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Wild Rift: Better than Mobile Legends?

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Mobile games have been the rising stars for the past few years, and Riot made sure not to skip on the hype by providing one of the most awaited mobile games this year: League of Legends: Wild Rift.

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Currently on open beta, more and more people are getting the chance to experience wild rift and the promise it provides. Of course, like any game, it’s encountered issues with the market, mainly the players of Mobile Legends. In earlier testing dates, the game has received flak from a Youtuber saying that it was complicated, and that people should just stick to ML. Although some people agreed, there was still a number of people who thought that his comments were unnecessary and was bringing down one game to uplift another. There are also many circumstances of gatekeeping from the PC LoL players, saying that MLBB players should just stay in ML since they won’t be any good.

Honestly, I think that both Wild Rift and Mobile Legends have their own unique points when it comes to tackling MOBA games, and both should be enjoyed and not hated on. Features may vary per game, but it’s just the evolution of developers finding more efficient ways for mobile players to enjoy the game.

All in all, I wouldn’t say that Wild Rift is better than ML. It could be, but what’s the point of pitting two games against each other when we could all just enjoy and get along. Gamers are gamers through and through – no matter what game they play.

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On the 25th anniversary of Hole’s ‘Live Through This’, Ben Demars share his appreciation of the grunge classic.

On the list of poorly timed releases, Hole’s seminal album, ‘Live Through This’, ranks high. The album hit record stores just days after the tragic (and disputed) suicide of Kurt Cobain, spawning spiteful rumors and conspiracy theories that continue to swirl around the band’s singer, and Cobain’s wife, Courtney Love. Awkward.

Written by Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson, ‘Live Through This’ delivers the same highly-charged angst of the band’s Kim Gordon-produced debut, but this time in a more palatable form with songs that – loosely speaking – could be screamed along to. In spite of, and because of, the record’s timing, it found much success, ultimately landing on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

While the record was written and recorded before Cobain’s passing, it eerily touches on themes of death, violence and the pressures of fame. It also finds Love reflecting on her role in a male-centered genre, sharing her justified spite for how the rebellious characteristics that deem her ‘unlikable’ make her male peers ‘sensational.’ Aggressive and unashamed, ‘Live Through This’ is a masterwork of punk poetry set against a grunge backdrop.

Twenty-five years later, the record listens like a snapshot of the chaos following Cobain’s death and the ways the world mourned and pointed blamed. While Cobain will always be a part of the rhetoric surrounding Courtney Love, in no way should his life, death and music overshadow Hole’s exceptional body of work.


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On July 29, 2013, Rev. Mark Gruber received a copy of the decree of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF) notifying him of the penalty of his dismissal from the clerical state and dispensing him from his monastic vows. The decree of the CDF is the conclusion of a series of related events which began to unfold four years go. Saint Vincent Archabbey officials have refrained from commenting publically on the nature of all of these events. Now, in conjunction with the Vatican Congregation’s action, the most important aspects of related events leading up to the final CDF decree are summarized in this press release.

One important event is related to an intense, defamatory campaign against numerous church and monastic officials, including a false allegation against the Archabbot of Saint Vincent Monastery made by a former junior monk. Over the past many months, the false allegation has been widely circulated to the public through the internet, the mail and most recently through broadcast on a local television news program. In a significant development on March 1, 2013, the former junior monk in a signed statement given under oath, stated “None of the allegations I made against Archabbot Nowicki in that affidavit were true.” Explaining the reason for his false allegation, the former junior monk stated: “I felt compelled to sign the affidavit of November 29, 2009, after Fr. Mark Gruber made significant efforts to prevail upon me to do so. Fr. Gruber pressured me to execute this false affidavit to support his own efforts to discredit the Archabbot. He actively assisted in the preparation of this affidavit and wrote parts of it himself. While I deeply regret having filed this false affidavit, I remain fearful of Fr. Gruber to this day.”

At the time they were initially made in 2009, the allegations against the Archabbot were found to be completely without merit by two independent investigators – a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a former officer of the Pennsylvania State Police. These investigators concluded in their report to church officials that not only were the allegations false, but also that they were likely part of a conspiracy involving the former junior monk and others to discredit the Archabbot. The task remained to identify the “others” who were involved in the creation and distribution of the false allegation. The affidavit containing the false allegation has been duplicated and distributed countless times over the past three and a half years through an intensive, defamatory campaign.

Knowing that the allegation was a lie that he had originated, Rev. Gruber persisted in his effort to discredit his religious superior, apparently in retaliation for the actions taken against him as required of religious superiors by church and civil law. In July 2009, pornographic images, including inappropriate depictions of himself, had been discovered on Rev. Gruber’s computer. In response to the actions taken against him, Rev. Gruber initiated a libel suit against the Bishop of Greensburg, against the Archabbot and college officials – a lawsuit which he quickly withdrew when it became evident that he had lied repeatedly under oath in an attempt to deny authorship of the incriminating material discovered on his computer.

In February 2011, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith began its lengthy examination of material related to Rev. Gruber’s activity on his computer. The material submitted to the Congregation included two reports of the Pennsylvania State Police which, contrary to Rev. Gruber’s repeated assertions, did not conclude that he was innocent of the charges made against him.

The Vatican Congregation reached its decision in the case of Rev. Mark Gruber on June 30, 2012. The decree was confirmed by the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, and admits of no further appeals. The evidence against Rev. Gruber was judged to be irrefutable. The Congregation found him “guilty of the more grave delict of possession of child pornography, the crime of the production of materials which gravely injure good morals, the abuse of the Sacrament of Confession with the aggravating factor of the manipulation of conscience, and the defamation of a legitimate superior.”

The permanent penalties imposed upon Rev. Gruber included the following: “A life of prayer and penance to be lived outside of the Archabbey of Saint Vincent, in a religious community to be determined by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith; the prohibition against presenting himself as a cleric in public, celebrating the sacraments in public, teaching, and contact with minors under the age of 18.”

Despite the penalties imposed by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Rev. Gruber was not deterred in a relentless campaign of defamation principally through the agency of close associates and supporters.

After examining numerous appeals and challenges raised by Rev. Gruber in his defense, the CDF determined that he was to report to the Vianney Renewal Center, Dittmer, Missouri, by June 30, 2013, to live a life of prayer and penance. The Vatican Congregation issued its final decree of dismissal from the clerical state and from his monastic vows when Rev. Gruber failed to comply with the directive to report to the Renewal Center. The Archabbey will provide financial assistance and healthcare benefits for a designated period of time to assist Rev. Gruber in his transition to a new state of life.

Kim Metzgar
Director of Archabbey and Seminary Public Relations
Saint Vincent Archabbey and Saint Vincent Seminary
Editor, Saint Vincent Magazine, Saint Vincent College
300 Fraser Purchase Road
Latrobe, PA 15650

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Q: What do a modern car and an advanced robot have in common?

A: Both are sending a LOT of data between systems, “under the hood”.

Hard to believe that a little robot has all that much going on? Well, it may not be the crazy amount of data that cars have to send around these days, but the more computing power in a robot, the more complexity comes with it.

Want computer vision? You need that cell-phone level processor. Want tight motor control? You need a microcontroller capable of real-time operation. Want a half-dozen obstacle detection sensors wrapped around the robot, some edge sensors so the robot can’t drive off the stairs, an IMU to help the robot drive straight, and bump sensors so that it knows when it has hit something? You need a microcontroller with lots of pins and communication capability.

Especially given the real-time constraints of motor control, no single processor is going to meet all of these requirements. And, in addition to multiple processors, if you want a robot larger than a deck of cards, your sensors are spaced far enough apart that you need to consider how wires are run. Poor wiring layout can vastly increase signal corruption due to the length of the wires and the electrical noise caused by other wires nearby. This in turn can dictate the location of the processors, and it may mean they’re not necessarily located on the same board.

Add all these separate data input and processing system requirements together, and you can see that transmitting significant amounts of digital data over relatively large distances both quickly and reliably can be a real challenge. So… what’s a robot to do?

This is a wiring diagram for a really old, simple car. Things have gotten a lot more complicated since then.

Well, a variety of communication protocols have been created over the years to standardize how these issues of data transmission are addressed. These protocols define architectures and rules for sending data between different parts of a system. And each protocol has strengths and weaknesses that make it more or less suitable for use in any given environment.

You may be surprised that something that seems as basic as a communication protocol can be very important at all. But for a robot that relies on sensor input to interact with humans, the wrong protocol can be a nightmare of dropped or corrupted data, with faces unrecognized and feet driven over.

A skiing robot is only as good as its data. (Image: Robert McGregor)

To help ensure that our Misty robots got off on the right foot with their human interactions, we had to dive deep into the world of communication protocols. Read on to find out what we learned.

55 seconds (or less!) to understand communication protocols

Overall, the topic of communication protocols is huge. Protocols range from models for the physical network structures hidden deep inside devices to specifications like the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (yes, HTTP) that you use every day.

We’re really only going to focus on the lowest level here, because when you’re designing a new hardware product from the ground up, you need to think about your communication protocol choices from the bottom up, too. This lowest level (layer one in the OSI Model) is called the physical layer.

The physical layer is where choices are made and rules are set regarding data in the purest sense. At this level, you don’t care about what’s in the data being transmitted. You’re only concerned with the bits getting where they need to go, accurately and quickly. USB, Bluetooth, and IEEE 1394 (“Firewire”) are all examples of standards that include specifications for physical layer communications.

Yes, we like this image because there’s a cat in it. But it also shows pretty clearly that the physical layer (Layer 1) is all about the 1s and 0s. (Image: “How Headers Encapsulate in the OSI Stack”, NetworkStatic.net)

A specific physical layer communication protocol specifies whether data is sent

  • serially or in parallel
  • synchronously or asynchronously
  • via a given network topology
  • and a whole lot more

Why does all this matter? Because what seems like abstract and very basic choices about the form and transmission of data can cause quite different effects when put into use on actual systems.

Communication protocols in practice — what do you need?

It may sound obvious, but physical layer communication protocols vary in the extreme. Given that, the selection process is all-important. The following are the basic criteria that you’ll need to evaluate, because whichever protocol you choose must…

  • Handle your data load. Start by figuring out how many messages a specific system is required to handle over any given timeframe. Then, take that number, add enough overhead to accommodate any problems that might occur, as well as to account for the possibility of additional sensors or systems that might be added in the future. Select a protocol that is capable of sending that amount of data, and choose the lowest data rate that still allows that much data to be sent. It may be counter-intuitive, but it’s not always a good idea to maximize the data rate of the chosen protocol. The faster the message is pushed down the wires, the more the signal will be degraded. And, for various reasons, longer transmission distances require lower data rates.
  • Deal with the physical limits of the device. Not all protocols are suitable to distances greater than a few centimeters, for one thing. And physical construction can limit the number of wires that can fit in your device, so the protocol had better not require a bundle of wires as thick as your thumb to carry the necessary load. Different protocols also have a different number of maximum nodes on the system that they can easily handle.
  • Be immune to the electrical noise that comes with working motors. For robots or other moving objects, signal interference from motors can be a big issue. Some protocols are more susceptible to data corruption from noise and thus must be able to be separated from motors and moving parts, which is not always possible on a robot.
The effects of electrical noise can be mild or — for sensitive protocols — can seriously corrupt data. (Image: electrical noise visualization)
  • Make firmware easy — or at least not too hard. Some protocols by nature are easier to work with than others. The simpler a protocol, the easier it is to write firmware to handle it, but it also generally means the firmware has to do more, specifically in terms of synchronization, error handling, and parsing. Some protocols are native on most systems, whereas some require additional hardware. Choosing protocols that are native on the chip allows hardware to do more work, and thus can simplify some of the firmware.
  • Not cost a (robotic) arm and a leg. Cost is always a factor that is considered in any engineering project. More wires and more supporting peripherals all add to the cost. Natively supported protocols are less expensive, because they remove the need for additional peripherals.
  • Reliably get messages to where they are going. This is the bottom line. Choosing a protocol that can handle the environment into which it is being placed is vital. The poorer the reliability of a protocol is on a given system, the less likely it is that you can make up the difference in software.

Comparing the candidates

Out of the dozens of possible physical layer communication protocols, only a few were likely candidates for building our robot. Note that we looked at both synchronous and asynchronous protocols. While data synchronization methodologies differ dramatically between the two types, in the end it’s still a matter of overall data rate and message reliability, and you can achieve good results for both with either protocol type.

LIN (Local Interconnect Network): This asynchronous serial protocol is low data rate, but is designed for the longer distances and electrically noisy environments of automobiles, which means it would be good in robots as well.

Communication protocols are integral to modern cars, which may use several concurrently. (Image: FlexAutomotive.net)

CAN (Controller Area Network): Even though this is an asynchronous protocol, the way the protocol is designed creates the ability to re-sync to the incoming bits throughout the packet transmission, and thus data rates up to 1 Mbps (older standard) and 8 Mbps (newer standard) are possible. Like LIN, this serial protocol is designed for noisy automobile environments, so it’s also a good choice for robot communications.

RS-485: This asynchronous serial protocol is often considered less a protocol than a standard for signal levels in an electrical interface. RS-485 is only defined on the physical layer of the OSI model, so it’s up to the firmware engineer to determine the higher layer aspects of the protocol, which means more work. But, it has similar bit rates and hardware requirements to CAN and is also good for noisy environments. These characteristics make RS-485 good for uses ranging from industrial control systems to hand-held controllers for model railways to video surveillance systems and theatrical lighting networks. And maybe robots.

RS-485 is far more ubiquitous than you would think. (Image: KMTronic)

I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit): Because this synchronous serial protocol includes a clock line, it has a moderate data rate. And it’s designed to allow multiple nodes to be able to communicate on the bus. But, this protocol is much more suitable for chip-to-chip communication on the same board, and not generally recommended for long wire run communication. It’s also fairly noise sensitive, so that’s a red flag.

SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface): This synchronous protocol is the highest data rate communication protocol of all that we considered. It’s often found on communications between off-board peripherals and microcontrollers and is frequently used in embedded systems.

The SPI protocol is supported by all SD memory cards, interestingly enough. (Image: ePHOTOzine)

Other synchronous protocols: There are also Ethernet and USB protocols that offer much higher data rates, but because they also operate well above the physical layer (even above the data link layer), they are much more complex and have much more overhead.

Bottom line: what about Misty?

Our initial list of protocols above was still too lengthy for deep comparative performance and reliability testing, so we picked two top contenders, based on the following:

  • Data Load/Rate. Working up a basic data budget, we determined that a protocol that could handle about 300 kbps or more was sufficient for Misty’s needs, which included a large overhead for user-added hardware on the backpack. The protocols that work for this are I2C, CAN, SPI, RS485, Ethernet, and USB. This puts LIN out of the running, however.
  • Physical and Noise Constraints. Data moves throughout the Misty robot on long wires (greater than 300mm) in a noisy environment. This means I2C won’t work, and SPI is questionable. RS485 and CAN are built for that type of environment.
A simplified block wiring diagram for Misty. To keep a robot from falling down stairs, you need to make sure that edge detection events at the bottom of the robot get to the main processor at the top of the robot ASAP. That’s a long trip past a lot of electrically noisy parts. In Part 2 of this post, you’ll see how our selected protocols compared.
  • Realistic Firmware Requirements. The protocol chosen should be relatively light. The processors need to do many other things beyond communication and should spend as little time as possible communicating. Because they operate on upper layers in the OSI model, Ethernet and USB are overkill for this system and are removed from consideration. Reducing the amount of effort required by firmware is desirable, and the CAN data-link layer eases the amount of work the firmware needs to do, so that makes it one of the front-runners.
  • Cost. RS485 isn’t supported natively by any of the nodes in the robot, whereas CAN is supported by the sensor and motor control nodes. SPI is supported by all three nodes. Even though SPI isn’t meant for such long wires, it might still be worth considering simply because it saves hardware, and thus reduces cost. RS485 is just going to be too costly, though, it’s no longer a contender.
  • Reliability. For this constraint, actual testing between the top two contenders will be performed in the robot running a real-world skill that stresses the communication channel to see which is actually more reliable, not just based on theory.

With LIN, Ethernet, USB, I2C, and RS485 eliminated, that leaves SPI and CAN as the two protocols worthy of deeper investigation.

SPI is low cost and one of the easier protocols to write firmware for. That said, it’s not intended for long wires, and it requires more wires, which means tighter squeezes through certain points of the robot. But none of these problems are absolute show-stoppers and SPI definitely will get data around the robot.

CAN may require an additional handful of parts added to the electronics, but it’s meant for noisy environments, has few wires, can handle the data load, and is easy to work with in firmware. CAN also has the benefit of having proven itself reliable in industrial applications, which is great for the rest of us, now that this state-of-the-art protocol is becoming more practical for general use.

In Part 2, I’ll go into a bit more depth on CAN vs SPI, before describing the test procedure and results. Teaser: We’ve implemented and shipped the winning solution with Misty I, and we’re pretty happy with the results.

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While slinking around looking for things to steal in the Vatican, you overhear a scholarly debate between two monks -- one large and burly, the other thin and hawk-nosed. You listen politely while Randall and Og investigate how to remove the paintings from the walls.

Brother Timothy: Physical labor lacks the nuance needed to serve our Lord. Turning your mind to God is how we should spend our days. Neither rashly nor timidly should we labor for God.

Brother Mitter: Why is work with our hands rash or timid? The lord is my light, and by that light I make things which are good for him. Empty words alone cannot save an empty heart.

Brother Timothy: Empty words? Much better than empty actions. The flesh is corrupt and sinful. I make free adults with books and a balance. You think the common people can approach god though mere labor? That borders on heresy.

Brother Mitter: God knows what is in our hearts and can judge whether or not our actions are empty. In God we trust, that the labors of our bodies please Him, and so we need not enslave ourselves to the scriptorum to serve him.

Brother Timothy: Do you labor for Church or country? With your work you only help your nation. You should devote yourself to the Mother Church.

Brother Mitter: Behold how good my learned friend is, that he presumes to call sin the honest work I and my brothers do to save the souls of the people!

Brother Timothy: The Church should seek to create educated men who truly undersand God, and let them enlighten the lands.

Brother Mitter: We must lighten the souls of the people first, and give them hope, telling them "in your light shall we see light." For to learn alone is sloth, a deadly sin.

Brother Timothy: It is clear you have never embarked on the difficult task of studying closely the word of God. It is far from slothful. We must bring the people arts, knowledge, and truth. That is what will save their souls. How can they work with good intent without knowing what good intent is?

Brother Mitter: When I go into the fields to work, I tell the people we bring God with us, and they will then know what the goodness of God is.

Brother Timothy: But where is the virtue here? You say you bring them knowledge, but knowledge flourishes in virtue. All you give them is work.

Brother Mitter: We teach them how to farm better, and at the same time teach them the word of God. Their souls are like a lone voice crying out in the wilderness. Should we merely speak to them, or guide them with our hands to God?

Brother Timothy: To spend your time that way is so wasteful. You teach them to perservere and surpass their hardships, but that does not give them knowledge of God.


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Mithra Announces Complex Therapeutics Update

  • Positive study results from three-month formulation of Zoreline®, allowing progression to final clinical studies
  • Pivotal trial will commence in Q1 2019, as previously expected
  • Licensing agreement signed with UAE-based ITROM Pharmaceutical Group

Liège, Belgium, 21 December 2018 – Mithra (Euronext Brussels: MITRA), a company dedicated to Women’s Health, today announces positive results from its three-month PK Zoreline® study, and a licensing agreement for two products with UAE-based company ITROM Pharmaceutical Group (ITROM).


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Rhiannon Giddens and What Folk Music Means

Posted in Articles, Arts, Biography, Media Archive, United States, Women on 2019-05-18 23:29Z by Steven

Rhiannon Giddens and What Folk Music Means

The New Yorker

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Giddens plays and records what she describes as “black non-black music,” reviving a forgotten history. Photograph by Paola Kudacki for The New Yorker

The roots musician is inspired by the evolving legacy of the black string band.

To grasp the significance of what the twenty-first-century folksinger Rhiannon Giddens has been attempting, it is necessary to know about another North Carolina musician, Frank Johnson, who was born almost two hundred years before she was. He was the most important African-American musician of the nineteenth century, but he has been almost entirely forgotten. Never mind a Wikipedia page—he does not even earn a footnote in sourcebooks on early black music. And yet, after excavating the records of his career—from old newspapers, diaries, travelogues, memoirs, letters—and after reckoning with the scope of his influence, one struggles to come up with a plausible rival.

There are several possible reasons for Johnson’s astonishing obscurity. One may be that, on the few occasions when late-twentieth-century scholars mentioned him, he was almost always misidentified as a white man, despite the fact that he had dark-brown skin and was born enslaved. It may have been impossible, and forgivably so, for academics to believe that a black man could have achieved the level of fame and success in the antebellum slave-holding South that Johnson had. There was also a doppelgänger for scholars to contend with: in the North, there lived, around the same time, a musician named Francis Johnson, often called Frank, who is remembered as the first black musician to have his original compositions published. Some historians, encountering mentions of the Southern Frank, undoubtedly assumed that they were merely catching the Northern one on some unrecorded tour and turned away.

There is also the racial history of the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina, where Johnson enjoyed his greatest fame. In 1898, a racial massacre in Wilmington, and a subsequent exodus of its black citizens, not only knocked loose the foundations of a rising black middle class but also came close to obliterating the deep cultural memory of what had been among the most important black towns in the country for more than a century. The people who might have remembered Johnson best, not just as a musician but as a man, were themselves violently unremembered.

A final explanation for Johnson’s absence from the historical record may be the most significant. It involves not his reputation but that of the music he played, with which he became literally synonymous—more than one generation of Southerners would refer to popular dance music simply as “old Frank Johnson music.” And yet, in the course of the twentieth century, the cluster of styles in which Johnson specialized––namely, string band, square dance, hoedown––came to be associated with the folk music of the white South and even, by a bizarre warping of American cultural memory, with white racial purity. In the nineteen-twenties, the auto magnate Henry Ford started proselytizing (successfully) for a square-dancing revival precisely because the music that accompanied it was not black. Had he known the deeper history of square dancing, he might have fainted…

…Giddens’s father, David, who is white, taught music and then worked in computer software for most of his career. “As a teacher, he got all of the hardened kids,” she said, meaning behaviorally challenged students. He met Rhiannon’s mother, Deborah Jamieson, when they were both students at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Theirs was a rare interracial marriage in a city where, cultural diversity aside, the Klan murdered five civil-rights activists in 1979. Rhiannon’s parents divorced when she was a baby, around the time that her mother came out as a lesbian…

…Giddens talks about her “black granny” and her “white granny.” At one point, her black grandfather and her white grandmother were both working at the Lorillard Tobacco factory in Greensboro. Once, when her white granny needed help with her taxes, she went to Giddens’s black grandfather to get it. But Giddens dismissed the idea that her life was defined by a two-sidedness. “It’s the South, isn’t it?” she said. “The point is that they are different—but the same.”…

…The prospect of gaining a wider, and blacker, audience is, one imagines, always an option for Giddens, who could, if she really wanted to, cut a pop record and presumably ascend to a higher sales bracket. But she has been unwilling to compromise her quest, which is, in part, to remind people that the music she plays is black music. In 2017, she received a MacArthur “genius” grant, a validation that has reinforced her tendency to stick to her instincts. “You do what you’re given,” she told me on the phone recently. “I’m not gonna force something or fake something to try to get more black people at my shows. I’m not gonna do some big hip-hop crossover.” She paused, and remembered that she is about to do a hip-hop crossover, with her nephew Justin, a.k.a. Demeanor, a rapper who also plays the banjo. “Well,” she said, laughing, “not unless I can find a way to make it authentic.” She told me that she does not really like hip-hop. This threw me into the comical position of trying to sell her on the genre. “The stuff I like is the protest music,” she said. “I like Queen Latifah. But the over-all doesn’t speak to me. I’m not an urban black person. I’m a country black person.”…

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Rhiannon Giddens Is Reclaiming the Black Heritage of American Folk Music

Posted in Articles, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United States, Women on 2019-02-26 02:34Z by Steven

Rhiannon Giddens Is Reclaiming the Black Heritage of American Folk Music

John Lingan

Shahar Azran—WireImage/Getty Images

In early 2018, folk-music torchbearer Rhiannon Giddens decamped to Breaux Bridge, La., with minstrelsy on her mind. In her early work with the Grammy-winning bluegrass band the Carolina Chocolate Drops and across two solo albums and a role in the TV series Nashville, Giddens has been as much a historian as a singer and banjoist. She’s won acclaim, including a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, for her attention to America’s folk traditions, but she felt that minstrelsy, with its troubled history, remained relatively unexplored…

..For the Louisiana trip, she enlisted three of her favorite contemporary musicians: Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell and Amythyst Kiah, all, like Giddens, black women with a focus on the banjo and early American string-music traditions. All four brought original songs to the sessions, and their collaboration quickly expanded beyond its initial historical focus. The resulting album, Songs of Our Native Daughters, which comes out on Feb. 22, has one foot in acoustic minstrel sounds but is also a tribute to the strength and resilience of black women in the antebellum era

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Interview: ‘White people are so fragile, bless ’em’ … meet Rhiannon Giddens, banjo warrior

Posted in Articles, Arts, History, Interviews, Media Archive, Slavery, United States on 2018-07-29 01:04Z by Steven

Interview: ‘White people are so fragile, bless ’em’ … meet Rhiannon Giddens, banjo warrior

The Guardian

Emma John

‘I’m not here to be famous’ … Rhiannon Giddens, who is curating the Cambridge folk festival.
‘I’m not here to be famous’ … Rhiannon Giddens, who is curating the Cambridge folk festival. Photograph: Tanya Rosen-Jones

She pours fire and fury into powerful songs that target everything from police shootings to slavery. The musician reveals all about her mission to put the black back into bluegrass – and Shakespeare

‘We’re all racist to some degree,” says Rhiannon Giddens. “Just like we’re all privileged to some degree. I have privilege in my system because I’m light-skinned. I hear people say, ‘I didn’t have it easy growing up either.’ But when did it become a competition?”

As someone on a mission to bridge such divides, Giddens thinks about this stuff a lot. The Grammy-winning singer and songwriter was born to a white father and a black mother in Greensboro, North Carolina, in the late 1970s. Her parents married only three years after the landmark Loving v Virginia decision, which reversed the anti-miscegenation laws that had made interracial marriage illegal. Their union was still shocking enough that her father was disinherited.

While much has changed in the 40 years that Giddens has been alive, her latest album, Freedom Highway, is a powerful testament to the inequality and injustice that remain. It opens with At the Purchaser’s Option, a devastating track inspired by an 1830s advert for a female slave whose nine-month-old baby could also be included in the sale. “It was kind of a statement to put that one first,” says Giddens. “If you can get past that, you’ll probably survive the rest.”…

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Bar Plans for Different Types of Bars

Whether to open a new bar or renovate an old one, a bar plan is the second thing to consider. Order our bar plans now. Choose top bar design plans from the latest showcase of Modern Bar Designs. Get trendy. Always be hip.Show what is cool.

Steps in Getting your Bar Design Plans to Work

Planning will make your whole idea of building a bar work. It should be systematic since a bar plan project, whether it would be for home use or commercial use should not give you any big regrets about it in the future. Remodeling it can be such a big headache. So you have to start right in doing your bar plans and layouts. Planning will also help you in deciding the right bar design.

Step 1 – Identify the bar purpose

Yes, generally the purpose is to have a bar area. But there is a far more specific and deeper purpose than just having your own bar area. And, knowing the specific purpose will help you decide or choose which among the many different types of bar designs would best serve your purpose.

If it is for business, then you need to choose from the many commercial bar design plans. If it is for your own home, then you have to decide what you like best from the home bar design plans that are presented to you.

You also have to consider the flow of traffic that you would be expecting as part of the purpose of your bar. Is it for an intimate gathering or for an exclusive club? Then you wouldn’t need a big bar for that. But if you want it to be an events place where a huge number of people gather, then you would need a big commercial bar design plan.

Step 2 – Identify the area

Whether it be for a home bar or a commercial bar, the area where you will put the bar is important. This sets the primary direction for making your bar design plans and layouts.

For a home bar, are you looking at your basement to be your bar area? Or, maybe you are considering just a space in your dining area in making your home bar design plans? If you have a difficulty deciding where to put your home bar, you can get your family’s feedback.

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Step 3 – Measure the area

Another important task that you must do when making bar design plans and layouts is to measure the area. You cannot just choose from the different types of bar designs without knowing the exact measurements of the bar-designated area. You might choose one that will not fit or may not be an efficient design for the size of the area.

Step 4 – Prepare the basic utilities

Putting up a bar, is not a simple plug and play especially if the area is not primarily intended for a bar. Also, you wouldn’t just need the bar itself unless it is just a simple wine and glass storage. If you mean to build a working bar or go for a wet bar design plan then you would need the basic utilities set up before building it.

These basic necessities for a wet bar are a sink, an area for mixing drinks and another area for storing drinks. You might also need a chiller if you want to store enormous amounts of drinks and liquor.

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The non-existent iPhone alarm time-out setting

iPhone AlarmI’ve come to love my iPhone 4. I feel it truly is a game-changer. I use it as my phone, GPS, remote control, instant messenger, web browser, schedule book, and alarm clock .But if I could change one thing about it, I would fix the limited alarm clock abilities.

The most annoying thing in the world is to come out of the shower, or from anywhere after leaving my iPhone alone in a room while the alarm was going off, to find the alarm STILL buzzing away, 30 or 45 minutes later, with my battery just about dead.

Apple, please just add a simple configuration in the alarm edit screen to allow how LONG we would like the alarm to sound to be set.

And, yes, I know there are alarm-clock apps out there, even free ones, that will accomplish this. But this seems like a simple enough request for Apple. And I’m sure everyone else in my house would appreciate not listening to my iPhone buzz away for hours on end.

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  1. Neil

    I SO AGREE with you – this is SO frustrating. If the alarm hasn’t had its effect within (probably less than) 30 seconds, then all it is doing is draining the battery and annoying partners, flatmates, neighbours etc while the iPhone owner is elsewhere.

    Perhaps while they are at it they could also modify the alarm so that the phone doesn’t assume I want to enter my PIN and start using it. Go back to sleep little iPhone, I’ll let you know when I want to play.

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32nd Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards

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A epic night in gospel
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Photo Credit: Earl Gibson, Courtesy of Central City Productions/TV One

The night included performances by Tamela Mann, Shirley Caesar, Jekalyn Carr, Fred Hammond, Kirk Franklin, Bizzle, Canton Jones, Da’ Truth, JJ Hairston and Youthful Praise, Travis Greene, Jonathan McReynolds, Jonathan Butler, VaShawn Mitchell, Tasha Cobbs, Doug Williams, Keith “Wonderboy” Johnson, Da Chosen Brothaz, Donnie McClurkin and more.


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Serving Up Hope for Children

Serving Up Hope for Children

By: Kristian Fenner

Award-winning actor, Viola Davis, is simply amazing and a legend in her own right. From her Tony Award-winning performances in King Hedley II and Fences to her Academy Award-nominated performances in The Help and Doubt, to Screen Actors Guild Awards, Critics’ Choice and People’s Choice Awards, and nominations for Golden Globe Awards and British Academy Film Awards, Viola has effectually bounded over hurdles of entertainment becoming one of the most accomplished and celebrated actors Classically trained, Viola Davis began using theater in high school as a form of escape from her impoverished reality. Her passion and incredible abilities lead to a full scholarship to the Young People’s School of the Performing Arts before attending the prominent Julliard School for four years. Some of her notable film roles include Get On Up, Beautiful Creatures, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Eat Pray Love.

Currently, Viola can be seen on Shonda Rhimes’s hit ABC series How to Get Away with Murder. However, one of her most powerful roles to date is not one she plays on screen, but rather the one she plays as the spokesperson for hungry children around It wasn’t until recently that Davis felt secure enough to share her personal story of being hungry growing up. While as a child, Viola Davis mined though trash cans to find food, she is now able to use her experience to educate the public. Unfortunately, Davis’ story is not an isolated experience. As statistics show, one in five children in America suffers from hunger. That means, nearly 17 million children live in households classified as “food insecure” and are at risk of hunger every day. According to a study from No Kid Hungry, which is a campaign to increase access to school breakfasts and improve testing scores, hunger plays a major role on academic achievement and overall health.

Knowing all too well the social stigma that growing up hungry has on people, Davis is now proudly working with campaigns like Hunger Is to help destroy the child hunger epidemic. The campaign is a joint venture between the Safeway Foundation, which supports causes that impact their customers’ lives, and Entertainment Industry Foundation, a multifaceted organization that occupies a unique place in the world of The Hunger Is program is designed to raise awareness, engage volunteers, and raise funds in support of their mission to eradicate childhood hunger in America. Funds raised through the program, both online through HungerIs.org and in Safeway’s grocery stores, go toward innovative and effective programs throughout the country focused on eliminating childhood hunger. In its inaugural year, Hunger Is raised over $4.5 million to help fund breakfast programs in order to provide children with a healthy start to their day and the best chance to excel was the primary focus. The program has since paired with the Department of Agriculture to push for more summer food programs and rolled out a Community Eligibility program that allows schools with high percentages of low-income kids to serve breakfast and lunch to all students.

In addition to her work with Hunger Is, Viola Davis supports organizations like Children’s Hunger Alliance where she was recently the keynote speaker at their 20th annual Menu of Hope event, an organization and program dedicated to ensuring all children are fed regular and nutritious meals and develop lifelong healthy habits.  She’s also noted for supporting charities such as Friendly House, a women’s rehabilitation organization, and Soles4Souls, a Nashville-based charity that collects and distributes Whether she’s playing the sophisticated lawyer Annalise Keating on television’s HTGAWM or in her upcoming role on the DC Comics film Suicide Squad, Viola Davis never ceases to captivate audiences while breaking down barriers in our society. With
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On April 8, 2019, Canada's International Trade Diversification Minister finally announced the appointment of Ms. Sheri Meyerhoffer as Canada's first Ombudsman for Responsible Enterprise ("CORE"). On January 17, 2018, the Government of Canada announced that it would create an Office of the CORE.  This is one of Canada's progressive Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives to export Canada's values abroad. We previously posted an article entitled "Compliance Incentive": Canada to appoint a Canadian Ombudsman for Responsible Enterprise" at the time of the original announcement.

What is the mandate of Canada's CORE?

The Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise has the mandate to review alleged human rights abuses arising from a Canadian company's operations abroad, make recommendations, monitor those recommendations, recommend trade measures for companies that do not co-operate in good faith, and report publicly throughout the process. The CORE's scope will  focus on the mining, oil and gas and garment sectors. There is an expectation that the scope will expand to other business sectors. This means that other business sectors should also get ready.

The CORE is one of Canada's two voluntary dispute resolution mechanisms, complementing Canada's National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (NCP).

The Ombudsperson is charged with investigating Canadian companies operating in foreign markets rather than investigating the activities of Canadian government officials. The Canadian Ombudsman for Responsible Enterprise will receive complaints about Canadian companies from Canadians, competitors, foreign governments, foreign citizens, not-for-profit organizations, activists and others. These complaints will be investigated.

Submitting a Complaint

When the CORE office is officially fully operational, a web portal will accept public submissions. There will also be an option to make submissions by mail for those who do not have access to a computer or the internet.

If there is an issue that needs to be addressed now it can be made through Canada's current dispute resolution mechanism. Notification can be submitted directly to Canada's National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, depending on the grounds for the complaint.

Should parties ignore requests for information from CORE or refuse to cooperative or act in good faith, CORE will have the power to impose trade sanctions, such as recommending the withdrawal of consular services or cutting access to Export Development Canada trade financing or insurance products and services. The Corporate Responsibility Ombudsman may also make non-binding recommendations concerning payment of compensation, which cannot be ordered by Canadian courts under Canada's export controls, economic sanctions, anti-bribery and other international laws.

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Gold Rush exclusive: Big Red looks like Star Wars AT-AT walker as Brennan and Mitch try to reposition it

The intensity on Brennan's face reveals how serious this task is for Gold Rush Parker's crew. Pic credit: Discovery
The intensity on Brennan’s face reveals how serious this task is for Gold Rush Parker’s crew. Pic credit: Discovery

On Friday’s new episode of Gold Rush, you may have a feeling of deja vu. The clip opens in the Klondike with Parker Schnabel’s main man Mitch Blaschke, who has been given a task that might remind you of a certain scene in one of the past Star Wars films.

Parker Schnabel and his already exhausted crew have been dealing with a huge swath of dirt to mine, over two times the normal pay and the task is onerous.  The team is giving it their all and Mitch says: “It’s been quite the struggle to get to where we’re at and we’re pretty close to making some money again.”

But the bad news for Parker and company is that the water permits and their looming expiration is making the crew do three years’ worth of work in less than one year.

Read our exclusive interview with Parker Schnabel here!

It’s a lot of digging, sifting and scouring the land, and Parker is determined to not leave even a speck of gold in the ground.

Concerned about the pitch and the narrow plateau he has to work on, Mitch surveys the scene and says: “The stuff laying a little steeper than what we like, but we don’t have the time or the materials that – you know – cut this down and probably make it as good as it should be.”

It’s a task only for the most experienced dozer driver. The narrator explains the challenge:

To get the plant into place, Mitch needs to drag big red on to the berm. Then, reposition on the other side of the plant, so he can drag it the final hundred yards to its new purpose-built pad.

The entire production now looks like a scene from The Empire Strikes Back as Big Red looks just like a dirtier version of the AT-AT walkers that were sicced on the rebel alliance by Darth Vader.

Now the progression of Big Red is going well, except the edge of the berm has no leeway.  It’s sweaty palm time.

Between Big Red and the edge of the berm, there are just fifteen feet of leeway for the fourteen-foot wide excavator to pass. This Big Red plant is heavy and huge so everyone better be having a good day and be on their game.

But as a precaution, Mitch calls in a more experienced hand. It gets a bit dicey as Mitch calls in Brennan Ruault to take over for the dangerous maneuver.

Watch to see how Brennan navigates the giant piece of machinery as the team watches. Mind you, they are under immense pressure to sift and sluice more dirt than they ever have in their careers.

Tune in Friday to see if Brennan Ruault gets Big Red to its final destination or if it falls in the 25-foot drop to the pond below.

Likely scenario? It will all work out in the wash:

Gold Rush airs Fridays at 9/8c on Discovery and DiscoveryGo.

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Following trends can be just as valuable to a business as setting them.

When retailers predict what’s ahead with ample time to prepare, these companies can successfully take advantage of the consumer zeitgeist, reach new audiences and profit from selling in-demand goods.

However, the future is awfully fickle – what was once just over the horizon may no longer be relevant, while something completely out of left field may be the fad of the century. That said, retailers can bank on technology being the biggest driver of industry trends. Companies that invest in mobile shelving installations for retail storage ready themselves for the ways consumer trends and technology will work in tandem to change the face of their industry.

Touch screen technology enhances customer engagement

Virtual reality in the shopping mall might still be a science fiction fantasy – for now. Until then, touch screens will remain the pinnacle of interaction between users and technology. Investors can equip mobile shelving modules with touch screens, which can do far more than simply open and close storage units. Interactive touch screen portals at every aisle can benefit retailers and customers alike.

First, touch screen displays mounted on mobile shelving systems can provide customers with information they would otherwise glean from busy employees or, even worse, not bother to ask at all. Retail workers juggle a lot of tasks throughout their shifts, and while customer service is still one of the more important duties, retailers should have help desk solutions in place that act as a buffer. Customers become more self-sufficient and employees can be left to focus on tasks that add value to the business, addressing customer concerns only when they’re of the highest priority.

In-store marketing through touch screens also presents a unique opportunity for retailers as social media continues to make its mark on the real world, according to Tech.Co. With the ease of e-commerce potentially pulling business away from brick-and-mortar shopping, retailers must devise breakthrough strategies for luring customers to their stores. By finding new ways to engage customers through tech, business can create an environment where social media users feel right at home. Mobile shelving with touch screen technology can be the cornerstone of that initiative.

Brick-and-mortar retailers double as fulfillment centers for online shoppers

As we mentioned earlier, digital and real-world shopping can cannibalize businesses, but with the right storage logistics strategies in place, the two can work together and enhance retail.

Although in-store shopping grants access to goods right here right now so long as they’re willing to travel for it, shopping online allows customers to pick from a wide selection of items a brick-and-mortar outlet might not regularly stock. Chain Store Age believes this interplay will reshape the way physical retailers operate – store locations will soon double as fulfillment centers where online shoppers can pick up whatever goods they’re looking for and avoid delivery fees in the process.

But first, retailers will need to invest in storage that can help manage a deluge of new SKUs. Mobile shelving technology cuts out aisles to make retail storage areas more space-efficient, either out on the sales floor or in the stockroom. Installations also come with customizable, fully adjustable storage features capable of handling electronics, clothing, beauty products and whatever else retailers might be selling. As these companies begin aligning virtual and physical points of sale by diversifying their in-store offerings, mobile shelving not only gives them the space necessary to accomplish the goals they set out to achieve, but also guides store managers and employees toward organizing the space they have intelligently.

Founded in 1924, Montel is a company specialized in the design and manufacture of high-density mobile storage systems for a multitude of markets, including libraries, museums, industrial warehousing, education, healthcare, public safety, military, sports and indoor vertical farming.

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The importance of sourcing in a world of recruitment ‘gods’

By Valerie Wasch
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Recruiters – they’re the real money-makers in a firm… right? Often charging a minimum of 15-20% for quality candidates, they’ve helped drive the creation of 9,001 new recruitment agencies in the UK for 2017. According to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), which recently released their Recruitment Industry Trends report for 2016/17, the industry is now valued at £32.2bn in the UK alone - $528bn globally. There is, quite frankly, a huge demand for the services we offer today.

Traditionally, recruiters will command lower basic salaries, but will make up for it in commission. This means that recruitment agencies are in a particularly low-risk agreement with said staff member. If they don’t perform, they quite simply don’t get paid… but when they do perform, it’s a lucrative proposition all round.

Discount the Rolex watches and boat-party perception, if you will, and take a look at the infrastructure that allows this business model to remain a success. Where do recruiters actually source their candidates, for example? It’s rarely done by the same person placing the role (and winning that commission).

Enter: the sourcing department.

Sourcing involves the delivery of candidates to the recruitment specialists. This includes parsing CVs, headhunting workers not on the market, and vetting incoming calls to assess the suitability of a potential placement. In terms of candidate placement, sourcing and delivery often acts as a form of quality control – helping recruiters place the best candidates, and boosting the reputation of a specific agency as a result.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes… who will guard the guards themselves

Paraphrasing Abraham Maslow, “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” This is often the mentality from our recruitment brethren. This is not a criticism, however, far from it – it’s a comment on differing motivations and requirements. Recruiters are motivated to place the best candidate possible for the greatest possible fee. But what happens if that talent pipeline isn’t in place?

While recruiters make money, the sourcing department makes quality recruiters. Without sourcing, there is no recruitment cycle - they are the ambassadors of the company. While recruiters build and develop relationships with clients, it is the sourcing department that builds relationships with candidates (as well as dealing with any divas internally).

The issue, then, comes down to financials. As sourcing (by design) generates less revenue, the department is often seen as sub-standard compared to its recruitment counterpart – in reality, both of these departments are different sides of the same coin. One simply cannot function at its peak without the other.

Specialisation vs generalisation in business

The question of whether specialism is superior to generalisation is an ongoing debate for many sectors – recruitment is not one of them. For optimal revenues, not to mention reputation, recruiters are more effective when focussed on recruitment. The same applies for sourcing and delivery specialists.

Specialisation in this sense, the balance between recruiter and sourcing, results in a far more streamlined approach to business. Instead of each worker managing a candidate from introduction to placement, dealing with multiple different candidate requirements on the way and then placing them, the person who is best for the task actually does the job.

It’s a business built on symbiosis, and a hugely effective one at that. With sourcing professionals delivering the right candidates to the recruiters looking to place them, a potentially messy organisational structure turns into a well-oiled machine.

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This point represents the Morris City Hall, one of the many government buildings that was recently upgraded to energy efficient LED lighting.

The Welcome Center is located at the University of Minnesota Morris and is a LEED Certified Gold Building.

There are several solar arrays in Morris, and the one here is located at the Regional Fitness Center. These 32 flat-plate solar panels are used to heat the pools.

This is where the recyclables from the UMM campus are carefully sorted by student workers and other facility staff members.

This is the Green Prairie Living Community, a "green dorm" that includes a solar array, aerogardens, outdoor gardens, and edible landscapes. Green Prairie is a LEED Certified Gold Building.

The Biomass Gasification utilizes the crop residues produced by surrounding farms to burn and turn into useful, sustainable fuels.

There are two 1.65MW wind turbines in Morris that provide the UMM campus with over 60% of its energy needs.

The West Central Research and Outreach Center is a part of the University of Minnesota CFANS (College of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources).Students, researchers and farmers work on sustainable dairy and swine production, horticulture and crop production, water quality, and renewable energy.


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In "Mortal Kombat," MMA fighter Cole Young, accustomed to taking a beating for money, is unaware of his heritage—or why Outworld's Emperor Shang Tsung has sent his best warrior, Sub-Zero, an otherworldly Cryomancer, to hunt Cole down. Fearing for his family's safety, Cole goes in search of Sonya Blade at the direction of Jax, a Special Forces Major who bears the same strange dragon marking Cole was born with. Soon, he finds himself at the temple of Lord Raiden, an Elder God and the protector of Earthrealm, who grants sanctuary to those who bear the mark. Here, Cole trains with experienced warriors Liu Kang, Kung Lao and rogue mercenary Kano, as he prepares to stand with Earth's greatest champions against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe. But will Cole be pushed hard enough to unlock his arcana—the immense power from within his soul - in time to save not only his family, but to stop Outworld once and for all?

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In February 2020, MOTOR announced a new distribution network for its extensive line of manuals and guides; through a recent partnership with Matco Tools, these MOTOR products are sold exclusively through Matco distributors. Now, MOTOR’s Crash Estimating Data products join this lineup of solutions sold by Matco distributors.

Creating the most accurate estimates possible is key to increasing profitability. The ability to do so easily is also critical to keep your business operating efficiently so that you may devote more time to other work. In order to do this, though, it’s necessary to have a broad view of all the moving pieces that go into collision repairs. That’s where MOTOR’s Crash Estimating Data comes in.

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Strong demand for the Ford Focus in the U.S. has led management to boost production numbers of the car by 30% for the remainder of the year. The latest announcement reaffirms the growing shift in consumer demand towards smaller and more fuel-efficient vehicles and is a trend most carmakers in the U.S. are experiencing.

In the first three months of the year, Ford sold 49,070 Focus models – an increase of 23% from the same time period last year. The means the Focus now commands 7.6% of the U.S. small car market and Ford is predicting the figure may rise by the end of the year.

Ford will now increase production in order to build a total of 245,000 Focus vehicles all up this year, up from just 191,000 in 2007. To accommodate the increased numbers employees at the Wayne Stamping and Assembly plant in Michigan where the Focus is built will need to work overtime and on Saturdays.

Popularity of the car has been on a steady rise since its facelift last year and J.D. Power sales data show that 30% of buyers are 16 to 35 years old - up from 26% of 2007 Focus buyers. Quality has also improved 13% over last year and the car is available with a number of premium options including Ford's Sync multimedia system.

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Neither Nissan nor its French alliance partner Renault are out in force at the Consumer Electronics Show but the companies are keen to remind you that their autonomous car developments are proceeding at full speed. In a joint statement, the Renault Nissan alliance confirmed that together it will offer more than 10 cars with self-driving technology between now and the end of 2020. Expect a few of those models to be from the Infiniti range, too.

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Importantly, Renault Nissan is committed to offering the potentially life-saving technology on mainstream, mass-market cars at affordable prices. Recall, studies have shown that driver error is responsible for close to 90 percent of all road-related fatalities, something self-driving technology could potentially eliminate.

“[The] Renault Nissan alliance is deeply committed to the twin goals of zero emissions and zero fatalities,” CEO Carlos Ghosn said during a presentation this week at a Renault Nissan research facility in Silicon Valley. “That’s why we are developing autonomous driving and connectivity for mass-market, mainstream vehicles on three continents.”

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As has been the case with other firms rolling out autonomous capabilities, Renault Nissan will introduce the technology gradually. This year, Renault Nissan will offer a traffic jam assistant that will allow a car to drive autonomously and safely in heavy, stop-and-go traffic. In 2018, the alliance will introduce technology that allows a car to autonomously negotiate hazards and change lanes on stretches of highway or similar multi-lane roads. And by 2020, the alliance plans to introduce vehicles that can navigate without driver intervention in nearly all situations, including complex city driving.

Pictured above is Nissan's IDS concept car from the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show. The concept previewed Nissan's most advanced self-driving technology, which the automaker refers to as Piloted Driving.

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The rookie Indy winner younger than Rossi

Congratulations to Alex Rossi: the ninth rookie winner from 100 runnings of the Indianapolis 500.

Successful in Formula BMW, GP3, Formula Renault 3.5 and GP2, this Californian would rather have been in Monte Carlo last weekend, but at least now he’s achieved something that even the great Dan Gurney could not.

And we can assume, therefore, that his attitude towards ovals has softened a little.

Of those victorious rookies – four Americans, two Frenchmen, a Brit, a Colombian and a Brazilian – only one was younger than Rossi. And that man is the most mythic figure of American motorsport: Frank Stallworth Lockhart had just turned 23 when he won Indy, 90 years ago.

Unlike Rossi, he wasn’t guaranteed a seat. His ‘deal’ was this: help prepare and run Bennett Hill’s car in the hope of acting as his relief driver during the race. The latter role was thankless – Google ‘Cyrus Patschke’ to see what I mean – but Lockhart was fiercely ambitious.

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He was also fabulously talented and fantastically quick.

His first official flying lap in a supercharged 1.5-litre Miller single-seater – the world’s most advanced racing car at the time – set a new lap record.

His second shredded its right rear tyre.

A fearless dirt-track skidder in skinny Fronty-Fords, Lockhart was more considered on his next qualifying run yet was thwarted by engine failure.

His last – three strikes and you were out – was understandably pedestrian and good enough: he would start 20th of 28.

Hill would start seventh…

Lockhart had been in the right place at the right time when wealthy and popular Pete Kreis of Tennessee caught influenza and had to give up his ride: “Give it the kid!”

The rest of what happened, however, owed nothing to good fortune.

Lockhart made blistering progress and was running second by lap 16 – and took the lead when Dave Lewis pitted after 59 laps.

He held his nerve thereafter, even during a one-hour delay for rain – the first such interruption in the race’s history – to be leading still when the chequered flag was thrown early, after 160 laps, with the return of wet weather.

Only Harry Hartz had run ahead of him, but even this experienced Indy competitor was roundly upstaged, fluffing a pit stop and finishing second – for the third time in five years – by more than two laps.

Lockhart had arrived as an illiterate – the old ‘term’ for dyslexia – kid from a single-parent family: the original SoCal hot-rodder. He left as an Establishment superstar.

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Charles Lindbergh would have to fly solo across the Atlantic in May 1927 to top him in the fame-and-daring stakes.

Born in Ohio in 1903, Lockhart’s family upped sticks to California when he was 10. A bust at school, he possessed a natural feel for and understanding of engineering and streamlining that impressed Harold Arminius ‘Father’ Miller, the LA-based creative guru genius of this burgeoning sport.

Although their partnership soon hit the rocks when Lockhart’s ‘tinkering’ began to improve on the unimprovable. There’s an intercooler patent out there with his name on it.

Lockhart the driver, meanwhile, went on a tear after Indy and won seven more races, on dirt and board ovals, and finished second in the national championship.

Unquestionably, he had become his country’s most committed and exciting racer.

He began his 1927 Triple-A campaign with three consecutive pole positions. The first of them was a 144mph lap of LA County’s Culver City Speedway. The second was an astounding 147.7mph at the 1.5-mile Atlantic City Speedway – a mark not beaten at any American circuit for 33 years.

And the third broke Indy’s 120mph barrier.

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All of this was achieved in a car supposedly slower than its low-slung front-wheel-drive rivals, also designed by Miller.

Lockhart led the first 203 miles of the 500 – another of his marks that stood the test of time (for 63 years) – and was ahead when a conrod broke on lap 120.

His two performances on the bricks, where he led 205 of his 280 laps – a record 73 per cent – undoubtedly made his name and provided solidity to his legacy.

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But his performances on wooden board tracks were a truer reflection of his career: they sprung from the ground and grabbed an awed public’s attention briefly but brilliantly before returning to the soil.

Atlantic City Speedway was 50-feet wide, banked at 45 degrees and constructed from 4.5 million feet of timber. Yet it went up in a matter of months.

It was defunct within two years – and torn down in 1933.

Lockhart was beguilingly ephemeral, too.

He excelled in competition – winning seven times in 1927, he again finished runner-up in the points – but preferred the purist’s thrill of speed.

And he ploughed his winnings into its attainment.

In April 1927, his open-wheeled single-seater topped 171mph at Muroc Dry Lake, now Edwards Airforce Base. This was a fortnight after Henry Segrave had set a new Land Speed Record of 203mph in the streamlined 1000-Horsepower Sunbeam of 30 times the engine capacity.

A seed has been sown.

With financial and technical support from Stutz Motor Co. of Indianapolis, plus help from brothers Zenas and John Wiesel, graduates of Berkeley and Caltech, Lockhart, working in great secrecy and often through the night, designed and, in three hectic winter months, built an LSR challenger of breathtaking beauty and remarkable prescience.

Stutz Black Hawk was a Colt revolver in a world of blunderbusses.

Just 16ft long, its body was not much wider than its frail 5ft 3in driver and its wheels enclosed by tightly fitting spats.

It was powered by a 3-litre U16 consisting of a pair of modified Miller twin-cam straight-eights mounted at a 30-degree included angle on a common crankcase containing two cranks geared together by a central pinion.

Cooled by ice and ribbed intercoolers almost flush with the scuttle, and boosted by twin centrifugal superchargers running at five times engine speed, estimations of this engine’s output vary wildly – but its banshee song remains beyond doubt.

Wind tunnel tests assessed the package as being good for 280mph.

Wind and rain were not its friends, however, and Lockhart did not want to run at an inclement Daytona Beach, the surging February surf and swirling sea fret encroaching on the already startlingly narrow course.

But he felt obliged. For the financial tide was turning.

It was a decision that almost killed him, a soft patch of sand unsettling his lightweight device and sending it skimming and somersaulting into the ocean.

Lockhart was relatively unhurt but trapped within his deformed cockpit and had to be sheltered from waves by rescuers while others dragged the car onto dry land.

Both man and machine repaired remarkably quickly and returned in April.

That warning, however, should have been heeded.

Lockhart warmed up with 198mph through the flying mile – a capacity class record not bettered until 1960 – and clocked 203mph on his first pass proper.

He then made another dubious decision. And this time he wouldn’t live to regret it.

Having since February switched from Firestone to less proven tyres purely for the money, he ordered a cursory check at the turnaround. The wind was in his sails – and favour – and the removal of those spats was a time-consuming operation.

On his return run, just moments before 8am and a few hundred feet short of the finish, he began a series of tumbles at an estimated 220mph. Officials stood transfixed as the disintegrating Black Hawk flew between and over them.

Its dissipating violence’s most cruel act was to hurl Lockhart’s rag doll body 50 feet beyond the steaming, hissing wreckage.

Gouges in the sand indicated that the right rear tyre, perhaps cut by a shell when its overanxious driver locked the brakes at the end of the outward run, had failed.

Then the tide rolled in. And out.

And a rough footpath through a tumbling wood in New Jersey marks the increasingly indistinct footprint of a track once famous but now forgotten by all but a few.

Just Nature reclaiming one of its forces.

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Andhra Pradesh gas to sell 24% in LNG project to private power producers

HYDERABAD: Independent power producers, GMR, GVK and Lanco, have shown interest to buy stake in Andhra Pradesh government promoted re-gasified liquefied natural gas project.

AP Gas Distribution Corporation (APGDC), which is equally owned by
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"APGIC and GAIL Gas together hold 50% in the SPV and the British firm GDF Suez LNG holds 26%, while the balance 24% will be sold to private investors with a cap of 7-8% each," a senior bureaucrat from the
energy department told ET. "Apart from the independent power producers, few other gas consuming industrial entities have also shown interest to pick up minority stakes."

After the divestment, the APGIC, a wholly-owned government entity, and Gail Gas will own about 50% of the SPV through their investment in the AP Gas Distribution Corporation - an equal joint venture - the British firm will have 26% and the rest by the new suitors.

The corporation is proposing to set up a floating storage and re-gasification unit that will begin operations in September next year. It will be among the first such projects on the country's east coast and will have an initial capacity of 3.5 million metric tonne per annum (mmtpa) and end up with 5 mmtpa capacity as a landbased terminal after three-four years.

The APGDC had on Monday signed a deal with Kakinada Seaports for locating the terminal there. "The AP government has asked us to consider investing in the project. We will take a call soon," said KV Rao, chairman and managing director of Kakinada Seaports.

The first phase of the project is expected to cost between Rs 1,500 crore and Rs 5,000 crore for the land-based LNG terminal, which will be funded through a 70:30 debt-equity.

"While Rs 3,500 crore will be raised as institutional debt, Rs 1,500 crore of equity will be pumped in by all the investors together. APGDC will put in Rs 750 crore for 50% stake and GDF Suez will invest Rs 390 crore for 26% equity, while the balance Rs 360 crore will be mobilised from the private investors including IPPs," said the source.

AP is currently facing a peak shortage of 2,000 mw and hopes the LNG terminal to address the gas shortages for power production. The IPPs have seen over 2,500 mw of capacity lying idle due to a disruption in gas supply from the Krishna-Godavari fields operated by
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The gas-fired power projects in fuel troubles include GVK-I (220mw), Spectrum (220mw), Lanco-I (355mw), BSES (220mw), Konaseema (460mw), GVK Gautami (464mw), GVK-II (220mw) and the GMR group's Vemagiri (370mw).

Senior officials of integrated power projetcs (IPPs) separately confirmed their interest in picking up minority stakes in the LNG venture but said a final call will be taken based on the cost savings. "We have Kondapalli 360mw operating at less than 50% plant load factor and the 366 mw of phase-II project is not operational for want of gas. Two units of 360mw each are under construction and fuel security through picking up stakes in LNG terminals will make us complete the projects early," said a senior Lanco official.