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HKSTP Fully Supports HKSAR Government's Initiatives to Foster the Development of I&T Ecosystem
(Hong Kong, 12 January 2022) – Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) expresses its full support to HKSAR Government's comprehensive plan to foster development of the innovation and technology (I&T) ecosystem, including providing additional land and resources for I&T and advanced manufacturing. The topic, which was covered during today's first meeting of the new Legislative Council term, demonstrates the government's vision and determination to promote I&T and re-industrialisation in Hong Kong to further grow and diversify its economy.
HKSTP will focus its strengths and resources to align with the government's "Northern Metropolis Development Strategy", establishing a "San Tin Technopole" which consolidates the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park (HSITP) in the Lok Ma Chau Loop (the Loop) with areas around Lok Ma Chau/San Tin, while developing life science related industries for medical research and development purposes. Together with the Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Zone (Shenzhen I&T Zone), this strategy will further drive I&T collaboration and synergy between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Additionally, the expansion plan for Pak Shek Kok and Science Park, as well as the second phase of Science Park are progressing as planned, with a consultancy study to be commenced soon.
HKSTP welcomes the re-titling of the Innovation and Technology Bureau to the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau. HKSTP believes this will strengthen the connections and resources required to support the establishment of a robust I&T value chain. This will further promote I&T driven production or re-industrialisation to a higher level. At HKSTP, we will double down our efforts in nurturing more local I&T talent, attracting top talent from Mainland China and overseas, and helping local young people seize broader opportunities.
HKSTP will continue to collaborate extensively with stakeholders from government, industry, academic and research sectors to capitalise on the abundant opportunities arising from the national 14th Five-Year Plan. We remain committed to strengthening our support for scientific research across the Greater Bay Area (GBA), aiming to increase the global competitiveness of I&T in Hong Kong and the GBA, and propel Hong Kong to become an important engine contributing to the GBA to become an international hub for technological innovation.
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Covering 2850 sq km ², Tarangire National Park lies to the south of the Maasai Steppes and derives its name from the Tarangire River that provides water to the wildlife in this area.
The easiest access is via road and this is how Tarangire is included in many northern circuit tours. It is an easy drive from Arusha and Lake Manyara and is close to the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti.
There are several bush airstrips in or near the park and you can catch chartered flights from Arusha and the Serengeti.
The Tarangire River flows through the northern regions of the park. This perennial river is what draws vast concentrations of wildlife during the dry winter months. The southern area of the park has a series of swamps which turn into dry plains for most of the year. The park is also known for its many thick Baobab trees.
Tarangire's vegetation consists of dry, open woodlands, which include acacia thickets, acacia tortillis trees and the occasional palm tree. The flat swamps in the southern regions of the Park are impassable during the rains.
These are a wonderful way to really experience life in the bush and see the regions many herbivores and perhaps a couple of predators too! You will be accompanied by your guide and an armed National Parks Ranger.
This region gets less rainfall than the rest of Tanzania and is semi arid. It is dominated by Acacia tress and Baobabs. This makes game viewing easy. Visitors staying in one of the camps or a nearby lodge can enjoy game drives in the park. These game drives are a great way to cover a large area and spot many of the regions larger animals.
During the dry season (June to October), Tarangire competes with Ngorongoro Crater when it comes to wildlife concentrations. Many migratory animals are found at the permanent waters of the Tarangire River. Huge herds of Wildebeest, Zebras, Buffalo, Elephants, Impala, Giraffe, Eland and Oryx will stay in Tarangire until the onset of the rains when they migrate again to other good grazing areas.
The vast number of baobabs seen when entering Tarangire National Park signifies an ancient place, an Africa of the past. The park is dotted with these majestic trees and provides for picture postcard photographs - especially when Elephants, of which there are numerous in Tarangire, are feeding beneath the trees. In fact Baobabs and Elephants typify the soul of the park.
Tarangire National Park has one of the highest densities of Elephant anywhere in Tanzania. Lion and Leopard are common throughout Tarangire, whilst Cheetah are often seen in the open areas of the south. Spotted Hyenas are regularly seen, but sightings of Wild dog are rare.
Over 500 species of birds have been recorded in Tarangire, with screeching flocks of the colourful yellow-collared lovebird, the rufous-tailed weaver and ashy starling, all of which are endemic to Tanzania.


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Euroleague: Sam Van Rossom hits the game-winner ! (VIDEO)
Euroleague: Sam Van Rossom (Valencia) hits the game-winner against Maccabi Tel Aviv !
The Spaniards from Valencia won, after a suspensefull game, Friday night at home (82-80) against Maccabi Tel Aviv on the tenth day in the Euroleague basketball.
Sam Van Rossom scored the winning basket with only seconds to go. After a game of twists and turns, Sam Van Rossom's teammates snatched victory in the dying seconds against Maccabi Tel Aviv.
In the first half, it was the Spaniards who took control of the game (43-37 after 20′) at the break.
With one minute to go Maccabi had a confortable lead thanks to a big second half from Scottie Wilbekin (74-79). But with only 7 seconds to go, Derrick Williams' the number 2 pick of the draft 2011, scored a clutch 3 to tie the game (80-80). Everyone thought it was time for Scottie Wilbekin to win the game. But the good agressive defense on the pick & roll from Bojan Dubljevic forced the turnover !The Belgian was alone in transition, he offered the victory to the Spaniards on easy layup (82-80).
Despite his huge turnover, Scottie Wilbekin finished the game with 25 points (7 three pointers).
The Belgian Lion ended the game with 4 points , 3 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals in 21 minutes.
Earlier this year, against ASVEL, Sam Van Rossom already had a game winning bucket in Euroleague.
In the standings, Valencia goes back to fourth place with a record of 6 wins for 3 losses. Next Friday, Valencia will travel to Turkey to face Fenerbahce .
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George and Marcy were headed into their retirement and were concerned their money could run out. Working with their advisor, they structured an income plan that would generate a guaranteed income to meet their basic expenses, while still having enough left over to fund their travel and recreation plans. They can focus on the joys of retirement knowing their "retirement paycheck" arrives on schedule every month. They meet with their advisor annually to make sure everything stays on track.


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Trump Gets Impeachment Vote From A Very Unlikely Source (DETAILS)
Since his election to the presidency, the question of Donald Trump's impeachment has been in motion. Whether it has been liberal tweeters or marchers in movements such as the nation-wide Women's March, Americans have been publicly wondering if and when Trump will be forced to leave office or at least impeached.
Today's Impeach-O-Meter: Enough with the giant stacks of paper https://t.co/Tul7GG5L3s pic.twitter.com/xovSDKegua
— Slate (@Slate) December 14, 2017
On a federal level, there have also been movements to push the president out of office. Last week, the House of Representatives denied a motion by Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas to pursue articles of impeachment. Green's movement argued that Donald Trump "brought disrepute, contempt, ridicule and disgrace on the presidency" and has also "sown discord among the people of the United States."
Just 58 Democrats are in support of Representative Green's movement, which is just about a third of the caucus. Shea-Porter was one of four Democrats who voted "present."
[email protected], thank you for your vote to impeach @realdonaldtrump. ADD YOUR NAME & demand #Congress work to #ImpeachTrump now: https://t.co/nkS8pc7Jwf pic.twitter.com/19kuR1Q1au
— MoveOn (@MoveOn) December 15, 2017
Although the movement was shut down on the forefront, Democrats from across the country, including in regions where Donald Trump won in the 2016 election, are voting to advance Trump's impeachment. Democratic Representative Carol Shea-Porter of New Hampshire said in a statement on Thursday that she plans to cosponsor impeachment articles that are introduced by Democratic Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee. Prior to her endorsement, Democrats that supported Trump's impeachment came from predominantly blue regions.
Shea-Porter actually cited Trump adversary, Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee, in her comments in support of impeachment, stating:
'Many Members of Congress, including myself, agree with Republican Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker that President Trump poses a dangerous threat to national security and the future of our democracy. I believe it is past time for Members of Congress to put country before party and bring these discussions out into the open.'
Together with almost 60 Congresswomen, I'm urging the House to investigate the many sexual misconduct allegations against President Donald Trump. Public officials must be held accountable for their behavior, regardless of office or party.https://t.co/6EYxXocY5Y
— Rep. Shea-Porter (@RepSheaPorter) December 12, 2017
Shea-Porter would technically be facing a rather difficult reelection next year in her district, where Trump won in 2016 by only 2 points. However, Shea-Porter announced in October that she plans to retire at the end of this present term. This comes as a disappointment to Democrats, as she won back her district, a swing district, just this past November. In the past seven years, Shea-Porter has traded her seat twice with a Republican. However, over the past few weeks within special elections and speculations coming out of upcoming elections, it seems like Democrats will be gaining some ground within Congress.
President Trump is slowly but surely giving Democrats an increasing shot at winning the House and Senate in 2018. If this happened, the House would surely move to impeach him.https://t.co/I4WrksBQ0q
— Axios (@axios) December 14, 2017
Shear-Porter is by no means a newcomer when it comes to standing up to current President Donald Trump. The New Hampshire Representative stands among dozens of Democrats who did not attend Donald Trump's presidential inauguration in January of 2016. Instead, Shea-Porter attended religious services in order "to pray for all of our leaders and people" within the United States.
The New Hampshire Representative has also advocated for an investigation into Trump's sexual misconduct. On December 12 she tweeted:
'Together with almost 60 Congresswomen, I'm urging the House to investigate the many sexual misconduct allegations against President Donald Trump. Public officials must be held accountable for their behavior, regardless of office or party.'
The articles of impeachment brought forth by Representative Cohen state that Trump absolutely obstructed justice. In firing James Comey as FBI director, and particularly because it was amid the probe of Russia's election meddling, Trump looks incredibly suspicious. The articles also hold that Donald Trump violated the foreign emoluments clause within the United States Constitution that bars the president from receiving gifts from foreign governments. President Trump accepted the gifts without the permission of Congress, thus undermining the American judiciary system and the public media.
As days go by, reasons to impeach Trump seems to be gaining legitimate ground. The next few months will undoubtedly be telling about whether or not Trump will see a next term, let alone finish the one he is currently serving.
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Jane Fonda, still rockin' the evening pantsuit/gown thing. Photo by Kayla Rocca.
Tina Fey, being dragged backwards by an invisible hand yanking at her hair. Photo by Kayla Rocca.
We don't have a joke here, we just like Connie Britton. IS THAT SO WRONG? Photo by Kayla Rocca.
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Antoine Fuqua mentally criticizes the lighting choices of the paparazzi. Photo by Kayla Rocca.
From left to right: John Cusack, who is playing "old Brian Wilson" in Love & Mercy; some dude who is probably not thematically relevant to this photo, we're sure about that; and Paul Dano, playing "young Brian Wilson" in Love & Mercy. Photo by Giordano Ciampini.
They tried to co-ordinate their hair product usage. Photo by Giordano Ciampini.
John Cusack, immediately before exploding into smoke. Photo by Giordano Ciampini.
Liv Ullman and Jessica Chastain here represent two generations of total badasses. Photo by Giordano Ciampini.
Ben Vereen is so cool when his tailor said "I gotta put a hemline on this jacket" Ben Vereen just said "Brother, let it ride." Photo by Giordano Ciampini.
Richard Gere waves his withered, palsy limbs at ladies who remember seeing An Officer And A Gentleman in the theatres. They are thrilled. Photo by Giordano Ciampini.
Jena Malone feeds off the life energy of the elderly, like a space vampire. Photo by Giordano Ciampini.
"My man." Photo by Kayla Rocca.
We don't want to go all GoFugYourself, but did Elizabeth Banks make this outfit out of spare curtains or what? Photo by Giordano Ciampini.
Rosamund Pike, daring the photographer to a fist fight. Photo by Giordano Ciampini.
Rosamund Pike and Simon Pegg, daring the photographers to a double fistfight. Photo by GIordano Ciampini.
"Signing a little dolly of myself. Right. Not surreal at all." Photo by Giordano Ciampini.
Christopher Plummer, doing whatever the hell he wants. Photo by Giordano Ciampini.
OH GOD THEY'RE LOOKING RIGHT AT US RUN. Photo by Giordano Ciampini.
Reese Witherspoon, asked a question about potentially aging out of the infamous Hollywood preference for younger actresses, focuses her eyes on the questioner and dissolves him instantly. She is satisfied. Photo by Giordano Ciampini.
With the biggest-ticket "prestige" films having already premiered, Sunday marked the annual shift of the Toronto International Film Festival from Important Films to that which composes the majority of its slate: "smart" but undeniably commercial fare (like Simon Pegg's Hector and the Search for Happiness, The Equalizer with Denzel Washington, and This Is Where I Leave You, starring Tina Fey and Jason Bateman), prestige product films that don't have quite the same star power as the big guns (Miss Julie with Jessica Chastain, Richard Gere's Time Out of Mind, or Love & Mercy with John Cusack), and non-English films that have already been successful or that foreign studios think will be hugely successful (Samba, a French film premiering at TIFF, is a good example).
Naturally, not all of these films will be good simply because they're at a film festival, but on Sunday, TIFF's yearly conversation about film shifts from looking and gawking to actually watching. Which didn't stop us from looking and gawking, of course.
Want more TIFF coverage? Torontoist's film festival hub is right over here.


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Home News Tottenham offered Capoue the 'step up'
Tottenham offered Capoue the 'step up'
Tottenham's new signing Etienne Capoue made an instant impact on his first team debut at the weekend and looks set to become something of a fans' favourite for the coming season. The former Toulouse man was introduced as a second half substitute, in place of Mousa Dembele, and like the Belgian he proved highly effective at breaking up play and finding a white shirt.
The French international could have been playing in the red shirt of Cardiff on Saturday but as the player explains, Tottenham were very much his preferred choice.
"I decided I wanted to play in a very attractive league, and the Premier League is the best league in Europe," Capoue told Mercato 365.
"I really wanted to go to England and Tottenham was an opportunity that I could not refuse."
The midfielder / defender went on to state that Spurs' desire to seal the deal persuaded him to choose North London over South Wales.
"They showed me they were very keen on the transfer and that they really wanted to have me on their team."
"Cardiff would not have been a step up in my career," he concluded. "Tottenham allowed me to make that leap, Cardiff did not."
The 25 year olds' versatility could make him an important member of the squad this season but did his performance at Selhurst Park on Sunday suggest he deserves more than a start from the bench next weekend?
Report: Spurs offered 30-goal striker – should they sign him?
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Here's a 1950 Jefferson with shocking black-and-white Cameo contrast! This rare bird competes with later date examples. Its heavily frosted devices are carved out from white snow atop pitch-black, haze-free, and tone-free mirrors. This a rare find amongst 1950-nickels! NGC graded only 161 examples in PF 67 Cameo because it is so tough to find frost at this level. This is an amazing specimen one doesn't come across often in a lifetime!


The Leather Dynamic Waterproof Testing Machine is used standard steel ball placed in the interior of leather, and in this way to do water-proof and twist testing.
Testing before need to set the number of reverse and automatically shutdown when the number arrive, the machine is equipped with a sensor, when the water infiltrate into the interior of leather, it will automatically stop counting time, and display the time of twist.
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To Those Who Choose to Never Be Called Mom.
Mothers are amazing. I know this because I am lucky enough to call one of them my own. I, however, made the conscious decision to never become one myself. Once upon a time, in a portion of my life that seems so long ago it almost doesn't seem real anymore, I thought I wanted to… Continue reading To Those Who Choose to Never Be Called Mom.


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Q: Compactness of a distribution I calculate the input to a box and whisker diagram like this (data is a sorted integer array), and LQ,  UQ are the lower resp. upper quantile:
    Min:    data[0],
    LQ:     data[len(data)/4],
    Median: data[len(data)/2],
    UQ:     data[len(data)/4*3],
    Max:    data[len(data)-1],

My question would be: Is there a mathematical definition / algorithm to define how 'compact' such an array of integers is? If Max-Min = 0 it's super compact, but what would a sane definition of compactness / heterogeneity be if I compare two such arrays and for both holds Max - Min != 0 ?
Normal distribution of data is assumed!

A: You can use the coefficient of variation (CV) to compare the homogeneity/ variability between two data sets. The CV is given by $$CV=\frac{s}{\bar{x}}$$ where $s$ denotes the standard deviation of the sample and $\bar{x}$ the mean of the sample. The $CV$ is measured in percent units, which is means that is a number (free of specific measurement units) and can be used for comparison between different data sets. Sets with values of CV less than $10\%$ tend to be interpreted as homogenous sets.
In the example you mention, i.e. when $\max -\min=0$ then the CV will also be zero and that is also the only case in which the CV will be zero.

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Mindy absorbs, transfers, and redirects the energy in TMI.
Energy absorption, transference, and redirection is the ability to manipulate energy. The user "can aggregate and refocus energy for alternate external release.
According to the Assignment Tracker 2.0 profile for Mindy Sprague, this ability allows a person to absorb, transfer, and redirect energy. The energy is absorbed on a cellular level. The user can aggregate and refocus energy for alternate external release.
Mindy's hand glows while touching a file.
According to her Assignment Tracker 2.0 file, the full name of Mindy's ability is "energy absorption, transference, and redistribution".
For other uses of absorption, see absorption (disambig).
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From Dinosaurs to Birds
What was the bird-like animal named Confuciusornis sanctus?
The Confuciusornis sanctus, discovered in the northeast province of Liaoning, China, was a pigeon-sized, flying creature that may have appeared after the Archaeopteryx. (Its actual age is still debated, but it may be about 140 million years old, which is about 10 million years after versus the Archaeopteryx.) This animal had a horny, toothless beak. Before it was discovered, scientists thought toothless beaks did not appear until the Late Cretaceous period, about 70 million years ago. This creature also had feathers along its legs, making this (so far) the earliest known record of contour feathers on any animal.


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Inspector General: Albuquerque homeless work program not reaching full potential
by: Francesca Washington
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A once nationally praised program that paid the homeless to clean up Albuquerque has come under fire. An investigation reveals the contractor running the Better Way Program wasn't playing by the rules. Work vans would pick up the homeless and take them to parks and medians to pick up trash for cash. However, there were questions about where that money was going.
Mayor Richard Berry started the "There's a Better Way" initiative back in 2015 partnering with St. Martin's and Hopeworks where the city paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to get panhandlers off the streets and give them jobs. The city's Office of the Inspector General launched an investigation this past summer after a would-be worker said a driver never showed up at the designated pick up location.
Other concerns were that the pick-ups weren't structured, claiming drivers were picking and choosing who they would pick up. There was also concern that if drivers weren't picking up the required 10 people each day, the drivers could easily be pocketing the $50 meant to pay workers.
The Officer of the Inspector General says it couldn't find any cases of that happening, but says Hopeworks was breaking the rules.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays drivers were supposed to pick up new clients at two fixed locations. After a three month study, they determined that wasn't happening and drivers were picking up repeat clients.
According to the Inspector General's report, the program wasn't reaching its full potential. The program ended in September after St. Martins decided it no longer wanted to run the service.
The Inspector General says if the city decides to continue the program, the contractor should provide more checks and balances to lower the risk of fraud. The city has put out a request for a contractor to run the better way program. They have not received any proposals yet. They are due this Friday.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Police Department cut the ribbon on its new helicopter, which APD says is a huge improvement over its old one.
The department cut the ribbon Friday on its new Airbus H-125, dubbed "Air Two," which is expected to be safer and better for fighting crime than "Air One." Among the technology onboard are displays alerting the pilot to hazards and weather, as well as collision avoidance.
by Jackie Kent / Jan 17, 2020
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Mid-Region Council of Governments has a long list of road projects it wants to see get done across the metro over the next 20 years.
The ideas range from straightening out the S-curve on I-25 near downtown to much-needed maintenance on major roadways, but there's not enough money to fund it all.
by Chris McKee / Jan 17, 2020
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Months after the murder of a young woman who witnessed a robbery near a local park, an Albuquerque school is starting a new effort to remember the memory she left behind.
An aspiring oral surgeon who was known for her hard work in school, 21-year-old Cayla Campos' name is on a new scholarship helping dentistry students in financial need.
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It's Just Movies
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Trailer: The Expendables 2
— by JESSIKA OWENS —
A sequel is defined as a literary work, movie, etc., that is complete in itself but continues the narrative of a preceding work. I generally become squeamish at the site or sound of another sequel making the scene in the film world. It is rare that a sequel surpasses or even maintains the same level as an original in my world. I'm not saying it hasn't happened or will never happen, I have simply developed a sequel shield, if you will.
Part of the problem in the sequel game is that a lot of films fail to cast original players for one reason or another. This dampens my appetite quite a bit. Luckily, "The Expendables 2" managed to bring back most of the cast from the first film, which raises my spirits somewhat. However, I'm still hesitant because the title in itself is an oxymoron. Expendable means something is designed to be used only once and then abandoned or destroyed.
Action-wise, "The Expendables 2" looks quite fun and entertaining. I enjoy a good car crash here and there, maybe a couple good punches to someone's face. The fun factor is sewn directly into a movie such as this. I am torn between wanting to see it and not even entertaining the thought. On one hand, I am all in for a romp with the boys — Jason Statham in particular — but on the other, I can't overlook one simple yet oh so corny one liner in the trailer. Arnold Schwarzenegger spits out, "I'm back."
"The Expendables 2" has a big name cast and some promising action, all the ingredients to make such a sequel as likeable, if not more so, than the first movie. I am not completely sold on the idea or the film. I plan on waiting for feedback from my friends and family before I decide on whether or not to see this in theaters We all know it's becoming increasingly more expensive to go to the movies and it has truly become a gamble with our nonexpendable finances.
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Choosing from a catalogue may be easy but choosing from the stores online catalogue is even better, stock levels change, new products are relased before the new catalogue comes out and prices change so its always wise to check online before making a final decision.
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Lucien Hubert, född den 27 augusti 1868, död den 18 maj 1938, var en fransk politiker och journalist.

Hubert blev deputerad 1897 och senator 1912. Som specialist på kolonialfrågor användes Hubert i olika diplomatiska uppdrag och tog flitigt del i riksdagens utskottsarbete. Han var november 1929 - februari 1930 justitieminister i André Tardieus regering.

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Thompson Thrift Retail Group Announces $34 Million Publix-Anchored Mixed-Use Property Outside of Raleigh | State / Region
By Bill Moran On Jan 13, 2022
RALEIGH, NC, January 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Thompson Thrift Retail Group, a wholly owned business of Indianapolis-based Thompson Thrift is developing Marketplace at Ellis Crossing, a 30-acre mixed-use property in the Research Triangle Park area of Raleigh Durham. Publix Super Markets, the largest and fastest growing employee-owned supermarket chain in The United States, anchors the location. Thompson Thrift is targeting to complete construction of the first phase of the development in Q4 2022.
"Given the area's rapid growth and planned expansions, our team felt this was an ideal location for an established grocer like Publix," says Publix Ryan Menard, vice president of development at Thompson Thrift. "We are pleased to have started construction and look forward to adding the distinctive features of Thompson Thrift to the thriving property Raleigh Durham community."
Located on the northeast corner of Ellis Road and Watchorn Street, the Marketplace at Ellis Crossing will feature 72,000 square feet of retail space, a hotel and a daycare. In addition to the 47,000-square-foot Publix, leases have been signed with First National Bank, Chipotle, and Heartland Dental Lee nails.
Hunter Steward, Vice President of Lee & Associates Raleigh Durham, stated, "Based on the growth in the Triangle region and the volume of rental requests, we are confident that Publix will add a range of quality service and dining options when the Marketplace at Ellis Crossing opens."
Conveniently located just five minutes from downtown durham and 20 minutes from downtown Raleigh, Marketplace at Ellis Crossing is ideally located between two of North Carolinas fastest growing cities. The project is located in the heart of the area known as Research Triangle Park, a collaborative innovation center nestled between three Tier 1 research universities and already home to more than 264 research companies and over 50,000 high-tech workers. Apple recently announced its plans to build a new 1 million square foot campus in the area.
Along with Apple's new campus, Duke University recently announced plans for a new one 100 million dollars expansion of the School of Medicine; and Keith Corporation is planning a 5.5 million square foot commercial development in the area. In order to keep up with the expansion, several new multi-family and residential developments are currently planned or under construction.
This is Thompson Thrift's fourth project in North Carolina. They have retail centers in unity and Wilson and a multi-family community with 276 residential units in Charlotte.
Thompson Thrift is a full-service real estate development company focused on the development of multi-family, commercial and mixed-use buildings in the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest. For the past 30+ years, Thompson Thrift has made more than investments $2.7 billion into local communities and has become known as a trusted partner dedicated to developing quality, attractive retail and multi-family projects.
About Thompson Thrift Real Estate Company
Thompson Thrift is a full-service, integrated real estate company with offices in Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Indiana; Houston and Phoenix. Three service pillars drive Thompson Thrift's success – Thompson Thrift Retail Group, which focuses on commercial development from the ground up, Thompson Thrift Residential, which focuses on upscale multifamily communities and luxury rental homes, and Thompson Thrift Construction, a full service -Construction company. Through these businesses, Thompson Thrift is involved in all aspects of the acquisition, development, construction, leasing and management of high quality multi-family, mixed-use, retail and office developments across the country. We are passionate about the success of our clients and strive to ensure that our projects not only meet the needs of our clients, but also the needs of the communities we serve. Visit www.thompsonthrift.com for more information.
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This Book Is Gay
The bestselling young adult non-fiction book on sexuality and gender!
Lesbian. Gay. Bisexual. Transgender. Queer. Intersex. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This book is for YOU.
This candid, funny, and uncensored exploration of sexuality and what it's like to grow up LGBTQ also includes real stories from people across the gender and sexual spectrums, not to mention hilarious illustrations.
Inside this revised and updated edition, you'll find the answers to all the questions you ever wanted to ask, with topics like:
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You will be entertained. You will be informed. But most importantly, you will know that however you identify (or don't) and whomever you love, you are exceptional. You matter. And so does this book.
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1.2 What Is Machine Learning?
2.6.1 What Is an Explanation?
2.6.2 What Is a Good Explanation?
4.1.6 Do Linear Models Create Good Explanations?
4.2.1 What is Wrong with Linear Regression for Classification?
5.5.2 Should I Compute Importance on Training or Test Data?
Thank you for reading my book about Interpretable Machine Learning. The book is under continuous development. It will be improved over time and more chapters will be added. Very similar to how software is developed.
All text and code for the book is open source and available at github.com. On the Github page you can suggest fixes and open issues if you find a mistake or if something is missing.
If you want to help out even more, the issues page is also the best place to find problems to fix and a good way to contribute to the book. If you are interested in a larger contribution, please send me a message with your concrete idea: christoph.molnar.ai@gmail.com.


This article introduces a new implementation of the effect called adaptive screen space ambient occlusion (ASSAO), which is specially designed to scale from low-power devices and scenarios up to high-end desktops at high resolutions, all under one implementation with a uniform look, settings, and quality that is equal to the industry standard.
Screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO) is a popular effect used in real-time rendering to produce small-scale ambient effects and contact shadow effects. It is used by many modern game engines, typically using 5 percent to 10 percent of the frame GPU time. Although a number of public implementations already exist, not all are open source or freely available, or provide the level of performance scaling required for both low-power mobile and desktop devices. This is where ASSAO fills needed gaps.
This article focuses on how to understand the sample code and to further integrate or port the sample code. It also covers implementation specifics, available options, settings and trade-offs in its use. An article detailing the implementation is featured in the upcoming book GPU Zen (GPU Pro* 8).
Figure 1. Example of adaptive SSAO applied to a test scene in Unity 4*.
Full DirectX* 11 implementation is provided under MIT license in an easy-to-integrate package.
ASSAO is a SSAO implementation tuned for scalability and flexibility. Ambient occlusion (AO) implementation is based on a solid-angle occlusion model similar to "Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion" [Bavoil et al. 2008] with a novel progressive sampling kernel disk. The performance framework around it is based on a 2 x 2 version of cache-friendly deinterleaved rendering, "Deinterleaved Texturing for Cache-Efficient Interleaved Sampling" [Bavoil 2014], and optional depth MIP-mapping "Scalable Ambient Obscurance" [McGuire et al. 2012].
Scaling quality with respect to performance is achieved by varying the number of AO taps (enabled by the progressive sampling kernel) and toggling individual features at various preset levels.
Stochastic sampling is used to share AO value between nearby pixels (based on rotated and scaling of the sampling disk) with a de-noise blur applied at the end. De-noise blur is edge-aware in order to prevent the effect bleeding into unrelated background or foreground objects, which causes haloing. Edges can be depth-only based, or depth and normal based. (The latter results in higher quality, but of course costs more in processing). This smart blur is performed in the 2 x 2 deinterleaved domain for optimal cache efficiency, with only the final pass done at full resolution during the interleaving (reconstruction) pass.
2 x 2 deinterleave input screen depth into four quarter-depth buffers and convert values to viewspace. Also, if input screen normals are not provided, reconstruct them from depth.
Create MIPs for each of the smaller depth buffers (not done in Lowest, Low or Medium presets).
Compute AO term and edges and store into a R8G8 texture.
Apply edge-aware smart blur (one to six passes, based on user settings).
Combine four parts into the final full resolution buffer and apply final edge-aware blur pass.
The Highest/Adaptive quality preset has an additional base AO pass used to provide importance heuristics that guide the per-pixel variable sample count for the main AO pass.
Table 1 gives an overview of performance numbers. These numbers are for reference and can vary based on driver and hardware specifics. Changing the effect settings such as 'radius' will not affect the performance, with the exception of edge-aware blur; increasing the number of blur passes will increase the cost.
Table 1. ASSAO effect cost in milliseconds at various presets, resolutions, and hardware.
Profiled with screen normals provided, a two-pass blur and Highest adaptive target set to 0.45, getting the effect scaling (quality versus performance) between Lowest/Low/Medium/High/Highest presets is done by varying the number of AO taps, as well as by toggling on/off individual features. Table 2 shows a detailed setup of these presets.
Table 2. Details of ASSAO presets.
The sample uses DirectX 11 and is compatible with Windows* 7 64-bit and above, with Microsoft Visual Studio* 2015 to compile.
Figure 2. Adaptive SSAO sample layout.
Toggles the effect off/on. See screen images 0 (off), 1 (on).
Radius of ambient occlusion in viewspace units. See screen images 4, 5, 6.
Linear effect multiplier, useful for setting the effect strength in conjunction with addition to effect power, as well as fading the effect in/out. See screen images 7, 8, 9, 10.
Exponential effect modifier: occlusion = pow(occlusion, effectPower). The best way to tweak the power of the effect curve. See screen images 11, 12, 13, 14.
Additional two-pixel wide kernel used to add a high-frequency effect. High values will cause aliasing and temporal instability. See screen images 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
Higher number of blur passes produces a smoother effect with less high-frequency variation, which can be beneficial (reduces aliasing), but also increases cost. See screen images 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.
Determines how much to prevent blurring over distance based (and optional normal based) edges, used to prevent bleeding between separate foreground and background objects, which causes haloing and other issues. A value of 1 means fully sharp (no blurring over edges), and anything less relaxes the constraint. Values close to 1 are useful to control aliasing. See screen images 25, 26.
In the deferred path, the inputs for the effect are screen depth and normalmap textures. Conversely, when forward path is used, only the depth texture is the input while the normalmap is reconstructed from the depth, which adds to the cost and produces slightly different results. See screen images 27, 28.
Near the screen edges the part that the effect kernel plays lies outside of the screen. While different sampling modes (i.e., clamp/mirror) can be used to achieve different results (see m_samplerStateViewspaceDepthTap), the best solution is to expand the render area and resolution by a certain percentage while creating the depth buffer, so that the data needed by the AO effect near the edges is available. This option does that and ASSAO uses the optional scissor rectangle to avoid computing AO for the expanded (not visible) areas. See screen images 29, 30.
Toggles texturing to make the AO effect more visible (lighting is still applied). See screen images 31, 32.
Switches between the four quality presets, described in Tables 1 and 2. See screen images 33, 34, 35, 36.
For the Highest/Adaptive preset, Adaptive target controls the progressive quality target that can be changed at runtime to quickly trade off quality versus performance. See screen images 37, 38, 39.
To debug the effect in more detail, the sample can be switched to advanced UI, which provides access to additional scenes (see screen images 40, 41, 42) and the development version of the effect, which allows for more in-depth profiling and various debug views to show normals (screen image 43), detected edges (screen image 44), all AO samples for a selected pixel (screen image 45), and adaptive effect heatmap (screen image 46).
These contain the whole ASSAO implementation with no other dependencies except the DirectX 11 API.
Add ASSAO.h and ASSAODX11.cpp into your project.
Add the ASSAO.hlsl file where it can be loaded or, alternatively, see "USE_EMBEDDED_SHADER" defined in ASSAOWrapperDX11.cpp (and the project custom build step) for details on how to easily embed the .hlsl file into the binary.
Create an ASSAO_Effect object instance after DirectX 11 device creation by providing the ID3D11Device pointer and the shader source buffer to the static ASSAO_Effect::CreateInstance(…). Don't forget to destroy the object using a call to ASSAO_Effect::DestroyInstance() before the DirectX device is destroyed.
Find a suitable location in your rendering post-processing pipeline: SSAO is often applied directly onto the light accumulation or post-tonemap color buffers, before other screen-space effects, usually using multiplication blend mode. A more physically correct approach sometimes used is to render the AO term into a separate buffer for later use in the lighting pass. In any case, since the required inputs are the scene depth (and screen space normals, if available), it means that ASSAO can be drawn once those become available.
ScissorLeft/Right/Top/Bottom are only needed if the effect output needs to be constrained to a smaller rectangle, such as in the case when the Expand resolution approach is used. Otherwise, defaults of 0 indicate that the output goes into the whole viewport.
ViewportX/Y must be set to 0 and ViewportWidth/Height to the output render target and input depth and screen space normals texture resolution. Custom viewports are not (yet) supported.
ProjectionMatrix must be set to the projection used to draw the depth buffer. Both LH and RH projection matrices are supported, as well as the reversed Z (http://outerra.blogspot.de/2012/11/maximizing-depth-buffer-range-and.html).
NormalsWorldToViewspaceMatrix (optional) is needed if the input screen space normals are not in the viewspace, in which case this matrix is used to convert them.
MatricesRowMajorOrder defines the memory layout of the input ProjectionMatrix and NormalsWorldToViewspaceMatrix.
NormalsUnpackMul and NormalsUnpackAdd default to 2 and -1 respectively, and are used to unpack normals into [-1, 1] range from the UNORM [0, 1] textures that they are commonly stored in. When normals are provided in a floating point texture, these two values need to be set to 1 (mul) and 0 (add).
DrawOpaque determines the blending mode: if true, the contents of the selected render target will be overwritten; if false, multiplicative blending mode is used.
DeviceContext (DirectX 11-specific) should be set to the ID3D11DeviceContext pointer used to render the effect.
DepthSRV (DirectX 11-specific) should be set to input depth data.
NormalSRV (DirectX 11-specific) should be set to input screen space normals or nullptr if not available (in which case normals will be reconstructed from depth data).
OverrideOutputRTV (DirectX 11-specific) should be set to nullptr or to the output render target. If is it set to nullptr the currently selected RTV is used.
Set up the effect settings structure defined in ASSAO_Settings. They are detailed in the Sample overview section.
Call the ASSAO_Effect::Draw function. All current DirectX 11 states are backed up and restored after the call to ensure seamless integration.
The latest source code can be downloaded from https://github.com/GameTechDev/ASSAO.
[Bavoil et al. 2008] Bavoil, L., Sainz, M., and Dimitrov, R. 2008. "Image-Space Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 talks, ACM, New York, NY, USA, SIGGRAPH '08, 22:1–22:1.
[McGuire et al. 2012] Morgan McGuire, Michael Mara, David Luebke. "Scalable Ambient Obscurance." HPG 2012.
[Bavoil 2014] Louis Bavoil, "Deinterleaved Texturing for Cache-Efficient Interleaved Sampling." NVIDIA 2014.


The mission of the Office of Institutional Research (OIR), a service-oriented team of researchers at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, is to drive and support mission advancing investigations throughout the organization using data-informed decision making and continuous improvement processes to realize strategic objectives through methodological expertise, support of qualitative and quantitative research, and ethical custodianship of institutional performance data.
A. Strategic leaders, faculty, staff and researchers have access to reliable, useful and integrated data warehouse of institutional and student data.
B. All campus teams effectively utilize department services in the execution of data-informed operations to meet strategic goals.
C. Scholarship is supported through collaboration with individuals and teams within the institution.
For specific action plans for each objective, click here.
Coordinating, facilitating, and supporting research initiatives with university and other partners.
Share their research findings and expertise with others at IMSA, in Illinois and beyond.
Satisfy a mandate imposed by a governing body?
Advance STEM, residential or gifted education?
If the answer is yes, you should discuss your project with OIR. We likely will be able to advise you on your data collection, analysis, and dissemination, ranging from counsel to coordination.
If the answer is no, we may not be able to provide formal support, but you still may find it useful to discuss your project with OIR. We may see connections to IMSA's strategic objectives not obvious to you and be able to offer advice on improving your data collection and analysis. External users proposing mutually beneficial research projects should contact the department and use the Request for Sponsored Research Form.
2. Does your research, evaluation, or scholarship activity involve human or animal subjects?
If the answer is yes, you will need to submit an Institutional Review Board (IRB) proposal. If the data collection involves IMSA students or staff then the proposal needs to be submitted to IMSA's IRB committee, which is called Human and Animal Subjects Review Committee (HASRC). If the project involves other organizations an IRB proposal to the participating organization may also be necessary. OIR can assist you with the IRB proposal process.
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The Fifty By Cody Townsend
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Introducing The Fifty. A project to climb and ski all 50 lines chronicled in the book, "The Fifty Classic Descents of North America" by Chris Davenport, Penn Newhard and Art Burrows. Over the next three years I, Cody Townsend, will be chronicling the adventures, challenges and travels around North America skiing a collection of the most aesthetic, spectacular and hardest lines in North America. Episode 1 details out the plans and the first line ticked off on the adventure, the Messner Couloir on Denali, the highest mountain in North America.
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En route to Utah, the first setbacks of the season present themselves. With weather, avalanche danger and crowds, the first line of the year is met with difficult decision making, trepidation and the need for patience. As the crews change and time goes by, the reward becomes that much sweeter. Featured guests include Pep Fujas, Drew Peterson, Joe Johnson, Weston Shirey and Cinematographer for The FIFTY, Bjarne Salen.
Out in the rugged dusty wild of Nevada, lies an infamously aesthetic couloir named Terminal Cancer. While skied very very often, the crew takes on the attempt to fulfill a quest for "First Descents". The sarcasm runs deeper than the bootpack and the humor longer than the chute itself. Skiing is meant to be fun, so why so serious all the time Reinhold? Starring Cody Townsend, Elyse Saugstad, Connery Lundin, Weston Shirey and Bjarne Salen
After a quick jaunt to the deserts of Nevada, the crew returns to Utah for a long walk and narrow ski. The goal, to ski a line that many have gawked at but few have gone to. Joining up with Cody is Pep Fujas, who fulfills a dream 16 years in the making and Ian Provo, a Wasatch backcountry ninja. Starring Pep Fujas, Ian Provo and Cody Townsend
In the small town of Pemberton, British Columbia, the hulking north face of Mt. Currie dominates the skyline. Yet even after a decade of winters spent skiing in Pemberton, Townsend has never been up or down the mountain that steals your gaze from every spot in town. Though most often skied with a helicopter drop, Townsend joins Jon Johnston and Chris Rubens on a foot powered slog up and down it's 7,000+ foot face. Mt. Currie doesn't come easily though as crucial decision making, route finding and an exhausting day make the this classic as truly special one.
A last minute decision to go to a place not known for mid-winter steep skiing descents takes the crew to the Rocky Mountains of Canada. Yet just getting there is half the battle with sketchy highways, early cold mornings and a 13km walk just to get to the base of the infamously beautiful Aemmer Couloir in Banff National Park. Starring Chris Rubens, Kevin Hjertaas, Bjarne Salen and Cody Townsend
North of Pemberton, BC lies a big, daunting and dangerous peak called Joffre. In a project filled with many intimidating lines, Joffre presents the first fear inducing challenge of the season. Low snow and sketchy steeps are met with a nearly tragic ending that teaches us all that bad things can happen in the mountains.
At the end of a fateful day, Cody Townsend and Bjarne Salen, witnessed a fall down the 60+ degree couloir called Central on Joffre Peak near Pemberton, BC. Footage from the accident does not exist, so Townsend and Salen, go into detailed account of what happened that day, the actions they took to help rescue the victim of the nearly fatal fall and help inform you what proper steps you can take if you partake in a backcountry emergency rescue.
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Κατάλαβα καλά? Ο τύπος που τελικά σώθηκε ήταν ΜΟΝΟΣ ???
Είναι δυνατόν να ήταν ΜΟΝΟΣ ???
Όλα τα βουνά είναι καλά. Όλοι οι skier είναι καλοί. Μόνο μερικοί άτυχοι στη ζωή άνθρωποι υπάρχουν.
An out-of-the-blue call leads Cody and Bjarne on a last second adventure to the mecca of steep and deep, Alaska. With conditions seeming to line up, they head to one of the most iconic ski lines in Alaska, the Sphinx, to attempt to climb and ski its legendary steeps.
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Φανταστικός τύπος!
Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads.
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Και εγώ το ξαναείδα ,για να πεισθω ότι όντως πήγε μόνος!!!! Πόσο αυτοπεποίθηση είχε; Τελικά ευτυχώς ς είχε Άγιο!!!
Από τις πιο ωραίες σειρές. Έχω πολλά επεισόδια να δω ακόμη :-)
The weather window for the strike mission to Alaska continues to hold. Yet the real question is will one of the most prized, exposed and magnificent lines in the Chugach be skiable. Staring Points North Heli Tour Camp guides Brennan Lagasse and Jeff Dostie, Ming Poon, Bjarne Salen and Cody Townsend.
This episode is dedicated to Dave Treadway.
Edited April 17, 2019 by ashbury
In British Columbia, Canada, there lies a classic line that links Whistler and Blackcomb mountains via a 20+ mile long traverse. The ski tour first done over the course of many days in the 1970's has now become a test piece for ski mo racers seeking speed and records. After a few months of the most ski touring in his life, Cody Townsend set off to test himself and attempt to capture the FKT (Fastest Known Time) for completing this traverse. Guest appearances by previous Spearhead Traverse FKT holder Greg Hill and superhuman mountain man Killian Jornet.
The Eastern Sierra of California is a mythical mountain range of massive mountains that rise straight out of the desert floor. Scratching the sky, Giant Steps Couloir, is a rarely tamed and hard fought line that takes careful navigation and strong legs to ascend and descend. Starring author of the book, "Backcountry Skiing the Eastern Sierra" Nate Greenberg and Nick Russell.
Edited May 2, 2019 by ashbury
Often called a test piece of ski mountaineering, the Grand Teton is an icon in skiing and climbing. From an abundance of mileage and vert to technical mixed climbing, the Grand presents a multitude of challenges for the way up and back down. Joining Cody Townsend is a guy whose life was shaped and sculpted by the mountain itself, the legendary Jimmy Chin.
The inside info and insight behind the skis, boots, bindings and poles being used in The FIFTY. In this first Gear Talk episode, we go through the main quiver of skis and bindings used so far through this first year of The FIFTY, the reason behind these decisions and what kind of line dictates what kind of gear to choose for the day.
To read more about the gear, go to: https://www.salomon.com/en-us/freeride-touring
Edited May 15, 2019 by ashbury
The Landry Line off Pyramid Peak near Aspen, CO is considered a test piece of ski mountaineering in the Rockies. First skied by Chris Landry in 1978, it was a futuristic, world renowned and seemingly unrepeatable line. 28 years later, the second descent by Chris Davenport, Ted Mahon and Niel Biedleman ushered in a new generation of skiers and snowboarders making it the top of their bucket list. It's a line of dramatic exposure, puckering steepness and necessitates an entire package of skills to get up and down. After a historic avalanche cycle in Colorado, the conditions turned stellar and stable, leading Townsend to join up with the author of the book, "The Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America" Penn Newhard and local ski mountaineer and randonee racer Pete Gaston.
This is Episode 13 of The FIFTY, a project following Cody Townsend as he attempts to climb and ski all fifty of the lines and mountains chronicled in the book, "The 50 Classic Ski Descents of North America." The series documents Townsend's journey's, travels, challenges and each line and mountain listed in the book. It's a journey through the most majestic mountains and ski lines in North America along with a unique insight into how skiers make decisions in the backcountry, how they plan, navigate and safely move through the mountains and the people that dedicate their lives to the mountains.
The FIFTY has reached an important point, the end of the 2019 winter / spring ski season! It's been challenging, thrilling, adventurous, hilarious, exhausting and educational. As we transfer into summer, this video goes into the current state of the episodes, the plans for this fall, an AMA (Ask Me Anything) from the fans and one very important question at the end.
It's a long video, so play it as a podcast or in the background while filling out your excel spreadsheets. Thanks again for the rad winter and subscribe to be the first to know when the episodes begin to be released in the fall.
The FIFTY has always been about learning, so who better to learn from than the couple, Mark & Janelle Smiley, who attempted to climb all fifty of the Fifty Classic Climbs of North America based upon the book of the same name that inspired the ski-centric book Townsend is now following. While ascending and descending the classic East Face of the Middle Teton in Wyoming, Townsend takes to learning from the lessons of the wise couple about their ups and downs, struggles and triumphs and their mentality around leaving such an audacious "un-finished" project.
This is Episode 14 and line 14 complete of The FIFTY, a project following Cody Townsend as he attempts to climb and ski all fifty of the lines and mountains chronicled in the book, "The 50 Classic Ski Descents of North America." The series documents Townsend's journey's, travels, challenges and each line and mountain listed in the book. It's a journey through the most majestic mountains and ski lines in North America along with a unique insight into how skiers make decisions in the backcountry, how they plan, navigate and safely move through the mountains and the people that dedicate their lives to the mountains.
This is a non-profit, personal project with any proceeds from events and public showings donated to Protect Our Winters and Winter Wildlands Alliance.
With an impeding storm on the horizon, the push to ski two classic lines in Colorado in back-to-back days presents one of the most exhausting challenges of The Fifty to date. The two classics, the iconic and photographic North Maroon Peak near Aspen, Colorado and the far-flung and aesthetic Holy Cross Couloir near Vail, Colorado are in stellar and stable condition in April of 2019 and create for some of the best skiing conditions possible on big ski mountaineering style lines. Cody Townsend is joined in this special double episode by Aspen locals Pete Gaston, Anton Sponar and Greg Strokes for the two day adventure in the Colorado backcountry.
This is Episode 15 / 16 and line 15 and 16 completed for The FIFTY, a project following Cody Townsend as he attempts to climb and ski all fifty of the lines and mountains chronicled in the book, "The 50 Classic Ski Descents of North America." The series documents Townsend's journey's, travels, challenges and each line and mountain listed in the book. It's a journey through the most majestic mountains and ski lines in North America along with a unique insight into how skiers make decisions in the backcountry, how they plan, navigate and safely move through the mountains and the people that dedicate their lives to the mountains.
Mountains are a skier's passion, but for many people in North America, they're far more than that. They're a source of life, death, spirits, ancestry and most important, it's their home. Joining with Len Necefer PHD, Diné (Navajo), the CEO of Native Outdoors and a professor of Native American Studies along with Connor Ryan, Húŋkpapȟa (Lakota), Townsend goes into the La Sal Mountains, the ancestral homelands of the; Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), Diné (Navajo), and ancestral Puebloan people, to ski as well as talk and learn about their individual connections with the mountains and how important they are not to just skiers, but to the world.
This is Episode 17 and line 17 completed for The FIFTY, a project following Cody Townsend as he attempts to climb and ski all fifty of the lines and mountains chronicled in the book, "The 50 Classic Ski Descents of North America." The series documents Townsend's journey's, travels, challenges and each line and mountain listed in the book. It's a journey through the most majestic mountains and ski lines in North America along with a unique insight into how skiers make decisions in the backcountry, how they plan, navigate and safely move through the mountains and the people that dedicate their lives to the mountains.
Cody Townsend's Ski Project Almost Broke Him Last Year
https://www.outsideonline.com/2404369/cody-townsend-fifty-ski-project-training
Edited November 7, 2019 by ΓΡΗΓΟΡΗΣ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ
The most famous mountain in the world that nobody knows happens to be beyond just an icon on a beer can, it happens to be a classic ski descent. Wilson Peak, mostly recognized for being on a Coors Light can, sits outside of Telluride, CO in the San Juan Mountains. At the tail end of a month long run of some of the hardest lines in the continental US, the crew is exhausted and happy for a nice warm day of spring ski touring...the weather had a different idea for the day though. Joined by Telluride local Greg Hope and reunited with Anton Sponar and photographer Weston Shirey, Townsend and Bjarne hope to complete an epic run in Colorado with one last iconic mountain.
http://youtu.be/P9ZeL4TupYA


Weapons are instruments of doom.
When residing at home, a gentleman favors the left side.
When waging a war, a gentleman favors the right side.
Not the instruments of a gentleman.
He should do so without relish.
Even in victory there is no glory.
Those who celebrate victory are gloating over killing others.
Those who gloat over killing others must never be allowed achieve their worldly ambitions.
In times of grief, the right side is given precedence.
This the same way as the mourning rites are conducted.
We should mourn them all with heartfelt grief.
We should observe the occasion with the mourning rites.


D.C. Law Library - § 10–551.05. Inventory of real property assets.
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(9) Whether the real property is located within a historic district or is designated as a registered historic landmark under District or federal laws and, if so, the designation.
(b) The Department shall make available to the public on its website a database of information of the inventory of all real property assets in a form substantially similar to that as maintained and used by the Department.
(c) The Department shall maintain a facilities condition assessment of all District-owned assets under the control of the Mayor on a rolling basis of over 5 years.
(d) This section shall apply to improved commercial real property assets, whether occupied or unoccupied, and all real property assets that the Mayor has determined to be no longer needed for educational purposes and for which jurisdiction has been transferred to the Department of Real Estate Services for disposal.
(e) The Director shall submit to the Council an annual report indicating the changes in inventory no later than 30 days after the beginning of the fiscal year.
(f) For the purposes of this section, the term "real property asset" means real property titled in the name of the District or in which the District has an interest or jurisdiction and includes all structures of a permanent character erected thereon or affixed thereto.
For temporary (90 day) addition, see § 1006 of Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2011 (D.C. Act 19-93, June 29, 2011, 58 DCR 5599).


Next week I get to interview Sonia Patel! Although I'm not sure we can get her to sing "Milkshake" on the internet, I'm certain that you readers can come up with some (almost as) entertaining questions. And some thought-provoking ones too!
Please post question as a comment to this entry, or e-mail me (jmw8387@gmail.com) by next MONDAY June 28th!
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1Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
2Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
3Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
4Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada.
5Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
6Center for Cell Clearance, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
7Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
8Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada.
Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Center for Cell Clearance, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Both purinergic signaling through nucleotides such as ATP (adenosine 5′-triphosphate) and noradrenergic signaling through molecules such as norepinephrine regulate vascular tone and blood pressure. Pannexin1 (Panx1), which forms large-pore, ATP-releasing channels, is present in vascular smooth muscle cells in peripheral blood vessels and participates in noradrenergic responses. Using pharmacological approaches and mice conditionally lacking Panx1 in smooth muscle cells, we found that Panx1 contributed to vasoconstriction mediated by the α1 adrenoreceptor (α1AR), whereas vasoconstriction in response to serotonin or endothelin-1 was independent of Panx1. Analysis of the Panx1-deficient mice showed that Panx1 contributed to blood pressure regulation especially during the night cycle when sympathetic nervous activity is highest. Using mimetic peptides and site-directed mutagenesis, we identified a specific amino acid sequence in the Panx1 intracellular loop that is essential for activation by α1AR signaling. Collectively, these data describe a specific link between noradrenergic and purinergic signaling in blood pressure homeostasis.


Nastassja Kinski stars in this taut thriller as Susan, a woman who is still coming to terms with the murder of her husband two years after his death. One day Susan meets an artist named Kevin (Stewart Bick) and the two hit it off; two months later, they impulsively fly to Las Vegas and get married. However, it isn't long before Susan begins to wonder if she acted to hastily, and as she tries to resolve her anxieties about her relationship, she discovers a stalker has been following her. Things go from annoying to dangerous when the stalker begins leaving her messages threatening her life, and Susan realizes she has to find her psychotic "admirer" before it's too late. Blind Terror also features Gordon Pinsent and Maxim Roy.
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Gibson City
The Many Deaths of an Aging Man
The First Settlers
Long before the Pioneers first landed on Gibson, the mysterious First Settlers explored the planet. Who were they?
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Host: With Prosperity Day just around the corner, we're taking an in-depth look at our colony's history. With us today is Dr. Anna Vasquez, historian at the Gibson City University. Dr Vasquez is the author of three popular books on Old Earth history, and a specialist on early Gibson history. Dr Vasquez, welcome to our program.
Dr Vasquez: Thank you Linda, pleasure to be here.
Host: Dr Vasquez, you recently published a paper on the First Settlers. Can you run us through it – who or what were the First Settlers?
Dr Vasquez: Certainly. After the Pioneers landed on Gibson, it took them a while to actually start exploring the world. They were just busy setting up the first settlement, the one that eventually became Gibson City. Serious long-range exploration of Gibson only began after the year 10. In the year 17, one such survey groups made a discovery – a small cluster of ruins, deep in the forest about a thousand kilometers west of Gibson City.
Host: That must have caused quite a stir.
Dr Vasquez: It did. It was immediately obvious that the site was too big, and too old, to be the remains of a lost survey team. So, naturally, when the reports reached the City, everybody jumped to conclusions. "We found aliens!" The media jumped on it immediately, reports went viral on the VR net, people started seeing UFOs in the sky above Gibson City. The excitement lasted for twenty hours, until more detailed reports were filed the next day.
Host: The remains are well documented now, and can be visited in the Pioneers' Museum. But what were these ruins like when they were first discovered?
Dr Vasquez: They were badly damaged, flattened you could say, but a few walls still stood erect. Everything was a jumbled mess, and overgrown by dense foliage. The team cleared away the trees and brushes and identified six distinct buildings out of the total eleven that were eventually dug up. They realized what they had found was not alien when they uncovered Latin characters on one wall. Big letters that spelled "ORAG".
Host: So that's what ended the "aliens" hype?
Dr Vasquez: It certainly is, Linda. The public immediately lost interest. Most people just thought "oh, it's an abandoned survey site" and concluded it held no significance. But that's an incorrect assessment. The ruins predate the arrival of the Pioneers by about two hundred years.
Host: So humans visited Gibson two hundred years before it was colonized? But weren't the Pioneers the first expedition to the Perseus Arm? How is that possible?
Dr Vasquez: There seems to be only one conclusion that fits: After the Pioneers left Earth, Stardrive technology was refined and faster ships were constructed. At least one of these ships traveled to the Perseus Arm, overtaking the Pioneers. Its crew landed on Gibson, either on a temporary mission, or as part of a colony that failed. Since they set up a camp with permanent structures, we call them "First Settlers".
Host: Were any additional ruins discovered?
Dr Vasquez: That's the holy grail of planetary survey teams, and there are rumors about new ruins every other year or so. But no, no additional ruins or artifacts have ever been found.
Host: Aren't the odds of two missions landing on the same planet impossibly small? We live in a big galaxy.
Dr Vasquez: Not necessarily. Remember that Fleet Command searched for a suitable colony world for years before it discovered Gibson. And Gibson is very earth-like, anybody who finds it is likely to be interested.
Host: So what happened to them? Why didn't they come back? Why didn't anybody else come to settle Gibson? And what are the implications about the history of humankind, and the colonization of the Milky Way galaxy?
Dr Vasquez: Linda, these are the questions that keep me up at night.
I had originally included a bit about the First Settlers in my Prosperity Day write-up, but I felt that article was getting too long (the First Settlers are still mentioned in the Prosperity Day timetable). So I cut it and expanded it into an interview. This is a format that was used to great effect in Gateway, by Frederik Pohl. Gateway is one of those books I highly recommend for the worldbuilding alone, though it's also a really interesting story.
The purpose of this article is to expose one of the more obvious mysteries of the conworld to the reader, and ideally get them wondering about the setting's deeper background. I think every work of fiction, every conworld, needs secrets and mysteries, and plenty of them. To me, that is a big part of what makes a work of fiction engaging.
When I create a world, I usually know all its secrets. Sometimes I have several possible solutions or explanations and haven't picked my favorite just yet, but I always know the answers. I never spell them out when I can avoid it.
Finally, I've always liked false documents like this. Back in my tabletop RPG days, I would always create newspaper clippings, fake maps and diary pages, and the like, to hand to the players.
First Published on Reddit: Colony World Gibson: Who were the First Settlers?
Tags Colony, Gibson City, Science Fiction, Worldbuilding
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Q: prevent line break after jeditable trigger I want that the edit field provided by jeditable stays in the same line as the text which triggered it. I created a jsfiddle to show what I mean
https://jsfiddle.net/xu1ree7v/8/
As you can see, the edit fields are always on the next line... I tried "white-space: nowrap;" and "display: inline;" but all of that seems to be ignored by jeditable.
my javascript looks like this
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$(".edit-trigger").click(function () {
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and the html is

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test-time Edit

thanks
carl

A: Use style: 'inherit' in your Jeditable options:
$(document).ready(function () {
    $(".display-date").editable('www.example.com', {
        type: 'select',
        data: "{'Belgrade':'Belgrade','Paris':'Paris','London':'London', 'selected':'Belgrade'}",
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        submit: 'ok',
        style: 'inherit'
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JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/06g8q2g8/
This will cause the newly created form to inherit the same style as you've set on the editable element (including display: inline).
Source: http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/jeditable


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Keeping Everyone in Stitches
Posted on May 30, 2010 by Baron Bodissey
The following interaction between "Asians" and native Britons is not all that unusual these days in culturally enriched regions of the UK. This sort of encounter is what passes for "community cohesion" under the regime of Multicultural Newspeak.
The most significant part of this news story is what the victim said afterwards: "I don't understand why this happened."
I believe that this is true. And as long as he relies on the mainstream media and his own government to explain the multicultural experiment to him, he will never understand. To learn what is being done to him he would have to attend an EDL demonstration or a BNP meeting, and that is a line that most ordinary people are not yet willing to cross. So, for the time being, there will be more and more perplexity — and more stitches.
Here's the story from the Guardian (a local paper, not to be confused with the Grauniad):
UK: Barkingside: Man Needs 62 Stitches After Racist Attack
A FATHER-of-two needed 62 stitches to repair gaping wounds to his face after being slashed with a stanley knife during a racist attack.
The 28-year-old, who does not want to be identified, lost about two pints of blood after being assaulted by a gang of four Asian men opposite Fullwell Cross Leisure Centre in Barkingside High Street.
The man, who lives in Barkingside, said his confidence has been left shattered by the ordeal — which took place at around 1.30am on Sunday May 16.
He said: "I left the Fairlop Oak pub and went to a 24-hour shop nearby to get some cigarettes and a couple of lagers.
"On the way out I saw a friend of mine at the bus stop and went to chat with him. At the same time a car pulled up and a group of Asian lads got out and walked past me. They were looking at me funny.
"My friend eventually left and I was leaning against a wall looking at my mobile phone when one of (the gang) hit me over the head with a bottle."
As the man turned around another gang member — described as having a skin head haircut and long beard — racially abused him before slashing him twice in the face, causing a two-inch cut to his cheek and a five-inch gash under his right eye.
The thugs, who were all aged between 25 and 30, ran off following the attack.
The injured man, who has been unable to return to his job as a digger driver on the Olympic site or go out alone at night since the attack, said: "I staggered into the 24-hour shop to ask for help. I was bleeding really badly.
"If I hadn't been on the way down the guy could have slashed my neck.
"The ambulance took half-an-hour to get there. Luckily an old mate of mine from school arrived at the shop not long after to get something and saw me there bleeding. He helped stem the blood with a load of dusters from the shop.
"I passed out because of the blood loss but the ambulance crew gave me a shot of something which woke me up again."
He was taken to King George Hospital in Goodmayes before being transferred to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel to have micro-stitches inserted in his lip.
He said: "This has really destroyed my confidence.
"I was already feeling low after splitting up from my wife in January, but this has made it even harder for me to meet someone new.
"I'm just lucky to have such good friends around me.
"I don't understand why this happened. I didn't say anything to these people and they just brutally attack me."
The knife-wielding thug is thought to have been wearing a tracksuit at the time of the assault while the other three men wore dark clothing.
The car the gang arrived in was driven off before the attack. It is described as small and blue — possibly a Ford Fiesta.
Hat tip: TB.
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Zenster on May 30, 2010 at 9:42 pm said:
Another soon-to-be member of the EDL. It's as if Islam simply cannot endure a single day passing without making another lifelong enemy.
I wonder if Muslims ever pause to consider the old addage:
"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."
Given enough time, Muslims will manage to rape or murder the exact wrong person. Perhaps a son or daughter of someone who is quite capable of building a WMD. Islam's inability and unwillingness to restrain its own violence literally guarantees that a thoroughly aggrieved lone wolf will one day emerge who has no compunction over causing the same sort of mass mayhem that Muslim terrorists routinely inflict upon the West.
Just by dint of the IQ disparity alone, such an opponent will likely be far more clever at going about their gruesome task. As Sherlock Holmes said in The Naval Treaty, "Ah, Watson, its a wicked world. And when a clever man turns his brain to crime, it's the worst of all."
If Muslims think the West's security is poor just wait until their own is put to the test.
It is unwise in the extreme to aggravate so many others when one's own protection is so scant. Anyone might think that the paucity of Islamic nukes already would have made that much abundantly clear.
marylousamerica.com on May 30, 2010 at 10:04 pm said:
Glad he's all right.
Just gotta wonder what those Western dhimmi-chicks with the bare heads and sleeveless blouses expect life is going to be like for them under Sharia law. Do they realize they'll be demonstrating from under body bags in the summer sun, if they're allowed out of the house at all? Or do they think that's just another one of "Bush's lies"?
Arius on May 30, 2010 at 11:12 pm said:
The entire Western world suffers from cognitive derangement syndrome, an unconscious state of self hatred and self conflict. How else to explain the liberal and progressive alliance with Islam, which to them can do no wrong. The best that we can hope for is a reaction from what is left of the West, a reaction that may only occur if there is a horrible terrorist attack.
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Robert Marchenoir on May 31, 2010 at 5:16 am said:
It's not terrorism, but it's jihad all right.
Ahem, wait a minute… Attacking people randomly in the street… Inspiring terror to the population that it might happen to anyone, anytime… OK, that's also terrorism.