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04 January 2010
Major Andre: Soldier, Lover, Spy
Andre sketched this self portrait the morning of his execution
The execution in Tappan, NY
12 years ago today I had an agent at William Morris.
When people talk about letting go of the prior year - - It will come as no to surprise to anyone that I have a problem letting go of 1986 much less last year. I was flipping through some old diaries when I came across notes of a phone call with a production executive at United Artists in early December of 1997. I can see how excited I was by the writing on the page. Clear, easy to read and very detailed. Unlike any notes I had taken before or since.
There was interest in a screenplay I had written about Major John Andre. A man who came very close to winning the American Revolution for the British. And had it not been for some very bizarre twists of fate and two bumbling yokels right out of a Laurel & Hardy comedy - - he would have pulled it off. And we would be a very different country today. Probably one with a national health care system.
John Andre (1750-1780) was always the British spy in American history who was snotty, rude and probably a homosexual sleeping with his boss, General Henry Clinton. While preparing a National Park Service presentation on the American Revolution from the British point of view...I found someone else.
A man of social graces to be sure but also a man who was well liked by almost everybody who met him. No small task when he was making a meteoric rise up the British Army's chain of command. By the age of 30, he was a major and head of Intelligence for Clinton in New York. The position carried the rank of colonel but he was held back due to lack of funds to pay for the commission.
To make a long story and a 155 page screenplay short - - That's poor Major Andre you see up there hanging from the gibbet. He made the unfortunate error of traveling behind American lines dressed as a civilian and hiding plans to West Point in his sock. These two mistakes were at the insistence of Benedict Arnold who was selling his services to the British for roughly $3,000,000 in today's currency and a general's commission.
I even have some sympathy for Arnold. A pushy loyalist wife, Peggy Shippen and a congress who refused to reimburse him for out of pocket expenses. That alone would piss me off to no end not to mention he was, hands down, Washington's best general on the field.
I started the story in 1988. I followed Andre and Arnold everywhere. I have boxes of tapes, photographs, music of the period, books on the culture and graces...It was my passion for years. Sadly my development executive was fired. I was told I'd hear from Lindsay Doran who was running UA. Sadly, she was fired. Soon afterwards, very sadly, William Morris fired me. They never did like it was 155 pages.
I had passion for the writing, the period, the music, the art. Passion for the people who were long gone but were in my heart everyday. And I remember that passion when I see those notes that were written 12 years ago. I reckon five...maybe six people read, "Major Andre: Soldier Lover Spy" Last month 45,000 of you read The Trad. I just wanted to say thank you for keeping the passion going.
33 comments:
- James said...
No thank you! I wait each week for Friday belt
- 04 January, 2010 19:30
- M.Lane said...
That is what it is all about. I have to write and post, good or not so good.
Have a great 2010!
- 04 January, 2010 20:50
Most of the Americans who were involved in his trial had very nice things to say about him, Hamilton especially if I recall.
I'm sure you've been to the Old Reformed Church in Tappan. Hell of a building.
- 04 January, 2010 20:56
- Scott said...
G-Dammit, don't quit. Re-write it as a historical novel. F- Hollywood. They'd only screw it up anyway. A book would be all yours. Thousands of people still mourn Patrick O'Brian (I'm one). There is a market for this stuff, especially if you get the details right.
- 04 January, 2010 21:38
- RandyLuvsPaiste said...
"... who was snotty, rude and probably a homosexual sleeping with his boss..."
Anyone who reads your blog on a regular basis knows you are certainly not homophobic. The above line does not reflect the live-and-let-live sorta guy we know you are.
- 04 January, 2010 22:17
This is very interesting. I had always thought that Andre was an ex-squeeze of the very Tory Mrs. Arnold, and that she was susceptible to his charms and arguments and suggestions therefore.
I hope your screenplay would have been mildly counter-factual, at least for Washington's sake.
He ought to have resisted that feigned hissy fit she staged on the floor by the bed and hanged her from the nearest tree.
Women's sufferage, etc.
- 04 January, 2010 23:06
- tintin said...
James- I'm runnin outta belts!
Scott- Thanks. I'm tryin.
Randy- Andre was intrepreted by most 'American' history books as, "snotty, rude and a homosexual..." I found someone else in my research who really interested me and who I thought was an innocent caught up in a event of history.
Sorry I didn't make that clear.
Andre paid the ultimate price only to be trivialized by American historians and history books as an effeminate snob. He was neither. As a wise man once said about another officer many years later, "I don't care if he fucked Coke machines.
...he was a good man."
- 04 January, 2010 23:10
- Sandra said...
This book - with which you must grace us - is one that I would absolutely love to read. Stay the course! This kind of quality is so needed.
- 04 January, 2010 23:45
Hey Big Dog; I agree with Scott. this needs to be a book. Look how popular "the Scarlett Pimpernell" was in its day! This sounds similar. Go forward. Go go go!
- 05 January, 2010 03:21
- GSV JR said...
Who's got time for reading - much less writing - anymore?
Turn it into a tweet. Then, and only then, will UA cower at your chunky ankles.
I'll finish my book if you promise to do the same. But I'm thinking of rearranging the 5,000+ wrd chapters into seperate haiku. What's the formula again? Three numbers, right?
- 05 January, 2010 09:34
- ADG said...
Andre....was in the champagne or Cold Duck bidness too ... right?
Happy 2010
- 05 January, 2010 09:54
- Julia said...
I believe you are keeping the passion alive . . . I think you're too young yet to craft out the book, even tho' it sounds like you're more than half finished. Save it for retirement.
I don't know how I'm gonna do it, but somehow in 2010 I will find the right audience where I can say the words "I don't care if he fucked Coke machines.
...he was a good man" because I love this . . . a lot.
- 05 January, 2010 12:07
- tintin said...
Local- I think an interesting relationship was that between Benjamin Tallmadge and Andre. Both were heads of their respective armies intelligence gathering and both men hit it off.
When the 3 men who captured Andre in Tarrytown petitoned congress to increase their pensions years later - Tallmadge argued against it portraying their actions as highwaymen and not soldiers.
Ancient- The Shippen / Andre relationship in Philadelphia sounds good but the history just isn't there. Andre had a thing for another woman (Becky) but he also had a thing for his career and he wasn't about to get involved. Knocking up a local was a quick way to end your career and more than a few did.
Preppy 101- Time. I need time and belts.
Anon- See above and thank you.
White wig and Red Coats
Crusty colonists
Where the hell is the Vulture
I got caught doing this?
ADG- It was served at your wedding.
- 05 January, 2010 12:10
- edgertor said...
can we read it anyway? it sounds fascinating!!!
- 05 January, 2010 12:41
- Snidely said...
Hello from Raleigh. I read your blog with envy and sadly live vicariously through your words. You bring a little joy to a somewhat drab existence.
- 05 January, 2010 15:28
- Charles said...
Excellent post, old shoe.
- 05 January, 2010 18:14
- Brummagem Joe said...
Andre is an interesting character but he was a bit player because the British were never going to win the Revolutionary war once the French put their weight behind the insurrection.......an almost limitless interior, the ability of the American insurgents to live off the land, divided opinion in Britain itself, and a British supply line over 3000 miles long that was subject to interdiction by what was still the second naval power in the world meant the British had no real chance of prevailing......Washington was a poor general but like the hedgehog he understood one big thing......all he had to do was keep his army in existence in the field until ultimately he wore the Brits down or they lost local naval supremacy which in fact is what happened at Yorktown......paradoxically the Brits did have the potential to snuff out the new Republic after the defeat of Napoleon if they were so minded......total global naval supremacy meant they could have imposed an effective blockade that would have strangled US commerce......then put ashore 75,000 Peninsular veterans led by seasoned British officers (maybe the Iron Duke himself) and the new Republic would have been in trouble........happily they decided to leave us alone
- 05 January, 2010 20:00
- tintin said...
Had Andre made it back to NYC, a British assault was to be made on West Point (w/ Andre leading a force)the next day. G Washington and Lafayette were both there. So if the British captured GW what then? Probably a negotiated peace which is all Howe ever wanted.
- 05 January, 2010 20:08
- Paul said...
Thank you for this blog, this post, all the one previous! I've always enjoyed your writing. Best wishes.
- 05 January, 2010 20:42
As one of the few who has read the script. (Three drafts as I recall.)
I concur with those who would recommend it as a historical novel.
It was crammed with historically accurate material. Was extremely well written in your most excellent style that people often comment on. Full of the details that raise it above the common Hollywood shlock.
Proof that it's of real quality? I still have my copy in a manuscript box after all this time.
It's a "keeper."
- 05 January, 2010 21:52
- initials CG said...
Unfortunately, a great story isn't enough. It needs a great pitchman. Go to hollywood. Spend a few weeks trying to pitch it. Who do you see playing Andre, Arnold, Mrs. Arnold? Is it like Pretty Woman, only with wigs? Something like that. You'd have a blast. At least some great material to keep us unimaginative historians entertained in blog land!
- 05 January, 2010 22:28
- Brummagem Joe said...
tintin:"So if the British captured GW what then?"
......The congress would simply have appointed a new general......they had some good alternatives.....Washington would have gone down as another McClellan......George III and the North tory administration would never have negotiated a compromise peace.....what Howe wanted was irrelevant he was just a general in the field......The Americans lost battle after battle but it didn't matter as long as they could maintain an army in being.....something that Clausewitz, Grant and Mao understood.....you can only defeat an enemy by destroying his warmaking capacity and in this context this meant the ability of congress to maintain armies in the field which they could have done even had Washington and his entire force been captured.
- 06 January, 2010 10:38
arnold was one of the best field generals on either side. he got repeatedly screwed by congress.
i don't blame him, he saw himself as a lord fairfax and saw the revolution going sour the way cromwell's had.
- 06 January, 2010 17:22
- tintin said...
Paul- Thanks. You're a man of amazingly good taste.
Dad- Thanks. You're a man who's my father so there's some prejudice ...although you never liked anyting I did when I was growing up.
cg- I cast it, scored it, designed it and costumed it. I pitched it and still...close but no cigar. Then I wrote four more. I am clearly a moron.
Joe- I think you underestimate GW's value in 1780. Still, you make a good argument and any infantryman will tell you that replacements, regardless of rank, must happen. But who would they have replaced GW with? I have a sense it would have been Knox or Wayne. They were both in way over their heads. And what would other general officers have thought if Arnold pulled it off? Who knows but it's a lot of fun to speculate.
- 06 January, 2010 17:56
- Brummagem Joe said...
"Who knows but it's a lot of fun to speculate."
.....Sure it is, there's a whole literary and cinematic genre built around what if scenarios......oddly enough I don't find the Revolutionary War very interesting although I am fascinated by the French and Indian war which only ended 10 or 12 years earlier......indeed there's an argument to be made that it was British success in the Seven Years War that paved the way for the War of Independence because the colonists no longer needed protection from the French by Momma Britain.......I take it you are aware that there has been a film made about Andre and Arnold.....as I recall Andre was played by Michael Wilding
- 06 January, 2010 21:39
- tintin said...
Joe- The Seven Years War put England in the poor house. When the British taxed the colonies to pay for the war that defended them -- the colonists got uppity about it and dressed like Indians and threw tea off boats.
I'm not saying the English handled the colonies well. But there was a lot of arrogance on both sides. Interesting tid bit. George III and Lord North never thought there would be a revolt because the colonists were always suing each other. Out litigious ways are nothing new.
Not familiar with that movie. I'll have to check it out. There was a 2003 piece of crap called, Benedict Arnold- A Question of Honor with Kelsey Grammer as GW. Horrible as you can well imagine a movie with Grammer cast as George would be.
Another movie I actually liked was Al Pacino's, Revolution. It has it's problems but was beautifully shot and gives you a real sense of being in the time. Donald Sutherland does an amazing British Sergeant Major. Worth watching just for that.
I don't think an American production company will ever do the Revolution justice. But for me the very best films of the period are Barry Lyndon and The Duelists. Had them in mind when I worked on Andre. My hope was to convey that same sense of being there through correct language and historical accuracy and a lot of interesting characters.
- 06 January, 2010 22:20
- Brummagem Joe said...
tintin said...
Joe- The Seven Years War put England in the poor house.
......Sorry to disagree but you couldn't be more wrong about the the seven years war.....it was financed relatively easily by the British (even though they had Prussia on the payroll too) because of their sophisticated financial/economic system while it reduced the French to near bankruptcy.....it was also without question the most successful major war in British history in terms of additions of territory, domestic economic stimulation and the country's elevation to principal naval power in the world........The Wilding movie was made about 45 years ago and I can't remember it's title although I've seen it.... some judicious googling would probably turn it up....I thought the Pacino film was awful I'm afraid and it was panned by the critics at the time although Sutherland was memorable and I also concur about Barry Lyndon which imho is one of the best and most beautiful movies ever made....also agree about the duellists......the Russians also did a wonderful version of War and Peace directed by one Sergei Bondarchuk who also did the battle scenes for Waterloo in which Michael Wilding also appeared (as a British cavalry commander ridden down by Polish lancers)
- 07 January, 2010 09:10
- Brummagem Joe said...
The Wilding Andre movie was called "The Scarlet Coat," (how original) and was made in 1955....Andre emerged as the hero of the movie as mentioned in this summary
Aint Google wonderful!
- 07 January, 2010 09:54
- tintin said...
I found the movie last night on imdb. The Scarlet Coat directed by John Sturges in '55, it focuses on Andre but Netflix does not have it so the hunt is on. Thanks for the rec.
There are 5 schools (or were in 1985) of interpreting the American Revolution: Whig, Neo Whig, Imperialist, Progressive and I can't remember the last. If the British were not put in the poor house by the F&I war they certainly had the right to charge the colonies for some of it.
Much has been made of popular icons like Sam Adams whose, 'stirring the pot' was motivated by personal economics rather than politics. He and many others were in debt to creditors in Britan and a succesful revolution erased that debt. There're some books that focus purely on the economics of the revolution. "Follow the money" is a reporters 1st rule. Historians do it enough.
You and I may be putting a lot of folks to sleep here which is another problem the AR has had with the US audience. Even Pacino admitted that Revolution stunk but he has said that he'd like to give it another go. I thought Revolution was 10 x's better than The Patriot and it's gung ho black and white descriptions but DD Lewis certainly hit a home run with Last of the Mohicans.
Sorry to drag this on but there's only so much you can write about clothing.
- 07 January, 2010 09:56
- Brummagem Joe said...
tintin:"Sorry to drag this on but there's only so much you can write about clothing."
......The DDL Mohicans is a wonderful movie.....in fact it was watching some Hollywood version of this Fenimore Cooper story in the early fifties that first sparked my interest in history.....surely there's no limit to what what can say about clothing particularly when you tie it in with movies.....I recently got a Netflix double header of the two versions of The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 and 1953) and the costumes in the earlier version were infinitely superior being much more true to the Hapsburg/Ruritanian "look".....but then I think think the Hapsburg Monarchy had much the best looking uniforms in the pre 1914 period.....if you're interested in good in depth movies about historical subjects you might like Colonel Redl which is set in this period and available from Netflix
- 07 January, 2010 10:12
- tintin said...
I'll check out Redl. I love this kinda stuff. I don't know how many times a movie or book has instilled a passion and consequently economic hardship while I buy every book I can find on the subject. It's great fun but terribly expensive.
- 07 January, 2010 10:39
- Brummagem Joe said...
tintin said...
I'll check out Redl. I love this kinda stuff.
.....It seems we're somewhat like minded.....Redl with Klaus Maria Brandauer is brilliant.....on the uniform front my daughter bought me a wonderful book a few months back on British naval officers uniforms from 1748(when official uniform was first introduced) to the mid 1850's.....their elegant simplicity is very pleasing
- 07 January, 2010 11:52
Fascinating. Have you run across the mezzotint titled "The Taking of Major Andre, by the Incorruptible Paulding, Williams and Vanvert/ Philada Published by T.W. Freeman July 4, 1812"?
I have an original of it on my office wall, which I picked up from a little shop in Princeton in the fall of 1986.
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Willie was one of the most respected Shetland fiddlers and musicians, with a worldwide reputation. This album contains 16 tracks recorded shortly before he died and is a fitting legacy to a great man. The legendary Shetland fiddler is accompanied on piano by Violet Tulloch.
1) Jackie Coleman / Sally Gardens2) Leaving Lerwick Harbour3) Chadwicks Bog / Jamies Reel / Compliments to Hugh Hughson of Newcastle4) Clarence Tough / The Newcastle Hornpipe / Pats Reel5) David D. MacKenzie of Sallachy6) Caber Feidh / Randy Wives of Fochabers7) The Carnival March / Sands o' Murness / Kiwi Reel8) Dr James Donaldson / The Laird of Drumblair / The De'il Among the Tailors9) The Ash Plant / McGuires Welcome to Fermanagh / Alan Brown / The Auld Fiddler, Bert Murray10) Dumbarton Castle / The Marquis of Huntleys Farewell / The Marquis of Tullybardine11) The Esther Stephenson of Embleton12) The Balkan Hills / The Miller of Hirn / Donald Stewart the Piper13) The Weeping Birches of Kilmorack14) Grace Morrison of Borve / Cathie and Jim Lambie / Anne-Marie Morrison of Borve15) Da Grocer / Hjerdafeld / Laxoburn16) The Cape Breton Fiddlers Welcome to Shetland / Peerie Willie / Lornas Reel
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Illinois is very fortunate to have a dedicated senior US Senator in
Dick Durbin. He has been a great propoent for Chicago and Illinois in the Senate
and is we look forward to him becoming Senate Democratic Whip (the second
highest position in the party in the Senate) in January.
Senator Durbin has great passion for Eli's Cheesecake as demonstrated
in the proclamation that heoffered on the Senate Floor for
National Cheesecake Day.
Senator Durbin also knows this State so well that he was the first to
tell us that the spot on the side of our Eli's Cheesecake Cow that we created
for Cows on Parade was the outline of the State of Illinois
Americans, but it is especially near and dear to the hearts of many residents of
my home State of Illinois, because today has been designated as National
Cheesecake Day.
holiday. To those unenlightened few, I extend my sympathies. For you have truly
missed out on one of life's sweetest pleasures. You see, in Illinois, especially
in the greater Chicago area, National Cheesecake Day can only mean one thing,
Eli's Cheesecake.
When long-time restaurateur and Chicagoan Eli Schulman founded Eli's: The
Place for Steak Restaurant, one of his marquee offerings was a superb
cheesecake. It quickly became one of Chicago's favorite desserts. So popular, in
fact, that Eli's began producing it for other restaurants and retail outlets
across the country. Eli's Cheesecake Company has now been a Chicago icon in its
own right for more than 20 years.
Since its 1980 debut at the first Taste of Chicago, Eli's Cheesecake has
grown to become the largest specialty cheesecake company in the country. In both
1993 and 1997, Eli's Cheesecake was selected to participate in the presidential
inaugural festivities, they have supplied desserts on Air Force One for
Presidents Reagan to Clinton, and Eli's Cheesecake provided the cake for the
First Lady's birthday bash in 1997.
How does a humble homemade Chicago dessert go from after-dinner obscurity to
gracing the plates of Presidents and First Ladies?
Actually, there are two answers. The first is the taste. If you've ever had a
bite of an Eli's cheesecake, you'd know that there is nothing like it anywhere
in the world. Eli's has taken great care to continue making each cheesecake by
hand–the same way the very first one was made. This ensures each bite will have
the rich, creamy Eli's taste so many have come to love.
The second is the spirit of Eli Schulman himself.
In 1910, a young man named Eli Schulman was born on Chicago's West Side.
Although Eli's father owned a bakery on Roosevelt Road, times were hard for the
Eli was forced to leave school and embark on a series of jobs to support his
family, doing everything from selling newspapers, to peddling seat cushions at
ballparks, to managing a shoe store and selling women's dresses.
In 1940, Eli decided to open his own restaurant called the Ogden Huddle. Soon
after World War II breaks out, two signs appear in the restaurant's window. The
first offers a 25 percent discount to men in uniform. The second simply
Eli was forced to leave school and embark on a series of jobs to support his
family, doing everything from selling newspapers, to peddling seat cushions at
ballparks, to managing a shoe store and selling women's dresses.
In 1940, Eli decided to open his own restaurant called the Ogden Huddle. Soon
after World War II breaks out, two signs appear in the restaurant's window. The
first offers a 25 percent discount to men in uniform. The second simply
Following the war, in the 1940s and 50s Eli's business expands and his new
restaurants become "hot spots' for both the Rush Street and Lake Shore Drive
set. When in town, entertainers such as Barbara Streisand, pianist Bobby Short
and comedian Sheky Green often can be found frequenting Eli's.
In 1966, Eli and his Wife Esther realized their dream of opening a
white-tablecloth establishment, Eli's The Place for Steak, in what was then the
luxury hotel The Carriage House. Eli's soon became the spot for celebrities and
dignitaries to dine. Everyone from Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. to Gayle
Sayers of the Chicago Bears and comedian Henny Youngman, all began to make Eli's
their place for steak.
In the late 1970s, following up on a suggestion from a customer about his
dessert, Eli spent several weeks coming up with a recipe that pleases everyone.
Eli's Cheesecake quickly became a marquee offering at Eli's the Place for Steak.
In the next few years, this rich and creamy dessert became such a hit that Eli's
began producing cheesecakes for other restaurants and retail outlets.
Although Eli Schulman passed away in 1988, a playground in Seneca Park,
located across the street from Eli's the Place for Steak, has been dedicated to
his memory. And Eli Schulman's spirit lives on in the company he started. His
son, Marc Schulman and Marc's wife Maureen, are dedicated to providing their
customers with products and services that live up to the name "Chicago's
Eli's Cheesecake now employs more than 200 associates, the company's growth
has been dramatic, and its headquarters, Eli's Cheesecake World, is a 62,000
square-foot state-of-the-art bakery, visitor center, and cafe.
Today, the company makes more than 15,000 cheesecakes every day for sale to
restaurants, supermarkets, and airlines. Eli's Cheesecakes are also available to
the public via the company's thriving mail-order business and Web site.
In honor of this great day, I have brought a taste of Chicago to the U.S.
Senate. Earlier today, I delivered a sample of Eli's Cheesecakes to both the
Democratic and Republican Cloakrooms for my colleagues to enjoy.
As we go about the Nation's business today, I hope that each of my colleagues
will take a moment to enjoy the treats in the cloakrooms and ponder the words of
a respected American writer who once proclaimed that cheesecake was the truest
democratic dessert, it is a mix of different ingredients that did not care much
for the presence of an upper crust.


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Rylan Grayston set out to make the 3D printer a realistic product for the average household. In doing so, he was successful enough to invent his own efficient design that did not sacrifice quality of parts. The Peachy Printer is marketed to be a $100 3D printer with its own unique method of printing.
The Peachy uses a laser beam controlled by two moving mirrors that heats up light sensitive resin until it hardens. These mirrors map out and print the X and Y axes using the sound card in your computer. They send audio recordings that are created by an add-on to Blender coded by Grayston's team. Blender is a free open-source animation and 3D modeling program.
A dripping system of saltwater and an analyzer to record and send information to and from the computer is used to control the water level that the resin floats on to control the Z axis. The resin is raised to meet the laser at the appropriate levels to make all axes complete simultaneously.
Another perk of the printer is that it is also a scanner that allows you to scan an object into the Blender program. The scanning feature uses the laser to send the information of the laser's location on the object to the computer, mapping out the object until the 3D model is complete. A useful way to take advantage of this would be to scan your cell phone and create your own custom case. It would end up costing you about a dollar to print out instead of the average thirty dollars.
The team has a Kickstarter campaign currently in progress for the next 12 days. The goal was to raise $50,000 Canadian dollars, but the current total of money raised to this point is $530,171! If the amount of support they have amassed is reflective at all of the future of this company (they currently have close to 4,000 backers), things are looking just peachy for the Peachy Printer. The highest pledge level does have an "if we succeed or fail" clause, so who knows? The Peachy Printer kits will start shipping in July 2014.
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Michael Abrash is a programmer at Rad Game Tools and the author of numerous books and articles on graphics programming and performance optimization.
One more grain of sand dropped on top of a pile of sand will usually do nothing more than make the pile a tiny bit larger. Occasionally, though, it will set off an avalanche that radically reshapes the landscape. Observations such as this form the basis of complexity theory, which holds that small events can have unpredictable, and sometimes disproportionately large, effects -- the relevance of which will become apparent momentarily.
Nearly five years ago Mike Sartain and I had just put the wraps on our x86 software renderer, Pixomatic. We had done everything we could think of to speed it up, and while it had certainly gotten a lot faster, it was still so much slower than hardware that we knew we could never close the gap. As we were setting up in the RAD Game Tools booth at Game Developers Conference one morning, I said to Mike: "Man, if only Intel had a lerp [linear interpolation] instruction!"
Mike pointed across the aisle at the Intel booth. "Maybe you should ask for one."
The odds seemed long, to say the least, but I didn't have any better ideas, so I went over and talked with Dean Macri, our developer rep. That resulted in a couple of maverick Intel architects, Doug Carmean and Eric Sprangle, coming over to chat with us later; and somehow, over the course of five years, that simple question led to a team at RAD -- which grew to include Tom Forsyth and Atman Binstock -- working with Intel to help design an instruction set extension and write a software graphics pipeline for it.
Which brings us to the present day, when at long last I get to tell you about a fascinating, and very different, extension to the x86 instruction set called Larrabee New Instructions (LRBni) -- and if that's not a perfect example of complexity theory in action, I don't know what is.
The funny thing is, I never did get that lerp instruction!
Why Larrabee?
To understand what Larrabee is, it helps to understand why Larrabee is. Intel has been making single cores faster for decades by increasing the clock speed, increasing cache size, and using the extra transistors each new process generation provides to boost the work done during each clock. That process certainly hasn't stopped, and will continue to be an essential feature of main system processors for the foreseeable future, but it's getting harder. This is partly because most of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked, and partly because processors are starting to run up against power budgets, and both out-of-order instruction execution and higher clock frequency are power-intensive.
More recently, Intel has also been applying additional transistors in a different way -- by adding more cores. This approach has the great advantage that, given software that can parallelize across many such cores, performance can scale nearly linearly as more and more cores get packed onto chips in the future.
Larrabee takes this approach to its logical conclusion, with lots of power-efficient in-order cores clocked at the power/performance sweet spot. Furthermore, these cores are optimized for running not single-threaded scalar code, but rather multiple threads of streaming vector code, with both the threads and the vector units further extending the benefits of parallelization. All this enables Larrabee to get as much work out of each watt and each square millimeter as possible, and to scale well far into the future.
What Is Larrabee? A Quick Overview
Larrabee is an architecture, rather than a product, with three distinct aspects -- many cores, many threads, and a new vector instruction set -- that boost performance. This architecture will first be used in GPUs, and could be used in CPUs as well.
At the highest level, the architecture consists of many in-order cores, each with its own L1 and L2 cache, all sitting on a coherent interconnect bus -- which you can think of as a ring, although in fact the topology is considerably more complicated than that -- as in Figure 1.
The cores are x86 cores enhanced with vector capability, and the memory system is fully coherent. In short, Larrabee is an enhanced x86 architecture; it supports all the familiar general-purpose programming techniques and tools used on CPUs for decades, and is much like programming a lot of Core i7 cores at once. Because initial configurations are designed for use as GPUs, they lack chipset features needed to serve as a main CPU running, say, Windows; nonetheless, they are fully capable of running operating systems and general applications. For example, Larrabee, running as a GPU device under Windows, can bring up a BSD OS, with the Larrabee graphics pipeline running as just another BSD application.
Furthermore, each of those Larrabee cores supports multiple hardware threads per core (currently four, although that may change in the future). This is an important part of getting good performance out of the in-order cores; if one thread misses the cache, the other threads can keep the core busy. Threading also helps work around pipeline latency. In effect, threaded in-order cores shift the burden of extracting parallelization and working around pipeline bubbles from instruction reordering hardware to the programmer and the compiler. Without a doubt, that makes life more challenging for programmers, but the rewards are potentially large, thanks to the out-of-order hardware and associated power that can be saved.
Besides, if a program can be successfully parallelized across all those Larrabee cores, it shouldn't in principle be any more difficult to parallelize it across the threads as well. However, while this is true to a considerable extent, in actual practice issues arise because there is only one set of most core resources -- most notably caches and TLBs -- so the more threads there are performing independent tasks on a core, the more performance can suffer due to cache and TLB pressure. The graphics pipeline code on Larrabee works around this by having all the threads on each core work on the same task, using mostly shared data and code; in general, this is a fertile area for future software architecture research.
So Larrabee has lots of cores, each with multiple threads, allowing software to readily take advantage of thread-level parallelism. That's obviously critical to getting a big performance boost -- lots of cores running at high utilization are going to be much faster than even the fastest single core -- and multithreaded programming is an essential, fascinating, and challenging aspect of Larrabee. However, it's also a relatively familiar challenge from existing multicore systems, albeit taken to a new level with Larrabee, so I'm going to leave further discussion of multicore/multithreaded Larrabee programming for another day. What I'm going to delve into for the rest of this article is the third aspect of Larrabee performance -- the 16-wide vector unit, and LRBni, the instruction set extension that supports it. Together, these are designed to let software extract maximum performance from data-level parallelism -- that is, vector processing.
This is all somewhat abstract, so to make things a little more concrete, let me mention something I know for sure LRBni can do, because I've done it: software rendering with GPU-class efficiency, without any fixed-function hardware other than a texture sampler. It should be clear upon a little reflection that with a 16-wide vector unit, you can run a pixel shader on 16 pixels at a time, with the nth element of each vector instruction operating on the nth pixel of a 16-pixel block; Kayvon Fatahalian's presentation From Shader Code to a Teraflop: How Shader Cores Work discusses how this works in some detail. Somewhat less obvious is that it is possible to use LRBni to implement an efficient software rasterizer, using vector instructions to determine a triangle's pixel coverage for 16 pixels at a time.
Unfortunately, those topics are far too complex to discuss here. However, LRBni-based implementations of both rasterization and shaders will be discussed in detail in future articles.


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In November, for the second time in six years, members of the Vietnam Veterans of Diablo Valley embarked on a trip to Vietnam to distribute wheelchairs to those in need. And for the second time in six years, it was difficult to tell which group got the most from the experience — the vets, or those they helped.
"It was a good way for me to go back," said Rich Lambert, of Walnut Creek, who flew helicopters during the Vietnam War. "It was very rewarding and heartwarming."
Partnering with the Danville-based Wheelchair Foundation, as they had in 2006, the 11 veterans (and six spouses) who made the trip distributed 320 new wheelchairs at prescreened locations during their 18-day stay. The chairs had all-terrain wheels to better suit the needs of rural villagers. Sixty were sports wheelchairs.
"There would be people present who it was obvious needed wheelchairs," said Ronald Lowe, of Danville, who returned to Vietnam for the first time since he was an Army infantry captain in 1969. "Some of them were in rickety old wheelchairs. Some were on crutches. We would actually set up the wheelchairs, blowing up the tires. They were local people there to help, and in come cases even the handicapped people pitched in to help."
Lambert, who returned to Vietnam for the first time since the war, recalled meeting two women, both double leg amputees, who struggled to get around on cumbersome, homemade apparatus.
"Seeing both of them getting a wheelchair and their mobility stood out," he said.
The veterans also visited orphanages, where they made monetary donations. When they weren't doing for others, they often were doing for themselves, trying to put their war experience into perspective by locating echoes of their past.
In the case of Danville's Jerry Yahiro, some echoes located him.
Yahiro, 69, was on the 2006 trip, but an excursion to the Central Highlands, where he had served as a mortar platoon leader, was called off at the last minute. He finally made it back in November, finding some of his old fire bases near the Cambodia and Laos borders. At one location, to his surprise:
"The Vietnamese military was having a live fire drill," he said. "I'm thinking, this is not real. It was like they were trying to remind me they were still here. It was a little unnerving."
Yahiro had to look a little harder to find other relics from his time in Vietnam. He saw patches of old runway and found a strand of barbed wire. There was nothing left to see in some spots.
"Jackson Hole, the first fire base I was assigned to, is now a military cemetery for about 5,000 North Vietnamese," he said. "They've taken many of our areas where we were stationed and turned them into a war memorial or a graveyard."
Lowe, 68, a retired Army major general, made a similar discovery when he returned to the once-remote compound where he lived with South Vietnamese soldiers and their families.
"I was pretty sure I found the right place," he said. "Well, it turned out the right place is now a Vietnamese victory monument. There was absolutely no sign of our compound."
With the help of a local carpenter who offered transportation on the back of his motorbike, Lowe was able to locate two churches and a monument he remembered.
Lambert, 69, returned to bases at Can Tho and Ben Thuy to find they had been turned into industrial parks. "There was no airfield or anything left there," he said.
Lambert had hoped to visit southern cities Ca Mau and Nam Can, perhaps even the shallow body of water U.S. troops once referred to as VC Lake, into which his helicopter spun after being shot down by enemy soldiers.
"The closest coordinates we could get were a day and a half, two-day side trip," he said. "People recommended it wasn't worth taking the time."
All three men marveled at the country's growth — even Yahiro, who had visited Vietnam just six years ago.
"I noticed a lot more private automobiles than in 2006," he said. "Obviously, some people are making money."
Lowe noted the abundance of small businesses. "A little restaurant, a little store, a little something," he said. "That was true in the area where I had served, and it was true on the whole road going out there."
Lowe, who said he had no intention of returning to Vietnam when he left in 1969, was glad he went back.
"It exceeded my expectations," he said. "I went because I was going with friends and I was going for a good cause, with the orphanages and wheelchairs. And I wanted to see the country again. We did all those things."
Contact Gary Peterson at 925-952-5053. Follow him at Twitter.com/garyscribe.


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Little information was available this week on the recent sale of the now closed Quad Graphics in Mt. Morris.
Village Clerk Paula Diehl, who also serves on the Mt. Morris Economic Development Committee, said neither the village nor the committee has been notified of the sale.
According to property transfer documents filed with Ogle County Clerk & Recorder Rebecca Huntley, the entire plant property at 404 N. Wesley Ave., was purchased Feb. 21 by Mt. Morris Business Park LLC, Downey, Calif., for $375,000.
Diehl said she has no information about the company or its name.
"They haven't consulted us," she said.
The property transfer, filed March 14, lists World Color Mt. Morris LLC, as the seller of the plant. Quad Graphics, based in Sussex, Wis., purchased World Color Press Inc. for $1.3 billion in January of 2010.
Quad Graphics spokesman Claire Ho said Tuesday that the plant was purchased by New Mill Capital LLC, which according to its website, is based in Calabasas, Calif.
The website says the company buys "distressed or mismanaged" properties requiring "substantial renovation and/or leasing to become economically viable."
Greg Schain, a spokesman for the company, did not immediately return a phone call Tuesday afternoon.
One source said that as part of the sales agreement, Quad Graphics has a three-year lease of the plant, which it is currently using as a warehouse for printing equipment.
For decades the printing plant was the village's largest employer, at one time providing jobs for more than 2,000 people.
The business, originally called Kable Brothers Printing, was founded in 1898 by twin brothers Harvey and Harry Kable.
Quad Graphics Inc. ceased production at the plant on May 13, 2011 as a cost-cutting measure, ending 113 years of printing at that location.
Quad Graphics plant in Mt. Morris purchased by California company, few details available
Little information was available this week on the recent sale of the now closed Quad Graphics in Mt. Morris.


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Latest MedicineNet News
Strong Smells, Loud Noises Also Cited as Headache Triggers
Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD
March 13, 2008 — It isn't clear whether frequent headache sufferers can predict the weather, but most believe weather changes trigger their headache pain.
In a survey conducted by the National Headache Foundation (NHF), three out of four people who had frequent headaches reported weather or barometric pressure changes as triggers.
A similar number said they avoided bars or clubs to limit their exposure to cigarette smoke, 51% reported being unable to attend concerts with loud music, and 38% said they limited their time at the computer — all in an attempt to keep headaches from happening.
The survey was designed to identify the environmental factors considered by patients to be major headache triggers.
In addition to weather and altitude changes, bright or flickering lights, strong odors, cigarette smoke, and loud music were frequently cited as triggers.
NHF Executive Director Suzanne E. Simons says people often have trouble identifying their own headache triggers because a combination of factors may be involved.
"It can take a lot of detective work, and that is why keeping a headache diary is so important," she tells WebMD. "A headache diary kept over a three-month period can be one of the best tools your physician has for making an accurate diagnosis."
Blame It on the Rain
About 28 million Americans suffer from migraine headaches, with 25% of women and 8% of men experiencing one or more migraines over the course of a lifetime.
In the survey of nearly 200 frequent headache sufferers, about one out of three reported limited travel because of headaches.
Seventy-four percent said their ability to participate in outdoor activities had been restricted because of changes in weather, altitude, high winds, or bright lights.
Atlanta-based neurologist Leslie Kelman, MD, tells WebMD that it is not clear how weather changes might trigger headaches, but some research suggests that they do.
In one study reported in 2004, researchers compared headache calendars kept by patients who believed weather played a major role in their headaches to weather data from the National Weather Service.
They concluded that while it appeared that weather variables may have a link to headaches, more patients thought weather was a trigger than was the case.
Stress, Hormones Trigger Headaches
"I hear it from my patients all the time," says Kelman, who is medical director of the Headache Center of Atlanta. "Many of them tell me that even before they are aware of a shift in the weather they notice a change in their headaches."
In Kelman's own survey of 1,207 migraine sufferers, 80% of respondents cited stress as a headache trigger, 57% reported that not eating triggered migraines, and 53% and 50%, respectively, reported weather changes and sleep disturbances as triggers.
In the same survey, reported last May, 65% of female patients said hormone fluctuations triggered their headaches.
"For many people, one trigger doesn't do it, but several triggers will," Kelman says. "If patients can figure out their triggers they can certainly avoid some of them and prevent at least some of their headaches."
SOURCES: American Psychosomatic Society annual meeting, March 12, 2008, Baltimore. John C. Barefoot, PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. Redford B. Williams, MD, division head, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. Beverly H. Brummett, PhD, research professor, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. Donald LaVan, MD, spokesman, American Heart Association; clinical associate professor of medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
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Software Downloads for "Photo Mesh"
- Digital Photo Slide Show & Screen Saver
- License: Shareware
Digital Photo Slide Show is the perfect solution for sharing your digital photos in a slide show format either as a screen saver, stand alone program, wallpaper changer, web slide show or on CD-ROM. Create custom slide shows with over 120 transition effects for a professional looking presentation of all sorts of photos and images.The Slide Show Installation Producer allows you to create an installation program that contains your photos..
- Platform: WinOther
- Publisher: Voelker Software Development
- Date: 21-05-2003
- Size: 9115 KB
- AAA Photo to VCD
- License: Shareware
AAA Photo to VCD enables you to make use of your CD burner to create exciting photo album which is playable on TV with standard DVD or VCD player. With DVD Photo Slideshow, thousands of pictures from holidays, landscapes or family parties can now be enjoyed on TV as high solution slide show. DVD Photo Slideshow makes it simple to create album from digital photo, picture and image, burn it on CD, and view it on TV..
- Platform: WinOther
- Publisher: AAA Photo to VCD
- Date: 20-12-2002
- Size: 2566 KB
- Digital Photo Resizer
- License: Shareware
Digital Photo Resizer quickly and accurately resizes a mass of photos at once. One of the problems with many photographic software packages is that you cannot quickly resize many photos at once. This simple easy to use tool does it all for you in a couple easy steps..
- Platform: WinOther
- Publisher: Icegiant Software
- Date: 1-4-2003
- Size: 450 KB
- ReaGallery Pro - Photo Album Creator
- License: Shareware
ReaGallery Pro is very easy-to-use software to create web photo albums, thumbnail galleries and web slide shows with your images. It takes your pictures, edits them, automatically creates HTML pages and slideshows for the web, home or CD, saves, uploads to the web or sends it over e-mail. It has been designed to create professional looking web image galleries. If you have some knowledge of HTML, you can customize absolutely everything..
- Platform: WinOther
- Publisher: ReaSoft.com
- Date: 14-04-2003
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- PC Photo Kiosk
- License: Shareware
Pc photo kiosk, developed by Ob1gol, is simply a non-complex program that allows its users to organise, enhance and make it easier to print off photos. Many professional photographers may enjoy this program, as it makes photo enhancement an easy task. This software price is fair, considering some photo editing/enhancing programs can be over hundreds of pounds – such as adobe Photoshop, a commonly used program, yet costs hundreds of dollars. However, we may be getting little quality due to how cheap it is.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Ob1gui, Inc.
- Date: 07-04-2004
- Size: 1900 KB
- FaceFilter Studio - photo editor
- License: Shareware
FaceFilter Studio's enhanced product features make digital photo repair simple and convenient for professionals and home users alike. Unwanted facial expressions, blemishes and wrinkles are things of the past. With FaceFilter Studio, problem photos become perfect photos in 4 simple steps. Using Reallusion's 3-D muscle-based photo morphing technology, FaceFilter enables anyone to enhance expressions, remove common skin blemishes, smooth wrinkles, sharpen and improve facial structure, correct color balance and more.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Reallusion Inc.
- Date: 19-05-2004
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- Photo Puzzle
- License: Shareware
"Photo Puzzle" presents a classical 9-digits puzzle game with the aim to collect the row of 9 digits. Gameplay became more difficult because of using digital photos instead of digits. The level difficulty is conditioned not only by combination of elements, but the difficulty of the picture itself. Gameplay and the musical accompaniment make "Photo Puzzle" easy and enjoyable game..
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Unlimited Interactive
- Date: 25-05-2004
- Size: 12504 KB
- FotoKiss Auction Photo Editor
- License: Shareware
The World's Best Auction Photo Editor! Optimized for eBay Sellers, FotoKiss is a production photo editor that makes it easy to prepare and use digital photos for an auction listing, shopping cart, photo gallery or catalog. It is simple to operate and produces high quality professional results. FotoKiss makes it easy for anyone to quickly create matching photo sets from pictures on a computer, digital camera or scanner. The resulting high quality photos are automatically optimized for use on the Internet.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: LANSRAD
- Date: 18-06-2004
- Size: 6417 KB
- Orange Photo Editor
- License: Freeware
Orange Photo Editor is an easy-to-use program that allows you to view, manage and publish photos on your website. It create thumbnails, resize photos and generate HTML pages..
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: SoftBoard
- Date: 25-06-2004
- Size: 562 KB
- #1 photo slide show creator
- License: Shareware
#1 photo slide show creator (Photo2DVD Studio 3) is an absolutely powerful yet easy-to-use tool to create stunning slideshows with your digital photos for display on TV. Whether you are an expert, a novice or anywhere in between, you can easily but professionally combine photos with music, texts and blank slides and add video clips with this excellent software. It includes nearly 150 transition effects for you to choose from to switch between photos and video clips in any way you want. Burn your slideshows in VCD, SVCD or DVD format and share your special memories with your friends and family!.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Wondershare Software
- Date: 13-07-2004
- Size: 11000 KB
- PicaJet Photo Album
- License: Shareware
Organize, enhance, print, find and share your digital photos with this elegant, all-in-one, digital photo organizer. You can now enjoy the same simplicity of the traditional photo album with your digital pictures. PicaJet makes sharing photos easy with a one-click picture-sending feature. The handy editing options and dynamic zoom let you play around with your digital photos to get the perfect picture. Change as much as you like because the original image stays intact; the changes you make are applied at export.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: PicaJet.Com
- Date: 17-08-2004
- Size: 4161 KB
- WWW Photo Album
- License: Shareware
WWW Photo Album can help you easily create photo albums. WWW Photo Album creates high quality thumbnail images and html pages for the album. It supports many image formats: BMP, DIB, EMF, GIF, ICB, JPG, JPEG, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, RLE, SGI, TGA, TIF, TIFF, VDA, VST, WBMP, WMF. You can upload photo albums to your website or burn them to CD ROM or DVD ROM. WWW Photo Alum can directly create a website on your computer to publish your albums so you can quickly share your albums with your friends.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: LionMax Software
- Date: 16-09-2004
- Size: 1974 KB
- Photo Gadget
- License: Freeware
Photo Gadget is a free tool designed to eliminate the use of complicated and expensive software in such a simple task as resizing pictures. Its purpose is to make the process of resizing many pictures at once incredibly easy. Share your photos with your family and friends by e-mail, instant messaging or online photo album. Never again experience a bounced email; or hearing your friends complain their inbox is full. Long upload times are now history. To use the program, just select pictures you want to make smaller, select new size and Photo Gadget will do the rest.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: XemiComputers Ltd.
- Date: 28-09-2004
- Size: 587 KB
- Photo Slide Show 3.0
- License: Shareware
Photo Slide Show is an easy tool to convert digital photos to slide show and create stunning photo slide shows with transition effects. Photo slide show includes below main features: Convert digital photo and music collection to AVI file, Provide dozens of transition effects, Photo slide show support photo format BMP, JPEG, GIF, TGA, Support audio farmat MP3, WAV, WMA, MPA, MP2, AU, AIF, AIFF, SND, Photo Slide Show also use open compression system for video and audio, Output avi video file with higher resolution than DVD, Real-time preview slide show.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: DigitByte Studio
- Date: 04-12-2004
- Size: 517 KB
- Photo Screensaver Maker
- License: Shareware
Photo Screensaver Maker is a tool to help you make your own slide-show screensavers with photos, music and text captures. You can add any pictures (.jpg,.gif,.bmp,.png,.tif,.tga or .pcx ) and import audio files(.mp3,.midi or .wav) as background music to your creation. You can also add caption for each picture and select various transition effects for your screensaver. Then make a windows standard screensaver(.scr) or self installing screensaver(.exe).Additional customization features include the option to preview screensaver at any time, choose background colors, set the slide-transition time,turn sound on or off etc as you like.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Aone Software
- Date: 05-12-2004
- Size: 1384 KB
- Photo DVD Maker
- License: Shareware
Photo DVD Maker is a perfect tool for the digital camera user who wants to create video slide shows with background music. With Photo DVD Maker, anyone can create exciting slide show using photo, picture, background music, caption and interactive disc menu in only three easy steps. Simply drag-and-drop photos to create slideshows, add music, narration and titles to each slide show, burn slide shows onto CD-R/RW disc, watch your creative photo slide show on TV connected to DVD player. Photo DVD Maker makes it simple to share your digital photo album on the big screen TV with your family or friends.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: photo-dvd-maker.com
- Date: 06-01-2005
- Size: 4051 KB
- Systweak Photo Album
- License: Shareware
Systweak Photo Album is the the best choice for a novice user to organize, manage, view and edit digital photos. Systweak Photo Album is fast, easy-to-use yet powerful enough to satisfy all your needs in managing digital photo albums. With this program you can keep all your pictures carefully organized, view and edit them, print them, burn on CD or send them to your friends. If you have a digital camera or a scanner you will find Systweak Photo Album an invaluable acquisition in your software collection!.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Systweak Inc.
- Date: 10-01-2005
- Size: 2201 KB
- Photo Slide Show
- License: Shareware
Photo Slide Show is an easy tool to convert digital photos to photo slide show and create stunning photo slide shows with transition effects. Photo slide show includes below main features: Convert digital photo and music collection to AVI file, Provide dozens of transition effects, Photo slide show support photo format BMP, JPEG, GIF, TGA, Support audio farmat MP3, WAV, WMA, MPA, MP2, AU, AIF, AIFF, SND, Photo Slide Show also use open compression system for video and audio, Output avi video file with higher resolution than DVD, Real-time preview slide show.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: DigitByte Studio
- Date: 25-10-2004
- Size: 517 KB
- Cyclone Photo Album
- License: Shareware
Cyclone Photo Album is a photo album software which enables you to create a personalized photo album in just a few steps. An initial wizard interface guides you through the creation of your first album, allowing you to freely position one or multiple photos on each page, choose from a variety of frames, stretch, flip and rotate your images or apply transparency. In addition, you can apply transition effects, have background music playing while the page is viewed and more. Your completed albums can optionally be exported as standalone exe file or as a screen saver, so you can easily share them with your friends or relatives.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Cyclone Computing, Inc
- Date: 05-12-2004
- Size: 3045 KB
- Digital Photo Slide Show & Screen Saver
- License: Shareware
Are you one of the 5,900,000 people that bought a digital camera last year? If so, you definitely need to take look at Digital Photo Slide Show. Sharing your digital photos with friends and family has never been easier. Your can share photos as either a stand alone slide show or as a system screen saver, wallpaper changer, web slide show or on a CD-ROM. Sharing photos on CD-ROM is easy. The software includes a utility that will help you create a slide show that starts automatically when your CD-ROM is inserted into the computer.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Voelker Software Development
- Date: 22-09-2003
- Size: 10971 KB


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When you need a pick-me-up that combines powerful flavor and the cooling effects of menthol, this one will set you straight! Mighty Menthol puts a chill on sweet, vivacious raspberries and this juicy, yet minty e-liquid blast will give you the most refreshing of sensations when vaping!
We make our eliquid in a state of the art manufacturing facility. The lab is registered with the FDA as a tobacco manufacturer.See Certificate
Not all nicotine is created equal. While many look to source the most readily available and inexpensive nicotine, we only use the purest available levorotatory nicotine or l-nicotine. This is the most physiologically active type of nicotine.See Nicotine Report
Glycerin can be produced from any number of agents, but ours is sourced strictly from Soybean and only the highest quality producers, so most peanut allergies are not an issue.See Glycerin Report
Our E-Liquid flavorings are specifically made to be inhaled, they are a step beyond "food grade," and they have been GRAS approved.See Lab Report
Our E-Liquid base consists of USP Grade Kosher ingredients.See the Certification
All of our formulas are on file with the FDA; we want them to know what we're up to!
All of our e-liquids are safely packaged in child-proof bottles (NOTE: please keep from reach of children).See General Certificate of Conformity
All of our products contain these handy little labels known as "Lot Numbers" so that all of our products can be traced to their origins.
We strictly adhere to cGMP operation standards, in line with the 21 CFR part 111 guidelines.
* VaporFi products are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") nor does the FDA endorse or deem these products to be safe for use by consumers.
Due to COVID-19, USPS, FedEx and international carriers may be experiencing delays, which are out of our control.
You will be email a tracking number from the carrier (USPS/FedEx) once the order is shipped.
FedEx Priority Express orders placed after 1:00 PM EST will be processed & shipped the following business day.
Please check the carrier tracking number for delivery updates.
Are you 21 or older & of the legal smoking age in your state?
It's easy, select Auto Delivery at checkout! No coupons necessary!
Exclusive rewards and benefits when you shop VaporFi branded products
Learn all about the incredible benefits of VF perks here
Select from 50% PG / 50% VG, 70% PG / 30% VG or MAX VG
Are you a beginner?
50/50 provides a lighter throat hit accompanied by stronger vapor production. 50/50 is ideal for beginners.
Do you use a sub-ohm vape tank?
MAX VG provides the lightest throat hit and heavy vapor production.This is the ideal blend for sub-ohm vaping.
Do you use a Cig-a-Like?
70/30 provides a stronger throat hit and stronger flavor. 70/30 is the perfect blend for the Express e-cigarette.
Selecting higher/lower PG or VG is a personal preference that depends on how strong or light you prefer your throat hit, vapor production and taste. Below is the experience you can expect from PG vs. VG:
Propylene Glycol (PG):
Vegetable Glycerin (VG):
We recommend that all newbies start off with 1.8%. This is the most comparable level to a traditional cigarette and will provide the best results for those just making the switch for the first time. We also offer other levels of nicotine, allowing you to truly customize your vaping experience.
The nicotine level will directly affect your vaping experience and performance of your electronic cigarette. The term "throat hit" is commonly used to describe the intensity of your vape. As you experience with different nicotine levels, we suggest that you move slowly and do not make drastic jumps. Moving from 1.8% to 2.4% is recommend over jumping straight to 3.6%.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please give us a call to speak to one of our friendly reps or visit one of our retail locations where we you can speak directly to one of our Associates.
We recommend that all newbies and non-drippers start off with 1.8%. This is the most comparable level to a traditional cigarette and will provide the best results for those just making the switch for the first time. We also offer other levels of nicotine, allowing you to truly customize your vaping experience. The nicotine level will directly affect your vaping experience and performance of your electronic cigarette. The term "throat hit" is commonly used to describe the intensity of your vape. As you experience with different nicotine levels, we suggest that you move slowly and do not make drastic jumps.
When using high wattage devices commonly used for dripping, you will always want to cut down the nicotine strength that you would use with lower wattage devices. This is because sub-ohm and low-ohm coils allow your body to absorb the nicotine faster and more efficiently. Most drippers will use 0MG, 03MG or 06MG and on occasion a 12MG sub-ohm dripping.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please give us a call to speak to one of our friendly reps or visit one of our retail locations where we you can speak directly to one of our Associates.
Atomizers are used to vaporize vape juice (e-liquid) in your tank. Atomizers are consumables as they degrade with use and need to be replaced. Higher resistance coils will last longer but produce less vapor. Lower resistance atomizers will last a shorter period of time but produce more clouds. Temperature control atomizers (NI/ TI) are to be used only with a temperature control device, in temperature control mode. Temperature control atomizers save battery and give vapers more control over their vaping experience. A new atomizer means getting the most out of your vaping experience. As atomizers degrade, your clouds and flavor will lessen.
2.5, 2.2, 1.8, 1.5, 0.5, 0.45, 0.25, 0.2 and 0.15 are measurements of the atomizers' power capability. 2.5, 2.2, 1.8 and 1.5 are high resistance atomizers meant for long lasting and less voluminous vape. . Atomizers below 1.0 are low resistance atomizers that last for a shorter period of time and produce larger vape clouds. Temperature control coils are also read in resistance (Ni200 0.15, 0.25) and have recommended temperatures for the optimal experience.
Like vape juice, atomizers do not last forever. There's nothing more frustrating than having to deal with a burnt atomizer. Atomizer types vary, so have a couple of extra packs handy to keep your vaping experience fresh. Be sure to always have several replacement atomizers on hand.
All Our E-Liquids are Diacetyl-Free
Diacetyl (pronounced die-AS-i-til) is found naturally in low concentrations in foods such as butter and beer, and is a byproduct of fermentation. High exposure to diacetyl in production settings has been linked to rare respiratory illnesses such as coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Although the risks are much lower for vapers inhaling diacetyl-containing e-liquids, it is important to know the potential consequences of extended diacetyl inhalation. Studies have found that e-liquid containing diacetyl may cause harm to the respiratory system over time.
This E-Liquid is Acetyl Propionyl-Free
Acetyl Propionyl (pronounces Ah-see-tel Pro-pee-ih-nil) is typically used as a solvent for cellulose acetate, lacquers, paints, inks, and is also used as a starting agent for drugs, dyes, and pesticides. Most commonly, it is known as an artificial flavor, particularly within the vaping industry for e-liquids. It has a flavor and aroma profile that have been known to carry a particularly sweet, creamy, buttery, cheesy, and fruity flavor, with notes of caramel.
Currently there is some controversy surrounding the use of this substance in vapor products, though no concrete evidence has emerged to explicitly label it as harmful. There has been discussion of acetyl propionyl causing damage to the respiratory tract, and it has been known to harm the lungs in studies done on animals. For the time being, until further research emerges, we will carry e-liquid brands that contain acetyl propionyl, but we will identify them as such.
This particular eLiquid DOES NOT contain acetyl propionyl.


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Samsung Galaxy A50 Screen Protector (Clear) | MediaDevil Magicscreen Ultra-Tough Edition.
Award-winning device screen protection, designed and made in the UK to the highest standards.
Our Crystal Clear Ultra-tough edition is a next-generation version of our best-selling Crystal Clear edition. This is the first time we've changed our clear non-glass material since we began in 2009, and with good reason: it is the solution to the unending debate of whether plastic or glass screen protectors are better, as it incorporates the best features of both materials, with none of the negatives.
About the material:
Developed in close collaboration with a British advanced materials company. It is thinner than tempered glass, yet provides the same 9H hardness and impact protection. It contains no glass at all and therefore cannot crack.
As with all MediaDevil screen protectors, this product leaves no markings when removed. It does not reduce the clarity or touch sensitivity of the device screen and does not affect the light/proximity sensors under the screen.
This device is curved at each of its four sides, and as a result, it is not possible for these screen protectors to cover the entire screen. Please view the illustration we have provided in the image section of this product page, of the area of the screen that these screen protectors cover.
Pack Contents:
2 x Magicscreen screen protector (FRONT)
1 x Microfibre cleaning cloth
1 x Positioning & dust removal sticker set
1 x smoothing card
Your satisfaction is really important to us, and we will do our best to help ensure that you are a happy MediaDevil customer. MediaDevil was awarded the UK Department of Trade & Investment (UKTI)'s Business Innovation Award for "demonstrating the virtues of excellent products and a passionate company".
Customer ReviewsWrite a review
Perfect fit, almost invisible , highly recommended for the galaxy A50.


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Appleby in Walnut & Zebrano with brown lens
We named this style 'Appleby' after the village where The Moat House is situated, Appleby Magna, Derbyshire.
These wayfarer inspired, wooden sunglasses in Walnut & Zebrano, are crafted by hand at our workshop in North Devon, England, assuring you of the high standard of craftsmanship you would expect from a British manufacturer.
Durable, lightweight and comfortable, these beautiful unisex sunglasses are an essential summer accessory for those who don't follow the herd!
This product comes with a Category 3 Brown Lens. Other lens options are available.
Please see below for more information and FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
- Q) If I order online and I am not 100% happy with my purchase, can I return them for an exchange or refund?
- A) So long as the item arrives back with us in unused condition, in the original packaging and a proof of purchase is provided, we will return or refund the product with no questions asked within 30 days of purchase.
- Q) What lenses do you use?
- A) We offer a variety of lenses from standard brown through to polarised which reduce glare from water etc. All lenses conform to the European standard and offer full UV400 protection.
- Q) Do the frames break easily?
- A) We cross bond the wood grains to make them as robust as they possibly can be. Obviously care must be taken with your sunglasses and we recommend keeping them in a hard case when not being worn.
- Q) What happens if I break them?
- A) If repairable, we repair them for you, at cost. If not able to repair them, we will replace them for you and offer you a 20% discount from our online prices.
- Q) Are they water-proof?
- A) We use a sweat / water-resistant, oil/wax to finish the frames so they will tolerate some moisture but we would not recommend immersing them in water for long periods of time.
- Q) Is the oil you use suitable for sensitive skin?
- A) The oil/wax we use is very skin friendly and suitable for children's toys. It does not contain any nasty chemicals. It is kind to human, plant and animal. If, however, you doexperience a reaction, please refrain from contact immediately and seek medical advice.
- Q) How do I take care of my Moat House Wooden Sunglasses?
- A) Keep your Moats in a hard case when not in use. They can be revitalised with Danish oil or natural beeswax. Please do not clean lenses with solvent based lens cleanser, use a lint-free cloth.
Moat House Eyewear Ltd guarantees your sunglasses against manufacturing defects for 90 days from the date of purchase. We reserve the right to determine manufacturing defects versus accidental damage, and we require proof of purchase such as:
- Your moat-house.com order number.
- Photograph of the physical receipt showing date of purchase and retailer name.
- Photograph of your bank statement with a visible and highlighted purchase date and retailer name.
If a product is considered defective, we will repair or replace the product free of charge.
All claims must be submitted via email to: email@example.com and photographs highlighting the defect should accompany the email.
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As she has roughly 20 times before during this movie awards season, Mo'Nique took home the award for Best Supporting Actress, for her turn in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," offering up a speech that rivaled her Golden Globes acceptance.
"First I would like to thank the Academy for showing it can be about the performance and not about the politics. I would like to thank Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to. Tyler Perry an Oprah Winfrey, because you touched it, the whole world saw it... My entire BET family, my Precious family, thank you so much. To my amazing husband Sidney thank you for showing me that Sometime you have to forgo doing what's popular in order to do what's right. And, Baby, you were so right. God bless us all."
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Oxford, Miss. --- Despite a strong performance in the opening half, the Tennessee State University women's basketball team dropped a, 77-61 , decision to SEC member Ole Miss Sunday afternoon at Tad Smith Coliseum.
Tennessee State (1-5) was led in scoring by freshman Jayda Johnson who posted a career-high 14 points. Redshirt Junior Chelsea Hudson just missed a double-double with 13 points and eight rebounds while junior Rachel Allen scored 10.
The first half featured seven ties and seven lead changes. Despite only shooting 27.3 percent from the floor in the first frame, TSU went into the halftime break only trailing, 31-29.
The Lady Tigers used their defensive pressure and rebounding to keep the game close. TSU had 10 offensive rebounds and nine second chance points in the opening stanza.
Ole Miss outscored TSU, 11-3, to open the second half and went up, 42-32, at the 15:52 mark. Brianna Lawrence hit a floater in the paint to end the Lady Tigers' nearly three-minute scoring drought.
However, after only scoring nine points in the first ten-minutes of the second half, TSU fell behind, 54-38, to Ole Miss.
Over the next several possessions, the Lady Tigers fought to chip away at the lead. A three-pointer by Rachel Allen cut the advantage down to 13 but the Rebels responded with eight unanswered points to move ahead, 64-43.
The deficit proved to be too much to overcome.
The Lady Tigers showed improvement from the free-throw line, knocking down 14-of-20 from the charity stripe. TSU shot 32.8 percent from the field and made five triples in the contest.
The Rebels shot 46.4 percent from the floor, including 50 percent from long range. Ole Miss also outrebounded the Lady Tigers, 46-33.
Tennessee State will return to action at home against Lipscomb on Tuesday, Nov. 26 in the Gentry Center. Game time is slated for 6 p.m.
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Hello my crafty friends, I have been so busy taking care of my little angels:) My little boy is now two months old he is growing fast and so sweet! So lets have some fun if you have arrived from Susan's Blog you are in the right place if not head on over to Cardz Tv and start there! It is Cardz Tv Challenge #8
"Color Me a Rainbow" Create a card or craft project for any ocassion using colors from the rainbow...pink, blue, green & yellow ONLY...you can also add small amounts of black & white. Mary is giving away one set of Cardz Tv Stamps winners choice! How exciting!! I used Cardz Tv Stamp set Going Buggy! I Love this set it is so much fun:) For my card I used April Showers Cricut Cartridge for the butterfly. I added some pearls and ribbon and Marys Fabulous stamp!! These stamps are awesome!! I am the last person in line for the hop so my friends I hope you had a great one!!!


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County fighting bills to curb environmental suits
The Texas attorney general would be able to settle environmental lawsuits filed by cities and counties without input or approval from local officials, under a bill backed by business interests that is scheduled for a hearing in Austin on Tuesday.
A second bill would bar cities and counties from hiring outside lawyers if they are to be paid from winnings to help fight costly environmental cases aimed at extracting penalties from polluters.
Together the bills, to be heard before the House Environmental Regulations Committee, effectively would limit local governments' ability to pursue environmental claims against deep-pocketed companies accused of causing significant environmental damage requiring expensive cleanups, according to county and municipal attorneys across the state. The bills are being carried by state Rep. Cindy Burkett, R-Garland.
"It surprises me a little bit because there is no history of us settling cases in opposition to the attorney general or against the wishes of the attorney general," said Rock Owens, who heads the environmental division in the Harris County Attorney's office, which historically has filed the most civil environmental lawsuits in the state.
Owens said the legislation would diminish an authority local governments have had for decades to punish environmental offenders, and also make for an uneven playing field as governments cannot afford to pay private attorneys on an hourly basis like the companies they sue.
While the county has been filing environmental cases for a long time, it only recently began recruiting outside counsel. Six cases have been relegated to private firms.
Business backs bills
The powerful Texas Association of Business supports the bills, saying local government lawsuits have the potential to harm economic development statewide if left unchecked.
"These lawsuits do nothing but demand dollars from companies," said Stephen Minick, vice president of governmental affairs for the TAB. "To have the county come in and attract money from these companies who are doing everything the state and federal government have asked them to do just seems to us to not be in the public interest."
Minick said that while the association does not oppose municipal and county attorneys being able to file such civil cases, it believes that lawsuits seeking "absurd demands" for penalties "that the state would never pursue" actually harm a company's ability to help pay for cleanup and may deter other companies from buying and redeveloping contaminated land.
Local officials disagree.
"This legislation would, I think on its face, hinder our ability to protect the environment and protect property," said Travis County Attorney David Escamilla.
Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said the county has not taken an official position on hiring outside lawyers on a contingency fee basis, but that all counties "ought to be able to make those decisions on their own."
The Texas Municipal League and the Conference of Urban Counties, lobbying associations for the state's cities and large counties, oppose the legislation.
Burkett did not respond to repeated interview requests, but the Dallas-area lawmaker serves on the board of directors of the Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute, a conservative think tank that published a white paper last month that specifically cites lawsuits filed recently by Harris County as the reason the legislation is needed.
According to the white paper, lawsuits filed by the county in the last 18 months have "the potential to undermine" environmental cleanup programs created by the Legislature and administered by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, "as well as to impact economic development."
Owens said the county attorney's office believes that defendants in some high-profile suits are behind it.
Waste Management
A spokesman for Waste Management Inc., a defendant in one of the county's two still-pending lawsuits being fought by outside contingency firms, declined to say whether the company was involved in crafting the legislation, but said it "is familiar with the legislative content of the two bills filed," and noted support from the business association.
The county is seeking nearly $2 billion in its suit against the company, or a maximum penalty of $25,000 a day dating back to the 1965 opening of a site near the Interstate 10 crossing where toxic pollutants were dumped and leached into the San Jacinto River for 45 years before the federal government stepped in.
Referencing the pending case, set to go to trial early next year, Waste Management spokesman Ken Haldin noted that "this legislation would have no retroactive effect and would not prevent the case from moving forward."