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It may sound like the premise of a horrible horror movie, but apparently it's all too real. Three Americans wound up in a hospital in Mexico after getting possessed while playing with a Ouija board.
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The Children of Poseidon are a group of comedians who love to perform dangerous stunts. Think of them as sort of an Australian version of "Jackass"
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When the category is "Song Lyrics", not everyone is an encyclopedia of useless music knowledge like myself, but the answer that came out of this gentleman's mouth on a recent "Wheel of Fortune" episode is SO far off, that ist's a bit of head scratcher...
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The Melbourne Fringe Festival takes place in the first three weeks in October, and the Melbourne Cup on the first Tuesday in November. October through March is cricket season, and winter skiing is just a three-hour drive from the city.
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The shoulder seasons of spring and autumn are excellent times to book cheap flights to Melbourne. In spring the gardens are blooming and in autumn the foliage is glorious. Melbourne's Food and Wine Festival takes place over 17 days in March and gathers greatest culinary minds from around the world.
Keep in mind though that Melbourne is busy year-round with international festivals and events, so always check the city's event schedule before booking a flight to Melbourne especially if you are looking for cheap flights to Melbourne.
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Although Sydney and Melbourne may battle it out over who is Australia's unofficial capital city after the actual capital Canberra, Melbourne certainly wins out as nation's cultural centre. With its beautiful architecture, rich cultural heritage and lively art and music scenes, Melbourne attracts visitors not only from across Australia but from around the world, this makes it harder to find cheap flights to Melbourne during those months but once you do, consider the following attractions to visit during your holiday:
Tourists can visit the famous Melbourne Museum, the largest museum in Southern Hemisphere. Other cultural destinations in the city include the historic Royal Exhibition Building, the Victorian architecture of the University of Melbourne and the Parliament House of Victoria. No trip to Melbourne would be complete without a visit to Flinders Street Railway Station, arguably the city's most famous landmark.
The Yarra River flows through the centre of the city, and its banks are home to some of the city's most beautiful views, although the distinctive brown colour of the water can be startling at first. Boat trips leave from the new Docklands development, while the more traditional Southgate promenade on the south bank is home to shops, bars and restaurants. Visitors who go to Southgate on Sunday can also enjoy the weekly art and craft market.
The bayside area, particularly around Brighton, is popular both with locals and travellers. Brighton Beach is famous for the colourful, old-fashioned "bathing boxes" that dot the water's edge. The St Kilda region is famous for its piers and amusement parks, together with the lush and relaxing St Kilda Botanical Gardens.

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Grief-stricken Mort is losing his mind. He recently lost his wife Shirley who choked on a piece of moo shoo pork, leaving him uncomfortably alone with their teenage son. Just when he can't grieve any more, the sudden arrival of a very much alive Shirley explodes everything. Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Donald Margulies gives us one surprise after another in the story of one heartwarming and hilarious family.
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Monthly Bulletin of Mviwata, the national organisation of small holders farmers in Tanzania.
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Two people were hospitalized Saturday after the motorcycle they were riding crashed into a jersey barrier.
The wreck occurred at about 1 p.m. when Todd Moothart, 50, of Vancouver and Carol Ponath, 50 of Battle Ground were riding a 2003 Harley-Davidson southbound on Southeast 164th Avenue in Vancouver.
Moothart, who was driving, made a left turn onto the Highway 14 onramp, then lost control of the motorcycle and struck the jersey barrier, according to the Washington State Patrol.
The unoccupied motorcycle then struck another 2003 Harley-Davidson driven by Troy Noel, 46, of Vancouver, according to police.
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Hotel visitors are offered Parking for the period of their visit at the hotel.Our hotel offers luggage storage solution which is complimentary for our visitors so they are not restricted by their things.We wish our visitors to be able to stay linked during their visit, which is the reason the hotel is pleased to provide them high-speed WiFi available in all areas.We give a extensive laundry solution so that our visitors do not have to concern yourself with neat dresses.Every room and public spaces of our hotel has been fitted out with air conditioning to offer every guest a relaxing setting by which to elapse their break.Many elevators are located in the hotel for the visitors' amenity whilst they are remaining with us.Visitors can benefit from the Airport shuttle (surcharge) solution which is offered by the hotel.Our 24-Hour front desk service makes sure that the wishes of the hotel's visitors are addressed instantly or at the earliest opportunity.
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Right wing rebuked in Missouri
Right-wing Republicans in the Missouri legislature and their main financial supporter, libertarian billionaire Rex Sinquefield, suffered a stinging defeat.
Labor Secretary Perez vows to grow middle class, "so help me God"
LOS ANGELES (PAI)-New Labor Secretary Tom Perez virtually threw away his script at the AFL-CIO Convention here, with a stem-winder speech, pledging worker protections, promising labor and the administration would do it together and with several blasts at corporate greed thrown in for good measure.
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OUR Walmart shows strength in nation's heartland
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Just found the bike forum today and started to look around and was hooked. Some of the names are familiar from the icebike, carfree and bicycle advocacy groups.
I have the great joy of living in one of the most scenic, challenging, and low vehicular traffic areas in Ohio. I ride almost everyday. Am strongly considering commuting as an option. I am 52 and have ridden most of my life. Got really hooked on biking while living in Boulder/Longmont, CO area in the mid 70's.
I own a road, tour, mtb, and recumbent. Like to ride all of them for different reasons. Recumbent is my favorite cold weather, good road conditions bike. MTB is great for the back roads, not much single track in this area.
I am married, with one son who is a senior in high school and his goal in life is be a Navy SEAL. I am a pacifist by nature. Go figure that one. I live a simple life style. Have thought about a new sect called the bicyclatarians. Sort of like the Amish but instead of horse and buggy we would be a simple living/bikers
Like to garden, carpentry work, watch movies at home, and watch nature.
Thank you RonH for the message to encourage me to do this. For me riding the recumbent is a spectator sport.


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Hi all.. thought I should have done this first but anyhow better late than never
Im from toronto , have am interest towards a folding bike.
I currently ride but not a bicycle , have a sports bike - a 06 Ninja - probably getting rid of it this spring.. may upgrade to a R1.
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"OH! The sand, the beautiful sand!" Top 5 Page for this destination Isla de Fuerteventura by Madasabull
Isla de Fuerteventura Travel Guide: 268 reviews and 608 photos
If there is one thing you can say about this island, it the beautiful sandy beaches.
I think they are the best beaches in the Canaries.
Beautiful white sand that has blown in from the Sahara. None of your usual imported sand from, erm, the Sahara, like on the other islands that make up the Canaries.
We are out there again on the 8th of January 03, and are meeting up with another couple that live in Sussex, and their two children. My two girls got on well with their two boys this year in Lanzarote where we met, and they also run their own landscaping business like I do in Cheshire, so we have plenty to laugh about when we meet. Also I will make sure to get lots of really good pictures this time for these pages, so if there is anything that your really want to see, let me know.
We are staying in Caleta De Fuste this time. We stayed in Corralejo on our last visit, for our honeymoon, and made sure to get out and about by hiring a nice little convertible. That's the picture above, just before a little girl opened up her passenger door on a car parked along the side of the road.
There was a car coming the other way towards us, and the road was very narrow, so the only options I had were to either go head on with the car coming towards us, or rip the girls car door off. Off came the door. Nobody was hurt thankfully.
We stayed at the Duna Park in Corralejo, and we had a great time. Really close to town, but very quiet, and not packed out.
- Pros:Best sandy beaches in the Canaries.
- Cons:Pretty windy, but only on, erm, windy days, of course. Which is most days.
- In a nutshell:Great beaches, be prepared to travel, and be carefull on the roads.
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Have to agree with everything you say about Fuerteventura. It is one of my favourite Canary Islands. I spent my birthday on one of Jandia's almost deserted beaches & ate the best paella in the world from a tiny beach/bar.
Great tips. The beach looks wonderful right now as I sit in my office!
nice tips Steve, thinking of going here in a week or two.... when you say windy do you mean VERY windy ?
I totally agree, its heaven here !
Some nice memories of the island, thanks
yep, the food over there was fantastic what ever you tried. i agree. great page.
So many beaches!
Very nice looking place. Thanks for the tips.
Love Fuerteventura !! Nice place for a honeymoon, indeed.
Looks like a great honeymoon to me!
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This is a nearly-complete list of my publications. They are in reverse chronological order, including where they were presented/published and their abstracts. Unless otherwise noted, I was the principal author. Click on a title to download a PDF version of the publication. You'll need Adobe Acroread Reader, xpdf, or a similar PDF reader to access them.
lightning talk presented at SIGCSE '15: The 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Kansas City, MO; March 4-7, 2015)
Co-authored with Sujith Puthiyaveetila (principal), Onie Tsabarib, Troy Lowryc, Steven Lenhertc, Ziv Reichb, and Helmut Kirchhoff
Appeared in Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, vol. 28, no. 13, pp. 1704-1713, (May, 2012).
A crucial component of protein homeostasis in cells is the repair of damaged proteins. The repair of oxygen-evolving photosystem II (PS II) supercomplexes in plant chloroplasts is a prime example of a very efficient repair process that evolved in response to the high vulnerability of PS II to photooxidative damage, exacerbated by high-light (HL) stress. Significant progress in recent years has unraveled individual components and steps that constitute the PS II repair machinery, which is embedded in the thylakoid membrane system inside chloroplasts. However, an open question is how a certain order of these repair steps is established and how unwanted back-reactions that jeopardize the repair efficiency are avoided. Here, we report that spatial separation of key enzymes involved in PS II repair is realized by subcompartmentalization of the thylakoid membrane, accomplished by the formation of stacked grana membranes. The spatial segregation of kinases, phosphatases, proteases, and ribosomes ensures a certain order of events with minimal mutual interference. The margins of the grana turn out to be the site of protein degradation, well separated from active PS II in grana core and de novo protein synthesis in unstacked stroma lamellae. Furthermore, HL induces a partial conversion of stacked grana core to grana margin, which leads to a controlled access of proteases to PS II. Our study suggests that the origin of grana in evolution ensures high repair efficiency, which is essential for PS II homeostasis.
Co-authored with Brian L LaMarche (principal), Kevin L Crowell, Navdeep Jaitly, Vladislav A Petyuk, Anuj R Shah, Ashoka D Polpitiya, John D Sandoval, Gary R Kiebel, Matthew E Monroe, Stephen J Callister, Thomas O Metz, Gordon A Anderson, and Richard D Smith
Appeared in BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 14, no. 49, pp. 1-14, (February 12, 2013).
Background: MultiAlign is a free software tool that aligns multiple liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry datasets to one another by clustering mass and chromatographic elution features across datasets. Applicable to both label-free proteomics and metabolomics comparative analyses, the software can be operated in several modes. For example, clustered features can be matched to a reference database to identify analytes, used to generate abundance profiles, linked to tandem mass spectra based on parent precursor masses, and culled for targeted liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometric analysis. MultiAlign is also capable of tandem mass spectral clustering to describe proteome structure and find similarity in subsequent sample runs.
Results: MultiAlign was applied to two large proteomics datasets obtained from liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analyses of environmental samples. Peptides in the datasets for a microbial community that had a known metagenome were identified by matching mass and elution time features to those in an established reference peptide database. Results compared favorably with those obtained using existing tools such as VIPER, but with the added benefit of being able to trace clusters of peptides across conditions to existing tandem mass spectra. MultiAlign was further applied to detect clusters across experimental samples derived from a reactor biomass community for which no metagenome was available. Several clusters were culled for further analysis to explore changes in the community structure. Lastly, MultiAlign was applied to liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based datasets obtained from a previously published study of wild type and mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation enzyme knockdown mutants of human hepatocarcinoma to demonstrate its utility for analyzing metabolomics datasets.
Conclusion: MultiAlign is an efficient software package for finding similar analytes across multiple liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry feature maps, as demonstrated here for both proteomics and metabolomics experiments. The software is particularly useful for proteomic studies where little or no genomic context is known, such as with environmental proteomics.
Appeared in Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 28, no. 1 (October, 2012), pps. 192-198 (also presented at the Thirteenth Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northwestern Conference; Olympia, WA; October 5-6, 2012)
We describe coaster, a project intended to teach an introductory computer graphics class by means of a sequence of programming assignments. The assignments are incremental -- each one building on the previous ones -- and ultimately bring in most of the course content. We discuss the sequence of assignments and how they relate to the topics, how all assignments themselves share code (from the instructor's view), course policy strategies needed to maintain student progress, and (preliminary) results on course effectiveness.
Co-authored with Lars J. Kangas (principal), Thomas O. Metz, Giorgis Isaac, Brian T. Schrom, Bojana Ginovska-Pangovska, Luning Wang, Li Tan , and John H. Miller
Appeared in Bioinformatics, vol. 28, no. 13, pp. 1704-1713, (May, 2012).
Motivation: Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry-based metabolomics has gained importance in the life sciences, yet it is not supported by software tools for high throughput identification of metabolites based on their fragmentation spectra. An algorithm (ISIS: in silico identification software) and its implementation are presented and show great promise in generating in silico spectra of lipids for the purpose of structural identification. Instead of using chemical reaction rate equations or rules-based fragmentation libraries, the algorithm uses machine learning to find accurate bond cleavage rates in a mass spectrometer employing collision-induced dissociation tandem mass spectrometry.
Results: A preliminary test of the algorithm with 45 lipids from a subset of lipid classes shows both high sensitivity and specificity.
Co-authored with Jeff Daily (principal)
Presented at the 2011 Python for Scientific Computing Conference (SciPy 2011), (Austin, TX; July 11-16, 2011).
Co-authored with Daniel M. Best (principal)
Appeared in Computers & Geosciences, vol. 36, pp. 1436-1442, (November, 2010).
The Ground-Water Visualization application (GWVis) presents ground-water data visually in order to educate the public on ground-water issues. It is also intended for presentations to government and other funding agencies. GWVis works with ground-water level elevation data collected or modeled over a given time span, together with a matching fixed underlying terrain.
GWVis was developed using the Python programming language in conjunction with associated extension packages and application program interfaces such as OpenGLTM to improve performance and allow us fine control of attributes of the model such as lighting, material properties, transformations, and interpolation.
There are currently several systems available for visualizing ground-water data. We classify these into two categories: research-oriented models and static presentation-based models. While both of them have their strengths, we find the former overly complex and non-intuitive and the latter not engaging and presenting problems showing multiple data dimensions.
GWVis bridges the gap between static and research based visualizations by providing an intuitive, interactive design that allows participants to view the model from different perspectives, infer information about simulations, and view a comparison of two datasets. By incorporating scientific data in an environment that can be easily understood, GWVis allows that information to be presented to a large audience base.
Co-authored with Manojkumar Krishnan (principal) and Abhinav Vishnu
Presented by Manojkumar Krishnan at ICPPW, the 39th IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (San Diego, CA; September 13-16, 2010).
This paper describes the scalability of linear algebra kernels based on remote memory access approach. The current approach differs from the other linear algebra algorithms by the explicit use of shared memory and remote memory access (RMA) communication rather than message passing. It is suitable for clusters and scalable shared memory systems. The experimental results on large scale systems (Linux-Infiniband cluster, Cray XT) demonstrate consistent performance advantages over ScaLAPACK suite, the leading implementation of parallel linear algebra algorithms used today. For example, on a Cray XT4 for a matrix size of 102400, our RMA-based matrix multiplication achieved over 55 teraflops while ScaLAPACK's pdgemm measured close to 42 teraflops on 10000 processes.
Co-authored with Brian L. LaMarche (principal), Donald C. Girvin, and James P. McKinley.
Poster submitted to WSU Academic Showcase (March 27, 2009).
For abstract, see below.
Co-authored with Benjamin Eitzen (principal).
Submitted to ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software.
Originally intended for graphics, a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a powerful parallel processor capable of performing more floating point calculations per second than a traditional CPU. However, the key drawback against the widespread adoption of GPUs for general purpose computing is the difficulty of programming them. Programming a GPU requires non-traditional programming techniques, new languages, and knowledge of graphics APIs. GpuPy attempts to eliminate these drawbacks while still taking full advantage of a GPU. It does this by providing a GPU implementation of NumPy, an existing numerical API for the Python programming language.
Co-authored with Brian L. LaMarche (principal), Donald C. Girvin, and James P. McKinley.
Poster presented at American Geophysical Union, 2008 Fall Meeting (December 15-19, 2008)
We are developing a software tool that can automatically classify anthropogenic and natural aerosol particulates using morphological analysis. Our method was developed using SEM (background and secondary electron) images of single particles. Particle silhouettes are detected and converted into polygons using Intel's OpenCV image processing library. Our analysis then proceeds independently for the two kinds of images. Analysis of secondary images concerns itself solely with the silhouette and seeks to quantify its shape and roughness. Traversing the polygon with spline interpolation, we uniformly sample k(s), the signed curvature of the silhouette's path as a function of distance along the perimeter s. k(s) is invariant under rotation and translation. The power spectrum of k(s) qualitatively shows both shape and roughness: more power at low frequencies indicates variation in shape; more power at higher frequencies indicates a rougher silhouette.
Presented at the Tenth Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northwest Conference (Ashland, Oregon; October 10-11). Also appears in Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 24, no. 2 (December, 2008), pps. 6-12.
Having been assigned part-time to an administrative position (concurrently with normal academic duties) in charge of curriculum management, the author has developed curriculorum, a system to assist in that task that was, is, and will continue to be developed by and for a computer scientist. We describe the design of the system and how it has evolved to meet requirements that were only dimly perceived when the project started. As such, the project has been a gratifying exercise in the development of its designer's skills in data management, in software engineering, and in Python, its implementation language. We provide guidelines for the reader embarking on a similar project.
Co-authored with Benjamin Eitzen (MSCS student).
Presented by Benjamin Eitzen at SciPy '06 (Pasadena, CA; August 18, 2006).
Co-authored with Shuangshuang Jin (principal).
Appeared in The Visual Computer, vol. 21, pp. 71-82, (February, 2005).
We investigate current vertex normal computation algorithms and evaluate their effectiveness at approximating analytically-computable (and thus comparable) normals for a variety of classes of model. We find that the most accurate algorithm depends on the class and that for some classes, none of the available algorithms are particularly good. We also compare the relative speeds of all algorithms.
Co-authored with J. H. Miller (principal), M. T. Batdorf, D. J. Lynch, and W. E. Wilson.
Appeared in Radiation Research, vol. 162, pp. 474-479 (2004).
Track structures of 25, 50, and 80 keV primary electrons, simulated by the detailed-history Monte Carlo method, were analyzed for the frequency distributions of energy deposited in spheres with a diameter of 1 μm placed in a cylindrically symmetric array around the projected initial direction of the primary electron. The frequency mean of specific energy, the dose mean of lineal energy, as well as the median and variance of log normal functions fit to the dose distributions were calculated as a function of beam penetration and radial distance from the projected beam axis. Given these data, the stochastics of dose and radiation quality for micrometer-scale sites targeted by a medium- energy electron microbeam can be predicted as a function of the site's location relative to the beam entry point.
Co-authored with Alejandro Aceves-Gaona (principal).
Presented (by Alejandro Aceves-Gaona) at the Fifteenth Western Computer Graphics Symposium (The Inn at Big White, British Columbia; March 29-31, 2004).
We present a new glyph called a "comet" to represent vectors. Comets improve the accuracy of vector visualization to enhance understanding while reducing visual clutter. Also, they eliminate an ambiguity possible with conventional vector glyphs. By using a hue-lightness-saturation (HLS) color space, devoting saturation to distinguish head from tail, and partially devoting lightness to represent the depth component of a vector's direction, comets allow increased visual accuracy and keep hue and (partially) lightness free to encode other quantities such as the nature of the object to which the vector is attached, if any. Comets are computationally inexpensive and can represent large data sets. We show how it is possible to use the OpenGL(TM) lighting model to place comets in static display lists that can be viewed by a moving camera without reconstruction.
Co-authored with Masaki Kameya (principal).
Technical Sketch at ACM SIGGRAPH 2003
A one-page technical sketch describing the work presented more fully in the paper below.
Co-authored with Renwei Wang and Donald Hung.
Appeared in Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol. 28, no. 1 (January, 2003).
We describe an algorithm for computing ray/Bézier patch intersections from a hardware design aspect. This algorithm uses patch subdivision and other geometrical techniques to find a given maximum number of intersection points nearest to the ray origin. We propose a pipeline-based hardware architecture, verify the number of pipeline stages required by simulation, and estimate the performance of a load-balanced implementation based on a state-of-the-art digital signal processor (DSP). This paper is a more extended version of another paper listed below.
Co-authored with Patrick Chiang (principal).
Presented at the Thirteenth Western Computer Graphics Symposium (Silver Star, British Columbia; March 24-27, 2002).
This paper presents a new subdivision scheme called "star-flower subdivision". Like other well-known subdivision schemes, such as Catmull-Clark (based on quadrilaterals) and sqrt(3)-subdivision (based on triangular meshes), it also generates smooth objects after a few iterations.
This scheme has advantages over previous schemes, however, due to a slower increase in polygon complexity. It subdivides quadrilateral meshes by a factor of 3, not 4, at each iteration. Having the number of facets increase more gradually allows designers to have greater control over the resolution of a refined mesh. We call star-flower subdivision "semi-stationary" because different subdivision rules occur on alternating levels of refinement.
We also present a strategy to handle boundaries when applying the odd iterations of the scheme.
Co-authored with Masaki Kameya (principal).
Presented at the Thirteenth Western Computer Graphics Symposium (Silver Star, British Columbia; March 24-27, 2002).
We present a representation for reflectance, especially measured reflectance data, that is both smooth and time-efficient. By fitting a multi-level B-spline approximation to bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) data, we can obtain a continuous function that matches the data to arbitrary precision. This algorithm shows very good time efficiency both constructing as well as evaluating the fit. Synthesized images show the accuracy and the smoothness of the fit BRDF. The finer level of fitting we use, the higher accuracy we can achieve. Our results compare favorably with other schemes currently in wide use.
One shortcoming of our method is the amount of storage required. We present one approach that addresses this, a bi-level representation combined with hashing.
Co-authored with Renwei Wang (principal) and Donald Hung.
Presented at the Thirteenth Western Computer Graphics Symposium (Silver Star, British Columbia; March 24-27, 2002).
We describe an algorithm for computing ray/Bézier patch intersections from a pipelined hardware point-of-view. This algorithm uses patch subdivision and other geometrical techniques to find a given maximum number of intersection points nearest to the ray origin. We propose a pipeline-based hardware architecture, and verify the number of pipeline stages required by simulation. This paper is an abbreviated version of another paper listed above.
Co-authored with Michael P. Weis (principal).
Presented at the Twelfth Western Computer Graphics Symposium (Sun Peaks, British Columbia; March 25-28, 2001).
The problem of scattered data interpolation is the fitting of a smooth surface (or, more generally, a manifold) through a set of non-uniformly distributed data points that extends to all positions in a domain. Common sources of scattered data include experiments, physical measurements, and computational values. Scattered data interpolation assists in interpreting such data through the calculation of values at arbitrary positions in the domain. Despite much attention in the literature, scattered data interpolation remains a difficult and computationally expensive problem to solve. BSPLND is a software package that solves this problem. It uses the scattered data interpolation technique presented by Lee, Wohlberg, and Shin. This technique is fast and produces a C2-continuous interpolation function for any set of scattered data using a hierarchical set of cubic B-splines. BSPLND extends the technique to work with data having an arbitrary number of dimensions for both its domain and range.
Co-authored with Wayne Cochran (principal) and John Hart.
Appeared in The Visual Computer, vol. 17 (2001).
We have discovered a class of fractal functions that are differentiable. Fractal interpolation functions have been used for over a decade to generate rough functions passing through a set of given points. The integral of a fractal interpolation function remains a fractal interpolation function, and this new fractal interpolation function is differentiable. Tensor products of pairs of these fractal functions form fractal surfaces with a well defined tangent plane. We use this surface normal to shade fractal surfaces, and demonstrate its use with renderings of fractal mirrors.
Co-authored with Alain Fournier.
Appeared in Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 19, no. 2 (June, 2000).
There is an older, less detailed version of this paper below.
Recently, there has been considerable interest in the representation of radiance in terms of wavelet basis functions. We will present a coordinate system called Nusselt coordinates which, when combined with wavelets, considerably simplifies computation of radiative transport and surface interaction. It also provides straightforward computation of the physical quantities involved.
We show how to construct a discrete representation of the radiative transport operator T involving inner products of smoothing functions, discuss the possible numerical integration techniques, and present an application. We also show how surface interaction can be represented as a kind of matrix product of the wavelet projections of an incident radiance and a bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF).
Co-authored with Victor Roetman (principal).
Presented at the Eleventh Western Computer Graphics Symposium (Panorama, British Columbia; March 26-29, 2000).
In this paper, we describe our approach to interactively render the CSG models used in the MCNP nuclear transport code using OpenGL and standard graphics hardware. The approach uses the algorithm presented by T. F. Wiegand in ``Interactive Rendering of CSG Models.''
Doctoral Thesis presented at the University of British Columbia (1998).
This thesis considers the problem of global illumination: the modelling of light as it travels through a scene interacting with the objects contained within the scene. Starting with a description of the problem and a discussion of previous work, we explore a new approach called light-driven global illumination that offers several advantages over its predecessors: a lower asymptotic complexity, a wider range of representable surface interaction phenomena, and an absence of the need for ``meshing'' -- object surface subdivision needed primarily to represent shadows.
Light-driven global illumination is intermediate between local and global illumination. Representing light with wavelet basis functions, we are able to treat both the interaction between two surfaces and the interaction of a surface with a radiation field in a source-to-destination model that applies to whole surfaces, not just small elements.
We have found this ``wavelet radiative transfer'' to be a valid way to generate and store complex global light field data as four-dimensional textures for incorporation in local illumination solutions. Wavelets can considerably reduce the otherwise substantial storage and reconstruction problems associated with doing this. We include several examples of this.
We also discuss plausible illumination models, which are required to make light-driven global illumination work theoretically. Like wavelet radiative transfer, these models have application in other areas of rendering besides global illumination.
Finally, we develop the theory behind light-driven global illumination and apply it successfully to some simple examples. While we find the algorithm to be quite slow compared to other well-known rendering algorithms, we analyze what is needed to make it competitive.
In conclusion, we find that representing light with wavelets has a set of advantages that are independent of the comparative inefficiency of the light-driven algorithm.
Presented at the Ninth Western Computer Graphics Symposium (Whistler, British Columbia; April 23-26, 1998).
We discuss the design of a proposed instrument called a spherical target gonioreflectometer to measure the reflective properties of materials. By computing the image geometry of an illuminated sphere made of or coated with reflective material, we show that we can generate a sufficient amount of data to fill the parameter space needed to create bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) for real substances.
Co-authored with Alain Fournier.
Presented at the 7th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering in Porto, Portugal (17-19 June, 1996). There is an older but more detailed version of this paper by the same name below.
We describe the basis of the work he have currently under way to implement a new rendering algorithm called light-driven global illumination. This algorithm is a departure from conventional raytracing and radiosity renderers which addresses a number of deficiencies intrinsic to those approaches.
Presented at the 1996 Western Computer Graphics Symposium at Panorama, BC (4-6 March, 1996). There is a more recent, detailed version of this paper above.
In this work-in-progress paper, we present a solution to the illumination problem that is intermediate between the conventional local and global approaches to illumination. It involves the representation of radiance on a surface as a finite element expansion in terms of wavelets. By expanding in terms of ``Nusselt coordinates'', we show how irradiance, transport, and surface interaction can be evaluated simply and directly in terms of wavelet coefficients. We present an example of transport.
Presented at the 11th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (June 5-7, 1995).
VideHoc is an interactive graphical program that visualizes two-dimensional homogeneous coordinates. Users manipulate data in one of four views and all views are dynamically updated to reflect the change.
Co-authored with Alain Fournier.
There is an updated but less detailed version of this paper by the same name above.
We describe the basis of the work he have currently under way to implement a new rendering algorithm called ``light-driven global illumination''. This algorithm is a departure from conventional raytracing and radiosity renderers which addresses a number of deficiencies intrinsic to those approaches.
Appeared in "International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering", vol. 37, no. 6 (30 March, 1994).
Simulated annealing can minimize both profile and fill of sparse matrices. We applied these techniques to a number of sparse matrices from the Harwell-Boeing Sparse Matrix Collection. We were able to reduce profile typically to about 80% of that attained by conventional profile minimization techniques (and sometimes much lower), but fill reduction was less successful (85% at best). We present a new algorithm that significantly speeds up profile computation during the annealing process. Simulated annealing is, however, still much more time-consuming than conventional techniques and is therefore likely to be useful only in situations where the same sparse matrix is being used repeatedly.
As presented at the 1993 Western Computer Graphics Symposium at Silver Star, BC. A slightly modified version appeared in Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 13, no. 2 (June, 1994).
There is a need to develop shaders that not only ``look good'', but are more physically plausible. From physical and geometric considerations, we review the derivation of a shading equation expressing reflected radiance in terms of incident radiance and the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF). We then examine the connection between this equation and conventional shaders used in computer graphics. Imposing the additional physical constraints of energy conservation and Helmholtz reciprocity allows us to create variations of the conventional shaders that are more physically plausible.
As presented at the 1992 Western Computer Graphics Symposium in Banff, Alberta.
We investigate the application of multigrid techniques to the solution of the ``classic'' radiosity equation. After overviews of the global illumination problem and of radiosity, we describe the latter's solution via multigrid methods.
An implementation of the multigrid algorithm presented here is able to solve the classic radiosity equation in about 50% of the time required by the more commonly-used Gauss-Seidel approach. Although few researchers currently use classic radiosity, we discuss possibilities for the adaption of multigrid methods to more recent radiosity solution techniques.
Presented at Eurographics '90 (3-7 September, 1990).
This paper describes a way to perform realistic three-dimensional texturing of ray-traced objects with irregular surfaces. Such texturing has been done in the past with texture mapping, particle systems, or volumetric methods. We propose an alternative to these called a "lattice". Lattices work as fast but inexact ray tracers. As long as lattices are used for small objects, though, the inexactness doesn't show on the scale of the display, and the result is acceptable.
The paper shows how lattices can be integrated with a more traditional ray tracer, with several examples.
Time and memory space considerations are major constraints on lattices, preventing widespread application at the present time. The paper discusses these limitations and how they might be reduced.
Presented at the 1986 Winter USENIX Conference
This paper presents an architectural description of Galadriel, a window management system that provides both text and graphics services to client processes. Unlike most other window managers, Galadriel runs under UNIX on a hosted, display list terminal instead of a bitmapped workstation. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this approach as well as areas for further development.


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Crossing the Atlantic: An Interview with Filippo van Hellenberg Hubar
Last November, Filippo van Hellenberg Hubar and five other kite-surfers embarked on the trip of a lifetime, crossing the Atlantic Ocean by kite in a 24-hour non-stop relay session. Over the course of the challenge, every rider surfed up to four hours a day across a southern route, which began in Fuerteventura, Spain and ended in the sunny climes of the Caribbean, at Turks and Caicos.
We caught up with the professional adventurer to find out about his passion for kite surfing, his bold decision to cross the Atlantic Ocean by kite, and the epic journey that made 'The Atlantic Kite Challenge' come to life.
What made you decide to kitesurf across the Atlantic?
A hot shower – and a raging desire for adventure.
How long did it take you to do?
The crossing took us 27 days in total. We had to make a layover in Cabo Verde to fix our engine, which caused some delay.
On the lookout for my buddy © Filippo van Hellenberg Hubar
Who did your riding team consist of?
Camilla Ringvold – queen of the snowy mountains - from Norway, Max Blom – founder and owner of Mystic kite gear - from Holland, Eric Pequeno – obnoxious American and winner of the 6th rider contest, male model Dennis Gijsbers - from Holland, Ike Frans – dutch national Stand Up Paddle champion, and myself.
What kind of support did you have?
All sorts. We had mental support from friends and family, financial support from a number of sponsors (HTC being the main one) and navigation support from a skilled meteorologist. Moreover, a big catamaran and a skilled sailing crew physically accompanied us. This yacht was our 'safe harbour': we ate on it, slept on it, kept watch over the rider and watched the stars from it!
How long have you been kitesurfing? What kind of training was involved in preparing for this crossing?
I started to kite in 2008. Ever since I picked up the sport I tried to go as often as possible, which increased my skill level. As the departure date came in sight I did three things besides kitesurfing: watch my diet habits (no more beer, no more 'quick carbs', plenty of vegetables, etc.), set up a rigorous training program (with a German personal-trainer-lady who bossed me around the gym to the point of nearly passing out) and a hard-core yoga schedule (for a balanced body and mind).
What type of kites were you using?
We used Slingshot Rally's. These are very smooth for wave riding – but can still give you plenty of airtime when you yank it hard.
What was the most difficult moment? Did you ever feel in danger?
Yes. A very tough moment was when, in the middle of a pitch-black night, my kite dropped out of the sky. I was surrounded by stormy clouds. When there is zero wind your kite will not fly. As a result I was laying in a pitch-black ocean with a pitch-black sky above and even darker clouds surrounding me. That does not feel comfortable. At all.
How did your body deal with the stresses and strains of kitesurfing for so long? Did you have specialist equipment made to help?
Some parts of my body had a tough time - I was injured around my waist due to the continuous strain of my harness. This can really set you off as it felt like a crown of thorns around my waist. Apart from that I was actually really surprised to see how the body can adapt. When we arrived in the Turks & Caicos Islands I was as fit as I had ever been. Not a gram of fat and strong as a horse. I can really recommend the ocean treatment!
What does it feel like to do something nobody has ever done before?
It makes me smile. Experiencing things no one has ever done before makes me feel like a pioneer, and therefore adds something to what we as humans have experienced in this world.
What's your next challenge going to be?
To set up a commercially sustainable enterprise. I believe adventure can be found in every aspect of life. I am now finding one in the Dutch healthcare system. Almost completely unrelated to the Atlantic Kite Challenge and almost equally as exciting nonetheless!
More information on Enable Passion and the Atlantic Kite Challenge can be found at: www.enablepassion.com
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Chantelle Symester is a writer and editor based in London. When she's not chained to her laptop working she can be found hopping on a plane to far flung places across the globe. Trips so far include adventures to Mexico, South America and North Africa and she now has her heart set on discovering the East. You can find her @csymester


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Track flights on maps
We have two related map-based tools that are designed to give you information – including noise levels – about planes using Heathrow's flight paths.
Webtrak allows you to track specific flights on specific days in relation to where you live. Webtrak 'My Neighbourhood' system gives you a general overview of where planes fly, giving you a better understanding of Heathrow's operations over time.
Webtrak – track a specific flight near you
With Webtrak you can:
- Locate your address on the map
- Display individual planes as they take off or land at Heathrow, detailing the type of plane, height, origin and destination of the flight as well as the noise levels recorded for that flight
- Look at specific flights over different day and time periods
- Track a specific flight and make a complaint about it.
The flight data for Webtrak is taken directly from the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) radar that is used to direct aircraft at Heathrow. The accuracy of the system has been verified by the Civil Aviation Authority.Please note that there is a delay of 20 minutes on the flights shown on Webtrak.
Webtrak 'My Neighbourhood' – see an overview of Heathrow flight paths
With Webtrak 'My Neighbourhood' you can:
- Locate your address on the map
- Display general information of where aircraft fly at Heathrow
- Understand how often particular flight paths are generally used on a monthly, quarterly or yearly basis
- View detailed information on Heathrow's operations, such as a heat map that allows you to see at a glance how the distribution of traffic changes across the months.
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HOWTO: Advanced SSH configuration and tunneling
Excellent article/guide to using SSH tunnels to bypass using third pary VPN software. I agree with them on all points. SSH FTW.
In a recent Red Hat Magazine article, Paul Frields gave some examples of how SSH port forwarding can be used to remotely gain access to resources, or ports, from a remote location. This article will show a pragmatic implementation of SSH port forwarding by demonstrating how to use configuration files and conditional statements to create permanent, yet dynamic, SSH configurations for your home, office, and any virtual machines you may have on your systems.
New Google Maps For Smartphones
Attention Microsoft/Apple, this is why everyone loves Google.
Just released tonight: Even without GPS, it gets your location automatically via cell phone towers.
Working like a charm on my Treo. Is there anything Google can't do?
See your location on the map, with or without GPS. Save time and tedious keystrokes finding where you are, what's around you, and how to get there. Watch the video on the right to see how it works.
Press "0" and look for the blue dot: or
If you have a GPS-enabled device, this blue dot corresponds to your GPS location. At times, or if you do not have a GPS-enabled phone, you might see the blue dot surrounded by a light blue circle (as shown on the right) to indicate uncertainty about your location.
Why the uncertainty? The My Location feature takes information broadcast from mobile towers near you to approximate your current location on the map – it's not GPS, but it comes pretty close (approximately 1000m close, on average). We're still in beta, but we're excited to launch this feature and are constantly working to improve our coverage and accuracy.
The My Location feature is available for most web-enabled mobile phones, including Java, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Nokia/Symbian devices.
iTunes coverflow clone in flash
I've been searching for an iTunes Coverflow clone in flash, because one of my client asked me to use something like that for a new project. I finally found something decent… Take a look the following link: http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/tutorial-displayshelf-component/
Now the above opensource product is built for flex2, so it doesn't suit our project. Then I found this. It's pure .fla file, and XML to write data. I think this is the best sample to recreate Coverflow in flash.
HOWTO: Watch the Fox Prison Break American Express exclusive without a card
Tried to catch up on the Prison Break highlights and came across the Amex Only previews. Well since I don't have an AMEX there's only one choice. Google American Express support numbers.
Enter any one of these phone number numbers:
- 8004924920
then enter anything longer than 5 letters in the name field and any expiration date to access the American Express "exclusive" Prison Break promo.
Protecting your IMs from prying eyes with OTR
Leading security researcher and co-creator of the Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) protocol discusses why you should use OTR to make sure your instant messages remain private. This is especially important given the NSA's recent wiretapping activities and the increasing prominence of Big Brother.
Off-the-Record Messaging, commonly referred to as OTR, is a cryptographic protocol that provides strong encryption for instant messaging conversations. OTR uses a combination of the AES symmetric-key algorithm, the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, and the SHA-1 hash function. In addition to authentication and encryption, OTR provides perfect forward secrecy and deniable encryption. This is not to be confused with the "off the record" setting in Google Talk, which merely disables logging.
The redeeming thing about OTR is that there is pretty much no configuration after its installed. You don't have to worry about managing keys, trust databases, or any of that crap. You just click the button and it encrypts. When you "authenticate" someone, you don't have to memorize their public key. Instead, you type in a shared secret (any string) and if the other party types in the same string, their public key is marked as trusted. Of course, it uses an algorithm that doesn't reveal the secret to the other party. Pure genius. Great article and video.
36 years ago today, D.B. Cooper jumped from a plane and put the U.S. $200,000 in debt
At 2:58pm, PST, on Wednesday, November 24, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving in the United States, a man traveling under the name Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727-051, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, flying from Portland International Airport (PDX) in Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington, with the threat of a bomb (he had a briefcase containing wires, a large battery and "red sticks").
Cooper boarded the plane of only 36 passengers and 6 crew. He wore a black raincoat and loafers, a dark suit, a neatly pressed white shirt, a black necktie, and a mother-of-pearl tie pin. He also had black sunglasses.
TI-84+ gets down with USB peripherals
I realize this is somewhat old news, but after sitting around Calculus class playing with my TI-84 Plus graphing calculator, I decided to look around to see what has been hacked onto these things. I thought for sure some tiny distro of linux has been ported to it. I stumbled upon an open-source project called usb8x. This is very cool.
"Ever since Texas Instruments added a USB link port to the TI-84 line, people have been trying to write drivers for almost any device. Here's an example of a Lexar Jumpdrive playing a black-and-white short – it's the lobby scene from The Matrix! Check out the article's comments for users' takes on this development."
Mark Cuban to ISPs: block all P2P traffic
In an open letter to Internet service providers published earlier this week, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban calls for telecoms to put an end to peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing. Cuban expresses concerns that P2P "freeloaders" are clogging the tubes with commercial content. His letter doesn't focus on piracy, however, and instead primarily attacks companies that use P2P for legitimate commercial applications. Being from the same hometown, we're always interested to read the musings of Mr. Cuban, but this time we're pretty sure he's missed the point.
"If I was a Comcast customer, I would tell them, as I am now telling all the services I am a customer of: BLOCK P2P TRAFFIC, PLEASE. As a consumer, I want my Internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my Internet service down are P2P freeloaders," says Cuban. "Thats right, P2P content distributors are nothing more than freeloaders. The only person/organization that benefits from P2P usage are those that are trying to distribute content and want to distribute it on someone else's bandwidth dime… When consumers provide their bandwidth to assist commercial applications, they are subsidizing those commercial applications which if it isn't already, should be against an ISPs terms of service."
Researchers blast Vista Service Pack 1
A group of researchers has described Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as a "performance dud".
Researchers from the EXO Performance Network claimed that a series of in-house benchmark tests showed that users hoping to receive a speed boost from the update will be disappointed.
"After extensive testing of Release To Manufacture and SP1-patched versions of Vista it seems clear that the hoped-for performance fixes that Microsoft has been hinting at have not materialised," the group said in a company blog.
The tests were run using tools from Devil Mountain Software, which also hosts the group's site. The researchers used a Dell notebook with 1GB of Ram for the tests.
The benchmark tests measured performance in Microsoft Office 2007, multitasking and streaming media.
The results from the SP1-patched system were nearly identical to those from the version of Vista released to manufacturers, according to the researchers.
"The thinking goes that SP1 will address all of these early performance issues and somehow bring Vista on par with, or at least closer to, XP in terms of runtime performance," said the report. "Unfortunately, this is simply not the case."
The researchers concluded that users waiting for the update to fix pokey performance will not get any respite in the short term.
"If you have been disappointed with the performance of Windows Vista to date, get used to it," they wrote. "SP1 is simply not the panacea that many predicted."
Leopard's Aurora Borealis wallpaper in GIMP
Apple finally released their new OS called Leopard about a month ago. One of the things I like the most with Apple, and probably everybody loves too, is that they always release tons of beautiful stuff. From the package box to the t-shirt. Yeah there is a very cool t-shirt as well. And now it's not different. I loved the space feeling of the new wallpaper with that sort of aurora borealis effect.
Besides that, this week the new version of GIMP was released. The 2.4 version has a renewed interface, with new icons, and much more stable, at least running on my mac it has not crashed yet.
Anyways, what I want to show on this tutorial is how to create that Aurora Borealis effect using the new GIMP. Basically I used the Leopard's wallpaper as my reference. I have to say it was easier than I thought. Follow the link below for the amazing write up.
HOWTO: make mp3 files smaller
An old friend emailed me over the weekend and asked for some help reducing the size of a MP3 file so he could load it on his wireless phone. Seems he wanted the ringer to sound like a sheep when one certain person called (don't ask), but the MP3 he found was too big for the phone to accept.
I did a little research and found a cool little utility called FreeRIP that will convert between .WAV, .MP3 and .OGG formats with ease. You can also convert a MP3 file to the same format, but with a different bit-rate, which allowed my friend to reduce the file size as needed, and duly embarrass his friend in public.
Mission accomplished.
XSS Cheat Sheet
XSS is Cross Site Scripting. If you don't know how XSS (Cross Site Scripting) works, this page probably won't help you. This page is for people who already understand the basics of XSS attacks but want a deep understanding of the nuances regarding filter evasion. This page will also not show you how to mitigate XSS vectors or how to write the actual cookie/credential stealing/replay/session riding portion of the attack. It will simply show the underlying methodology and you can infer the rest. Also, please note this XSS page has been replicated by the OWASP 2.0 Guide in the Appendix section. However, because this is a living document I suggest you continue to use the site below to stay up to date.
You're Not Attractive
And neither is your girlfriend, but in order to stomach the prospect of a long-term relationship, you delude yourself into believing she's better looking than she really is. (This has been suspected for so long that even the Greeks had a euphemism for it.)
To see if men (and women) really deceive themselves in this manner, a group of researchers obtained data from the popular physical attractiveness ratings site Hot or Not and studied users' behaviors.
Your Privacy Is An Illusion
Everyone should already know that Facebook employees can see your profile even if it is private. Now we hear that they are willing to share your private profile with your boss. All he has to do is ask. A poster on the AR-15 Forums, a firearms-enthusiast website, says her bosses asked Facebook for permission to see her profile — which is normally set to private for everyone but her friends — through something called Administrators Access. Facebook's privacy policy has this to say:
We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Facebook service or using the Facebook name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
The poster had pictures of himself with his firearms — which, though legal and taken on the employee's own time, the company was concerned about. Perhaps Facebook was trying to "prevent imminent bodily harm?"
Think Facebook might be helping your employer out with a glimpse of your private profile? Leave us a post below.
iPhone Phoning Home
Big surprise. Apple's much loved iPhone has a hidden feature, and it's not going to be welcomed by everyone: it phones home.According to 9 to 5 Mac, the iPhone sends the users IMEI number, IP address and stock quote preferences amongst a number of things via a hidden string to Apple via the Weather and Stock apps. The information could be used by Apple to build user profiles that includes data on travel, financial and banking preferences, work details…even personal browsing information (if you're using your iPhone to surf porn be warned).
Hackers are now apparently working on a way to block this functionality. In the mean time the only way of stopping data being sent to Apple is to delete the stock and weather applications via jailbreak.
Losing Faith
Snagged this off a forum I frequently browse…
[Originally Posted by porksoda]
So let me start by saying I work at Sears and here are a few of the geniuses we have that bring their car in here.
Also I work in the store not in the automotive section. I like to work on cars but only on my own time, not as a full time job. But I am good friends with the guys there and since they are car guys they call me when this stuff happens. I apologize for the camera phone pics but that all i have on me at work.
This idiot brought in his car today and said "My brakes are squeeking". Well gee theres your problem!
NIST encryption standard may have NSA backdoor
According to security experts, an algorithm for generating random numbers that is included in an official standard documented by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) could potentially include a backdoor planted by the NSA.
In a recent blog entry, cryptographer Bruce Schneier describes research that was presented by his colleagues Niels Ferguson and Dan Shumow at the CRYPTO 2007 conference this past August. The security researchers have raised concerns about a potential backdoor in the Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm, which is documented in NIST's 800-90 publication about deterministic random bit generators. Dual_EC_DRBG, which is based on elliptic curves, is said to be significantly slower to compute than the other algorithms in the standard and was supposedly only included at all because it has the strong support of the NSA.
Ethnic Topography of NYC
A friend of mine was compiling census data for a project. They sent me these visual census charts, which are pretty informative… especially if you've ever lived/visited The Big Apple. More data after the jump
Using Google to match MD5 password hashes
One of the steps used by the attacker who compromised a friend's Blog a few weeks ago was to create an account (which he promoted to administrator). I quickly disabled the account, but while doing forensics, I thought it would be interesting to find out the account password. WordPress stores raw MD5 hashes in the user database (despite many recommendations to use salting). As with any respectable hash function, it is believed to be computationally infeasible to discover the input of MD5 from an output. Instead, someone would have to try out all possible inputs until the correct output is discovered.


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Hi just wandering the best way to insulate my bay window? I have a 3/4 marine ply as a sill,and was thinking of fixing 50mm kingspan underneath and then silicone seal the edges then facing with upvc infill piece?
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A Mother's Day Boycott: Raising Awareness for the Women of the Worldmarylweimer
With Mother's Day coming up next week, you may be starting to imagine how you'll spend the day with your loved ones.
Maybe you've already selected a special card or gift for the mothers and grandmothers in your life.
Perhaps you've made a reservation for lunch at a nice restaurant, or you've imagined that yummy breakfast in bed or time at the spa.
Whatever you're doing, I'm sure you're planning to make it a special celebration of motherhood.
Three years ago I spent Mother's Day in the hospital after having given birth to my daughter the day before. In those hectic third-trimester days I hadn't really thought about Mother's Day and when it arrived it had completely slipped my mind. I was focused on other things: bonding with my newborn, contemplating the exact shade of blue of her eyes and memorizing her smells and sounds and the way the hair swirled at the base of her neck.
When a stranger arrived in my hospital room with a gift basket of flowers, lotions, and snacks, though, I suddenly realized what day it was- I had no choice. She was a volunteer from an organization and was passing the baskets out to all of the new mothers in the hospital that day.
I remember being so touched. I felt like my journey into motherhood had been acknowledged. Celebrated.
Unfortunately, millions of women around the world each year do not have the opportunity to celebrate motherhood. They don't receive floral bouquets or breakfasts in bed. To them, childbirth was a roll of the dice.
They lost.
This Mother's Day, Every Mother Counts is encouraging you to consider the 360,000 women who die each year from preventable pregnancy or childbirth-related problems. Led by founder Christy Turlington Burns, the No Mother's Day campaign is raising awareness about global maternal mortality.
No Mother's Day asks women to do the unfathomable: boycott the holiday to honor the women who don't get the chance to ever celebrate. That means no gifts of any kind- from jewelry to backyard bouquets. They're even asking mothers to refuse to answer the phone or acknowledge Mother's Day in any way. In essence, to have it disappear.
It may sound extreme, but the statistics are grim. Women are dying for many reasons- infections, severe bleeding, and eclampsia among them- but there is another cause that underlies many of these tragic and unnecessary deaths: a lack of access to medical and prenatal care.
Please watch the following video and share it with your friends to help raise awareness this Mother's Day.
For more information on maternal mortality statistics, please click through the following photos. As you look at the faces of each of these women, please remember that many others did not have such happy outcomes. All women deserve a safe childbirth experience for their babies. As we approach this Mother's Day, let us remember those for whom childbirth has the same chance of being life-threatening as it does life-changing.
Maternal Mortality 1 of 8Every day, 1,000 women die from problems related to pregnancy and childbirth.
Source: World Health Organization
Photo Credit: Cia de Foto/Flickr
A Global Problem 2 of 899% of all maternal deaths occur in developing countries.
Source: World Health Organization
Photo Credit: Diganta Talukdar/Flickr
Care Surrounding Birth 3 of 8Skilled care before, during and after childbirth can save the lives of women and newborn babies.
Source: World Health Organization
Photo Credit: ^riza^/Flickr
Factors that Affect Care 4 of 8Some factors that affect women's ability to seek or receive prenatal care include cultural practices, poverty, and distance from providers.
Source: World Health Organization
Photo Credit: Hamed Saber/Flickr
Family Planning Access 5 of 8Over 200 million women who would like to choose when they get pregnant don't have access to family planning.
Source: No Mother's Day
Photo Credit: Robert Whitehead/Flickr
Adolescents At Risk 6 of 8Adolescents face a higher risk of complications and death as a result of pregnancy than older women.
Source: World Health Organization
Photo Credit: Steve Evans/Flickr
The Importance of Skilled Care 7 of 8In the developing world, only 40% of women receive skilled care during childbirth.
Source: World Health Organization
Photo Credit: Tammy McGary/Flickr
What You Can Do 8 of 8In order for these grim statistics to improve, the barriers to care must be addressed. Do your part by learning more about the issue, and standing with the women of the world who aren't able to access the critical prevention and care services that they so deserve.
Photo Credit: Krzyboy2o/Flickr
Mary Lauren Weimer is a social worker turned mother turned writer. Her blog, My 3 Little Birds, encourages moms to put down the baby books for a moment and tell their own stories. Connect with her on Facebook and Twitter.
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IBM is announcing intent to acquire Cúram Software Ltd. – the leading provider of solutions for social programs

In a move that extends IBM leadership in Smarter Cities, IBM announced intent to acquire Curam Software Ltd., the leading provider of solutions for social programs, including health & human services, workforce services, and social security organizations – bolstering Smarter Cities and the citizens they serve.

Cúram software is used in more than 80 government agency projects around the world to provide the timely access to the right social programs, deliver integrated services through those programs, and drive improved outcomes and reduced costs. The citizen-centered solutions address the increasing complexity and growing needs for social programs while delivering efficiency and improved outcomes.

Cúram's capabilities and expertise will advance the IBM Smarter Cities initiative, which focuses on driving sustainable growth by leveraging information to make better decisions, anticipating problems to resolve them proactively, and coordinating resources and process to operate effectively. This acquisition will extend IBM's ability to provide transformative business solutions and services to cities and governments globally.

Together, IBM and Cúram will help leaders around the world achieve breakthrough efficiency and new levels of citizen-centered service – delivering improved outcomes, total integrated service delivery and total cost reduction.

"We are committed to helping leaders in cities and governments at all levels improve efficiency and deliver improved outcomes, and increasingly improve the lives of their citizens," said Craig Hayman, General Manager of IBM Industry Solutions. "People are facing increasing needs for social and health programs and leaders must innovate to improve delivery amid great demand. We are honored to provide solutions that help leaders deliver real value to the people they serve."

Since 1999, IBM and Cúram have collaborated on federal, state, local, and provincial-level social programs solutions around the world. Cúram's software is certified for use with the IBM Government Industry Framework and has been part of IBM Global Business Services' Integrated Case Management solution since 2001.

Cúram, which means "care and protection" in Irish, is based in Dublin, Ireland, with offices throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and India. In addition to end-to-end solutions for social programs, the acquisition of Cúram brings the expertise of 700 employees. After the closing, Cúram will be integrated into the Industry Solutions division of the IBM Software Group.

For more information about Cúram, visit http://www.curamsoftware.com (link resides outside of ibm.com)
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Welcome to The Wheatsheaf Inn
The Dimblebee Family are pleased to welcome you to the Wheatsheaf Inn situated in Woodhouse Eaves in the heart of the Charnwood Forest. Generations of the Dimblebee family have been part of the local licensing scene for over 60 years and are synonymous with creating welcoming pubs with personality and atmosphere and where great food and drink can be enjoyed served by our friendly team.
Renowned for our food the Wheatsheaf offers a choice of dining options in our informal bar, newly created "Mess" room and our traditional dining room, and if the weather permits food may be taken alfresco in our relaxed outside seating and decking areas. The themed Mess room complete with genuine 1938 Hawker Hurricane propeller can accommodate private parties of up to 20 people. (Monday to Friday's only)
Our modern Bistro menu is refreshed regularly and diners also have the choice of seasonal daily specials and a wide selection of tempting home made desserts. Wherever possible we source the very best local produce and ingredients.
We offer a range of award winning ales, premium continental lagers as well as an extensive choice of fine wines - all of which are selected for their taste, diversity, quality and value.
Accommodation is available in the adjacent cottage annex where we offer two superior twin or double rooms with en suite facilities.We have recently been awarded an AA 4 Star Inn rating reflecting the high standard of our accommodation, warm welcome and comfort provided.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Car deaths on Europe's roads have halved over the last decade, but campaigners say tougher EU laws could prevent many more people from dying needlessly.
Figures from the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), a non-governmental body, found more than 12,000 people were killed in cars in 2012 in the European Union and neighbouring Switzerland, the latest available figures, less than half the 28,000 deaths seen in 2001.
The council, in its report on Tuesday, credited stricter safety measures for the improvement.
Spain and Latvia stand out for the most progress, cutting the number of deaths by two-thirds from 2001 to 2012, but other nations still have bad records.
The worst is Poland, where 11 people are killed in cars per billion kilometres travelled, compared with only around 2 in Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland, according to the ETSC.
"It is simply wrong that 12,000 still die every year for reasons that are mostly avoidable," said Antonio Avenoso, executive director of the ETSC.
EU policy-makers are reviewing road safety regulations and plan to release a report in December, pending formal legislative proposals expected in early 2015.
The ETSC is calling for EU-wide action to enforce seatbelt reminders and tougher measures against drink-driving.
Since 1991, all passengers in cars must wear seatbelts in the European Union by law, but in practice seatbelt use varies.
On average, 88 percent of front seat passengers use seatbelts and 74 percent of rear seat passengers, which is why safety advocates are pushing for seatbelt reminders, currently required only for the driver's seat.
The ETSC estimates that mandatory reminders for all seats could prevent an additional 900 deaths per year.
Drink driving is another major reason for car deaths, accounting for some 5,600 fatalities annually.
The ETSC is calling for mandatory alcohol interlocks, which prevent the car from starting if the driver fails a breathalyzer test, for repeat drink-drivers.
Male drivers are most at risk of being involved in fatal accidents, especially young men aged 20 to 25, according to the ETSC report. Overall, more than two-thirds of people killed in cars are men.
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I don't plan on reviewing EVERY episode of Dads, but I will say that Episode 2 was funnier, and stronger, than Episode 1. If the show continues to work through its initial issues, it might develop into another average mediocre comedy. I had originally given the pilot a C-, but I would give this episode a C+. Progress.


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Solavei – Unlimited 4G Voice, Text, and Data Cell Phone Plan for $49 has officially launched. Solavei Mobile, using T-Mobiles Network, is offering a splendid service for individuals who want to ditch the 2 year contract plan and move to a no contract unlimited cell phone plan. This is really exciting news for me and thousands of others.
My reason for becoming a Solavei customer is a simple decision to me. My cell phone bill is $225 each month for two lines. I have unlimited, voice, text and data. The phone that I am using is a Samsung Epic and let me tell you I love my phone. I probably dont use the full capacity of this phone but I use it. I surf the Internet, I have my email on my phone so every time I receive an email I can check it on my phone, I use the camera which is awesome, I use Skype and I have a host of applications (games and other stuff) on my phone. I have had service with Sprint for 10 plus years so I do feel like I am abandoning Sprint.
What I have decided to do in the beginning is to get a used phone which is a Samsung Exhibit II 4G for about $160 bucks, get the Solavei Sim Card, get a new phone number and pay for my first month service of Solavei for $49 bucks. Presently up until September 10, 2012 the $49 enrollment fee is being waived and the second month of service is free. This is really a smooth process that eases peoples anxieties when becoming a first time member of Solavei.
Later on I may buy the HTC One S or another phone and at that time I will port my number from Sprint to Solavei. I do want to try out the services with Solavei first. I will also work hard to enroll other people or tell other people about Solavei Mobile.
Solavei gives their customers an opportunity to tell others about the cell phone service. At that point if customers do recommend their friends, family etc…they will earn money. No need in going into detail on this part because I do not want to distract anyone from the awesome services.
Right now the only way you will be able to experience Solavei is to be invited by a Solavei customer which is me. Go to 365gomobile.com and email me so I can send you an invite.


text: Cycling Robert Penn explains why it's all about the bike - video Sorry, your browser is unable to play this video. Please install Adobe Flash™ and try again. Alternatively upgrade to a modern browser. An avid cyclist and author of cycling travelogue It's All About the Bike, Robert Penn explains why he rides life's journey on two wheels theguardian.com Saturday 18 June 2011 18.01 EDT Last modified on Tuesday 21 June 2011 07.38 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ Share on WhatsApp Topics Cycling Reuse this content