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>Gears and Wears>Favorite Long Sleeved Top
I am in the market for a long sleeved top for when the weather cools off. I bought a Reebok top last week that I liked in the dressing room, but it's not so great at the end of a run. The weather got a bit cool and rainy one night after I got the shirt, so I wore it out on my run. The seams on the sleeves started to make itchy impressions in my skin near the end of my run.
I am looking seriously at the lululemon long sleeved shirt shown here: (no seams!)
Has anyone run in this shirt and love it? I would have to love it to spend $68 plus shipping for it. If not, what is your favorite long sleeved top to run in?
Seriously...$8.97...just going to sweat in it.
Seriously...$8.97...just going to sweat in it.
Yes. Or just use one from the seemingly limitless pile of race shirts (hate those things but it beats paying $68 or even $8.97!), they work just fine.
I was in the Lululemon store today looking at stuff and probably saw that shirt. For years, I was skeptical about their apparel but after talking to some running friends, went in and made my first purchase this summer - some shorty running shorts - and they might be the best running shorts I've ever worn.
As far as my favorite long sleeve for cold weather, though, I have to go with the Nike Thermal. I can't link to it because it's not on their website right now but they are so good I bought 3 last winter. They have a fleece-like lining on the inside that eliminates chaffing but they're made of some kind of man-made fiber so they're warm. From the picture, it looks like that Lululemon shirt is cotton and that's not necessarily good in cold weather.
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That Hanes shirt looks very promising!
As far as the lululemon shirt goes, I have a tank that's a lululemon that is made of the same Swiftly Tech fabric. It isn't made of cotton, it just looks like it. I love my tank, that's why I was tempted to get the long sleeves.
However, if that Hanes shirt is comfortable to run in, then it saves me about $60!!
That Hanes shirt looks very promising!
As far as the lululemon shirt goes, I have a tank that's a lululemon that is made of the same Swiftly Tech fabric. It isn't made of cotton, it just looks like it. I love my tank, that's why I was tempted to get the long sleeves.
However, if that Hanes shirt is comfortable to run in, then it saves me about $60!!
It may not be cotton but it doesn't look particularly sweat-wicking or warm. But, depending on where you live, how far you're running, and how well you tolerate the cold, something like the Hanes or Lululemon shirt are probably fine. I probably should have asked those things. Hope you find something that works for you!
I hope so too. Not that it's mandatory now, though. I live in central Texas outside of Austin. We're still running in the 90's at the peak of the day, so long sleeves are on the back burner, but I like to think ahead.
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Texas?! You are planning ahead. . Yeah, the Nike Thermal would be way too warm for you. Nike also makes a very light long sleeve that I wear as a base layer in the winter. In general, Nike and Brooks tend to be my favorite brands for long sleeve tops.
I have 2 of these tops and 2 half-zips, so I guess I love them though I have some reservations. I (and others) hate how fragile they are. The fabric is a light, relatively thin knit, and it snags really easily. If you have affectionate pets, or infants, this top might not last long. I don't baby my gear, but apart from sweating a lot and wearing it often, I'm not particularly hard on it either. My oldest one is 4yrs., minuscule snags from thrashing trails, but otherwise looks great.My love of these tops is directly proportional to how miserable winter running in Toronto can be. For me, it's all about staying as comfortable as possible in saturated clothes at 10-20ºF. The air is sufficiently damp and my sweat rates sufficiently high that I will saturate any base layer in an hour. In any given week, I have 2-3 runs 90-150min., which is a long time to be clammy. There isn't any fabric that's truly comfortable next-to-skin in those conditions, but Swiftly tops are the best I've found. By themselves, they're only warm enough for 40-55º but I layer merino over it. Add a shell and I'm good for anything into the single digits, with wind or precip. This is the combo I rely on to get me through the winter.In warmer or drier conditions, they're even more comfortable, but I'm not as picky in nicer weather. I'm just as happy in Nike, Brooks, or Patagonia Capilene, in temps 30º and above. If your winters are milder, there are a ton of options at this price point or less.
Start with the cheap low-cost stuff and use it until you find out it doesn't work - if it reaches that point. When you have a better feeling for what doesn't work or what works better for you, *then* spend the bucks.
I'm still using $9 Wal-Mart shorts from at least 8yr ago, although some threads are starting to break now. Work better than any running shorts that I've tried. I do use some river runner shorts from REI with cargo pockets for my trail races. (office gave them to me when I retired)
MTA: You might consider if you have winds if you need something wind resistant or windproof. In alaska, I seldom wear a light long-sleeve shirt - usually a minimalist wind shell or heavier long sleeve shirt with some wind resistance. The light weight long-sleeves are just a base layer.


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Corn futures were steady to 5 cents higher overnight. In trade news South Korea's largest feed manufacturer bought 3 corn cargoes from the Black Sea and Brazil for delivery this fall. South Korea has traditionally bought mostly U.S. corn. U.S. crop condition ratings improved last week with good to excellent up 2 points to 67%, in line with the long-term average. Weather forecasts remain favorable. Futures are slightly higher so far today after steep losses over the past nearly two weeks. September futures are 0.25 cents higher to $5.3175/bushel early Tuesday, while December is 2 cents higher to $5.0325.
The soybean futures rallied in concert with corn Tuesday morning. The soy complex was under pressure Monday night, with traders talking about beneficial weather across the Corn Belt. USDA's weekly Crop Progress report stated the soybean good-to-excellent condition up 2% versus 65% last week and 45% the previous year. August soybean futures jumped 2.25 cents up to $14.385/bushel. August soybean meal ascended $2.00 to $434.9/ton, but August soyoil descended 0.18 cents to 46.64 cents/pound, November soybean prices dropped 8.5 cents to $12.4975 /bushel.
The behind winter wheat harvest apparently boosted wheat futures Tuesday morning. That is, the weekly USDA Crop Progress report mentioned the U.S. winter wheat harvest as being 43% completed, whereas the five-year average has reached 52% by this time. Strength in the other grains also probably sparked some buying in wheat as well. September CBOT wheat advanced 9.75 cents to $6.6475/bushel, while September MGE wheat futures jumped 5.5 cents to $7.77/bushel, while September KCBT wheat increased 9 cents to $6.9975/ bushel.
Cattle futures are 12 to 27 points higher. Futures continued to garner strength from speculative buying. Futures have made a decisive turn higher from the lows in May/June. August has consolidated the past few sessions, but is holding just below last week's high at 123.12. Near-term futures gains may be held in check by lower beef prices and the cash market. Both choice and select beef was lower on Monday. Cash prices have yet to trade this week. Packers will be buying for a full slaughter schedule next week. August cattle are 0.25 cents higher to 122.42 cents/pound in electronic trade, while December is 0.07 cents higher at 126.20. Feeder cattle futures are also higher; the August contract is up .45cents to 151.70 cents/pound and November is .45 cents higher to 153.77.
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Hogs futures moved lower on Tuesday early morning. Although Monday's slaughter was higher than a week ago, the rebound in the grain market probably worried some of the traders. Seasonal history and declining cash prices may pressure hogs for the short-term. August hog futures dipped 0.3 cents to 96.7 cents/pound Monday, while the December contract declined 0.2 cent to 82.3 cents/pound.


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KEMAH, Texas - The Kemah marina was evacuated Wednesday evening after police said some sort of suspicious device was found.
After eight hours to finally clear the scene, officials said the device found was an old military device that had washed up on the marina many years ago.
People on the boardwalk itself were not in any danger and were evacuated.
A woman and her husband were walking along the marina around noon on Wednesday when they spotted the device, sitting in about a foot of water.
"My husband says 'I think that's a bomb,'" said the woman. "I looked and I said 'I think it is, too.'"
The two quickly called marina management.
"We knew that it should have been treated as dangerous any time you see something like that," said the woman. "You need to treat like that so we went right up and reported it to the office."
A team of police arrived at the scene and called for backup as FBI and Coast Guard officials joined forces.
"It was finally determined that it was a military training device," said Bill Kerber of Kemah Emergency Management. "It's got a big hole in the side of it. It's not an active device."
Kerber said the device could possibly have come from a old marine salvage that used to be in the area.
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He pursued his love of television news in Idaho Falls, Idaho, as an anchor for two years. From there, he moved to KOKH-TV FOX 25 in Oklahoma City, where he anchored and reported for their five-hour morning newscast. It was there that Matt found his adventurous side and, in addition to anchoring, Matt started a segment called "Training Days," where he rode a bull, played arena football and drove a monster truck! But it didn't stop there. In addition to his adventures, Matt worked as an investigative reporter and has produced a variety of special reports.
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I am sorry I haven't been posting on the board as much as I have in the past. I have been very caught up with finishing up school. Luckily graduation is on the horizon (next week!!) and then I will have more time and more brain power to start posting more again.
I want to wish everyone a very very Happy Thanksgiving. I know sometimes it's hard to be thankful when life is on a path we haven't expected. I have been diagnosed with every single one of my cancers during thanksgiving-time. So, it's a dicey time for me as well.
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History of Alpheus Gifford (b1849)
1849-1905 — Springdale UT
History of Alpheus Gifford
By a daughter, Elsie Gifford McGee
My father, Alpheus Gifford, was the first child born to Samuel Kendall and Lora Ann DeMill Gifford. This event took place on July 26, 1849, at Mt. Pisgah Iowa.
His father was the son of Alpheus and Anna Nash Gifford, and his mother the daughter of Freeborn and Anna Knight DeMill.
His grandfather, Alpheus, was a very religious man. He was a Methodist Preacher, but he and his wife Anna, like many other searchers were restless and unable to settle down anywhere until they found what appealed to them as the true gospel of Jesus Christ. So when he ehard of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, who had laid the foundation of a new church, he was prompted to go to Palmyra, where the church was organized, and there he learned the truth and was baptized and ordained a priest. This was in 1830, soon after the church was organized.
When he returned home, he took five Books of Mormon and was full of joy and thanksgiving. He preached the gospel until the church was moved from New York to Ohio. He filled several missions. He was one of the first Mormon Elders whom Brigham Young met, and was the first one in the church to talk in tongues. He died in 1841.
The Gifford family moved from place to place with the Saints, and after being driven from Nauvoo, they finally sought refuge in Mt. Pisgah, Iowa. It was here that Samuel Kendall and Lora Ann were married on Oct 1, 1848, and their first son was born and named for his grandfather. They remained there until 1850, when they, along with other Saints, made preparation to move west. They arrived in Salt Lake Valley on Sept 11, 1850, then in November they were sent by President Brigham Young to Manti, Sanpete County, Utah, to help settle that part of the state. Here they met with many hardships, and had trouble with the Indians on many occasions. One child at three years of age was stolen by some Indians as he attempted to follow his mother to a neighbor's house. They kept him for three weeks. The parents were frantic with grief. The Indians wanted to kill him for revenge on the white people. The Chief found out whose child he was and, being a friend of Grandfather Gifford, decide to give him back, if the Giffors would give their best horse for his return- -which Grandfather gladly did. So the child was returned safely to them.
They lived in Manti until 1863, then they moved to Shonesburg. The other members of the family at this time were Cornelia, Cyrus, Oliver DeMill, Samuel Kendall, who died at age 10, Freeborn DeMill and Lora Ann. After moving to Shonesburg, two other children were born, Adelia Mariah and Moses Elias. Then in the following year, on June 2, 1870, the mother passed away, leaving great sorrow in the home. Shortly after this, the family moved to Springdale, Utah, another newly settled community. Here Samuel with his sons, went into business making chairs. He also planted the first fruit orchard in Springdale.
When Alpheus was a young man, he met and courted Sarah Elizabeth Hansen, a young girl from Rockville, who was the daughter of Nelson and Marilla Terry Hansen. At the same time Alpheus' brother, Oliver, was keeping company with Alice Allred and they were planning to get married. So it was
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decided to make it a double wedding. This took place on Sept 11, 1873 at Rockville Utah.
On March 15, 1877, two months after the completion of the St. George Temple, they got their endowment. At the time of their marriage Alpheus was 24 and Sarah was 17. It is interesting to know that they were born in the same town, but never knew each other until their parents moved to Southern Utah.
Alpheus took his young bride to Springdale and made a home for her. They raised a large family of 13 children, the first was born dead, then in their order came Riley Kendall, Bertha, Samuel (who died at birth). Ingri (who died at age six), Hannah Jane, then twin boys Oliver and Orson (who died at birth), Harriet, Nathan Alpheus, Irene, Cyrus and Elsie.
Until about 1884, they lived in a two-room log house, then Alpheus built a new one. It was the largest house in town.
Although Alpheus had left school at the age of 9 years, he was one of the first to teach school in Springdale. His salary was small and his schoolhouse not modern, but he kept a school that demanded the interest and attention of his pupils. Then in later years he served as one of the trustees on the school board.
He was a good musician. He played his picalo for the band at celebration time and his brothers, Oliver and freeborn, played the drums. He was chorister for the Sunday School and played the violin for many neighborhood dances. Speaking of dances, it was no uncommon thing for them to come home at night, after being away all day, to find the bedding and household furniture piled outside the door, the house having been cleared for a dance, which would last until the early hours of the morning.
When at home in the evenings, he would sit on the front porch and strike up the music on the banjo. It wasn't long before a large crowd of neighbors would gather to listen to his music. One particular tune he liked to play was the Spanish Fandenjo.
Their home was also used to hold Sunday School and meetings until a church house could be built.
His father assisted as much as he could in the building of the St. George Temple, also the Manti and Salt Lake Temples. He attended the conference in Salt Lake City at the time of the dedication of the Temple on the 6th of April, 1893. He had attended the laying of the corner stone of that Temple on the 6th of April 1853, just 40 years previous to the dedication. He did a great deal of Temple work for the dead until he became totally blind in the fall of 1893.
The first Temple work he did was in 1861, when he stood for his father in having him and his mother sealed. This was done in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. The sealing was done by Pres. Brigham Young.
On September 6, 1902, he was ordained a Patriarch by Apostle Mathisas F. Cowley. By 1904 he had given blessings to more than 300 persons, including all his posterity.
After grandfather became blind, my father took up the work of chair making in the old chair shop. One of the older girls assisted him in putting rawhide on the chair bottoms. The hides were soaked in lime water, then the hair would be scraped off. After this the hide would be stretched and tacked to the bare floor and the cutting would be made from the center. The scraps were
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boiled into glue which was used in putting the chairs together. In those days a fine clay was dug from the hills west of Rockville, out of which putty was made to be used in the chair making.
The finished article freshly painted and puttied was stood out of doors to dry. Many an old traveler will remember them gleaming brightly in the sunlight. One of the most cherished relics I have is a small rolling pin made by my father on the foot-powered lathe and it is still being used after more than fifty years.
Carding, spinning and knitting was done by the women folk. Every morning before daylight, we were awakened by the hum of the spinning wheel. They made the yarn and knitted all the stockngs for the entire family.
My father and mother worked very hard to support this large family. They raised peaches and apples which they would dry and take to Salt Lake and to other palces to exchange for their winter clothing and other necessities of life.
In 1889 they decide to move to Taylor, Arizona, thinking they could better their condition. My mother's sister Hannah Jennings and family, had moved there was was urging them to come. So they sold their home and left, but when they got as far as Lees Ferry, on the Colorado, the Indians drove them back. They got back to Kanab and stayed there for awhile and tried to make a go of it, but their 14 year old sone, Riley, took violently ill and passed away. The family was very grieved at this turn of events, and they had a desire to see their relatives and friends in Springdale. So they moved back and repossessed their old home. There they stayed and raised their family.
When his father became old and alone, he spent much of his time with them. He was very religious and spent his time reading and even memorizing entire sections from the Doc. & Cov. He abused his eyes so much, that he became entirely blind. While pursuing these modern revelations, he was convinced that a man must have more than one wife to assure his salvation in the Highest degree of Glory. So urgent was he, that Alpheus took another wife, Ursula Ett Winder, on April 22, 1886. To them was born 6 children. The first Lovina, then Ruth, Henry, and Sarilla, ---
When Alpheus was still quite young, only 56, he took ill with pneumonia and passed away on November 20, 1905.


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Driver Not Found in Fatal 101 Hit and Run
Investigators with the California Highway Patrol are looking for the driver in a fatal hit and run accident. The driver reportedly left the scene after allegedly hitting a pedestrian with their full sized truck on the Humboldt Hill Road on-ramp at 10 p.m. Sunday.
CHP Public Information Officer Matt Harvey said it is essential for the driver to come forward to piece together the details of the accident. "We need to know exactly what happened that night," said Harvey.
According to the CHP, the truck is described as a white, lifted, full-size truck with tool boxes on the side. The pedestrian's name has not been released yet but is known to be a 33 year old male from Eureka. He was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital and died as a result of his injuries.


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A NORTH Yorkshire doctor has been confirmed as being among the climbers killed in an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands.
Dr Rachel Majumdar, from Merseyside, died along with her friends Christopher Bell, Una Finnegan and Tom Chesters in Saturday's avalanche as they descended a mountain in Glencoe.
A 24-year-old woman is still in a critical condition in hospital, while a sixth climber also survived.
Dr Majumdar, 29, worked at Harrogate District Hospital, and Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust has today issued a statement paying tribute to her, in which her colleague, Dr Rebecca Leigh, said: "Rachel was a gifted and dedicated doctor, who was in the middle of her training.
"A very promising medical career has been cut tragically short. She was one of the finest doctors I have ever worked with.
"All the staff and patients who knew Rachel will remember her for her caring nature, with a smile and a friendly word for everybody. The thoughts of everybody at the hospital are with her family and friends at this very difficult time and we are offering every support we can to our staff."
The group were caught in the avalanche on Bidean Nam Bian at about 2pm on Saturday.
Five of them are thought to have been carried down the mountain when the slope they were on broke away, with the sixth member surviving by leaping from the collapsing snow and hammering an ice axe into the ground.


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Brent crude oil traded near three-month highs around $113 per barrel on Monday, buoyed by economic optimism and ahead of a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting and employment data that should show more signs of recovery in the world's biggest oil consumer.
Oil also got a boost from news of an attack on an oil pipeline in Algeria by suspected Islamist militants, which a security source told Reuters killed two Algerian guards.
Brent crude futures for March were down 10 cents at $113.18 per barrel by 1323 GMT. The contract hit a three-month high of $113.84 on Friday.
U.S. crude was up 28 cents at $96.16 after seven straight weekly gains, the longest such streak since 2009.
"An improving economic outlook and rising stock markets are supporting oil markets," said Carsten Fritsch, senior oil analyst at Commerzbank in Frankfurt.
"We have seen some profit-taking from last week's highs but price dips are seen as buying opportunities at the moment."
The Federal Reserve, whose policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee concludes a two-day meeting on Wednesday, has said it expects to keep short-term interest rates exceptionally low to help support the economy.
Friday's U.S. non-farm payroll figures are likely to show the jobless rate unchanged in January and that the U.S. economy created 155,000 jobs, according to economists polled by Reuters.
Manufacturing output in China and the United States is rising at its quickest pace in about two years while German business morale improved for a third straight month in January, fuelling expectations of higher oil demand.
The market awaits U.S. fourth-quarter GDP data on Wednesday.
"With the Fed not likely to make any big changes this week, U.S. GDP and jobs will be big for equities and commodities this week," Jason Schenker, president of Texas-based Prestige Economics, said in a note.
"The general story remains one of modestly positive growth moving forward. If markets pull back on bad data, it would likely be temporary, since autos, housing, and construction are poised for positive gains this year."
Oil prices are drawing some support from supply worries stemming from tensions in the Middle East, principally from a standoff between Iran and the West over the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme, which Washington and its allies say aims to produce an atomic bomb but Tehran says is entirely peaceful.
The West has imposed strict sanctions on Iran that have halved its oil exports to around 1 million barrels per day.
Talks between Iran, the U.N. Security Council and major powers next month could help ease those tensions, analysts say.
"It is a positive development that could potentially reduce the risk premium since both parties are willing to negotiate," said VTB Capital oil strategist Andrey Kryuchenkov.
"Talks will be far from easy and it is unlikely we shall see an immediate lift to the oil embargo, but war mongering rhetoric could still decline," Kryuchenkov added.
A senior Iranian official was quoted as saying on Saturday that Iran would consider any attack on Syria an attack on itself, in one of Tehran's most assertive defences of its ally.
Iran, a member of OPEC, is a key supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who is fighting a near two-year-long revolt. (Additional reporting by Jessica Jaganathan in Singapore; editing by James Jukwey)


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DETROIT - The Detroit Lions lost to the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday with a final score of 27 to 24. Mike Nugent kicked a 54-yard field goal as time expired to give Cincinnati a dramatic victory at Detroit.
Andy Dalton was 24-of-34 for 364 yards with three touchdowns, and top target A.J. Green had six catches for 155 yards and a score for the Bengals (5-2). Nugent, whose career long is 55 yards, atoned for a missed field goal in the second quarter by making two in the second half to help Cincinnati win its third in a row.
Matthew Stafford went 28-of-51 for 357 yards and three TDs for the Lions (4-3), including two to Calvin Johnson in the second half. Johnson, who had been slowed by a sore knee, had nine receptions for 155 yards.
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The Bengals struck first when Dalton hit Green on an 82-yard bomb on the team's third play from scrimmage, but the Lions answered with a 16-play, 80-yard drive that took up nearly eight minutes - ending with Stafford's 3-yard TD pass to tight end Brandon Pettigrew. Cincinnati's Carlos Dunlap blocked David Akers' field-goal attempt late in the first half to set up Dalton's 12-yard scoring pass to Marvin Jones for a 14-10 halftime lead.
Dalton extended the lead by hitting rookie tight end Tyler Eifert on a 32-yard scoring pass on the opening drive of the second half, but Stafford responded with two TDs to Johnson — the second on a desperation 50-yard pass into triple coverage to tie it at 24-24 with 12:10 remaining. Both teams had the ball in the final two minutes, but a poor punt by Lions rookie Sam Martin put the Bengals at midfield with 26 seconds remaining, setting the stage for Nugent's game-winner.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Johnson passed Herman Moore for the most 100-yard receiving games in franchise history (35). … Green's touchdown was the longest play of his career. … Stafford is the first quarterback to pass for more than 300 yards against the Bengals in 21 games, including the playoffs.
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Everything in the heavens and everything in the earth glorifies Allah, the King, the All-Pure , the Almighty, the All-Wise. (Surat al-Jumu'a, 62:1)
Allah is the sole Creator of all that exists, whether in the various micro- and macro-universes. Many people fail to see this all-pervasive order and stability when they gaze around themselves.
As Allah states in "Allah keeps a firm hold on the heavens and Earth, preventing them from vanishing. And if they vanished, no one could then keep hold of them" (Surah Fatir, 35:41), He regulates and protects all of the various universes' existing systems.
Given that we are inherently feeble, we sometimes err, forget, make mistakes, and become heedless. We also have many weaknesses. For example, we need to take care of our bodies, which involves endless routines to keep them clean and fresh. If we become too tired, are deprived of sleep for a few days, or do not drink for a prolonged time, we become weak. Yet, Allah, Who possesses everything and owns the most beautiful names, is surely beyond all weaknesses. Allah's infinite power, wisdom, glory, and unbounded knowledge are related in the Qur'an, as follows:
Allah, there is no deity but Him, the Living, the Self-Sustaining. He is not subject to drowsiness or sleep. Everything in the heavens and Earth belongs to Him. Who can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is before them and what is behind them, but they cannot grasp any of His knowledge save what He wills. His Footstool encompasses the heavens and Earth, and their preservation does not tire Him. He is the Most High, the Magnificent. (Surat al-Baqara, 2:255)


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The Crap We Missed – Wednesday 8.28.13
"Ok everyone, let's pack it up, we're no longer needed here." – My soul
Welcome to Wednesday's The Crap We Missed, the feature that I put together each day for the expressed purpose of giving you an outlet for your misdirected anger and/or a delivery system for you to delight Fish with your most obscure nerd references that I don't understand. That said, enjoy Roman Polanski and Woody Allen at some sort of Old, Wildly Overrated Sexual Deviant Film Director Awards, Hugh Jackman whispering "It's called a snowball, don't worry, all the big Hollywood actresses do it," and remember that time five seconds ago when I posted an innocent picture of a father lovingly playing with his daughter for you to deviants to write captions for?
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When I was a very small child, I walked around everywhere with a blanket that I used as some kind barrier or a source of comfort. As I recall, it was yellow with some pattern designs on it, much like the oversized button down shirts that many pipe organ enthusiasts wear to recitals. One day we went to visit my aunt and uncle, and while I wasn't looking, someone—I have my suspicions but still am not entirely sure who—hid the blanket, and everyone told me it was gone, as if it disintegrated into thin air like a fart in the wind. That's when I experienced my very first withdrawal.
"Addiction" conjures up images of drunks slumped over a bar or junkies shooting up heroin, but really we can become addicted to anything. Dependence seems to be the criteria. Maybe anxiety, too, in the absence of the desired thing. These crutches exist thanks to little lies that we tell ourselves: I need this. A mindset like this can encompass many different degrees of attachment. I forget where I read the story about a woman who insisted she was an alcoholic because she had one glass of wine every night at 5 o'clock. A glass of wine is harmless, but it was the insatiable need for it that bothered this lady. That's an example of someone with an unusually high level of self-knowledge, even if it's a bit obsessive.
I have my own addictions. They are all minor, thankfully, but they exist, and I often wonder if my life wouldn't be better without them and without the little devils that serve them by whispering their b.s. into my ears.
This one isn't uncommon. For most of my life my primary vehicle of choice for this substance has been soda. Back in 2001, I perceived the need to knock it off and was doing pretty well when I took a vacation to Vienna, the capital of my heart's joy. Like only a Boobus Americanus could do, I decided to stop at a McDonald's not far off the Kaertnerstrasse to see if European soda was better than the stuff in America. It's funny, but I don't remember the outcome of that ill-begotten experiment, except that I felt that for the rest of the vacation I could drink soda. And then on the plane back, I drank soda, because vacation wasn't technically over yet. Then the jet lag hit; take a good guess as to how I tried to combat that. I have been drinking soda ever since.
Only more recently have I put coffee into the mix. Thanks to the specialty coffee shops here in Philly, I have become a coffee snob, even though I can't sort out vanilla or fruit flavors like one of those wine tasters with the pince-nez. At one point I was up to three cups a day, but that much got me so wound up that I was counterproductive. So I've cut back a bit from that. Nevertheless, my caffeine addiction is alive and well. I'm not a scientist, but I'm willing to bet that this phenomenon is at least partially a physical dependence. All the same, there are rubbish stories I tell myself to justify the habit: I don't have energy until I have caffeine. This could be solved by getting good sleep, which can't happen when caffeine is constantly in my system. Or here's another: Caffeine, especially coffee, helps me to think and write better. Maybe, to a point. James Altucher talks about this. I understand it completely, but is this really the only way to get the creative juices flowing? Is it the best way? I've written some really awful stuff on two cups of coffee. It's similar to the guy who's on this third drink and thinks he's unlocked the mysteries of the universe when he's actually just drunk. Honestly, my best ideas get started during long runs.
Somehow, I can't quite bring myself even to try to get off the caffeine. I'm afraid of the headaches, and besides, the people at the cafe I most often go to are really cool, and it's a nice place to get work done. I also wonder if I don't use caffeine as a low-grade anti-depressant. It's just a thought; maybe there's something to it. The hilarious irony here is that I'm a highly anxious person, and caffeine almost certainly contributes to that. I know all this, yet I continue to drink the stuff. I guess I'm just a dunghill covered with snow, to borrow a line from Martin Luther.
Industriousness is a good thing. I try to get work done efficiently so that I have more time for leisure and reading. It aids a more balanced life. It doesn't take much for me to get some good momentum going, but once I get going, I can't stop. Part of the reason I'm a night owl is that I don't have an 'off' switch. Since there's always one more thing to do, I'm always doing the next thing until my eyes are so heavy I can't keep them open any more. That takes awhile, thanks to the caffeine.
The biographies of the great people in history are filled with accounts of relentless work ethic. It's like there was some kind of spirit pushing these people along, or even possessing them. I am not great, and sometimes I'm lazy, but I can relate to that drive that simply will not stop. Some kinds of activities require very long periods of intense concentration. I find it's the only way to get certain things done. This is where obsessive work habits bring an advantage. Losing track of time while getting lost in some problem about which you have a passion can be a heavenly experience.
Where I have trouble is in walking away from my work. I can't compartmentalize it. It follows me around, and I even think about it while I'm out to dinner or getting a drink with a friend. Why do I do this? Maybe it's that yellow blanket coming back in a new guise: Who I am isn't good enough, so what I do must dominate my life. I don't know if this applies to me but I think I ought to be on the lookout for it. I certainly am not the only one, if in fact it's true. We are less human beings these days and more human doings, with one hand on the coffee mug and the other on the smart phone, being led about by the nose by Facebook updates and endless text messages. I'm thinking about instituting a Luddite Day in my weekly routine. No phone, no email, no Facebook, no planning, no work; just me and a book under a tree.
In order not to fiddle with or be distracted by my phone constantly, I have to leave it at home. Even turning it off doesn't help, because I forget that I've shut it down and am constantly going back to it. As I hit the wake button, the phone starts up again; then I have to wait for it to boot up so that I can shut it off. Five minutes later, the whole cycle is repeated when I absentmindedly hit the button yet again.
Texting seems to be the most pernicious thing. I'll turn the ringer off and put the phone face down on the table, yet I'm still checking it every two minutes, as if I'm an ambulance driver rather than a musician. This is a strange kind of nervous tick, I think. It reminds me of smokers who have quit who wear holes into their shirt pockets by reaching for cigarette boxes that are no longer there.
For years I refused to engage in text messaging. Then I discovered that it can save time in a lot of situations. Now I perceive, however, that it can also waste a lot of time. No, you don't have to pick up the phone and speak to someone, but your time gets nickled-and-dimed to death by the Chinese water torture of getting a 160 character-long message every two minutes or so. Then someone tries to use shorthand and isn't understood, and the whole conversation has to start over again.
More than once I have nearly thrown my phone into the toilet and flushed twice to make certain that it is gone for good. Alas, having no phone seems to be an even worse situation. Moderation is the only solution. I have seriously considered, however, not texting any more. I'm not sure how that would go. I have a feeling that if I were successful, I could probably save up to an hour a day. That's enough time to read a book in a week.
The late Dr. Gerald May, in his book, Addiction and Grace, goes through the science and psychology of addiction. It's fascinating stuff; I highly recommend it. (I am also addicted to semi-colons, by the way.) After a long, compassionate, thoughtful excursion, however, he says it all comes down to this: just stop. Whatever addictions or bad habits you have, you just have to stop them. That pretty much takes away the excuses and forces you to get serious. I suppose a game plan is in order. Maybe a good motivator is to try to imagine ways in which your life will be better when the bad habits are gone. I did this when I lost weight, and it helped me to keep my eye on the goal line rather than the queue at the donut shop. If I were to give up caffeine I'd probably have more energy and less anxiety. If I didn't obsess about work in down time, I'd probably have fresher ideas when it's time to get to business. And if I didn't text I'd probably spend less of my time being agitated at a nagging electronic device.
I suppose the question for anyone with a bad habit is whether they're ready or not to believe that their version of the story is flawed. Those little liars in our ears don't go away easily. Sometimes we have to take a leap of faith, to ignore the demons that delude us. This calls for some soul-searching and fearless honesty, however seemingly inconsequential some of the behaviors in question may seem to be. Rooting out the weeds in our lives is not easy, but in my experience it's always worth the effort. I should come up with a longer list for myself and starting hacking away with my proverbial scythe. Maybe I can brainstorm tomorrow over a cup of coffee.
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Caustic Graphics: Hardware Raytracingby Derek Wilson on 4/20/2009 4:00 PM EST
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jido - Thursday, April 30, 2009 - linkWith fast branching and parallel computing, as well as a good amount of RAM, there has to be other applications for this card. Could you do encryption/decryption or AI maybe? Reply
lemonadesoda - Thursday, April 30, 2009 - linkWouldnt the "clearspeed e710" PCI board outperform this? The hardware is there. This company should focus on the software libraries.
The CATS™ 700 1U rack module comtains 12 of these and delivers over 1 teraflops. With the right software you probably could do near-real time raytracing (seconds rather than minutes or hours per scene). Farm the CATS 700 and yes you could do real time raytracing on a one or two second "lag". That is, use 20 of these things, all rendering separate frames, one frame apart. It will take you a few seconds to build the first scene, but then you will have the rest ready to show real-time.
How to manage this? Well that's the software issue these guys should be working on... NOT reinventing hardware that is already out there.
AFTER they get it working on CATS then perhaps they mighht consider developing their own optimised hardware. But that should come SECOND not FIRST.
Back to MBA skool boyz. Reply
kyleb2112 - Saturday, April 25, 2009 - linkIf this can appreciably speed up raytracing, it'll find a market in the same demo that buys workstation graphics cards. But the way cpu cores are multiplying, they'll have to hurry up. Nothing loves multicores more than 3D rendering, and once we've got 32-core boxes this tech may be obsolete. Reply
Draven31 - Thursday, April 23, 2009 - linkART PURE/Renderdrive anyone? Its been done, and the last couple times it has been tried, it was cheaper to buy six render nodes that ended up being the same speed, within six months. If its gonna be a year before they are even shipping cards to consumers, i doubt they are going to get *anywhere* Reply
7Enigma - Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - link...and no one has a clue what that will be. Comon people, this article was little more than a puff press piece; interesting to read and make geeks giddy, but no actual substance. To be honest, this should be a blog post. Yes the description of the differences between ray-tracing and rasterization are nice and all, but there is no meat to this product at the time being.
So no, it's not 20X faster, or 100X faster, or 2% faster, it doesn't yet exist and until independant testing has been done, I won't believe a word I read. Reply
simtex - Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - linkAll the people that claim, this is a bad idea, intel will just copy it an make it run on their CPU. Well people the CPU have other tasks too, if ray-tracing is to be used in games, I would be rather anoyed if I couldnt get physics and AI calculations because my CPU had to do all the rendering work. So a card to off-load some of the computations would surely be a nice addition. Of course then Intel could cooperate with nvidia and offload physics and AI calculations to the graphic card, but that doesn't seems very likely atm.
Also Caustics doesn't claim that this is a production board, infact they state that this is a prototype, and that their final product will use ASICs, and not FPGAs. Furthermore Caustics design does in fact consider the bandwidth requirements for ray-tracing, actually they claim that their algorithms are specially designed to cope with the limited bandwidth, and that this in their major achievement. Personally i think they use some sort of ray-bundling, although this have also been implemented in software ray-tracers they must have invented some new tricks to make it even better.
Another great aspect of ray-tracing is that the frame rate is more dependent on the number of pixels you wish to render, than it is on the number of triangles on the scene, in contrary to rasterization. Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - linkWell I don't know much about all this, but I saw their video. The co-founder says that ray-tracing isn't a compute problem anymore, and that they looked at it in a different way. So, I'm wondering, if they're using a new algorithm or something that's making all the difference, can't Intel use their general purpose Larrabee to simulate that? Reply
simtex - Thursday, April 23, 2009 - linkDepends whether the algorithm is public available, as I understand the claims of Caustics is that it's their own algorithm and propably patented. Reply
slusallek - Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - linkIt is strange to see that someone proposes a hardware architecture that by design is bandwidth limited. They have separated ray tracing at the point where the bandwidth is highest -- whihc seems like not a really smart move.
By doing the ray traversal and intersection on their card and the shading on the GPU they must constantly transfer ray data between the two: transfer the hit point of each ray/pixel to the GPU (point, normal, texture coordinates, shader ID, ...) and then transfer any rays newly generated by a shader back to their chip (origin, direction, min/max_dir, ...). Each of those transfers is easily between 30 to 60 bytes per ray.
So for a HD screen this is easily 100MB for just a single ray generation and only one sample per pixel. Given a PCI 1.0 4x bandwidth of 1GB/s this gives a theoretical maximum of just 5 fps -- and we have not done any work yet. No AA, no shadow rays, reflections, they all generate multiples of this in bandwidth. Even with PCI 3.0 and 16x lanes this will be a huge bandwidth issue.
Let me also just point out that one of the first RTRT papers on visualizing car headlights (http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/Publications/2002/200...">http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/Publications/2002/200... already achieved up to 10 fps at the same video resolution. Note that the headlight used up to 25 rays per pixel and lots of complex multiple reflection and refraction. It ran on a cluster of 16 nodes with dual CPU single-core Athlon 1800s providing a total of 32 cores.
Compare this with a latest machine used by Casutics with likely Dual Quad-core CPUs giving something 16 cores (with hyperthreading) each one easily providing a multiple of the FLOPS of the old Athlon. So it seems their performance is not even reaching what has already been done 7 years ago.
So in summary, I am not really impressed by what Caustics claims. Their hardware architecture is severely limited by design and their software results are way behind what has been done many years ago. Reply
nubie - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkI for one am looking forward to a time when games no longer have ugly polygons.
Even in recent games cylindrical objects are pictured as comprised of as few as 8 sides.
If you can send the raw math into the equation for the rays to hit it will make the whole thing much more powerful.
I would love to see this and Larrabee succeed, progress and competition are always good for the consumer. Reply
tdenton1138 - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkCheck out their videos here:
http://vimeo.com/4240520">http://vimeo.com/4240520 Reply
poohbear - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkim so replacing their ugly blue heatsink w/ my own aftermarket cooling..... gonna overclock the hell outta this thing!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! Raytracing here i come! Reply
Flunk - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkThe use of FPGAs for Caustic One makes it sound more like a prototype than an actual product. It's nice to see people trying to sell new ideas but it might be a bit premature today. Then again a proof of concept is always nice. Reply
DerekWilson - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkFPGAs are good enough if the benefit is real. lots of people use FPGAs in shipping devices. an ASIC would be better (faster), but it requires a lot of start up money. Reply
DeathBooger - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkI'm a professional 3D artist. I don't really see this taking off. Right now I have a core i7 and it does the job for me just fine. I create photorealistic images and animations for a living and I don't really see the point of this in this day and age. And if I can't see the point, I doubt production companies with access to large render farms will. Especially if it makes more fiscal sense to pop in a new processor instead of changing out all of the mainboards to fit a new card that might be faster.
The software used for ray tracing these days is a lot faster than it used to be. 3rd party apps like Vray pretty much solved the issue of slow ray tracing years ago.
I could see this taking off for games to get real time global illumination to be come a standard, but only if Microsoft and Sony decides to add Caustic hardware to their next consoles. Keeping it PC exclusive wouldn't go anywhere long term.
Actually another prospect would be for Nvidia to buy them out since they own Mental Ray. Mental Ray is the renderer that ships with most 3D software these days. It still won't change the fact that people in the know use Vray instead since it's a lot faster than Mental Ray and more user friendly. Mental Ray is more powerful in the right hands and I could see the film industry gobbling these cards up if the SDK was implemented into Mental Ray, but freelance guys like me probably will never touch one. Reply
Griswold - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkYou dont sound like you actually know what you're talking about in respect of this hardware let alone like a professional 3d artist who does what this thing was designed for... Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkI'd like to disagree too. They say they provide a 20x improvement in rendering times. Surely this card will be cheaper than buying 20 processors. And who said you need to replace the mainboard? It clearly uses a PCIe slot. Look at the pic.
Now if Intel can deliver something with similar better performance with Larrabee, at a price point that many consumers can afford, then things would be different. Reply
DeathBooger - Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - linkPCIe is a rare commodity in servers still to this day. Render farms use servers, not typical workstations. This company is essentially trying to add another component where one never existed before. That requires a total reconfiguration for server farms. It's not like each server has a video card that can just be swapped out for this Caustic card easily.
Tell you what, if Pixar adopts it, then I'll eat my words. Pixar has the resources to do anything they want. If they find value in this card then I was wrong. Reply
RagingDragon - Friday, April 24, 2009 - linkUh, you might want check the HP, IBM and Dell server linups...
New Intel/AMD servers do have PCIe (mostly 8x and 4x)
New RAID controllers are mostly PCIe 8x or 4x
10GB ethernet, fiber channel cards, etc. are mostly availible in PCIe too. Reply
Tuvok86 - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkMonsters vs Aliens movie required 40 million hours of rendering time Reply
DeathBooger - Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - linkThey're speaking in terms of workstation hours, not actual hours. HP is hyping their products so it is misleading. Reply
Roland00 - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkSo each frame took about (94*60*30=169,200 frames)
Thus each final frame took 236.40 hours of render time. Reply
Verdant - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkI respectfully disagree, a fully raytraced scene with anything more than basic lighting can easily take well over a minute per frame, even if you have a huge render farm, it takes a long time to render an animation of any significant length and detail. Most larger animation houses would jump on something like this, if it really can render their frames 20x faster, and not use 20x the power. Reply
jabber - Monday, April 20, 2009 - link....that still cant show anything but a rendered image of its product several months after its been announced. Reply
Tuvok86 - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkthe card pictured
http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/694/card-angle...">http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/694/card-angle... Reply
monomer - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkIs it just me, or does the Caustic logo look similar to a slightly rotated Quake III logo? Reply
SonicIce - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linklol yea. except its like quake 6 or something Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkIf raytracing catches on in games, how long will it take Intel to make similar units and put a couple of them on the Larrabee die? I'm sure if they could do it, Intel's scientists too.
Besides, from what I've seen/read, it seems Larrabee will be good enough for raytracing. In a Larrabee research paper from Intel I read that Larrabee is 4.6 times more efficient than Intel Xeon (Core based) processors in raytracing on a per clock, per core basis. Also, Intel ray traced quake war at around 25 fps @1280x720 using 4 Intel Dunnington hexa-core processors (24 cores in total).
So if Larrabee will have 32 cores, and even if we take it to be 4x more efficient instead of 4.6 (scaling etc.) then it will be (32*4)/24 = around 5.5 times faster than the setup they used. That's enormous! 130 fps at 1280x720 res for a fully ray traced game!, or you could increase the res and keep the fps to 60. Besides, Larrabee will most likely have MUCH more bandwidth available than that FSB based Dunnington system had.
I can't wait, Intel. Hurry up! Reply
lopri - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkInteresting article. Thank you for the explanation on Ray Tracing v. Rasterization. The difference is still confusing to me, but hopefully I'll eventually understand. I don't expect a simple answer to my questions but maybe someone can enlighten me.
1. Doesn't Ray-Tracing still require triangles anyway? I understand Rasterazation as Derek explained: draw triangles and 'flatten' them. Ray-tracing shoots (?) rays on triangles. So it still needs triangles anyway. It sounds more like shooting rays on 'flattened' triangles.. Oh but what do I know.
2. Is there any 'fundemental' reason why Ray-traced images look better than rasterized images? It seems to me they're just different ways for a same result. Yes, I'm a noob.
Anyway, I agree with others regarding this specific company. It's proably applying some patents and then looking to be bought by bigger fishes. Do they even have a working hardware? Reply
DerekWilson - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - link1) You can do raytracing without triangles -- you can just use math to describe your objects like spheres and stuff as all that's really needed is an intersection point. But you can also use triangles, and this is often what is done because it does still make some things easier. You just do intersection between a line and a plane and see if the intersection point falls inside your triangle. So -- for rasterization, triangles are required while for raytracing they are perfectly fine to use but you aren't as locked in to using them as with rasterizers.
2) because each pixel can contain input from more of the rest of the scene with little programatic complexity and a high degree of accuracy. it is possible for raytracing to produce a more accurate image /faster/ than rasterization would require to achieve an equally accurate image. however, it is possible for rasterization to produce an image that is "close enough" MUCH faster than raytracing (especially with modern hardware acceleration).
there are some raytraced images that look very bad but accurately portray reflection and refraction. accuracy in rendering isn't all that's required for a good looking image. The thing that is being rendered also needs to be handled well by artists -- accurate textures and materials need to be developed and used correctly or the rendered image will still look very bad. I think this is why a lot of raytracing proof of concepts use solid colored glass even when they don't have to. I honestly don't think the sample images Caustic provided are very "good" looking, but they do show off good effects (reflection, refraction, caustics, ambient occlusion, soft shadows ...) ...
so ... I could take a diamond and try cutting it myself. I could put this diamond on a table next to a really well cut cubic zirconium. people might think the imitation looks much better and more "diamond" like in spite of the fact that my horribly cut diamond is a diamond ... which one is "better" is different than which one is more "accurate" ... both are good though :-)
hope that helps ... Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkI'm no pro, but from what I know the main difference is that things like shadows, refractions and reflections render MUCH better. This is because in raytracing you also use secondary rays. So the rays reflected off/refracted from a surface can affect the color of other nearby surfaces, producing shadows, reflections, etc. In ray tracing you do it just like nature does it in real world (in reverse of that, but that doesn't affect the outcome). In rasterization, you need to manually program for producing shadows, reflections, etc. and so they are mostly just approximations.
Another advantage of ray tracing is that programmers don't need to work that hard - things which may take you hundreds of lines of code in rasterization, only take 10 lines in ray tracing.
Compare this to 3D vs 2D rendering of a 3D cube. Suppose you need to render the cube as the camera circles around it. If you're doing it in 3D, you just render it in 3D, flatten the image and display it. Now if you're using 2D, but you want to create the effect of 3D, you don't have to render a cube - you need to directly render how the flattened image would look. That is, you need to take into account the 3D distortion due to perspective/depth and you need to make the edges of the cube oblique accordingly, you need to make the part of the cube that is farther look farther by rendering it smaller than the face of the cube that is closer to the camera. A lot of work for the programmer, and needless to say, it won't be very accurate. Well in this case it may be accurate as it's just a cube with straight edges, and so you can easily calculate things. But not in the case of a complex object.
Same way, rasterization at best can offer approximations of phenomena like refraction etc., how close they are depend on the programmer.
Check this rendered pic to see what ray tracing can deliver:
Note: I'm not a graphics programmer but this is how I understand it. Please correct me where I'm wrong. Reply
AmbroseAthan - Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - linkThat picture is a ray-traced rendering?! It looks like a photograph! Someone put in a lot of time and crunching power on that one. Reply
JimmiG - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkI'm also wondering about #2 - is Raytracing really "better", or just "different"?
Back in the 90's I used to be really impressed with the quality of raytraced animations and pictures, with their shiny, reflective objects, realistic water, lighting, soft shadows etc. However back then the capabilities of "3d accelerators" were very limited - 3d games used simple models, "flat" lighting models with no shadows and only one light source, and blurry textures without any shader effects like bumps, parallax maps, reflections etc. Today it seems the latest 3d engines already do everything in realtime that you needed raytracing and many minutes/hours per scene to do in the past. Reply
jimhsu - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkSomeone correct me, but i think it is not that raytracing "looks" better, but because it is closer to a physical description of light (only in inverse), effects such as ambient occlusion, caustics, and other shiny things can be implemented in a relatively straightforward manner in a physically correct manner, while rasterization requires the use of shaders to "emulate" reality. These approximations are often complicated to program and implement, even though they achieve nearly the same effect. Reply
DerekWilson - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkthis is sort of true ... it's possible to write shaders for a rasterizer that do everything a raytracer does. But in addition to the code complexity in a z-buffer based rasterizer you end up with performance disadvantages.
At the point where you properly and accurately emulate raytracing with a rasterizer you need to start generating all kinds of dynamic environment maps every frame for every object. treating objects as light sources and doing real time radiosity for rasterization (which can be done as well) is also difficult. To get an image that is as physically accurate as raytracing, rasterization (at this point with todays technology) would be slower even using a GPU designed for rasterization.
Honestly, there are some things that rasterization can approximate well enough that we don't notice the difference, and I think for a long time to come we'll still see rasterization as the main vehicle for realtime graphics. I think we'll start to see raytracing come in as a secondary tool to augment rasterization and add effects that are tough to achieve otherwise. Reply
lopri - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkI think I am learning more abou raytracing from this article and comments than anywhere else to date. Thank you for excellent explanations and analogies! Reply
jimhsu - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkAn analogy for math majors would probably be trying to solve a function analytically (i.e. rules of calculus) vs. numerically (i.e. Newton's Method, Euler, etc). The numerical result is often close to the analytical result, but intuitively the analytical result is the "right" way to do the problem, except when it is infeasible (we have something that we can't integrate). Reply
Einy0 - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkThis may actually help Larrabee gain ground. An alternative to do realtime raytracing. Then again Larrabee may help this gain ground as Larrabee will be do both rasterizing and raytracing.
I'm surpirsed they can make anything worth buying with FPGAs. I guess FPGAs have come a long way. I'd love to get some specifics on the underlying architecture.
Bad timing considering the global economy etc... Reply
ifkopifko - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linklol... real-time raytracing? Keep dreaming. :-D Something like that is far far in the future. Reply
Sivar - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkThere have been assembly language demos from the 4k scene which have done realtime ratracing since the late 90's. In software. On a Pentium MMX.
They aren't quite what I'd call Pixar-quality, but it's far from impossible.
HelToupee - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkGo outside. Look around. Real-time raytracing is here today! The future is now!! :) Reply
MrPickins - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkThe FPGA implementation surprised me as well. It's impressive that they can get such performance out of a pair of them. Reply
SonicIce - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkI'll give them 12 months... Reply
Harbinger - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkI'm pretty sure they will succeed. Just make a working prototype and prove to Pixar/Dreamworks/Disney/whatever that this thing will hugely accelerate they're rendering.
They don't have to appeal to masses that expect a wide variety of features on a wide variety of platforms and software. They target a very very specific segment and if they can convince that segment they'll gonna be fine. Reply
DerekWilson - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - linkYou are right, except if Larrabee competes with this in terms of speeding up raytracing ... but we'll have to wait and see on that one. If they focus on a niche market, they could succeed. Reply
RamarC - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkagreed, unless they get a mainstream rendering app to sign on and can get some royalties out of the software end. if not, nvidia will just implement a similar api and they'll promote using quadros as render accelerators. Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkUnlike Ageia PhysX, this is not about the API, but the hardware. Reply
smartalco - Monday, April 20, 2009 - linkExcept, given that this is /custom hardware/, nvidia can't just role out a CUDA update Reply


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Cricket Canada has parted ways with its Senior Men's team coach Gus Logie.
Logie had coached the team since mid 2012 succeeding Michael Dighton.
During his tenure the senior men's team failed to gain traction and finished the year a dissapointing 13th place at the World Twenty20 qualifier in UAE, 7 spots out of a qualification spot.
CEO Doug Hannum made the announcement to the staff and team on Monday before making a statement.
"this is obviously a challenging time for the organization but this decision is made with a view to prepare and send the best team to the World Cup Qualifier in January. Unfortunately you cannot change 15 players at once and something had to give...it's up to the playing group to pick themselves up give a good account of themselves in New Zealand."
Canada is chasing one of two spots available at the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Also at stake in New Zealand are ODI status and a place in the ICC High Performance Program.
Cricket Canada president Ravin Moorthy thanked Logie for contributions.
"We would like to thank Gus for all that he did while he was with us. His efforts in 2003 in South Africa are part of Canada's sporting history and his hardwork and dedication to his craft are unparalleled. It's unfortunate that his tenure had to end after the dissapointing tour of UAE but unfortunately this is a results driven business and the results just weren't there."
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Apparently Jesse James' penis is a divining rod for crazy because he managed to not only stick it in a heavily-tattooed woman who grew up Amish, she's also a Nazi. TMZ has obtained photos from last year of Michelle posing in Nazi attire and court documents in her child custody case reveal she has white power memorabilia all over her house even though – wait for it – her son is Jewish. Sandra Bullock has to be bathing with Brillo pads right now.
On that note, kudos to everyone in the comments who noticed the letters W and P on Michelle's legs and assumed it meant White Power. (I was leaning towards Wiener Parking Lot.)
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Zach Galifianakis' Funny or Die online series features his low budget talk show "Between Two Ferns." Usually Zach and Hollywood's biggest names like Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper, Steve Carell, Conan O'Brien, Samuel L. Jackson jab each other on everything from their careers to their appearance. This time, Zach's guest was hurling most of the insults. President Barack Obama.


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BACLIFF, Texas - A man and a woman have been accused of wrapping a dead man's body in plastic.
Samantha Escobedo-Resendez, 26, and German Perez-Velasquez, 31, have been charged with tampering with physical evidence.
Galveston County sheriff's deputies said Escobedo-Resendez and Perez-Velasquez went to the Kemah Police Department about 3:30 p.m. and told officers that they left a man dead inside a mobile home in the 3700 block of Harmony Lane near Gordy Road in Bacliff.
Deputies said they went to the home and found the body, wrapped in plastic. The man's name has not been released.
Investigators said they talked to Escobedo-Resendez and Perez-Velasquez and determined that the trio may have been involved in an altercation which may have resulted in the man's death.
Escobedo-Resendez and Perez-Velasquez wrapped the man's body in plastic after his death to try to cover up evidence, deputies said.
The cause of the man's death will be determined by the Galveston County Medical Examiner's Office.
Escobedo-Resendez and Perez-Velasquez have been booked into the Galveston County Jail with bond set at $100,000 each.
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Encarnacion drives in five to back Buehrle
Blue Jays hit three homers as lefty allows one run in six innings
TORONTO -- Just like Jose Bautista from two years ago, Edwin Encarnacion entered this season having to prove he wasn't a one-hit wonder.
Toronto's first baseman/DH was fresh off an impressive 2012 campaign which saw him become one of the elite hitters in the American League. The question on everybody's mind was, would he be able to do it again?
Despite somewhat of a slow start, Encarnacion appears to have regained that status and once again took center stage on Monday night by tying a career high with five RBIs to support six strong innings from Mark Buehrle in Toronto's 9-3 victory over the Braves.
"That's the question everybody's been asking, and the best way to answer is the way I've been playing right now," said Encarnacion, who has 35 RBIs in his past 32 games.
"I want to have another great year, so they can say it's nothing lucky. I believe in myself, I have a lot of confidence and I know what I got."
The early returns this season weren't exactly promising, as Encarnacion found himself in a long line of Blue Jays' hitters who were struggling to find some sort of rhythm at the plate. A lingering wrist injury didn't help matters, as Encarnacion hit just .197 (14-for-71) with two homers and eight RBIs through the first 19 games.
The storyline changed towards the end of April, and Encarnacion has been a different hitter ever since. He maintained a patient approach at the plate and along the way regained the 2012 form by hitting .290 (36-for-124) with 12 homers and 35 RBIs dating back to April 22.
The Blue Jays' lineup has gone through a similar rebirth, as the club has been one of the top offensive teams in the American League during May. That production continued on Monday night as Encarnacion, J.P. Arencibia and Colby Rasmus each homered.
Toronto has scored five or more runs in nine of its past 13 games, and finally seem to be enjoying the type of production that was originally expected coming out of Spring Training.
"We knew that things were going to change," Encarnacion said. "When the season started we struggled at the beginning, but we knew we weren't going to be like that all year long. We knew things were going to change. So right now, we feel great at the plate, everybody's making adjustments, so everybody feels better."
Buehrle has been another reason for the Blue Jays' recent turnaround, and he was back at it again on Monday night. He allowed just one run on five hits while walking two and striking out six.
The strong outing marked another step in the right direction for Buehrle, who is still attempting to overcome a slow start to the season. The veteran starter began the year with a 7.02 ERA through seven starts, but has since begun to turn things around.
Buehrle's ERA now sits at 5.51, and he has recorded quality starts in three of his past four outings. He's allowed a total of nine runs over those 26 innings of work, with most of the effectiveness coming from an increased ability to keep the ball down in the zone.
"My sinker is moving, too. I think when you throw it that soft, it gives it a little more time to move down," Buehrle said with his typical self-deprecating humor. "Everything's been down in the zone, so when you're down in the zone pretty much the only thing they can do with it is hit it down.
"It's always good when I'm getting ground balls instead of fly balls -- I'll take fly-ball outs -- but when they're hitting the ball on the ground, that's kind of my game."
Atlanta right-hander Tim Hudson has owned the Blue Jays for most of his career, but that wasn't the case on Monday. Rasmus put Toronto on the board early with a two-run homer, while Encarnacion increased the lead to 4-0 with a two-run single in the third.
Arencibia then delivered the final blow to Hudson in the sixth with another two-run shot. It was Arencibia's 12th home run of the season and 54th of his career, as he moved to within five of Darrin Fletcher for the second spot on Toronto's all-time list for catchers.
Hudson entered the game with a career 11-3 record and 2.79 ERA vs. the Blue Jays, but struggled to get through six innings. He was charged with six runs on eight hits and he has now surrendered five or more runs in three of his past four outings.
"It was just not a very good night," Hudson said. "A night where I was battling a little bit with my delivery, my pitches weren't very crisp."
The capper went to Encarnacion when he connected in the seventh for a three-run homer off right-hander Cory Rasmus, the younger brother of Colby making his second Major League appearance.
The Blue Jays have now won nine of their past 14 games.
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This article was published 17/9/2012 (1799 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
When your record is 2-9, and two of your last three games were nearly called on a mercy rule contingency, it tends to change the focus of a football season.
Saturday night in Toronto, one of the questions for the Three Down Segment, generated by the think tank at TSN was, "How do the Bombers approach the last seven games?"
It's a question that hadn't needed to be asked around these parts for some time. The multiple choice answers were to: a) stay the course, b) prepare for the future, c) blow up the roster, d) blow up the front office, and at this point, each of these considerations is worth looking at.
"Staying the course," is the easy choice, the choice of those in denial, the choice of those grasping for straws, and the obvious pick for the existing coaching staff and the players. This is the win at all costs mentality, the mentality that is pervasive in team sports in 99 per cent of situations, that requires the best players be played at all times. This option gives the team the best chance of salvaging the greatest number of the remaining seven games, gives the coaching staff the best opportunity to retain their jobs, and affords the players the opportunity to at least spruce up what will obviously be a blemish on all of their resumés.
"Preparing for the future," is not a mentality that is often embraced in pro football, because it signifies a shift in attitude from the present to the future, and it would signify an abandonment of the original goals of the 2012 season. While you can still win games while preparing for the future, the emphasis shifts from winning now, to granting young and inexperienced players the time on field that will benefit them and the team down the road. This is the time where players can grow from added experience, while giving the coaching staff and management an opportunity to evaluate them in scenarios they might not otherwise see. The problem with this approach is that it is not exactly a strong selling point for revenue generation and fans that want to see a level of improvement, hope, and entertainment, as the franchise closes out the year.
"Blowing up the roster," is a crude way of acquiring better players, en masse. If it is determined that the 2-9 record is simply a byproduct of not having sufficient talent on the football field, then blowing up the roster, and signing a slew of NFL castaways is the way to go, regardless of their ramp-up time. Seldom is a losing environment singularly the fault of just the players or the managers, but if the schemes are proven and sound -- which is only the case on one side of the ball here -- then continually challenging your roster with competition and airlifting in alternative options at all areas of concerns is the way to go.
Lastly, "Blowing up the front office," is an option that has already been exercised to some degree this season with the dismissal of the head coach, but not with the intended result. If you are going to make a change with another coach, GM, or anywhere else, time is of the essence the further up the ladder you go, as any new manager would prefer to begin evaluating the existing coaches and roster in action, and be in place before the off-season begins in earnest.
So for the 2012 Winnipeg Blue Bombers, a team that by all indications, is getting worse as the season progresses, which is the appropriate course of action?
In my estimation, the time for staying the course has come and gone. They would practically have to win every remaining game to enter the post-season, and at this point, that appears to be more than just a mission impossible. I would sell "staying the course" publicly, while preparing for the future by evaluating as many unknowns and question marks on the roster as possible. If you are a non-import, you are going to see significant playing time over the next seven weeks, in conjunction with flying in potential upgrades for a number of roster spots and auditioning them.
In addition, taking a long, hard look at both the remaining coaching staff, the GM, and even the board of directors would appear to be in order. After all, 22 years is around 20 years too many for a championship drought in an environment that is this passionate about its football, and when things are this bad on the gridiron, nothing and nobody should escape scrutiny.
Doug Brown, once a hard-hitting defensive lineman and frequently a hard-hitting columnist, appears Tuesdays and game days in the Free Press.
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RICHMOND, Mich. - A former Detroit Lion defensive lineman has been charged with parental kidnapping and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in the disappearance of his 11-year-old son.
Authorities say former Detroit Lions defensive lineman Mark Grabowski kidnapped his son 11-year-old Connor Grabowski-Cracchiolo. The search for the two has extended beyond state lines.
As part of a custody agreement, the boy spends the summer with his father. During the school year he is supposed to be with his mother Kelly Evans in Richmond. Evans said when she went to pick up Connor last week, he and his dad were gone.
A YouTube video showing Conner saying he was not kidnapped by his dad was posted online Thursday evening. The video went online the same day the FBI filed paperwork alleging Grabowski was planning to move to Costa Rica.
--Mark Grabowski
Part of the criminal complaint reads:
Grabowski has left the State of Michigan with his son. Grabowski has apparently abandoned his residence in Livingston County and efforts to contact him have been unsuccessful. Information was obtained that indicate Grabowski was planning to leave the United States and establish a new life in Costa Rica
Connor would have started 5th grade at Richmond Middle School this week.
Anyone with information regarding their whereabouts is urged to contact the Livingston County Sheriff at (517) 540-7999.
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HOUSTON - Tuesday night's finale of the first season of Fashion Star made at least one designer's dreams of world domination—I mean fashion stardom—come true, with much fanfare and confetti.
The final task for the three finalists was to create three head-to-toe looks for each store- H&M, Macy's, and Saks Fifth Avenue, for a total of nine looks per finalist. That's a lot-o-designin'!
The H&M runway show went something like this:
Kara Laricks' had some highs and lows. A white racer-back button down top with fabulous orange shorts stole my heart, while I thought her tiered dress was weird and looked like a dress layered over a long skirt without much shape. There's something about that super low crotch that I find unsettling, but I found the short-sleeved jacket aspect of this suit to be very appealing.
Nzimiro Oputa went outside his comfort zone and put forth a women's look for H&M and it was faaaabulous! I agree with Nicole Richie who picked this look as his best of the runway show. The look consisted of a coral/pink pant with pocket detail, a sleeveless button down top with a sleeveless vest. Very H&M. The other look I adored was his second men's look with a charcoal short, which was just AWESOME. And then of course a Nzimimi special of a detailed button down with khaki slacks rounded out the collection.
Ronnie Escalante probably had my favorite of all the H&M collections, although I have to agree with the buyers and mentors that the collection as a whole lacked color. I actually struggled to pick a favorite out of all of these looks, but I think I'd have to go with his first, a grey jumpsuit with an über sexy keyhole in the front. Perfect length, expensive-looking fabric, bringing the 70's back, baby. Ronnie also had a black tube dress that was universal and would work on many a body type. But his final piece, a super interesting jumpsuit/actual suit situation was AWESOME. I didn't really love the top he put underneath, but the idea was innovative and very, very cool.
Next up was the Saks Fifth Avenue runway show:
Kara Laricks. Where do I even begin. Every single outfit was out of this world, and this collection alone would have been reason enough to crown her Fashion Star, in my opinion. Her first look was a phenomenal trench and short combo that looked expensive as hell and was classic Kara. Next up was this AMAZING skirt/pant… thing. I don't even know. All I know is I loved it so hard I tried to grab it off of the television. Even though it was paired with an unfortunate colored top, I think I still vote it my favorite item in her collection. Although, her evening dress was to DIE for, and featured her signature tuxedo tails trailing off the back. Glorious.
I just really did not love Nzimiro's Saks collection as a whole. There was a weird-fitting sweater vest over a relaxed button down and ill-fitting seersucker pants. Then we had what appeared to be a grandpa sweater (which I normally love) paired with… a swimsuit? I… don't understand. But the last look was the most upsetting. An odd printed button down, open over a white tee, tucked into… wait for it… RED SHIMMERY SHORT PANTS?! Red. Shimmery. Short. Pants. Need I say more?
Ronnie's Saks collection had some hits and misses. In terms of hits, Ronnie's white three-piece suit was off the CHAIN. It was sleek and modern with his signature double lapel and that red skinny tie just pushed it over the edge into Awesometown. Ronnie had a classic LBD with some shine on it for his second look. I think it would make a great staple dress but didn't knock my socks off. And then there was the floral floor length Flamenco dress. I did not dig that pattern, I did not dig that cut, and I just did not dig that dress. Oh well, can't win 'em all!
Closing out the night was the Macy's runway show:
Kara really toes the line between chic and unflattering with some of these dress shapes. The first dress was in one moment a horribly unflattering tent and in the next, an adorable, totally wearable little black number with great pattern lining. I was torn. I remain torn. Next up was a fantastic top and shorts combo. Kara used a great patterned print on the top and those shorts were absolutely wonderful— great length, great shape, great all around. But my favorite look from that collection was her white short-sleeve suit with a patterned top underneath that could be worn separately. It was just so damn versatile.
This was by FAR Nzimiro's strongest collection, and the strongest Macy's showing, in my opinion. Every item that walked down the runway was perfectly Macy's, and perfectly Nzimimi. The first look down the runway is the one I would pick as my favorite item to steal from my boyfriend. A light, hooded sweater that looks so comfortable I want to snuggle up in it and never take it off. EVER. Next up was my favorite outfit I'd actually want my boyfriend to wear. A stellar color-blocked polo with perfect-fitting navy shorts looked good enough to eat right off the model. And the final look, a blue button down with angled pocket details, was just hot. The model was hot. The look was hot. Just hot all around.
I liked Ronnie's Macy's collection as a whole, but there were definitely a few stand outs, namely his opening dress with a super sexy slit all the way up the side. It was just stunning and I want it now. The hourglass-blocked dress that came up next we've seen before, and while I get how it's flattering and great, it wasn't original and looked a little too much like Orly's color-blocked dress from a week earlier. But Ronnie's final suit was supa fierce, and I think this guy just knows how to make a bombass women's suit.
So if I had my way, I would pick Kara as the winner, no question, followed by Nizmimi, and then Ronnie for "best comeback."
Luckily, the buyers have EXCELLENT taste because they did in fact crown Kara Laricks the first ever Fashion Star!
And that's all folks! Check back next season for more fashion folly.
Thanks for reading, and as always, thanks for watching KPRC Local 2!
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