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Donations and The Global Church
posted in BLOG | Wednesday, November 12th, 2014
Sometimes Cascades gets to participate and work with people and/or organizations that are doing incredibly cool ministries.
This past weekend we posted on Craigslist that we were trying to sell a bunch of chairs that we no longer have need of. Two different men, working with two different organizations contacted us about the chairs. Both organizations wanted the chairs to send over seas to Africa to help schools.
We ended up making the decision to donate chairs to both organizations. We also ended up giving away a bunch of mattresses and bunks. We here at Cascades have been incredibly blessed, and so we made the decision to donate what we can to these organizations to help meet their needs. We figured it was better for us to give them away to organizations that will use them for the betterment of lives than to hold on to them or sell them. Cascades fully supports global church and we feel incredibly lucky and blessed to be able to be apart of the global mission of the church, and to pair with both organizations.
One of the organizations that we able to donate to is though Legacy Emmanuel Medical Center in Portland Oregon. The hospital will be sending a volunteer group of nurses and doctors to Ghana to help in schools, where the supplies we were able to provide will be going. If you have any questions, want to help support, or help meet the needs they have, contact the hospital and ask for Akwasi Sarfo-Kantanka or any other nurses or doctors involved with the trip to Ghana.
We also had the pleasure of meeting Sariang "Sam" Marong who is involved in Heeno-International. The things that we donated to Heeno-International will be sent to The Gambia. Heeno-International is a non-profit dedicated to "…the advancement of education, understanding and socio-economic development in The Gambia and other countries in and outside Africa." They believe that global poverty and the environmental crisis are two of the world's biggest challenges today. If you would like to help support Heeno-International or have any questions, check out their website, heenointernation.com
- Tom "Hoopla" Eaker...readmore
Photos and Thoughts: God's unrelenting pursuit
posted in BLOG | Thursday, September 25th, 2014
Last week I spent my morning going through archives of old camp photos. As I searched through these photos, I became overwhelmed at the thought of the events that occurred for this place to exist. In 1989 Cascades first opened, but before then there were three other Covenant camps, Driftwood Point, Covenant Beach, and Circle C Ranch, that pooled their resources together, after years of ministry, to make it possible for Cascades Camp to become an actual thing, and not just a pipe dream. All four of these places have a rich history of sharing the love of God with thousands of people for decades. It is because of this legacy of love that I find myself reflecting upon the steadfast love and faithfulness that God continuously shows creation.
I had no idea that Cascades existed until my first year of seminary in 2012, and I didn't actually set foot onto Cascades property until June of this year. If I could have known the impact that this place would have had on me in just three months, I wouldn't have believed it. This summer, being the staff pastor, I was placed in an interesting position to see how God was working amongst not only staff, but also campers, families, and guests. I watched and listened to people search earnestly after God but I also watched and listened to God chase after God's beloved creation, us. There were times this summer when people talked to me that it was clear that the person was searching for God; at times it was even more apparent, however, that God was searching after them. It was in these times that I could not deny that God's hand is extended towards us every moment, even when we have turned our backs. It is clear to me that God is sprinting towards us even when we have turned and tried to walk in the opposite direction.
It was through looking at these photos that I was reminded of God's unrelenting pursuit of us. The events that have allowed Cascades to happen, and the ministries that were at work before this place are all evidence of God's love for us. It was through seeing the countless unknown faces within photos, and thinking about the even greater number of people that were affected by these ministries that I am truly taken aback. It is such a blessing to be a part if a place such as this, and take part in the legacy that Cascades was born out of, and fully participates in now, in showing God's love to all people.
- Tom "Hoopla" Eaker...readmore
Join in welcoming the new 2014-2015 Interns!!!
posted in BLOG | Wednesday, September 17th, 2014
Summer camp has come to an end, and as many of you know, that means that a new set of interns have joined the Cascades Family. Now introducing (drum roll please)…
Tom "Hoopla" Eaker will be working alongside Claudia Fisher and Erin Liden as this year's Marketing/Program intern. This past summer Tom was the staff pastor here at Cascades. Tom originates from Jamestown, New York. Before arriving at Cascades in June, he was attending North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois, pursuing a Masters in Christian Formation. He will be graduating from North Park this coming December. Tom feels called to this internship, because he has a deep love for camping ministry as a whole, and plans to pursue a career in it. When asked about the internship Tom said, "I am excited to see what camping ministry is like from a year round perspective, and not just from a summer staff point of view. I am excited to learn as much as I possibly can about camp, and about God. This will be both a growing and stretching experience that I am incredibly excited about. I cannot wait to use both my graphics and ministry degrees in the same setting." An interesting fact about Tom is that before coming to Washington State he had never seen mountains before.
Reid "Swarley" Palmer is the new o-team intern. He will be working alongside Cean Willard to help keep Cascades Camp in good running order. Reid originally hails from Apple Valley, California. It was in California, Costa Mesa to be specific, where he was a barista at Starbucks, and a student at Orange Coast College before arriving at camp for the summer. This past summer Reid was one of two S.A.L.T. Crew leaders, leading and serving alongside multiple groups of high school age kids doing work projects around camp. When asked about this next year as an intern Reid said, "I feel that camp is a place where I am constantly challenged spiritually, mentally, and physically and am encouraged to grow and learn by those that surround me here. I think this year will be a great opportunity, because I think God will teach me a lot, and I will be challenged in many ways. I hope to come out of this internship a more learned man." A Fun fact about Reid is that he ran in the LA marathon, in the snow, and uphill both ways. We're not too sure how the "uphill both ways" works, so you'll have to ask him yourself about that.
This year in the kitchen Jordan "Toxic" Nelson will be working alongside Mike Bothman as the new 2014/2015-kitchen intern. This past summer Jordan worked as a counselor, working with a wide range of kids of all different ages at both Camp Timber Rock and Brightwood Station. Jordan is originally from the same area that Cascades Camp is located, Yelm, Washington. This past summer was his second summer on staff. Before being a counselor, he first worked in the kitchen for a summer. Jordan has not only been on summer staff for two years, but he also participated in the S.A.L.T. program when he was in high school. Before coming to camp this summer, Jordan was working at a Stihl dealership. Jordan is looking forward to a year of being able to focus more so God. Camp has been like a second home to Jordan and he is extremely excited to work in the kitchen. A fun fact about Jordan is that he has a pretty big family. He has four older brothers, a younger sister, and then two older stepsisters.
For this upcoming year Erin "Tiltro" Liden, who is be the new program intern, will be working alongside Claudia Fisher and Tom Eaker to plan upcoming events, and preparing for the upcoming 2015 summer. Erin is originally from Yelm, Washington. Fun fact though, she was actually born in Frankfurt, Germany, where her Dad was stationed while in the army. This past year, before coming to camp, Erin was participating in AmeriCorps. She had an internship teaching environmental education at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge in Cheney, Washington. This summer, here at Cascades, Erin was one of the two program leaders at Camp Timber Rock. When asked about why she feels called to intern at Cascades Camp this year she said, "I feel called to camp to explore the opportunity to combine my passion for camping ministry with my passion for getting kids outside in nature. I grew up going to Cascades as a kid and have worked here for many summers. It is a place I have grown to know Christ and hope to help facilitate that opportunity for others."
Jessica "Diesel" Nordlie this past summer was one of the five wranglers here at Cascades, at Sunrise Ranch. She is now the 2014/2015-ranch intern, and we are all very excited about it! Before coming to Cascades this past summer, Jessica was working at Fax Valley Veterinary Hospital, Tinny Ackers Stables, and was also, busy showing horses. Her hometown is a place called Harvey, which is in North Dakota. When asked about this up coming year, and her feeling of being call to be the new ranch intern, Jessica said, "I feel called to work at camp because, I love working with horses, and what better place to do it than the beautiful place of Cascades. Here I am surrounded by good christen people that help me grow in my faith. I love to see horses used as a tool to show kids God's love, and to use it as an opportunity to teach them more about the Lord." A fun fact about Jessica is that when she is back home, in North Dakota, she drives a 92′ Cadillac, which has mounted to the front of it a pair of three-foot long horns from a Texas Long Horn.
We are all very excited to have these five new interns joining our family for the upcoming 2014/2015 year. Join us in welcoming them all to their new intern positions and our Cascades Camp family!!...readmore
Reflection upon the 2014 Summer
posted in BLOG | Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
As I sit and I think over this summer and the events that occurred, I am amazed that it actually ended. This summer felt like time would never end, and I mean that in the best possible way. This summer was incredible.
When June arrived, and I took my first steps on Cascades Camp property, the month of August seemed so far away. We all tell ourselves and "know" that the camping season will come and go before you know it, but when you're in the go of things, with however many kids and guest around you and building relationships with all the other staff, you tend to forget what you thought you "knew". You become focused on how days seem long, but forget that the weeks are short.
It has been incredible these last three months to see how God has moved, and see what God has done and is doing amongst the campers, families, guests, and staff that have come and gone during this time. It has been a truly awesome and awe inspiring gift to have been given the opportunity to be here, and work in such a beautiful and Jesus-centered place.
This year at Brightwood Station (grades 4-6), campers played massive, crazy 'Around the World' themed games. They also spent time in their cabin groups doing numerous activities all around camp, including a camp out at Frontier Village, where they slept in teepees. Each night, they heard chapel talks from Fender, the Brightwood Program Leader, about the love and grace that God extends towards creation.
At Camp Timber Rock (grades 7-9), they played loud and exciting games such as 'The Woodland Games', where kids were split into teams and the contest raged all week to see what team would be the champion on Saturday morning. Each week a new speaker came to Timber Rock to teach about how our personal story meshes with the entire story of God. Campers learned about how God can take our individual stories and turn it into something unexpected that reflects Christ's love towards others.
At Sunrise Ranch the campers learned a variety of different skills when it comes to horses. The campers from both Brightwood and Timber Rock blazed trails, had arena classes, learned vaulting techniques, and so much more. The ranch also had two weeks of horse-centric, all horses, all the time camps: Sunrise Ranch Horse Intensives and Classic Horse Camp, where campers were able to further their equestrian skill levels and go deeper into the word of God.
Rainer Kids Day Camp was bigger than it has ever been! The program ran for a total of eight weeks serving and hosting a total of 262 kids. Every day was a new adventure with Rainier Kids as they experienced swimming at the waterfront, going on pony rides, playing big camp games, and most importantly, learned about the love of Christ.
This year the S.A.L.T. (Servant And Leadership Training) program served a total of 97 students and carried throughout the entirety of the camping season! The S.A.L.Ts dove head first into the Word and into service projects, helping within cabins, and fellowshipping with one another during their time at Cascades. Without them, camp would not have run as smoothly or have nearly the energy that it did. They did an amazing job at leading and learning under the supervision of their enthusiastic and passionate S.A.L.T. leaders.
Our Family Camps this year were filled with the joy of families coming together for both relaxation and fun. Not only did families have fun doing a myriad of activates, but also, they worshiped alongside each other, learning, and growing closer together and with God. This year we served a total of 1095 individuals during our four different family camps.
All in all, the things that have happed this summer were all because of the love and grace of God, whom was and is working among not just the staff, but the guests and campers of Cascades Camp. Thank you all for your prayers and generous support. God has blessed and been faithful in abundant and awesome ways this summer, and we look forward to what will happen in 2015!
- Tom "Hoopla" Eaker...readmore
Independence Day Family Camp 2014 Goodies!
posted in BLOG | Thursday, July 24th, 2014
2014 Recap Video
You know how a picture says a thousand words? Well it turns out a video says around a million words. We had far too many exciting things happening at Family Camp this summer to explain with words, so our media technician, Hiccup made this video, which happens to be worth one-million words. WOW!
Watch this super-awesome recap video to see all the super-awesome things we were doing at Independence Day Family Camp.
Independence Day Family Camp 2014 Recap from Cascades Camp on Vimeo.
2014 Sermon Recordings
All of the sermons were recorded and uploaded to the Cascades Podcast. Enjoy sermons by Pastor Peter Sung and Pastor Greg Yee.
Every sermon is available for free download or direct streaming via the Cascades Podcast on iTunes. Or you can simply click below to listen.
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If you are having a hard time listening to the sermons please do not hesitate to contact us!...readmore
Celebrating 25 Years of Ministry at Cascades
posted in BLOG | Thursday, May 15th, 2014
|Take a minute to check out this fun video depicting God's faithful ministry at Cascades for the past 25 years!
Summer Staff Reflection: "Gracioso"
posted in BLOG | Friday, February 28th, 2014
Starting in January, we hit the road in hopes of recruiting some stellar young people who are excited to serve the Lord at Cascades. Recruiting season has recently wrapped up, but we're still very much in the midst of hiring. Slowly but surely, the pieces are falling into place and our 2014 summer staff is coming together.
In the spirit of the season and in anticipation of another great crew, we've been highlighting a few of our summer staffers from 2013. This week, we're sharing a reflection written by "Gracioso," our kitchen intern last year and worship leader last summer.
My experience at CCACC has been a long and multifacted one as I've cycled through many of the roles. Only missing one summer in between 1999 and 2013, I have been at camp as a camper, S.A.L.T., or summer staff member, and even spent nine months as the kitchen intern. I think it's safe to say I've had the full experience, even working in most of the departments. Over the years, no place has been more influential than Cascades Camp in bringing out dedication in my faith and the outright goofiness in my personality.
I recall working at camp my very first summer in 2011. Camp was kind of like celebrating your birthday for me. It was something you got to enjoy so infrequently that the anticipation building up to it was almost unbearable glee, and the time actually spent there was always magical and packed with excitement. Something slowly began to change when I had worked there one week, two weeks, three weeks, two months, and so on. Camp did lose some of its magic, but that emotion was replaced with something better. Camp became a home to me. The passionate love that I had for camp gradually settled into a steady, reliable, dedicated sort of love for the place and what we do there. Instead of being like a birthday party, camp felt like finally coming home after an arduous day of school or work.
I had the privilege of working summers on program both as a counselor and worship leader, and as a kitchen leader. I loved getting to taste both sides of camp, in the forefront of our ministry and behind the scenes. There are so many lessons to be learned, and so many different ones depending on what aspect of camp you serve in. Being a counselor stretched me in new ways, teaching me to rely on God more than ever to do His work through me when I was doing more than I ever thought possible. In the kitchen, God taught me to appreciate service that doesn't get praised and I discovered the deep satisfaction of making something that provides for people's needs in very practical way. Without a doubt, God has changed my life in monumental ways through my experience at camp, providing me with mentors and giving me an opportunity to mentor others in turn. Never have I been a part of a community that was so jointly dedicated to seeing God's kingdom come by their impact. People come together and serve this purpose and leave so much capable of living for Jesus in their own circles.
One of Cascades' mottos is to do everything with excellence. You hear this sort of thing all the time, recycled for countless missions and purpose statements. Honestly, it gets a little bit old. It was incredibly refreshing to work at camp and notice that this was the first place I've been where the staff models excellence more than they talk about it. Every person showed me what it means to do everything to the best of their ability, and having that rub off in me is one of the most valuable things camp has given to me. I wouldn't trade my time there for anything in the world, and still when I pass under those wooden gates, I know I'm coming home.
Check in periodically to read about the experiences of other summer staffers – and if you know of any qualified post-high school/college-aged individuals – especially Jesus-loving dudes – who might be interested in serving at Cascades, send 'em our way!...readmore
Summer Staff Reflection: "Luggabaloo"
posted in BLOG | Thursday, February 6th, 2014
Recruiting season is here, y'all! Starting in January, we hit the road in hopes of recruiting some stellar young people who are excited to serve the Lord at Cascades. Slowly but surely, the pieces are falling into place and our 2014 summer staff is coming together.
In the spirit of recruiting season and in anticipation of another great crew, we've been highlighting a few of our summer staffers from 2013. This week, we're sharing a reflection written last August by "Luggabaloo," one of our counselors.
"Camp Reflection"
I have been out at camp for a little while now.
Alright, so a long while. It was an incredible experience for a million different reasons. I couldn't pinpoint just one. The community was a huge blessing, for sure. Every single person there is totally passionate about Jesus and about loving people. They are all super genuine and caring people – camp provided one of the greatest (if not the greatest) communities I've ever been a part of. Every department was full of the neatest people. I feel so blessed to have been a part of it. Then there are the cute elementary kids that say the strangest things. One kid thought I was the father to one of my fellow counselors, and I'm definitely younger than her. This past week I had a kid who was talking about camping and he said, "I ride my bike around and say 'hi' to people, because that's my thing." Super fun! Then, at the end of the week, we get to hear the kids talk about their lives and what they learned about at camp. It's awesome every week to hear the wisdom that comes from these kids.
This summer, I learned one really big thing that took a few weeks to get through my thick skull. Every week, I was wanting campers to make huge, life-altering decisions in their walk with Christ. For the first week, no big decisions/commitments were made. And I would sit there, listening to other counselors talk about the great conversations they had with kids, thinking about the lack in wholesome conversations I had. Then, my third week was rough. I worked with a group who came from a church, but didn't seem to want to gain anything spiritual from their camp experience. They were there for the fun, the games – not for Jesus. That was really frustrating, and I became frustrated with them, and myself, because I felt that they weren't retaining anything I said. However, as the week came to a close, God taught me a lesson.
He really laid on my heart that I shouldn't always expect to see the fruit in peoples' lives. Sometimes I have to plant seeds in the lives of these guys, and leave it at that. God gave me peace about my campers not having a life-changing week. He let me know that just because I didn't get to see their lives being changed doesn't mean they never will. If I plant seeds, then He will grow those into a beautiful, blooming testimony later in their lives. Going into my fourth and final week at camp, I had a renewed perspective. I need to be pouring my all into these kids, even if I feel discouraged, because they will either apply what they've learned to their life right now, or they will remember it later in life. Either way, God is going to use their week at camp to change them in some way.
Check in periodically over the next couple of weeks to read about the experiences of other summer staffers – and if you know of any qualified post-high school/college-aged individuals who might be interested in serving at Cascades, send 'em our way!...readmore
Summer Staff Reflection: "Shalom"
posted in BLOG | Friday, January 24th, 2014
Recruiting season is here, y'all! Over the next month or so, we're hitting the road in hopes of recruiting some stellar young people who are excited to serve the Lord at Cascades. Slowly but surely, the pieces are falling into place and our 2014 summer staff is coming together.
In the spirit of recruiting season and in anticipation of another great crew, we're going to be highlighting a few of our summer staffers from 2013 over the next couple of weeks. First up, we're sharing a reflection written late-July by "Shalom," one of our Brightwood S.A.L.T. leaders last summer.
"Flannels and REI Mugs at Sunrise"
I am such a camp person.
I am the most crazy, joyful, and full of love when I am at camp. There's this aura about camp life that just draws people in and allows them to vibe on such an intimate level with the most real part of themselves; to be a part of a place like that is such a blessing. If there is anything to be said about me as a person it is that I am super super extroverted. I love nothing more than being in a room full of a bunch of people that I don't know and to be able to go up to them and say "HI! I want to know you."
Literally though, it's almost always THAT creepy and THAT awkward. On the whole though I'd say I'm a fully functioning human being and it hasn't once failed in me meeting someone new if not making an entirely new friendship start. People are just really cool. And really cool people and opportunities like that tend to happen in excess at camp.
Perfect job for me.
This summer I was hired to be the Brightwood S.A.L.T. leader. S.A.L.T. stands for Servant and Leadership Training and Brightwood S.A.L.T.s in particular are juniors and seniors in high school who pay to come hang out at camp to love and serve throughout the week. If you'd have asked me seven weeks ago how I felt about this job I would have probably said I was terrified, incapable, or simply stared at you blankly…and then laughed. I didn't feel capable of teaching three different sessions of high school students. I didn't feel wise enough or able enough to love a bunch of high schoolers right where they were at as well as teach and show them the love of Jesus. I felt like I was in way over my head.
And for the past seven weeks I have sat back in awe of God and the way He works through our biggest insecurities. I have been awed, blessed, loved, laughed with, and found joy in all 31 of the crazy high school students who came into my life this summer and wrecked my heart in the best way possible.
This summer I have learned.
I am a love person.
A flannel person.
A hiking person.
A simplicity person.
A worship person.
A joyful person.
A "I-find-joy-in-serving-person."
A 6 am with coffee person.
A Bible person.
A community person.
I am a camp person.
Hear me say: Let me love.
Soli Deo gloria, Shalom.
Check in periodically over the next couple of weeks to read about the experiences of other summer staffers – and if you know of any qualified post-high school/college-aged individuals who might be interested in serving at Cascades, send 'em our way!...readmore
Introducing the 2013-2014 Interns
posted in BLOG | Friday, December 27th, 2013
Meet the Ranch Intern – Sarah "Firefly" Slater
Hometown: Vancouver, Washington
What you were up to before coming to camp: Attending Olympic College in Bremerton.
Alma Mater: Olympic College, associate's in Fine Arts, 2013
Favorite place at camp: The pasture at about 7:00 in the morning; just when the sun is coming up.
Highlight of the summer: The whole summer was wonderful, but I think my highlight was seeing my little sister come to camp for the first time and watching her face as she got to experience new things around the horses and with other campers.
Some goals for this year: This year I want to learn to take the time to just sit and let God speak to me, and not worry about what else may be coming around next year.
Dream vacation: Traveling through middle-earth (New Zealand). Or road-tripping with my best friends.
Favorite treat: Gooey cookies of any sort, but chocolate chip especially. (It doesn't even have to be cooked at all really – I will eat it straight out of the bowl!)
Meet the Kitchen Intern – Carl "Falsetto" Jeppessen
Hometown: Portland, Oregon
What you were up to before coming to camp: Working at a center for troubled youth.
Alma mater: University of Portland, Music with an emphasis in vocal performance, 2010
Favorite place at camp: The waterfront
Highlight of the summer: Dancing in the Yelm Parade & Timber Rock guys night
Some goals for this year: Grow closer to God in community and figure out the next step in life.
Dream vacation: Into orbit
Favorite treat: Soft and chewy white chocolate macadamia nut cookies
Meet the Operations Team Intern – Christian "Fender" Kerrigan
Hometown: Shoreline, Washington
What you were up to before coming to camp: Student teaching at St. Hilary School in Chicago, IL
Alma mater: North Park University, Elementary Education, 2013
Favorite place at camp: Grandview
Highlight of the summer: Seeing my good friends get married
Some goals for this year: Build stuff. Wood stuff. And go to a Sounders game.
Dream vacation: Hike the Appalachian Trail
Favorite treat: Rice Krispie treats
Meet the Program Interns –
Jessica "Lambchop" Martin
Hometown: Selah, Washington
What you were up to before coming to camp: Graduated from SPU last winter, and have been interning at camp since January.
Alma mater: Seattle Pacific University, Global Development Studies, December 2012
Favorite place at camp: The Timber Rock amphitheater
Highlight of the summer: Watching faces light up because of an experience that I had a hand in creating – whether that was connecting with Christ for the first time, or going on a safari adventure out to Frontier Village.
Some goals for this year: To grow in my understanding of both Christ and camping ministry, to build community, and to go running on every trail at camp.
Dream vacation: Europe backpacking adventure
Favorite treat: Dried mangoes, Stumptown coffee, or anything chocolate
Samantha "Mushu" Trestik
Hometown: Tigard, Oregon
What you were up to before coming to camp: After graduating from Whitworth in 2012, I started interning at camp. I kind of like it here!
Alma mater: Whitworth University, Marketing, 2012
Favorite place at camp: The linen closet – it smells so fresh and clean!
Highlight of the summer: The whole thing, but some individual "it is good" moments – Tent City, working in the nursery during Double Fun Family Camp, spending an hour in the canteen each day getting to know new campers and reconnecting with old ones, and cleaning out the ball field shed!
Some goals for this year: Read at least 4 books for fun, learn how to cook, hide on a trail and jump out and scare Jessica while she is running, write or blog about my experiences this year, and learn the Thriller dance.
Dream vacation: Any place that is peaceful, with a beautiful view and few distractions. It could be a beach, a lake, a cabin in the mountains, or by a pool. And of course spending time with quality people.
Favorite Treat: Oatmeal-chai cookies
If you were thinking of sending us a care package (HINT-HINT), feel free to include fun board games, delicious homemade cookies, gift certificates to Dairy Queen or Starbucks, and encouraging notes.
Peace and blessings,
Jessica "Lambchop" Martin & Sammie "Mushu" Trestik...readmore


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I was a boy growing up in Sweetwater, Texas, I remember "Juneteenth" as a very big day of celebration for the African Americans in our town. And it still is a very big day of celebration for African Americans because Juneteenth is celebrated as Black Independence Day.
Over the years, the tradition of celebrating June 19 as a day of freedom traveled with African Americans who moved from Texas to Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma - then eventually to such states as Alabama, Florida, and California. The celebration was a great deal like the Fourth of July with picnics, games, reading of Emancipation Proclamation, inspirational speeches, stories from former slaves, rodeos, dances, and prayer services.
Juneteenth celebrates the freedom of over 250,000 slaves at the close of the Civil War. It was based on events that took place in Texas and takes its name from June 19, 1865, which is the day federal troops arrived in Galveston to enforce Emancipation Proclamation though President Lincoln had issued the proclamation on January 1, 1863, it freed few slaves.
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Look out ARM, Intel, here comes MIPS – again
Imagination Technologies, best known for its PowerVR graphics-core designs used by a host of system-on-chip (SoC) purveyors from Apple to Intel, wants world+dog to know that it is dedicated to grabbing a hefty chunk of the compute-core market with its MIPS-based designs resulting from its acquisition of that venerable company, …
It'll be amusing...
It'll be amusing to me if they come up with some "tons of MIPS cores on a board" type solutions, and SGI (as a vendor now of mainly massively parallel computers) started shipping a MIPS-based system again.
Anyway... MIPS is a bit odd, it's *REALLY* RISC, it makes ARM look laden down with excess instructions. I've used a MIPS-based DECStation, as well as several SGIs. My WRT54G access point is also MIPS, and I know some of the wifi chips have embedded MIPS so I've probably got a few non-user-accessible ones ticking over in the machine I'm using right now.
Re: It'll be amusing...
> it's *REALLY* RISC
that doesn't fit my recollection of it. If you want big and ugly then IBM's power is worth looking at.
(disclaimer: not a low level guy, I just read up on this stuff)
Modern MIPS isn't as RISC as it used to be...
The original MIPS design rationale was to exceluded anything from the CPU that could be done in the development tools.
For example, the original MIPS cores had no pipe interlocks which mean you had to be careful about how you accessed registers. You had to wait enough pipeline steps before the register values would be valid. That time was to be filled with other instructions and it was the compiler's job to make this all work.
This made MIPS assembly very hard to write, in fact it made it a real bastard.
More modern MIPS cores step away from that minimalism and now include interlocks making it easier to write assembly. There are still some odd-balls though: the instruction after a branch gets executed, making MIPS code pretty hard to undersntand when you first pick it up.
Re: Modern MIPS isn't as RISC as it used to be...
"the instruction after a branch gets executed,"
That's called a "delay slot" (as in "branch delay"). Several RISCs had them (e.g. SPARC), some didn't (e.g. Alpha) [others, I can't remember]. Delay slots are also found in some DSP architectures.
If you think it's bad looking at assembler listings for chips with delay slots, you should try looking at a state trace of instruction fetch addresses on a logic analyser (instructions that are fetched may not actually complete their journey through a multi-stage pipeline, and sorting out this maze can be quite interesting, even without the added benefit of on-chip cache making some instruction fetches invisible).
Come back Motorola 68000. You could trust them (usually).
Re: Modern MIPS isn't as RISC as it used to be...
ARM doesn't have a delay slot, but if you perform any computations using the Program Counter register (e.g. retrieving local pool data, immediate data that's too big/complex to go in the immediate part of a MOV instruction) you find that it's actually pointing two instructions (8 bytes) beyond the instruction that does the computation. That's a bit mind-bending.for anyone who grew up on a CISC processor.
Re: Modern MIPS isn't as RISC as it used to be...
Regarding delay slots - I've done a bit of SPARC assembler, and I got used to the delayed instructions being executed "out or order" quite quickly. Much easier than trying to remember the horrendous number of addressing options for the M68K!
Re: Modern MIPS isn't as RISC as it used to be...
That's a compatibility throwback to the ARM1 & ARM 2 which had a 3 stage fetch/decode/execute pipeline, so the program counter set by the fetch stage would be two instructions ahead when read in the execute state. Modern ARMs have far longer pipelines, but the 8 byte offset is always maintained (except for the one place it's PC+12) to make it architecturally independent.
Really great, but! ..
There needs to be a ground swell of development for MIPS based devices. The only way this will happen is if they get two things out there:
1) Something low-end similar to the Rasberry Pi. Runs BSD or Linux (or both). Cheap and cheerful and like the Pi with a decent amount of power and better developer documentation.
2) Something mid-range. A standard motherboard that if you want a bit more power you can get a 2 (or more) core system with PCIe expansion slots and it goes in a standard PC case. Eg: a modern version of the Malta boards. You want to get people USING MIPS gear for tasks. Give them a ready made example solution they can use daily and point to that remarks "this is a MIPS system".
Both these things need to be affordable. Profits need to be spread over a large inventory rather than a small one. MIPS *NEEDS* hackers and enthusiasts that when they need an embedded or high-end processor will turn to MIPS gear first rather than ARM or x86 because they're familiar with it.
MIPS needs new generation hearts and minds. Not just slightly plumper existing markets. They need decent affordable access to the devices.
re: why?
Why does there need to be a groundswell of development for mips?
I don't care what CPU is in my phone so long as the apps work, and they are written in Java
I have a Pi but I really don't ae if it has an ARM or Atom CPU - I couldn't even tell you if it was 32 or 64bit without checking /proc/cpu - I just care that is is a little Linux machine and has python.
What will make this a success is a customer using it rather than an ARM in sufficiently large numbers.
Still it will be nice if ARM had some competition - look at what a monopoly did to Intel
I couldn't disagree more.
There are already a few projects using MIPS. Many OpenWRT devices use MIPS because it is very common in routers.
ARM was a smash hit long before RPi. 99.9% or RPi hackers are programming in C and the ARM connection is irrelevant.
ARM succeeds because they make it really easy to design ARM into chips, the debugging is common (one debugger covers you from $1 micros to top end multi-cores), cheap per unit cost, and they have a very good story for power etc. On top of that ARM are healthy and are a safe bet.
MIPS needs to beat ARM convincingly on most of those fronts or they won't get a look in. It does not help if they are 10% better on power if the chip makers don't find it easy to integrate or people worry they will be out of business in 5 years.
ARM has the lead and chip makers will need a damn good reason to change.
A usb stick format "mini-pc" would be good too: cheap, plays to the current TV strength, and would reinforce its importance in the Android market.
Nothing wrong with MIPS it just needs some of the stuff like DMA that SGI had.
ARM has started to become a total mess.
(The docs / devboard and Netbsd mips and you have a chance of getting it working.)
Re: "ARM has started to become a total mess."
Sounds interesting. Care to share?
The best reasonably priced router is mips. (Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite). Got stuff that you don't normally get under £1000
"The best reasonably priced router is mips. (Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite). Got stuff that you don't normally get under £1000"
Kudos to them for building a good router. But that's the bit that counts.
How much of that could (not) have been done with ARM Inside, and does it matter whether it's ARM, MIPS, or whatever?
I've not looked at network-centric SoCs for quite a while so what follows may be dated (I didn't even know Cavium had bought MontaVista, presumably for their embedded + realtime MontaVista Linux product family which I have used in the past).
This Ubiquiti box looks like a Cavium http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-Plus_CN50XX.html) plus a relatively widely available open source software package, right? The SoC looks like a fairly generic router-centric SoC, with one exception: it's a 64bit (MIPS64, specifically) SoC rather than a 32bit SoC.
ARM (and partners) can't really do 64bit yet. Does a router need 64bit? I can't say. But apparently this one works well. Does it work well because it's MIPS? Because it's 64bit? Because it's based on a nice SoC which just happens to be 64bit?
Meanwhile, back to the main news: there are already various MIPS SoC designers out there (some better known than Cavium, e.g. who hasn't heard of Broadcom?). How does the Imagination Technologies deal affect them now the dust has had time to settle? The article made little (no?) mention of SoC design partners. Did something fall off the press release?
ARM (and partners) make nice stuff. But there may well be room for others too. Who wants to design the first Atom-ased SoHo router? Hmmm, thought not.
Synergies ?
As the PRC has licensed MIPS instruction sets for the native Dragonball CPU development (ITIRC), would this also expand developer resources and create an alternative very non-USA based source of hardware ? This would also offer the oportunity for Chinese developers to cut into coding and apps on a big scale.
I miss Paris in the springtime.
They really shouldn't be trying to aim for Android. Sure they Java apps can run on it but the native apps will not. They should have started sooner so that Sailfish OS (Jolla), Ubuntu and Firefox OS could have started from scratch using MIPS. At least then you don't have fragmentation as the entire platform could have evolved around MIPS from the start. Trying to get people to move to MIPS later doesn't make much sense and takes development cycles that many do not want to allocate.
Where MIPS might be able to make a comeback, the embedded market. Factory GPS and other computer functions in cars would be much easier to make the transition than smartphones.
That's what the MagicCode product mentioned in the article deals with — executing ARM code on MIPS. So they've got the native code problem solved.
did you follow the link to the MagicCode page and see the FAQ? I wouldn't say they've got the native code problem solved.
MIPS emulating ARM
"I wouldn't say they've got the native code problem solved."
Quite. But does that matter, as long as they've done enough to fool the decision makers with the checkbooks?
Hopefully, now that the patent that caused Lexra so much trouble (in which processor instructions dealing with misaligned memory) is resolved, MIPS64 can really take on real life.
The Chinese Loongson (Godson) processors have been used in their supercomputers for several years. MIPS is not a dead technology by anyone's opinion. A simple RISC core even more easy to scale and license than SPARC is exactly what the world needs, and China knows it. Now the rest of the world can revive this somewhat forgotten alternative to the hundreds of hyped 32-bit ARM-based derivatives flooding the market. MIPS is has been 64-bit for over a decade.
Quite a bit more than a decade
> MIPS is has been 64-bit for over a decade.
Actually, something like 22 years. MIPS was the first mainstream architecture to go 64 bit and the R4000 came out in 1991.
If anything, mature 64 bit MIPS architectures would be its key advantage over ARM, although that will be a transient window of opportunity. It's also got a much richer background in server architectures going back to the 1980s.
Also, you can already get MIPS based laptops if you want a native dev box.
"MIPS is has been 64-bit for over a decade."
Mid 1990s was when 64bit caught on as bleeding edge technology.
DEC's Alpha was a new architecture, MIPS64 followed the previous MIPS, SPARC64 followed the previous SPARC, and Power from IBM had been around before too.
IA64 got there eventually, but by the time it did, the emergence of AMD64 had showed that Intel's claims that "x86-64 is impossible" were a little bit misleading, and Intel had to invent EM64T in a bit of a hurry.
There may be other 64bit chips, I forget, but realistically available (if not necessarily widely affordable) 64bit processors are around two decades old.
ARM are way behind the industry's broader 64bit curve. So what. It doesn't matter, in their markets. And they have a cunning plan. There's time.
[Definition of 64bit here: 64bit logical address space. ie printf("sizeof (char *) is %d\n", sizeof (char *)) says 8]
Re: Quite a bit more than a decade
MIPS was the first mainstream architecture to go 64 bit and the R4000 came out in 1991.
Agreed (though it's possible I'm forgetting something), but outside the mainstream there are a handful of predecessors worth mentioning. The Intel i860 came out in 1989, and had a 64-bit address bus. National Semiconductor's Swordfish (derived from the never-released NS32732) had a 64-bit address bus and appeared around 1990.
And then there's the Cray-1, from 1975, which is generally reckoned to have been a 64-bit machine (by register size), though its addresses were only 24-bit.
New lamps for old
It seems all the oppressed architectures of the byegone era are showing shoots of green these days. Almost as if there were a change in the climate, the end of an ice age.
Re: New lamps for old
Companies finally figured out shelving them due to the coming Itanium wave was a wah wah (trombone sound for epic fail).
Re: New lamps for old
Intel got such a big part of the market with a rather poor architecture and now there seems to be room for more competition. The Intel/Microsoft hegemony is no longer there as strong as before.
Re: New lamps for old
Ice Age? More like the end of the Dark Ages. That the x86 crap architecture has lived on as much as it has is surprising; if the car industry had gone the same way the microprocessor industry has gone, we would still be using horse-powered vehicles and just now "horseless carriages" would be making a comeback.
Re: New lamps for old
> if the car industry had gone the same way the microprocessor industry has gone ...
Cars would go 1000mph, would travel 500miles on a pint of fuel, and would be 2inches long.
Re: New lamps for old
"Cars would go 1000mph, would travel 500miles on a pint of fuel, and would be 2inches long."
And everyone would have to buy a new car/bus/truck every time Microsoft put a new logo on their chain of petrol stations and associated franchises.
Bring it on!
Speaking as an ARM shareholder (it's 10% of my pension fund), I welcome the competition. And this is genuine competition, not like thingummy-inside who compete not so much with ARM as with ARM's licensees. Good luck to them!
A reinvigorated MIPS doesn't have to be taking ARM's cake. Its success can grow the total cake, to everyone's benefit.
(Can you tell I'm just back home from overindulging a bit?)
No publicly available PowerVR documentation
Without documentation, only the manufacturer can fix the drivers. Even if the drivers are not broken now, they will break on a kernel or Xorg upgrade. When the manufacturer releases new hardware, they stop maintaining the old drivers. Most 3D acceleration hardware suffers from this fault.
For open source, changing CPU architecture just means changing the name of the cross compiler. Qemu detects the new target architecture of your application and the self run as usual. The way to get open source developers is to release proper hardware documentation.
Re: No publicly available PowerVR documentation
Talk about missing the point… has the lack of docs on the Power VR chips hindered the sales to Apple? Do the lockdowns on the Qualcomm and Broadcom chips stop them finding their way into our gadgets?
Anyway open source OS on MIPS does have a long and successful history and long may it continue.
MIPS can chat about the good old days with Power in the old-processors home
If IBM's is struggling to try and make Power processors look modern and relevant, and failing, it should be pretty clear that developers are quite happy with just a choice of Intel or ARM.
Finding niche applications for a processor used in embedded applications won't cut it, if it did we would have Parallax Propeller and PIC phones and tablets by now and that sure hasn't happened.
Let's just say that the N64 was as near to mainstream as MIPS will ever get, and even with the might of IBM behind it, Power architecture ultimately couldn't compete even when it was seemingly entrenched in Apple products.
Re: MIPS can chat about the good old days with Power in the old-processors home
Well the GameCube/Wii/WiiU is PowerPC so by that definition Power is still competing (after a fashion)...
I miss my IRIS Indigo
I loved that little purpley box - just the right size to rest your feet on :-)
The Indigo2, Indy and O2 just weren't as practical (although there was fun to be had building a 'mousetrap' style course in front of the I2 and seeing how far you could get the CD caddy to travel after ejecting it... ah, happy days as a graduate plonked in front of lots of expensive SGI kit :-)
New and Old Markets
>For MIPS cores to achieve a quarter of all CPU sales, however, Imagination will have to do more than move them into new markets. It will have to crack existing markets,
No MIPS needs to create new mass markets and dominate them. ARM didn't crack existing markets, they made the low power market their's and went on to dominate it. It has taken a years for Intel - the dominate player in existing markets, to deliver products suitable for the markets ARM dominates.
Re: New and Old Markets
" It has taken a years for Intel - the dominate player in existing markets, to deliver products suitable for the markets ARM dominates."
Intel aren't there yet in the real SoC market, whatever the press releases and churnalists may say. Intel today in integration terms are probably not much further on than DEC were in the 1990s with their high-integration 21066 Alpha [1] SoC (except they weren't called SoCs back then, and they certainly weren't the affordable SoCs seen today).
MIPS-based SoCs have been there or thereabouts for ages with affordable SoCs (just ask Broadcom and other multi-architecture SoC builders).
[1] 21066: you won't have heard of it. Nearly twenty years ago, an Alpha 21064 64bit RISC core plus all the SoC basics including PCI controller and basic VGA frame buffer (just add RAMDAC). Just add DRAM and a SuperIO chip and a hard drive and you've got an NT/Alpha PC. Add SCSI and a network and you could even have an Alpha VMS or UNIX box. Sadly it ran like treacle, unlike the real Alphas, allegedly due to issues with the bus interface (pre BGA, not enough pins, too much multiplexing?). Used in the Tadpole Alphabook and a few others. Look for "21066 Data Sheet" for a 70-page chip data sheet in PDF, or "21066 Product Brief" for a short glossy - in gzipped PostScript (!).
I almost bought a MIPS machine
It was one of those Chinese sub-netbooks, a bit too sub to be useful, too tight on RAM. It's assembly cost that strangles the low end of GP computing. A new chip won't change that.
Re: "assembly cost that strangles the low end of GP computing. "
"It's assembly cost that strangles the low end of GP computing."
May have been the case once. May no longer be as true as it once was.
Motorola have started to onshore handset assembly. The cost impact: $4 per handset.
Raspberry Pi cards are assembled in Wales
The success of a MIPS core in the IP market for android devices, or any other devices for that matter, will be mostly predicated upon the ease of integration and library of functional units that can be mixed and matched with it to build the SoC. Assuming a similar license cost to ARM of course....
Speed to market is everything with these small devices, and if a licensee can "bish bash bosh" together his SoC faster with a MIPS core then he will do so.
Hurts Intel's attempt
As MIPS is already more established in Domestic Routers/Modems than x86, this likely hurts Intel's attempt at getting into the phone market see Intel: Our new mobile chip SoCs it to its predecessor. I can't see it taking more than a few percent of ARM's juggernaut.
It's likely to be more attractive for Tablets than Intel's "Clovertrail" too.
If Intel want to succeed in phones and tablets then they need to get MS to stop calling all versions of their OS "Windows" and only call the one compatible with 2000, XP, Vista and Server applications "Windows". Maybe MS also need to market XP with a new service pack as Legacy Windows and examine why the XP tablet failed outside of specialist markets. I'd say it wasn't the UI as it was a large screen, but cost and battery life.
The Zune like TIFKAM is a good idea for phones and small tablets (The classic desktop style CE UI on a 320x 240 PDA was daft). Larger tablets where the thumbs can't address all of the screen need a different GUI. 10" approx and larger tablets need a different approach. A screen on a desk used with a keyboard needs the traditional WIMP GUI.
So MIPS has some future. Hard to see one for Intel Cloverdale/Medfield unless they sell them cheap for cheap windows x86 compatible notebooks. Phones don't need x86 compatibility as the screen is too small for traditional Windows applications like Sage, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, MS Project, or even traditional Outlook with Exchange server for meetings etc. Applications for handheld devices need not just a different GUI but need to be written differently too.
There is no "one size fits all".
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There's only so much that your kids can do inside and they start getting tired of being shut in, especially when they are used to playing outside a lot, said Ashley Holley, the mother of children ages 2, 3 and 9.
We've been watching movies and playing games, but the general stir craziness is setting in at this point in time.
Holley, from Fort Wayne, said while snow days are normally welcomed events, her household is ready to get back to school after the extended winter break.
We like the snow days once in a while, but they are ready to go back and ready to see their friends, she said.
Rebekah Hubley of Fort Wayne said she and her four children, ages 7 to 12, have been keeping busy with board games, sledding, movies and some fun snow science including throwing a pot of water into the air and watching as it turned to fluffy white snow.
Hubley said it's easier to keep kids busy when they are a bit older, especially when there's the possibility of a kid swap – taking two siblings with friends close to the same age and swapping kids for the day.
It helps a ton because they can play together and there's no fighting, she said.
Keeping busy
For parents prepared to venture out, local kid-friendly organizations have the doors open and plenty of projects for kids plagued by boredom.
Bring them on down, Science Central spokeswoman Doris Lemert said.
The center will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today with plenty going on to keep students hands, minds and energy levels working at high speed.
Other businesses including the Fort Wayne Museum of Art and the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory are also open to students and their families.
All Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department classes are canceled today, including the drop-in exercise classes at the Community Center, officials said.
For parents looking for some quiet time, the Allen County Public Library will have a ballet story time with a ballerina from the Fort Wayne Ballet for younger readers and tabletop crafts for all ages, said Mary Voors, manager of children's services.
We, of course, have lots of books to be shared together and a large computer room for kids to use computers, Voors said. Reading together is always a wonderful idea.
And for those families who haven't plowed the drive and uncovered the car, Voors suggested taking advantage of the slightly warmer weather for some time in the snow.


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The bank that likes to say... crash: TSB's online banking goes titsup on launch day
The newly single Trustee Savings Banks (TSB) has been hit with major website problems on the first day of its split from Lloyds. The two banks are pulling apart ahead of the sale of TSB, which the European Commission set out as a precondition before the government bail-out of Lloyds during the banking crisis. Some five million …
What's the point?
How does spending god-knows-how-many millions on rebranding and splitting systems to create a separate bank actually help anyone at all? Surely all it does is drive up costs, costs which inevitably get passed on to the customers.
And no doubt in a few years time, when the newly independent TSB is struggling, it will get swallowed up again by one of the giant institutions.
Re: What's the point?
Not actually Lloyd's choice. Pretty much imposed on them - can't remember if it's by the UK government or by European rules - but definitely an externally-imposed requirement.
However, re "What's the point?"... Feels strange to feel sorry for a banker, but first they were pretty much forced to buy a failing bank "for the good of the country", and then got told "you're too big now - sell some stuff off".
Re: What's the point?
Not only were they bailed out, with this as a condition, were they not bullied into taking on HBOS? with its massive debt and liabilities that were way higher than they knew?
I.e. Gordon Brown Shafted Lloyds TSB as much as he shafted the rest of us.....
I feel The Register is turning into Watchdog #WTF #twitterasasource @thepub
No trustees
The current TSB is *not* a Trustee savings bank, it is *not* owned by trustees on behalf of its customers. It is a bog standard private (publically listed) company.
Re: No trustees
And the Royal Bank of Scotland isn't Royal, isn't Scottish and the only similarity to a bank is that they are a(a) broke and (b) have little pens on chains.
Not pseudo-1998... but very "several years old" looking in general
Reading that comment about the site looking like it was designed in 1998, I assumed it would be an unsuccessful attempt at the current "flat" design aesthetic (*), i.e. not literally 1998 but overly plain. That'd at least suggest they knew what they were going for but not quite getting there. In fact... no.
The small "TSB" logo actually has *jaggies* round the circles, like it's been rescaled without antialiasing. That, at least, *is* something I wouldn't expect to have seen for the main graphic on a corporate site in this millennium. As for the rest...
The tabs use that now-dated shading, gradients and rounded edges, and the whole thing looks small and shoved to the side even on my 1280 x 1024 4:3 monitor. It actually *does* have a very dated feel to it... maybe not 2003, but certainly 2003-06.
(Okay, maybe the use of pink and sky blue is a nod to a more recent colour trend, but even that seems to have passed its peak a while back).
(*) Something I do find refreshing after the overuse of "plastic" effects and horrible bland gradient shading in the Web 2.0 era, and which can look clean and bold... but also carries the risk of looking flat and underdesigned if not done well.
Re: Not pseudo-1998... but very "several years old" looking in general
That is just Lloyds in general, they are backwards, 10 years out of date and slow to react to anything.
When they took over HBOS they moved the majority of the services to Lloyds' antiquated systems. When question about loss of functionality, the typical answer was either this is the "Defender Position" or "they (the customers) will get over it".
Posted anonymously cos I work there :(
Re: Not pseudo-1998... but very "several years old" looking in general
Wow, I don't usually bother to comment on such things (I mean, this website keeps blank sides for some such use, wish I knew why ;) ), but wow! The TSB site is tiny on my screen. Takes up only the left half.
Is HTML not suppose to scale to your screen? Or is everything now postage stamp and side scrolling because we all have "tablets"?
Re: Not pseudo-1998... but very "several years old" looking in general
I'm assuming the site's just temp.
Re: Not pseudo-1998... but very "several years old" looking in general
Woah, a few out of work web designers want to criticise the website ? I wish more banking websites were a bit plainer and easier to understand like TSB have tried to do. I regularly use the HSBC webshite which, when it isn't spamming me to install low-quality "anti-spyware" crapware is hiding every useful button under a huge, flickering giant drop down menu offering a million things I have never ever wanted. Similarly the Citibank excuse for web presence also offers every single link to every single department with enough clout to bully the website firm into including their pet part of the bank on the front page. AND A MESSAGE SYSTEM THAT DOESNT ALLOW ANY PUNCTUATION STOP SO IT FEELS LIKE IM WRITING A TELEGRAM COMMA WHICH IS VERY EIGHTEEN HUNDREDS EXCLAMATION
So I don't think the TSB one is that bad considering the very 'muddy' field it is standing in.
Re: Not pseudo-1998... but very "several years old" looking in general
It's just a reskin of the old Lloyds TSB site, which Lloyds has only recently updated. Why they didn't reskin the new design I don't know. Bloody awful.
Re: Not pseudo-1998... but very "several years old" looking in general
I noticed yesterday when I was poking about, the corporate site looked like it was designed for an 800x600 resolution of 15 years ago.
Clicking on the internet banking, it did come up with a reasonable resolution at that point, though without an account (I told Lloyds TSB where to go years ago) I couldn't test it.
I also noticed this disclaimer, I'm not sure how they would hold up 'be careful now!' in the law courts:
"* As long as you've been careful, for example, by taking reasonable steps to keep your security information safe. We protect you with safeguards that meet industry standards."
The jagged logo comes from "http://www.tsb.co.uk/media/tsb/new_homepage_images/for_the_journey_logo.jpg"
Which looks like it is just a copy of an old Lloyds TSB logo, to the name, with someone using MS Paint to shoehorn the TSB logo on top.
It looks like a wireframe prototype that someone has accidentally fired into production...
Re: Not pseudo-1998... but very "several years old" looking in general
Odd I find Lloyds TSB a better bank than most, well Lloyds now I guess, lets see how they go alone...
Sure Lloyds systems may 10 years out of date, but compare that to what I've seen running at other banks makes me shudder..... I sometimes wish I had never seen any of the inner workings....
I last had direct dealings with TSB in around 1993, and even back then they acted about 20 years out of date. My last correspondence with them at the time was advising them never to contact me again about anything... Ever.
20 years later I find my Cheltenham and Gloucester account is actually part of Lloyds and has now been re-branded as TSB. Ho hum. Time to switch accounts I guess.
Re: Outdated?
But to who, they are still all as bad as each other.
Why build a new brand
What I can't understand is why they decided to reanimate the old TSB moniker, with all the costs of rebranding branches, launch-day marketing and whatever other costs, when they could have divested the Halifax, which still has its own strong high street identity, so much so that some people don't realise it's owned by Lloyds.
Anon cos I also work there.
Re: Why build a new brand
Because they want Halifax and it's mortgage book because it's precisely because it has it's own identity, so much so that many people don't realise it's a Lloyds Brand. Plus the Halifax Mortgage book - which probably would have to be divested along with the branches is massive compared to Lloyds and is much more valuable than TSB's - Still Banker greed.
The cheaper and quickest option would have been to declare the takeover null and void, it would have saved all the cost involved in migrating HBOS onto LTSB's crappy systems, the cost of splitting and rebranding LTSB into Lloyds and TSB and demerging the systems, plus who knows how many jobs would have been saved.
Re: Why build a new brand
I nearly went with Halifax until I leant they were part of Lloyds TSB.
Dodged a bullet there.
Side question
Can anybody recommend a bank that actually has a modern site and that allows you to do anything interesting/useful with your money that is facilitated by the web instead of just offering some very basic account management functionality.
My bank hasn't changed any aspect of their website in the 8 years I have been with them and I can't help but feel they could have introduced at least *one* new feature in that time...
Re: Side question
A modern, well designed bank site? I'd suggest you try Barclays! Their apps are particularly good, they even have a proper iPad app which is so much quicker and easier to use than the website.
Shame that I had to move to Halifax... stupid mortgage :o(
Re: Side question
I have seen Barclays', and it does a lot under the hood. Natwest's is the cleanest and simplest to some degree.
The Barclays now also has a pie chart to show spending with... wait for it... FULL customization. I dreamed of a pie/bar chart as soon as I heard internet banking existed. But never saw one till recently (15 years late?) when Barclays added it.
Using computer power and the internet for what it can do and what the customer wants? Now that's a turn for the books. ;)
Re: Side question
At least you're not paying shareholder dividends.
Re: Side question
+1 for Barclays - love their online banking, and their in branch service has got a hell of a lot better over the last couple of years as well. My local one now opens on Saturdays and Bank Holidays.
Re: Side question
Lloyd's internet banking is actually very good in my opinion. It's got pie-charts and all that jazz.
Barclays have terrible customer service if you actually need to talk to anyone or if anything goes wrong (my wife banked with them until recently). I've always found Lloyds' customer service to be great. I've even managed to find a number that gets me straight through to a human without any button pressing needed.
Re: Side question
"Nationwide. At least you're not paying shareholder dividends."
So how do Nationwide pay the coupon (dividend) on those PIBS (Permanent Interest Bearing Shares) they still have outstanding? Pixie dust or Unicorn farts?
Re: Side question
I would disagree with Lloyds TSB customer service.
Every time I phoned up I got someone on the other side of the world, on hold for ages, then often would just hang up.
If I actually got through to someone, they couldn't understand me, I couldn't understand them, and they'd try and fob me off to just visit a branch (which is difficult since I moved to N.Ireland - TSB here became First Trust).
I usually had to raise a complaint as the only way to get things resolved.
Re: Side question
well I can do all i need on Lloyds site, including international money transfers, view my mortgages, etc...
@Sir Wiggum
Must be because of where you live..... I don't know how they route calls but I always get through to a Brit in telephone banking... And they are excellent at helping me, never had to send me to a branch to do anything yet...
Ironically, TSB's online banking was way ahead, once
Yep, back before the takeover, I could do things online, on the phone and at the cashpoint that no other bank supported. Then Lloyds took them over, and knocked out all that goodness, taking ages to catch up. Slightly ironic that TSB now looks so retro.
Mind you given the chance I'm sure it'll try to differentiate itself in the marketplace and this may be a good thing in the long run, shake things up a little.
http://www.abouttsb.co.uk which is linked to under "who we are" was listed as a reported attack site this morning as well! Well played :)
Titsup on the 1st day you say? Impressive.
Fail that is.
Increasing "competition" in the UK high street (which was part of th eplan for Virgin Money. What happened to that?)
Anybody who wants to know the real degree of UK high street bank competition should get hold of a copy of "Money Facts."
When we get to to things like interest rates (IE paid to investors) the answer is "Not damm much."
The problems with Lloyds online banking certainly aren't all resolved. Somehow they've managed to disconnect my accounts from my online banking. I can log-in to the site and change my personal details, but don't have any access to my money. This has been going on since yesterday and they've told me they don't know when it will be resolved.
Ok - the comment about the new bank 'allowing' someone else to register tsb.com first is pretty stupid.
A quick check shows that tsb.com was registered as a domain name in 1994. So, maybe the comment should be able how it outrageous that the old TSB bank allowed someone else to get tsb.com before they did.
Re-animating the dead.
All these comments about the website, I'm amazed that no-one has noticed that this is nothing more than the website that Lloyds TSB used until about a year ago - but with blue instead of green as the main colour and with the name TSB instead of Lloyds TSB. They'd obviously just re-used the code base.
In fact when I first visited the site I didn't even twig, I just groaned and thought that it was exactly the same site. It was only when I went back to the current Lloyds TSB site did I remember that yes, they have actually updated it since then.
So not only have they re-animated the corpse of the TSB (I recall, as a former TSB customer that moving to Lloyds was giant step backwards but I somehow doubt any of what made the TSB better will come back to life with it) but they've re-animated the corpse of the previous Lloyds website and palmed it off on the TSB as "new",
Still, it was 20 years ago this month that, as a university fresher in my first week, I stepped into the Dundee Meadowside branch of the TSB to open my first bank account so slightly ironic that they chose this month of all months to hive that very same branch back off into the TSB again after all this time.
Re: Re-animating the dead.
Yep, even the image file is the old LLoyds TSB corporate tagline reused...
Can I make a plea for the omission of tweets from random weirdos in future stories? It's only one step away from quoting the number of "hits on Google" for a particular phrase. I know it pads out a news story, but you may as well ask the fried egg and hash brown bap I had for breakfast for it's considered opinion.
As a developer put it
"Looks like a monstertemplates.com website"
However could be worse it could be like the RBS website who I used to bank with, the worst pile of shite ever. I have personal co-op bank and barclays business banking. Barclays is definitely better, although Co-op is simple and easy to use.
You think that's bad...
Anyone ever tried to use Standard Life's "Customer Zone"? It's IE Only for a start so if you use any other browser, the contents of the pop-up (yes - obviously it's all in a pop-up) get rendered about 10000 pixels wide and none of the links work. The design is awful and the interaction just not thought out in the slightest.
The worst though? It's only available during business hours. They actually go to the trouble of turning their web application off after 6pm. You can use it on weekends though, which is cool.
I guess the point I'm making is that finance companies are really behind the times in many ways, their IT systems being the worst.
Re: You think that's bad...
"I guess the point I'm making is that finance companies are really behind the times in many ways, their IT systems being the worst."
True, but think about it - if they had intelligent managers and decent systems, they'd be far less able to blame "the computer" and keep a straight face when they mess up?
Testing! Or as I call it, "The other half of the job"
Test, then test, and test some more.
Test everything!
Test it isolation.
Test it from end to end.
Test it with loads of data.
Test it with no data.
Test it with wrong data.
Sorry for getting testy, but why bother writing code if you're not going to make sure it works?
Re: Testing! Or as I call it, "The other half of the job" @Crisp
Thanks for the tips. Now try telling the people who actually cocked up. Guessing there aren't any of them here.
Re: Testing! Or as I call it, "The other half of the job" @Crisp
Everyone cocks something up at some point or another. Even me.
Re: Testing! Or as I call it, "The other half of the job"
When I used to be a QAer I asked my web developer friends who performed, or what actions they performed for a QA verification cycle. They looked at me blankly.
They then wondered why, when it went into production, it would come back riddled with defects and incompatibilities in browsers other than OSX Safari.
Two Accounts Woman
Not impressed with the woman with accounts at two different branches, who knew about the split, knew what would happen, did nothing (like request one of her accounts to be moved) and now whines because they're with two different banks. And the Reg posts this as a legitimate complaint about the split?
.com versus .co.uk
I see what TSB are trying to do here… trying to get 'local' by using the .co.uk domain.
And I do think that British companies should use '.co.uk' but not even trying to take over tsb.com sounds like folly to me. At the very least it hurts their image - since the cyber squatter there at the moment has a poorer website than TSB, and at worst it could be a security vulnerability - and there is clear liability on TSB's part if some web scum does happen to hack it into a look alike site.
So, even if TSB does manage to gain wisdom and takes over the .com site - who is going to trust it now?
Well done The Register, one of the few articles I've see regarding this business that hasn't fallen hopelessly down the Redundant Acronym Syndrome hole. I think the BBC have been the worst offender.
What's the point of Internet banking?
Is it just me, or is Internet banking an exercise in futility from start to finish?
There are precisely two reasons why I ever visit a bank branch: To draw out money or -- sometimes, and very rarely -- to pay in money. Neither of these are possible over the Internet. I suppose I could use Internet banking to check my balance -- but the only time I'm really interested in that is immediately before making a withdrawal.
Even when I was paying a mortgage, I never felt the need to check that payments were going through O.K. -- I would only have ended up stressing myself unnecessarily.
Re: What's the point of Internet banking?
- Handy for checking balance at any point (in the sticks the nearest bank machine is miles away)
- Handy for making sure payments come in correctly (eg. salary, eBay selling)
- Handy for making sure payments go out correctly (eg. direct debits, eBay buying - especially as paypal now seems to put a 3 week buffer in)
- Handy for transferring money if needed
- Handy for putting money in and out of savings
- Handy for making adhoc payments
I also agree though that a bank branch is important. Heck, I left my last bank because they closed the nearest branch.
Sometimes you need to pay a cheque in, or need to lift a lot of cash out of savings (to buy a used car privately for example), you just need a bank branch.
Re: What's the point of Internet banking?
Well, the only way any money ever goes into my bank account (besides me making a deposit through a hole-in-the-wall) is from my employer, and they give me an advice slip for that; and the only way any money ever comes out of it is from me either making a cash withdrawal through a hole-in-the-wall, or sometimes writing a cheque (and I always write the amount on the stub). And anyway, every time I have completed enough transactions to fill a page, the bank send me a statement, which I can check if I want.
Then again, I suppose I'm not most people.
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