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Chiasmus™ for Windows/Linux
- Description
- How to obtain the software
- Cryptographic details
- Amendments and bug fixes of the Windows version
- Update to Windows Version 184.108.40.206 (15. December 2014)
- Notice for older Chiasmus versions
- Contact
- Important Notice
- Chiasmus für Windows/Linux
Chiasmus™ is an encryption program for Windows (Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, NT 3.5.2 and higher, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10) and Linux. Chiasmus is a 32-bit application, but it also runs on newer 64-bit operating sytsems (Windows 7, 8 and Linux). With Chiasmus it is possible to encrypt individual files or entire folders.
The built-in random number generator enables you to generate keys yourself. However, keys previously exchanged with communications partners can also be used. The keys can either be read from a file or else entered over the keyboard.
Chiasmus is easy to install. During installation, no entries are added either to the Start menu or the registry, or to any other system directories. The software does not use any system drivers or DLLs either. On the other hand, Chiasmus does not embed itself into any other applications (Word, Excel, Access, Lotus Notes, etc.). This rules out the possibility of transparent encryption of application data in the background. Encryption and decryption of files or folders must always be initiated by the user in a separate operation.
The Chiasmus software product is subject to greater risks than a hardware solution. With a PC that is connected to the internet, it is possible that protection could not be provided to the extent required. The protection requirement of the information to be protected should therefore be no higher than "normal".
Chiasmus is available as a Windows program with a graphical user interface and as a command-line-based Linux program. The Windows program is switchable from German to English language. The Linux program is availabel in German language only.
How to obtain the software
Conditions of use
Chiasmus may only be used where its use is in the interest of the Federal Republic of Germany. Details are set out in the license agreement.
To order the product, complete and sign the order sheet and send this together with the necessary evidence to:Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
Department Z 3/Sales
PO Box 20 03 63
D-53133 Bonn
- Chiasmus License Agreement for Windows/Linux for International Use (PDF, 91KB, File is accessible)
- Order Sheet (International) Chiasmus for Windows (PDF, 440KB, File is accessible)
- Order Sheet (International) Chiasmus for Linux (PDF, 248KB, File is accessible)
Cryptographic details
The core of the program is the BSI's own symmetric block encipherment algorithm, Chiasmus. Chiasmus was specifically developed for software implementations. Chiasmus encrypts 64-bit blocks into 64-bit blocks, using a 160-bit key. Chiasmus for Windows/Linux uses Chiasmus in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode. The effective key length is 128 bits, the remaining 32 bits constituting a checksum.
Amendments and bug fixes of the Windows version
- In versions up to 1.2 there have been isolated instances (approx. 0.2% of encryption operations) in which the encrypted file could not be decrypted again. This error does not affect the security of the product and has been fixed from Version 1.3.
- In versions up to 1.2 there were occasional instances in which users with Administrator privileges were unable to use user profiles created with older versions. This error was fixed in Version 1.3.
- The physical deletion of files has been removed from Chiasmus version 1.5 because under NTFS (New Technology File Sytsem) a reliable deletion of files is not possible.
- In version 126.96.36.199 some users with Administration privileges were not able to save user profiles.
- Version 1.5 contains a few extra changes that do not have any security implications.
- Version 1.6 contains a few extra changes that do not have any security implications. The design has been adapted to the new BSI design.
- In version 18.104.22.168 the function "Encrypt directory" causes an error in some combinations. This error is fixed with version 184.108.40.206
- Version 220.127.116.11 contains a few extra changes that do not have any security implications.
- Version 220.127.116.11 contains a few extra changes that do not have any security implications. E. g. an easteregg has been removed.
- In version 18.104.22.168 some sporadicly occurring bugs have been fixed. This bugs do not have any security implications. For example, in version 184.108.40.206 in rare cases occurred a message "Division durch Null" or "Division by Zero".
- In Version 18.104.22.168, the printing of keys did not work. This error has been fixed in version 126.96.36.199.
- To use the Chiasmus help pages under Windows 7 or Windows 8, the user must install the program WinHlp32.exe, which is available free of charge from the Microsoft Download Center (For Windows 10, the program WinHlp32.exe is not yet available).
Should you discover a programming error, please document it in as much detail as possible and send your report toBundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
"Chiasmus für Windows"
PO Box 20 03 63
D-53133 Bonn
or else to
When reporting errors, please state the exact version of the software that you are using (e.g. Windows 184.108.40.206). The Windows version details can be obtained by clicking with the right mouse button on the file Chiasmus.exe, selecting "Properties" and then clicking the "Version" tab. The Linux version number will be displayed if you run the program with the option "-h".
Update to Windows Version 220.127.116.11 (15. December 2014)
Important note:
You can only download Version 188.8.131.52 if you are already a registered Chiasmus user. Otherwise you can only obtain Chiasmus for Windows as described above.
To install Version 184.108.40.206, you should proceed as follows.
- Start the download.
Install_1710.zip (zip, 939KB, File does not meet accessibility standards) (zipped, encrypted and self-extracting compressed file)
- Unzip file Install_1710.xia, which is contained within Install_1710.zip.
NB: To unzip the file you will need a decompression program such as Winzip, which can be obtained as a test version from http://www.winzip.de The reason why file Install_1710.xia is included in the zip file Install_1710.zip is not actually to compress it, but to prevent Install_1710.xia being erroneously interpreted by some browsers as a text file and hence modified in some way.
- Start your old version of Chiasmus for Windows on your computer.
- Using Chiasmus für Windows, decrypt Install_1710.xia into Install_1710.exe. Enter the key "BSI" (without the quotation marks) on the keyboard. For this purpose, use the "All characters" character set. The checksum should be MXTt+B.
Important!: Encryption at this point is used not to preserve the confidentiality of the program so much as to ensure that the update can only be used by already registered Chiasmus users. Under normal circumstances you should use more complicated keys, and never disclose any keys on the internet!
- Now exit Chiasmus for Windows on your computer. To do this, close down all open windows in Chiasmus for Windows.
- Start the program Install_1710.exe by double clicking on it.
- Enter the name of the folder in which your Chiasmus installation is located. If necessary, click on the "?" button to search for the folder on your hard disk.
- Now click "OK". The files Chiasmus.exe, Chiasmus.hlp and Chiasmus.ico will now be saved to your Chiasmus folder. The old files will be overwritten. You can continue to use your old set-up file, YourName.xiu.
- If you have a version with Administrator privileges, you can now also download an updated version of the Admin.hlp file. Unless you have Administrator privileges, this file will not be of any use to you. Unzip and decrypt the file Admin.zip into Admin.hlp, as described in paragraph 2 and paragraph 4 above, and save this to your Chiasmus folder.
Download Admin.zip (zip, 255KB, File does not meet accessibility standards) (zipped and encrypted file)
- The installation is now complete. You can start up Chiasmus for Windows in the usual way.
Notice for older Chiasmus versions
With completion of the current Chiasmus Windows version 1.7, for older versions 1.0 to 1.6 the support will be discontinued and the approval will be withdrawn back on 30.06.2008.
ContactBundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
Department Z 3/Sales
PO Box 20 03 63
D-53133 Bonn
Contact person for
- technical questions: firstname.lastname@example.com
- ordering and licensing terms: email@example.com
Important Notice
The BSI will not be held liable for any damage resulting from use of the program.
Last updated: 15. December 2014


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School governors 'could be blamed for failings' in Wales - Lib Dems
Local education authorities may try to blame school governors for falling standards, the Welsh Liberal Democrats have claimed.
Two councils have applied to Education Minister Leighton Andrews for permission to dismiss the entire governing body of a school in their area.
He has agreed to one request in Cardiff and is considering another in Torfaen.
They are the first applications of their kind.
Mr Andrews approved a request to dismiss governors at St Albans Primary School in Cardiff.
An application by Torfaen local education authority (LEA) to dismiss the entire governing body of Fairwater High School in Cwmbran is on his desk.
Liberal Democrat education spokesman Aled Roberts said: "The difficulty, I think, is the number of schools in need of improvement, whether then there will be a tendency for local authorities to adopt this practice in many more instances because of the pressure they're under to improve educational attainment in Wales.
"Once you do away with that governing body, the reliance is then on the local authority - and what do we do in those areas where the local authorities themselves have been criticised by Estyn for the performance of their own departments?"
Torfaen LEA has told the minister that Fairwater's governing body has shown it cannot sustain an effective drive for improvement.
It said there have been significant concerns about the performance of the school for some time, despite extensive work to increase educational achievement and address a range of critical issues.
The authority asked for permission to replace the governors with an interim executive board.
But the governors are resisting the move, saying despite a critical report from inspectors Estyn a year ago, the school was not placed in the lowest band of the Welsh government's system and is not in so-called "special measures" as some other schools with serious issues in Wales.
'Devastating review'
Rosemarie Seabourne, chair of the governors at Fairwater High School, told BBC Wales: "It's had a devastating effect on the community, which we are public servants for.
"The only reason I'm up there is for the pupils of Fairwater High School and for this community. They've had a devastating review in the local paper, including the council's own newspaper, where the comments that are being made are not true - our attendance is on target, our behaviour is good in the school.
"I'm really concerned for governing bodies. They are public servants, they give their time free of charge on top of their day job - they are committed, intelligent people, and to be told they are incompetent and not able to manage the school is quite frightening."
Mr Andrews is planning to introduce legislation later this year which would widen the circumstances under which an LEA could issue a warning notice to boards of governors, which is a precursor to applying for their removal.
Governors Wales chairman Terry O'Marah said: "The minister is very keen at the moment that governors challenge the senior management of the school, governors have got to become a bit more competent at understanding and analysing data, and where they're unhappy they have to make that unhappiness known to the senior management of the school.
"In the end, governors are charged with improving standards in their schools, and they have to be held to account for that."
There are almost 23,000 governors in Wales.
In its annual report on Tuesday, the schools inspectorate Estyn warned that in about a quarter of schools, governors have limited knowledge about performance data and rarely challenge or hold leaders to account.
It also say that in too many cases headteachers presented school performance data and other contextual issues in a way that hid the real issues, resulting in a degree of complacency.
Councils have had the powers to apply for the removal of boards of governors since 1998, but the Welsh government's confirmed that St Albans and Fairwater are the first two applications made.
The Welsh government said a decision on whether to allow the removal of the Fairwater governors will be made by the minister "in due course".
A spokesman added Mr Andrews "has made clear over the last two years the need for increased challenge and accountability to raise school standards".
He pointed to a report by Estyn in 2009 that found "many local authorities are not using the full range of powers available to them to help underperforming schools".


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PICTURE PERFECT: Shown here at The Independent office in the late 1980s when it was still at 607 State Street, George Delmerico was famous for celebrating the photographers with whom he worked, and with this image, photographer Chris Gardner returns the favor.
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Justin U wrote: > I've been tracking satellites for about a year now, using Orbitron as > my prediction program. I'm interested in determining the orbit of > satellites on my own, and would like to know the basic methods used to > calculate the orbital elements of a satellite through observations. > Please send me a link or explain if it doesn't inconvenience you. There are methods to estimate orbits of unidentified objects, and to update the orbits of known objects. The latter problem is the most common, and the method is called differential correction. I wrote some code for the latter a couple of years ago, and was aided greatly by David Vallado's book, Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications. I especially appreciate that he provides algorithms and worked examples, in addition to the theory. Scott Campbell, who regularly posts positional observations to this list, has written quite a few programs and routines related to orbit determination: http://satelliteorbitdetermination.com Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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Fear Agent. Volume 3, issue 12-15, The last goodbye / story, Rick Remender ; pencils, Tony Moore ; inks, Ande Parks, & Rick Remender ; colors, Lee Loughridge ; letters, Rus Wooton ; covers, Tony Moore.
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The origin of the last Fear Agent revealed! Fan favorite creators Rick Remender and Tony Moore reunite to tell the most pulsepounding yarn yet. Tired and broken down, trucker Heath Huston returns home after months on the road to find his troubles have only just begun as Earth is attacked by the three feuding alien races. Within hours nearly every living creature on Earth is obliterated, leaving Heath and his wife Charlotte trapped in the middle of a nightmare with no way out.
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WHEN Victoria Lace-Williamson was battling breast cancer, it became an all-consuming contest.
She remembers watching her children's Christmas carol concert and sobbing as she wondered whether she would live to ever see one again.
When she eventually won her fight, the former Miss Scotland and model decided to celebrate her success by starting a new life in the fashion world.
Following her surgery and treatment, the Scots mum, who had worked as an art student and cabin crew, launched a business specialising in prom dresses and evening wear and now spends her working life helping girls get ready for their big nights.
And she is delighted to be looking forward to seeing her children grow up to enjoy their own proms.
Victoria, 46, who is married to businessman Kevin, 45, with three children, Gabrielle, 15, Findlay, 14, and Poppy, five, said that opening the boutique in her home town of Ayr has been a positive distraction from her cancer battle now she's feeling well again.
Victoria did modelling as a teenager and was studying art in London in 1989 when she received a phone call to say she had got through to the final of Miss Scotland.
She said: "My mother had entered me in this competition and I knew nothing about it."
Victoria went on to win Miss Scotland and at 19 she travelled the world competing in other pageants. The beauty contests also gave her modelling career a boost.
At 22 she decided to join British Airways and flew as cabin crew for 20 years, including working as a purser.
She married and had her family but when youngest daughter Poppy was only 18 months old, her world came crashing down around her. Victoria discovered a lump in her left breast – two weeks before Christmas 2012.
She said: "I was in the bath and I checked myself and found a pea-sized lump on my left breast. I remember it was a Friday and I told my husband. That whole weekend I kept finding it."
Her GP referred her for tests and she underwent a mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy.
Victoria said: "When they said I needed a biopsy I just knew it would be cancer."
Her worst fears were confirmed when she was told she had lobular breast cancer.
She said: "I remember the consultant sitting me down and saying, 'If you're going to get breast cancer this is the best one to get'. So you hang onto that. You think obviously you don't want to get it but you hang onto the fact he said it was treatable."
She underwent two lumpectomies – one before and one after Christmas. It was a tense time waiting to hear if they'd got all the cancer.
Victoria said: "That was the worst Christmas but we still tried to stay positive and happy with the children.
"It was difficult. We had to try to spoonfeed the older two information little by little. My father had died of cancer not long before and I didn't want to worry them and kept reassuring them all the time. But
we didn't want to dwell on it.
"I remember sitting at the children's Christmas carol service up the back with a couple of friends and each of them holding my hands while I was crying. I was watching the children and thinking, 'Could this be the last time I see this?' You think, 'Am I going to be here next time?'
"That fear that you're going to be taken away from your children is something I don't think you can imagine how it feels. It was horrific."
She was dealt another blow when doctors decided Victoria needed to have a mastectomy in February 2013.
But a specialist test which revealed she didn't need chemotherapy, which was a huge relief.
She said: "That was a really good day. I've watched my father and a good friend go through chemotherapy and that was a big fear."
But she still needed radiotherapy every day for six weeks and will take Tamoxifen for rest of her life. She said: "Cancer consumes you. You get through treatment and surgery then you live in fear that it's coming back.
"Every minor thing, whether it's an ache or pain or headache, you become completely paranoid and think it's come back. It's a fear that all cancer victims have to live with.
"I needed something for me, something to take my mind off it, something positive to focus on. I wanted something I could enjoy and stop me thinking about the cancer and my boutique is it."
Victoria looked to her fashion background for inspiration.
She said: "A few friends' daughters were entering the prom world and my daughter Gabby had started talking about dresses too. I thought there's nowhere round here to buy prom dresses – it was a niche in the market."
Victoria is featuring dresses by designers Terani Couture, Rachel Allan, Alyce Paris, Blush and Blush Prom in her shop, Beau Beau Boutique.
She loves seeing the excitement on her customers' faces when they dress up in the gowns. And she's looking forward to seeing Gabrielle pick out a dress for her own prom.
It's been four years since Victoria battled cancer and she's full of hope for the future.
She said: "I'm getting there. They say if it's going to come back it tends to be within five years.
"The boutique has been a good focus for me.
"The girls come in often with something specific in mind for a prom dress and it's nice to also take them out of their comfort zone and get them to try on something different and quite often that's what they go for."
Victoria is loving bringing joy to her customers but by sharing her cancer battle she also wants to give hope to others fighting the disease.
She said: "If someone reads my story and from that checks themselves for lumps, or if they're worried about anything if they have just been diagnosed, I want to give them hope.
"When you battle breast cancer you lose confidence.
"It takes something from you and changes you as a person. My children and husband kept me going and now I'm living life to the full.
"Things in life knock us and as women we can be quite hard on ourselves. I really want to help women feel beautiful. We all need a boost."
For details of Victoria's collection of prom and evening dresses, see www.beaubeauboutique.com


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Press release from the issuing companyDOVER, NH - Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers will utilize one dual-delivery Magnapak inserting system and two NP200 Press Gripper conveyors from Heidelberg at its new production facility under construction in Port St. Lucie, Florida. This shaftless technology will be used to produce The Stuart News, The Port St. Lucie News, The Tribune (Ft. Pierce) and The Press Journal (Vero Beach). Combined circulation for the News/Press-Tribune papers is 99,800 daily and 120,000 Sunday. "We are very excited to include state-of-art, shaftless inserting in our new production facility, explains Michael O'Leary, operations director for Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers. "The dual-out configuration of our Magnapak will allow us high-speed production of our daily products, with the added hopper capacity we need to handle Sunday inserting runs. Magnapak's easy hopper set-up and ergonomic design will make it a very user-friendly piece of equipment for our packaging staff to learn and to operate." The dual-delivery Magnapak at Treasure Coast Newspapers will be configured with two NP125 Delivery Gripper conveyors and 25 hoppers, with up to 24-into-1 capacity in single-delivery mode. Dual-delivery mode will be used to achieve high throughput by inserting two product streams simultaneously, each with up to 11-into-1 capacity. Zone control features will also enable different publications to be inserted at the same time. An Omnicon control package includes downstream control functions for automatic key bundling and bundle labeling. The Omnicon system will also interface with a Burt supervisory control system at the Scripps facility, providing advanced zoning and reporting capabilities. One NP200 Press Gripper conveyor will transport products from two press folders, while the second will serve one folder. Both will automatically release waste and paster copies to a Press Waste conveyor provided by TMSI. Turnkey Installation and Training for the complete system are included as well. "It has been a pleasure to work with the entire Heidelberg team, including sales, engineering, and customer support," O'Leary says. "They have been very creative, supportive and have met all of their commitments. We are looking forward to an on-time migration to the new production facility and the Magnapak inserter." Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers plans to conclude transition of full daily production to the Port St. Lucie facility in the fourth quarter of this year.
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So there's quite a few people who are coming to Chains of Despair who haven't been to Heart of Pargon in a while. And maybe some people who've never been before. For those people, here's some basic In Character background to help you get into the event.
It's pretty basic, and you may well know more – but relevant common knowledge goes like this:
The Colourful Island
Four years ago, an island mysteriously appeared in one of Velmaneth's oceans, complete with some indigenous tree people, known as "brocklings" or tree-people and violent monsters apparently made of shattered glass.
A group of Heroes was commissioned to pick a ruler for the island. Over the course of a week, they found the source of the glass monsters and stopped it, established a shrine honouring all the Gods of Velmaneth, and named a ruler: Inigo Jones, a successful merchant who owns the Inigo Trading company.
They also inadvertently created a god, Despair, the opposite of the god Hope. These gods pretty much explain themselves in terms of what their aims are.
The Island became home to about 200 people, most living in a small port town.
The Glooms
Last year, due to manipulation by the insane God of Destruction, Velneshar, a group of Heroes unwittingly unleashed an endless horde of creatures called Glooms, that destroy the souls of anything near them. These Glooms have now covered the whole world, except for 11 magical domes over population centres. The only survivors who are not in some way immune to Glooms are in these domes.
The domes are powered by people called Sentinels, who are gifted with the power to hold back the Glooms. There is one sentinel for every country on Velmaneth, as well as one "Anointed One" who is not bound to any one land. As long as each dome has its Sentinel, alive and inside the dome, the Glooms cannot enter them.
The Chosen
When the glooms first appeared, a group of Heroes travelled around the world, naming a Sentinel for every land, in order to establish the protective domes as fast as possible. There was, therefore, a small time in which glooms rampaged all over the world and people had to fend for themselves.
On the Colourful Island, a figure calling himself The Chosen of Despair offered the people of the island a chance for survival: if they gave up their souls via a rite on the altar of Despair, they would be immune to the incorporeal Glooms. Fearing death, most of the island agreed, and gave up their souls. A small number of people had the rite forced on them, and a very small number died rather than do it.
When the Heroes came to the Colourful Island to name a sentinel, they knew that they could not raise the domes for several days. So they made the choice to name The Chosen, Despair's Paladin, Sentinel of the Colourful Island, making no effort to free the souls Despair had. In total about 150 people survived.
The Ritual House And Its Revenants
It is impossible to teleport through Glooms – anyone who tries without adequate protection has their soul destroyed. So transport between domes is done through several ritually linked houses in each dome. Do to a problem in the original ritual linking the houses, however, a curse from one has been spread to all of the others, and periodically, the houses were roamed by a tormented spirit and the spirits of several of the failed ritualists, who attacked anyone near the house at night. A ritual has been done to displace them, but for some reason recently the Revenants have been returning - though not as frequently as before.
The Island Now
Currently, the Colourful Island is very quiet. There is not much communication with the outside, and people rarely visit. Even more rare is someone coming from the Island. On these occasions, though, they are without fail either a priest of Despair, preaching his word, or an open follower. It's very rare for anyone to move to another dome, usually they trade for something and then go back.
I may have got some bits wrong – I'm sure someone will point it out if I did. There's also more - but this is a lot of information and I don't want to overwhelm people.
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Libretro has created this Shader Specification in order to facilitate the implementation of cross-platform video shaders.
Available shader types:¶
- Cg shaders: The Cg shader spec used in RetroArch and other libretro frontends supports both single-pass Cg shaders as well as multi-pass shaders. It uses a custom Cg preset format (.cgp).
- GLSL shaders: GLSL support exists for platforms which do not support Cg shaders, which is the case for OpenGL ES, and EGL contexts including KMS mode in Linux.
Shader file format:¶
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# are treated as comments. Rest of the line is ignored. Format is: key = value. There can be as many spaces as you like in-between. Value can be wrapped inside "" for multiword strings. (foo = "hai u") #include includes a config file in-place. Path is relative to where config file was loaded unless an absolute path is chosen. Key/value pairs from an #include are read-only, and cannot be modified.
Cg shader spec¶
Cg is a shader specification from nVidia. It has the advantage that shaders written in Cg are compatible with both OpenGL and Direct3D, as well as PlayStation3. They are also compatible with basic HLSL if some considerations are taken into account. They can even be automatically compiled into GLSL shaders, which makes Cg shaders a true "write once, run everywhere" shader format. We encourage new shaders targeting Libretro frontends to be written in this format.
Example Cg shader¶
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void main_vertex ( float4 position : POSITION, out float4 oPosition : POSITION, uniform float4x4 modelViewProj, float2 tex : TEXCOORD, out float2 oTex : TEXCOORD ) { oPosition = mul(modelViewProj, position); oTex = tex; } float4 main_fragment (float2 tex : TEXCOORD, uniform sampler2D s0 : TEXUNIT0) : COLOR { return tex2D(s0, tex); }
Cg shader presets¶
Example Cg preset¶
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shaders = 2 shader0 = 4xBR-v3.9.cg scale_type0 = source scale0 = 4.0 filter_linear0 = false shader1 = dummy.cg filter_linear1 = true
GLSL shader spec¶
Like Cg shaders, GLSL shaders represents a single pass, and requires a preset file to describe how multiple shaders are combined. The extension is .glsl.
As GLSL shaders are normally placed in two different files (vertex, fragment), making it very impractical to select in a menu. This is worked around by using compiler defines in order to be equivalent to Cg shaders.
Example GLSL shader¶
Note: GLSL shaders must be modern style, and using ruby prefix is discouraged.
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varying vec2 tex_coord; #if defined(VERTEX) attribute vec2 TexCoord; attribute vec2 VertexCoord; uniform mat4 MVPMatrix; void main() { gl_Position = MVPMatrix * vec4(VertexCoord, 0.0, 1.0); tex_coord = TexCoord; } #elif defined(FRAGMENT) uniform sampler2D Texture; void main() { gl_FragColor = texture2D(Texture, tex_coord); } #endif
GLSL presets¶
Like Cg shaders, there is a preset format. Instead of .cgp extension, .glslp extension is used. The format is exactly the same, just replace .cg shaders with .glsl. To convert a .cgp preset, rename to .glslp and replace all references to .cg shaders with .glsl.
Converting from Cg shaders¶
GLSL shaders are mostly considered a compatibility format. It is possible to compile Cg shaders into GLSL shaders automatically using our cg2glsl script. It can convert single shaders as well as batch conversion. Shader converstion relies on nVidia's cgc tool found in the
nvidia-cg-toolkit package.
Common Shaders Repository¶
The Libretro organization hosts a repository on Github that contains a compilation of shaders. Users can contribute their own shaders to this repository by doing a Pull Request.
Detailed Cg Shader Specification¶
Entry points: Vertex: main_vertex Fragment: main_fragment
Texture unit: All shaders work on texture unit 0 (the default). 2D textures must be used. Power-of-two sized textures are recommended for optimal visual quality. The shaders must deal with the actual picture data not filling out the entire texture. Incoming texture coordinates and uniforms provide this information.
The texture coordinate origin is defined to be top-left oriented, i.e. a texture coordinate of (0, 0) will always refer to the top-left pixel of the visible frame. This is opposite of what most graphical APIs expect. The implementation must always ensure that this ordering is held for any texture that the shader has access to.
Every texture bound for a shader must have black border mode set. I.e. sampling a texel outside the given texture coordinates must always return a pixel with RGBA values (0, 0, 0, 0).
Uniforms: Some parameters will need to be passed to all shaders, both vertex and fragment program. A generic entry point for fragment shader will look like:
float4 main_fragment (float2 tex : TEXCOORD0, uniform input IN, uniform sampler2D s_p : TEXUNIT0) : COLOR {}
The input is a struct looking like: struct input { float2 video_size; float2 texture_size; float2 output_size; float frame_count; float frame_direction; };
TEXCOORD0: Texture coordinates for the current input frame will be passed in TEXCOORD0. (TEXCOORD is a valid alias for TEXCOORD0).
COLOR0: Although legal, no data of interest is passed here. You cannot assume anything about data in this stream.
IN.video_size: The size of the actual video data in the texture, e.g for a SNES this will be generally (256, 224) for normal resolution frames.
IN.texture_size: This is the size of the texture itself. Optimally power-of-two sized.
IN.output_size: The size of the video output. This is the size of the viewport shown on screen.
IN.frame_count: A counter of the frame number. This increases with 1 every frame. This value is really an integer, but needs to be float for CGs lack of integer uniforms.
IN.frame_direction: A number telling which direction the frames are flowing. For regular playing, this value should be 1.0. While the game is rewinding, this value should be -1.0.
modelViewProj: This uniform needs to be set in vertex shader. It is a uniform for the current MVP transform.
Pre-filtering: Most of these shaders are intended to be used with a non-filtered input. Nearest-neighbor filtering on the textures themselves are preferred. Some shaders, like scanline will most likely prefer bilinear texture filtering.
Cg meta-shader format¶
Rationale: The .cg files themselves contain no metadata necessary to perform advanced filtering. They also cannot process an effect in multiple passes, which is necessary for some effects. The CgFX format does exist, but it would need current shaders to be rewritten to a HLSL-esque format. It also suffers a problem mentioned below.
Rather than putting everything into one file (XML shader format), this format is config file based. This greatly helps testing shader combinations as there is no need to rearrange code in one big file. Another plus with this approach is that a large library of .cg files can be used to combine many shaders without needing to redundantly copy code over. It also helps testing as it is possible to unit-test every pass separately completely seamless.
The meta-shader format is based around the idea of a config file with the format: key = value. Values with spaces need to be wrapped in quotes: key = "value stuff". No .ini sections or similar are allowed. Meta-shaders may include comments, prefixed by the "#" character, both on their own in an otherwise empty line or at the end of a key = value pair.
The meta-format has four purposes: - Combine several standalone .cg shaders into a multipass shader. - Define scaling parameters for each pass. I.e., a HQ2x shader might want to output with a scale of exactly 2x. - Control filtering of textures. Many shaders will want nearest-neighbor filtering, and some will want linear. - Define external lookup textures. Shaders can access external textures found in .tga files.
shaders (int): This param defines how many .cg shaders will be loaded. This value must be at least one. The path to these shaders will be found as a string in parameters shader0, shader1, ... shaderN, and so on. The path is relative to the directory the meta-shader was loaded from.
filter_linearN (boolean): This parameter defines how the texture of the result of pass N will be filtered. N = 0 (pass 0) is the raw input frame, N = 1 is result of the first pass, etc. (A boolean value here might be true/false/1/0). Should this value not be defined, the filtering option is implementation defined.
float_framebufferN (boolean): This parameters defines if shader N should render to a 32-bit floating point buffer. This only takes effect if shaderN is actually rendered to an FBO. This is useful for shaders which have to store FBO values outside [0, 1] range.
frame_count_modN (int): This positive parameter defines which modulo to apply to IN.frame_count. IN.frame_count will take the value frame_count % frame_count_modN.
scale_typeN (string): This can be set to one of these values: "source": Output size of shader pass N is relative to the input size as found in IN.video_size. Value is float. "viewport": Output size of shader pass N is relative to the size of the window viewport. Value is float. This value can change over time if the user resizes his/her window! "absolute": Output size is statically defined to a certain size. Useful for hi-res blenders or similiar.
If no scale type is assumed, it is assumed that it is set to "source" with scaleN set to 1.0.
It is possible to set scale_type_xN and scale_type_yN to specialize the scaling type in either direction. scale_typeN however overrides both of these.
Exceptions: If no scale_type is set for the very last shader, it is assumed to output at the full resolution rather than assuming a scale of 1.0x, and bypasses any frame-buffer object rendering. If there is only one shader, it is also considered to be the very last shader. If any scale option is defined, it has to go through a frame-buffer object, and subsequently rendered to screen. The filtering option used when stretching is implementation defined. It is encouraged to not have any scaling parameters in last pass if you care about the filtering option here.
In first pass, should no scaling factor be defined, the implementation is free to choose a fitting scale. This means, that for a single pass shader, it is allowed for the implementation to set a scale, render to FBO, and stretch. (Rule above).
- scaleN, scale_xN, scale_yN (float/int): These values control the scaling params from scale_typeN. The values may be either floating or int depending on the type. scaleN controls both scaling type in horizontal and vertical directions.
If scaleN is defined, scale_xN and scale_yN have no effect. scale_xN and scale_yN controls scaling properties for the directions separately. Should only one of these be defined, the other direction will assume a "source" scale with value 1.0, i.e. no change in resolution.
Should scale_type_xN and scale_type_yN be set to different values, the use of scaleN is undefined (i.e. if X-type is absolute (takes int), and Y-type is source (takes float).)
- textures (multiple strings): The textures param defines one or more lookup textures IDs. Several IDs are delimited with ';'. I.e. textures = "foo;bar" These IDs serves as the names for a Cg sampler uniform. I.e. uniform sampler2D foo; uniform sampler2D bar;
The path of the textures can be found in the IDs, i.e. foo = image0.tga bar = image1.tga The paths of these textures are relative to the directory the meta-shader was loaded from.
It is also possible to control the filtering options of the lookup texture as a boolean option in ID_linear = true/false. I.e. foo_linear = false, will force nearest neighbor filtering for texture "foo". If this param is not set, it is assumed to be linearily filtered.
The textures will be loaded "as-is", and coordinates (0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 0), (1, 1) will correspond to the corners of the texture. Since the texture coordinates of the texture in TEXUNIT0 might not be as convenient, the texture coordinates for all lookup textures will be found in TEXCOORD1. (Note: You cannot assume which texture unit the lookup textures will be bound to however!)
The implementation only guarantees to be able to load plain top-left non-RLE .tga files. It may provide possibilities to load i.e. .png and other popular formats.
Multi-pass uniforms:
During multi-pass rendering, some additional uniforms are available.
With multi-pass rendering, it is possible to utilize the resulting output for every pass that came before it, including the unfiltered input. This allows for an additive approach to shading rather than serial style.
The unfiltered input can be found in the ORIG struct:
uniform sampler2D ORIG.texture: Texture handle. Must not be set to a predefined texture unit. uniform float2 ORIG.video_size: The video size of original frame. uniform float2 ORIG.texture_size: The texture size of original frame. in float2 ORIG.tex_coord: An attribute input holding the texture coordinates of original frame.
PASS%u: This struct holds the same data as the ORIG struct, although the result of passes {1, 2, 3 ...}, i.e. PASS1.texture holds the result of the first shader pass. If rendering pass N, passes {1, ..., N-2} are available. (N-1 being input in the regular IN structure).
PREV: This struct holds the same data as the ORIG struct, and corresponds to the raw input image from the previous frame. Useful for motion blur.
PREV1..6: Similar struct as PREV, but holds the data for passes further back in time. PREV1 is the frame before PREV, PREV2 the frame before that again, and so on. This allows up to 8-tap motion blur.
For backend implementers:
Rendering the shader chain¶
With all these options, the rendering pipeline can become somewhat complex. The meta-shader format greatly utilizes the possibility of offscreen rendering to achieve its effects. In OpenGL usually this is referred to as frame-buffer objects, and in HLSL as render targets (?). This feature will be referred to as FBO from here. FBO texture is assumed to be a texture bound to the FBO.
As long as the visual result is approximately identical, the implementation does not have to employ FBO.
With multiple passes our chain looks like this conceptually:
|Source image| ---> |Shader 0| ---> |FBO 0| ---> |Shader 1| ---> |FBO 1| ---> |Shader 2| ---> (Back buffer)
In the case that Shader 2 has set some scaling params, we need to first render to an FBO before stretching it to the back buffer.
|Source image| ---> ... |Shader 2| ---> |FBO 2| ---> (Back buffer)
Scaling parameters determine the sizes of the FBOs. For visual fidelity it is recommended that power-of-two sized textures are bound to them. This is due to floating point inaccuracies that become far more apparent when not using power-of-two textures. If the absolute maximum size of the source image is known, then it is possible to preallocate the FBOs.
Do note that the size of FBOn is determined by dimensions of FBOn-1 when "source" scale is used, not the source image size! Of course, FBO0 would use source image size, as there is no FBO-1 ;)
I.e., with SNES there is a maximum width of 512 and height of 478. If a source relative scale of 3.0x is desired for first pass, it is thus safe to allocate a FBO with size of 2048x2048. However, most frames will just use a tiny fraction of this texture.
With "viewport" scale it might be necessary to reallocate the FBO in run-time if the user resizes the window.
Compatibility of shader types with context drivers¶
In RetroArch, the following table specifies which shader types work with what video contexts:
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Bubble Wrap Calendar
We recently introduced bubble wrap to our son. Now he looks forward to package delivery to the house - just in case there's a small piece of bubble wrap to pop. This might be a good gift for him.
The Bubble Wrap Calendar works sort of like an advent calendar. You can pop a bubble everyday and mark the days as they go by (if you can control yourself). Order one here or make one from remnant bubble wrap to count down to special occasions.
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Friday, October 3, 2014
Cut Out Sugar Cookies with Royal Frosting
Through the month of October the color pink will be worn to show support of cancer research. The iconic pink ribbons will be worn, displayed on doors, signs and businesses with pride. All to show we want to Kick Cancer's Butt and we want to find a cure.
So I thought it would only be appropriate to share a very simple recipe, a cut out sugar cookie. But, a very festive sugar cookie. One that is frosted with royal icing and sporting the symbol of the month, the pink ribbon.
Cut Out Sugar Cookies with Royal Frosting
For the sugar cookie-
2 Cups (4 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
2 Cups sugar
2 Large eggs
3 Tsp vanilla extract
5 Cups flour
1 Tsp salt
For the royal icing-
3/4 Cup warm water
5 Tbsp meringue powder
1 Tsp cream of tartar
2 1/4 Pounds (approximately 8 cups) powdered sugar, plus more to achieve desired consistency
1 Tsp clear vanilla extract
For the cookies-
Combine flour and salt in a large bowl and whisk to combine. Set aside.
Place butter and sugar in a large bowl and beat on medium until light and fluffy, about 1-2 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and mix for an additional 30 seconds.
Add eggs, one at a time mixing well after each addition. Add vanilla and mix to combine. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix on low for about 30 seconds. Once the dough begins to clump around the paddle or beaters it is ready.
Place dough between 2 pieces of parchment paper and roll until it's approximately 1 centimeter thick. Place on a baking sheet and chill for at least 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 350.
After the dough has chilled, roll out further, if desired. Cut out the cookies and place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Repeat the rolling process until the dough is gone.
Place the cookies in the preheated oven and bake for 8-12 minutes, until edges become golden brown. Allow cookies to cool to room temperature and then decorate.
For the royal icing-
Combine warm water and meringue powder in a large bowl and whisk by hand until frothy and thickened, about 30 seconds. Add cream of tartar and mix for an additional 30 seconds. Add all the powdered sugar, at once, and mix on the lowest speed for 10 minutes. The icing will become thick and creamy.
Cover the bowl with a dampened tea towel or paper towel to prevent crusting and drying.
Color with food coloring, if desired. Add small amounts of warm water to achieve desired consistency.
To decorate-
Using a small round tip, pipe a border around the perimeter of the cookie.
Add small amounts of warm water to achieve a slightly thinner frosting. Carefully pipe the thinner frosting in the border. Shake the cookie, and tap it lightly on the counter to remove air bubbles. Set aside and allow to dry.
Follow with a different, or several different colors, to decorate.
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submitted: March 3, 1982.
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,v.EDDIE WARREN, APPELLANT
No. 2347 Philadelphia, 1981, Appeal from Order of the Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Division, of Montgomery County, No. 3883-76
Frank H. Morgan, Ardmore, for appellant.
Joseph A. Smyth, District Attorney, Norristown, for Commonwealth, appellee.
Wieand, Beck and Hoffman, JJ.
Author: Wieand
[ 307 Pa. Super. Page 222]
Eddie Warren entered negotiated pleas of guilty to burglary and conspiracy on March 18, 1977. He was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than three nor more than 23 months for burglary, to be followed by a three year period of probation for conspiracy. He filed neither post-sentencing motion nor direct appeal. During the period of his probation, Warren was arrested and charged with robbery and burglary. Following a hearing, his probation was revoked, and he was sentenced to prison for not less than three nor more than ten years. He then filed a P.C.H.A.
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petition in which he sought to withdraw his original pleas of guilty. In support thereof he alleged that he had received ineffective assistance of counsel because counsel had failed (1) to advise him of his constitutional rights prior to entering pleas of guilty and (2) to object to the fact that the informations contained only a rubber stamp facsimile of the District Attorney's signature. A hearing was held, and the P.C.H.A. petition was denied on June 3, 1980. This appeal followed.
Appellant's petition was filed three years after sentence had been imposed. "When considering a petition to withdraw a guilty plea submitted to a trial court after sentencing. . . 'a showing of prejudice on the order of manifest injustice' . . . is required before withdrawal is properly justified." Commonwealth v. Shaffer, 498 Pa. 342, 346, 446 A.2d 591, 593 (1982) (citations omitted). See also: Commonwealth v. Starr, 450 Pa. 485, 490, 301 A.2d 592, 595 (1973). Accord: Commonwealth v. May, 485 Pa. 371, 373 n. 2, 402 A.2d 1008, 1009 n. 2 (1979). Manifest injustice requires a showing that "'the plea was involuntary, or was entered without knowledge of the charge.'" Commonwealth v. Shaffer, supra, quoting American Bar Association Standards for Criminal Justice, Pleas of Guilty (2d ed. 1980), Standard 14-2.1(b)(ii)(C) relating to Withdrawal of Pleas.
In the instant case, appellant has made no such showing. Although appellant contends that the guilty plea colloquy was defective because the elements of the offense were not recited, his contention is refuted by the record. Appellant's pleas of guilty were entered simultaneously with pleas of guilty by his co-defendant, Larry Williams. Appellant was present and heard the colloquy conducted with Williams and acknowledged his understanding. The record discloses that the elements of burglary and conspiracy were stated not once, but twice. During the first colloquy, moreover, the right to trial by jury, including the right to remain silent, and also the right of appeal from a conviction and the right to be represented by counsel on appeal were fully explained.
In Commonwealth v. Harris, 286 Pa. Super. 601, 429 A.2d 685 (1981), this Court specifically rejected the argument that
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1. Re: Revert UI design back to normalSzalam Jun 23, 2015 12:55 PM (in response to sambuev)
Adobe is not deleting stuff like this. There are multiple threads here and on the Premiere forums that have been around since CC 2014.1 first introduced the blue color and they're still going strong.
Also, YOU have access to CS6 still (as well as CC if you would like some of the new features without the blue): How to Find and Install Previous Version of Adobe Apps in CC 2015 | Adobe Customer Care Team
You can install CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, or CS6 from the cloud.
Speaking of CC 2015, there are some additional enhancements to the user interface customizations in that version. It won't help you make it orange again, but it can make it more readable if you're struggling with that. If you do decide to update to CC 2015, make sure you don't let it uninstall your older versions: keeping previous versions installed when installing CC 2015 applications | After Effects region of interest
2. Re: Revert UI design back to normalsambuev Jun 23, 2015 12:57 PM (in response to Szalam)
Okay, why this post has been deleted:
After Effects 13.1 (2014.1) Update changes selected Keyframe Colors - Please revert back!
I see error message. I did not get any notification, maybe I was banned in this thread, but who knows, it just stopped to open, for me it was deleted thread.
3. Re: Revert UI design back to normalSzalam Jun 23, 2015 1:16 PM (in response to sambuev)
That's odd. Perhaps the original poster deleted the thread or something. There are several other threads that are still around regarding the subject, so I wouldn't start believing in any thread-clearing conspiracy just yet.
4. Re: Revert UI design back to normalsambuev Jun 23, 2015 1:21 PM (in response to Szalam)
Okay, I hope it was just one occasional case, I hope someone can upload this folder with pngs and everyone who want to revert old design can replace icons.
I don't want to install old version just to copy this folder, if I would know new CC design such ugly, I would backup this folder, but unfortunatelly I did not know
Some one please help with!
5. Re: Revert UI design back to normalSpacecat66 Jul 17, 2015 3:16 PM (in response to sambuev)
I missed out on the keyframe-color altering pngs with instructions too. I bookmarked that discussion to read through when I got home, but by the time I got home the thread had been deleted.


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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung (1875)
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung (1875)
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Leave everything you know behind.
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The force of necessity is irresistible. Aeschylus (525 B.C.E.)
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Illumina, Inc. has launched an advanced high-throughput screening (HTS) array format that significantly increases the number of samples that can be processed on the Infinium® BeadChip family of genotyping arrays.
Illumina's Infinium assay leverages proven chemistries on a new 24-sample HTS BeadChip that supports up to 750,000 markers per sample and increases scanning capacity by up to three-fold.
"We're excited to introduce this new array format as it enables our customers to perform larger, more powerful studies that enhance discovery," said Christian Henry, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Genomic Solutions at Illumina.
Henry continued, "The 24-sample HTS BeadChip strengthens Illumina's leading position in the array market and further demonstrates our ability to continue innovation on our array platform, providing customers with high-quality, high-throughput genotyping solutions. The new format allows us to offer breakthrough pricing per sample which is important to enable direct-to-consumer, biobanking, basic research, and agricultural applications."
Illumina's HumanOmniExpress BeadChip will be the first standard array available on the 24-sample HTS BeadChip, part of a portfolio of whole-genome genotyping arrays with new affordable pricing.
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"We are very happy with the quality of data we obtained using the Illumina Infinium technologies," said Mark Kelleher, Director of Laboratory Operations at 23andMe. "We are now very excited to deploy the higher-throughput BeadChips to enhance our ability to process larger volumes of samples as we expand our customer base."
The first consortium-designed array on the 24-sample HTS BeadChip will leverage the new format and affordable pricing to help researchers explore the association between variants to five common cancers - breast, ovarian, colon, lung, and prostate.
The Infinium OncoArray-530K BeadChip (OncoArray), designed in collaboration with leading experts from the OncoArray consortium and enabled by the development of the 24-sample HTS BeadChip, delivers the core content found on Illumina's Infinium HumanCore array along with approximately 250,000 additional candidate variants identified by OncoArray consortium members and room for 100,000 markers of semi-custom content.
The consortium members are planning a study of unprecedented size which will use the OncoArray to analyze over 425,000 samples and detect subtle associations within and between cancer types.
"The OncoArray is a major new tool for providing future insights into the relationship between genetic variants and cancer predisposition," said Doug Easton, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a leader of the OncoArray consortium. "It was great working with Illumina to develop the OncoArray. The array contains the custom content we need, in a high-throughput format that will make our large-scale study feasible and should lead to a whole new wave of discoveries."
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Beautifully shot but ridiculously dated melodrama about nuns resisting temptation in the form of roguish David Farrar amidst the quaint and "child-like" natives who "all look alike". Worth watching for the visuals (many shots seem like a framed oil painting) but the hysterical melodrama and stodgy dialogue will put many (myself included) off.
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Rhythm Intervention is a band that truly represents its name. Hailing from the Alabama/Florida Gulf Coast area, the band combines elements of Reggae, Rock, Punk, Pop, etc. to create an intervention of music, hence the name.
The musical journey the band takes you on is also reflected by the varied backgrounds of it members.
Keith Lee(Backwater/The Evidence/The Lucky Dogs/Ricochet), the band's pianist, studied music in college before venturing into the music industry…first as a touring musician, and then composing and producing award winning jingles for businesses such as Bebo's Carwash, Metropolitan Toyota, Bel Air Mall, and many others.
Guitar duties are handled by, Christopher Swinney(The Ataris). Before moving to the Gulf Coast to work as Talent Buyer for The Hangout/Hangout Music Festival…Chris toured as a member of multi platinum Columbia Records Punk band, The Ataris. Remember that rocking cover of Don Henley's "Boys Of Summer" from a couple years back? Yep, that was The Ataris.
Holding down the bass, is Carl Gates(Shine/Blackwater). Carl has been playing on the Gulf Coast for most of his life. Carl is the mastermind behind Rhythm Intervention's current lineup and is the glue that holds the band together. He is also a 2015 finalist for the "Best Bassist" Nappie Award.
Providing the beats is, Chris Ozuna(Mojiles/Vibe Irie/The Dian Diaz Band). The son of a professional musician mother…Chris's whole life has been about music from the start. Combining elements of rock, heavy metal, funk, reggae, jungle, and dub step…Chris definitely has a drumming style all his own. Chris has played casinos, cruise ships, and everything in between.
Rounding out the lineup is vocalist, Gary Hudson(Vibe Irie). Originally from the Trenchtown area of Kingston, Jamaica…Gary brings an authenticity to the band's reggae material that is unmatched. Gary has performed in many groups with stints at the Sandals Resort in Jamaica and many different cruise ships.
The band has taken the Gulf Coast by storm as of late with minimal days off playing many notable venues such as The Hangout, Florabama, Lu Lu's, The Brickyard, The Vinyl, etc. With plans to record an album before years end…the sky is the limit for this hungry, hardworking band.
Find them online at http://www.rhythmintervention.com