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Silver Spring is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located inside the Capital Beltway in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It had a population of 76,716 according to 2013 estimates by the United States Census Bureau, making it the fourth most populous place in Maryland, after Baltimore, Columbia, and Germantown. Silver Spring consists of the following neighborhoods; Downtown Silver Spring, East Silver Spring, Woodside, Woodside Park, North Hills Sligo Park, Long Branch, Montgomery Knolls, Franklin Knolls, Indian Spring Terrace, Indian Spring Village, Clifton Park Village, New Hampshire Estates, and Oakview.
The urbanized, oldest, and southernmost part of Silver Spring is a major business hub that lies at the north apex of Washington, D.C. As of 2004, the Central Business District (CBD) held 7,254,729 square feet (673,986 m2) of office space, 5216 dwelling units and 17.6 acres (71,000 m2) of parkland. The population density of this CBD area of Silver Spring was 15,600 per square mile all within 360 acres (1.5 km2) and approximately 2.5 square miles (6 km2) in the CBD/downtown area. The community has recently undergone a significant renaissance, with the addition of major retail, residential, and office developments.
Silver Spring takes its name from a mica-flecked spring discovered there in 1840 by Francis Preston Blair, who subsequently bought much of the surrounding land. Acorn Park, tucked away in an area of south Silver Spring away from the main downtown area, is believed to be the site of the original spring.
The boundaries of the Silver Spring CDP (in dark orange) as of 2010
As an unincorporated area, Silver Spring's boundaries are not officially defined. As of the 2010 Census the United States Census Bureau defines Silver Spring as a census-designated place with a total area of 7.92 square miles (20.5 km2), all land; however, it does contain numerous creeks and small lakes. This definition is a 15% reduction from the 9.4 sq. mi. used in previous years. The United States Geological Survey locates the center of Silver Spring at 38°59′26″N 77°1′35″W, notably some distance from the Census Bureau's datum. By another definition, Silver Spring is located at 39°0′15″N 77°1′8″W (39.004242, -77.019004). The definitions used by the Silver Spring Urban Planning District, the United States Postal Service, the Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce, etc., are all different, each defining it for its own purposes.
Residents of a large swath of South-Eastern Montgomery County have Silver Spring mailing addresses. This area extends roughly from the Washington, D.C., Prince George's County, Maryland and Howard County, Maryland lines to the west, north and east, and Rock Creek Park and Plyers Mill Road to the west and north-west. This postal code even includes nearby towns; such as Four Corners, Wheaton, Glenmont, Forest Glen, Aspen Hill, Hillandale, White Oak, Colesville, Colesville Park, Cloverly, Calverton, Briggs Chaney, Greencastle, Northwood Park, Sunset Terrace, Fairland, and Kemp Mill. Surprisingly, even a tiny portion of the Langley Park and Adelphi neighborhoods have Silver Spring Zip Codes, though they are in Prince George's County. These boundaries make Silver Spring larger in area than any city in Maryland except for Baltimore. Some notable landmarks are the world headquarters of Discovery Communications, the AFI Silver Theatre, the NOAA headquarters, the world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the national headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
Downtown Silver Spring in February 2005, as seen from downtown Bethesda
Acorn Park, site of the "silver spring"
Rock Creek Park passes along the west side of Silver Spring, and offers hiking trails, picnic grounds, and bicycling on weekends, when its main road, Beach Drive, is mostly closed to motor vehicles.
Sligo Creek Park follows Sligo Creek through Silver Spring; it offers hiking trails, tennis courts, playgrounds and bicycling. The latter is facilitated on weekends, when parts of Sligo Creek Parkway are closed to automobiles. The bike trails are winding and slower than most in the region. Recently, rocks have been spread along either side of the road, providing a hazardous bike ride, or skating leisure.
Acorn Park in the downtown area of Silver Spring is believed to be the site of the eponymous "silver spring".
The 14.5-acre (59,000 m2) Jesup Blair Park was recently renovated and features a soccer field, tennis courts, basketball courts, and picnic area.
Brookside Gardens is a 50-acre (20 ha) park within Wheaton Regional Park, in "greater" Silver Spring. It is located on the original site of Stadler Nursery (now in Laytonsville, Maryland).
Northwest Branch Park is a 700-acre (280 ha) park surrounding the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River. The park includes hiking, equestrian, and cycling trails on the Northwest Branch and Rachel Carson Greenway Trails. This park is part of Silver Spring and extends farther within Montgomery County. Note that the Rachel Carson Greenway Trail is named after Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring and former resident of Silver Spring.[citation needed]
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note: land area of Silver Spring CDP
reduced by 15% for 2010 census
As of the 2010 census, there were 71,452 people, 28,837 households, and 15,684 families residing in the Silver Spring CDP. The population density was 9,021.7 people per square mile (3,485.5/km²). There were 30,522 housing units at an average density of 3,853.8 per square mile (1,488.9/km²).
The median income for a household in the census area was $71,986, and the median income for a family was $84,136.[11] Males had a median income of $46,407 versus $49,979 for females. The per capita income for the area was $32,181. 15.0% (+/- 4.9%) of the population and 13.3% (+/-4.3%) of families were below the poverty line. 21% (+/- 9.1%) of those under the age of 18 and 23.6% (+/-10.6%) of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.
The Blair, Lee, and Jalloh and Barrie families, three politically active families of the time, are irrefutably tied to Silver Spring's history. In 1840, Francis Preston Blair, who later helped organize the modern American Republican Party, along with his daughter, Elizabeth, discovered a spring flowing with chips of mica (the now-dry spring is still visible at Acorn Park). Two years later, he completed a twenty-room mansion he dubbed Silver Spring on a 250-acre (one-square-kilometer) country homestead situated just outside Washington, D.C. (The house stood until 1954.[13]) By 1854, Blair's son, Montgomery Blair, who became Postmaster General under Abraham Lincoln and represented Dred Scott before the United States Supreme Court, built the Falkland house in the area. By the end of the decade, Elizabeth Blair married Samuel Phillips Lee, third cousin of future Confederate leader Robert E. Lee, and gave birth to a boy, Francis Preston Blair Lee. The child would eventually become the first popularly elected Senator in United States history.
During the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln visited the Silver Spring mansion multiple times. During some of the visits he relaxed by playing town ball with Francis P. Blair's grandchildren.[14] In 1864, Confederate Army General Jubal Early occupied Silver Spring prior to the Battle of Fort Stevens. After the engagement, fleeing Confederate soldiers razed Montgomery Blair's Falkland residence.[15] By the end of the 19th century, the region began to develop into a town of decent size and importance. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Metropolitan Branch opened on April 30, 1873, and ran from Washington, D.C. to Point of Rocks, Maryland, through Silver Spring.[16] The first suburban development appeared in 1887 when Selina Wilson divided part of her farm on current-day Colesville Road (U.S. Route 29) and Brookeville Road into five- and ten-acre (20,000- and 40,000 m²) plots. In 1893, Francis Preston Blair Lee and his wife, Anne Brooke Lee, gave birth to E. Brooke Lee, who is known as the father of modern Silver Spring for his visionary attitude toward developing the region.[17]
The Silver Spring Armory in 1917, constructed by E. Brooke Lee
Silver Spring in 1979
The early 20th century set the pace for downtown Silver Spring's growth. E. Brooke Lee and his brother, Blair Lee I, founded the Lee Development Company, whose Colesville Road office building remains a downtown fixture. Dale Drive, a winding roadway, was built to provide vehicular access to much of the family's substantial real estate holdings. Suburban development continued in 1922 when Woodside Development Corporation created Woodside Park, a neighborhood of 1-acre (4,000 m2) plot home sites built on the former Noyes estate in 1923. In 1924, Washington trolley service on Georgia Avenue (present-day Maryland Route 97) across B&O's Metropolitan Branch was temporarily suspended so that an underpass could be built. The underpass was completed two years later, but trolley service never resumed. It would be rebuilt again in 1948 with additional lanes for automobile traffic, opening the areas to the north for readily accessible suburban development.
Takoma-Silver Spring High School, built in 1924, was the first high school for Silver Spring. The community's rapid growth led to the need for a larger school. In 1935, when a new high school was built at Wayne Avenue and Sligo Creek Parkway, it was renamed Montgomery Blair High School. (The school remained at that location for over six decades, until 1998, when it was moved to a new, larger facility at the corner of Colesville Road (U.S. Route 29) and University Boulevard (Maryland Route 193). The former high school building became a combined middle school and elementary school, housing Silver Spring International Middle School and Sligo Creek Elementary School.) The Silver Spring Shopping Center (built by developer Albert Small) and the Silver Theatre (designed by noted theater architect John Eberson) were completed in 1938, at the request of developer William Alexander Julian. The Silver Spring Shopping Center was unique because it was one of the nation's first retail spaces that featured a street-front parking lot. Conventional wisdom held that merchandise should be in windows closest to the street so that people could see it; the shopping center broke those rules (the shopping center was purchased by real estate developer Sam Eig in 1944 who was instrumental in attracting large retailers to the city).
By the 1950s, Silver Spring was the second busiest retail market between Baltimore and Richmond, with the Hecht Company, J.C. Penney, Sears, Roebuck and Company, and a number of other retailers. In 1954, after standing for over a century, the Blair mansion "Silver Spring" was razed and replaced with the Blair Station Post office. In 1960, Wheaton Plaza (later known as Westfield Wheaton), a shopping center several miles north of downtown Silver Spring opened, and captured much of the town's business. The downtown area soon started a long period of decline.
On December 19, 1961, a two-mile (3.2 km) segment of the Capital Beltway (I-495) was opened to traffic between Georgia Avenue (MD 97) and University Boulevard East (MD 193).[22][23] On Monday, August 17, 1964, the final segment of the 64-mile (103 km) Beltway was opened to traffic,[24] and a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held near the New Hampshire Avenue interchange, with a speech by then-Gov. J. Millard Tawes,[25] who called it a "road of opportunity" for Maryland and the nation.[26]
Washington Metro rail service into Washington, D.C. helped breathe life into the region starting in 1978 with the opening of the Silver Spring station. The Metro Red Line was built following the alignment of the B&O Metropolitan Branch, with the Metro tracks centered between the B&O's eastbound and westbound mains. The Red Line heads south to downtown DC from Silver Spring, running at grade before descending into Union Station. By the mid-1990s, the Red Line continued north from the downtown Silver Spring core, entering a tunnel just past the Silver Spring station and running underground to three more stations, Forest Glen, Wheaton and Glenmont.
Nevertheless, the downtown decline continued in the 1980s, as the Hecht Company closed in 1987 and opened a new store at Wheaton Plaza. Furthermore, Hecht's added a covenant forbidding another department store from renting its old spot. City Place, a multi-level mall, was established in the old Hecht Company building in 1992, but it had trouble attracting quality anchor stores and gained a reputation as a budget mall, anchored by Burlington Coat Factory and Marshalls, as well as now-closed anchors AMC Theatres, Gold's Gym, Steve and Barry's, and Nordstrom Rack. JC Penney closed its downtown store—downtown's last remaining department store—in 1989, opening several years later at Wheaton Plaza. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, developers considered a shopping mall and office project called Silver Triangle, with possible anchor stores Nordstrom, Macy's, and JC Penney, but no final agreement was reached. Shortly thereafter, in the mid-1990s, developers considered building a mega-mall and entertainment complex called the American Dream (similar to the Mall of America) in downtown Silver Spring, but the revitalization plan fell through before any construction began because the developers were unable to secure funding. However, one bright spot for downtown was that the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) consolidated its headquarters in a series of 4 new high-rise office buildings near the Silver Spring Metro station in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Another notable occurrence in Silver Spring during the 1990s was a 1996 train collision on the Silver Spring section of the Metropolitan line. On February 16 of that year, during the Friday-evening rush hour, a MARC commuter train bound for Washington Union Station collided with the Amtrak Capitol Limited train and erupted in flames on a snow-swept stretch of track in Silver Spring, leaving eleven people dead.
The Maryland State Highway Administration started studies of improvements to the Capital Beltway in 1993,[27] and have continued, off and on, examining a number of alternatives (including HOV lanes and high-occupancy toll lanes) since then.
Civic Building and Veterans Plaza
At the beginning of the 21st century, downtown Silver Spring began to see the results of redevelopment. Several city blocks near City Place Mall were completely reconstructed to accommodate a new outdoor shopping plaza called "Downtown Silver Spring." New shops included national retail chains such as Whole Foods Market, a 20-screen Regal Theatres, Men's Wearhouse, Ann Taylor Loft, DSW Shoe Warehouse, Office Depot, and the now-closed Pier 1 Imports, as well as many restaurants, including Panera Bread, Red Lobster, Cold Stone Creamery, Fuddruckers, Potbelly Sandwich Works, Nando's Peri-Peri, and Chick-fil-a. A Borders book store was a popular spot until it closed when the chain went out of business; it was replaced by H&M. In addition to these chains, Downtown Silver Spring is home to a wide variety of family-owned restaurants representing its vast ethnic diversity. As downtown Silver Spring revived, its 160-year history was celebrated in a PBS documentary entitled Silver Spring: Story of an American Suburb, released in 2002. In 2003, Discovery Communications completed the construction of its headquarters and relocated to downtown Silver Spring from nearby Bethesda. The same year also brought the reopening of the Silver Theatre, as AFI Silver, under the auspices of the American Film Institute. Development continues with the opening of new office buildings, condos, stores, and restaurants. In 2015-16, the long-struggling City Place Mall underwent a complete renovation, had its name changed to Ellsworth Place, and brought in new tenants, including TJ Maxx, Ross Dress for Less (a re-opening original tenant), Michaels, Forever 21, and Dave & Buster's. The restoration of the old B&O Passenger Station was undertaken between 2000 and 2002, as recorded in the documentary film Next Stop: Silver Spring. In 2005 Downtown Silver Spring was awarded the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence silver medal.
Beginning in 2004, the downtown redevelopment was marketed locally with the "silver sprung" advertising campaign, which declared on buses and in print ads that Silver Spring had "sprung" and was ready for business. In June 2007, The New York Times noted that downtown was "enjoying a renaissance, a result of public involvement and private investment that is turning it into an arts and entertainment center".
In 2007, the downtown Silver Spring area gained attention when an amateur photographer was prohibited from taking photographs in what appeared to be a public street. The land, leased to the Peterson Cos., a developer, for $1, was technically private property. The citizens argued that the Downtown Silver Spring development, partially built with public money, was still public property. After a protest on July 4, 2007, Peterson relented and allowed photography on their property under limited conditions. Peterson also claimed that it could revoke these rights at any time. The company further stated that other activities permitted in public spaces, such as organizing protests or distributing campaign literature, were still prohibited. In response, Montgomery County Attorney Leon Rodriguez said that the street in question, Ellsworth Drive, "constitutes a public forum" and that the First Amendment's protection of free speech applies there. In an eight-page letter, Rodriguez wrote, "Although the courts have not definitively resolved the issue of whether the taking, as opposed to the display, of photographs is a protected expressive act, we think it is likely that a court would consider the taking of the photograph to be part of the continuum of action that leads to the display of the photograph and thus also protected by the First Amendment." The incident was part of a trend in the United States regarding the blurring of public and private spaces in developments built with both public and private funds.
In 2008, construction of the long-planned Intercounty Connector (ICC), which crosses the upper reaches of Silver Spring, got under way. The highway's first section opened on February 21, 2011; the entire route was completed by 2012.
In July 2010, the Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans Plaza opened in downtown Silver Spring.
American Film Institute Silver Theater
Downtown Silver Spring hosts several entertainment, musical, and ethnic festivals, the most notable of which are the Silverdocs documentary film festival held each June and hosted by Discovery Communications and the American Film Institute, as well as the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade (Saturday before Thanksgiving) for Montgomery County. The Silver Spring Jazz Festival has become the biggest event of the year drawing 20,000 people to the free festival held on the second Saturday in September. Featuring local jazz artists and a battle of high school bands, the Silver Spring Jazz Festival has featured such jazz greats as Wynton Marsalis, Arturo Sandoval, Sérgio Mendes, Aaron Neville and such bands as the Mingus Big Band and the Fred Wesley Group.
The Fillmore is a live entertainment and music venue with a capacity of 2,000 people. It opened in 2011 in the former JC Penney building on Colesville Road. The venue joins the American Film Institute and Discovery Communications as cornerstones of the downtown Silver Spring's arts and entertainment district. It has featured performances by artists Prince Royce, Minus the Bear, Tyga and many other hip hop acts. In August 2012 R&B singer Reesa Renee launched her album Reelease at the Fillmore.
Downtown Silver Spring is also home to the Cultural Arts Center, Montgomery College. The Cultural Arts Center offers a varied set of cultural performances, lectures, films, and conferences. It is a resource for improving cultural literacy, encouraging cross-cultural understanding, and to build bridges between the arts, cultural studies, and all disciplines concerned with the expression of culture.
Dining in Silver Spring is also extremely varied, including American, African, Burmese, Ethiopian, Moroccan, Italian, Mexican, Salvadoran, Jamaican, Vietnamese, Lebanese, Thai, Chinese, Indian, Greek, and fusion restaurants, as well as many national and regional chains.
Silver Spring has many churches, synagogues, temples, and other religious institutions, including the World Headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Silver Spring serves as the primary urban area in Montgomery County and its revitalization has ushered in an eclectic mix of people and ideas, evident in the fact that the flagship high school (Montgomery Blair High School) has no majority group with each major racial and ethnic group claiming a significant percentage.
Silver Spring hosts the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Culture Center, on Colesville Road. The theatre showcases American and foreign films. Discovery Communications, a cable TV and satellite programming company, has its headquarters in downtown, as well. Gandhi Brigade, a youth development media project, began in Silver Spring out of the Long Branch neighborhood. Docs in Progress, a non-profit media arts center devoted to the promotion of documentary filmmaking is located at the "Documentary House" in downtown Silver Spring. Silver Spring Stage, an all-volunteer community theater, performs in Woodmoor, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north up Colesville Road from the downtown area. Downtown Silver Spring is also home to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce that includes the National Weather Service; the American Nurses Association; and numerous real estate development, biotechnology, and media and communications companies.
Welcome sign on Georgia Avenue
The major roads in Silver Spring are mostly 3- to 5-lane highways. The Capital Beltway can be accessed from Georgia Avenue (MD 97), Colesville Road (US 29), and New Hampshire Avenue (MD 650).
The long-planned Intercounty Connector (ICC) (MD-200) toll road opened in three segments between February 2011 and November 2014. ICC interchanges in the Silver Spring area include Georgia Avenue, Layhill Road (MD-182), New Hampshire Avenue, Columbia Pike (US-29) and Briggs Chaney Road.
Silver Spring is serviced by the Brunswick Line of the MARC Train, Metrorail Red Line, Metrobus, Ride On, and the free VanGo. The bus terminal at the Silver Spring Rail Station is the busiest in the entire Washington Metro Area, and provides connections between several transit services, including those mentioned above. This transit facility serves nearly 60,000 passengers daily.
Construction commenced in October 2008 on the new $91 million Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center which will further expand the station to facilitate the growing demand for public transportation, due to the increase in population in the Silver Spring area. The new center is a multilevel, multimodal facility which incorporates Metrobus, Ride On, Metrorail, MARC train, intercity Greyhound bus, and local taxi services under one roof. The project was completed over four years behind schedule and $50M over budget. The center opened on September 20, 2015.
The Purple Line light rail, being studied by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) is planned to service this station, connecting Silver Spring with Bethesda to the west and then running east to the University of Maryland-College Park and then southeast to the New Carrollton Metro station. Construction was planned to begin in 2015, although as of January 2015 the project had not been fully approved.
In addition to the Silver Spring station, the Washington Metrorail's Forest Glen station is also located in Silver Spring and the MARC train also stops at the nearby Kensington station.
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14803 Cherry Leaf Terrace Silver Spring, MD 20906
MLS # MDMC686812
Property Type Detached
*PLEASE NOTE NEW PHOTOS ADDED TODAY WITH ALL FRESH PAINT AND NEW CARPETING . WONDERFUL COMMUNITY WITH EASY ACCESS TO GLENMONT METRO, SHOPPING AND THE ICC. THIS HOME HAS BEEN BEAUTIFULLY MAINTAINED AND UPDATED, INCLUDING FRESH PAINTING AND NEW CARPETING JUST INSTALLED. ALL THE BATHROOMS HAVE BEEN UPDATED, THE KITCHEN HAS BEEN TOTALLY REDONE, THE KITCHEN APPLIANCES WERE ALL REPLACED WITH STAINLESS STEEL IN 2017, THE DECK WAS REDONE AND THE SLIDING GLASS DOOR HAS BEEN REPLACED. REGRADING TO THE WALKWAY HAS BEEN DONE, PLUS ADDITIONAL HARDSCAPE WITH LARGE RIVER WALK WALL INSTALLED AND STEPPING STONES.
15100 Interlachen Drive Unit 4-208 Silver Spring, MD 20906
55+ LEISURE WORLD - COMPLETELY RENOVATED!! 2 Bedroom/ 2 Bath condo 1,115 SF with indoor garage space. All new paint and new flooring throughout. Kitchen has new cabinets, granite counters, new stainless appliances, lighting and flooring. Updated bathrooms with new vanity and lighting. Lovely view from all windows. Both bathrooms have been fully updated with new vanities, lighting and flooring. Additional private storage room plus storage cage convey. Enjoy all the amenities of the community to include indoor/outdoor pools, gym, tennis courts, golf course, walking paths, restaurants, shops and over 100 clubs.
12358 Herrington Manor Drive Silver Spring, MD 20904
Property Type Row/townhouse
4 bedroom, 3.5 bath end unit townhouse. Freshly painted and new carpet throughout. Hardwood floors in Living Room and Dining Room. Kitchen with lots of light and new flooring and stainless appliances. Dining Room opens onto wood deck. 3 bedrooms upstairs including Master Bedroom with closet organizer and ensuite bath. 2 beds in the rear with full bath on the hallway. New laminate flooring in walkout basement perfect for use as a recreation room. Basement exits to fenced backyard with storage shed. Newer washer/dryer in laundry room. 2 assigned parking spaces. Excellent location steps to Target, grocery, new Washington Adventist, ICC, 95, 29.
2010 Forest Hill Drive Silver Spring, MD 20903
Huge ramble quick access to major highways 495\95 close to FDA , restaurants, shopping center ,fully fenced,deck with access to backyard, plenty of space, YOU MUST SEE!!!!
10804 Jewett Street Silver Spring, MD 20902
Beautiful renovation within walking distance to Wheaton Red Line Metro Station, short drive to I-495, Westfield shopping mall, grocery, regional and community parks. Quiet and wide interior street within the neighborhood, with no cut-through traffic to Georgia Ave or University Blvd. Well maintained, freshly painted interior and exterior with newer roof, gutters, windows, water heater, and HVAC system. First floor with hardwood floors in the living and bedroom areas, porcelain tile in the kitchen with granite countertops and breakfast bar. Brand new kitchen appliances, bathrooms, basement flooring and more.
12605 Billington Road Silver Spring, MD 20904
Spacious detached family home. Excellent opportunity for homeowner to update this home to make it their very own. Features include 4 br/3 ba, CAC, living room, dining area, kitchen, family room w/fp, 2 car garage, shed, treed rear yard, and endless possibilities.
3821 Greenly Street Silver Spring, MD 20906
Subject to short sale approval. Single Family home 3BE & 2BA Brick rambler in sought after area near Wheaton, Glenmont and Rockville Metro. House needs a lot of work, seller won't make any repair and it is being SOLD AS IS. Seller is requesting relocation contribution from buyer. Professionally negotiated.
12602 Valleywood Drive Silver Spring, MD 20906
Brick Cape Cod uniquely sited by appealing green space! Naturally illuminated floor plan with mid century finishes overlooks a flat rear yard rimmed by evergreens & lush landscape. Interior features such as Hardwood flooring on main & upper levels, Ceramic tile baths. Pella windows on main, & lower level.If you desire a refreshment bar in lower level rec room, there is a plumbing rough-in for sink. Roof, Gutters & Siding replaced in 2017 & 2018. AHS Home Warranty for buyer peace of mind. For added convenience, a 2 car driveway. Wonderful location- just minutes to METRO, shopping, restaurants and community amenities Wheaton Regional Park.
15305 Sweetridge Road Silver Spring, MD 20905
Estate Sale #OPPORTUNITY FOR CUSTOM BUILD!! 3 bed, 3 full baths on .81 acres in the Cloverly School District.
3005 S Leisure World Boulevard Unit 405 Silver Spring, MD 20906
It's one of those you have to see properties. Gorgeous from the moment you enter the main security door through the luxury appointed Foyer to the elevators and just away from the elevators down the hall to #405.Did you ever think you could retire in such luxury and comfort? Yes you can. Read on. Almost 1500 Sq. Ft of living space (1,446). 9 ft Ceilings, Gas Heat, 2 Large bedrooms and two full baths.Brand new Refrigerator with Ice Make and Brand new Dishwasher. The 31 ft sun porch opens to the bedrooms. Park your car in the included space #47 just steps from the Lobby. There is extra storage space in the lower level. Leisure World is a gated community for 55+ Independent Living. It encompasses about 800 acres with a lot of green space that includes an 18 hole golf course. The community features a Post Office, 2 Club Houses, 2 Restaurants, Indoor and Outdoor Pools, Tennis and Shuttle Boards, Free Leisure World Shuttle Bus. They have their own Newspaper, The Leisure World News as well as a medical Building. Hard to pass all this up...you don't have to...Call me today for a private showing.
3310 N Leisure World Boulevard Unit 1003 Silver Spring, MD 20906
Lovely Leisure World!, ages 55 and over welcome. Tandem Garage Space (#8) Sold Separately for an additional $30,000. Nice one bedroom unit, with updated appliances and systems. Lovely view of trees and golf course with the perfect amount of sunlight from enclosed balcony! Penthouse unit in The Lovely Fairways North!
517 Whitingham Drive Silver Spring, MD 20904
Fabulous renovated, spacious home featuring 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, including master suite with private bath, bright kitchen, family room with fireplace, beautiful hardwood flooring, recessed lighting and finished lower level on a large lot--near shopping and major routes!
David Maplesden & Elliot Barber
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ERSKINE, Minn.--Two Polk County residents were injured Thursday evening in a two-vehicle crash near Erskine. Morgan Marie Sundquist, 22, of Fosston, Minn., and Scott Joseph Wessel, 43, of Mentor, Minn., suffered non-life-threatening injuries from...
Written By: Herald Staff Report | Oct 12th 2018 - 5pm.
ERSKINE, Minn.-Two Polk County residents were injured Thursday evening in a two-vehicle crash near Erskine.
Morgan Marie Sundquist, 22, of Fosston, Minn., and Scott Joseph Wessel, 43, of Mentor, Minn., suffered non-life-threatening injuries from the crash that unfolded just before 6:30 p.m. Thursday about 3 miles southeast of Erskine on U.S. Highway 59. Sunquist was westbound on Polk County Road 41 in a 1997 Chevrolet Lumina when she failed to yield to Wessel, who was driving a 2011 Chevrolet Silverado south on Highway 59, according to a news release.
The Lumina struck the Silverado's left side, the Minnesota State Patrol said.
Sunquist, the lone passenger in her vehicle, was taken to a hospital in Fosston. It's unknown if she was wearing a seat belt, the State Patrol said.
Wessel was not taken to a hospital. There were three other passengers in his vehicle, but they were not injured, according to the release. Everyone in his vehicle were wearing seat belts, state troopers said.
No alcohol was involved in the crash, the release said.
Erskine is about 30 miles east of Crookston.
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The Austin Proper Hotel & Residences is an elegantly sculpted form, composed of concrete, glass, and metal.
The Austin Proper Hotel & Residences is a new mixed-use condominium and hotel project in Austin's GreenWater District.
The 32-story building has been sculpted to respond to the contours of the land, with views of Lady Bird Lake (a river-like reservoir on Texas's Colorado River) as well as Texas Hill Country. The project is bordered on its western side by the Shoal Creek, which leads via a winding trail to the reservoir, where people like to hike, bike, fish and canoe. The tower steps back from the Shoal Creek as it rises, with a series of setbacks that create opportunities for pool decks and terraces.
At the pedestrian level, The Austin Proper Hotel & Residences has been designed to feel both intimate and lively, with indoor/outdoor restaurant spaces and cafes, accented with metal panels in graphite grey. The two-story base creates a pedestrian scale along 2nd Street and Nuecess Street that addresses the scale of the neighboring buildings. Framing both the residential entrance and the hotel entrance will be a series of 8" wooden slats, burned in the Japanese "shou-sugi-ban" tradition. Hotel guests will be greeted by a sunken bar and lounge; above, the 244-key hotel will include ballrooms, meeting rooms, a heated pool, poolside restaurant, spa & treatment rooms, and a fitness facility. Above the hotel, floors 12 to 33 will feature 94 private residences, with penthouse units on the top six floors.
The Austin Proper Hotel & Residences will be a mix of precast concrete and glass, set on an exposed concrete structure. The structure has been subtly eroded in various places to reveal ribbons of glass and balconies.
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registration authority (RA)
Andrew Froehlich, West Gate Networks
What is registration authority (RA)?
A registration authority (RA) is an authority in a network that verifies user requests for a digital certificate and tells the certificate authority (CA) to issue it. RAs are part of a public key infrastructure (PKI), a networked system that enables companies and users to exchange information and money safely and securely. The digital certificate contains a public key that is used to encrypt and decrypt messages and digital signatures.
While the RA cannot create or issue a certificate -- as this is the sole responsibility of the CA -- it works as an intermediary for the CA to collect necessary information and to process the following tasks:
receive user or device certificate requests;
validate users or devices;
authenticate users or devices; and
revoke credentials if the certificate is no longer valid.
The main purpose of an RA is to ensure that a user or device is allowed to request a digital certificate from a specific website or application. If the request is allowed, the RA forwards the certificate request to the CA, which completes the digital certificate request process.
How do RAs work?
When a user or device requests a digital certificate to fulfill secure access to a website or application, a process must be in place to ensure the requestor is allowed access. Thus, the requester's first step in this process is to gain permission through a registration authority service.
The certificate request is sent to the PKI's RA to verify that the requestor has the right to request the certificate. The RA verifies the identity of the user and device and processes authentication credentials. If everything checks out, the RA forwards the certificate request to the CA to process. The CA then issues the digital certificate directly to the requesting device. If the RA denies the request, the requesting user or device is not permitted to continue the certificate request process.
A successful digital certificate request process happens in the following order:
A user attempting to access a certificate-backed website requests the certificate from the CA. This request is sent to the web server.
The web server forwards the certificate request to the RA. The RA ensures the user is allowed to receive a certificate.
If the RA grants the request, it is passed to the CA, which generates the digital certificate.
The CA sends the digital certificate directly to the user to complete the process.
This image shows the steps in the digital certificate request process.
What is the difference between certificate authority and registration authority?
A registration authority can be thought of as a gatekeeper to a certificate authority. In order to be issued a certificate, the requesting user or device must first register with the RA and fulfill the necessary requirements, including identity and authentication checks. This comes in the form of a certificate signing request.
Requests that are successfully registered by the RA are then forwarded to the CA, whose responsibility is to issue an electronic document called a certificate. This certificate is issued to the requesting user or device. The issued certificate can be validated against the CA's public key to ensure that the certificate is indeed valid and that the connection to the remote resource is trusted.
Managing digital certificates can be tedious and challenging as, on average, each employee in an organization is responsible for at least three certificates. Learn how certificate automation can help simplify this task.
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Q: How do I balance program CPU reverse compatibility whist still being able to use cutting edge features? As I learn more about C and C++ I'm starting to wonder: How can a compiler use newer features of processors without limiting it just to people with, for example, Intel Core i7's?
Think about it: new processors come out every year with lots of new technologies. However you can't just only target them since a significant portion of the market will not upgrade to the latest and greatest processors for a long time.
I'm more or less wondering how this is handled in general by C and C++ devs and compilers. Do compilers make code similar to if SSE is supported, do this using it, else do that using the slower way or do developers have to implement their algorithm twice, or what?
More or less how do you release software that takes advantage of newer processor technologies while still keeping a low common denominator?

A: Your best choice as a developer nowadays is to choose tools that are smart enough to take advantage of special instruction sets such as SSD and SIMD when they are available on the processor directly and, when they aren't,  automatically fall back to software algorithms that emulate those features.  The compiler manufacturer can tell you in their specifications whether or not they support this.
From the Wikipedia article for the Intel C++ Compiler:

The compiler or library can make multiple versions of a piece of code,
  each optimized for a certain processor and instruction set, for
  example SSE2, SSE3, etc. The system includes a function that detects
  which type of CPU it is running on and chooses the optimal code path
  for that CPU.

Amusingly, that algorithm seems to favor Intel processors.
GCC has a "march" optimization for compiling to a particular microprocessor architecture.  The tradeoff is that some platform independence may be sacrificed.  See http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7269?page=0,1
LLVM doesn't appear to have processor-specific optimizations; this makes sense, because LLVM seeks to generate a machine-independent intermediate code representation, and then turns that machine-independent representation into executable machine code.  So any code targeting a specific processor architecture would have to reside in that second step.

A: "if SSE is supported, do this using it, else do that using the slower way": compilers could do this; e.g. x86 CPUs can report their capabilities via CPUID. Potentially, performing the check could slow down the code, so a compiler would have to ensure that the check is at least factored out of a loop, and perhaps do the check in advance and store the result in a variable (in case CPUID is slow). Another small problem is that the part of the unused version of the code will be brought into the cache (wasteful).
But MCVC does not do this; if you enable SSE2 it will emit SSE2 blindly, assuming the target processor supports it.
JIT compilers (.NET/Java) can easily support multiple architectures, since they only have to check the processor architecture once per function (or less) to decide how they will generate code. Obviously there's no need to generate multiple versions of the code in that case; the code can be tailored for the current CPU.

A: Agner Fogg's C++ Optimization Manual contains an extensive section (page 124: Section 13: "Making critical code in multiple versions for different instruction sets") on ways of dealing with this problem.  (That document is one of a set.)

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This data provides a breakdown of voting statistics for the 2017 General Election by age and Māori descent. Data is also available for the 2014 General Election.
You can filter the results by electorate and Māori descent, or download the full statistics as an Excel file.
In this report 'voters' means electors who cast a vote. 'Non-voters' means electors who were eligible to cast a vote and who did not vote. 'Total enrolled' for each electorate includes all people who were enrolled at the date of election day roll closure (including people on the unpublished roll). The electorate reported for a voter is the electorate that the person was enrolled in at the time of election day roll closure.
The number of non-voters reported is calculated from the total enrolled population and the number of votes cast by electors enrolled in the electorate. The difference between the total numbers of voters in this report and in the official results is due to a combination of votes disallowed due to the voter not being enrolled, dual votes and clerical errors in the marking of the master roll. Information about electors of Māori descent is based on electors who have self-identified as being of Māori descent on their enrolment application.


Louis R. Chênevert is a prominent Canadian businessman who previously served as the CEO and chairman of United Technologies Corporation (UTC). He has also worked as the president of Pratt & Whitney Canada. Louis enrolled at HEC Montréal, where he was awarded a bachelor's degree in production management. In May 2011, Chênevert was honored with a doctorate from HEC Montréal. During the same year, Aviation Week & Space Technology, which is a US aviation trade magazine named him the Person of the Year. That was as a result of his significant contributions to the aviation industry.
In 1999, Louis Chênevert was appointed to serve as the president of Pratt & Whitney after working at the company for six years. After seven years, he was appointed as the Chairman and CEO of United Technologies Corporation (UTC). Before his post at Pratt & Whitney, Louis was working for General Motors, and he has been there for 14 years. He worked as a vice-chairman of the executive committee at Business Council in 2011 to 2012. Louis later became Exclusive Advisor in the Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Department. In this post, his duty was to look out for new opportunities in the industrial and aerospace sectors and also advising various businesses.
The manufacturing sector is one of the industries that were significantly affected by war, and it was doomed to decline. The GDP contribution of the sector had dropped by 50 percent, and the companies that had once succeeded were left in the remnants in the industrial heartland of America. However, a couple of companies managed to thrive despite the uncaring pop culture, stifling regulations and stiff competition from foreign manufacturers. A good example is the United Technologies Corporation (UTC) that was under the leadership of Chênevert. The company was a large industrial corporation with a net worth of $63 billion. The headquarters of United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is based in Hartford, Connecticut. Chênevert helped the company to be the market leader in the revolution in the aerospace and building space without leaving the company's birthplace.


Marilda Jane PATTON daughter of C. M. PATTON, was born in West Va. August 28, 1855, and came to the Grove with her family in 1857. She moved with the family to Magnolia Township in 1865, receiving her education in the common schools, and at Magnolia High School. Married Wm. B. DUNN March 15, 1877. Mr. DUNN was born in New York September 16, 1848, and came to Delaware County, Iowa, in early boyhood, and after several years to this county, 1870. After their marriage they moved to near Kirwin, Phillips County, Kansas, returning in the fall of 1880 to this county, buying a farm adjoining her father's farm, on which they lived. In 1900 moved to a farm joining the village of Woodbine, remaining there until the death of her husband April 15, 1914, and disposing of this home moved to Omaha, Nebr., 4317 Barker Ave., where she still resides.
Herbert Roy married Edna M. EVANS.
Anna Blanche married Ralph C. WATKINS.
Sylvester K. CARD son of Rev. Kirkland CARD, and Polly CARD, was born in Cass Township in this county, March 30, 1856, moved to STICKLEY Mills, Shelby County, in 1859, and to REEDER's Mill in 1860. In 1863 returned to the farm in Cass Township, and in 1865 moved to Whitesboro, where he lived with his parents until May 5, 1880, from which date until October following he was employed by the C. & N. W. Railway Co., and then worked for Wm. ERVIN on a farm in the Grove, where he remained until February 27, 1883, the date of his marriage to Elizabeth ERVIN BOSTIC. She was born in West Va. April 4, 1856, and came to the Grove with her parents, Wm. and Margaret ERVIN, in the fall of 1856 and lived with them until her marriage to Jos. BOSTIC in 1878, at Whitesboro; they moved to Saunders County, Nebraska, and made their home until the death of Mr. BOSTIC, when she returned to Whitesboro and again made her home with her parents until her marriage to Mr. CARD. They took charge of the CARD farm, where they lived until 1890 when they moved to Logan. Mr. CARD worked two years with the Bridge and Building Department of the C. & N. W. Railway. Co., transferred to track department until 1899, at which date he engaged with his brother in the butcher business in Logan, until July, 1912, when he returned to the track department of the Illinois Central Railway and still on that job until his death, March, 1924.
Nelson F. PATTON was born at Harris Grove, Iowa, July 26, 1860. In the spring of 1864 moved with his parents to a farm in Taylor Township, and in 1865 to Magnolia Township. He received the greater part of his education in rural schools in District No. 4 Magnolia. December 29, 1892, was married to Anna L. GEITH. She was born in Lancaster County, Penn. January 22, 1861, and in 1864 came to Calhoun Township in the county. He bought a farm in Section 11, township of Magnolia, where they lived until 1900. Mr. PATTON passed away April 11,1901. His son, Ralph E., married Lillian BENNING.
William Douglas ARMSTRONG, son of Harvey and Virginia ARMSTRONG, was born in Six Mile Grove in Jefferson Township August 21, 1860. He came to Harris Grove with his parents when about three years old, where he grew to manhood and received his education. September 29, 1880, he was united in marriage with Annie WILKINS, a daughter of Thomas and Caroline WILKINS, who was born December 27, 1864, at Council Bluffs. When two years of age she came with her parents to REEDER's Mill, where she received her education and resided for fifty-nine years. After their marriage they lived on a farm until 1883, when Mr. ARMSTRONG bought the James HANER store at REEDER's Mill, where he has been actively engaged in merchandise for forty years, being post master as long as an office was maintained there, being discontinued when the rural free delivery, after three years of service, determined the Government to discontinue the office.
Mr. ARMSTRONG's wit and genius in ad writing has attracted attention beyond the county or even state. No children has blessed this hospitable home.
Mary Alice PATTON, a daughter of C. M. PATTON, was born in Virginia prior to their coming to Iowa, September 9, 1853, the date of her birth. She came with her family to this county in the spring of 1857, first at Magnolia and thence to the Grove on November 1, 1857, her home being here until 1865. During the residence in the grove she attended school at the DAKAN school and at Mt. Vernon school. She moved with her father's family to Taylor Township in 1864, and to Magnolia Township in 1865, finishing her education at the Magnolia High School. She taught several terms of school with marked success, and until her untimely death, which occurred at the PATTON home December 22, 1873. One of the sweetest and most refined spirits that ever blessed this earth.
Claiborne F. JOHNSON, a son of Archibald JOHNSON, was born near Des Moines, Iowa, March 7, 1856, and in 1860 came with his family to Magnolia, where they lived on a farm in one of the pioneer log cabins for two years, when they moved to the JOHNSON farm on Harris Grove Creek, in Jefferson Township, in Section 36, Twp. 70, Range 43, Council Bluffs being the market town when they moved there.
Many times in accompanying his father, hauling bacon and produce to the market, it was common occurrence for them to see deer and wolves in crossing the open prairie on the way. He received his education in the rural schools.
In March, 1882, he married Miss Minnie TOWNSEND of Central City, Colo. After their marriage they moved to a farm home on NW 1/4 of Sec. 32, where Mr. JOHNSON has always been engaged in farming and stock raising. One son, Robert Bruce, lived but a few months. Mrs. JOHNSON died December 1895.
On August 30, 1905, ten years subsequent to this sad event, Mr. JOHNSON was again married, to Miss Nellie FOOTE, who was born in Wisconsin February 3, 1877. She came with her parents, F. A. FOOTE and There RUGG FOOTE. Graduating from the Logan High School, she became a successful teacher in the public schools for six years. To better enjoy life they moved to Logan in 1918.
Anna L. PATTON was born in Harris Grove Oct. 16, 1863, the daughter of C. M. PATTON. She received her education in the rural school district No. 4 in Magnolia Township, and at Logan, and later at the State Normal School at Cedar Falls, IA.
She was married to Rev. Geo. H. MAIN, Dec. 23, 1886. Mr. MAIN was born in this county March 14, 1861, and was educated in the public schools and at Evanston, Illinois. After their marriage he filled an appointment at Pender, Nebraska, later as District Superintendent living at Central City until Mrs. Main's death in January 1912. Mr. MAIN is one of the strong ministers of the M. E. church.
Children: Edna Ruth, Dorothy Ellen.
Maggie E. PATTON was born in the Grove April 28, 1859, moving with her family to Taylor Township in 1864, and to Magnolia Township in 1865, receiving her education in District No. 4 in Latter Township, at the High School in Magnolia, and later at State Normal at Cedar Falls, and taught several terms of school.
She was married to Frank E. STEPHENS October 25, 1882, at Council Bluffs. He was born in Indiana June 26, 1855, receiving his education at Magnolia and Iowa City. After their marriage they moved to Shenandoah, Iowa, and later to Omaha, living there a few years, then moving to Yutan Valley in the Platte Valley, Saunders County, Nebr., and lived there until Mr. STEPHENS' death September 24, 1897, when Mrs. STEPHENS moved to Greenville, Illinois, where she still resides.
One son, Harold E., married Ethel BLAKELY.


Spring has arrived to welcoming arms here in Saskatchewan. The snow has gone, the temperatures have risen, and the leaves are finally showing up again. We've had a few showers (and an extremely unwelcome 12″ April snowfall) and things are clean, and fresh, and green. Spring really is a beautiful season…full of re growth and new life. I love it!
Spring is also an extremely difficult time of year for me. A mixed bag of unforgettable timeless memories, gut-wrenching pain, and sorrows that have left scars that will never heal. This year is no different, only it's much heavier. The last year has brought on all new challenges that have just added to the heaviness of the memories that were already there. I'm now in month eight of counselling, for one, and we have literally had to learn a new way of life in so many ways. This afternoon was fairly typical. I started getting anxious and worked up a bit. I went upstairs to my room and flopped down on the pile of my daughters bedding piled on my bed. I was on my iPad and listening to music when I heard my son walk in. Vince is 5, and I'm so proud to say is a little daddy's boy. We have lots of "man-time"…we go for coffee, work on my truck…he even helped pick out my new truck!! I love my boy to no end. He's my man, my lil'dude. But when I'm needing MY time and space, even he knows I need it and both the kids are very good at just leaving me be. So when Vince walked in, my first reaction was annoyed and upset. I turned to say something, but I realized that he wasn't even there to ask me anything. Not to bother me, but just to be close to me. He didn't even look at me, just curled up on the floor beside me with his iPad.
I rolled over and kept reading when I heard it… And when I heard it it tore right into my chest through my ribs, grabbed my heart and ripped it out holding it in front of me… A heart full of sadness. A heart full of pain. I heart full of rejection. Of anger. Of fear. Of an answered questions. Of unanswered prayers. Of Hate. But also a heart full of pride. Of excitement . Abundant affection. Of peace. Of hope. Of love. He was watching the video Sherry and I had made for our son Dayton's funeral six years ago. Both our kids love watching it. Tiegan was three when Dayton passed, and Vince came the following year… So that video and pictures are all they really know of their brother. And it made me think of Mother's Day, and that Mother's Day we spent in the RUH NICU six years ago. It was perfect. It sits extremely high on my "best days ever" list. My daughter got brought in wearing a beautiful new dress, just for Mother's Day. She got to spend some rare personal time with her brother. And we got to spend some rare time with our, at the time, completed family. The joy on my wife's face to this day and forever etched into my memory. Knowing that this would be the only Mothers Day she'd ever share with both her children, but full of pride and joy for the moment. Her strength is undeniable. Her poise is amazing. And her character I view with such pride.
Click here for link to Dayton's video.
This is the point that I'm at. It's been far too long. The novelty has long since worn off. Counselling sessions continually reveal to me in all sorts of new ways just how messed up I really am. Every book I flip through defines me more and more. Every article I read makes me aware of something in my life I was previously unaware of… But now it's all I can think of. 10 days. 10 days a month. That's my scheduled "fix me" time each month. 10 appointments a month. What has my life turned into? Were things really that bad before? Or have things escalated over the last few months? Seriously, what is going on?
"Awareness" is a word that anyone who's done any sort of counselling likely knows all too well. Aware of your thoughts. Aware of your surroundings. Aware of your emotions. Aware of things you didn't even have any idea were happening…before they actually happen. It's great, it really is. It's helped so much in understanding and coping with things that are going on both in my head and my surroundings. But here's the thing… The problems that I thought I had could be summed up and held like an apple in the palm of my hand. Now, after months of therapy, that apple makes a whole lot more sense. I understand it's make-up. I'm somewhat confident I can protect and control THAT apple. But the problem is that I'm now also very aware of the orchard that that apple's been plucked from. What I first saw as a pool I needed to wade through has turned into an ocean. And I'm right there in the middle, holding my apple of understanding, but completely overwhelmed and underprepared.
Some days I see the progress, and it is rewarding. Most days I just see the never ending road that I know I have ahead of me and I'm completely overwhelmed. Fear has recently consistently found its way into my head. Fear for things that I have no control over. I have panic attacks. Worse than ever. Way worse. I used to get them, small and manageable. Today I found myself locked in the bathroom sitting on the floor crying and freaking out over something completely out of my control. I have fear because all I've ever known as a sure way to end the chaos and the happenings in my head is to hurt myself. I'm coming up on 2 months free of that, but I think about it everyday. I have dreams and visions that haunt at me. The take over my mind. Is this something new? Or is it just something I'm more aware of now? Sometimes I really wonder if I was better off unknowing and simply deeply troubled. I'm still deeply troubled, but now my trouble has a label, an agenda, and a timeline.
Please don't take this as me questioning the benefits of professional help. I'm not at all. There's a very good chance that professional mental health has saved my life. I just wish I could be writing about how easy things are. How daily rewarding it all is. How there's been a night and day change in my life. But that's not true. Yes, it's rewarding…but the challenges that I face often overshadow those rewards. But the rewards are there. I still struggle with suicide daily. Self harm has been the biggest thing I've learned to control, but at what cost? That used to stop my thoughts from escalating to suicidal, but know I just trust my coping methods and safety plans to protect me when the cuttings not there. Training IS crucial. Therapy a very key piece to it all. I wish it was simple. I wish it was easy. I wish I could just wake up from one of my terrible dreams and have everything just realign and have me be normal. Be fixed. Be freed.
Writing is an escape for me. Not in the sense that I escape, but that it allows some of my tensions. Some of my thoughts. Some of my hurts to escape my mind through writing. I've blogged very little over the last month or two. I'm hoping to be back sharing my thoughts more frequently again now. In so many ways I'm lost way deeper in my mind and in my anxiety/depression than I ever have been before. But I also know there's improvement both mentally in my mind and spiritually in my heart. I have so much I want to say… I just hope I'm able to find the words to say them. Thank you for taking the time to follow, and as always, please feel free to share.


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Using the `slangc` Command-Line Compiler
========================================

The `slangc` command-line tool is used to compile or cross-compile shader source code.

```
slangc [<options>] <file1> [<file2>...]

```

Simple Examples
---------------

### HLSL

When compiling an HLSL shader, you must specify the path to your shader code file as well as the target shader model (profile) and shader stage to use.
For example, to see D3D bytecode assembly for a fragment shader entry point:

    slangc my-shader.hlsl -profile sm_5_0 -stage fragment

To direct that output to a bytecode file:

    slangc my-shader.hlsl -profile sm_5_0 -stage fragment -o my-shader.dxbc

If the entry-point function has a name other than the default `main`, then this is specified with `-entry`:

    slangc my-shader.hlsl -profile sm_5_0 -entry psMain -stage fragment

If you are using the `[shader("...")]` syntax to mark your entry points, then you may leave off the `-stage` option:

    slangc my-shader.hlsl -profile sm_5_0 -entry psMain

### Slang

Compiling an entry point from a Slang file is similar to HLSL, except that you must also specify a desired code generation target, because there is no assumed default (like DXBC for Direct3D Shader Model 5.x).

To get DXBC assembly written to the console:

    slangc my-shader.slang -profile sm_5_0 -stage fragment -entry main -target dxbc

To get SPIR-V assembly:

    slangc my-shader.slang -profile sm_5_0 -stage fragment -entry main -target spriv

The code generation target is implicit when writing to a file with an appropriate extension.
To write DXBC, SPIR-V, or GLSL to files, use:

    slangc my-shader.slang -profile sm_5_0 -entry main -stage fragment -o my-shader.dxbc
    slangc my-shader.slang -profile sm_6_0 -entry main -stage fragment -o my-shader.dxil
    slangc my-shader.slang -profile glsl_450 -entry main -stage fragment -o my-shader.spv

Multiple Entry Points
---------------------

`slangc` can compile multiple entry points, which may span multiple files in a single invocation.
This is useful when you are taking advantage of Slang's ability to automatically assign binding locations to shader parameters, because the compiler can take all of your entry points into account when assigning location (avoiding overlap between entry points that will be used together).

When specifying multiple entry points, you use multiple `-entry` options on the command line.
The main thing to be aware of is that any `-stage` options apply to the most recent `-entry` point, and the same goes for any `-o` options to specify per-entry-point output files.
For example, here is a command line to compile both vertex and fragment shader entry points from a single file and output them to distinct DXBC files:

    slangc -profile sm_5_0 my-shader.hlsl
                          -entry vsMain -stage vertex   -o my-shader.vs.dxbc
                          -entry fsMain -stage fragment -o my-shader.fs.dxbc

If your shader entry points are spread across multiple HLSL files, then each `-entry` option indicates an entry point in the preceding file.
For example, if the preceding example put its vertex and fragment entry points in distinct files, the command line would be:

    slangc -profile sm_5_0 my-shader.vs.hlsl -entry vsMain -stage vertex   -o my-shader.vs.dxbc
                           my-shader.fs.hlsl -entry fsMain -stage fragment -o my-shader.fs.dxbc

Note that when compiling multiple `.slang` files in one invocation, they will all be compiled together as a single module (with a single global namespace) so that the relative order of `-entry` options and source files does not matter.

These long command lines obviously aren't pleasant.
We encourage applications that require complex shader compilation workflows to use the Slang API directly so that they can implement compilation that follows application conventions/policy.
The ability to specify compilation actions like this on the command line is primarily intended a testing and debugging tool.

Options
-------

For completeness, here are the options that `slangc` currently accepts:

* `-v`: Displays the build version. This is the contents of `git describe --tags`. It is typically only set from automated builds (such as distros available on github). A user build will by default be 'unknown'.

* `-D <name>[=<value>]`: Insert a preprocessor macro definition
  * The space between `-D` and `<name>` is optional
  * If no `<value>` is specified, Slang will define the macro with an empty value

* `-I <path>`: Add a path to be used in resolving `#include` and `import` operations
  * The space between `-I` and `<path>` is optional

* `-entry <name>`: Specify the name of the entry-point function
  * When compiling from a single file, this defaults to `main` *if* you specify a stage using `-stage`
  * Multiple `-entry` options may appear on the command line. When they do, the file associated with the entry point will be the first one found when searching to the left in the command line.

* `-stage <name>`: Specify the stage of an entry-point function
  * When there are multiple entry points, a `-stage` option applies to the most recent `-entry` point specified
  * When there is only a single entry point, the `-stage` option may appear anywhere on the command line
  * The traditional stages are named as follows:
    * `vertex`
    * `hull`: D3D Hull Shader and GL/VK Tessellation Control Shader
    * `domain`: D3D Domain Shader and GL/VK Tessellation Evaluation Shader
    * `geometry`
    * `fragment` / `pixel`: D3D Pixel Shader and GL/VK Fragment Shader
    * `compute`
  * The stages for ray tracing use the following names:
    * `raygeneration`
    * `intersection`
    * `anyhit`
    * `closesthit`
    * `miss`
    * `callable`

* `-target <format>`: Specifies the format in which code should be generated. Values for `<target>` are:
  * `glsl`: GLSL source code
  * `hlsl`: HLSL source code
  * `spirv`: SPIR-V intermediate language binary.
  * `spirv-assembly` / `spirv-asm`: SPIR-V intermediate language assembly
  * `dxbc`: DirectX shader bytecode binary
  * `dxbc-assembly` / `dxbc-asm`: DirectX shader bytecode assembly
  * `dxil`: DirectX Intermediate Language binary
  * `dxil-assembly` / `dxil-asm`: DirectX Intermediate Language assembly

* `-profile <profile>`: Specify the "profile" to use for the code generation target, which represents an abstact feature level as defined by a particular API standard. Available values include:
  * The Direct3D "Shader Model" levels are available as `sm_{4_0,4_1,5_0,5_1,6_0,6_1,6_2,6_3,6_4,6_5,6_6}`
  * Profiles corresponding to GLSL langauge versions are available as `glsl_{110,120,130,140,150,330,400,410,420,430,440,450,460}`
  * As a convenience, names matching traditional HLSL shader profiles are provided such that, e.g., `-profile vs_5_0` is an abbreviation for `-profile sm_5_0 -stage vertex`

* `-o <path>`: Specify a path where generated output should be written
  * When multiple `-entry` options are present, each `-o` associates with the first `-entry` to its left.

* `-pass-through <name>`: Don't actually perform Slang parsing/checking/etc. on the input and instead pass it through (more or less) unmodified to the existing compiler `<name>`
  * `fxc`: Use the `D3DCompile` API as exposed by `d3dcompiler_47.dll`
  * `glslang`: Use Slang's internal version of `glslang` as exposed by `slang-glslang.dll`
  * `dxc`: Use DirectXShaderCompiler (https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler)
  * These are intended for debugging/testing purposes, when you want to be able to see what these existing compilers do with the "same" input and options

* `-verbose-paths`: When displaying diagnostic output aim to display more detailed path information. In practice this is typically the complete 'canonical' path to the source file used.

* `-g`: Include debug information in the generated code, where possible. Currently only supported for DXBC and DXIL output (not SPIR-V).

* `-O`: Control optimization levels. This currently only affects DXBC and DXIL generation.
  * `-O0`: Disable all optimizations
  * `-O1`, `-O`: Enable a default level of optimization. This is the default if no `-O` options are used.
  * `-O2`: Enable aggressive optimizations for speed.
  * `-O3`: Enable further optimizations, which might have a significant impact on compile time, or involve unwanted tradeoffs in terms of code size.

* `--`: Stop parsing options, and treat the rest of the command line as input paths

* `-output-includes`: After pre-processing has been performed will output to via the diagnostics the hierarchy of paths to source files reached

* -Xname to specify arguments to downstream tool `name` (covered in more detail in "Downstream Arguments")

### Downstream Arguments

During a Slang compilation work may be performed by multiple other stages including downstream compilers and linkers. It isn't possible in general or perhaps even desirable to provide Slang command line equivalents of every option available at every stage of compilation. It is useful to be able to set options specific to a particular compilation stage - to alter code generation, linkage and other options.

The mechanism used here is based on the `-X` mechanism used in GCC, to specify arguments to the linker.

```
-Xlinker option
```

When used, `option` is not interpreted by GCC, but is passed to the linker once compilation is complete. Slang extends this idea in several ways. First there are many more 'downstream' stages available to Slang than just `linker`. These different stages are known as `SlangPassThrough` types in the API and have the following names

* `fxc` - FXC HLSL compiler
* `dxc` - DXC HLSL compiler
* `glslang` - GLSLANG GLSL compiler
* `visualstudio` - Visual Studio C/C++ compiler
* `clang` - Clang C/C++ compiler
* `gcc` - GCC C/C++ compiler
* `genericcpp` - A generic C++ compiler (can be any one of visual studio, clang or gcc depending on system and availability)
* `nvrtc` - NVRTC CUDA compiler

The Slang command line allows you to specify an argument to these downstream compilers, by using their name after the `-X`. So for example to send an option `-Gfa` through to DXC you can use

```
-Xdxc -Gfa
```

Note that if an option is available via normal Slang command line options then these should be used. This will generally work across multiple targets, but also avoids options clashing which is undefined behavior currently. The `-X` mechanism is best used for options that are unavailable through normal Slang mechanisms.

If you want to pass multiple options using this mechanism the `-Xdxc` needs to be in front of every options. For example

```
-Xdxc -Gfa -Xdxc -Vd
```

Would reach `dxc` as

```
-Gfa -Vd
```

This can get a little repetitive especially if there are many parameters, so Slang adds a mechanism to have multiple options passed by using an ellipsis `...`. The syntax is as follows

```
-Xdxc... -Gfa -Vd -X.
```

The `...` at the end indicates all the following parameters should be sent to `dxc` until it reaches the matching terminating `-X.` or the end of the command line.

It is also worth noting that `-X...` options can be nested. This would allow a GCC downstream compilation to control linking, for example with

```
-Xgcc -Xlinker --split -X.
```

In this example gcc would see

```
-Xlinker --split
```

And the linker would see (as passed through by gcc)

```
--split
```

Setting options for tools that aren't used in a Slang compilation has no effect. This allows for setting `-X` options specific for all downstream tools on a command line, and they are only used as part of a compilation that needs them.

NOTE! Not all tools that Slang uses downstream make command line argument parsing available. `FXC` and `GLSLANG` currently do not have any command line argument passing as part of their integration, although this could change in the future.

The `-X` mechanism is also supported by render-test tool. In this usage `slang` becomes a downstream tool. Thus you can use the `dxc` option `-Gfa` in a render-test via

```
-Xslang... -Xdxc -Gfa -X.
```

Means that the dxc compilation in the render test (assuming dxc is invoked) will receive

```
-Gfa
```

Some options are made available via the same mechanism for all downstream compilers.

* Use `-I` to specify include path for downstream compilers

For example to specify an include path "somePath" to DXC you can use...

```
-Xdxc -IsomePath
```

### Specifying where dlls/shared libraries are loaded from

On windows if you want a dll loaded from a specific path, the path must be specified absolutely. See the [LoadLibrary documentation](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/libloaderapi/nf-libloaderapi-loadlibrarya) for more details. A relative path will cause Windows to check all locations along it's search procedure.

On linux it's similar, but any path (relative or not) will override the regular search mechanism. See [dlopen](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dlopen.3.html) for more details.

* `-dxc-path`: Sets the path where dxc dll/shared libraries are loaded from (dxcompiler & dxil).

* `-fxc-path`: Sets the path where fxc dll is loaded from (d3dcompiler_47.dll).

* `-glslang-path`: Sets where the Slang specific 'slang-glslang' is loaded from

Paths can specify a directory that holds the appropriate binaries. It can also be used to name a specific downstream binary - be it a shared library or an executable. Note that if it is a shared library, it is not necessary to provide the full filesystem name - just the path and/or name that will be used to load it. For example on windows `fxc` can be loaded from `D:/mydlls` with

* `D:/mydlls` - will look for `d3dcompiler_47.dll` in this directory
* `D:/mydlls/d3dcompiler_47` - it's not necessary to specify .dll to load a dll on windows
* `D:/mydlls/d3dcompiler_47.dll` - it is also possible name the shared library explicitly for example

The name of the shared library/executable can be used to specify a specific version, for example by using `D:/mydlls/dxcompiler-some-version` for a specific version of `dxc`.

Limitations
-----------

A major limitation of the `slangc` command today is that there is no provision for getting reflection data out along with the compiled shader code.
For now, the command-line tool is best seen as a debugging/testing tool, and all serious applications should drive Slang through the API.

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News Climate 01 February 2019
Hole almost the size of Manhattan found under glacier
NASA observations prompt increased concern over Antarctic ice-melt. Andrew Masterson reports.
An aerial view of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.
NASA/OIB/Jeremy Harbeck
The discovery of a cavity with an area equivalent to two-thirds of Manhattan beneath an Antarctic glacier has raised urgent concerns about the speed of ice-melt in the polar regions.
The cavity, which is almost 300 metres tall, was revealed in data gathered by NASA's Operation IceBridge, which since 2010 has used airborne ice-penetrating radar to map connections between changes in polar mass and global climate.
The hole sits beneath the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, and represents, researchers say, a dramatic increase in melt rates not predicted by current models.
Writing in the journal Science Advances, scientists led by Pietro Milillo from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, US, reveal the cavity to be 10 kilometres long and four kilometres wide. It indicates the loss of 14 billion tonnes of ice – most of it during the past three years.
The cavity sits directly below the glacier, above the bedrock. The researchers had expected to find gaps between the ice and the rock – having long suspected that Thwaites was not tightly anchored – but the sheer size of what the satellite data revealed indicates that the relationship between the two is more volatile than predicted.
How we sped up the glacial melt
"The size of a cavity under a glacier plays an important role in melting," says Milillo. "As more heat and water get under the glacier, it melts faster."
This is no small consideration. The Thwaites Glacier occupies roughly the area of Florida. Previous research found that in recent years it has been losing about 50 billion tonnes of ice every year, and is responsible for 4% of global sea-level rise. It has been described as "the world's most dangerous glacier".
If it were to melt completely, it would boost ocean levels by 65 centimetres – a catastrophic outcome then compounded because its loss would trigger melts in neighbouring glaciers, pushing levels by another 2.4 metres.
"Understanding the details of how the ocean melts away this glacier is essential to project its impact on sea level rise in the coming decades," says co-author Eric Rignot.
To this end, the researchers, together with colleagues at the US National Science Foundation and British National Environmental Research Council have formed the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration.
The project aims to gather more, and more precise, information on the way the glacier is behaving, starting with a series of field experiments kicking off late in 2019.
Explore #glaciers #Antarctica
Andrew Masterson is editor of Cosmos.
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau3433
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/30/unprecedented-u-s-british-project-launches-to-study-the-worlds-most-dangerous-glacier/?utm_term=.65199c277c16
https://thwaitesglacier.org/
Stealth black hole found lurking in the Milky Way
... and there's plenty more still hidden, with astronomers calculating up to 170 million in our galaxy alone.
A sunspot the size of the Earth
The mysterious dark spots on the surface of the Sun can be as big as a planet.
Probing the mystery of Pluto's glaciers
Revealed: a black hole the size of the solar system


Every now and then a sportswriter, worrying over why baseball isn't as popular with the youngs as it once was/could be, will cite the blandness of the modern star as one of the great problems facing the game. Recently, for instance, the Boston Globe's Nick Cafardo cited Reggie Jackson, Barry Bonds, and Hawk Harrelson (a guy who once retired to take up a golf career during a contract dispute) as the sort of colorful personalities the sport doesn't seem to have room for these days, because baseball is more a business than a game to today's highly paid players, etc.
That doesn't seem right at all! You have Yasiel Puig exulting in being Yasiel Puig, Madison Bumgarner taking time off from wrestling bears or whatever the hell it is he does in the backwoods to close out a World Series on no rest, smart weirdos like R.A. Dickey philosophizing, and the outsized likes of A-Rod and David Ortiz. Big personalities are something MLB doesn't really seem to want for. One of the ways the theory is really not right, though, is the way in which it confuses brash players with compelling ones.
All of this comes to mind just given that a new profile of the White Sox's José Abreu by Chicago Magazine's Michael E. Miller portrays him as both an almost unbelievably anodyne figure and a nearly mythic type. Abreu, who along with Chris Sale and Adam Eaton made a very bad team very entertaining last year while hitting at least as well as anyone in baseball, is, at the plate, preposterously enjoyable to watch. As a personality, well, details here include him working out to "Christian disco music," buying a $445,000 house in the Miami suburbs after securing a team-record $68 million contract, and really enjoying the National Geographic Channel, from which he's learning English. As he tells it, his vices include his mother's cooking and working so hard that the White Sox had to convince him to dial it back so as not to wear himself out.
Abreu's depths remain hidden. Likely the most prized Cuban defector in baseball history, he not only had to leave his own son behind to seek his fortune abroad, but in all probability dealt with human traffickers who held him hostage and made him sign over a huge percentage of his earnings. It's not anything he's going to put in a magazine, though. "It's tough to talk about," he says of his defection, leaving it there. "It's a sad subject."
Abreu wasn't miserable in Cuba. He got married, had a son, and moved into a bigger house. Even after he and his first wife divorced, Abreu enjoyed being a single dad and a local celebrity. Like most people in Cuba, he didn't own a car. But one of his friends had a horse and buggy, and he would take Abreu to games, clip-clopping through Cienfuegos. "I loved riding around the city that way," Abreu says. "People would wave at me in the streets."
Imagine this! Maybe the best hitter alive, riding to the ballpark in a horse and buggy, waving to the public. It's a story out of some old-time history, and yet it happened a couple of years ago, and its subject plays baseball in Chicago right now, just a few miles south of downtown.
The nature of baseball is such that the past always looms larger than the present, and all the flawed stars who were always seem more special than the ones who are. But even leaving aside the flamboyant likes of Puig and Bumgarner and Ortiz, there are stars in baseball right now who have stories so impossibly interesting that they come through even when the players decline to tell them. José Abreu is a lot of things—quite possibly the best hitter in the world; a man of clearly limited interests; and someone who maintains a certain reserve—but a game in which he's a central figure is one that does not need to worry about drama or intrigue or inspiring in the kids a sense that the world is a large, strange, and varied place.


The 100-voice Briarwood Chancel (Adult) Choir and Festival Orchestra will present "How Great Our Joy!"a program of sacred choral and instrumental music. The concert will include classics by Mendelssohn, Handel and John Rutter, as well as newer arrangements by Mack Wilberg, Bradley Knight, and others. Whether your favorite is the "Hallelujah Chorus" or "Here With Us," there's wonderful music of the season for all to hear! No admission fee.


On behalf of The Law Office of William C. Wombacher posted in blog on Tuesday, November 7, 2017.
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