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By Colleen Schreiber SAN ANGELO — The scrapie eradication program officially got underway in November 2001. In Texas, full compliance with the regulations is set to be enforced beginning April 1. Diane Sutton, DVM, senior staff veterinarian and national scrapie program coordinator with USDA's Animal and Plant Inspection Service, conducted an informational meeting here last week for Texas sheep and goat producers. She also spoke at the recent Mohair Council of America annual membership meeting. Scrapie, a fatal degenerative disease affecting the central nervous system of sheep and goats, was accidentally introduced into the U.S. in 1947. It is a "transmissible spongiform encephalopathy," in the same category as so-called "mad cow" disease. There is no evidence that scrapie can spread to humans, either through consumption of meat or dairy products or through handling of animals, but the sheep industry has been subject to negative publicity because of public perceptions. The American Sheep Industry Association estimates that scrapie costs the industry somewhere between $20 million and $25 million annually. Scrapie negatively impacts U.S. producers' ability to export live animals, semen and embryos throughout the world. Some countries, particularly Japan, one of the major consumers of U.S. meat byproducts and bone meal, has voiced concern that the U.S. still has scrapie. Many renderers also are declining to pick up sheep offal and carcasses from mature animals. It is primarily for these reasons that the industry is pulling out all the stops to finally eradicate this insidious disease. It is APHIS' intention to eliminate the clinical disease by 2010 and to seek official recognition from the international community by 2017, Sutton said. A country must be free of the disease for seven years before it can be recognized officially "free" internationally. APHIS has approved the "third eyelid" test for diagnosis of scrapie in sheep but not in goats. "In the past, when an animal was known to have been moved out of an infected flock, all we could really do was inform the owner that they had animals potentially at risk and recommend that they be euthanized," Sutton told listeners. "Now we can test those animals and determine their status, which will help us move forward quickly and confine the infection." In 2001 there were 98 confirmed scrapie cases in the U.S. The number of infected flocks has risen over the last year or so, simply because of the stepped up efforts brought on by the eradication program. As of September 30, 2001, there were 67 known scrapie-infected and source flocks. In goats, scrapie is a relatively rare event. Since 1990 there have only been seven reported cases. More than 900 sheep flocks currently participate in the voluntary certification program. It takes five years of monitoring to ensure that a flock is free of the disease. Today 66 flocks are certified free. Scrapie, Sutton noted, is a contagious disease caused by an infectious agent. It is not a genetic disease, though the susceptibility of an animal is influenced by its genotype. Up to 30 percent of the animals can be infected in flocks that have highly susceptible genetics. Different genotypes influence whether or not a sheep will develop clinical scrapie. The strains of scrapie known in the U.S. are expressed at codon 171, with QQ animals being most susceptible and RR animals most resistant. It is not known whether genetic resistance occurs in goats, Sutton said. One of the first clinical signs of scrapie is a change in behavior of the animal, followed by scratching and rubbing, though some animals may never exhibit that behavior. Other clinical signs include loss of coordination, lip smacking, weakness, heat tilt, muscle tremors and weight loss. Some animals are simply found dead. Animals that exhibit clinical signs of scrapie never recover. Neonatal (at or near birth) animals, Sutton said, are most susceptible to scrapie. Animals that are exposed to scrapie after they are weaned are much less likely to come down with the disease. Incubation time for animals that are exposed at or near birth is two to five years. However, incubation in animals exposed later in life can stretch as far as 12 years. Only the placenta and birth fluids are known to contain infectious material. The infectious agent is extremely difficult to destroy. It must be incinerated or treated with high levels of bleach or lye or buried deep in the soil. Rams are believed to be very low risk for spreading scrapie, and artificial insemination does not transmit the disease. In 2001 the federal government utilized $2.9 million in appropriated funds and another $2.11 million in emergency funds to kick-start the eradication program. Another $2.9 million has been appropriated for FY 2002, along with an additional $2.76 million in emergency funding. For FY 2003, APHIS is requesting $19 million. To speed up the eradication process, the agency is offering incentives for owners of infected flocks to report their status by guaranteeing indemnity funds. The government is also paying for the cost of the third eyelid test in infected flocks and will assist in genotyping. To comply with the regulations, producers must first determine if they own animals which must be identified in order to be sold or move in interstate commerce. The following are some basic rules which apply prior to sale of the animal as outlined by Sutton: Breeding ewes and rams that are going to a show need official ID, Sutton said, because a show is considered interstate commerce if out of state animals are attending the event. Fat lambs under 18 months of age going to slaughter do not require official identification. However, ewe lambs under 18 months of age may not leave slaughter channels unless they have official ID. In other words, if there is a chance that the ewe lambs will be sold for breeding replacement, they need official tags. Non-positive, non-exposed, non-high-risk and non-suspect culled goats going to slaughter do not require official ID. Conversely, culled sheep over 18 months of age going to slaughter do need official ID. Once a producer has determined whether animals need official identification, they must contact their state veterinary services to request a premise ID number and to order tags for their animals. In Texas, the contact agency is the Texas Animal Health Commission. To request a premise ID number and to order tags producers should call (866) 873-2824. The free tags come in white plastic or white metal and will be shipped direct to the individual in eight to 10 weeks. The tags will have a premise number and an individual animal ID embossed on the tag. "We plan to have free tags available forever," Sutton said. "We recommend that producers order enough tags to get them through a few years." Recordkeeping is a critical part of the eradication program, Sutton told producers. Flock of origin owners who apply tags need to record the date the animals were tagged and the number of animals tagged. If the animals were born after January 1, 2002 in another flock and were not already identified as to flock of origin, they must also record the name, address and phone number of the owner of the flock at birth. Any kind of recordkeeping forms may be used, but forms are also available through the APHIS office. When an animal is sold, the owner must provide the buyer with flock of origin information, Sutton said. The owner must also keep records for a period of five years after the animal is sold or dies. Records must indicate the number of animals sold and the premise ID number. The owner must also record date of sale and the name, address and phone number of the buyer. If the animals are identified with ear notches or official brand, records should include a copy of the brand inspection certificate. The recordkeeping process is basically the same for the buyer. Health certificates are also required when an animal is moving interstate or when it is participating in an interstate show. The owner, Sutton said, is the primary person responsible for making sure that proper identification is applied before animals are moved in interstate commerce. However, anyone who handles unidentified animals in interstate commerce can be held legally responsible. There is not a regulation on the books yet for intrastate movement in Texas. However, regulations will be drafted and presented to TAHC in February. It is expected that those regulations will mirror USDA premise identification requirements. Scrapie positive and suspect animals may not be moved under any condition other than for research or destruction, Sutton stressed. The government is also instituting a slaughter surveillance program that will help detect scrapie incidences. "I can't eradicate scrapie sitting at my desk in Washington," Sutton concluded. "Scrapie can only be eradicated if all ranchers decide they want this program to succeed. I need your help, your cooperation and your input." Following her formal presentation, producers directed specific questions to the program coordinator. A sample of them follows. When is the last day I can sell an animal in Texas without a tag? "April 1. Tags take six to eight weeks for delivery. Metal tags take a little longer. If you have ordered tags, and they're not here and you have some animals that you want to sell, if it's before April 1 then you can sell them without tags." If I'm raising commercial goats that are not commingled with sheep, do these goats have to be tagged in order to move in interstate commerce? "No. If you're raising low-risk commercial goats, I probably would not buy an animal that has been commingled with sheep unless it comes from a flock that you're very familiar with." What about registered goats from the same herd running under the same conditions? "If they are being shown or sold as registered animals they need to be moved with their registration papers or the health certificate listing that information. Because registered animals are required to have an identification by the registry association, we didn't feel that another tag was necessary. "However, if these goats are moving to a livestock market, they need a premise tattoo or a tag." What is the definition of low risk commercial sheep? "Low risk commercial sheep may be moved in interstate commerce utilizing a registered brand or ear notch pattern if they're accompanied by a brand inspection certificate." If one is participating in the voluntary scrapie flock certification program, are there restrictions on adding additional animals to the herd? "If a producer is participating in the program and becomes certified free, then that producer may only purchase rams or ewes from other certified flocks or from any enrolled flock if that animal is born in that flock or resided in that flock for one year. Purchasing animals from any other flock would cause that producer to lose his certified free status for a period of one year. "We are considering a change so that rams kept independent of the flock and not commingled during lambing can be used." What kind of regulations are there on semen? "All semen except from infected or high risk animals may be used for breeding purposes." How soon after incubation is the "third eyelid" test a valid test for identifying scrapie? "For sheep, if the animal is exposed at or near birth, which is the case for most animals, it can be detected in most animals at 14 months of age." Is there an ongoing effort to develop a similar test for goats? "We haven't had enough positive goats to get a correlation on the accurateness of the test for goats." What is the definition of commingling of sheep and goats? "Commingling means that the animals are running together in the same pasture or in the same pen. "We are considering a possible amendment which will allow commingling of sheep and goats except during lambing and 60 to 90 days after lambing." I am a commercial sheep breeder and I sell my ewe lambs through a livestock market. I assume that those ewe lambs are going to a feeder and then on to slaughter, but I never know for sure. Sometimes they're sorted out, and they go back to the country as replacements. Am I liable if those animals are not tagged? "In this case if the auctioneer announces the sale as slaughter animals, then your liability is limited at that point. "If the sale was announced as a slaughter sale and the buyer of those ewe lambs sorts them out with the intention of using them as replacements and they're not tagged, then he is in violation and could be fined. "The same applies to slaughter goats. If the sale is announced as a slaughter sale and your goats are low risk and not tagged, then the auction facility is covered, the owner is covered, and the buyer who buys these animals other than for slaughter is the one in violation for picking up breeding animals that were not tagged." If I buy a set of lambs that were sold as slaughter lambs and I decide to keep them, can I put my own tags in those ewe lambs? "If you have that thought in your mind, then the best thing to do is buy lambs that have tags. However, if you can identify the flock in which those animals were born, then you may tag them with your own tags. You must keep up with the flock of origin information." Why don't you just require that all females regardless of age be tagged? "We originally proposed that and everyone told me that they couldn't possibly do that, that it would destroy the sheep industry. "The only ewe that doesn't have to be tagged is a slaughter ewe lamb. All other ewes have to be tagged whether or not they're going to slaughter or back to the country. If they're not tagged and they come to the auction, then the auction operator will have to tag them and the owner of those lambs will be charged a fee." If a ewe leaves the state and lambs while on another premise but the ownership does not change, am I required to tag the animal? "You are not technically required to tag the animal if
ownership did not change. However, if it was commingled with other
sheep during lambing, it would be advisable to at least keep a record
of the flock of origin of the other ewes." "We ask that you keep the original tag and apply your own tag as well if those animals are ever sold." What happens when an animal loses its tag? "If those animals were all born and bred on your place, simply put a new tag in. If they were not born and bred on your place, then we ask that you keep records of lost tags to the best of your ability." If this is not really a whiteface sheep problem, why must they fall under the same regulations? "The problem is that we've waited too long to deal with the issue in the blackface animals, and now it is a whiteface problem. We've been lucky so far in that it appears to have not gotten into our larger range flocks. The problem is when these animals go to market, it's not easy to tell the difference between a large range flock ewe and a backyard operation ewe. We've had quite a few positives in whiteface farm flocks." Why must rams be identified? "We don't exempt ram sheep from identification even though they're not carriers, and we don't exempt them because they are an excellent traceback tool for finding an infected flock." How long does the prion remain viable? "Hamster scrapie is the most infectious. In one study, an infected hamster was buried in a flowerpot and dug up three years later and it was still infectious enough to spread the disease. That wasn't a real life situation, but the point is that this is not a fragile organism." You talked about cleaning an infected area. How do you disinfect a three or four-section pasture? "Typically, operations that lamb on the open range will not have a problem because the infectious material will be diluted down. Animals that have a greater chance of receiving an effective dose are those that are lambed in confinement. In that situation, the area needs to be scraped clean, either down to the cement or bare soil." If a producer has to depopulate a herd, can he buy back in and run sheep or goats on the same premise? "Yes, but those animals will have to undergo a five year monitoring plan. And if the producer comes back with low risk commercial goats, those goats in that situation would also have to be identified with tags when sold." What about animals going to Mexico? "If an animal is over 18 months of age and it's going to Mexico, it must have a tag." Is there a plan in the works for identifying individual states as scrapie-free? "There is plan on the table for how to declare a state or region free of scrapie. We welcome comments on the draft. Probably the best way to handle it is to have scrapie-free regions. If Texas were declared scrapie-free, to maintain that status, producers wouldn't be able to bring in any animal that wasn't from a scrapie-free flock unless it was going to slaughter. We need to be able to maintain a similar status with our trading partners like our neighboring states. If I am purchasing outside animals for breeding purposes, how can I be sure that the herd is not infected with scrapie? "Under the current new rule, only infected or source flocks who refuse to cooperate are listed on the APHIS website. However, anyone who owns a source flock is required to reveal that information prior to the animals being sold. If they don't, they're in violation." What are packinghouse requirements? "A packing plant may only accept slaughter ewes if they are tagged. If the plant is participating in the slaughter surveillance program, they must collect all ID when the collector is there. If the slaughter plant is not participating in the surveillance program, they must collect all ID at all times. "At present, goats going to slaughter do not have to be tagged because we are not sampling them at the slaughter facilities. At some point we will have to be able to do a representative sampling so that we can demonstrate to the world that we are scrapie-free. We intend to hold off on this for awhile, at least until we get the disease in sheep on the run." William Edmiston, DVM, and chairmen of the health and product development committee for Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Assocation, said the scrapie program is a lot like taking medicine. "It costs money, and a little time, and reading the package insert will scare the pants off you because of all the risks involved, but when you take the risks versus benefits, in perspective, it's not that big a deal." To view a chart relating to above article go to www.animalagriculture.org/scrapie |
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Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme
OpenGL GLSL Debugger
Known Issues
is a tool for debugging the OpenGL shader pipeline, supporting GLSL vertex and fragment programs plus the recent geometry shader extension. By transparently instrumenting the host application it allows for debugging GLSL shaders in arbitrary OpenGL programs without the need to recompile or even having the source code of the host program available. The debug data is directly retrieved from the hardware pipeline and can be used for visual debugging and program analysis.
Screenshot of a typical debug session for GLSL fragment shaders. The top right window shows the debugged application with a final rendering. The currently debugged shader statement is a loop condition, which results in the bottom right view of the fragments leaving or continuing the loop iteration.
Example view of a debug session of a GLSL geometry shader. The main list shows detailed information about each input primitive, the current data values, and the already emitted as well as later emitted (marked with an '?') output vertices. The program debugged is a marching cubes implementation done by Cyril Crassin, which can be found
Debugging the same program as above using the scatter plot functionality for visualizing data from the geometry shader. The color coding depicts the marching cube index derived for the corresponding cells. The original frame currently debugged shows an iso-surface of a sphere.
OpenGL Trace:
This window acts as interface to the debugged application and provides functionality to control the program execution. It shows the OpenGL command stream as issued by the application during execution and allows single stepping, jumping, and editing of OpenGL functions and their parameters. Several background operation modes exist to allow for an interactive usage of the debugged application. The source code of the currently bound GLSL shaders is shown in the
Shader Source widget
Shader debugging is performed on a per-draw-call level, of which all issued elements are debugged in parallel. Therefore, to enable GLSL shader debugging, the current position of the OpenGL trace must be a
debuggable draw call
and a GLSL shader must be bound.
Execute target application and start debugging. The program stops at the first occurrence of an OpenGL, GLX, or WGL call.
(Shortcut: F5)
Kill target application and close active debug session.
(Shortcut: F5)
Execute the current call as issued from the target application and step to the next call.
Do not execute the current call and jump to the next call.
Edit parameters of current function call.
Execute application until the next
debuggable draw call
(Shortcut: F7)
Execute application until the next GLSL shader switch.
(Shortcut: F6)
Execute application until the next occurrence of a user-specified GL/GLX/WGL function call.
(Shortcut: Alt+F8)
Execute application until further user interaction.
(Shortcut: F8)
Pause execution of the debugged application at the next GL/GLX/WGL function call.
(Shortcut: Alt+Break)
If checked, the debugger forces the target application to stop immediately after an OpenGL error occurred.
If checked, no debug data is transmitted to the debugger until the target application stops again. This is the fastest execution mode, but does not collect OpenGL trace data.
Configure which GL/GLX/WGL functions are shown in the OpenGL Trace. See
OpenGL Trace Settings
for more information.
Function list icons:
Call is the current debug position. This function call was not executed so far.
Call was successfully executed as issued by the debugged application.
Call was executed with altered parameters.
Call was not executed by user request.
Call is part of a recorded draw call for shader debugging.
The configuration widget allows to setup for each GL/GLX/WGL function if it should be shown or hidden in the OpenGL Trace list. Only checked functions are shown in the OpenGL trace. Should the program be interrupted at a hidden function call, this list entry is shown in grey colors. Changes to the configuration of the OpenGL Trace list are applied to the complete history of the recorded list, which allows for subsequently show or hide already called functions.
The list includes all extensions that export functions and are supported by glslDevil. The icons indicate whether a specific extension is supported on the current platform. Note that extensions that do not export any functions are not listed.
OpenGL Buffer View:
This widget provides the basic functionality for showing the content of the currently bound color buffer for pixel reads. In many applications this can be used to see the current status of the frame being processed. The automatic mode updates the data after each draw call and provides insight about the stepwise frame creation at the cost of slower program execution.
Capture the content of the color buffer currently used for OpenGL pixel reads.
If checked, a buffer read is performed automatically after each OpenGL call that possibly alters the buffer content.
Save the current displayed image to a file.
Shader Source:
The source code of the currently bound GLSL vertex, geometry, and fragment shader is shown in this widget. When a debug session is started, the currently selected shader type is debugged and its first target statement is highlighted.
Step In
Step Over
functionality can be used to follow the program execution. During a debug session the
Shader Variables widget
provides information about the variable scope and recently changed variables. The debug environment for fragment shaders can be further configured using the
Fragment Operations widget
Independently of the selected GLSL shader type shader debugging is performed in parallel with respect to the input elements. In detail, for vertex programs all input vertices are debugged at the same time. For geometry shaders debugging is performed concurrently for each input or input sub-primitive. In case of fragment programs all fragments are processed in parallel. Due to this parallelism, special dialogs, i.e. the
Selection dialog
and the
Loop dialog
, are shown at dynamic flow control statements during debugging to support the user's debug decisions.
Start debugging the selected shader. Only available if the current OpenGL function call is a
debuggable draw call
(Shortcut: Ctrl+F5)
Stop GLSL shader debugging and close all open watch windows.
(Shortcut: Ctrl+F5)
Restart the GLSL shader debug session. All watch items and windows remain unchanged.
(Shortcut: Shift+Ctrl+F5)
Step into the current statement if possible, otherwise step forward to the next statement.
(Shortcut: F11)
Step to the next statement without further following the current statement.
(Shortcut: F10)
Configure OpenGL tests and buffer initialization for debugging.
(Shortcut: F4)
Shader Variables:
This widget provides basic information about user-defined and built-in variables of the currently debugged shader. The
group the variables depending on their type and the scope of the current debug statement. Additionally
color coding
is used to indicate possible content changes.
Built-In list
and the
Scope list
are used to select items for data inspection. By double-clicking an entry the selected item and all its children are added to the
Watch widget
Shows all user-defined variables that are in the
extended scope
of the current debug statement. Any variable in this list can be debugged at the current state of the debugger.
Shows all built-in variables for the debugged GLSL shader type. All built-ins can be debugged at any statement of the shader code.
Shows all user-defined and built-in variables of the current GLSL shader. Variables can not be selected as watch item from this list.
List entries:
Variable may have changed in between the last and the currently debugged statement. If selected as watch item, the value gets updated automatically.
User-defined variable that is in the local scope of the currently debugged statement.
Built-in or user-defined variable that is not in the local scope of the currently debugged statement and was not affected by the last debug step.
Variables selected for data inspection are listed in this widget and their content is updated automatically if necessary while following the shader program execution. Selected items can be grouped into new
Watch Windows
or can be attached to already existing windows.
In case of debugging a fragment shader, additional value inspection is possible by using the
Target Tool
. The position of the currently selected fragment/pixel (in case a fragment shader is debugged), the id of the currently selected vertex (in case a vertex shader is debugged) or the id of the currently selected primitive (in case a geometry shader is debugged) is shown in the upper right box and the corresponding data values are displayed in the
Open new watch window and attach all selected watch items.
Attach the selected watch items to the currently active watch window.
Delete and detach the selected watch items.
Watch windows:
Depending on the type of shader, data inspection of watched variables is performed in three different widgets. All of them show the elements debugged at the current position in the
GL Trace
and current statement in the
Shader Source widget
Vertex shader:
Toggle display of input vertices that are currently not active anymore.
Double-click selects a vertex for additional data inspection in the
Watch widget
Geometry shader:
Toggle display of input primitives that are currently not active anymore.
Toggle display of input primitives that do not emit any vertices.
Toggle data input used for the scatter plot. If checked, already emitted vertices are shown, otherwise current data from each input primitive is used.
Double-click selects a primitive for additional data inspection in the
Watch widget
Fragment shader:
Show dialog for color mapping configuration.
Save content with the current mapping as an image file.
Zoom tool for magnification and minification (+Crtl) of the shown data. Use (+Shift) to reset.
Target tool for selecting a fragment for additional data inspection in the
Watch widget
Restrict the min/max range of the mapping configuration to a user-defined region. Use (+Crtl) to auto apply changes.
List symbols:
For vertex/geometry shaders list entries may feature special symbols to specify the current state of an element instead of showing actual debug data.
The data of this element is not valid for at the current position of the debug statement.
The variable is not defined or not in the
extended scope
of the current debug statement.
Only for geometry shaders. This output vertex was not emitted yet and therefore the attached data is not determined so far.
Selection Dialog:
If shader program control during debugging reaches an ambiguous flow control decision, the user must specify which branch should be followed for further debugging. In order to support these decisions a
color coding
of the evaluation of the condition is used to show the behavior for all debugged elements in question in a separate widget. Additionally, statistical information of the number of active elements and the amount following each branch is given.
Color Coding:
Marks items following the true branch.
Marks items following the false branch.
Vertex shader:
Geometry shader:
Fragment shader:
Loop Dialog:
If shader program control during debugging reaches an ambiguous loop flow control decision, the user must specify to
, or
to another iteration of the loop. In order to support these decisions a
color coding
of the evaluation of the condition is used to show the behavior for all debugged elements in question in a separate widget. Again, statistical information is given for the number of elements starting the loop (
), the number of elements continuing with the next iteration of the loop (
), the number of elements breaking the loop due to the evaluation of the current condition (
), and the number of elements that already left the loop in a prior iteration(
). A second tab provides advanced analysis of the number of active elements of all debugged loop iterations. While
provides fast access to later iterations, statistical data for each iteration is only collected using the
Full Statistic
Color Coding:
Marks items continue to follow the next loop iteration.
Marks items that leave the loop due to the current loop condition.
Marks items already left the loop in a prior iteration.
Vertex shader:
Geometry shader:
Fragment shader:
Configure OpenGL tests and buffer initialization for debugging.
Execute/Kill target application.
Start/Stop debugging the selected shader.
Restart the GLSL shader debug session.
Execute application until the next GLSL shader switch
Execute application until the next
debuggable draw call
Execute application until further user interaction
Execute application until the next occurrence of a user-specified GL/GLX/WGL function call
Step to the next statement without further following the current statement.
Step into the current statement if possible, otherwise step forward to the next statement.
Pause execution of the debugged application at the next GL/GLX/WGL function call.
Configure target application for debugging.
Known Issues
Debugger version (32/64-bit) must match host application
So far, the 64-bit version of glslDevil only supports debugging of 64-bit applications. In order to debug a 32-bit executable (independent of the host system), please use the 32-bit version of the debugger.
Multi-threaded/Multi-context applications may fail to work with glslDevil
The current version does not fully support multi-threaded target applications.
Which draw calls allow shader debugging?
Currently all draw calls except glCallList, glCallLists, glBitmap, and glDrawPixels are debuggable. In the case of display lists the reason for this is the possibility to compile state changes into OpenGL lists which are not tracked during the creation process yet.
What is the difference between local scope and extended scope?
The local scope contains all user-defined variables that are valid/accessible at a specific statement in the shader code. In contrast the extended scope additionally contains all variables that are valid/accessible at the position of at least one statement in the current scope stack. The extended scope stack also includes variables that may not be in the local scope due to scope hiding rules.
Vertex shader debugging is disabled. Why?
To debug vertex shaders your graphics hardware needs to support the
extension. This is currently supported for example on NVIDIA G80 based cards.
Which GLSL extensions are supported by glslDevil?
Additional to GLSL version 1.2 the following extensions are supported: ARB_texture_rectangle, ARB_draw_buffers, EXT_bindable_uniform, EXT_geometry_shader4, EXT_gpu_shader4, EXT_texture_array. Further vendor specific enhancements to the GLSL compiler (i.e. additional implicit type casts, Cg compatibility, ...) are not supported in the current version.
Current version: glslDevil 1.1.5
ChangeLog version 1.1.5 (02/16/10):
Fix: fragment shader input varyings
Fix: uniform struct definitions/declarations
Fix: do not crash on uninitialized sampler uniforms
Fix: varying out variables in fragment shaders
New: Show values of active uniforms in separate tab
New: Add support for vertex shader debugging using EXT_transform_feedback (Experimental)
ChangeLog version 1.1.4 (11/18/09):
Fix: segfault on Ubuntu 9.04 and newer
Fix: infinite loop in syntax highlighter on Qt 4.4 and newer
Fix: range mapping when min == max
Fix: varying out variables in fragment shaders
Fix: display of integer variables
Fix: Various other small bugfixes
New: Improved logging support
ChangeLog version 1.1.3b (08/29/08):
Fix: 64-bit debugger was broken :-/
ChangeLog version 1.1.3 (05/27/08):
New license!
Fix: Selection of vertices and primitives for inspection of values in the watch list.
Fix: Minor bug fixes and documentation update.
ChangeLog version 1.1.2 (04/21/08):
New: Added support of all missing OpenGL extensions registered at 11th April
('full support' (: )
Fix: Off-by-one error in watch window pixel selection.
Fix: Debugging of loops in subfunctions failed.
Fix: Returning arrays from subfunctions failed.
Fix: Program termination not correctly handled in fast forward mode.
Fix: Few drawcalls
were not recorded for debugging purposes.
Fix: Tri-graph code generation could result in invalid code.
ChangeLog version 1.1.1 (10/29/07):
Fix: Use of vertex buffer objects may cause program abort.
Fix: Shader code highlighting failed when using pragma #line.
Fix: Return from main() may cause invalid debug output.
ChangeLog version 1.1 (10/26/07):
New: First public release for Windows.
Add: Active queries do not get affected by shader debugging.
Add: Vector-type shader variables can be interacted with.
Add: Support to start glslDevil from the PATH environment.
Add: Visibility of GL/GLX/WGL functions in GlTrace list can be configured.
Add: Improved performance for GlTrace list.
Add: Shortcuts for often used debug features.
Add: Selectable region for min/max in fragment watch window.
Add: Verbose output command line options (-v/-vv).
Fix: Allow GLSL samplers to be parameters of user-defined functions.
Fix: Wrong handling of nested #if/#else/#endif directives.
Fix: Failed to generate code for sampler2DRect.
Fix: Possible missing data updates when using discard.
Fix: Various smaller bugfixes in GLSL compiler/code generator.
ChangeLog version 1.0 (08/02/07):
First public release for Linux.
Qt 4.4 needs to be installed on the system
32-bit version (.tgz)
Libc 2.9, Compiled on Ubuntu 9.10
64-bit version (.tgz)
Libc 2.9, Compiled on Ubuntu 9.10
glslDevil (32- & 64-bit version)
None. Qt 4.4 redistributable will be installed if needed
glslDevil (32-bit version)
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A Hardware-Aware Debugger for the OpenGL Shading Language
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This probably belongs on Animal Debates, but I agree with you that it's a ridiculous article. All animals leave a "carbon footprint," including humans, don't we? Plants and animals are all rightful parts of the world. We may be able to slow down global warming a bit in other ways, but pets to share our lives with are not expendable, in my opinion. |
Those types of people would be happy if the whole human race just up and died and left the earth alone. Crackpots. |
I say that if they lived in Afghanistan, they would be Taliban...that mind-set is not restricted to one place or people, there are always people who have an agenda and they feel they are right. I don't get exited about it, it's just their skewed opinion. |
What an idiotic article, the impact of pets is minimal compared to industrial and other pollution caused by humans. I guess washing toxic chemicals into waterways and the ocean is fine, as long as it's done by people, but perish the though of dogs peeing outdoors. Stupid!! |
The researchers were simply stating facts. Very clinical but it doesn't cover the whole picture. The SUV owner probably has a couple of over indulged children, lives in too big a house, and buys every toy in sight. If we want to decrease carbon footprints, how about fewer children? I'd rather have a cat and a dog in every home than a child if you look at it from the carbon foot print standard. |
The conceptions about SUV owners crack me up. I have one child who is not over-indulged (absolutely by his standards, pretty much by my standards and even by a crabby great-aunt's standards), do live in too big a house (but it's over 100 years old - recycling at its best), don't even own a DVD player and need the SUV to transport the dogs and navigate the driveway. |
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Building an online commerce site is a complex undertaking, and creating and managing one requires technical know-how and careful analysis of your business's resources. Generally, there are three ways you can establish an Internet commerce presence: Use a turnkey firm, an Internet service provider (ISP) or do it all yourself.
Some Internet marketing and retailing companies specialize in creating all-encompassing online commerce sites. Most offer a comprehensive solution that includes everything from analysis of your target market and design of your site to the actual site development, implementation of electronic payment processing, and overall site management. Most are very professional and take the dirty work out of your hands, but they generally cost thousands of dollars.
One company that specializes in the creation and management of Web commerce sites is Digital Boardwalk (http://www.digitalboardwalk.com ). It will build your site and provide a variety of services to help with promotions for your online store. Digital Boardwalk will even fulfill the orders for you (if you ship them your product) so you're never involved in daily operations.
Yet for many small businesses, turning to an ISP is probably the most practical solution. Some ISPs handle the design, order and payment processing issues. However, if you already have a Web site and just want to add commerce services or if you have the technical know-how to design the site yourself, ISPs can provide value-added services such as ordering and credit-card processing.
Keep in mind, few ISPs specialize in extensive commerce services, so consider your needs carefully before selecting a company, advises Sullivan-Trainor. Ask about the reliability of the ISP's hosting services and what kind of security methods are used for processing payments. Also be sure to check out other sites the ISP has built. Besides just being able to post an online catalog, it should have the marketing and technical savvy to draw customers to your site and keep them there so they'll buy again and again.
If it's business-to-business commerce you're interested in, choose an ISP specializing in the development of secure and reliable "extranets." Extranets connect companies' Web sites (and aren't accessible by the general public), so business transactions with partners and suppliers can be conducted online. A good way to find ISPs with the most suitable online commerce services is to check out the buyer's guide of ISPs at http://www.thelist.com
If you or your employees have the technical expertise, you can build and host a commerce site yourself. But before you do, cautions Sullivan-Trainor, become knowledgeable about custom programming, standard commerce and security issues, and third-party hardware and software vendors.
Web commerce development and management programs aimed at small businesses have hit the market recently. Tools range from templates that design online catalogs and software that performs sales reporting and inventory management to more advanced programs that integrate customer databases with your inventory data to display personalized promotions targeted to your site visitors' purchasing habits. The cost of these programs ranges from a few hundred dollars to several thousand, depending on how advanced their capabilities are.
A more entry-level application is Internet Business Breakthrough ($249) from Breakthrough Software. It has 50 easy-to-use, pre-designed templates to create, organize and publish an online store. Order forms and processing features to take orders electronically are included; you can also publish your site on the Internet with the click of a mouse button if you use one of the authorized ISPs that Breakthrough Software partners with.
IBM has a popular program called Net.Commerce for more advanced business-to-business and retail-oriented sites. Flexible design templates, "Shopping Carts" to take electronic orders and Address Books to indicate where a product should be shipped are included. There are also features to help you build a customer registration process complete with user passwords, import product databases and manage your inventory. Net.Commerce can be used with the Netscape Enterprise Server or IBM's Internet Connection Secure Server (included); the price begins at $4,995 per server.
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Please join us as we kick-off Tim Moen's Ontario tour at our Ontario Road to 2015 Conference, this Saturday October 4th.
The party is under new leadership and preparing for election year 2015. The regional conference will rally support going into 2015, and information will be provided to those who have interest in participating in the upcoming election.
In addition, we will be hosting a handful of inspirational liberty-leaning speakers at this conference, including:
Tim Moen – Libertarian Party of Canada Leader
Professor Jan Narveson – Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Waterloo
Vanessa Walsh – Queen's Students for Liberty Campus Coordinator
Dr. Denis G. Rancourt – Former Tenured and Full Professor of Physics at the University of Ottawa
Joseph Hickey – Ontario Civil Liberties Association Executive Director
Allen Small – Ontario Libertarian Party Leader
Amir Farahi – London City Council Candidate
Ryan Nixon – Libertarian Party of Canada Regional Coordinator
Andrew Echevarria – Libertarian Party of Canada Interim President
If you are unable to make the conference in Kingston on the 4th, Tim Moen may be touring your city! Below are the stops on Tim Moen's Road to 2015 Ontario Tour:
Saturday October 4th, 1:00pm – Kingston – Road to 2015 Conference – Ambassador Hotel & Conference Centre (1550 Princess St, Kingston, ON) – Facebook Event
Sunday October 5th, 2:00pm – Trenton – Frank Meyers Farm (209 Meyers Creek Road)
Monday October 6th, 7:00pm – Ottawa – Carleton University, Tory Building, Room Tory 342 – Facebook Event
Wednesday October 8th, 7:00pm – Toronto – University of Toronto, Sidney Smith Hall, Room 1073 (100 St. George Street) – Facebook Event
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Linda (Lyn) Judkins, left, and Bonnie Everly, of Chesterton want to marry legally in Indiana. | Karen Caffarini~for Sun-Times Media
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CHESTERTON — Bonnie Everly and Linda (Lyn) Judkins already are married in their hearts, having stood on a beach in Michigan City, exchanging their vows to each other and God.
What the Chesterton couple want now is for the state of Indiana to eliminate its ban on same-sex marriage and allow them to legally wed in their church among family and friends.
They attend Metropolitan Community Church Illiana in Portage, which serves the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in Northwest Indiana.
"It won't be a huge ceremony, just heartfelt and meaningful," Bonnie, 56, said.
"It will be a magical day," beamed Lyn, 58, who moved from Michigan in 2001 to be with Bonnie.
The couple are plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit filed last month by Lambda Legal against Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller and the county clerks of Boone, Lake and Porter counties, seeking to end the prohibition on same-sex marriage. Efforts to get a statewide referendum on amending the Indiana Constitution to prohibit gay marriage failed this year.
Bonnie and Lyn, who met on a chat line and have been together for 13 years, live in rural Chesterton with Bonnie's 21-year-old son and several cats and dogs. They said they tried to file for a marriage license at the old courthouse in Valparaiso on March 10 but were denied.
"The lady said, 'I don't think we do that in this state,'" Lyn recalled. "She was really nice, though."
Porter County Clerk Karen Martin didn't return several phone calls seeking comment on the lawsuit and the number of same-sex couples who have been turned away by the office.
Lambda Legal staff attorney Paul Castillo said the couples want to be married in Indiana because if they marry outside the state they would not be protected by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act should they return to Indiana and one spouse becomes ill.
"Same-sex couples that are in a loving relationship should be treated equally as any other couple," said Castillo, who works for the Midwest regional office of Lambda Legal, a national civil rights organization serving the GLBT community.
Bonnie and Lyn are on Social Security disability as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident in 2002. Bonnie had a broken foot that didn't heal right, and now needs to have both knees and both hips replaced. She walks with a cane and sleeps in a hospital bed.
The couple said they haven't tried to marry in another state and don't plan to move to one where their marriage would be legal.
"We could go to another state, but this is where our church is, this is where our friends are," Lyn said. "I want my friend who plays the organ to play at our wedding. I want our minister to marry us."


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I've been reading Jacques Philippe again. This brings on the urge to just string together Jacques Philippe quotes and call it a post, because, after all, who could say it better, or what is there to add?
The book in question is called The Way of Trust and Love: a Retreat Guided by St. Therese of Lisieux (Scepter).
It's perfect for people like me—and I suspect there are many—who suffer from the uneasy conviction that there must be more to the Little Flower than what we imagine, but who are too allergic to nineteenth-century religious prose to find out for sure.
This short paperback, as accessible as it is profound, will allow you to derive enormous amounts of spiritual nutrition from St. Therese without being troubled by any intolerance you may have built up against her genre. Think of it as gluten-free hagiography.
Much of the book centers around what she called "becoming little" (as in Christ's command to become as little children). One mark of little children is their ability to get up, immediately and obliviously, after a fall and try again
(even if, like my own little children, they feel obliged to indulge in a certain quantity of pro forma weeping and wailing). Very little children are far more likely to be gleeful than brooding and introspective. Of course, they're entirely self-centered--but they're not morbidly self-absorbed. We grownup religious types, on the other hand—well, here's the passage that especially struck me today:
There is a very subtle but common temptation in the spiritual life. With the excuse of wanting to be perfect, we seek to examine ourselves too much, to evaluate ourselves and measure our progress. The usual result is that a sort of discontent and permanent sadness slips into our lives, since we are never fully satisfied with ourselves.
This sadness is a pervasive feature of 21st-century life, at least in the "developed" world. On top of the burden of unremitting information about poverty and violence in places we hadn't realized existed, there's the epidemic of depression and anxiety.
We're tempted to accept it as the "new normal," rather than a sign that something's deeply wrong, something that can be addressed.
Fr. Jacques continues:
Such an attitude causes us to center on ourselves when what we need to do is throw ourselves on God with unlimited trust. We're more concerned about ourselves than about God….
Fr. Michel Esparza has elaborated at length on this insight, as we discussed here. And Fr. Jacques also wants us to be clear: we don't have to choose between being morally upright, but depressed, or morally oblivious, but cheerful. Here's how he puts it:
I don't mean we shouldn't examine our conscience: this is something we must do. But we should ensure that examination of conscience doesn't degenerate into gazing gloomily at ourselves [emphasis mine]. The best way to enlighten our consciences and discern our real sins is to look at God, to take his Word as our mirror.
The idea of examining your conscience is interesting (especially to a personalist) for many reasons: it's not just about how to keep an accurate ledger of infractions: it intersects with questions like:
Even if we retreat from the external evils of the world (either out of fear and isolationism or, more wholesomely, into nourishing, neomonastic micro-communities) we inevitably run into the internal evils: the ones we can't escape by changing location, because "wherever you go, there you are."
So it's worth considering how to face those evils, how to attack them without attacking yourself in the process.
I've heard lots of good advice over the years: do a daily exam, not just right before confession. Aim to cultivate virtues, not just eradicate vices. Include "What did I do right today?" not only "How did I fail to measure up again today?" Don't ask, "Am I doing all I can?" but "Am I doing what I'm supposed to be doing right now?" Don't be shocked by your past or apprehensive about your future. God is bigger than you think.
But, sure enough, Jacques Philippe says it better. It's less a question of technique, more a question of stepping back and identifying what we're really after:
The desire for perfection is a good thing in itself, but it can be ambiguous. What do we really want? We would like to be experienced, irreproachable, never make any mistakes, never fall, possess unfailing good judgment and unimpeachable virtue. Which is to say we would like to have no more need of forgiveness or mercy, no more need of God and his help. If at bottom our dream of perfection is to be able to manage without God, we are no longer on the path of the Gospel.
And here's another gem:
Living in the present moment means accepting the poverty in us: not insisting on going over and over the past or taking control of the future,but contenting ourselves with today. But this is very liberating: God does not dole out grace by a sort of profit-and-loss accounting of my past based on my good and bad actions. He gives me grace according to my faith today.
I could string together more quotes. But, better yet, read the book, and tell me, what are your favorite parts?
I haven't read the book, Devra, but I'll try and find it. I did see Jacque Arnaud's movie "Therese" and have listent to friends talk about her spirituality. (We have Catholic Worker Community, Sts.Francis and Therese C.W. here in Worcester, MA and Claire and Scott Shaeffer-Duffy have it. Claire has been very influenced by Therese). To me, Therese' spirituality was about a love so great for her fellow humankind that she could emanate it in a way that actually healed people. She healed them as she was herself being ill. This is particularly phenomenal in that I can find no other example except that of the healing of Longinus. I will say that I do not fully understand it. But I will say that out of one's suffering one can possibly help heal another person's suffering. And there are plenty of examples around. To me, this is one of the boons of personalism. Therese, of course, did this spiritually and by what we might think 'long distance'. but nevertheless, it is attributed to her. I am not a Catholic, So I might have missed something. I'll read.
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It never fails to give me a chuckle when I read someone complaining about going stir crazy with cabin fever.
Unless you're elderly, infirm or hobbled up by injury, there is no reason to stay cooped up in your house, or cooped up from your house to your car to your place of work and back again in the spectacular winter weather we are experiencing this season.
Skiers, snowboarders and ice skaters aren't the only people who get to take advantage of this cold, snowy weather. Cross country skiing and snowshoeing, as well as snowmobiling, are nearing all-time participation rates in our area judging by the amount of track you can find on fields and trails throughout the region.
From the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Trails south of East Penn Township, to the Lehigh Parkway, to the hilly Trexler Nature Preserve and beyond, there are very few areas of snow that haven't been permeated with some type of tracks from human interaction. Fields are covered with tracks from skiers, snowshoers, snowmobiles, and even people hiking in knee-deep snow.
Ice is the main culprit people stay off the roads and sidewalks during the cold weather, but just about every sports shop in the region sells some type of spike- or chain-bottomed slip-on device for shoes and boots. I used one three days ago on icy roads and didn't even come close to slipping. People on Facebook are raving about using their "Yaktrax" in this weather.
Don't use the cold weather as an excuse for being inactive. There are plenty of ways to safely play outside in the cold while staying warm. In addition to having the proper, skid-resistant, waterproof footwear, it's critically important to dress in layers with your base layer and mid layer (insulation layer) made of moisture-wicking materials like some of the modern man-made fabrics or wool. Cotton is a no-no because once it's wet, it stays wet and gets extremely heavy. Cotton kills performance in all types of weather, so start scratching it from your active wear list.
Also, it's just as important to remember to hydrate — that's with water — in the cold weather as it is in the warm weather. In the warm weather, you can feel all the perspiration and feel thirstier. In the colder, drier weather, you don't feel the sweat as much and are focusing more on the cold rather than how much water you are losing.
Remember, you don't have to run or walk super fast to be active in the outdoors over the winter. Simply walking outdoors will help you get rid of that cabin-fever syndrome. Walking, even for 15 or 20 minutes at night, is an excellent way to get some fresh air into your lungs and recharge yourself.
If you're walking at night, wear reflective gear, particularly on your upper body, and carry some type of flashlight or head lamp. If you walk a dog at night, use a reflective collar or some type of dangling blinker light on them so that they can be seen by oncoming vehicles. Remember, if you think your dog is getting a bit heavy, you're not getting enough exercise either.
If you are looking for ways to get active in the outdoors during this cold weather, Wildlands Conservancy in Emmaus is hosting a snowshoe program 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Pool Wildlife Sanctuary, 3701 Orchard Place, Emmaus. To register, go online to http://www.wildlandspa.org or call 610-965-4397 and clear some of those winter cobwebs from your head. You'll be glad you did.
You can even join the Lehigh Valley Road Runners Sunday morning as they continue their first-ever Ice Scraper runs in the Little Lehigh Parkway. More than 280 people turned out for the January event.
The series is free for LVRR club members, $10 from nonmembers.
On-site registration at the LVRR Clubhouse in the parkway runs 8:30-9:30 a.m., with the 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) race starting at 10 a.m. For more information or to register online, go to http://lvrr.org/races/ice-scraper-winter-series-5k/ .
The final race in the series is scheduled for March 23.
Sochi Olympic connections: In addition to Chris Creveling of Kintnersville competing in the short track speedskating (he's in the 5,000-meter relay today) and Kutztown's Richard Laubenstien serving as a sled technician for the USA medal-winning bobsleds, there are a few other local people with roles for Team USA in Sochi.
Dr. Gary Dorshimer, a Parkland High School graduate who is one of the team physicians for both the Philadelphia Eagles and Philadelphia Flyers, is a team physician for the USA hockey team, also keeping an eye on the Flyers who are on their various national teams at the Winter Olympics. Dorshimer has served the USA hockey team in other Olympic competitions as well.
Chris Gerhard of Weatherly, a Bloomsburg University graduate, is working as a strength and conditioning coach for the U.S. Snowboarding Half-pipe and U.S. Aerials teams. He formerly worked at Jack Frost Ski Area and the old Velocity Sports Performance Center in Allentown.
Also, Bucks County native Jamie Greubel of Newton drove the bronze-medal wining USA sled with pusher Aja Evans.
Saturday Ski for the Cure: Jack Frost in White Haven is hosting the seventh annual "Ski for the Cure" breast cancer awareness day on Saturday.
While a variety of activities will take place all day, including a pledge Ski-A-Thon, Pink Olympic timed race gates and special sales of pink items, the main event is the 11:15 a.m. Dedication Run.
The Dedication Run will take place on the Lehigh Trail behind the Ski for the Cure banner with the national Ski Patrol and traditional bell ringers lining the trail. The run honors those fighting the disease, those who have lost the fight, those who have won the fight and their families.
To donate to Ski for the Cire or for more information, go online to http://www.jfbb.com/events , or call or call 570-443-8425, extension 2671.
Snowtube-A-Thon at Camelback in March: Camelback Mountain resort is looking to "Give Cancer the Cold Shoulder" March 8-9 in what the all-season resort is billing as the nation's first Relay for Life Snowtube-A-Thon, in partnership with the American Cancer Society.
The event runs 6 p.m. March 8 through 6 a.m. March 9 and participants are invited to camp out while making runs to raise money to fight cancer. Up to 50 percent of the ticket proceeds from Snowtube-A-Thon will go directly to Relay for Life.


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I enter E-Z Pawn and head straight for the musical instruments. Sure enough, hanging on the wall in the back are a dozen or so Squire versions of the Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster, and the shelves to either side are stocked with turntables you could find on eBay for less. Elsewhere in the store, not much is out of the ordinary: A horse saddle and a collection of state flags priced at ten dollars each are the only interesting things I find. But just as I'm ready to conclude that E-Z Pawn has ruined the fun of pawnshops, a male clerk walks by in a woman's fur coat. It's a cheap one, dyed red, probably rabbit, and the sleeves end just above his wrists.
"Nice jacket. You gonna take that one home with you?" I ask.
"Nah. Sometimes I just put stuff on in the store. You'd be surprised at what I've sold right off my back," he says. One morning, he tells me, at the store where he worked previously, a biker came in and sold his beloved leather vest. The clerk put it on, wore it around work, and sold it by 3 p.m. that day.
"I also sold a walker once," he tells me. "You know, like an old-lady walker, with the tennis balls on the legs and everything." He pauses contemplatively. "I just wonder how that old lady got out of the store." For the record, the clerk says, he wouldn't give a customer more than $5 for a walker.
In fact, the corporate overlords at E-Z Pawn are pretty strict about what they allow their clerks to buy, he informs me. No porn DVDs anymore; those days are over. And no digital scales. "That's considered paraphernalia," he says. "They won't even let us buy triple-beam scales. I don't know any drug dealers who use triple-beams anymore. Not that I know a whole lot of drug dealers." He pauses again and looks around the store. "Although I probably talked to at least three of them by noon today." — Sean Cronin
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50th Avenue and Sheridan
4:30 p.m.
Guys in T-shirts sit in their utility trucks in the parking lot, chatting on their cells or just killing time until the next maintenance call. A man in a painter's uniform slouches in some shade, working his way through a pack of smokes. What is it about Inspiration Point that draws the slackers, the refugees of routine, the city's idlers and break-stretchers?
Got to be the view. Tucked into the northwest corner of Denver proper, across the street from the city's finest public golf course, Inspiration offers a panorama unlike any other in the metro area: a decent frame of the city skyline to the east, 200 miles of Rocky Mountain scenery to the west. The park itself extends like a giant finger pointing to the Continental Divide. Years ago, the retaining wall had helpful markers pointing out notable peaks, but no more.
The place is a magnet for makeout artists at night. During the day it attracts loners, including an unusual number of people who like to smoke in their cars with the windows up, perhaps to shut out the roar of I-70 and I-76, which pincer the point on its southern and northern flanks. It's the perfect park, if you're inspired to ditch work. Or if you just want to work on a haiku:
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Park juts, prow-like, to Front Range
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Aside from rush-hour traffic just a few feet away, it's quiet at Motel Mexico. Almost too quiet. But that's how the owner likes it. "I will sell it to you," owner Dalia pleads with anyone who will listen. "Below estimate."
Dalia has been in the United States since 1964, four years after Motel Mexico was built. Her English is still coated with a thick Mexican accent, partly because she spends most of her time with her family and the Mexican migrants who work in the eastern Colorado town of Rocky Ford, "where the cantaloupes grow," she says.
But twice a week, Dalia makes the three-hour trip to Motel Mexico, a collection of three little green buildings with eighteen rooms, a few of which she isn't renting out because she doesn't want to pay for the repairs that are needed. Most of her residents are single; no kids play on the busted asphalt that surrounds the motel, even though a single child's toy vehicle appears to have been sitting around for at least a decade.
Dalia bought the place twelve years ago because she had to, not because she wanted to. At the time, she was after an old two-story house that stood beside it. But the owner would only sell her the house if she bought the motel, too. As the paperwork was being filed, Dalia says, the house was condemned and she got stuck with Motel Mexico.
Residents pay about $125 a week to stay here. No rooms are rented by the day, none leased out by the hour. One man has lived here more than two years, the newest arrival just four months. On the days that she's at the motel, Dalia spends rush hour watching the cars go up and down "Cher-e-dahn," chatting with a handyman who works in the area.