comet's surface!
Churyumov-Gerasimenko, along with its new tagalong companion Rosetta, is presently moving toward the inner solar system and will reach perihelion (closest approach to the sun) in August 2015. Rosetta's mission is to make a detailed study of the comet's structure, composition and the effects of increasing solar heating as it warms up. A comprehensive campaign of observation with its array of instruments will offer us unprecedented insights into the conditions in which the comet formed in the earliest annals of the young solar system, as well as the evolutionary path it has taken since.
Even as Rosetta made its gradual approach to the comet during the summer, it began to detect some unusual -- and in some cases unexpected -- characteristics.
For one, the comet's shape; generic preconceptions for the comet's structure and surface appearance were "typical": a roughly round, mountain-sized blob of ice with some bumps, a jagged edge here and there and maybe some surface cratering. We haven't seen many comets up close, so expectations must be based on a handful of examples.
But Churyumov-Gerasimenko, like its name, has a double-lobed structure, looking a lot like two comets that have been fused together and connected by a bridge-like neck (perhaps each lobe can be named for one of the co-discoverers.) Whether this comet is a "contact binary" (two comets that joined together) or was a single comet whose shape has been sculpted by the vaporizing chisel of sunlight over eons is yet to be determined.
The comet is also warmer than expected: a balmy negative 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Sounds pretty cold, but calculations based on the comet's distance from the sun and the reflectivity of water ice predicted that it would be colder. A likely explanation is that the comet's surface is coated with dust, making it darker and more able to absorb the heat in sunlight -- not unlike how a dark t-shirt warms you up more than a light-colored one.
The average density of this comet is only one-tenth that of water ice, so a sample of its material would be light, airy and as feather-weight as powder snow. In other words, an ice cube tray amount of material from the comet would weigh as much as a single solid ice cube.
Attempting this first-of-its-kind mission to orbit a comet required a first-of-its-kind maneuvering tactic. Only about two miles across and weighing a mere three billion tons, the comet's gravity is incredibly feeble. If you were standing on its surface, it would take little more than a light hop to break free of the comet's gravity and propel yourself into space.
So the ESA operators of Rosetta have been maneuvering the spacecraft through a series of thrust impulses designed to drive it around and ever closer to the comet in calculated bursts. This "powered orbit" maneuver -- a lurching, rocket-driven zig-zag in the space surrounding the comet -- reminds me of the one (and only) time I went bungee jumping. After I had stopped bouncing at the end of the bungee, they sent a powerboat out to grab me with a long, hand-operated hook. As I swung about over the river, the boat driver had to gun the engine, turn the boat in bursts and fight with the river's current while trying to get close enough to hook me.
As Rosetta circles and closes in on the comet, it is also mapping the entire surface from every direction looking for the best landing site for its drop-probe: Philae. The preferred landing sites are flat areas that offer the best chance for Philae to land upright, but investigators also want to send it to the most scientifically interesting place -- for instance, at the site where one of the comet's gas plumes might emerge from as it heats up and becomes more active.
Ultimately, Rosetta will move to within about twenty miles -- and possibly closer -- where the comet's gravity is strong enough (or more accurately, not too feeble) to tether it into a true orbit. Even then the spacecraft's orbital velocity will be only a few inches per second -- literally an insect's crawl. Any faster than that, Rosetta would fly off into space again.
Past comet encounters by spacecraft -- Deep Impact/EPOXI, Giotto, Stardust and a handful of others -- have been fly-bys with only brief hours in which to examine their targets before flying off into space again.
Rosetta will fly along with Churyumov-Gerasimenko for the next year, studying the effects of solar heating as it swings through its closest approach to the sun, between the orbits of Earth and Mars and the aftermath as the comet cruises back toward Jupiter's orbit.
Stay tuned. Rosetta only just arrived at its destination, and after the 10-year journey it took to get it there, only now does the adventure really begin.


Conservation is more than "reduce, reuse, recycle." It's a lifestyle that helps you make the most of every day.
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It will be a day of sustainable delights, filled with good music, food, drink and activities. Gather your favorite people, get outside, and have a blast!


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As both the conservator and liquidating agent for each of the five failed corporate credit unions, the Board has a fiduciary responsibility to collect debts and obligations owed the corporate credit unions. That duty includes using reasonably available legal means to seek recoveries from parties that contributed to the corporate credit union losses.
To fulfill this duty, the Board as liquidating agent has filed 26 complaints in federal courts in New York, Kansas, and California against 32 defendants. The Board filed its first two lawsuits against securities underwriters in 2011. Shortly thereafter, the Board filed another seven lawsuits against various Wall Street securities firms. The Board, as liquidating agent, also filed 13 more lawsuits against securities firms and banks, alleging violations of federal and state securities laws and of federal and state antitrust laws based on manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate. The Board also filed four lawsuits against banks for failing to fulfill their duties as trustees for certain residential mortgage-backed securities trusts.
Thus far, the NCUA's legal efforts have been successful. The NCUA was the first federal financial depository institutions regulator to recover losses on behalf of failed entities from the Wall Street securities firms that sold investments in faulty residential mortgage-backed securities. As of June 30, 2017, the Board's legal strategy has recovered more than $5.1 billion. Recovery efforts continue with ongoing litigation.
The Federal Credit Union Act and the NCUA's Rules and Regulations require that, net proceeds from these recoveries are used to pay claimants against the liquidated corporate credit unions, including the Temporary Corporate Credit Union Stabilization Fund. These payments to the Stabilization Fund have permitted repayment of the NCUA's outstanding U.S. Treasury borrowings and have decreased the amount credit unions ultimately pay for costs of resolving the five failed corporate credit unions. Repayment of borrowed amounts with interest also ensures no cost to U.S. taxpayers. The NCUA repaid the Treasury in full on Oct. 31, 2016.
Hiring of Outside Counsel and Legal Fee Structure
Because of the unique and highly complex nature of these securities lawsuits, the NCUA determined it had neither the in-house resources nor expertise to pursue such litigation independently. As a result, the Board as liquidating agent entered into a contingency fee arrangement with Korein Tillery and Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel, & Frederick PLLC, two law firms that possessed the requisite resources and securities and litigation expertise. The Board's decision to use a contingency fee arrangement accomplished the following objectives:
Ensuring credit union dollars would not be spent on significant legal expenses with a highly uncertain payoff;
Preserving significant potential upside for the liquidating agents and the credit union system; and
Shifting the risk of recovering little or nothing to the law firms representing the liquidating agents.
This fee arrangement allowed the Board as liquidating agent to pursue legal action against these securities firms without the NCUA increasing assessments on credit unions already under considerable financial strain. Without this fee arrangement, which shifted most of the risk of these legal actions to outside counsel, there would have been no legal investigation of potential claims, no litigation and no legal recoveries.
Statements about the NCUA's Litigation Strategy from Former NCUA Board Members and Senior Officials
Debbie Matz, former NCUA Board Chairman
Michael Fryzel, former NCUA Board Chairman and Board Member
Gigi Hyland, former NCUA Board Member
Robert Fenner, former NCUA General Counsel
Office of Inspector General, Letter on NCUA's Contingency Fee Arrangement (opens new window)
Legal Opinion of Charles J. Cooper of Cooper & Kirk (opens new window)
Total Recoveries, Expenses and Fees to Date
The legal services agreement between the liquidating agents and the two lead law firms provides that the lead firms receive 25 percent of net recoveries. Net recoveries are calculated by subtracting the firms' and the liquidating agents' expenses, such as vendor and consultant expenses, expert witness fees and travel costs for depositions and hearings, from the gross amount of settlement or judgment proceeds.
As of June 30, 2017, the NCUA's legal efforts have yielded recoveries of more than $5.1 billion. To date, the NCUA has incurred contingency fees of $1,214,634,208. This is equivalent to 23.5 percent of total recoveries.
Because the liquidating agents have sometimes recovered amounts from multiple underwriters within a short period, the agency has not always made the payments to the firms on a lawsuit-specific basis. The figures that appear in the Detailed Breakdown of NCUA Legal Expenses per Settlement (opens new window), however, allocate a payment amount to each settlement or judgment.
In addition, three of the recoveries detailed include amounts separately designated as awards of attorneys' fees. These three recoveries took the form of offers of judgment. An award of attorneys' fees is a remedy available to a prevailing party in a securities lawsuit. These amounts are included in the gross recoveries, but the NCUA did not pay the firms a contingency fee on these amounts. Instead, the NCUA paid Kellogg Hansen $33,715 in additional hourly fees for work required to obtain these awards for the liquidating agents. These additional hourly fees are included in the total amount of fees specified below.
Aggregate Gross Recovery — 5,166,986,958
Total Kellogg Huber Fees — 607,333,962
Total Kellogg Huber Expenses — 5,132,352
Total Paid to Kellogg Huber — 612,466,314
Total Korein Tillery Fees — 607,300,246
Total Korein Tillery Expenses — 3,289,034
Total Paid to Korein Tillery — 610,516,811
Total NCUA Expenses — 96,516,811
Total Attorneys' Fees — 1,214,634,208
Total Expenses to Firms — 8,421,386
Total Paid to Firms: — 1,223,055,594
Aggregate Net Recovery — 3,847,414,553
Lawsuits Filed by the NCUA
Complaints were filed against defendants in multiple jurisdictions, as determined by which corporate credit union purchased the securities in question. In some cases, settlements or judgments have resolved claims asserted under multiple complaints. In addition, in some cases, the initial complaints have been amended. All public court filings and court orders are available for a fee through the system for Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) available at www.pacer.gov (opens new window).
Allocation of Legal Recoveries
When the NCUA Board is appointed as liquidating agent for a federally insured credit union, the Federal Credit Union Act provides that the Board succeeds to all rights, titles, powers, and privileges of the credit union by operation of law.1 This mandate includes the authority to assess and pursue legal claims on behalf of the credit union.2 Recoveries that result from legal claims pursued in the Board's capacity as liquidating agent belong to the credit union's asset management estate ("AME") and become available to distribute to unsecured creditors in the payout priority set forth in the NCUA's regulations at 12 C.F.R. § 709.5(b).
In the context of the Corporate System Resolution Program implemented in 2010, the Board succeeded to the rights of five large corporate credit unions in a short period, each of which became insolvent due to similar issues with residential mortgage-backed securities ("RMBS"). In response, the Board pursued claims collectively on behalf of multiple corporates against underwriters and sponsors of the RMBS.3 For each resulting recovery, the Board received payments collectively on behalf of two or more of the corporate credit unions, in global resolution of all of their claims against particular RMBS defendants or counterparties. As a result, unlike in the usual liquidation context where the Board might receive payment on individual legal claims for a liquidated natural person credit union, the NCUA had to allocate collective recoveries to each corporate AME that held RMBS covered by the resolved lawsuit or settlement agreement.
To allocate these recoveries, the NCUA calculated a likely damages scenario for each RMBS, as the recoveries were obtained without a final judgment specifying damages per AME or per RMBS. The recovery amount allocated to a particular RMBS was then allocated to the corporate credit union) or corporate credit unions that purchased the RMBS. If an appeal or other legal uncertainty affected a subset of the RMBS in a particular recovery, the NCUA adjusted the amount allocated to the affected RMBS according to the NCUA's best assessment of the additional litigation risks. For pre-litigation settlements, the NCUA also allocated a nominal amount to RMBS that were unlikely to meet statute of limitations requirements, pass other legal hurdles, or had no incurred losses but were nevertheless covered by releases as a condition of settlement. The bulk of these pre-suit recoveries was assigned to RMBS that met the legal pre-requisites for suit against the particular counterparty.
The table here (opens new window) shows the recovery amount allocated to each AME for each recovery. The table also includes the fees and expenses allocated to each AME for each recovery. The NCUA will update its web site for additional recoveries, if any, that it receives from remaining lawsuits.
The allocations reflected in this table cover only legal recoveries and do not reflect other proceeds that are attributable to a particular AME, including those from the sale of assets or from monthly principal and interest payments received on securities that an AME holds.
1 12 U.S.C. § 1787(b)(2).
2 §§ 1766(b)(3), (5); 1787(b)(2)(B); 1789(a)(2).
3 The Board has also filed suit collectively on behalf of the corporate credit unions against LIBOR Banks and RMBS Trustees.


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If ever a horror franchise seemed tailor-made for Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights, American Horror Story would be it. So it is, that this fall will bring us a new maze attraction based on select seasons of Ryan Murphy's FX fever dream, scary clowns and all.
Per Entertainment Weekly, the American Horror Story maze will debut at both Universal Studios Hollywood and Orlando, running from September 16 through Halloween itself. The attraction will pull from Season 1's Murder House, as well as Season 4's Freak Show (because of course Twisty), and the stylish fifth season Hotel.
American Horror Story is one of the most disturbing television shows ever produced, and with such perverse storylines unfolding with each installment, Halloween Horror Nights is undoubtedly the only place that could create a living version of the nightmares that Ryan Murphy dreams up.
No word yet on if the attraction could go year-round, as was eventually the case for The Walking Dead, but feel free to live American Horror Story IRL from September on, after which we'll be knee-deep in whatever Season 6 turns out to be.


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Q: A SQL query to show a list of sequences that have N occurrences of specific sequence I need to retrieve a list of sequences that contains a minimum of N occurrences of the numbers of the one specific sequence (the order doesn't matter).
For example:
In my dbtable I have 3 sequences (rows) in 5 integer columns. Ranges are from 0 to 99:
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5
-- -- -- -- --
 1 56 10 58 70
 6  8  7 50 87
91 78 15 56 01

I have one specific integer sequence of 5 numbers like:
 1 10 56 78 12

If I ask the sequences contained in my DB that have minimal 2 occurrences, I should receive:
 1 56 10 58 70 (1,56,10 coincided)
91 78 15 56  1 (1,56 coincided)

If I ask the sequences contained in my DB that have minimal 3 occurrences, I will receive:
 1 56 10 58 70 (1,56,10 coincided)

I need a SQL query for this, somebody can help me?

A: Similar to Jan Doggen's idea, but strings are not necessary because the values can be compared directly with IN.
The result of a boolean expression (like x IN (...)) is 0 or 1, so it can be summed directly:
SELECT *
FROM WhateverThatSuperSecretTableNameIs
WHERE ( 1 IN (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5)) +
      (10 IN (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5)) +
      (56 IN (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5)) +
      (78 IN (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5)) +
      (12 IN (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5))   >= 2

A: Pseudo code because I don't have the SQLite expertise to quickly whip up the complete SQL statement
1)
First convert to a 14 digit string:
select inttostr(c1)+' '+inttostr(c2)+' '+inttostr(c3)+' '+inttostr(c4)+' '+inttostr(c5) as strvalue from dbtable
(so the inttostr should make a two digit string: 0 -> '00')
Do the same with your (5) search integers i1..i5
2)
From that set, select the (position of i1 in strvalue) mod 3 - it is 1 when i1 is found
3)
You can sum these 5 'positions' and the sum must be >= N

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