The term self-driving car has has become kind of a hot keyword. It is kind of curious idea, is it not? It seems very mysterious. How can a machine run a program that somehow allows it to safely, and effectively, operate a motorized vehicle on a roadway? But that is exactly what happens. It has happened in the very recent past, it is happening right now, and it is going to be happening more and more in the future.
The purpose of this post is to discuss the tools and techniques used to enable vehicles to drive themselves. It will not be a Python programming tutorial or anything of that nature. I am going to do my best to steer clear from writing an in-depth how-to tutorial to discuss the techniques and processes at a high level.
For a car to operate it needs some way to understand the environment around it. Let's think about some of the things that would be useful for a car to "understand."
This is certainly not a comprehensive list. It does help us start to get a picture of what we need to do at a high level.
"Darn it chippy get out of the road!"
Lets start with the first item on our list, finding lanes. Consider the image below.
In this image we would we want to focus first on the right and left lanes. The right lane is a solid white line while the left lane is a broken up white line. We have all seen lanes like this and have no problem identifying them. How would a computer "see" this?
What we have to realize is an image is a set of numbers. Data points similar to a large matrix. A color image is made up of three images, one for red (R), one for green (G) and one for blue (B). Each of those images have a value that runs from 0 to 255. 255 being white, 0 being the darkest point. So to pick out all the white we would need to search for the value 255. But what does that information do for us? Let's find out.
We are going to use a jupyter notebook to run some very basic code so we can do somethings to our image to get some useful data from it. The code I am using is from here, if you are going to follow along you will need python 3 and anaconda setup. Setting up those environments is beyond the scope of this post.
First we import a few libraries to help. Specifically matplotlib and numPy.
I am going to read the image from my directory and show it. In the notebook this would produce the image you see above.
Next we can target the different values we want to filter out. So, if you remember, all white is 255 for the three image (RGB). In the real world we are not going to look just for pure white. We will need to relax that threshold some to get useful data returned. In the code below I set my color threshold for RGB to be at 200. So anything lighter than that value will be shown.
We have to also mark the low end of the spectrum. In the code below it is set to black in order to produce the most contrast.
Running that code will produce the image seen below.
So how is this image useful to us? If you look at the image above you will notice that what we have done is filtered out a lot of stuff that we do not need to "see" in order to drive. We have also created an image with very clear contrasts between the lanes and everything else. This will become important when we discuss Canney edge detection.
This first step really just shows that we can use the data inside the image itself to begin to get some useful insights from it. This truly is just a first step though. In the next post I will develop this further with the goal in mind that eventually we need to see clear lane lines on an image and then create those on a video (which is just a series of images).


*Arkangel also has 17, but placing counts as a tie-breaker put Homicide in 20th.
1 player with sixteen trophies.
1 player with fifteen trophies.
2 players with thirteen trophies.
1 player with twelve trophies.
4 players with ten trophies.
1 player with nine trophies.
3 players with eight trophies.
2 players with seven trophies.
8 players with six trophies.
8 players with five trophies.
8 players with four trophies.
10 players with three trophies.
25 players with two trophies.
54 players with one trophy.
are you going to include worlds trophies also??
Fight you? No, I want to kill you.
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I think you should add a - and number of events played to earn the amount people have.
11 3/4/3* - 15 for example.
Good call. List updated. Also includes two new top 10 lists at the end for attendance and placing percentage.
How do spyder and krad outrank me?! MADNESS!!!
Even I outrank you. You gotta go to other events. haha.
They have played in all the same events as me, lol.
When you were in diamond merchants, you didn't rank, they got 3rd that time around.


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Ski great Bode Miller the headliner for Saturday's eighth annual Audi Ajax Cup
Austin Colbert
acolbert@aspentimes.com
American ski racing legend Bode Miller speaks Wednesday at the Audi Ajax Cup pro draw at Casa Tua in Aspen. Miller is this year's featured pro at the annual Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club fundraiser.
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Even at 24 and a former member of the U.S. Ski Team, Aspen's Katie Ryan still gets excited knowing she could get to race one of her idols, Kristina Koznick, a three-time Olympian and former World Cup competitor — and last year's winning pro at the Ajax Cup.
That said, even Ryan can't begin to imagine what it would be like to again be a teenager and get the chance to ski alongside Bode Miller.
"The fact that I get to race against (Koznick) is for my 24-year-old self amazing, so I can only imagine what it is like for the 12-year-olds," Ryan said. "It's so nice that (Miller) continuously gives back to the ski racing community. He realizes this is an amazing club and people are really genuine and the love of skiing will always be around for us."
For many this weekend, those dreams will become reality. Miller, considered to be the greatest American male alpine ski racer in history, is the featured professional for the eighth annual Audi Ajax Cup, the largest fundraiser of the year for the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club. Saturday's modified dual giant slalom will feature 16 teams going head to head on the course built on the Little Nell trail at the base of Aspen Mountain.
The festivities got underway Wednesday at Casa Tua in Aspen, where team "Kids First!" paid $70,000 — split equally between the AVSC and Miller's own Turtle Ridge Foundation — to purchase Miller as its pro for Saturday's competition.
"We've never auctioned off a pro. We always just randomly picked pros out of a hat for each team," Casey Puckett said. "But since we had Bode, we thought it would be a great opportunity for the club and also for Bode's foundation to auction him off to the highest bidder."
Puckett, who co-chairs the Ajax Cup alongside big mountain ski icon Chris Davenport, is a former World Cup ski racer who spent six years as one of Miller's teammates on the U.S. national team. He was among the people who had an influence in getting Miller to Aspen for the weekend.
"I've always had a connection to Aspen and normally this part of the season is when I was skiing, so it was never even an option," Miller told The Aspen Times on Wednesday. "But I always knew about it. So this year finally the schedule was open and we were able to do it. So we made it happen."
Miller is an Olympic gold medalist and two-time overall World Cup champion. Now officially retired, he will be a commentator for NBC Sports during the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. Among his other endeavors, Miller is an equity partner and the chief innovation officer for the Aspen-based clothing company, Aztech Mountain.
"I had no money growing up and needed donations and people's support to make my ski career develop," Miller said of the need for events like the Ajax Cup. "It's an amazing ski culture here, so to have people taking care and supporting the next generation and making sure people have the opportunity to be involved is an admirable project and I'm happy to go race around a little bit and hit some gates."
Each of the 16 teams competing Saturday has a pro to lead the way. Miller, Puckett, Davenport, Koznick and Ryan are all among those pros. The remainder of the rosters will include anyone from current AVSC athletes to seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson, a part-time Aspen resident and Ajax Cup veteran.
The teams are divided into four, four-team pods, with one team per pod advancing to the head-to-head semifinals.
The racers are required to set a handicap on Friday — held from noon to 2 p.m. — which will help equalize the playing field come Saturday. Racing is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday and end by 3 p.m. Spectating is free along the course.
"This is my favorite event of the holiday season, for sure," Ryan said. "Selfishly, it's one of my favorite times of the year because I get to race. I get to put the suit back on. I get to go haul ass."
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Tunisia: Flickr, Video-sharing Websites, Blog Aggregators and Critical Blogs Are Not Welcome
Tunisia is carrying out one of the most massive wave of online censorship targeting major social websites, video-sharing websites, blogs aggregators, blogs, facebook pages and profiles. The most recent victim of this wave is flickr, the popular and one of the best online photo-sharing website, blocked today, April 28th, 2010.
Last week, on April 22, 2010, Tunisia has added 3 more websites to its list of banned video-sharing websites in the country. Blip.tv, metacafe.com and vidoemo.com are not welcome aymore in the country. In early April, 2010, On march, 19th, 2010, WAT.TV, another social networking and media-sharing website, which is believed to be the 3rd video broadcaster on the Internet in France, has also been blocked.
The targeting of video-sharing websites by Tunisian censors started on September 3rd, 2007, with the ban of Dailymotion, then it was the turn of Youtube to be banned from the country's Internet on November 2nd, 2007.
On it's posterous page, Nawaat.org has published an updated list of the banned video-sharing websites in the country, stating that:
These video sharing websites are illegaly blocked in Tunisia (no judicial decision has ordered them). This is done by violating, inter alia, the article 8 of the Tunisian Constitution and article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
At least 11 more blogs censored on the same day
Yesterday, April 27, 2010, Tunisia has blocked access to at least 11 blogs because of their criticism against the government and its censorship policy:
http://amchafibled.blogspot.com
http://trapboy.blogspot.com
http://antikor.blogspot.com
http://arabasta1.blogspot.com
http://yatounes.blogspot.com
http://abidklifi.blogspot.com
http://ounormal.blogspot.com
http://carpediem-selim.blogspot.com
http://bent-3ayla.blogspot.com
http://artartticuler.blogspot.com
http://blog.kochlef.com
Prior to that, and between April 21 and April 23, 2010, two Tunisian blogs aggregators have ben blocked, tuniblogs.com and tunisr.com.
And, on April 23, 2010, Tunisia blocked two online platforms of the opposition Ettajdid party (legal, former communist party) « les Amis d'Attariq » (Friends of Attariq) blog and the online weekly of the party Attariq al-Jadid (The New Way) are now blocked.
Hacking of dissident blogs
The website of the online campaign Yezzi Fock Ben Ali! (Enough is enough, Ben Ali!, which was blocked in Tunisia 18 hours after being launched in 2005) has been hacked again (first hack on November 7th, 2007), and it's still down to this moment. As a security measure and in order to engage with the 1.4 million Tunisians users on Facebook, the campaign has moved to Facebook.
The same day (April 26, 2010) as the banning of critical blogs was carried out, another technique has been used to further muzzle the online free speech: the collective blog nawaat.org and the personal blog of one of its admin, Astrubal, have been hacked, deleting their database and ftp files.
As we noted in a previous post about online free speech in Tunisia, "almost every single Tunisian opposition website and self-hosted blog has been the victim of one or more hacking incidents. While there is no solid evidence that the Tunisian regime is behind attempts to take down opponent websites, there is quite a strong feeling among Tunisian opposition figures that the government is carrying out cyber-attacks, given their frequency and the nature of the targeted websites and blogs."
And on another note, it seems that Opera Mini for iPhone, launched on 14 April, 2010, is blocked in Tunisia. This is probably due to a bug in the Opera browser or to a ban of its build-in proxy. Here is a screenshot taken from Tunisia.
Written bySami Ben Gharbia
This is probably due to a bug in the Opera browser or to a ban of its build-in proxy. Here is a screenshot taken from Tunisia.
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10 July 2012, 2:45 pm
Foreks
Thnaks for sharing!
30 May 2013, 4:30 pm
Arabian Traveler
Hopefully the ban on internet resources have been lifted after the Arab spring, after all it's not just affecting citizenship rights but affecting the tourism which is the main source of national income to Tunisia!
13 February 2016, 1:37 pm
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Dr. Roy Kim is a Diplomate of the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Dr. Kim is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and the California Society of Plastic Surgeons. His pursuit of technical excellence has earned him the respect of colleagues and applause from his patients.
Dr. Kim holds an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, an MD from the University of Pittsburgh and has performed general surgery residency at University of Chicago Medical School as well as a Plastic Surgery residency at Wayne State University before moving to San Francisco.
"A major reason I went into plastic surgery is to help people. I've found out that people generally have problems, and don't really have a specific medical or surgical problem that they can blurt out and tell me what to do. I enjoy the aesthetic and artistic aspects of plastic surgery, as well as the reconstructive side of plastic surgery. I love the fact that I can operate on young and old, men and women, and on various parts of the body. I still get excited about thinking of a new technique to enhance surgical results, or learning about a new process to get a better result for my patients."
"I do some medical mission work as well, not for the PR aspects, but because I am privileged to be able to help others. It still amazes me that a short 1-2 hour operation can help another person look and feel better, therefore achieving more in life."
"I have gone to Guatemala several times, and I have operated on patients from Rwanda as well. It's a lot of fun to help cleft lip and palate patients, burn patients, and do reconstructive surgery for people who would have delayed or no surgery due to their living situation. I'm also a member of Operation Access, a way for local San Franciscans to get free health care."
Dr. Martin Stepanyan is a Board Certified surgeon with over 15 years of excellent education, extensive training and over 16 years of successful practice in the field of Facial Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery and Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. Dr. Stepanyan received his doctoral degree from University of Pennsylvania, graduating at the top of his class. He completed Residency training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery followed by Fellowship training in Facial Cosmetic Surgery.
Dr. Stepanyan started his private practice in 2001 in Pasadena, California. He served as an Assistant Professor at Charles R. Drew University Medical School, and as a Division Chair at Huntington Memorial Medical Center in Pasadena and Methodist Hospital in Arcadia. In 2008, Dr. Stepanyan relocated his practice to Glendale, California and established Stepanyan Surgical Arts Center.
Dr. Stepanyan is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is a member and a fellow of numerous organizations including American and California Academies of Cosmetic Surgery, American and California Associations of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Dr. Stepanyan has lectured extensively, locally and internationally, in the field of Facial Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including 2007, 2011, and 2016 Americas Top Plastic Surgeons Award by Consumers Research Council of America.
Dr. Stepanyan's charity work involves several trips to Ecuador, Russia and Armenia where he performed complex reconstructive surgeries on children and adults with cleft lip and palate and other cranio-facial deformities.
As an American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery Fellowship graduate and American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Diplomate, with his extensive training and expertise, Dr. Stepanyan will help you achieve your cosmetic and functional goals in a caring, private and professional environment.
Dr. Jacob Steiger is an accomplished, double board certified facial plastic surgeon whose background and credentials reflect his commitment to the highest standards of patient care, treatment innovation, and leadership within his specialty.
A native of Miami, Florida, Dr. Steiger graduated from the University of Miami Honors Program in Medical Education. Graduating at the top of his medical school class with research distinction, Dr. Steiger was awarded the prestigious Clinical Skills Award for his dedication to patient care.
A Voluntary Assistant Professor at the University of Miami Department of Otolaryngology / Division of Facial Plastic Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), Dr. Jeffrey Epstein has over 22 years specializing in primary and revision rhinoplasty surgery.
As a fellowship trained, triple-board certified facial plastic surgeon, Dr. Epstein performs on average four to five rhinoplasty surgeries weekly, approximately half of which are revisions. This experience provides him with a unique perspective on the nose, understanding not only what makes it look good, but also how to preserve its structure and support to assure clear breathing passages and long lasting cosmetic results. His extensive training, innate aesthetic skills, and passion for perfection are combined with the most advanced surgical methods, enabling him to create noses that are both in harmony with the rest of the face and natural-looking. As you can see from his many before and after photos, Dr. Epstein's goal is ultimately to make his patients happy.
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The means and skills to change an individual's appearance impart an incredibly important responsibility. Dr. Epstein's approach is to provide the most natural appearance, assuring the patient's features are in harmony with the rest of the face and body.
Dr. Andres Bustillo, MD FACS is a board certified fellowship trained facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon, making him one of the few sub specialists in the South Florida area. He graduated at the top of his class from Boston University with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology. He then went on to receive his MD from the University of Miami. Dr. Bustillo completed a five-year residency in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Miami – Jackson Memorial Hospital, one of the nation's top otolaryngology residency programs. He then went on to complete an advanced fellowship in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the combined New York University-Weill Cornell Medical College Fellowship Program. This is one of the most sought-out fellowship programs in the world. There he trained with Manhattan's best plastic surgeons.
Facial Plastic Surgeon Dr. Sam S. Rizk merges two unique skills to achieve his surgical outcomes - first and foremost is his artistic background as a sculptor, which combines with his technical skill as a facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon.
As a recognized expert on the latest advances in facial plastic surgery techniques, Dr. Rizk has written and lectured extensively on current concepts related to rhinoplasty and other facial plastic procedures. Dr. Rizk is a double board certified New York facial plastic surgeon and director of Manhattan Facial Plastic Surgery, PLLC.
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Dr. Salas is a board certified plastic surgeon, with an international reputation. He was named one of America's top plastic surgeons by the Consumers Research Council of America and was listed in Vogue Magazine as one of the "Top Choices in the Tri-States". He has earned the rare distinction of triple board certification by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, the American Board of surgery, and the American Board of Mesoplasty.
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Dr. Salas is an internationally recognized educator, author, and lecturer in advanced techniques in cosmetic procedures. His cosmetic surgery training and experience have focused on minimally invasive (endoscopic), "scarless" plastic surgery which has resulted in the ability to minimize the incisions and avoid much of the scars that are associated with many surgical procedures.
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Dr. Rod J. Rohrich, M.D., F.A.C.S. is an internationally known surgeon, innovative leader and educator in Plastic Surgery. He is Professor and founding Chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, held the Crystal Charity Ball Distinguished Chair in Plastic Surgery from 1993 to 2014, the Betty and Warren Woodward Chair in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery from 1999-2014 and is the recipient of the Rod J. Rohrich, M.D. Distinguished Professorship in Wound Healing and Plastic Surgery (bestowed by a grateful patient). Dr. Rohrich is Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and has a clinical practice at University Hospitals/UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute.
Houston cosmetic surgeon, Robert J. Capriotti, has over 25 years experience in cosmetic surgery and was one of the first surgeons in this country to use lasers in cosmetic surgery. As a top cosmetic surgeon in Houston he has addressed medical groups across the country and throughout Europe on the use of lasers in cosmetic surgery. He has also written informative articles on laser cosmetic surgery, including the chapter on laser face lifts for the clinics of Facial Plastic Surgery which was published in November, 1993. Dr. Capriotti is also renowned for developing a nasal implant for Asian rhinoplasty that is used around the world.
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Dr. Jennifer L. Walden is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is formally fellowship-trained in Cosmetic Surgery. She relocated her busy cosmetic surgery practice from New York City to Austin, Texas so that her twin boys, Houston and Rex, can be raised near their family. Dr. Walden is an active member of the prestigious American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery; she is also a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Walden currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) and is the Commissioner of Communications for ASAPS as well. In the position as Commissioner, she oversees the communications for this globally authoritative professional organization. She also holds the distinction of serving as a media spokesperson for the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery as well as the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
Since 2014, she has been recognized as one of Texas Super Doctors, as seen in Texas Monthly. In 2016, Dr. Walden was honored to be selected for membership into the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, an invitation-only academic society known as "the highest medium of recognition in the field of plastic surgery as evidenced by the contribution of its individual members".
While in New York, Dr. Walden was an Attending in Plastic Surgery at Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat and Lenox Hill Hospitals with the academic appointment of Clinical Instructor of Surgery (Plastic Surgery) at New York University Langone Medical Center. She now owns her own business of Walden Cosmetic Surgery Center, and operates in her own fully accredited office operating suite at Westlake Medical Center, where she and her team are dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of patient safety.
As a world renowned plastic surgeon practicing in Houston, Dr. Schusterman established his reputation through his research and development of microsurgical reconstruction techniques in the aid of head, neck and breast cancer patients. The associated challenges have endowed him with considerable knowledge and understanding of the human body and have finely honed his surgical skills, particularly when it comes to plastic and cosmetic surgery.
Working with people in crisis, such as cancer patients, takes special people skills – empathy, compassion and caring. The spirit and emotions of the patient need as much attention as the body for the healing to be a complete success. Dr. Schusterman has learned those skills and applies them to his plastic and cosmetic surgery patients today.
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Dr. Sam Naficy is a highly specialized, fellowship-trained, and double board certified facial plastic surgeon. He has over 12 years of experience with modern techniques of cosmetic plastic surgery, including eyelid and facial rejuvenation, rhinoplasty, and laser surgery. He performs close to 1,000 facial plastic surgery procedures per year.
Dr. Naficy's practice has been 100% devoted to rhinoplasty and facial plastic surgery for the past 18 years. This is why Seattle doctors and patients have voted Dr. Naficy one of the top plastic surgeons for the face. Dr. Naficy believes that the goal of rhinoplasty should be a nose that looks attractive and natural, and is in harmony with the rest of the face without having an "operated-on" look.
A native of Seattle, Dr. Naficy graduated #1 in his medical school class at the University of Washington and was the recipient of the 'Highest Honors in Medicine' award from the Dean. He completed advanced training in general surgery and otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the internationally renowned University of Michigan Medical Center.
Dr. Naficy is double board certified by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. This is the only ABMS board that certifies surgeons exclusively for plastic surgery of the face. Dr. Naficy holds surgical privileges at his privately-owned Medicare-certified ambulatory surgery center located adjacent to his practice. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, an active member of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and the Washington State Facial Plastic Surgery Society.
Dr. Marshall T. Partington devotes his practice to enhancing the lives of his patients. He finds great joy in helping his Seattle, Kirkland and Bellevue patients' look and feel their very best at any age. Dr. Partington views each person and their story as a new journey with a very specific and unique objective. The happiness and gratitude of our patients is his greatest reward of all.
Dr Partington attended Williams College and graduated with honors before he received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College where he was president of his class. He completed a vigorous 7 year general surgery program at UCLA. During that time he also served as a research fellow for the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UCLA Medical Center where he published extensively. He then trained in plastic surgery at New York University under the renowned Dr. Joseph McCarthy. He completed his surgical training in both microsurgery and hand surgical fellowship in San Francisco under the late Dr Harry Buncke, who is regarded as the Father of Microsurgery. It was here that he and his wife were blessed with a twin boy and girl. He served as Director of Microsurgery at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center for 5 years. Subsequently he was Chief of Plastic Surgery at the Everett Clinic in Washington before starting his private practice on the Eastside in 1998.
Dr. Thomas Lamperti, MD, a Top Doctor Award winning Rhinoplasty Surgeon, is considered to be one of the best Seattle facial plastic surgeons. Known for his beautiful, natural results and with patients travelling from as far away as Europe, the Middle East, Canada, Asia and Australia Dr. Lamperti counts models, actors, television personalities and other social elite among his clientele. Thanks to these outstanding results, Dr. Lamperti is rated very highly by his patients and they often recommend him to friends and family.
After graduating at the top of his class with degrees in Biology and Criminal Justice from La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began his medical training at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons where he concurrently received both M.D. and Master of Public Health degrees. Dr. Lamperti completed a surgery internship at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. Following this he completed a top-ranked residency in Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa.
Established in 2010, the award winning cosmetic surgery practice of Dr. David A. Shifrin, provides the complete experience by combining excellent surgical results with personalized care.
A native of Northbrook, Illinois, Dr. David Shifrin is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, respected for his work with cosmetic surgery. Dr. Shifrin returned to his home town of Chicago in 2010 after years of training in the Midwest and South. Dr Shifrin is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons and the highly selective American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.
His academic accomplishments, which include multiple peer reviewed journal article publications and national conference presentations, and his love of teaching and mentoring led him to seek out an academic appointment with the University of Illinois at Chicago division of plastic surgery as an assistant clinical professor.
Dr. David Shifrin specializes in cosmetic surgery of the face, breast and body. He is a plastic surgeon who completed a highly sought-after integrated training program in Michigan, followed by two advanced fellowships. The first, at the Medical College of Wisconsin, concentrated on reconstructive microsurgery. The second fellowship focused on Aesthetic surgery under the mentorship of Dr. Joseph Hunstad, a world renowned plastic surgeon in the area of breast augmentation and body contouring.
His patients frequently comment on his calm and caring bedside manner. He is devoted to providing the best possible experience to those he cares for. Dr. Shifrin has been awarded Top Plastic Surgeon Chicago region 2012 and 2013 by Health Tap, Patient's Choice Award and Most Compassionate Doctor Award in 2012, 2013 and 2014 by American Registry.
Dr. Schierle completed his training in plastic surgery in Chicago, IL, at the prestigious seven year Integrated Plastic Surgery Residency program at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, where he received extensive training in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery of the face, breast and body. He has trained and worked extensively with surgeons from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Children's Memorial Hospital, NorthShore University HealthSystem including Evanston, Glenbrook and Highland Park Hospitals, Chicago's Shriners Hospital, and the Chicago Center for the Surgery of the Hand.
Dr. Clark has been asked to present at national and international meetings such as the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, the Chinese Society of Plastic Surgeons, and the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations. He has lectured on topics as diverse as three-dimensional imaging for plastic surgery, endoscopic breast augmentation, wound healing, scarring, lower extremity reconstruction, cosmetic breast surgery, non-surgical treatments for aging, and face transplantation. Dr. Schierle has authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Journal of Trauma, Wound Repair & Regeneration and the Aesthetic Surgery Journal, as well as book chapters for authoritative texts on cosmetic and reconstructive procedures such as Practical Plastic Surgery, Cosmetic Bootcamp Primer, and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Board Review.


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High resolution day only cameras have small pixels and sensor sizes, usually 4 to 5 mm. However, good night vision requires a larger sensor and big pixels. Very high resolution with big pixels require a very big sensor and an equally large lens — goodbye portability — and a budget busting price tag of more than 10x Aurora's current cost.
Light is the key to crisp images. With 3 user-selected modes — Day, Twilight, and Night — SiOnyx Aurora will make the best use of available light. With the correct mode selected, that means seeing deer in the woods at twilight is just as possible as birds in the marsh at high noon.
SiOnyx Aurora has an IP67 Waterproof rating which means it can withstand water up to 3ft deep for 30 minutes. And gracefully handle pool splashes, rain and snow, or a water bottle spill.
At just under 8 ounces and sized to fit comfortably in one hand for easy operation, the SiOnyx Aurora packs a lot of features into a compact package. A removable neck strap allows you to keep it accessible on any adventure.
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SiOnyx Aurora stores imagery on a 32 GB Micro SD card which provides enough storage for 4 hours of video.
Streaming high quality content to social media is as essential as breathing these days. Ok, maybe not. But with SiOnyx Aurora's WiFi capability and App for iOS or Android you can share your adventures on social media so that friends, family, followers — no one — misses out.
Mr. Saylor's career spans more than 20 years of emerging technology design, development and commercialization in a range of imaging markets. Prior to joining SiOnyx, he served as a Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing for Adobe® Systems where he managed Adobe's award-winning digital video product line.
Mr. Saylor joined Adobe from FlashPoint® Technology, a digital imaging company he co-founded with a team from Apple®, which they built into one of the most prolific licensing firms to serve the consumer digital photography industry.
In his early career, Mr. Saylor held a variety of technology management, marketing and engineering roles with Apple, Polaroid® and Technicare™ Corporation. Mr. Saylor holds a B.S.EE from Northeastern University.
Dr. Carey is an expert in optical physics and the interaction of materials with ultra-short laser pulses. Dr. Carey played a key role in the discovery of the unique optoelectronic properties of pulsed laser microstructured silicon, the study of which formed the basis for his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard® and led to the founding of SiOnyx. Dr. Carey is an author of more than 20 papers and conference proceedings, is a named inventor on 12 U.S. and international patents, and has presented at numerous international conferences. Dr. Carey also holds a B.S.E from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Vineis has a deep background in semiconductor material and device development. Prior to joining SiOnyx, Dr. Vineis was with Wakonda™ Technologies, an early-stage company developing flexible thin-film photovoltaics that was ultimately acquired by Solexant® (now Siva Power).
From 2005 to 2008, Dr. Vineis served as a Member of the Technical Staff for MIT® Lincoln Laboratory developing InGaAs(P) avalanche photodiode arrays for single-photon time-of-flight (LIDAR) imaging.
Dr. Vineis started his career with AmberWave™ Systems as Director of Wafer Technology. AmberWave's strained silicon technology for high speed/low power CMOS was licensed or utilized by a wide range of semiconductor companies including Intel®, TSMC, UMC®, Applied Materials®, LG® Siltron and SUMCO™. Dr. Vineis holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania in Materials Science and Engineering.
In his role as VP of Business Development for SiOnyx, Dr. Pralle is helping to deliver next-generation silicon-based optoelectronic technologies to military and other government applications.
Prior to joining the Company, Dr. Pralle served as General Manager of the ICx Technologies™ Photonics business unit. As VP of Engineering at ICx Technologies, he developed photonic crystal MEMS infrared emitter and sensor technology that was deployed to solve critical combat identification needs in the thermal imaging bands. Dr. Pralle holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. from Cornell University in Materials Science and Engineering.
Dan Cui is the acting Chief Marketing Officer for the new SiOnyx Aurora ULTRA Low-Light, consumer video camera and comes to the company with deep, 30-year expertise in semiconductors and AR as well as consumer products launched on a global scale.
Dan was previously Chief Marketing Officer for eMagin's HMD (head-mounted display) Division. He also was a pioneer in the AR Smart Glasses market during his time at Myvu/ViewLink (one of the early HMD market leaders and developers of the first Android-based smart glasses). Myvu's patents eventually enabled the development of Google Glass.
Prior to joining eMagin, he held the position of Vice President of Sales at Vuzix, where he conceived and implemented Vuzix's AR strategy into the enterprise sector, creating solid relationships with companies such as DHL, SAP, and Lenovo. His efforts successfully raised Vuzix's market visibility in advance of Intel's $24.8M investment in Vuzix and subsequent uplift to NASDAQ.
Dan was also a key principal at Aura Semiconductor, one of the first near field communications (NFC) silicon providers. Dan is an Air Force veteran who enjoys Ham Radio, Piloting, Scuba Diving and is an acclaimed breeder of Shiloh Shepherd dogs.
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Scroll through Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook and it is increasingly difficult to tell the difference between advertisements and your followers' "original content". The stylistic convergence of artistic and commercial photography is hardly a new phenomenon, but the proliferation of visual social media platforms has certainly given added momentum to this interplay. Against this backdrop, C/O Berlin, a charitable foundation established in 2000 dedicated to photography and visual media, is presenting Still Life, an exhibition of the work of Hans Hansen, a significant figure in the porous boundaries between artistic and commercial photography.
Born in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1940, Hansen studied applied graphics at Düsseldorf Academy of Art and taught himself photography in his spare time. Since the 1960s he has worked with a variety of companies, including American Express, Bulthaup, Daimler Benz, Lufthansa and Vitra. Many examples of his work for these companies are on display at C/O Berlin, intermingled with his independent work. Hansen's artistic and commercial output share a common minimalist aesthetic, stripping away unnecessary details, radically isolating subjects placed within a carefully orchestrated arrangement. The net effect is far from sterile, serving to accentuate the objects' natural forms, colours and textures, often to the point of geometric abstraction.
Hansen is best known for his commercial photography for Volkswagen. In 1968, he photographed a dismantled Beetle for the well-known campaign by advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach, and in the late 80s he was invited to repeat the project with a Golf: the red chassis is left a shell, photographed against a white background with its thousands of component parts filling the frame in neat rows and columns. The arrangement is meticulous, imparting a sense of awe and even reverence for the complexity of these "found objects", and revealing the universe of complexity hidden within the everyday objects of capitalist society. The images invite a question of semantics: at what point does the term car cease to be applicable to this growing collection of foreign objects?
The first room of Still Life is a brief overview of Hansen's commercial photography, with a particular focus on industrial objects. One of the first photographs encountered is untitled (Nikon lenses), from 1984, a latticework of bubble-like lenses each containing a self-contained panoply of light and colour. Sharing the wall are images of colour swatches, camera parts and printer colour tests, as well as a light table of film formats. Still Life is eager from the start to highlight the self-reflexivity of Hansen's practice when viewed as still lifes: Hansen's primary artistic interest lies in the photographic process, and the camera's ability to transmute objects through formal composition and careful decontextualisation.
Hans Hansen. Untitled (Noh-Mask), 2009, Museum Folkwang Collection. © Hans Hansen.
Sets of Styrofoam blocks, tortoise shells, Vietnamese straw hats, Japanese Noh masks, vacuum-packed food and wrinkled folds of human skin: repetition and seriality are key features of Hansen's practice. These objects, visually engaging in their own right, are set symmetrically against a grey or black background, heightening the viewer's perception of small changes or irregularities in shape or texture. Each of these objects is also in its own way a container or surface, enrobing an absent object. These shells, these component parts, are all a type of "surplus object", something to be compounded by addition to a hidden essential object that gives these things meaning. Their repetition suggests a certain profligacy of industrial or natural reproduction, while also drawing attention to the material details of the individual object in its own right.
The second room of Still Life showcases more of Hansen's independent output, where his lens is drawn to more natural subjects. The room is dominated by a generous exhibit of his Wegrand series, a collection of starkly lit black-and-white closeup photographs of twigs, brambles and bark patterns in situ. Despite its prominent placement in the middle of the room, the Wegrand series is very much the outlier here: the majority of Hansen's "nature photography" on show at C/O Berlin comprises objects thoroughly divorced from their surrounding environment. A series of white items – flower, feather and starfish; groups of shells; the smooth fall of hair down the nape of a neck: by removing all contextual stimuli from these objects, Hansen encourages the viewer to exult in the small details that are often overlooked – the mathematical purity of the petal arrangements; light bouncing off a shell in a pattern reminiscent of morse code or a piano roll.
Hansen's nature photography has invited comparison with new objectivist work from the likes of Karl Blossfeldt and Albert Renger-Patzsch, photographers who, throughout the 1920s, reacted against expressionism by photographing plant life in a repetitious and documentarian-like manner. Hansen's postmodern twist on the form can be found in his preoccupation with the glistening surfaces of his objects and his frequent tendency to substitute living samples from nature with models, colour manipulation and other means. At one time, Hansen could frequently be found in Berlin's natural history museum archives photographing specimens, of which the Plant Models series (2006) on show are a prime example. These strange simulacra of familiar objects make classical plant forms alien again, his camera transforming these quotidian objects into something more stylised and abstracted.
The curators at C/O Berlin have tried to build bridges between Hansen's work and that of a younger generation of photographers; sharing the first floor of the gallery is another exhibition in parallel, Optical Illusions: Contemporary Still Life, which showcases the works of Lucas Blalock, Annette Kelm, Antje Peters and Oskar Schmidt. The comparisons work well: carefully chaotic compositions of everyday objects – brand names visible – create engaging visual rhymes with Hansen's more rarefied compositions. Still Life is a satisfying survey across six decades of Hansen's practice. In both his commercial and independent pursuits, Hansen's keen eye for surface texture, purity of form and iconographic composition make his often polite, minimalist images a satisfying feast for the senses.


January has been a grey, stormy bleakness. We're on the other side of winter solstice but with the clouds, it certainly hasn't been getting lighter outside. Yesterday evening there was a break in the clouds right as the sun was setting and I was finally able to get some outfit shots in. Luckily I had also gotten dressed yesterday, which hasn't been the norm as I'm on the tail end of a cold and living in sweats. But, yesterday I felt pretty good, which was nice because I was giving a presentation on blogging at the University of Puget Sound for their professional development conference!
Being sick, I wasn't feeling very motivated to come up with something creative to wear, but obviously needed to ditch the sweats, so I just wore the same outfit I'd worn to a wedding last Saturday. I've been wanting more long cardigans because I love how they're more flowy and bohemian than normal-length and cropped cardigans, but still give that warmth which is definitely necessary this time of year. I've been searching at thrift stores for the past couple weeks and found this perfect, slouchy, crocheted one last week.
How's January going for y'all so far? I hate to admit that my lack of motivation could be weather induced, but I'm feeling like such an unmotivated hermit these days and I know the stormy, gross weather certainly isn't helping one bit. I've been using the Headspace meditation app and one of the things they mention off the bat is how blue skies vs. grey skies make us feel, and trying to realize that even when the sky is grey there's still a blue sky up there somewhere, beyond the clouds. Still, the ubiquitous grey can certainly demotivate a person, even one not particularly susceptible to SAD. A lot of people ask me if the short days of Alaskan winters are hard to deal with, and I never felt that way, even on the shortest days when the sun is only up for 5 hours. At least there's sun! And the moon reflecting on white snow often makes for brighter nights, too. But the constant grey does get to me. The days that never really seem to fully illuminate because the clouds are so thick. Over the past couple years I've learned that it's the worst here in the upcoming few months (I'm pretty sure March is verifiably the actual worst). I have some fun indoor activities planned for the next few months so hopefully that will keep me going until the sun comes out again.


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The Best and Worst Magazine Covers of July 2016
This month: (Nearly) naked celebs! (Sexy) Zayn Malik! Amy Schumer by Annie Leibovitz (again)!
by Adam Griffiths 7/4/2016
They say you can't judge a book by it's cover, but that's untrue when it comes to fashion magazines. Each month we dissect covers far and wide using our patented Anna Wintour rating system.
The dog days of summer are here, so it makes sense we've got some naked cover stars this month. And while it's a great month to be a battle-hardened female leader in the Seven Kingdoms, we can't forgive all the editors out there for the gross oversight this month that is the absence of Absolutely Fabulous's Eddie or Patsy from a single cover!
Somehow we will press on, sweetie darlings.
California Style
This looks like Homeland's Carrie Mathison was planning on infiltrating a Cirque de Soleil troupe. Maybe you should have just stayed on your side of the looking glass, Mia.
We can tell you're not digging this look, either.
L'Uomo Vogue
This second-generation Beckham is making a name for himself as a Gen Z tastemaker, but if this look is indicative of the new legacy of youths today, they still have some growing up to do.
If only these women had come to dominate the comedy world 30 years ago, when mainstream magazines would have worked with them to create fashionably absurd conceptual covers that made you think as much as they made you laugh.
Still, that Leslie Jones shot is everything.
Esquire Singapore
Bill Murray is game for anything, and we love that. Esquire has one of the strongest visual legacies in the business, including the iconic "Passion of Muhammed Ali" (RIP) cover from 1968.
We're all for Renee Zellweger's comeback, and her adorably low-maintenance pose here. What we're not so sure about is having her on the cover with the words "ageless," "age-proof" and "living forever."
Also not a win: Her vinyl-tablecloth-formerly-known-as-an-Easter-dress look.
ESPN Magazine
Miami Heat shooting guard Dwayne Wade said he had to overcome a fear of being naked—and of being judged—to pose nude on the cover of the magazine's annual Body Issue.
We're certainly glad he did.
We took a point off this month's issue for missing the obvious chance to reference Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt with that headline, but otherwise five out of five fire emojis for Serena's flawless look.
Indeed, no one's interruptin' her grinding.
Marie Claire UK
Nothing about this cover is relaxed or fresh—not that lip ring and especially not all that retouching. But Rebel is one of few leading ladies who can properly invoke the proper "Oh?" face to get you to turn to that threesome feature.
We're despondent over the end of Penny Dreadful, but Eva looks radiant on the cover of W, where her striking features and limpid eyes are highlighted.
It makes us eager for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which, we suppose, is the point.
This is just an outtake from the American GQ shoot back in March, but it's a refreshing reminder that you can zoom out a bit on a cover star and still make it look good.
Everyone likes the occasional sexy ankle shot, no?
We don't have time to list all the times we've "never seen Kim like this before." C'mon, GQ, wasn't there another story you could have illustrated on the cover.
9/11 murder conspiracies, Christian sex scandals, guys in bathing suits—anything!
Harper's Bazaar UK
Harper's Bazaar UK
Emilia Clarke continues a not-so slow burn across the newsstand after Me Before You and another season of Game of Thrones .
While we'd do without that ribbon in the back, it's the perfect vacation look for the Mother of Dragons.
This had an entire Anna before we considered that awful "Man Up!" headline. If you mind your body enough, you too can have arms the size of your head! #TotesMasc
Paper Magazine
Sexy Zayn is redundant, Paper. Also, there are much better things we can think of to do with Zayn's mouth than have him be a human fog machine.
But hey, nice lighting.
Which came first: Booking Jessica Alba or that "Honest to coolness" cover line?
Alba is chilling at the Four Seasons Lanai in as Victoria Beckham dress that doubles as a cat toy. You wanna bet that 30-day food plan includes some of her Honest Company baby products?
InStyle UK
Judging by this Sophie Turner cover, the best way to celebrate feeding your husband to his dogs is to go full-on Florence and the Machines.
Not everyone gets photographed by Annie Leibovitz twice in one year, and styled as a old Hollywood screen siren both times.
We wish the styling and make-up here was a little more modern—perhaps embracing her beauty without a "nudge nudge" for once.
Vogue Korea
Posh looks great here, obviously, but that's all we're willing to concede after all those rumors that she won't show up for a Spice Girls reunion.
That. Is. Tacky.
This cover is the opposite of Paper's take, positing Zayn as a post-boy-band-sex-object. And who doesn't like a stud in leather?
Male model, style entrepreneur, daddy… whatever you want to call him, David Gandy is definitely lickable—er, likable.
For being such a "new man," Jack O'Connell sure fancies the past. He hits the big screen next in the 17th-century period film Tulip Fever and then the WWII drama HHHH with Mia Wasikowska.
That's fine, as long as spend some more time channelling the sailor vibe we're getting from this top. The shirt, that is.
Essence's two cover daddies pull off something rare for men's mags—a true candidness in styling and pose. You've actually got to loosen up a bit, like Omari and Maxwell here, to pull it off.
Cover school is in session, people, and they've got all the class.
Peter Paige: Billy Porter Almost Played Emmett on "Queer as Folk" 9h ago


The route was composed by CMDR VicTic/SchmicTic and it takes you around 300 planets - all Earth-like or water worlds. With the recent increase in exploration payouts, the route is extremely profitable. All systems listed are just a few hundred lightyears away from the bubble which makes them perfect for starter explorers or veterans in need of a quick cash fix. It's of no surprise that the route is called "The Road To Riches".
Running the full route will earn you around 280mil credits (scaning marked planets), or even more if you stick around to scan the rest of the planets in the listed systems.


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If history is any indication, Martin Truex Jr. is just getting warmed up
By Jerry BonkowskiSep 19, 2019, 3:59 PM EDT
With his playoff-opening win in Las Vegas, Martin Truex Jr. could easily coast in the next two Cup races, knowing he's assured of a spot when the Round of 12 begins next month at Dover International Speedway.
But neither Truex nor crew chief Cole Pearn have ever been the cruising type. Even though they're locked into the next round, there's still plenty of motivation for the remainder of the opening round of the playoffs this weekend at Richmond Raceway (7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN) and next week on the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval.
There are still valuable stage points for Truex and the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team to earn in the playoffs.
"These next two races are all about scoring more playoff points for us," Truex said in a media release. "It's great for us knowing that we're already locked in, but we want to try to pad our advantage to start out that next round."
With his win at Las Vegas, the Mayetta, New Jersey native has won three of the last four playoff-opening races (also first at Chicago in 2017 and 2016). And he comes into Richmond with a decent career record there: 27 starts, one win, four top 5s, 10 top 10s, one pole and has led 909 laps.
"Richmond has been a great track for us the past few years," Truex said in a media release. "Obviously getting the win in the spring was huge because it was our first with JGR (Joe Gibbs Racing) and kind of got us going for the rest of the season."
In addition, JGR has 15 Cup wins at Richmond, including the last three there.
Richmond is not only where Truex earned his first of what five wins for JGR this season, but also was the site of his first Cup career short track victory. He's also led the most laps in the last four races there (and five of the last six). But it isn't the only track that been good to Truex of late.
Truex has dominated recently at the next three venues on the Cup playoff schedule:
* Won at Richmond in April.
* Won on Charlotte's oval in May.
* Was one turn away from winning last fall on Charlotte's Roval before a spinning Jimmie Johnson contacted Truex and ended his chances of winning. Also, in the last six road course races, Truex has three wins and two runner-up finishes.
* Won at Dover in May.
Richmond offers additional incentive for Truex, as well. If he can go back-to-back to victory lane there, he would reach a milestone 25th career Cup series win.
What's more, he comes into a race for the first time this season atop the NASCAR Cup point standings, with a series-high five wins, as well as 11 top-five and 16 top-10 showings through the first 27 races of the season.
Truex, the 2017 champion, is trying to earn his second Cup title in the last three seasons. And to top things off, Truex's seven Cup playoff wins since 2016 are the most in the series during that time. Busch is second with five wins, followed by Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano with four wins each.
Add it all up and there most certainly won't be any coasting from the No. 19.
"We just need to keep it up and do all that we can to give ourselves the best chance possible for the rest of the playoffs and not just take it easy," Truex said.


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Over the past several months, Nextdoor has been testing a new way to engage our members in conversations about topics affecting their local communities with News on Nextdoor.
Today, we are thrilled to announce that we've added another valued local news organization to the neighborhood conversation: ABC11 Eyewitness News. ABC11 delivers important news updates to the greater Raleigh-Durham area, and today joins Nextdoor as our first broadcast partner on the East Coast.
Since Nextdoor launched in 2011, Raleigh and Durham neighbors have embraced Nextdoor in thousands of neighborhoods across the area, and we've worked with ABC11 reporters on countless stories highlighting local communities. We know that ABC11 deeply values connecting with their audience in new ways, so we were eager to partner with them to better connect with and engage their community.
On Nextdoor, ABC11 can target where they post local news stories down to the neighborhood level, so Nextdoor members in Raleigh and Durham can expect to see hyperlocal news that is highly relevant to their specific communities. They will also have the opportunity to share their voice about topics that matter most. ABC11 can now post open-ended questions or polls about hyper-local issues and receive input from Nextdoor members for stories they are working on.
ABC11 news stories will appear in Nextdoor newsfeeds across the greater Raleigh-Durham area, as well as in members' Daily Digests. ABC11 can see and respond to replies to their posts; however, the rest of the neighborhood conversations remains private for the verified members of each community.
We are excited that ABC11 shares our mission to grow community and help elevate the neighborhood voice, and we look forward to a successful partnership.
Welcome to the neighborhood, ABC11!
ABC11 is piloting News on the Nextdoor platform.


There's a reason this library is called "BackBone". If you've been a web developer for a few years, you've no doubt run across messy coding—and you understand the side effects of it too (not only as it affects your work, but also the UI). This library was built so that developers would have an easy way to use "models" to streamline and improve their coding.
Boba is the library developers need for Google Analytics integration. Beyond that, this library intends to make the process of using Google Analytics tracking on your website easier.
While there are many WordPress plugins that can enable you to use a masonry-type layout (like what you see on Pinterest) on your website, they're usually too bulky and slow to load. If you're looking to put bricklaying styles to use, check out this lightweight library.
Are you a fan of sliders and carousels? Or maybe you're looking to showcase a high-resolution photography portfolio? Either way, you'll definitely need a lightweight means for creating lightboxes. This library offers a number of flexible customizations in the way of cropping, sizing, navigation, and more.
If you've spent any extended period of time working in the DOM, you know how tedious it can be. While it's a necessary tool when you want to create dynamic content on your website, it shouldn't have to be painful to work in. The D3 library is the solution for that, simplifying the process of attaching data to the DOM.
Have you ever wanted to create a really cool dropping effect on your website? While you usually find this sort of animation in a drop-down navigation menu, there are other ways you can drop content on your site—and this is the library to help you do it.
Ever wanted to give your website a more exciting scroll to the top functionality? The Elevator library will do that for you.
Single-page websites can be a fun experience, when done right. While many developers rely on parallax scroll or simple static layouts for single-page website design, there is another way to tackle this. The FullPage library helps you create a full page website, though each new "section" of the page can only be accessed either through a scroll of the mouse pad or a click on the static navigation.
Icons are a popular design element, what with minimalism and Google's Material Design relying on these to add personality to an otherwise simple design. While icons are small contributions to the bigger picture, you can still have fun by giving them movement and interactivity.
For those of you not too young to understand this reference, this library is all about telling your visitors: "u can touch this". In other words, if you want to add click, pinch, swipe, and other touch gestures to your site, use the Hammer library.
Want more control over how your website's interactive UI renders? That's where the React library comes in to play. If you're familiar with the MVC pattern, this library handles the "V" (or view) part of the equation.
If you've struggled with making images on your website fully responsive, look no further. This lightweight library gives you the ability to create a truly responsive functionality for your images, so you never have to sacrifice readability or compromise the full viewing of them again.
I did manage to overcome my fear of PHP and I am still alive, so this will be next on the list.
May I also very strongly recommend VueJS (https://vuejs.org/).
It has an incredibly small footprint (core is only 17kb minified).
It has a Virtual DOM (making it blazing fast) before updating the real DOM.
Data-binding is ridiculously easy compared to React for example.
It can be used standalone using ES5 or can be compiled with build tools reaping benefits of ES6.
Give it a shot! You'll love it!
Awesome resource! Definitely book marking this one.
Very good article about the new js libraries!


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Ex-treasure hunter stuck in jail won't say where gold coins from shipwreck are hidden
Andrew Welsh-Huggins/AP
Posted: Dec 15, 2020 / 10:16 AM CST | Updated: Dec 15, 2020 / 10:23 AM CST
(Courtesy: WCMH)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former deep-sea treasure hunter is about to mark his fifth year in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing coins made from gold found in a historic shipwreck.
Research scientist Tommy Thompson isn't incarcerated for breaking the law. Instead, he's being held in contempt of court for an unusually long stretch — well past the normal maximum limit of an 18-month internment in cases of witnesses refusing to cooperate.
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But nothing is usual about Thompson's case, which dates to his discovery of the S.S. Central America, known as the Ship of Gold, in 1988. The gold rush-era ship sank in a hurricane off South Carolina in 1857 with thousands of pounds of gold aboard, contributing to an economic panic.
Despite an investors lawsuit and a federal court order, Thompson still won't cooperate with authorities trying to find those coins, according to court records, federal prosecutors and the judge who found Thompson in contempt.
"He creates a patent for a submarine, but he can't remember where he put the loot," federal Judge Algenon Marbley said during a 2017 hearing.
Thompson's legal troubles stem from the 161 investors who paid Thompson $12.7 million to find the ship, never saw any proceeds and finally sued.
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Back in 2012, a different federal judge ordered Thompson to appear in court to disclose the coins' whereabouts. Instead, Thompson fled to Florida, where he lived with his longtime female companion at a hotel near Boca Raton. U.S. marshals tracked him down and arrested him in early 2015.
For background on Thompson's case and footage of the gold treasure, check out the video from NewsNation affiliate WCMH below:
Thompson pleaded guilty for his failure to appear and was sentenced to two years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Thompson's criminal sentence has been delayed until the issue of the gold coins is resolved.
That April 2015 plea deal required Thompson to answer questions in closed-door sessions about the whereabouts of the coins, which the government says are worth $2 million to $4 million. Importantly, he must also "assist" interested parties in finding the coins under that deal.
Thompson refused several times, and on Dec. 15, 2015, Marbley found Thompson in contempt of court and ordered him to stay in jail — and pay a $1,000 daily fine — until he responds.
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In late October of this year, Thompson appeared by video for his latest hearing.
"Mr. Thompson, are you ready to answer the seminal question in this case as to the whereabouts of the gold?" Marbley said.
"Your honor, I don't know if we've gone over this road before or not, but I don't know the whereabouts of the gold," Thompson responded. "I feel like I don't have the keys to my freedom."
And with that, Thompson settled back into his current situation: housed in a federal prison in Milan, Michigan, he's now spent more than 1,700 days in jail and owes nearly $1.8 million in fines — and counting. Thompson's attorney declined to comment.
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FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office in Delaware, Ohio, shows Tommy Thompson. The former deep-sea treasure hunter is about to mark his fifth year in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing gold coins found in the historic shipwreck of the S.S. Central America. (Delaware County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
Thompson, 68, has said he suffers from a rare form of chronic fatigue syndrome that has created problems with short-term memory. He's previously said, without providing details, that the coins were turned over to a trust in Belize.
The government contends Thompson is refusing to cooperate and that there's no connection between his ailment and his ability to explain where the coins are.
A federal law addresses individuals like Thompson, known as "recalcitrant witnesses." The law holds that 18 months is generally the limit for jail time for contempt of court orders. But a federal appeals court last year rejected Thompson's argument that that law applies to him.
Thompson hasn't just refused to answer questions, the court ruled: He's also violated the requirement that he "assist" the parties by refusing to execute a limited power of attorney to allow that Belizean trust to be examined, as required under his plea deal.
"The order isn't intended to solely seek information, it's to seek information for the purposes of recovering these unique assets," said law professor and legal analyst Andrew Geronimo, director of Case Western University's First Amendment Clinic.
Earlier this year, Marbley denied Thompson's request for release over concerns he's at risk for contracting the coronavirus behind bars. Marbley said Thompson didn't present proper evidence for his risk level, and also noted he remains a flight risk.
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The investors still looking for their money say Thompson has no one but himself to blame for his incarceration.
"He would be out of prison by now if he had simply complied with his plea agreement and cooperated in locating missing assets when he was supposed to," attorney Steven Tigges said in a March court filing.
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Additional Info: Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans classically has one of two patterns of invasion into the subcutaneous fat. One pattern is a relatively even layering of fibrous tissue/tumor that penetrates parallel to the surface above). The other pattern is diffuse infiltration along the septae of the adipocytes. Mixed patterns can be seen (as shown above in this Bednar Tumor). Dermatofibroma, specifically, the deep penetrating variant, can interface with the surrounding fat but this is usually a smooth, well circumscribed boundary, as seen in the deep DF (see folder). When DF's do extend into the fat, it is not extensive and the extensions usually radiate outward focally, like spokes on a wheel.


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For the face care, I chose the products from Codage because of the quality of their codified active ingredients perfectly adapted to our modern world. The results are fast.
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Guess Who – Client Errors!
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Recently I have received an interesting theme of questions related to client errors. These are errors that happen as your site is trying to make requests for various tags that should be included on the page but the browser (aka "the client") shuts them down for one reason or another. These errors always negatively impact whatever systems was depending on that tag. Most of the time these errors don't have a notable impact on the user experience but sometimes they do so in generally it is best to prevent these from happening.
Here are three errors for you to gander at. Try just looking at the error and see if you can guess at what is causing the problem. Then compare that to my description below.
In this case the team was trying to implement Google Tag Manager on a new application that had fairly stringent security measures in place. This is the sort of error that completely ruins whatever a script may want to do so best to resolve it right away.
For this error you mostly just need to know that a site can declare a Content Security Policy ("CSP") that determines what content on the site is allowed to do and what scripts can be included. Some sites don't have a CSP which pretty much allows you to run scripts freely. In this case a CSP was in place and because GTM wasn't included in their GCP it was blocked and unable to deliver any of the many important tags that it needed to.
To resolve this issue the developers just had to update the CSP to include googletagmanager.com and then GTM started working. But don't stop there…because GTM will include other tags that each run their own scripts you should also do an audit of all your potential tags and ensure that each of their script libraries are part of your CSP. If not, then GTM will try to fire your tag but the browser will reject it.
For this one the page was trying to include a tag but it was getting shut down by the security police!
This one is fairly self explanatory. Pages that use a secure, HTTPS page should also use tags that run on HTTPS. If they don't then they will be blocked. Typically I just see this happen if a user is running a tag outside of a tag management systems or using custom scripting in the TMS. The tagging templates that TMSs provide will handle this for you.
To fix this one just update your code to dynamically use the HTTPS version of the tag on pages using HTTPS. Somewhere in the tag code there is likely a reference to a JS file and you'll see "http" being used as the protocol which is typically where your update will happen. Keep in mind that most of the time you can just change "http" to "https" or just use the relative "//" reference. Be careful, though, because sometime other parts of the URL may need to change to properly reference the secure version of the tag. These details can be provided by whatever vendor that tag belongs to.
Here we have a big mess of errors and all have the same "net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT" message. This was pretty much happening to every tag and it looked as if the whole tagging setup was imploding!
Remember, if you see "client" in the error that refers to your browser. This error is basically saying that the browser blocked the request from happening. The other interesting point about this error is that it didn't show for me when I took a look at the same page. So I made a suggestion for something my client could check for and, sure enough, he found that he had an ad blocker installed and the ad blocker was shutting down all of his tags. Fortunately, this just impacts what he was seeing and not all users to the site. Simply disabling the blocker solved the issue for him.
Well, I hope that helps to give a little context on a few client errors you may run into. What other errors would you include in this list?


Just thinking about seasickness is enough to make you squeamish – but help is at hand.
During my career as a cruise writer I have encountered a violent hurricane in the North Atlantic, three cyclones in the South China Sea and survived the tempestuous Drake's Passage en-route to Antarctica. Fortunately, despite feeling somewhat queasy on all these stormy voyages, I didn't succumb to 'mal de mer'. However, before you think this Old Salt has a cast-iron constitution, I have to admit to two unexpected bouts of the technicolour yawn. On a christening voyage from Liverpool to Southampton one December, storm-force winds in the Irish Sea made the ship lurch and roll sufficiently that I lost my breakfast. An overly ambitious lunch plated out one summer's day between Dover to Boulogne when the 'corkscrewing' motion of the ferry saw me hurl the contents of my stomach into the foaming sea.
The best cure for nausea is often to get your sea legs on deck.
Seasickness, also called motion sickness, is a common disturbance of the inner ear. This is the area of the body that affects your sense of balance. Motion sickness happens when your brain receives conflicting messages about motion and your body's position in space.
Quite often, the best cure for the feeling of nausea is just to get out on deck, put your face to the breeze and stare off into the horizon. Letting your body get accustomed to this new sensation is really beneficial – in nautical terms, it is called getting your 'sea legs'.
The bottom line is that seasickness only affects barely three per cent of all passengers on a cruise ship. And in this day and age, the accuracy of modern weather-forecasting allows ships to steer clear of any really nasty weather. However, there are measures you can take if that queasy feeling starts to creep up on you.
Alcohol can speed up dehydration and lower your resistance to motion sickness.
The most obvious thing to consider if you are prone to motion sickness is book a cabin in the middle of the ship and near the waterline. Other tips include avoiding heavy, greasy and acidic foods. Despite the cruise bartenders' promise that a 'stabiliser' – consisting of port and brandy – is a guaranteed panacea, it is wise to steer clear of alcohol as it speeds up dehydration and generally lowers your body's resistance to motion sickness.
Many passengers seem to spend a fortune at their local pharmacies before heading off on the briny. Bumper-packs of Dramamine, an array of acupressure wristbands and a patchwork of Scopolamine skin patches behind the ears might be beneficial, but in truth they are more likely to be of greater help psychologically. In extreme cases of 'motion of the ocean', the ship's medical teams are well versed at administering a quick jab of Phenergan and passengers report that, within an hour, they are sleeping like babes, and when they wake up any thought of an up-chuck has been consigned to the deep.
Don't overlook ginger – either raw or candied. This natural remedy has been used as an elixir for motion sickness for centuries (ginger root is said to have been first used by the ancient Chinese), and although it doesn't work for everyone, a lot of people claim it is a life-saver.
Seasickness can be unpleasant, but don't let it stop you experiencing all that cruising has to offer.


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Q: How can I add break before each character '' - ''? I have some text from database like this:
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and I need to insert break  before each " - " character.
Could you please help me?
I need it in PHP.
Thanks

A: You can do something like this:
$str = "- cauko2, - kldsfk, -asdas asd a";
echo str_replace("-", "<br />-", $str);

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The best blenders are the ones you'll actually USE! And few weight loss tool boxes are complete without one.
Why is a blender an important weight loss tool?
Using a blender helps you make a balanced meal in minutes. A smoothie for breakfast helps you jump start the day with multiple food groups. How much faster can you prepare a fiber rich, protein rich, essential fat rich meal than to blend some frozen berries with water, protein powder and ground flaxseeds?
Using a blender helps you incorporate more water rich foods (smoothies, soups), and water rich foods help you feel fuller.
Using a blender can improve your nutrition: The best blenders help you drink the foods you otherwise don't eat. Would you ever think to drink your squash?
Using a blender helps you eat more servings of fruit than you normally would. For example, you may add fruit to your cereal...a few berries or a sprinkling of raisins. But that probably doesn't even make up one full portion. And you're supposed to get 5-9 portions of fruits and vegetables a day!
Our healthy recipes for kids get kidsexcited about cooking and eating healthy.
If you make a fruit smoothie, you can easily consume 2-3 portions of fruit at one time. A smoothie with 1/2 cup O.J + 1/2 cup water + 1 cup frozen strawberries + 1/2 banana is equal to 3 portions of fruit.
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My blender is my most prized kitchen appliance.
...not all blenders are created equally.
I once spent an outrageous amount of money on a blender that looked great on my counter but I never used it because it didn't crush my frozen fruit very well and it leaked!
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Hello Fort Myers Beach, San Carlos Island and surrounding areas!
Recently we have found that most of our community is aware of the core services provided by the Fort Myers Beach Fire Department in responding to fire, medical and other emergencies. However, over the years our organization has expanded services to cover a lot more than emergency response. Many residents and businesses have utilized our additional services and we want to make sure everyone is aware of these services and knows how to access them.
This will be the first in a series to provide additional information regarding the services provided and hopefully help members of our community find resources. We would also like to encourage you to visit our website at www.FMBFire.org for additional information.
To kick-off this series, one of the ways to stay informed is to subscribe to the Fire Chief's "Scoop". The Scoop is a weekly publication informing our community of various activities, events, and information to help keep everyone up to date and have access to resources. To subscribe to the Scoop, please visit our website's homepage and look for "Subscribe to the Scoop".
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Putin highlights Russia's readiness to boost ties with Arab League
2nd November, 2022 02:26:33 PM
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Moscow is ready to boost ties with the Arab League and all its members, particularly in strengthening regional and global security, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a message to the heads of state and heads of government of Arab League countries participating in the 31st summit of the organization.
"Russia is ready to continue to fully boost ties with the Arab League and all its members, particularly in strengthening regional and global security. We believe that the military and political issues that the Middle East and North Africa are facing, including the Syrian and Libyan crises and the Yemeni and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, should be resolved based on universally recognized international laws, with full respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states," the Russian president stated in his message, published on the Kremlin website on Tuesday.
The head of state pointed out that the formation of a multipolar system of international relations, based on the principles of equality, justice and respect for each other's legitimate interests, was gaining momentum amid the serious political and economic changes that the world was going through. Middle Eastern and North African countries, who have a total population of nearly half a billion, are playing an increasing role in the process, Putin noted. "Undoubtedly, the tasks of improving the international situation and opposing the threats and challenges of our time increase the demand for coordinated collective efforts and significantly raise the importance of representative organizations such as the Arab League," the Russian leader added. He was confident that efforts to further enhance the partnership between Russia and Arab countries was in line with the common interests of the parties and the need to ensure global peace and stability.
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HSECoE team members conduct engineering system component RD&D—including bench-scale testing and evaluation and conceptual design validation—to address deficiencies and enable progress toward meeting the storage system-level targets. Visit the HSECoE Models web page to find detailed models developed by HSECoE and available for use by the RD&D community.
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