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Bargain and Free eBooks for Tuesday (7/5)
by Stephen Oram
It's the week before the annual Pay Day when strata positions are decided by the controlling corporations. The social media feed is frenetic with people trying to boost their influence rating while those above the strata and those who've opted out pursue their own manipulative goals.
Amber is ambitious. Martin is burnt out by years of struggling. She cheats to get what she wants while he barely clings on to what he has.
by Vanessa Russell
Four generations of women meet at their dining room table to write about their year of awakening. That's their assumed agreement anyway. Instead each comes with her own isolated agenda: to either tell off or tell all.
Set in 1910, 1920, 1943 and 1964, in a background of battles for women's rights and civil rights, their writings reveal shocking secrets about unfaithful hearts, lost loves, and unwanted pregnancy.
Ruby Wright: As a genteel great-grandmother, Ruby is the springboard for her daughter's fight for women's right to vote, but at an agonizing price … and not so genteel revelations.
Bess Wright-Pickering: Ruby's daughter is orchestrating this project but her intent is to get long-awaited answers to painful questions. Fueled by the others' continued candidness in their writings, she reveals her own harbored secrets from 1920.
Katy Pickering: Bess's daughter is relieved with writing about why she opened a birth control clinic in 1943. But she believes she's the only one with terrible secrets, in exposing Jesi's conception and deformity.
Jesi Pickering: 19-year old Jesi only cares about 1964 and her hidden interest in the Civil Rights movement. She stubbornly remains silent. But with prodding, she eventually writes about why she keeps her lover to herself. Although the youngest and the weakest, her tragic store will be the catalyst.
The Lafayette Campaign
by Andrew Updegrove
America is rushing headlong into another election year, but something is wrong – the polls don't match reality. It's up to cybersecurity super sleuth Frank Adversego to find the Black Hats who are trying to hack the presidential election, and stop them before they do.
The action begins when a nameless government agency recruits Adversego to find out who's manipulating the polls, but he soon learns that the voting results are at risk as well. From then on, it's a race against time to see who will stop who as the presidential election – and Adversego's life – hang in the balance.
In this latest Frank Adversego thriller, you'll meet a scheming Native American casino manager, a scrum of presidential candidates too incredible to be believed anywhere outside of a real American election, a former Secretary of Defense who will stop at nothing, and an attractive French hitchhiker that Adversego rescues in the middle of a desert, and soon wishes he hadn't.
When It Hooks You
by Nicki Elson
Three dates. It was only supposed to be three dates—he was only meant to be a fling. I didn't want to feel all of this for him. And I certainly hadn't counted on him keeping such a deal-breaking secret from me.
Till death is too long for Trish Cerise. The twenty-seven year old receptionist is tired of men asking for her forever when she just wants to keep things light and fun. World-traveling businessman Adam Helms steps off the elevator and into her life with his own reasons for keeping relationships at a safe distance. Together, they're destined for the most glorious short-term romance in history…until they break their own rules and Trish learns something about Adam she wishes she never knew.
I know a future with him is impossible, but how do you break away from such an intense, consuming, heart-crushing love when it hooks you?
The Selfish Guide To Stress
by Nicholas Caldwell
Admit it. You're exhausted.
It feels like no matter what you do, the struggles of life constantly bring you down.
No matter how much you relax over the weekend, no matter how excited you are going into the week, you're burnt out before Wednesday hits.
It seems like you're never getting ahead. New tasks pile up, and no matter what you do, or how hard you work, you fall behind.
What's worse, you probably don't feel financially secure.
All this hard work, all this stress and panic, for what?
It's time for a change.
The good thing is all of this can be easily fixed.
By organizing your life differently, and altering your priorities, you will quickly see changes.
Not only will you become a different person, you will be able to see life differently. You'll begin to strive for bigger and better.
by Ron Ripley
"Iron…and…salt," whispers the old man. The dead old man. "Hurry or it will be too late…"
To escape the stress of living in the city and the anxiety of his high pressure job, Brian Roy moves his family to the country. His wife loves the easy living, but Brian hates it…especially when weird things start happening in the house. When he discovers a dead body in the woods and a burial ground in his basement, Brian could never imagine the shocking history of the house or its former occupants that comes to light.
As his life starts to unravel, Brian isn't so sure living in the country is going to be the oasis of peace he and his wife expected. Lately, his home has become a haunting den of hell.
Neanderthal Seeks Human
by Penny Reid
There are three things you need to know about Janie Morris: 1) She is incapable of engaging in a conversation without volunteering TMTI (Too Much Trivial Information), especially when she is unnerved, 2) No one unnerves her more than Quinn Sullivan, and 3) She doesn't know how to knit.
After losing her boyfriend, apartment, and job in the same day, Janie Morris can't help wondering what new torment fate has in store. To her utter mortification, Quinn Sullivan- aka Sir McHotpants- witnesses it all then keeps turning up like a pair of shoes you lust after but can't afford. The last thing she expects is for Quinn- the focus of her slightly, albeit harmless, stalkerish tendencies- to make her an offer she can't refuse.
That Boy
by Jillian Dodd
Fall in love with the boy next door in this sweet romance by USA Today Bestselling Author, Jillian Dodd.
You know, being friends with two cute boys does have its benefits.
There's Danny. Danny is a golden boy in every way. He has dreamy blue eyes and blonde hair that always looks perfect, even when it's windblown or been stuck under a football helmet. He's the boy every girl crushes on. The boy I get into trouble with, the boy I fight with, the hot quarterback no girl can resist. Being with Danny is like being on an adventure. He has a bright, contagious smile and abs to die for.
Equally crush-worthy is Phillip. Adorable, sweet Phillip, who I have known since birth. Phillip has dark hair, a perfect smile, brown eyes, and the sexiest voice I have ever heard. He's the boy I talk to every night before I go to sleep. The boy who rescues me, the boy who can read my mind, the boy who is always there for me, the boy who tries to keep me out of trouble, the boy who irritatingly keeps getting hotter, and whose strong arms always seem to find their way around me. And when he gives me that grin, I can never say no.
One boy will give me my very first kiss.
One boy will teach me to make out.
One boy will take me to prom.
And, finally, one boy will ask me to marry him.
They will both be my best friends.
But only one of them will be the boy I fall in love with.
Only one of them is That Boy.
*This is a story about friendships that span from grade school through college, and there is no love triangle.
Diamonds & Desire
by Angelita Gill
Jordana Shaw thinks taking her sister's place at a charity auction will be an exciting alternative for a Saturday night. Little does she know this favor will change her world forever. Before the night is through, she's got a diamond necklace in her purse, an unconscious handsome millionaire in bed, and an unbelievable story to tell him in the morning.
It's not every day a man is rescued by a woman he just met. Logan Savant is not only grateful to Jordana, but also surprisingly enchanted, and eager to return the favor. Little does he know it'll start with a trip to Vegas to stop her sister's wedding. But that's just the beginning. Because bringing her into his world is costing more than he'll ever have in his bank account.
by Julie C. Gardner
Four women, a 10-year reunion, one big secret…
The invitation for her ten-year high school reunion sits in her inbox, but Corie cringes at the idea of actually going. She thinks back to the tragedy that took place back then, the friendship lost, the lives shattered.
Her former best friend, Scarlet, now an attorney in San Francisco, also dreads the reunion. Still, she considers attending, considers facing Corie and all the memories she's tried to block. But will she have the strength to go through with it—accompanied by the man she refuses to let get too close?
Novum: Genesis
by Joseph Rhea
As the last descendants of Earth struggle to survive beneath the surface of a distant water planet, one man's discovery will lead him on a journey of redemption while he fights to save what's left of his world.
Jake Stone is a young man haunted by his past. When he reluctantly accepts a job to help pay for a transport submarine he inherited but doesn't want, he inadvertently awakens an ancient and terrible power.
Its arrival triggers a chain of events that could destroy what's left of the human race or be the key to its future. But, is it a future he's willing to fight for, let alone die for?
Novum: Genesis is the first book in the Novum series.
Finding Cinderella: A Novella
by Colleen Hoover
A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. But this love has conditions: they agree it will only last one hour and it will only be make-believe.
When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that what happened between them only seemed perfect because they were pretending it was perfect. Moments like that with girls like her don't happen outside of fairytales.
One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in insta-love is stripped away the day he meets Six: a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality. But Daniel soon realizes that fairytales don't exist, and unfortunately for Daniel, finding Cinderella doesn't guarantee their happily ever after…it only further threatens it.
by B. Kristin McMichael
Everyone has a past, but for most it isn't so far in the past as Seth Sangre. His past is literally from thousands of years ago. Seth's past led him to the present seeking something that might help him save his country from destruction. He has been in the present for over three years now, and he just found exactly what he has been looking for.
Mari had dreams of college being a fresh start, one where she would start over and not fall for the good looking player like high school. Unfortunately for her, that's exactly what ends up falling into her lap on the first day she moves into the dorms. Now she has to hold to her promise to herself not fall for the handsome Seth Sangre. But he doesn't plan to make it easy for her. Seth has already marked her as his next conquest. As the semester progresses, Mari learns that Seth might just have a past of his own that's literally in the past. Suddenly, Mari finds her future along with her past put into question. She's connected to Seth far more than she ever wanted to be, and maybe he isn't the player who she thought he was. If Mari can trust her heart enough to follow him, Seth will lead Mari on an adventure of a lifetime-and reveal family secrets she never knew existed.
Blind Eye
by S.W. Hubbard
This **short story (only 20 pages)** is a prequel to the Palmyrton Estate Sale Mystery Series.
We see what we want to see, nothing more.
When detectives Coughlin and Holzer investigate the disappearance of a successful young businessman, they're both impressed by his beautiful wife. Slender, curvy, delicate—Michelle Fanning is not the kind of woman a man would choose to leave. Soon, a gruesome discovery leads the detectives to believe they're investigating a murder. Reeling from the collapse of his own marriage, Detective Coughlin sees Michelle Fanning as a suspect. Detective Holzer, fascinated by her gentle femininity, sees her as a victim. Which cop turns a blind eye to the truth?
Because Dragons Love Milk
by Marie Chow
It's bedtime and Tycho is worried about the monsters in his room, particularly the dragon, a T-Rex, and an alligator. But his wise and loving father knows just how to handle the scary monsters and make sure that Tycho's sleep is sweet and peaceful.
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Nottinghamshire Police
Police launch survey asking the public: 'what matters to you?'
It will shape neighbourhood policing across the area after 107 new officers join the force
Chief Constable Craig Guildford from Nottinghamshire Police inspecting the new officers
Nottinghamshire Police have launched one of its biggest surveys asking local people what they want the force to do in their area.
The force is hoping thousands of people will take part in the survey so they can start shaping neighbourhood policing across the county.
This comes after the force is set to recruit 107 new officers by the end of March, with money provided by the Home Office.
These new recruits will also be joined by an additional 40 officers, with money set aside through the police's main budget.
The survey is also launched at a time when the police rolls out Operation Reacher across the county.
The operation began in Bestwood in April 2018 following an increase in firearm offences.
Police used tactics such as early morning raids to disrupt and dismantle criminal gangs peddling drugs in the area and living lavish lifestyles on the back of crime.
A large quantity of cash and a shotgun seized by Police as part of Operation Reacher (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Nottingham Post)
Police want to launch the same operation across every area of the county, including city areas such as St Ann's, Radford, The Meadows and Clifton.
But every area has a different priority and the survey will help the police understand the public concerns.
The survey, which launched on Monday, March 16, is giving the public an opportunity to influence where local police in their area should focus their efforts.
Chief constable of Nottinghamshire Police, Craig Guildford said: "Neighbourhood policing is at the heart of Nottinghamshire Police's work and this initiative is anextension of our commitment to engage with the communities we serve to ensure that we are continuing to focus on what matters most to local people.
"Focusing on specific priorities within each neighbourhood is already helping to address issues as they are raised and this work will help to ensure that we can focus on more of what matters to local people as our ambitious recruitment plans continue and introduce proactive policing teams into each area of the county.
"I would encourage as many people as possible to take just a few short minutes to complete the survey to help shape local policing priorities in their area."
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Police and Crime Commissioner Paddy Tipping said: "It's important that the police know what people think and what they expect from their local neighbourhood policing teams.
"We know how much local policing matters to people, which is why I am pleased that we are continuing to invest in neighbourhood policing as part of our ambitious plans to recruit 107 new police officers in 2020 alone."
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Why do you wear turquoise dresses?
Dresses with a turquise pattern are usually formal, flowing and made of silk or velvet.
But the pattern is often not formal at all, making them fashionable for casual wear.
Turquoise was designed to give a more sophisticated look to dresses, but also to blend in with the rest of the dress.
There are many different styles of turquoises, from the simple white dress to the elegant red dress.
But there are also many styles that are considered to be formal.
The dress pattern for turquois dresses, for example, can vary.
Turques are usually a classic style that is easy to wear.
But in some countries it can be more formal, especially if you are from the west or western Europe.
In these countries, the dress is usually decorated with jewellery, gold and silver, and often has a gold ribbon.
But turquises can also be made to be a little more formal with the addition of a bow or other decorative accessories.
The turquotes, or turquotas, are the latest addition to the turquismo style of dress, and are also usually designed to look more formal.
This trend started in Brazil, and now there are several countries in Latin America, such as Argentina, where it has taken off.
The shape of the turque is often similar to the bow and bow ties, but it has more of a ribbed effect.
There is also a wide range of styles, from simple white to a colourful red or gold, and sometimes even an elaborate pattern.
The traditional dress, like the turquetas, is usually made of wool, cotton or linen.
But with the rise of fashion trends, turquos have come in many different colours, and some are even made from a variety of fabrics.
Some people prefer the colour pink, and there are even turquito-style shoes.
There have been some changes in the style of turque since the 1960s.
The designers of the time usually had a different take on the turqo, and many turquistas have been inspired by them.
In the past, turques were worn with a long skirt, but now it has become more casual.
However, the turques are still popular for a few reasons.
They are not a traditional dress to be worn alone.
You can wear them as a party dress, or as a formal outfit to show off the guests, or to wear as a signature piece for a reception.
Turque dresses are also a great way to show your friends and family who you are.
You could also wear them for formal events, such a wedding, to show that you are one of them.
The style is also versatile.
There's also a trend for turque-style dresses with a belt or other accessories, such the belt from a car.
In many countries, turqos can be worn with other colourful fabrics, like scarves or belts.
The waist band of a turqueto is usually longer than the waist band in a traditional gown.
This is because of the way the dress was made.
The belt from the turqueros, for instance, has a wide band, which allows you to wear it on a longer length.
This makes the belt a good option for the taller and wider women who want a more formal look.
The length of the waistband in a turque dress can also vary from one country to another.
Some turquitas are made of linen, and others are made from silk, leather or even wool.
There can also often be a lot of different fabrics in the turquinas, so you will have to choose a style that suits you best.
The most important thing about a turquin is that it's designed to be very simple to wear, and it's very versatile.
So it is important to be careful when it comes to choosing a turquer, especially with the changing trends in the fashion world.
If you are looking for more information on turquitions, or if you have any questions about the dress, you can find answers on the official Turquito website.
This article was originally published in The Conversation.
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Law Enforcement Transparency And Accountability Committee Moves Forward In Colorado Springs
By Abigail Beckman
Andrea Chalfin / 91.5 KRCC
The statewide stay-at-home order lifts on April 26, but Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers says a return to normalcy will come in phases for the city. (Colorado Springs City Hall File Photo)
Colorado Springs City Council members voted in favor of an ordinance that forms a commission to oversee police transparency and accountability in the city.
The vote was 8 to 1.
In its current form, the commission will utilize data-driven audits of law enforcement performance, provide an avenue for the community to share concerns and provide feedback to city council in regard to policy recommendations. Other areas of inquiry will be approved by city council.
It will have 11 members: one representative from each city council district and five additional at large members. Each member would serve a maximum of two three-year terms.
More than two dozen community members called into the meeting. An overwhelming number asked for a completely independent commission from the city, the Colorado Springs Police Department and El Paso County Sheriff's Office.
Nicole Hannigan was one of many who said the voices of people of color need to be amplified, with at large members specifically representing the southeast portion of the city.
"It needs to be people from the communities who have dealt and suffered with the pain and injustices that have been happening for years," she said. "This needs to be something that the people can be involved with so that we can rebuild trust with CSPD."
Many participating in the public comments urged council members to act quickly in creating and giving power to an independent board that would serve to amplify the concerns of people of color in the city.
"It's crucial in order to restore faith in the system to have this committee and it needs to have been set up, in my opinion...yesterday," said Khalil Yarborough, who grew up in Colorado Springs and has two young biracial children. He said his kids have grown fearful of police.
Other concerns include having a process for people to report complaints about police interactions that would be protected from retaliation.
Prior to the vote, District 6 Representative Andy Pico said the urgency from the community came through loud and clear.
"[This draft of the ordinance] may not be perfect, but I think it captures most everything we need to do," he said.
District 1 Representative Don Knight disagreed, and said he would rather hammer out the details of the ordinance, which he felt was lacking.
"This is a great skeleton, but all of the meat that the people gave us is missing," Knight said. Specifically, Knight was referring to who can serve on the board, how they will be selected and how or if the board will have access to law enforcement data.
Only Yolanda Avila voted against the commission, calling it "lukewarm," and saying it "didn't give a voice to the community."
Avila also raised questions about several ideas that were ultimately not included in the actual document: that the committee consist of only registered voters and a requirement for background checks. The mention, she said, was racist and offensive.
"This has never been considered on any other board, commission or committee ever," said Avila. "Is it because we're going to have brown and Black people on this one?"
Other members of council took issue with Avila's comments, saying that they never officially made it into the ordinance and that other entities, like the Citizens Police Academy, require background checks.
Next steps for the city council include determining how to vet the more than 600 current applicants for the commission and select the 11 who will servce. Other topics for further discussion include limitations the commission will face based on state law regarding access to personnel files and certain law enforcement documents.
Applications will continue to be accepted through July 1st.
The ordinance is up for a second vote next month.
Read the ordinance here.
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Entertainment » Theatre
All-Trans Cast Live Reading of 'Brokeback Mountain' Streaming Sunday
by Kevin Schattenkirk
EDGE Media Network Contributor
(Source:NewFest)
A staged live reading of "Brokeback Mountain" with an all-transgender cast will stream online on Sunday October 18, NBC News reports.
The film, which was based on a short story by Annie Prouix, starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as two rural men who had a relationship for twenty years while contending with the heteronormative expectations of society — getting married, raising a family, and keeping their affair secret. As NBC notes, neither of the leads identified as gay in the story — which reflected the greater context of the time and space in which these characters lived.
The virtual staged reading on Sunday is an attempt to update the story with, as NBC states, the "authentic representation" that currently "is a great part of the cultural conversation." The cast will include Brian Michael Smith as Jack Twist (originally Gyllenhaal's role), Leo Sheng as Ennis Del Mar (which Ledger played in the film), Alexandra Grey are Lureen Newsome (Jack's wife), and Jen Richards as Alma Beers (Ennis' wife).
Gaby Dunn, who is co-producing the reading with Karl Saint Lucy, said "'Brokeback' to me is so much about masculinity. I thought the only way we could do it is to make it specifically trans. These characters are so trapped by their gender roles."
A Los Angeles-based writer, actor and comedian, Dunn also sees this as an opportunity to give greater visibility to trans actors: "I get frustrated when people say, 'Oh, we can't find a trans actor to cast.' Here they are — here's an entire screen full of them. They can be in these big, Oscar-bait movies, too. Or in genre movies — or comedies. Where is my trans 'The Hangover,' my trans 'Gravity'? There's so much missed opportunity." Dunn has already conducted several of these types of readings.
Richards — a trans writer, actress and producer who has participated in previous Dunn readings — said that "ninety-nine percent of everything that comes my way is about being trans. But it's thrilling to play characters that nothing to do with it." Of "Brokeback Mountain," in particular, Richards says, "it's all about masculinity and the trap it was for Ennis and Jack. When you see it performed by trans men, the gender performance is so obvious. It's definitely implied in the film, but we're kind of bringing that element out more into the light."
The reading on Sunday October 18 is free with a suggested donation. Proceeds will benefit The NewFest Future Fund and NYC Anti-Violence Project, the latter of which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. More information on the "Brokeback Mountain" reading can be found here.
Kevin Schattenkirk is an ethnomusicologist and pop music aficionado.
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Mario Martin has been singing and playing guitar for most of his life. Like many musicians, he started humbly; playing at family gatherings, parties and school functions. His first "real gig" came in the form of his ninth grade Black History Month program at school. "I got up on stage and sang Charley Pride…" Mario says, "…and it went over well, so I got bit by the guitar bug."
At age 15, Mario was playing at local honky-tonks and clubs in the Macon, Ga. area four nights a week. Often Mario would stay up until 2 A.M. to play a show, only to get up for school early the next morning. At age 16, he met his future wife and business partner, Shannon. The two became inseparable after Shannon attended one of Mario's concerts. "That style of music was new to me," Shannon laughs, "At the time, I was clueless to what he was singing about and I couldn't have told you which country artists he was covering."
In 1990, Mario entered the "Country Showdown," a national talent competition sponsored by Tru Value hardware and GMC trucks. He finished as first runner-up out of more than 1,000 contestants. At this point, he was causing enough of a stir on stage that Nashville music executives took note and traveled to Georgia to see the young, budding country star.
The "Country Showdown" led Mario to a record deal in 1991. His first record would come out on the now defunct Nashville-based DPI Records; a label that also included country music stars Hoyt Axton and Mel McDaniel.
Two albums, a couple of years and several music videos later, Mario found himself on the road opening for notable acts such as Tracy Lawrence, Ricky Skaggs, John Anderson and Lee Greenwood. "We did pretty well," Mario says. "But we never did well enough to get a lot of airplay on the radio."
By the end of 1993, DPI had gone out of business. Not giving up, Mario kept playing clubs, fairs and festivals as an independent artist. In 1995, he moved to Nashville to seek another record deal and play the local country music clubs. "Playing in Nashville, for the most part, doesn't pay the bills," Mario says, "There are too many gigging musicians. That is why I finally decided to chase my other, more lucrative, passion of working on guitars."
in 1996, Mario went to work at the Gibson Guitar factory in Nashville. Getting some much needed experience in a fast paced production environment. After three years of helping to produce literally hundreds of Gibson Guitars, he landed a building position with Fender Guitars. There at the newly formed Nashville based "Fender / Guild Custom Shop", he honed his building and finishing chops. Working alongside esteemed master luthier, Evan Ellis, Mario absorbed every bit of knowledge possible on crafting guitars- start to finish.
"My "Fender years" are where I got the bulk of my education," says Mario, "I was able to be in a true custom shop, to see and do the many steps of guitar building….. So, that was my schooling, really."
Following his career with Fender Musical Instruments, in 2004 he found himself in a management position with MIRC (Music Instrument Restoration Corporation) based out of Franklin, TN. Overseeing factory authorized repair work for Yamaha Guitars.
One day in 2005, Mario called Shannon from work to tell her that he wanted to go out on a limb and start making his own brand of custom guitars.
"I wasn't surprised at all." says Shannon nonchalantly, "I knew he always wanted to start his own venture to support the family. That is just the kind of man he is — He's as "smart as a whip" with a thirst for more knowledge; he has always wanted to do bigger and better."
At first, both Mario and Shannon will admit it was anything but bigger and better. Operating from the garage of their Murfreesboro home, the Martins knew there was an abundance of risk with no guarantee for reward. "The financial risk was scary," Shannon noted, "We were a one-income family who had just moved to Murfreesboro. We had just bought a new home, we had two small girls – it was a lot of responsibility, a lot of things to consider. We spent that time praying even more than usual; it was a real leap of faith."
The Martins began their venture by selling two basic guitar body shapes on eBay, the classic "T" (Tele®) and "S" (Strat®) styles. "It was not an easy decision to start the Mill," recalls Mario, "In fact, it was a scary decision. Shannon is a wonderful woman that was willing to back me up no matter what I decided to do, but I was nervous about being the one who made the bad decision that put my family in financial jeopardy. At first, we could sell half a dozen a week and sustain our business because we had zero overhead – the downside, however, was trying to run a full-service guitar factory in a two-car garage. However, that all seems to be a distant memory to me now."
In the Spring of 2006, the Guitar Mill moved into its current location at 407 West Lytle St in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; a facility that has grown to encompass 4,000 square feet. The Guitar Mill has gone from offering two guitar shapes to now having more than a dozen body styles while also offering services such as repair, handmade necks, set-up, restoration, aging/relicing, customization, rerouting and custom Nitrocellulose finishing services .
These days, The Guitar Mill is a complete guitar manufacturer that does every step of production in-house. In 2009, The Guitar Mill Custom Shop was officially opened. The Guitar Mill Custom Shop evolved from a high demand from Mill customers for our product in it's final form – a finished guitar. The "GMCS" guitars were high-end boutique guitars; custom built in the Murfreesboro, Tenn. shop they were named after. Mario Martin's signature and "Hand Crafted In The USA" was proudly adorned on the back of each headstock. "GMCS" guitars were the clear precursor to Mario Guitars®
In 2011, a turning point appeared for the small custom guitar maker . The Guitar Mill Custom Shop became known under the new brand Mario Guitars® – replacing the former headstock logo with current "MM" inscription. The re-branding occurred when Mario felt the need to more closely associated with his product, thus naming it after himself.
"We actually build and finish everything in-house," boasts Mario, "We're doing our own bodies, necks, finishing, assembly, you name it."
Mario Guitars® has been hailed for their superior playability, unmatched resonance and prolonged sustain. Many Mario guitars are the lightest guitars of their style, one of the major woods used is Paulownia, which is known for being incredibly lightweight while also maintaining sustain. Mario's custom finishes and relic/aging work have been cited by many to be some of the best in this field. Mario is also proud of the fact that he also builds Non-aged / Factory New , guitars. "Not everyone is in to the whole "relic" thing- no problem, I'll be happy to build you a guitar that is "showroom" new", informs Mario. Mario Guitars® have been reviewed by Premier Guitar, Guitar Player, Guitar World, and have made appearance's on stage with some of today's top musical acts. In 2011, Country-Star Hunter Hayes started playing Mario Guitars almost exclusively; Hayes now owns four Mario Guitars®, one of which he played in his musical appearance in the 2014 Grammy Awards. Just recently, Grammy nominated country duo- 'Brothers Osborne' began endorsing Mario Martin's talents, playing their 'T' Styles with pride!
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Nut Material: Bone
Nut Width: 1.65"
Fret Size: 6105
Fingerboard Radius: 9.5-12"
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Q: MVC 5 Web api 2 Attribute Routing not working for api/v1/portfolio/1/credentials Code:
[RoutePrefix("api/v1/portfolio")]
public class PortfolioController : ApiController
{
    [Route("")]
    [Route("index")]
    public IEnumerable<PortfolioModel> GetPortfolios()
    {
        ...
    }

    [Route("{id:int}")]
    [ResponseType(typeof(PortfolioModel))]
    public IHttpActionResult GetPortfolio(int id)
    {
        ....
    }

    [Route("{id:int}/credentials")]
    [ResponseType(typeof(IEnumerable<CredentialsModel>))]
    private IEnumerable<CredentialsModel> GetCredentialsForId(int id)
    {
        ....
    }
}

api/v1/portfolio works
api/v1/portfolio/index works
api/v1/portfolio/1 works
api/v1/portfolio/1/credetials  DOES NOT WORK
getting:
HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found. The resource you are looking for has been removed
Can any of you gurus tell me what I'm doing wrong?
In case you ask, my WebApiConfig only has
config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();

and my RegisterRoutes has only:
routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();

as always, thank you for the help.

A: change it from private to public
private IEnumerable GetCredentialsForId(int id)
to
public IEnumerable GetCredentialsForId(int id)
it will work!

A: I finally solved the problem. I'll explain for others having similar problem:
As you see in the previous code, I have the action (returning credentials) in the portfolio controler, instead I use similar action in my Credentials controler and map routed the action as if coming from the portfolio controler.
[Route("~/api/v1/portfolio/{id}/credentials")]
    [ResponseType(typeof(IEnumerable<CredentialsModel>))]
    public IEnumerable<CredentialsModel> GetByPortfolioId(int id)
    {
        return _repository.FindByPortfolioId(id);
    }

so, I have to map to the controler in charge of returning a particular model. My problem was I had an action returning CredentialModel in a controler in charge of handling PortfolioModel.

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Q: Get stuck in realizing the Closure feature (javascript) As a javascript beginner, I thought I realized the Closure feature until seeing the trap from the sample code below. I tried to modify the code to pop up the result which many C/C++/C#/Java programmers expect as,
"item1 1"
"item2 2"
"item3 3"
After one hour struggling, I still can't do that. Could any javascript master teach me how to modify it ? Thank you.

function buildList(list) {
    var result = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
        var item = 'item' + list[i];
        result.push( function() {alert(item + ' ' + list[i])} );
    }
    return result;
}

function testList() {
    var fnlist = buildList([1,2,3]);
    // Using j only to help prevent confusion -- could use i.
    for (var j = 0; j < fnlist.length; j++) {
        fnlist[j]();
    }
}

testList();

A: The idea is to create a closure inside which it will be fixed.

*

*You can nest the for content inside an immediate function :

function buildList(list) {
    var result = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
        (function(k){// k will equals i
          var item = 'item' + list[k];
          result.push( function() {alert(item + ' ' + list[k])} );
        })(i);// i in argument
    }
    return result;
}

function testList() {
    var fnlist = buildList([1,2,3]);
    for (var j = 0; j < fnlist.length; j++) fnlist[j]();
}

testList();

It is the same as writing an other function :

function doStuff(k,arr,arr2){
    var item = 'item' + arr[k];
    arr2.push( function() {alert(item + ' ' + arr[k])});
}

function buildList(list) {
    var result = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) doStuff(i,list,result);
    return result;
}

function testList() {
    var fnlist = buildList([1,2,3]);
    for (var j = 0; j < fnlist.length; j++) fnlist[j]();
}

testList();

*With the recent forEach(value, index, array) method the closure is automatically provided :

function buildList(list) {
    var result=[];
    list.forEach(function(e){
        result.push(function(){alert('item'+e+' '+e)});
    });
    return result;
}

buildList([1,2,3]).forEach(function(e){e();});

Rather cool.

*Using ECMAScript 6 let (thanks elad.chen)

let can replace var to scope i inside functions in the loop : no more need to create a closure as in (1) and (2). You will just have to move the item+list[i] part inside the function. However let is available in strict mode only, and not in all browsers yet (it still misses firefox for example)

'use strict'

function buildList(list) {
    var result = [];
    for(let i=0;i<list.length;i++) {
        result.push(function(){alert('item'+list[i]+' '+list[i])});
    }
    return result;
}

function testList() {
    var fnlist = buildList([1,2,3]);
    for (var j = 0; j < fnlist.length; j++) fnlist[j]();
}

testList();

A: Not master by any means, just learning, too:
   function buildList(list) {
    var result = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
        var item = 'item' + list[i];
        result.push( (function() {alert(item + ' ' + list[i])}) ());
    }
    return result;
}

function testList() {
    var fnlist = buildList([1,2,3]);

}
testList();

This could be good chance for IIFE usage. Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/zh02a69j/2/
In the moment when you call your first function by fnlist[j](), your i value is last incremented value. Your function which push results to array 'see' just that value, since it is not executed immediately, in loop - it is defined, but not executed. You can make it execute immediatelly (as IIFE), in loop, then script returns expected output.
If i made some mistake (to all previous and future downvoters:)) - please guide me, too.


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La Société européenne de mini-informatique et systèmes (SEMS) était un constructeur informatique français spécialisé dans les mini-ordinateurs, qui a commercialisé deux lignes très populaires, celle du Solar et celle du Mitra 15. La SEMS est passée sous le contrôle de Bull au moment de sa nationalisation en 1982.

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À partir de 1973, la Télémécanique lance à Grenoble des travaux pour sortir un mini-ordinateur capable de concurrencer la gamme PDP-11 Digital Equipment Corporation, qui a un grand succès sur le marché mondial et français. Optimisé dès 1975, le Solar 16 prend des parts de marché importantes.

En 1976, l'État souhaite opérer des rectifications de frontières entre la CGE et Thomson, qui ont tous les deux des participations dans l'informatique, lors de l'opération contestée fusionnant la CII à Honeywell.

Sous la pression de l'Etat, la Télémécanique doit alors se séparer de sa division informatique, qui fusionne avec la partie de la CII produisant les mini-ordinateurs concurrents Mitra 15. Les machines des deux entreprises sont pourtant incompatibles.

La SEMS est créée pour l'occasion, filiale de Thomson à 55 %, tout comme son nouveau sous-traitant, la Compagnie industrielle pour l'électronique, constituée des usines de Toulouse et des Andelys de l'ex-CII et de son siège social de Rocquencourt.

La division informatique de Télémécanique affiche 150 millions de francs de chiffre d'affaires, grâce au décollage du marché des mini-ordinateurs. C'est le même montant que pour les mini-ordinateurs de la CII, qui assurent 1800 emplois à Toulouse , le quart des 8200 salariés de la CII (dont 1700 dans les bureaux d'études).

Paul Richard, PDG de Thomson, l'un des deux actionnaires de la CII, est lui hostile à l'opération fusionnant la CII à Honeywell, voulue par la CGE dès 1973, annoncée par l'Etat en , au motif les bénéfices de Honeywell-Bull ont été en 1975 supérieurs à ceux de 1974 et que les Français garderaient le contrôle. Une fusion  et qui , selon les syndicats et partis de gauche. Elle est surtout refusée par le PDG de la CII et son actionnaire Thomson, qui voient anéanti , le consortium Unidata, "Airbus de l'informatique" et qui est toujours négociée en , quand Jean-Claude Achille est chargé d'une mission spéciale de médiation.

Paul Richard obtiendra alors une triple compensation qui est annoncée peu après. Publié en , le rapport de Jean-Claude Achille propose une solution très avantageuse pour Thomson, concernant les usines de la CII à Toulouse et Les Andelys, sur laquelle Thomson avait d'abord affecté d'être réticent .

Conçu en 1971 pour profiter des microprocesseurs et du progrès dans les circuits intégrés, livré à partir de 1972 pour le contrôle des automatismes industriels, la téléinformatique et l'enseignement, puis amélioré en 1973, le  est vendu en moyenne 0,3 million de francs, en haut de la game des mini-ordinateurs. Malgré la pénurie de composants pour la mémoire centrale qui pénalise ce positionnement, résolu lors du lancement du  en , il atteint en 1974 un chiffre d'affaires de 150 millions de francs, soit un huitième des ventes totales de la CII, dont  et  à l'exportation, observe Le Monde. En 1974, EDF exigeant un prix de gros très bas, la CII lui vend discrètement son  sous le nom «  », enrichi de fonctionnalités CIT-Alcatel. Cette déclinaison du  pour EDF permet à CII d'emporter à bas prix le marché face au consortium européen Unidata, et marque aussi des p0oints face aux mini-ordinateurs concurrents de l'Américain Digital Equipment Corporation. Il se vendra au total plus de  de , avant et après la SEMS.y

En 1975 cependant, l'usine de Toulouse subit la grave crise économique résultant du Premier choc pétrolier, combinée à l'apparition d'un troisième acteur sur le marché, le Solar de la Télémécanique. Par ailleurs, l'abandon d'Unidata a provoqué la résiliation des commandes de Siemens portant sur les appareils X 4 et X 5, , la vente du Mitra 15 étant en partie couplée par la CII avec celle du gros ordinateur Iris 80, au point qu'on  si la CII , observe Le Monde.

Paul Richard obtient que cette usine passe sous pavillon de la SEMS, avec la marque Mitra, que la SEMS produira en sous-traitance pour CII-HB, en attendant que Toulouse puisse , sachant qu'Honeywell, qui avait récupéré les 4000 salariés des usines Bull de Belfort et Angers en 1970, a lancé dès , mais avec du retard, son propre mini-ordinateur, le Mini 6, vendu de 13500 à 270 000 francs et héritier du 61 fabriqué par Honeywell-Bull, à l'espace d'adressage limité, qu'il fallait débrancher, et reposant sur un projet de microprocesseur 1500 qui échouera, obligeant à finaliser en 1978 un rachat du Micral, en raison des cloissonement conservés après la fusion entre CII et Honeywell, selon Georges Krystal et Claude Gouin, chargés de l'étude du TPO (Très Petit Ordinateur) dans l'équipe PSRT (Petits Systèmes, Systèmes Spéciaux, Réseaux et Terminaux) dirigé par Jack Petersen, sous la supervision de Claude Boulle. Jean-Pierre Brulé, PDG de CII-HB, reconnait alors que ce lancement .

Thomson obtient aussi que l'Etat finance le déficit 1975 et les départs volontaires qui en résultent à l'usine de Toulouse. Le ministre de l'industrie et de la recherche Michel d'Ornano révèle ainsi en  que le déficit de la CII antérieur à 1975, évalué à 75 millions de francs, sera assumé par ses actionnaires, mais que celui qui vient de se creuser brutalement en un an, sur l'exercice 1975, à 535 millions de francs, malgré une activité commerciale fin 1975 , sera pris en charge par l'État, qui versera aussi 200 millions de francs pour aider à la reconversion de l'usine de Toulouse,  affectée par les "incertitudes qui ont pesé sur l'avenir de la CII" selon Thomson. La fabrication du Mitra 15 sera finalement transférée à Crolles, dans la banlieue de Grenoble. Au terme d'une fusion très conflictuelle, la SEMS continue à produire des Solar (ordinateur) 16, tout en vendant également des Mini 6 de CII-HB .

Thomson, actionnaire majoritaire de la SEMS, sera de nouveau protégé un mois plus tard par Michel d'Ornano face à l'Américain Digital Equipment Corporation. En  , il s'oppose à cinq parlementaires du département de la Haute-Savoie, quand il s'est prononcé contre l'installation d'une usine de l'Américain Digital Equipment Corporation, qui avait acquis un terrain de 30 000 mètres carrés à Annecy-le-Vieux et proposait des "mini-ordinateurs" et des périphériques à des prix de 15 % moins élevés. Michel d'Ornano jugeait qu'elle pourrait menacer le plan " péri-informatique " français mis en place par son gouvernement par le rapprochement des activités " mini-informatique " de la Télémécanique et de la CII. Le ministre de l'industrie tablait alors sur une croissance de 25 % de ce marché au cours des cinq prochaines années.

Accusé de s'être aligné sur les intérêts de la CGE en abandonnant le Plan Calcul, le gouvernement autorise aussi au même moment Thomson à écorner son monopole par le rachat de la Société française des téléphones Ericsson et des 68 % détenus par ITT dans Le Matériel téléphonique. Il ne favorise pas non plus le projet de rachat du constructeur Logabax, en difficulté, par la CGE.

J'ai eu l'honneur d'installer le premier Diram en clientèle, installation compliquée due aux perturbations sur les câbles datas qu'il a fallu blinder. De mémoire, c'était Mr Le Bars mon responsable. Pierre Gamet, technicien Sems de 1978 à 1990.

À partir de 1980, la SEMS va commercialiser aussi des stations de travail sous UNIX, pour la conception assistée par ordinateur, avec l'aide ponctuelle du CNET. Après la nationalisation de Bull en 1982, la SEMS passa sous son contrôle. Le Mitra 15 se retrouva en compétition avec les successeurs du Mini 6, fabriqué sous licence Honeywell. La SEMS fut alors incluse dans « Groupement d'informatique distribuée », rassemblant les lignes de produits d'origine extra-Honeywell-Bull.

En 1984, le centre de recherches de Louveciennes de la SEMS fut fermé et toutes ses activités regroupées à Échirolles, dans la banlieue de Grenoble, avec la ligne Solar héritée de Télémécanique. Le réseau commercial du Groupe Bull limita les ventes des Mitra 15 à la continuation des affaires.

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Entreprise fondée en 1976
Constructeur informatique
Constructeur informatique ayant son siège en France
Histoire de l'informatique en France

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People Vs. Self-Driving Cars
Why auto tech companies are so concerned about interactions with humans.
September 12th, 2018 - By: Susan Rambo
If you're a screenwriter—or a car salesman—you're already thinking of ways to write non-sci-fi self-driving cars into a movie script. Automobiles have been integral to the plots of gritty noir crime movies, heist flicks, romantic comedies, and obviously, road movies.
What's clear is the self-driving car won't be the ideal getaway vehicle anymore, particularly if there is no steering wheel or gas pedal. And while it's not hard to imagine a world in which technology controls people, the alternative script involves self-driving cars that are pushed around by human drivers, pedestrians, scooters, or even bicyclists.
"You can bully self-driving cars," said Peter Hancock, Provost's Distinguished Research Professor and head of the MIT² Laboratory at the University of Central Florida (UCF), where he studies autonomous vehicles and psychology. "Once you know the way it is going to react, you can move it over in its lane or make it decelerate, because you can be the bigger bully and you know that it is going to avoid hitting you. If you start edging into the lane it is going to start edging away from you."
Who should fear whom? For now, people seem to be afraid of the self-driving car, and the numbers don't seem to be improving. AAA reported in May 2018 that Americans are more afraid to ride in a fully autonomous vehicle than they were the prior year. In fact, AAA said 73% of driving Americans are afraid to ride in a fully self-driving vehicle.
"There may be some people who never trust an automated system," said Hancock, who studies dimensions of trust of systems and humans in his lab. "When Tesla and Waymo are marketing, they have to market to people who are going to trust those systems."
But if anyone needs to be afraid, it might be weighted heavily against self-driving car OEMs and their programmers.
"This will be a big problem, and so far we have not seen plans for a solution," said Ty Garibay, chief technology advisor at ArterisIP. "The big problem is robots or autonomous things interacting with people. And while this may not be a problem in a factory, because people are paid to work with robots, it's definitely an issue with autonomous vehicles in cities. I don't see how autonomous vehicles will work in an urban area. You see the same thing happening in the home market with robots if a child knows it won't do anything."
The reason is simple—human beings are unpredictable, aggressive, and sometimes malicious creatures.
Mixed driving styles
This presents a problem because self-driving cars and human drivers will share the road for many years. "It's going to be very interesting as we look to the future with that mixed fleet because the autonomous cars are driven and behave differently than their human counterparts, and that's often a good thing," Greg Brannon, director of automotive engineering at the American Automobile Association, told Semiconductor Engineering. "Self-driving cars are more cautious. They are more likely to obey speed limits. They are less likely to be distracted. All those things are good. But they will stand out among human-driven counterparts for some time, until the programming develops in the sensor fusion and all of the artificial intelligence to the point that they mimic a safe human driver."
Different driving styles add to the complexity self-driving car programmers have to contend with. Cities and states vary in what is expected and how drivers interact. Human drivers and pedestrians have to learn these styles when visiting from a different place. It's the same for a self-driving car?
"I just returned from in Italy," said Hancock. "I did bit of driving myself. How does a self-driving car ever work in Italy, because you are constantly being cut off by Vespas?" He concluded it's faster to walk.
There's an unwritten code between humans that use the transportation system, he said, using Italy as an example. At first, such local systems don't make sense to the stranger. But then the driver learns local ways drivers communicate with each other. Drivers in Italy don't allow slow drivers to sit in the fast lane. A human gradually learns to appreciate why the local customs exist, but the self-driving car needs that to be programmed into its logic.
"If you traveled overseas or traveled enough around the U.S., you can begin to realize that different geographies have different driving styles and likely for the automation to function well, the automation might have to be geographically oriented," Brannon agreed. "In fact It's a very complex task but as we look towards the future, that's something to be considered."
"Imagine a car—an autonomous vehicle—that waits for the proper break in traffic before it enters the Holland Tunnel. That autonomous car likely will be there for the next decade before it gets into the tunnel." laughed Brannon. "There's all those things that will have to be worked out. So it will be a mix and there's a lot of very, very smart people that are working in this space but it is a big challenges."
Cars will have to adapt, or they will have to be regulated.
"There are two scenarios unfolding here," said Burkhard Huhnke, vice president of automotive strategy at Synopsys. "One is happening in China, where you can have a fully autonomous city and avoid hybrid mixes of human drivers and autonomous vehicles. The other is when you have a hybrid world of human-driven and autonomous vehicles, which is where we are today. The average time a car stays in the market is eight years, and within the next eight years you're going to see more and more autonomous technology coming into the market. The big question is how that will affect your daily commute."
It's not just people that will cause the problems, though. How autonomous vehicles interact with other autonomous vehicles has yet to be ironed out, too.
"If your maximum speed is 10% lower than you competitor's car, that can cause a problem," Huhnke said. "Even with acceleration, does it go full-throttle or smoothly? Programming everything to work together is quite a challenge. Humans see a speed limit sign and sometimes we think we can go faster. So it's a question of interpretation of rules. With self-driving cars, you have to build in flexibility to be able to deal with that."
Bullying the robocar
Autonomous vehicles are expected to be predictable, polite and patient drivers. And humans will quickly learn how to push these types of suckers around. Will pedestrians start jaywalking more and jumping in front of self-driving cars that stop no matter what?
"Gosh, I sure hope not," said AAA's Brannon. "There's something called physics that is involved, as well. Regardless of the technology, that's very difficult to overcome."
That may boil down to how human-like the technology can become. "The key right now is that people can tell it's an autonomous car," said Jack Weast, chief systems architect of autonomous driving solutions at Intel. "They drive conservatively, which makes it a target. There's a technical reason for that, which is decision-making algorithms are implemented using reinforcement learning. It's basically reward behavior, which could be time to destination or fuel economy. The problem with AI systems is that they're probabilistic, so you're dealing with a best guess. There are multiple sensors to recognize cars and pedestrians, so if one sensor misses another picks it up. But there is no redundancy in the decision-making. And because a wrong decision may cause an accident, the weight for safety has a higher reward. That's why autonomous vehicles are overly conservative. You see them jerking back into their lane. You also see human drivers getting annoyed by them."
Intel's approach to solving this problem is to create an AI stack, rather than an end-to-end system, establishing a hierarchy of AI functions. At the top is what it calls Responsibility Sensitive Safety, which the company has published as open source.
Fig. 1: Dealing with unpredictability using RSS. Source: Intel/Mobileye
"This allows a car to be more assertive and human-like," said Weast. "If I'm sitting in the back seat of an autonomous car I can't tell if it's being driven by a person or whether it's autonomous. This is where we're heading. It's a mixed environment future. Even in New York City, a human driver will not hit the brake pedal until the last possible second. Autonomous vehicles can do this, too. They can wedge into traffic to create space, look for a vehicle to give way, and back up into their lane if they don't. The origins of this approach go back to safety, and the safety value of RSF is that it can be formally verified. This is a lot different than the current industry approach of, 'Here's a black box, trust me.' It doesn't matter if you've driven 1 million miles. End-to-end AI approaches are dangerous. You need layering or stacking or stages, so if one algorithm changes the independent safety seal remains static."
Another issue is the safest traveling distance, said UCF's Hancock. A safe traveling distance can be really far behind the car it is following—or just one foot away. "The reason one foot proves to be safe is because the car in front can only change velocity a very little amount, so there is not enough space to cause a collision." If a one-foot driving distance is also one of the optimal following distances that the automated vehicle can choose, it can cause panic unless the human driver knows this is a safe self-driving car behind him.
Siemens has developed a verification and simulator system that helps discover edge cases with virtualization engine and simulator. These edge cases can be used for training self-driving cars. When Google drives millions of road tests, "what they're looking for is the edge cases where some complex traffic scenario appears pedestrians and whatever else," said Andrew Macleod, director of automotive marketing at Mentor, a Siemens Business. "That can all be done in the virtual world, so Siemens has got a virtualization capability where we can create vehicle scenarios against pedestrians coming in front of a vehicle at a specific speed, and so on. We can simulate all of the different data from sensors, whether it's a camera, radar, LiDAR. And then we can add weather, for example. How does the camera sensor respond if it is snowing? We model all of that and create these edge cases, and then feed that data into a vehicle simulator to see how the vehicle responds. For example, you might have some scenario where the vehicle has to swerve to avoid the obstacle, pedestrian or whatever else. We can actually model how the vehicle behaves in an extreme example."
What isn't obvious is how people will react. "Automotive OEMs are dealing with this today from the driver and pedestrian side," said Tim Lau, senior director of automotive product marketing at Marvell. Current collision avoidance systems may stop the human driver from trying the bullying. "They really want to have systems that predict what the driver intends to do. To be able to predict that, there's a lot of information that the car needs to understand, including the driver's state. There are so many technologies out that, like ADAS for collision avoidance."
But the pedestrian who bullies? "Once I asked the car OEMs how they protect for that," said Lau. "What is the plan? The systems are designed to protect and gather data and make best decisions, but if someone wants to be malicious and step in front of the car, I don't think there is a system in place today that can deal with that."
Creating systems that communicate with pedestrians can help. These so-called V2x systems have many uses, and there are a variety of technologies under development around the world. "This will be different technologies, like the smart garage has sensors that tell you what spot is taken or not," said Lau. "Having that ability to have car-to-car, car-to-person, car-to-infrastructure communication is vital. It can tie into your cell phone or watch. Even the visibility around a corner will be possible."
The real turning point, though, will be the smart city. "What the smart city offers you that sensors like LiDAR and camera and radar don't is vehicle-to-vehicle communication and vehicle-to-infrastructure," said Mentor's Macleod. "The question of autonomous vehicles bullying each other and nudging each other on the road wouldn't happen once we can communicate with each other because the most efficient path to get from A to B will be defined, with a driving scenario mapped out in terms of when to accelerate and when to brake. Eventually, traffic lanes probably wouldn't be needed. The cars will just communicate with each other."
Reaching for Level 5
Despite Volvo's recently announced concept for autonomous commuter pods, where passengers can sit at a table or sleep in a bed as a vehicle traverses hundreds of miles of roadway, the short-term future appears to be much more modest. Most likely the first self-driving cars will be used for ride sharing in limited areas of a city. Along with that, fleets of trucks that cruise the freeways at night are likely to deliver goods to a simple end point.
Fig. 2: Falling asleep at the wheel has new meaning in Volvo's concept robocar 360c. Source: Volvo
"We don't think it's going to be anything like there'll be more self-driving cars and all of a sudden the streets will be flooded with them everywhere," said Macleod. "But you can put a bunch of self-driving trucks on the road at night going from point A to Point B very predictable. After that, campuses and maybe airports, followed by something like a downtown area maybe three to five square miles, which would be fully autonomous with autonomous robotaxis."
This matches Ford's current prediction—urban mobility and delivery services—as possible first uses for the automated system. The company is working on this plan with startup Argo AI. Ford has set a goal of having self-driving cars on the road by 2021, but Bryan Salesky, Argo's CEO said the technology won't be released until it is ready
"Every day that we test we learn of and uncover new scenarios that we want to make sure the system can handle," said Salesky. Ford is testing the cars in Miami-Dade County in Florida. Even then, the car will drive in certain cities in certain closed geo-fenced locations and will function as a ride sharing service. The other option is automated trucking at night.
Ford uses two humans inside the test car monitoring what is happening in the road tests and ready to take over the driving if needed. The humans report back to Argo if odd interactions happen around the vehicle concerning pedestrians or other vehicles. "In the cities we operate in, we haven't seen any reactions that are different than what you would normally see," said Salesky. "They very much treat us like any other vehicle. We have actually gotten a positive response from the community in that our vehicles are cautious. They don't get distracted. They are able to stop with plenty of margin before a crosswalk to let people use the crosswalk. Our car won't pull into a crosswalk and block it. Our vehicle will nudge over and give pedestrians who are jogging along the side of the road a little more room."
Ford is also experimenting with communicating with pedestrians using lights. This still has a long way to go. "What we do is over time is build up this database of regression tests that need to pass before a new line of code can be added to the system. That scenario set is a really critical piece of our development process," said Salesky, who got his start working on DARPA vehicles as part of Carnegie Mellon University National Robotics Engineering Center and on Google's self-driving car.
Argo and Ford don't push out code to the cars before it is tested thoroughly and shown to be error-free, even if the change could be a simple change that fixes one problem. Argo owns its own AI database and coding.
Will self-driving cars save lives?
The semiconductor and automotive industries contend that self-driving vehicles will save lives. Some academics agree that the conservative, law-abiding self-driving car will do just that. But there's a catch.
There are about 35,000 to 40,000 vehicle-related fatalities a year in the United States, depending on who's counting. The National Safety Council is spearheading an effort to get the number down to zero by 2050 with the Road to Zero coalition. But drill down into those numbers and motorcycles were involved in 14% of the deaths in 2014, says NSC. Moreover, almost half of roadway deaths occur on rural roads, which are the most dangerous roads to drive on.
So will self-driving cars make a dent in those numbers any time soon? Where speed and impairment (drunk, drugged, drowsy, or texting) are factors in the deaths, where the self-driving car may have a big role to play. The coalition concluded that autonomous driving assistance systems will help, it noted they are only part of the solution. They also want to engender a culture of zero tolerance for unsafe behavior, along with better roadways and infrastructure. (Their report is here).
"We continue to see deaths on the American roadway, some 35,000 annually, and somewhere between 80% and 90% of those deaths are the result of human error," said AAA's Brannon. "The idea is that if you can remove that human error, the number will decrease. That's not to say that the autonomous vehicles won't make mistakes along the way."
But saving lives as a selling point doesn't necessarily add up yet, according to Professor Hancock. "The problem is that these systems cannot be free of flaw. It is just not physically possible. The flaw might be in the design, it might be in the software, it might be in the software integration. This is not going to be a collision-free system for many decades to come. In fact, autonomous systems will create their own new sorts of accidents. We are going to see these types of collisions coming up not despite automation, but because of some of the assumptions that they make."
The hack is coming from inside the car
Not all the troublesome human behavior comes from outside the car, though. Drivers/passengers of any vehicle at any autonomous level may learn to hack the car to tone down or shut off features. For example, in June 2018, the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a cease-and-desist letter to the third-party vendor selling the after-market Autopilot Buddy, a device that reduces the Tesla's nagging when hands are removed from the steering wheel.
AAA's Brannon is concerned that human drivers may put too much trust in the semi-autonomous systems in their cars. "There's a tradeoff," he said. "It is going back to the human behind wheel, making sure that this human understands the benefits as well as the limitations of whatever technology the vehicle has that they are operating, whether that's a 1990 Ford F150 or the latest Tesla. Everyone should understand the systems and not the vehicles that they are driving."
Whether or not it becomes illegal some day for humans to drive a car, as Elon Musk mused at a 2015 Nvidia conference, one thing is for certain: The self-driving car will profoundly change our car culture forever.
—Ed Sperling contributed to this report.
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JM Palacios says:
Pedestrians stepping in front of a car does not constitute bullying. Today, pedestrians are afraid to do so (even at marked crosswalks) for fear that distracted drivers will not stop. But take a look at the city in the 19th century: pedestrians crossed the street where they pleased. The street was shared by pedestrians and horse-driven carts and carriages, and people behaved courteously. Once the faster automobile began taking over the streets, pedestrians still expected the same courteous treatment but driver reaction time became an issue and pedestrians began to be killed by automobiles. Rather than restraining the automobile, car manufacturers began marketing campaigns to change pedestrian behavior, inventing the concept of "jaywalking" when pedestrians did not follow rules similar to those the automobile was required to follow. This marketing campaign was so successful that state and local municipalities passed laws requiring people to walk in an orderly, regulated fashion just like they were required to do when driving. The fear of injury or death remains the chief deterrent to erratic pedestrian behavior, but if you remove that risk, people will revert to the default behavior of crossing streets where they please.
Calling that "bullying" is akin to calling it "jaywalking." Both are driven by car manufacturers in an attempt to change people's behavior. But I call it common courtesy. Streets are for people, not cars. Today, cars will not stop to let people on foot into their path, because drivers are aggressive. When that behavior shifts significantly so that pedestrians can cross a vehicle's path and count on them to not hit them, that will be a victory for courtesy, not a victory for bullying.
Susan Rambo says:
Interesting. Thanks for your comment. You have a good point, JM Palacios. (And yes, I agree: "The fear of injury or death remains the chief deterrent to erratic pedestrian behavior.") What then, do you think will be codified into law that we don't have now? I imagined that tampering with self-driving cars would become illegal in some way. The thought crossed my mind that the ultimate deterrent to driving poorly and messing with self-driving cars would be to put a police camera/recorder on the car— a cringeworthy idea, to say the least. Talk about Big Brother!
M Banuchi says:
Sorry too late. No need for a police camera. All driverless cars will be, and are, outfitted with the proverbial "black box", to record what is happening all around them via their sensor array, in their dynamic environment, as required by NTSHA.
As far as future bullying is concerned, California State Traffic Law 2.16.xx enacted September 2019.(Future Solution)
"Any willful obstruction of driverless cars (AV), will result in the identification of the impedimentor and / or any other accomplices, that will be identified as a result of the car's black box recordings of sensor array and video data, and a fine of $5,000, or 1 year in jail may result at the discretion of the judge."
So much for bullying after motorcycle cops get done enforcing this future new law after the car notifies traffic control of its bullying situation.
In fact, there will be one heck of a court challenge in terms of entrapment, unless our legislators act quickly, when traffic infractions are proven in court cases, using data from "in the vicinity" AV black boxes. All driverless cars should be clearly marked with similar lights used in driverless car races, that can be seen by human drivers, before they get into the range of the car's sensors, so that the human car driver will be alerted to recording devices used by driverless car sensors. That's the only way to avoid an entrapment allegation.
No system is perfect, and no doubt that driverless car technology will rackup it's share of fatalities before the technology is perfected. But by keeping things in perspective, we find that when each of these technologies started, like elevator technology, horseless carriage technology, and aircraft technology development, that after over 100 years of flying aircraft and modern horseless cars, we still have crashes with airplanes and human driven cars, although elevator tragedies are extremely rare.
As far as the Ford Motor Company spending four billion in AV technology, this is little compared to who gets the lion's share of a $7 to 9 Trillion estimated global market for the deployment of driverless car technology globally, or how this technology will finally begin to lower the numbers of those killed while traveling from one place to another, like innocent passengers, pedestrians and drivers in human driven cars.
Daniel Payne says:
In all of the talk about autonomous cars I rarely hear how the car companies are going to avoid hitting cyclists by driving too close, stopping too slowly, or simply turning right in front of a cyclist already in a bike lane, or turning left across traffic and not noticing a bicycle in the right-of-way. From personal experience I have been cycling when a car passenger in a stopped vehicle suddenly opened their car door, causing me to crash and break bones. Only Jaguar has talked about an automotive system that alerts drivers and passengers of bicycle traffic approaching from behind and alerting them to not open the door (I want the car to lock the door until the cyclist has passed). There are so many scenarios for autonomous vehicles to be vigilant that I cannot expect programmers to account for all of the odd cases where safety has to be coded, so I expect the first autonomous systems to have glaring holes in their safety algorithms causing much angst in the public.
Maybe the answer is mechanical. Don't have a door that swings out. Have a pocket door as we do in houses. Even so, you'll still need to know if a bicyclist is coming so you don't get hit by the cyclist as you exit the car roadside. Is this where a smart road comes in? Also, in my city and in many other urban environments, bike lobbies are getting 4 lane streets turned into 2 lanes with bike lanes. While this absolutely does add a lot of car congestion–I've seen the before and after myself–I do think the bike lane will probably be part of the solution because we also have a lot of rentable scooters now on the roads in my city and people love to use them. Having a scooter in a car lane is just odd and dangerous, but that is what cyclists have had to do since day one. If cyclists and scooterists (?) use a dedicated bike lane, that may help. Still doesn't prevent a self driving car from hitting them, though. I will be interested to know how this all evolves in our existing infrastructure.
Tanj Bennett says:
Cities are built for the orderly flow of people. People are in the cars, too. The use of sidewalks, rules about rights of way at corners, mutual use of traffic lights – these are rules organizing people in different modes, not people vs. machines any more than rights of way sail vs. steam are. Now if autonomous vehicles come into play, they fit into a scheme previously devised. Saying people can just revert to jaywalking because no human is driving are not sensible in an environment built to balance the two. On the whole it works, though as a pedestrian I agree there are some places evidently organized by someone who never walks.
As for the success of self driving, I suspect it is needing a breakthrough in rules-based behavior. The existing ML systems are weak when the vehicle is confronted with a situation which in some way outside the patterns it learned from. It becomes unpredictable how it will react to that. We probably need approaches which are hierarchical to break the environment into recognized elements and then use training but also some models and rules, more like classic rule based systems than modern AI, to define how to stay safe. That is how we human drivers generally work in novel situations – break it into elements, and reason about it. Of course, we have a failure rate too.
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THE BELPER GAMES UPS THE ANTI!
The Fifth Annual Belper Games lands on 15th July at Belper Rugby Club, rounding off a fantastic year for the town.
One of Belper's best loved events is set to be bigger and better than ever this coming July. Now in it's fifth year, The Belper Games will be running over the course of 3 days from 15th - 17th July, with on site camping available and plenty to keep everyone entertained.
After taking the winter to recover from the phenomenal success of 2015 where the team raised over £22,500 for 4 charities, they are now back with the same drive, passion and humour that has seen the Games grow year-on-year to become a stalwart of the Belper (possibly Derbyshire!) summer time.
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