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Comprising a toolbox of wireless and battery-powered Unattended Ground Sensors (UGS) and cameras, Flexnet is a rapidly deployable system for detection classification and identification, regardless of the situation or environment.
Flexnet combines a toolbox of passive, wireless and battery-powered sensors and cameras that enables the operator to customize the system according to operational requirements. Through fusion of covertly deployed sensors and cameras threats will be detected, classified and identified without exposing neither the operator nor the system. The Command and Control software, Flexnet Commander, is available for both Microsoft Windows and Android based platforms.
The scalable & and customizable design allows for both standalone system deployment and integration into an existing battlefield management system, via the Flexnet API third party sensors and devices can be integrated with Flexnet to provide a comprehensive surveillance and protection system tailored to each specific situation.
The Flexnet devices are designed for rapid deployment and use in the field under harsh conditions. By offering a lightweight and compact footprint for easy transportation and concealment, the Flexnet system can be deployed in remote areas.
The integrated battery and radio components, part of most Flexnet devices, have been designed as a modular concept to enable integration with legacy or customer unique solutions.
In the smallest form, Flexnet comprises a handheld small form tablet, the Flexnet PDA, and a couple of sensors and/or cameras for protection of a smaller site, location or group of people. A fully deployed Flexnet system can be used for temporary or permanent protection and surveillance of larger sites, areas or borders.
Whether deployed as a fixed or mobile system, Flexnet is a force multiplier providing real-time early warning and increased situational awareness to decision makers.
FLEXNET: Wireless protection surveillance platform by Exensor
Supporting intelligence gathering of the enemy's activities & movements, this state-of-art platform will act as a driving force in operational decision-making with unprecedented levels of speed, safety & accuracy. As a tailored solution, Flexnet allows for customized configurations to increase significantly the Armed Forces' situational awareness & strengthen their capability on the field.
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Flexnet Commander is the command and control element of the Flexnet UGS system. It can be operated either on a Windows or Android based platform. For both OS platforms Exensor offer rugged laptops, tablets and PDAs with an integrated, proprietary Exensor radio module.
The Flexnet portfolio includes a wide range of electro-optical products, from small wireless cameras to large mast mounted EO systems.
Flexnet communicates through a wireless, self-healing mesh network to ensure a reliable, continuous flow of data. Each device acts as a node in the network.
Unattended Ground Sensors – UGS
The Flexnet portfolio consists of a comprehensive toolbox of Unattended Ground Sensors (UGS) for detection, classification and identification of human activities and vehicle movements. All sensors form an intelligent mesh network, acting as relays to enhance system performance and flexibility.
To enhance force protection and the ability to react to approaching land threats, soldiers require efficient and high-quality solutions. Flexnet is specifically designed for force protection, providing early warning, covering Non-Line of Sight (NLOS) zones and adding "extra eyes and ears".
Military forces need accurate and detailed information about their surrounding environment in order to fulfil their mission. Flexnet is well adapted for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering missions.
To maintain control over borders, governments cannot systematically rely on fences or cameras. When there is no pre-existing infrastructure, Flexnet can be used to monitor large areas temporarily or in a fixed configuration.
Critical infrastructures need security installations both inside and outside of the perimeter. Flexnet combines intelligent sensors and cameras to offer a 24/7 surveillance solution, that is both flexible and rapidly deployable.


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Ayr has welcomed several new players over the summer, and tomorrow's pre-season match against GHA at Millbrae (kick-off 1.30pm) is the first chance for supporters to see some of the recruits in action.
Second rows Jonathan Agnew and Michael Badenhorst hail from Glasgow and South Africa respectively. After a year in Australia, Agnew returns to Scotland, having previously played for Hillhead/Jordanhill and Glasgow Hawks. 21-year-old Badenhorst was on impressive form for Dumfries Saints last season.
From Langholm, prop Robin Hislop has played professionally for Edinburgh Rugby, Rotherham Titans and Doncaster Knights.
Back row Tommy Spinks will be familiar to Ayr fans from his appearances for his former club Glasgow Hawks. He has also played for Jersey Reds and London Scottish, as well as representing Scotland at U16, U18 and Club XV level, as has Hislop.
Originally from Norwich, Scott Lyle can play at fly-half and full-back, and previous clubs include Bedford Blues, Bay of Plenty in New Zealand, and Bury St Edmunds.
Also a Bury alumni is George Stokes, one of a trio of stage 3 BT Sport Scottish Rugby Academy players to play their rugby at Ayr in 2017/18.
Back row Stokes is joined by prop and former Scotland U18 captain Euan McLaren and winger Robbie Nairn, who has 14 caps for Scotland U20.
We look forward to seeing them and their Ayr team-mates in action this season.

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Uber Technologies Inc. is currently fighting to keep its status as a facilitator of independent contractors instead of an employer.
This difference is vitally important to Uber, which is valued at roughly $50 billion. Uber has already faced some heat in the public eye regarding driver background checks, unlicensed drivers and cabdriver protests. Now the popular ride-hailing service operating in 300 cities and more than six continents is now under scrutiny thanks to a recent lawsuit in California, where the company is based.
Last week, the California Labor Commissioner's Office declared an Uber driver should be classified as an employee, not an independent contractor. The case ruled Barbara Ann Berwick receive nearly $4,200 in expenses and other costs during her eight-month stint as an Uber driver. Uber is planning to appeal.
Why does this matter? Uber's status as a contractor allows it to minimize costs and keep control over drivers at the same time. This type of control resembles an employer-employee relationship, the California Labor Commission ruled, which should include benefits, stable pay and job security. None of these are currently offered with Uber.
With such high stakes, everyone is sharing what they have to say on the Internet. Commenters vary among Uber drivers, HR professionals, the common citizen and everyone else in between. Most are in support of the ruling. Several comments present an outcry of injustice at Uber's audacity to take advantage of workers by calling them independent contractors instead of employees. Popular opinion is that Uber has been skating by operating under a business model that is unsustainable, since it is operating while avoiding the typical costs employers incur.
In the real world, it's impossible to make large profits, face very little liability and avoid regulation or employee unionization. To that end, the California Labor Commissioner Office's ruling could have wider implications.
This ruling not only matters for Uber but also introduces implications for similar tech companies such as ride-hailing service Lyft and grocery-shopping app Instacart. With this new court decision, Uber could start a domino effect.
As of now, however, we'll have to wait and see how other court cases involving Uber in California play out. Reuel Schiller, a law professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law, told The Wall Street Journal that rulings by state agencies, such as the California Labor Comission, "don't set a formal precedent for court cases or other actions."
Should other federal or state agencies declare Uber an employer, the Journal report said, it would have a lot of positive momentum for drivers looking to cash in.
What do you think? Should Uber be considered an employer?
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Pine's cry
When 81-year-old Lionel Burgess of The Pine, St Michael talks about the state of the two bedroom Government structure he calls home, tears come to his eyes.
The passion is palpable as he lists the repairs needed to make the house comfortable again.
"I was living here now 13 years and . . . my ceiling mash up so the rats does come and go throughout the ceiling," an emotional Burgess told Barbados TODAY, a day after Prime Minister Mia Mottley expressed concern about the standard of public living in The Pine and some other communities across the island.
Eight-one-year-old Lionel Burgess
"When the rain come the water does come right to my door. My house need big repairs and it is becoming a problem now," he stressed.
While there are clear signs of disrepair, including watermarks on the ceiling and a bathroom that shows its age, Burgess' home is not the most decrepit there is in the community.
However, the conditions in which he resides can be replicated several times over in the urban community, one of the most deprived in the parish.
And he was not alone in having the discomfort of having to share a home with rats, as another resident, Cecelia Worrell, also spoke of the concerns about rodents.
"We need repairs. If I don't be careful the rats would come through my back door, and also the windows in the front are coming out. We can't get a repair done to the house and I don't know why. The houses are terrible," Worrell said.
It is because of such conditions that the residents are holding Mottley to her word that she will "do right by our people" with respect to housing.
Resident and shop owner Rhonda Hollingsworth is among those looking forward to some attention being paid to the homes in The Pine.
For much too long, she said, tenants were neglected while their homes deteriorated.
Rhonda Hollingsworth
"These are the old model houses, these houses want repairing bad. I don't understand how we are paying water, light and rent and still aren't comfortable in the houses we live in because we have to shift around," Hollingsworth told Barbados TODAY during a visit to the community yesterday.
"I agree with the Prime Minister, some of the houses out there are really bad, but then there are some that good as well.
"If they are not coming to give us repairs then money should be deducted from our rents because it now means we have to buy material and pay someone for the service," the disgruntled resident said.
A day earlier, while addressing a stakeholder consultation at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre on the reform of the Town and Country Planning Act Cap 240, the Prime Minister made specific mention of The Pine as she lamented the state of overcrowded, low-income housing districts.
"We have a situation in The Pine, in Wildey [St Michael], in Silver Hill and Gall Hill [Christ Church], and we wonder why we have the social problems that we have without recognizing that we have literally participated in the calcification of Government policy and programming over the years," Mottley said.
In painting a picture of the claustrophobic conditions in which the tenants live, she contended that the houses, built in the 1950s and 1960s, were not as wide as the platform on which she was standing at the time to deliver her address, but were housing "three and four generations of people".
"In the absence of effective planning, people have done what they wanted to do in order to accommodate the overcrowded aspects of those housing [units]. When I go through some of those areas, and I think in particular of The Pine, it is the closest thing to a favela that you would see," she said, adding that "we have an urgent obligation to do right by our people, both in terms of density and functionality and aesthetics, with respect to our housing".
However, Hollingsworth said the problem began with the National Housing Corporation (NHC), which she said provided little or no assistance when approached for help.
"When you call the people from National Housing sometimes they don't turn up, then you have to buy your own equipment to fix your houses. It is a very poor system.
"You would call and say, well, your electric wants fixing and they would say, none is available. We need to be comfortable in these houses. I know they are Government houses but you can't be paying for something that is no good. People live in these houses now for a number of years and I feel they should look into it.
"I would like to see the blocks painted in one colour. Things in the country are hard but I would like to see around our homes look nice because dogs don't live in The Pine, and I know Ms Mottley is doing all she can to make people comfortable right now."
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Some of us may remember this fabled room, others maybe not so much. As a contest winner in Nintendo Power magazine, Chris was promised a cameo in an upcoming title… and that title ended up be A Link to the Past. While it has indeed been roughly 7 years since I last visited the room, this little feature brought the memory of all those mysterious ways to try and get to it to the forefront of my mind. The question some have had for the longest time is… does this room actually exist? As the video explains, it does, and it tells you, the player, how to get there.


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"This reflected the imposition of a new cap on Standard Variable Tariffs, which was 6% below prior average levels".
"The further falling back in inflation facilitates the Bank of England maintaining a "wait and see" approach on interest rates until after the United Kingdom leaves the EU", Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY ITEM Club consultancy, said. They expect the Office for National Statistics to announce at 9.30am that the headline CPI rate slipped to 1.9 per cent, largely thanks to easing energy inflation.
The consumer price index fell to 1.8% in January, from 2.1% previously, when economists had looked for a decline to only 1.9%.
Alongside the inflation data the ONS is also slated to publish its official house price index.
He said: "Lower inflation in January reinforces the recent improvement in consumer purchasing power following firmer earnings data".
The Bank of England said this month that United Kingdom economic growth will likely slow further in 2019 given weakening demand from overseas and a period of increased "Brexit uncertainty" that are expected to reduce activity in the UK. It softened to 5.4 percent in January, according to economists at Yes Bank Ltd. and Axis Bank Ltd. Pranjul Bhandari, chief India economist at HSBC Holdings Plc, sees it slowing to as low as 4 percent this year.
"With inflation fairly well behaved, the Bank will also have the ability to support the economy by cutting interest rates if there were a no deal Brexit", says Capital Economics's Wishart.
"Waning UK business investment, and potential short-term financing difficulties for many SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) in the event of a no-deal Brexit, will require the Bank of England to keep rates low this year, and the latest inflation figures provide the MPC ( the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee) with a mandate to do that".
United Kingdom inflation rose from 0.5% in June 2016 to 3.1% by November 2017 and core inflation increased from 1.4% to a peak of 2.7%.


My nonobjective monoprints emphasize rhythm and explore the effects of transparency in space. Translucent layers of color punctuated by subtle or contrasting accents rest upon open or small areas of the paper's whiteness. Colored stains suggest emerging form. Small, thin lines intermittently autograph the surface. These mixed media images begin with a single, quick gesture in paint placed upon the printing surface. This spontaneous shape is then thoughtfully considered, intuitively balanced, and counterbalanced by the addition, subtraction and manipulation of color. The print reveals itself at the moment the paper is pulled from the press. This is the moment of either success or disappointment, when chromatic coherence is revealed. Textural contrasts and subtle layering of forms are incorporated into the composition in order to build intricacy. My hope in doing this is to offer the viewer a choice of various visual paths to travel within the image. Soft color shifts and small accents are used to pull the viewer in for a closer look. The work is meant to be viewed at an intimate distance and savored as quietly beautiful.
Above all, the work must breathe to have vitality. Smooth, atmospheric cloaks of color couple with immediate marks to remind us that to be alive is to be vulnerable and imperfect. Rhythm is regular, but its accidental broken beat let us know of its life and lyricism.


Superior communication skills are essential company-wide. Continuous improvement and reflection build success: from daily interactions to international negotiations.
Australia is in a unique position, attracting recruitment interest from around the globe due to its lifestyle, relatively stable economy and career opportunities. With a decrease in births and an increase in its aging population, Australia relies on migration to fill jobs and economic stability. This means that the landscape is changing for businesses small and large and those who adapt will set themselves up for a future that is ready to capitalise on the increasingly globalised workforce.
More than 23% of Australia's workforce is born overseas with 13% being born in non-English speaking countries and if we look more broadly again we see over 30% of the population either born or having a parent born overseas.
Currently, however, Australia is not capitalising on its culturally diversity as much as it could, meaning employers are not taking full advantage of the breadth of direct and indirect skills available to them. This large proportion of the workforce not only have the technical skills for success, but also the unique exposure to cultures, languages and sections of society that allow access to new markets and ideas.
Here are five ways to best benefits from this changing pool of talent.
TIP: Seek the advice of your staff members who have experience in specific cultural areas when it is relevant to your business development and client interactions.
A shortcut to embracing an effective and diverse team is to understand the mistakes of the past. The recent DCA paper shows that 'culturally diverse' people are underrepresented in directorial roles. Asian representation is particularly poor – especially considering the particular importance of Japan, South Korea and China as trading partners – with 1.9% of executives and 4.15% of directors having Asian cultural backgrounds versus 9.6% of the general community.
TIP: When recruiting and internally promoting staff, don't overlook the unique contributions of culturally and linguistically diverse staff in the historical or potential growth of your business.
Those from non-English speaking backgrounds are often identified as lacking in communication skills. While local language skills might still need to be polished, there are also less-obvious benefits that are often overlooked. Psychologists say that speaking two or more languages improves cognitive process – more specifically, it heightens the ability for problem-solving, multi-tasking, focusing, decision-making and even having the likelihood for higher resilience.
TIP: Firstly, continue to elevate the English skills of your overseas-born staff members – but, secondly, introduce a company-wide strategy for building more effective communication skills from socialising to negotiating – including native English speakers.
Good communication is a difficult goal to achieve between speakers of the same language let alone different languages. Good communicators go beyond simply having a good command of grammar and vocabulary. They also possess an acute sense of how to successfully socialise, debate, contribute to a lively discussion, successfully build rapport and appropriately inject humour.
TIP: When evaluating a staff member remember to look beyond the grammar weakness and also evaluate their ability for building rapport with colleagues and clients.
refining Cross-Cultural Communication Competency (CCCC) company wide.
TIP: Create many structures and opportunities within your organisation that allow all staff to learn from each other – a great way of doing this can be the Brown Bag Meetings held during lunchtimes.
Cross-Cultural Communication Competency is not only beneficial for international dealings, but is equally importantly for successful daily interactions. From recruitment to retention and promotion, incorporating values around strengthening communication competency builds better functionality across all areas of your business.
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Like Bearspaw sandstone, each visit will seem like an FA. The area is sensitive so act responsibly: stay on rutted paths, leave ciggies at home as the grass is highly flammable, pick up stray golf balls and garbage. Beware of loose rock and bring a pad as most probs SS (sit start)over prickles at times but there is fine flat places to sit the pad on.
From Country Hills Blvd. turn up Panorama Hills Blvd. then turn left onto Panorama Hills Drive and follow this for about 1.2km and park near a large open field.Walk up the paved bikepath west a few hundred meters to the overlook. Either quickly drop down a ridged path or follow the bikepath left a few hundred meters and look for a trail down to the cliffband.The best time to visit is a winter day as snow doesn't last long here and it gets plenty of sun. Thankfully traffic is too far away to be an audience. Enough problems to fill and afternoon.
1)this is the first boulder when descending down the hillside path about 25m north. SS, go up the nose over the overhang-fun.
2)'Bikejump Boulder'-old wooden ramps left from wacko mtn.bikers. SS, up right side of 'hang. Hard exit on exfoliating flakes.
3)hike thru boulders.Traverse rounded wall to a crack then along easier rightside-kinda weird.
4)three unclimbed overhangs or go up the slabby west wall. Feels exposed as a fall to the mat would sweep you away.
5)up left snout of cone using good sidepulls but finish is sick slappers – may be the best line here when sent?
6)'Big heuco Crack'-up easy crack to big heuco finish left, use for upper access.
7)use left of two cracks and finish left over a horn jug.
8)go up just left of cutaway overhang to jug, to horizontal crack and finish up exposed grey rounded topout a little to the right.
9)up short wall to top rail then move out and over right of jutting rock surmounting it on the right.
10)up ramp and rusty colored face, exiting left, not recommended. Huge roof prob above would be crazy but ugly fall factor.
11)hike uphill. Left foot on left face, armjam crack, right appendages feel up slopers, exposed high step, exit bald topout.
12)scramble small knob to avoid the dirt trail, kneebar the scoop, exit left of incuts-don't bother chalking your hands, walk on.
13)lowriding overhung sloper project on tall left wall.
14)a.SS, go up neat porous ribs to blocks. b.Just right, go up to blocks. c.Line 2m right, over bulge to blocks.Try a traverse.
15)SS up yellow rock on good holds. SS up yellow/rusty finger crack with face variation.
16)hike up and right. Traverse blocky yellow overhang using toprail or try SS right and go over the top.
17)'Dam Face"-hike 5 min. over to bikepath then up hill and down into hidden coulee. Up dirty knobs, traverse off.
18)'Jason+Melissa?' on north facing wall. Up holds on right side of painted names. Potential to right needs cleaning.


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Investigators may not know what killed singer Amy Winehouse until they get results from lab tests on her blood and tissue, due in about two to four weeks, according to Scotland Yard Monday. An autopsy was completed at St. Pancras Mortuary Monday afternoon, two days after the singer died in her London apartment. "It did not establish a formal cause of death and we await the results of further toxicology tests," a police statement said. Con queste dichiarazioni raccolte dalla CNN


John Masefield was born on June 1,1878. He was a British poet who also held the esteemed position of Poet Laureate from 1930-1967. A Poet Laureate is a person appointed by the government to compose poems for special events and various occasions. That person also brings awareness and appreciation to the art of poetry.
Masefield's father died when he was young, forcing him to live with an uncle. During his younger years Masefield wanted to be a merchant marine officer. This interest led him to being trained on the Conway, which was a ship meant for training. He boarded this ship at the age of thirteen. Once his training was complete two and a half years later, he boarded a sailing ship set for Chile. It was on this voyage that he became ill and had to return to England.
His time as sea came to an end, and he spent time in the United States working in a carpet factory. His autobiography, In the Mill, published in 1941, was based on this time period.
In 1897, Masefield returned to England in hopes of pursuing a career as a writer, which started out at a newspaper. Masefield is best known for his poems of the sea and his long narrative poems. His first volume of poems, Salt Water Ballads, was published in 1902.
John Masefield died on May 12, 1967.
The only person to hold the Poet Laureate position longer than him was Lord Alfred Tennyson.
During World War I, Masefield served with the Red Cross.


Perhaps the guy liked to gamble and got in hock with a bookie. The bookie might have been inclined to sell Donaghy's marker -- his debt plus points, or interest -- to a mobster. The mobster could have made Donaghy an offer he couldn't refuse, to satisfy the debt by providing inside information and influencing certain games.
"I can't prove this . It's strictly speculation. But this is how it works," said DeVico, a Brooklyn-born expert on the American mob and author of "The Mafia Made Easy: The Anatomy and Culture of La Cosa Nostra"
Even if that is not how things played out with Donaghy, DeVico believes similar situations arise. That's alarming.
Forget steroids. Forget stealing opponents' play signals. Forget obscene salaries. Fixing games, manipulating the outcome for the sake of gambling, is the worst thing that can happen to any sport or sports in general.
Imagine the collective disgust, the stampede of former fans, if it became widely accepted that organized crime and gambling interests swayed the final scores of a number of games.
What merit would there be in Steelers town to dissect Ben Roethlisberger's psyche and decision-making if we believed even one NFL game official was on the take and would call interference or holding penalties to reach a predetermined outcome -- or worse, if we suspected certain linemen or receivers or quarterbacks were ready to botch plays or feign injuries on purpose?
The good news, according to DeVico, is the American mob is a shadow of what it once was, reduced in many cases to the level of loosely organized street thugs. The bad news is that does not mean La Cosa Nostra can't or doesn't have an undesirable hold on some sporting events.
In the past, DeVico points out, the mob was strong enough to run cities as big as Chicago and stiff-arm the FBI.
In the future, sports gambling could be the vehicle that drives the Mafia to reorganize and regain some level of power and influence. There's a cold shiver for you.
DeVico, whose book traces the origins of the Mafia in Italy and its history in the United States, said all it takes is an opening. "As long as the mob can exploit you, they will," he said. "They're masters of exploiting weaknesses."
It's probably farfetched that high-paid pro athletes are on the take for money. It would be something darker, DeVico said.
That could be digging up information about individuals' gambling or drug problems, steroids use, even infidelity. It's a simple formula: Help us, or we'll expose you. And there's a second formula: Expose us, and you'll be sorry.
DeVico grew up knowing wiseguys and, judging from his book, has done exhaustive research on the American Mafia (there's even a short section on its history in Pittsburgh), so perhaps he too quickly sees conspiracies. Or maybe it's just that most of us are naive or lack the proper cynicism.
In any case, DeVico suspects possible mob ties in many instances of impropriety in sports.
With boxing and horse racing, at least in years gone by, there's little question outcomes have been influenced.
DeVico can't help but wonder about the various point-shaving scandals in college basketball, the ongoing investigation into game-fixing with Toledo football, and the recent bust of a gambling operation run by former Penguins player Rick Tocchet and a New Jersey policeman.
What stood out to DeVico about that last case was the news the ring handled more than 1,000 wagers for more than $1.7 million in a 40-day period. "There's no proof of mob ties -- there never is -- but that's a lot of money," he said. "Somebody's going to know about this."
He didn't mean just the authorities.
Even Pete Rose, the disgraced former Cincinnati Reds star and manager who is banned from baseball for betting on games, makes DeVico curious.
"Who knows, but all the signs were there -- he supposedly always won when he made bets of $10,000 or more, he was accused of tax evasion," he said.
Let's not panic. There's no reason to think sports are corrupt to the point of stinking. Things might even be cleaner than they used to be -- for now. And if it makes football fans feel any better, DeVico figures NFL games would be difficult to fix because of the number of people involved.
Not much comfort, though, is it?


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Trashing the Islands
Incubating Change
By A. Kam Napier • Aug 10, 2018
Manoa Innovation Center
Credit Hawaii Technology Development Corp.
The Mānoa Innovation Center has just changed hands. That's an opportunity for one state entity and a set-back for another.
Until July, the state Hawaii Technology Development Corp. had run the Mānoa Innovation Center as an incubator for tech-start-ups. That state agency had had a 25-year lease for the facility from its landowner, the University of Hawaii, that expired in 2015, and had been renewed on a month-to-month basis.
UH will now run the Mānoa Innovation Center. Vissilis Syrmos, UH vice president for research and innovation, tells PBN the university's first priority is figuring out its funding model and how to pay for needed upgrades to the 30-year-old building. It needs everything from updated furniture to roof repairs. After that, UH will continue to run it as an incubator for fledgling tech companies.
The transfer has been a revenue set-back for the Hawaii Technology Development Corp. The state agency has lost some $800,000 as it scaled down operations to leave the MIC. Executive Director and CEO Robbie Melton says this is temporary, and hopes to work out the funding with the Legislature.
HTDC has been developing an incubation center of its own, having broken ground in April on a $7.3 million Entrepreneur's Sandbox Facility in Kakaʻako.
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Lights, Camera, Money
By A. Kam Napier • Aug 3, 2018
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When the state legislature renewed Hawaii's film production tax credit, it added a plot twist — a cap on the credit. And that has industry leaders concerned.
From Courtroom to C-Suite
By A. Kam Napier • Jul 27, 2018
Eugene Tanner / Pacific Business News
John Komeiji, the new president and general manager of Hawaiian Telcom, has had an unusual career. It's one that started in the courtroom and has now ended up in the C-suite.
Japan's New Hawai'i Investments
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Japanese investors are continuing to buy real estate in Hawai'i. But they're doing so in a new way, for new reasons.


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Album: Summertime Shootout 3: Coldest Summer Ever (13 Tracks)
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Fabolous us vs. the world ft. chris brown, teyana taylor: Fabolous is looking to heat up the season withSummer Shootout 3: TheColdest Summer Ever. The 16-track project, which marks the final installment of theSummer Shootoutseries, includes the previously released singles "Ooh Yea" with Ty Dolla Sign, "Choosy" with Jeremih and Davido, and "B.O.M.B.S."
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This is a new experimental filament made from a mix of wood particles and bio-polymers, which can be used in your 3D printer to produce items that look like wood or cardboard.
The print texture is simply beautiful and it hides print layers nicely, without making extremely thin layers. Even tree rings are possible by varying the extrusion temperature, which results in different shades of brown.


Learn the secret tricks and tweaks to successfully running your own website, flawlessly. Master the dos and don'ts of the digital workplace to establish a firm hold on the market with the help of a bulletproof website and great design. Read the article for a thorough guide.
Have you paid attention to you lately? Did you notice the alarming number of people glued to their smartphone and tablet? Well, it is no longer a trend but a way of life to be so dependent on mobile devices.
One thing is certain, Mobile is ubiquitous.
Our smartphones are smart enough to perform complex tasks like internet browsing, constant connection to social media feeds, emails, and eCommerce. Tasks which were only possible on desktops can be accomplished on the move.
So why are there so many businesses that haven't adapted to the mobile market?
Naturally, since the mobile internet use is on the rise, the importance of responsive web design is too. In the past, where you had to design two separate sites for desktop and mobile, are bundled together in one universal mobile-friendly website.
Google is the primary search engine which singlehandedly monopolizes the search engine market, so it is a smart move to love what Google loves. Google not only recommends RWD but also favors the mobile optimized sites for searches on the mobile device.
Even from the SEO perspective, a single website is much better than a separate website for mobile and desktops.
With 67% market share, when Google speaks, designers listen. And now Google states that RWD is not only the industry standard but also the future of mobile browsing.
RWD provides easy navigation and seamless transition between different screen sizes and multiple devices. You can check for something on the mobile device and yet continue to the same website on the desktop without hampering the user experience.
Taking care of separate desktop and the mobile site requires having separate Google Adwords campaigns, SEO campaigns, and separate Google Analytics reports. Managing one site is, of course, far easier than managing two sites, it's just simple mathematics.
The content on the web page should load under/between 2-3 seconds according to Google PageSpeed Developers. This gets tricky for a desktop website to load fast on the move, but it is also observed that people often don't wait long enough for the site to load. Optimize your web media to load quicker.
Responsive web design calls for one single website across all devices, thus the extra expenses of maintain two separate sites are cut down. Furthermore, a complicated, well-crafted responsive design can be expensive, but once published, you can easily maintain it. Plus it is always economical to design one website instead of two , wouldn't you agree too?


Lightning, lions, elephants and sharks � all for personal and very good reasons.
A second Christmas dinnertime when my daughter had made crackers and we played with the hilarious contents.
Talking to cats Buying old knitted toys � but I�m trying to give it up.
Not a lot, but I have vivid night dreams, mostly about being lost in a strange city, having lots of people to feed and having bought and prepared no food, and having lost my children. Those three nightmares often combine!
Pulled down a retired dermatologist�s trousers at a party to teach him some manners.
To live every day as if it is my last.
A published writer since 1979 I think it was. ( Wrote captions to go with my published photos in a national magazine) Suddenly realised I could do this. Had short stories published about the same time. But wrote my first, unpublished, novel called A SURFEIT OF GENET. Dreadful self-absorbed rubbish, but an agent liked it � he couldn�t persuade any publishers though. Just as well. It�s still in a cupboard somewhere. But everyone has to write rubbish before they can write anything worth keeping � it�s like an apprenticeship. You can only learn to write by writing.
When I was short-listed in a Vogue Talent Contest in 1976 I think it was. Marina Warner was the winner. I was the only winner without a degree. I sat next to one of the judges - Princess Margaret�s photographer husband � Anthony Armstrong Jones at the prize giving lunch at the Vogue House in Hanover Square. He wore a name badge with DAISY on it. I drank too much champagne.
At my computer in a workroom with a panoramic view of the sea. The cats follow me and keep me company.
The best thing is being able to work from home, so I can fit in shopping and cooking etc when I want to. More to the point, I enjoy working for myself, and being able to express myself every day. I am unhappy if I don�t create something every day. The worst thing is the isolation. When I do meet people I tend to gabble, as if I have been alone on a desert island for years.
Ignore it, don�t believe in it, just write anything at all � what is outside the window, what are the cats doing, what have I just read, what did I cook last night? What are the gulls doing? Eventually, something good comes out of the dross. Also, I am a photographer, so I make photos and plan photo books when the writing muse strays.
Read all the classics and anything new that�s good. Forget the rubbish. If you only read rubbish, you�ll probably write rubbish. And write something every day. Keep a journal of things you see and notice � smells, sights, sounds, natural events: The time you trod on a snail, a red moon, the scent of snow, rain on a window. You might think you can remember, but life gets in the way and you forget. Better write it down. That way you have a record and can make use of it somehow �in a story or a poem. Use all your senses. Be alive. The world is wonderful. Life is to be lived. Then you have something to write about. Work hard at it. It�s worth it.


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Many have considered estate planning the process of memorializing wishes upon someone's passing, which is a part of the goals and purposes of estate planning; however, estate planning includes more than the planning for death but also the planning for life. Estate planning is about effectively planning for seen and unforeseen contingencies in life that include but are not limited to incapacity, tax planning, death, public benefits planning, care for oneself and designation of who provides that care, empowering loved ones and trusted friends to assist you, and securing the care and provisions for children and other loved ones. A good and periodically reviewed estate plan creates comfort in providing the assurance that you have taken the steps necessary for yourself and for those you care about.
Testamentary Trust - A testamentary trust is contained in the provisions of a will, and most often, considers estate tax implications and any special planning for the beneficiaries of the estate.
Spendthrift Trust -A primary function of a spendthrift trust is to create trust assets that are protected from creditor claims of the trust's beneficiaries.
Life Insurance Trust -A properly created Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust separates the insured from any incidents of ownership and permits the beneficiaries to receive the proceeds or the benefits of the proceeds without estate tax liabilities. A life insurance trust can be a useful tool in paying estate settlement expenses and estate taxes, and funding education for children and grandchildren.
Special Needs Trust - A trust designed to maximize public benefits eligibility to ensure a continuum of care throughout the lifetime of the beneficiary. This trust involves careful planning and continued supervision to ensure that the trust terms stay in conformity with relevant laws and continue to meet the needs of the trust beneficiary.
Designation of Guardian Before the Need Arises - In a duly prepared and signed writing, an individual may designate whom he or she may want to serve as their guardian, if a court determines that such appointment is needed.
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FUW urges Welsh farmers to respond to future of farming consultation
The Farmers' Union of Wales is urging all farmers in Wales to respond to a Welsh Government consultation on post-Brexit agricultural and land use policies.
'Brexit and our land: Securing the future of Welsh farming', launched today (July 10), expands upon key principles already outlined by the Cabinet Secretary Lesley Griffiths, and proposes replacing direct support for farmers with payments for delivering environmental goods, accompanied by an overarching scheme aimed at farm business improvement and development.
Commenting on the document, FUW President Glyn Roberts said: "What is proposed would constitute the most radical change to our farm policies since 2005, and is a world away from the kind of policies previously in place from 1947 onwards.
"Given this, it is essential that farmers take the time to consider them over the coming weeks and months and respond to the consultation appropriately."
The Welsh Government intends to organise a number of events across Wales later in the year during which farmers and others will be able to learn more about the proposals and ask questions, before the deadline at the end of October.
Mr Roberts said that as the FUW is a member of the Cabinet Secretary's Roundtable group and sub groups, the proposals did not come as a surprise.
"We have numerous concerns about what is being proposed, and we have been vociferous in raising these.
"Amongst these are the fact that the EU have recently announced their commitment to providing the farmers against which we will compete with ongoing direct support at levels similar to those currently in place," said Mr Roberts.
"We also need to be aware of policy proposals in other parts of the UK and make sure Welsh policies do not place our farmers at a disadvantage."
The Scottish Government has recently reiterated its commitment to recognising topographical and other handicaps faced by Scottish farmers and providing support payments which recognise these.
"Given we have a similar proportion of disadvantaged land to Scotland, it would be unacceptable if our own government placed us at a disadvantage to our Scottish counterparts," he said.
Mr Roberts welcomed the fact that the paper acknowledged the need for an appropriate transition period, and raised the question of what a transition might look like.
"The FUW has made it clear since the June 2016 EU Referendum that we need an appropriate and lengthy transition period to any new policy, and that the dangers of implementing a policy over just a few years would be significant.
"We have also highlighted the need to take policy developments in terms of the next EU agricultural policy and the progress of Brexit negotiations into account, rather than rushing forward with detailed proposals which might turn out to be completely inappropriate under the final Brexit agreement."
Mr Roberts said that the position agreed by the UK Government's Cabinet on Friday on how agricultural commodities might be traded with the EU made it clear why the FUW was right to do this.
"Above all else, the interests and future of our family farms should be the priority in terms of any future policy for Wales."
"The FUW will be consulting with each of its twelve county branches over the coming months, and their views will be fully reflected in our response to the Welsh Government."


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import pypcd
import plyfile
import numpy
import scipy.spatial
import mcubes
import tempfile
import meshlabxml
from pyhull.convex_hull import ConvexHull
from curvox import pc_vox_utils
import types

# Binvox functions

def binvox_to_ply(voxel_grid, **kwargs):
    """

    :param voxel_grid:
    :type voxel_grid: binvox_rw.Voxels
    :param kwargs:
    :return:
    """
    percent_offset = kwargs.get("percent_offset", (0.5, 0.5, 0.45))
    marching_cubes_resolution = kwargs.get("marching_cubes_resolution", 0.5)

    patch_size = voxel_grid.dims[0]
    pc_center_in_voxel_grid = (patch_size * percent_offset[0], patch_size * percent_offset[1], patch_size * percent_offset[2])
    voxel_resolution = voxel_grid.scale / patch_size
    center_point_in_voxel_grid = voxel_grid.translate + numpy.array(pc_center_in_voxel_grid) * voxel_resolution

    vertices, faces = mcubes.marching_cubes(voxel_grid.data, marching_cubes_resolution)
    vertices = vertices * voxel_resolution - numpy.array(pc_center_in_voxel_grid) * voxel_resolution + numpy.array(center_point_in_voxel_grid)

    ply_data = generate_ply_data(vertices, faces)

    # Export to plyfile type
    return ply_data

def binvox_to_ply(voxel_grid, **kwargs):
    """

    :param voxel_grid:
    :type voxel_grid: numpy.Array
    :param kwargs:
    :return:
    """
    marching_cubes_resolution = kwargs.get("marching_cubes_resolution", 0.5)

    patch_size = voxel_grid.shape[0]
    vertices, faces = mcubes.marching_cubes(voxel_grid, marching_cubes_resolution)
    vertices = vertices * voxel_resolution

    ply_data = generate_ply_data(vertices, faces)

    # Export to plyfile type
    return ply_data

# Helper functions

def generate_ply_data(points, faces):
    """

    :param points:
    :param faces:
    :return:
    """
    vertices = [(point[0], point[1], point[2]) for point in points]
    faces = [(point,) for point in faces]

    vertices_np = numpy.array(vertices, dtype=[('x', 'f4'), ('y', 'f4'), ('z', 'f4')])
    faces_np = numpy.array(faces, dtype=[('vertex_indices', 'i4', (3,))])

    vertex_element = plyfile.PlyElement.describe(vertices_np, 'vertex')
    face_element = plyfile.PlyElement.describe(faces_np, 'face')

    return plyfile.PlyData([vertex_element, face_element], text=True)

def smooth_ply(ply_data):
    # Store ply_data in temporary file
    tmp_ply_filename = tempfile.mktemp(suffix=".ply")
    with open(tmp_ply_filename, 'w') as tmp_ply_file:
        ply_data.write(tmp_ply_file)

    # Initialize meshlabserver and meshlabxml script
    unsmoothed_mesh = meshlabxml.FilterScript(file_in=tmp_ply_filename, file_out=tmp_ply_filename, ml_version="1.3.2")
    meshlabxml.smooth.laplacian(unsmoothed_mesh, iterations=6)
    unsmoothed_mesh.run_script(print_meshlabserver_output=False, skip_error=True)

    # Read back and store new data
    with open(tmp_ply_filename, 'r') as tmp_ply_file:
        ply_data_smoothed = plyfile.PlyData.read(tmp_ply_file)
    return ply_data_smoothed

def _generate_gaussian_process_points(points, offsets, observed_value, offset_value):
    offset_points = numpy.subtract(points, offsets)

    new_points = numpy.concatenate([points, offset_points])
    observations = numpy.ones((new_points.shape[0], 1))

    # Assign first half to observed_value and second half to offset_value
    observations[:points.shape[0]] = observed_value
    observations[points.shape[0]:] = offset_value

    return new_points, observations

def generate_ply_data(points, faces):
    """

    :param points:
    :param faces:
    :return:
    """
    vertices = [(point[0], point[1], point[2]) for point in points]
    faces = [(point,) for point in faces]

    vertices_np = numpy.array(vertices, dtype=[('x', 'f4'), ('y', 'f4'), ('z', 'f4')])
    faces_np = numpy.array(faces, dtype=[('vertex_indices', 'i4', (3,))])

    vertex_element = plyfile.PlyElement.describe(vertices_np, 'vertex')
    face_element = plyfile.PlyElement.describe(faces_np, 'face')

    return plyfile.PlyData([vertex_element, face_element], text=True)

def read_obj_file(obj_filepath):
    with open(obj_filepath, 'r') as f:
        lines = f.readlines()
        verts = numpy.array([[float(v) for v in l.strip().split(' ')[1:]] for l in lines if
                          l[0] == 'v' and len(l.strip().split(' ')) == 4])
        faces = numpy.array([[int(v) for v in l.strip().split(' ')[1:]] for l in lines if l[0] == 'f'])
    faces -= 1
    return verts, faces

def convert_obj_to_ply(obj_filepath):
    verts, faces = read_obj_file(obj_filepath)
    ply_data = generate_ply_data(verts, faces)
    return ply_data

# Functions for saving and loading PCL and PLY files

def complete_pcd_file_and_save(pcd_filename, completion_method, **kwargs):
    """

    :param pcd_filename:
    :param completion_method:
    :type completion_method: types.FunctionType
    :param kwargs:
    :return:
    """
    if completion_method not in COMPLETION_METHODS:
        raise ValueError("completion_method must be a completion method defined in this module")

    suffix = kwargs.get("suffix", "")
    cloud = pypcd.Pointcloud.from_file(pcd_filename)
    points = curvox.cloud_conversions.pcl_to_np(cloud)

    plydata = completion_method(points, **kwargs)

    ply_filename = pcd_filename.replace(".pcd", suffix + ".ply")
    plydata.write(open(ply_filename, 'wb'))

def complete_tactile_pcd_file_and_save(depth_pcd_filename, tactile_pcd_filename, completion_method, **kwargs):
    """

    :param depth_pcd_filename:
    :param tactile_pcd_filename:
    :param completion_method:
    :param kwargs:
    :return:
    """
    suffix = kwargs.get("suffix", "")
    depth_cloud = pypcd.Pointcloud.from_file(depth_pcd_filename)
    depth_points = curvox.cloud_conversions.pcl_to_np(depth_cloud)
    tactile_cloud = pypcd.Pointcloud.from_file(tactile_pcd_filename)
    tactile_points = curvox.cloud_conversions.pcl_to_np(tactile_cloud)

    if completion_method not in TACTILE_COMPLETION_METHODS:
        raise ValueError("completion_method must be a tactile completion method defined in this module")

    plydata = completion_method(depth_points, tactile_points, **kwargs)

    ply_filename = depth_pcd_filename.replace(".pcd", suffix + ".ply")
    plydata.write(open(ply_filename, 'wb'))

# Depth only completions

def delaunay_completion(points, **kwargs):
    """

    :param points:
    :param kwargs:
    :return:
    """
    smooth = kwargs.get("smooth", False)

    # Triangulate points in (x, y) coordinate plane
    tri = scipy.spatial.Delaunay(points[:, 0:2])

    ply_data = generate_ply_data(points, tri.simplices)
    if smooth:
        ply_data = smooth_ply(ply_data)

    # Generate ply data
    return ply_data

def marching_cubes_completion(points, **kwargs):
    """

    :param points:
    :param kwargs:
    :return:
    """
    patch_size = kwargs.get("patch_size", 120)
    percent_offset = kwargs.get("percent_offset", (0.5, 0.5, 0.45))
    percent_patch_size = kwargs.get("percent_patch_size", 0.8)
    marching_cubes_resolution = kwargs.get("marching_cubes_resolution", 0.5)
    smooth = kwargs.get("smooth", False)

    voxel_grid, voxel_center, voxel_resolution, center_point_in_voxel_grid = pc_vox_utils.pc_to_binvox(
        points=points,
        patch_size=patch_size,
        percent_offset=percent_offset,
        percent_patch_size=percent_patch_size
    )

    vertices, faces = mcubes.marching_cubes(voxel_grid.data, marching_cubes_resolution)
    vertices = pc_vox_utils.rescale_mesh(vertices, voxel_center, voxel_resolution, center_point_in_voxel_grid)

    ply_data = generate_ply_data(vertices, faces)

    # If we are smoothing use meshlabserver to smooth over mesh
    if smooth:
        ply_data = smooth_ply(ply_data)

    # Export to plyfile type
    return ply_data

def qhull_completion(points, **kwargs):
    smooth = kwargs.get("smooth", False)

    hull = ConvexHull(points)

    # Fix inverted normals from pyhull
    hull.vertices = [vertex[::-1] for vertex in hull.vertices]

    ply_data = generate_ply_data(points, hull.vertices)

    # If we are smoothing use meshlabserver to smooth over mesh
    if smooth:
        ply_data = smooth_ply(ply_data)

    return ply_data

# Tactile completion methods

def delaunay_tactile_completion(depth_points, tactile_points, **kwargs):
    points = numpy.concatenate([depth_points, tactile_points])
    return delaunay_completion(points, **kwargs)

def marching_cubes_tactile_completion(depth_points, tactile_points, **kwargs):
    points = numpy.concatenate([depth_points, tactile_points])
    return marching_cubes_completion(points, **kwargs)

def qhull_tactile_completion(depth_points, tactile_points, **kwargs):
    points = numpy.concatenate([depth_points, tactile_points])
    return qhull_completion(points, **kwargs)

COMPLETION_METHODS = [
    delaunay_completion,
    marching_cubes_completion,
    qhull_completion,
]
TACTILE_COMPLETION_METHODS = [
    delaunay_tactile_completion,
    marching_cubes_tactile_completion,
    qhull_tactile_completion
]

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On the 21st of January, 2016 the RegPol² partners from the Research Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (CERS HAS) organized a national workshop on regional polarization in Békéscsaba/Hungary. Among the participants were local researchers and students from the Research Centre, the University of Szeged and Szent Istvan University in Hungary as well as three Early Stage Researchers from the RegPol² initial training network. In the course of his secondment at CERS HAS, Bradley Loewen gave a public lecture introducing the first results of his research project on "Path contingency and path innovation of regional policies in old and new economy locations". Furthermore, Sebastian Schulz (University of Tartu) and Bianka Plüschke-Altof (Geomedia OÜ) were invited to discuss their research on "Regional innovation policies" and "Peripheralization discourses". After the lectures, the attendants had the opportunity to ask questions and discuss the topics with the presenters.


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The introductions and road logs from field trips offered by the New York State Geological Association (NYSGA) over the past 55 years are being transformed into kml files. These files are maintained as Google Fusion Tables, accessible to the public.
This paper begins by briefly summarizing the kinds of data being transformed, their strengths, and their limitations. It then details the procedures used to accomplish the transformation, from scanning the original document to uploading the data to Fusion Tables. By using a subset of available kml (Keyhole Markup Language) fields, and establishing a numbering convention for the placemarks, an efficient system has been developed where sufficient metadata is embedded within each placemark to permit mixing and matching of any of the placemarks. Using this system, additional field trip guides from GSA (Geological Society of America), AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists), NEIGC (New England Inter-Collegiate Geological Conference), etc., might be transformed, increasing the size and value of the Fusion Tables database. The information provided will permit others to do this, producing kml files and Fusion Tables which will be consistent with those already done.
The paper discusses searching, merging, and adding photos to Fusion Tables and some of the ways in which Fusion Table data can be displayed on websites dynamically. The paper concludes by describing how the Fusion Tables from this project can export custom-made field trips, can be manipulated by other GIS applications, and can be used in a classroom setting to produce crude geologic maps.


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Emperor of Japan
The Allies and the God-Emperor of Japan
Place of Emperor in Life of Japan
The Emperorship and a New Japan
Allied Terms of Surrender Accepted by Japan
The Terms of surrender accepted August 14, 1945, by the Imperial Government of Japan carried into effect a policy toward the Emperor which had been consistently followed by the Government of the United States since the opening of the war with Japan in December. 1941. That policy was to make use, for its own purposes, of whatever influence the Japanese Emperor might have over his subjects and to leave the ultimate fate of their ruler to the people of Japan.
The Japanese government offered surrender on the basis of the Potsdam declaration of July 26,1945, "with the understanding that the said declaration does not comprise any demand which prejudices the prerogatives of His Majesty as a sovereign ruler."
The reply made August 11 by the American Secretary of State, on behalf of the governments of the United States, Great Britain, Soviet Russia and China, stated the position of the "Big Four" on the Japanese condition to surrender as follows:
Jul. 26, 2002 Japan in Crisis
May 31, 1991 The U.S. And Japan
Apr. 09, 1982 Tensions in U.S.-Japanese Relations
Jul. 01, 1977 Japanese Elections
Mar. 04, 1970 Emergent Japan
Jun. 25, 1969 Okinawa Question
Jan. 05, 1966 Rising Japanese Nationalism
Jun. 02, 1960 Japan: Disturbed Ally
Nov. 18, 1959 Japanese Competition in International Trade
May 11, 1955 Relations With Japan
Nov. 03, 1954 Japan's Economy
Jan. 09, 1952 Trade with Japan
Feb. 28, 1951 Japan and Pacific Security
Sep. 19, 1947 Peace with Japan
Aug. 14, 1945 Emperor of Japan
Nov. 03, 1944 Russo-Japanese Relations
Dec. 09, 1939 The United States and Japan's New Order in Asia
Dec. 05, 1938 Japan and the Open Door Policy
Apr. 29, 1935 Japanese Foreign Trade Expansion
May 11, 1934 Japanese Policy in Asia
Oct. 12, 1932 Japanese-American Relations
Mar. 17, 1932 Boycotts and Embargoes
Feb. 10, 1932 Militarism Vs. Liberalism in Japan
Regional Political Affairs: East Asia and the Pacific


This is a website/blog i've started basically designed to broaden everyone's horizon's regarding animation..
every coupla days i post a new clip of a famous, classic or contemporary animation clip so when i tell people what i do i dont get the countlessly repeated "oh like finding nemo?"... yes YES FOR THE HUNDREDTH TIME YES LIKE FINDING NEMO!!!
theres nothing wrong with pixar or for that matter any other type of commercialized animation.. hey im a big fan myself.. but i guess what im trying to do is fight the good fight, and keep the awareness alive for those oldies and those goodies.. the animated shorts that changed the animation medium forever, the ones that we all remember but can never watch again, the ones that NEARLY won the academy award, the stand-out amazing films made by animation students with real potential and vision.. the amazing and psychadelic animations made by pot-head crazies and the inspiring and profound shorts made by modern-day rennaisance men.. and the best part of all of it.. thanks to the wonderful medium of youtube, you get a new one every coupla days!
I really liked Hedgehog as well as Darkness, Light, Darkness. Your demo reel looks promising!
Have you had any response/feedback on your demo reel?
actually yes, it wasnt good enough :s but thats not to say im giving up.. ive started planning some more humour based action pieces (when all else fails, return to slapstick).. my next piece will be a guy who is trying to fly with cardboard wings strapped to his arms.. * an homage to my love for youtube..


Yesterday, Nicki demonstrated a bed bug search in front of ~100 Pest Control Operators (PCOs), vendors and instructors in Sturbridge.
As always, Nicki performed perfectly. She loves people and at first as she came into the room, she wanted to smell everyone's feet and socialize, but her handler brought her back to perform her job. And she obeyed dutifully and happily. I wish I had taken a picture.
She jumped up and skipped, with her long beagle ears flapping in the air and she alerted to all those places that had vials of bed bugs hidden.
As Nicki performed, I heard pleasant comments from the crowd about Nicki.
We received a lot of pertinent questions from the PCOs and the instructor, Kevin Moran, renowned board-certified entomologist, who is well versed on the subject of bed bugs and introduced our company to the crowd.
Nicki received a round of applause at the conclusion of her inspection.


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var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var favicon = require('serve-favicon');
var logger = require('morgan');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var session = require('express-session');
var user = require('./lib/middleware/user');

var users = require('./routes/users');
var routes = require('./routes/index');
var entries = require('./routes/entries');

var messages = require('./lib/messages');

var api = require('./routes/api')

var app = express();

// view engine setup
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');

// uncomment after placing your favicon in /public
app.use(favicon(path.join(__dirname, 'public', 'favicon.ico')));
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(session({
	secret: 'xxxx',
	resave: false,
	saveUninitialized: true,
	cookie: { secure: false }}));//这里非常重要,如果设为true,session存储不会成功
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.use('/api',api.auth);
app.use(user);
app.use(messages);

app.use('/', users);
app.use('/index', routes);
app.use('/entries',entries);
app.use('/api',api.route);

if (app.get('env') === 'development') {
	app.get('/index/dev/error',(req,res,next)=>{
		var err = new Error('database error');
		err.type = 'database';
		next(err);
	});
}

// catch 404 and forward to error handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
	var err = new Error('Not Found');
	err.status = 404;
	res.status(404).format({
		html:function(){
			res.render('404');
		},
		json:function(){
			res.send({
				message:'资源找不到'
			});
		},
		xml:function(){
			res.write('<error>\n');
			res.write('<message>资源找不到</message>\n');
			res.write('</error>\n');
		},
		text:function(){
			res.send('资源找不到\n');
		}
	});
	next(err);
});

// error handlers

// development error handler
// will print stacktrace
if (app.get('env') === 'development') {
	app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
		console.error(err.stack);
		switch(err.type){
			case 'database':
				res.statusCode = 503;
			default:
				res.status(err.status || 500);
		}
		res.format({
			html:function(){
				res.render('error', {
					message: err.message,
					error: err
				});
			},
			json:function(){
				res.send({error:err.message})
			},
			text:function(){
				res.send(err.message + '\n')
			}
		});
		next(err);
	});
}

// production error handler
// no stacktraces leaked to user
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
	res.status(err.status || 500);
	res.render('error', {
		message: err.message,
		error: {}
	});
});

module.exports = app;


Harper's Bazaar: Does Arab skin require a different approach?
Michele Barclay: Our techniques have been formulated and adapted to our clientele, which is mainly Arab women. My team and I have several years of experience working with local skin types, allowing us to really perfect the most suitable techniques.
HB: What do you keep in mind when treating Arab women?
MB: Biologically, Arab skin is thicker than Caucasian skin to accommodate the sun's rays. It is important to limit sun exposure to make the results of microblading last longer. Humidity can also affect the results as it encourages sweating, which can push out the pigment.
HB: How do you determine shape?
MB: We always look to enhance the natural shape and we draw lines that follow the face's bone structure.
HB: Why do Middle Eastern women benefit from microblading?
MB: Even though most Arab woman have a good amount of hair, there are always gaps that require filling to create a more balanced look.
HB: What colours work best with Middle Eastern skin types?
MB: We tend to use more ash tones than warm tones as the skin usually warms up the pigment over time.
HB: What are the pitfalls of not going to an experienced therapist?
MB: The skin needs time to heal, so that it is not overworked. We see many cases of overworked brows, with far too much saturation of old pigment.
Top Left: The Ascending Brow: Longer front finished with a lifted tale. Bottom Left: The Fluffy Brow: Ultra-natural with graduated fluffy hair at the start of the bulb, intentionally unruly. Top Right: The Classic Brow: A flatter brow with an elongated tail. Bottom Right: The High Arch: Good for older clients, this opens up the eyes.


Paul Wareham, a qualified Accountant (ACCA) and holder of an MBA from Manchester Business School, is the driving force behind PS Accountants. Paul began the practice while based in Dubai in the mid-2000s and following his re-location to the UK in 2010, opened his first office in Littleborough, Rochdale.
Paul undertook his initial training at a small independent firm in Manchester, and having spent time as an auditor, continued his career at Mazars - gaining a wealth of experience whilst working in Corporate Finance from their Leeds office.
After moving to Dubai, he initially helped UK expats to complete their UK tax returns and assisted new start-ups to raise finance and assess their viability through the production of business plans and financial forecasting. On his return to the UK, the opening of the Rochdale practice enabled him to offer the full range of general practice services.
The practice is now based in Heywood covering the North Manchester area whilst also serving Lymm and the surrounding areas in Cheshire.
The practice provides business and tax services and advice to a wide range of clients across many different market sectors.
To provide a friendly and quality service you will want to tell your friends about.
To query and challenge your business model and make business recommendations wherever possible thereby helping you to either grow your business or reduce costs - helping to put more money in your pocket.
To be the first point of call for all your business queries and/or problems!


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Q: Firestore security rules | enforcing field VALUES It is possible to enforce field types with firestore security rules but is it possible to enforce field VALUE?
Lets say when a message is seen by the user.. The message seen field gets updated to true. And because this can never go back to false. How do I write a rule to only update seen field if it is to be updated to true.

A: The following rules should:

*

*allow creating a message document with seen value as false

*update seen to true only that too it is currently false
 match /messages/{messageId} {
   allow create: if request.resource.data.seen == false;
   allow update: if resource.data.seen == false && request.resource.data.seen == true;
 }

Do update the rules as per other requirements e.g. user must be authenticated and so on.
resource.data contains data of document being updated and request.resource.data contains data to be added/updated in the document. More details about this can be found in the documentation

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Burst of Speed (Ex) Once per day, the creature is capable of boosting its normal speed, doubling it for a short duration. When this occurs, the creatures speed becomes 60 ft. per round. This burst of speed will last for 4 plus 1d6 rounds before the creature resumes its regular speed. During this period, the creature is fully capable of making two attacks per round with its claws, or one slam and one claw.
Consumption (Ex) When the creature uses its bite attack, for every six hit points of damage it inflicts, it is able to re-use its Burst of Speed ability. If the creature has not used the burst of speed, then the creature cannot benefit from this particular ability, nor does it allow the creature to build a reservoir of additional uses of this ability.
Create Spawn (Su) Any creature that is slain by a Ferocious Zombie becomes a regular Zombie in 1d4 minutes. There is a 10% chance the slain victim will instead rise as a Ferocious zombie instead of a regular zombie. They lose all memories and personality as well as any classes, skills or other abilities. They retain an animal-like cunning and gain the skills of a Ferocious zombie.
Infectious bite (Sp) Anyone bitten by one of these creatures must make a Fort save (DC 15) or become infected with the zombie virus. Each hour the victim is allowed another Fort saving throw (DC 15) or lose 1d3 points of Constitution. When the Constitution score reaches zero, the victim dies and will rise as a spawn (see Create Spawn above). A cure disease or other similar spell, spell-like ability, or medical drug will cure the victim, and the lost Constitution score will return at the victims' natural healing rate per day.
Slam Knockdown (Ex) When the Ferocious zombie hits with its slam attack, the target must make a Ref save (DC 15) or be knocked prone. If the slam attack is a critical, the attack inflicts an additional 1d6 damage and the target is automatically knocked prone (although targets with the evasion ability are still afforded a saving throw to prevent being knocked prone.
This particular breed of undead was twisted with the intention of creating a 'fast' type of zombie, one that would be incredibly quick as well as far more dangerous than the regular types of zombies that had sprung from the various biological terror laboratories and ambitious necromancers.
It took a great deal of experimentation and tweaking, but the twisted minds responsible for these undead horrors finally created what they had hoped to – a zombie that was fast and deadly, and able to spread the plague.
These creatures appear as most other types of zombies, except that they tend to be very lean and move with an unnatural grace that those who witness find disturbing. The skin is typically grey or mottled, and the hands and face are almost always coated with fresh or dried blood. They also tend to growl constantly, whereas most of the undead creatures merely moan hungrily.
Sometimes they are found with packs or hordes of other types of zombies, bit no more than one Ferocious zombie per ten other types of zombie. More often than not these zombies are loners, hunting and feeding alone. Anyone bitten by these creatures are exposed to the plague that creates the undead, with the majority who succumb to the plague becoming regular zombies. One in ten however mutate into these creatures.
When they are spotted, they often will be moving on all fours, like a predatory animal. As soon as they spot living beings however, they will employ their burst of speed and usually will use their slam attack in an attempt to bring a target down.


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Shining a spotlight on inspiring individuals, highlighting achievements & discussing the effects of inequality.
To celebrate International Women's day, 8th March 2020, Cogs are dedicating this month to women across the Digital industry. Shining a spotlight on inspiring individuals, highlighting achievements & discussing the effects of inequality.
The case for gender equality has never had more momentum than now. From the #MeToo movement of 2019 to global initiatives for inclusion in every industry and workplace – women are officially the focus of the conversation.
Within the digital and tech industries, the gender divide still remains a challenge for women. Despite definite leaps in the right direction, an unconscious bias is still glaringly visible. However this is also the era for transition and change – which means now is the time to act in the hope of bridging the gender gaps in our evolving industry.
Over the past decade, there has been a vast improvement in the number of females heading into digital across the globe. There has been nearly 25% increase in female representation overall in the Software & IT industry which is promising.
A positive insight came recently from a study conducted by travel booking platform Trainline which revealed that 60% of people in the tech sector think the next year will see more women working in tech, while 19% of respondents believe there will be an increase in women choosing technical roles more specifically.
Positive Initiatives
There are already many initiatives across the globe that are working hard to support the movement of more women into the digital space,
In 2019 European Commission pledged to encourage and empower women to play a more active role in the digital age. 26 European Member States and Norway have signed a declaration to encourage women to play an active and prominent role in the digital and technology sectors.
Supporting and motivating women today to reskill (or upskill) and take their place in the digital ecosystem is the first step to reducing the gender bias in our industry.
How can things improve for women in the workplace?
We look to the women behind Cogs to share their insights on how we can improve things within the workplace:
"Acknowledging glass ceiling exist for woman in senior and leadership roles and provide opportunities for more female presence in leadership and c-suite roles."
Kinnari Patel – Group Finance Manager, Cogs London
"There should be more commitment to business ideologies meaning that equality is inherent in all aspects of a company's profile. Regardless of gender. All should be treated equal, which means pay, benefits and rights in the workplace."
Beth Harries – Principal Consultant, Cogs London
""Freedom of career-change for pregnant women. I believe society still has a long way to go regarding the intersection of pregnancy and job-changing/promotions. Women should not have to think that once they become pregnant, they have to sit back and accept their current employment situation."
Monica Cristea, Consultant, Cogs Berlin
"Job Equality and Fairness; Women should have equal opportunity to apply for any job in the market as men do by eliminating the gender requirement in the job qualification so that female candidates and male candidates can compete by their actual skills and capabilities."
Selma Mo, Principal Consultant, Cogs China
Women in the digital workplace today have had to overcome a number of challenges and biases to be there they are today. At Cogs, we are lucky enough to be in touch with lots of exceptional female talents. To understand how they deal with gender balance and inequality over their careers, we will spend the rest of this month sharing the stories of some female digital leaders in the Cogs network to share their experience.
The digital women we have been lucky enough to speak to for our inspirational women's series are:
Hanan Belarbi, Head of Data EMEA, RGA. London
Pia Betton, Design and Site Lead, Natnix, Germany
Miranda Glover, Director, Great State, London
Want to make an impact in digital? Or want to create a more diverse team. Speak to our teams today. to view our open roles
Women in Digital
https://cogsagency.com/technology/international-womens-day-2020/


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Software developed to match police sketches to mug shots
Software developed to match po...
Software created at Michigan State University is capable of matching faces in police sketches to those in mug shots (Image: MSU)
MSU doctoral student Brendan Klare is one of the leaders of the project (Photo: MSU)
We've seen it in numerous TV shows and movies – the witness to a crime looks through a book of mug shots, then works with a police sketch artist to come up with a likeness of the nasty person they saw. After looking through hundreds of mug shots, however, it's possible that the tired-brained witness could look right at a photo of the guilty party and not recognize them. It's also possible that there is a mug shot of the criminal on a database somewhere out there, but that this particular witness will never see it. A computer system being pioneered at Michigan State University, however, could be the solution to such problems – it automatically matches faces in police sketches to mug shots.
The MSU system doesn't work on a pixel-by-pixel basis, but instead uses algorithms to match faces based on prominent features such as the structural distribution and shape of the eyes, nose and chin. Given that sketches sometimes end up not looking all that much like the real person overall, but retaining some of their underlying characteristics, it becomes easy to see how a computer program could make connections that people looking at a "WANTED" poster might miss.
The system was put to the test using a collection of sketches from crimes in which the criminal was later identified, and a database of over 10,000 mug shots. It was able to match 45 percent of the sketches to the right photos – at this point, perhaps not good enough to base a conviction on, but certainly an aid in guiding investigators to likely suspects.
A field test of the system is planned to take place in about a year.
The research is being published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
Good ThinkingIEEECrimeRecognitionPoliceMichigan State University
Brandon Miller March 5, 2011 03:15 PM
MOM??
juancarlosre March 8, 2011 09:39 AM
Gizmag amazes me how the world communicates African and Hispanic communities are the offenders in the U.S.. The photo with the faces of criminals, even if they are just examples demonstrate the genius loci dominant. [The image used was supplied by Michigan State University, as an example of a successful match made by the system -Ed.]
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