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East Dundee bars to again serve up corned beef by the ton for St. Pat's
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East Dundee has a big appetite for St. Patrick's Day, for along with its annual parade, two pubs are preparing more than a ton of corned beef between them for the festivities.
It's a 10-year-old tradition literally smoked up by Steve Hopp, who used to own a butcher shop in town.
"I like the exercise of doing it. It's fun to ready that much meat and a good challenge to have consistency," Hopp said.
Hopp was friends with the late Thom McNamee, who owned Rosie O'Hare's and Bandito Barney's. McNamee was instrumental in getting the village's St. Patrick's parade off the ground, and the event now is held in his honor.
Hopp owns two large mobile smokers and wound up preparing the corned beef for his buddy's bars. One of his smokers used to belong to singer Willie Nelson — which would be a good story for another occasion, and perhaps worthy of a pun or two given Nelson's well-covered habits.
The smoker Hopp uses for this local Irish thanksgiving can hold up to 600 pounds of meat at a time; and until last year, Hopp was preparing 2,000 pounds or so, split between the two places. He's also prepared up to 600 pounds that Rosie's sold at the Irish fest that used to be at St. Catherine of Siena parish in West Dundee.
With McNamee's death in 2009, his properties wound up on the market. McNamee friends Gary Kosmatka and his wife, Lynne, along with Gary Mueller and his wife, Jamie Legner Mueller, bought Rosie's in September 2011 and hosted their first St. Pat's last March. Bandito Barney's was sold late last year to Roger Shelton, whose family owns Kinney Electrical Manufacturing Co. in Elgin.
So this year, Bandito's will be fixing its own corned beef, and Hopp will only be involved with preparing more than a half ton for Rosie's, aided as usual by Bruce Christensen.
"He's the other most efficient smoker in the (Fox River) Valley," Hopp said.
Where's the beef
Hopp headed into Chicago to pick up the meat at 5 a.m. Wednesday and was back by 8 a.m. to start on the project. He said Crown Corned Beef custom-makes a supply for him, which he smokes with fruit wood.
"A typical corned beef is meant to be boiled, which takes out the salt. Since we smoke, they reduce the amount of salt in what we get by half," Hopp said.
"(The smoker) can turn shoe leather into filet mignon," he added.
It also can self-baste meat, rotisserie-style; but with corned beef, Hopp said he pan-roasts to save the juices. That's to add some moisture back, as corned beef can lose half of its weight during cooking and after trimming and rendering.
It takes about eight to 12 hours to cook 500 pounds of the meat, so the preparation is a two-day project. It also involves trimming the fat off the meat and carving the meat against the grain.
Not doing so can result in a tough sandwich or plate, which happened by mistake a few years ago to hundreds of pounds of the corned beef at Bandito's.
"They had a lot to make hash with," Hopp said.
Hopp also uses some of the meat to make hash on purpose — to serve at a pre-parade breakfast.
The celebration is held the Saturday before St. Patrick's Day, which this year is March 16.
The meat used in sandwiches or served with cabbage and potatoes usually turns out so well the men claim it's gained converts from folks who normally don't like corned beef.
"I like the look on people's faces when they bite into it," Christensen said.
Lots of customers
Corned beef actually is more of an Irish-American tradition than a holiday meal in Ireland.
Myths and mountains of meat aside, St. Patrick's Day is big business for bars in both East and West Dundee, as it is in a good portion of the Fox Valley or anywhere with significant numbers of Irish.
When asked if it is busier than New Year's Eve or the day before Thanksgiving, Rosie's Mueller said, "Around here it is."
In 2012, with the temperature soaring above 80, Bandito's had its expansive beer garden open and, according to manager Ben Mahler, the bar ran out of most of its beer — including 10 kegs of Ireland's iconic brand, Guinness, with taps for that dry by 4 p.m.
"Last St. Patrick's was definitely the craziest day I've ever worked," Mahler said, "Most of us did double shifts, and it was the biggest amount of cash and tips anybody can remember Bandito's bringing in. Hundreds of people came by, and we were packed from 8 a.m. when we opened until 2 p.m. when we closed."
"Last year, with the warm weather — we'll never break that," Mueller said. "It was crazier than any New Year's Eve."


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Moore is the author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul and fifteen other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating soul in every aspect of life. His lecture, "A Liberating Education: How to Be a Person with Soul" will explore the value of liberal arts in higher education.
"Today we are all caught unconsciously in the myth of our times: modernism. We believe in fact, information, training, data, research, and numbers. Something is wrong with an education constrained by this mythology. It has no soul," says Moore. "But there is an alternative, a new way of imagining how and what to learn. In this new, ancient form of learning, the arts and ideas come back and along with them a sense of belonging to community. We become cultured persons rather than just informed and skilled workers."
Thomas Moore has a Ph. D. in religion from Syracuse University and has won several awards for his work, including an honorary doctorate from Lesley University and the Humanitarian Award from Einstein Medical School of Yeshiva University. He also has a B.A. in music from DePaul University, an M.A. in musicology from the University of Michigan, and an M.A. in theology from the University of Windsor. He also writes fiction and music and often works with his wife, artist and yoga instructor, Hari Kirin. He writes regular columns for Resurgence, Spirituality & Health, and will soon publish Writing in the Sand: The Spirituality of Jesus and the Soul of the Gospels, The Soul of Medicine, and Hole in One: Stories about the Game of Life.
Books will be available for sale in the lobby of the Whittemore Theater before and after the lecture. For more information, please contact the Marlboro College Public Relations Department at (802) 251-7644, or visit www.marlboro.edu.
For more than 60 years, Marlboro College has offered undergraduate education in the liberal arts. Its 330 undergraduate students enjoy an 8:1 student-faculty ratio, a voice in governing the community and individualized courses of study on a 300-acre campus in the hills of southern Vermont. Marlboro College has also offered graduate degrees and certificate programs for working adults at the Marlboro College Graduate School, located in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, since 1997.


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I watched all the Class Videos (That have been released) and this is the worst. Very Dissapointed since Republic Troopers are my favorite class. :(
all right what the heck why at 0:51 does the guy with the sniper rifle charge them!? and see it got her killed what a n00b
@SniperFire17 no- dont play WOW. wont be playing this either.
@TheMercMaster I looked it up, and she does voice Jennifer Mui
@TequilaTheHun Doesn't Jennifer Hale do the voice for Jennifer Mui in the Mercenaries series?
Jennifer Hale is one of the most memorable voice actresses in Bioware Games :)
@ Cruisemissile Alright man, I hear you. I do like the star wars universe and I hope these guys do it right because there is no point in making a crappy game. Near as I can tell. Still, lots of people seem to do it. No one likes to have a game they are anticipating bashed so I don't blame you for going on offensive. May the force be with you.
@Bjornishigi alright im sorry i was quickly to tag you as a troller i just read your comment and saw you where complaining about bad graphics just about everyone does i too think the graphics are bad but it isnt stopping me from wanting to play this game but as you have now said if gameplay is good it will be a great game i think thats what their trying to achieve but i do think this trailer is an old one and like all mmo's this game will get graphic updates and yes i can be bothered to invest in £100 for a new graphic card and now that VAT has risen i had to fork out another £23 for it but i see where that point is going with most people not be bothered to invest well i dont know what its like where you are but over here people just dont have the money most of my friends struggle to buy at least one game and usually have to borrow them from me, as for me growing up, perhaps i have to swallow the pill and say ill grow up now, but now i have a question for you have you ever played kotor if so you will know its got shoddy graphics but if your like me you will enjoy it, this is one reason i want to play this game and i also hope that this game allows you to explore a whole planet like coruscant a massive planet city and if i was to be able to go down every street id be like gosh im lost! in a good way and have you researched about the game i have and im 85% sure the gameplay will be great.
Graphics look terrible
@Cruisemissile You don't comprehend the gist of my follow-up comment. And it's clear your unclear what trolling means. Someone who name-calls and repeatedly posts offensive, uninformed comments to inflame others is a troller. You are not familiar with me at all but you are quick to denegrate me as a troller on the basis of a single comment; immaturity on your part. Hence, grow up and welcome to an adult world where people tolerate each others opinions on a mutual topic of interest without taking it personally. I stand behind my original comments. I've played many mmo's over the past decade(saga of ryzom, nwn, anarchy online, guild wars, city of heroes). There is no acceptable excuse for why the art and animations displayed here are so bad as they come from a top tier company. If the gameplay is righteous it will still be a great game, but graphics capabilities, namely shaders and physics/particle physics, have moved forward by leaps and bounds. The tech they have on display here is like a slap in the face. If you are into modding or play modded games you start to see where the devs are slacking, especially regarding environmental diversity, textures, character skins. A company like Bioware should be exploiting dx11 and all the bells and whistles, motion capture, etc. LordDavid hit the nail on the head. Making graphics in a game better is never a bad thing, for the reasons he mentioned. And finally, if gaming is your hobby, considering time invested in an mmo and you can't be bothered to invest 100+ bucks in a decent card, then you should take up jump-roping or something. And yes, I'm bored or I wouldn't bother to comment. ;)
@Cruisemissile Graphical information isn't sent from the server, it's all processed client side. The only things that the server needs to process are interactions with your environment, and movement. Even things like physics are simply handled by your processor, and may look slightly different from another person's perspective (but this doesn't matter since often world objects affected by physics are non-interactable). My point: making graphics in a game better is -never- a bad thing. A lot of people use the excuse "if the graphics were better then less people would be able to run the game" but that argument becomes null when you take into account graphical sliders and options in the game settings.
@Freakgrenade+LtDiablo thanks took my words right out of my mouth, Bjornidhigi you must not read many comments as i commented about graphics and that its for everybody not just YOU!, anyways if this game had really high quality graphics the game would not run on the servers there would be too much data and not enough speed to send it all to thousands of players at the same time, freedom of expression? yes everyone has the right its just how you choose to use that freedom. and the options at the end Really? saying things like that is trolling and if you didnt like the trailer you should read more before commenting how bad it is, as like Freakgrenade said its quite old now and mmos update graphics constantly if you look at runescape classic then runescape for example the graphics are improved alot.
@Bjornishigi you must be new to mmo's. Mmo's, even at launch they never ever have a fully polished game.All mmo's release loads of patches after launch to fix grahics issues bugs and such.If you played GW at launch and 4 months later , you would almost think it was a diffrent(better) game.MMo's ALWAYS release patches even more consistently than other game types , making them in overall propably the best quality games out there..
Just to clarify something regarding the graphics, the trooper has been out for awhile now so it is likely this is an earlier build in terms of QA that is being looked at, when looking at the recent videos and screenshots on TOR's official website, for an MMO it is gorgeous, I have to say for an MMO because yes, it is going to be designed for the masses, but like other MMOs they do carry the top end graphical abilities for the fortunate ones and I do not see why TOR would be any different.
ooooh man ...... porque todos los juegos no se parecen en escena al los infartantes cg.....T_T... no es que no guste pero.. le falta un toke
the melee attack looks really bad
@ Cruisemissile I've played and enjoyed Bioware games and used their editors to create content for NWN. TOR looks graphically comprable to Neverwinter Nights which was released nine years ago. I didn't get onboard with NWN2 because they didn't improve the graphics sufficiently to make it enticing to me. . As an industry leader Bioware can certainly afford to advance their graphics to meet current standards. My comment is not baseless, neither do i look for opportunities to make negative remarks, so I am not trolling. If you have a problem with freedom of expression you have 2 options. A) stop reading B) grow up.
Is that female Shepard?
@Bjornishigi this is an mmo its aimed at letting almost everyone to play this game and as there will be thousands of players on at the same time the game will run slower and if you where expecting this game to be equal to crysis then you have your standards too high, and if you dont like it why watch it in the first place? now please stop trolling on the forums!
Wow, this looks reeeeaally lame. These graphics are way too antiquated. It's as though they couldn't afford to hire an artist. Or an animator. Time for a new game engine Bioware. This might as well be a lego ad. Booo.
This game will be amazing if you go to the star wars the old republic home page it will show you all the classes theres republic trooper, jedi knight, jedi consular, smuggler, sith warrior, sith inquisitor, bounty hunter and imperial agent as base classes then as you level up you can advance your class to a more honed in the sort of gameplay you prefer and the trooper will be played quite a lot actually their quite tough and awesome looking on other vids. This game has a story so what what's so bad about that it is based 300 years from kotor and this is a game as much a MMO and if you think the graphics are lame their doing that on purpose as this is a pc platform game and so most people can play this they have set the graphics to a lower level and its still great the game will be amazing. The planets you get to explore are massive should take a good 200 hours to explore most of one planet and still be able to get lost especially coruscant the planet city is massive, http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/making-coruscant. I think theres 15 planets to explore yes it does sound like not much but if you do go to the home page do a bit of research you will see that the planets will be massive. And i think i could go on for about an hour so i think i might stop now or anyone who reads this will get bored and not want to read...
I have a feeling LucasArts probably have not giving Bioware free hands, and if the game is not awesome... we all know LucasArts are to blame.
This game looks amazing. The battle system looks awesome, the conversation system looks amazing. I heard that you can start a Sith or Jedi and you can switch sides later. But what I want to know is can you start out as a non force character and eventually become a force character.
@node1011 This the same crap bioware always gets from ppl who only care about graphics. Look at Dragon age, got the same criticism but it was great game. this game has an okay graphic, and its going to be a ton of content in this game so i wouldnt care so much for the graphics
BornGamers is right, this will be a hub MMO anyway like Guildwars, DDO, globel agenda, there will be missions and that's about it, single player by yourself or friends is basically all this will be just the like upcoming Neverwinter nights 2011 as well. All in the name of profits, they can't even make game world to explore anymore they just go to hubs and pay to play or both. I say to my guildmates, we're not witnessing the death of MMO's, it's already happened
Totally agree with Skullcandy. The stylized art looks very unoriginal and void of personality. Animations are still stiff as ever. Not talking polly count and effects, etc. When I look at these characters, it has a very amateur feel to them. The art almost seems to go out of it's way to be annoying. It's sad really, because some of the game elements look to have been carefully thought out. Unfortunately, bad art direction, crappy tacked on space combat, and cloned companions will make this game feel very cheap and amateurish.
pretty sick, but seriously I'm not gonna pay to play. been there done that. its called world of warcraft. never again.
I agree with BornGamer on this one. The only reason I have faith in this game is Bioware, but I'm also 90% sure this game will tank. MMO's are a social gathering place first and a game second. I see nothing in Old Republic that makes it stand out and has me drooling for purchase on it's release date. I'll wait a year for it to become free to play.
@ejstrup I agree Bioware are very talented. That doesn't prevent this game from having lousy, uninspiring, unimmersive graphics and nothing new or interesting to offer. Unless you consider fully voiced dialog that everyone will want to skip "new" or "interesting". Making single player RPGs isn't the same as making MMO's and Bioware has no experience making MMOs, which will be obvious after it releases. This game will do extremely well at release then tank horribly as the majority of subs are cancelled. Sorry, starry-eyed fanboys.
Bioware + LucasArts.. I mean come on.. Can it get any better from that? Been following this game for a while, and it sure looks getting better all the time! Cant wait
@BornGamer: You don't know what you're talking about. Bioware are very, very talented...
Omg see her using that huge lazer machine gun!!!!!!! Awesome
Finally! An MMO designed to appeal exclusively to 9 year old Star Wars fans! They've been left out in the cold for too long! LOL. Seriously though, this game looks so amazingly awful. Like a substandard version of WoW with a Star Wars skin.
I just cant wait for the release i have already played KotOR 1 and 2 through like 12 times or something ;) they are the best Star Wars game ever, untill this release ofcourse ;)
I am actually seriously considering buying this game. I've never played an MMO before.
how they charge looks lame. Why is a lesbian the main character?
Is it just me or does this class look very boring? It's just pew pew every fight over and over, nobody will play classes like these if you can chose Jedis and Siths, in fact I'm sure 99% of the players will be one of those two
0:55 A trooper was charging a Sith with lightsabers...is he serious?
trooper+sheperd=bad ass
I love Jennifer Hale (the narrator)
("Commander/Trooper (/Jedi?) Shepard - Most badass person over two galaxies." transcendent12) I couldn't have said it better myself, Jennifer Hale has kicked more sentient and non-sentient ass over the lengths of two galaxies then anyone I have ever heard of....
Commander/Trooper (/Jedi?) Shepard - Most badass person over two galaxies.
You still gon buy it though.
Look how stiff those animations are! Jesus Christ, Bioware-- do you have one crappy animator doing everything, or did you have to specifically recruit a whole studio of equally crappy animators? They've been doing this same stiff animation work for years, and people have been complaining about it for years.
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@WiilyChong I totaly agree!
I can't believe they pushed back the date again and its like half a year now!
This is killing me! Each trailer they make is amazing and I just can't wait any longer!!!
@bucknuckin If your not happy of PC gamers, then don't come here in the first place! People hate annoying idiots that float around and boast how good their console are and tell people to go console whatever. Its a free world, and in a free world, I have not 1, but 2 words for you: SCREW YOU!
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In early 2007, the National Alliance to End Homelessness reported that every year 600,000 families with 1.35 million children experience homelessness in the United States, making up about 50 percent of the homeless population over the course of the year. Homeless families, mothers, fathers, grandparents, and children are scattered across the country. Families experiencing homelessness live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, sleeping in shelters, cars, motels, and abandoned buildings.
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Salesforce Seeks To Tackle Digital Business At Dreamforce
Over 125,000 virtual and physical registrants descend on San Francisco the week of November 17th for Dreamforce 13, a future of technology meets SXSW event. One day in advance of the largest enterprise software event of its kind, Salesforce.com announces Salesforce 1 (see Figure 1). The Salesforce 1 customer platform seeks to address a cadre of emerging digital business requirements that customer centric companies face.
Figure 1. Salesforce 1 Customer Platform Intends to Support The Internet Of Customers
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SalesForce 1 Reflects Much Needed Refresh Of Existing Platform
The new customer platform includes platform services, platform APIs, and the Apps created from the platform. Salesforce 1 platform services includes refreshes in Force.com, updates in Heroku, and adds Exact Target Fuel. As expected, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Exact Target Marketing Cloud, and Apps Exchange sit on top of the salesforce1.com platform (see Figure 2).
The key analysis of this release include:
- Internet of Customers support. Salesforce includes social, mobile, cloud, and connected as the key components for The Internet of Things. In order to meet the requirements of a third wave of computing that moves from Internet of Things to what Salesforce calls the Internet of Customers, the new platform is designed to support this customer centricity convergence.
Point of View (POV): Constellation sees more than 50B connected devices and at least 150B connected endpoints by 2020. The opportunity is huge. While Salesforce.com addresses 3 out of the 5 key components of digital business, the vendor still needs to provide video/unified communications and big data/analytics. Constellation believes the big data and analytics opportunity is critical to enhancing customer experiences, to benchmarking and brokering data servcies, and to buildoing new business models around big data and analytics. Customers should encourage Salesforce.com to consider how to enable big data business models in digital business in the next iteration. Meanwhile, most customers can wait until future releases for video and UC requirements to be met.
- Next generation apps developer platform. The PaaS layer adds a mobile first orientation that enables a write once and deploy anywhere platform. Developers can now deploy to a range of social, mobile, and connected devices. The platform services include 10X more API functionality. Developers can build customer apps, wearable apps, product apps, and salesforce apps.


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Cardiac blood pooling imaging; Heart scan – nuclear; Radionuclide ventriculography (RNV); Multiple gate acquisition scan (MUGA); Nuclear cardiology
Definition of Nuclear ventriculography
Nuclear ventriculography is a test that uses radioactive materials called tracers to show the heart chambers. The procedure is noninvasive. The instruments do not directly touch the heart.
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Tomas Akenine-Moller
Tomas Akenine-Möller manages the Advanced Rendering Technology subgroup in Lund/Sweden, where he is working on efficient algorithms for graphics processors. His expertise includes mobile graphics, rasterization, shadow generation, visibility, buffer and texture compression, and culling. He is a co-inventor of the ETC texture compression scheme which is part of OpenGL ES, and is a co-author of the first two Swedish SIGGRAPH papers ever. He has also co-authored the textbook Real-Time Rendering.
Tomas joined Intel in 2008 after Intel acquired Swiftfoot Graphics – a company he co-founded and led as the CEO. He currently works 50% of his time at Intel, and for the rest of the time he is a graphics professor at Lund University.
Tim Foley
Tim Foley joined Intel in 2007 from Neoptica, a real-time rendering startup in San Francisco. He is also a current student of Pat Hanrahan at the Stanford Graphics Lab, and currently works on programming models and languages for graphics. He previously worked on GPU programming models on the BrookGPU project at Stanford, and on CUDA as an intern at NVIDIA.
Chuck Lingle
Chuck Lingle manages the Advanced Rendering Technology team inventing new, forward-looking rendering and rendering programming model technologies on Intel platforms. Before joining Intel, Chuck managed software engineering teams at DreamWorks Animation, developing Animation Tools and Core Systems. At Autodesk, he directed software development behind multiple releases of 3D Studio Max as well as a next-gen DCC toolset interactively rendering and animating in complex sets. Prior to Autodesk, he built flight simulator software on SGI platforms and led development of a flight-simulation renderer optimized for Cray supercomputers. In addition, Chuck oversaw advanced research projects surrounding Autodesk and DreamWorks tools as well as DARPA programs in flight simulator rendering and terrain generation.
Jim Nilsson
Jim Nilsson is currently working on methods to improve future graphics hardware in terms of features, performance, and power efficiency. Jim's research background is computer architecture with focus on high performance memory systems, instruction and thread level parallelism, parallel programming, performance/power modelling, and image analysis. At Sun Microsystems, he was influential in the design of the memory system of the UltraSparc III processor. He's founded four companies, working mainly on image analysis and recognition for mobile devices. Jim received his Ph.D. from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and his MBA from the University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law.
Marco Salvi
Marco Salvi joined the Advanced Rendering Technology team at Intel in 2008 and currently leads research efforts in new real-time rendering algorithms and SW/HW graphics architectures. In recent years Marco focused his work on order-independent transparency, shadow rendering and filtering, anti-aliasing and image reconstruction methods. Before joining Intel, Marco worked several years in Italy (Playstos), UK ("Heavenly Sword" - Ninja Theory) and US ("Star Wars The Force Unleashed" - LucasArts) architecting and implementing high performance renderers on two generations of Sony and Microsoft game consoles. Marco received his M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Bologna in 2001.
Geoff Berry
Geoff Berry is part of the Rendering Systems Research group with over 12 years of experience developing compilers for parallel systems. He is currently focused on programming models and code generation for parallel workloads. Prior to this, Geoff was involved in generating optimized code for graphics shaders for the Larrabee architecture.
Andrew Brownsword
Andrew Brownsword joined Intel in 2011, after 21 years in the game industry at Electronic Arts. At EA he worked on a broad range of products and technologies, covering most aspects of game development, including optimization and concurrency on the PS3/Xbox360 consoles. At Intel he spent 2 years on the Xeon Phi architecture team looking at high performance computing parallel workloads and programming models, before joining ART. During the past 5 years, Andrew has been active and vocal on the Khronos OpenCL specification committee.
Petrik Clarberg
Petrik Clarberg joined Intel in 2008 through the acquisition of Swiftfoot Graphics, which he co-founded. His research focus lies on evolving the graphics pipeline through innovative hardware and software. Petrik's main expertise lies in stochastic rendering and sampling methods, but he has published a variety of papers at SIGGRAPH, EGSR and HPG, covering topics like importance sampling, stochastic rasterization, and texture compression. Petrik received his M.Sc. in Computer Engineering & Science in 2005 and worked as a PhD candidate at Lund University from 2005-2008. He has been a visiting researcher at UCSD and Université de Montréal.
Jon Hasselgren
Jon Hasselgren's current his focus is on graphics hardware, stochastic rasterization and high-quality rendering techniques. In addition, he has worked on rasterization, compression and culling algorithms with focus on graphics hardware, as well as GPU accelerated rendering algorithms. Jon finished his Ph.D. in computer graphics at Lund University graphics group in 2009 and received his M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from Lund University in 2004.
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Jefferson Montgomery
Jefferson Montgomery is currently working on advancing the programmability and realism of graphics on Intel platforms. Previously Jefferson has worked in both research and production in the video game industry and received a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics and Masters of Science in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, where his primary interests were in robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer vision.
Jacob Munkberg
Jacob Munkberg joined Intel in 2008. His current research interests include graphics hardware and high-quality rendering techniques. His expertise ranges from texture compression, culling algorithms and stochastic rasterization for real-time graphics pipelines. Prior to Intel, Jacob worked for Illuminate Labs on high quality ray tracing techniques, and co-founded Swiftfoot Graphics, which was acquired by Intel in 2008. He received his M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Chalmers University of Technology and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Lund University.
Rahul Sathe
Rahul joined Intel in 1999. He spent first few years at Intel in design automation and validation. He got into graphics and gaming when he worked as Application Engineer enabling games on Intel's multi core platforms. His current research interests include computer graphics, game physics and architecture. He has published articles in series like ShaderX, Game Programming Gems, and presented at conferences in real time graphics and rendering. He serves on Intel's patent committee for graphics and consumer video. Rahul received his masters in Computer Engineering from Clemson University in 1998 and bachelor's degree from University of Mumbai.
Masamichi Sugihara
Masamichi Sugihara joined Intel in 2010 through the internship program. He's currently working on parallel programming models for real-time rendering algorithms. He has contributed to research on motion blur rasterization techniques as well. Masamichi received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Victoria in 2009, where his research topic was interactive deformation techniques for implicit surfaces.
Robert Toth
Robert Toth joined the Advanced Rendering Technology team at Intel in 2008. Before joining Intel, Robert worked at Swiftfoot Graphics, which developed novel culling technology for real-time graphics, where he spent most of his time working on techniques for compilation based on interval methods. His current research interests are real-time rendering in higher dimensions, shading, sampling and filtering. Robert received his M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Lund University.
Karthik Vaidyanathan
Karthik Vaidyanathan received his MS from Stanford University in 2011 and has a bachelor's degree from Pune University. His research focus is in the area of real time stochastic rendering. Prior to graduate studies at Stanford, he had also worked for several years in research and development for wireless communications.
Magnus Andersson
Magnus Andersson received his M. Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from Lund University 2008. He then worked with font rendering at Mobile Labs AB for a while, before returning to academia to pursue his Ph.D. in 2009. His main research focus has been in the field of multi-view rendering techniques, but recent interests include many-core rendering and compression.
Ethan Kerzner
Ethan Kerzner joined Intel as a graduate research intern in May, 2013. Before interning at Intel, his research focused on the intersection of real-time rendering and interactive scientific visualization. Currently, his research interests include order-independent transparency, compression, anti-aliasing, and ray tracing. In August, 2013, Ethan will graduate with an MCS from the University of Iowa.
Björn Johnsson
Björn Johnsson studied Computer Science at Lund University in 2002-2007. After that he worked at Massive Entertainment for two years as a game engine programmer before returning to Lund University to receive his M.Sc. in Computer Science in 2010. He is currently a Ph.D. student, enrolled at Lund University. Research interests include multi-view rendering, real-time global illumination and tree rendering.
Soham Mehta
Soham Uday Mehta joined Intel as a graduate research intern in the summer of 2012, exploring image reconstruction and advanced sampling techniques for real-time graphics. He is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Professor Ravi Ramamoorthi. His graduate research focus is on sampling and reconstruction for photo-realistic rendering.
Kerry Seitz
Kerry Seitz is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC Davis, working under Prof. John Owens. He received a B.S. in Computer Science with minors in Biology and Biomathematics from Trinity University. His research interests include heterogeneous computing, general purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU), programming languages, and compilers. He is especially interested in the intersection of these areas. Due to the increasingly widespread use of many-core architectures, like graphics processing units (GPUs), he is interested in making these devices easier to program so that developers can take advantage of the processing power and energy efficiency that they provide.
Alexander Toresson
Alexander Toresson joined Intel as a graduate intern in October 2012, exploring the energy efficiency of ray tracing for his Master's thesis. He is currently a student in Computer Science and Engineering at Lund University, graduating in March 2013. His main areas of interest within CS include graphics, digital signal processing, and low-level programming.
|A Compressed Depth Cache
By: Jon Hasselgren, Magnus Andersson, Jim Nilsson, Tomas Akenine-Möller
Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques, 2012
|Performance per What?
By: Tomas Akenine-Möller, Björn Johnsson
Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques, 2012
|Per-Vertex Defocus Blur for Stochastic Rasterization
By: Jacob Munkberg, Robert Toth,Tomas Akenine-Möller
Eurographics Symposium of Rendering 2012
|Design and Novel Uses of Higher-Dimensional Rasterization
By: Jim Nilsson, Petrik Clarberg, Björn Johnsson, Jacob Munkberg, Jon Hasselgren, Robert Toth, Marco Salvi,Tomas Akenine-Möller
High Performance Graphics 2012
|Adaptive Image Space Shading for Motion and Defocus Blur
By: Karthik Vaidyanathang, Robert Toth, Marco Salvi, Solomon Boulos, Aaron Lefohn
High Performance Graphics 2012
|Hyperplane Culling for Stochastic Rasterization
By: Jacob Munkberg, Tomas Akenine-Möller
Eurographics 2012
|Surface Based Anti-Aliasing
By: Marco Salvi, Kiril Vidimce
Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, March 2012
|Automatic Pre-Tessellation Culling
By: Jon Hasselgren, Jacob Munkberg, Tomas Akenine-Möller,
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CORRECTION: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported which agency would handle police calls in Riverside the day of Officer Michael Crain's funeral. It will be the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.
A $1 million reward was announced Sunday, Feb. 10, for the capture and conviction of Christopher Dorner, the ex-Los Angeles police officer suspected of gunning down three people in what authorities called an act of domestic terrorism.
A Big Bear-area search for Dorner, however, was scaled back. Investigators have found no new clues since his Nissan Titan pickup was found burning Thursday on a snowy Forest Service road.
Officials from numerous law enforcement agencies who gathered at a Los Angeles news conference vowed to find Dorner, who is suspected of killing Riverside police Officer Michael Crain, 34, and injuring his partner, whose name is being withheld because of concern for his and his family's safety.
Dorner is suspected of trading gunfire with two LAPD officers in Corona about 20 minutes before the Riverside shooting.
Dorner also is suspected of killing the daughter of a retired Los Angeles Police Department captain and her fiancé in Irvine, and injuring another officer as part of his vendetta against police for his 2009 firing from the LAPD.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said the reward is the largest ever offered locally.
"This is an act … of domestic terrorism. This is a man who has targeted those we entrust to protect the public. His actions cannot go unanswered," Beck said. "This is not about capturing a fleeing suspect. This is about preventing a future crime, likely a murder. Every day that Dorner is loose, the likelihood of an attack on either a uniformed police officer or a family of a police officer is likely."
About 50 families named by Dorner in a manifesto he posted online are under police protection, Beck said.
Riverside Mayor William "Rusty" Bailey, Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz and other city and law enforcement officials from across Southern California attended the news conference.
Bailey urged Dorner to turn himself in.
"Our hope is that this reward will bring expedited closure to this tragic situation, and that someone with specific knowledge will bring that forward for a hasty and peaceful resolution," he said.
At the news conference, Diaz identified Crain as the officer who was killed. His name was withheld for three days because of Dorner's threats to go after officers' families; Crain's family is under police protection.
The 11-year department veteran, who left behind a wife and two young children, will be buried at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. All police facilities will be closed for routine business on Wednesday so officers can attend the funeral at The Grove Community Church and burial at Riverside National Cemetery. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department will handle calls in the city that day, Riverside police Lt. Guy Toussaint said.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said it was "amazingly easy" to raise the reward money and that donors came forward without being asked. Sources include the Riverside City Council, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, law enforcement unions and employee groups statewide, and private donors.
Tips may be phoned in to 213-486-6860.
In the mountaintop community of Big Bear Lake, about 25 deputies and a helicopter crew continued Sunday to check unoccupied homes and other potential hiding places.
But after three days of intense door-to-door searches by hundreds of officers, the number of unchecked cabins, rentals and vacation homes has dwindled, San Bernardino County sheriff's officials said.
There were no reported sightings of Dorner in the vicinity, and police had vacated their command center in the parking lot at Bear Mountain ski resort.
Authorities said about 25 deputies would remain Monday, and police dogs and a helicopter would be available if necessary.
Dorner sightings by the public have been numerous.
Shortly after midnight Sunday, police stopped a man matching Dorner's description in the Wood Streets neighborhood of Riverside, just over a mile from the intersection of Arlington and Magnolia avenues where Crain was killed. The man was not detained.
In San Bernardino on Sunday, a SWAT team swarmed an apartment building in the 1500 block of East Eureka Street when someone reported that Dorner had been spotted at a unit there. The occupants were brought outside so officers could check the apartment and ensure Dorner wasn't there, police Lt. Michael Madden said.
Customers were escorted out of a Lowe's home-improvement store in Northridge about 5 p.m. after people reported seeing someone who resembled Dorner there, the Los Angeles Times reported.
On Friday night, calls came in 10 minutes apart that Dorner was seen in Perris and the desert town of Needles — more than 200 miles away.
If Dorner is caught alive, Riverside County district attorney's office spokesman John Hall said in an email that it will be up to the district attorneys here and in Orange County to work out who prosecutes him. Hall said it is possible that the cases could be combined.
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Dorner, 33, was fired from the LAPD after he was found to have falsely accused a sergeant of police brutality.
Authorities say Dorner's rampage began Feb. 3, when he shot and killed Cal State Fullerton assistant women's basketball coach Monica Quan and her fiancé, Keith Lawrence, in a parking structure at their Irvine condominium.
Quan is the daughter of a retired LAPD captain who represented Dorner during his disciplinary proceedings.
Dorner is accused of trying unsuccessfully to steal a boat Wednesday night from a San Diego-area yacht club to flee to Mexico. His wallet and identification were later found near San Diego's airport.
A witness who had seen that police were searching for Dorner spotted someone who resembled him at a Corona gas station after 1 a.m. Thursday. The man flagged down LAPD officers, who had been sent to Corona to protect someone on Dorner's manifesto.
The officers followed the vehicle north to Magnolia Avenue, where the suspect fired at them with a rifle, authorities said. One officer suffered a graze wound to his head.
Police believe Dorner then headed north on Magnolia into Riverside.
About 1:35 a.m., two Riverside police officers on routine patrol were ambushed while stopped at a red light at Magnolia and Arlington avenues. They were shot repeatedly with an assault rifle. Crain died at the scene. The other officer, who Crain was training, was hit at least six times and is in intensive care.


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It's been interesting to walk around campus this afternoon, as when I went to Princeton things were completely different. This chapel, for instance—I remember when it was just a clearing, cordoned off with sharp sticks. Prayer was compulsory back then, and you couldn't just fake it by moving your lips; you had to know the words, and really mean them. I'm dating myself, but this was before Jesus Christ. We worshipped a God named Sashatiba, who had five eyes, including one right here, on the Adam's apple. None of us ever met him, but word had it that he might appear at any moment, so we were always at the ready. Whatever you do, don't look at his neck, I used to tell myself.
It's funny now, but I thought about it a lot. Some people thought about it a little too much, and it really affected their academic performance. Again, I date myself, but back then we were on a pass-fail system. If you passed, you got to live, and if you failed you were burned alive on a pyre that's now the Transgender Studies Building. Following the first grading period, the air was so thick with smoke you could barely find your way across campus. There were those who said that it smelled like meat, no different from a barbecue, but I could tell the difference. I mean, really. Since when do you grill hair? Or those ugly, chunky shoes we all used to wear?
It kept you on your toes, though, I'll say that much. If I'd been burned alive because of bad grades, my parents would have killed me, especially my father, who meant well but was just a little too gung ho for my taste. He had the whole outfit: Princeton breastplate, Princeton nightcap; he even got the velvet cape with the tiger head hanging like a rucksack from between the shoulder blades. In those days, the mascot was a sabretooth, so you can imagine how silly it looked, and how painful it was to sit down. Then, there was his wagon, completely covered with decals and bumper stickers: "I hold my horses for Ivy League schools," "My son was accepted at the best university in the United States and all I got was a bill for a hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars." On and on, which was just so . . . wrong.
One of the things they did back then was start you off with a modesty seminar, an eight-hour session that all the freshmen had to sit through. It might be different today, but in my time it took the form of a role-playing exercise, my classmates and I pretending to be graduates, and the teacher assuming the part of an average citizen: the soldier, the bloodletter, the whore with a heart of gold.
"Tell me, young man. Did you attend a university of higher learning?"
To anyone holding a tool or a weapon, we were trained to respond, "What? Me go to college?" If, on the other hand, the character held a degree, you were allowed to say, "Sort of," or, sometimes, "I think so."
"So where do you sort of think you went?"
And it was the next bit that you had to get just right. Inflection was everything, and it took the foreign students forever to master it.
"Where do you sort of think you went?"
And we'd say, "Umm, Princeton?"—as if it were an oral exam, and we weren't quite sure that this was the correct answer.
"Princeton, my goodness," the teacher would say. "That must have been quite something!"
You had to let him get it out, but once he started in on how brilliant and committed you must be it was time to hold up your hands, saying, "Oh, it isn't that hard to get into."
Then he'd say, "Really? But I heard—"
"Wrong," you'd tell him. "You heard wrong. It's not that great of a school."
This was the way it had to be done—you had to play it down, which wasn't easy when your dad was out there, reading your acceptance letter into a bullhorn.
I needed to temper my dad's enthusiasm a bit, and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide. The Princeton program was very strong back then, the best in the country, but it wasn't the sort of thing your father could get too worked up about. Or, at least, most fathers wouldn't. Mine was over the moon. "Killed by a Princeton graduate!" he said. "And my own son, no less."
My mom was actually jealous. "So what's wrong with matricide?" she asked. "What, I'm not good enough to murder?"
They started bickering, so in order to make peace I promised to consider a double major.
"And how much more is that going to cost us?" they said.
Those last few months at home were pretty tough, but then I started my freshman year, and got caught up in the life of the mind. My idol-worship class was the best, but my dad didn't get it. "What the hell does that have to do with patricide?" he asked.
And I said, "Umm. Everything?"
He didn't understand that it's all connected, that one subject leads to another and forms a kind of chain that raises its head and nods like a cobra when you're sucking on a bong after three days of no sleep. On acid it's even wilder, and appears to eat things. But, not having gone to college, my dad had no concept of a well-rounded liberal-arts education. He thought that all my classes should be murder-related, with no lunch breaks or anything. Fortunately, it doesn't work that way.