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Screen tearing is a visual artifact in video display where a display device shows information from multiple frames in a single screen draw.[1]
The artifact occurs when the video feed to the device is not in sync with the display's refresh rate. This can be due to non-matching refresh rates—in which case the tear line moves as the phase difference changes (with speed proportional to difference of frame rates). It can also occur simply from lack of sync between two equal frame rates, in which case the tear line is at a fixed location that corresponds to the phase difference. During video motion, screen tearing creates a torn look as edges of objects (such as a wall or a tree) fail to line up.
Tearing can occur with most common display technologies and video cards, and is most noticeable in horizontally-moving visuals, such as in slow camera pans in a movie, or classic side-scrolling video games.
Screen tearing is less noticeable when more than two frames finish rendering during the same refresh interval, since this means the screen has several narrower tears instead of a single wider one.
Ways to prevent video tearing depend on the display device and video card technology, software in use, and the nature of the video material. The most common solution is to use multiple buffering.
Most systems use multiple buffering and some means of synchronization of display and video memory refresh cycles.
Vertical synchronization is an option in most systems, wherein the video card is prevented from doing anything visible to the display memory until after the monitor finishes its current refresh cycle.
During the vertical blanking interval, the driver orders the video card to either rapidly copy the off-screen graphics area into the active display area (double buffering), or treat both memory areas as displayable, and simply switch back and forth between them (page flipping).
Nvidia and AMD video adapters provide an 'Adaptive Vsync' option. This will only turn on vertical synchronization when the frame rate of the software exceeds the display's refresh rate, disabling it otherwise. This eliminates the stutter that occurs as the rendering engine frame rate drops below the display's refresh rate.[2]
Alternatively, technologies like FreeSync[3] and G-Sync[4] reverse the concept, adapting the display's refresh rate to the content coming from the computer. These technologies require specific support from both the video adapter and the display.
When vertical synchronization is used, the frame rate of the rendering engine gets limited to the video signal frame rate. Though this feature normally improves video quality, it involves trade-offs in some cases.
Vertical synchronization can also cause artifacts in video and movie presentations, as they are generally recorded at frame rates significantly lower than the typical monitor frame rates (24–30 frame/s). When such a movie is played on a monitor set for a typical 60 Hz refresh rate, the video player misses the monitor's deadline fairly frequently, in addition to the interceding frames being displayed at a slightly higher rate than intended for, resulting in an effect similar to judder. (See Telecine: Frame rate differences.)
Input lagEdit
Video games, which use a wide variety of rendering engines, tend to benefit visually from vertical synchronization, as a rendering engine is normally expected to build each frame in real time, based on whatever the engine's variables specify at the moment a frame is requested. However, because vertical synchronization causes input lag, it interferes with the interactive nature of games,[5] and particularly interferes with games that require precise timing or fast reaction times.
Lastly, benchmarking a video card or rendering engine generally implies that the hardware and software render the display as fast as possible, without regard to monitor capabilities or resultant video tearing. Otherwise, the monitor and video card throttle the benchmarking program, causing invalid results.
Other techniquesEdit
Some graphics systems let the software perform its memory accesses so that they stay at the same time point relative to the display hardware's refresh cycle, known as raster interrupt or racing the beam. In this case, the software writes to the areas of the display that have just been updated, staying just behind the monitor's active refresh point. This allows for copy routines or rendering engines with less predictable throughput, as long as the rendering engine can "catch up" with the monitor's active refresh point when it falls behind.
Alternatively, software can instead stay just ahead of the active refresh point. Depending on how far ahead one chooses to stay, this method may demand code that copies or renders the display at a fixed, constant speed. Too much latency causes the monitor to overtake the software on occasion, leading to rendering artifacts, tearing, etc.
Demo software on classic systems such as the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum frequently exploited these techniques, owing to the predictable nature of their respective video systems, to achieve effects that might otherwise be impossible.
- ^ How to fight tearing, virtualdub.org, 2005-10-31, archived from the original on 2015-05-30, retrieved 2015-05-19 Cite uses deprecated parameter
- ^ Adaptive VSync, nvidia.com, retrieved 2014-01-28
- ^ https://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/technologies-gaming/freesync
- ^ https://www.cnet.com/news/nvidia-g-sync-is-a-smooth-move-for-pc-games/
- ^ Derek Wilson (2009-07-16), Exploring Input Lag Inside and Out, AnandTech, retrieved 2012-01-15

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A catholic monastery devoted to the teachings of St. Benedict
Increasingly, seminarians are finding themselves in parishes
much sooner and with more responsibilities. Where do they look for
guidance and who do they turn to for advice and assurance?
Those are some of the questions Saint Meinrad is addressing with
its landmark initiative, the Institute for Priests and
Presbyterates (IPP), which assists diocesan priests in their work
through continuing education and formation.
Fr. Chris Wadelton, of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, is a
participant in the Institute and a 2009 alumnus of Saint Meinrad
Seminary and School of Theology.
Currently the associate pastor at Holy Spirit Parish on the east
side of Indianapolis, Fr. Chris has found that the IPP offers both
ongoing personal formation and programs that foster a sense of
community for his presbyterate (a presbyterate is made up of all
the priests and the bishop of a particular diocese).
"There's a sense of coming home," he says. "It's an opportunity
to share some of our recently learned experiences-talk to others
about what we've been doing, what our ministry is like."
As a student at Saint Meinrad, Fr. Chris began the Settling into
Priesthood program in his final year of seminary and continued into
his first year as a new priest. The goal is simple: to make the
transition into priesthood as seamless as possible.
"Before we were ordained, a lot of the information we were given
was theoretical," he notes. "This is what ministry is going to be
like and this is what to expect-but none of us had a vast amount of
experience. Coming back, after just a few months, we could bring
our experiences back and reflect on them. It made the theoretical
much more practical."
Settling into Priesthood is just one of several programs the IPP
offers to help priests in their first five years of ministry to
continue their formation, learn from their peers and find the
assistance they need as they adjust to their new roles.
During 2010, the Institute hosted 12 programs, with 117
participants. Programs include offerings that begin in the seminary
to help the soon to be priest as he makes the transition into
ministry. Mentor training and ongoing formation programs help
priests in their first five years to continue to learn and grow in
their ministry.
Finally, the IPP offers several programs that address
presbyteral unity, bringing priests and their bishop together to
form a cohesive unit and become more intentional about their common
"This year was my first convocation with all the other priests,"
says Fr. Chris. "It's a great opportunity to build fraternity.
There's a feeling of coming back to the Hill, not as a student, but
as one of the presbyterate."
The Institute for Priests and Presbyterates is expanding its
offerings for dioceses, as well as serving more priests through
existing programs. The new programs include a World Priest program
to help international priests transition into diocesan ministry in
the United States, and a Stoking the Fire sabbatical program for
Growth and change at Saint Meinrad, in response to the changing
needs of the Church, is part of what draws Fr. Chris back to the
Hill. "I think it's a dynamic that is good to see in a
seminary-that they continually update and remake themselves," he
says. "Updating facilities and programs can be seen as a metaphor
for ministry. Each priest has to learn to rejuvenate himself and
remake himself continually in order to stay dynamic."
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Brian Brown: Same-Sex Marriage Not Inevitable Nationally
(WASHINGTON) -- When asked whether same-sex marriage bans across the country will eventually be struck down following the landmark Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage, National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, that he didn't think that it would be "inevitable."
Despite this week's rulings, which declared part of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional and dismissed an appeal made by supporters of Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in California, Brown downplayed the victories claimed by gay marriage supporters, saying that the Court did not establish a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the case that considered the California ban passed in 2008.
"The court said, well, the proponents don't have standing. It did not say that there was a constitutional right to redefine marriage," Brown said on ABC's This Week Sunday.
President of the Human Rights Campaign Chad Griffin also joined This Week and said he's prepared to continue to "fight this battle on all fronts," through referenda, state legislation and federal court cases to expand same-sex marriage rights further.
Brown said the precedent set in California, where state officials refused to defend Proposition 8 — a law passed by popular referendum — is "horrific for our republic."
"If the governor and attorney general don't to want defend that law, you've just gutted the initiative and referendum process. This is not an American value," Brown said.
Brown called Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority decision in the DOMA case an "absolute travesty" and "incoherent."
He added that Justice Kennedy "says something that is patently untrue," that a person who believes "this truth, that marriage is the union of a man and a woman is somehow motivated by animus and discrimination."
Such an assumption, Brown said, "leads to discrimination against those of us who know that there's something unique and special about husbands and wives, mothers and fathers coming together in marriage."
"There will be a lot of attempts to use this decision to redefine marriage in other states. And we will stand for the truth wherever it is," Brown said.
Griffin, an advocate of gay marriage whose wins this week prompted congratulatory calls from President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, spoke of the broader status of same-sex marriage across the United States.
"At the same time while we celebrate, we have to acknowledge that there are 37 states in this country that still don't have equality," Griffin said.
Asked if he thought gay marriage supporters will win victories to expand same-sex marriage to other states, Griffin said, "I have all expectation that we will."
Griffin pointed to the history of social movements to predict the outcome of the same-sex marriage debate.
"This country has always moved historically — whether it was women's rights, or the Civil Rights Movement of the 50′s and 60′s to today — we have always moved to greater inclusion and treating all of our citizens equally under the law," Griffin said.
"We're well on our way. We're not there yet, but we're well on our way," he added.
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Today's Copyright Term & Reform Musings/
Copyright term is one of the most sacred areas for the film industry at large. "The longer the better" says the voice from on high, and everyone seems to blindly accept this creed. I wonder how true this is, particularly for independent and Truly Free filmmakers. I certainly don't feel this is so for culture in general. We are definitely being denied participating in a growing wave of remix & mashup work that is particularly interesting and relevant to the world today.
aboriginal societies in which the person of consequence — the man or woman who is deemed worthy of adulation, respect and emulation — is not the one who accumulates the most goods but the one who disperses them. Gift economies, as Mauss defines them, are marked by circulation and connectivity: goods have value only insofar as they are treated as gifts, and gifts can remain gifts only if they are continually given away. This results in a kind of engine of community cohesion, in which objects create social, psychological, emotional and spiritual bonds as they pass from hand to hand.
Unlike a commodity, whose value begins to decline the moment it changes hands, an artwork gains in value from the act of being circulated—published, shown, written about, passed from generation to generation — from being, at its core, an offering.
This morning BoingBoing's post on Pam Samuelson's Free Culture 2008 lecture then spelled out another reason why we need Copyright Reform. She cites an article by John Tehranian (download it there) where he demonstrates that in a normal day (without any P2P activity) he potentially violated copyright law 83 times and was liable for $12.5M in fines. That is in a single day!


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Take a deep breath. Was that difficult? If so, you may want to check out a new public service guide from the Men's Health Network. "Breathe Easy: Your Lungs and COPD" focuses on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the third-leading cause of death in the United States, according to the nonprofit. About 12 million Americans have COPD, which is a treatable disease, and it is estimated that 12 million more have symptoms that are undiagnosed.
Among those symptoms are a persistent cough, difficulty breathing while walking or talking, blue fingernails or lips, and coughing up mucus. The biggest red flag is coughing up blood. "This is never a good sign," the guide says. "If you haven't done so already, you need to call your doctor right now."
The guide explains that smoking, poor air quality, asthma and childhood lung infections are all risk factors for COPD. There's also information about COPD in women — who tend to experience more severe symptoms than men — and advice for talking to your doctor. "Breathe Easy" is free and available for download at www.menshealthnetwork.org in the library section.
Let the battle of the booties begin. Two "Real Housewives of Atlanta" stars have moved their cable rivalry to DVD with the release of exercise programs that promise butt-blasting results.
Phaedra Parks famously asked Kenya Moore, her BFF-turned-nemesis on the Bravo reality show, to produce her "Donkey Booty" fitness DVD. After a falling-out, Moore announced that she was working on a project of her own, dubbed "Stallion Booty." Neither of the DVD names stuck, but both workouts promise firmer backsides — and a dose of two of cable's most outspoken personalities.
Parks's "Phine Body" program includes two 60-minute disks, which can be purchased separately and are led by Parks's husband. Moore's "Booty Boot Camp" consists of three 20-minute workouts on one DVD. Led by pro trainer Nikki Veal, the exercises are a combination of traditional and some risque moves with such names as "Booty Pop" and "Stallion Giddy-Up." Neither DVD is groundbreaking in terms of fitness, but fans of the reality stars are unlikely to notice or care.


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RFM is a removable module that turns your fridge into a smart fridge.
The project is about a removable module for refrigerators. The module can be placed on any fridge, adding some functionality by wireless connect the fridge to Internet. Turning any fridge into a smart fridge.
The aim of the module is to let users check the content of their fridge from anywhere.
A camera is placed in the opening of the fridge analyze what is getting in and out of the fridge.
Each time food is put in or out the fridge, the camera takes a snap. An image-processing algorithm treats the photo, and the food will be recognized.
Also, two sensor are integrated to the module, one to check the fridge temperature, the second to check humidity.
An Android application does the link between the module and the user. Using this application the user is able to follow the fridge stock, food expiry dates and fridge constants such as temperature and humidity.
Users receive an alert when a product is about to expire.
The user, using the Android application, can manually moderate food, which is not recognized by the module.
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Mets cut ties with Gulf Coast League
New York will operate eight Minor League affiliates in 2012
By Ashley Marshall / Special to MLB.com | December 20, 2011 6:29 PM
The team had used the club's Spring Training complex in Port St. Lucie, Fla., as its base of operations, but cuts were necessary due to continued financial troubles.
"For 2012, we will be conducting our three Rookie League teams in Kingsport, Tenn., and out of our facility in the Dominican Republic, and will not operate a team in the Gulf Coast League," the team said in a statement.
Over the past 24 years, 102 past and current Major League players have suited up for the team.
The peak for the GCL Mets came in the mid-1990s. The 1997 team, which went 42-18, had 10 future big league pitchers and three hitting prospects who made it to "The Show." Among them were future World Series champions A.J. Burnett and Octavio Dotel and Venezuelan rookie Endy Chavez.
Edgardo Alfonzo, Jay Payton, Todd Pratt, Grant Roberts and Bill Pulsipher, all members of the 2000 Mets team that made it to the Fall Classic, came through the Gulf Coast League at some point in their development.
Current Mets Jon Niese and Josh Thole played for the 2005 team that was managed by Hall of Famer and World Series winner Gary Carter, Daniel Murphy got his start in the GCL in '06 and shortstop Ruben Tejada began his career as part of the 2007 team which featured a cameo appearance by rehabbing All-Star Pedro Martinez.
More recently, pitching prospect Jenrry Mejia threw a complete-game shutout for the team during his introduction to pro ball in 2008, and the Mets' first pick in the 2011 Draft -- 18-year-old Brandon Nimmo -- appeared in seven games this season.
Other players to come through the Mets' Gulf Coast League affiliate include Jason Isringhausen in 1992, Carlos Gomez -- the key piece in the deal that brought Johan Santana to the Mets -- in 2004, and top outfield prospect Fernando Martinez in 2006.
The Mets will operate eight Minor League affiliates in 2012. The Buffalo Bisons (Triple-A), Binghamton Mets (Double-A), St. Lucie Mets (Class A Advanced), Savannah Sand Gnats (Class A) and Brooklyn Cyclones (Class A Short-Season) have been unaffected.
The Rookie-level Kingsport Mets, first rumored as the club to be cut, will still play in the Appalachian League in 2012, and the team's two affiliates in the Dominican Summer League also will go ahead as planned. Draft picks signing out of high school or internationally traditionally start at one of these levels.
The GCL Mets finished their 2011 season with a record of 27-29 (.482), in third place and 12 games behind the East Division-leading GCL Marlins.
General manager Sandy Alderson previously said the Mets, who took out a $40 million loan earlier this month in addition to a $25 million loan in 2010 that has yet to be paid back, suffered losses around $70 million this year.
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2009-10: Served as one of three team captains...Played in and started all 30 games...Had a team high ten double-doubles...Posted team high rebounds 15 times, and points seven times...Scored double-digit points 18 times and made double-digit rebounds 14 times...Scored a season high 26 points against Fairleigh Dickinson on Jan. 30, also her career high...Led the team with 271 rebounds, 57 three pointers, and three point percentage .345...Was second on the team with 323 points...Shot 41% from the field while also adding 35 assists...Averaged 10.8 points/game, 9.0 rebounds/game, and 1.2 assists/game.
2008-09: Named Northeast Conference Rookie of the Week twice...Played in and started 30 games...Led the team in both overall field goal shooting and three-point shooting with percentages of 48.1 and 41.8, respectively...Also led the Blue Devils with 7.8 rebounds per game and 51 three-pointers made...Averaged 10.2 points per game and totaled 46 steals...Had team-high rebounds 13 times...Also led team in scoring six times...Scored a career-high 23 points versus Fairleigh Dickinson on Jan. 10...Had three double-double performances...Recorded double-digit rebounds nine times, including four straight...Ranked in the top five in the conference in rebounds (fifth), field goal percentage (third) and three-point field goal percentage (second)...Named to all-tournament team at the Rhody Classic.
2007-08: Sat out season due to NCAA rules and regulations for transfers.
Before Central: Attended University of Maryland-Baltimore County...Two-time Hartford Courant and New Haven Register All-State honoree...Earned all-conference selection as a sophomore, junior and senior...Participated in CHSCA All-Star Game...Selected to JCC All-Star Game...1,000 point scorer at Manchester High...Helped lead Indians to CIAC Class LL State Championships in 2003 and 2005.


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Many farmers breathed a sigh of relief when Congress a couple years ago enacted a $5 million lifetime federal exemption for estate tax, indexed to inflation. This year, the exemption is $5.34 million.
"So, if you are married, a farm couple can actually give away almost $11 million either during their lifetime or at their death, completely tax free," says Paul Neiffer, The Farm CPA.
The problem is that, given the rapid rate of farm appreciation in recent years, $10.68 million might not go very far.
"That may sound like a lot of money, and several years ago for our farm economy, it was. But now we've seen farmers in Iowa or Illinois get $15,000 an acre for their farm." If the farm is 1,000 acres, Neiffer says, "they are looking at owing taxes. We have lots of farmers out there with multiple thousands of acres."
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Farmers in their 40s or 50s could wind up with a big estate tax burden by the time they reach their 80s or 90s, unless they do estate tax planning now. "If farmland values continue to grow at the rate they are growing, they could very easily face owing Uncle Sam, and their state, $5 million, $10 million, $15 million in taxes," Neiffer explains.
The federal estate-tax exemption may be $5.34 million, but 15 states still levy an estate tax, though some grant farmland exemptions. "I live in Washington State," Neiffer says. "Our estate tax kicks in at $2 million. The state just south of us, Oregon, it kicks in at $1 million."
One way to reduce state estate tax liability is to move to another state such as Arizona, Texas or Florida, which don't levy state estate taxes. The key is to eventually live their more than six months out of the year.
"A lot of our farmers, when they get a little older, become snowbirds. They'll live in Texas in the wintertime and Minnesota in the summertime," says Neiffer, adding that even if Florida becomes your primary residence, you may still owe a state such as Oregon some estate tax, just because that's where the farmland is located.
The other weapon farmers have at their disposal is gifting. The annual tax-free exclusion in 2014 is $14,000 per person that can be given to each child or grandchild. The money will compound if put away in the right investment vehicle. And it will lower how much of an estate is subject to estate taxes.
Consider a farm couple with three children who each have four children. A husband and wife who jointly own the farm could each give each child and grandchild $14,000, or about $420,000, says Neiffer.
"And if we're dealing with farmland that's been placed in an LLC," says Neiffer, "we can take 'appropriate marketability' and 'minority interest' discounts on that, and we can drop that value of the farmland—let's say it's $750,000—we could drop it down to close to $500,000 or even less.
"In that case, we might still file a gift tax return. But we don't owe any gift tax. We don't eat into our lifetime estate tax exclusion of $5.34 million. It's just a way of making sure, especially if you have a farm couple with a farm worth between $10 million to $15 million, of getting the value below that $10.68 million threshold and keeping it below."


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HP Reports: In 1994, America Ferrera was 9-years-old and living with her family in Los Angles when her mother took her aside for a conversation adults who are not Latino may find shocking.
A wave of anti-immigrant sentiment and complaints about draining public resources aimed at the state's then-growing undocumented immigrant population had inspired a ballot initiative and new law, Proposition 187. The measure -– passed by a wide margin of California voters but later deemed unconstitutional by a federal court –- sought to create a state-run citizenship screening program.
"My mother said, 'Listen, someone may ask you what you are and where you are from. Don't let anyone scare you. You are an American'," Ferrera told a group of mostly Latino elected officials, activists, students and reporters gathered at an event to unveil America4America.com, a website she is committed to that highlights voter mobilization, labor and other groups to energize the Latino electorate.
The irony in a childhood tale about a young Ferrera being coached to handle questions about her citizenship set off a short wave of laughter at Thursday's event. Ferrera's parents immigrated to the United States from Honduras in the 1970s, nearly a decade before Ferrera was born. But almost 20 years after Ferrera's conversation with her mother in California, state-level immigration enforcement nationwide have not only continued but become more common.
Those policies and the conversations they inspire in Latino homes are among the chief reasons Hispanic voters need to harness their growing voting power for the November election, said Maria Teresa Kumar, co-founder and president of Voto Latino, a nonpartisan political engagement organization.
Much has been made of the surging size of the nation's Latino population. Census data indicates that about 50,000 Latinos will turn 18 each month this year, making some of them eligible to vote. But, Latinos also have the lowest voter registration rates of any demographic group in the United States, said Congressman Charles Gonzalez, a Democrat from Texas, who also chairs the Hispanic Congressional Caucus.
Among those who are legally eligible to vote, 78 percent of not Hispanic, white Americans and nearly 60 percent of black Americans are registered, Gonzalez said. But only 48 percent of eligible Latino voters are listed on voting rolls somewhere in the United States.
Thursday's event -– like many others in Washington -– was heavy on ceremony, but light on substance and details about what organizations will do differently this year to reach the nation's eligible Latino voters.
Every elected official in the room took advantage of an allotted two-minute speech time, and when the event ended, more than two dozen people angled to have their photo taken with Ferrera or elected officials.
America4America.com will include information, data and other tools that aim to mobilize Latino voters. It is also one part of an effort uniting Voto Latino; the League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan voter engagement organization; the union-affiliated Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and others that plan to put organizers on the ground, register eligible voters and get those already on the rolls to the polls in November, Kumar said.
But for Kumar, the difference this year is clear. America4America.com and those grassroots activists will, "keep it real and make it personal," Kumar said.
"We're going to go there because politicians have made it personal, " said Kumar. "When they use anti-immigrant rhetoric to stoke anxiety and gain votes, when they propose policies that frankly consist of nothing more than racial profiling, they've made it personal. Because when they are talking about immigrants we understand, that they are talking about us. They are talking about our families."
That's a message that may resonate, said Matt Barreto, a political scientist at the University of Washington and a co-founder of Latino Decisions, a polling and research firm. About 80 percent of Latinos living in the United States are either immigrants, the children or grandchildren of immigrants, according to a 2011 Latino Decision's poll.
So while Latino voters may have a range of political concerns, the immigrant experience is immediate, real, well-understood and something around which there is a deep well of sensitivity and concern, said Barreto.


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What I bring you today, has very little to do with optical illusions. Still, in order to solve this puzzle, you have to apply your puzzle-solving experience, as well as use your brain extensively. Those of you who follow our website from day one, will remember the original "Escape The Crimson Room" puzzle. I was amazed how well you guys accepted these kind of posts! More important, you did extremely good job solving it!
To be sincere, I played this for half an hour, but then I got stuck with some colorful cubes. You'll know what I'm talking about when you get your hands dirty. I can give you some tips, but wouldn't want to ruin this puzzle for others. So the only thing I'm gonna say, is look behind the suitcase and don't overlook the corners ;) Hope we can solve this one together using our combined powers! If you show some interest towards these kind of posts, I'll make sure to bring more in the future!


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Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 AI 3GB/32GB Dual SIM Gold
- 10.04.2018
- Gold
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Interesting and gorgeous, stylish and elegant — all of this is the new one Redmi Note 5 Pro. Wide display, slim borders — all that need the modern generation.Latest comments
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Concentration of elegance in your hands
Interesting design for a modern generation
Interesting and gorgeous, stylish and elegant — all of this is the new one Redmi Note 5 Pro. Wide display, slim borders — all that need the modern generation.
There is a fingerprint sensor on the back side of the body that reliably secures all your data and content from the strangers.
Metal body makes it smooth and durable at the same time. The device feels quite light in a hand.
As usual for Xiaomi smartphones line the smartphone is available in four colors: Gold, Rose Gold, Black, and Blue.
Dual Camera — create an incredible content
Pair of Samsung and Sony sensors
- 12MP +5MP primary camera
This model is provided with the dual camera that allows make you interesting content like the professional. The camera module consists of two paired sensors by Samsung and Sony.
This combination of 12MP primary and 5MP of the secondary sensor allows you to make a photo with a depth of field, that a typical smartphone camera can't offer you. Large pixel size 1.25μm, PDAF — you will be able to make the photos even in low light conditions.
There are different modes to create an incredible content. Use the panorama mode to catch everything in one shot or the burst mode to make the proto in motion. Face recognition feature will help to make the perfect portrait.
High resolution of selfie camera
Impressive 20MP
- selfie camera with a flashlight
Redmi Note 5 Pro is provided with the selfie camera in the highest resolution. There aren't any models in the market that can boast with such parameters. In selfie camera is used the sensor, produced by Sony and quite a bright flashlight with temperature rate 4500K. Make a selfie with your friends and enjoy the bright colors and sharp images.
Beautify 4.0 — join the era of selfie
This is the new optimized software for improving the quality of the image. Smart technology easily identifies the facial features or any other enhancements on the face.
Mega-wide display
18:9 display resolution
Best gamer's experience in your smartphone. To compare with traditional 16:9 devices — the display of Redmi Note 5 Pro was increased by 12,5% — now it is 18:9.
See more details in your favorite games.
Safety despite all
The widescreen requires more safety in using the device. Corning Gorilla 2,5D Glass display provides the resistance in wearing due to curved edges.
The device is designed with reinforced corners to prevent the screen damage. This technology was rigorously tested to prove the quality assurance. The smartphone has a special dual graphene list inside that helps to reduce the temperature during the work and improve the level of performance.
New version of the processor
Improved overall performance
- Snapdragon 636
This model has the built-in new version of Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 636 processor. The octa-core processor with Kryo architecture. The improved overall performance and power efficiency. More powerful up to 40% than its predecessor.
Face Unlock
High level of protection
Do you think that usual lock can't secure your smartphone properly? That is why the Redmi Note 5 Pro model is provided with Face Unlock technology. The new direction in smartphones security. All you need is just to turn on the screen of your smartphone and it will automatically recognize your face. All the process will take only 0,2 seconds.
Internal Memory
3-choose-2 card slot
The model is available in 3 versions of RAM (3GB,4GB, and 6GB) and the internal memory is 32GB and 64GB in both 4GB and 6GB models. If this amount is not enough for storing your content, it can be expanded up to 128GB with SD card.
Great battery capacity
The long-term performance
- 19 days in standby mode
The lithium-ion polymer battery with high 4000mAh capacity in combination with MIUI system-level power optimization provides up to 19 days of standby work, 14 hours of video watching and 8,5 hours of gaming.
MIUI 9 firmware
An optimized system for new possibilities
All the necessary and useful features are concentrated in MIUI 9 firmware. Transfer the files between devices without the Internet connection using Mi Drop. Smart storing and grouping the video files with Mi Video.
The access to your favorite applications is easier and faster. The system was optimized for all the levels. Use the split screen feature to run 2 apps at the same time. Moreover, it is quite easier to work with notifications.
They are sorted by groups and you can answer the messages without unlocking the device.
All the possibilities to increase the productivity and your user's experience in Redmi Note 5 Pro.
* The device is unlocked for worldwide use. It comes with MIUI official software, without Google Play services, supports the English language.
Please ensure that this model is compatible with the frequency of your local area network before purchasing.
Manufacturer Xiaomi Model Redmi Note 5 Pro Network 4G FDD-LTE
40/41 (120MHz) 3G WCDMA1/2/5/8 2G GSM2/3/5/8
Dimensions 158.6×75.4×8.05 mm Weight 181 g SIM Dual SIM (nanoSIM + nanoSIM/microSD) Display type IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors Size 5.99 inches, 92.6 cm2 (~77.4% screen-to-body ratio) Resolution 2160 × 1080 FHD (~403 ppi pixel density) OS MIUI 9 Chipset Qualcomm SDM636 Snapdragon 636 CPU Octa-core 1.8 GHz Kryo 260 GPU Adreno 509 RAM 3GB Memory 32GB Card slot microSD, up to 256 GB (uses SIM 2 slot) Primary camera Dual: 12 MP (f/2.2, 1.25 μm) + 5 MP (f/2.0, 1.12 μm), phase detection autofocus, LED flash Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, panorama, HDR Video [email protected] Secondary camera 20 MP (f/2.2, 1/2.8″, 1 μm), LED flash, 1080p WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, WiFi Direct, hotspot Bluetooth 5,0, A2DP, LE GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS USB microUSB 2.0 Sensors Fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass Battery Non-removable Li-Po4000 mAh battery Color Gold Package 1 x Phone
1 x Power adapter
1 x USB cable
1 x SIM insertion tool
1 x User manual
1 x Ultra-slim case
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Learn Something New in Katy, Texas
It is all over the news that the future of our economy and the current job market is in large part based on skills not learned from a traditional four year institution. Perhaps it is time to consider another route, and to get training in a field that guarantees gainful employment; or, to just broaden your horizons. For those of you considering this, there are a variety of great schools in Katy.
Houston Community College
Cinco Ranch
4242 South Mason Road
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Katy Mills
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Houston Community College
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1550 Foxlake Drive
Houston, Texas 77084
Houston Community College offers courses that lead to an Associate in Applied Science Degree (A.A.S.) in fields such as cosmetology, computer science, filmmaking and audio visual, lifestyle arts and design, architecture, construction and manufacturing technology, human development and life skills, and business, financial and legal studies.
Spencer Training and Testing Development, Inc.
23930 Westheimer Parkway
Katy, Texas 77494
Real estate education for real estate sales person, real estate broker, loan officer, mortgage brokerage, loan processing, appraiser and inspector licensing.
Katy Visual & Performing Arts Center
2501 S. Mason Road, Suite 290
Katy, Texas 77450
Classes and programs for all ages from pre-K to adults in Theater, Visual Arts, and Music.
ITT Technical Institute
2950 South Gessner
Houston, Texas 77063
This location has schools of information technology, electronics technology, drafting and design, business, and criminal justice.
Bill Reid Aviation School
24215 FM1093 Road
Richmond, Texas 77406
Flying lessons and aviation instruction.
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An American citizen who separated from the United States Army in July 2011 was arrested in Kenya while attempting to join Al Shabaab, an Islamic militant group that seeks to create an Islamic state in Somalia.
Craig Baxam, 24, from Laurel, Maryland, departed the United States for Kenya on December 20, 2011, after emptying his government retirement account. He was detained by Kenyan authorities while trying to reach the Somali border on December 23, 2011. During an interview with the FBI in Kenya, Baxam confessed his desire to join Al Shabaab after waiving his rights to silence and counsel.
Baxam converted to Islam shortly before leaving the Army, where he was trained in cryptology and intelligence operations, according to court documents. Baxam claims that he did not subscribe to any religion prior to this point, but "immediately realized Islam was the truth" after reading about it online.
In his conversations with investigators, Baxam described how he came to find living as a religious Muslim in the United States oppressive. He considered hijra, the immigration to Islamic lands, mandatory. He specifically said that the only areas he deemed suitable were those controlled by Al Shabaab or the Taliban, or the area in the southern Philippines in which a terrorist organization is seeking to establish and Islamic state.
Baxam told authorities that his loyalties were to Islam, adding that he hoped to live his life in an Islamic state, but would be ready to take up arms against the United States if necessary. He explained that he was guaranteed a place in Jannah (paradise) if he died fighting for Islam, and that he was "looking for dying with a gun in my hand."
In an apparent departure from other cases of Americans seeking to join Al Shabaab, Baxam is not alleged to have received assistance from anyone in the United States or Somalia, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office.
Baxam was arrested upon his return to the U.S. on January 6, 2012, and was charged on January 9 with attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization. He faces up to 15 years imprisonment if convicted.


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Here at Adobe, I work on the Identity Platform team. We are responsible for running the main identity management platform that services all of Adobe's customers. As part of this, we get the opportunity to solve some very interesting problems in the identity space. I've written about this before, but we recently underwent a large change to our identity platform to adopt the OAuth 2.0 standard for authentication and authorization. This allows our users to integrate with us much like they would with other large service providers who have also adopted OAuth 2.0, such as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. This was a very fun project and one that I particularly enjoyed because I learned a heck of a lot about identity management and API security, as well as some of the deeper ins and outs of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. At the conclusion of that project, I was approached by the nice folks at Packt Publishing to write a book about the topic.
Introducing Mastering OAuth 2.0
I present to you, my first book, Mastering OAuth 2.0…
What does it cover?
The book covers what you would imagine: the OAuth 2.0 protocol and how to use it effectively. However, it focuses specifically on the client integration side of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. That is, this book is geared towards application developers looking to build applications that integrate with OAuth 2.0 service providers, as opposed to application developers looking to build their own OAuth 2.0 servers. This is best described by the book's description…
"OAuth 2.0 is a powerful authentication and authorization framework that has been adopted as a standard in the technical community. Proper use of this protocol will enable your application to interact with the world's most popular service providers, allowing you to leverage their world-class technologies in your own application. Want to log your user in to your application with their Facebook account? Want to display an interactive Google Map in your application? How about posting an update to your user's LinkedIn feed? This is all achievable through the power of OAuth. With a focus on practicality and security, this book takes a detailed and hands-on approach to explaining the protocol, highlighting important pieces of information along the way."
If you are an application developer looking to build a web or mobile application that integrates with any of the major service providers, like Google or Facebook, you will likely be doing it via OAuth 2.0. If so, this book is right up your alley :)
The World's Most Interesting Infographic
One thing that I'm especially proud of regarding this book is the depth of the code and sample applications that I provide. I didn't want to step through the learning process while building a sample application that isn't realistic, or that no one will ever use. Rather, I decided to build an interesting, real-world, working sample application. Enter The World's Most Interesting Infographic!
The World's Most Interesting Infographic is the sample application that is built throughout the book. It is a web application that will, through the power of OAuth 2.0, request profile and feed data from your Facebook account and dynamically generate an infographic based on the statistics it gleans. Here is a snapshot of mine…
Log into www.worldsmostinterestinginfographic.com (or www.wmiig.com for short) to see your own infographic! Or better yet, follow along in the book and create your own application!
It's all open-source!
Much like I do with a lot of my other projects, I've made the source code for The World's Most Interesting Infographic, as well as the rest of the sample code for the book, available on GitHub. Check it out here…
Sample chapter
We've made chapter 1 available for free for anyone interested in checking the book out, but not sure whether it will be useful for them. You can download it in PDF form, or view it on the publisher's interactive website…
Download sample chapter as PDF
View sample chapter on publisher website
Take a look at the sample chapter I've provided above, and if you like it, please consider purchasing it! As always, I love hearing from you. So do let me know your feedback in the comments too. Happy coding!


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This shouldn't come as a surprise, but it's true, paying for music and adhering to copyright laws does create jobs, like in this post.
And yet, the "free music economy" persists, as more and more internet surfers demand cheap or free content to use as they please. But I think there is a happy medium between the "free music economy" and prohibitively expensive licensing, and that happy medium is stock music. As computer and mobile devices become increasingly more capable, and barriers to entry in creative tasks fall, more and more people want that soundtrack for their slideshow, presentation, home movie, or viral YouTube hit. I would say most infringers steal because they simply can't afford to play the music industry's game, nor is their project worthy of that kind of scrutiny.
Instead of stealing, though, which I think we can all agree stifles creativity and hurts content creators, keeping food off their tables and forcing otherwise talented artists to find work elsewhere, stock music is a reasonable, affordable alternative. Artists should look at ways they can bring their products to market in ways such as this as a more desirable alternative to giving away all their stuff for free. Doing so would counteract the pirate culture. I see stock music as bridging the gap, either to bring out an unknown's work to the public, or to lengthen the revenue tail of a song that has fallen by the wayside amidst constant musical innovation.
Similarly, multimedia authors need to step back and do things the right way. Afterall, they probably wouldn't like it if we broke into their home and took their family photos and plastered them online… unless they already do that on Facebook. There are options for affordable projects — and stock media is one of them, which effectively keeps musicians and artists employed and the economy running so that there will be new music for the next project.


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It took eight years and a mother's intuition and determination, but this week Florida police arrested Jason Gailey and charged him with the 2005 murder of Ronald Johnson.
Judy Weaver, Johnson's mother, did everything except put the cuffs on Gailey despite years of resistance by police who classified Johnson's death as a bicycle accident.
"It was really all my mom," said Deborah Murray who helped her mother crack the case.
Johnson was 34 when he died on a rainy June 27, 2005. Eyewitness accounts that are now considered to be false claimed Johnson was doing tricks on his bike when he slipped and hit his head on a curb.
The story struck Weaver as false, particularly after she inspected the bike and saw that there were no scratches or any damage to the bike, and that there was no curb in the area that her son could have slammed his head against, she told ABC News.
"The family could not and would not accept that Johnson's death was an accident," said Detective Michael Kispert of the Orange County Sherriff's Office.
"I'm just kind of numb. I'm very much relieved," Weaver told ABC News days after Gailey's arrest. "I feel relieved that Jason isn't out there running the streets, and he is going to have to be accountable.... The world is a safer place without him in it."
"I think he thought he'd get away with it. But as long as he is alive, people don't just get away with that stuff," she said.
Weaver's suspicions led her to lure a suspect out even while her son was clinging to life in a coma.
Weaver and her daughter spread the word that "Ronnie was doing fine," recovering, and giving details about what actually happened, that he was "just a little headachy."
"This is how we got people to talk... Ronnie didn't actually speak to anybody." In fact, Johnson was taken off life support nine days later, passing away on July 6, 2005.
The ploy worked, however, and Weaver said she got a partial confession from Gailey, who said that he had "accidentally hit Ronnie with his fist," and that "Ronnie was getting back up to beat him up, so he ran."
"I think he was trying to deflect," said Murray, "pinning all fault on the others."
Weaver went to the authorities with that information, but wasn't enough to convince them her son had been killed. The mother-daughter team carried on their own investigation for the next eight years, keeping meticulous notes.
"We worked good as a team," said Weaver. "I had already done all the leg work, I just needed to know names, numbers, and locations, and my daughter helped me find all of that."
Weaver credits divine intervention and the guiding hand of her son for the break they needed.
It came in June 2012 when Lt. Paul "Spike" Hopkins came into the Chik-fil-A restaurant where Weaver was working. She was unaware that Hopkins was a detective when her son died and had worked on the case, but she spouted off about her son's case to the officer.
What she said stirred Hopkins' interest in the case and it was reopened.
"I've always believed that he was leading us in the right direction," Weaver says in reference to her son.
"I knew if we got the right people, eventually it would be solved. It's getting the right person and eight years later, we got that right person," Weaver told ABC News. "I never gave up."
During a fresh investigation police determined that witnesses changed their stories, Kispert said.
Mom Spends Eight Years Tracking Down Son's Alleged Killer
One critical witness who had suffered a stroke "felt compelled after his life's circumstances had changed that he owed it to himself and his family to come forward with the truth," Kispert said.
What has emerged from multiple witness accounts is that there was a fight between Gailey and another man identified as Harry "Cowboy" Taylor and Johnson was trying to stop it when he received a blow to his head with a handgun that made him fall to the ground and hit the concrete, Kispert said.
"My son was a good Samaritan and he lost his life," Weaver said.
"If he had to lose his life, I'm proud he lost his life doing a good thing," she said. "I think he is looking down on us and just so proud that we never gave up, that we got to the bottom of this. I feel him around me, and when I see him again, we will rejoice."
Weaver said that these past eight years have helped her get through the grieving process.
"It kept me busy," she said. "And our story shows that there is light at the end of the tunnel... Anger doesn't really help you. Hate doesn't guide you. I don't hate Jason. I don't think he deliberately tried to kill Ronnie, but we got to own what we do."
Gailey has been charged with second degree murder. He has yet to be arraigned and has not entered a plea. Court documents said he would be assigned a public defender.


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Yegor Kuznetsov, a Director with IceWarp, describes how TXOL Internet, a regional Texas-based provider of web hosting, web design, and e-mail services, addressed a crucial hurdle that was slowing down its expansion: the absence of a robust and secure email system it could offer to its clients as the centerpiece of their IT infrastructure. TXOL was rapidly building out its portfolio and contemplating Wi-Max Wireless Technology to expand its wireless offerings. The absence of effective messaging platform in the company's product range was slowing it down.
It wasn't like TXOL did not have anything at all. The firm was using Sendmail open source solution to provide its clients with basic messaging capabilities. However, the product was constantly breeding multiple security issues.
"We had a lot of problems with it," explains Benny Williams, a Network Administrator at TXOL. "There was no control over outgoing emails, in addition to other glitches." TXOL team tried to solve the problem by adding the Barracuda Networks solution to filter the outgoing traffic.
This, however, did not work. "We have discovered that the system was still sending spam emails through the network," says Mr. Williams. At that point, adopting yet another security solution on top of the existing one seemed to be a dubious exercise. "There was no guarantee that replacing the application would fix the problem," notes Mr. Wiliams.
As it often happens, TXOL ran across the effective solution by sheer chance. This time the chance came in the form of a successful acquisition: it turned out that the purchased company already had an effective messaging platform TXOL never heard of: IceWarp.
"We purchased a company that, as luck may have it, already had IceWarp installed," recalls Mr. Williams. His team reviewed the solution, liked it and decided to purchase additional licenses.
TXOL discovered that IceWarp's powerful features have significantly improved security for its customers and the company's image.
"Prior to IceWarp, our reputation score fluctuated between 67 and 85 points – we were frequently blacklisted because of spamming activities," says Mr. Williams. "Now our reputation score is between 99 and 100. It means we are not getting blacklisted."
Blacklisting is the challenge for many other organizations in the same vertical with TXOL. For example, The Prairie Grove Telephone Company (PGTELCO), had the legacy email servers used IP ranges for end user authentication. Both machines had no limit on the e-mails sent, and it was extremely difficult to track down exploited accounts.
"Using IP ranges as a criteria means that if a machine is exploited, it becomes an open relay for sending out huge amounts of spam," says Mr. Scott Griffin, Senior Systems Administrator at PGTELCO. "Just one compromised home computer resulted in whole server blacklisting. People have no tolerance for spam anymore – they'll just block you without any notification."
It took weeks, sometimes months to take the PGTELCO servers off numerous blacklists, and that was seriously affecting customer satisfaction. "If your e-mail server is out of control, than your business is out of control," notes Mr. Griffin. In IceWarp experience, this security issue plagues many companies in the same space.
"Spammers are becoming more and more talented and their commandeering of corporate email servers is more frequent than ever," explains John Cooper, Vice President of North America Sales at IceWarp. "You really do need to bring a combination of security features together to ensure that you can protect yourself and ensure you stay off of blacklists."
Industry research firms also see this as a serious issue.
"Email is a core collaboration technology in the business world, but the value of email is limited when legitimate conversations are mistakenly routed to spam and junk email lists," states Hyoun Park, Research Analyst, Collaboration and Integrated Communications at Aberdeen Group. "It is vitally important for companies to optimize and secure email delivery in ways that support employee productivity and the reputation of the organization." PGTELCO solved the problem by replacing its aging machines with IceWarp in a virtual environment. "All security aspects are now in the single management console," says Mr. Griffin. "This greatly improves the overall functionality. I can view the stats and see how many emails were sent, their size, and when users last logged on/off from what IP address. And, it is easy to identify inactive accounts and those that exceeded their quota."
Additionally, the solution helped TXOL reign in systems administration costs. "IceWarp is so easy to manage, that we can use administrators who are not too tech-savvy," says Mr. Williams. "The product already paid for itself."
Currently TXOL is upgrading its network to provide high-speed wireless connectivity and sell additional services that can be powered by IceWarp. "For example, we will consider IceWarp for VoIP offerings, groupware and instant messaging offerings local businesses could be interested in," concludes Mr. Williams.
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Nielsen Backs Off Reporting Data On Cord Cutters Because The Cable Industry Prefers Fantasyland
from the Plato's-cave dept
For many years we've discussed how the cable industry is in stark denial about cord cutting, insisting at different points that the cord cutter was a mythological beast akin to yeti or unicorn, despite very obvious stats showing they're a small but growing and very important statistical reality. When the industry wasn't busy insisting that cord cutters didn't exist, they were busy trying to argue that they were an irrelevant niche market of uneducated, middle-aged dolts (not that there's anything wrong with that) living in mom's basement, even though the data shows that cord cutters tend to be young and highly educated.
As such, it has been fun watching the legacy TV industry (and those that exist and profit comfortably within it) perform 180s when confronted with data that has become less and less "negotiable." For example, one of cord cutter's biggest opponents was former Sanford Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett, who spent years insisting to any media outlet who would listen that cord cutters weren't real, only to recently move to his own firm, where he now readily admits cord cutting is an important trend (you're to ignore the fact he was not just wrong, but aggressively wrong, for many years).
Also amusing to watch has been TV ratings firm Neilsen, who has an obvious vested interest in keeping TV ecosystem executives happily believing whatever they'd like to believe about the current TV ad market. Nielsen over the years has gone out of their way to proudly proclaim cord cutting was "purely fiction," yet despite this certainty, the firm only about a year ago announced they would finally begin the process of figuring out how to track viewership on alternative devices (consoles, iPads, smartphones) and services like Netflix and Hulu. Around the same time, Nielsen began manipulating their definitions, calling people who don't watch TV on a TV "zero TV households" -- just so they didn't have to use the term "cord cutter" and admit what they'd spent years denying.
Fast forward to this week with the news that Nielsen is bowing to broadcaster pressure to delay publicizing data the cable industry may not like. After fielding complaints from NAB, Nielsen is withholding broadband-only household data from the firm's local TV ratings service "for the time being." Their explanation:
"In early 2013, the decision to include broadband-only homes in Nielsen's television universe estimate was made to measure the media behavior of the average U.S. viewer in this fast-changing and evolving technological landscape," Nielsen Senior Vice President-Insights and Analysis Pat McDonough said in a statement. "This change was made with specific and strategic measurement benchmarks in place as a way to study how this small segment of the vast viewing audience might affect the larger sample. "Based on a thorough evaluation of the viewing patterns in broadband-only homes and industry feedback on the need to maintain stable measurement in local television," she continued, "we have decided to exclude broadband-only TV homes from local TV measurement and ratings for the time being."That's long-winded code for: "the cable industry wants to remain in fantasyland and our data upset them, so because they pay us we're allowing them to remain willfully oblivious until they're better able to acknowledge reality." There's been a lot of pressure for Nielsen to modernize their viewing analytics, and pretty clearly those folks will be waiting a little longer. Kind of amusingly, you'd be hard-pressed to find TV ratings operations or analysts that even try to include (genuine) piracy statistics, lest that data further force the cable and broadcast industry to actually pay attention to the real world and changing consumer trends.
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EL MONTE – Officials found and removed a large graffiti message cursing the Los Angeles Police Department, which they believe to have been inspired by the recent manhunt for former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner, authorities said.
The spray-painted graffiti was first reported about 10:30 a.m. on a wall surrounding a home in the 4800 block of Dyson Street, at Lower Azusa Road, El Monte police Cpl. Aram Choe said.
"The graffiti was approximately three feet tall, and it was critical of the Los Angeles Police Department," the corporal said. He estimated the message was about 6 feet wide.
It read, "(expletive) LAPD," officials said.
Investigators suspected the graffiti was scrawled by a "Dorner supporter" in response to the recent manhunt, and ultimate killing, of quadruple-murder suspect and ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner, Choe said.
Dorner wrote in an online manifesto that he was engaging in a war against his former colleagues in law enforcement in retaliation for his termination from the LAPD in early 2009.
Before he was ultimately tracked to a cabin near Big Bear, where his body was found following a lengthy gun battle and massive fire, Dorner killed Cal State University Fullerton assistant basketball coach Monica Quan, 28, and her 27-year-old fiancee, Keith Lawrence, near their Irvine home, authorities said.
In the 10 days that followed, he went on to fatally shoot a Riverside police officer and a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy as law enforcement agencies throughout Southern California mobilized to hunt for Dorner, officials said. Another Riverside police officer and another San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy were seriously wounded by Dorner's gunfire.


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