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The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors announced Wednesday that the fee-only financial planning group has named NAPFA's "30 Most Influential People" as the group marks its 30-year history.
The "30 Most Influential" program recognizes NAPFA members and staff who have made an impact on fee-only financial planning, the group and their peers since NAPFA's founding in 1983. Nominees were offered by members, who then put the nominations to a vote. NAPFA, which has more than 2,500 members nationwide, prides itself on setting some of the strictest guidelines possible for professional competency, comprehensive financial planning and fee-only compensation.
"Each of the honored helped create NAPFA's rich history through their contributions to the industry and dedication to the fee-only philosophy," said NAPFA Chairwoman Lauren Locker, CFP (left), in a statement. "While this recognition program could have easily acknowledged many more people, the members voted and provided us a wonderful cross-section of people who have made NAPFA a strong and growing organization."
The 30 Most Influential includes people of diverse backgrounds, including solo practitioners, principals in large firms, past NAPFA chairs and elected leaders. All honorees will be acknowledged at the awards banquets at the 2013 NAPFA Spring Conference in Las Vegas from May 7 through 10 and the 2013 NAPFA Fall Conference in Philadelphia from Oct. 8 through 11.
NAPFA's list of "30 Most Influential" appear on the next page.
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NAPFA's List of '30 Most Influential People'
- Dr. Lewis J Altfest, CFA, CFP, CPA/PFS, Altfest Personal Wealth Management, New York, N.Y.
- William Baldwin, JD, Pillar Financial Advisors, Waltham, Mass.
- Richard Bellmer, CFP, Deerfield Financial Advisors, Indianapolis, Ind.
- William Bengen, CFP, Bengen Financial Services, La Quinta, Calif.
- Janet Briaud, CFP, Briaud Financial Advisors, College Station, Texas
- Peggy Cabaniss, CFP, HC Financial Advisors., Lafayette, Calif.
- Peg Downey, CFP, Directions for Women, Chevy Chase, Md.
- David Drucker, CFP, Drucker Knowledge Systems, Albuquerque, N.M.
- David Foster, CFP, CPA, Foster & Motley, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Sheryl Garrett, AIF, CFP, Garrett Planning Network, Eureka Springs, Ark.
- David Grant, CFP, Vantage Financial Partners, Arlington Heights, Ill.
- Cheryl Holland, CFP, Abacus Planning Group, Columbia, S.C.
- Nancy Hradsky, NAPFA Staff, Arlington Heights, Ill.
- Susan John, AIF, CFP, Financial Focus, Wolfeboro, N.H.
- Bernard Kiely, CFP, CPA, Kiely Capital Management, Morristown, N.J.
- Diahann Lassus, CPA/PFS, Lassus Wherley, New Providence, N.J.
- Richard Lee, CFA, CFP, Lee Financial Corp., Dallas, Texas
- Linda Leitz, CDFA, CFP, EA, It's Not Just Money, Colorado Springs, Colo.
- Warren Mackensen, CFP, Mackensen & Co., Inc., Hampton, N.H.
- Mary Malgoire, CFP, The Family Firm, Bethesda, Md.
- Robert Maloney, AEP, Squam Lakes Financial Advisors, Holderness, N.H.
- Dr. Carolyn McClanahan, CFP, MD, Life Planning Partners, Jacksonville, Fla.
- John Henry McDonald, CFP, RFC, Austin Asset Management Co., Austin, Texas
- Thomas Orecchio, CFP, AIF, CFA, ChFC, CLU, Modera Wealth Management, Westwood, N.J.
- Ron Rhoades, CFP, JD, ScholarFi, Alfred, N.Y.
- John Ritter, CFP, CFS, Ritter Daniher Financial Advisory, Cincinnati, Ohio
- John Sestina, CFP, ChFC, John E. Sestina and Co., Columbus, Ohio
- Ellen Turf, NAPFA Staff, Arlington Heights, Ill.
- Robert Underwood, NAPFA Pioneer
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Can spirituality promote a healthier physical life for your family? Recent medical studies indicate that spiritual people are less prone to self-destructive behaviors (suicide, smoking, and drug and alcohol abuse, for example), and have less stress and a greater total life satisfaction.
Much of the research linking spiritual and physical health has involved elderly patients; however, the data offer a glimpse into a possible tie between a spiritual life and good health for people of all ages.
Although spirituality has been shown to reduce depression, improve blood pressure, and boost the immune system, religious beliefs should not interfere with the medical care kids receive.
So what exactly is spirituality and how can it enhance your family's health?
Doctors and scientists once avoided the study of spirituality in connection to medicine, but more recent findings have made some take a second look. Studies show that religion and faith can help to promote good health and fight disease by:
Although research on kids hasn't been done, many studies focusing on adults point to the positive effects of spirituality on medical outcome:
Religious and spiritual beliefs are an important part of how many people deal with life's joys and hardships. Faith can give people a sense of purpose and guidelines for living.
When families face tough situations, including health problems, their religious beliefs and practices can help them fight feelings of helplessness, restore meaning and order to life situations, and help them regain a sense of control. For some families, spirituality can be a powerful and important source of strength.
Medical studies have confirmed that spirituality can have a profound effect on mental states. In a study of men who were hospitalized, nearly half rated religion as helpful in coping with their illness. A second study showed that the more religious patients were, the more quickly they recovered from some disorders. A third study revealed that high levels of hope and optimism, key factors in fighting depression, were found among those who strictly practiced their religion.
Attending organized religious services may help some families connect with their spiritual values, but it's not the only way. Less traditional paths also can help kids and parents find spiritual meaning.
To foster spirituality within your own family, you may want to examine your own values. Ask yourself: What is important to me? How well do my daily activities mirror my values? Do I neglect issues that matter to me because I'm busy spending time on things that matter less?
Here are other suggestions to start your family's spiritual journey:
This search can be conducted on your own or as part of a larger group — a religious community, friends, or your own family. Making a spiritual journey might help you and your family live a healthier life, both emotionally and physically.
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Cookies as big as frisbees. Muffins the size of flower pots. Bowls of pasta so deep, your fork can barely find the bottom. One reason people's waistlines have expanded over the past few decades is because food portions have too.
People today eat way more than they used to — and way more than they need to. This means that they're constantly taking in more calories than their bodies can burn. Unfortunately, lots of us don't realize that we're eating too much because we've become so used to seeing (and eating!) large portions.
Portion sizes began to increase in the 1980s and have been ballooning ever since. Take bagels, for example: 20 years ago, the average bagel had a 3-inch diameter and 140 calories. Today, bagels often have a 6-inch diameter and 350 calories. One bagel that size actually contains half a person's recommended number of grain servings for an entire day!
The price of such overabundance is high. It's common knowledge that people who consistently overeat are likely to become overweight. But they also risk getting a number of medical problems, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, bone and joint problems, breathing and sleeping problems, and even depression. Later in life, people who are overweight or obese are at greater risk for heart disease, heart failure, and stroke.
It's easy to understand why the food industry tends to serve way more food than is necessary: Customers love to feel like they're getting the best value for their money! But the value meal is no deal when it triples our calories and sets the stage for health problems.
So what can you do to take back control? A good place to start is knowing about two things that can help you eat smart: serving sizes and recommended amounts of different foods.
Look at the label on any product package and you'll see a nutrition information section that gives a serving size for that food. Contrary to popular belief, this serving size is not telling you the amount you should be eating. It's simply a guide to help you see how many calories and nutrients — as well as how much fat, sugar, and salt — you get from eating a specific quantity of that food.
Sometimes the serving size on a package will be a lot less than you are used to eating. In some cases, like vegetables, it's perfectly OK (and even a good idea) to eat more than the serving size listed on the package.
But when it comes to foods that are high in calories, fat, or sugar, the serving size can alert you that you may be getting more than is healthy. Let's say you buy a 3-ounce bag of cookies and you eat the whole bag. If the label shows the serving size is 1 ounce, not only did you have 3 servings, you also had 3 times the listed calories as well as 3 times the sugar.
Serving sizes tell you how much nutrition you're getting from a particular food. They don't tell you which foods you need to stay healthy, though. That's where the U.S. Department of Agriculture's MyPlate comes in.
MyPlate is divided into four sections with dairy on the side to represent the five food groups:
There's a website, ChooseMyPlate.gov, that offers guidelines to help people figure out how much of these foods they should eat based on age, gender, and activity level. [Please note: By clicking on this link, you will be leaving our site.]
Once we know the types of foods and quantities we should be eating, it's easier to figure out how much of that heaping plate of food our bodies actually need as opposed to how much they want. Instead of going along with what your school cafeteria or favorite restaurant puts on your plate, you can take control by eating only the amount you need.
Serving sizes on food labels and recommended amounts on the ChooseMyPlate site are usually given in grams, ounces, or cups. Of course, most of us don't carry around food scales and measuring cups. So how can we translate those amounts into quantities we can relate to? That's where the following visual cues come in. (Just be warned: Some might seem small, especially to recovering super-sizers!)
One easy way to size up portions if you don't have any measurements is to use your hand as a guide:
Another great way to visualize appropriate portions is to use the concept of the "divided plate." Think of your plate as divided into four equal sections. Use one of the top quarters for protein. Use the other top quarter for starch, preferably a whole grain. Then fill the bottom half with veggies (or a combination of vegetables and fruit). None of the foods should overlap — or be piled high! Not only will dividing your plate like this help you keep portions under control, it can also help you to balance your meals.
Being aware of realistic portion sizes and using the "divided plate" concept can help you avoid overeating. But sometimes these visual cues can be hard — especially when foods are difficult to measure, like a sandwich. It can also be hard to estimate foods like chips and cookies that you might eat right out of the bag.
More tips for portion control:
Most important, make it a habit to let your stomach rather than your eyes tell you when you're done with a meal. The key to maintaining a healthy weight is to listen to your body's natural signals about when it's hungry and when it's full. Sometimes these signals can be confused by constant overeating or constant dieting, which is why it pays to watch portion sizes and make smart food choices.
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Date reviewed: September 2014
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text: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 Benefits of Self-management for LBP Not Considered 'Worthwhile' by Patients Self-management interventions are widely recommended for patients with low back pain (LBP), but a meta-analysis by Australian researchers suggests that its effects on pain and disability are likely to be small and are supported by only moderate-quality evidence, says a Medscape Medical News article. The researchers included randomized controlled trials evaluating self-management for nonspecific LBP and assessing pain and disability in their review. They pooled data when studies were similar enough and divided analyses into short-term (less than 6 months after randomization) and long-term (at least 12 months after randomization) outcomes. They found 13 original trials that met inclusion criteria. Efficacy of self-management (including shared responsibility for a plan of care, self-monitoring, and management of signs and symptoms) was compared with efficacy of minimal intervention and with other interventions such as massage, acupuncture, yoga, and exercise. "The improvement [in pain and disability] was less than what is generally considered worthwhile by patients," said lead author Vincinius C. Oliveira. Specifically, the short-term improvement was -3.2 points on a 100-point scale for pain and -2.3 points for disability. According to the authors, effect sizes of 20% to 30% are needed for patients to consider interventions worthwhile. Dawn Carnes, DO, director of the National Council for Osteopathic Research and senior research fellow at the London School of Medicine and Dentistry in the United Kingdom, told Medscape that she was surprised by the strength of the authors' conclusion because small changes in large populations (such as LBP) do make a difference at a population level. Carnes also voiced concerned about the review's inclusion criteria. She said, "[The authors] included all types of [LBP], including chronic. Why would you expect pain to improve in a chronic pain population, where drugs don't even work for these people? Similarly, disability is unlikely to change in chronic patients, especially those with permanent bony or physiological change." The researchers told Medscape that they "were surprised by lack of definition criteria for self-management. The study raised questions that our group is currently working on such as consensus on what self-management for [LBP] is among experts, including clinicians and researchers." In comparing self-management with minimal intervention, the authors found "moderate-quality evidence that self-management interventions have small but statistically significant effects, compared to minimal interventions, on pain and disability for LBP." In addition, they found only low-quality evidence that self-management is not better than massage, acupuncture, yoga, and exercise in reducing pain or disability in LBP. The study was published online October 27 and in the November print issue of Arthritis Care & Research.


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Annexation to the City of Hermiston will allow for more agricultural research at Oregon State University's Hermiston Agricultural Research & Extension Center.
Farmers depend on the agricultural research center to obtain the latest information on the problems within their crops that they seek to remedy.
HAREC's mission is to provide new research-based information to support the high-value irrigated agricultural region where the center is located.
"This is not just an agricultural production area," said Phil Hamm, station director of HAREC and professor emeritus in the department of botany and plant pathology at OSU. "It's one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world."
HAREC supports nearly 500,000 acres of irrigated agriculture in Oregon and Washington's Columbia Basin.
For more than a century, the extension center has worked in close collaboration with farmers in the greater Hermiston area. In a forward-thinking move, HAREC actively pursues water resources to better support the agricultural industry.
Being considered a part of the urban growth boundary allowed HAREC to request to be annexed into the city ordinance.
The Hermiston City Council approved the annexation of HAREC on Monday. This annexation allows HAREC to be considered within city limits.
According to Hamm, the City of Hermiston had an excess of water resources that has been previously allocated for industrial use. Now this water can be used for agricultural purposes.
"We can take some of that water if we are part of the city, and use it to expand the area that we can irrigate on the experiment station, thus increasing our land base by 25 percent," Hamm said. "With this new annexation, we can do 25 percent more research in the future than we can do today."
HAREC had approximately 160 acres prior to the annexation, according to Hamm.
Now that HAREC has access to the city's water supply, an additional 60 acres can be used to conduct more research. This land belongs to OSU and was previously unused.
"Water is everything here," Hamm said.
The chief water source for North Morrow and Umatilla counties is the Columbia River.
The Columbia River is one of the largest river systems in North America and only 7 percent of the river flow is used for irrigation.
In stark contrast to the Columbia River, 100 percent of the Colorado River's flow is allocated to industry, agriculture and municipal uses, according to Hamm.
Hamm makes this comparison to show that the Columbia River has potential to provide more water.
HAREC has a vast array of researchers in many different fields in support of the local agricultural industry.
Faculty researchers based at HAREC include potato and cereal breeders, crop entomologists, ecologists, plant pathologists and agronomists.
"(Agriculture) is the industry in the area — it makes northern Morrow and Umatilla counties into what it is today," Hamm said. "It's really an exciting place to be."
Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova is the science reporter at the Oregon State University Daily Barometer.


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"I have decided to return to my family and academia," Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, wrote to NOAA employees.
No successor was immediately announced for Lubchenco, who has held the job since 2009. She became well-known to the public for her role in response to the BP oil spill off the coast of Louisiana in April 2010.
Her agency was accused of accepting for too long the oil company's low estimates for the amount of oil leaking. It also was criticized for a report saying that by August of that year most of the spilled oil was gone, or at least not visible. The agency said much of it had dispersed naturally, had burned or was removed.
A few weeks later, a study by independent scientists reported an invisible, 22-mile underwater plume of oil ingredients. And NOAA acknowledged the deepwater oil was not degrading as fast as they initially thought.
Still, Lubchenco was praised Wednesday by the Ocean Conservancy. "Dr. Lubchenco and NOAA were quick to respond to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and continue to play a pivotal role in ensuring that the Gulf region, including the marine ecosystem, is restored," said interim president and CEO Janis Searles Jones.
Lubchenco also oversaw in 2010 the controversial transition to a new fishery management system in New England that allots fishermen individual shares of the catch, which they pool and manage in groups.
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A marine ecologist and environmental scientist by training, and a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Lubchenco is one of several prominent scientists hired by the Obama administration.
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Web-based software "disruptor" BrightScope Inc., which has gained a name for shedding light on the opaque 401(k) industry, has brought advisor industry pundit Michael Kitces to its advisory board just before it launches a fee disclosure feature later this year on BrightScope Advisor Pages.
Kitces, partner and director of research at Pinnacle Advisory Group, and publisher of the Nerd's Eye View financial planning industry blog, will join fellow advisory board member Josh Brown, the "Reformed Broker," in offering BrightScope insights on how it can refine its Advisor Pages' ADV fee disclosure feature.
"BrightScope is a disruptor," said Chip Roame, managing partner of industry consultant Tiburon Strategic Advisors, in an email when asked to comment on Kitces' affiliation with BrightScope. "BrightScope will disrupt the advisor industry, and become a portal for advisor data."
BrightScope bills itself as "the leading independent provider of retirement plan ratings and investment analytics to participants, plan sponsors, asset managers and advisors in all 50 states." For example, the company recently released a survey of the Top 25 401(k)s for New York City-based companies, which names names and lists average account balances and the 401(k) plans' top funds.
The company has rated more than 46,000 retirement plans, spanning 30 million workers and $2 trillion in assets, and provides information on more than 600,000 financial advisors. It gets its data directly, either from plan sponsors, or from publicly available sources ranging from the Department of Labor to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Now, BrightScope is targeting the transparency, or lack thereof, in the advisor industry.
BrightScope launched Advisor Pages in 2011 as an online and publicly available directory that helps consumers conduct their own due diligence on financial advisors. The company believes it can accelerate the growth of the financial advisory industry and increase its legitimacy by creating standards around performance, experience, certifications, fees and conduct.
"The BrightScope team and I have similar beliefs that right now there is a chance to develop data-driven tools and information for consumers that fundamentally change the industry with a new level of transparency," Kitces said in a statement. "I'm excited to work alongside the team to further advance that cause."
Roame, who noted that BrightScope is a sponsor of Tiburon's popular semiannual CEO Summits, said that BrightScope's data orientation allows the firm multiple target markets because it can "collect, enhance and massage" 401(k) plan data, and then sell that information to 401(k) plan administrators, plan sponsors and financial advisors who want to market to underperforming 401(k) plans.
"Their more recent move into financial advisor data is parallel," Roame added. "By managing a database of thoughtful advisor data, they can sell this data to consumers, other advisors and firms that want to serve advisors."
Lead Generation in Reverse
Along with services such as AdviceIQ and My New Financial Advisor, BrightScope serves as a lead generation machine in reverse for advisors, according to Ellen Uzelac in "Here's Your Lead Generation Machine" in the February issue of Research magazine. These services act as "the ultimate referral engine, marking a reversal in the way investors and financial advisors historically connect. Instead of the advisor reaching out to the prospective client, it's the other way around," she writes.
Uzelac goes on to quote Kitces, who says that technology as created new pathways for creating leads and passing them on to advisors. "There's a lot more opportunity to create some scale by doing it in this environment because we can reach a whole lot more people. Certainly, you see a shift in that direction. It's a really efficient platform," Kitces says.
Mike Alfred, CEO and co-founder of BrightScope, said that Kitces was at the forefront of many complex issues coming to light as the financial planning industry matures, which is why BrightScope wanted him.
"His forward-thinking approach to social media and digital marketing within the industry, combined with his tremendous knowledge of the space and his passion for elevating industry standards, will be a terrific asset to BrightScope and we are honored to have him on board," Alfred said in a statement.
Read Michael Kitces' thoughts on disruptive trends in planning software at AdvisorOne.


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MONTGOMERY | The year 1963 marked a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement, with events in Alabama at the forefront.
MONTGOMERY | The year 1963 marked a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement, with events in Alabama at the forefront.
The year began with new Gov. George C. Wallace's Jan. 14 "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" speech.
The year included Wallace's infamous "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" in June at the segregated University of Alabama, where the governor symbolically opposed a federal order to enroll two blacks students.
In September, four black girls were killed when dynamite was detonated at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.
On Thursday at the Alabama Department of Archives and History's Architreats program, Wallace biographer and historian Dan Carter explained the background of Wallace's speech, which contained major contributions by the late racist, libertarian and anti-communist writer Asa Carter.
Dan Carter wrote, "The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of American Politics," among other books.
Dan Carter said Asa Carter penned major portions of Wallace's speech, which transformed the governor from being one of the most racially liberal politicians.
"His speech had to do with the defense of segregation," Dan Carter said.
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The speech included departures from Asa Carter's rants to include Wallace saying he wanted to help blacks. But that wasn't what his speech was remembered for, Dan Carter said.
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"It's difficult to put ourselves back in what it was like in the late 1950s and early 1960s," Dan Carter said. "Even though he was a racial moderate in his life, it was always within the system of segregation."
Wallace was elected in 1962 after losing the 1958 governor's race to John Patterson.
"Politicians see their job to represent the people and, in the case of George Wallace in 1962, the white people, he was representing them," Dan Carter said. "When black people began demanding rights, there was no question he had this visceral response, this anger and frustration."
Asa Carter "disappeared" and in the 1970s re-emerged as Forrest Carter to write novels, including "The Rebel Outlaw, Josey Wales," the basis for a Clint Eastwood movie.
"Asa Carter was an absolute doctrinaire libertarian who hated government," Dan Carter said. He died in the late 1970s.
Wallace, who died in 1998, served as governor four times. His last two terms included significant support by blacks, whom he had asked for forgiveness for his segregationist past.
Wallace was shot in 1972 while campaigning for president. The shooting left him paralyzed, and he used a wheelchair.
"It certainly changed him," Dan Carter said. "The family points out it made him a different person."
Dan Carter said Wallace had already begun changing to suit the political winds that no longer saw racism as popular or morally correct.
"He, like any good political figure, picked up on the wind, and when the wind changed, he did," Dan Carter said. "I think he was sincere about it."
He said that even during his segregationist period, if Wallace spoke at a country club, he made it a point to go into the kitchen and speak and greet the black cooks and help.
"Racism wasn't that deep in him," said Dan Carter. "He wanted everyone to love him. I think he always tried to temper that talk, and that's why he wanted to put in those sections (in his speech) about helping black folks.
"There are many things that Wallace did for the state, but I think it was flawed in part by the corruption involved, a fair amount of that," Dan Carter said. "I think that whole turning of almost every issue into a political issue damaged Wallace's efforts, probably hurt the state."


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I've always been interested in computer graphics and embedded systems. So when I got a Raspberry Pi for $35 with its high-resolution HDMI video interface, I knew it would make a good platform for experimentation. Since then, I have written about how to setup the Raspberry Pi (Nuts & Volts magazine, March 2013), have made it into an Internet Radio/Music player (Nuts & Volts magazine, August 2013), and have performed numerous experiments in computer graphics. In this article, I describe and demonstrate the particle system code I developed for the Raspberry Pi. From this point forward, I will refer to the Raspberry Pi by its typical abbreviation, RPi. My RPi setup and coding process are described at the end of this article.
To quote Wikipedia, a particle system refers to a "computer graphics technique that uses a large number of very small sprites or other graphic objects to simulate certain kinds of 'fuzzy' phenomena, which are otherwise very hard to reproduce with conventional rendering techniques usually highly chaotic systems, natural phenomena, and/or processes caused by chemical reactions." Examples include fire, explosions, smoke, dust, clouds, rain, sparks, meteors, and many others visual effects characterized as being fluid and dynamic. Similar to fractals, particle systems are an example of stochastic procedural modeling, which allows complex-looking effects to be created with minimal amounts of effort.
Particle systems were invented by William (Bill) Reeves while working at LucasFilm Ltd. and were used in the Star Trek movie "The Wrath of Khan" for the Genesis Effect. Bill received a Technical Academy Award for his invention. His seminal 1983 paper, Particle System: A Technique for Modeling a Class of Fuzzy Object [PDF], introduced the world to his technique.
In this article, I describe basic operations of a particle system, the RPi Particle System code I have written. I provide links to videos showing the RPi running some of my particle system experiments, and I explain how to set up your RPi for reproducing my results.
Note: The RPi lacks sufficient computing power to produce movie-quality special effects but it can produces some beautiful, artistic effects in real time, which was exactly what I was after. Since computing power is the limiting factor, over-clocking the RPi helps quite a bit. I have my RPi running at 900MHz with no discernible side effects other than increased performance.
The Particle System
My particle system is made up of three major components: particles, which are the visible entities displayed on the RPi screen; emitters, which create and parameterize the particles in "fuzzy" ways; and manipulators, which modify the behavior of groups of particles over time.
This particle system code creates an animation frame-by-frame and renders it onto the RPi's screen in real time. For every frame:
- All the emitters in the system are run to see if they need to create new particles.
- All manipulators in the system are run and their effect on all of the current particles is calculated and applied.
- All alive particles in the Particle System are examined and the effects of aging on their position, their size, and their color are applied. If it is determined a particle has exceeded its lifetime, it is removed from the system and its memory reclaimed.
- All updated particles are written to the display and the process starts over.
I should mention I coded this particle system in Objective-C and use the Simple Directmedia Layer (SDL) for particle display on the RPi, but more on that later. The code accompanying this article is available for download.
All particles have the same basic behavior, which is coded into the
BaseParticle class (BaseParticle.h and BaseParticle.m in the code). Subclassing
BaseParticle, I created high-level particle classes for
TriangleParticles, and
ImageParticles. The names of these classes tell you what kind of particles they are, and how they are visually represented.
All particles have a
color (including transparency), and
size in addition to more esoteric attributes such as:
blank,which, if set, causes the previous position of a particle on screen to be erased before its new position is drawn. Not setting this attribute will cause particles to leave trails mapping out their trajectories over time.
colormode, which determines how and if a particle's color changes over its lifetime.
colorvariability, which, if set, allows the color of the particle to change over its lifetime.
filled, which, if set, causes the geometric particles (circles, rectangles, and triangles) to be filled with color. If not set, only the particle outline is displayed.
sizevariability,which, if set, allows the size of the particle to change over its lifetime.
Every particle type must implement the
ParticleProtocol and provide the following methods:
- (void) renderParticleUsingSDL: (SDLObject *) sdlObject andGFX: (SDLgfx *) sdlGfx;
- (void) eraseParticleUsingSDL: (SDLObject *) sdlObject andGFX: (SDLgfx *) sdlGfx BGColor: (uint32_t) bgColor;
- (void) positionAndSize: (SDL_Rect *) pRect;
- (BOOL) update;
renderParticleUsingSDL method is called by the Particle System to make the particle render itself on the screen at its current position. This is done with the help of the system-wide
sdlObject and
sdlGfx objects. The
eraseParticleUsingSDL method causes the particle to erase its previous position on the screen if the particle's
blank attribute is set; it is a
nop otherwise. The
positionAndSize method is used to inform manipulators of the particle's current whereabouts and its size. Finally, the
update method causes a particle to recalculate its color and size, updates its position using its previous position and velocity, and to decrement its lifetime value.
Particles are given their marching orders by their emitter. Particles carry out those orders without question until the end of their lifetimes. Particles die and are removed from the particle system at end of life or when they leave the RPi's display window and are no longer visible.
In general small numbers of particles can be used for artistic purposes, while large numbers of particles are generally required for realistic effects, such as smoke and fire.
All emitters have the same basic behavior that is coded into the
BaseEmitter class (see BaseEmitter.h and BaseEmitter.m in the code). Emitters create particles and give them "fuzzy" behavior by randomly selecting attribute values within established limits. For example, an emitter might be designed to emit particles only within +/- 45 degrees of vertical. In this case, the emitter's
min angle attribute would be set to
-45 and its
max angle attribute to
+45. The emitter would randomly pick a value between these limits (say, -21 degrees) and assign it as a velocity to the particle it emits. If the emitter emits a bunch of particles, they will all fall between these directional limits.
Configurable emitter attributes include:
- Location and size of the emitter itself. Particles can be emitted from a point source if emitter width and height are set equal to 1 or emitted randomly from a rectangular area of specified width and height centered at this location.
- Min and max lifetime values in frames.
- Min and max angle values as described above.
- Min and max speed values, which determine how fast an emitted particle moves across the display.
- Start and end sizes for the particles.
- Start and end colors for the particles.
Emitters also have an
EMITTER_MODE enumeration consisting of the following values:
EMITTER_OFFAn emitter in this mode will not emit any particles until its mode changes.
EMITTER_SEQUENTIALIn this mode, an emitter emits a single particle each frame.
EMITTER_METEREDIn this mode, an emitter emits a specified number of particles per frame. This is controlled by the emitter's
EMITTER_SINGLEIn this mode, an emitter will emit a single particle and then do nothing until the particles dies. At that point, it will emit another single particle.
EMITTER_ONESHOTIn this mode an emitter will emit all of its available particles in a single frame. This mode is good for creating explosions.
Currently, a hard limit of
MAX_PARTICLES (300) is assigned to each emitter. This is the maximum number of live particles an emitter can dispense. This constraint was imposed for performance reasons on the RPi. As particles die, they inform their emitter, so the emitter can create and emit another particle in its place.
The method:
- (void) setBaseAttributesOnParticle: (BaseParticle *) bp;
BaseEmitter is what picks the fuzzy values assigned to newly created particles.
There are emitters for each particle type and a special
ShapeEmitter, which randomly emits pixel, circle, triangle, and rect particles. An example of its use will be shown a little later.
All manipulators have a unique
manipulatorID that is assigned at time of creation. This ID is optionally passed to individual particles via the emitter they were created with. All manipulators are subclasses of
BaseManipulator and all implement the following method:
- (void) manipulateParticles: (MutableArray *) particles;
The actions performed in this method depend upon the functionality implemented for the manipulator. Every frame the Particle System passes its collection of active particles to each manipulator registered with the system. A check is made within this method to determine if a particle has a registered interest in the operation of this manipulator, and if not, the particle is ignored. If a particle has this manipulator ID, the manipulator processes the particle. In this way, many manipulators can be defined and registered within the particle system, but they will operate only on the particles with which they have an association.
The following manipulators are currently defined:
BoundaryManipulatorcauses the particle emitted into the area it defines to bounce off of the boundary like pool balls hitting a rail.
VortexManipulatorcauses particles to be pulled towards a vortex and subsequent death.
XYForceManipulatorcan simulate forces like friction and gravity.


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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Have A Safe And Happy Holiday Week
At TDP we are celebrating our second Christmas online and this certainly has been an interesting adventure to say the least.
The last two years have been perhaps the most dynamic in NASCAR TV history and 2009 appears to be on the verge of ushering in big changes for all of the NASCAR TV partners.
Many thanks to all of you for stopping by, this year we are poised to top 3 million pageviews. In addition, your comments have been read by the top NASCAR TV executives and many others in the industry.
After a week to catch our breath, it will be time to document the countdown to the "new look" TV networks as they prepare to roll into Daytona.
Have a safe and healthy holiday, TDP will return on Sunday, December 28th.
As usual, please feel free to offer your comments below.
39 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Happy Holidays to all JD and all the folks who comment (and read.) I think we all learn a lot and hopefully, so do the 'powers that be'!
- December 21, 2008 at 10:28 PM
- TexasRaceLady said...
JD, I'd like to wish you, and yours, a very Merry Christmas.
To all the people that I've met here over the last 2 years, I also wish a very Merry Christmas.
May all of you be safe and have a most joyous celebration.
- December 21, 2008 at 10:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
You have created a wonderful blog that is uniquely informative. You have done it in a professional manner that plainly states your perspective on issues that matter to a large segment of fans. You have also provided a credible venue for the rest of us to opine and vent in a comfortable online environment.
Thank you. Happy holidays to you as well.
- December 21, 2008 at 10:53 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks for all you do, JD.
Reading your columns is a lot of fun and very informative.
- December 21, 2008 at 11:53 PM
- Charlie said...
Have a Wonderful Holiday JD and all all of you that help put this blog together. The 2009 season will be interesting and having The Daly Planet to come to will help make it a bit more understanding.
- December 22, 2008 at 2:35 AM
- Delenn said...
Thanks JD for providing somewhere to air our views, and somewhere where we know we are not alone in these views.
A safe and happy Christmas to all, including those in the Nascar industry whose futures are uncertain at the moment.
- December 22, 2008 at 5:43 AM
- Anonymous said...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, JD and all the folks here on TDP. This is one of my favorite blogs and I enjoy reading your commentary on the NASCAR shows. Keep up the good work. See ya in 2009!
- December 22, 2008 at 6:05 AM
- Lisa Hogan said...
Wishing a Joyous Holiday Season to all.
- December 22, 2008 at 7:16 AM
- Sophia said...
Happy Holidays to you JD and thanks for providing this blog. I enjoy MANY of the regulars here and the anons who give us inside tidbits.
Merry Christmas and Happy holidays to my fellow posters here, and Happy New Year.
- December 22, 2008 at 8:39 AM
- majorshouse said...
I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. JD thank you for giving us such a great forum to air our views on the world of NASCAR.
- December 22, 2008 at 9:05 AM
- Lou said...
Hi JD,
Merry Christmas to you and those around you, and all the individuals who post on this blog. These last two years have been great here. I did learn alot about the media coveage of the sport from this blog and enjoy the inside stuff on how it gets to us the fans. That is what got me to read this blog in the first place. Yep, looking forward to 2009. It could be interesting.
"Isn't TV fun."
- December 22, 2008 at 10:10 AM
- Erik said...
Merry Christmas JD! Its been another great year. I wish you and your family have a happy and health holiday, and look forward to next year.
- December 22, 2008 at 11:45 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks JD for a great year and all your hard work to make this site work.
Merry Christmas to everyone on TDP and hopes for a very Happy New Year for all of us!
- December 22, 2008 at 11:52 AM
- E-Ticket said...
Thanks for all of the hard work on this site. It does make a difference to the race fan.
Have a Safe and Merry Christmas and New years!!
- December 22, 2008 at 12:15 PM
- Tracy D said...
Much joy and great racing in 2009 to everyone here! It's a genuine pleasure to "meet" you as we agree/disagree on what's happening in the media covering Nascar.
Thanks again, JD, for providing this forum.
- December 22, 2008 at 1:04 PM
- Dan said...
Merry Christmas JD. This little experiment of yours has become a daily must-read. All the best for the future.
- December 22, 2008 at 1:18 PM
- PammH said...
JD, thanks for making a "home away from home" for a bunch of Nascar fans! It's much appreciated & Merry Christmas & happy holidays to those regulars whose names are familar, week in and out.
- December 22, 2008 at 1:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
Happy Holidays to you JD, may your Christmas be all you hope for!
To all of us who observe different Holidays - Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah & Kool Kwanzaa - hope I covered all events for the week.
Thanks to JD for all your work on this site, & to everyone who posts. I never come here without learning something!
- December 22, 2008 at 1:50 PM
- Anonymous said...
I want to first second what fbu1 said, and everyone else.
Have a safe and Happy Holidays JD. Thanks for creating this blog. Its very professional and informative. And it never disappoints me.
- December 22, 2008 at 3:52 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks for what you do, JD. This is definitely my place for NASCAR. Merry Christmas!
- December 22, 2008 at 4:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Merry Christmas to you JD and to all the posters and lurkers at the Daly Planet from here in the middle of the midwest icebox known as Iowa. Hope you all have a peaceful and prosperous New Year.
- December 22, 2008 at 4:18 PM
- Steve L. said...
Happy Holidays to you too JD and to everyone else. Can't wait to start our third year here and to have some more TV and racing fun!
- December 22, 2008 at 5:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
First of all, thank you for all the work you do on this site and I hope you have a good Christmas.
Second, I hate that I completely missed the Q and A session last week (was working) and wonder if you can answer one last holiday wish from this anon that has enjoyed all the information and columns on your site since the early months.
I am a college TV student with some TV experience on my resume and I do recall a while back you mentioned that you were willing help out folks with various freelance or limited term positions in TV. What can I do to take advantage of that?
Thank You and Merry Christmas
- December 22, 2008 at 5:50 PM
- Anonymous said...
I do hope everyone has a happy and healthy holiday season and a prosperous New Year.
JD, I continue to be amazed by all the effort you put into TDP and the exceptional results. Thank you very much.
- December 22, 2008 at 6:00 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 5:50PM,
Drop me an email with your location and interest. We will take it from there.
- December 22, 2008 at 6:16 PM
- Dot said...
Happy Holidays to you JD and all my e-friends. I have had a fun year reading and writing at the Daly Planet and am so looking forward to 2009. May all of our racing wishes come true.
- December 22, 2008 at 7:17 PM
- Newracefan said...
Happy holidays to JD and my fellow blogger friends. Keep safe, happy and healthy and for those of us not in those warmer clients bundle up it's cold out there.
PS Anyone catch the Insider it featured some Nascar wives. Lynn (?) Almendinger, Ingrid and Delana, limited info and they kept showing Brian Vickers who is not married.
- December 22, 2008 at 8:43 PM
- Kevin in Brownsburg said...
Merry Christmas to JD and all in TDP-Land!
- December 23, 2008 at 10:41 AM
- Anonymous said...
JD, thank you for all the hard work, and giving fans somewhere to voice our opinions. This is my first stop every day. I have enjoyed exchanging thoughts and ideas with everyone here. Have a wonderful holiday season, stay safe, and stay warm!
- December 23, 2008 at 12:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
Twas the days before Christmas
And in J.D's blog
All the race fans were happy
That it's the end of the slog
Last season, it showed us
just who didn't care
But we kept after those networks
about who they put on the air
Now ES-PIN, Now hear us
You can't fool us now
Jerry Punch has to get off,
but we all wonder....how?
And the France-ster named Brian
Who cares not a hoot,
About the fans of his racing
Should just get the "boot"
As the crisis of sponsors
Causes big teams to merge
I hope that you'll join me
And resist the urge
To scream from your windows
And at your T.V. set
Merry Christmas! to NASCAR
We ain't done with you yet!
Happy Christmas
Bray Kroter
- December 23, 2008 at 12:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Here's hoping for a safe and exciting Nascar season and better production values all around.
Here's my list on what I hope Santa brings to some:
For ESPN: Smarter directors, and getting clues on how to produce a great race for home viewers.
For Speed: A better idea on what kind of network they want to be. Are you going to be a pure racing network or will we continue to be forced to watch such drivel as Unique Whips, auto auctions and men towing cars?
For Tony Stewart: Lots of good luck. Not a real good time to start a new race team.
For Dale Jr: More wins and proof you're not racing on your name only.
For all racers not named Jimmie Johnson: Great engineers, top-notch crews and a whole lot of luck.
For Brian France: Coal in his stocking and maybe a DVD of The Wizard of Oz so he can learn how to find a heart and a brain.
For Hunter, Helton and Pemberton--the three Un-Wise Men: The ability to interpret the rule book and the foresight to allow the drivers to be themselves and not corporate robots.
For Bobby Labonte, Rusty Wallace, Ryan Newman, Petty Enterprises and all other unemployed or under-sponsored drivers and teams, sponsorship to run viable programs.
For Chad Knauss: A book deal for his new non-fiction entitled, Cheaters Always Finish First.
For the guys on Raceday: Hope that Home Depot continues to sponsor their great show (rumor has it, they're not).
For Krista Voda and Wendy Venturini: A contract with ESPN and Fox to replace Spake and Little on Nascar broadcasts.
To Nascar Now: You don't need much, just keep on keeping on.
To the ESPN broadcast crew: HELP !! If not for Dale Jarrett, the entire crew would be a total disaster.
To Dr Jerry Punch: A ticket back to what he does best: pit reporting.
To Allen Bestwick: A new contract allowing him to take Dr Jerry's seat in the booth.
To the guys at Sirius Nascar: No changes. The XM/Sirius merger is changing things, not for the better in many ways. Leave channel 128 alone !!!
To the Automakers: Brains to get their "stuff" together in Detroit and continues support of all racing series.
Jack Roush: A good security system so others don't steal your equipment.
Carl Edwards: An anger management course. Get the name from T. Stewart.
To The Truck Series: R-E-S-P-E-C-T, and lots of sponsors and viewers.
For John Daly: Continued success with TDP.
To all Nascar fans: Better racing, cheaper tickets, better racing, different winners each week, better TV coverage, better racing, no interrupted TV coverage for local news, ESPN keeping the races on ONE channel, better racing, smarter start times for races, dumping one race each at Michigan, Fontana and New Hampshire, the return of the Southern 500, dumping the Chase and putting together a points system that makes sense, Nascar going back to basics, and did I mention--better racing.
To all the fans of TDP: A great Holiday, healthy New Year and better Nascar racing in 2009.
- December 23, 2008 at 4:30 PM
- Mary said...
JD thanks for all you do and Happy Holidays to everyone!
- December 23, 2008 at 4:40 PM
- Vicky D said...
Merry Christmas from us racing fans in Houston. JD, thanks for helping us enjoy Nascar a little bit better and vent our unhappiness with the race broadcasts.
- December 23, 2008 at 10:06 PM
- Anonymous said...
- December 23, 2008 at 11:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
Merry Christmas (and Happy Hanukkah if appropriate) to JD and the TDP family!
Thank you JD for another wonderful year of great articles and the opportunity to chat with wonderful folks here.
I look forward to seeing what 2009 brings us and look forward to spending weekends once again with the TDP Posse :)
- December 23, 2008 at 11:39 PM
- Anonymous said...
Happy holidays everyone! Merry Christmas, JD!
This is one site that I make it a point to read every day. Ever since I found this page about a year ago, I haven't stopped visiting since. Keep up the great work JD and everyone who reads and comments!
- December 24, 2008 at 8:52 AM
- red said...
merry christmas and happiest of holidays to everyone on TDP! safe travel to and from family and friends' homes and i hope you enjoy the best present of all: time with those who love you most!
jd, you've created a terrific blog for us to enjoy: many thanks for this year-long gift to us! we've reveled in and agonized over the season together and now we wait less-than-patiently for the new race season to begin. the TDP comedy tour is no doubt working hard on new material for '09 and nascar and the media partners certainly will not disappoint in that regard!
our thoughts and prayers to those who remain unemployed right now: the new year will bring new hope, i'm sure!
finally, we pray the Lord will be with all those serving our country and who are away from home right now. keep them safe from harm, give their families strength and patience and let them know that they are in our thoughts daily.
happy holidays, everyone!! catch you on the flip side!
-- red
- December 24, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Thanks everyone!
- December 27, 2008 at 8:57 AM
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The site also provides a centralized location where your records can be stored for the entire ownership cycle of your vehicle. A coming feature will send you emails that will remind you of an upcoming oil change or scheduled service.
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Every car manufactured in the United States -- foreign or domestic -- has a small plug-in called a 16-pin data link connector, which is usually located under the dashboard on the driver's side. By plugging in the small CarMD device into the DLC, you can get quick computer readouts of your car's engine.
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