The United States has a tremendous natural resource that is largely out of sight—our marine fisheries. And the U.S. has an office within its National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) which is dedicated to the stewardship of that resource—NOAA Fisheries. When stewardship involves the protection of marine wildlife and habitats under domestic law and international treaties, the NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) is on the job.
“From tackling seafood fraud nationally to helping crack down on illegal fishing internationally, we’re here to make sure that those who obey the rules reap the benefits of fair competition and an even playing field in the market. We protect marine resources and their habitat and help safeguard the health of seafood consumers and the livelihoods of coastal communities.”²
NOAA has an active GIS group to support marine fisheries applications across the agency. In 2014, NOAA signed an enterprise license agreement with Esri to provide unlimited access to ArcGIS™ software. The agreement was designed to enable “NOAA to continue building its GIS platform while maintaining data quality in bathymetry, climate and weather data, navigational charting, fisheries protection, natural resource management, marine planning, and other areas of its mission.”
Earlier this year the King County GIS (KCGIS) Center provided OLE custom GIS training for staff from various OLE offices across the United States. Seventeen OLE staff members from the West Coast, Pacific Islands, Northeast, and Southeast divisions came to the KCGIS Training Facility in Seattle for the custom class which was held August 29–31.
The KCGIS Center’s ArcGIS instructor, Mary Ullrich, chose and assembled the curriculum, authored its custom components, and taught the class. KCGIS Center analysts Paul McCombs and Gavin Gray assisted in the classroom.
And the next time you visit your fish market to select a nice halibut, Copper River salmon, or steelhead fillet, think about the work that NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement does, with the help of GIS, to ensure healthy seafood for consumers and sustainable fisheries habitats for the fishing industry.
Adding serial into device.toJson() means you can now easily see which clients (apps) are from which device because they both contain the serial.
Flipper (formerly Sonar) is a platform for debugging mobile apps on iOS and Android. Visualize, inspect, and control your apps from a simple desktop interface. Use Flipper as is or extend it using the plugin API.
Flipper aims to be your number one companion for mobile app development on iOS and Android. Therefore, we provide a bunch of useful tools including a log viewer, interactive layout inspector, and network inspector.
Flipper is built as a platform. In addition to using the tools already included, you can create your own plugins to visualize and debug data from your mobile apps. Flipper takes care of sending data back and forth, calling functions, and listening for events on the mobile app.
Both Flipper's desktop app and native mobile SDKs are open-source and MIT licensed. This enables you to see and understand how we are building plugins, and of course join the community and help improve Flipper. We are excited to see what you will build on this platform.
You can omit --repo-update to speed up the installation, but watch out as you may be building against outdated dependencies.
The Chinese have the ambitious goal to overtake Hollywood with large investments to expand the industry. One visible example is Hengdian World Studios, the world's largest film studios, with a 1:1 scale reproduction of Beijing’s Forbidden City. China has become the second-largest market in the world and is expected to overtake the US by 2018. Hollywood has countered Chinese restrictions (only 34 foreign films are permitted each year) by making blockbuster co-productions with Chinese...
The Chinese have the ambitious goal to overtake Hollywood with large investments to expand the industry. One visible example is Hengdian World Studios, the world's largest film studios, with a 1:1 scale reproduction of Beijing’s Forbidden City. China has become the second-largest market in the world and is expected to overtake the US by 2018. Hollywood has countered Chinese restrictions (only 34 foreign films are permitted each year) by making blockbuster co-productions with Chinese film companies. The country is the fastest-growing market for film in the world. The number of cinemas has doubled in four years, and the number of tickets sold increased by 30 % per year.
Here’s the Phoenix exoskeleton, a 27-pound wearable robot that could help everyone from disabled vets to kids learn how to ditch their wheelchairs and walk again on their own two feet. It costs $40,000.
The Phoenix was designed by the California-based robotics company suitX, which specializes in medical and industrial exoskeletons. The suit’s based on research from the robotics lab at the University of California, Berkeley. And now it’s finally being sold to the public, albeit for a relatively steep sum.
The exoskeleton attaches to the wearer’s hips and legs. Using buttons in the crutches, the user activates small motors in the braces that help propel their legs forward. Unlike other exoskeletons that are being designed and prototyped in labs, this one is modular and can adjust to tall people or children pretty easily. Phoenix’s battery lasts for four hours of continuous walking and hits a max speed of 1.1 miles per hour. The patient’s physical therapist can help the patient control the suit’s gait by tweaking parameters with an Android app.
This is all great news for a few reasons. Futuristic suits like the Phoenix stand to help humans in all kinds of ways. In the military or in factories, powered exoskeletons can help people lift 200-pound loads, like this mean device from Lockheed Martin. Other times, exoskeletons (like the Phoenix) are used to help patients regain mobility they’ve lost. Often times these are injured vets or accident victims whose traumas left them paraplegic.
The company says that the Phoenix is mostly aimed at children with neurological conditions like cerebral palsy and spina bifida, who have a hard time walking—or might not be able to walk at all. This sounds great!
The exoskeleton still has some issues, though. The Phoenix is light but it’s not super light. Harvard designed a prototype that could fit under people’s clothes. And Phoenix is definitely not cheap. But it is available for retail, out of the confines of a lab, and is now available to help real people who need it. And for those folks, the independence they can reclaim is probably worth the price tag.