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NASA Leads Demo for Drone Traffic Management Tech - Duration: 1:49.
The future of drones is out of sight
We're testing an automated drone traffic system
That is safe and efficient
We call this UTM
UTM is the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management
UTM uses cloud computing, AI and automation
The latest UTM tests took place at six sites over three weeks
They focused on flying beyond visual line of sight
Simulating a variety of scenarios
Search and rescue
Infrastructure surveys
Railway inspections
Package delivery
Our UTM work inspires collaboration between government, industry and universities
Test partners supplied drones, pilots and platform services
The next UTM demo starts later this year over moderately populated areas
Our research continues through 2019
All results go to the Federal Aviation Administration to implement the system
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Let's Play - Need For Speed: Undercover (2008) - Duration: 1:40:41.
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3 Designs for Turn Based Combat in Super Mario Maker. - Duration: 9:11.
Super Mario Maker is a stunning game.
There are so many unique and different interactions between the different obstacles that it's
possible to create really complicated contraptions.
Today we are going to test the limits of Mario Maker by trying to create turn based combat
systems.
We are going to take a look on a fighting system with an attack option a defense option
a special attack which only is available after the third turn, and an use item option.
We are going to take a look on a turn based combat prototype that doesn't require room
transitions and we are going to take a look at a turn based combat system where mario
gets a reward after each fight which is depended on how good our plumber fought before and
can then be spent at a shop.
So are you ready?
Let's do this!
So here's our first combat design.
Mario has to fight against this terrifying spiney, this room is the action command room
and mario will end up here after each turn.
He has the option to attack, to use a currently blocked special attack, to defend himself
and to use an item, it looks like mario wants to play it safe and to start with the item
command.
The item command leads our plumber to a small minigame.
There is a mushroom and a fire flower bouncing around.
Mario really would like to eat both of them but if he only has one chance to make them
reachable.
Triggering this skeleton roller coaster at the right time grants him the items though
getting the mushroom is much easier than getting the fireflower.
The fighting works in turns it's always marios action first followed by the action
of the terrifying spiney.
The spiney attacks mario by shooting ouching spikes towards him.
Mario has to survive here for a couple of seconds until a pow-block timer expires and
opens up the path back to the action command room.
Mario survived the first turn and he was even able to get a mushroom, what an amazing first
turn, now it's time to attack!
Attacking is a small mini game as well.
The brick blocks at the bottom are the spineys health.
It looks like this spiney has nine HP. Mario attacks by jumping towards this noteblock.
There is a bullet-blaster shooting dangerous shelmets and if mario times his jumping carefully
he is able to push these damaging shelmets upwards which causes them to deal one damage.
Mario has to try to get as many hits in as possible before a timer expires and ends mario's
attack phase.
Then the spiney attacks once again.
The spiney attacks always using the same pattern in this idea but it should be possible to
give the spiney different attacks by adding a blooper randomizer inbetween the end of
marios turn and the start of the spineys turn.
Next Mario decides to use the defend command.
The defense command.
The defense command skips marios action but the attack of the spiney is way less dangerous.
This would be a completely useless option if it wasn't for the special attack which
gets activated after the third turn.
This was the third turn so the special attack command is now available.
We will use a similar counting system for the third idea in this video and I'll explain
there how this works.
The special attack grants mario a helmet and is guaranteed to deal three damage to the
spiney.
Mario bounces this muncher-bullet blaster contraption on his head here and if he bounces
really well and is lucky he is able to get a fourth hit in.
So the special attack grants mario a shelmet and is guaranteed to deal three damage which
is pretty strong.
Sadly for mario the special attack isn't able to kill the spiney which is either a
really cool feature or a bug in the system because I ran out of space.
Okay so now the fight continues until either the spiney runs out of health or mario dies.
If Mario takes damage he can always play the item minigame again to regain a power up,
and he has always the choice between the non lethal but strong special attack or the basic
attack.
After a while our plumber is finally able to get the last hit in and to win the first
idea of the day.
Hooray!
I won't go into detail how everything works exactly for this idea because there are tons
of systems in place and explaining all of them would take forever, if you are interested
in how everything works exactly you can find the level ID to this stage in the description
and check it out.
Okay so next up is a prototype for a turn based combat without room transitions.
Mario has to fight against this dead dry bone.
Our plumber is able to attack by using the shellmet launcher to his left.
Once the shellmet hit the dead koopa the dry bone attacks by dropping another dry bone
into the arena.
The Mario is able to defeat this dry bone and he has a short break as the dry bone will
only attack after mario attacked.
The whole system works because of the really cool muncher boo contraption to the right.
Bullet Blasters won't shoot while a Muncher is in front of them but they will shoot if
a boo is in front of them.
Something similar is true for shells.
Shells can't pass through munchers but they can pass through a boo.
So in this system Mario's attack triggers a pow-block which kills the muncher at the
bottom of this tower and blocks mario's attacks, but allows the koopa to attack.
The dry bones attacks trigger a pow block as well which blocks the bullet bill that
attacks but enables mario's attack again.
Once Mario got his third hit in another bullet blaster appears which kills the dry bone and
allows mario to leave this idea.
And now let's take a look on a fighting system featuring experience points.
Here Mario has to fight against a horrible chain chomp.
The chain chomp attacks first and his attack is pretty easy to avoid for mario.
Actually it may be a little bit too easy to avoid.
So here's the thing I uploaded this course as well and I tried to make the fights really
easy so that everyone can take a look at the system without dying over and over, though
I have to admit this might be little bit too easy.
Anyway, once Mario survived the dangerous chain chomp attack he is transported into
this loading area.
Here a counter counts how many turns it takes our plumber to defeat this incredibly dangerous
chain chomp.
Afterwards it's Mario's turn.
Mario attacks by jumping towards these question blocks.
If he jumps at the right moment the shellmet attacks the chain chomp and deals one damage
to him.
It takes three hits to kill the chain chomp so it's possible to kill it in only one
turn, but mario only got one hit in.
To Mario's left are two exit pipes but one of them is currently blocked.
The pipe which mario took, took him back to the horrific chain chomp attack mini-game.
After surviving this really dangerous attack mario enters the counting screen once again
before he is able to attack the chain chomp.
Now mario gets the last two hits in which kills the chain chomp, triggers a pow-block
and opens up the other exit pipe.
Now it's time for Mario to get his reward!
This time he ends up on the other side of the counting screen.
Okay so there are three keys, keys are the currency in this level, but sadly for mario
he is only able to collect two of them as one of the keys is blocked by a muncher.
This is because it took mario two turns to defeat the dangerous chain chomp.
If Mario defeated the creature in only one turn he would have been rewarded with all
three keys, but if it took him even more turns he would only be rewarded with a single key.
This is the shop and mario is now allowed to spent all his keys for delicious power
ups.
If mario wants to get the shelmet or the mushroom he has to spend one key on each of them, if
he wants to eat the fire flower he has pay two keys in order to get it.
Now Mario is able to enter the next turn based fight in this idea, but this time he is not
only sated but empowered as well.
But before we take a look on the second fight let's quickly talk about the counter contraption.
Here we have a muncher on tracks, a bob omb and four blocks.
As soon as this idea starts the muncher runs into the bob omb and forces him to explode
which destroys the first block.
On top of this block a bob omb was placed who is now able to spawn as the blocking block
is gone.
This bob omb explodes as well destroying the second block.
Once the room is loaded again the bob omb destroys the third block, and then the fourth
one.
Because of this the game is able to remember how often mario entered this room.
The turn counter in the first idea worked in a similar way.
If the last two blocks are destroyed the munchers drop down and make it impossible for mario
to get the keys, and now let's take a look on the second fight.
The second fight is a fight against a magikoopa.
During the magikoopas turn mario is attacked by tons of magic missiles which are shot by
stacked magikoopas on tracks.
Luckily Mario is not only big but has a helmet as well, because this fight is arguably tougher
than the first one against the chain chomp.
During Mario's turn he has to shoot shelmets at the magikoopa again but this time the helmets
are shot by a red bullet blaster which makes it way harder to hit them.
Then the magikoopa attacks again and so on until Mario finally wins or dies.
Thanks for watching this little video, I hope you enjoyed it, if you enjoyed it don't
forget to leave me a thumbs up and maybe you feel especially turn based today and want
to hit the subscribe button as well.
I hope you have a wonderful day and to see you soon.
Goodbye.
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Kendall and Kylie Jenner Were Called Out for Exploiting Rap Legends - Duration: 2:37.
What's up, guys?
For Complex News, I'm Speedy Morman.
Kendall and Kylie Jenner just released their first-ever vintage t-shirt collection as part
of their Kendall + Kylie line.
And while that might seem like a cause for celebration for the sisters, seeing as how
it will provide them with yet another source of income, the vintage t-shirts that they
have created are coming under fire for disrespecting a handful of legendary musical acts.
And the money they're going to make off of the vintage tees might not be worth all
the negative publicity they're getting right now as a result of them.
Rather than simply showcasing a bunch of classic rock and rap acts on their vintage t-shirts,
Kendall and Kylie decided it would be a good idea to superimpose either images of themselves
or their initials on top of vintage shirts that were made for acts like Pink Floyd, Metallica,
The Doors, 2Pac, and The Notorious B.I.G. in the past.
And the 2Pac and Biggie shirts in particular have caused outrage among rap fans who can't
seem to wrap their heads around why the Jenner sisters thought that disrespecting two of
the greatest rappers of all time would be a good idea.
One of the shirts features a controversial Instagram post that Kylie put up back in 2015
superimposed over an old photo of 2Pac.
The IG post in question featured Kylie wearing cornrows, and when she initially put it up,
she was criticized for appropriating black culture in it.
So you can imagine what rap fans are saying now that she has taken that photo and put
it on top of a picture of 2Pac.
"Kendall & Kylie are really selling vintage Tupac shirts with a Instagram post overlayed
on top?
😐 bye."
Another vintage 2Pac shirt from the collection features the Kendall + Kylie brand's "KK"
logo" splashed across the front of a shirt with 2Pac's image in the background.
The big, bold letters appear in between the words "Fuck the world" and "only god
can judge me," and people have taken issue with Kendall and Kylie's approach on that
shirt as well.
Many of them have accused the sisters of being insensitive for associating their brand with
the deceased rapper's image.
"So who's gonna start flaming Kendall and Kylie for putting their trash initials
over Tupac's face?"
And Kendall and Kylie didn't stop there.
They also released a vintage t-shirt that features one of the most iconic images of
2Pac and Biggie along with, you guessed it, Kendall's photo superimposed on top of it.
The shirt is blowing some people's minds, and they can't make sense of it at all.
"This Kendall And Kylie vintage tee line is really blowing mine!
How are you gonna put your Insta pic over biggie & call it vintage?!
& PAC?!"
The good news for Kendall and Kylie is that, despite the controversy the t-shirts are causing,
it doesn't sound like it's slowing up sales.
The shirts are priced at $125, and at this time, a lot of them are sold out or available
in very limited quantities.
But Kendall and Kylie just can't seem to stop making headlines for the wrong reasons.
Kendall was, of course, involved in a very controversial Pepsi commercial earlier this
year that still has people scratching their heads.
And earlier this month, Kylie was accused of stealing a bunch of camo designs from a
black-owned business and passing them off as her own.
People say there's no such thing as bad publicity.
But at some point, all of this bad pub has to catch up with the Jenner sisters, right?
Guess we'll just have to wait and see how they manage to make headlines next.
That's the news for now, but for all the latest news on Kendall and Kylie Jenner, subscribe
to Complex News on YouTube.
For Complex News, I'm Speedy Morman.
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Strategy: Big Ideas Made Real "Opportunities for Growth" - Duration: 0:52.
The biggest problem our clients are facing is growth.
They're literally running out of opportunities to grow.
They've been cutting costs for years.
Once they do find these growth opportunities, often the organization isn't set up to be
able to take advantage of them.
They don't have the capabilities to grow quickly, and they may not have the funding to drive
that growth.
Companies have been cutting costs for years to drive profits.
They've exhausted pretty much every opportunity for growth in their business, and what little
growth remains is hard to go after; furthermore, this is even more complicated because now
it's becoming increasingly unclear what customers actually want.
Identifying what customers need and providing it, where do you want to place your bet?
This is how we help our clients understand where these opportunities for growth are.
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"No Regrets - Part 1" - Time for Hope with Dr. Freda Crews - Duration: 28:31.
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Love Island's Jess ditches Mike for kinky lesbian makeout sesh with Chloe - Duration: 2:23.
Love Island's Jess ditches Mike for kinky lesbian makeout sesh with Chloe
Since being booted out the villa Jess has been romantically linked to Muggy Mike – and its been alleged the couple hooked up just moments after leaving. But now latest dumped islander Chloe has been added into the mix.
In seriously juicy snaps, it seems like Chloe and Jess have rekindled their villa friendship outside of Love Island, picking up where they left off. STEAMY: Chloe and Jess shared a cheeky kiss.
Love Islands Jessica Shears hottest pictures Love Islands Jessica Shears hottest pictures. .
REACTIONS: Love Island fans left a string of comments.
And they marked their blossoming relationship with a cheeky lesbian kiss. Jess shared the eye-popping pic with her 838,000 followers on her Instagram page and so far its received a lot of love with well over 13,000 likes.
Chloe also put the pic on her page – although edited it with a black and white filter with a raunchy caption: I said I cant wait to snog her face..
INTIMATE: Chloe and Jess grew close in the villa.
Chloe Crowhurst After picking their jaws up from the ground, Love Island fans were quick to hurl heart eye emojis in the dumped duos direction – although some were quick to slam the move.
One person commented: Love to you both. Room for me? asked another. A third slated: Shouldnt kiss snakes. Muggy Mikes taking the pic, speculated one.
CLOSE FRIENDSHIP: Chloe and Jess have seen each other since getting the boot.
Love Island 2017s saucy antics Love Island 2017s saucy antics, as things hot up between the sheets and more. Camilla Thurlow and Jonny Mitchell take relationship to next level with some boob action .
A fifth said: Fave friendship. At this rate it looks like life outside the Majorcan villa is more steamy than the ITV2 show. Catch Love Island tonight at 9pm on ITV2.
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Those calling for restructuring are opportunists - Governor El-Rufai - Duration: 4:00.
Those calling for restructuring are opportunists - Governor El-Rufai
- The Kaduna state governor has said that all those calling for restructuring of Nigeria are opportunists. - Nasir El-Rufai said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has done more restructuring in the country.
- He also said those agitating for restructuring are irresponsible. The governor of Kaduna state governor Nasir El-Rufai has said that those calling for the restructuring of Nigeria are political opportunists and irresponsible.
While speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, El-Rufai said the President Muhammadu Buharis administration in two years have done better than the past administration.
He said the Buhari-led administration has taken some practical steps towards restructuring the country through various means. El-Rufai said governors of all the 36 state in Nigeria are currently more involved in policy making at the national level in the present administration.
The governor also said that before now, issues at the federal level were been hidden from state governor but the Buhari-led administration has made transparency one of its key mandate.
"We meet every month under the auspice of the National Economic Council and working together with the Federal Government we chart directions of economic policy and that is part of shifting the federal- state balance.
Nasir El-Rufai said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has done more restructuring the country.
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"A lot of the talk about political restructuring is political opportunism and irresponsibility in my opinion. "It is popular and people that have presidential aspirations think there is a platform upon which they will exploit this.
As I said, if you look at the APC manifesto, all the elements to divulge power to the state to change the balance in the federation are there and we are committed to that as a party.
"The National Chairman of our party will restate that commitment and we are discussing it and as I said President Buhari and Osinbajo's government has taken very concrete steps rather than rhetoric to actually move in that direction and we are going to move in that direction but we do not believe that the basis for it is rhetoric and opportunism, we do not believe that the 2014 CONFAB report is a sensible basis to even begin.
"We all know the circumstances in which the so-called CONFAB was put together, we all know the composition, how lopsided it was, how important stakeholders were not taken to account, how even the composition and numbers do not reflect the demographics and the diversity of this country and we took a position as a party not to participate but to encourage our state governors to be there at the table.
NAIJ. com earlier reported that the spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bolaji Abdullahi rejected claims that the party is playing politics with the issue of restructuring Nigeria.
Abdullahi said restructuring Nigeria was one of the major things listed on the APCs manifesto.
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UPS to Use Golf Carts for Deliveries - Duration: 0:56.
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*peridot noises*
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Coloring 3 Scoop Ice Cream for Children | Coloring Pages for Kids | Art Colors for Children - Duration: 1:46.
Hey kids. Let's do some drawing, coloring, and painting.
See you next time kids. And parents, you can get to our YouTube Channel directly by going to Sleepy Turtle Time. Thanks for watching.
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Strategy: Big Ideas Made Real "Approach for the Future" - Duration: 1:17.
We take an approach that bridges a view of the future back to the organization's current capabilities.
We start where our client is.
We want to understand their current performance, we want to understand their current capabilities.
If we didn't change anything, what would they do?
How can they grow?
What are competitors doing?
We need to understand this current state.
Then what we do is we stand in the future.
We need to understand where is the market going, where are customers going, what are
competitors doing?
And we look at that to find innovative ways to transform the business.
This gives us a view of where the company can go that's not encumbered by what it's
currently capable of doing.
So how do we get there?
We need to select focus areas, we need to prioritize and select the best short term
and long term strategies to win.
We can't change everything.
We need to pick those levers that deliver the most impact, both short term and long term.
Finally, what do we do?
We need to connect the dots.
We have this future state that we're looking at; we have the current view of the company.
We have to connect these two.
We have to take whatever the organization is now and put in detailed plans to go from
that state to the future state.
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LASER World of PHOTONICS 2017 - Dr.-Ing. Leibinger on the Challenges for Photonics 4.0 - Duration: 1:33.
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Emmanuel Macron's new tech visa will make France an unlikely laboratory for globalization - Duration: 4:11.
Emmanuel Macron's new tech visa will make France an unlikely laboratory for globalization
Emmanuel Macron wants France to become a country of startups, and not just for French founders.
That's why the newly elected president is talking up a new tech visa intended to make it easier for fast-growing companies to hire foreign talent and for entrepreneurs to set up shop in France.
France is not traditionally known as an easy place to do business, but the move stands in contrast to more business-friendly countries like the US and UK, which are shaking up their immigration policies in ways that may squeeze entrepreneurs.
The French process appears "significantly" simpler than in the US, which doesn't have a dedicated visa for tech workers, according to Kristie De Pena, senior immigration council at the Niskanen Center, a think tank.
America's H-1B visa is cumbersome and is capped at 85,000 spots per year. There are also signs that foreign workers feel less welcome in the US, as the number of applicants fell this year, to fewer than 200,000 from 236,000 in 2016.
The International Entrepreneur Rule was designed to help US startups by creating a special visa category, but it has been delayed to March 2018, and De Pena reckons it is probably "dead in the water.".
When the US impedes the flow of high-skilled entrepreneurs, other countries will look to attract them instead. Canada is already doing that with its fast-track program for foreign workers, according to Tahmina Watson, an attorney at Watson Immigration Law in Seattle.
In the UK, meanwhile, it's been a year since the vote to leave the EU, and future rules on the rights of EU immigrants after Britain quits the bloc are far from finalized.
Nearly half of the UK's highly skilled workers from elsewhere in the EU are considering leaving in the next five years, according to a survey by Deloitte.
Still, the UK has a substantial head-start on other European hubs in the capital-raising game, a crucial consideration for startup founders.
Of course, it takes a lot more than a friendly visa regime to build a technology powerhouse. World-class educational institutions and easy access to funds are crucial, and the US and UK are far ahead of rivals on both those counts.
France suffers from its reputation of stifling bureaucracy and hostility towards business—perceptions Macron is battling against. The world's biggest startup campus, known as Station F, has just opened in Paris, another important statement of intent.
But the coming years will test Macron's vision for France as a hub for startups, and what role the nationalist instincts of Trump's "America First" policies and the anti-immigration lobby in post-Brexit Britain may have in making it a reality.
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Homeland Security Unveils New Security Measures For International Flights | TODAY - Duration: 2:54.
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Tri-Giving: A Party For Three Great Charities - Duration: 2:59.
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Exposure to neonics results in early death for honeybees - Duration: 2:42.
First we wanted to understand how honeybees are being exposed to
neonicotinoids in the field and we did this experiment where we took 55
honeybee colonies and randomly allocated them to apiaries that are very close
to corn and far away from corn. So corn is the main crop that's at being
grown from neonicotinoid-treated seeds in Ontario and Quebec and what we
found was the honeybee colonies are being exposed to sub-lethal levels of
neonicotinoids for most the season. So three to four months and
that's a period of time that is longer than most people expected. The second
stage of the research was we took the exposure that we found in the field and
we kind of replicated it in the lab. So we took kind of bee colonies that are
kept at our own research apiary and we exposed them to the same neonicotinoid
that we found in the field for the same period of time and the same
concentration and when we expose bees to field realistic levels of
neonicotinoids we found that colonies were not as healthy. The first big thing
we found was that worker bees that were exposed to the pesticides lived about a
week shorter. So a typical be in the summer worker bee in the summer will
live four weeks but the treated bees lived for about three weeks and that's a
big effect, a reduction almost a 25% reduction in lifespan. So there is this
really big debate that's going on about the safety of neonicotinoids. On the one
hand you have lots and lots of researchers taking bees and treating
them with sub-lethal levels of neonicotinoids and found a range of effects
differences in worker behavior, learning and memory, mortality, colony
mortality as well as individual mortality, effects on innate immunity and
social immunity. But often people criticized these experimental studies by
saying that the authors used too much neonicotinoids or the use near the
treated bees to neonicotinoids for a much longer period of time that would be
found in the field. The big problem is that we actually don't have really good
data from the field so these criticisms went unanswered. So this is where our
study was kind of unique in that we studied six sites that are near corn for a very
long period of time. We tracked them for the whole season and we're able to
monitor the neonicotinoids coming into the colony every month and
see how levels change over time and we found that we essentially found the
neonicotinoids early in the spring away before corn and soy are being
planted and we found neonicotinoids all the way up to September well after the
blooming periods and the setting period of corn and soy
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