Diving Into Political Waters > Good Luck To All 3 Newly-Elected Members of The Mesa City Council

You've had hard training overcoming attempted personal injuries, have gone through rigorous training and conquered numerous obstacles . . . now it's almost time to dive in. Keep the water clean and watch our for the Sharks or slippery fish
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Billy on the Street: Would You Have A Threesome with Billy and Jon Hamm?

Just having' fun with mad men

A SONG FOR YOU - Leon Russell

So many places and so little time

Terrorism Begins In The Mind | Raul Rodriguez | TEDxIIMUdaipur

Ignorance

Published on Nov 14, 2016

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With the threat of terrorism a forever looming presence in the life of the modern man, his talk centred around the real causes behind terrorism that lie beyond the scope of popular perceptions. While debunking certain myths about terrorism and terrorists, he compared ISIS with a well-oiled corporate house providing its employees about twelve and a half thousand dollars a month as salary.

Raul Rodriguez, a neuroscientist and private psychotherapist by profession, is a renowned authority in the fields of deception detection, psychotherapy, negotiation and criminal profiling. Raul spends his time providing aid and training to national security forces, law enforcement agencies both within the country and abroad and private corporate houses in Asia.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedxiews: 90

Don't Move To Canada Just Yet

Published on Nov 9, 2016 Views: over 5 million Sure, they've got free health care up there. But being an American citizen is like family: you're in it whether you like it or not.

For Readers of This Blog Site > Tongue-In-Cheek or Otherwise?

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Review:'Doctor Strange' is tongue-in-cheek Marvel at its best
Doctor Strange is a unique superhero, dealing with supernatural threats the Avengers can't handle. This occasionally takes the movie into serious head trip territory; astral projections, roll-top architecture, Cronenberg surgery, a mashup of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Thor's Asgard drenched in M.C. Escher.
Far out is an outdated yet appropriate compliment for this movie's look. . . Not since Iron Man has a superhero movie surprised and delighted like Doctor Strange, after eight years of Marvel glut and DC rebuttals in-between.

Like Iron Man B.D. (Before Downey), Doctor Strange is a second-tier Marvel superhero, less renowned than any Avenger not named Hawkeye. Knowing next to nothing about a comic book hero is handy when origin stories are mandatory. Unless you're into seeing Peter Parker's spider bite or Bruce Wayne's traumatic childhood again.
Planning beyond the Avengers assembly line, Marvel needs another Iron Man-like sucker punch with another Robert Downey Jr. performance shaking up perceptions of what superheroes can be. There's a lot of Tony Stark in Dr. Stephen Strange, and dashes of Downey in Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Marvel's next big thing among several.
Cumberbatch is inspired casting as Stephen, displaying a limber sense of humor seldom surfacing in his capital-T thespian choices.
A nice balance of solemn myth making and genre irreverence lifts Doctor Strange to Marvel's first tier of movie franchises.

A title card promises his return, and not one but two end credits scenes confirms it, as soon as next summer.
The doctor is in. Make an appointment.
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[ Blogger's Note and Credits: Excerpts and some images taken from  this review that appeared in The Tampa Bay Times on November 2, 2016 written by Steve Pearsall ]

Aurora . UnManned UH-1H What is It?

Aurora to Develop Unmanned UH-1H
Aurora Flight Sciences continues to break ground on the development of advanced autonomous capabilities for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) systems. Aurora's work on the Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System (AACUS) program will be leveraged to integrate the company's Tactical Autonomous Aerial Logistics System (TALOS) on a UH-1H helicopter. The primary goal of the AACUS program is to enable rapid cargo delivery by unmanned, and potentially optionally-manned, VTOL systems. AACUS encompasses the development and implementation of VTOL-based obstacle detection and avoidance, and allows for autonomous landings at unprepared, off-field, non-cooperative landing sites. AACUS also enables dynamic contingency planning to the point of landing, with goal-based supervisory control by any field personnel with no special training.
At the AACUS flight testing event held today in Northern Virginia, the AACUS program demonstrated on a manned Bell 206 the perception and planning capabilities required for autonomous takeoff, transit and landing. "We know how to make things fly, we've been doing it for over 100 years," said Retired Brig. Gen. Frank Kelley, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Unmanned Systems. "What we don't yet know how to do, is how to couple aircraft and autonomous systems together, but great programs like this are helping us get there."
Includes this eye-popping video

Aurora's TALOS system has been demonstrated previously on a Boeing H-6U Unmanned Little Bird flown autonomously, and three different human-piloted Bell 206 aircraft. "The arrival of a Huey as our third test platform frames a key point for future customers – the TALOS system is platform agnostic; you're not buying a new fleet of helicopters, you're buying a capability set for your current fleet," said John Wissler, Vice President of Aurora's R&D Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "TALOS is not an aircraft, nor is it a robot flying an aircraft –TALOS is transferable intelligence designed with both manned and unmanned aircraft requirements in mind. The value of TALOS can be described in a few words – platform agnostic, scalable autonomy, onboard sensing of the environment, and on-board intelligence that no other system in the world can provide."
Commercial applications for the TALOS technology are also being explored by Aurora. "Think of the civilian first responder pilot attempting to land in a remote, storm-ravaged area at night – TALOS senses and alerts to power lines and landing zone obstacles well before the pilot and informs the pilot's maneuvers," said Wissler.

Source : Aurora Flight Sciences - view original press release