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Police: Fake cop pulls over Springdale woman
Springdale police said a woman reported being pulled over by a man pretending to be a police officer.
She told investigators he was driving a white car with blue lights.
The victim was pulled over near the rodeo grounds on East Emma Ave. in Springdale, according to police.
The woman told police the man approached her car and said he stopped her for no seat belt and demanded to see her driver's license, according to the report.
The suspect is described as a white man in his 30s with brown hair and dark eyes.
The woman told police he did have a gun on his belt and a badge, but she didn't believe he was dressed like a Springdale police officer.
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By Alexander Roslyakov – 12/24/13
KRASNOYARSK, Russia (AP) — Two members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were reunited on Tuesday after spending nearly two years in prison for their protest at Moscow's main cathedral, and said they want to set up a human rights organization.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina were granted amnesty on Monday, two months short of their scheduled release, in what was seen as the Kremlin's attempt to soothe criticism of Russia's human rights record before the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February.
Alekhina flew into the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk early Tuesday to meet Tolokonnikova. They have said the amnesty and their release was a publicity stunt by the Kremlin before the Olympics. Tolokonnikova has also called for a boycott of the Olympics.
Alekhina, still dressed in a dark green prison jacket, hugged Tolokonnikova and then shook hands.
Both women reiterated their Monday statement that they would like to focus their future work on helping prisoners, and that they will discuss setting up a human rights organization.
Their release came three days after President Vladimir Putin pardoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the onetime oil tycoon who had been behind bars more than 10 years in a case that critics said was Kremlin revenge for Khodorkovsky's political involvement.
Khodorkovsky, who flew to Germany on Friday, issued a brief statement congratulating Alekhina and Tolokonnikova.
"I know that the last months have been a living hell for you and I am happy to learn that this torture, unworthy of a European country in the 21st century, has ended," he said.
A third band member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was released on a suspended sentence shortly after the three were found guilty of hooliganism and sentenced to two years in prison in 2012 for their protest at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow.
The women have denied the accusations that they were driven by hatred of religion, and said their performance was aimed at raising concern about the close ties between the church and state.
Russia's parliament passed the amnesty bill last week, allowing the release of thousands of inmates, including the two Pussy Riot members.
Associated Press writer Nataliya Vasilyeva contributed to this report from Moscow.

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Findlay Market is the closest thing Cincinnati has to the Pike Place Market in Seattle. I love the colorful entrance! It's so bright and vibrant and just welcomes you in!
I don't know the names of any of the stores I went into but I urge you to go in and explore on your own! We saw a lot of delis and this one caught my eye because of the big ol' row of fresh breads!
Outside there were lots of vendors with fresh fruits and vegetables - a bright array of colors just waiting to be picked up and taken home!
There's also entertainment. This gentleman was outside singing and playing some great music. His name isn't James Dean - but something like that - James Deagon maybe? He made a joke, "You know James Dean? That ain't me."
Ahhhh! The magnificent morel! I have only had these once at the Summit last summer. They were decadent when I had them at the Summit.
The flowers are just beautiful - most aren't very exotic but if you're looking for a beautiful hanging basket - Findlay Market is the place!
On one end of the market there is a large fruit & vegetable merchant and there I saw this young man singing and playing his gui-tar.
There are a couple of Oriental Markets that we found...I mean who can't use some THiT GiAM BONG HEO?!
Here are some of the more exotic flowers we spotted along our tour as well.
Beyond these, inside there are the famous waffles and tons of meat markets (not like MLTs - actual sausages, steaks, etc...)! There are plenty of plant/flower vendors, fake purses, birdhouses, jewelry and more.
So it's my recommendation is that if you're new to Cincinnati or if you've lived here your whole life - if you haven't been to Findlay Market - take it upon yourself to go. Bring a "green" bag to take home all your goodies!
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In the summer of 2012, I completed an internship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. During this experience, I was involved in youth-focused educational initiatives. In the Artful Adventures program, I worked closely with Museum Educators to design customized curriculums for children varying in age and from non-traditional school settings. I also led gallery explorations and facilitated art-making activities that encouraged each child to combine his/her newfound knowledge of a culture with his/her creativity. Furthermore, I researched the MFA's collection and helped develop new program resources. Since my internship at the MFA was part-time, I pursued a volunteer internship at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH). During this experience, I assisted with the implementation of family programs, which involved designing and leading lessons for the Nature Story-time and Sketching the Specimen programs. Both internships at the MFA and HMNH not only deepened my understanding of museum education and outreach practices and programs; they also fostered my zeal for the field and inspired me to implement educational programs in Kohl Gallery.


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Top patent troll sues US regulators for interfering with its business
Claims trade commision actions violate its constitutional rights
MPHJ Technology, one of the most notorious patent trolls in America, has filed a lawsuit against the US Federal Trade Commission, claiming that the agency's attempts to interfere with its business are in violation of its constitutional rights.
The obscurely named MPHJ is a patent-assertion entity (that's troll to you and me) that demands royalties of about $1,000 per employee from companies that own networked scanners with a "scan to email" function.
By its own admission, MPHJ has so far sent letters to about 16,000 businesses, warning them that their use of such scanners is in violation of its patents. And those are in addition to the thousands of similar letters sent by the previous owner of the patents, a group calling itself Project Paperless.
MPHJ's actions haven't gone unnoticed by government regulators. State attorneys general in Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, and Vermont have taken various actions against the company, ranging from cease-and-desist notices to actual lawsuits, and the FTC has warned MPHJ could face legal action from the federal government.
But in documents [PDF] filed with the US District Court in the Western District of Texas on Monday, MPHJ argues that not only are the state actions against it baseless but that the FTC's interference is actually unconstitutional.
"The relief that is requested by this suit ... is warranted because the actions of the FTC Defendants are in violation of the U.S. Constitution, federal law, the FTC Defendant's jurisdictional authority, and the relevant facts," MPHJ's owner-cum-counsel, the Texas law firm Farney Daniels, wrote in the filing.
Among other things, the suit alleges that the FTC – one of the highest consumer protection and trade regulation bodies in the US – lacks jurisdiction to intervene in MPHJ's patent assertion activities because they "do not constitute acts or practices in or affecting commerce." MPHJ's letters to companies "did not offer any good or service for sale," the filing states.
Furthermore, the suit claims, the FTC can't stop MPHJ from sending letters claiming patent rights, because such letters are protected under its First Amendment right to free speech.
MPHJ also says that the FTC is threatening to take action against it without waiting for an investigation by the federal courts, which it claims is a violation of the federal government's separation of powers doctrine.
The FTC has argued that MPHJ's letters to companies constituted illegal "threats to sue without intent to sue," but MPHJ says the agency has no evidence to support that claim.
Finally, the suit observes that the FTC has threatened to sue Farney Daniels over its representation of MPHJ, which the company alleges is both a violation of its constitutional right to choose its own counsel and an improper attempt by the FTC to regulate the practice of law, which is outside its jurisdiction.
MPHJ is seeking a judgment affirming its right to pursue its patent claims, in addition to reimbursement of all fees and court costs related to the suit.
It may have a tough time making its case, though. On Tuesday, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that the state has reached a settlement with MPHJ that requires it to refund any monies it has collected from New York businesses so far and bars it from further contact with businesses it has targeted previously.
"State law enforcement can't cure all the ills of the federal patent system," Schneiderman wrote in a statement, "but the guidelines established in today's settlement will put an end to some of the most abusive tactics by placing the industry on notice that these deceptive practices will not be tolerated in New York."
Whether the FTC has the authority to intervene at the federal level, however, will be up to the US courts to decide. MPHJ's lawsuit asks for a trial to take place in Waco, Texas. ®
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You can help new Excel users become more productive and self-reliant if you explain these core concepts, efficiency tricks, and essential features.
Excel users come in all levels, from novice to power user to developer. But there are several Excel behaviors and features everyone needs to learn. Some of these seem basic. But to the novice, they can seem like rocket science -- at least until you explain them. With these skills conquered, even beginners can use Excel competently.
1: Absolute and relative referencing
Without a good understanding of absolute and relative referencing, a user doesn't stand a chance of setting up a reliable spreadsheet. Throw in 3-D and mixed referencing and the novice user will become thoroughly confused. Don't assume your users know how to apply absolute and relative referencing correctly.
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All applications come with some limitations. The problem is these limitations can generate ambiguous errors that users won't know how to troubleshoot. Even casual users should be aware of the software's limitations for non-Ribbon and Ribbon versions to avoid hard-to-troubleshoot errors.
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Excel has more functions than anyone can hope to commit to memory. Fortunately, that isn't necessary. Built-in features help users pick the right function and use it correctly. First, during the data entry process, Excel displays a list of functions. Users can choose from this list or just use the list to help trigger their memory. In the Formula bar, users can click Fx to launch the Insert Function dialog, which helps them choose and enter the function correctly. Users also have quick online access to information on Excel functions.
4: Right-clicking
Right-clicking an object -- cell, range, control, form, and so on -- is the quickest way to gather information about something. A right-click will usually display a contextual menu that will apply to the clicked object. It's the fastest way to get information and perform simple tasks. Even if nothing happens, it doesn't hurt to try.
5: User preferences
Everyone works differently. And although Excel does a decent job of anticipating the needs of the average user, some users will prefer things to work their way. Show users how to explore these options. In Excel 2003, you'll find them in the Options group off the Tools menu. In Office 2007, click the Office button and choose Excel Options. In Excel 2010, click the File tab and select Options under Help. There are many options, and users don't have to know them all. They just need to know that they have choices.
6: The fill handle
Excel's fill handle is an amazing tool that saves time when entering formulas or creating a series of values. You'll have to show it to them, because it's not exactly intuitive. They might or might not find it by themselves. Even if they do find it, unless they understand #1, their results will be inconsistent.
7: Formula auditing
A formula that doesn't return the expected results is frustrating. Sometimes there's a problem with the evaluated data, but it isn't obvious. Sometimes, the formula's just wrong. Either way, auditing the formula will usually pinpoint the problem. There are two ways to audit a formula and you'll want users to know about both:
- Highlight references in the Formula bar and press [F9] to evaluate just the highlighted component.
- Use The Evaluate Formula tool in the Formula Auditing group on the Formulas tab.
Both methods will help users work through problems on their own, and it will help them learn about functions, formulas, and referencing.
Users should also know how to quickly find cells that formulas reference. First, select the formula cell and then press [Ctrl]+[. Excel will highlight all the referenced cells and move to the first reference in the formula. Use [Enter] to move through the highlighted cells. To highlight formulas that reference the current cell, press [Ctrl]+].
8: Stored values vs. displayed values
Formats determine how Excel displays values, and the displayed value doesn't always reflect the stored value. Consequently, formulas often return unexpected results, which might confuse users -- Excel's not calculating right! What's wrong? -- when Excel is performing exactly as it should. It's a simple guideline that users need to understand: Excel evaluates the stored value, not the displayed value. If they review the stored values in the Formula bar, the results will make sense.
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Excel's Status bar is full of practical information, and with a quick right-click, users can customize the display. Several indicators alert users to current use, such as selection and overtype mode, whether a toggle such as Scroll Lock is on, page number, and so on. Perhaps its neatest trick is the display of the Sum, Average, and Count functions, which automatically evaluate the selected values. It's handy for those unexpected questions on the fly. Even a novice user can use this trick confidentially.
10: Paste Special options
This feature takes care of a number of problems, from pasting text without the original formats to returning values in place of the evaluating formulas to letting you work with filtered sets. Users don't have to know all of its tricks, but they'll certainly work more efficiently if they do.
Bonus tips: Data Validation and named ranges
A worksheet is only as good as its data. If users enter the wrong data, nothing else matters. Excel's Data Validation feature goes a long way toward protecting the validity of data by rejecting invalid entries. Your users should be able to implement this feature. At the very least, they should be able to recognize it at work and know not to circumvent it in distributed workbooks.
And one final tip: Learn to use named ranges. Your users can work reasonably well in Excel without knowing about named ranges, but creating, understanding, and maintaining formulas will be much easier if they use them.
More help for your Excel users
- The 10 most important things to teach your Word users
- 10 Excel formatting decisions that can have unfortunate repercussions
- 10 mistakes to avoid when working with multiple worksheets
- 10 ways to screw up your spreadsheet design
- Five of my favorite Excel worksheet tips
- 10 ways to keep Excel from biting you in the butt
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Reducing Greenhouse Gases from Middle-Class Homes
A version of this article appears in the Climate Solutions Special Issue issue of Home Energy Magazine.
January 01, 2008
In 1998 the Canadian federal government signed on to the Kyoto Protocol with a stated goal of reducing national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 6% below 1990 levels by 2012. This is a difficult level to achieve, and every sector, including housing, was given targets and some incentives. Support for housing came in the form of rebates on energy-saving retrofits, which were available through the EnerGuide for Houses program, and consumer information programs. One such program, the One-Tonne (metric ton) Challenge, asked Canadian homeowners to reduce their annual GHG emissions from an average of 5 metric tons to an average of 4 metric tons—a 20% reduction—and suggested ways to achieve this reduction. Jane Thompson, an architect who lives in one of Canada's earliest planned communities, on the outskirts of Ottawa, Ontario, decided to explore just how challenging it would be for her neighbors to meet this One-Tonne Challenge. In 2004 she received funding from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) to undertake a neighborhood-based GHG reduction experiment. Could she get her neighbors to adopt environmentally sustainable behaviors by providing them with good information and the tools to help them achieve GHG reductions? Twenty households were selected from volunteers in her older ...
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When we heard Sarah Quita-Offringa, the queen of PWA freestyle and PWA slalom was entering PWA Pozo we had to catch up with her to find out more. Having never competed in the waves before SQ could well cause a bit of a stir in the ranks, perhaps even show us some moves that we have never really seen from the female fleet. With an arsenal of moves at her disposal and having convincingly put a stop to the Moreno twins freestyle carriers in her early days we are not the only ones excited to see what could take place. However, with very limited experience in the waves, hence the slightly dated photos of her using Vandal sails and not Gaastra, will she have what it takes to cause an upset? Introducing the one and only Lady SQ.
So you have just passed your final semester, congratulations, do you plan to windsurf more now or do you continue on with the studying?
Yes I handed in my bachelor thesis last Thursday! It was definitely very challenging but I'm very happy to have finished it. I still need to pass three more courses so I'll be done around April next year.
You have been off the water for some time now, when was the last time you sailed?
Last time I properly sailed was in Lanzarote mid April, so I'm very very eager to go sailing again. I'll be the happiest person ever when I touch the water!
With Pozo just around the corner we noticed you on the entry list, what made you decide to do this, have you sailed there before and what equipment will you be using?
I thought it was time to broaden my horizons! I haven't wave sailed much but I really enjoy it. By entering the competition I think I will gain experience quickly. The last time I sailed in Pozo was in 2008. I'll be using a 74l Quad and I have some smaller Gaastra Manics.
You are obviously very well known for your highly successful freestyle and slalom carriers but realistically how much wavesailing have you done and do you have any particular strengths and weaknesses?
Three years ago I sailed for two weeks in the waves in Maui, Kanaha (it was HUGE that year) and Ho'okipa. By the end of that trip I was landing backies but I've only sailed in waves twice since then… I'm better at starboard riding though so I can imagine it'll be harder for me to ride at Pozo.
Honestly I don't have much experience, but I have to start somewhere right. Hopefully because of my freestyle background I'll be able to pick it up quick.
We are not entirely sure if it is the water they are drinking or the food they are eating on the ABC Islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, where SQ resides from, but whatever it is the talent that is coming from those shores is certainly pushing the level of windsurfing to new heights right now. For SQ this event will be about pushing her own level to new heights in a discipline that she has yet to compete in and even windsurf much in. Sticking backies and clean forwards are essential to make it onto the female podium but what about moves like shakas, air flakas and even misty flips, should these count as wave moves if she can launch into them on the way out? What do you think, could she really make the podium?


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Showcasing how far they have come in just the second season since the program was restarted, the men's and women's swimming and diving teams put in a number of top performances at the UAA Invitational this weekend. In the meet, which was held in Rochester, N.Y., the Judges had five top-five finishers, more than twice as many as they had at the same meet last season.
Leading the way for Brandeis was junior Max Fabian (Keene, N.H./Oak Meadow), who won the 1650-yard freestyle in 16:45.58. The school record holder in the event finished nearly four seconds ahead of the second-place swimmer. It was the second year in a row that Fabian won the mile at the fall UAA meet.
Fabian was eighth in the 400 IM with a time of 4:32.95.
Rookie Edan Zitelny (Syosset, N.Y./Syosset) finished in third place in the 200-yard butterfly in 2:03.46. It was Zitelny's first time swimming the event at the college level, and the rookie finished less than a second out of second place.
Zitelny had two other top-10 finishes, grabbing seventh in the 100 fly with a time of 55.06 and ninth in the 200 IM in 2:05.14.
The star of the show for the Judges might have been sophomore Brian Luk (Hong Kong/Northfield Mount Hermon), who finished in the top five in three events. In the 50-yard freestyle, Luk finished fourth with a time of 22.02 seconds. It was less than a quarter of a second off of his personal record, and more than 3/4ths of a second better than his time at this point last season.
It was much of the same in the 100-yard freestyle, as Luk grabbed fourth with a time of 48.18 seconds. At the UAA fall meet last season, Luk finished eighth with a time of 49.69 seconds. The sophomore also claimed a fifth-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly, timing in at 54.64 seconds, about 1.5 seconds better than where he was at this point last season.
Luk placed ninth in the 200 free with a time of 1:50.45, just 0.17 seconds off of his personal best.
"Brian blew me away a bit," coach Mike Kotch said. "Across the weekend, he was a very consistent performer. His sprint freestyles were much faster than they were last season.
The men had multiple relay teams finish in the top 10 as well. The 200 freestyle squad of Luk, rookie Zach Silver (West Hartford, Conn./West Hartford), rookie Allan Chuang (Charlottesville, Va./Charlottesville) and senior Joe Jacobowitz (Syosset, N.Y./Syosset) finished in eighth in 1:37.70. The 400-yard medley team consisting of Zitelny, sophomore David Lazarovich (Stowe, Vt./South Burlington), rookie Eb Weber (Murray, Ky./Murray) and Luk finished 10th with a time of 3:49.94.
On the women's side, rookie Joanna Murphy (Sarasota, Fla./Riverview) had an excellent UAA debut. Murphy finished sixth in the 1650 with a time of 18:32.43. She also grabbed seventh in the 500-yard freestyle and eighth in the 200 freestyle with times of 5:26.67 and 2:03.37, respectively. The rookie just missed a top-10 finish in the 200 butterfly, finishing 11th with a time of 2:27.56.
Theresa Gaffney finished 10th in the 1650 with a time of 20:48.84.
In just their second season back in the pool, and swimming in one of the best conferences in the country, the men's and women's swimming and diving teams won't be crowned UAA champions this season. But Kotch was impressed with the strides the squads have made.
"Our back end splits were strong, which is always a good sign," he said. "But there are no medals given out in October. We just have to keep our heads down and stay focused."
Both squads are back in action on November 9 at WPI, where they will take on both the Engineers and the Babson Beavers.


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Your Eagle User ID is the same as your "User ID" which is used for Online Registration via the HCC Student System [example: W0034567]. If you have forgotten your User ID, you may look it up. See more information on the Student System Sign-in screen.
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If you are new to HCC, you will receive an HCC email account when you enroll in a course. The log-in ID for this email account is the same as your Student System ID (your Eagle User ID). Your password is the same as the Student System password.
If you are not new to HCC and have a HCC Student Email, your password to the Email "may be different" than the one to the Student System. However, you may change your password if you want to make it the same as your Student System password (see Password Reset, below).
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Self Service Password Resets:To allow self service password resets, you will need to set up challenge questions/responses to help us certify that you are a valid user of the account. The responses to your challenge questions are stored securely. Once answered correctly, you will be able to reset your password. You should choose questions/responses that you will easily remember.
If you already have your Student Email, but need to reset your challenge questions/responses, go to the Student System Sign-in page and login with your Eagle ID and password. You may change your password at the same site.
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I'm using Gnome-Do with the "Files and Folders v2.5" plugin. I set it to read my .scripts folder, so that I might run my personal scripts from Gnome-Do. The only problem is that Gnome-Do's standard action for shell scripts is to open them instead of running them. That forces me to Tab and scroll-down every time. How can I change Gnome-Do's standard action?
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I have a foo.sh executable file inside my .scripts folder. When I type foo inside Gnome-Do, it correctly selects the file and offers the Open action. I then have to Tab, press Down, and hit Enter to select the Run action instead. I would the Run action to be first on the list.
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A Non Local Variational Formulation for the Improvement of Tone Mapped Images. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS). ToneMapping.pdf (4.68 MB). 2014.
Optimized Tone Curve for In-Camera Image Processing. IS&T Electronic Imaging Conference. EI16_tmo.pdf (9.55 MB). 2016.
The Perceived Quality of Undistorted Natural Images. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting. PosterVSS.pdf (4.81 MB). 2014.
Perceptual color characterization of cameras. Sensors. VCB2014.pdf (24.73 MB). 2014.
Perceptual Dynamic Range for In-Camera Image Processing. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). tonemapping_bmvc.pdf (4.59 MB). 2015.
Perceptually-based Gamut Extension Algorithm for Emerging Wide Color Gamut Display and Projection Technologies. Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition. SMPTE_Final_Paper.pdf (1 MB). 2016.
Perceptually-inspired gamut mapping between any gamuts with any intersection. AIC Midterm Meeting. Vazquez-Corral_Bertalmio_AIC2015.pdf (881.5 KB). 2015.
Performance evaluation of objective quality metrics on HLG-based HDR image coding. Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP). HLGQualityMetrics.pdf (1.83 MB). 2018.
Photorealistic style transfer for cinema shoots. Proceedings of Colour and Visual Computing Symposium (CVCS). PhotorealisticStyleTransfer.pdf (6.52 MB). 2018.
The potential effect of the electrical coupling among horizontal cells on enhancing local contrast signals in the parasol retinal pathway. The Optical Society of America. OSA14_poster.pdf (1.5 MB). 2014.
The Potential of Light Fields in Media Productions. SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Technical Briefs (SA '19). lightFields.pdf (2.91 MB). 2019.
A re-evaluation of Whittle (1986, 1992) reveals the link between detection thresholds, discrimination thresholds and brightness perception. *Accepted* in Journal of Vision. evaluationWhittle.pdf (4.05 MB). 2019.
Retinal noise emulation: a novel artistic tool for cinema that also improves compression efficiency. FINAL Article.pdf (30.65 MB). 2020.
Retinal Processing Optimizes Contrast Coding. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.. 2016.
The Role of Lightness Perception in Determining the Perceived Contrast of Real World Scenes. IS&T Electronic Imaging Conference. EI_Human_Vision_2016_revisions.pdf (594.67 KB). 2016.
Scale invariance does not hold for high dynamic range images, but is reestablished by early retinal nonlinearities. The European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). poster_ECVP.pdf (2.95 MB). 2017.
Simultaneous blind gamma estimation. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. VazquezCorral_Bertalmio_SPL.pdf (1.27 MB). 2015.
Spatial gamut mapping among non-inclusive gamuts. *Accepted* in Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. spatialGM.pdf (31.88 MB). 2018.
Spectral sharpening of color sensors: diagonal color constancy and beyond. Sensors . template.pdf (1.69 MB). 2014.
Statistics of natural images as a function of dynamic range. *Accepted* in Journal of Vision. StatisticsNaturalImages.pdf (2.76 MB). 2019.
Surrounding Size effect on Brightness Contrast-to-Assimilation is Predicted in Retina. *Submitted* to Journal of Vision. kimbertalmio_jov_submitted.pdf (1022.3 KB). 2015.
System gamma as a function of image- and monitor- dynamic range. Journal of Vision. JOV.pdf (1.86 MB). 2015.
Is There A Preference For Linearity When Viewing Natural Images? SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging Conference. IsThereAPreferenceForLinearityWhenViewingNaturalScenes.pdf (2.2 MB). 2015.
A Tone Mapping Operator Based on Neural and Psychophysical Models of Visual Perception. Proc. SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XX. ToneMappingSPIE.pdf (3.59 MB). 2015.


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Revision as of 00:32, 14 November 2017
This page only contains information about running games and related system configuration tips. For lists of popular games for GNU/Linux see List of games.
- 1 Game environments
- 2 Getting games
- 3 Running games
- 3.1 Multi-screen setups
- 3.2 Keyboard grabbing
- 3.3 Starting games in a separate X server
- 3.4 Adjusting mouse detections
- 3.5 Mouse focus in GNOME
- 3.6 Binaural Audio with OpenAL
- 3.7 Tuning Pulseaudio
- 3.8 Double check your CPU frequency scaling settings
- 4 Improving framerates and responsiveness with scheduling policies
- 5 Using alternate kernels
- 6 See also
Game environments
Different environments exist to play games in Linux:
- Native – Games written for Linux.
- Browser – you need only browser and Internet connection to play these types of games.
- Specialized environments (software emulators) – – Required for running software designed for other architectures or systems, (Heed the copyright laws of your country!). Check the list of emulators for more details.
- Wine – allows running of some Windows games, as well as a large amount of Windows software. Performance in Wine varies, the additional CPU overhead will cause slowdown in some games while in some cases games may run faster. Consult Wine AppDB for game-specific compatibility information.
- Crossover Games – members of the Codeweavers team are prime supporters of Wine. Using Crossover Games makes the installation & setting up of some games easier, more reliable & even possible, when compared to using other methods. Crossover is a paid commercial product, which also provides a forum where the developers are very much involved in the community.
- DOSBox is a minimal virtual machine which runs a full DOS-compatible environment. It can be used to run classic DOS titles.
- scummvm is an all-in-one engine reimplementation of many classic point-and-click adventure games. A full list of compatible titles can be found on the ScummVM website.
- Similar to ScummVM, engine reimplementations exist for specific titles, such as Doom.
- Virtual machines can be used to install compatible operating systems (such as Windows). VirtualBox has good 3D support. As an extension of this, if you have compatible hardware you can consider VGA passthrough to a Windows KVM guest, keyword is "virtual function I/O" (VFIO), or PCI passthrough via OVMF.
Getting games
A good number are available in the official repositories or in the AUR. Loki provides installers for several games.
Digital distribution
- Desura — Digital distribution platform featuring indie games. It can be considered good source of games (if you do not care about security and bugs too much).
- http://www.desura.com/ || desuraAUR
- Steam — Famous digital distribution and communications platform developed by Valve. It has a large library with over 1000 Linux games. These include popular titles like Dota 2, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, several AAA games, and lots of indie titles.
- http://store.steampowered.com || steam
- Steam under Linux.
- See linux-games catalog.
- Not all Steam titles are native, some are packaged to run using Wine.
- The Humble Store
- itch.io — Indie game store.
- https://itch.io/ || itchAUR
- The lgogdownloaderAUR package can be used to download GOG titles from the command line.
- GOG.com only officially supports Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Bear this in mind if requesting support from them; you will not get a refund if you are having trouble running games on Arch.
- Many GOG.com titles come pre-packaged with DOSBox, ScummVM or Wine.
Several huge Flash games portals exists, among them are:
- Lots of games smaller than 4kb (some are real masterpieces of game design) can be found at http://www.java4k.com.
- https://www.pogo.com/ – biggest casual Java gaming portal
- The Java Game Tome - huge database of primarily casual games
- Centralized source of information about running games (and other applications) in Wine is Wine AppDB.
- See also Category:Wine.
It is recommended (especially for beginners) to use playonlinux, which pulls all necessary dependencies during installation, automatically downloads Windows tools at first start-up to configure and set-up native windows applications to launch properly. For more information, see Official Website.
An emulator is a program which serves to replicate the functions of another platform or system so as to allow applications and games to be run in environments they were not programmed for.
See also Wikipedia:List of video game console emulators.
- Citra — Nintendo 3DS emulator.
- DeSmuME — Nintendo DS emulator.
- Dolphin — Very capable GameCube and Wii emulator.
- epsxe — Emulator for the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware.
- http://www.epsxe.com/ || epsxeAUR
- FCEUX — NTSC and PAL 8 bit Nintendo/Famicom emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator. It is accurate, compatible and actively maintained.
- Gambatte — Accurate Game Boy Color emulator
- https://github.com/sinamas/gambatte || Qt GUI frontend (gambatte-qt), SDL CLI frontend (gambatte-sdl).
- Gens2 — Emulator for Sega Genesis, Sega CD and 32X that is written in assembly language and no longer actively developed.
- activate OpenGL, set video resolution per custom to 1024x600 for streched full-screen or 800x600 for non-streched;
- use "Normal" renderer, I couldn't find a visible advantage with the other ones.
- Gens-GS — Gens2, rewritten in C++, combining features from various Gens forks.
- gngeo — Command-line NeoGeo emulator.
- higan — Multisystem emulator focusing on accuracy, supporting SNES, NES, GB, GBC, GBA.
- mednafen — Command line driven multi system emulator.
- Mupen64Plus — Highly compatible Nintendo 64 emulator with plugin system.
- http://www.mupen64plus.org/ || mupen64plus or a graphical front-end, such as m64pyAUR or cutemupenAUR.
- pSX — A not plugin-based PlayStation emulator with fairly high compatibility.
- PCSXR — PlayStation emulator; Debian fork of the abandoned original PCSX
- PCSX2 — PlayStation 2 emulator. It is still being maintained and developed. It requires BIOS files.
- PPSSPP — PlayStation Portable emulator.
- Snes9x — Portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.
- Visual Boy Advance — Game Boy emulator with Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and Super Game Boy support.
- ZSNES — Highly compatible Super Nintendo emulator.
- DOSBox — Open-source DOS emulator which primarily focuses on running DOS Games.
- DOSEmu — Open-source DOS emulator.
- MAME — Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
- ResidualVM — Cross-platform 3D game interpreter which allows you to play LucasArts' Lua-based 3D adventures.
- RetroArch — Frontend to libretro (emulation library, using modified versions of existing emulators as plugins).
- ScummVM — Virtual machine for old school adventures.
- X Neko Project II — PC-9801 emulator.
Running games
Certain games or game types may need special configuration to run or to run as expected. For the most part, games will work right out of the box in Arch Linux with possibly better performance than on other distributions due to compile time optimizations. However, some special setups may require a bit of configuration or scripting to make games run as smoothly as desired.
Multi-screen setups
Running a multi-screen setup may lead to problems with fullscreen games. In such a case, running a second X server is one possible solution. Another solution may be found in the NVIDIA article (may also apply to non-NVIDIA users).
Keyboard grabbing
Many games grab the keyboard, noticeably preventing you from switching windows (also known as alt-tabbing).
Some SDL games (e.g. Guacamelee) let you disable grabbing by pressing
You can also download sdl-nokeyboardgrabAUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror] to gain the ability to use keyboard commands while in SDL games. If you wish to turn it up to 11, you can disable keyboard grabbing at X11 level using libx11-nokeyboardgrabAUR, or with more fine-grained control with libx11-ldpreloadnograbAUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror] using the
LD_PRELOAD environment variable to run applications with particular grab prevention. Wine/lib32 users should also look at the respective lib32 libraries.
Starting games in a separate X server
In some cases like those mentioned above, it may be necessary or desired to run a second X server. Running a second X server has multiple advantages such as better performance, the ability to "tab" out of your game by using
Ctrl+Alt+F8, no crashing your primary X session (which may have open work on) in case a game conflicts with the graphics driver. The new X server will be akin a remote access login for the ALSA, so your user need to be part of the
audio group to be able to hear any sound.
To start a second X server (using the free first person shooter game Xonotic as an example) you can simply do:
$ xinit /usr/bin/xonotic-glx -- :1 vt$XDG_VTNR
This can further be spiced up by using a separate X configuration file:
$ xinit /usr/bin/xonotic-glx -- :1 -xf86config xorg-game.conf vt$XDG_VTNR
A good reason to provide an alternative xorg.conf here may be that your primary configuration makes use of NVIDIA's Twinview which would render your 3D games like Xonotic in the middle of your multiscreen setup, spanned across all screens. This is undesirable, thus starting a second X with an alternative config where the second screen is disabled is advised.
A game starting script making use of Openbox for your home directory or
/usr/local/bin may look like this:
if [ $# -ge 1 ]; then game="$(which $1)" openbox="$(which openbox)" tmpgame="/tmp/tmpgame.sh" DISPLAY=:1.0 echo -e "${openbox} &\n${game}" > ${tmpgame} echo "starting ${game}" xinit ${tmpgame} -- :1 -xf86config xorg-game.conf || exit 1 else echo "not a valid argument" fi
So after a
chmod +x you would be able to use this script like:
$ ~/game.sh xonotic-glx
Adjusting mouse detections
For games that require exceptional amount of mouse skill, adjusting the mouse polling rate can help improve accuracy.
Mouse focus in GNOME
The 'sloppy' and 'mouse' window-focusing modes in GNOME are known to cause issues with a variety of games, causing a 'click-through' effect. Users can remedy this problem by switching the focus mode to 'click' (with a tool such as gnome-tweak-tool), playing in a different desktop environment, or spawing their game in a separate X-session.
Binaural Audio with OpenAL
For games using OpenAL, if you use headphones you may get much better positional audio using OpenAL's HRTF filters. To enable, run the following command:
echo "hrtf = true" >> ~/.alsoftrc
Alternatively, install openal-hrtfAUR from the AUR, and edit the options in /etc/openal/alsoftrc.conf
For Source games, the ingame setting `dsp_slow_cpu` must be set to `1` to enable HRTF, otherwise the game will enable its own processing instead. You will also either need to set up Steam to use native runtime, or link its copy of openal.so to your own local copy. For completeness, also use the following options:
dsp_slow_cpu 1 # Disable in-game spatialiazation snd_spatialize_roundrobin 1 # Disable spatialization 1.0*100% of sounds dsp_enhance_stereo 0 # Disable DSP sound effects. You may want to leave this on, if you find it does not interfere with your perception of the sound effects. snd_pitchquality 1 # Use high quality sounds
Tuning Pulseaudio
If you are using PulseAudio, you may wish to tweak some default settings to make sure it is running optimally.
Enabling realtime priority and negative nice level
Pulseaudio is built to be run with realtime priority, being an audio daemon. However, because of security risks of it locking up the system, it is scheduled as a regular thread by default. To adjust this, first make sure you are in the
audio group. Then, uncomment and edit the following lines in
high-priority = yes nice-level = -11
realtime-scheduling = yes realtime-priority = 5
and restart pulseaudio.
Using higher quality remixing for better sound
Pulseaudio on Arch uses speex-float-0 by default to remix channels, which is considered a 'medium-low' quality remixing. If your system can handle the extra load, you may benefit from setting it to one of the following instead:
resample-method = speex-float-10
Matching hardware buffers to Pulse's buffering
Matching the buffers can reduce stuttering and increase performance marginally. See here for more details.
Double check your CPU frequency scaling settings
If your system is currently configured to properly insert its own cpu frequency scaling driver, the system sets the default governor to Ondemand. By default, this governor only adjusts the clock if the system is utilizing 95% of its CPU, and then only for a very short period of time. This saves power and reduces heat, but has a noticeable impact on performance. You can instead only have the system downclock when it is idle, by tuning the system governor. To do so, see Cpufrequtils#Improving on-demand performance[broken link: invalid section].
Improving framerates and responsiveness with scheduling policies
Most every game can benefit if given the correct scheduling policies for the kernel to prioritize the task. However, without the help of a daemon, this rescheduling would have to be carried out manually or through the use of several daemons for each policy. These policies should ideally be set per-thread by the application itself, but not all developers implement these policies. There are several methods for getting them to work anyway:
For Wine programs
wine-rtAUR is a patched version of Wine that implements scheduling policies on a per-thread basis, using the equivalent of what the Windows developers had intended the threads to be run at. The default patch is more oriented towards professional audio users, and tends to be too heavy-handed of an approach for gaming. You may instead wish to use this patch, which also includes nice levels and uses more than one policy decision. Be warned that it uses
SCHED_ISO, which is only properly implemented on Linux-ck, and will simply renice
THREAD_PRIORITY_ABOVE_NORMAL threads if your system does not support it.
wine-staging versions 1.9.5 and before incorporate the CSMT patchset which provides better performance for 3D accelerated games. The patchset has been disabled as of 1.9.6 pending an upstream update to the patch and incorporation into the main Wine source tree, so you will need to compile version 1.9.5 of wine-staging yourself if you wish to take advantage of this.
For everything else
For programs which do not implement scheduling policies on their own, one tool known as schedtool, and its associated daemon schedtooldAUR can handle many of these tasks automatically.
To edit what programs relieve what policies, simply edit
/etc/schedtoold.conf and add the program followed by the schedtool arguments desired.
First and foremost, setting the scheduling policy to
SCHED_ISO will not only allow the process to use a maximum of 80 percent of the CPU, but will attempt to reduce latency and stuttering wherever possible.
SCHED_ISO requires Linux-ck to operate, as it has only been implemented in that kernel. Linux-ck itself provides a hefty latency reduction, and should ideally be installed
Most if not all games will benefit from this:
bit.trip.runner -I
For users not using Linux-ck,
SCHED_FIFO provides an alternative, that can even work better. You should test to see if your applications run more smoothly with
SCHED_FIFO, in which case by all means use it instead. Be warned though, as
SCHED_FIFO runs the risk of starving the system! Use this in cases where -I is used below:
bit.trip.runner -F -p 15
Nice levels
Secondly, the nice level sets which tasks are processed first, in ascending order. A nice level of -4 is reccommended for most multimedia tasks, including games:
bit.trip.runner -n -4
Core affinity
There is some confusion in development as to whether the driver should be multithreading, or the program. In any case where they both attempt it, it causes drops in framerate and crashes. Examples of this include a number of modern games, and any Wine program which is running without GLSL disabled. To select a single core and allow only the driver to handle this process, simply use the
-a 0x# flag, where # is the core number, e.g.:
bit.trip.runner -a 0x1
uses first core. Some CPUs are hyperthreaded and have only 2 or 4 cores but show up as 4 or 8, and are best accounted for:
bit.trip.runner -a 0x5
which use virtual cores 0101, or 1 and 3.
General case
For most games which require high framerates and low latency, usage of all of these flags seems to work best. Affinity should be checked per-program, however, as most native games can understand the correct usage. For a general case:
bit.trip.runner -I -n -4 Amnesia.bin64 -I -n -4 hl2.exe -I -n -4 -a 0x1 #Wine with GLSL enabled
Optimus, and other helping programs
As a general rule, any other process which the game requires to operate should be reniced to a level above that of the game itself. Strangely, Wine has a problem known as reverse scheduling, it can often have benefits when the more important processes are set to a higher nice level. Wineserver also seems unconditionally to benefit from
SCHED_FIFO, since rarely consumes the whole CPU and needs higher prioritization when possible.
optirun -I -n -5 wineserver -F -p 20 -n 19 steam.exe -I -n -5
Using alternate kernels
The stock Arch kernel provides a very good baseline for general usage. However, if your system has less than 16 cores and is intended for use primarily as a workstation, you can sacrifice a small amount of throughput on batch workloads and gain a significant boost to interactivity by using Linux-ck. If you prefer not to compile your own kernel, you can instead add Repo-ck and use one of their kernels. Using a pre-optimized kernel will most definitely offset any loss of throughput that may have occurred as a result, so be sure to select the appropriate kernel for your architecture.
Using BFQ
BFQ is an io-scheduler that comes as a feature of linux-zen and Linux-ck, and is optimized to be much more simplistic, but provides better interactivity and throughput for non-server workloads. To enable, simply add the kernel parameter elevator=bfq to your bootloader. It is important to note that although most guides recommend using either noop or deadline for SSDs for their raw throughput, they are actually detrimental to interactivity when more than one thread is attempting to access the device. It is best to use bfq unless you desperately need the throughput advantage.
See also
- OSGameClones - List of open source game clones
- Free Gamer - Open source games blog
- FreeGameDev - Free/open source game development community
- SIG/Games - OS/Linux gaming news sites and lists at Fedora's wiki
- live.linux-gamers - Arch-based live gaming distro
- Gaming on Linux - Active Linux gaming news and editorial source and community
- /r/linux_gaming wiki on Reddit


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I enjoy looking for songs I grew up with on youtube. there was so much going on in the 70's
excuse my taste lol. feel free to post.
I enjoy looking for songs I grew up with on youtube. there was so much going on in the 70's
excuse my taste lol. feel free to post.
I named my nearly 3 week old daughter Frehley for Christ's sake.
Resident Yadier Molina, and Pro Wrestling super fan.
Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody
Saw the Little River Band in concert last night. Fantastic!!!!
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I tried to share a somewhat obscure song that I recently rediscovered from the LP Getting' Lucky. I used to buy a lot of used albums and sometimes I would buy them untested if I had already heard of the band or had a different album by them or if they had a member from another band I liked.
Just about everyone knows Head East for "Never Been Any Reason", and they are definitely considered a one hit wonder. They have a pretty good sound though and some other decent songs.
The 70s and 80s had the best album covers too!
Though I was born in 1987, I grew up listening to The Irish Rovers thanks to my mom (I still listen to them, and have all of their albums through the years). Right around St. Patrick's Day, I had the opportunity to see them live and get a poster signed at a meet and greet after, but even better, I took my mother as a birthday present so that she could see them for the first time. They're retiring after this tour, so it's also the last chance we'd have had to see them. They sound the same now as they did in their recordings in the 60s and 70s.
A few weeks ago, I worked at the Styx concert that rolled through town. Good music never ages, and they were fantastic. They played with The Outlaws, who I guess also played in the 70s, but they weren't really my cup of tea. Anyway, aside from playing great music, they also pandered to us because of our hockey history and the movie Slap Shot, and the singer came out waving a Terrible Towel for the encore performance (I live in Steeler country).
Aside from a great show, they also had some autographed guitars on display, including ones signed by the entire bands of KISS and Rush. They were pretty cool.
They closed out a great show with this gem :
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Rare jackets worn by George Harrison and Ringo Starr during the making of The Beatles' 1965 film Help! are to go up for sale.
The comedy adventure, directed by Richard Lester, sees the group come up against an evil cult and flee to the Austrian Alps to seek refuge.
The jackets, which were worn throughout the five days of filming in the Alps and also feature on the album cover of the soundtrack, are expected to sell for in excess of £50,000.
They have come from the private collection of Lester, 82, who was one of the most influential directors of the 1960s, directing The Beatles' first film A Hard Day's Night as well as Help!
Auctioneer Paul Fairweather said: "As Beatles clothing goes, these have got to be amongst the Holy Grail for any Beatles collector. They feature on one of their most recognisable album covers and I have a feeling these could really fly off the block!"
He added: "The coats are tailored and very stylish and if I had the money to afford them, I would wear them without hesitation."
The sale is part of an auction of more than 200 lots of rare Beatles memorabilia and vinyl records to be hosted by Omega Auctions on March 20 at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles' number one hit Can't Buy Me Love.


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John Hancock Financial Services' CIO on why IT finance matters
Allan Hackney spent his first 15 months as CIO at John Hancock Financial Services hunkered down with the ledger. Learn why managing IT finance matters and how it's about to change.
What does a new CIO do when his CEO says he doesn't know if the company has an IT problem? That, in fact, the business has no idea what the hundreds upon hundreds of IT employees do for it, or how the millions upon millions of IT dollars get spent?
Allan Hackney
For Allan Hackney (photo left), who joined Boston-based John Hancock Financial Services in 2008 as the life insurance company's first CIO, the answer was pretty clear: focus relentlessly on IT finance management. During his first 15 months on the job -- to the dismay of staff who expected their new CIO to chart a new destiny for IT or at least make some noise about social media, enterprise mobility and the cloud -- he hunkered down with the expense ledger.
"My first hire was a controller," Hackney told an audience of CIOs at the recent CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Boston, in a keynote address titled "Why IT Finance Matters to the CIO."
Since then, IT finance management has "improved a lot" at John Hancock, the U.S. division of Toronto-based Manulife Financial Corp., Hackney said. The financially focused CIO hardly has his head in the sand on new technology, however. The company runs a private cloud after the IT department proved it reduced costs and enabled the business, and is considering launching a hybrid cloud, he said. Three months ago, IT deployed hundreds of iPads to Hancock's sales force. Of course, Hancock's marketing department is "all over social media," he added, but IT is still on the hook for proving its ROI.
In fact, proving the value of IT is only going to get harder for CIOs, Hackney told the conference audience, because such developments as social media; the "extreme personalization" of IT; the rise of the Net generation; and the Internet of things, or sensing devices, continue to shake up corporate computing. His message to the CIOs in the audience: Get IT finance in order now, and be prepared to adapt your IT financial management models, as trends like the cloud and BYOD ("bring your own device") redefine traditional service-level agreements.
Putting IT financial management on track
What are the signs of an operation in need of IT financial management? When Hackney peered into the black box of IT at Hancock, he discovered practices with which many CIOs deal:
- Two sources of truth: one in the ledger and one in the IT tools.
- Metrics stated in machine terms rather than in terms the business understands.
- The IT department closing its books on one timetable, and finance people reconciling theirs on another.
The opacity of IT finance meant that technology was viewed as an expense rather than an enabler, a corporate function to be "squeezed at all times," Hackney said. The business indeed had no appreciation how hard IT worked, as the CEO had acerbically communicated. In this type of environment, raising capital for new technology is near impossible, he added, at least at a place like Hancock, where 250 actuaries calculate the value of assets to four digits: "Unless you can prove there is productivity improvement and expense it, you don't get the bucks, never mind about trying to grow the top line or create capability."
To set IT financial management on course, Hackney focused on improving transparency and benchmarking -- make that benchmarking, benchmarking, benchmarking. "You've got to know whether the products and services you are delivering are really at a point where they need to be," he said. Then you have to provide the data that shows your performance to the business. That does not necessarily mean putting up a flat-panel TV in the company lobby so that employees can read the meters on IT systems, as one of his industry peers did, but IT performance should be an open book. "You don't want the user community to go hunt for metrics," he added.
Proving the value of IT with a little help from MIT
One thing that helped Hackney get IT finance management in order was to focus on function, quality and price: in other words, providing the right services at the right level of quality and at a competitive price. "Not every shoe fits the same foot," he said. While parts of the organization may need high availability, others can weather an eight hour outage and "life goes on," he added.
Another bit of help came courtesy of The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value, by George Westerman, an MIT professor across the river from Hancock. According to Hackney, Westerman assumes that IT should both provide value to the business and be a source of change and evolution. IT can do this internally and externally by optimizing processes, as well as reshaping behaviors with data that helps employees make better decisions or that informs or even creates business products.
In fact, Hackney thinks and talks about IT service offerings in terms of product development and product management, "exactly as the product development units at your companies use it," he said. CIOs need to define their customers and know the size of their market and at what price point and quality point they can deliver services.
IT offerings at Hancock are served up in an IT service catalog, "so people will know what they are buying from you," Hackney said. He advises CIOs who want to keep such a catalog current to talk to user communities about the services they want or see in the marketplace, and match up their catalog offerings accordingly. "And if you can't deliver at the right price and quality, you had better find an outside provider to fill in the gaps," he added.
The warning seemed to resonate with the 200-odd CIOs at the conference, and was echoed by other speakers.
At Parexel International Corp., a Waltham, Mass.-based contract research organization that helps large pharmaceutical companies and biotech firms with clinical trials, the IT team focuses on "delivering value early and often," CIO Jo Hoppe said.
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Don't let your IT service catalog go to waste: Six maintenance tips
"We always want to be showing the business that IT is there providing value and adding services or products that make the business successful," Hoppe said. That said, she added, before CIOs start talking about being trusted partners to the business, "you better make sure you have the basics right."
IT value begins with the business, said Rich Adduci, CIO of Natick, Mass.-based Boston Scientific Corp. "If there is a compelling reason why a technology is valuable, then you need to connect the dots with the business and move quickly. If you have a hammer looking for a nail, then you are swimming upstream," he said, apologizing for the mixed metaphor.
As for IT's mandate to change behaviors, Greg Buoncontri, executive vice president and CIO of Stamford, Conn.-based Pitney Bowes Inc., takes a different tack: "I think a more effective approach is to try to paint context for people, whether your own or the business', about what is necessary and what is possible with technology," he said. "What you do, in effect, is change people's world view; and behavioral change flows from that."
Hackney's final caution? Even CIOs with tight IT finance management need to brace themselves for proving IT value in an era where their Net generation employees take computing personally and where BYOD turns asset management on its head. At Hancock, the days of buying thousands of laptops, putting them on the books and depreciating them over time, are going fast. In the BYOD world, devices are an operating expense -- and a volatile one at that. "Those hundreds of sales people issued iPads three months ago?" said Hackney. "Guess what they want."
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We've been using Git for version control duties since Ars went legit (read: hired Clint and I). This was partially because of Github, and partially because we're big trendwhores and Git fits our Ruby-hipster-wannabe[1] image. It's worked well for us, but the only real benefit we've reaped from Git that would have been problematic with Subversion is cheap local branching: we've gotten into the habit of doing a local branch per Lighthouse issue, and it's been sweet.
We became full blown DVCS converts today when an epic failure at an EngineYard datacenter made Github (and, incidentally, Lighthouse) inaccessible. Our work goes through Github prior to hitting our production servers, and things sort of ground to a halt when we couldn't push to or pull from our primary repository at Github. When the downtime became excessive, though, a quick Google search turned up an 8 minute guide to self-hosting Git repositories. DVCS's copy everything including repository history locally when you clone one and work with it, so Clint and I both had current copies of all the data Github's responsible for. As a result, a quick
push to the newly created backup repository and we were back in business...
kurt@ubuntu$ git push backup-origin master:refs/heads/master Initialized empty Git repository in /.../ars-technica-mt-bits.git/ Counting objects: 13622, done. Compressing objects: 100% (6150/6150), done. Writing objects: 100% (13622/13622), 15.43 MiB | 1139 KiB/s, done. Total 13622 (delta 7716), reused 12596 (delta 6966) To email@example.com:ars-technica-mt-bits.git * [new branch] master -> master
...and able to pull the code to a production server...
arstechnica@civis$ git pull backup-origin master From firstname.lastname@example.com:ars-technica-mt-bits * branch master -> FETCH_HEAD Updating c2d0ded..f1ac38a mt-static/plugins/ArsTheme/jobs-include.txt: needs update Fast forward .../templates/blogbase/index_homepage.mtml | 2 ++ .../templates/blogbase/module_ads_header.mtml | 5 ++++- .../blogbase/module_ads_primary_tile.mtml | 4 +++- .../templates/blogbase/module_html_header.mtml | 3 +++ 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
This whole exercise would have worked equally well (I think) with Mercurial, Bazaar, or any of the other newfangled DVCS's out there. They're worth checking out, even if you're not interested in being extra trendy and cool like we are.
[1] Clint has a special fondness for Python, really, but we're not using Mercurial like true Python acolytes would be.


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June 2, 2014, 4:17 pm
Rapids forward Deshorn Brown named MLS player of the week
Rapids forward Deshorn Brown has been named MLS player of the week, the team announced Monday, following his two-goal performance in Colorado's 3-0 win over the Houston Dynamo on Sunday night at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
Brown scored his third goal of the season just four minutes into the match, powering home a header after a cross from defender Marvell Wynne. The Jamaica international doubled Colorado's lead later in the first half, finishing with a low strike from distance after a through ball from Dillon Powers.


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A Sneak Peek at the High Line
The High Line, the elevated railway turned public promenade, opened last night to a select group of donors and supporters. Before the gala kicked off, Diane von Furstenberg and Barry Diller issued a challenge grant, promising to donate $10 million to the walkway if someone else came along and matched it. Hedge fund mogul Phil Falcone and his wife Lisa delivered, and while it's still unclear when the public park will actually be public—rumor has it that it may just be a matter of days now—in the meantime, venture capitalist Fred Wilson was good enough to bring a camera along to last night's event so we can all get a little peek at what's in store.
$10 Million Gift for High Line Project [NYT]
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December 17, 2009
The Kansas Turnpike's new Tonganoxie/Eudora interchange will open at noon on Dec. 29.
Drivers using the new Exit 212, which connects with a rebuilt Leavenworth County Road 1, will not see any turnpike toll collectors on site. Instead, the interchange will be equipped with automated payment machines, similar to ATMs at banks or self-payment machines at grocery stores.
The interchange is the turnpike's first in Leavenworth County, and the turnpike's first to be equipped with such machines.
Traffic entering the turnpike at the interchange will have two options: Use a lane for K-TAG, which is for customers with readers on their windshields that automatically calculate and bill them for tolls; or use a lane with an automated ticker printer.
Drivers exiting the turnpike at the interchange also will have two options: Use a dedicated lane available for K-TAG customers, or use one two lanes equipped with automated payment machines.
The payment machines will read a driver's turnpike ticket, then inform the driver how much of a toll is owed; drivers then will pay using paper bills, coins or a payment card.
Anyone with a problem will be able to communicate with an off-site toll attendant by using a push-button connection via video and audio.
The interchange is part of an $18 million project that rebuilt a stretch of Leavenworth County Road 1.
A dozen more interchanges are scheduled to get some automated machines in 2010, including the Lecompton interchange, at the western edge of Lawrence, and the soon-to-be-rebuilt East Lawrence interchange, which cuts through the northern edge of North Lawrence.
Also slated: An automated payment machine at the turnpike's East Topeka exit, at the "small plaza" where drivers exit onto the Oakland Expressway.
Originally published at: http://www.tonganoxiemirror.com/news/2009/dec/17/tonganoxieeudora-kansas-turnpike-interchange-open-/


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Electric Threads brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 75 Designs von 22 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Your mission is to design a company logo, appropriate for color and B&W, that will grab attention and make us rich. So far, we're not rich. I'm sure a logo will change everything. (Also, if you're in the 48 states, we'd like to send the winner a free hat as well. I guess we could if you're somewhere else, I just don't know how much it costs to ship stuff internationally)
Electric Threads
We are a year old company, looking to expand. Up until now, we have primarily embroidered dancewear (i.e. Raiderettes, high school colorguard, private dance schools) but would like to branch out. There are a lot of embroiderers out there, so we need a logo to grab the attention of potential clients.
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- No electrical graphics like a lightbulb or extension cord or nuclear power generators. The idea is about energy, not utility companies.
- no electric guitars
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Around the minor leagues on Thursday, June 21.
Boise won a thriller walking off in the bottom of the ninth. The game was tied 3-3 going to the ninth when Eugene score one, but Boise came back and scored two to win the game 5-4. With one out Gioskar Amaya tripled. Jeimer Candelario tied the game with a single to right field. After moving to third on a basehit by Wilson Contreras up stepped Rock Shoulders. Shoulders delivered a game winning single to left field and Boised got their second win of the season. The Hawks belted out 13 hits on Thursday. Amaya, Contreras, Xavier Batista all had two hits on the night. Candelario had the best night offensively as he went 3-for-4 with a homer and two RBI's. The Hawks also got a great pitching performance from Hayden Simpson who pitched four innings and giving up one unearned run on only one hit. He also struck out seven in his first win at Boise this year.
Daytona got a great pitching performance from Austin Kirk as the Cubs won 3-0. Kirk pitched seven spectacular innings allowing zero runs and yielding only four hits. He also struck out three and walked two. Rebel Ridling had three hits including a double and a run scored. Ronald Torreyes had an outstanding day at the plate going 2-for-4 with a double and a home run. He also scored two runs and drove in one. Greg Rohan and Rubi Silva also drove in a run a piece. Ryan Searle and Jeffrey Lorick each pitched a scoreless inning as well as striking out two each.
Nicholas Struck pitched brilliantly on Thursday helping Tennessee win 3-1. Struck gave up one run on two hits in six innings. He also struck out seven batters as he improved his recored to 8-6. Ty'relle Harris and Marcus Hatley each pitched well in relief. Junior Lake was the offensive star on Thursday going 4-for-5 with a double and a run scored. His average now stands at .318. Justin Bour went 3-for-5 with an RBI. Logan Watkins and Matthew Cerda added two hits and scored a run each. Nelson Perez who was promoted had the other RBI on Thursday.
Not much good happened for Iowa today as they lost 6-2. Brett Jackson, Ty Wright, and Josh Vitters had the only hits for the Cubs. Vitters hit his 11th home run of the year. Frankie De La Cruz pitched only 4.2 innings giving up five runs, only two of which were earned on eight hits. Mike MacDougal gave up another run and three hits in his one inning of work. Jeff Beliveau pitched a scoreless inning in relief. Iowa's record now stands at 31-43.
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