![]() “My message to Archon Delaine is this: The Alliance is watching you.” I am grateful to the communities within the California Nebula, and to those independents who aided them, for resisting these criminals.” But it has not gone unnoticed that they have suffered setbacks in Haithis, Kolabinates and Saontiana since this misguided effort to disrupt Allied operations. “The Kumo Council’s opportunistic attempt to profit from the horrors of a Thargoid invasion is a truly despicable act. Prime Minister Edmund Mahon delivered a public statement: The Kumo Crew illegally attempted to hijack the Alliance’s assets and impose direct rule over our colonies.” “Our investigation has concluded that this was a brazen act of aggression against Allied factions. When they occurred the Kumo Crew mobilised their pre-prepared forces, overthrowing local authorities under the pretence of ‘emergency security measures’.” “Further Thargoid attacks in the region were seen as inevitable, based on past behaviour and the prevalence of barnacle sites. The syndicate had gathered ships and infiltrated civil institutions weeks earlier, using bribery and coercion to pave the way for their takeover.” “Intelligence provided by Alliance Interpol agents proves that the underlying objective of the Kumo Crew’s anti-xeno militia was to dominate the California Nebula. He summarised its findings during a session of the Assembly: ![]() Recent activities by the Kumo Crew syndicate in the California Nebula have been formally condemned by the Alliance.Ĭouncillor Jed Trager supervised an investigation into the Kumo Council’s attempt to take control of several systems, ostensibly to defend them against a wave of Thargoid attacks. What’s that? The trillionaire and the pirates working together as well? Surely not!” “Oh and by the way, Kavanagh Spaceframes was renamed Rackham Spaceframes following its purchase by Rackham Capital Investments last year. But you don’t have to hire the Wallglass Agency to find a connection there.” Or why Sirius Corporation subsidiaries appeared in those systems around the same time. “It was never revealed how the syndicate funded the construction of the starports. One of these, California Freeport in HIP 18390, planted the Kumo flag in the nebula and served as the base for the gang’s recent attempt to seize Allied assets there.” “Delaine is clearly referring to 3307, when he somehow convinced Kavanagh Spaceframes to build him five Orbis stations. What’s that? You never heard of the most powerful megacorp in history dealing with pirates? Surely not!” “Watching two of Sirius Corporation’s business partners openly fight like this must be making Li Yong Rui cringe as much as his poker face allows. Independent journalist Flint ‘Firemaker’ Lafosse published his observations via the Rewired network: Rather than watching us, you should try looking over your shoulder.” You like to portray us as criminals lusting for power and influence, but the real crooks are much closer to home. “The Kumo Crew migrated into the nebula with help from some mutual friends of ours… people you now consider allies. “Wake up, Old Man Mahon!” Delaine said in a public broadcast. ︎Outfitting search Find nearest ships, modules and personal equipment vendorsĪrchon Delaine has rejected Prime Minister Mahon’s warning over an alleged attempt to gain control of systems in the California Nebula.︎Components trading Find where to buy or sell engineering components.︎Commodities Get best commodity prices. ![]() ︎Trade routes Get the most profitable trade routes.︎Search nearest Find nearest stations, star systems, minor factions, bodies and more.
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![]() Where Star’s collection falls short is in the genuine classic department. Does it raise my interest in Disney+? Yes again.īurton and Taylor in the bank-breaking Cleopatra. Is it disorienting to see these films under the same sparkly umbrella as the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Yes. Things get more wildly off-brand with the incorporation of Fox’s indie-oriented Searchlight stable, which contributes a number of films that couldn’t be further from the Disney house style: Yorgos Lanthimos’s witty, warped historical comedy The Favourite Kenneth Lonergan’s brilliant but divisive Margaret, a sprawling psychological map of teen guilt and trauma Kimberly Peirce’s landmark transgender drama Boys Don’t Cry, with its devastating, Oscar-winning Hilary Swank performance or the very minor Woody Allen trifle Melinda and Melinda. (Baz Luhrmann’s still-giddy Moulin Rouge!, too, if you’re old enough to accept your fairytale princess perhaps not making it to the end.) One might not say the same for the first Borat film, or Tony Scott’s crisp submarine action banger Crimson Tide, but I’m glad they’re there just the same. Several more enduring crowdpleasers are in the mix, though: ever-pleasurable blockbusters such as Pretty Woman and The Devil Wears Prada feel right at home here, maintaining as they do a kind of Disney fairytale narrative in a notionally adult context. The Banger Sisters with Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn? The Good Son, briefly notorious for turning Macaulay Culkin evil, and then never spoken of again? Andie MacDowell and Drew Barrymore packing pistols in cod-feminist western Bad Girls? The past truly is a foreign country. For every welcome title on the launch list, there are three or four that you’d never have otherwise recalled. How much bang you’re getting for your increased buck depends on your affection for multiplex cinema of the 1990s and 2000s. ‘Devastating’: Hilary Swank in Boys Don’t Cry, 1999. New subscribers will pay the new rate immediately, although any subscriptions taken out before Tuesday’s launch have a six-month grace period before the increase kicks in. You can’t have Star without the rest of Disney+, or vice versa: that means an increase in the Disney+ subscription rate from £5.99 to £7.99 a month (or £59.99 to £79.99 annually). Star launches on Tuesday with more than 270 films and 70 series, largely pulled from the recent archives: a thousand more titles are promised within the first year. Cue the arrival of Star, a separate hub of grown-up programming within the service, where Disney’s takeover of 20th Century Studios, Touchstone Pictures and the ABC television network, among others, comes into play. Just as Britain went into its first Covid-19 lockdown, harried parents were suddenly presented with approximately a zillion hours of Disney and Disney-adjacent streaming content, from classic animation to National Geographic to The Mandalorian.Ĭhild-free adults with little interest in family fare, however, could safely give it a miss. Though played for laughs, The Dish was inspired by actual events.I t’s nearly a year since Disney+ made its way to the UK in what must surely rank as one of the most fortuitously timed launches in media history. When a change in Apollo 11's schedule means the Australian dish will have to pick up the vital broadcast from the moon, Cliff, Mitch, and Al must put aside their differences to pull the show together. Mayor McIntyre (Roy Billing) and his wife May (Genevieve Mooy) are thrilled to be greeting a small but steady stream of important visitors, though many of the locals are not especially good with etiquette, and several members of Buxton's team, most notably high-strung Mitch (Kevin Harrington), are less than enthusiastic about Al Burnett (Patrick Warburton), the know-it-all NASA technician brought in to oversee the Australian operations. Buxton and his men are more than happy to help, and the village is agog as they gear up for their own small part in one of the world's greatest adventures. As NASA prepares for Apollo 11, the first manned voyage to the moon, Buxton and his crew are asked if they will allow their telescope's dish to be used as a backup receiver for the television transmission from the moon, should the main receiver in California fail. In the summer of 1969, Cliff Buxton (Sam Neill) leads a team of scientists overseeing the operations of one of the world's largest radio telescope dishes, nestled in a New South Wales community of sheep farmers. In this comedy, as American astronauts prepare to make one giant leap for mankind, a small Australian town stumbles through its own small steps to help. ![]() It is strongly recommended that you have read Corrupt prior to reading this. The night was so calamitous for firefighters that. While the romance is a stand-alone, the plot is a continuation of events that began in CORRUPT (Devil's Night, #1). Yet in 1983, an astounding 553 fires were recorded during a 72-hour period around Halloween in 1984, Devil’s Night saw a record 810 fires. It didn’t matter that he did the crime or that I wished he was dead. She has no idea how bad this can get.' WINTER Sending him to prison was the worst thing I could’ve done. ![]() *Hideaway is a romantic suspense suitable for ages 18+. Devil's Night 3 Kill Switch Penelope Douglas 4.32 62,378 ratings6,528 reviews 'I've done far worse than what I went to prison for. So many ways in, and good luck finding your way out. ![]() I want that hotel, I want to find him, and I want this over.īut the more I’m around you, the more I realize this new me is exactly who I was meant to be. You don’t know what I had to become to survive three years in prison for a crime I would gladly commit again. You have no idea what I seek, Little One. On Devil’s Night, the hunt will be coming to you. Because even though I struggle to hide everything I feel when you look at me-and have ever since I was a girl-I think maybe what you seek is so much closer than you’ll ever realize. You and your friends can try to scare me. Hideaway ( Devil’s Night 2 ) Hideaway is a romantic suspense suitable for ages 18+. You think I can help you find that secret hideaway and get to him, don’t you? Devil’s Night Series Check Out Bonus Series Content Here Reading Order Corrupt ( Devil’s Night 1 ) Corrupt is a STANDALONE dark romance with no cliffhanger. The mystery of the dark guest who never checked in and never checks out. Ailing, empty, and dark-it sits abandoned and surrounded by a forgotten mystery.īut you think it’s true, don’t you, Kai Mori? The story about the hidden twelfth floor. DEVIL'S NIGHT is returning! Hiding places, chases, and all the games are back.īuried in the shadows of the city, there’s a hotel called The Pope. ![]() There is also a section on the homepage dedicated to allergies, and the app displays severe weather alerts across the top of the homepage for easy access. The app also gives you standard weather information, like daily temperatures, weather conditions and future coasts. No more dashing through the pouring rain just for it to let up as soon as you get inside. This is helpful if you are about to leave a building and want to wait for the rain to stop. This forecast shows you a detailed outlook for the next four hours, including when rain will start and stop and what the temperature will be at specific times. You can subscribe to the ad-free version of the app for $2 a month ($10 a year if paid upfront) or you can subscribe to the Premium Pro version of the app for $5 a month ($30 a year).ĪccuWeather offers users what it calls MinuteCast, which breaks down forecasts by the minute. You can download The Weather Channel app for free in Apple's App Store and the Google Play store. ![]() But beware, the privacy policy does say The Weather Channel "cannot delete data directly associated with your account without deleting your account." You can also request to delete data related to your preferences. You won't run into these ads if you subscribe to the paid version of the app.Īccording to The Weather Channel's privacy policy, the app may collect, use and share your data. I ran into four ads when scrolling down the main page of the app, and then I ran into a whole sponsored content section near the bottom of the page. The downside? The free version of the app has a lot of ads, and they can be distracting. The app gives you standard weather information, like hourly temperatures, rain chances throughout the day, a live weather radar and any severe weather alerts in your area. Most of the stories are related to the weather, the environment and wildlife, but you'll also see health- and lifestyle-related stories. You can watch videos of news stories from The Weather Channel in the app. Calling The Weather Channel app a weather app feels like a disservice. ![]()
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Application/pdf, application/x-pdf, application/x-bzpdf, application/x-gzpdf ![]() Lgraph = unetLayers(, 3,'encoderDepth',3) To set up an image-to-image regression network, let's start with a set of layers almost right for our example.Ĭomputer Vision Toolbox has the function unetLayers that allows you to set up the layers of a semantic segmentation network (U-Net) quickly. Patchds.MiniBatchSize = miniBatchSize Network layers Patchds = randomPatchExtractionDatastore(blurredImages,trainImages,patchSize. Then our random patch extraction datastore is used to compile the input and output images in a way the trainNetwork command will understand. This will rotate the input images a random amount, and allow for reflection on the X axis. Set up data augmentation for even more variety of training images. Im_blurred = blurredImages.readimage(ii) This felt backwards, but I reminded myself: I want the network to see a blurry image and output the clean image as a final result. The blurred image is my input, the perfect/original image is my output. TrainImages = imageDatastore(trainImagesDir,'FileExtensions',exts) TrainImagesDir = fullfile(imagesDir,'iaprtc12','images','02') And we're going to set up this up from scratch.Īnd I put all of my data into individual folders.īlurredDir = createTrainingSet(trainImages) Our problem is going to be image deblurring. ![]() This function will take an input datastore, a corresponding output datastore, and a patch size. The algorithm needs enough data samples to train accurately, so we can cut the images into smaller pieces and deliver more examples for the network to learn. We’re not exactly short with our naming convention here, but you get a great idea of what you’re getting with this function!Įxtracting random patches of your images is a great way to cultivate more input images, especially if you're low on data. I'm going to recommend using this handy function called Random Patch Extraction Datastore, which is what I use in the example below. ![]() ![]() “How do I get datastores to work for image-to-image deep learning training data?” Great question!! You don’t have to deal with memory management, and deep learning functions know how to handle the datastores as an input to the function. Everything else should be reasonably straightforward.ĭatastores deserve a post of their own, but let me just say, if you can appreciate and master datastores, you can conquer the world.Īt a high level, datastores make sense: They are an efficient way of bringing in data for deep learning (and other) applications. The hardest part is getting the data set up. However, the goal of this post is understand how to create our custom deep learning algorithm from scratch. Plus, if you’re trying to denoise an image, this example solves the problem, so you're done! This is a great introduction to the topic that's explained well in the example. To learn more about the concept, of image-to-image deep learning we can start with a simple example in documentation: The output could be a non-discrete value: for example, given an image, output the rotation value.Īlong the same lines, given an image, predict a new image! In regression problems, there are no longer discrete categories. Given an image, predict which category an object belongs to. Classification is the problem that most people are familiar with, and we write about often. Typically, deep learning problems can be divided into classification or regression problems. So, let’s dive into the concept of image-to-image deep learning problems in MATLAB. I’m planning a future in-depth post with an image processing/deep learning expert, where we’ll be getting into the weeds on regression, and it would be good to understand the basics to keep up with him.There are quite a few questions on MATLAB answers about image–to–image deep learning problems.This browser is not able to show SVG: try Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Opera instead.Today I'd like to talk about the basic concepts of setting up a network to train on an image-to-image regression problem. ![]() The cost of shipping your automobile to Ireland from the United States depends on whether or not you qualify for being exempt from paying customs duties and their VAT. As long as you're prepared properly in terms of all of your documents and following their clearly laid out guidelines, you should not run into any issues. Customs officers are trained very well and you can expect them to follow things by the book. 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