The US Built a Site to Ensure Fair Access to Public Lands. Recreation.gov was supposed to make access to public lands more equitable and streamlined. It's a few minutes before 8 am Mountain Time on March 16, the day that river permit cancellations are released on Recreation.gov, the federal website for public land reservations. Rec.gov, as it's commonly called, administers everything from river permits and timed entrance fees at the most popular national parks to campground reservations on remote sites belonging to the Bureau of Land Management, and a lot of people are recreating on public land these days. There were 11 million reservations on the site in 2024, up significantly from 3.5 million reservations reported in 2019. At the center of it all is an unlikely player in the outdoor recreation space: The site is operated by the government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, a corporation known more for cybersecurity than rafting trips. Early each year, outdoor enthusiasts gear up for Recreation.gov's annual lotteries for some of the most iconic experiences in the country: a river trip down Idaho's Middle Fork of the Salmon River, which flows through the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. Backcountry permits to hike into the Wave, an otherworldly rock formation in Arizona's Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness. Overnight stays in the rugged, lake-studded Enchantments, in Washington's Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Odds of getting a desirable Middle Fork permit are around 2 percent.

A.1 Data Configuration The inputs to a hydraulic simulation include an elevation map, initial conditions, and the boundary conditions. For a given elevation map, there is an infinite possible combinations of initial and boundary conditions that could potentially realize in future events. It is an interesting question how to automatically configure the most relevant initial and boundary conditions to train on, to get a representation that will be useful in potential future real-world scenarios. We suggest a basic configuration that adequate for the purpose of this paper. These include the water height h Rm m at each pixel and a staggered grid flux q R2 (m 1) (m 1) in each direction x,y.

Current takes a minimal approach to RSS. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The RSS (Really Simple Syndication) protocol has been giving users a way to keep up with their favorite websites for decades. It essentially presents all the new articles on a specific site in chronological order as they're published, so you can read through or skip over them as you like. It's also, by the way, the main way that podcast feeds are published, but it was originally designed to manage web feeds.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. L.A. City Council candidate stays in race after report that he stabbed a boy at age 12 This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . When he was 12, Jordan Rivers stabbed an 8-year-old neighbor while the two were playing video games, a lawsuit alleged. Rivers, 22, is the sole challenger to incumbent Tim McOsker in the June 2 primary election.

Certifiablelocalrobustness,which rigorouslyprecludes small-normadversarial examples, has received significant attention as a means of addressing security concerns in deep learning.

River of waste'visible for miles' dumped at mountain beauty spot A farmer says she is devastated by a disgusting river of fly-tipped waste dumped down the side of a mountain. Katie Davies, whose family has owned land on Bwlch Mountain in Treorchy for 90 years, said the clean up could cost thousands of pounds and could also harm her sheep which graze on the land. Travel blogger Nathan Dixon, who captured drone footage showing the scale of the discarded waste, said the mess could be seen from three to five miles away, adding that it sticks out like a sore thumb. Rhondda Cynon Taf council said it always took action to hold those responsible for fly-tipping to account, while Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said fly-tipping was a serious crime. Davies, who runs small family business Nantymoel farm which produces Welsh beef and lamb, said the mess keeps me up at night.

Kyiv is many miles from the front line, but Ukraine's war with Russia is never far away - with Moscow's missile and drone attacks directed at the city almost every day. On the frozen surface of the mighty River Dnipro, the BBC speaks to men who spend hours fishing to take their minds off the almost four-year-old conflict, which has left homes with no heating after Russian strikes on power stations. Drilling holes in the ice of the river in the heart of the city, these ice-fisherman - many of them veterans with friends and family at the front - hope to catch small fish, and a little respite. Authorities deliberately triggered the avalanche on Mount Elbrus to release a build up of snow. The limited deployment involves Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands and the UK.

Archaeologists also located English Civil War cannonballs and a Tudor-era shoe near a Newcastle river. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. At the height of its power, the Roman Empire extended as far away as Britain . Based on a new trove of archaeological artifacts discovered in northeast England, Britain hosted critical sites that supplied the empire's vast military complex. Over six months in 2025, researchers from the United Kingdom's Durham University excavated the new evidence on the banks of the River Wear not far from Newcastle, England.

The Late Cretaceous apex predator easily grew to the size of a great white shark. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Nearly 70 million years ago, mosasaurs were the stuff of nightmares. Multiple species of the apex marine reptiles lived during the Late Cretaceous, often growing anywhere from 30 to 40 feet-long. But as dangerous as the ancient, great white shark-sized were for their prehistoric ocean prey, paleontologists have long assumed mosasaurs stuck to saltwater.

Existing evaluation protocols for brain visual decoding predominantly rely on coarse metrics that obscure inter-model differences, lack neuroscientific foundation, and fail to capture fine-grained visual distinctions. To address these limitations, we introduce BASIC, a unified, multigranular evaluation framework that jointly quantifies structural fidelity, inferential alignment, and contextual coherence between decoded and ground-truth images. For the structural level, we introduce a hierarchical suite of segmentation-based metrics, including foreground, semantic, instance, and component masks, anchored in granularity-aware correspondence across mask structures. For the semantic level, we extract structured scene representations encompassing objects, attributes, and relationships using multimodal large language models, enabling detailed, scalable, and context-rich comparisons with ground-truth stimuli. We benchmark a diverse set of visual decoding methods across multiple stimulus-neuroimaging datasets within this unified evaluation framework. Together, these criteria provide a more discriminative, interpretable, and comprehensive foundation for evaluating brain visual decoding methods.