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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – December 13, 2004 – Centrata, the leading provider of Service Catalog and Service Delivery Management solutions (SDM), today announced the Centrata IT Service Delivery Management Accelerators, a set of solutions that enables customers to reap the benefits of an automated SDM solution in less time and with minimal investment. Centrata's SDM solutions have helped IT organizations save an average of 25-35% in operational costs by defining, managing, and governing the services IT offers to business users. As a result, IT organizations can improve customer satisfaction while decreasing costs. According to Meta Group, IT organizations can improve customer satisfaction by 30% by adopting IT service management principles.*
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Centrata's Outsourcing Management Accelerator combines IT service delivery management with outsourcing governance to improve service predictability and collaboration across internal and outsourced operations. With Outsourcing Management Accelerator, customers can define and codify policies, procedures and service level agreements governing outsourcing partners, improving outsourcing service compliance and quality.
Centrata Self-Service IT Accelerator
Centrata's Self Service IT Accelerator frees IT resources and streamlines fulfillment by enabling end users to order from a pre-defined set of standardized services. By automating the IT order, approval and fulfillment processes, customers gain greater visibility into the processes, enabling them to enhance services and better align IT with business requirements. "Timely and efficient delivery of IT products and services is essential for improved business agility and success. In light of this, we have developed a series of solutions that accelerate the development and deployment of services catalogs and service delivery management," said David M. Peranich, CEO of Centrata. "By rapidly aligning IT more closely with business units, Centrata's unique Service Delivery Management Accelerators provides the answer to CIOs' needs by reducing costs and improving IT operation efficiencies in as little as 60 days." Centrata's new Accelerators are based on Centrata's IT Service Delivery Management Suite and include a pre-defined set of implementation and consulting services delivered by Centrata's team of experts in IT Service Catalog to ensure rapid results. Centrata's IT Service Delivery Management Accelerators are generally available.
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About Centrata, Inc. Founded in 2001, Centrata is the leading provider of IT service catalog and service delivery management solutions for the Fortune 1000. Centrata's mission is to transform IT from the reactive, ad hoc organizations of today into efficient service-centric businesses. Built around an actionable service catalog, Centrata's solutions are specially designed to handle the complexity and high rate of change of today's Fortune 1000 IT environments. With Centrata, IT services become standardized, reliable, cost-effective and predictable as well as annuities. More information about the company can be found at www.centrata.com.
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Charles Schwab announced that Schwab ETF OneSource™, one of the largest commission-free ETF programs in the industry, is adding twelve new ETFs to its lineup effective today. With these additions, investors and advisors can access 254 ETFs covering 69 Morningstar Categories with $0 online commissions, no enrollment requirements and no early redemption fees – key differentiators for investors comparing Schwab ETF OneSource to other commission-free ETF offerings.
Schwab ETF OneSource offers commission-free ETFs from 16 leading providers – ALPS, Deutsche Asset Management, Direxion, ETF Securities, Global X Funds, Guggenheim Investments, IndexIQ, John Hancock Investments, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, OppenheimerFunds, PIMCO, PowerShares, State Street Global Advisors SPDR® ETFs, USCF, WisdomTree and Charles Schwab Investment Management.
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The new funds that are available beginning today include:
|Fund Name
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|Xtrackers MSCI All China Equity ETF
|China Region
|Xtrackers MSCI Germany Hedged Equity ETF
|Miscellaneous Region
|Global X U.S. Preferred ETF
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|Guggenheim BulletShares 2025 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
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Diversified Emerging Markets
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|PIMCO RAFI Dynamic Multi-Factor U.S. Equity ETF
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|SPDR® Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF
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|SPDR® EURO STOXX Small Cap ETF
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Diversified Emerging Markets
Schwab ETF OneSource Assets Grew by 47% in 2017 2
Assets in Schwab ETF OneSource surpassed $100 billion as of November 30, 2017, growing by 47% in 2017. November year-to-date flows into ETFs in the program are $21.5 billion, representing 49% of the total ETF flows at Schwab.
Notable additions to the program in 2017 range from welcoming a new provider – OppenheimerFunds – to adding nearly 30 ETFs in popular categories such as strategic beta and international equity.
The following funds were added to Schwab ETF OneSource in 2017:
Effective October 11, 2017
Fund Name
Morningstar Category
Schwab 1000 Index® ETF
Large Blend
|Effective July 6, 2017
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|Xtrackers FTSE Emerging Comprehensive Factor ETF
Diversified Emerging Markets
|Xtrackers Japan JPX-Nikkei 400 Equity ETF
|Japan Stock
|Xtrackers USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
|High Yield Bond
|Global X MLP & Energy Infrastructure ETF
|Energy Limited Partnership
|Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF
|Miscellaneous Sector
|Guggenheim S&P High Income Infrastructure ETF
|IQ S&P High Yield Low Volatility Bond ETF
|High Yield Bond
|John Hancock Multifactor Developed International ETF
|Foreign Large Blend
|JPMorgan Diversified Return Europe Currency Hedged ETF
|Europe Stock
|SPDR® Long Dollar Gold Trust
|Commodities Precious Metals
|SPDR® Russell 1000 Low Volatility Focus ETF
|Mid-Cap Blend
|SPDR® Russell 1000 Momentum ETF
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|Mid-Cap Value
|Oppenheimer Small Cap Revenue ETF
|Small Blend
|Oppenheimer Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF
|Large Value
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|Foreign Large Blend
|SPDR S&P® North American Natural Resources ETF
|Natural Resources
|WisdomTree CBOE S&P 500 PutWrite Strategy ETF
|Option Writing
A complete list of Schwab ETF OneSource ETFs is available here.
About Schwab ETF OneSource
Schwab ETF OneSource offers investors and advisors access to 200+ commission-free ETFs. Commission-free online trading is available to individual investors at Schwab, to approximately 7,000 independent investment advisors who use Schwab's custodial services and through Schwab retirement accounts that permit trading of ETFs.
Schwab offers a range of resources to help clients choose ETFs that fit their investment needs, including the Schwab ETF Select List™, tutorials, education, research and tools available via Schwab's online ETF center and live events at local Schwab branches.
About Charles Schwab
At Charles Schwab we believe in the power of investing to help individuals create a better tomorrow. We have a history of challenging the status quo in our industry, innovating in ways that benefit investors and the advisors and employers who serve them, and championing our clients' goals with passion and integrity.
More information is available at www.aboutschwab.com. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn.
1 Conditions Apply: Trades in ETFs available through Schwab ETF OneSource™ (including Schwab ETFs™) are available without commissions when placed online in a Schwab account. Service charges apply for trade orders placed through a broker ($25) or by automated phone ($5). An exchange processing fee applies to sell transactions. Certain types of Schwab ETF OneSource transactions are not eligible for the commission waiver, such as short sells and buys to cover (not including Schwab ETFs). Schwab reserves the right to change the ETFs we make available without commissions. All ETFs are subject to management fees and expenses. Please see Charles Schwab Pricing Guide for additional information.
2 Source: Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., from 1/1/17 -11/30/17
Investors should consider carefully information contained in the prospectus or, if available, the summary prospectus, including investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses. You can obtain a prospectus by visiting schwab.com or calling 800-435-4000. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. receives remuneration from third-party ETF companies participating in Schwab ETF OneSource for recordkeeping, shareholder services, and other administrative services, including program development and maintenance.
Investment returns will fluctuate and are subject to market volatility, so that an investor's shares, when redeemed or sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Unlike mutual funds, shares of ETFs are not individually redeemable directly with the ETF. Shares are bought and sold at market price, which may be higher or lower than the net asset value (NAV).
Diversification strategies do not ensure a profit and do not protect against losses in declining markets.
DBX Advisors LLC (DBX) is the investment adviser to the Xtrackers ETFs, which are distributed by ALPS Distributors, Inc. (ALPS). DBX is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG, neither of which is affiliated with ALPS. Xtrackers ETFs are not FDIC insured and there is no bank guarantee and they may lose value.
"ETF Securities" is a registered trademark of ETF Securities Limited.
Global X Funds is a registered trademark of Global X Management Company LLC.
Guggenheim Investments is the global asset management and investment advisory division of Guggenheim Partners, with $243 billion in assets across fixed income, equity, and alternative strategies. We focus on the return and risk needs of insurance companies, corporate and public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations, consultants, wealth managers, and high-net-worth investors. Our 275+ investment professionals perform rigorous research to understand market trends and identify undervalued opportunities in areas that are often complex and underfollowed. This approach to investment management has enabled us to deliver innovative strategies providing diversification and attractive long-term results.
John Hancock ETFs are distributed by Foreside Fund Services, LLC, and are subadvised by Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. Foreside is not affiliated with John Hancock Funds, LLC or Dimensional Fund Advisors LP.
J.P. Morgan Exchange-Traded Funds are distributed by JPMorgan Distribution Services, Inc, which is affiliated with JPMorgan Chase & Co JPMorgan Distribution Services, Inc. is a member of FINRA/SIPC.
MainStay Investments® is a registered service mark and name under which New York Life Investment Management LLC does business. MainStay Investments, an indirect subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Company, New York, NY 10010, provides investment advisory products and services. IndexIQ® is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of New York Life Investment Management Holdings LLC. ALPS Distributors, Inc. (ALPS) is the principal underwriter of the ETFs. NYLIFE Distributors LLC is a distributor of the ETFs and the principal underwriter of the IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Plus Fund. NYLIFE Distributors LLC is located at 30 Hudson Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302. ALPS Distributors, Inc. is not affiliated with NYLIFE Distributors LLC. NYLIFE Distributors LLC is a Member FINRA/SIPC.
Oppenheimer funds are distributed by OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. Alternative weighting approaches (i.e., using revenues as a weighting measure), while designed to enhance potential returns, may not produce the desired results.
PowerShares® is a registered trademark of Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC, investment adviser. Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC (PowerShares) and Invesco Distributors, Inc., ETF distributor, are indirect, wholly owned subsidiaries of Invesco Ltd.
SPDR® is a registered trademark of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC (S&P) and has been licensed for use by State Street Corporation. State Street Corporation's financial products are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by S&P, S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC, their respective affiliates and third party licensors and none of such parties make any representation regarding the advisability of investing in such product(s) nor do they have any liability in relation thereto, including for any errors, omissions, or interruptions of any index.
USCF® and the United States Commodity Funds® are registered trademarks of United States Commodity Funds LLC Limited Liability Company Delaware. All rights reserved.
WisdomTree Investments, Inc., through its subsidiaries in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Canada (collectively, "WisdomTree"), is an exchange-traded fund ("ETF") and exchange-traded product ("ETP") sponsor and asset manager headquartered in New York. WisdomTree Funds are distributed by Foreside Fund Services, LLC in the U.S. only.
Schwab ETFs are distributed by SEI Investments Distribution Co. (SIDCO). SIDCO is not affiliated with The Charles Schwab Corporation or any of its affiliates. Learn more at schwab.com/Schwab ETFs.
Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. is the investment advisor for Schwab ETFs and an affiliate of the Charles Schwab Corporation.
Through its operating subsidiaries, The Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE: SCHW) provides a full range of securities brokerage, banking, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its broker-dealer subsidiary, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (member SIPC, www.sipc.org) and affiliates offer a complete range of investment services and products including an extensive selection of mutual funds; financial planning and investment advice; retirement plan and equity compensation plan services; compliance and trade monitoring solutions; referrals to independent fee-based investment advisors; and custodial, operational and trading support for independent, fee-based investment advisors through Schwab Advisor Services. Its banking subsidiary, Charles Schwab Bank (member FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender), provides banking and lending services and products. More information is available at www.schwab.com and www.aboutschwab.com
Brokerage Products: Not FDIC Insured · No Bank Guarantee · May Lose Value
© 2018 Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Member SIPC.


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Indian mince with fresh tomato salad
Prep: 2 mins Cook: 18 mins
This flavour-packed dish is super-cheap and speedy to make, the perfect family meal
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- 1 red onion, sliced
- 300g beef mince
The classic choice of meat for a British Sunday roast. Beef is full of flavour, as…
- 2 tbsp medium or mild curry powder
- 100g dried red lentils
- 700ml hot beef stock
- 3 tomatoes
A member of the nightshade family (along with aubergines, peppers and chillies), tomatoes are in…
- handful coriander leaves
- 4 mini naan bread
In a non-stick frying pan, dry-fry onion and mince over a high heat for 2 mins, breaking up the mince as you go. Stir in the curry powder and lentils, pour in stock, then fiercely simmer for 10 mins.
While the mince is cooking, dice the tomatoes and roughly chop the coriander, then mix together in a small bowl. Put the naans briefly in a toaster to warm through, then pop one on each plate. Spoon a quarter of the mince over each naan, then top with a spoonful of the fresh tomato and coriander salad.
Recipe Tip
Make it veggie - Spicy beansFry the onion in 2 tsp oil, then stir in curry powder with 1 tsp cumin seeds. Double the lentils, stir in with the stock, then bubble for 10 mins. Add the tomatoes with a 400g can kidney beans, drained, then cook for 5 mins. Serve with warm naan.
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20th Dec, 2013
Great dish, very easy to prepare. Like others, I added a chopped carrot and that made it look better. Definitely serve with the tomato salad. I added a splash of red wine vinegar, a dash of salt and pepper and a little sugar to the tomatoes, plus the coriander. Our 2yr old grandson was eating with us and kept asking for more!


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ADLT Administrative and Logistics Delay Time
ADM Acquisition Decision Memorandum
ADP Automated Data Processing
ADPE Automated Data Processing Equipment
ADR Alternate Dispute Resolution; Alternative Dispute Resolution
AECA Arms Export Control Act (1976)
AECB Arms Export Control Board
AFAE Air Force Acquisition Executive
AFALC Air Force Air Logistics Center
AFARS Army Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement
AFCAA Air Force Cost Analysis Agency
AFFARS Air Force Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement
AFFTC Air Force Flight Test Center
AFI Air Force Instruction
AFIT Air Force Institute of Technology
AFMC Air Force Materiel Command
AFOTEC Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center
AFPD Air Force Policy Directive
AFRB Air Force Review Board
AFRL Air Force Research Laboratory
AFROC Air Force Requirements Oversight Council
AI Artificial Intelligence
Ai Inherent Availability
AIS Automated Information System
AKSS AT&L (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics) Knowledge Sharing System (Obsolete—See DAP (Defense Acquisition Portal))
ALC Air Logistics Center (Air Force)
ALMC Army Logistics Management College
ALO Authorized Level of Organization (Army)
ALT Administrative Lead Time
AM Materiel Availability
AMC Air Mobility Command; Army Materiel Command
AMCOM Aviation and Missile Command (Army)
AMSAA Army Materiel Systems Analysis Agency
AMSDL Acquisition Management Systems Data List
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AO Operational Availability
AoA Analysis of Alternatives
AOTR Assessment of Operational Test Readiness
AP Acquisition Plan; Advance Procurement
AP/A/N/AF Aircraft Procurement (Appropriation), Army/Navy/Air Force
APB Acquisition Program Baseline
APBA Acquisition Program Baseline Agreement
APPN Appropriation
APUC Average Procurement Unit Cost (also see AUPC (Average Unit Procurement Cost))
AQAP Allied Quality Assurance Provision
AR Army Regulation
ARCIC Army Capabilities Integration Center
ARL Army Research Laboratory
ASA(ALT) Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology)
ASAF(A) Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition)
ASARC Army Systems Acquisition Review Council
ASBCA Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals
ASC Aeronautical Systems Center (Air Force)
ASD(A) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition)
ASD(HA) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)
ASD(LA) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Legislative Affairs)
ASD(LM&R) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Logistics and Materiel Readiness)
ASD(NCB) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense)
ASD(NII) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration)
ASD(OEP&P) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Operational Energy Plans and Programs)
ASD(R&E) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering)
ASF Army Stock Fund
ASN(M&RA) Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)
ASN(RD&A) Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition)
ASP Acquisition Strategy Panel (Air Force)
ASPA Armed Services Procurement Act
ASR Acquisition Strategy Report; Alternative Systems Review
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
AT Anti-Tampering
ATC Air Training Command
ATD Advanced Technology Development (or Demonstration)
ATE Automatic Test Equipment
ATEC Army Test and Evaluation Command
ATP Acceptance Test Procedures
ATPS Automated Test Planning System
ATSD Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
AUPC Average Unit Procurement Cost (also see APUC (Average Procurement Unit Cost))
AV All Views
AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System (Air Force)
AWE Advanced Warfighting Experiment
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The Link Layer
The link layer abstracts the physical layer, including detecting and correcting physical layer errors, to provision higher-level layers with reliable link-level transmission and flow control. It presents an interface of multiple message classes and virtual networks, and manages access to these resources via a credit accounting scheme. In addition to supplying a reliable delivery mechanism, the link layer also provides the ability to utilize all available bandwidth while minimizing latency. It accomplishes this with special packets and command insert packets that interleave at the flit level within larger, multi-flit payload packets.
The upper part of Figure 2 shows the interleaving of special packets, which may be IDLEs, provide general debug information, or have to do with link power management. Although both examples illustrate three-flit data packet headers, the architecture itself allows for headers from one to three flits in length. Note that special packets differ from data packets: a special packet consists of only a single flit, which also doubles as a header flit. The first bit of the packet header, called the interleave/head indicator bit (IIB), identifies the beginning of a new, interleaved packet among the flits of a data packet. A special packet may be interleaved anywhere within a data packet.
The lower part illustrates the optional feature command insert. This is the interleaving of protocol messages, such as snoops, snoop responses, completions, or requests, among the data flits of a data packet. A command packet is identified as a header flit with its IIB set. It must follow a data flit. Note that interleaving command packets among the header flits of a data packet is forbidden. A command packet may comprise one or more header flits. Thus in the lower half of Figure 2, we see three command insert packets, labeled 5, 8, and 10. Packet 5 comprises two flits. Recall that special packets may be inserted anywhere; thus we special packets 6 and 7 interleaved between the flits of command insert packet 5.
Virtualization of the Physical Link
Intel QPI agents employ a coherency protocol to correctly share data while at the same time supporting system-level features like interrupts. To do this consistently, the protocol layer must have certain guarantees about how various message types flow through the fabric. The link layer satisfies this requirement by mapping protocol-level messages to one of the six message classes, detailed in Table 1. Note that the table shows a seventh message class, which is used for link management and is not visible to the protocol layer. The "No" in the "Data Content?" column indicates that the message class does not use Data Payload packets. Message classes are required at the protocol level, to prevent protocol-level deadlock while also allowing some flexibility of ordering for performance. The section about protocol layer discusses this in further detail.
The message classes are further replicated onto multiple virtual networks. Intel QPI defines three: VNA, VN0, and VN1. VN0 and VN1 each has a channel per message class and is independent from theother. This means that the ability to inject into one network does not rely on traffic draining from the other. The number of virtual networks required to guarantee deadlock and livelock avoidance depends on the number of nodes in the system, the interconnect topology, and the amount of buffering provided. VN0 and VN1 provide these features for many such designs; depending on the system one or both may not be required, and therefore not used. VNA is added for low-cost performance in the general case; it is adaptively buffered and shared among all traffic-generating agents. In contrast, VN0 and VN1 are independently buffered. They would require far more independent buffers than VNA to achieve the same performance. If a system implements a policy to first consume all VNA credits, and then fall back on VN0 or VN1 credits as appropriate to avoid deadlock, VN0 and VN1 serve in some sense as escape channels. (See "Interconnection Networks: An Engineering Approach," by Jose Duato, et al., Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.) Note that unlike message classes, which address deadlock at the protocol level and therefore relate to the sourcing and sinking of messages, virtual networks address deadlock at the routing level, within the interconnect topology itself. They ensure that the crediting scheme described in the next section is sufficient to prevent deadlocks due to circular dependencies as messages acquire the required resources to traverse an Intel QPI link.
To achieve independence of both message classes and virtual networks, the architecture of the Intel QPI defines independent virtual channels, where a virtual channel is specified by the combination of an individual message class and virtual network. By definition, the protocol layer may treat these virtual channels as distinct physical transmission channels. However, the link layer keeps costs low while still providing this illusion by multiplexing the virtual channels onto the single physical link. Figure 3 provides a representation of the role of the link layer in performing this task and the resulting 18 virtual channels per link.
The architecture of the Intel QuickPath Interconnect does not specify how an implementation should utilize resources to create virtual channels. It only requires that any implementation guarantee that messages flow through its virtual channels completely independently. One possible implementation is to provide independent buffering per virtual channel. Since VN0 and VN1 exist only to guarantee forward progress, one choice is to assign the minimal amount of buffer space to these two virtual networks. In this case, the Rx would allocate a buffer the size of the largest possible packet per message class, per virtual network, for a total of 12 packet-sized buffers. The remaining buffer space, as constrained by the area of the module, would default to VNA. To utilize VNA most efficiently when shared among packets of highly variable size, the Rx could allocate VNA buffer space at the flit granularity. To guarantee deadlock freedom, a message that becomes blocked while travelling on VNA must be able to transition to VN0 or VN1 within the fabric. This can be accomplished by acquiring a VN0 or VN1 buffer in the Rx of the node while occupying a VNA buffer in the current node. Note that the Rx need not statically assign buffers, even though it must guarantee that messages occupying them behave as though in queues. A possible way to implement such a scheme would be to create a linked list per virtual channel within a buffer pool.
Flow Control
To re-iterate, the link layer works in units of flits, an acronym for "flow control units". For Intel QPI a flit is always 80 bits regardless of the physical link width; the physical layer abstracts this for the link layer.
The concept behind flow control is to only send as much data as the other side can receive. Intel QPI has link layer buffers to hold data from receipt on the link until consumption. Buffers may store flits or packets, depending on the virtual network on which the data was sent. Agents use credits as proxies for available buffer space. After reset, the receiver must send credits to the sender as part of the normal credit return process. Once the sender receives credits, it may begin transmitting. The sender decrements its credit count with each outgoing transmission, and stops sending if it runs out. At the same time, the receiver sends credits corresponding to freed buffers back to the sender via an embedded flow control stream. This mechanism guarantees that the receiver will be able to accept any data sent to it.
To understand the embedded flow control stream, we must first learn a little more about how the architecture of the Intel QuickPath Interconnect defines packets. Recall that packets are the granularity at which the protocol layer works. In addition to carrying protocol-specific information, packets also carry routing information, which is used by the routing layer, and link-layer information, which is used by the link layer.
For example, suppose that sockets A and B are connected by a link pair. Each socket has enough buffers to hold two flits from VNA. On system initialization, socket A is populated with two credits to send two flits to B on VNA, and vice-versa. Socket A sends a message requiring two flits on VNA to B. B processes the message, frees two flits of VNA buffer space, and is ready to receive another message from A. How does A know when it can send another message on VNA to B?
Meanwhile, B decides to send a message to A, say a new Read Data request on the HOM message class. Every packet has a header flit that includes the three bit field to specify the return of virtual channel credits. B sets this field to indicate the return of two VNA credits. When A's Rx receives B's request, A decodes the credit return field and credits its Tx with two VNA credits. Now A's Tx can send another message on VNA to B. The encoding of the credit return field is provisioned to return individual credits per message class to VN0 and VN1, and allows VNA credit return in groups of 2, 8, or 16 flits, for high throughput. It must also be able to specify no credit return. If the protocol layer has no packets to send, the link layer still constantly transmits a stream of IDLE packets, thus guaranteeing timely credit return even in the case that the other direction of the link pair remains unused.
In addition to flow control, the link layer also ensures reliable transmission, the guaranteed transmission of error-free data. To safeguard data integrity, Intel QPI employs CRC as a checksum to detect errors. An 80 bit flit delivers 72 bits of payload and 8 bits of CRC. The sender generates a CRC code for each flit at the Tx side, which the recipient checks at the Rx. The receiver then acknowledges groups of error-free flits. In case there is an error, the sender maintains a link level retry buffer of unacknowledged flits. If the recipient detects an error, it asks the sender to resend flits starting with the erroneous one. The sender removes flits from its buffer as they are acknowledged. This definition of link level retry handles both transient and burst errors, while always sending the flits in order. For error tracking and predictive maintenance, Intel QPI also reports errors up the software stack, but no higher-level intervention is required to ensure correct data transmission and receipt.
The receiver may process a flit as soon as it has confirmed its CRC checksum, without waiting for the whole packet to arrive. If the receiver is the final destination, this means sending the flit to the protocol layer; otherwise, it forwards it on to continue its route through the fabric.
Intel QPI additionally supports an optional rolling CRC. In this case the CRC takes into account two flits instead of one, effectively using 16 bits of CRC. This allows detection of more erroneous bits at the cost of delaying flit consumption: the receiver must wait for both flits to arrive before it can compute the checksum and use either. Thus rolling CRC incurs a latency penalty of an additional flit.
Critical Chunk
In previous, FSB-based systems, the core provided a hint regarding which eight byte chunk of a cache line it wanted to consume first. It passed this information via the FSB on address bits 5:3. This hint allowed the responder to provide the critical chunk first. Table 2 delineates the critical chunk order of a cache line. In addition to changing the placement of the critical chunk, the order of the other chunks is often scrambled as well. These sequences were originally designed for ease of implementation, and are retained for compatibility with memory and FSB products.
Even though it takes 5.6 ns to transfer a cache line across a link in a nine flit packet (full width, 6.4 GT/s), the first eight bytes of data (the critical chunk) can be sent to the core immediately upon passing the flit CRC check. To speed this check, the link layer appends the CRC at the flit granularity, allowing flit consumption and routing without waiting for the entire packet. Thus the critical chunk arrives in the second flit (the first flit after the packet header) and can be processed after only 1.25 ns.


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Well, it's Tuesday, and you all know what that means... IBM announcements!
This week, IBM announced the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition, affectionately referred to as "MRE". This is basically TPC for Disk but with two key differences:
This includes the [new DS3500 model] that was announced last month. This was part of the set of solutions to [help midsized businesses].
A fresh new blogger on the scene, Anthony Vandewerdt (IBM), covers [10 things I like about the IBM DS3500], saving me the trouble.
For more information on Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition, see the IBM [Announcement Letter].
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Birth of a Hate Mail Archive
The most common piece of hate mail I get is something to the effect of "you're such a loser." This coming from people who spend their day crafting letters to someone who doesn't care about what they're saying.
Hate mail doesn't get to me. It did when I first started receiving it. See, I received it, I just didn't get it. I used to want the whole world to like me. But the more people I meet, the more I realize that there are some people who I don't want in my corner.
I will never understand the mindset that makes someone send hate mail. And I don't mean a letter disagreeing with a statement or arguing a point. I encourage that; we were raised as a society to voice our differences, and while some people's differences are based on a culture of ignorance and inbreeding, I still respect our ability to voice them. What I will never understand are those words that come out of stupidity, say nothing valid, and read like they're written by a fourth-grader recently left back for having the reading level of a first-grader. But Ashlee Simpson aside, I also don't understand most hate mail. (Oh, snap!)
I get several letters each week telling me I'm not funny. What a waste of time. Is this really going to accomplish anything?
"Well, my book sales are at an all time high, I'm playing to bigger crowds, and I just won an award as one of the best new comics in the business. But this guy who can't seem to spell 'Steve' doesn't think I'm funny. I guess I should retire. And change my name to Stve."
Not everyone is going to find me funny, I accept that. The vast majority of the world doesn't think I'm funny. In fairness, that could be due to many people not knowing how to speak English. Still, I'm not funny to everyone. But if we all wrote letters to everyone we didn't find funny, we'd have no time to do anything else. Though if we did and if there was justice in the world, Larry The Cable Guy's mailbox would look like that kid's locker in the pop tarts commercial.
A phrase I read sometimes is "don't quit your day job." This is even more pointless, since I don't have a day job. And the people who write this most commonly have a day job that includes playing Splinter Cell in their mother's basement.
I get called a sellout sometimes, which is curious since it's been years since I took money for something I didn't believe in. And that was a summer job. Taking money for something you're passionate about doesn't mean you're a sellout – it means you've sold up. In the meantime, the people calling me a sellout are pushing Moons Over My Hammy at Denny's for $5.50 an hour.
There are many reasons hate mail doesn't bother me. The first one is that anger shows I'm making a difference in the world. Which is ironically the opposite of what these vitriolic letters are intended for, since they are actually validating my writing. And something important for me to remember is that these people's hatred has nothing to do with me. When someone writes me hate mail of the "you suck" nature, it's because they're currently failing at something, or their mother didn't hug them enough, or their uncle hugged them too much. So to those who write me such letters (assuming you have the mental wherewithal to have read this far), please recognize that your problem is not with me. Your problem is with you.
But most importantly, my hate mail makes me laugh. I laugh at the spelling, the liberal use of expletive, and the idea that this person has actually made it this far in life without getting beaten to death. If you're curious, I posted an archive of some of my favorite hate mail on SteveHofstetter.com – I'd print it here, but this column runs in family newspapers.
I will, however, share my all-time favorite hate mail with you. When Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker was quoted saying some racist things in Sports Illustrated, my brother and I wrote some columns blasting him. One reader wrote:
YOU PEOPLE EAT MY (edited for family newspapers) JOHN ROCKER RULES YOU ARE JUST JELOUSE OF HIM BECAUSE HE IS GOOD LOOKING AND HAS A GTREAT SENSE OF HUMOOR YOU WANT TO BE LIKE HIM. HE JUST TELLS THE TRUTH AND I SEE THAT THIS SITE IS MADE BY YOU SMELLY NEW YORK PEOPLE YOU ARE PROVING JOHN ROCKER RIGHT. ROCKER FOR PRESIDENT BETTER YET KING!
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June 24,2012 – Minor League Recap
Crazy night in Boise as the Hawks and the Emeralds combined for 25 runs on 32 hits, and five errors. Boise came out on top 14-11, but not before a scare in the ninth with Eugene putting a six spot on the board. Willengton Cruz pitched surprisingly well given the final score, he went five strong innings giving up three runs on eight hits while walking one and striking out two to earn his first win of the season. The Hawks hit four home runs in the offensive onslaught. Gioskar Amaya, Marco Hernandez, Jeimer Candelario, and Shawon Dunston Jr. all went deep. Six different Hawks had two hits in the victory, check out the box score, it's enjoyable.
Another crazy game in the Cubs system as the Peoria Chiefs and Quad Cities combined for 23 runs on 30 hits, and Quad Cities made six errors to help the Chiefs to a 12-11 victory. Michael Jensen finally had a bad outing but was bailed out by his teammates. Jensen only lasted four innings, giving up seven runs on seven hits, while walking one and striking out three. Hunter Cervenka finally gave up a run, in fact a few of them, but thanks to a potent offensive attack he earned the win. Every Chiefs player had at least one hit in the wild victory. Pin-Chieh Chen was 4-for-5 with an RBI and three runs scored. Dustin Geiger continues to have a solid 2012 after starting late due to injury. He was 1-for-4 with his 3rd home run of the season, and three RBI's. Anthony Giansanti was 2-for-5 at the plate with two RBI's, he is now hitting .301 0n the season.
Daytona was postponed by stupid rain.
Smokies were leading 2-1 against Jacksonville before the game was suspended. This game will resume once the rain decides to stop.
Rodrigo Lopez struggled with his command, the result was a 5-2 loss to Round Rock. Lopez lasted six innings giving up four runs on three hits, while walking three and striking out five. Brett Jackson stayed hot at the plate going 1-for-3 with his 11th home run of the season, he also had a walk, a stolen base, and a run scored. Welington Castillo was 3-for-4 in the defeat with an RBI, he is now hitting .339 on the season. Anthony Rizzo took an 0-for-3 on the eve of his recall, by all accounts Rizzo will be at Wrigley Field and in the lineup Tuesday night.
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Powerful head-light racket
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After using head-heavy rackets for some time, i wanna try something different and got attracted with the nanoray series rackets which they named them "Fast Racket". So i chosen NR750 due to super head light and medium stiff. I gave up on stiff rackets as don's have good arm strength and very tiring. Overall the racket is very light in hands (especially comparing to my vt-70) and i find it effortless maneuvering. I had been always thinking head-light racket is only good for defense until holding this racket on hand. It can produce powerful smash thanks to the great repulsion of this racket. A great buy for me.
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It's a great racket. It's lightweight, and yet gives you good power behind both a clear and a smash. It's still easy to perform drops shots and nets, as well. It feels sturdy in your hand, and doesn't break easily. This lightweight racket still gives you good power and repulsion. Over all, a great buy.
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If you are looking for a racket which is not head heavy but can generate super speed smashes and also is very light to maneuver then Nanoray 750 is the answer. I switched from Arcsaber 7 to 750 and I dont think I lost pace on my smashs. Light headedness of racket is compensated by sturdy frame and quicker swinging thus maintaining power in smashes.
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FDI and Economic Growth Relationship: An Empirical Study on Malaysia
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been an important source of economic growth for Malaysia, bringing in capital investment, technology and management knowledge needed for economic growth. Thus, this paper aims to study the relationship between FDI and economic growth in Malaysia for the period 1970-2005 using time series data. Ordinary least square (OLS) regressions and the empirical analysis are conducted by using annual data on FDI and economy growth in Malaysia over the 1970-2005 periods. The paper used annual data from IMF International Financial Statistics tables, published by International Monetary Fund to find out the relationship between FDI and economic growth in Malaysia case. Results show that LGDP, LGNI and the LFDI series in Malaysia are I(1) series. There is sufficient evidence to show that there are significant relationship between economic growth and foreign direct investment inflows (FDI) in Malaysia. FDI has direct positive impact on RGDP, which FDI rate increase by 1% will lead to the growth rate increase by 0.046072%. Furthermore, FDI also has direct positive impact on RGNI because when FDI rate increase by 1 %, this will lead the growth increase by 0.044877%.
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Now approaching the 139th anniversary of its first worship service, the sanctuary of Trinity Episcopal Church of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, is an example of timeless design and function. Before the first service was conducted on Christmas day in 1870, the entire cost of some $18,000 to construct the building was paid. See an exterior picture and another interior picture and get in on the beginning of this story on the Photo of the Week page at corndancer.com. Click here to make the trip.
Marble and music
Trinity's distinctive altar, installed in 1929 was crafted by sculptors at Antonia Studios in Florence, Italy. The three ton work of art took nearly a year to the date to be completed and shipped to church. Sculptors from Antonio Studios accompanied the altar and assembled in it the church. They had other talents. My friends, the late Charles and Alice Warriner, told me years ago that the artisans were imbued with the legendary Italian propensity to sing and sing they did as they installed the altar. According to Charlie and Alice, word of these impromptu performances spread quickly and local people gathered to observe and listen.
Get ready to rumble
The sanctuary, designed before public address systems were conjured in even the wildest of dreams has acoustic characteristics which give rise to music that will raise the hair on the back of your neck and cover you with goose bumps. The fine organ will rumble the foundation. Add a couple of trumpets or other free-standing instruments and you will hear sounds you will not forget.
The building is truly magnificent. It is well preserved and cared for with all due diligence. But the building is a symbol and its true meaning could be lost were it not for the Christian people who make up the parish, occupy the pews and take up the mantle and follow the teachings of Christ. That my friends is the church.
More pictures
Blog picture reproduction, most of the time, leaves a bit to be desired, so I have posted these photos, the photos from Corndancer and several others in an additional gallery with better resolution. See those pictures here.
Thanks for dropping by,
Joe Dempsey
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This post originally appeared in At Large in Ballard with Peggy Sturdivant.
I'm still recovering from meeting Mary on a Friday, interviewing her on Tuesday and seeing her in action at her annual pie party the following Sunday night. Latest news – she has been invited by the American Pie Council to judge their pie championships in Florida in April. How will she pack her dress?
A Week of Mary
The press release from the Seattle King County Realtors association was incidental to the pie brochure in my eyes a belated footnote after Mary Schile first caught my attention last week. Of course it turns out they are linked in the same way that some pies are meant to be eaten with ice cream. The University of Washington philosophy major's path to 2010 community service award winner was paved by a lot of flaky (real butter) crusts.
As her mother used to write on the chalkboard as a substitute teacher, Shile's last name is pronounced "Shee-Lee." Raised in Vancouver, Washington Mary just keeps adding more volunteer commitments on her journey through the film, music and photography industry, on her way to real estate.
On any given week Mary records an hour-long program through the Washington Center for the Talking Book, meeting in her capacity as provisional advisor for the Junior League, planning a fundraising event such as the Pie Buffet at Salmon Bay Eagles or working on a Ballard Historical Society project (she's Vice-President).
Her philosophy major was meant to lead to pre-law. Instead Mary combined her love for music and theater arts less directly; she specialized in writing intellectual property contracts in the film, music and photography industry.
Along the way she bought a house in Whittier Heights. Over the ensuing years her agent would frequently encourage her to become a realtor, citing the fact that Mary was always involved in sales and referrals anyway. In 2004 Mary got her real estate license, quickly realizing her contract experience was invaluable, and, "it's all about negotiation." Schile was at the Ballard RE/MAX until its office was streamlined to Eastlake; she was her company's "Agent of the Year" in 2009 and a 2010 RE/MAX Hall of Fame inductee.
Whether in her work or her volunteer effort Mary merges her extroverted and creative sides. Her web site features a photo gallery of satisfied customers. All the photos include props.
Mary is also a member of the original Eagles Club (Aerie #1) and #2141 (Salmon Bay). She loves the fact that the Eagles were founded by musicians in Seattle. As a member she was able to expand her natural tendency for fundraising efforts through events like the Pie Buffet on January 23rd to benefit the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Research. When a friend's mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer they learned about the center and ran their fundraising race as a team called Pat's Pals.
Mary's boyfriend is a musician and with her background in the industry she tends to know lots of performers and venues. Along with the Pie Buffet (for which she has a team of 25) she's also working with friends to produce a Mardi Gras event (Les Fairies Vertes on March 5th) on an event that will once again benefit the Marsha Rivkin Center.
The Junior League (provisional advisor), the Ballard Historical Society, the weekly time in the recording studio reading aloud Rolling Stone Magazine (it used to be Time) – where does Mary Shile find the time? And how does she manage to make everything so festive? Clearly she's not afraid to mix her over the top ideas (pie headdress) with a bit of the overachiever.
The a la mode girls
Mary claims the Pie Buffet just started as a way to plan her own birthday by inviting friends to a potluck, of pie. Then if there's going to be a party, why not have it benefit a cause?
As for pie itself, Mary admits, "I can never turn down a good dark marionberry."
She mused over the fact that Washington's proximity to the Oregon marionberry gives us access to such good local fruit. Although Mary may have earned the REALTOR® Community Service Award because of the depth and range of her not-for profit causes; it's the fact that she's put Seattle on the map for National Pie Day is more than a dollop of cream on top.
Reprinted by permission.


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Today's leading-edge technology is headed straight for tomorrow's junk pile, but that doesn't make it any less awesome. Everyone loves the latest and greatest.
Sometimes, though, something truly revolutionary cuts through the clutter and fundamentally changes the game. And with that in mind, Wired is looking back over 12 decades to highlight the 12 most innovative people, places and things of their day. From the first transatlantic radio transmissions to cellphones, from vacuum tubes to microprocessors, we'll run down the most important advancements in technology, science, sports and more.
This week's installment takes us back to 1921-1930, when amphibious warfare came to fruition, Art Deco was all the rage and Babe Ruth became an icon.
We don't expect you to agree with all of our picks, or even some of them. That's fine. Tell us what you think we've missed and we'll publish your list later.
1920: Rise of the Robots (Entertainment)
A Czech play titled R.U.R. introduced the word "robot" in 1920, and science fiction would never be the same. The robots in Karel Čapek's play were not the type of clanking, whirring mechanical men typically found in the early sci-fi movies that would come later. Instead, the robots of R.U.R. were biological beings whipped up in a laboratory, created to aid humans by doing scut work. (The Czech term robota means "forced labor.")
R.U.R.'s robots had more in common with Blade Runner's replicants, Battlestar Galactica's skinjob Cylons or Cloud Atlas' fabricants than nuts-and-bolts characters like Forbidden Planet's Robby the Robot or Futurama's boozing, belching Bender.
While the great sci-fi writer Issac Asimov was no fan of R.U.R., he acknowledged its lasting contribution to life on Earth. "Capek's play is, in my own opinion, a terribly bad one, but it is immortal for that one word," he wrote in a 1979 essay. "It contributed the word 'robot' not only to English but, through English, to all the languages in which science fiction is now written."
Today, we take robots for granted, both in our science fiction and in our everyday lives, where they aid our assembly lines and help ease domestic drudgery. In books and on TV and movie screens, they can prove endlessly helpful (Star Trek: The Next Generation' Data), totally nightmarish (the Terminator franchise) or somewhere in between (Prometheus' David).
How about the proto-bots in R.U.R.? Spoiler alert: They kill every human on Earth, except for one.
Photo: Wikipedia
1928: IBM Uncloaks the 80-Column Punch Card (Computers)
Yes, between 1921 and 1930, Walther Bothe built his coincidence circuit -- an electronic device that foretold the building blocks for the first computers. Yes, the first Radio Shack store opened in 1921. And yes, we remembered the patent for the first semiconductor transistor, filed in 1926. But we can safely say that the most important computer creation of the Roaring Twenties was IBM's 80-column punch card.
To be sure, this wasn't the first punch card. As far back as the 18th century, punch cards -- machine-readable cards that stored information in the form of, well, holes -- were used to operate French textile looms. But IBM's 80-column card -- with its rectangular holes -- would become the standard means of driving data processing machines, including computers, for the next 50 years.
Originally, the IBM Card -- as it became known -- was originally used by the company's accounting machines. But later in the decade, they would make the transition to full-fledged computers, including not only IBM mainframes, but also countless machines from competitors, such the British ICT 1301. It's what we used before computer screens came along.
The IBM Card measured 7 ⅜ by 3 ¼ inches. Each of its 80 columns included 12 spots for punches. And it's such a shame the thing has gone away.
Photo: Wikipedia
1926: Amphibious Warfare (War)
Ninety years ago a series of unlikely events, propelled by equally rare personalities, combined to transform the U.S. Marine Corps into the world's leading amphibious force.
A brilliant, volatile Marine officer from Kansas named Pete Ellis was convinced that the U.S. would one day go to war with Japan. Working alone starting in 1921, Ellis began scripting a 50,000-word blueprint for island war called Operation Plan 712. Under the guise of a businessman he traveled throughout the Pacific. In Palau he befriended the native royal family, married a woman 25 years his junior, came down with several tropical diseases and eventually drank himself to death.
Ellis' blueprint survived. And in the mid-1920s the Marines began taking Operation Plan 712 seriously. But a series of war games proved just how unprepared the Marines were to assault enemy beaches. Landing barges were too unwieldy. Swimming tanks were unseaworthy. The 1924 war game was "well worth while," officers wrote, "because almost every possible mistake occurred." Then in 1926, gruff, whiskey-swilling Louisiana lumberman Andrew Higgins designed the Eureka boat, a shallow-draught, flat-bottom craft optimized for oil drillers and game trappers navigating the swampy Gulf Coast. The key to the boat's effectiveness: a propeller recessed in a tunnel running underneath the hull, protecting it from flotsam.
When war broke out between the U.S. and Japan, the sailing branch ordered 20,000 Eureka boats to carry Marines ashore and execute Ellis' Operation Plan 712. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, supreme commander of allied forces, called Higgins "the man who won the war for us."
Photo: Army troops wade ashore on "Omaha" Beach on June 6, 1944. Courtesy of the U.S. Navy
1925: Art Deco (Design)
Even if you don't know Art Deco, you know Art Deco. It's the façade on the Empire State Building, the blocky style of old jewelry, and the geometric design of old radios. Though it drew on older styles, such as Art Nouveau, Art Deco didn't hit the scene until the 1925 Paris International Exhibition of Modern and Decorative Arts, gaining its name from the French museum, Arts Décoratifs, where the expo was held.
At its heart, Art Deco is a decorative theme, not so much the technological base of the architecture, but the geometric, symmetrical patterns that adorned it. But those patterns and designs reflected a growing comfort with technology, embracing its use in everyday life and imitating new materials like stainless steel.
Though it can seem superficial, Art Deco went on to become one of the most prevalent design themes, carried across industries from architecture to art to jewelry to products.
While it was originally an expression of luxury, frequently involving custom goods, it came to be considered faux-luxury, implying wealth while using cheaper materials like Bakelite and chrome to imitate wood, ivory, and solid metals. In these materials, designers could combine the Art Deco style with mass production and distribution.
Photo: The Chrysler Building. Adam Rountree/AP.
1920s: Babe Ruth (Sports)
Few sports figures embodied the spirit of the Roaring Twenties like Babe Ruth. The New York Yankees star cracked home runs at a dizzying rate and went through hot dogs, beer and women at nearly the same pace. His slugging transformed baseball from a pitching-dominated game where runners schemed and clawed for each base into a high-scoring, fan-friendly affair punctuated by powerful hitting. Baseball's popularity grew exponentially during the '20s, in no small part because of the Babe.
Ruth was the first player to hit 30 home runs in a season, then 40, then 50, then 60. His single-season record of 60, set in 1927, stood for 34 years. His career record of 714 went unbroken for 39 years until Hank Aaron eclipsed him in 1974. Even now, his lifetime batting average of .342 ranks 10th in history.
But the numbers are but one part of a great story. Ruth's overwhelming charisma and flamboyant lifestyle made him the perfect sports celebrity in a decade when radio and newspaper coverage boomed across America. His impact on sports and popular culture was so great that even our language changed: Outsized efforts were described as "Ruthian." Stately Yankee Stadium became known as "The House That Ruth Built." Enrico Caruso was "the Babe Ruth of operatic tenors" and Willie Sutton was "the Babe Ruth of bank robbers."
Ruth was the first athlete to transcend sports to become a genuine celebrity, and even now he, like Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, remains one of the most recognizable athletes in U.S. history.
Photo: Library of Congress
1926: The Tri-motor Airplane (Vehicles)
When the Roaring Twenties came to life, the airplane was far from the preferred way to travel. For passengers wanting to go somewhere, a flight usually meant just a few seats next to sacks of mail cruising along at 70 or 80 miles per hour. Henry Ford saw a chance for the airplane to do better. At the urging of his son Edsel, Ford invested in the Stout Aircraft Company in the early 1920s. William Stout had an idea for an all-metal airplane capable of carrying passengers, but he needed investors. In a refreshingly honest yet bold move, he made one promise in his letter seeking $1,000 each from a group of 20 industry titans: "You will never get your money back."
Both Henry and Edsel invested in the young company, and far from regretting the investment, Ford bought the company outright in 1925. By 1926 the Ford Tri-Motor was rolling off the assembly line complete with Ford Model A steering wheels in the cockpit. A crew of three included a flight attendant and there were wicker seats for 10 passengers.
The all metal "Tin Goose" revolutionized air travel. (It was actually made of aluminum, but the corrugated exterior looked like tin.) Passengers were whisked from city to city at speeds of 95 miles per hour. Airlines used the Tri-motor to revolutionize coast-to-coast travel as well. In 1929, passengers could cut an entire day off of a trip from New York to Los Angeles. After riding a night train to Ohio, they would board a Transcontinental Air Transport Ford Tri-motor and fly to Oklahoma during the day. At night they would again board a train to New Mexico, where they would hop aboard a different Tri-motor for the final leg to Los Angeles. The high-speed trip wasn't cheap, $338 one way. A new Ford Model A cost $525 at the time. TAT would become TWA and eventually begin flying the Douglas DC-2 and DC-3. Those airplanes traveled twice as fast and twice as far. By the early 1930s the Tri-motor's dominance was over.
Photo: Wikipedia
1925: The Leica I and the 35mm Standard (Photography)
Today when we think of film, we think of it as 35mm. But before that gauge was set as the international standard in 1909, many film and camera manufacturers experimented with all sorts of different film sizes, ranging from 13 mm to 75 mm (0.51 to 2.95 in). Each different size required a different machine to use it, or some sort of mechanical adapter. It's akin to mobile device screens today where developers have to account for all sorts of aspect ratios and resolutions for apps and webpages.
Deciding on the 35mm standard had profound consequences, most immediately on motion pictures. As manufacturers slowly adapted their cameras and projectors to use 35mm, near-global distribution became possible for films for the first time.
It wasn't until 1925, however, that the first practical, widely used still camera, the Leica I (pictured above), adopted 35mm and also cemented Leica as a legendary camera maker. One of Leica's first cameras, the Leica I made use of the motion picture 35mm format, but rotated it to advance horizontally, which also tweaked its dimensions to be slightly bigger. Leica was also a pioneer in the idea of capturing a sharp, small negative to be blown up later during printing. In order for the Leica I's negatives to be sharp enough for enlarging, Leica would have to build its first lens, initially called the ELMAX at first production, at 50 mm f/3.5.
This is one of the first steps by a company that would become synonymous with high-end cameras and innovation, a tradition it continues today.
Photo: Wikipedia
1921: Polygraph Machine (Security)
Perhaps one of the biggest threats to thought was the 1921 invention of the modern polygraph machine by University of California medical student John Larson.
The police use the device to assist in solving crimes, though test results are generally inadmissible in criminal prosecutions.
The polygraph works by attaching sensors to the body that, theoretically, recognize involuntary physiological reactions a person has to lying. The machine measures breathing, blood pressure, pulse and perspiration -- and hence the "poly" in its name. When someone is taking the test, they are asked a series of questions, some that have obvious answers and others that don't so investigators can decipher a pattern of physiological changes.
It's true. We're not lying.
Photo: Getty Images
1925: Scopes Monkey Trial (Science)
One of a science geek's favorite feelings is righteous indignation against the ignorant, and perhaps the purest form of this sensation comes when trying to argue with a creationist. The ur-example of this long-standing controversy comes to us from the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925.
The case started with a Tennessee schoolteacher, John Scopes, who purposely violated the idiotic Butler Act, which made it illegal for anyone to teach evolution in a state-funded school. This led to the biggest trial of the then-early century, with the proceedings being followed each day by radio broadcasts and newspapers across the country.
The case pitted star humanitarian crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow for the defense against three-time-presidential-candidate, cross-of-gold-orator, and basis-for-the-Cowardly-Lion William Jennings Bryan, for the prosecution. Darrow famously took Bryan to task during the proceedings, laying out how the creationist arguments of the time were pure hokum and should not be the basis for children's education. After an eight-day trial and a nine-minute deliberation, the jury found Scopes guilty (he had violated the law, after all) and he was ordered to pay a $100 fine.
Though Scopes lost, the trial empowered other defenders across the U.S. to challenge anti-evolution laws, ultimately leading to their demise until recent decades. The spirit of the case lives on in the 1960 movie Inherit the Wind and millions of online Reddit arguments since. The appearance of new creationist and intelligent design movements has resumed the necessary defense of evolution in our public schools. But should any geek ever get too worked up at the ignorance of others, they could do well to remember that Darrow and Bryan remained cordial after their case, with Bryan later giving Darrow a small carved monkey as a token of the battle.
Photo: Clarence Darrow (left) and William Jennings Bryan (right) during the Scopes Trial in 1925. Wikipedia.
1926: McKinsey and Company (Business)
One can argue about the value of modern-day management consulting. Some swear by the expertise consultants gather while unraveling the ugliest problems for some of the largest companies on the planet. Others lump the profession's practitioners in the company of thieves and pirates.
What is not debatable is that McKinsey sits at the top of the consulting heap. Its run began in 1926 when a former professor of accounting from the University of Chicago, James O. McKinsey (Mac to his friends), founded his namesake firm to provide finance and budgeting services. In the 1920s consultants were largely efficiency experts, parachuting in to help struggling companies as they went through a massive industrial shift. Mac's genius was in convincing even healthy companies they could use his firm's expertise to succeed.
Some firms like to come in and "work with you" to come to a solution. Today's McKinsey waltzes in and tells you how it's going to be. The gang from McKinsey are smart, connected up and down the corporate and government food chain, and strike fear into the foot soldiers of every Fortune 500 company. When McKinsey is on the floor during iffy times, you can bet an axe is getting ready to swing.
Its ranks have included some of the most powerful in business, Lou Gerstner, former chairman and CEO of IBM was one. But McKinsey has also been home to some of the business world's most disgraced. Before he gouged Californians in the electricity market and seemingly fabricated the rest of Enron out of the ether, Jeffrey Skilling practiced his chops at McKinsey. And Rajat Gupta, the firm's former CEO, was convicted over the summer of insider trading. Wonder what Mac would say. Probably that McKinsey could use some help from McKinsey.
Photo: On the left is James O. McKinsey, at right is Marvin Bower (far left) with McKinsey partners in 1944. Images courtesy of McKinsey and Company.
1923: Traffic Light (Gadgets)
On Nov. 20, 1923, Cleveland inventor Garrett A. Morgan was awarded the first patent for an automatic, battery powered stop light. It was also the first with a T-shape design and one of the earliest to use a three-light system, with red, yellow and green lights. While others had previously built traffic signals, many used just two lights to alert drivers of when to stop and when to go. These earlier lights also relied on manual control. When someone wasn't there to operate the signal, the signals didn't work.
Before Morgan's patent, in 1920, Detroit Police Officer William Potts was among the first to invent a red, yellow and green stop light, taking inspiration from railroad traffic signals. Later that year, Potts' signals were installed in Detroit. However, it was Morgan's design that caught on three years later because it was easier and cheaper to build.
Morgan, the owner of the Cleveland Call newspaper, was the son of two former slaves. And he was also one of the first people in Cleveland to own a car, witnessing plenty of wrecks while driving down streets with two-color, manually operated signals. Morgan's patent details a system with a light that signaled to drivers when to slow down and prepare to stop, when to stop and when to go.
Later that year, Morgan sold his patent to General Electric for $40,000 and G.E. put the three-color stop light into mass production, leading to its popularity in American intersections.
1928: Mickey Mouse Whistles to Superstardom (Games)
1927 was a transformative year for Walt Disney. He'd created his first hit character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and movie houses wanted to play his cartoons before their features. Perhaps more importantly, he went to the theaters that year and saw The Jazz Singer, the first "talkie" motion picture with a full audio track and voices. In 1928, he lost the rights to Oswald and immediately created a new character called Mickey Mouse. Disney produced two silent Mickey films that were not distributed widely.
Mickey's introduction to the world was in a cartoon called Steamboat Willie, produced at great personal expense (Disney had to sell his car).
The cost came from Disney's innovation: synchronized sound, just like in The Jazz Singer. Other cartoons had tried it but weren't able to get the sound and animation synced up. Mickey appeared on screen whistling the song "Steamboat Bill," from which the cartoon took its title. The powerful combination of music and animation was a colossal hit and Disney as we know it was born. Steamboat Willie is a popular point of reference for Disney videogames today, seen in Kingdom Hearts and Epic Mickey among others.
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