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General Category => The USS King Technical Information Project => Topic started by: charles white on November 25, 2006, 00:03:48 AM
NTDS - Navy Tactical Data Systems
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November 25, 2006, 00:03:48 AM
On this day November 24, 2006, I found the USS King in Jim Sievers back yard. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has a display on NTDS. click here http://www.uss-king.com/ntds.shtml
Re: NTDS - Navy Tactical Data Systems
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When I reported aboard the King in July 1963 there were already several DS's aboard - Martin Haley, Gerry Lolwing, Danny Garske are names I remember. NTDS was still a novelty in the fleet: King, Mahan and Oriskany were the only three ships that had it. A few years ago I wrote up some recollections and posted them on the Data Systems Technician web site. Here they are again:
The Politics of IDAC
by rhclinton on Sat Dec 02, 2006 6:56 am
IDAC was one of the ugly stepsisters of NTDS. The initials stood for Interconnecting Digital/Analog Converter ? I can, after a lapse of nearly 50 years, no longer recall the AN/ designation of the device.
IDAC was intended to provide an interface between NTDS and the Terrier missile system on a DLG. Since NTDS was digital and the missile system computers were analog, the need for both digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversion arose. The device was manufactured by Univac. The digital logic used the same cards as were found in the CP-642 computers and the other peripherals and the documentation for it was in the familiar bubble diagram format. The D/A and A/D converters, however, had been subcontracted to another manufacturer and the documentation for them was far less useful. All of this was housed in a familiar two-bay Univac cabinet, with cooling blowers located in the bottom of each bay.
Although IDAC had been mentioned when I went through the first Systems course at Mare Island I did not actually encounter the machine until I reported aboard the USS King (DLG-10) in July 1963. Since I was assigned to the computer/peripheral gang, responsibility for it devolved to me ? I think DSC Gerry Lolwing and DS1 Martin Hailey were glad to get rid of it.
The CP-642 computers and the other Univac peripherals lived in the air-conditioned luxury of the computer room, but IDAC had been exiled to the DS shack which was not air conditioned and which had a door opening onto the weather deck. Internal cooling was not a problem because IDAC was cooled by the same chill water system that served the rest of the NTDS installation, but during our 1965 deployment to the Tonkin Gulf, disaster struck. The hot, humid air of the Gulf came in through the door and was sucked into IDAC?s cooling system which did an effective job of condensing the air and depositing the moisture in the air deflectors in the bottom of the cabinets. Since the blowers were designed to deflect the air upwards they also sprayed the water ? still containing salt ? over the logic cards in the left-hand lower drawer and over the converters in the right-hand one. The resulting corrosion was inevitable. We seldom had reason to open the lower drawers so this problem went undetected until we ran routine maintenance and found that the loopback test had failed. Repairing the logic circuits was just a matter of changing a few cards. Getting the A/D and D/A converters back in operation was more challenging but we managed it, though there were always a few residual problems. To prevent recurrence of the problem we throttled the flow of chill water into the cabinet and allowed the internal temperature to rise to the maximum allowable level, thus reducing the condensation.
Why have I included the word ?politics? in the title? Usually whenever there was the slightest glitch in NTDS ? problems with the computers, Link 11, even a single display console ? everyone from the Skipper on down were hovering around the DS gang, expecting an instant solution. But the attitude toward IDAC problems was surprisingly casual. I found this puzzling but it was not until only a couple of years ago that I discovered the explanation. This revelation came when I acquired a copy of When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the United States Navy by David L. Boslaugh. There appears to have been a high degree of resistance among some officers to the introduction of NTDS, characterized by the assertion ?No damned computer is going to tell me how to run my ship.? Nowhere was this attitude stronger than in BUWEPS where the responsibility for the Terrier missile system resided. Although it was not at the time apparent to those of us at the maintenance level of NTDS, I can now see that the missile people were simply uninterested in receiving any target designation data from NTDS and were totally unconcerned about the health of IDAC. Later installations of NTDS would incorporate the Mark 11 Weapons Direction System and IDAC would fade into obscurity, but this was after my time at sea.
When the King returned from its 1965 Tonkin Gulf deployment I received orders to instructor duty at Mare Island. In January 1966 I said farewell to ship, shipmates and IDAC and drove up the coast of California to report to my new duty station. There I was greeted by a smiling Gerry Lolwing who informed me that my first assignment would be to teach ? you guessed it ? IDAC, for which a C-school had been developed. As I recall, I taught the course only twice as the supply of candidates was by then limited. Teaching the digital circuitry was actually a lot of fun, but we didn?t spend much time on the D/A and A/D converters.
Programming under Fire
by rhclinton on Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:01 pm
Programming under Fire. I wonder how many times I heard that expression during my 30+ years in commercial IT. And each time I had to smile because I had really done it ? or nearly so.
Most of the time during the King?s 1965 Tonkin Gulf deployment life was pretty routine ? port-and-starboard watches, tracking outbound and inboard sorties and plenty of boredom. But a few times we went to General Quarters in anticipation of action that never occurred. On one such occasion the tension was quite high; there had been intelligence warning of a possible MIG attack. Condition 1 was set throughout the ship and in the computer room we did a fresh load of the condition 1 operational program. So everything was in readiness, or so I thought. I?m sure you recall how the NTDS Op program worked. The principle was for it to always move the ?hook? to a point just behind the radar sweep so that the radarmen were working with freshly-painted video. What constituted ?just behind? was a function of a parameter somewhere in the Op program which , as I recall, defined a sector of about 30 degrees. The radarmen had used this to good effect for several years but at this moment of high tension, the Operations Officer came into the computer room and requested that this sector be narrowed, probably to around 15 degrees.
Now, at this time in the history of NTDS, the philosophy was that all programming was done at the Fleet Computer Programming Centers (the one on the West Coast was at Point Loma). The only times we saw programmers ? officers and civilians ? was when the ship was about to call at a desirable liberty port such as Hong Kong. All the rest of the time the Op Program was expected to run without modification and there were no official programmers aboard. We enlisted DSs were trusted to maintain the hardware but the subtleties of programming were thought to be beyond our intellectual grasp, though there was about a week?s exposure to the Op Program in the Systems course at Mare Island. And the reality was that aboard ship we did a lot of digging into how it worked, using the listings stowed on board for the itinerant programmers.
I had never looked at the relevant area of the program before but after a few minutes with the listings I managed to locate the parameter. And after a few more minutes of octal arithmetic I had worked out the revised parameter. But how to put it into operation? Stopping the Op Program was out of the question under the Condition 1 circumstances. However the designers of NTDS had thoughtfully provided a device called the Systems Maintenance Panel or SMP. Among other functions it provided the ability to do an inspect-and-change of a running operational program. You could look at and change a half-word at a time. And where was this useful device located? In CIC of course, which was darkened and crowded just at the moment. Undeterred by these obstacles I went up to CIC with my modified parameter and a gray Navy flashlight. With great trepidation I started entering the change. It was only one word of data but I was unsure what would happen if I changed the first half-word before the second one. Would the system crash? I held my breath ? and it worked!. The hook started hugging the radar sweep more closely and I had my 15 minutes of fame.
The MIGs never came and we soon went back to our normal steaming condition. And I took away one of my life?s most valuable experiences. No matter how tense things got in the civilian pursuits of banking, retail, government, etc. nothing could match the tension of ? almost ? programming under fire.
A B-Link Mystery
by rhclinton on Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:09 am
The original design for NTDS included three radio data links. The predominant one was the A-Link (a.k.a. Link 11). This was the long-range data link that used HF radio to exchange track information among NTDS ships, and even today I marvel at how well it worked. The other inter-NTDS link was the C-Link (Link 12), which was designed for shorter range communication using UHF radio. It didn?t work. In the 2 ? years I was on the King I am certain the C-Link terminal equipment was never even powered up. The third link was B-Link (Link 14) which was included because the system designers knew that initially there would be few NTDS ships and it would be necessary to send track information to ships that hadn?t received the blessing of digital computers. B-Link was just a stream of human-readable information that was fed to an adapter that turned it into 5-bit Baudot teletype code for transmission by HF radio. The adapter was connected to a Model 28 teletype console which was not essential to the transmission of the stream but which could monitor it.
The B-Link data stream was copied by teletype printers on the non-NTDS ships and converted to a traditional plot by radarmen using grease pencils on Plexiglas plotting boards. But because there was never complete confidence in the reliability of NTDS on the ships equipped with it, the B-Link stream was also copied by a local teleprinter in CSC and the track data was put onto plotting boards as a backup.
B-Link got constant use during the King?s 1965 deployment to the Tonkin Gulf because the system ran around the clock, there were always aircraft being tracked and we were mostly operating with ships that didn?t have NTDS. This operation was largely routine but there was one occasion when something quite extraordinary happened. In the midst of the stream of track information there suddenly appeared a message addressed to one of our DSs, inviting him to perform an anatomically improbable act.
Now this suggestion was nothing that would not have been heard several times a day on the mess deck but unfortunately in this instance the medium became the message. The Squadron Commodore happened to be in his flag plot and saw the message emblazoned on the yellow paper of the teletype printer, so the incident quickly escalated to an intensity almost as great as Operation Rolling Thunder itself.
Naturally the Skipper demanded an immediate investigation. It was obvious that the message could have been inserted at several different points. One was the Model 28 attached to the teletype adapter. But this was in a corner of the computer room to which access was difficult because my accustomed post was in a chair which blocked the way. At the time of the transmission I was sitting there, and though I was probably asleep I was sure that no one had gotten around me. It could have come from another teletype on the local loop or even from one of the other NTDS ships ? we were operating with the Mahan and Oriskany at the time. There was even the suggestion that it might have originated in the operational program itself, in which case it would have been the world?s first computer virus. However, as I later testified at the board of inquiry that was convened to find the culprit, this was unlikely. Or at least I thought so at the time.
Despite the board of inquiry, a lot of theorising and intense questioning of potential miscreants, no conclusion was ever reached. In the best Navy tradition of never letting the innocent go unpunished in the search for the guilty, warning letters were placed in the service records of two of the DS watch leaders ? a total illogicality since the insertion could not have been done on both their watches. But at least at least the cause of justice ? USN variety ? was served.
I wonder ? perhaps someone reading this after 51 years will have a pang of conscience and confess to the crime. I?m sure the statute of limitations has run its course.
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This is reblogged from my post at PLP Voices.
Last year Google Docs was upgraded to become Google Drive. Like its predecessor, Google Drive allows you to create and share documents with ease. The enhanced Google Drive format has given the program some wonderful additional features that I encourage you to explore. However, right now I want to highlight how useful Google Drive is in providing feedback for students. (If you are not familiar with Google Drive, here is a brief video highlighting the concept.)
Google Drive is entirely free and works within any browser, although to enjoy all of its features, you do need to use Google's Chrome Browser. Chrome is also free and will allow you to integrate content and material across devices and platforms. It's certainly worth adding to your software toolkit.
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With Google Drive students can create a variety of content, but here we are going to focus on word processing documents.
The Google Drive word processor is less feature-packed than Microsoft Word or Apple's Pages — which actually makes it easier to use. That said, Google has included most of the popular word processing features, including text formatting, headers & footers, image insertion, etc.
Students will need a Google account to create and share documents; this is the way Google assures that document access can be controlled by the creator. When creating a new document, students simply select "create" and then "document." Voila! A new text document appears and they proceed in the same way they would using any other word processor.
What makes Google Drive different is the ability to share documents with others. If a student shares a document with you (their teacher), you now have the ability to not only view the document, but to make revisions or comments along the way. (Be sure students choose the "can edit" option when they give you sharing privileges.)
The share/feedback feature is a really powerful teaching tool.
Instead of emailing documents back and forth (which is a huge pain with many opportunities for confusion) teachers can go quickly to Drive, find and open the student's paper in the Drive table of contents, and make "live" comments and corrections on the student's paper.
There are no duplicates or separate versions floating around in your inbox or mail folders — the student's document is always available in the cloud at your Google Drive account.
To make a comment simply highlight a section with your cursor and click the "comment" button. You can add as little or as much text as you would like. If you're like me, you'll find yourself giving students more feedback, more often, and in less time, thanks to Google Drive.
You can track the history of revisions
Google Drive also makes it easy to track revisions and a document's history. After you make comments on your students' writing and they make changes, you can go back and trace the alterations they have actually made, step by step, over the course of creation. Just select File > See Revision history and click on any date/time. If it's too much detail, click on Show less detailed revisions. With a few minutes of review, you'll have a better sense of how responsive students have been to your feedback and perhaps see ways you can make your feedback more effective.
Once the student's paper is complete, it's simple to pull a copy from Google Drive in any of several formats (including MS Word and PDF) by selecting File > Download as… or simply choosing File > Print.
More tools to play with
Once you have mastered the basic elements of Google Drive, it's time to play with the advanced features. You can explore many tools for teachers at the Chrome store.
One of my favorite new techniques is to leave my students voice notes. By using the freeLearnly Voice Comments tool, you can incorporate your own spoken comments into any Google Drive document. This is a great way to provide broader feedback. Here's a teacher at YouTube, describing how it works:
Shifting your classroom from paper or computer-resident writing systems into the cloud may seem like a big and even intimidating step. But the payoff is worth the effort. By harnessing the power of Google Drive, you can explore your students' writing process in depth, at the click of a link, and provide them regular, dynamic and meaningful feedback. As a result their writing and research skills will improve and the feedback process will become more fluid and enjoyable for you.


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Black cats have been the subject of much fear and superstition for centuries. Depending on the part of the world you lived in, and the time in history in which you lived, they could be associated with evil, demons, illness, prosperity, luck....even a storm at sea. Superstitions about these cats still remain, and unfortunately they sometimes become the objects of fear.
The color black was ( and still is, to an extent) associated with mystery, darkness and evil. Cats that were totally or mainly black were therefore often associated with witches. As a result, many a poor woman was burnt at the stake or drowned in the local river in the Middle Ages in Britain, and her pet cat was often burned or drowned along with her.
Some people believed these cats were demons, or a form of the devil, in disguise, so the woman who owned the cat must therefore be a witch. Others believed that the cats aided witches in performing black magic. Some thought they were actually witches in disguise, and even believed they could fly on a broom.
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ONARCHITECTURE- Things to come? Woodlands opens office downtown
On Wednesday, December 13, Gropen sign and display company employees Darrell Muler and King Scott were busy putting the finishing touches on The Woodlands' latest marketing move– a swanky new sales office across from the Mudhouse that gives Ryan Homes a run for their money marketing to downtown denizens.
What's the Woodlands? It's one of seven nearly identical Woodlands resort-style developments that Atlanta-based Dovetail Companies have been promoting in college towns in Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Texas. Located south of town on Sunset Avenue extended, the $60 million 300-unit condo resort community, which broke ground the day their sign went up, is being marketed almost exclusively to college students... and their parents.
The two- and three-bedroom condos will feature French doors opening to concrete reinforced balconies, perfect for undergrad hijinks. Kitchens boast granite counters, just the setting for whipping up a perfect mojito. And the 7,000-square-foot clubhouse holds a stadium-seating movie theater and state-of-the-art cardio and weight-lifting studio. There's even a tanning salon. This is clearly not the crash pad of college days gone by.
And for parental peace of mind, besides controlled access, some units have solid wood doors with insulated glass. Try kicking that in, frat guy! Add to that a putting green, a billiard room, two massive swimming pools with endless waterfalls, a few babes in bikinis... and The Woodlands sounds more like Fort Lauderdale in March than student housing.
According to sales manager Lisa Mattise, Woodlands construction will be first-class, featuring cedar and hardiplank siding, copper gutters, and extensive landscaping. "It's better than any other product we've offered," says Mattise. "The Charlottesville Woodlands is the only one with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances."
And how much will all this cost mom and dad? Mattise says the two-bedroom units are going for $214,900 and the three-bedrooms for $239,900. Leasing is also an option, with two-bedroom units priced at $625 a bed and three-bedroom units at $525 a bed.
"My friends who live on 14th Street pay $200 a month more than what I was quoted at the Woodlands," writes "Ginny" on the Hook's news blog. "I'm from Knoxville, and they built a Woodlands at the UT campus, and it has exploded."
Indeed, Mattise says that 143 condos were sold in 140 days at the Knoxville Woodlands, and they've already had "great interest" in the Charlottesville location. She adds that they plan to have 75 units available for incoming students in the fall of 2007, and 150 available by the end of the year. The ratio of sales to leasing runs about even.
With this fancy new sales office on the Mall (which actually has a model of the condos inside), the company appears poised to pitch the most luxurious accommodations a student could ever wish to regurgitate on. The question is: will the market gag on the promotion?
Atlanta-based developer Nathan Metzger and partner Coran Capshaw opened an off-site sales office on the Mall (where the Charlottesville Community Design Center is now) in 2003 when they were developing the Riverbend Apartments on Pantops and Walker Square in Fifeville. At the time, we were in the midst of a luxury apartment complex boom of sorts, as developers believed there was money to be made renting luxury units. Six upper-end complexes containing close to 1,300 units had been planned, built, or were under construction between 2002 and 2003– more units in one year than the previous 12– including Barclay Place on Georgetown Road, Lakeside on Avon Street, Carriage Hill on Pantops, Jefferson Ridge on Sunset Avenue extended, Stone Creek Village on Route 20 South, and Avemore on Stony Point Road in addition to Riverbend and Walker Square.
However, almost as soon as they were built, local developers began to worry.
"I think the market is way overbuilt– and getting worse," Metzger told the Hook in March 2004.
Even before that, developer Rip Cathcart, who built the first of the luxury developments–- Lakeside and Carriage Hill–- had his doubts. "Nobody would deny we're going to be in an overbuilt situation here," he said in the spring of 2003.
Those predictions turned out to be true. On the tail-end of a hot real estate market, developers began frantically converting their rental apartment complexes to condos. In fact, Cathcart says he sold 108 of his units at Carriage Hill in the last year, and he counts 11 such conversions of apartments to condos. Ironically, this trend during the last few years has turned the situation in 2003 upside down.
"The rental market, as far as landlords are concerned, has improved dramatically," says Cathcart today, explaining that condo conversions have lowered the inventory of rental properties, while the slowing real estate market has more people looking to rent. Cathcart says all his remaining rental properties are occupied, and the overall apartment occupancy rate now hovers around 98 percent. Meanwhile, although condo sales have been robust compared to residential sales, it's the developers trying to sell condos who are feeling the squeeze.
So how might The Woodlands fare? Of course, Mattise believes the units will go as fast as they did in Knoxville. Others find the "luxury student housing" idea hard to stomach.
"I've already decided to hate anybody who lives there," writes blogger Waldo Jaquith, prompting a small but fiery debate over the appropriateness of it all.
Developer Cathcart, who admits he doesn't know much about The Woodlands, says the student-buyer market may not have slowed as much as the non-student market, but he can't imagine The Woodlands is "going to go gangbusters."
Still, Cathcart thinks the idea of promoting the "kiddie-condo" strategy just might work. That's parents buying a small place where their kid and his friends can live for four years, then either keeping it as an investment or selling it to parents of incoming students), something Cathcart says has been going on in town for years.
And, of course, corporate developers like The Dovetail Companies and Ryan Homes, which are reluctant to take risks and fiercely protect their bottom lines (they wouldn't be corporations if they didn't), wouldn't be installing fancy sales offices on the Mall if their accountants and marketers didn't think the numbers added up. As recently reported, developers 0f a new community called Biscuit Run are planning to build a veritable city south of town, with 3,100 units planned. And widening Route 20 South to four lanes has been buzzed about too.
In fact, that part of town has already grown, with the Jefferson Ridge and Eagles Landing communities on Sunset Ave extended, and College Park/University Place over on Old Lynchburg/5th St. Extended. With The Woodlands and Biscuit Run on the way, those country roads could get mighty crowded.
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Robin Ventura got a 3-year deal:
While Guillen moved on to a four-year deal running the Miami Marlins, Ventura took over the White Sox under a three-year deal with no options. The hiring of Guillen and Ventura by Williams were somewhat similar, in that they were previous organization staples as players and, although neither one had prior managerial experience, Williams and White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf knew what to expect with their personalities and commitment to the organization.
Harold Baines got some hitting coach responsibilities,
"[The staff] will fit together such that Harold will be putting more time into the mental side of some of our hitters' approaches," Williams said. "He was pretty good at it, and remains a valuable asset in that area. But he will take a greater role along those lines … as will Robin. That's what I meant by a coaching staff that will work together. It's all intertwined, not just on one guy to solve the problems of our hitters.
"Robin will be very involved in every aspect — whether it be player development and offseason conversations with the players, the coaches, the scouts, everything. That's just baseball and the way we like to do things. It's an all-inclusive style of management."
and Paul Konerko got coach consideration,
Perhaps the most stunning news to emerge from the White Sox' press conference introducing Robin Ventura as manager was general manager's Ken Williams' revelation that he considered Paul Konerko as a player-manager candidate. It never got to a point where Williams asked Konerko about the possibility.
"Well, it was considered long enough for me to realize that Paul is a very cerebral person and he would probably drive himself nuts right now playing and managing at the same time," Williams said Tuesday. "But that's the kind of respect I have for him that yeah, I did consider it. Then I thought I think I would rather him be focused more on hitting third or fourth in the lineup and driving in 100 runs rather than trying to worry about 25 other guys in addition to it. We are trying to win."
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I recently read Calvin Miller's memoir: Life is mostly Edges. I don't normally like memoirs, because they tend to be filled with stories that I don't care about. I often find it hard to care about someone's childhood in a book or the stories about their family they find fascinating. What I appreciated about Miller's though was how I could relate to it. He was a pastor for decades and then a seminary professor. I found his stories to be fast paced and easy to relate to as a pastor. Also, when you are a pastor, you want to hear from pastors who have retired as pastors, who survived ministry. This is a chance to do that.
Here is some of the wisdom I highlighted:
- We all like the middle. The middle is safe. You can't fall off the middle. Only the edges are dangerous. The great lessons, the deep tragedies, the storms of unbearable heart-quakes always happen along the edges.
- Joy rarely erupts in the safe centers of our lives. Laughter may inhabit the middle, but not joy. Joy rises only along the edges.
- The bad times are never as memorable the good times, and the best memories live longest.
- Religion and sexuality are the two strongest drives in the human heart. Of the two, I believe religion is the stronger, for it motivates us from the very center of our lives. It is a slow and steady light. The sexual need, on the other hand, is a matter of appetite gone mad only for brief minutes of indulgence. But religious passion motivates us through a lifetime of difficult and demanding service.
- All marriages begin with people telling each other how in love they are. Most of those marriages die in divorce courts. I'm going in and making a promise to my woman, and I'm going to spend the rest of my life living up to it. 'Cause if you've got honor when you're making a promise, you can find love just about anywhere. Honor is the bedrock of every real promise, and I believe it is the bedrock of every marriage that lasts. I will never love Barbara any more than the sacredness of my promises. In a minute I'm going to look her in the eyes and say, 'For better, for worse, in sickness and in health, till death do us part.' And when I say that, I'm going to mean it as no one standing at any altar has ever meant it. I believe that somewhere out there in the future, I will be more certain about love, but I will never be more certain about integrity than I am right now.
- Sermons are only noble when they are so "see-through" that the pastor's need for God is clearly visible through his words.
- What I specifically learned was that people can forgive a leader whose vision may be errant, but they will never forgive a leader who isn't visionary.
- Congregational schisms are never about serious things we agree or disagree on. They are rarely heartfelt quarrels about theology or doctrine. They are nearly always contests about who runs things or would like to.
- I would never be much good to God until I came to the place where I didn't need the church.
- The decision Barbara and I made on that one desperate night, we would prize evermore. We put our love for Christ and for each other above our need to be accepted by anyone. This became our inviolate creed of marriage.
- Did I as a pastor love the things of God or did I love God?
- When I dropped my guard and focused on Christ, what I had tried to make happen, happened automatically. The church began to grow.
- None of the great saints of the church made his or her mark by trying harder.
- It is impossible to hate your fellow man and pray at the same time.
- Our lives belong to God, and I suppose it doesn't much matter what we spend them doing as long as we desire his perfect will to be carried out in our love for him.
- Bitterness is never appropriate. Hard times are never a matter of personal choice. Bitterness is.
- Herein lies my greatest fears for the Emergent Church: in its attempt to start where the culture is, it rarely stops and asks, "Is this where the culture should be?"
- Will somebody please tell me why God's people, who surfeit under a mighty surge of grace, have so much trouble telling other people they are loved?
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BIG VEIN COAL CO. OF WEST VIRGINIA v. READ(1913)
[229 U.S. 31, 32] Mr. Osborne I. Yellott for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. William L. Rawls, Frank Gosnell, and George Weems Williams for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Day delivered the opinion of the court:
This case involves the jurisdiction of a circuit court of the United States to issue an order of attachment in a case where no personal service could be had upon the defendant, and wherein there was no personal appearance to the action.
The case was begun in the circuit court of the United [229 U.S. 31, 33] States for the northern district of West Virginia to recover in debt upon certain promissory notes. A summons was issued against the defendant, Benjamin H. Read, trading as Lynah & Read, and return was made by the the marshal that the writ had not been served, as defendant was not found in his district. Thereafter an affidavit was filed for an attachment, setting forth that the defendant was one of the receivers of the circuit court of the United States for the northern district of West Virginia of the property of the Oakland Coal & Coke Company, and that there had been allowed to him for his services as such receiver the sum of $2,000. An order of attachment was issued, and the return of the marshal stated that he had been unable to locate any property in his district upon which to serve the attachment, and accordingly returned the writ, 'No property found.' Afterwards an order was made which, after reciting the beginning of the suit, and that the defendant was a nonresident of West Virginia; that the special master had found the sum of $2,000 due him as such receiver, and that an order of attachment had been issued and placed in the hands of the marshal for the purpose of attaching the estate of the defendant, provided that a copy of the order be served upon the defendant, that he appear before the court, and that a copy of the order served upon the defendant and one Slingluff, special receivers in a suit entitled 'Baltimore Trust & Guaranty Co. v. Oakland Coal & Coke Co.' should be notice to them of the proceedings, and that the claim of the defendant was sought to be attached therein.
A copy of the order was served upon the defendant in Baltimore, Maryland, who thereafter appeared by his counsel for the purpose only of objecting to the jurisdiction of the court, and moved the court to dismiss the suit and quash the attachment upon the following grounds:
Thereafter, the case coming on to be heard, counsel appearing for the defendant for the purpose of objecting to the jurisdiction and for the purpose of the motions filed only, and further moving the court to vacate and set aside the orders issued, and to quash the service of summons in the action, and to dismiss the case, certain facts were found, without prejudice to any motion of the defendant, and without enlarging the appearance of the defendant, as follows:
Afterwards the court delivered an opinion in which the judge directed that the former order, amounting to an attachment, should be set aside, and held that, inasmuch as personal service upon the defendant in the action might yet be obtained by alias summons, he would not then dismiss the action. Later, the plaintiff refused to direct the issuance of alias summons, and upon motion judgment was entered dismissing the action, and a certificate was made by the court.
The certificate states that the judgment complained of in plaintiff's writ of error, which was set out, is based solely upon the ground that the court had no jurisdiction as a [229 U.S. 31, 36] Federal court to grant relief to the plaintiff by subjecting to the claim of the plaintiff the assets and credits of the defendant, to be attached in the case, without personal service of summons upon him, or his voluntary appearance in the cause, and that the motion filed in the case did not constitute a voluntary appearance, and that the court, as a Federal court, had no jurisdiction to grant a personal judgment against the defendant, or to make a final judgment or order, subjecting to the claim of the plaintiff the assets and credits of the defendant so sought to be attached.
The attachment was sought to be levied and was claimed to be authorized under the act of June 1, 1872 (17 Stat. at L. 196, chap. 255), now 915 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 684). It is as follows:
Assuming that the attachment could be issued under the laws of West Virginia, under this statute was there authority in the courts of the United States to issue the attachment, it appearing that no service had been or could be made upon the defendant, and that he had not appeared in the action?
Section 915 was before this court in Ex parte Des Moines R. Co. 103 U.S. 794 , 26 L. ed. 461, and it was held that as, under 739 of the Revised Statutes, act of March 3, 1875 (18 [229 U.S. 31, 37] Stat. at L. 470, chap. 137, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 508), then in force, no civil action, not local in its nature, could be brought against anyone by original process in any United States circuit court other than that for the state of which he was an inhabitant or in which he was found at the time of serving the writ, an attachment could not be issued, the defendant being a nonresident, and not having been served with process. It was further held that an attachment was but an incident to a suit, and unless the suit could be maintained the attachment must fall. In other words, in cases where the defendant could not be sued and jurisdiction acquired over him personally, the auxiliary remedy by attachment could not be had, as attachment was not a means of acquiring jurisdiction. The same view was taken in Nazro v. Cragin, 3 Dill. 474, Fed. Cas. No. 10,062, by Mr. Justice Miller, on the circuit. Ex parte Des Moines R. Co. supra, was but an affirmance, as to the right of attachment where no personal service could be had, of the former case of Toland v. Sprague, 12 Pet. 300, 9 L. ed. 1093, wherein it was held that a person was not amenable to attachment against his property except where process could be served upon his person.
It is contended, however, that since the act of March 3, 1887, [24 Stat. at L. 552, chap. 373], as amended August 13, 1888 (25 Stat. at L. 433, chap. 866, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 508), the right of attachment should be held to exist in cases like the present. The statute of 1888 provides:
The argument is that the right to issue an attachment under the act of 1872 should obtain, since the law now permits suit in the district of the residence either of the [229 U.S. 31, 38] plaintiff or defendant, omitting the provision of the act of 1875, that the defendant could be sued only in the district in which he was an inhabitant or could be found at the time of commencing the proceeding. But we are of the opinion that this amendment to the statute was not intended to do away with the settled rule that, in order to issue an attachment, the defendant must be subject to personal service, or voluntarily appear in the action. If Congress had intended any such radical change, it would have been easy to have made provision for that purpose, and doubtless a method of service by publication in such cases would have been provided. We think the rule has not been changed; that an attachment is still but an incident to a suit, and that, unless jurisdiction can be obtained over the defendant, his estate cannot be attached in a Federal court. See Laborde v. Ubarri, 214 U.S. 173 , 53 L. ed. 955, 29 Sup. Ct. Rep. 552; United States v. Brooke, 184 Fed. 341.
Another contention is that the defendant, in appearing for the purpose of the motion submitting to the court the question of the right to attach his compensation as receiver in the court, had voluntarily submitted to the jurisdiction of the court; but we are of the opinion that this contention is untenable. It is the settled practice in the Federal courts that an appearance may be made for the sole purpose of raising jurisdictional questions, without thereby submitting to the jurisdiction of the court over the action. Goldey v. Morning News, 156 U.S. 518 , 39 L. ed. 517, 15 Sup. Ct. Rep. 559; Shaw v. Quincy Min. Co. 145 U.S. 444, 453 , 36 S. L. ed. 768, 772, 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 935.
It is true that where the defendant appears by motion and objects to the jurisdiction, and also submits a question going to the merits of the action, it being one of which the court had jurisdiction, there is a general appearance in the case which gives jurisdiction, as in St. Louis & S. F. R. Co. v. McBride, 141 U.S. 127 , 35 L. ed. 659, 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 982, where a demurrer was interposed raising two grounds of jurisdiction, and the third going to the merits of the cause of action, and it was held [229 U.S. 31, 39] that there had been a submission to the jurisdiction of the court. See also Western Loan & Sav. Co. v. Butte & B. Consol. Min. Co. 210 U.S. 368 , 52 L. ed. 1101, 28 Sup. Ct. Rep. 720.
In this case, however, the submission was not of any question involving the merits of the suit, but of one with reference to the jurisdiction of the court to issue the attachment; adding the further ground that the property in question was not subject to attachment or garnishment. No issue was made involving the merits of the action. This special appearance was sufficient to raise the question of jurisdiction only. Davis v. Cleveland, C. C. & St. L. R. Co. 217 U.S. 157 , 54 L. ed. 708, 27 L.R.A.(N.S.) 823, 30 Sup. Ct. Rep. 463, 18 Ann. Cas. 907.
In our opinion the Circuit Court did not err in holding that it had no jurisdiction to issue the attachment in this case.
Judgment affirmed.


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Victim of iPad theft offers warning
Security experts warn Craigslist buyers, sellers to be cautious
A rash of Craigslist iPad robberies may be over in Des Moines.
Matt Drewis just wanted to sell his iPad before he was attacked and injured.
Police said a suspect in the case was arrested.
"I should have known better when I showed up in the area because the area was not a very good area," Drewis said. "I probably should have drove off and left."
But Drewis didn't leave. He met a man on the east side who answered his Craigslist ad for an iPad.
Seconds later, Drewis was attacked on the street and still bears the scratches from the fight.
"(I) eventually got blindsided. They dropped me down to the ground, and they ran off with the iPad," Drewis said.
Drewis called police, and they eventually arrested Jovan Martez Clark, 23, in connection with the case.
Craigslist is full of iPads for sale, and authorities said their popularity is attracting criminals not interested in paying for them.
Security expert Tom Conley said Craigslist buyers and sellers should be cautious.
"If anything doesn't feel right, don't go. There's no product worth getting hurt over or dying over," Conley said.
Drewis gave similar advice.
"Before I got hit, I already had a bad gut instinct, and I think I should have just followed that," Drewis said. "The best thing I can tell you is go with your gut."
Authorities said Tyler Chestnut, Tarley Karlar, Cameron Slothouber, Savion Apodaca Jr. and Darrion Patterson were also arrested and accused of robbing people who were selling items through the website.


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Carlos Calaca has kidnapped El Presidente's daughter, and he plans to sacrifice her in order to merge the World of the Living with the World of the Dead.
Juan, a normal guy who stumbles upon a Legendary Luchador mask, must find the strength and courage to become the Hero he's always dreamed of being, and put a stop to this. Not for you, not for Calaca, but for El Presidente's daughter, the most beautiful girl in all the world.
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For the outdoorsy types, there's cycling, trekking and rafting at the rivers of Syr Darya and Angren, which are suitable for beginners. Those wanting a higher form of adrenaline rush should try the faster flowing rivers of Pskem, Ugan and Chatkal. Skiing is best at Chimghan, the recreation zone of Tashkent.
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Two-alarm fire rips through Bay View home
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Authorities are investigating the cause of a two-alarm house fire in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood.
Police said the fire broke out around 11:00 p.m. on Saturday near Burrell and Clifford streets.
"People on this side were covering their noses because the smoke was just barreling this way, you know, and out of control, it was scary," said neighbor Walter Jones.
Firefighters said one person, believed to be the owner of the two-story building suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital and released. An arson team is investigating the cause.
"I don't know what the arson investigator was looking at specifically, but it is routine for us anytime there is heavy damage to investigate," said Deputy Chief Sean Slowey of the Milwaukee Fire Department. "Anytime there is a lot of fire damage and the fire gets going very well prior to our arrival, or there's a large amount of property damage or occupants are injured, then we always investigate."
Witnesses told 12 News they saw the owner screaming from the upstairs back porch. Jennifer Henry said she was just hoping no one was inside.
"It was just incredible flames coming out of every window, and the fire department and the police (were) everywhere," said Henry.
Mike Osoweski was worried about the flames spreading to his house next door.
"They got it done really quickly, which thankfully saved our house," said Osoweski.
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This week, Teradata introduced its in-memory capabilities. The press release is here.
In-memory is the current fastest commercial medium for data storage, upwards of thousands of times faster than HDD. Naturally, it is expensive relatively speaking or it would be more pervasive now. However, the price point has lowered recently and we are having an in-memory hardware renaissance. As Tony Baer of Ovum said in a tweet response to me: "w/DRAM cheap,takes SmartCaching to nextlevel."
Teradata takes in-memory a step further by considering the relative priority of data and, though all data is backed by disk, it will automatically transfer it in and out of memory as appropriate, in a feature it calls Intelligent Memory. This is the data "80/20 rule" at work. After 7 days of usage, Teradata says the allocation will be fairly settled. Teradata has found that, across multiple environments, 85% of I/O uses 10% of the cylinders. It's in-memory driven by data temperature (and this extends to HDD and SSD).
You still need to allocate the memory (and SSD) initially but whatever you allocate will be intelligently utilized. It will run will run across the Teradata family: the 670, 1650, 2700 and 6700 models.
It behooves us to seek out the fastest medium for data that can be utilized effectively in the organization and delivers maximum ROI. Those who understand the possibilities for data today should be sharing and stimulating the possibilities for information in the organization. All productive efforts at information management go to the bottom line.
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Artist Chuck Close delivers inspiration to Bridgeport students
It was just a few days before Christmas when 34 youngsters from Bridgeport's struggling South End traveled to Manhattan to meet with an affable white-bearded gent, who told them their futures are rich with promise.
Not Santa ... but a figure just as awesome and larger-than-life: artist Chuck Close, perhaps best known internationally for his hyper-realist huge-scale portrait paintings.
Life, art and overcoming obstacles were the topics of discussion when Close, 72, chatted with art students from Bridgeport's Roosevelt School, a kindergarten-through-grade-eight facility, at Pace Gallery in Chelsea, as part of his volunteer role with the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and its national Turnaround Arts Initiative pilot program.
As school "arts mentor," Close initially met his charges in November when he traveled from his Manhattan studio for a day in the Park City.
It was during that meeting that Close invited the youngsters to visit Pace, on West 25th Street, to tour his solo exhibition.
Last week, Roosevelt Principal Tanya Kelley, a longtime advocate of the arts for students, was able to accept that offer. And so on this particular gray day, in early morning, about 40 kids and adult chaperones piled onto a Bridgeport school bus for what would be an extraordinary day -- full of surprises -- steeped in the arts and the magic of Christmas and the promise of a new year.
Commitment to arts education
As one of eight schools in the nation to participate in the two-year public-private funded program, Roosevelt School was chosen through a competitive process in which it demonstrated its commitment to arts education, Kelley has explained.
The project aims to improve low-performing schools by increasing student "engagement" through the arts.
Each school is paired with a celebrated musician, dancer, visual artist or actor -- all of whom have been appointed to the committee by President Barack Obama.
In addition to Close, those volunteering are cellist Yo-Yo Ma; actors Sarah Jessica Parker, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker and Alfre Woodard; and classical dancer Damian Woetzel (who is doing double duty) -- in elementary and middle schools in New Orleans, Des Moines, Denver, Boston, Washington, D.C., Portland, Ore., and Lame Deer, Mont.
Soon after arriving at the gallery, Roosevelt students were greeted by Close, who was soon joined by surprise guests: dance great Woetzel and three musicians from Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road world-music ensemble. Not only were they introduced to the musicians, they were introduced to their unusual instruments: Kojiro Umezaki performing on shakuhachi (Japanese flute); Christina Pato on Galician bagpipes; and Shane Shanahan on darbuka (percussion). So rousing was their playing that the kids spontaneously followed the trio as they snaked through the gallery, clapping hands and stamping their feet.
`Value of hard work'
Throughout the day -- during which the students were treated to a pizza lunch in the gallery -- Woetzel and Close spoke about the value of hard work and believing in one's dreams.
Perseverance and a strong work ethic were key to Close's success, he said. Born in poverty in Monroe, Wash., Close reiterated that he spent much of his childhood combating physical problems and being labeled as "a very poor student." Nonetheless, he would overcome many obstacles in order to receive a fine arts graduate degree from Yale University. Then in 1988, a catastrophic spinal artery collapse left him severely paralyzed -- so he learned to paint by strapping a paint brush to his wrist. In 2000, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Bill Clinton.
"As you begin this life-long journey ... remember that every day, you need to be doing something that you excel at. It doesn't have to be art, but you need to find something, whether it's science, engineering, mechanics," he advised the students.
"If you have to, change the rules, change schools, change subjects, change your plans" in order to find a passion. "Learn to celebrate differences and never let anyone else define who you are," he said.
Positive reactions
Carolyn Smith, 13, a seventh-grader, is a singer who loves to belt out Broadway tunes. Outgoing and engaging, Carolyn is one of Close's most enthusiastic fans.
"I just love his art ... and he's a pretty cool guy. I love exploring new things and today is really cool," she said.
Yaniece Fautner, also 13, said meeting all the artists "set a good example" for the students. "It really inspires us ... and makes us all want to do better," Fautner added.
Not only had the experience engaged them, but it significantly brightened their holiday season, pointed out Roosevelt art teacher Rachel Monsam (who helped the children create an art exhibit area at the school, now named in honor of Close).
"This day has been wonderful," said Kelley, moments before it was well on its way to getting even better.
One last surprise had been planned. Before exiting New York, the Bridgeport-bound school bus cruised by Rockefeller Center and its majestic Christmas tree, which most of the children had never seen in person.
"Stop. Stop. Stop." they yelled. And so the bus driver pulled over. And the students disembarked in a flash.
"They probably don't understand this now, but this day will remain with them for the rest of their lives and they will be able to tell stories about how they spent a day in New York with some of the greatest artists in the world," Kelley said.
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•Jonathan Cano, 25, Log Lane, warrant arrest in the 17000 block of MCR 17.7 on February 17 at 6:53 p.m. Held on $10,000 bond.
•Richard Mayes, 33, Fort Morgan, warrant arrest in the 600 block of Aurora on February 14 at 11:22 a.m. Held on $5,000 bond.
•Lizandra Orona-Flores, 23, Fort Morgan, domestic violence, harassment, menacing and child abuse at 21525 CR R on February 14 at 7:39 p.m. Held without bond.
•Kaskile Bitendelo, 26, lFort Morgan, drove while license suspended at 14000 Highway 34 on February 17 at 1:32 a.m. Held on $1,000 bond.
•"Brandon" William, 39, Sterling, theft by receiving at 28601 Highway 34 on February 20 at 12:26 p.m. Advantage Feedyard LLC, Sterling, reported miscellaneous tack and horse equipment, valued at $1,000, stolen. Held on $1,000 bond.
•Amanda Reddick, 32, Hillrose, drove vehicle while license under restraint, vehicle had no license plate lights on Highway 6 and MCR V on February 17 at 10:28 p.m. Held on $1,000 bond.
•David Hill, 34, person operated an uninsured motor vehicle on public roadway and expired plates on W. Riverview and Ensign on February 14 at 1:49 a.m. Released on summons.
•17-year-old male, For Morgan, violated restrictions not temporary instruction permit, failed to present evidence of insurance and possession of drug paraphernalia on Alco Road, Highway 144 on February 15 at 12:43 a.m. Released on summons.
•Eric Flores, 38, Weldona, unlawful ownership of a dangerous dog in the 4000 block of MCR Y.5 on February 16 at 1:35 p.m. Released on summons.
•Gary Ewbank, 26, Weldona, failure to register as a sex offender and violation of bail bond conditions at 801 E. Beaver on February 21 at 8:03 a.m. Warrant issued.
•Verizon Wireless, Irvine, CA, reported theft, second degree criminal trespass and criminal mischief in the 7000 block of MCR 19 on February 9 at 3 a.m. 250 feet of copper wire, valued at $10,000, was stolen.
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•Floyd Nichols, 55, Brush, reported motor vehicle theft between 11 p.m. February 20 and 6 a.m. February 21. A blue 2003 Ford Mustang was stolen. Open case.
•Wiggins Telephone Association, Wiggins, reported criminal mischief at Highway 52 and MCR 4 on February 21 at 4:01 p.m. Damage to a door on relay building, valued at $30, was reported. Open case.


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EVERETT, WA – 18 May, 2017 – Growing up in a remote village where life to date is at a near crawl is a narrow window of opportunity many have died trying to break loose. This in and of itself made Viora aware of what she needed to do – get an education. In pursuit of knowledge, she and her siblings walked three hours and a half either way – to school and back home, for seven years, even more if you didn't perform well on the final examination in seventh grade. You needed an above average score to proceed to secondary school.
Determined to acquire knowledge by any means dimmed necessary, Viora pushed herself beyond the norm. In doing so she developed a set of skills many children her age lacked – discipline, and acquired a spot at the top of her class. She became one of the best there was.
She exceled in every subject thus, not that she was intelligent than most others, but because she had to if she were to bring home the grades necessary to keep her going forward. Discipline allowed her to develop rare listening skills. Listening skills and her ability to follow the teacher's instructions with intensity, propelled her in every subject.
When her father was too old to support Viora and her little brothers through school, she started smuggling for a living – to pay for school, and support her brothers who themselves were in school still. Therefore, she carried through the jungle as much weight as her body could possibly handle. On one instance Viora and her group were hijacked by armed robbers; she was given a chance to tell her story.
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DelveInsight's "Sarcopenia Epidemiology Forecast 2028" report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Sarcopenia epidemiology, providing the historical and forecasted data for the 7MM during the forecast period from 2016-2028.
Markets Covered
• United States
• EU5 (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom)
• Japan
Study Period: 2016-2028
Sarcopenia Epidemiology
The epidemiology section covers the historical, current as well as forecasted epidemiology for Sarcopenia in 7 major markets.
The data is collected by understanding the disease, reviewing numerous studies conducted by countries and by exploring different surveys as well as reports.
The Key opinion leaders' views are also taken into account to provide a deep understanding of the Sarcopenia outlook.?
It also includes the explanation of changing trends of epidemiology outlining the Sarcopenia scenario.
Sarcopenia Epidemiology Segmentation
The epidemiology section is further segmented according to the patient pool characteristics, such as age-specific, type-specific, sub-type specific, gender-specific etc., thus providing an in-depth and high-quality analysis.
The report also covers the prevalent/Incidence cases as well as the treatable cases as per the therapies available for the Sarcopenia thereby presenting the trends with detailed analysis, with the assumptions undertaken.
The data is presented in the form of graphs along with tables to effectively summarize the landscape.
Report Scope
• The report covers detailed overview of Sarcopenia explaining its causes, symptoms, classification, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment patterns
• It provides the insight about the historical and forecasted patient pool for 7 major markets covering the United States, EU5 (Germany, Spain, France, Italy, UK) & Japan
• The Sarcopenia Report assesses the disease risk and burden and highlights the unmet needs
• It also helps to recognize the growth opportunities in the 7MM with respect to the patient population
Key strengths
• 10 Year Forecast
• 7MM Coverage
• Total Cases in Sarcopenia Key assessments
• Patient Segmentation in Sarcopenia
• Sarcopenia Risk & Burden
• Factors driving growth in a specific Sarcopenia patient population


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Thursday, March 11, 2010
The software renderer
16 comments:
Very cool!
Has Intel given you any support since they've tried for years to get effective CPU based rendering?
- March 11, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Great news!
At what resoulution did you run your OpenArena test?
- March 11, 2010 at 5:51 PM
- Brice Goglin said...
What kind of thread model do they use ? OpenMP ? pthread ?
- March 11, 2010 at 9:58 PM
Are LLVM is trying to vectorize things? Or are you working on vectorization (SSE) from the start?
Question about pthreads is also interesting? Are threading everything manually?
I have question about compilation strategy. Are you recompiling on the fly whole rasterize for example when game/application changes rendering options (i.e. fullscreen antialiasing or other global options? This will generally make much smaller codebase, make optimalisaion/inlineing more aggressive and save some memory and branch mispredictions.
- March 11, 2010 at 10:32 PM
- Unknown said...
llvm does take advantage of SIMD processing... that's a fundamental part of its design.
Having a decent software OpenGL implementation will really nice for two reasons:
-Machines that don't have working hardware support for some reason will be a *lot* more usable.
-Potentially, machines that have only partial hw acceleration (eg. my tablet with an Intel GMA950, which doesn't have hw t&l) will be a lot faster if llvmpipe can be hooked in to existing drivers.
- March 11, 2010 at 11:27 PM
- Zack said...
@Anonymous: No, not yet at least. It's just VMware folks right now. It's a good point though, we have been discussing the fact that besides the purely software based options llvmpipe would be an almost perfect bare-bone Larrabee driver (would have to adjust vector width and sampling) so there certainly would be enough incentives in it for Intel to take an active role in llvmpipe.
@Lars: Actually I'm not even sure. Whatever the default is when running that anholt.dm_68 demo on a stock openarena install. I think it's 640x480.
@Brice Goglin: it's the Gallium thread lib which uses pthreads on GNU/Linux.
@Anonymous: We are using vectors which are a native type in LLVM and as TechMage89 pointed out SIMD is very much part of what LLVM does (but in some critical paths we are resorting to calling the SSE intrinsics through LLVM). And yes we are code-generating, recompiling and caching (within reason) the entire rendering pipeline when relevant state changes.
- March 12, 2010 at 1:47 AM
- 3nachtegaaltjes said...
Wonderful! Is this work open source, btw?
- March 12, 2010 at 10:28 AM
@Yolande: AFAIK yes. Look at git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa
- March 12, 2010 at 10:59 AM
- skierpage said...
Is any of this newfangled Gallium stuff in use in Linux distros, or is it still in the TomorrowLand of dev blog posts?
The Mesa FAQ doesn't say (no mention of Gallium in any of the obvious places). The Mesa OpenGL library has incorporated "Gallium3D infrastructure" since Mesa 7.5, but says nothing about when it's actually used.
AFAICT Gallium might be used in software OpenGL rendering, but as of October 2009 the Gallium ATI driver (different from my r300_dri.so driver?) was not ready for primetime. But damn it's hard to figure out. Does glxgears -info print "ZOMG I'm using Gallium!!" to a terminal?
(I've heard a lot about Borat in a man thong, but I've never seen that in real life either.)
- March 12, 2010 at 9:33 PM
- Petr Kobalíček said...
Hi Zack,
You said that MESA renders the scene at 3.5 fps. I think that MESA is not multithreaded so if we compare performance per cpu core, we get 6.25 (25 / 4). This means that the presented backend is about twice as fast as MESA per cpu core, is that assumption correct?
- March 13, 2010 at 4:06 PM
- Zack said...
@Petr Kobalíček: Not quite. There's a number of things that are important here. Whether an algorithm is suited for parallelization is not a matter of just running it in a separate thread, so comparing an algorithm that was designed with parallelization in mind versus an algorithm that was not, based on how they perform when they're not parallelized is a bit silly. Second of all the number of threads vs performance doesn't scale linearly. The current algo scales very well, but obviously not linearly. And third of all currently only the rasterizer is threaded meaning that the rest of the pipeline runs in a single thread. So all in all the difference will be a lot bigger than 2x (and that magnitude will only be relevant to this particular benchmark). Having said that, one can force llvmpipe to run everything in a single thread (by exporting LP_NUM_THREADS variable) for a more detailed analysis.
- March 13, 2010 at 9:14 PM
- Petr Kobalíček said...
This is better than I expected. Making infrastructure for multithreaded rendering is really not easy. I tried to write multithreaded 2d renderer in Fog-Framework and it works, but it can be really better. I designed rendering to be asynchronous, but performance is degraded when painting very small objects.
Thanks for your work, it's really interesting.
- March 14, 2010 at 11:51 AM
- Unknown said...
Will this stuff run on chrome native client?
- April 1, 2010 at 12:16 PM
- Unknown said...
Hey Zack,
What is the status of the vertex llvm pipe?
I think that right now it generates only the fetch vertex shader and emit parts. Any plans to extend it to also generate clipping and viewport? How about rasterization?
- October 18, 2010 at 5:39 AM
Hi. I have a multicore software renderer (opengl based). It can utilize up to 4 cpu cores, has linux and windows support. It can run quake3 playable (with some glitches) on a modern computer.
Its unreleased since ~2 year now. I made several polls and votes on big linux community sites about the stuff.
-on some sites, i got only 10-15 reply.
-on some sites, i got 20-30 reply, half of them saying: ITS SHIT, EVEN A GEFORCE2 IS MUTCH BETTER, GO TO THE FUCK! YOU SUCK!
but mostly: no interest. Peoples just dont care. Sad.
- October 21, 2010 at 9:31 PM
Swiftshader started as open source, called swShader. Although the project was removed from sourceforge, you can still download it from
- January 17, 2011 at 7:43 AM


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On my flatbed one ton farm truck, I have it loaded with an air compressor, generator, torch, fuel tank, vice and all the tool boxes that would fit. But I didn't have a welder. GOWELD has wire feed that runs off your diesel trucks batteries and fits in it's own tool box.
We welded on a horse trailer on the side of the road to test GOWELD. It worked better with 100% argon gas verses the 25% we tried first. We did break the wire a few times while we got the settings dialed in. We used separate batteries, but you could use the batteries in your truck. You just need to disconnect the truck cables and attach cables to GOWELD in series not parallel. Comes with several tips.
A very versatile welder. Welds weld metal up to 1/2 inch thick with 2 batteries or 1 inch with 3 batteries. Lights on the side of the hand held unit tells you if the batteries are hooked up right or low on power, green for charged and red for low charge. Deep cycle batteries will give you the longest weld time. Which can be 20 minutes between battery charges. Duty Cycle is 50%. We welded aluminum, but GOWELD will work with steel, stainless and hardfacing, reverse or straight polarity. The handle holds a 2 lb spool of wire to handle .023 to .045 diameter size. Priced like a typical shop welder. Welds well.
The military has GOWELD and plasma cutters in many of their Humvees, tanks and armored personal carriers. GOWELD is very portable, the wire spool is in the handle. Just clamp the cables to your trucks batteries, run the hose to a tank of Argon gas or use coated wire and you're ready to weld anywhere. You can even buy a adapter to plug the GOWELD into 110 volt and use it in your shop or garage. Imagine what it would cost to have your broke down trailer towed to a welding shop and pay whatever they charge. Or welding farm machinery in the field. GOWELD could be a valuable tool to a horse trailer dealer, farmer and rancher. I use to use a welding truck when working on irrigation sprinklers or welding feed bunk railing, this could save some money on repairs, just toss the case in your pickup truck.
The GOWELD is a nice, compact unit. The lid opens for loading wire. It's all in the gun, the chassis has the motor, drive assembly, trigger, micro switch, gas valve, circuit board and wire spool, large knobs for voltage and the wire speed ranges from 50-1000 ipm.
For more info go to www.GOWELD.com
Author H. Kent Sundling writes for AgWeb.com via a special agreement with MrTruck.com.


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EVO sessions finished last week. So far I have been giving you weekly updates and, as far as those go, I am still stuck in Week 3, but today I would like to do something different. I am going to put together my EbookEVO artifacts, because it makes more sense to do this in a single blog post. EbookEVO was one of the best EVO sessions I have ever attended. The course taught us, step by step, how to write a chapter of an interactive e-book. What I'll try to do in this post is show you just how brilliant the whole idea was. This is my way of saying "Thank you" to the moderators.
The goal of the workshop was for us to complete our chapter. I finished mine and a lot of other people got there as well. I have to admit that I was worried at the beginning of the workshop. I thought it would be much harder than it was and that I might not get to the end. Now all I want is to write more chapters.
My two collaborators, Sneza and Milica, finished their chapters too. The three of us are planning to finish the whole book. Here's Sneza's chapter and here's Milica's.
And this is how the course was organised:
Week 1 was devoted to introductions. 3-2-1 was a popular introduction format in this year's EVO. It is a nice way to introduce yourself and (if you are an old EVO participant like me) maybe reveal something that others haven't heard yet. What was refreshing about the 3-2-1 introduction in #EbookEVO was that we were given a choice of tools and told to use one of them and create a 3-2-1 digital story about ourselves. Here's mine:
Kudos to the moderators for the inspiring questions. I swear that my saying I wanted to be a travel writer had something to do with the topic I chose for my chapter. I didn't plan this, it just happened.
Here's what was in store for us in Week 2:
During the second week, you will:
- evaluate the current content in your textbooks
- evaluate various ebook designs to determine how you want to design your e-textbook
- decide what you would like to include in your e-textbooks
- map out the content you have to cover in your curriculum
- outline your e-textbooks
- evaluate your peers' outlines and provide feedback
- discover basic design elements and tips from experienced authors
- attend a live online session with moderators
While I was outlining my e-textbook, I started daydreaming. What would the perfect textbook for the new age be like? Surely not something static or linear that you had to read from cover to cover? Here's my dream e-textbook(with apologies because I have already shared it in this post):
Week 3 was the mind-mapping week. We got into more detail with what we wanted to include in our chapter and then we mapped the chapter out. I was surprised to find out that I had a very clear idea about what I wanted to include in my chapter. Here's the mind map. A really bad side of Popplet is that it is not embeddable (even though the website claims it is). Here's the Jing capture, hope it does the trick:
In Week 4 our goal was to complete a part of Chapter 1 and post it for peer feedback. I used Storify:
Yes, I know that Storify doesn't really look like a book. I wonder if that matters. We don't read on the Internet the way we used to. Isn't a wiki really a book? Doesn't the same go for a blog? Maybe the Storify isn't as appealing visually as some other tools, but doesn't its functionality make up for that?
And I would like your honest opinion on this because in Week 5 I remixed my chapter and created a Glossi.. I am leaving the Glossi for the end of this post because Blogger refuses to publish any text after my Glossi ebook. Is this Glossi's fault, or Blogger's? I don't know, but here I am trying to republish this post for the third time.
Glossi does improve the visual design of my ebook, but it lacks the functionality of Storify. And, speaking of functionality, my own personal favourite is still a wiki.
Here you are - the same materials, three different tools. Which do you like best? And why?
I owe special thanks to the Wonderful Words moderators, who have provided me with the tools I needed to create vocabulary exercises for this unit.
Photo on Flickr by mcamcamca
I feel empowered. Internet is full of open educational resources and authentic materials that can be adapted to every student's needs. The OERs can be put together like Lego bricks. Each one of them can be taken out when it is no longer needed, or reused and remixed on another occasion. Ebooks can be offered in different formats, depending on the teacher's personal taste, the students' computer skills, or the ways the materials are going to be seen (in a computer lab, at home computers, or on mobile devices). I still have so much to learn. My ebook writing journey has only begun.
Thank you, #ebookevo team. You rock.
Photo on Flickr by Caro Wallis
And now, here's my Glossi:
Tags: #ebookevo, #evosessions, #TEFL