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Experimental Shoe-Print Database Sees the Soles of Criminals
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The clothes may make the man, but if a University at Buffalo professor has his way, the shoes will nab the criminal. Dr. Sargur Srihari, a computer science professor, is building a search engine populated with thousands of shoe images scraped from internet shoe stores that would let police forensics units submit a photo of a shoe print from a crime scene and quickly learn the gender, size and brand of shoe a killer or thief was likely wearing. Shoe prints are some of the most common evidence left at crime scenes, but there's a limited number of shoe identification experts and the tech tools available to them aren't nearly as good as one might think from watching cops shows and movies.
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Five for Fighting 11/20/08
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/11/arms-control-ar.html* The coming Middle East missile war * Arms control art * Drones = cell towers * Mortar launches UAVs * "Shoe-print database sees the soles of criminals" (High five: Sullivan)
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Peripheral Milit_Urb 27
http://subtopia.blogspot.com/2008/12/peripheral-militurb-27....[Image: Jewish settlers rampaged on Palestinian homes, burning residents' laundry on clotheslines and damaging a garden as settlers from Kiryat Arba, adjacent to Hebron, watched from the wall above. Jewish settlers took revenge on Palestinians after Israeli troops forcibly evicted 200 Jewish settlers from a contested home in Hebron. Photo: Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times.]MILIT_URBManuel DeLanda, ‘Democracy, Economics and the Military’ : Saskia Sassen: The New Wars and Cities: Something Is Changing : One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex - Series : War crime tribunals facing crisis as staff quit : The Scientific Way of Warfare : Authorlab: Dr. Antoine Bousquet, Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG) and Antoine Bousquet (School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College) - Feral Cities and the Scientific Way of Warfare : Chaoplexic Urbanism, The Laws of War, and the Rhetoric of Science - SYMPOSIA - The Complex Terrain Laboratory : Mumbai Aftermath: A Hard Look at Soft Targets and Tactics : Tomgram: Arundhati Roy, The Monster in the Mirror : The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp, R. A. Radford, Economica, vol. 12, 1945[Image: Inside the USS Cole War on Terror Naval Simulator - USS Trayer Disaster Training Facility]Massive 'Homeland Defense' Joint Exercise Is Under Way : InfoVis Keynote: Command Post of the Future : The ACLU demands info on domestic military deployments : 'The Culture of War' by Martin van Creveld : Navy charters kite-powered cargo ship to deliver equipment[Images: Giant Iceberg Aircraft Carrier: Massive white slabs of steaming ice, churning through the sea, carrying hundreds of aircrafts...]Inside Saddam Hussein's yacht : Political Violence and the Novelist : Alternative Information Center - Land and Housing Rights in al-Issawiya, Israeli Occupied East Jerusalem : Gaza City in darkness as Israel halts fuel shipments : Trapped in Gaza with a Fulbright scholarship : ACLU probe: Denver police staged protest at DNC : How I Spent Election Night in a Baltimore Jail : The Secret House of Congress : The Presidential Transition and Secrecy[Image: New Presidential Cadillac Limousine Caught - "the "Obama-mobile"!]Bomb resistant Architecture and Design competition from the Home Office - will the new US Embassy in London be next ? : British firms barred from US Embassy competition : magine 500 people dying in a suicide bombing in Trafalgar Square: how the Home Office promotes anti-terror design | Politics | guardian.co.uk : Counterterrorism competition blasted - Building Design : New Capitol Hill Visitor Center Welcomes Democracy Nuts[Image: The Church Militant by Kris Kuksi.]The Flying Spaghetti Monster: The American military space program in perpetual crisis : From the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean. Militarization of Strategic Energy Corridor : The Unlikely Green Revolution of the US Military, Army Green: Not Just a Color Anymore?DefenCell rapid deployment temporary vehicle barrier and blast wall installed at Gatwick Airport : The Battle Over Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park : With Shot and Shell or "Modular Crowd Control Munitions" : Where the Traffic Median Is a No-Pilates Zone[Image: Hyper-surveilled handbag in shop-window]SURVEILLATOPIASurveillance & Society / Smart Borders and Mobilities: Spaces, Zones, Enclosures Vol. 5, Issue 2 : Giant database plan 'Orwellian' : Europe eyes airport X-ray vision : City's secret cameras : Surveillance technology is getting smarter : ”Panopticon” 2008 : The GreenDot Project : Spy Cam Hides Inside an ID Card : Wirelessly, Home Security Becomes a D.I.Y. Project : Californian prisons employ robotic scouts : APPLE'S EYEING YOU : New York Police Fight With U.S. on Surveillance : This police cruiser scans license plates, sniffs out 'dirty' bombs : The TSA Does Not Like Your Luggage : Grenade camera to aid UK troops : Stores paint ads on roofs for satellite map services : Google’s Gatekeepers : 'Mind-reading' software could record your dreams[Image: Blueprints for Auschwitz camp found in Germany Photo: SIMON NORFOLK.]RESIDUAL LANDSCAPESMega-Mosque as Ghetto Catalyst? : Forgotten cradle of the space age : Ebola Island : Floating to save the L.A. River : Diefenbunker indulges your nuclear nostalgia : Experience: I escaped from a death camp : Labor camp escapee tells of harrowing tale : U.S. military provides clean water for Honduras storm victims : Last call for Berlin's Tempelhof airport : Parade casts long dark shadow : Museum of Tolerance atop Muslim cemetery: update, Architects Against Museum of Tolerance : Echoes of conflict 90 years on : Exhibition remembers World War I : A Missile Base Called Home : Baghdad Bridge Where Hundreds Died Reopens : Blinkx Video: Kingsway Tunnels London, ex-MI6 complex up for sale, History Included : The Architecture of Authority : Military Town Real Estate Remains Unfazed by Housing Bust : Improvised Basement Fallout Shelter from The Late 1960s : Man didn’t know he lived above a bomb shelter : Soviet bunker as theme park : Climate changes may lead to violence, experts warn :[Image: Winning Designs for New International Criminal Court Building Have Been Selected. Springall + Lira / BGP aruitectura, México DF, México.]Korean demilitarized zone now a wildlife haven : Currently Under Construction: Gray World : 'Does this look like a hospital?' : A Museum of Conflict in Libya? : The prayer booth: an artist’s “exhibit” of faith : The contemporary art museum in the middle of a Brazilian tropical park : Re-use of anti-atomic shelter : Thoughts become clear way down in missile silo : Siegfried Line working for Germany’s wildlife : The Blue Marble: Making Iraq Fertile : Norman Foster must keep hands off Mecca : Israel's "Auschwitz borders" revisited : Holiday camp with a Nazi past : Hands of Death[Image: 'Revolutionary' War-Tracker Aims for Upgrade]INSIDE THE DANGER ROOMThe Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists : U.S.-Iraq Deal Could Mean Jail Time for Contractors : Next Vacation Stop: Swiss Nuclear Bunker : High-Tech 'Bat-Ship' Still Needs Work: Report : 'Artificial Intuition,' Earthquake Detectors vie for Pentagon Prize : Future Uniforms to Dole out Drugs, Redefine Self-Medication : What Obama Means to America's 'Info Ops' : Secret Rocket Balls Target WMD Bunkers : Red Lights Ahead for NYC Subway Surveillance Plan : Interrogation Drugs at Gitmo Alleged : Army 'Human Terrain' Contractor Charged with Murder (Updated Again) : Experimental Shoe-Print Database Sees the Soles of Criminals : In Iraq, KBR Partner Confines 1,000 Workers in Windowless Warehouses : Army Builds Fantasy Island in Second Life : Terror-Stopping Building-Sealer Too Much for Darpa : Darpa Plan: Turn Warzone Data into Simple Stories : NATO Going Solar in Afghanistan[Image: How Much Counterinsurgency Training?]WAR ON TERROR ON WARUS referees Iraq's troubled Kurdish-Arab fault line : In the Former Cradle of Iraq's Insurgency, a U.S. Military Base Prepares to Close : J.V. Bombings : Fractures in Iraq City as Kurds and Baghdad Vie : IRAQ: Market in ruins after bulldozers move in | Babylon & Beyond : Money, Unspent, in Iraq’s Pocket : Iraqi Opinions from the Green Zone : In a desert camp, Iraqis find aid and zone of trust : Contractors Nervous About Losing Immunity in Iraq : Entrepreneurs launch hotel, business center in Baghdad : In Ramadi, U.S. Inspector Is Glad to See Real Rebuilding, With Fresh Paint : Report Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders : Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders : After the carnage, life returns to Baghdad bazaars : U.S. Seeks New Supply Routes Into Afghanistan : Saudi hunger strike for prisoners : Deprogramming Jihadists : U.S. anti-terror covert ops : Vigilant Shield 09: A Cover for Illegal Domestic Operations? : Report confirms 'shadow war' waged by US special forces : Iraqi town defies Al Qaeda : Guernica / Baghdad Nights : Baghdad to kill stray dogs after fatal attacks : Baghdad on the Hudson : Blackwater To Be Fined For Illegal Weapons Shipments to Iraq : Blackwater Busted? Six Guards May Be Charged in Iraq Massacre : Shoot An Iraqi, Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun : Live Stage: 9 Scripts from a Nation at War [Los Angeles] : New taps? Or Iraqi security? East Europeans answer the call (cheaply) : Treated Like a Terrorist by the DMV : KBR Sued for Giving Soldiers Ice with 'Traces of Body Fluids and Putrefied Remains' : Desert patrols : As Possible Afghan War-Crimes Evidence Removed, US Silent : Report Says Due Process Is Ill Served in Iraq Justice System[Earlier peripherals ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26]
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Mmmm… turkey…
http://nomagicpill.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/mmmm-turkey/Posted by Ben on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 Well, at least for most people. Personally, I’ve never been a huge fan of turkey only because of how dry it’s always been with one glaring exception: fried turkey. Oh man, is that stuff good or what? A couple years ago when I was more involved in the audio production side of things at the radio station, I helped produce a cooking show, and as a happy consequence, I was in the studio when guest chefs would come in with samples and wines and such. Needless to say, I always enjoyed working weekends (and I built a sizable wine collection that I eventually gifted out one bottle at a time). One guest chef was Rick Browne, author of Barbecue America and other books, was one of the early regulars (not so much anymore), but he introduced me to fried turkey (I realized later that even earlier when I was working in another department at the station, I’d been at one of his promotional events out in town where I’d had my first taste of fried sirloin *drool*). I wasn’t a fan of regular, smoked turkey before, but after fried turkey, there was just no going back. I highly recommend investing in a deep fryer (I’ll be getting my own, with a lot of other things, when I get my own house). Regardless of your preference of food, it’s Thanksgiving, which as I’ve mentioned before means a boatload of food for most people in this country (not a huge divergence from the norm, but I digress). Frankly, I’m feeling lazy today (anyone want a puppy?), so I won’t go on another diatribe about the problem of overindulgence or any number of other things. Instead, I’ll just say enjoy the day as you see fit, whether it’s with family, at work, going for a run, eating and watching football all day, or whatever else. If you ascribe to a spiritual or religious doctrine, be sure to take care of those obligations as well. For me, I’ll be taking care of puppies, getting in a long-overdue sprint session at the track, doing a short shift at the station, avoiding my family (trust me, it’s best for everyone), and otherwise—well, there is no otherwise. I’m sure puppies will be taking up the free time, which is fine. They’re a lot of fun, growing like weeds, have great personalities, but still need good homes, so if you or anyone you know within, say, an hour or three of Charlotte is interested, feel free to drop me a line. At any rate, I know I’ll get some extra satisfaction from my track session after reading this today. Yeah, I complain and gripe about strains and sprains and imbalances and trigger points and such, but that story sort of puts things in perspective. Before I get to the links, I wanted to quickly mention a couple random things: —I’m officially in the market for a bicycle since the girl got a nursing job with some oddball hours (it’s only a mile each from my place to the gym and the station). I’ll be hitting a local bike shop in the next couple weeks to get fitted (goodness knows I don’t need an ill-fitting bike to cause or exacerbate problems). I’m leaning toward a mountain bike frame with hybrid tires (smooth centerline, knobby edges) since most of my time will be on pavement, but I’d like the option of semi-safe off-road capabilities. —Tony pointed me to this newfound nutrition-focused blog. —Yesterday, I started reading The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook, partly on the recommendation of a friend who’s also helped me through some of my more debilitating myofascial issues, partly because of those issues themselves (mainly hip and shoulder issues). So far, so good, though some of it still seems a bit quacky for all the ailments that trigger point therapy MAY alleviate, but when it comes to direct soft tissue issues and correction, I’m a big fan. I’ll toss out a review whenever I finish, which will likely be awhile since I’m also thoroughly intimidated by—and therefore temporarily avoiding—the other book that came: House of Leaves. —Just an FYI: Body bits: traditional versus functional training (the latter seems to correlate to fitness), help for your deadlift and rack position, stayability versus stability, definitive defiance of “instability” training, fixing your force couples, bicycling in the snow, walking tall (bit late to the party, eh?), a couple body-related bits from Eric (yes, I promise they’re buried in there somewhere), Keith’s WTF contribution, improving movement, two classic must-reads for coaches and trainers. Edibles: HCFS junk-mails Dr. Eades, Mark tackles bake sales (”C” is still for cookie, dadgummit!), quality trumps quantity, one little Coke (Dr. Pepper, in this case) won’t hurt (note: if you don’t want yours, I <3 Diet Dr. Pepper, kthxbai), kitchen tech, humane foie gras, supplement suggestions, “protein makes you fat” and other gems from Tony, confessions of a food pr0n addict. Mind matters: don’t let your mind hold you back, nap time, trusted news sources speak volumes about the public, Microsoft examines cyberchondria (Andrew’s take), optical illusions due to eye flicker, could “Truman syndrome” be the height of egocentrism? Kiddie corner: youth largely unaware of junk food impacts, Nate Green’s first offering (for adolescents and older) is top-notch. Fiscal fitness: think twice about giving the gift of fitness, hard-times home cooking, elderly foregoing assisted living, turning to inventiveness, South Carolina a leader in balancing budgets (USC saves, less PSA spending, mayors don’t want the Feds, painful but necessary trimming), Atlas Shrugged for the current economy. General health: drug company round-up (cooking the books, prescription data off-limits, journalism conflicts of interest), fitness tips for differing lifestyles, home repair and fitness, new possible biomarker for heart failure, Americans likely sicker than they think, miscellany from Andrew, metabolism’s dirty little secret, insurance may cover medical tourism, forty years since Love Canal, the newest dope in sports, bad boss –> bad heart, stomach chemical linked to bone formation, your new secretary of Health and Human Services (and the possibility of federally-funded stem cell research), why are drugs ALWAYS the ONLY answer????? Geek-out: —Transportation: 105 years of the electric starter, vintage iron rules LA Auto Show, Hyundai tries a different battery, diesel is the greenest, a green flying car, Mitsubishi’s EV, Fisker hybrid to use GM engine, Bentley mocks recession, Porsche dilutes the brand, ten cars that mock fuel economy, a top-ten list of songs about cars. —Tech stuff: the next cryptography battle, turn a scanner into a camera (sort of), Mac virus targets the stupid, touchscreen sketchpad, pushing Microsoft back into startup mode, old-fashioned sleuthing goes high-tech, seeing the previously unseen, Wall-E tech inspired by reality, next-gen ejector seat, graveyard solar farms, a brief history of light, nuclear waste to create universes? —Nature: ten great biology videos, Moby Dick’s inspiration anniversary, fish are friends, Mars may yet hold water, teenaged galaxies, quasars hamper young galaxies, Hubble snaps mammoth stars, pondering the design of the universe. —Miscellaneous: the creatures that ate Hollywood, not sure how I feel about the new Star Trek prequel, ten unconventional holiday movies (along with Colbert Christmas), eco-disaster movies coming, guilt-inducing video games, Random House embraces e-books, physics micro versus macro, futurist ups and downs, the power of words. Git r dun: —Some perspective on progression. —The 10,000 hour rule. —Reaching a goal doesn’t mean the end of the road. —Difficult-difficult, difficult-easy. This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 3:21 pm and is filed under Lifestyle, Motivation, Nutrition, Primal, Training. . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Notícias
http://agitacao.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/noticias/Foi criado o site http://www.soutien11novembre.org/ de apoio aos 9 activistas franceses acusados pelas suas acções contra a linha de TGV, a 11 de Novembro. É exigida a libertação imediata das 5 pessoas detidas e a retirada das acusações de “terrorismo” e “associação de malfeitores”. (em rede libertária) * A partir de 2ª-feira, 1 de Dezembro, vão ter lugar diversos protestos nas prisões europeias. Em Itália, 800 presos ergastolanos (Ergastolo é o nome dado à prisão perpétua, regime ainda existente neste estado) começam nesse dia um jejum colectivo e greves de fome rotativas que durarão uma semana em cada prisão, até ao dia 16 de Março. (em contra o capital) * Um professor de ciências da computação da Universidade de Búfalo, EUA, está a construir um motor de pesquisa populado com milhares de imagens de sapatos retirados de sapatarias virtuais na Internet, que permitirão à polícia forense submeter uma impressão da sola do sapato retirada do local do crime e rapidamente descobrir o género, tamanho e marca do sapato que o assassino ou ladrão estaria eventualmente a usar. (em CSA) *Boas notícias para quem acredita na liberdade na Internet. No passado dia 20 de Novembro, os ministros da Cultura da União Europeia estabeleceram um conjunto de recomendações que vão ao arrepio do plano do governo francês de Nicolas Sarcozy no sentido de desligar o acesso à rede dos internautas que forem alegadamente apanhados pelos detentores de direitos a descarregarem conteúdos protegidos por direitos de autor. (em remixtures)
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chrysanthemum
http://www.thepolkadotundiesreport.com/?p=194forget pizza, can you say pot?… http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/16-11/st_tool despite the husband, do you get the idea she’s not telling something?… http://cbs2chicago.com/watercooler/first.us.general.2.864502.html Can I be the first white…?, oh wait too late… http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27811331/?gt1=43001 It’s a good thing I walk on water… http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/11/professor-sees.html http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/11/arms-control-ar.html like tai chi walking… http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/11/slow-food-maest.html really it was the one pose….dog pissing on koran… http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27857578 on the make.. http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/11/the-best-of-m-1.html wall street is secret intelligence…is drug money…is?… http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/market-dispatches-112108.aspx
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Experimental Shoe-Print Database Sees the Soles of Criminals
http://www.ga4hset.org/?p=896The clothes may make the man, but if a University at Buffalo professor has his way, the shoes will nab the criminal. Dr. Sargur Srihari, a computer science professor, is building a search engine populated with thousands of shoe images scraped from internet shoe stores that would let police forensics units submit a photo of a shoe print from a crime scene and quickly learn the gender, size and brand of shoe a killer or thief was likely wearing. Shoe prints are some of the most common evidence left at crime scenes, but there’s a limited number of shoe identification experts and the tech tools available to them aren’t nearly as good as one might think from watching cops shows and movies. Complicating matters, shoe treads wear down and wear out, and small pebbles lodge in a shoe’s ridges, distorting their prints. That’s where computational forensics comes in. “CSI makes it looks like it is all solved,” Srihari said. “But actually, it is a very hard problem. Shoe prints can be even harder than fingerprints to match.” read more…
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GIVE ME FIVE!
http://speedygonzalezesdeladea.blogspot.com/2008/11/give-me-...* The coming Middle East missile war * Arms control art * Drones = cell towers * Mortar launches UAVs * "Shoe-print database sees the soles of criminals"
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