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An explosive view of Dip and Tail's Planthouse when it's bathed in children
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A BREAST cancer survivor from Kidlington is urging women to feel confident about mastectomies, as she prepares to inspire hundreds before a charity race.
Daphne Norridge is leading the charge for women against cancer by being the guest of honour at this year's Race for Life in Oxford.
She will speak to the thousands of women running the 5km Race for Life through Oxford University Parks to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
The 50-year-old, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009, said: "I found a small lump when I was examining myself.
"My GP didn't think it was anything serious, so I wasn't worried when I went for my tests at the John Radcliffe, and went by myself.
"By the end of the day I'd been told I had cancer."
In March 2010 she had her first mastectomy, removing her right breast, and after more treatment decided in December to remove her left as well.
The mother-of-two said: "I felt like I didn't know what the future held and I didn't want to spend any more time in hospital recovering from reconstructive surgeries. I didn't want to put myself through that.
"It is a very personal decision to make.
"It is really important for some women to have reconstruction surgery but I don't believe enough women feel empowered not to. It is okay not to have breasts.
"I find it positive and liberating and I want to show other women it is okay to feel that as well".
Since treatment, Mrs Norridge, who was a childminder but now hosts teenage foreign students, has run the Oxford Race for Life four times.
This year she will hold a microphone, not a water bottle.
As the guest of honour she will go up on stage to share her story and talk about how research has helped to discover better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat the disease.
Mrs Norridge, married to workshop manager Tim, 55, said: "I want to put a face to the fundraising. It's easy to forget this is going to people, not just a cause."
Simon Burley, Race for Life Oxford event manager, said: "Cancer Research UK receives no government funding for its ground-breaking work but has spent over £120m in the last five years in Oxford on some of the UK's leading scientific and clinical research.
"Every week about 12 people in Oxford hear the words, 'you have cancer', and every week five in Oxford die from it.
"Our ambition is to see three in four people in Oxford survive their cancer within the next 20 years – but we need public support to help get us there".
Last year 6,165 women took part in Oxford's Race for Life and raised more than £362,500.
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Todd Barry brings his signature deadpan delivery and observational style back to Comedy Central with the release of his new special Todd Barry: Super Crazy. The extended and uncensored CD and DVD are set for release today, July 24th via Comedy Central.
The extended and uncensored DVD, featuring over 15 minutes of material not seen in the broadcast, is released today by Comedy Central Home Entertainment. The bonus features include Barry's uncut full performance from "The New York Friars Club Roast of Chevy Chase," and Barry on "Giggles, Wiggles and Giggles with Gordy." That same say day, Comedy Central Records will release the extended and uncensored "Todd Barry: Super Crazy" CD and digital album. The special also will be available today, July 24th in HD exclusively on Xbox LIVE and Sony PlayStation Network, and in SD on iTunes and Samsung Media Hub.
In Todd Barry: Super Crazy (filmed before a live audience at the Gramercy Theatre in New York), Barry reflects on his history as a germaphobe, gives important travel tips, and explains what you're really paying for when you order spaghetti at a restaurant.
The comedian has previously made multiple stand-up appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and two "Comedy Central Presents" specials. His resume also includes appearances on such hit TV shows as Louie, Tim and Eric, Chappelle's Show, Sex and the City, Sesame Street and many others. Barry has earned the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival's Jury Award, praise from Ricky Gervais as one of the best comedians of 2009, and accolades from The Onion's A.V. Club, which declared his first album Medium Energy one of the best comedy albums of the decade.
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The euro zone can begin 2013 with more confidence than last year but it is up to governments to carry the bloc forward with reforms while the European Central Bank delivers stable prices, ECB President Mario Draghi said on Tuesday.
Draghi's pledge in July last year to do "whatever it takes" to preserve the euro and his follow-up plan for a new ECB bond-purchase programme helped bring the euro zone back from the brink of break-up.
In a new year's speech, the central bank chief highlighted the impact the bond plan - dubbed Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) - has had on easing tensions but put the onus on governments to press ahead with reforms to retain confidence in the bloc.
The commitment shown by policymakers in the 17-country bloc last year to securing a stable euro meant that "the darkest clouds over the euro area subsided" in 2012, Draghi said.
"We begin 2013 with more confidence than we had in January one year ago," the Italian told the Frankfurt Chambers of Commerce in his speech, adding quickly that the ECB was focusing on its core task of delivering stable prices.
"This confidence is to a large extent built on the progress that all of us - governments, parliaments, the EU and the ECB - have been able to make during 2012," he said. "But it is also crucially built on the expectation that progress will persist."
"The ECB for its part will be there to continue, as it has done successfully now for 14 years, to safeguard price stability," he said, adding that there were no signs of the central bank deviating from delivering stable prices.
The ECB had shown its commitment to doing what is necessary - within its mandate - to safeguard the stability of the euro, Draghi said, adding: "Only a currency whose future existence is not in doubt can be a stable currency."
Draghi acknowledged that the reform paths many euro zone countries are pursuing is difficult.
"But there is simply no alternative to the path of reform," he said. "Despite the good progress so far showing that adjustment is happening, reform efforts need to be sustained ... Countries need competitiveness to sustain growth."
Governments should not ease off their reform drive, he said: "Relative calm in financial markets should not lead to a lowering of our ambitions to fix the structural flaws in the governance framework of the euro area."
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Windows Azure Platform Overview
The Windows Azure platform is an Internet-scale cloud computing services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. Windows tools provide functionality to build solutions that include a cloud services operating system and a set of developer services. The key parts of the Windows Azure platform are:
- Windows Azure (application container)
- Microsoft SQL Azure
- Windows Azure platform AppFabric
The infrastructure and service architectures that underlie many of these native services (as well as cloud-based services in general) are based on direct combined application of Stateful Services [786] and Redundant Implementation [766]. This is made possible by leveraging several of the built-in extensions and mechanisms provided by the Windows Azure platform (as explained in this chapter and Chapter 16).
The Windows Azure platform is part of the Microsoft cloud, which consists of multiple categories of services:
- Cloud-based applications: These are services that are always available and highly scalable. They run in the Microsoft cloud that consumers can directly utilize. Examples include Bing, Windows Live Hotmail, Office Live, etc.
- Software services: These services are hosted instances of Microsoft's enterprise server products that consumers can use directly. Examples include Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online, etc.
- Platform services: This is where the Windows Azure platform itself is positioned. It serves as an application platform public cloud that developers can use to deploy next-generation, Internet-scale, and always available solutions.
- Infrastructure services: There is a limited set of elements of the Windows Azure platform that can support cloud-based infrastructure resources.
Figure 3 illustrates the service categories related to the Windows Azure platform. Given that Windows Azure is itself a platform, let's explore it as an implementation of the PaaS delivery model.
Figure 3: A high-level representation of categories of services available in the Windows Azure cloud
The Windows Azure platform was built from the ground up using Microsoft technologies, such as the Windows Server Hyper-V-based system virtualization layer. However, the Windows Azure platform is not intended to be just another off-premise Windows Server hosting environment. It has a cloud fabric layer, called the Windows Azure Fabric Controller, built on top of its underlying infrastructure.
The Windows Azure Fabric Controller pools an array of virtualized Windows Server instances into a logical entity and automatically manages the following:
- Resources
- Load balancing
- Fault-tolerance
- Geo-replication
- Application lifecycle
These are managed without requiring the hosted applications to explicitly deal with the details. The fabric layer provides a parallel management system that abstracts the complexities in the infrastructure and presents a cloud environment that is inherently elastic. As a form of PaaS, it also supports the access points for user and application interactions with the Windows Azure platform.
The Windows Azure platform essentially provides a set of cloud-based services that are symmetric with existing mainstream on-site enterprise application platforms (see Figure 4).
Figure 4: An overview of common Windows Azure platform capabilities
For example:
- Storage services: A scalable distributed data storage system that supports many types of storage models, including hash map or table-like structured data, large binary files, asynchronous messaging queues, traditional file systems, and content distribution networks
- Compute services: Application containers that support existing mainstream development technologies and frameworks, including .NET, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, and native code.
- Data services: Highly reliable and scalable relational database services that also support integration and data synchronization capabilities with existing on-premise relational databases
- Connectivity services: These are provided via a cloud-based service bus that can be used as a message intermediary to broker connections with other cloud-based services and services behind firewalls within on-premise enterprise environments
- Security services: Policy-driven access control services that are federation-aware and can seamlessly integrate with existing on-premise identity management systems
- Framework services: Components and tools that support specific aspects and requirements of solution frameworks
- Application services: Higher-level services that can be used to support application development, such as application and data marketplaces
All of these capabilities can be utilized individually or in combination.
Windows Azure (Application Container)
Windows Azure serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment. It provides the application container into which code and logic, such as Visual Studio projects, can be deployed. The application environment is similar to existing Windows Server environments. In fact, most .NET projects can be deployed directly without significant changes.
A Windows Azure instance represents a unit of deployment, and is mapped to specific virtual machines with a range of variable sizes. Physical provisioning of the Windows Azure instances is handled by the cloud fabric. We are required only to specify, by policy, how many instances we want the cloud fabric to deploy for a given service.
We have the ability to manually start and shut down instances, and grow or shrink the deployment pool; however, the cloud fabric also provides automated management of the health and lifecycles of instances. For example, in the event of an instance failure, the cloud fabric would automatically shut down the instance and attempt to bring it back up on another node.
Windows Azure also provides a set of storage services that consumers can use to store and manage persistent and transient data. Storage services support geo-location and offer high durability of data by triple-replicating everything within a cluster and across data centers. Furthermore, they can manage scalability requirements by automatically partitioning and load balancing services across servers.
Also supported by Windows Azure is a VHD-based deployment model as an option to enable some IaaS requirements. This is primarily geared for services that require closer integration with the Windows Server OS. This option provides more control over the service hosting environment and can better support legacy applications.
Services deployed within Windows Azure containers and made available via Windows Azure instances establish service architectures that, on the surface, resemble typical Web service or REST service implementations. However, the nature of the back-end processing is highly extensible and scalable and can be further subject to various forms of Service Refactoring [783] over time to accommodate changing usage requirements. This highlights the need for Windows Azure hosted services to maintain the freedom to be independently governed and evolved. This, in turn, places a greater emphasis on the balanced design of the service contract and its proper separation as part of the overall service architecture.
Specifically, it elevates the importance of the Standardized Service Contract (693), Service Loose Coupling (695), and Service Abstraction (696) principles that, through collective application, shape and position service contracts to maximize abstraction and cross-service standardization, while minimizing negative forms of consumer and implementation coupling. Decoupled Contract [735] forms an expected foundation for Windows Azure-hosted service contracts, and there will generally be the need for more specialized contract-centric patterns, such as Validation Abstraction [792], Canonical Schema [718], and Schema Centralization [769].
SQL Azure
SQL Azure is a cloud-based relational database service built on SQL Server technologies that exposes a fault-tolerant, scalable, and multi-tenant database service. SQL Azure does not exist as hosted instances of SQL Server. It also uses a cloud fabric layer to abstract and encapsulate the underlying technologies required for provisioning, server administration, patching, health monitoring, and lifecycle management. We are only required to deal with logical administration tasks, such as schema creation and maintenance, query optimization, and security management.
In addition to reliability and scalability improvements, SQL Azure's replication mechanism can be used to apply Service Data Replication [773] in support of the Service Autonomy (699) principle. This is significant, as individual service autonomy within cloud environments can often fluctuate due to the heavy emphasis on shared resources across pools of cloud-based services.
A SQL Azure database instance is actually implemented as three replicas on top of a shared SQL Server infrastructure managed by the cloud fabric. This cloud fabric delivers high availability, reliability, and scalability with automated and transparent replication and failover. It further supports load-balancing of consumer requests and the synchronization of concurrent, incremental changes across the replicas. The cloud fabric also handles concurrency conflict resolutions when performing bi-directional data synchronization between replicas by using built-in policies (such as last-writer-wins) or custom policies.
Because SQL Azure is built on SQL Server, it provides a familiar relational data model and is highly symmetric to on-premise SQL Server implementations. It supports most features available in the regular SQL Server database engine and can also be used with tools like SQL Server 2008 Management Studio, SQLCMD, and BCP, and SQL Server Integration Services for data migration.
Windows Azure Platform AppFabric
In Chapter 7, as part of our coverage of .NET Enterprise Services, we introduced Windows Server AppFabric. This represents the version of AppFabric that is local to the Windows Server environment. Windows Azure platform AppFabric (with the word "platform" intentionally not capitalized), is the cloud-based version of AppFabric that runs on Windows Azure.
Windows Azure platform AppFabric helps connect services within or across clouds and enterprises. It provides a Service Bus for connectivity across networks and organizational boundaries, and an Access Control service for federated authorization as a service.
The Service Bus acts as a centralized message broker in the cloud to relay messages between services and service consumers. It has the ability to connect to on-premise services through firewalls, NATs, and over any network topology.
Its features include:
- Connectivity using standard protocols and standard WCF bindings
- Multiple communication models (such as publish-and-subscribe, one-way messaging, unicast and multicast datagram distribution, full-duplex bi-directional connection-oriented sessions, peer-to-peer sessions, and end-to-end NAT traversal)
- Service endpoints that are published and discovered via Internet-accessible URLs
- Global hierarchical namespaces that are DNS and transport-independent
- Built-in intrusion detection and protection against denial-of-service attacks
The Windows Azure Service Bus complies to the familiar Enterprise Service Bus [741] compound pattern, and focuses on realizing this pattern across network, security, and organizational domains. Service Bus also provides a service registry to provide registration and discovery of service metadata, which allows for the application of Metadata Centralization [754] and emphasizes the need to apply the Service Discoverability (702) principle.
Access Control acts as a centralized cloud-based security gateway that regulates access to cloud-based services and Service Bus communications, while integrating with standards-based identity providers (including enterprise directories such as Active Directory and online identity systems like Windows Live ID). Access Control and other Windows Azure-related security topics are covered in Chapter 17.
Unlike Windows Azure and SQL Azure, which are based on Windows Server and SQL Server, Access Control Service is not based on an existing server product. It uses technology included in Windows Identity Foundation and is considered a purely cloud-based service built specifically for the Windows Azure platform environment.
Summary of Key Points
- The Windows Azure platform is primarily a PaaS deployed in a public cloud managed by Microsoft.
- Windows Azure platform provides a distinct set of capabilities suitable for building scalable and reliable cloud-based services.
- The overall Windows Azure platform further encompasses SQL Azure and Windows Azure platform AppFabric.
This excerpt is from the book, "SOA with .NET & Windows Azure: Realizing Service-Orientation with the Microsoft Platform", edited and co-authored by Thomas Erl, with David Chou, John deVadoss, Nitin Ghandi, Hanu Kommapalati, Brian Loesgen, Christoph Schittko, Herbjörn Wilhelmsen, and Mickie Williams, with additional contributions from Scott Golightly, Daryl Hogan, Jeff King, and Scott Seely, published by Prentice Hall Professional, June 2010, ISBN 0131582313, Copyright 2010 SOA Systems Inc. For a complete Table of Contents please visit: www.informit.com/title/0131582313
David Chou is a technical architect at Microsoft and is based in Los Angeles. His focus is on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in such areas as cloud computing, SOA, Web, distributed systems, and security.
John deVadoss leads the Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft and is based in Redmond, WA.
Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, series editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl (www.soabooks.com), and editor of the SOA Magazine (www.soamag.com).
Nitin Gandhi is an enterprise architect and an independent software consultant, based in Vancouver, BC.
Hanu Kommalapati is a Principal Platform Strategy Advisor for a Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism team based in North America.
Brian Loesgen is a Principal SOA Architect with Microsoft, based in San Diego. His extensive experience includes building sophisticated enterprise, ESB and SOA solutions.
Christoph Schittko is an architect for Microsoft, based in Texas. His focus is to work with customers to build innovative solutions that combine software + services for cutting edge user experiences and the leveraging of service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions.
Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a consultant at Forefront Consulting Group, based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main areas of focus are Service-Oriented Architecture, Cloud Computing and Business Architecture.
Mickey Williams leads the Technology Platform Group at Neudesic, based in Laguna Hills,
Scott Golightly is currently an Enterprise Solution Strategist with Advaiya, Inc; he is also a Microsoft Regional Director with more than 15 years of experience helping clients to create solutions to business problems with various technologies.
Darryl Hogan is an architect with more than 15 years experience in the IT industry. Darryl has gained significant practical experience during his career as a consultant, technical evangelist and architect.
As a Senior Technical Product Manager at Microsoft, Kris works with customers, partners, and industry analysts to ensure the next generation of Microsoft technology meets customers' requirements for building distributed, service-oriented solutions.
Jeff King has been working with the Windows Azure platform since its first announcement at PDC 2008 and works with Windows Azure early adopter customers in the Windows Azure TAP
Scott Seely is co-founder of Tech in the Middle, www.techinthemiddle.com, and president of Friseton, LLC,
The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Chicago Sun Times this morning explores Sen. Joe Biden's ties to the Tony Rezko corruption mix:Web Link
No matter what help Barack Obama might get from Sen. Joseph Biden, his newly named vice presidential running mate won't give Obama much cover on the Tony Rezko front.
Biden has described himself as a 30-year friend of a key figure in the Rezko trial who's pleaded guilty to a federal extortion charge in Chicago and is awaiting sentencing.
Joe Cari was Biden's Midwest field director and admitted to taking part in an $850,000 kickback scheme. Rezko is slated to be sentenced in October--a week before the election-- maybe not a surprise, but an unwelcome reminder to voters of all Obama's shady and radical relationships nonetheless.
Sounds like a culture of corruption to me:
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Rezko is a non-issue, except for Republicans desperate for the public to forget the following facts about McCain:
1) he was involved in the Keating bank scandal
2) he attempted suicide in Vietnam
3) he committed adultery and left his first wife
4) his current wife has prescription drug addiction issues
5) his current wife was caught plagiarizing recipes
the above are facts, not wild supposition.
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The British telecom company Vodaphone, the world's second largest telecommunications company, which owns and operates networks in 21 countries and partners with telecommunications companies in over 40 additional countries, has released its first and the world's first self-described "Law Enforcement Disclosure Report" that confirms allegations that have been made by many who are concerned about the warrantless spying carried out by the US government on its own citizens and the citizens of nations around the world; that the US government has been and is currently engaging in massive worldwide surveillance and data collection of the complete content of phone calls that pass through the networks of not only Vodaphone but all telecommunications networks via direct access using "pipes" or wires connected directly to the companies communications equipment.
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|By: Chris Hedges Tuesday June 11, 2013 9:25 am
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Ars Technica confirmed, using our TestUFO motion tests, the new 5K iMac runs at a full 60Hz at 5K resolution (5120×2880).
Although this screen does not support 120Hz, it actually requires similar graphics bandwidth as 4K 120Hz.
Ars Technica confirmed, using our TestUFO motion tests, the new 5K iMac runs at a full 60Hz at 5K resolution (5120×2880).
Although this screen does not support 120Hz, it actually requires similar graphics bandwidth as 4K 120Hz.
The upcoming LG 24GM77 gaming monitor has a strobe backlight, Motion 240 (120Hz + strobing).
This recognizes the popularity of motion-blur-eliminating strobe backlights in other 120Hz+ gaming monitors ("LightBoost", "ULMB", "Turbo240″ and "BENQ Blur Reduction"). Blur Busters has received confirmation that Motion 240 is a strobe backlight.
LG is planning to demo the 24GM77 at IFA 2014 in Germany in early September. It is capable of 144Hz. The 24GM77 (144Hz 1080p) is mentioned in the same press release announcing their 34″ UltraWide 34UC97 monitor (60Hz 3440×1440 21:9)
A new method, developed by Microsoft Research is producing very impressive timelapse video, with the best image stabilization ever seen.
This is achieved by converting 2D video into 3D rendered scene, and then rendering a new "virtual camera" path through it all. This is also a new advanced form of video interpolation too, with high framerates to be rendered independently of the original video framerate. A wearable GoPro camera essentially ends up acting as a 3D scanner! See how it is done.
Ever since Blur Busters started doing 120Hz Web Browser Tests, we have been watching which browsers runs TestUFO animations at 120 frames per second on 120Hz monitors.
The latest Internet Explorer 11 update now supports 120Hz, long after the bug report to Microsoft. Now, a new bug report to Google has been made.
It is ironic that the baton has been passed to Internet Explorer 11 as now being the best current browser to run www.testufo.com motion tests.
Our friends at TFTCentral has published a review of the ASUS ROG PG278Q, with 2560×1440 resolution, GSYNC and ULMB!
ULMB is the sequel to LightBoost, and is found in GSYNC monitors. This is the highest resolution monitor now shipping with LightBoost-type functionality! And the big bonus is that strobe length is adjustable – all the way to clearer motion than LightBoost 10%!
We are also getting this monitor later this summer, for a Blur Busters-focussed review of its "Better Than 60Hz" capabilities, including its Ultra Low Motion Blur (ULMB) mode.
Originally created in a Blur Busters Forums thread, and now a part of the Mouse Guide, this is a photo comparision of 125Hz versus 500Hz versus 1000Hz mouse poll rates. The 500Hz versus 1000Hz is human-eye visible during motion blur reduction strobing (e.g. LightBoost) as well as G-SYNC where NVIDIA recommends a 1000Hz mouse.
You can see this by enabling motion blur reduction on your 120Hz monitor, and then drag a text window. Fewer microstutters makes text easier to read while dragging.
The gapping effect is caused by the harmonic frequency difference (beat frequency) between frame rate and mouse poll rate. It is clearly visible when no other sources of microstutters exist; e.g. fast GPU, fast CPU, low-latency USB. This mouse microstutter is clearly visible in Source Engine games on newer GPUs at synchronized framerates.
During 125Hz mouse poll rate versus 120fps frame rate (125 MOD 120 = 5), there are 5 microstutters per second. This results in 1 gap every 25 mouse arrow positions.
During 500Hz mouse poll rate versus 120fps frame rate (500 MOD 120 = 20), there are 20 microstutters per second. This results in 1 gap every 6 mouse arrow positions.
These mouse microstutters become especially visible on low-persistence displays such as strobed monitors or CRTs, during window-dragging. 500Hz vs 1000Hz difference is amplified during LightBoost, ULMB, Turbo240, and BENQ Blur Reduction.
Awaiting the arrival of Valve Steam Box in 2015, the new NVIDIA Linux drivers now has preliminary support for GSYNC, a variable refresh-rate tech that eliminates stutters, tearing, and reduces lag.
Several models of new G-SYNC monitors are currently delayed. However, the G-SYNC tsunami arrives in the coming few months through to 2015.
pcper reports that AMD demonstrated a prototype FreeSync monitor with DisplayPort Adaptive Sync — AMD's answer to GSYNC.
The demonstration occured at Computex 2014, and was a modified version of an existing computer monitor, via a firmware upgrade to its electronics. Prebuilt FreeSync monitors could arrive by end of 2014, albiet 2015 is more likely.
The ASUS PCDIY site has a diagram that shows the ASUS ROG PG278Q GSYNC monitor is capable of overclocking to 144Hz during 2560x1440p over DisplayPort. This is great news, for those looking for 1440p options with good motion clarity! The monitor also supports GSYNC and motion blur elimination (ULMB) options.
Tom's Hardware tests the BENQ XL2720Z monitor, including Blur Busters Strobe Utility.
Page 9 of the monitor review is the one that covers Blur Busters Strobe Utility, for adjusting the motion blur reduction feature on BENQ Z-Series monitors.
Both Amazon and BENQ now sells BENQ Z-Series monitors with V2 firmware included.
Acer announces the first 4K GSYNC monitor, the ACER XB280HK. GSYNC eliminates stutters, tearing, and reduces input lag, also found in our GSYNC preview.
It uses the same 28″ TN 60Hz panel that is found in the Samsung UD590, a 4K display under $700. Although the Acer does not do 120Hz, GSYNC brings huge motion quality benefits, by making fluctuating framerates visually stutter-free.
60Hz GSYNC monitors do not include ULMB/LightBoost motion blur reduction so that means the ASUS ROG PG278Q is the highest-resolution upcoming strobed monitor.
An email from Amazon USA support has confirmed that BENQ Z-Series monitors shipping from Amazon.com are now shipping with Version 2 firmware, compatible with Blur Busters Strobe Utility.
The same applies for Amazon Canada too.
The following monitors are on Amazon:
BENQ XL2411Z – 24″ 144Hz monitor with "better-than-LightBoost" blur reduction
BENQ XL2420Z – fancier bezel, extra ports (2 HDMI + DisplayPort), S-Switch remote
BENQ XL2720Z – 27″ version of XL2420Z including the extras.
VESA has adopted a variable refresh rate standard, "Adaptive Sync" similar to GSYNC. This will bring more widespread support for variable refresh rates, which reduces stutters, reduces lag, and eliminates tearing.
Most of these are not 120Hz displays, and most will not include a blur reducing mode, so NVIDIA GSYNC currently will have a huge head start, despite shipping delays.
The first monitor to actually ship with G-SYNC built in, is apparently the AOC g2460Pg, in the United Kingdom. It will debut at a PCR Boot Camp event this coming May 21st in London.
Many vendors have other G-SYNC monitors under works, including the ASUS ROG PG278Q which should be arriving in stores this coming summer!
Breakthrough for people who want to avoid the MSTAR ISP upgrader!
It is now possible to upgrade BENQ Z-Series monitor to Version 2 firmware with absolutely no external hardware — just a direct VGA connection between computer and monitor to install the Version 2 firmware on XL2411Z, XL2420Z, and XL2720Z to make them compatible with Blur Busters Strobe Utility!
Note: The instructions are still very technical. It currently requires a Linux system and a special driver, in order to install BENQ firmwares. The instructions may become simplified as enterprising users find ways to automate this upgrade process.


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Wapakoneta City School Board of Education meetings are going electronic.
Still a work in progress, school board members tried out the new software system during Turesday's meeting.
"It's a work in progress," Wapakoneta City Schools Board President Eric McKinniss said as he led the first meeting testing out the new system. "We are still learning the program. There are a lot of advantages."
McKinniss said those advantages include saving money by using less paper and being able to communicate better with the public.
WAYNESFIELD — Waynesfield-Goshen Board of Education members confirmed rumors Wed-nesday that had been circulating for nearly a month by hiring Doug Foley as the school's varsity football coach.
"I am excited to get started," Foley said of his hiring after Wednesday's school board meeting.
Foley was just one of several dozen applicants for the position, but the field narrowed quickly as many suitors were also looking for a full-time teaching position.
Included among the applicants was a former
More than 70 years after President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act, a Democratic Congressman from Ohio is pushing to raise people's standard of living by introducing the Fair Minimum Wage Act.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown is a co-sponsor on proposed legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour in three steps and provide the first minimum wage increase to tipped employees in more than 20 years.
The Wapakoneta Daily News received several inquiries about a possible water line break at the intersection of East Auglaize and Brighthorn streets early Wednesday. The situation turned out to be general maintenance as a 3/4-inch line to a home was being replaced at about 9:30 a.m. Wapakoneta Public Works Department crews then worked on lines near the intersection of East Auglaize and Water streets. This is part of the $2.3 million East Auglaize Street reconstruction project.
The Allen County Regional Bomb Squad safely removed a hand grenade from an alley in Wapakoneta Tuesday evening and detonated the explosive device at the Wapakoneta Police Department shooting range near the city composting facility on Wapak-Cridersville Road.
Carol Bogart, 408 Court St., was cleaning yard debris from under an evergreen tree along an east-west alley between Logan and Court streets in the 300 block of West Benton Street when she discovered what appeared to be a hand grenade under the tree.
A familiar face will be taking the helm of Cridersville Elementary School beginning in August.
Misty Baker, who currently teaches second grade there, was named the new principal of the school Tuesday during a meeting of the Wapakoneta City Schools Board of Education.
"We feel awfully happy to have Misty join our administrative team," Superintendent Keith Horner said. "She did a good job preparing herself for this experience."
He said she knows the school and the district and has been working toward this goal.
CRIDERSVILLE — Cridersville elected officials agreed to allow a contracting company to use their land to store their equipment and use as a warehouse during a project.
With an upgrade of power poles stretching from Wapakoneta to Shawnee along Shawnee Road, contractors have pitched the idea of having a storage site on location at Delong Pioneer Park in Cridersville at a joint committees meeting last month — which is the halfway point of the 10-mile project.
A Wapakoneta woman found a hand grenade under a tree along an alley between Logan and Court streets, south of the 300 block of West Benton Street, Tuesday evening. The hand grenade was safely removed by the Allen County Regional Bomb Squad and detonated at the Wapakoneta Police Department shooting range off of Wapak-Cridersville Road.
For more information, see Wednesday's edition of the Wapakoneta Daily News.
CRIDERSVILLE — As village councilors and administrators continue their discussion on a possible increase of utility rates, they knew one thing is for sure — they want to inform the residents of the village and let their voices be heard.
The need for a large building on the grounds of the Auglaize County Fairgrounds has existed for years and fair officials had the project near the top of a 15-year improvement list.
After years of making improvements to other buildings and with other less expensive projects jumping to the front of the list, the project has finally cycled back to the top of the list.


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Child-killer Carri Williams held away from other inmates
The Skagit County Jail is taking unusual steps to ensure the safety of child-killer Carri Williams.
Skagit Valley Herald
MOUNT VERNON — The Skagit County Jail has had to get creative with housing Carri Williams.
A jury last month found Williams and her husband, Larry, guilty of manslaughter of their adopted daughter, Hana, and assault of their adopted son. Carri Williams was also convicted of homicide by abuse in Hana's death; the jury deadlocked on that charge for Larry Williams.
After her conviction Sept. 9, Carri Williams was kept toward the front of the jail in a holding cell typically reserved for inmates who are a danger to themselves or others.
In Carri Williams' case, it was to keep her away from other inmates in the regular female pods who might attack her because of the nature of her crimes, chief of corrections Charlie Wend said.
The tiny gray holding cell isn't a healthy place to keep anyone long-term, Wend said, and the jail needed to free it for its intended purpose.
The jail's pod for women on work release had room, so Carri Williams joined them, even though she is not on work release herself.
"It was an opportunity to move her into an environment that was more humane," Wend said. "I have a responsibility to keep her safe from other people."
Larry Williams is being held in the Snohomish County Jail in Everett, as he was for almost two years while the case was pending. Both are scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday.
The trial against the Williams couple dragged on for seven weeks this summer, making it the longest criminal trial Skagit County Prosecutor Rich Weyrich said he could recall.
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