Rounding out the top three is Raymond White II, with Holiday Companies in Randleman, North Carolina, the second runner-up. White began driving a school bus in high school before moving to motorcoaches. He fell in love with the job and decided to make it his full-time career. He enjoys traveling the United States and taking people on vacation.
The competition was created to honor the drivers who are the backbone of motorcoach operations and keep passengers safe, said Matt Dance, UMA Board Member and Chairman of the Safety Risk Management Committee.
Francois Tremblay, President of Prevost, a principal sponsor of the event, echoed those sentiments when he spoke before the announcement of the winners during the UMA Awards Gala on Feb. 6, the last night of the 2024 UMA Motorcoach EXPO in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Director Quentin Tarantino and actress Uma Thurman pose at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. He acknowledges persuading her to do a dangerous driving scene that ended in a crash. Bertrand Langlois/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Thurman's account of the accident, which chilled relations between Thurman and Tarantino for years, was detailed in a New York Times story over the weekend. Much of the article centers on Thurman's allegations that she had been sexually assaulted by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Thurman said the accident happened in Mexico near the end of the shooting of the 2004 release Kill Bill Vol. 2 after she had expressed her reluctance to drive a blue Karmann Ghia down a sandy road. She said she had been warned that the car was not operating correctly after its manual transmission was reconfigured to an automatic. She said she wanted a stunt driver to do the shot.
Tarantino said that in retrospect, the road he thought was safe actually was not and he faulted himself for not doing a double-check. "That was one of my most horrendous mistakes, that I didn't take the time to run the road, one more time, just to see what I would see," he said.
"Uma's response was ... 'OK' because she believed me, because she trusted me. I told her it would be OK. I told her the road was a straight line. I told her it would be safe. And it wasn't. I was wrong. I didn't force her into the car. She got into it because she trusted me. And she believed me."
"We had a big dinner in the Soho House in New York and there we dealt with all the car stuff, and all the resentments she had toward me. The things she felt I could have done better in protecting her in that movie. And we hashed it all out, put it behind her and we've been fantastic friends ever since."
DRIVE TIME WITH GUARDIAN: Most of the drive time that you need to get your license is to be completed with your parent/guardian or a licensed driver over 21 that is willing to take financial responsibility for your actions. The state requires that you drive 40 hours with this person(s), 10 of those must be at night. UMA Driver Ed. will ONLY take you out driving if you have met at least 20 hours of that requirement.
REQUIREMENTS: Behind the wheel, times will be set up by one of our certified instructors. The instructor will determine the time and meeting place for each drive. The state requires 6 hours of driving and observation. UMA supplement some of the driving with our driver simulation program. UMA will need to drive students multiple days and have at least two students in the car at a time.
BEHIND THE WHEEL ONLY: If you have already completed the theory class and you only need drive time with an instructor you can sign up for this portion HERE for a fee of $185. This is also the same cost as if you take both the theory and behind-the-wheel together.
NO SHOW FEE: If you commit to driving at a certain day and time you NEED to be there. The other students and we are counting on you to be able to do that driving session. If you fail to show up and do not give us time to schedule another student we will assess you a $30 No Show Fee.
OTHER INFORMATION: The instructor may cancel a driving session due to weather.
When out driving the instructor will assess many areas. We like to go through all of the following aspects with you if possible:
hi, i am using this driver ic for 100% duty cycle pwm signals input.i have connected INL signals to ground and connected INH signals to GPIO pin of controller. i am trying to make on/off INH signals but i could not see same on./off at output gate signals. the gate outputs are always high irrespective of the input. i have connected MODE pin to DVDD. IDRIVE to ground with 75K and VDS to gnd with 75K.please reply asap.
i have tried giving 1KHz oscilloscope signal to INH pin,then i could see output gate signals pulsing wrt input above Vm voltage upto charge pump voltage.(Given VM as 13V,output gate is varying from 13V to 23V with 1 KHz). i want to know whether this ic works for 100% duty pwm signals input?
DRV8350H does work with 100% duty cycle, and the same goes for all of our charge pump devices. For the first test it sounds like you might not providing PWM from the GPIO pins since you were not seeing the signal or it is possible that the device was not enabled.
hi Lara, i have connected only half bridge with single high side driver which is my application. and connected all INL signals to Ground. i have fed 0 or 3.3V at INH pins and seen the Output of Mosfet which is at source.here the gate signal is changing from my feeding voltage to charge pump voltage(suppose from 13V to 23V approximately) due to this the MOSFETS are continuously on though i given 0V at INH pins. I tried connecting Load at the output of each fet then i could see complete turning on/off of MOSFETs as source output from fets is connected to gate driver ic. i also tried individual gate driver turning on/off by keeping remaining gate driver on always,this is also working fine.i have resolved my issue. i have also attached schematic for your reference.
Thanks for the update I am glad that you were able to get your system working. Feel free to let us know if you have any additional questions. Also make sure to read our documentation on motor driver layout when you get to that stage in your project I will link the app note here:
com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The driver could not establish a secure connection to SQL Server by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. Error: "SQL Server returned an incomplete response. The connection has been closed. ClientConnectionId:98d0b6f4-f3ca-4683-939e-7c0a0fca5931".
The thing that makes my observations unique on this compared to others on the web is that although the problem happens ONLY on Java 8, I cannot get the problem to occur on one of the seemingly identical Linux servers that is running the same Java 8 JVM. Other folks have seen this problem on earlier versions of Java as well, but that has not been our experience.
I turned on SSL logging in the Java 8 JVM on a Linux instance which reproduces the problem. SSL logging is turned on using -Djavax.net.debug=ssl:handshake:verbose. This revealed some useful information.
Notice that TLSv1.2 is selected by the database server and used in this exchange. I've observed that, when connections fail from the problematic linux service, TLSv1.2 is ALWAYS the level which was selected. However, connections do not ALWAYS fail when TLSv1.2 is used. They only fail 5-10% of the time.
Now here is an exchange from a server that does NOT have the problem. Everything else is equal. I.e., connecting to the same database, same version of the JVM (Java 1.8.0_60), same JDBC driver, etc. Notice that, here, TLSv1 is selected by the database server instead of TLSv1.2 as in the faulty server's case.
This appears to have been fixed in version 4.2 of the MS SQL JDBC driver. I created a program where I connected to the server 1000 times, pausing 100ms between each attempt. With version 4.1 I was able to reproduce the problem every time, although it happened only sporadically. With version 4.2 I was unable to reproduce the problem.
I've also hit this issue on Windows Server 2012 R2, using JDBC driver 4.0 & 4.1 with Java 7. This Microsoft article pins the blame on DHE ciphersuites, and recommends disabling them or reducing their priority if you cannot upgrade to JDBC driver 4.2
If the server name in the connection string does not match the server name in the SQL Server SSL certificate, the following error will be issued: The driver could not establish a secure connection to SQL Server by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. Error: "java.security.cert.CertificateException: Failed to validate the server name in a certificate during Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) initialization."
NOTE: OneClickUmaDcs requires SALSA LipSync Suite v2.5.0+ and the latest version of OneClickBase (now included in the core SALSA package on the AssetStore). Also be aware, UMA has increased their minimum Unity version to 2019.4+ as of UMA v2.11.
Since UMA is a run-time character system with many options, our setup scripts are slightly different than our other one-clicks and meant primarily to demonstrate what is possible when using the SALSA LipSync Suite with the UMA system. The SALSA Suite leverages the Dynamic Character Avatar and UMA Expression Player systems for implementing the OneClick functionality. Using this system, it is easy to also leverage design-time preview mode, making it much more approachable to add/modify ExpressionComponents. It is; however, also possible to use UMA using Bone controller types if you prefer -- however, this would required the designer to implement this option manually.
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