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Washington-Baltimore-Arlington Metro Area Continues to Rank Among Worst 25 in Nation for Ozone Smog,
Washington-Baltimore-Arlington Metro Area Continues to Rank Among Worst 25 in Nation for Ozone Smog, But Improved or Matched Best for All Three Measures Tracked, Finds 2020 'State of the Air' Report
WASHINGTON, DC | April 21, 2020
Editor's Note: The full report, as well as UPDATED trend charts and rankings for metropolitan areas and county grades WILL BE available at www.Lung.org/SOTA beginning at 12:01 a.m. EDT April 21, 2020.
The American Lung Association's 2020 "State of the Air" report found the Washington-Baltimore-Arl<|fim_middle|> to the quality of the air we all breathe."
While the report examined data from 2016-2018, this 21st annual report also provides air pollution trends back to the first report. Learn more about the rankings in Washington, Baltimore, and Northern Virginia, as well as air quality across the region and the nation, in the 2020 "State of the Air" report at www.Lung.org/SOTA. For media interested in speaking with an expert about lung health, healthy air, and threats to air quality, contact Valerie Gleason at [email protected] or 717-971-1123.
About the American Lung Association
The American Lung Association is the leading organization working to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease through education, advocacy and research. The work of the American Lung Association is focused on four strategic imperatives: to defeat lung cancer; to champion clean air for all; to improve the quality of life for those with lung disease and their families; and to create a tobacco-free future. For more information about the American Lung Association, a holder of the coveted 4-star rating from Charity Navigator and a Gold-Level GuideStar Member, or to support the work it does, call 1-800-LUNGUSA (1-800-586-4872) or visit: Lung.org.
Valerie Gleason | ington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA metro area ranked as the 20th most polluted for days with high levels of ozone smog. Ozone and particle pollution are the nation's most widespread air pollutants, and both can be deadly.
In contrast, the metro area improved to its best performance ever for its 13th consecutive year for year-round fine particle pollution, ranking tied for 49th worst in the country out of 204 metro areas with data. And for the 15th year in a row, the metro area equaled or improved upon the previous year's worst county's number of unhealthy days on average for daily spikes of fine particle pollution.
The Lung Association's annual air quality "report card" tracks Americans' exposure to unhealthful levels of particle pollution and ozone during a three-year period. Once again, the report found that nearly half of all Americans were exposed to unhealthy air in 2016-2018. In the metro area covering the nation's capital and 40 counties in four states, ozone air pollution placed the health of some 9.8 million residents at risk, including those who are more vulnerable to the effects of air pollution such as older adults, children and those with a lung disease.
"This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Clean Air Act, which has been responsible for dramatic improvements in air quality. However, Washington, Baltimore, and Northern Virginia area residents continue to breathe some of the most unhealthy air in the country, driven by emissions from vehicles and industrial sources, both locally generated as well as from upwind, placing their health and lives at risk," said American Lung Association Director of Environmental Health Kevin Stewart. "Furthermore, with nearly half of Americans breathing unhealthy air, our 'State of the Air' report shows that nationally, because of climate change, the nation is heading in the wrong direction when it comes to protecting public health."
Each year the "State of the Air" provides a report card on the two most widespread outdoor air pollutants, ozone pollution, also known as smog, and particle pollution, also called soot. The report analyzes particle pollution in two ways: through average annual particle pollution levels and short-term spikes in particle pollution. Both ozone and particle pollution are dangerous to public health and can increase the risk of premature death and other serious health effects such as asthma attacks, cardiovascular damage, and developmental and reproductive harm. Particle pollution can also cause lung cancer, and new research links air pollution to the development of serious diseases, such as asthma and dementia.
This year's report covers 2016, 2017 and 2018, the years with the most recent quality-assured data available collected by states, cities, counties, tribes and federal agencies. Notably, those three years were among the five hottest recorded in global history. Rising temperatures lead to increased levels of ozone pollution. Changing climate patterns also fuel wildfires and their dangerous smoke, which increase particle pollution. Ozone and particle pollution threaten everyone, especially children, older adults and people living with a lung disease. Although this report does not cover data from 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of air pollution on lung health is of heightened concern. Learn more about that at www.Lung.org/covid-19.
Ozone Pollution in the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Metro Area
Having worsened significantly since its best-ever performance for ozone in the "State of the Air" 2017 report, the metro area experienced fewer unhealthy days of high ozone in its worst county in this year's report. The area's ranking improved to 20th worst most polluted in the nation from 16th worst last year, but it is not near its 32nd worst place in the 2017 report.
"Ozone pollution can harm even healthy people, but is particularly dangerous for children, older adults and people with lung diseases such as COPD or asthma," said Stewart. "Breathing ozone-polluted air can trigger asthma attacks in both adults and children with asthma, which can land them in the doctor's office or the emergency room. Ozone can even shorten people's lives."
This report documents that warmer temperatures brought by climate change are making ozone more likely to form and harder to clean up. Significantly more people suffered unhealthy ozone pollution in the 2020 report than in the last three "State of the Air" reports.
In addition to the "F" grades posted by the City of Baltimore and the District of Columbia, the following five counties in the metro area all earned "F" grades for ozone pollution in this year's report: Arlington, VA and four Maryland counties: Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford, and Prince George's. Baltimore County had the area's worst performance, with 39 days of high ozone during the report period, including one "purple" day in the "Very Unhealthy for Everyone" category.
Particle Pollution in the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Metro Area
In contrast, "State of the Air" 2020 found that measures of fine particle pollution in this expansive metro area continued to be very good. For the measure of daily spikes of fine particle pollution, all jurisdictions with data remained unchanged from last year's report, with the area's worst grade being a "B." For the year-round measure of this pollutant, every jurisdiction but one (with an unchanged result) posted a better long-term average in this year's report than in last year's.
"Particle pollution can lodge deep in the lungs and can even enter the bloodstream. It can trigger asthma attacks, heart attacks and strokes and cause lung cancer," said Stewart. Particle pollution comes from industry, coal-fired power plants, diesel emissions, wildfires and wood-burning devices.
"Year-round particle pollution levels had dropped in recent years thanks to the cleanup of coal-fired power plants and the retirement of old, dirty diesel engines. However, the increase we've seen nationally in particle pollution in this year's report is a troubling reminder that we must increase our efforts to reduce this dangerous pollution," said Stewart.
"State of the Air" 2020 also tracked short-term spikes in particle pollution, which can be extremely dangerous and even lethal. The area's worst performances for days when short-term particle pollution reached unhealthy levels were "B" grades earned for the two days high in this pollutant experienced in the District of Columbia and the City of Baltimore.
On a positive note, the following seven counties in the metro area all earned "A" grades for fine particle pollution in this year's report, posting zero days with average concentrations in the unhealthy ranges, according to the air quality standard: Baltimore, Howard, Montgomery, and Prince George's, MD; Frederick and Loudoun, VA; and Berkeley, WV. That placed these counties on the list of cleanest counties in the nation for this pollutant.
"We all have the right to breathe clean, healthy air. The 50th anniversary of the Clean Air Act serves as a critical reminder that Americans breathe healthier air today because of this landmark law," said Stewart. "At the same time, this year's report shows that we must stand up for clean air—especially to safeguard our most vulnerable community members. Our leaders, both here in the Capital region and at the federal level, must take immediate, significant action to ward off climate change and other threats | 1,541 |
The tricked out V8 Hemi in her brother's truck rumbled, deep and throaty. Shea guided the screaming scarlet extended cab pickup into the driveway of her family's farm. She stopped just off the road, slid carefully out of the jacked truck using the foot board and cursed her pencil skirt. With a quick glance around to make sure no one could see in the gathering dusk, she hiked the skirt up high enough to expose her thigh-highs and hopped down to get the mail.
The huge, old mailbox looked like a cat with its tail sticking up, flagging her to come empty its belly. When the door—shaped like the cat's lower jaw—fell off, Shea muttered, "Should've been replaced decades ago." She knew why her father hadn't removed it. He'd never gotten over her mother's death, and the fool thing had been her favorite.
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She glanced at the broken mailbox and a sad huff erupted. Couldn't be called a laugh, not with that much despair in it, but the damned cat looked cuter with a broken jaw. Shea slid her skirt up her thighs again and climbed into her brother's truck, careful of her high heels on the foot board. She started the engine with a well tuned roar and drove up the half mile long driveway to the farm house. Cautious, as always, of the pot holes filled with rainwater.
She collected her things, bag, groceries, the mail, and made her way to the door. Damned wood had swollen again with the rain but with a familiar shoulder shove and hip bump she got it open without dropping much. She piled her stuff on the hall table and set the keys down. Then Shea braced her hands on the edge of the table and hung her head. The house smelled of astringent and dust, but the echoing silence of the medical equipment weighed heavily in the darkened rooms. For so long the never ending hisses and beeps from the machines keeping her father alive and comfortable had been a background susurration. Now, everything was quiet. | a gentle contralto voice, the scent of her skin and the color of her hair, black and worn in long locks to her waist. She remembered the soft clicking of the beads and shells her mom had ended each twist with, and the colorful head wraps she'd worn to contain her hair when she was working.
Her hands trembled a bit as she reached out to empty the overflowing mailbox. She flipped through the bills, all marked over due, past due, pay immediately, until she got to the one she'd been expecting. Auction notice. She closed her eyes and tried to still the aching pain in her gut.
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Desenvolvimento verde é um conceito de incorporação imobiliária que considera os aspectos sociais e impactos ambientais do desenvolvimento. É definido por três subcategorias: capacidade de resposta ambiental, eficiência de recursos e sensibilidade comunitária<|fim_middle|>ustainability Toolkit: Environmental Models
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!Wikiconcurso Direitos Humanos e Meio Ambiente (artigos) | e cultural. A capacidade de resposta ambiental respeita o valor intrínseco da natureza e minimiza os danos a um ecossistema. A eficiência de recursos refere-se ao uso de menos recursos para conservar energia e o meio ambiente. A sensibilidade comunitária e cultural reconhece os valores culturais únicos que cada comunidade abriga e os considera no desenvolvimento imobiliário, ao contrário de sinais mais perceptíveis de sustentabilidade, como energia solar (os painéis solares são visivelmente mais "verdes" do que o uso de materiais locais). O desenvolvimento verde se manifesta de várias formas, mas geralmente é baseado em multiplicadores de soluções: características de um projeto que fornecem benefícios adicionais, que acabam por reduzir os impactos ambientais dos projetos.
História
O desenvolvimento verde surgiu como resultado do movimento ambiental na década de 1970. No setor imobiliário, o uso do termo começou em 1987 com um relatório da Comissão Mundial sobre Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, intitulado "Nosso Futuro Comum". O relatório inclui 16 princípios de gestão ambiental, concebidos para promover o desenvolvimento verde. Também discute o modelo tradicional de crescimento macroeconômico e sua desconsideração pelas consequências ambientais. Seguindo esse movimento inicial, o setor imobiliário vivenciou uma relação de idas e vindas com as metodologias "verdes"; as questões ambientais muitas vezes vinham em segundo lugar atrás de fatores puramente econômicos. A preocupação ambiental incessante e a legislação que afeta o setor imobiliário começaram a surgir, ou seja, o desenvolvimento verde. No entanto, uma preocupação comum do desenvolvimento verde é que ele pode aumentar os custos do projeto e os prazos de conclusão. Portanto, tem havido uma discussão contínua sobre se as estratégias verdes podem ser sustentáveis e também economicamente estimulantes. Desde então, a atenção ambiental nacional chegou até os incorporadores imobiliários e se tornou uma prioridade crescente. Hoje, os desenvolvedores devem trabalhar dentro dos parâmetros da legislação que agora considera as implicações ambientais do desenvolvimento.
Legislação
Em resposta à crescente preocupação pública em relação às questões ambientais, os governos promulgaram legislação que regula vários aspectos do setor imobiliário, bem como outros setores da economia. Nos Estados Unidos, tal legislação inclui a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a Clean Air Act, a Clean Water Act, a Coastal Zone Management Act, e a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA; também conhecida como "Superfund"). A NEPA, promulgado em 1970, mudou a forma como os órgãos federais tomavam decisões porque exigia que eles propusessem uma análise ambiental antes de iniciar um projeto. A Clean Air Act (1970) exige que a Agência de Proteção Ambiental dos Estados Unidos (EPA) estabeleça padrões nacionais para regulamentos de controle de poluição e ar limpo. A Clean Water Act (1972) foi projetada para minimizar a poluição em corpos naturais de água e também para garantir a qualidade da água que protege as fontes de água potável e apoia atividades recreativas, como pesca ou natação. A Coastal Zone Management Act (1972) administra os recursos costeiros do país, como os Grandes Lagos e estuários. A CERCLA é comumente referida como "Superfund" porque compreende dois fundos fiduciários que fornecem ajuda para melhorar as áreas que foram poluídas por resíduos perigosos. A Lei de Emendas e Reautorização do Superfund de 1986 permite ao governo penhorar uma propriedade que está sendo limpa. Além disso, a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) é a legislação mais abrangente da Califórnia em relação ao meio ambiente. Este ato se aplica a todas as decisões tomadas pelas cidades e condados da Califórnia e inclui o mandato de um estudo de impacto ambiental (EIR), para projetos públicos e privados. Posteriormente, qualquer novo empreendimento imobiliário é submetido a uma análise ambiental detalhada antes de iniciar um projeto.
California's Senate Bill (SB) 375 (2008) é outra peça de legislação que promove o desenvolvimento verde. O objetivo é atingir as metas climáticas da Califórnia por meio de padrões de desenvolvimento e uso da terra mais eficientes. Mais especificamente, o SB 375 busca reduzir as emissões de gases de efeito estufa (GEE) por meio de uma estreita coordenação entre o uso da terra e o transporte. Uma maneira de conseguir isso é por meio de medidas do lado da demanda. Essa estratégia diminuiria a demanda de dirigir e, portanto, reduziria as milhas percorridas por veículos (VMT) e, por fim, reduziria as emissões de GEE. Por exemplo, um componente de política do lado da demanda pode incluir a colocação de paradas de transporte público perto do desenvolvimento, a fim de maximizar a capacidade de caminhar.
Além disso, a lei estadual da Califórnia exige níveis mínimos de conservação de energia para todos os projetos de desenvolvimento novos e/ou existentes. O vendedor de uma casa é obrigado a incluir informações sobre retrofitting de conservação de energia e isolamento térmico no contrato de venda.
Na prática
Padrões de desenvolvimento amplos
O Senate Bill 375 demonstra uma estratégia de planejamento urbano chamada gestão do crescimento. É definido por uma estreita coordenação entre controles de uso da terra e investimento de capital e fortemente motivado por questões ambientais. É definido pela "regulação da quantidade, tempo, localização e caráter do desenvolvimento". Como o nome pode sugerir, a gestão do crescimento pode não implicar na limitação de qualquer crescimento. "Controle do crescimento" carrega a conotação de administrar ou limitar o crescimento, e "nenhum crescimento" indicaria a interrupção total do crescimento. Além disso, a Gestão do Crescimento requer a cooperação de todas essas três conotações.
Urban Growth Boundaries (UBG's) são estratégias populares de gerenciamento de crescimento. Eles são projetados para encorajar o crescimento dentro de um determinado limite e desencorajá-lo fora do limite. O objetivo da UGB é promover o desenvolvimento adensado, a fim de diminuir a expansão urbana. Essa técnica de gerenciamento de crescimento visa, em última análise, revitalizar as cidades centrais e criar espaços vibrantes e caminháveis para o desenvolvimento da comunidade.
Esses padrões de desenvolvimento agrupados são multiplicadores de soluções. Reduzir a demanda por infraestrutura pode economizar dinheiro e recursos. Esses multiplicadores podem aumentar a capacidade de caminhar, o que promove a interação social e a união da comunidade.
Construção inteligente
Nos EUA, os edifícios comerciais e residenciais são os maiores consumidores de eletricidade e os sistemas HVAC compreendem uma grande parte desse uso. De fato, o Departamento de Energia dos EUA projeta que 70% da eletricidade usada nos EUA é de edifícios. Métodos de construção inteligente, como sistemas de detecção de ocupação, redes de sensores sem fio e sistemas de controle HVAC, visam o uso de energia mais eficiente. Uma equipe de pesquisadores da Universidade de San Diego projeta que seus sistemas inteligentes de automação predial economizarão de 10 a 15% na energia predial.
Estudos
Pasadena
A cidade de Pasadena, na Califórnia, adotou em meados de 2016 um plano geral baseado em sete princípios orientadores: necessidades da comunidade e qualidade de vida, preservação do caráter histórico de Pasadena, vitalidade econômica, comunidade familiar saudável, ausência de automóveis, promoção como centro cultural, científico, corporativo, de entretenimento e educação da região e participação da comunidade.
Este projeto incluiu preocupação ambiental e considerações sociais no processo de construção. O Holly Street Village Apartments aborda vários dos princípios descritos no plano geral de Pasadena. Ele incorpora um desenvolvimento de uso misto com um centro de varejo no andar térreo, incluindo uma delicatessen, uma loja de conveniência e uma galeria de arte. Além disso, o Holly Street Village Apartments está localizado perto de uma estação de trem leve. O objetivo dessas estratégias é reduzir a demanda por automóveis e facilitar o uso do transporte público pelas pessoas.
Inn of the Anasazi
A Zimmer Associates International, uma empresa de desenvolvimento imobiliário, concluiu o Inn of the Anasazi em Santa Fé, Novo México em 1991. Robert Zimmer, cofundador, e seus sócios, Steve Conger e Michael Fuller, estabeleceram uma meta para construir um edifício que "apresentaria tecnologias de economia de energia e recursos, fortaleceria a comunidade local, ofereceria elegância de primeira classe e recompensaria financeiramente seus participantes". O design interior do hotel respeita os antigos índios Anasazi, incluindo mobiliário artesanal local, tapetes feitos à mão e arte de parede nativa estadunidense, hispânica e cowboy. O uso de adobe no exterior do hotel inclui o estilo pueblo histórico. Além disso, Zimmer e seus parceiros reaproveitaram um prédio de estrutura de aço que havia sido usado anteriormente na década de 1960 como um centro de detenção juvenil, em vez de iniciar o projeto desde o início. Outras características "verdes" deste hotel de Santa Fé são as claraboias, a iluminação eficiente em termos de energia e os acessórios que economizam água. Além disso, o Inn of the Anasazi estimula a economia regional comprando alimentos orgânicos cultivados localmente de agricultores hispânicos. Por fim, o local incentiva que os funcionários participem de organizações locais sem fins lucrativos e eventos que patrocinam diversas culturas locais. A Pousada dos Anasazi integra "objetivos sociais e ambientais com considerações financeiras..."
Taipei 101
Taipei 101, estilizado como TAIPEI 101, é um arranha-céu de 508 m de altura localizado em Taipé, Taiwan que recebeu a certificação LEED (Liderança em Energia e Design Ambiental) do U.S. Green Building Council com a maior pontuação da história. Neste projeto, "TAIPEI" é um acrônimo para "tecnologia", "arte", "inovação", "pessoas", "meio ambiente" (environment) e "identidade". O Dr. Hubert Keiber, CEO da Siemens Building Automation em Taipé, enfatiza a eficiência energética com base no fato de que a energia é a maior despesa individual para edifícios comerciais. Desde 2011, o Taipei 101 tornou-se o arranha-céu mais ambientalmente responsável do mundo, reduzindo o uso de água, uso de energia e emissões de carbono em 10%.
Boulder
O gerenciamento/limitação do crescimento (discutido anteriormente) se manifesta em Boulder, Colorado. A cidade de Boulder restringe fortemente o desenvolvimento habitacional, limitando as licenças habitacionais a 400 por ano, o que representa 1% do estoque total de moradias da cidade. Além disso, a cidade comprou terrenos fora dos limites da cidade, designados para espaços abertos verdes permanentes. Esse limite de 400 unidades prejudica seriamente o crescimento populacional da cidade. Esta escassez de habitação tem várias repercussões. Primeiro, aumenta os preços da habitação. Além disso, como Boulder restringe o desenvolvimento habitacional mais do que o desenvolvimento comercial, o número de trabalhadores disponíveis em Boulder cresce mais rápido do que o estoque de moradias. Isso resulta em muitos trabalhadores que viajam de fora dos limites da cidade.
Controvérsia
Uma crítica comum ao desenvolvimento verde é que ele afeta negativamente a maneira como os incorporadores imobiliários fazem negócios, pois pode aumentar o custo e criar atrasos. Por exemplo, obter a certificação LEED pode contribuir para custos adicionais. Isso inclui taxas adicionais de projeto e construção de edifícios, taxas de design de interiores e construção, taxas de operação e manutenção de edifícios, taxas de desenvolvimento de bairro, taxas residenciais e de campus e taxas de programas de volume.
Além disso, o desenvolvimento verde tem sido criticado em um nível residencial. Residências de alto desempenho comprovadamente economizam energia a longo prazo, mas aumentam rapidamente os custos iniciais de capital, por meio de aquecedores de água sem tanque, barreiras radiantes e sistemas de isolamento reflexivo e sistemas de ar condicionado de alta eficiência. Além disso, os desenvolvedores muitas vezes são incapazes de desenvolver em certas porções de terra devido à conservação da servidão administrativa. Essas servidões são compradas por governos ou organizações não-governamentais, a fim de "preservar a terra em sua condição natural, paisagística, agrícola, histórica, florestal ou de espaço aberto".
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6-Year-Old Boy With Autism Gets Easter Surprise: A Service Dog! | on Instagram and a posh life in Miami, you might think that Gomi the Frenchie would let celebrity go to his head, but it hasn't. And not for his dog dad, Micha Porat, either.
Because when Porat saw an aging dog in need of help wandering the streets of South Beach in the wee hours of the morning, he immediately stepped in to help.
"The dog was in the middle of the street, looking scared and confused," Porat told local news station WTSP. "The cars were driving by and I was wondering what would a dog be doing in the middle of the street?"
Porat pulled over and although the frightened dog attempted to get away, he was able to corral her with the help of other Good Samaritans. He brought the little Chihuahua home with a mind to find her owner.
At home, the little mystery pup was given a bath and introduced to Gomi.
"My dog fell in love with her," he said. "It was pretty cute. They got along really well, actually."
Gomi, who is super-"Insta-famous," was able to channel the power of his celebrity to reunite the little dog — whose name is Osita — with her papa.
Porat posted a picture of Gomi and Osita together, along with videos, and shared her story with Gomi's thousands of followers and the reach of social media saved the day.
Someone recognized Osita, who is 13 years old, partly deaf and suffering from cataracts.
Gustavo Briand was going crazy looking for Her! Two days earlier, he said she jumped out of his car and simply ran off. Briand tried the regular approach with posters in the area, but soon steered his search toward the Internet.
"One of my friends saw her on somebody else's page, I don't know who it was. But I ended up connecting with Micha," he said. "Somehow, in my heart, I knew she was okay. It's a love story!"
Good job, Gomi and Micha! We're so happy Osita found her way back to Daddy.
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Cyrus returns to town, Phillip confronts his son, James and Rafe get acquainted, Frank decides to move out and Remy tries to sell the diamonds.
Natasha and Cyrus arrive about three miles from Springfield. She throws him his jacket and tells him he can walk the rest of the way. She drives away.
At home, Frank is looking at real estate ads when Marina and Buzz come in. They're arguing about the murder investigation. After Marina stomps away, Buzz notices his son has been looking for a place to live and asks him if he wants him to move with him. Blake arrives, eager to take Frank apartment shopping. Rafe trails after her. "You need a roommate?" he asks. Frank takes Blake aside and tells her that he's old enough to live on his own now. Marina returns and Frank tells her he's moving out. "You're a big boy now," she says enthusiastically. Buzz steps up and says he's moving out too. Frank tells him he needs his own space. "He needs to get a life," the women say in unison. Rafe sits at the table laughing and Marina offers to pack the bags. When they leave, Buzz tells Marina that he was just teasing Frank.
Nat goes to see Olivia at work. Olivia explains that Rafe didn't take a job and he can't become a cop because he's a convicted felon. "My poor baby," Natalia says. Olivia accuses her of coddling her son. "That's not good for him and it's not good for us," Olivia says. Nat's annoyed by her attitude. Olivia doesn't think that with a criminal record and the bad economy, Rafe will have many chances. Nat<|fim_middle|> son for his lousy decisions and asks him if he'll let his mother go to jail for him next time.
Phillip takes his son outside and tells him that he doesn't want them adding to the misery of the Coopers. James just wants out of the family. His father thinks that he's going about it all wrong. Nonetheless, he will still be going to jail for him. James thinks his father owes him. Phillip says this should make them even. "Maybe," James shrugs. He promises to give up his scheme and thanks him again, although he makes it clear that this doesn't fix everything.
Daisy goes to see Olivia and complains about how much she hates the Spauldings and how they make their own rules. She complains about Phillip and Olivia thinks he'll wind up just like Alan the way he's going. Daisy isn't sure what James is yet, but Rafe certainly isn't a normal Spaulding. Olivia suggests that she reach out to him now that he's back.
Frank, Marina, Blake, Christina, Rafe and Remy sit around in Company and talk about money and Reva's arrest. Remy gets a call and runs off. When Marina and Christina are alone, Christina admits that she's worried about Remy becoming a cop again. He already seems stressed out. Marina is sure that he must be under a lot of pressure. She notices that he left something behind and leaves to bring it to him.
At his place, Remy calls his contact to set up a meeting. Christina comes to the door and asks him if he believes in curses. "I believe in solutions," he says. She hurries off and he sits down to stare at the diamonds. He calls his father and tells him that he's working on his problem.
Cyrus shows up at the Coopers'. He tells Daisy that he hasn't found Grady, but he's sure that she's better off without him. Natalia walks in and welcomes Cyrus back before asking where Rafe is. "He's with Uncle Frank," Daisy says.
As Cyrus walks down the street, Natasha calls him and urges him to hurry up with their plan. He needs more time, he claims.
Rafe shows up at the mansion looking for Alan. He bumps into James who tries making small talk. James tells him that their grandfather is in the market for a new best friend. Rafe's uncomfortable. James wants him to stick around and tell him about Daisy. She calls and James tells her that he's hanging out with Rafe. The cousins discuss Rafe's mother and he tells James that his mother doesn't understand that people change and she needs to get a life. "Zoolander?" James asks.
Phillip runs into Olivia in the hall at The Beacon. They talk about Emma and Olivia admits she may be the one right thing she's ever done. She agrees to let Phillip take her to lunch tomorrow.
Olivia goes to see Nat and tells her that she will give her her space with her son. She will only come back when she is invited. "I know that if I wait, you will be there and you are so worth waiting for," Olivia says. Nat asks her in for coffee, but Olivia repeats that she should be with her son.
Natasha continues badgering Cyrus about the diamonds.
Cyrus goes looking for a job at Company.
Christina finds the diamonds and tells Remy she knows what he's up to. | tells her that she needs to look out for her son right now and she hopes that Olivia will be kinder to her daughter when she needs help.
Remy runs into his father outside of the bank. Clayton explains that the bank is going forward with the foreclosure. He still hasn't been able to tell Felecia. "I've let down the entire family," he admits. They sit down and talk. Remy asks his father to wait on telling Felecia until later. After Clayton leaves, Remy calls Mr. Doyle about the diamonds. As he walks down the street, he looks inside Company and sees Christina and Marina. He goes in anyway. Christina tells him that Marina has been complaining about being involved with a cop, but she's sure this will keep him on the right side of the law.
Buzz is in the graveyard talking to Coop's gravestone. Cyrus approaches and surprises him. He explains that he hasn't found a trace of Grady but he's come back to regroup. Cyrus admits that Springfield is the only place he's been that felt like home. Buzz welcomes him home.
Natalia runs into Father Ray at the minimart. He asks her why she hasn't been coming to mass. She's been going to a different church. He wonders if she's told her son her news. She's afraid of upsetting him right now. The priest suggests that she is avoiding telling Rafe just like she's avoiding him because, deep down, she realizes this isn't what God wants. Nat thinks God just wants her to be loving and happy. Father Ray suggests that her feelings for Olivia aren't nearly as strong as she thinks.
At Towers, Phillip confronts his son as he talks to an investor. After sending the investor off, Phillip asks his son how he can jump into another disaster immediately after he's been bailed out. Daisy tries defending James. His father confronts them about the fake ID and tells Daisy to leave. When she's gone, he lays into his | 408 |
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By Saumya On Jan 21, 2023
Hello Wisconsin! That '70s Show fans will be able to follow Eric Forman and Donna Pinciotti's daughter to Point Place in the 1990s in the Netflix spinoff series That '90s Show.
Eric and Donna were played by Topher Grace and Laura Prepon in the original show, which ran for eight seasons on FOX from 1999 to 2006. Ashton Kutcher (who played Michael Kelso), Mila Kunis (who played Jackie Burkhart), Wilmer Valderrama (who played Fez), and Danny Masterson also had roles in the movie (Steven Hyde).
The streamer first told people about the spinoff show in October 2021. At the time, Deadline said that Netflix had given the show the go-ahead, and Eric's parents, Red and Kitty Forman, would be played again by Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp. This time, instead of watching their son's every move, they'll keep an eye on their granddaughter, Leia Forman, while she's in town for the summer.
Callie Haverda as Leia Forman
Role of Eric and Donna's daughter played by Callie Haverda in the show. Leia isn't cool as her father but with respect to time, she changes as a coming-of-age story. Her new friends help her to find her rebellious side and came out of her shell.
Debra Jo Rupp as Kitty Forman
Debra Jo Rupp plays the beloved Kitty Forman again. Kitty is loved by everyone. She is the kind mom who always has a fresh batch of baked goods ready for her kids. Kitty can't wait for the house to be full of crazy teenagers again, and she feels right at home with the '90s kids. Debra Jo Rupp may be best known for her role as Kitty.
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The role of Gwen, the everyday girl next door, is played by Ashley Aufderheide. She is the first person Leia befriends at Point Place and she resides in Donna's old house. She is the first hip person Leia meets, and she is a riot girl, a staunch '90s feminist. In addition to Infinitely Polar Bear and Going in Style, Aufderheide also appeared in Four Kids and It.
Mace Coronel as Jay Kelso
Leia may be the newest member of the neighborhood squad, but she is not the only one with ties to the infamous seventies gang. Jay, the son of Jackie and Kelso, is played by Mace Coronel.
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The efficiency of a loud speaker is defined as the ratio of the useful acoustic power radiated, to the electrical power supplied to the load and is very low even in the most carefully designed systems (maximum of about 30 percent).
1. The driving unit or motor which changes the varying currents of the audio frequency amplifier into mechanical vibrations.
2. The other part is that which acts in conjunction with the driving unit to produce the vibration of the air molecules, and consists of a surface of various geometrical designs such as conical or flat shaped horns.
The horn has been known and widely used for centuries for increasing the radiation from a second source. The most commonly used are conical and exponential types.
The conical horn may be defined as one in which the cross-sectional area of the horn varies in direct proportion to its length, whereas in exponential form the area of the horn varies as an exponent of its length.
In this type, the moving iron driving type is employed. The principle of operation is based on the varying of the magnetic polarity of the armature. These variations are caused by the electrical impulses flowing through the coil winding which encircles the armature.
The movement to the armature is effected by the induced magnetism, causing it to oscillate between the two poles of the permanent magnet.
A speaker of this type consists, principally of a field coil, a voice coil and a cone. The field coil is connected to a dc source, effecting a strong magnetic field across an air gap in which the voice is inserted. The signal current from the output terminal of the receiver, flowing through the voice or moving coil placed around the middle pole of a three pole magnet, causes the voice coil to oscillate corresponding to the oscillations of the signal current. The diaphragm being mechanically connected with the voice coil oscillates in a similar manner.
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In other words, a loud speaker is an electro-acoustic transducer normally intended to radiate acoustic transducer normally intended to radiate acoustic power into the air so that it is effective at a distance. In order to accomplish this, the loud speaker must be designed in such a way that it will cause the varying electric currents to set in vibration a diaphragm. The vibration of the diaphragm in | 99 |
Left to right: Sts. Monica, Frances of Rome, Zélie Martin and Gianna Molla offer uniquely feminine witness from their own lives across the centuries of the Church. (Public domain and courtesy of Gianna Emanuela Molla)
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Maternal Wisdom From Mom-Saints: 3 Life Lessons From Heaven's Mothers
The motherly example of holy lives.
Claire Dwyer
Heaven is brimming with mothers — mothers who lived and loved and have some wisdom for all of us. In honor of Mother's Day, here is a look at a few life lessons from holy women through the ages whose glorious titles include "mom" as well as "saint."
God's Plans Are Perfect
St. Frances of Rome was a wife, mother, friend, prayer warrior, champion of the sick and poor, and founder of a religious community. Born in 1384, she wanted to be a nun, but her parents planned a marriage to a nobleman, the commander of the papal troops in Rome.
Devastated, the young<|fim_middle|>, upon the deaths of her parents, amid the sorrows of World War II and through the struggles of medical school.
She enjoyed being a part of Catholic Action, giving retreats and talks, and dedicated herself to her medical "mission." With great Christian compassion, she stressed the dignity of human life and took great care of her patients, always with a smile.
She married and welcomed three children, always striving to balance work and family. Her days were rooted in daily visits to the Blessed Sacrament, to give praise to God, who gave her the strength for all he called her to do.
Gianna's heroic decision stands out, but she is holy because she loved in the little things. Her whole life was a prayer of praise and a symphony of smaller sacrifices. Her life shows us that our readiness for the bigger sacrifices of life is made possible by our acceptance of every little one God gives us.
May these holy women pray for us and all of the mothers in our lives, and may we learn from their powerful lessons in life and love.
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at her parish in Phoenix, where she and her husband live with their six children. | teenager prayed that God would allow her to go to the convent. Her confessor challenged her: "Are you crying because you want to do God's will or you want God to do your will?"
Humbled, she accepted her parents' wishes and married. She raised three children, faithfully ran her bustling household, maintained a strong prayer life in the home chapel she established, and practiced works of mercy in hospitals and prisons.
Suffering came to Frances, with her home and family destroyed by both violence, amid political feuding, and the plague. Resolute, she increased her efforts to serve the poor and turned her ruined house into a hospital. With her husband's blessing, she began a lay order of women called the Oblates of Mary and became the superior, presiding over a home for widowed members, upon her husband's death. Her childhood dream of religious life had finally been fulfilled — in God's perfect time.
St. Zélie Martin had desired religious life, too, but the superior of the local convent of St. Vincent de Paul told her, "It was not the will of God."
God certainly had other plans, as all of her five living daughters would be given the vocation she had not received.
But God knew what he was about, for her devotion to her domestic church helped shape the now-famous "Little Way" of her saint-daughter St. Thérèse of Lisieux. Thérèse's "way of confidence and love" was rooted in her childhood, which held happy memories of her mother even though Zélie died when the "Little Flower" was 4 years old. The desires of Zélie's heart, submitted to the Lord, bore better fruit.
God always knows best.
Persistence Pays Off
St. Monica has long been known as a patroness of suffering mothers who seek her prayers as they plead for wayward children — and for good reason.
This fourth-century mom knew how to pray long and well. Although her son, Augustine of Hippo, would become one of the Church's greatest saints, he once rejected morality and Christianity for mistresses and error. His loose living was a tremendous cross for his devout mother. But she did not give up.
A local bishop reassured her that "God's time will come." She was so persistent that he finally had to send her away with this admonition: "Go now, I beg you. It is not possible that the son of so many tears should perish." She followed her son to Italy when he left home to study, and although he tried to lose her on the way, she resolutely came after him to Rome and then to Milan, fasting and praying as only a mother can. Augustine, looking back on those days in his Confessions, recalled the "rivers flowing down from my mother's eyes, by which, before (God) and in my behalf, she daily watered the ground beneath her face."
Monica's prayerful persistence paid off: Augustine embraced the faith and was baptized during the Easter vigil in 387, when Monica witnessed the birth of eternal life in the child she had delivered into earthly life.
It was what she had prayed for so long. When she died, shortly afterward, her grateful son wrote, "I cannot tell clearly enough what love she had for me and how with greater anguish she brought me forth in spirit than she had given me birth in the flesh."
Love Is in the Little Things
St. Gianna Molla, a wife and pediatrician, is known for her self-giving love.
When she was pregnant with her fourth child and doctors discovered a tumor in her uterus, she rejected a hysterectomy and opted to have surgery to remove the tumor, insistent that the baby's life come before her own. Gianna's daughter was born healthy on April 21, 1962, via cesarean section. Gianna contracted an infection, and after much suffering, she died in her home on April 28, which is now her feast day.
Gianna's sacrifice was the culmination of a life lived entirely for God and those he sent her way.
"Jesus, I promise to submit to everything that you allow to happen to me. Only help me to know your will," she wrote in her high-school journal.
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\IEEEPARstart{T}{he} continuous evolution of wireless communications has spawned many emerging applications and services, e.g., telemedicine, industrial Internet and smart Internet-of-Things (IoT) \cite{7498684,7397856}. In these computing and communication-oriented application scenarios, a large number of devices and sensors need to carry out continuous communication and computing, which greatly increases the requirements for devices and sensors. Currently, such computing and communication networks face two main challenges. First, due to the small size of these devices and sensors, the communication, storage and computing capabilities are usually limited, so they cannot support computing-intensive tasks well, which will result in large computing delays and affect users' quality-of-service (QoS) \cite{8016573}. Therefore, the key issues that the next generation communication network needs to solve are considering how to reduce the computing delay and improve the computing capability of the network. In addition, since the next-generation communication network may use higher frequency bands, the propagation loss will become larger, so its coverage will be reduced. In order to achieve the same coverage as existing communication networks, the number of base stations (BSs) deployed needs to be increased. Moreover, in order to improve the QoS of users, the BS of the next-generation communication network will adopt more antennas, which will increase the required radio frequency (RF) chains, thereby increasing the cost of a single BS. Therefore, how to reduce the deployment cost of the BS is another key challenge that needs to be solved urgently in the next-generation communication network.
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\subsubsection{MEC systems}To address the first challenge, powerful computing nodes (CNs) or mobile edge computing (MEC) servers can be deployed at the network edge (i.e. usually co-located with an access point (AP) or BS), which is the recently proposed MEC technology \cite{8063331,8274943,9599533,8630994,9676649}. This technology mainly provides cloud-like computing by deploying MEC servers distributedly in the network, and is widely regarded as an effective means to liberate mobile devices from heavy computing tasks. In the MEC system, devices and sensors with limited computing capability can offload computation-intensive and latency-sensitive tasks to nearby BSs and APs equipped with MEC servers for remote execution, which can greatly reduce computing latency \cite{8488502}. It is worth noting that the prerequisite for achieving such a goal is that the computing tasks of the devices and sensors can be successfully offloaded. However, since some devices and sensors may be located at the cell edge, their offloading rate is limited, which makes the computing delay at CN or MEC longer than local computing. As a result, these devices and sensors often have to rely on their own resources for computing, which often cannot well support applications for computation-intensive and latency-sensitive tasks. Therefore, it is imperative to improve the offloading capability from the communication perspective, thereby improving the performance of computing and communication networks.
\subsubsection{Design of MEC systems}In recent years, the design of MEC communication systems has been widely discussed in academia \cite{6574874,8693989,7442079,7542156,8387798,8496832,8463562}. Note that in the MEC system, offloading strategies play a crucial role. At present, MEC offloading strategies are mainly divided into binary offloading strategies and partial offloading strategies \cite{7879258}. The binary offloading strategy mainly decides whether computing tasks are executed locally on devices and sensors or offloaded to CNs or MEC servers for remote execution. The typical tasks used for this offloading strategy are usually simple and indivisible. The partial offloading strategy usually needs to divide the computing task into several sub-tasks, and these sub-tasks can be executed locally through devices and sensors and offloaded to the CNs or MEC servers for parallel execution. Such parallel computing can greatly improve the computing capability and reduce the computing delay of the MEC system. The typical tasks used for this offloading strategy are usually multiple fine-grained processes. In addition, since the rate of offloading will also affect the performance of the MEC system, based on the above two offloading strategies, many research works have studied the joint communication and computing resource allocation in different scenarios to improve the performance of the MEC system.
In previous work, the research on MEC systems can be divided into single-user MEC systems \cite{6574874,8693989,7442079,7542156} and multi-user MEC systems \cite{8063331,8387798,8496832,8463562}. In single-user MEC communication systems, Zhang \emph{et al.} provided a theoretical framework for energy-optimal MEC under stochastic wireless channels by optimizing the execution of mobile applications in mobile devices (i.e., mobile execution) or offloading to the cloud (i.e., cloud execution) to save energy for mobile devices \cite{6574874}. You \emph{et al.} proposed an energy-efficient computing framework that includes a set of policies to control CPU cycles for local computing modes, energy transfer, and offload time division for other offloading modes \cite{7442079}. As for the multi-user MEC system, Ren \emph{et al.} studied the delay minimization problem in the multi-user time division multiple access system with joint communication and computing resource allocation \cite{8387798}. Dai \emph{et al.} proposed a novel two-layer computation offloading framework in heterogeneous networks. Then, in a multi-task MEC system, the joint computation offloading and user association problem is formulated to minimize the overall energy consumption \cite{8496832}. In addition to the research on the basic MEC system, some emerging communication systems assisted by the MEC are also investigated. Bai \emph{et al.} studied the application of MEC in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication networks, and designed an energy-efficient physical layer security optimization algorithm \cite{8693989}. Liu \emph{et al.} studied the application of MEC in the Internet-of-Vehicles, and introduced a vehicle fog edge computing paradigm. It is then formulated as a multi-stage Stackelberg game to be solved. However, for multi-user MEC systems, the distribution locations of devices and sensors are usually random and different. Devices and sensors located at the cell edge have a large path loss to the APs or BSs, which will consume more communication resources for offloading, resulting in uneven resource allocation and user fairness issues.
\subsubsection{RMS communication systems}Moreover, faced with the challenge of high cost of BS deployment in next-generation communication networks, reconfigurable meta-surface (RMS) may be a potential solution. RMS has recently been proposed as an emerging technology combining metamaterials and communications, which can be used to reduce network costs, improve network coverage, spectrum- and energy- efficiency \cite{8811733,9531372,9362274,9509394,9716123}. RMS consists of numerous low-cost passive units, and the amplitude and phase shift of the incident signal can be changed by artificially adjusting these units. It is worth noting that since RMS is a passive device, it only adjusts the amplitude and phase of the incident signal, so it will not introduce additional noise, which makes it well applied to a collaborative communication network \cite{9531372}. In addition, compared with the existing multi-antenna technologies equipped with a large number of RF chains, the hardware cost and power consumption required by passive RMS are much lower, which also greatly stimulates research on RMS-based multi-antenna communication systems. Overall, these advantages mentioned above have greatly promoted the application of RMS in next-generation communication networks \cite{9117136,8<|fim_middle|>k$, so we have
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P_{k,n}^{\rm I} \ge 0,\forall k,n,
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\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {{a_{k,n}}P_{k,n}^{\rm I}} \le P_{\max }^t,\forall k.
\end{equation}
For this offloading process, we regard the transmission energy consumption of TN as the main energy consumption and ignore the energy consumption of circuits such as its radio frequency chain and baseband signal processing. Therefore, in time slot $t_k^{\rm I}$, the energy consumption of TN $k$ offloading $d_{k,n}^r$ task input bits to the DF relay on the $n$-th subcarrier can be expressed as
\begin{equation}
E_{k,n}^{\rm I} = {a_{k,n}}P_{k,n}^{\rm I}t_k^{\rm I},\forall k,n.
\end{equation}
\subsubsection{Offlaod to RMS multi-antenna system}
In the second slot $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}$ and the third slot $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}$, the DF relay offloads the task input bits $d_k^m$ of TN $k$ to the RMS multi-antenna system. Let $P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}$ denote the transmit power of TN $k$ on the $n$-th subcarrier in the time slot $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}$, which should satisfy
\begin{equation}
P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}} \ge 0,\forall k,n,
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {{a_{k,n}}P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}} \le P_{\max }^t,\forall k.
\end{equation}
Therefore, the achievable data rate from the TN $k$ to DF relay on the $n$-th subcarrier at time slot $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}$ can be expressed as
\begin{equation}
r_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}} = {a_{k,n}}W{\log _2}\left( {1 + \frac{{P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}{{\left| {h_{k,n}^r} \right|}^2}}}{{{\sigma ^2}}}} \right),\forall k,n.
\end{equation}
According to the characteristics of the DF relay, after successfully decoding the received signal, it forwards the signal to the RMS multi-antenna system in the third time slot $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}$. Specifically, the RMS multi-antenna system is composed of the receiving antenna and the transmissive RMS. On the $n$-th subcarrier, the channel from the RMS to the receiving antenna can be expressed as ${{\bf{h}}_n} \in {\mathbb{C}^{M \times 1}}$, and the channel from the DF relay to the RMS can be given by ${{\bf{g}}_n} \in {\mathbb{C}^{M \times 1}}$. We name them the receiving-RMS channel and the RMS-DF channel, respectively. In this paper, we assume that the channel is constant during the coherence time duration $T$. Therefore, we only need to obtain three sets of CSI before each optimization, and then apply these CSI in the time duration $T$. Since the DF relay has the ability to receive and transmit, some classical channel estimation algorithms can be well applied to obtain the CSI from TN $k$ to the DF relay. Then, the DF relay can transmit the obtained CSI to the controller of the RMS transceiver, and the controller performs centralized control. For DF relay to RMS and RMS to receiving antenna, since the receiving antenna has the receiving ability, the transmissive RMS has no receiving ability, the CSI of the cascaded channel can be obtained by drawing on some reflective RMS channel estimation schemes \cite{9475488,8879620}. For the channel from the DF relay to the RMS multi-antenna system, the transmissive RMS adjusts the phase and amplitude of the DF relay forwarded signal and sends it to the receiving antenna. Let ${\bf{s}} = {\left[ {{s_1},...,{s_M}} \right]^T} \in {\mathbb{C}^{M \times 1}}$ denote the transmissive coefficient vector, where ${s_m} = {\beta _m}{e^{j{\theta _m}}},\forall m$. ${\beta _m} \in \left[ {0,1} \right]$ and ${\theta _m} \in \left[ {0,2\pi } \right)$ represent the transmissive amplitude and phase shift of the $m$-th element, respectively. The transmissive coefficient ${s_m}$ needs to satisfy
\begin{equation}
\left| {{s_m}} \right| \le 1,\forall m.
\end{equation}
For the channel model, the RMS-DF channel is the far-field channel, and the receiving-RMS channel is the near-field channel \cite{li2021uplink}. We consider the transmissive elements of the RMS to be arranged in uniform planar array (UPA), i.e. $M = {M_c} \times {M_r}$, ${M_c}$ and ${M_r}$ denote the number of RMS elements on the column and row, respectively. For the RMS-DF channel, we consider that it has both line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) components, so we model it as a Rician fading channel, which can be expressed as
\begin{equation}
{\bf{g}}_n\! = \! \sqrt {\frac{{{C_0}}}{{{d^\alpha }}}} \! \left(\! {\sqrt {\frac{\kappa _2}{{1 \! + \! \kappa _2}}} {e^{ - j2\pi nW\frac{d}{c}}}{{\bf{g}}_{{\rm{LoS}}}}\! + \! \sqrt {\frac{1}{{1\! + \! \kappa _2}}} {{\bf{g}}_{{\rm{NLoS}}}}} \! \right),
\end{equation}
with ${{\bf{g}}_{{\rm{NLoS}}}} \sim {\cal C}{\cal N}\left( {{\bf{0}},{{\bf{I}}_{{M_c}{M_r}}}} \right)$. ${{\bf{g}}_{{\rm{LoS}}}}$ can denoted by
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
{{\bf{g}}_{{\rm{LoS}}}} = {\left[ {1,{e^{ - j2\pi {f_c}\frac{{{d_r}\sin \varphi \cos \psi }}{c}}},...,{e^{ - j2\pi {f_c}\left( {{M_r} - 1} \right)\frac{{{d_r}\sin \varphi \cos \psi }}{c}}}} \right]^T}\\\otimes {\left[ {1,{e^{ - j2\pi {f_c}\frac{{{d_c}\sin \varphi \sin \psi }}{c}}},...,{e^{ - j2\pi {f_c}\left( {{M_c} - 1} \right)\frac{{{d_c}\sin \varphi \sin \psi }}{c}}}} \right]^T},
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
where $d$ denotes the distance between the DF relay and RMS, $\alpha$ represents the path loss coefficient of the RMS-DF channel, $c$ represents the speed of light, $\kappa $ represents the Rician factor and ${f_c}$ represents the carrier frequency. $\varphi$ and $\psi$ are the vertical and horizontal angles-of-arrival (AoA) of the incident signal at transmissive RMS, respectively.
Considering that there is no occlusion between the RMS and the receiving antenna, we model the receiving-RMS channel in the near field as a LoS channel, which can be expressed as
\begin{equation}
{{\bf{h}}_n} = \rho {e^{ - j2\pi nW\frac{{\hat r}}{c}}}{{\bf{h}}_{{\rm{LoS}}}},
\end{equation}
with
\begin{equation}
{{\bf{h}}_{{\rm{LoS}}}} = {\left[ {{e^{ - j2\pi {f_c}\frac{{{r_{1,1}} - \hat r}}{c}}},...,{e^{ - j2\pi {f_c}\frac{{{r_{{M_c},{M_r}}} - \hat r}}{c}}}} \right]^H},
\end{equation}where $\rho$ and $\hat{r}$ represent the complex channel gain and the distance from the RMS center to the receiving antenna, respectively. The distance from the $\left( {{m_c},{m_r}} \right)$-th RMS element to the receiving antenna is
\begin{equation}
{r_{{m_c},{m_r}}} = \sqrt {{{\hat r}^2} + \hat d_{{m_c},{m_r}}^2} ,
\end{equation}
where ${\hat d_{{m_c},{m_r}}} = \sqrt {\delta _{{m_c}}^2d_c^2 + \delta _{{m_r}}^2d_r^2} $ denotes the distance from the $\left( {{m_c},{m_r}} \right)$-th element of the RMS to the RMS center. $d_c$ and $d_r$ denote the column spacing and row spacing from the $\left( {{m_c},{m_r}} \right)$-th element to the center element, respectively. ${\delta _{{m_c}}} = \frac{{2{m_c} - {M_c} - 1}}{2}$ and ${\delta _{{m_r}}} = \frac{{2{m_r} - {M_r} - 1}}{2}$.
Therefore, in the time slot $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}$, the achievable rate of the signal forwarded by the DF relay received by the receiving antenna is
\begin{equation}
r_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}} = {b_{k,n}}W{\log _2}\left( {1 + \frac{{P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}{{\left| {{\bf{h}}_n^H{\rm{diag}}\left( {{{\bf{g}}_n}} \right){\bf{s}}} \right|}^2}}}{{{\delta ^2}}}} \right),\forall k,n,
\end{equation}
where ${\delta ^2}$ represents the power of AWGN introduced at the feeding antenna, ${b_{k,n}} \in \left\{ {0,1} \right\}$ denotes the subcarrier allocation variable, which is constrained by the following
\begin{equation}
\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {{b_{k,n}}} \le 1,\forall n,
\end{equation}
and $P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}} $ represents the TN $k$ transmit power allocated on the $n$-th subcarrier by the DF relay in the time slot $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}$, which should satisfy
\begin{equation}
P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}} \ge 0,\forall k,n,
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {{b_{k,n}}P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}} \le P_{\max }^r} ,
\end{equation}
where $P_{\max }^r$ denotes the maximum transmit power of DF relay.
According to the achievable rate of TN $k$ in the time slot $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}$ and $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}$, the task input bits $d_k^m$ of TN $k$ offloaded to RMS multi-antenna system through DF relay needs to satisfy
\begin{equation}
d_k^m = \min \left( {t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {r_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}} ,t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {r_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}} } \right),\forall k.
\end{equation}
We consider the transmission energy consumption of TN $k$ and DF relay for offloading as the main energy consumption in the time slot $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}$ and $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}$. We have
\begin{equation}
E_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}} = {a_{k,n}}P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}},\forall k,n,
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
E_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}} = {b_{k,n}}P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}},\forall k,n.
\end{equation}
Therefore, the offloading energy consumption of TN $k$ offloaded to the DF relay and to the RMS multi-antenna system through the DF relay can be expressed as
\begin{equation}
E_k^{off} = \sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {\left( {E_{k,n}^{\rm I} + E_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}} + E_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}} \right)} ,\forall k.
\end{equation}
\subsection{Computing Model}
\subsubsection{TN local computing model}
During the time duration $T$, TN $k$ executes $d_k^l$ task input bits. In fact, the number of CPU cycles to perform a computing task depends largely on various factors, e.g., the specific application, the number of task input bits, and the hardware device used for the computation. To characterize the most necessary computation and communication tradeoff, we consider the number of CPU cycles to execute a task as a linear function of the number of task input bits, where $c_t$ represents the number of CPU cycles to compute each task input bit at TN. Let ${f_{t,i}}$ denote the CPU frequency of the $i$-th cycle of TN, which is subject to the following constraints:
\begin{equation}
{f_{t,i}} \le {f_{t,\max }},\forall i \in \left\{ {1,...,{c_t}d_k^l} \right\},
\end{equation}
where ${f_{t,\max }}$ represents the maximum CPU frequency when the TN executes the task. Since the task input bits computed locally by TN $k$ should be successfully executed within time duration $T$, we have the following delay constraints:
\begin{equation}
\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{{c_t}d_k^l} {\frac{1}{{{f_{t,i}}}}} \le T.
\end{equation}
Therefore, the local computing energy consumption of TN $k$ can be expressed as
\begin{equation}
E_k^{t,comp} = \sum\limits_{i = 1}^{{c_t}d_k^l} {{\alpha _t}f_{t,i}^2} ,
\end{equation}
where ${\alpha _t}$ depends on the effective capacitance factor of TN chip architecture. In order to save computing power consumption under computating latency constraints, it is better to set the CPU frequency to be the same for different CPU cycles \cite{8234686}. By using this fact and making the constraints in Eq. (28) satisfy strict equality (in order to minimize computing energy consumption), we have
\begin{equation}
{f_{t,1}} = {f_{t,2}} = ... = {f_{t,{c_t}d_k^l}} = \frac{{{c_t}d_k^l}}{T},\forall k.
\end{equation}
Therefore, the local computing energy consumption of TN $k$ can be further expressed as
\begin{equation}
E_k^{t,comp} = \frac{{{\alpha _t}{{\left( {{c_t}d_k^l} \right)}^3}}}{{{T^2}}},\forall k.
\end{equation}
Additionally, the CPU frequency for local computation is bound by the maximum CPU frequency that can be given by
\begin{equation}
\frac{{{c_t}d_k^l}}{T} \le {f_{t,\max }},\forall k.
\end{equation}
\subsubsection{CN computing model}
After receiving the $d_k^r$ task input bits offloaded by TN $k$ in the first time slot $t_k^{\rm I}$, the DF relay executes the calculation through the connected CN. We assume that the two are co-located and connected using high-throughput, low-latency fiber, so their transmission delays are negligible. CN executes tasks within the remaining $T - t_k^{\rm I}$. Let ${f_{r,i}}$ and ${f_{r,\max }}$ denote the CPU frequency and the maximum frequency of the CPU in the $i$-th cycle of CN, respectively. Similar to the local computing of TN $k$, we have
\begin{equation}
{f_{r,i}} = \frac{{{c_r}d_k^r}}{{T - t_k^{\rm I}}},\forall i \in \left\{ {1,...,{c_r}d_k^r} \right\},
\end{equation}
where $c_r$ represents the number of CPU cycles that CN executes each task input bit. Therefore, the computing energy consumption of CN to execute $d_k^r$ task bits offloaded by TN $k$ can be expressed as
\begin{equation}
E_k^{r,comp} = \frac{{{\alpha _r}{{\left( {{c_r}d_k^r} \right)}^3}}}{{{{\left( {T - t_k^{\rm I}} \right)}^2}}},\forall k,
\end{equation}
where ${\alpha _r}$ depends on the effective capacitance factor of CN chip architecture. In order to ensure that the CN can successfully execute the task, the task input bits should satisfy the following constraints
\begin{equation}
\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {\frac{{{c_r}d_k^r}}{{T - t_k^{\rm I}}}} \le {f_{r,\max }},
\end{equation}
where ${f_{r,\max }}$ represents the maximum CPU frequency when CN executes tasks.
\subsubsection{MEC computing model}
In the fourth time slot $t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}}$, the RMS multi-antenna system receives the $d_k^m$ task input bits offloaded of TN $k$ by the DF relay on the $n$-th subcarrier, and then forwards it to the nearby MEC server for computing. Similarly, we assume that the two are co-located and connected using high-throughput, low-latency fiber, so their transmission delays are also negligible. Therefore, the time required for the MEC server to execute $d_k^m$ task input bits is expressed as
\begin{equation}
t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}} = \frac{{{c_m}d_k^m}}{{{f_{m,i}}}},\forall i \in \left\{ {1,...,{c_r}d_k^m} \right\},
\end{equation}
where $c_m$ represents the number of CPU cycles that MEC executes each task input bit. Similarly, in order to ensure that the MEC can successfully execute the task, there are the following constraints on the task input bits
\begin{equation}
\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {\frac{{{c_m}d_k^m}}{{t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}}}}} \le {f_{m,\max }}.
\end{equation}
\subsection{Problem Formulation}
Considering that TN and DF relay are usually wireless devices, the energy management of them is more complicated, and the RMS transceiver as a BS usually has a reliable power supply, so we temporarily consider the energy consumption of wireless device side (i.e., TN and DF relay) as the main performance indicator. In this paper, we aim to minimize the total energy consumption of TN and DF relay in the transmissive RMS transceiver enabled multi-tier computing networks by jointly optimizing the subcarrier allocation \textbf{A (B)}, task input bits \textbf{D}, time slot allocation \textbf{T}, transmit power allocation \textbf{P} and RMS transmissive coefficient \textbf{s}. This optimization problem can be formulated as
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
({\rm{P}}0){\rm{ ~~~~}}&\mathop {\min }\limits_{{\bf{A}},{\bf{B}},{\bf{D}},{\bf{T}},{\bf{P}},{\bf{s}}} {\rm{ }}\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {\left( {E_k^{off} + E_k^{t,comp} + E_k^{r,comp}} \right)} ,\\
s.t.\qquad &d_k^r \le t_k^{\rm I}\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {r_{k,n}^{\rm I}} ,\forall k,\\
&d_k^m \le \min \left( {t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {r_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}} ,t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {r_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}} } \right),\forall k,\\
&d_k^l + d_k^r + d_k^m = {D_k},\forall k,\\
&P_{k,n}^S \ge 0,S \in \left\{ {{\rm I},{\rm I}{\rm I},{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}} \right\},\forall k,n,\\
&\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {{a_{k,n}}P_{k,n}^S} \le P_{\max }^t,S \in \left\{ {{\rm I},{\rm I}{\rm I}} \right\},\forall k,\\
&\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {{b_{k,n}}P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}} } \le P_{\max }^r,\\
&{a_{k,n}},{b_{k,n}} \in \left\{ {0,1} \right\},\forall k,n,\\
&\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {{a_{k,n}}} \le 1,\forall n,\\
&\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {{b_{k,n}}} \le 1,\forall n,\\
&\frac{{{c_t}d_k^l}}{T} \le {f_{t,\max }},\forall k,\\
&\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {\frac{{{c_r}d_k^r}}{{T - t_k^{\rm I}}}} \le {f_{r,\max }},\\
&\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {\frac{{{c_m}d_k^m}}{{t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}}}}} \le {f_{m,\max }},\\
&t_k^S \ge 0,S \in \left\{ {{\rm I},{\rm I}{\rm I},{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I},{\rm{{\rm I}V}}} \right\},\forall k,\\
&t_k^{\rm I} + t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}} + t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}} + t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}} \le T,\forall k,\\
&\left| {{s_m}} \right| \le 1,\forall m,
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
where (38b)-(38d) represent the task input bit constraints for TN $k$ offload to DF relay and RMS multi-antenna system. (38e)-(38g) denote the transmit power constraints for TN $k$ and DF relay. (38h)-(38j) represent subcarrier allocation constraints in different time slots. (38k)-(38m) denote the computing capability constraints of TN $k$, CN, and MEC server. (38n) and (38o) represent time allocation constraints. (38p) represents the transmissive coefficient constraint of the RMS multi-antenna system. Note that this joint optimization problem is designed offline, i.e., we obtain the optimization variable $\left\{{{\bf{A}},{\bf{B}},{\bf{D}},{\bf{T}},{\bf{P}},{\bf{s}}} \right\}$ under the assumption that the user location and all channel state information (CSI) are all perfectly acquired.
However, the solution to the problem (P0) is challenging for the following reasons. Firstly, the optimization variables are highly coupled, which leads to the objective function and constraints being non-convex with respect to (w.r.t) the optimization variables. Then, the constraints (38f)-(38j) involve binary variables. Therefore, the problem (P0) is a mixed-integer non-convex optimization problem, and it is quite challenging to obtain the global optimal solution. Consequently, we need to design an efficient algorithm to obtain a high-quality sub-optimal solution through the BCD algorithm. The algorithm for solving the problem (P0) will be introduced in detail below.
\section{Joint Optimization Algorithm for the Transmissive RMS Transceiver Enabled Multi-Tier Computing Networks}
In this section, since the formulated problem (P0) is a non-convex optimization problem, we divide the problem (P0) into three sub-problems for solving based on the BCD algorithm. Specifically, In the sub-problem 1, the time slot allocation \textbf{T}, the task input bit \textbf{D} and the RMS transmissive coefficient \textbf{s} are fixed, and the subcarrier allocation \textbf{A}, \textbf{B} and the transmit power allocation \textbf{P} are jointly optimized. In the sub-problem 2, given the subcarrier allocation \textbf{A}, \textbf{B}, the transmit power \textbf{P} and the RMS transmissive coefficient \textbf{s}, the task input bit \textbf{D} and time allocation \textbf{T} are jointly optimized. The third sub-problem is to optimize the RMS transmissive coefficient \textbf{s} for fixed subcarrier allocation \textbf{A}, \textbf{B}, transmit power allocation \textbf{P}, task input bit \textbf{D} and time allocation \textbf{T}. Finally, the three sub-problems are optimized alternately until convergence is achieved.
The existence of binary variables \textbf{A} and \textbf{B} makes constraints (38f)-(38j) non-convex constraints. In order to solve this problem, we first relax the binary variable ${a_{k,n}}$ to obtain ${\tilde a_{k,n}}$, i.e., ${a_{k,n}} \in \left\{ {0,1} \right\} \Rightarrow {\tilde a_{k,n}} \in \left[ {0,1} \right],\forall k,n$. Then, the auxiliary variables $\tilde P_{k,n}^{\rm I} = {\tilde a_{k,n}}P_{k,n}^{\rm I},\forall k,n$ and $\tilde P_{_{k,n}}^{{\rm{II}}} = {\tilde a_{k,n}}P_{_{k,n}}^{{\rm{II}}},\forall k,n$ are introduced. Similarly, for the binary variable ${b_{k,n}}$, we have ${b_{k,n}} \in \left\{ {0,1} \right\} \Rightarrow {\tilde b_{k,n}} \in \left[ {0,1} \right],\forall k,n$, and then introduce the auxiliary variable $\tilde P_{k,n}^{{\rm{{\rm I}II}}} = {\tilde b_{k,n}}P_{_{k,n}}^{{\rm{{\rm I}II}}},\forall k,n$. After variable relaxation and the introduction of auxiliary variables, the optimization problem (P0) can be expressed as the optimization problem (P1) as follows
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
({\rm{P}}1){\rm{ ~~~~}}&\mathop {\min }\limits_{{\bf{\tilde A}},{\bf{\tilde B}},{\bf{D}},{\bf{T}},{\bf{\tilde P}},{\bf{s}}} {\rm{ }}\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K \left( {\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {\left( {\tilde P_{k,n}^{\rm I}t_k^{\rm I} + \tilde P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}} + \tilde P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}} \right)} }\right.\nonumber\\
&~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \left.{+ E_k^{t,comp} + E_k^{r,comp} }\right),\\
s.t.\qquad &\textrm {(38b)-(38d), (38k)-(38p)},\\
&\tilde P_{k,n}^S \ge 0,S \in \left\{ {{\rm I},{\rm I}{\rm I},{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}} \right\},\forall k,n,\\
&\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {\tilde P_{_{k,n}}^S} \le P_{\max }^t,S \in \left\{ {{\rm I},{\rm I}{\rm I}} \right\},\forall k,\\
&\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {\tilde P_{_{k,n}}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}} } \le P_{\max }^r,\\
&{{\tilde a}_{k,n}},{{\tilde b}_{k,n}} \in \left[ {0,1} \right],\forall k,n,\\
&\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K{{\tilde a}_{k,n}}\le 0,\forall n,\\
&\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K{{\tilde b}_{k,n}}\le 0,\forall n.
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
\subsection{Sub-problem 1: Joint Optimization of Subcarrier Allocation and Transmit Power Allocation}
In this subsection, firstly, given the time allocation \textbf{T}, the task input bit \textbf{D} and the RMS transmissive coefficient \textbf{s}, the subcarrier allocation $\bf{\tilde A}$, $\bf{\tilde B}$ and transmit power allocation $\bf{\tilde P}$ are jointly optimized, then the problem (P1) can be written as the problem (P2), which is expressed as
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
({\rm{P}}2){\rm{ ~~~~}}&\mathop {\min }\limits_{{\bf{\tilde A}},{\bf{\tilde B}},{\bf{\tilde P}}} {\rm{ }}\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K \left( {\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {\left( {\tilde P_{k,n}^{\rm I}t_k^{\rm I} + \tilde P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}} + \tilde P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}} \right)} + }\right.\nonumber\\
&~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\left.{\frac{{{\alpha _t}{{\left( {{c_t}d_k^l} \right)}^3}}}{{{T^2}}} + \frac{{{\alpha _t}{{\left( {{c_r}d_k^r} \right)}^3}}}{{{{\left( {T - t_k^{\rm I}} \right)}^2}}}} \right) ,\\
s.t.\qquad &\textrm {(38b), (39c)-(39h)},\\
&d_k^m \le t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {r_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}} ,\forall k,\\
&d_k^m \le t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {r_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}} ,\forall k,
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
\textbf{Lemma 1:} The function $f\left( {x,t} \right) = t{\log _2}\left( {1 + \frac{x}{t}} \right)$ is concave w.r.t $x>0$ and $t>0$.
\emph{Proof:} The function $f\left( {x,t} \right)$ can be obtained by the perspective transformation of the function $h\left( x \right) = {\log _2}\left( {1 + x} \right)$, i.e, $f\left( {x,t} \right) = t h\left( {\frac{x}{t}} \right)$. Since the perspective function is concave-preserving and $h\left( x \right) = {\log _2}\left( {1 + x} \right)$ is concave function w.r.t $x > 0$, the function $f\left( {x,t} \right) = t{\log _2}\left( {1 + \frac{x}{t}} \right)$ is concave w.r.t $x > 0$ and $t > 0$. The proof of \textbf{Lemma 1} is completed. $\hfill\blacksquare$
According to the \textbf{Lemma 1}, ${r_{k,n}^{\rm I}}$ is concave w.r.t ${{\tilde a}_{k,n}}$ and ${\tilde P_{k,n}^{\rm I}}$, ${r_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}}$ is concave w.r.t ${{\tilde a}_{k,n}}$ and ${\tilde P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}}$, and ${r_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}}$ is concave w.r.t ${{\tilde b}_{k,n}}$ and ${\tilde P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}}$. Hence, (38b), (40c) and (40d) are convex constraints. In addtion, the objective function is affine w.r.t optimization variables and (39c)-(39h) are also affine constraints. Thus, it can be seen that the problem (P2) is a standard convex optimization problem, which can be solved by using CVX toolbox \cite{grant2014cvx}.
\emph{Remark: To facilitate obtaining the solution to the problem (P2), the subcarrier allocation variables ${a_{k,n}}$ and ${b_{k,n}}$ are relaxed into continuous variables. After obtaining the subcarrier allocation variable value, it needs to be restored to obtain the subcarrier allocation scheme. Considering that one user can occupy multiple subcarriers, but one subcarrier can only be allocated to one user, we obtain the maximum value of all user subcarrier allocation variables on the $n$-th subcarrier and set the ${a_{k,n}}$ or ${b_{k,n}}$ of the corresponding user to 1, and the ${a_{k,n}}$ or ${b_{k,n}}$ of the remaining users to 0.}
\subsection{Sub-problem 2: Joint Optimization of Task Input Bit and Time Allocation}
In this subsection, given subcarrier allocation \textbf{A}, \textbf{B}, transmit power allocation \textbf{P} and RMS transmissive coefficient \textbf{s}, we jointly optimize task input bit \textbf{D} and time allocation \textbf{T}, then the problem (P1) can be transformed into the problem (P3), which can be expressed as
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
({\rm{P}}3){\rm{ ~~~~}}&\mathop {\min }\limits_{{\bf{D}},{\bf{T}} }{\rm{ ~ }}\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K \left( {\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {\left( {\tilde P_{k,n}^{\rm I}t_k^{\rm I} + \tilde P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}} + \tilde P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}} \right)} + }\right.\nonumber\\
&~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\left.{\frac{{{\alpha _t}{{\left( {{c_t}d_k^l} \right)}^3}}}{{{T^2}}} + \frac{{{\alpha _t}{{\left( {{c_r}d_k^r} \right)}^3}}}{{{{\left( {T - t_k^{\rm I}} \right)}^2}}}} \right) ,\\
s.t.\qquad &\textrm {(38b), (38d), (38k)-(38o), (40c), (40d)}.
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
\textbf{Lemma 2:} $E_k^{r,comp} = \frac{{{\alpha _t}{{\left( {{c_r}d_k^r} \right)}^3}}}{{{{\left( {T - t_k^{\rm I}} \right)}^2}}}$ is a convex function w.r.t $d_k^r > 0$ and $t_k^{\rm I} > 0$.
\emph{Proof:} The Hessian matrix of $E_k^{r,comp} = \frac{{{\alpha _t}{{\left( {{c_r}d_k^r} \right)}^3}}}{{{{\left( {T - t_k^{\rm I}} \right)}^2}}}$ is
\begin{equation}
\left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}
{\frac{{6{c_r}^3{\alpha _t}d_k^r}}{{{{\left( {T - t_k^{\rm I}} \right)}^2}}}}&{\frac{{6{c_r}^3{\alpha _t}{{\left( {d_k^r} \right)}^2}}}{{{{\left( {T - t_k^{\rm I}} \right)}^3}}}}\\
{\frac{{6{c_r}^3{\alpha _t}{{\left( {d_k^r} \right)}^2}}}{{{{\left( {T - t_k^{\rm I}} \right)}^3}}}}&{\frac{{6{c_r}^3{\alpha _t}{{\left( {d_k^r} \right)}^3}}}{{{{\left( {T - t_k^{\rm I}} \right)}^4}}}}
\end{array}} \right].
\end{equation}
Its eigenvalues are $0$ and $\frac{{6{c_r}^3{\alpha _t}d_k^r}}{{{{\left( {T - t_k^{\rm I}} \right)}^2}}}\left( {1 + \frac{{{{\left( {d_k^r} \right)}^2}}}{{{{\left( {T - t_k^{\rm I}} \right)}^2}}}} \right)$, so the matrix is a semi-positive definite matrix, so $E_k^{r,comp}$ is jointly convex w.r.t $d_k^r > 0$ and $t_k^{\rm I} > 0$. This completes the proof of \textbf{Lemma 2}.$\hfill\blacksquare$
In the objective function of problem (P3), it can be proved that $E_k^{off}$ is affine w.r.t optimization variables, and $E_k^{t,comp}$ is convex w.r.t optimization variables. According to \textbf{Lemma 2}, $E_k^{r,comp}$ is also a convex function w.r.t the optimization variables. Therefore, the objective function of this problem (P3) is convex. In addition, (38b), (38d), (38k), (38n), (38o), (40c) and (40d) are affine. (38l) and (38m) are non-convex constraints, which makes the problem (P3) still a non-convex optimization problem. Next, we can apply SCA to carry out the first-order Taylor expansion of the left-hand-side (LHS) concave functions of constraints (38l) and (38m), and obtain their upper bounds respectively\footnote{According to the second-order condition of convex functions, the LHS of Eq. (38l) and Eq. (38m) are concave functions, which are easy to prove and are omitted here.}.
Specifically, for the LHS ${\frac{{{c_r}d_k^r}}{{T - t_k^{\rm I}}}}$ of constraint (38l), we adopt SCA to obtain its upper bound, which can be expressed as
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
\frac{{{c_r}d_k^r}}{{T - t_k^{\rm I}}} \le \frac{{{c_r}d_k^{r\left( i \right)}}}{{T - t_k^{{\rm I}\left( i \right)}}} + \frac{{{c_r}}}{{T - t_k^{{\rm I}\left( i \right)}}}\left( {d_k^r - d_k^{r\left( i \right)}} \right) +\\ \frac{{{c_r}d_k^{r\left( i \right)}}}{{{{\left( {T - t_k^{{\rm I}\left( i \right)}} \right)}^2}}}\left( {t_k^{\rm I} - t_k^{{\rm I}\left( i \right)}} \right) \buildrel \Delta \over = {\left( {\frac{{{c_r}d_k^r}}{{T - t_k^{\rm I}}}} \right)^{ub}},
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
where $d_k^{r\left( i \right)}$ and $t_k^{{\rm I}\left( i \right)}$ represent the values of $d_k^r$ and $t_k^{\rm I}$ at the $i$-th SCA iteration, respectively.
Similarly, for the LHS ${\frac{{{c_m}d_{k,n}^m}}{{t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}}}}}$ of constraint (38m), we also adopt SCA to obtain its upper bound, which can be expressed as
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
\frac{{{c_m}d_{k,n}^m}}{{t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}}}} \le \frac{{{c_m}d_{k,n}^{m\left( i \right)}}}{{t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}\left( i \right)}}} + \frac{{{c_m}}}{{t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}\left( i \right)}}}\left( {d_{k,n}^m - d_{k,n}^{m\left( i \right)}} \right) -\\ \frac{{{c_m}d_{k,n}^{m\left( i \right)}}}{{{{\left( {t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}\left( i \right)}} \right)}^2}}}\left( {t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}} - t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}\left( i \right)}} \right) \buildrel \Delta \over = {\left( {\frac{{{c_m}d_{k,n}^m}}{{t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}}}}} \right)^{ub}},
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
where $d_{k,n}^{m\left( i \right)}$ and $t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}\left( i \right)}$ denote the values of $d_{k,n}^m$ and $t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}}$ at the $i$-th SCA iteration, respectively. Therefore, the problem (P3) can be approximately transformed into the problem (P3.1), which can be expressed as
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
({\rm{P}}3.1){\rm{ ~~~~}}&\mathop {\min }\limits_{{\bf{D}},{\bf{T}} }{\rm{ ~ }}\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K \left( {\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {\left( {\tilde P_{k,n}^{\rm I}t_k^{\rm I} + \tilde P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}} + \tilde P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}} \right)} + }\right.\nonumber\\
&~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\left.{\frac{{{\alpha _t}{{\left( {{c_t}d_k^l} \right)}^3}}}{{{T^2}}} + \frac{{{\alpha _t}{{\left( {{c_r}d_k^r} \right)}^3}}}{{{{\left( {T - t_k^{\rm I}} \right)}^2}}}} \right) ,\\
s.t.\qquad &\textrm {(38b), (38d), (38k), (38n), (38o), (40c), (40d)},\\
&{\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {\left( {\frac{{{c_r}d_k^r}}{{T - t_k^{\rm I}}}} \right)} ^{ub}} \le {f_{r,\max }},\\
&{\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {\left( {\frac{{{c_m}d_k^m}}{{t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}}}}} \right)} ^{ub}} \le {f_{m,\max }}.
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
The problem (P3.1) is a standard convex optimization problem that can be solved by using the CVX toolbox \cite{grant2014cvx}.
\subsection{Sub-problem 3: Optimization of RMS Transmissive Coefficient}
In this subsection, we fix the subcarrier allocation \textbf{A}, \textbf{B}, the transmit power allocation \textbf{P}, the task input bit \textbf{D} and the time allocation \textbf{T}, and solve the transmissive coefficient of RMS. Since the objective function does not contain the RMS transmissive coefficient vector explicitly, the problem (P1) can be transformed into feasibility-check problem (P4), which can be expressed as
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
({\rm{P}}4){\rm{ ~~~~}}&{\rm{find~~}}{\bf{s}},\\
s.t.\qquad &d_k^m \le t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {r_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}} ,\forall k,\\
&\left| {{s_m}} \right| \le 1,\forall m.
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
It can be seen that the problem (P4) is a non-convex optimization problem. To solve this problem, we let ${\bf{v}}_n^H = {\bf{h}}_n^H{\rm{diag}}\left( {{{\bf{g}}_n}} \right) \in {\mathbb{C}^{1 \times M}}$, then ${\left| {{\bf{h}}_n^H{\rm{diag}}\left( {{{\bf{g}}_n}} \right){\bf{s}}} \right|^2} = {\left| {{\bf{v}}_n^H{\bf{s}}} \right|^2} = {\bf{v}}_n^H{\bf{s}}{{\bf{s}}^H}{{\bf{v}}_n}$. Let ${\bf{S}} = {\bf{s}}{{\bf{s}}^H} \in {\mathbb{C}^{M \times M}}$, ${\bf{S}}\succeq 0$ and ${\rm{rank}}\left( {\bf{S}} \right) = 1$. In addition, we let ${{\bf{V}}_n} = {{\bf{v}}_n}{\bf{v}}_n^H \in {\mathbb{C}^{M \times M}}$, then ${\left| {{\bf{h}}_n^H{\rm{diag}}\left( {{{\bf{g}}_n}} \right){\bf{s}}} \right|^2} = {\rm{tr}}\left( {{\bf{S}}{{\bf{V}}_n}} \right)$. Therefore, $r_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}$ can be equivalently expressed as
\begin{equation}
r_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}} = {b_{k,n}}W{\log _2}\left( {1 + \frac{{P_{k,n}^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}{\rm{tr}}\left( {{\bf{S}}{{\bf{V}}_n}} \right)}}{{{\delta ^2}}}} \right),\forall k,n.
\end{equation}
Then the problem (P4) can be equivalently expressed as the problem (P4.1), which can be given by
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
({\rm{P}}4.1){\rm{ ~~~~}}&{\rm{find~~}}{\bf{S}},\\
s.t.\qquad &\textrm {(46b)},\\
&{{\bf{S}}_{m,m}} \le 1,\forall m,\\
&{\bf{S}}\succeq 0,\\
&{\rm{rank}}\left( {\bf{S}} \right) = 1.
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
It can be seen that the problem (P4.1) is a non-convex optimization problem due to the existence of the non-convex rank-one constraint (46e). Next, we apply \textbf{Proposition 1} to transform constraint (46e).
\textbf{Proposition 1: }For any positive semi-definite matrix ${\bf{C}} \in {\mathbb{C}^{N \times N}}$, ${\rm{tr}}\left( {\bf{C}} \right) > 0$, the rank-one constraint can be equivalently expressed as
\begin{equation}
{\rm{rank}}\left( {\bf{C}} \right){\rm{ = 1}} \Rightarrow {\rm{tr}}\left( {\bf{C}} \right) - {\left\| {\bf{C}} \right\|_2} = 0,
\end{equation}
where ${\rm{tr}}\left( {\bf{C}} \right) = \sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {{\sigma _n}} \left( {\bf{C}} \right)$, ${\left\| {\bf{C}} \right\|_2} = {\sigma _1}\left( {\bf{C}} \right)$ represents the spectral norm of the matrix $\bf{C}$. ${\sigma _n}\left( {\bf{C}} \right)$ denotes the $n$-th largest singular value of matrix $\bf{C}$.
According to \textbf{Proposition 1}, we can transform the rank-one constraint (48e) in the problem (P4.1) into
\begin{equation}
{\rm{rank}}\left( {\bf{S}} \right){\rm{ = 1}} \Rightarrow {\rm{tr}}\left( {\bf{S}} \right) - {\left\| {\bf{S}} \right\|_2} = 0.
\end{equation}
Thus, the feasible-check problem (P4.1) can be transformed into the problem (P4.2), which can be expressed as
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
({\rm{P}}4.2){\rm{ ~~~~}}&\mathop {{\rm{min}}}\limits_{\bf{S}} {\rm{~tr}}\left( {\bf{S}} \right) - {\left\| {\bf{S}} \right\|_2},\\
s.t.\qquad &\textrm {(46b), (48c), (48d)}.
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
Since ${\left\| {\bf{S}} \right\|_2}$ is a convex function, the problem (P4.2) is still a non-convex optimization problem. Here, we use SCA to obtain the lower bound of ${\left\| {\bf{S}} \right\|_2}$, which can be expressed as
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
{\left\| {\bf{S}} \right\|_2} \ge {\left\| {{{\bf{S}}^{\left( i \right)}}} \right\|_2} \!+\! {\rm{tr}}\left(\! {{{\bf{u}}_{\max }}\left( {{{\bf{S}}^{\left( i \right)}}} \right){{\bf{u}}_{\max }}{{\left( {{{\bf{S}}^{\left( i \right)}}} \right)}^H}\!\left( {{\bf{S}} - {{\bf{S}}^{\left( i \right)}}}\! \right)} \!\right)\\ \buildrel \Delta \over = {\left( {{{\left\| {\bf{S}} \right\|}_2}} \right)^{lb}},
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}where ${{\bf{u}}_{\max }}\left( {{{\bf{S}}^{\left( i \right)}}} \right)$ denotes the eigenvector corresponding to the largest singular value of the matrix ${{\bf{S}}^{\left( i \right)}}$, and ${{\bf{S}}^{\left( i \right)}}$ represents the value of ${\bf{S}}$ in the $i$-th SCA iteration. Therefore, the problem (P4.2) can be approximately converted to the problem (P4.3), which can be given by
\begin{subequations}
\begin{align}
({\rm{P}}4.3){\rm{ ~~~~}}&\mathop {{\rm{min}}}\limits_{\bf{S}} {\rm{ ~tr}}\left( {\bf{S}} \right) - {\left( {{{\left\| {\bf{S}} \right\|}_2}} \right)^{lb}},\\
s.t.\qquad &\textrm {(46b), (48c), (48d)}.
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
It can be seen that the problem (P4.3) is a standard SDP problem, which can be solved by using CVX toolbox \cite{grant2014cvx}.
\subsection{The Overall Joint Optimization Algorithm in Multi-tier Computing Networks}
Since multiple optimization variables are highly coupled, the original problem is a complex non-convex optimization problem. In this paper, we decouple the original problem into three sub-problems to solve through the BCD algorithm framework. Specifically, in sub-problem 1, we first relax the binary variables, and then given the task input bits \textbf{D}, the time allocation \textbf{T}, and the RMS transmissive coefficient \textbf{s}, we can obtain the subcarrier allocation $\bf{\tilde{A}}$, $\bf{\tilde{B}}$, and the transmit power allocation $\bf{\tilde{P}}$. Finally, the binary variable is restored. In sub-problem 2, given subcarrier allocation \textbf{A}, \textbf{B}, transmit power allocation \textbf{P}, and RMS transmissive coefficient \textbf{s}, we obtain task input bits \textbf{D} and time allocation \textbf{T} by applying SCA technique. In sub-problem 3, with fixed subcarrier allocation \textbf{A}, \textbf{B}, transmit power allocation \textbf{P}, task input bits \textbf{D}, and time allocation \textbf{T}, we can obtain RMS transmissive coefficient \textbf{s} by applying SCA and DC programming. Finally, the three subproblems are optimized alternately until the convergence is achieved. Based on the solution of the above subproblems, we propose a joint optimization algorithm in this multi-tier computing network, which can be summarized as\textbf{Algorithm 1}.
\begin{algorithm}[H]
\caption{The Overall Joint Optimization Algorithm in Multi-Tier Computing Networks}
\begin{algorithmic}[1]
\State Initialize ${\bf{A}}^0$, ${\bf{B}}^0$, ${\bf{P}}^0$, ${\bf{D}}^0$ , ${\bf{T}}^0$, ${\bf{s}}^0$, convergence threshold $\epsilon$ and iteration index $i = 0$.
\Repeat
\State Obtain subcarrier allocation ${\bf{A}}^*$, ${\bf{B}}^*$ and transmit power allocation ${\bf{P}}^*$ by solving the problem (P2).
\State Obtain task input bits ${\bf{D}}^*$, and time allocation ${\bf{T}}^*$, by solving the problem (P3.1).
\State Obtain RMS transmissive coefficient ${\bf{s}}^*$, by solving the problem (P4.3).
\State Update $i=i+1$.
\Until The fractional decrease of the objective value is below a threshold $\epsilon$.
\State \Return The subcarrier allocation, transmit power allocation, task input bits, time allocation and RMS transmissive coefficient design scheme.
\end{algorithmic}
\end{algorithm}
\subsection{Computational Complexity and Convergence Analysis}
\subsubsection{Computational complexity analysis}
In each iteration, the problem (P2) is solved with the computational complexity of ${\cal O}\left( {{{\left( {KN} \right)}^{3.5}}} \right)$, and the problem (P3.1) is solved with computational complexity of ${\cal O}\left( K ^{3.5}\right)$ \cite{boyd2004convex}. The problem (P4.3) solves a SDP problem by interior point method, so the computational complexity can be represented by ${\cal O}\left( {{ M ^{3.5}}} \right)$. It can be assumed that the number of iterations required for the algorithm to reach convergence is $i$, the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm can be expressed as ${\cal O}\left( {i\left( {\left(KN\right) ^{3.5}+K^{3.5} + {{M}^{3.5}} } \right)} \right)$.
\subsubsection{Convergence analysis}
The convergence of the proposed joint subcarrier allocation, transmit power allocation, task input bits, time allocation and RMS transmissive coefficient optimization in multi-tier computing networks is elaborated as follows.
We define ${\bf{A}}^{(i)}$, ${\bf{B}}^{(i)}$, ${\bf{P}}^{(i)}$, ${\bf{D}}^{(i)}$ , ${\bf{T}}^{(i)}$ and ${\bf{s}}^{(i)}$ as the $i$-th iteration solution of the problem (P2), (P3.1) and (P4.3). Herein, the objective function in the $i$-th iteration is denoted by ${\cal E}\left( {{{\bf{A}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{B}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{P}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{D}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{T}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{s}}^{(i)}}} \right)$. In the step 3 of $\textbf{Algorithm 1}$, since subcarrier allocation and the transmit power allocation can be obtained for given ${\bf{D}}^{(i)}$ , ${\bf{T}}^{(i)}$ and ${\bf{s}}^{(i)}$. Hence, we have
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
{\cal E}\left( {{{\bf{A}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{B}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{P}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{D}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{T}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{s}}^{(i)}}} \right) \ge \\{\cal E}\left( {{{\bf{A}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{B}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{P}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{D}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{T}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{s}}^{(i)}}} \right).
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
Similarly, in the step 4 of $\textbf{Algorithm 1}$, we can obtain the task input bits and time allocation when ${\bf{A}}^{(i+1)}$, ${\bf{B}}^{(i+1)}$, ${\bf{P}}^{(i+1)}$ and ${\bf{s}}^{(i)}$ are given. Herein, we also have
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
{\cal E}\left( {{{\bf{A}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{B}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{P}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{D}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{T}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{s}}^{(i)}}} \right) \ge \\{\cal E}\left( {{{\bf{A}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{B}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{P}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{D}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{T}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{s}}^{(i)}}} \right).
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
In the step 5 of $\textbf{Algorithm 1}$, RMS transmissive coefficient can be obtained when ${\bf{A}}^{(i+1)}$, ${\bf{B}}^{(i+1)}$, ${\bf{P}}^{(i+1)}$, ${\bf{D}}^{(i+1)}$ , ${\bf{T}}^{(i+1)}$ are given. Therefore, we have
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
{\cal E}\left( {{{\bf{A}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{B}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{P}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{D}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{T}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{s}}^{(i)}}} \right) \ge\\ {\cal E}\left( {{{\bf{A}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{B}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{P}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{D}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{T}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{s}}^{(i + 1)}}} \right).
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
Based on the above, we can obtain
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
{\cal E}\left( {{{\bf{A}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{B}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{P}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{D}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{T}}^{(i)}},{{\bf{s}}^{(i)}}} \right) \ge \\{\cal E}\left( {{{\bf{A}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{B}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{P}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{D}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{T}}^{(i + 1)}},{{\bf{s}}^{(i + 1)}}} \right).
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
which shows that the value of the objective function is non-increasing after each iteration of $\textbf{Algorithm 1}$. Since the objective function must be lower bounded by a finite value, the convergence of $\textbf{Algorithm 1}$ can be guaranteed.
\section{Numerical Results}
In this section, numerical results are provided to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed joint optimization algorithm in multi-tier computing networks. We consider a three-dimensional (3D) coordinate system in this paper, where the RMS and the DF are located at (0m, 0m, 10m) and (25m, 25m, 10m), respectively, and $K = 5$ users are randomly and uniformly distributed in a circle whose origin is (0m, 0m, 0m) and a radius of 50m. Moreover, DF is equipped with single antenna, and RMS is equipped with $M = 25$ elements. The number of subcarriers is set to 20, i.e., $N = 20$. Assuming that the parameters of all users are the same, we set $W = 1{\rm{ MHz}}$, ${\sigma ^2} = - 70{\rm{dBm}}$, ${c_t} = {c_r} = {c_m} = {10^3}$ cycles/bit, ${\alpha _t} = {10^{ - 27}}$, ${\alpha _r} = 0.3 \times {10^{ - 27}}$, $P_{\max }^t = P_{\max }^r = 40{\rm{dBm}}$, ${f_c} = 3{\rm{ GHz}}$, ${f_{t,\max }} = 2{\rm{ GHz}}$, ${f_{r,\max }} = 3{\rm{ GHz}}$, and ${f_{m,\max }} = 5{\rm{ GHz}}$ in our numerical simulations \cite{8488502}. Meanwhile, the path loss exponents is set as $\nu=\alpha = 3$. The path loss with a reference distance of 1m is set to ${C_0} = - 30{\rm{dB}}$, and we set Rician factor to ${\kappa_1}={\kappa_2} =3{\rm{dB}}$. In addition, the convergence threshold of the proposed algorithm is set to ${10^{ - 3}}$.
We first evaluate the convergence of the proposed joint optimization algorithm. Fig. 3 illustrates the variation of total energy consumption with the number of iterations under different element numbers $M$. One can observe that the total energy consumption for all curves monotonically decreases as the number of iterations increases which means the proposed algorithm can quickly achieve convergence and has good convergence performance. In addition, as the number of RMS elements increases, lower energy consumes, which provides a scheme to reduce system energy consumption by increasing the number of transmissive RMS elements. Hence, the effectiveness and advantages of the transmissive RMS transceiver system are confirmed.
\begin{figure
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=9.5cm]{Fig3}}
\caption{Convergence behaviour of the proposed joint optimization algorithm.}
\label{Fig3}
\end{figure}
Then, We compare the performance of our proposed multi-tier computing model with other computing models as following: (1) $\textbf{benchmark 1}$ (i.e., local computing): In this case, users execute all input task bits locally within the time duration $T$. (2) $\textbf{benchmark 2}$ (i.e., partial offloading of computation collaboration): In this case, the task input bits are divided into two parts to be executed at the local and DF relays respectively. (3) $\textbf{benchmark 3}$ (i.e., partial offloading of communication collaboration): In this case, tasks bits are assigned to users and RMS multi-antenna systems to execute, where DF relay assists in offloading. (4) $\textbf{benchmark 4}$ (i.e., RMS-random-phase): In this case, based on the proposed algorithm, the phase of the RMS is not optimized, but a random phase is applied.
We discuss the relationship between the computing capability of different benchmarks and the time duration $T$. Fig. 4 shows the number of input task bits versus the time duration $T$ under different benchmarks. It can be observed that the number of task input bits under different benchmarks increases as the time duration $T$ increases. That is because the longer time, the more tasks bits can be executed by the CPU. Specifically, the benchmark 2 and benchmark 3 can achieve higher computational capability than the benchmark 1. Furthermore, the benchmark 3 is superior to the benchmark 2 due to the high computation capability of the MEC server equipped with RMS transceiver. In plain sight, the proposed algorithm outperforms other benchmarks and achieves the highest computational capability by leveraging the strengths of both computation collaboration and communication collaboration. In addition, the proposed algorithm performs much better than the RMS-random phase benchmark due to the advantage of the optimized RMS transmissive coefficients.
\begin{figure
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=9.5cm]{Fig4}}
\caption{Number of task input bits versus the time duration $T$ for the proposed algorithm and different benchmark algorithms.}
\label{Fig4}
\end{figure}
Fig. 5 depicts the variation of the total energy consumption with the length of time duration $T$ for the proposed algorithm and other benchmark algorithms. The total energy consumption for all the benchmraks decreases as time duration $T$ increases. Specific observations are as follows. It can be seen that when the length of time duration $T$ increases, the performance of the proposed algorithm improves and achieves the lowest total energy consumption. Since the transmit power is constant, the offloading time does not vary with $T$ which results in the offloading energy consumption $E_k^{off}$ remaining constant. However, as time increases, more task input bits can be offloaded to the MEC server, and the local computation energy consumption $E_k^{t,comp}$ given in Eq. (29) and computation energy consumption $E_k^{r,comp}$ given in Eq. (32) is subsequently reduced, resulting in a decreasing trend in total energy consumption. This demonstrates the benefits of MEC server for decreasing energy consumption. In addition, the benchmrak 4 performs worst due to the randomness of its phase. For the benchmark 1, as the time duration $T$ increases, according to the expression given in Eq. (29), the local computation energy computation decreases. Meanwhile, both benchmark 2 and benchmark 3 outperform the local computation due to the exploit of computation resources at the DF relay and the transmissive RMS multi-antenna system.
\begin{figure
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=9.5cm]{Fig5}}
\caption{Total energy consumption versus the time duration $T$ for the proposed algorithm and different benchmark algorithms.}
\label{Fig5}
\end{figure}
Then, the variation of the total energy consumption with the task input bits $D_k$ is shown in Fig. 6. The results show that the total energy consumption of the proposed algorithm and all benchmarks increases as the number of task input bits increases. This is because when the number of task input bits increases, the number of local and CN CPU operations increases, resulting in an increase in energy consumption. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm achieves minimum total energy consumption, especially for larger input bits, once again confirming the advantages of the proposed protocol in the multi-tier computing networks in terms of reducing total energy consumption.
\begin{figure
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=9.5cm]{Fig6}}
\caption{Total energy consumption versus the task input bits for the proposed algorithm and different benchmark algorithms.}
\label{Fig6}
\end{figure}
Next, Fig. 7 illustrates the variation of total energy consumption with the number of RMS transmissive elements. Obviously, it is not equipped with RMS transceiver in the benchmark 1 and benchmark 2, so the total energy consumption remains unchanged as the number of the RMS elements increases. We can observe that as the number of RMS elements increases, the total energy consumption decreases for the proposed algorithm and the benchmark 3 and benchmark 4, because the additional elements provide more channel diversity gain, which reduces the total energy consumption by reducing the transmit power. Specifically, when the number of RMS transmissive elements is the same, the performance of the proposed algorithm is better than the RMS-random-phase benchmark, for the reason that the optimized phase is controllable for the system and the effect of the random phase on the system is uncontrollable. In addition, the benchmark 3 performs less well than the proposed algorithm since lack of computing resources for DF relay. Meanwhile, the proposed algorithm achieves the lowest total energy consumption among all the benchmarks. Therefore, increasing the number of RMS transmissive elements is of great value for practical use.
\begin{figure
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=9.5cm]{Fig7}}
\caption{Total energy consumption versus the number of RMS transmissive elements for the proposed algorithm and different benchmark algorithms.}
\label{Fig7}
\end{figure}
Fig. 8 elaborates the variation of total energy consumption with the number of users. It can be seen from Fig. 9 that when the number of users increases, the total energy consumption increases. The reason is that as the number of users increases, the total input task bits increases, resulting in increased energy consumption for offloading and computation. When the number of users is the same, the proposed algorithm outperforms other benchmarks. The specific reasons are similar to those mentioned above, and are omitted here.
\begin{figure
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=9.5cm]{Fig8}}
\caption{Total energy consumption versus the number of users for the proposed algorithm and different benchmark algorithms.}
\label{Fig8}
\end{figure}
Afterwards, we evaluate the performance of our proposed joint optimization algorithm compared with other benchmark algorithms as follows. (4) $\textbf{benchmark 4}$ (i.e., RMS-random-phase): In this case, based on the proposed algorithm, the phase of the RMS is not optimized, but a random phase is applied. (5) $\textbf{benchmark 5}$ (i.e., RMS-SDR-phase): In this case, based on the proposed algorithm, the phase of the RMS is is optimized by implementing semidefinite relaxation (SDR) technique. (6) $\textbf{benchmark 6}$ (i.e., three-stage algorithm): In this case, the three subproblems are optimized based on the proposed algorithm, but no alternating optimization is performed. (7) $\textbf{benchmark 7}$ (i.e., upper bound): In this case, after solving sub-problem 1 to obtain the subcarrier assignment variable, it is not restored to a discrete binary variable.
Fig. 9 shows the variation of task input bits with time duration $T$ under different optimization algorithms. It can be seen that, as the time duration $T$ increases, since the CPU can execute more offloading tasks, the number of task input bits increases. In addition, within the same time duration $T$, the performance of benchmark 7 is better than our proposed algorithm and other benchmark algorithms. This is because after solving sub-problem 1, the benchmark algorithm does not approximately restore the sub-carrier allocation variables, which ensures that the algorithm performance. In addition, the performance of the proposed algorithm is better than benchmark 5 because the adopted DC algorithm has better performance guarantee than the SDR algorithm. Compared with the proposed algorithm, benchmark 6 does not perform alternating optimization after solving the three sub-problems, so it is easy to fall into local optimum and cannot achieve global optimum, so its performance is poor.
\begin{figure
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=9.5cm]{Fig9}}
\caption{Number of task input bits versus the time duration $T$ for the proposed algorithm and different benchmark algorithms.}
\label{Fig9}
\end{figure}
Finally, Fig. 10 illustrates the variation of total energy consumption with the number of task input bits under different optimization algorithms. It can be observed that when the number of task input bits increases, the total energy consumption also increases. When the number of task input bits is the same, the performance of benchmark 7 is better than that of the proposed algorithm and other benchmark algorithms, and the performance of the proposed algorithm is also better than that of other benchmark algorithms. The specific reasons are similar to the above, and are omitted here.
\begin{figure
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=9.5cm]{Fig10}}
\caption{Total energy consumption versus the task input bits for the proposed algorithm and different benchmark algorithms.}
\label{Fig10}
\end{figure}
\section{Conclusions}
This paper investigates the total energy consumption minimization problem of transmissive RMS transceiver enabled multi-tier computing networks. Specifically, under the constraints of the computing and energy resources, subcarrier allocation, input task bits allocation, time slot allocation, user and DF relay transmit power allocation, and the RMS transmissive coefficients are jointly optimized. First, we transform the problem into a tractable problem. Then, in order to solve the transformed problem, we apply the BCD algorithm framework to divide the original problem into three sub-problems for solving. Given the other variables, we solve the variables to be optimized through SCA, DC programming, etc., and then alternately optimize the three sub-problems until convergence is achieved. Then, the computational complexity and convergence analysis of the proposed algorithm are given. Finally, the numerical simulation results verify the convergence and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, which illustrates that the proposed algorithm is capable of decreasing the total energy consumption to a large extent, and the advantages of utilizing transmissive RMS in this architecture for energy reduction are obvious.
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\subsubsection{Design of RMS enabled communication systems}Based on the above advantages, RMS has attracted extensive attention in academia and industry. Nowadays, RMS is mainly used to assist and enable traditional communication networks, where by combining active-passive beamforming design, the performance of the network can be improved with reflective or transmissive RMS \cite{9474428,9464248,9326394,9203956,9365009,9200683,9491943,9690478,9629335}. First, some works on reflective RMS-assisted communication networks has been carried out. Ur Rehman \emph{et al.} addressed the joint active and passive beamforming optimization problem under ideal and practical IRS phase shifts for an IRS-assisted multi-user downlink MIMO system, where the spectrum efficiency is maximized by minimizing the sum mean squared error (MSE) of the user's received symbols \cite{9474428}. Zen \emph{et al.} considered an IRS-assisted uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system in which a semi-definite relaxation technique is employed to maximize the sum rate of users \cite{9203956}. Furthermore, the research on transmissive RMS-assisted communication networks is also in progress. Zhang \emph{et al.} proposed an intelligent omni-surface (IOS) assisted downlink communication system, where the IOS is able to forward the received signal to the user in a reflection or transmission manner, thereby enhancing the wireless coverage \cite{9200683}. Niu \emph{et al.} investigated a MIMO network assisted by reflection-transmission reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), where the weighted sum rate is maximized based on an energy splitting (ES) scheme \cite{9629335}. Furthermore, in addition to assisting and enabling traditional communication networks, the RMS can also act as transceivers in communication networks. Since the reconfigurability of the RMS helps it to expand the number of passive units without increasing the number of expensive and bulky active antennas, the reflective RMS equipped with an active feed antenna can be used as a new type of transmitter \cite{9133266}. Since the feed blockage of the transmissive RMS transceiver is less than that of the reflective RMS transceiver, the aperture efficiency can be designed to be higher, and the operating bandwidth can be designed to be more stable, so it is more efficient \cite{bai2020high,9570775}. At present, some work on the uplink and downlink transmissive RMS transceiver design has been carried out \cite{9570775,li2021uplink}, but it is still in its infancy. Meanwhile, the application of the transmissive RMS transceiver in various communication scenarios also has potential.
\subsection{Motivation and Contributions}
Based on the above backgrounds and challenges, in order to improve the computing capability, reduce the computing delay, and reduce the BS deployment cost of the communication and computing network, we propose a transmissive RMS transceiver enabled multi-tier computing networks, where the decoding-and-forward (DF) relay is equipped with a CN, and transmissive RMS transceiver is equipped with an MEC server. In general, the computing capability of the DF relay should be comparable to or greater than that of the device to make computational cooperation feasible. To the best of our knowledge, the current research on communication and computing networks with transmissive RMS transceivers is still in its infancy, and the demand for improving network computing capability, reducing computing delay, and reducing BS deployment cost has greatly promoted this work. In this paper, we minimize total energy consumption by jointly optimizing the subcarrier allocation, task input bits, time slot allocation, transmit power allocation, and RMS transmissive coefficient. It is challenging to address this non-convex optimization problem due to the high coupling of optimization variables. Hence, we need to design an effective optimization algorithm for solving it.
In summary, the main contributions of this paper can be summarized as follows:
\begin{itemize}
\item We propose a novel transmissive RMS transceiver enabled multi-tier computing framework, where the devices and sensors can offload tasks to DF relay and RMS multi-antenna system for calculations, thereby improving computing capability and reducing computing latency of the networks. Meanwhile, we formulate the energy consumption minimization problem for joint optimization of the subcarrier allocation, task input bits, time slot allocation, transmit power allocation, and RMS transmissive coefficient. Since the objective function and the partial constraints are non-convex due to the high coupling of the optimization variables, the problem is a non-convex optimization problem and is challenging to solve directly.
\item To address the formulated energy consumption minimization problem, we first divide the non-convex optimization problem into three sub-problems based on the block coordinate descent (BCD) algorithm. Specifically, in the first sub-problem, given the time allocation, task input bits, and RMS transmissive coefficient, we solve the joint optimization problem for the subcarrier allocation and user transmit power allocation. In the second sub-problem, we deal with the joint optimization problem for the time allocation and task input bits by applying successive convex approximation (SCA) when the subcarrier allocation, user transmit power allocation and RMS transmissive coefficient are fixed. For the third sub-problem, the RMS transmissive coefficient can be obtained by using difference-convex (DC) programming and SCA when other optimization variables are given. Finally, the three sub-problems are optimized alternately until convergence is achieved.
\item Through the numerical simulation, we verify the effectiveness of the proposed joint optimization algorithm for the subcarrier allocation, task input bits, time slot allocation, transmit power allocation and RMS transmissive coefficient compared with the benchmark algorithms, i.e., it can decrease the total energy consumption. In addition, the proposed multi-layer offload-computation scheme is superior to other offload schemes, and the introduction of transmissive RMS transceivers can greatly reduce the cost of overall network deployment, which has great potential in next-generation communications.
\end{itemize}
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section II elaborates the system model and optimization problem formulation for the transmissive RMS transceiver enabled multi-tier computing networks. Section III presents the proposed optimization algorithm for the formulated optimization problem. In Section IV, numerical results demonstrate that our algorithm has good convergence and effectiveness. Finally, conclusions are given in Section V.
\emph{Notations:} Scalars are denoted by lower-case letters, while vectors and matrices are represented by bold lower-case letters and bold upper-case letters, respectively. $\left| {x} \right|$ denotes the absolute value of a complex-valued scalar $x$. For a square matrix $\bf{X}$, $\rm{tr(\bf{X})}$, $\rm{rank(\bf{X})}$, ${\bf{X}}^H$ ,${\bf{X}}_{m,n}$ and $\left\| {\bf{X}} \right\|$ denote its trace, rank, conjugate transpose, $m,n$-th entry and matrix norm, respectively, while ${\bf{X}} \succeq 0$ represents that $\bf{X}$ is a positive semidefinite matrix. Similarly, for a general matrix $\bf{A}$, $\rm{rank(\bf{A})}$, ${\bf{A}}^H$, ${\bf{A}}_{m,n}$ and $\left\| {\bf{A}} \right\|$ also denote its rank, conjugate transpose, $m,n$-th entry and matrix norm, respectively. In addition, ${\mathbb{C}^{M \times N}}$ denotes the space of ${M \times N}$ complex matrices. ${\bf{I}}_N$ denotes an dentity matrix of size ${N \times N}$. $j$ denotes the imaginary unit, i.e., $j^2=-1$. $\mathbb{E}\left\{ \cdot \right\}$ represents the expectation of random variables. Finally, the distribution of a circularly symmetric complex Gaussian (CSCG) random vector with mean $\mu$ and covariance matrix $\bf{C}$ is denoted by $ {\cal C}{\cal N}\left( {\mu,\bf{C}} \right)$, and $\sim$ stands for `distributed as'.
\section{System Model and Problem Formulation}
In this section, we mainly describe the system model and problem formulation.
\subsection{Network Model}
As shown in the Fig. 1, we consider a multi-tier MEC network model based on a relay-transmissive RMS multi-antenna system, which includes $K$ single-antenna task nodes (TN), a single-antenna DF relay and $M$ transmissive elements RMS multi-antenna system. In this paper, we consider the orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system, where the channel of bandwidth $B$ is divided into $N$ subcarriers, each with a bandwidth of $W = {B \mathord{\left/
{\vphantom {B N}} \right.
\kern-\nulldelimiterspace} N}$. Inter-subcarrier interference is negligible, and the cyclic prefix is large enough to overcome inter-symbol interference. Note that TN $k$ needs to successfully execute the $D_k>0$ task input bits in the time duration $T>0$. We consider that TN $k$, DF relay, and RMS multi-antenna systems are all computationally capable. Specifically, the $D_k$ task input bits of TN $k$ can be divided into three parts for computation: local computation, offloading to DF relay computation, and offloading to RMS multi-antenna system computation. Let $d_k^l$, $d_k^r$, $d_k^m$ denote the number of task input bits for TN $k$ to be computed locally, offloaded to the DF relay computation, and offloaded to the RMS multi-antenna system computation, respectively. Thus, we have
\begin{equation}
d_k^l + d_k^r + d_k^m = {D_k},\forall k.
\end{equation}
\begin{figure
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=8cm]{mec.pdf}}
\caption{Transmissive RMS transceiver enabled multi-tier computing networks.}
\label{Fig1}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Multi-tier Offloading-Computing Model}
We divide the time duration $T$ of TN $k$ for offloading and computing into four-time slots as shown in Fig. 2. In the first time slot $t_k^{\rm{{\rm I}}} \ge 0$, TN $k$ offloads $d_k^r$ task input bits to the DF relay. We assume that the CN and the DF relay are co-located and connected by using high-throughput low-latency optical fibers, so the data transmission between the DF relay and CN can be considered delay-free. The CN executes the task for the remaining $T - t_k^{\rm I}$ time. In the $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}} \ge 0$ and $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}} \ge 0$ time slots, TN $k$ offloads the task input bits $d_k^m$ to the RMS multi-antenna system through the DF relay. Specifically, in the second time slot $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}}$, TN $k$ sends the task input bits $d_k^m$ to the DF relay. After successfully decoding the received $d_k^m$, the DF relay forwards it to the RMS multi-antenna system within the third time slot $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}}$. The RMS multi-antenna system receives and decodes the signal and sends it to the MEC server. The MEC server executes these tasks in the fourth time slot $t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm{V}}} \ge 0$. We still assume that the MEC and RMS multi-antenna systems are co-located and connected using high-throughput low-latency fiber, so data transmission between the two can also be considered delay-free.
Since the calculation result bits is usually much smaller than the calculation input bits, the time for the user to download the calculation result is negligible compared to the time for offloading. To ensure that the tasks of TN $k$ can be successfully executed within time duration $T$, we have the following constraints:
\begin{equation}
t_k^{\rm I} + t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}} + t_k^{{\rm I}{\rm I}{\rm I}} + t_k^{{\rm{{\rm I}V}}} \le T,\forall k.
\end{equation}
\begin{figure
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=8cm]{protocol.pdf}}
\caption{Multi-tier offloading-computing model.}
\label{Fig1}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Offloading Model}
\subsubsection{Offload to DF relay}
In the time slot $t_k^{\rm I}$, TN $k$ offloads $d_k^r$ task input bits to the DF relay with transmit power $P_{k,n}^{\rm I}$. Then the achievable data rate for task offloading of TN $k$ to DF relay on $n$-th subcarrier can be expressed as
\begin{equation}
r_{k,n}^{\rm I} = {a_{k,n}}W{\log _2}\left( {1 + \frac{{P_{k,n}^{\rm I}{{\left| {h_{k,n}^r} \right|}^2}}}{{{\sigma ^2}}}} \right),\forall k,n,
\end{equation}
where ${\sigma ^2}$ represents the power of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) introduced at the DF relay. ${a_{k,n}} \in \left\{ {0,1} \right\}$ indicates whether the $n$-th subcarrier is allocated to TN $k$. When the $n$-th subcarrier is allocated to TN $k$, ${a_{k,n}} = 1$. Otherwise, ${a_{k,n}} = 0$. It should satisfy the following constraints
\begin{equation}
\sum\limits_{k = 1}^K {{a_{k,n}}} \le 1,\forall n,
\end{equation}
and $h_{k,n}^r$ represents the channel gain from the TN $k$ to DF relay on $n$-th subcarrier, which can be modeled as
\begin{equation}
h_{k,n}^r = \sqrt {\frac{{{C_0}}}{{d_k^\nu }}} \left( {\sqrt {\frac{{{\kappa _1}}}{{1 + {\kappa _1}}}} {e^{ - j2\pi nW\frac{{{d_k}}}{c}}} + \sqrt {\frac{1}{{1 + {\kappa _1}}}} {{\tilde h}_{k,n}}} \right),\forall k,n,
\end{equation}
with ${\tilde h_{k,n}} \sim {\cal C}{\cal N}\left( {0,1} \right)$, where $C_0$ represents the channel gain when the reference distance is 1m, $d_k$ represents the distance from the TN $k$ to the DF relay, $\nu$ denots the path loss coefficient of the corresponding channel, and ${\kappa _1}$ represents the Rician factor of the channel corresponding to TN $k$. Therefore, in time slot $t_k^{\rm I}$, the task input bits $d_k^r$ of TN $k$ offloaded to the DF relay can be expressed as
\begin{equation}
d_k^r = t_k^{\rm I}\sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {r_{k,n}^{\rm I}} ,\forall k.
\end{equation}
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NH-24, Hapur Road, Near Landcraft Golflinks, Ghaziabad, Ghaziabad, U.P, 201, India
The Columbia Asia Group is an international chain of hospitals with its presence in different parts of the Asian continent. This group has successfully spread its wings in various parts of India and is among the first health care companies to enter the country with total FDI (Foreign Direct Investment). This health care group started its operations in India in the year 2005 and is owned by more than 150 private equity companies, individual investors and fund management organizations. The Columbia Asia Hospital, Palam Vihar, is a 90 bed multi specialty facility inaugurated in the year 2010 and has grown to become the most preferred health care service provider of Ghaziabad. Today, the hospital is considered to be one of the best hospitals of this region. The hospital aims to deliver effective & affordable medical services in a clean & caring environment. The hospital covers the entire spectrum of illness to successful treatment and has risen to be at par with the best health care institutes of the world in terms of technical expertise and rendering of services. The hospital is committed to follow globally accepted standards of treatment, nursing and operating protocols. The hospital offers a gamut of medical services which include Internal Medicine, Dermatology, Orthopedics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology, ENT, General Surgery, Urology, Plastic Surgery and Gastroenterology. All these departments are centers of excellence, creating an environment devoted to dispense the best services and committed to providing world-class treatment. The hospital houses facilities like an emergency room, ICU, labor & delivery suites, pharmacy and ambulance services.
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Fortis Escorts Heart Institute & Research Center is revered as an enduring symbol of Cardiac Care in the country. A JCI Accredited Hospital, Fortis Hospital Okhla, offers sheer excellence in the field of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery. Established in the year 1988, the institution functioned under the name of Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre Ltd. Later in the year 2005, the Fortis Healthcare Group acquired the hospital. During the last 27 years, the hospital has achieved exponential success in delivering the most efficient and ethical solutions in cardiac care. Home to some of the seasoned doctors, committed nurse workforce, and knowledgeable technicians, this hospital possesses a world-class infrastructure comprising 285 Beds, adequate OTs and ICU Beds, 5 Cath Labs, and many more facilities. Presently the hospital has a line up of more than 100 cardiac specialists and 1600 support staff who work together to cater to 14500 admissions and 7200 emergency cases annually.
Fortis Escorts Heart Institute is leagued with the world's best cardiac care institutions and has won several awards and accolades. Fortis Escorts Heart Institute & Research Center is the proud recipient of Best Institution Award by Delhi Medical Association(2013), Best Heart Care Centre in North India (Global Healthcare Excellence Awards 2013), Best Single Specialty Hospital – Cardiology (India healthcare awards 2012), and many more. The institution pioneered the Heart Alert Service which enables patients complaining of chest complaints to receive an expert ECG interpretation over the phone. The institution also launched Community Outreach Programs whereby free cardiac check-up camps are organized in India and its neighboring countries. Apart from specializing in cardiac care, the hospital also offers a host of other specialities like Gastroenterology, Orthopardics, Nephrology and Urology. The hospital also serves its international patients with a myriad of facilities, such as, scheduling appointments, visa and travel assistance, hotel bookings, interpreter services, and many more..
Medanta The Medicity, Gurgaon
CH Bhaktawar Singh Road, Sector 38, Gurgaon, Haryana, 122001, India
Medanta The Medicity is one of India's largest multi-super specialty medical institutes located in Gurgaon. Spread over 43 acres, Medanta also includes a research center and a medical & nursing school. The hospital is committed to delivering world-class health care by creating institutes of excellence in integrated medical care, teaching and research. The team Medanta, aspires to create an ethical & safe environment to treat all with respect & dignity. The institution has been envisaged with the goal of introducing the highest standards of clinical care in India along with medical research, training and education. Medanta works with the goal of providing medical services to patients with care, compassion and commitment. The institute has 45 operation theatres, 1250 beds and over 350 critical care beds catering to over 20 specialties.
Medanta hospital's line-up of eminent doctors and assistant staff include some of the best in the industry, an asset that very few medical institutions can claim. The hospital houses 6 Centres of Excellence including The Heart Institute, Institute of Neurosciences, Bone & Joint Institute, Kidney & Urology Institute, Cancer Institute and Division of Medical Oncology & Hematology. Each of these centers of excellence has been made to provide integrated health care through innovative programs using medical intelligentsia, state-of-the-art infrastructure & cutting-edge technology with a comprehensive and well incorporated information system. Medanta Mediclinic in Defence Colony of Delhi's main Ring Road is a multi- super specialty clinic and daycare facility set up by Medanta – The Medicity, as an extension of their flagship hospital in Gurgaon. This clinic had been set up as a daycare center offering Outpatient Consultancy, Wellness Programs, Dialysis, Endoscopy, Diagnostic Testing and Daycare related Surgeries across all specialties. This clinic is an alternative location for patients to access the consultancy and expertise of Medanta's world renowned doctors. The Medanta Mediclinic, in partnership with DLF, at Building 10C in DLF Cybercity, Gurgaon, is the second Mediclinic in the Delhi NCR region. The multi-super speciality clinic and out patient facility delivers healthcare services to working professionals at DLF Cybercity. The Mediclinic offers consultations with expert doctors across specialities, diagnostic services, executive health check-ups, speciality clinics and medical emergency respons.
Columbia Asia Hospital, Gurgaon
Block F, Gol Chakkar, Palam Vihar, Gurgaon, Haryana, 122017, India
The Columbia Asia Group is an international chain of hospitals with its presence in different parts of the Asian continent. This group has successfully spread its wings in various parts of India and is among the first health care companies to enter the country with total FDI (Foreign Direct Investment).
This healthcare group started its operations in India in the year 2005 and is owned by more than 150 private equity companies, individual investors and fund management organizations.
The Columbia Asia Hospital, Palam Vihar, is a 90-bed multi-specialty facility inaugurated in the year 2008 and has grown to become the most preferred healthcare service provider of Gurgaon. Today, the hospital is considered to be one of the best hospitals of this region.
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Fortis Flt Lt Rajan Dhall Hospital, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
Sector B, Pocket 1, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg,, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, Delhi, 110070, India
Fortis Flt Lt Rajan Dhall Hospital is a member of the Fortis Healthcare conglomerate. It is a 162 bedded, NABH Certified, Multi Specialty Tertiary Care Hospital with a pedigree of offering the finest services in health care. The edifice built on a vast expanse of 3.5 acres, houses several specialty departments, which work together towards the hospital's super ordinate goal of 'saving and enriching lives.' The team of outstanding specialists, practitioners, nurses, and technicians, solve some of the most intractable patient crises with the help of their varied skill, and the cutting-edge technology available at their disposal. Driven by the hospital's vision of becoming the pre-eminent leader in health care, the hospital staff works on the solid theological ground of delivering clinical excellence and distinctive patient care. The team is steered by the virtues of patient centricity, integrity, teamwork, ownership, and innovation. The hospital is situated not very far from the international airport and the railway station, which makes it the most preferred destination for patients. The hospital embodies fully equipped, state of the art clinical specialty verticals, such as, Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Dermatology, Diabetology, General Surgery, Infertility, Speech Therapy, Sports Medicine, Rheumatology, and several others. The institution also dispenses efficient and proactive services in Super Specialties, broadly classified as Centers of Excellence, which include Cardiac Science, Renal Science, Organs Transplant, Critical Care, Neuro Science, and many more. The hospital offers a host of distinctive facilities to patients and caregivers such as Cafeteria, Parking, Ambulance, Baby Sitting, Pharmacy, Valet Parking, Info Desk, Blood Bank, Money Changer, ATM, Library, and Wifi services. The hospital also houses departments such as Emergency, Intervention Radiology, Dialysis, and a well-equipped Laboratory. Fortis Flt Lt Rajan Dhall Hospital is one of the most sought after hospital, offering best medical solutions, world-class accommodation, and a warm ambience. The hospital, along with other hospitals of the Fortis Group, is resolute to be in the forefront in the health care industry.
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C-1, Sushant Lok Road, Block C, Phase 1, Sector-43, Gurgaon, Haryana, 122002, India
Paras Hospital is a renowned Multi Super Specialty hospital located in Sector 43 Gurgaon. Established in 2006, this 250 bedded facility is the flagship hospital of Paras Healthare. It was the first hospital in Harayana to be accredited by NABH. The Center of Excellence at Paras Hospital Gurgaon include Neurosciences, Cancer Care, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery and Orthopedics. Paras Hospital provides end-to-end solutions for both national and international patients. Patients from various countries especially Middle East, South East Asia and Africa visit Paras Hospital for healthcare checkups, customized treatment and surgical procedures.
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Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, New Delhi
A Block, Shalimar Bagh, New Delhi, Delhi, 110088, India
Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, is a NABH Accredited Multi Specialty Tertiary Care Hospital, possessing state of the art facility, and offering customized health care solutions for unique patient needs. Since inception in 2010, the hospital has been offering excellent patient care, induced by the virtues of compassion, innovation, integrity, and patient centricity. Within a very short span of time, the hospital has created a niche for itself in the international medical fraternity. The forte of the hospital lies in dispensing the best healthcare services at the most affordable prices. This has been possible because the team at Fortis Hospital constantly endeavors in cross leveraging the skill, experience, and technology available at their disposal. This recently built institution caters to national as well as global patients. The hospital holds 262 Beds, adequate Operating Rooms, ICU Beds, and Hi-tech Medical Equipments. The multi-dimensional portfolio offered by the institution comprises Chest Medicine, Dermatology, Fetal Medicine, Gynecology, Infertility, Neonatology, Psychiatry, Thoracic Surgery, Cell Therapy, and many more. The hospital has also evolved certain Centers of Excellence which cater to Super Specialties, such as, Cardiac Science, Neuro Science, Emergency & Trauma, Gastro Science, and several others. Home to some of the eminent specialists and professionally trained nursing staff, the hospital offers world-class accommodation and a warm ambience to its patients. It's Presidential Suites and Deluxe Rooms offer a myriad of amenities, such as, LCD Television Sets, Tea/Coffee Maker, Terrace View, Refrigerator, and many more. The hospital also houses other facilities, such as, Pharmacy, Blood Bank, ATM, Prayer Room, ICU Waiting lounge, Crèche, Play Area for Kids, Money Changer, Café, and a Multi-cuisine Restaurant. Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, is one of the first hospital in the country to be bestowed with the Green Building Certification. It was primarily designed as an energy-efficient building that conforms to the guidelines of the Energy Conservation Building Code.
B-22 , Sector 62, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 201301, India
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Thanks for sharing the links, Mary Ann.!!!
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 12:56 pm Post subject: hi
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Just wanted to say hello and while am at it, though I don't watch Castle I did download the episode where Jane appeared who by the way looked smashing
I do love it when she plays the kinda bad girl hehe. I so wish she had<|fim_middle|> this season's eps. | more scenes though.
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Oh I know for sure that you don't bite at all Anne. Missed u all and I promise I'll be checking in daily, have to catch up with many threads though. Any suggestions?
No suggestions, actually. Take your time because I know it must be quite overwhelming after being away for so long.
Oh yeah it is. I don't know from where to start. I mean new members must have registered, people that I don't know and haven't welcomed either and so much more. But I'll manage.
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Castle t3 ep 18 will be on AXN in Portugal, with Jane...
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Just finished watching season 1 through 3 last night, and I am totally hooked. I love it. It's funny, serious, exciting and there's great chemistry between Castle and Beckett and the other cast members.
Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm for the show, Mary Ann!
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Yea another convert! Did you watch the finale? For anyone who wonders why people love this show so much, you need to watch the trilogy of Becket's mom's murder- the name of the first escapes me but the last two are Knockdown and Knockout- The season finale was Castle at it's best, in fact probably this last ep was the best of the series so far!
How's that for enthusiasm?
To be honest the one with Jane was NOT Castle's best, it was more a showcase for guest stars. I"m only sorry Jane wasn't invited to participate in one of the more intense eps. For a show that is known for being humorous, Castle does drama better then some of the seasoned dramas out there!
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Yes, I saw the finale. Can't wait for season 4. I might have to watch season 1-3 again, while I wait for it.
What I really like about it, is that even though it's humourous it's also serious when it needs to be. It shows the funny/ironic in the serious situations, but still respects when it has to be dramatic.
It especially surprises you when it uses drama like the stories focusing on the murder of Beckett's mother.
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Winnie, if you enjoy the show I think you would really enjoy Stanatalk radio. Deb recently found it as well right Deb? The discussion next week will be all about the finale!
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I've only started watching the show from the episode Jane guest starred in and onward. Caught the earlier repeat episode this season called Knockout? (The one dealing with Kate's mom).
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Didn't see the betrayal of Capt. Montgomery coming, but it makes sense to me now with him wanting Kate off the case and all. Sad to see him go as I felt he had redeemed himself by the end.As for Becket, pretty sure that sniper got her...as I thought I saw blood on her hand or something. My guess is though that she passed out. They wouldn't kill her as you'd have no show. Those moment she had with Castle were pretty intense and that moment at the end was...wow! Castle must have taken his Mom's advice. END SPOILER
I'll be ok till season 4 starts as I'm planning to watch at least the first two seasons over the summer. Thus far I've made it through the first two episodes of the 1st Season. Castle cracks me up to no end, he's such a playboy and yet at the same time he's so charming that you can't help but like him. Beckett seems so tightly wound and trying to push Castle away. (Which isn't gonna happen). Looking forward to seeing the rest of the seasons.
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Sarah what you will find so interesting is watching how they change through the seasons. Castle starts to really mature while still keeping his charm (he;s just a bit less sarcastic, more sweet) and Becket softens quite a bit. I actually like them both better as the series progresses.
I'm almost done with Season 1 (just one more disc to come from Netflix and two more episodes) and so far it's been a great ride. Castle is one of my favorite characters, cracks me up a lot. He was such a cocky playboy in the beginning and now 8 episodes later he's calming down which is great. The commentary has been fun to listen too and I really laughed at the comment someone made about Beckett interrogating Castle and how he thought he was on his first date. He really seemed to want her then..and it was just funny. Loved the laser tag too...that was great!
Beckett's a bit of a puzzle and really seems to like to be in control of things, but Castle really shattered that. Drove her nuts for a while, and I could tell she was trying to push him away. I like now that she's being more open with him and you can tell they are starting to develop a good friendship. She also doesn't seem so uptight anymore.
Should be able to get through Season 2 this summer and then I might have to hunt online for the rest of Season 3.
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Marriage Material
Download Marriage Material Full eBooks in PDF, EPUB, and kindle. Marriage Material is one my favorite book and give us some inspiration, very enjoy to read. you could read this book anywhere anytime directly from your device.
Author : Sathnam Sanghera
Publisher : Random House India
Arjan Banga is forced to leave London to help his lonely mother run Bains Stores, their family's provincial corner shop. But, it's also a return to all that he tried to leave behind: narrow worldviews and post-industrial decline—and Singhfellows, a desi pub that defines itself by a religion that officially rejects drinking. But, his mother is adamant to keep the store open, forcing Arjan to work with her, reassess his relationship with his gori fiancé and discover his family's silent history: his aunt's elopement, his mother's marriage to a lower-caste man, and his family's strange relationship with their desi neighbours, the Dhandas, whose macho heir can't stop listening to Malkit Singh and declaring: 'Am just gonna bun dis spliff.' The story of modern Britain as seen through the windows of an English shop with a big Punjabi heart, Marriage Material is the humorous chronicle of finding love as a desi in England—and of English desis forging and celebrating a betwixt identity that is neither here nor there.
Becoming Marriage Material
Author : Debbie Adebayo
Publisher : Xulon Press
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Publisher : Europa Editions
A London graphic designer is suddenly forced to take over his South Asian family's convenience store in this "hugely enjoyable" novel (The Sunday Express). "Sathnam Sanghera's witty first novel chronicles three generations of a Punjabi Indian family in England. After his father dies, Arjan Banga, a graphic designer in London, returns to the dreary West Midlands to help run the family convenience store. The move causes tension with his white fiancée, Freya, whom his mother regards with passive-aggressive disapproval. Arjan must explain to customers that 'as a Sikh I was not expected to marry my cousin or join Al Qaeda' and smile politely at their interpretations of his name ('Mind if I call you Andy?'). Torn between familial duty and the freedom he enjoys in London, he gains unlikely clarity from his dimwitted friend Ranjit—a pot-smoking devotee of Steven Seagal movies, Xbox and hip-hop. Arjan's woes are comic, but the novel's depth is evident as it sheds light on the economic and political struggles of immigrants." —The New York Times From an author whose work has been shortlisted for Costa and PEN Awards, this novel about a man trapped between British and Punjabi culture is "filled with details of the lives of Sikhs from the late '60s to the riots of 2011. The divisions within the Sikh population are poignantly and comically captured in the protests against the Wolverhampton Transport Department's ban on turbans" (Los Angeles Review of Books). "Sanghera's precise, hilarious rendition of voices and cultural details is the signal pleasure of a novel rich in humor, history, and heart." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Author : Barbara Samuel
Publisher : Barbara Samuel
Lance Forrest was the sexiest thing Tamara Flynn had ever laid eyes on. Once, he'd hightailed it out of Red Creek, Colorado, on his wild reputation, leaving behind a string of broken hearts and a son he never knew about. A son Tamara raised as her own. When he walked back into her life five years later, Tamara knew she could no longer deny Lance the knowledge of his son, or the joy of his company. But the more time the three of them spent together, the more Lance started to feel like family. Tamara had always thought Lance and marriage didn't mix... until now.
Real Marriage Material
Author : Jodi O'Donnell
WIFE FOR HIRE? Country bachelor Jeb Albright was in trouble. What did he know about little girls? So when his orphaned niece came to stay, he treated her like one of the guys. But now social services wondered how she'd become such a tomboy? Enter elegant and refined Mariah Duncan. She was perfect to show Robin how to be a lady. But she was not the type Jeb would choose for a wife! He needed someone who could see beyond his rough exterior to the caring man inside. Then one day Jeb saw Mariah looking at him—and realized she not only saw the man he was, but the husband he could be!
Author : Deisy Suarez-Giles
Publisher : Deisy Suarez-Giles
This book, Marriage Material: How I Found my Husband, is the story of how two very different souls found themselves and fell in love. Chronicled through the pages is the long, often tortured journey of Deisy and Keith and how they overcame adversity to forge a new life together. One question that it definitely answers is that, indeed, opposites do attract! The book touches on the challenges faced by the author as she journeyed towards love. She narrates how she found the person destined for her in a place where she least expected to see him. The Dominican-born esthetics expert and writer also touches on how difficult it truly is to be away from loved ones, especially during very special moments in life. She got married without any of the most important people in her life, and draws a parallel with the current pandemic situation affecting so many planned weddings. Moreover, her book delves deeper into love, relationships, and marriage. She takes pride in the fact that she and her husband have been successful at keeping their love alive through never-ending hard work while building a successful spa business in Los Angeles. Through her book, Deisy shares some of the lessons that she has learned from dating, life, love, and from her own marriage. So, for the doubters or cynics of love - or for those who say "I'll never find the right person" - this book provides plenty of hope. For those fearful of taking that next step forward, a reading of this book illustrates how risk-taking can pay dividends. And for those stuck in unfulfilling relationships, it illustrates how years of chronic domestic mental abuse can take its toll when unrecognized and untreated.
Author : Ally Blake,Banana Sarusuberi
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Download Marriage Material book written by Ally Blake,Banana Sarusuberi, available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle, or read full book online anywhere and anytime. Compatible with any devices.
Are You Marriage Material
Author : Kevin Adams
Publisher : Heritage
If you're considering getting married, start now to become the best marriage material you can be. This preparation is a process that shouldn't be skipped or rushed;
The Material Culture of Sex Procreation and Marriage in Premodern Europe
Author : A. McClanan,K. Encarnación
This interdisciplinary anthology takes as its starting point the belief that, as the material grounds of lived experience, material culture provides an avenue of historical access to women's lives, extending beyond the reaches of textual evidence. Studies here range from utilitarian tools used in Late Roman abortion to sacred, magical or ritual objects associated with sex, procreation, and marriage in the Renaissance. Together the essays demonstrate the complex relationship between language and object, and explore the ways in which objects become forms of communication in their own right, transmitting both rather specific messages and more generalized social and cultural values.
True Love Dates
Author : Debra K. Fileta
Publisher : Zondervan
In True Love Dates, Debra Fileta encourages singles not to "kiss dating goodbye" but instead to experience a season of dating as a way to find real love. Through reading powerful, real-life stories (including the author's personal journey) and gaining insights from Fileta's experience as a professional counselor, readers will discover that it ispossible to find true love through dating. Christians are looking for answers to finding true love. They are disillusioned with the church that has provided little practical application in the area of love and relationships. They've been bombarded by Christian books that shun dating, idolize courting, fixate on spirituality, and in the end offer little real relationship help. True Love Dates provides honest help for dating by guiding readers into vital relationship essentials for finding true love. Debra is a young, professional Christian counselor, and True Love Dates offer sound advice grounded in Christian spirituality. It delivers insight, direction, and counsel when it comes to entering the world of dating and learning to do it right the first time around. Drawing on the stories and struggles of hundreds of young men and women who have pursued finding true love, Fileta helps readers bypass unnecessary pain while focusing on the things that really matter in the world of dating.
This Is Why I Won t Marry You
Author : Armani Valentino
Publisher : College Boy Publishing
In his fifth book on relationships, National Bestselling Author and relationship expert, Armani Valentino doesn't leave one stone unturned. After more than 5 years of research and over 100,000 conversations with men & women, he has come up with the real reasons and not excuses to WHY the person you want to marry you won't do so. This Is Why I Won't Marry You walks you through page-by-page and line-by-line into the minds of males and females from all walks of life. The book is pragmatic and practical. It doesn't matter where you are in your relationship, you will be able to bridge the gap on whether or not to move forward to the alter, be still and keep dating, or leave the relationship. Most of all, you'll be able to see yourself for who you really are and where you are in your relationship. This book deals with the missing pieces of communication and understanding in relationships like never before. And... ~How to tell if you're dating "THE ONE." ~Why Men & Women Cheat ~What Men Really Want ~What Women Really Need ~10 Women ALL Men Should Run From ~5 Men You Should Never Marry And SO MUCH MORE!!! "The book is an easy and inspiring read. Both spiritual and secular readers will enjoy the real life stories and be able to relate. In his best written work to date, Armani Valentino definitely has a #1 bestseller with this one." ~SoSoActive.com
His Alone
Author : Alexa Riley
Publisher : Carina Press
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Ryan Justice may be her boss, but nothing will stop him from making her his. New York Times and #1 ebook bestselling author Alexa Riley entices with a brand-new, full-length novel. She thinks I'm perfect. A good boss, a good man. She thinks that I play by the rules. She has no idea who I truly am. Why I'm really here. Paige Turner is trying to outrun her past, but there it is, tossed back in her face anytime she manages to get two steps ahead. She has no idea what a man like me will do to get what he wants. Her need for Ryan got in the way of revenge, took her off course. Redirected her focus. Before she knew it, he'd made his way into her life. Into her heart. I'm dirtier than she knows. She thinks I'm good to the core, but she doesn't know the things I've done. The things I would do for her. True love doesn't let secrets as big as these stay buried. And when the truth about Paige's father is finally exposed, Ryan will do anything to fix everything. Paige has always been his—and his alone. This book is approximately 75,000 words One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you're looking for with an HEA/HFN. It's a promise!
Material Relations
Author : Julia A. Hendon,Rosemary A. Joyce,Jeanne Lopiparo
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Focusing on marriage figurines—double human figurines that represent relations formed through social alliances—Hendon, Joyce, and Lopiparo examine the material relations created in Honduras between AD 500 and 1000, a period of time when a network of social houses linked settlements of a variety of sizes in the region. The authors analyze these small, seemingly insignificant artifacts using the theory of materiality to understand broader social processes. They examine the production, use, and disposal of marriage figurines from six sites—Campo Dos, Cerro Palenque, Copán, Currusté, Tenampua, and Travesia—and explore their role in rituals and ceremonies, as well as in the forming of social bonds and the celebration of relationships among communities. They find evidence of historical traditions reproduced over generations through material media in social relations among individuals, families, and communities, as well as social differences within this network of connected yet independent settlements. Material Relations provides a new and dynamic understanding of how social houses functioned via networks of production and reciprocal exchange of material objects and will be of interest to Mesoamerican archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians.
BuzzFeed Ultimate Book of Quizzes
Author : BuzzFeed
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Hilarious, entertaining, and irresistibly binge-worthy, this officially licensed ultimate collection of BuzzFeed quizzes -- from the most popular to the never-before-published -- includes hundreds of questions on everything you love all in one place! If you've been on the internet, chances are you've taken a BuzzFeed quiz or three in your lifetime. And if so, you probably know which Friends character you are or what your favorite fruit says about you. For years, BuzzFeed quizzes have made the rounds online and have gone crazy viral for a good reason -- they're fun, interactive, and super shareable. For the first time ever, BuzzFeed brings you one jam-packed book overflowing with 200 quizzes covering love, food, friendship, TV, movies, personality, and everything under the pop-culture sun. So whether you want to know which Disney character is your soul mate, where you should go on your next vacation, or what age you really are, gather your closest friends, break out the gel pens, and crack this quiz book open to find out.
Gender Law and Material Culture
Author : Annette Caroline Cremer
This interdisciplinary volume discusses the division of the early modern material world into the important legal, economic, and personal categories of mobile and immobile property, possession, and the rights to usufruct. The chapters describe and compare di erent modes of acquisition and intergenerational transfer via law and custom. The varying perspectives, including cultural history, legal history, social and economic history, philosophy, and law, allow for a more nuanced understanding of the links between the movability of an object and the gender of the person who owned, possessed, or used it. Case studies and examples come from a wide geographical range, including Norway, England, Scotland, the Holy Roman Empire, Italy, Tyrol, the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Romania, and the European colonies in Brazil and Jamaica. By covering both urban and rural areas and exploring all social groups, from ruling elites to the lower strata of society, the chapters o er fresh insight into the division of mobile and immobile property that socially and economically posed disadvantages for women. By exploring a broad scope of topics, including landownership, marriage contracts, slaveholding, and the dowry, this book is an essential resource for both researchers and students of women's history, social and economic history, and material culture.
Husband Material
Author : Alexis Hall
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
An Instant USA Today Bestseller! "Our favourite chaos demon & stern brunch daddy return in this delicious, ridiculous, and often poignant romcom about all the ways love can grow." —Talia Hibbert, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author WANTED: One (very real) husband, nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best In BOYFRIEND MATERIAL, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends...and somehow figured out a way to make it work. Now it seems like<|fim_middle|>, work, family, or anything else. Packed with new exercises and the latest research out of the esteemed Gottman Institute, this revised edition of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the definitive guide for anyone who wants their relationship to attain its highest potential.
Social Dynamics of Adolescent Fertility in Sub Saharan Africa
Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Working Group on the Social Dynamics of Adolescent Fertility
Publisher : National Academies Press
This examination of changes in adolescent fertility emphasizes the changing social context within which adolescent childbearing takes place.
Marriage on Madison Avenue
Author : Lauren Layne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
A USA TODAY bestseller! One of O, The Oprah Magazine's "22 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020" and one of Goodreads's "28 of the Hottest Romances of 2020" From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne, the "queen of witty dialogue" (Rachel Van Dyken, New York Times bestselling author), comes the final installment of the Central Park Pact series, a heartfelt and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that's perfect for fans of Sally Thorne and Christina Lauren. Can guys and girls ever be just friends? According to Audrey Tate and Clarke West, absolutely. After all, they've been best friends since childhood without a single romantic entanglement. Clarke is the charming playboy Audrey can always count on, and he knows that the ever-loyal Audrey will never not play along with his strategy for dodging his matchmaking mother—announcing he's already engaged…to Audrey. But what starts out as a playful game between two best friends turns into something infinitely more complicated, as just-for-show kisses begin to stir up forbidden feelings. As the faux wedding date looms closer, Audrey and Clarke realize that they can never go back to the way things were, but deep down, do they really want to?
SHOES VS SNEAKERS
Author : C. C. C.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Class Doesn't Always Come Easy; Especially If Its Not Worked On. However, Woman's Presentation and How They Present and (or) Conduct Themselves Says A Lot About Who They Are and How Far a Man Will Go With Them. Dressing The Part, Acting The Part, Talking The Part Will Get You A Lot Closer To That Diamond Ring. Ladies Get It Together or Forget Him Forever...A Woman's Guide To Proper Etiquette.
Sturdevant's Art and Science of Operative Dentistry
Disaster Communications in a Changing Media World
Social Stratification and Inequality
Geometry for Naval Architects
Charlottes Web
Biotechnological Production of Bioactive Compounds
Elephant Sense and Sensibility
Applied Statistics for Environmental Science with R
Theranostic Approach for Pancreatic Cancer
Practical Guide to Obstetric and Gynecologic Dermatology
The New Family Cookbook
Broadband Cable Access Networks
Mathematical Basis for Finance
The Handbook of Temporal Dominance on Sensations
Lettering And Modern Calligraphy
Mathematical Physics with Partial Differential Equations
Research Methods in Human Computer Interaction
Final Cuts
Metals for Biomedical Devices
Pyrazole-Based Drug Discovery
The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living
God and Stephen Hawking
Nothing but the Tooth
Transsphenoidal Surgery
The Great Big Pressure Cooker Book
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
Histology A Text and Atlas
Philosophy of Complex Systems
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Atlas of Retinal OCT: Optical Coherence Tomography
Neuropathology of Drug Addictions and Substance Misuse
Sustainable Urban Mobility Pathways
Romeo and/or Juliet
Margherita's Notebook | everyone around them is getting married, and Luc's feeling the social pressure to propose. But it'll take more than four weddings, a funeral, and a hotly contested rainbow balloon arch to get these two from "I don't know what I'm doing" to "I do". Good thing Oliver is such perfect HUSBAND MATERIAL. "Brilliance on every single page."—Christina Lauren, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, for Boyfriend Material "The apotheosis of the rom-com."—Entertainment Weekly, A+ Review, for Boyfriend Material "Every once in a while you read a book that you want to SCREAM FROM ROOFTOPS about. I'm screaming, people!"—Sonali Dev, award-winning author, for Boyfriend Material "FAKE DATING, REAL FEELINGS, BEST JOKES."—Olivia Waite, award-winning author, for Boyfriend Material "Fresh and vibrant."—Annie Carl, The Neverending Bookshop (Edmonds, WA), for Boyfriend Material
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Author : John Gottman, PhD,Nan Silver
Publisher : Harmony
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Over a million copies sold! "An eminently practical guide to an emotionally intelligent—and long-lasting—marriage."—Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work has revolutionized the way we understand, repair, and strengthen marriages. John Gottman's unprecedented study of couples over a period of years has allowed him to observe the habits that can make—and break—a marriage. Here is the culmination of that work: the seven principles that guide couples on a path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Straightforward yet profound, these principles teach partners new approaches for resolving conflicts, creating new common ground, and achieving greater levels of intimacy. Gottman offers strategies and resources to help couples collaborate more effectively to resolve any problem, whether dealing with issues related to sex, money, religion | 410 |
In the last post, I described my journey to being a work-from-home mom. In this post I'll share some of the struggles. To give reference, I have two boys - one is now in preschool four mornings a week, and one is in first grade. I'm a part-time temporary hire, which in fancy terms is adjunct professor. I've been doing this work since I was first pregnant and have taught every spring and fall semester the past seven years. I currently teach three 1-hr and 2-hr credit courses in the spring and one 3-hr credit course in the fall. This works out require anywhere from 5-15 hours a week, depending on how much grading there is and whether I'm revamping course materials. A couple weeks last spring, I pushed 20-30 hours, which coincided with snow days, and I ended up automatically terminated by the system for working too many hours, in the doctor's office after two weeks of not sleeping, a resting heart rate that was bouncing between 89 and 117, high blood pressure, a sinus thing, dry mouth, twitching, and down about 5-10 lbs. I'd also been pacing the house and neighborhood and bawling on anyone who asked how I was doing. Up until last summer, I would put in several hours a week for course maintenance, but last summer I resolved to fully devote my time to the kids, the sunshine and garden. I do not regret that decision one bit. I also run a small pottery side business, but during busy seasons like last spring, this gets dropped. I think I'm getting better at pacing myself and not feeling like I have to be productive, but I do get very anxious if I go more than three days without putting in time on the classes even if I'm all caught up.
Repeatedly I'm told by friends, family and even my physician that I have an ideal setup - keeping my foot in the door in my career while getting to be home with my kids and keep up with hobbies I'm passionate about. We haven't had to hire childcare, and with the youngest entering elementary school next fall, it looks like we are in the clear in that department. Sometimes I've used the childcare at the YMCA to knock out an hour here or there, especially around that 12 week mark that seems to be the peak stress time of my semester. Admittedly, it's a sweet deal, but it all hinges on the fact that my husband is full-time employed with benefits.
My oldest son started a mom's morning out program one day a week when he was 19 months old, and I got pregnant a month later. I didn't get a<|fim_middle|> to be alone for a couple hours and needed it to recover from the rest of the week. While very independent in his physical abilities and a great thinker and problem solver, he likes feedback and a ton of vocal interaction. He shows frustration towards other things that hold my attention, whether they be work, people or hobbies. I have a vivid memory of him as a toddler lunging at me from one side of the couch anytime I pulled out my laptop to work and me holding out my blocking arm. He returned the favor anytime I tried to talk on the phone. I could only work when he was sleeping, and lucky for me he was a great napper - not always, but most of the time. He still has a tendency to hover and sigh while I work, which makes me very anxious and snippy. Ambient noises, the TV, the bustle in a coffee shop or YMCA lobby don't distract me. My children's voices do distract me (and he likes to talk loudly). I'd like to consider this a positive thing - my reaction to their distraction is not always positive. The more focused I am at work, the shorter my temper becomes as I try to maintain the concentration. We are having conversations about how to respect each other's needs and how some thoughts can just be thought rather than spoken, and that not everything he's doing needs to be narrated, but I'm also aware that this is how he is wired. During the week, he spends more than seven hours a day in school behaving very well, so the couple hours we have together in the afternoon, he needs me present, to talk, to listen, to hug, to love him, to wrestle and run. He needs me to not constantly hush him or brush him aside. I want to be present.
I had my second son when the oldest was 29 months. When I tried to put him in in mom's morning out at 15 months, he wasn't ready. Or maybe I wasn't ready. He fell asleep on the floor each time and cried a lot, and I was already having reservations about him being away from me, so I pulled him out after only four weeks. He didn't start preschool the next year either because I was determined to keep him as "my baby", as it was becoming clear that he probably was going to be our last baby, and I wanted to absorb it all (even if it meant him watching Sesame Street beside me while I worked). However, I also quit trying to get so much done during the day, enjoyed many long snuggles, and often waited until they both went to bed to start working. This ate into time with Joe, but he was mostly okay with it. He now will go off and quietly entertain himself with Lego's or Play-doh with amazing focus, and is content doing so. Last year I tried to keep a schedule where he'd get my full attention on mornings off, but that stressful spring demolished my plan. Hopefully, I've since resolved this.
Other challenges involve equipment and office space. There are almost always dried chocolate milk drops or random stickers on my laptop. I suppose that is sort of cute, but my last laptop had the DVD drive cracked and then ripped out. I once bought a web cam and headphone set with a microphone, and one of the boys bit off the microphone. I now carry an accidental damage warranty on my laptop. My textbooks have scribbles in them -- fortunately just inside the front covers. My "desk", the living room ottoman usually has Lego's, crumbs and random bits of crusted over fluids on it. It would be helpful if I had a formal desk or office in the house that I could hole away in (which I did at one point), but when the kids are home, I keep a watchful eye on them if they are in the yard, or I just go to the garden and pull weeds while they play. Working at night, I'd rather be in the living room with Joe, so there's not much point in having to move things back and forth from a desk. If you look under my couch, you'll find my textbooks and laptop when not in use... two fruit snacks down from the missing flip flop and in front of the last cheap plastic prizes from the dentist.
So I guess this hasn't been easy, but whose parenting experience is? We all make choices that require compromises and induce anxiety. If we are honest, even the most self-assured of us, we question those choices and wonder if our kids will one day end up in therapy because of us. Guess what - they probably will and not even for the reasons we think. I have to remind myself that my job isn't preventing my kids from experiencing disappointment, but teaching them skills to handle it - showing them how to manage their reactions, how to forgive, how to be forgiven, how to lose, how to be okay not living up to their highest potential in every aspect of life. I teach these by struggling through them myself. Because, yes! Absolutely yes, I am disappointed in myself. It would be a lie to present myself as someone who has it all together. But that disappointment is temporal. It isn't lasting. It isn't defining. The best thing I get to teach them is how to be loved simply for being and not for doing.
Thanks, Mary! It's so easy to let yourself question it all and then to let those questions undermine the tasks at hand. | ton of paid work done during that time block because I was shocked | 13 |
Atlanta<|fim_middle|> tree nut grown in the U.S., and 80 percent of the world's pecan production is located here. | (Nov. 4, 2015) ? Two weeks of cloudy, rainy September weather across Georgia have put something of a damper on what was promising to be a bumper crop of pecans, leading to a ?mixed situation? for Georgia growers this fall.
?These conditions have affected some varieties, but growers won't really know about the state of pecans until late December, around Christmas,? says Mason, a Georgia pecan grower. ?But the forecast remains positive. Our expectation is 100 million pounds of pecans, which is normal for Georgia.?
?We had ideal growing conditions until September,? says Wells, who is an associate professor at UGA. ?But as the harvest goes on, we are seeing some quality issues?depending on the variety?caused by environmental conditions.?
?The trees were already stressed by the heavy nut load and larger nuts,? says Wells. ?That stress can lead to pecan kernels that do not fill the interior of the shell.?
?Unfortunately, lack of sunshine is not something we can control,? says Mason. ?We know some growers may be disappointed that they will not realize the huge crop originally predicted, but the Commission expects a normal-sized harvest for Georgia.? Georgia produces approximately one-third of the U.S. pecan supply annually.
According to the UGA Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development, Georgia ranks No. 1 in the country for pecan production with more than 145,000 acres of pecans grown in 2013, accounting for more than $315.5 million in net value. Pecans are the only native | 343 |
Front Range fans love to cheer at races for the professional athletes they share roads and trails with on the bike. So when they heard that Meredith Miller, third at cyclocross nationals last January in Valmont, would retire after the 2013-14 cyclocross season concluded, they begged her to change her mind. And when they learned that Allen Krughoff, a member of team USA at 2014 'cross worlds who funded his trip there in part by selling tee-shirts adorned with his signature gopher, was at the moment team-less, they held their breath and crossed their fingers that his search for a new family would yield results.
Now those fans can celebrate because Miller will race this coming fall and so will Krughoff. And they'll be on the same team. In a press release issued today Krughoff and Miller announced that<|fim_middle|>ayoghurt.com and "like" us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noosayoghurt. | they have signed Bellvue, Colorado-based Noosa Finest Yoghurt as title sponsor for the newest cyclocross program in professional cycling. Krughoff, formerly of Raleigh-Clement, and Miller, formerly of California Giant Berry Farms/Specialized, will function as team co-owners and team co-managers while racing a domestic schedule for the 2014/2015 cyclocross season.
The co-owners of Noosa Professional Cyclocross Team also represent the new squad's entire roster. The duo will be supported by two team mechanics Daimeon Shanks and Erik Maresjo. The team will be riding Focus Mares equipped with SRAM, ENVE and Clement tires throughout the 2014/15 season.
Noosa Finest Yoghurt was founded in 2009 by a collective of Aussie ex-pats and Colorado natives who set out to bring the best tasting Aussie style yoghurt to the U.S. Noosa Finest Yoghurt is sold in more than 5,000 grocery, natural and specialty stores nationwide, including Whole Foods, Target, Safeway, Kroger and The Fresh Market. Noosa is available in 13 flavors and is sold in 4-ounce variety packs and in individual 8- and 16-ounce cups.
For more information, please visit: http://www.noos | 288 |
Forward thinkers were some of the first environmentalists. Nowadays, most of us recycle. As always, one person's trash is another person's treasure. Some people are just more creative than others, while some folks are a bit bizarre. Before tossing out your trash, take a look at these 18 creative and clever Christmas trees made with recycled materials.
It's a reoccurring theme to see trees made from recycled plastic bottles. In Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, these Christmas trees were created with discarded trash. The lights were strung as well as tinsel made from the bottle caps. Then these trees were proudly on display within the city.
Curious what else you can do with approximately 400 Mountain Dew cans? Well the creator of this tree saved three months of soda drinking cans and spent four days constructing this Christmas tree. He used PVC pipe for the trunk, construction markers for the branches and drilled the pipe to fit the construction flags. The end result is quite striking.
This tree was made from plastic forks. Even the star on top is made from pointy plastic utensils. Keep this in mind before you<|fim_middle|>.
Who says sustainable awareness cannot also be attractive? This massive Christmas tree was constructed with five gallon water bottles and PVC pipe.
Some trees made from recycled materials are stuck somewhere between a stroke of creative brilliance and straight up bizarre. On the left, the tree is made from a collection of various farm, railroad, and engine equipment such as two chainsaws, two lawnmowers, huge hooks and chains. In the middle, the Christmas tree was created with used or otherwise unneeded pacifiers. Lastly, the Christmas tree on the right is made from 1,500 ping-pong balls. | throw out those disposable forks and spoons. Finally, there may be something worthwhile to do with your sporks.
These Christmas trees have been created from postcards, magazines, books and even shredded paper. The top gift tree was created by cutting and folding postcards into gift boxes and then layered to form a tree. Too many magazines on your hands? The middle tree was constructed from hundreds of magazine face cutouts, folded and then arranged in a tree shape. If you like white Christmas trees, make use of your shredded papers. Another way to use magazines and books when you are done is to fold them into Christmas tree shapes like on the bottom right.
The aluminum can has long been a recycled item. If you like shiny trees, however, consider chopping up those cans. This Christmas tree was constructed from sliced tops and bottoms of many cans.
Perhaps you are not a big fan of plastic or aluminum. Perhaps you like your beer from a bottle? These creative Christmas trees were made with glass beer bottles. In fact, wine or hard liquor bottles could be used. It had better be one giant party or else the makers of these cool trees would suffer from many wicked hangovers.
If you have a computer graveyard or perhaps only spare circuit boards, you could try your hand at making a technotree. This Christmas tree was created with white ropes, dead computer parts, tinsel and ornaments. Why stop there though? Motherboards and other circuitry can be repurposed into geeky wonderful ornaments.
In Sydney, Australia, this truly "green" tree was constructed from green plastic bottles. The blue effect was made by leaving the lids on some of the bottles. This Christmas tree is both environmentally friendly and clever. In fact, it looks pretty cool | 353 |
Summer Slowdown Begins: ISDEX Mixes Pops and Drops - InternetNews.
Those April showers that come in May basically wiped out the gains ISDEX made as a group all last month as I take a look at an overdue Dow which gained most of its 18% run this year.
For comparison, ISDEX rollercoastered up and then back down in April, ending about where it began. A wider look, however, showed ISDEX up 91% year to date through May 4. The psycho-drama of the Dow breaking the 11,000 mark for the first time ever just a few days ago both encouraged and spooked the market. After all, investors were seemingly only yesterday dreaming of a Dow 10,000.
The underlying truth according to my analysis of the numbers showed the Dow up a helthy 18.6% since 12/31/98. Of that, 11.2% came in the past month, most of that the past week.
The net effect was money shifting to the industrials and away from technology as the old-line blue chips finally got some due. The irony is that popping through the 11,000 mark also gave the market nervousness which corrected stocks across the board May 4.
That's why we see all the indices off. In the Internet stock space I think the rollercoaster drop experienced April 16 and in the ensuing days should have seen more of a correction. That was what I wrote during the time, that we could see another 10% to 15% drop--which didn't come until now.
Some of the softness in the sector can be blamed on Amazon.com as one of the 'blue chip' Internet stocks that investors have grown a little tired waiting for earnings on.
While I agree that AMZN was ahead of itself in valuation I also think that Amazon is aiming a little further out than being a profitable book store.
If it reaches the 'Wal Mart of the Web' status that I think it could, not this year but within 36 to 48 months, then I can see how AMZN follows AOL's (NYSE:AOL - news) path.
Remember that AOL posted a decade of losses as it grew to meet the opportunity. On Amazon's horizon I think it may have to up the ante and expand its offerings to be anything and everything for sale and in any and every conceivable method from auctions, classifieds, affiliates, referrals.
At current valutaion levels I think AMZN looks fairly priced (if) until some good news comes from the firm. Given the market's bear in the air scent it's easy to overlook that 20 of the 50 stocks in ISDEX are up single and double-digit since March 31.
99.05.04 - Egghead.com (NASDAQ:EGGS - news) posts strong results in its first full year as a 100% Web-based etailer with $148.7 million revenue vs. $81.3 million in fiscal 1998. Gross margin gets fatter at 10.1% vs. 8% in the previous quarter. Losses continued as the company spent heavily on sales and marketing, losses were $34.4 million vs. $50.2 million in fiscal year 1998.
99.05.04 - InfoSpace.com (NASDAQ:INSP - news) inks a deal with Quote.com to distribute Quote.com content on InfoSpace's Web network which servers more than 1,500 Web sites.
99.05.03 - Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN - news) loses 12% to $150 15/16 per share after reporting its latest quarter results last week when founder Jeff Bezos said he plans on spending heavily to grow the etailer. AMZN shares are off about 30% the past two weeks. A couple of key observations: 1) I think Amazon is in a high-growth, high-spend mode and 2) I think Amazon's model may be in transition to more referral-based sales rather than "touch the merchandise" sales. A more Web-enabled model.
99.04.30 - CDNow (NASDAQ:CDNW - news) jumps 22% to $19.375 per share on rumor that the Web-based music e-tailer could be the target of a takeover by Time Warner or Bertelsmann. CDNow-N<|fim_middle|>117 million for its third quarter with a record $1.3 billion revenue. True to the expression, investors sell on news as AOL shares end the day down 5% to $153 per share, with some after-hours trading trending down slightly also.
I've always had for EBAY its results continue to impress me. 99.04.21 - E*TRADE (NASDAQ:EGRP - news) reports better-than-expected at a loss of $0.12 per share vs. an expected $0.17 from consensus estimates. Online stock trades soar to 70,000 per day.Accounts jump 39% vs. the previous quarter to 909,000 with $21.1 billion assets managed. EGRP closes up 22% at $89.8125 per share. | 2K merged and together have one of the largest music selling operations on the Web.
99.04.30 - Marimba (NASDAQ:MRBA - news) goes public with 4 million shares at $20, opens at $59,shoots up to $66.50 and closes at $60.75. The software management firm seems to have outlived the hype of push.
My analysis indicates Marimba could generate more than $50 million sales in 2001. That yields an aggressive 20x multiple for its current market cap,although I suspect traders could push this one up further that today's run.
99.04.27 - AOL (NYSE:AOL - news) beats the Street with better-than-expected results, posting $0.11 EPS vs. First Call's target range of $0.07 to $0.10. Overall net income is $ | 201 |
Finding inner bliss is much more than what conventional norms of success mean.
One of the crucial lessons that 22 years in India has taught me is that knowledge and wisdom are critically different.
During the first 25 years of my life, I was a top student and a graduate of Stanford University. My test scores were always in the highest range. I was, I believed, smart. I even believed I was intelligent and wise.
However, despite my ability to read, assimilate, remember and regurgitate information from books back onto exam sheets with profound acumen, I had no idea what life was about. I had no idea who I was, let alone what the world was.
I believed that my personal worthiness was reflected in the grades I received in school. A top grade meant I was worthy. Less than the top grade meant I was less worthy.
I believed that my identity was an intricate tapestry, woven by the threads of my experiences—the trauma and the ecstasy, the challenges and the accomplishments and that I WAS the sum<|fim_middle|> needed to discover.
Wherever God keeps us—in a palace or in a hut—let us be grateful. Let us keep God's names on our lips and let our hands keep doing the Divine work.
Rather, the key is simple: Remember God, connect with God, sing the glories of God, be grateful to God and thou shalt find the true meaning of life. | total of what I thought, felt and knew. I WAS what I could do, where I'd been, how I struggled, loved and laughed, and the minutiae of the drama of my life.
It never occurred to me that there might be more, that this tapestry was, in fact, only the doorway, a beautiful, intricate doorway but nonetheless only the doorway into the truth of who I am.
In India, at the feet of my Guru and steeped in a spiritual culture that emphasises content over form, and essence over packaging, I got a glimpse of what wisdom looks like.
It is not in facts or figures. It is not in someone else's discoveries any more than the satiation of hunger is in a book about food.
We only learn about life through living—through living with focused awareness on the essence, on content, on life in the depth of the ocean rather than in the frenetic undulation of the waves on the surface.
Wisdom is what emerges from the source within ourselves when we are quiet and still enough to create space for it.
Just as knowledge does not beget wisdom, neither does money purchase happiness. In the contemporary, mostly Western-influenced, model of success, there are a few distinct criteria: financial prosperity, a high ranking on the career ladder, social acclaim and status. Most of us spend our lives aiming to achieve these socially determined markers.
However, as has now been shown conclusively by every piece of research data from the United Nations to social scientists to spiritual philosophers and theologians, once one has risen above poverty level, once one has enough food to eat, basic medical care and educational opportunities, additional increases in income have very little impact on overall personal joy.
Sadly, no, that new car is not the answer to what ails us. Rather the answer, the deepest and most fundamental answer, is a connection. Connection to the Divine however we envision, conceive or worship God; connection to ourselves, to the truth of who we are.
Connection to those around us—not as drinking buddies or shopping buddies or one-night stands—but connection of the essence of who we are to the essence of who they are, soul-to-soul, heart-to-heart connections; connections in which as we say in "Namaste", the Divine within me bows to the Divine within you. This is the soil in which the trees of a truly happy and meaningful life grow.
This truth, of the ingredients of which real joy is made, was an inscrutable mystery to me when I arrived in India. I noticed it immediately, though, as I looked at children in Rishikesh who lived below the Western standards of poverty but in whose eyes gleamed more joy, more light, more brilliance than I'd ever seen. Their eyes shone with a deep contentment that no one I knew had. "There is a secret here," I realised, and it was a secret I knew I | 594 |
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"Households are responding to the ongoing recovery in the housing market by adding more space and features to their homes," said the American Institute of Architect's chief economist. "Home automation features, as well as products that promote sustainability, are also showing up in both new and remodeled homes."
Home offices— Reemerging in importance given the number of those working from home and self-employed individuals.
Mudrooms— Alaskan homeowners find these increasingly important for organizing, as well as additional storage.
Media rooms— There is a specific number of households who value this type of room, although the desire for this special function room has been declining.
In-law suites— As household compositions change, so do the demands for special function rooms, seen here in the rise in demand for an in-law or au pair suite.
Outdoor living rooms— All across the country, the demand for outdoor space has been on the rise. Outdoor living areas and rooms are popular once again.
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HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. -- Ashley Wagner comes off a strong season. Jason Brown comes off a wasted one.So both Americans are at much different junctures in their careers as they begin the Grand Prix season this weekend at Skate America in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.Wagner brought home the first U.S. womens medal in a decade at the world championships this year when she grabbed silver. The three-time U.S. champion and 2014 Olympic team bronze medalist believes she needs to build off of that silver medal, not gloat about it.This season is, I think, a very important season for me, because I got so much momentum coming off that world silver medal, the 25-year-old Wagner said. It was huge for my career. Something I kind of have to make sure is I keep my focus. I cant rely on going into competitions being a world silver medalist. Its something I have, but it is the past.My focus is getting to worlds and getting back on that podium.Skate America, which begins Friday, is a good place to start. Shell face current U.S. champion Gracie Gold (fourth at Sochi) and three-time world winner Mao Asada of Japan as the six-event series begins. For Wagner -- and Gold -- the goal is to perform well enough to get to the Grand Prix Final in Marseille in December. A win in suburban Chicago would nearly assure that.I would love to establish myself as the leading U.S. lady, Wagner says. In order to do that, I need to put out two solid programs.Brown didnt get the opportunity to do that last season. His quick rise through the figure skating ranks -- from the junior level in 2013 to Olympic team bronze medalist at Sochi to U.S. champ in 2015 -- took a detour.Brown barely competed last season because of lower back pain that began plaguing him at Skate America. The always bubbly skater tried to take a positive approach to being off the ice.I look at it as more experience, said the 21-year-old Brown. Whats it like missing out on part of a season, when you dont get to do as many consistent drills because your body is rehabbing? At the same time, youre having the confidence you can do it. So you are finding other places to get that confidence.I looked at it as gaining experience rather than missing out on more and more events. I never looked at it as a negative. ... This is another opportunity for me to grow and gain experience in a different way.He won the U.S. International Classic last month in Salt Lake City. The Skate America field is stronger, with Shoma Uno and Daisuke Murakami of Japan, Maxim Kovtun of Russia and Jin Boyang of China.Brown is from nearby Highland Park, and he has been doing work with Ronald McDonald House in the Chicago area. 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It was 35 years until another big championship came along at Newport Country Club in<|fim_middle|> He finished with 12 points and needs just three more to become the 65t »» | Rhode Island known as the U.S. Open. That was followed by the South African Open, the Canadian Open and the Australian Open.When the British Open began is a little more unclear.According to an Associated Press account in 1900, J.H. Taylor won the open golf championship at St. Andrews. Two paragraphs later, however, the story noted that Taylor scored his third triumph in the English championships, even though it was held in Scotland.In 1910, the AP reported from St. Andrews that the open golf championship tournament ended in victory for James Braid. Just four years later, however, an AP story in The Los Angeles Times said that Harry Vardon won for the sixth time the British open golf championship.The R&A has never referred to it as anything but The Open Championship, and it recent years it has made a stronger case for the name of golfs oldest major to go by one name -- the proper name -- in any country.The USGA in its official U.S. Open entry form for years noted that players were exempt from qualifying if they had won the British Open in the last five years. This year, the language was changed to refer to a five-year exemption for winning The Open conducted by the R&A.William McGirt, headed over to Scotland for the first time, said he received a packet in the mail reminding players that its called The Open Championship.Im sure Ill call it the British Open and get pounded for it, McGirt said. But hey, its in Britain.The R&A has never referred to its premier championship as anything but The Open. It just happens to be held on links courses in Britain, with an exception in 1951 at Portrush in Northern Ireland, where it will return in three years.The name of the championship hasnt changed in 155 years, said Malcolm Booth, communications director for the R&A. The reason we think 155 years on there is legitimacy in calling it `The Open Championship is it really was the birthplace of open competition.It was the first. It was the original. It was the template. It is The Open.But not to Jack Nicklaus.Nicklaus was asked in late February about how he decided which sons would caddie for him in the majors. He recalled one year when Jackiee, his oldest son, caddied in the Masters and I think he had the Open.dddddddddddd And then he mentioned his second-oldest son, Steve, had the British Open and the PGA.The British Open?Thats what it is, Nicklaus said.Has he ever referred to the major he won three times The Open?Sure, when Im over there, he said. Over here, people dont know what The Open Championship is. Its `The Open Championship of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews. If its The Open Championship, it could be the U.S. Open, the Australian Open, the Japanese Open.Thats where the R&A might beg to differ.When championship golf began in 1860, the golfing world was defined by Scotland. The Open was not held anywhere else until it went to Royal St. Georges in England in 1894, one year before the U.S. Open began.We dont consider ourselves a national championship, Booth said. The Open remit is to identify the champion golfer of the year.Three years ago, that champion golfer was Phil Mickelson, who grew up in San Diego referring to it as the British.Now that Ive won it, and the R&A strongly prefers it to be called just `The Open or `The Open Championship, I try hard to call it that, Mickelson said. But its not comfortable to me because its not what I referred to it as growing up in the United States.Hes not alone. And its not just Americans.Russell Knox of Scotland says he goes by British Open, though he has been in Florida the last 15 years. Branden Grace of South Africa grew up calling it the British Open. So did Jason Day of Australia.Adam Scott, however, was adamant that it is The Open and nothing else. That national championship in his home country? The Australian Open.I understand that when you say the `British Open you mean `The Open Championship, Scott said. When you call it the `Open and you mean the U.S. Open, then Im confused. Because thats called the United States Open.Jim Furyk simply goes by the calendar.A runner-up at Oakmont last month, he said people came up to him at the Bridgestone Invitational and congratulated him for his performance at the Open and it stopped him. His mind already was on the next Open, the one at Royal Troon that starts next week.If I were ever lucky enough to win the claret jug, I would definitely call it `The Open to show respect, he said. 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Jainism in Karnataka
Jainism in north Karnataka
Jainism in Tulu Nadu
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Jain temples in Karnataka
Western Ganga dynasty
8th-century Jain temples | Kambadahalli village of the Mandya district, Karnataka state, in southwestern India. It is one of the finest examples of South Indian Dravidian architecture of the Western Ganga variety, related to the Jain faith and iconography.
History
According to the historian K.R. Srinivasan, the temple complex, which was built by the kings of the Western Ganga Dynasty is assignable to the period 900–1000 CE. The historian I. K. Sarma however assigns an earlier date of 8th century, based on traces of early Pallava-Pandya and Chalukya-Pallava influences. Kambadahalli (whose name in the Kannada language literally translates to "village with pillar") which is located 18 km from the famous Jain heritage town of Shravanabelagola, on the Mandya-Shravanabelagola highway, gets its name from the Brahmadeva pillar (Manasthambha) erected in front of the temple complex. From inscriptions, it is known that the temple complex has been renovated during later centuries, including the during the rule of the Hoysala Empire. The monument is protected by the Archaeological Survey of India as a "national monument". Srinivasan describes it as a "landmark in South India architecture".
Architecture
The temple was built in two phases. In the first phase, three shrines were constructed (trikutachala, three shrines each with a superstructure). The central shrine faces north, one shrine faces west and the other face east. The central shrine has a square superstructure (Shikhara) called Brahmachhanda girva-shikhara. The west and east facing shrines have superstructures called the Rudrachhanda griva-shikhara and Vishnuchhanda griva-shikhara respectively. The design of the superstructures speaks of the artistic taste of the builders. They are three-dimensional, with the first tier (tala) measuring a third of the total height of the tower, and the second tier measuring one half the height of the first. Each of the three shrines have individual vestibules (or half hall or ardhamantapa) which open to a large common open hall called the mahamantapa or navaranga, whose ceiling is supported by four ornate central pillars. At the entrance to the shrines (bilpitha) are the guardians to the "eight directions"(ashtadikpalaka; ashta - "eight", dik - "directions", palaka - "keeper") with their consorts and vehicles (vahana)
The entire complex is oriented towards the impressive Brahmadeva pillar and faces north. The main central shrine houses the image of Adhinatha, the first Jain tirthankara (Teaching God). The west (right) and east (left) facing shrines have the images of later day tirthankaras, Shantinatha and Neminatha respectively. The images appear to be of well-polished steatite material and could be later day replacements. According to Robert J Del Bonto who conducted research at the site, the two shrines that form the later day additions are a twin construction, are lateral (face each other), have individual vestibule and a closed mantapa (hall) and open into a common open pillared porch (open mantapa). The art critic M.H. Dhaky calls them as "Shantinatha Basadi" and regards them a good example of the "terminal" stage in Western Ganga art. The temple exhibits fine sculptures of Jain Yakshas (male benevolent spirits) and Yakshis (their female counterparts) of the Western Ganga and Hoysala periods.
According to the art critic and historian S. Settar, generally, Brahmadeva pillars found in front of ancient Jain temples do not house sculptures of the Brahma Yaksha or the god Brahma, rather they find their origins in the Manasthambha (sthambha lit, "pillar") and have images of the Sarvanubhuti Yaksha. The base of this pillar is square and exhibits looped garland decorations, and at the top supports a two handed seated image of east facing Sidd | 881 |
When I look back at my own work, I find myself watching a lot of pieces through my fingers. I was very pleasantly surprised, however, when I recently rewatched Flowers of the Forest. I was just 21 when I created the first steps, in 1979, and I look back without embarrassment, and I'm quite proud that it's still around.
Overall it's a strange piece because it's actually two different ballets. The first one is from 1979, and is the second professional piece I ever made. Vyvyan Lorrayne was a fellow dancer in the Company, and she and her partner Paul Waller had what we used to call a 'folly', whereby people take a group of dancers to dance pas de deux and gala pieces overseas, in the process funding a weekend holiday abroad.
It was for one of these weekends that Vyvyan asked me to create a piece for her, and I responded with a ballet set to the Four Scottish Dances by Malcolm Arnold, choreographed for a small group of just six dancers. It was unusual for these tours because it was a complete little four-movement ballet, despite being only 12 minutes long.
Some years later, I heard Scottish Ballad by Benjamin Britten, which was one of the pieces that he'd suppressed during his lifetime, and which was reissued after his death. It's a splendid piece, but rather odd because it's about 15 minutes long and the first ten of that is a funeral march. This means that on its own, it's structurally unsuitable for a ballet, but along with the happy, jolly Malcolm Arnold pieces, it's perfect.
Thematically, the Four Scottish Dances part is what I call a 'picture postcard' view of Scotland, with caber tossing and wandering in the heather. But my intention for theScottish Ballad was to make it more historically influenced – Britten wrote it during World War II, using a historic battle to comment on the one that was taking place at the time. The title refers to a ballad which lamented the flower of Scottish manhood, slain at the Battle of Flodden.
The two pieces<|fim_middle|> the idea and was very supportive. These were great days for Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet, full of great tours. Flowers of the Forest came fairly quickly off the back of Peter's Swan Lake – Sleeping Beauty I think had only premiered the year before – and those productions are still with us, 30 years later.
Back then, the Company was entering a new era, and it also feels like the period when I really started getting it right as a choreographer. While my earlier work had interest, it didn't have staying power; I was full of ideas, but not many steps, and was still working on mastering my craft. I'm never satisfied with anything, ever, least of all on opening night. But I couldn't make work fast enough to get out the broadness of what I wanted to encompass. I was a kid and I wanted to have a crack at everything.
I wanted to self-impose rules, not only to prove my credentials, but also to prove that I had craft. When there are no parameters, then you're free to do absolutely anything, and 'anything' is not necessarily good. I'm a firm believer in craft, and in mastering whatever your corner of the universe happens to be.
Flowers of the Forest gave me an opportunity to work completely within the Romantic Classical idiom which suited that subject. It also gave me the chance to use 'petit batterie', in imitation of the kind of fleet footwork that was not only a feature of early British ballet, but also of Scottish folk dance itself.
When I started my choreographic career, Ashton, MacMillan and Balanchine were still alive, so I was in the shadow of some pretty big people, and my early work was always programmed against some 20th- century masterpiece or other!
But, rather than run away from that, I've always tried to embrace it; I am merely a link in a 400-year chain, and that's a tradition I take very seriously. | contrast nicely with each other in the ballet. The modern cast in the Arnold section are shown in modern kilts, while those in the Britten section are in battle dress more reminiscent of that worn during another Scottish defeat at the hands of the English, the Battle of Culloden. At the end of the ballet, I bring them all together, to present the romanticism, the sadness and the stoic nobility of the Scots.
It was 1985 when I took this larger concept to Peter Wright and said I could expand what he already knew was a successful and enjoyable work, and make it into a bigger ballet for the Company. He loved | 133 |
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Isenberg Graduation Celebrations Launch Students on Exciting Career Paths
At the 2018 Senior Celebration, Dean Mark Fuller shared a memorable conversation he had with a Fortune 500 CEO who expressed tremendous admiration for Isenberg students. The CEO told him "We sprinkle Isenberg graduates around our organization to show others how to work," Fuller said at the May 12th celebration at the Mullins Center which held an audience of 1,200 graduating seniors and their 6,500 family members and friends. "That work ethic," the dean said, "is our DNA, our brand." At the celebration, each graduate received a commemorative medal and congratulations on stage from their department chair and the dean.
Dean Fuller conveyed his conversation with the CEO to illustrate grit—one of four characteristics that, he insisted, characterizes Isenberg students. The other three, he continued, are intelligence, interpersonal skills, and generosity. "You're smart enough to get in here," he told the students, citing this year<|fim_middle|>es on the Food Future of Western Mass. | 's GPA for entering freshmen at 4.06 and SAT at 1370. "You also have great interpersonal skills to excel as change agents and leaders. And I'm counting on you as alumni for mentoring, hiring, and scholarships. It's your responsibility to pay it forward. All the great, iconic business schools have alums that advocate for the next generation of graduates," he said.
Sadly, the 2018 Senior Celebration was Fuller's last. In July, he will bring his strategic gifts across Haigis Mall as UMass Amherst's new Vice Chancellor of Development and Alumni Affairs. The good news, he told the students at the end of his remarks, is that as vice chancellor, he will stay connected with them as alumni. That was when, on cue, Class Speaker Erin Messier '18 appeared on stage with a poster-size farewell card signed by many of her classmates.
In her own remarks to the gathering, Erin, an Isenberg management major, recalled words of wisdom from the school's namesake, Eugene Isenberg. He advised, Erin recalled, that you need to find what you love to do. Then success will come. "You may or may not find what you love right away. The ingredients for success may come in parts," she observed. "We have the drive to be successful; the skills to move forward," added Erin, who as president of the student group, Women of Isenberg, presided over its first sold-out annual conference. Following graduation, Erin will work as an allocation analyst at TJX, where she excelled as an intern. "How many of you have jobs after graduation? Please raise your hands," she asked her fellow students. In response, most hands in the student seating area went up. No surprise: 76% of Isenberg's graduating class had already secured employment.
The celebration's M.C. was William Brown, who succeeded Linda Shea as Isenberg's undergraduate dean in January. "Although you are leaving the university, you are members for life in the Isenberg family as you join the Isenberg network's nearly 43,000 members," he told the graduating seniors. "We'll be looking for you at next year's alumni events and look forward to staying connected with you as your careers unfold." Reflecting on Dean Fuller's exceptional ten years at Isenberg, Brown added, "The Dean was right there in the trenches with us—leading but getting his hands dirty too. And while he was leading the school to new heights in the rankings, he made sure he was deeply involved with Isenberg's lifeblood—its students."
Graduate Degree Celebrations
On Friday morning, 630 Isenberg graduate candidates received degrees in a campus-wide commencement ceremony for graduate students. Isenberg awarded 521 masters degrees—418 MBAs (full-time and part-time/online), 109 MS degrees in accounting, and 94 MS degrees in business analytics. In the fiftieth year of Isenberg's doctoral program, the school also awarded nine PhD degrees.
The previous evening, a lavish on-campus reception for master's and PhD graduates attracted 600 guests, including students, their families, Isenberg faculty, and staff. Before the event, Isenberg PhD graduates participated in a robing ceremony and MBA students shared in an MBA oath ritual. For many of the online MBA students, the festivities offered another milestone—their first visit to Isenberg and the UMass Amherst campus.
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$1bn 'economic plan' wins ADB's approval
Tahir Amin Updated 07 Dec, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Independent Evaluation Department (IED) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has rated the "Economic Stabilization Programme" of worth $1 billion for Pakistan as successful.
The IED in its validation report stated that the special policy-based loan (SPBL) of one billion dollar was aimed to address Pakistan's severe macroeconomic crisis faced in 2019.
To support the reform programme's implementation, the ADB Board of Directors approved the SPBL on December 6, 2019. The loan agreement became effective on December 9, 2019 and was closed on schedule on 30th June 2020. The $1 billion loan funded through the ADB's ordinary capital resources was fully disbursed.
The validation assesses the programme as successful based on the following:
(i) A relevant design of the programme. With the economy of Pakistan registering severe imbalances, the results chain connected with the policy measures to correct them was plausible and the prior actions were effectively directed at reducing the imbalances. The indicators measured the key variables necessary to begin to restore equilibrium, although the design programme was not innovative. (ii)<|fim_middle|> to have been plausible. When the programme was designed, Pakistan's economy had serious imbalances resulting from economic policies that were not aligned with economic fundamentals.
These included running large fiscal deficits, overly accommodating monetary policies, an exchange rate that was out of equilibrium, and poor debt management policies. Tax administration was weak, the business environment did not support investment and entrepreneurship, and the SOEs were inefficient and generated large losses that drained the budget.
Foreign exchange reserves fell to critically low levels. The EFF and the SPBL, in conjunction with other development partners, supported the rescue effort. The programme's three pillars addressed these imbalances. Moving to an exchange rate policy would reduce the drain on international reserves, where the exchange rate changes in response to market forces to defend a disequilibrium exchange rate.
Improving PFM through more efficient tax collection, the closing of loopholes, and increasing electricity and gas tariffs to reduce the losses of SOEs in the energy sector limits the budget drain. However, the programme did not address the issue of arrears, nor the inefficient SOEs that were outside the energy sector.
The 11 prior actions under the SPBL were primarily the EFF prior actions, although policy measures were coordinated among development partners. Of the SPBL's 11 policy actions, 10 consisted of EFF prior actions.
The additional action was that the Parliament would approve the Public Financial Management Law to improve the allocative efficiency of public resources.
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The outcome indicators were (i) the current account deficit, as a percentage of GDP, would decline by at least two percentage points by FY2020 against a baseline deficit of 4.8percent of GDP in fiscal year 2019; (ii) the primary budget deficit, as a percentage of GDP, would be no more than 0.4percent by FY2020 against an FY2019 baseline of 3.5percent; (iii) the energy SOEs would generate an additional 150 billion Pakistan rupees (PRs) by FY2020 in revenue against a FY2019 baseline of PRs1,358 billion; and (iv) at least 90percent of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) beneficiaries received cash transfers by FY2020 through the biometric verification system against a 2018 baseline of 61 percent.
All the policy actions and outcome targets were fully achieved before the SPBL's approval. The key policy actions supporting the programme were (i) moving to a flexible market determined exchange rate, (ii) a formal memorandum of understanding between all federal and provincial governments regarding fiscal targets that were consistent with the macroeconomic framework specified in the EFF, (iii) the approval of a budget consistent with the EFF targets, (iv) an automatic adjustment in electricity tariffs, (v) a comprehensive debt reduction plan for SOEs, (vi) the approval of a Financial Management Law for improved allocative efficiency of public resources, (vii) the passage of a law to eliminate legal authorization for executives to grant sales tax exemptions and concessions, (viii) the finalization of SBP's banking contracts, and (ix) the launching of a financial inclusion strategy for women. The PCR reported that all these policy actions were fully achieved before the end of the 2019 calendar year.
The PCR rated the SPBL efficient. When no economic internal rate of return could be calculated as was the case with PBLs and SPBLs, the rating was based on process efficiency of inputs resulting in the achievement of outputs and outcome, and whether the intended outcomes were achieved within the programme period.
In Pakistan SPBL's case, the programme was prepared expeditiously despite the need to coordinate with a range of development partners.
The PCR reported that in February 2021, the government agreed with the IMF on additional package of measures as part of the second to fifth reviews of the EFF that allowed for an immediate purchase equivalent to $500 million.
The IMF noted that the structural reform agenda continued to advance, including implementing energy sector reforms, and submitting a new SOE law to the Parliament and publishing of key SOE audits.
However, some well-advanced reforms were delayed including general sales tax reforms and the update of the BISP beneficiary's database.
The PCR incorporated some of the IMF's analysis; however, it was more optimistic regarding sustainability.
In the EFF's 2021 review, the IMF points out that although the Pakistan authorities have made substantial progress under the IMF's EFF-supported programme, and policies have been at the centre of measures to support economic adjustment, "a second Covid-19 wave is unfolding, triggering exceptionally high uncertainty and downside risks." Copyright Business Recorder, 2021
ADB IMF SBP Covid crisis IED Economic Stabilization Programme loan agreement | An effective rating based on the realisation of all the SPBL outcome targets and completion of all the policy actions required under the programme, both with respect to moving toward macroeconomic stability and structural adjustment. (iii) The programme was efficient.
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There were no meaningful delays in completing the policy actions and the design supported the EFF in accordance with country and ADB policy priorities. (iv) The programme was likely sustainable based on the Pakistan government's ongoing commitment to reform although uncertainty remains as a result of the Covid-19 crisis.
The report noted that structural problems also contributed to macroeconomic imbalances, such as state-owned enterprises' (SOEs) accumulated losses that resulted in an outstanding stock of SOE debt equivalent to four percent of GDP by the end of fiscal year 2018.
The SOEs in the power sector had low productivity and a lack of investment resulted in high system losses. Thus, the private sector's competitiveness was negatively affected. Urgently needed reforms, such as increasing electricity tariffs and eliminating the government payment arrears backlog to energy companies had been neglected, all contributed to the crisis.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) granted a loan under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) amounting to SDR4,268 million (nearly $6 billion). The ADB supported it through a $1 billion loan and was part of a large rescue programme amounting to $38.6 billion over three years.
The ADB provided substantial support in preparing the EFF programme, utilising its history of policy engagement that had aided many sectors of Pakistan's economy, in both its lending and technical assistance programmes.
The report noted that the ADB developed a comprehensive set of reforms with the IMF and the World Bank that would address the economy's underlying imbalances. The reform programme was directed to, (i) strengthen exchange rate management, (ii) improve public financial management (PFM), and (iii) enhance existing social protection programmes to limit the social impact of the crisis.
The report noted that exchange rate management would be strengthened through the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)'s adoption of a flexible market-based exchange rate policy that would allow for the build up of foreign exchange reserves.
The PFM would be improved by (i) passing new legislation with respect to managing public finances; (ii) setting fiscal targets to sustain fiscal consolidation; (iii) approving a budget reflecting the EFF's fiscal targets; and (iv) strengthening the fiscal performance of SOEs, including (a) setting tariff adjustment targets for electricity and gas, (b) limiting sales tax exemptions, and (c) improving excise tax collections.
Social protection would be enhanced through more effective social cash transfers and developing a financial inclusion strategy for women. The PCR rated the programme highly relevant both at appraisal and at completion.
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The rating was based on the urgent need to achieve a sustainable fiscal position and improved external imbalances. The objective remained highly relevant at closure. The PCR stated that although the conditions, with one exception, were part of the IMF's programme, the ADB provided valuable inputs based on its knowledge of Pakistan.
The reform areas identified under the SPBL were considered to be relevant and consistent with Pakistan's development objectives. The PCR stated that the programme's three pillars supported sustained growth and provided a foundation for improved resource allocation and restored macroeconomic stability, while strengthening social protection to alleviate the impact of the crisis on the poor and vulnerable.
The programme's results chain appeared | 749 |
We landed home a week ago after 3 weeks on the East Coast immersed in family visiting (with a dash of friend visiting thrown in too).
I have finally finished unpacking, catching up on laundry, emails and other misc. stuff, almost finished sending out holiday cards and have caught the obligatory holiday season cold. So now I'm preparing myself to do the other kind of unpacking ~ reflecting on the trip and trying to capture the things I want to remember from my time on the road with my girl. It will probably take a few posts to do that. My emotional experience of the trip was much like my experience the first year of LP's life — individual moments went on forever but the trip as a whole seemed to fly by.
What stands out as an overall impression is it was amazing to have this concentrated time with my daughter. Away from home and our routine, I was able to watch her with fresh eyes and just enjoy the creative, spontaneous being she is…it is a pleasure to be able to say "yes!" to her growing abilities and independence and to experience her growing ability to say "yes!' in return.
I was reminded of that ability on our plane trip home. This was one of the more challenging things for me because I was so ready to be<|fim_middle|>) was restless too as she began asking for "another present" and "another present"before we even took off. (The carry-on backpack is full of toys and books that only appear on the plane. There are usually one or two new goodies but mostly it is thing she's experienced before re-wrapped in tissue paper.) When the wikki sticks emerged (one of her favorites), I though I could have a break and read my book while she played but she wanted me to make her a dog with them.
Say yes to the pig-shaped dog.
The point is not for it to look like a dog. The point is that she asked me to make her something that she could use in her imaginative play. She could take it from there…and she did for longer than I would have thought possible. I got caught up in judging my artistic effort (so easy to do) and lost sight of the interaction and intention. The most realistic shaped wikki stick dog would have served the same purpose as my pig-shaped one. Perhaps different in terms of what might emerge in LP's imagination but not better or worse.
Yes. Lesson learned and relearned. Hurray for the pig-shaped dog!
LP and I are on the road visiting family on the East Coast. We're about halfway through a 3 week trip and if the quiet moment I long for ever arises, I might be able to write a reflective post about traveling solo with my girl.
Until then…just a cute kid post.
LP has invented the Chanukah cow. She opens up one of her cousins' plastic dreidels and takes it over to her imaginary cow and milks the cow's "dreidel juice" then drinks it. Her making the milking noises is delightful. I'd love to get it on video but I'm afraid filming might ruin the pure delight and engagement of the moment.
What does the Chanukah cow say? | home and those last few hours flying cross-country dragged out. LP (my experienced traveler | 17 |
Supreme Court Prequel: Justice Stevens on the Seventh Circuit
Lindquist, Stefanie A. | March 1, 2012
Justice Stevens's retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court has occasioned numerous retrospectives on his lengthy career as a Supreme Court Justice. Yet Justice Stevens's career began on the Seventh Circuit and his voting behavior and doctrinal positions on the circuit court provide a unique window into his judicial character and the roots of his thinking on important issues that continued to preoccupy him on the Supreme Court. In this Essay, I first analyze then-Judge Stevens's voting behavior on the court of appeals by examining the frequency with which he wrote separate opinions, as well as his voting interagreement with his colleagues on the circuit bench. I then discuss the doctrinal positions taken by Judge Stevens in several substantive areas, including substantive due process<|fim_middle|>'s votes did not follow a clear pattern; instead he
was iconoclastic and unpredictable. Nevertheless, positions taken by Judge Stevens in several cases sounded themes and principles upon which he continued to rely even until his final term on the Supreme Court. | , gender discrimination, and election law, noting how those positions were often reiterated in Justice Stevens's opinions on the Supreme Court. The Essay concludes that Judge Stevens, like Justice Stevens, was extremely independent in his voting behavior. In terms of the ideological direction of his votes, Judge Stevens | 56 |
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Steady $$ Needed for Progress on Social Determinants, Experts Say
— "People who are medically complicated are also socially complicated"
by Joyce Frieden, News Editor, MedPage Today September 16, 2019
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WASHINGTON -- Improving outcomes for social determinants of health (SDOH) is going to require a steadier stream of money -- and breaking down divisions between social service providers, several speakers said here.
"Funding structures, particularly for social service providers, do not foster growth, they do not foster technology, and they do not foster innovation," William York, executive vice president of 211 San Diego, said at a briefing on the future of social determinants of health sponsored by the Alliance for Health Policy. "It's a patchwork of social services out there that are chasing competitive funding and reimbursement contracts and they're still expected to be providing a safety net ... There are dozens of silos across multiple systems."
The 211 San Diego network that York is heading up provides 24-hour, 7-day-a-week response to anyone in the region who is having a crisis that requires social services help, whether it be hunger, lack of housing, or a need for medical care or mental health services. "Transportation wants a transportation network, food wants a food network, so it's difficult to connect all of the systems ... Our own funding sustainability comes into question each year," said York.
William York, San Diego 211 (Photo by Joyce Frieden
The social service sectors involved in the 211 San Diego network includes housing, legal, employment, nutrition, healthcare, and multi-service agencies, he explained, noting that the San Diego Food Bank alone has 442 food pantries. In the healthcare area, the service has connections to health plans, hospitals, emergency medical services, health centers, and behavioral and public health providers.
Economic incentives can help jump-start sectors such as healthcare to get involved, said Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and population health at the University of Texas at Austin. "When you have accountable entities like Medicare Advantage plans and Medicaid managed care plans, and they have some downside risk ... they start to peel off layers like 'Why is Grandma coming back to the ER all the time?' Most clinicians could tell you why -- she's lonely, she's hungry, she's buying food for her pet dog that's her only companion versus buying her medications ... They have learned that people who are medically complicated are also socially complicated."
The move in healthcare toward incorporating social determinants of health "has to do with the bottom line," said DeSalvo, who is also co-convener of the National Alliance to Impact the Social Determinants of Health. "Health systems are realizing that there's more that they want to do."
But the issue of social determinants "is not for healthcare to solve alone," she added. "It's our society's challenge. My call to action here is not about specific legislation or the specific say we interpret a rule. This is a failure of [us as] a country about what drives health." Part of that is figuring out "the drives that cause us to act a certain way in that moment -- how do we decide whether to take the stairs or the escalator?"
Anyone trying to impact social determinants needs to start with the data, DeSalvo said. "Figure out who is highest risk in your population and learn about them. We need to understand some things about your life, not just about your health." She gave the example of one healthcare clinic in rural Arkansas that installed a food pantry right in the clinic because officials there realized that people with food insecurity often had trouble getting transportation to a food bank. "So now, when people are going to healthcare they can leave with groceries."
One problem with getting social service agencies to cooperate is a "free rider" problem: each agency doesn't want to reveal how much it's willing to contribute financially for fear that its counterparts will become "free riders" who don't contribute their share, said Len Nichols, PhD, director of George Mason University's Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, in Fairfax, Virginia. "[But] what if you had a trusted broker to [whom you could] reveal how much you are willing to pay ... if you keep that knowledge private? If the sum of the willingness to pay exceeds the cost of the program, then sports fans, you've got a project worth doing and<|fim_middle|> and 171 different ZIP codes. "We're looking at [a few] communities and taking all the data we can pull, as they assess [whether] this model might work for them," Nichols said, adding that his group is planning to visit some of these communities later this year and early next year to help them write proposals.
"Everything moves at the speed of trust," Nichols said. "It doesn't work unless there's a trusted broker. We don't need government to step in and solve this problem; we need government to step out of the way."
The Rhode Island Department of Health is using a project called Health Equity Zones to get communities working together on their SDOH priorities, said Ana Novais, MA, the department's deputy director. "We needed to move [away] from a disease-specific approach to a place-based approach," she said. "We wanted to elevate the voice of the communities." Once the communities figured out what their priorities were, they used "braided funding" from a variety of sources, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the CDC, and state general revenues to tackle their issues.
One community -- the Pawtucket/Central Falls area -- chose healthy housing, coalition building, and expanding positive relationships across diverse neighborhood populations. After 4 years, they saw a 63% decrease in elementary school absenteeism, a 44% drop in childhood lead poisoning, and a 24% decrease in teen pregnancy in Central Falls, she said. | you can develop prices such that no one pays as much as they're willing to pay."
Nichols and his colleagues recently had their third webinar about this idea with participants from 29 states | 38 |
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Violin Taster Programme Special Offer Term 1: Just $99 for 8 group lessons. Violins are available for hire at $30 per term subject to demand. This highly successful course allows your child to try out the violin at minimum cost. Enrol now: Cathryn: 09 421 0280 / 021 166 9492 or see www.morrismusic.co.nz for more details. | individual, shared or group | 5 |
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Wales, Dirk & Barry Moser<|fim_middle|> Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
White, E.B. & Fred Marcellino The Trumpet of The Swan. Photo available. New York. HarperCollins. 2000. 260 pps. 4to. Decorated hard cover. Silver gilt edges. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated in black, white and color by Fred Marcellino. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas & Maxfield Parrish. The Arabian Nights. Photo available. New York. Quality Paperback. 1996. Octavo. Soft cover. Reprint. Illustrated in black, white and color by Maxfield Parrish. Fine copy.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas & Maxfield Parrish. The Arabian Nights. Photo available. New York. Barnes & Noble. 1993. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. Reprint. Illustrated in black, white and color by Maxfield Parrish. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine (owner inscription on end paper) copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. A Little House Christmas. Holiday Stories form the Little House Books. New York. HarperCollins. 1993. Octavo. Hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color by Garth Williams. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House in the Big Woods. Photo available. New York. Harper & Row. Octavo. Hardcover. Reprint. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). | . Jack London's Dog. Photo available. Chicago. Great Plains Press. 2008. 62 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Walker, Barbara M. The Little House Cookbook. Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories. Photo available. New York. Harper. 1979. 240 pps. 4to. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (name on end paper) in fine (price clipped) dust jacket (in mylar).
Wallace, Ian. The Sparrow's Song. Photo available. Markham. Viking Kestrel. 1986. Octavo. Hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Walsh, Tim. Timeless Toys. Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them. Photo available. Kansas City. Andrews McMeel Publishing. 2005. 299 pps. 4to. Hardcover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing for the Perusal of Anglers. Photo available. Norwalk. Heritage Press. 1976. Octavo. Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition thus. Illustrated by Douglas W. Gorsline. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine slip case.
Ward, Lynd. The Biggest Bear. Photo available. Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 1952. 4to. Decorated hard cover. Second edition. Illustrated by the author. Very scarce in this condition. Fine (name on end paper) copy in near fine (very light shelf wear) dust jacket (in mylar).
Watson, Richard Jesse. Tom Thumb. Photo available. San Diego. Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich. 1989. 4to. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color by the author. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Weil, Lisl. The Golden Spinning Wheel. An Old Bohemian Folk Tale with Music. Photo available. London. Macmillan. 1969. Octavo. Decorated hard cover. Reprint. Illustrated in color and black & white. Fine copy (owner name on end paper).
Westenhouser, Kitturah B. The Story of Barbie. Photo available. Paducah. Collector Books. 1994. 4to. Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Whalley, Joyce Irene. Cobwebs to Catch Flies. Illustrated Books for the Nursery and Schoolroom. 1700-1900. Photo available. Berkeley. University of California Press. 1975. 163 pps. 4to. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
White, E.B. Charlotte's Web with Stuart Little and The Trumpet and the Swan. Photo available. New York. HarperTrophy. 1980. 505 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. Reprint. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
White, E.B. Charlotte's Web. Deluxe binding. Photo available. New York. HarperCollins. 2016. 184 pps. 4to. Decorated hard cover. Pictoral cover. All edges gilt. First edition thus. Very scarce in this condition. Illustrated in black, white and color by Garth Williams. Fine copy.
White, E.B. Stuart Little. New York. Harper & Row. 1945. Octavo. Hard cover. Second edition. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. Owner names on end papers.
White, E.B. Stuart Little. Photo available. New York. Harper & Row. 1973. Octavo. Hard cover. Reprint. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
White, E.B. Stuart Little. Photo available. New York. Harper & Row. 1971. Octavo. Hard cover. Reprint. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
White, E.B. Stuart Little. Photo available. New York. Harper & Row. 1973. Octavo. Hard cover. Reprint. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Rare in this condition. Like new. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
White, E.B. Stuart Little. Collector's Edition. Photo available. New York. HarperCollins. 1999. 131 pps. 4to. Gilt decorated hard cover. Reprint. Illustrated in black, white and color by Garth Williams. Rare in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
White, E.B. Stuart Little. Special Read-Aloud Edition. Photo available. New York. HarperCollins. 1999. 131 pps. 4to. | 1,200 |
Pedestrian And Cycle Ramp
We were asked to produce Conceptual visuals of a proposed Pedestrian and Cycle ramp connecting Bowater Road and Unity Way.
The Thames Path is a riverside route that<|fim_middle|> important part of the "Mayors Vision for Cycling", specifically as part of a pilot "Cycle Quietway Routes". There are several missing links along the route. The proposed structure ensures one of these is connected.
To Facilitate the production of the conceptual images, first a detailed model of the proposed ramp was made to engineer specifications, showing individual bricks, the parapets and the steel handrails. The ramp model was then set on a plan of the site, from which details of the surrounding context were modelled in.
The 3D model of the full context highlighted a few details omitted by the client, which once rectified, were implemented into our model. The final model was then rendered to produce multiple views, after which Photo-shop was used to add some vibrance and trees. We were later asked to produce an animation to showcase the movement along the ramp.
The concept images created were used to inform the look and feel of the design process and to gain stakeholder agreement as well as secure funding from TfL. | caters for pedestrians and cyclists and forms an | 9 |
Something else you can do to strings is<|fim_middle|> to do so! | convert them to int values. This idea is known as "casting", which means assigning a variable to another type of value. Converting strings to ints is a fairly simple task once you know the right function to use.
The function that you need to be able to use is called int(). int() is a function in Python that converts the value inside the parenthesis into an int.
As you can see, the string a (which is '50') is converted into an int value using the int() method and is then added to the int b, which was 10, in the c variable. Using the print() function, the c value was printed.
This does not compile because you cannot add a string to an int without conversion, therefore it would not go through.
We just learned how the int() function can be used to change strings to int values. Now you are going to learn how to do that but in reverse. The function that converts ints to strings is the str() function.
Here is an example to show you how to use the str() function.
In this example, the a value is changed from an int to a String using the str() function. It is then printed with string b to make the string "50Dog".
Now you know how to convert Strings to int and int to Strings. Remember to watch out for syntax errors and to use the int() and the str() methods in order | 288 |
We do a lot of useless hacks just for the fun of it so when we see something with purpose it's pretty exciting. This hack turns any kayak into a motorized vessel that can be controlled by a quadri<|fim_middle|>. [Mark] incorporated an auxiliary remote control interface so that a safety observer can take control of navigation if necessary. | plegic person using a sip & puff interface. After the break you can see some clips of navigation and an explanation of the hardware.
[Mark's] system starts by adding outriggers to a kayak to prevent the possibility of the boat rolling over in the water. Each pontoon has an electric trolling motor attached to it that is controlled by an Arduino via a motor driver.
The Arduino takes navigational commands from a sip & puff controller. A straw in the operator's mouth allows them to sip or puff for a split second to turn left or right. Longer sips or puffs control forward and reverse incrementally, up to a top speed of about 3.7 miles per hour | 139 |
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The over-the-stove microwave died. It worked just fine reheating a grilled bratwurst for breakfast. But later, when she went to heat something, it did nothing. Door wouldn't close, tray didn't move, light wouldn't go out...no response. Alas, it had been a good decade or so.
It'll be a week before the replacement unit arrives and is installed. As was said, you never miss the water until the well runs dry. It hit me - no microwave. No popcorn. No quick nachos. No quick hot water for an afternoon coffee. No...the list grew. Now, like yourself, I survived quite well for numerous decades without microwaves. Although, like the fax machine, I'm not sure how I managed. Heck, I even get a bit nervous when cell phone coverage hits a dead zone. Truly, thoughts that go bump in the night.
· The population of Las Vegas , Nevada was only 30 . It IS in the middle of the desert, you know.
· Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented yet. You have to wonder how they managed, day to day.
· There was neither a Mother's Day nor a Father's Day. Many good ideas are in the future.
· Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write and only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school. No data on "common sense" which I suspect was more abundant then.
· Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores. Sometimes I think some folks are working night and day to totally eliminate "over the counter<|fim_middle|> and mixtures of oils and salts (nothing, of course, bested movie popcorn) but most, moi aussi, surrendered to the superior microwave process. And so it has been.
Like riding a bicycle, I know how to do it, the ancient way. But, oh well, it's only a few days. Meanwhile I can breezily gaze a century hence and envision what marvels await. Now that's fun...while waiting for the popcorn.
UPDATE: Prepping fresh corn on the cob last night when we realized...no microwave to steam it in. So, back to ancient methods: Boil for 2 minutes, turn off heat, sit for ten minutes. Mucho goodo! | ."
· Eighteen percent of households had at least one full-time servant or domestic help. Ah, love those labor-saving appliances. Thank you, electricity, Mister Tesla, Mister Edison, Mr. Westinghouse, and Percy Spencer - the man who discovered microwaves cook things.
That last note is important. I love popcorn. A couple of decades ago I was featured in a newspaper story on popcorn - and how best to pop it. This was just before the magic of micro-waved popcorn hit. Popcorn aficionados would debate stove top, electric popper, air popper | 118 |
<|fim_middle|> Potatoes | What Vegetables to Plant Next to Grapes
Healthy grapes depend greatly on soil conditions and a lack of pests.
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1 Flowers Recommended for Vegetable Gardens
2 What Vegetables Should Be Planted Together?
3 What Vegetables Should Not Be Planted Next Each Other in a Garden?
4 Potato Companion Plant
Grapes (Vitis vinifera), like almost all plants, benefit from companion planting. Companion planting is the practice of growing certain plants next to other plants for soil, growth and insect-repellent purposes. While there aren't a lot of vegetables that help grapes grow well, you do have a handful to choose from. The common grape vine is hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture hardiness zones 6 to 9.
Insects such as worms and Japanese beetles wreak havoc on grapes. Although grapes can withstand moderate amounts of damage, an unchecked invasion of pests will cripple your grape vines. Certain vegetables naturally repel insects. Basil (Ocimum basilicum), for example, keeps insects at bay by producing repelling scents. Oregano (Origanum vulgare) and chives (Allium schoenoprasum) are two other examples of vegetables that deter insects. Basil is hardy in USDA hardiness zones 4 to 10. Oregano is hardy in zones 5 through 9, while chives are hardy in zones 3 to 9.
Grapes grow well in average fertile soil. Vegetables that have a mutual association with nitrogen-fixing bacteria naturally increase a soil's fertility. Peas (Pisum sativum) are an example of such a vegetable and work in a variety of environments. Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) also increase soil fertility. Beans and peas are helpful to one another, so instead of planting one or the other, consider planting both. Peas are hardy in all USDA hardiness zones, while beans are hardy in zones 3 to 10.
Vegetables to Avoid
Some vegetables are harmful to grapes and can stymie their growth. Never plant collard greens, such as lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. Capitata) or garlic (Allium sativum), next to grapes. That doesn't mean you can't have them in the same garden, but planting those vegetables near your grape vines will result in stunted growth, often due to high water requirements.
You may also plant vegetable alternatives next to grapes for a better harvest. Clover (Trifolium), for example, increases soil fertility, while the flower hyssop (Hyssopus) helps keep away aphids, beetles, worms and other pests. Hyssop is one of the most beneficial vegetable alternatives because of its positive affect on numerous plants and vegetables that may be planted around your grapes, such as peas and beans. When it comes to soil fertility, do not surround your grapes with fertility-enriching plants; otherwise, you risk making the soil fertility too high. Small numbers of peas, beans or clover plants work best. Clover is hardy in USDA hardiness zones 3 to 8, while hyssop is hardy in zones 3 to 9.
University of Minnesota Extension: Grape Insect Pests of the Home Garden
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oneida County: Growing Chives
The Herb Society of America: Oregano and Marjoram
MaasNursery.com: Basil
New Mexico State University: Growing Grapes in New Mexico
Government of Alberta: Improving Soil Fertility With Green Manure Legume Crops - Frequently Asked Questions
Located in Pittsburgh, Chris Miksen has been writing instructional articles on a wide range of topics for online publications since 2007. He currently owns and operates a vending business. Miksen has written a variety of technical and business articles throughout his writing career. He studied journalism at the Community College of Allegheny County.
Miksen, Chris. "What Vegetables to Plant Next to Grapes." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/vegetables-plant-next-grapes-27717.html. Accessed 18 January 2020.
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Companion Plants for Radishes
Vegetables to Plant Together for Bug Protection
What Is a Companion Plant to Tomatillos?
Compatibility of Vegetable Plants With Each Other
Herbs That Don't Like Being Planted Together
Good Companions for Tomatoes
Harmful Companion Plants for Broccoli
Vegetable Garden Companion for Planting Bell Peppers
Vegetables That Don't Need Full Sunlight
Sunflower Companion Planting With Grapes
Can You Plant Broccoli & Cabbage Beside Each Other?
Companion Planting of Raspberries and | 1,111 |
CHEERS: To the City of Middletown for holding its second<|fim_middle|> in place before? The best Legoland can do is blame "challenging" weather. And what if those challenges continue, as they seem likely to? When will the Town of Goshen conclude that Legoland is not up to keeping the promises it made and halt construction until adequate measures are put in place? | annual "Cops and Kids Field Day" at Fancher-Davidge Park, a chance for youngsters to meet the police who they might see on the streets or in their schools. "We want to work together with them as they grow up and become adults, to show that they can trust us and bond with us," said Officer Kristen Beebe, a 16-year veteran of the Middletown force. "We don't want them to fear us. We want them to wave to us when we drive by." The event was a joint project involving the Middletown Police Department and the city's Recreation and Parks Department. The Orange County Youth Bureau provided a picnic lunch. It was all free. "We want our young people to feel comfortable talking with both city officials and police officers," said Nicole Psarakis, the Parks Department's program coordinator. "This breaks the ice." When the kids go back to school in the fall, Psarakis said, they'll find some of the police officers they met at Saturday's event working as school resource officers.
CHEERS: To Marcus Dairy Inc., a Connecticut milk broker, which plans to continue buying milk produced by several Sullivan County dairy farms until the fall. After that, no one knows if there will be a market for the milk produced by several farms. The farms are experiencing the effects of an industry-wide problem. Too much supply and falling demand have forced brokers to let farmers go, which has a ripple effect on the other industries that make dairy farming possible.
JEERS: To Legoland which is not being the good neighbor it promised to be. Three times in recent months Legoland has been cited for contaminating a waterway with runoff from construction. As a story reported, recent rainstorms have sent silt from the construction site into the Otter Kill, turning it the color of chocolate milk and endangering the many local waterways it flows into. Local officials say that Legoland has "proposed additional remediation measures" which are under review but that does not answer many larger questions. If there are better ways to protect local waterways, a concern ever since Legoland first announced it wanted to come to town, why are they not being put in place? In fact, why were they not put | 461 |
We know that in the winter, snow and ice can create hazardous driving conditions and lead to accidents. But we often don't think about the fact that spring weather can create hazardous driving conditions as well<|fim_middle|>Do you know the things to do to make driving in the rain safer here in Texas?
First, it's important to drive on good quality tires. At least once a month, check your tires for proper air pressure (based on the information provided on your tires) and tread—which needs to be at least 1/16 of an inch.
Second, slow down! Slower speeds equal better contact with the road.
Third, keep a safe distance from other vehicles on the road. Slick roads can increase stopping distances by as much as three times. Thus, it's best to stay at least two car lengths behind the next closest car.
Fourth, in a skid, know how to use the brakes properly. Never slam on or pump the brakes. Rather, apply steady, firm pressure to them and steer toward the skid. If you end up in a full hydroplane, first remove your foot form the gas, grip the steering wheel, and apply light brake pressure.
Fifth, don't forget about the dangers of flooding on some of our streets. If you see standing water on the road and are not sure how deep it is, drive around. Otherwise, you could end up a drowning victim.
At Accident and Injury Chiropractic, we want you to be safe on our roads no matter what the driving conditions. That's why we try to provide you with information that may keep you out of an accident. But if you do end up in an accident, check out the Accident and Injury clinic near you. And check out our next blog with tips on driving safely in spring weather. | —especially here in Texas! Wind on open streets and overpasses can make cars hard to handle. Torrential rain can make it difficult, if not impossible, to see. Lightning storms can be distracting and take our focus away from the road ahead. Hail storms can be extremely dangerous damaging windshields and making the streets slippery. And of course, spring is tornado season—the most dangerous type of storm we can face.
But even light rain can pose a hazard on our North Texas roads. Everyone who has ever driven here knows that our roads don't need a coating of ice or snow to be dangerously slick. Even though they are paved with asphalt which creates a rough surface for tires to grab, moisture fills the pits and grooves on our roads thus making them smoother. Smoother surfaces equal less grab and less driver control. In addition, when rain mixes with oils and greases on our roads, they become even more slippery.
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Кухня Макао — совокупность кулинарных традиций, характерных для Макао. Представляет собой смесь кантонской и португальской кухонь со значительным влиянием стран Юго-Восточной Азии и лузофонного мира. Так, многие блюда этой кухни появились в результате попыток семей португальских моряков и поселенцев готовить европейские кушанья из местных продуктов и специй.
К обычным методам приготовления пищи в кухне Макао относятся выпечка, обжарка и гриль. Популярные блюда, заимствованные из португальской кухни — бакальяу и паштел-де-ната. С другой стороны, распространенные в Макао «курица по-португальски» или «португальский соус» на самом деле не встречаются в традиционной португальской кухне.
Местное влияние прослеживается в применении в кулинарии папайи, свиных ушей, кокосового молока. Из специй распространены кор<|fim_middle|> Wedding Planning and Management: Consultancy for Diverse Clients (Second ed.). Routledge. p. 29. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
Азиатская кухня
Культура Макао | ица и куркума длинная.
Одна из местных традиций, особенно характерная для семей потомков португальских поселенцев — так называемый Cha Gordo, в переводе «толстый чай». Это чаепитие со сладостями и закусками, схожее с английским послеобеденным чаем. Обычно устраивается по торжественным случаям, например, свадьбы, крестины или дни рождения, но в некоторых семьях на регулярной основе.
Источники
Ferreira Lamas, João António (1995). A culinária dos macaenses. Oporto: Lello & Irmão.
Gomes, Maria Margarida (1984). A cozinha macaense. Macau: Imprensa Nacional.
Senna, Maria Celestina de Mello e (1998). Cozinha de Macau. Lisbon: Vega ISBN 972-699-575-2
Cummings-Yeates, Rosalind (18 August 2015). «Feasting on Fat Tea in Macau». TravelPulse.
Loh, Juliana (10 April 2015). «Cha Gordo: Macau's ' fat tea' a celebration of Macanese cuisine and culture». South China Morning Post. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
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The Science Museum offers an interactive and hands on learning experience that is both fun and educational for all ages. There are also spaces which host changing scientific and cultural exhibitions throughout the year.
The vast Oceanografic building gleams white against the greenery of the riverbed. Inside you'll find Europe's largest aquarium. Almost 500 different species of marine life can be seen, including dolphins, belugas, sea lions, penguins and sharks, set in seven different marine environments – the Mediterranean, the polar oceans, the Arctic, the islands, the tropical seas, the temperate seas and the Red Sea. You'll need at least a few hours to do it justice.
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After Joy Division and New Order, Peter Hook Steps Into the Light
By Leila Brillson
PETER HOOK. PHOTO COURTESY OF MARK MCNULTY
Peter Hook just wants everyone to get along. But since the legend of his bands—and "legend" is the only word to describe the tale of Joy Division and New Order—involve death, myth and ego, things aren't that simple. New Order emerged out of the tragic suicide of its lead singer to be more successful than its precursor. But to list the bands that have been influenced by Curtis and co., one would have to name nearly every act who set out to make resonant dance music.
So last year, when Peter announced his intention to start touring with Joy Division albums under the name Peter Hook and the Light, things got even more complicated. The other three members—Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris (also of Joy Division) and Morris's wife Gillian (of New Order)—weren't too pleased. Fans called it sacrilegious. Critics panned it as a last gasp. But Hook's shows sold out, audiences packed amphitheaters, and he played the entirety of 1979's groundbreaking Unknown Pleasures.
Now Peter Hook is back again to revisit 1980's bleak Joy Division swan song Closer. But again, a drama arose: days before he played New York, Hook received word that Sumner, Gilbert and Morris announced that they were re-form<|fim_middle|> crying. I'm very close to Joy Division, but even I don't understand the power and effect it has on people. I don't get to enjoy it like that.
BRILLSON: There's a certain romanticism to the band.
HOOK: To death, sure. It's the same with Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. There is a mythology to it. What I find fascinating is that me, Bernard and Stephen get old, but Ian is frozen at 23.
BRILLSON: There are a couple other things that set the Joy Division narrative apart from a band like Nirvana.
HOOK: Well, it came at a very glum and gloomy time in England. It fit the mood. Everyone used to always say to me, "Oh, Joy Division is really miserable." I say "Fuck that, it sounds fucking great!" It used to make me run with adrenaline, run with joy thinking of being able to play for ten people. Just the very playing of it was a wonderful thing. And in 34 years, I haven't done it.
We did one Joy Division set with New Order at a cancer benefit in Manchester, and then once at Wembley Arena we played nine Joy Division songs. Bernard said it was miserable. So we never played it. And I thought that was actually very sad. For him to stand there and sing something he doesn't want to sing isn't going to make him happy. But for me, to play "The Eternal" and "Decades," when I haven't heard them played in 30-odd years, is fantastic.
For me, it's art. When you're playing an old song start to finish, it's art. I'm not playing a Joy Division set—you're playing the album start to finish. I can't get my head around just being a tribute band. I don't know what's going to happen next year. It's going to be quite weird.
BRILLSON: The bass sound of New Order is completely unique. How have you worked to keep the sound, but also evolve it?
HOOK: It's a combination of the sound and the melody. It's unusual for a bass to play melody, or for a bass melody to lead a lot of songs. The bass melodies lead a lot of Joy Division and early New Order. Quite simply, in the end, Bernard got fed up and went out of his way to get rid of it. He didn't like a counterpoint to his vocal. I realized it was pretty much all over when we were doing "Here to Stay" and he said, "We're going to have to set your bass to the side." He told me it was getting in the way of the vocal. Everybody changes, don't they? Tastes change.
But for me, as a person—and maybe it's my ego—I want to be out front. I'm not sitting in the back. I've always been the one flying into the audience with my bass. I am that way musically as well.
To me, a band is all about the people. I kept saying to Bernard "Listen, rather than do this, do something of your own. Do it as electronic or solo. He'd say, "No, put your bass on." We came together sometimes, like an old married couple. Occasionally, you make love. At the start, you banged at it. Then it's once a month, then once a year.
BRILLSON: That's a shame.
HOOK: It is a shame. But New Order, if you're going to be painfully honest, has always been fragile since Ian died. It's always been a bit fucked up because it emerged from a death. But we got through it, and it took a lot of tongue biting and compromising. We did something absolutely wonderful. Gillian [Gilbert, of New Order] deserves a medal; we were insufferable bastards. She's got balls of steel, that girl. We were horrible. [laughs]
BRILLSON: So this is your first New York show playing Control. Are you nervous?
HOOK: The trouble was, [the business with] New Order made me not want to come. It made me not want to leave home. I didn't want to come. But playing with the lads, 'cuz the lads have worked so hard, actually really helped, so I'm thankful for that. I'm fine now, and I'm going to be okay. And I'm going to get through.
PETER HOOK AND THE LIGHT WILL CONTINUE TO TOUR NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE YEAR. FOR MORE ON THE ARTIST, VISIT HIS FACEBOOK PAGE.
Wilsen is Listening to Hans Zimmer, "Monster Mash," and A Lot of Nick Drake | ing New Order—without Hook.
So when we sat down with Peter Hook, we expected to find a guarded musician hesitant to talk about the past and angered by the media portrayal of the New Order story. Instead, Hook was introspective; looking for answers and hoping to recreate an album he never got to play. He wanted to stay true to the origin—maybe not in ethos, but certainly in sound. Hook waxed honestly (and not unkindly) about Sumner, enthusiastically about his Joy Division project, and in true memory of his former bandmate, Ian Curtis.
LEILA BRILLSON: I see your Hacienda shirt; are you still working with Peter Saville?
PETER HOOK: Yeah, I spoke to him the other day. It's an odd one really, because we grew up together. He's been very involved in my record label because he's an official ambassador for Manchester. I'm an unofficial ambassador.BRILLSON: What do you think is special about Manchester?
HOOK: I don't know what it is, there's something really odd about it and there's no other place in Britain like it. Manchester's been consistently fantastic; now you've got Elbow, Delphic, Ting Tings, The Courteeners, all great bands. And it shows no sign of abating.
Funnily, the actual structure in Manchester for music is pretty bad. There aren't many studios. Everybody thinks that it's the next capital city after London, and yet it isn't, because places like Birmingham are much bigger than Manchester. Manchester's actually a tiny city compared to a lot of places in England, but it has stature, because of music and Hacienda, Factory, Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, The Stone Roses… the list is almost bloody endless. It's got a hell of pedigree.
I'm just doing Hacienda Records, and we just got two cracking bands in Manchester called Humaniser and Super White Assassins. It's nice to give something back. There's no bloody money in it. [laughs] But you do it for love. It's scary.
BRILLSON: You came out at a time when there was a lot of change going on in the way in which music was produced—literally—the move from analog to digital in terms of recording methods. How did that affect you?
HOOK: Technology, from our point of view, meant synthesizers. It wasn't really about recording then, it was all analog. When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear. Bernard (Sumner) and Steven (Morris) were really into technology; they loved it and tried to explore it and use it whenever they could. As Joy Division, we used little unreliable snares and Bernard's homemade synthesizer. Then for New Order, we used the prophets, the emulators, the sequencers… it cost a fortune. Even when the tech was considered to be good, New Order used to have three set-ups running on stage so that when one went down—and it wasn't if one went down, it was when—we could switch to the other. It was a very exciting time: there weren't many bands that actually ran it live. It was part of our punk ethic.
BRILLSON: I think that's a lot of why New Order "live" is so celebrated.
HOOK: With all hoo-ha this week about New Order starting again, you have to realize that now there is no money in recording and selling records, so live is very important. It struck me the other day that maybe one of the reasons that the boys have decided, in their infinite wisdom, to play without me is because they need the name to play live to earn money… because as Bad Lieutenant they weren't earning that much money.
BRILLSON: I'm sure you've gotten lots of questions about this in the last week, but if you had been asked, would you have joined the tour?
HOOK: I think I would have. If they'd have asked. We all have proven over the years that it is greater to be together than it is to be apart. The hateful thing is that you sort of need each other and it drives you crazy, but it's true. I think if they had asked me to do it, I would have. If they had come to me and said we don't want you included, I still would have let them tour. But they did it without telling me. We've done some dealings, shall we say, to allow them to go out as New Order, which are very, very distasteful.
BRILLSON: Do you think that might have been why they didn't include you?
HOOK: No, I don't think that Bernard likes me anymore.
BRILLSON: I think that it's very perceptive of you to realize that there is something about New Order that was all of you.
HOOK: Without a doubt. I hate it as much as he does, but undoubtedly. The fans are not stupid, they know what's going on. If he concentrates on the keyboards, the bits where my input was less noticeable—people will go "oh, fucking hell."
In (Sumner's band) Bad Lieutenant, they played New Order, which always made me wonder why they harped about me doing Joy Division. Yet they always say, "Oh, you shouldn't be playing with Joy Division," but they were doing it before me. In Bad Lieutenant, they played New Order and played bass on the keyboard. But if someone else plays the bass, I think that would be detrimental to them.
BRILLSON: Do you use the Joy Division name?
HOOK: No, no. I don't go out as Joy Division. I go out as Peter Hook and The Light.
BRILLSON: Right. So how did that unfurl? Unknown Pleasures is the "seminal" Joy Division album, but Closer is so much more emotional—there's a lot of pain there.
HOOK: It's very introspective. There's a lot of melancholy. Unknown Pleasures was supposed to be a one-off. I was only going to play it once to celebrate Ian's 20th anniversary. I was terrified to do it. I've played some of the songs over the years, but I've never concentrated on them. So when I focused on it, I started to like it more. I love what Martin [Hannett] did to it. And yet, as Joy Division, we ignored Martin. This time, I actually worked to include Martin's bit—the sounds, the feel, the little tricks he did. It was a collaboration of Joy Division and Martin Hannett. If you listen to Joy Division on YouTube, they're very different to how they are on the record. And I think we made a mistake. I think we were young, we were arrogant. And that's what being young and in a punk band is all about. Now, at the ripe old age of 55, you listen to it and think, he really did add a lot. He made it last… he made it lasting. And he made it 30 years ago, but it sounds fantastic, and that is quite unusual for a record.
BRILLSON: Since it was the last album, is it difficult to get into that place to perform it?
HOOK: The thing about it was is that I always knew in the back of my mind how direct the lyrics were on Closer. After Ian died, we literally put Joy Division away to concentrate on New Order. At the time, it was a blessing, and it felt like was the right thing to do. Basically we were hiding our grief in hard work. Which isn't a bad thing.
BRILLSON: That's interesting. I've read a lot of interviews you've done in the past and it seems like there's a lot of anger there.
HOOK: I think the anger is that you let it happen. The guilt is huge. Ian was his own worst enemy, in that he always told you what you wanted to hear. You wanted the group to be successful, and he was happy to say, "I'm fine, don't worry. Look at me, I'm fine, let's get on with it." And you'd go, "Oh great, that's what I wanted to hear." Of course he wasn't fine. That's the bit you feel angry about. Because maybe you pushed him into it or he couldn't say no. He just plowed ahead and the thing he wanted most was for the group to be successful. He didn't want to let the illness get in the way. What the doctor said to him was, "Stay away from flashy lights, loud noise, try not too get excited, and don't drink."
It didn't take a genius to figure out that at one point he was going to come crashing down to earth. I remember we did a gig and I had to sit on because he was fitting for an hour and a quarter. Common sense really, at my age, says if that was my son, I'd bang all our heads together and take him home. And yet we just carried on. It makes you wonder whose fault—if anybody's—was the death?
BRILLSON: In the movie Control, Anton Corbijn suggests that there was just a perfect storm of illness and pressure.
HOOK: If you've got epilepsy, it's probably not a good idea to be promiscuous and dump your wife when she's just had a baby. [laughs] It's a very human failing, isn't it?
Anton had a very fixed idea of how we were. I actually recognized myself in Control. He made the actor act like me. He made the Bernard actor act like Bernard. He was very good at mimicking this because he knew us so well. Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People [had] no interest in being faithful to the characters. His idea was to tell a funny story. Which he achieved, absolutely. It's hilarious.
BRILLSON: I've gotta ask: the scene when Martin moved Stephen's drums to the roof and him Steve play and then you guys drove away. Was that true?
HOOK: Yeah, I think we did leave him. We were full of tricks like that. We used to play jokes on each other all the time. The image of Joy Division was very serious and dour and intense—but it's absolutely wrong.
BRILLSON: You guys also were a punk band.
HOOK: It's interesting because that early version of "Warsaw," the one that was on Unknown Pleasures, we made with a producer who was dreadful. I listened to an old version of "Transmission" the other day, and I couldn't believe how bad it was. If Martin Hannett had not been the producer on Unknown Pleasures, it wouldn't have been a hit.
At that intensity you were learning five, ten times quicker than normal. Ian was very unfortunate because everything happened to him came at once. Grant Gee, who did the Joy Division documentary, told me he got a modern-day epilepsy expert to look at Ian's medication. The modern guy said, "If you had given this to any human, it would have killed them." His doctors were supposed to be the bloody experts, and they didn't know how to treat him! God knows what his father and mother must have felt like. My son is 22, my daughter is 26. It would be dreadful.
BRILLSON: Your son is in The Light. How is that hearing the sound that you were making at his age coming from him?
HOOK: It's really creepy. When I look at him it's even creepier, because he looks like me. But in a way, it makes what you do better. Bass is a vital part of Joy Division. By getting my son to do it is the nearest thing to me in the world. It feels like, "Look what I've done!" If could get Bernard's son to play guitar, who is funnily enough same age as my daughter, if I could get him in…wouldn't that be wild?
BRILLSON: In what ways have you tried to be authentic, and it what ways have you let yourself explore?
HOOK: I've realized that people are very serious about Joy Division. Before I began playing, the hate mail was unbelievable. I'd get mail going "You bastard, you shouldn't be doing that. Leave Ian Curtis in his grave." I never expected it to be that vitriolic.
What I tried to do was stay as faithful as I could to the record. People love the record. Since we never toured, it's quite a pleasure to actually explore the album live.
In a funny way, this is the nearest fans are going to get to Joy Division. According to the rest of the band, that's a bad thing to do. But the people are going, "We love it. We wish the others were coming." In a funny way, so do I, but they aren't.
BRILLSON: Or why don't you play both albums?
HOOK: I'm working up to doing both. I don't understand why they don't just say, "Okay, you play Joy Division, and we're going to play New Order."
BRILLSON: As one of those people who has never seen Joy Division, watching you play was haunting. Is it haunting for you, or were you more emotionally removed?
HOOK: No, I'm very emotional. I'm very melancholic. Bernard used to go to great lengths to tell me, "You're obsessed with the past, you love it too much, you need to get rid of it." But I'm very proud of it. I remember doing San Francisco and there was a guy waiting outside and he came up to me and said, [Peter switches to an American accent] "I've been waiting 35 years for you to do this!" And he showed me his ticket, and it was a Joy Division ticket. When we went to Italy, there were four girls in the front row and they were all | 2,936 |
At this point I'm back home in Ireland, sorry for the delay in posting. There's no internet connection in the tent. Right lets travel a little more up the east coast of Scotland. This was a long day in the saddle<|fim_middle|> for people.
fabulous George!! I love Scotland. Btw I wrote a post about the last witch of Scotland who was from Dornoch!
I think I read that, not a hundred percent certain. Dornoch a lovely old town, parts dating back into the 1600's. Know I'll be back there. Next post should be up within the next couple of days. | . With shower's and some bright spells, it was a day for the road. I travelled away from the coast on a route that took me into the highlands moors and mountains. These roads where all single track and covered around 60 mile before I returned to the coast. And turned south for 20 mile to my bed for the night.
The route in red is the roads covered. I finished the day at a Bed & Breakfast in the town of Dornock. A word about my B & B, Amalfi B&B in Dornoch. The greeting when I arrived was one of the warmest I have ever received. Marelle and Edward helping with my luggage , supplying a metal plate so the motorcycle was supported on the gravel parking area. Great advice on where to eat in the town, beautiful rooms and large en suite meant I was well catered for. If you are ever in this part of Scotland here is the link. Amalfi.
Thank you Marelle and Edward.
I'm going to leave you with a few Photograph's from this leg of the trim. Thank you for visiting.
I loved Scotland when i was there in '73. The people who ran the B&Bs were so nice and hospitable and the whole place seemed magical!
I think it's a country that touch's something deep inside us and people that still have time | 283 |
Oil industry gets aggressive in fight over Colorado ballot measure to protect public from drilling
Outcome of vote to increase buffer zone between homes and drill sites expected to be extremely close.
Mark Hand Twitter Oct 19, 2018, 1:56<|fim_middle|>12 | pm
Colorado voters will be voting in November on a ballot initiative to expand the setbacks between schools and drilling sites. CREDIT: Colorado Rising
Notable Coloradans such as former star Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway and former U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton have appeared in television advertisements financed by the oil and gas industry to oppose a grass roots-driven ballot initiative — known as Proposition 112 — that would expand the buffer zone between homes and drilling sites.
In the latest development in the ballot initiative battle, the oil industry is bringing in celebrities to push back on the popular grassroots initiative. Individual natural gas companies are also spending huge sums of unregulated money on anti-proposition television advertisements.
"Given Elway's past forays into politics, his presence alone suggests that he's probably advocating for something bad," the sports news website Deadspin reported Thursday. "That the ad itself contains nothing that could even charitably be described as 'information' beyond one suspiciously precise figure on Jobs Somehow Destroyed By Proposition 112 does nothing to assuage that suspicion."
The Colorado ballot initiative would expand the buffer zones between homes and industrial oil and gas facilities. As with other ballot initiative attempts in the past, Colorado's anti-fracking activists are sending the oil and industry into a frenzy, despite the relatively modest nature of the proposition.
If the proposition passes, it would give residents the peace of mind of knowing they will be safer from potential blasts and further away from the noise and odors that come with drilling operations. And it would allow the industry to continue drilling in less populated areas.
Study shows oil and gas industry wields 'meta power,' but Colorado residents are fighting back
Citizens who live near energy infrastructure often feel disempowered, study says.
The industry has so far raised $30 million to defeat the measure, about 40 times the money that environmental groups have raised. But Proposition 112 is far from radical. It doesn't call for banning fracking in Colorado. The measure would simply keep new wells farther away from homes and schools, expanding the distance from a 500-foot minimum to 2,500 feet.
Yet, the industry's efforts to defeat Proposition 112 are moving into the realm of dirty politics. Westword reported Thursday that in a last-ditch attempt to defeat the measure before November 6, natural gas giant Noble Energy is blanketing Colorado television with election-focused political ads that it claims are outside the purview of all state campaign-finance laws.
The U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision weakened regulation of federal campaign laws, but it preserved state statutes that require direct election expenditures to be disclosed. Noble Energy's advertisements explicitly urge Coloradans to vote against the ballot measure, but the company has declared that such ads are not governed by state campaign-finance or disclosure laws, according to Westword.
However, Brendan Fisher of the Campaign Legal Center told Westword that while Colorado law requires certain disclosures by groups that are spending to influence candidate elections, those same requirements may not apply to ballot measures like Proposition 112.
The industry's spending of million of dollars appears to be working. Polls show the final vote on the proposition is going to be extremely close, according to supporters of the proposition.
"Detractors label the setback measure as extreme. But what is more extreme, expanded setbacks or neighborhoods infested with heavy industry?" Quentin Young, an editorial writer for the Boulder Daily Camera, emphasized in a recent editorial. "Proposition 112 is the people's response to an unresponsive government."
Celebrities have also weighed in on the pro-proposition side. Actor and environmental activist Mark Ruffalo volunteered to narrate a short video in favor of expanding the setbacks in the state.
And this week, Conservation Colorado, the largest conservation organization in the state, endorsed the Yes on Prop 112 campaign. The campaign has also received a wide variety of endorsements from faith-based organizations, youth groups, healthcare groups, local businesses, and prominent elected officials.
Keeping oil and gas activities a safe distance from Coloradans' schools, playgrounds, and hospitals is vital to protecting our communities and our #environment. Conservation Colorado is proud to say yes to Proposition 112. PC: @ColoradoRising #copolitics pic.twitter.com/tpGHICdQpQ
— ConservationColorado (@ConservationCO) October 16, 2018
While supporters of the ballot initiative argue that it will improve the health and safety of residents, pro-industry regulators at the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission say it will limit their ability to drill for oil and gas.
The commission found that increasing the distance between wells and homes could put as much as 85 percent of private and state land off limits for new wells. But other more neutral experts believe that that number is far too high. A university researcher, for example, found that companies could still access oil and gas by drilling horizontally underneath homes and schools.
"The recent advent of horizontal drilling, some subsurface resources beneath the 2500' buffer may be reachable from within the 15% available surface area," Peter Maniloff, an assistant professor in the division of economics and business at the Colorado School of Mines, wrote in a research note released this month. Maniloff found that 42 percent of non-federal subsurface minerals would be accessible to the oil and gas industry if the ballot measure passed.
Colorado's oil and gas industry goes after reporters and signature gatherers in new fracking fight
With large oil and gas reserves, Colorado often is at the center of the nation's fossil fuel wars.
There is little doubt that Proposition 112 would limit fossil fuel extraction in many populated areas of the state. "But, at least in growing Front Range neighborhoods, that's the point," Young explained in his recent editorial.
Industry advocates, like John Elway, warn the state will lose many jobs if the proposition wins. But Colorado enjoys a diverse, vibrant economy and "it's not at all certain that a diminished extraction industry would devastate the economy as a whole, particularly if green energy opportunity expand," Young wrote.
#Climate, #Colorado, #Fracking, #Oil And Gas, #Politics, #Proposition 1 | 1,288 |
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So Record Store Day has been and gone for another year. You queued, you bought and hopefully you went home and played – not many actually do apparently. As ever, NME was there to watch it all happen – from the electric live performances at Rough Trade East (LUH were excellent) to the lengthy queues snaking back down Berwick Street<|fim_middle|> Watch the full video above and realise just how brilliant Record Store Day is. | .
We spoke to you lot of course. Mainly to find out why a bit of moulded plastic can get you out of bed on a wet and windy Saturday morning. The managers and owners of London's most iconic stores also gave their take on the whole shebang.
Heartwarming, huh? Well, Record Store Day's not just to make you all feel great about yourselves, it's vital to the industry too.
Good for you Phil. Luckily, Sister Ray isn't the only outfit seeing the benefits. Duncan Kerr, manager of Soho's Reckless Records, was equally chuffed.
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Nursing home care cost significantly outpaces general inflation and medical care prices
Georgetown University Medical Center
WASHINGTON -- One of the largest studies on out-of-pocket costs for nursing home care finds prices are high and rising faster than other medical care and consumer prices, reports a team of health policy researchers.
Their study, published in Medical Care Research and Review, reviews nursing home prices in eight states between 2005-2010 and uncovers out-of-pocket prices that increase significantly beyond normal inflation and inflation in medical care prices.
For example, annual out-of-pocket costs for nursing home care increased as high as 30% in California during the study period.
The study also finds substantial price variation across states. In 2010, at an average of $131 a day (about $47,800 annually), Texas had the least expensive nursing home out-of-pocket cost, while New York State, at $334 daily ($121,910 a year) had the most expensive.
The study also finds different prices between nursing homes after adjusting for staffing levels and geographical difference.
The for-profit nursing home chains charged the lowest prices and nonprofit nursing home chains provided the most expensive care. The price differential between for-profit chains and nonprofit chains is about $4,160 annually, or equivalent to 6.2% of the average price of for-profit nursing homes. However, there is no statistically significant difference in prices between for-profit and nonprofit independently operated nursing homes.
The researchers also find that areas with higher market concentration of nursing homes leads to higher prices. Nursing homes that are near capacity limit also charge more than nursing homes that have more rooms available.
The study aims to provide more transparency of the out-of-pocket prices of nursing home care. "Not many people have those kind of resources, and so it is important to understand how fast prices grow and how they vary," says the study's lead author, Sean Huang, PhD, MA, assistant professor in the Department of Health Systems Administration at the School of Nursing & Health Studies at Georgetown University Medical Center.
Typically, individuals in need of nursing home care who do not have Medicaid, and usually pay out of pocket until they run out of money. Then they are eligible for Medicaid, Huang says. Only a small fraction of nursing home residents have private insurance, such as long-term care insurance, that helps cover the costs.
This study used a unique dataset on nursing home prices from 2005-2010 across eight states. "Very few people have studied this topic, so it required building the largest dataset on nursing home prices to date," Huang says. "This kind of information is very valuable to potential consumers of this care."
Study co-authors include Richard A. Hirth, PhD, from the University of Michigan,
Jane Banaszak-Holl, PhD, from Monash University in Australia, and Stephanie Yuan, BA, from Georgetown University Medical Center.
The study was partly supported by a grant from the U.S. Social Security Administration, funded as part of the Retirement Research Consortium through the University of Michigan Retirement Research Center Award RRC08098401.
The authors report having no personal financial interests related to the study.
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EASTERN LAKE ONTARIO SAND DUNES:
AN OVERVIEW OF THEIR FLORA
Sandra E. Bonanno
David G. White
New York Sea Grant Extension
Sand dunes are a very challenging habitat for plant life. The dunes hold plant nutrients very poorly and are constantly subjected to wind and water erosion. Few plants can tolerate the low fertility, unstable conditions, and extreme fluctuations in temperature and moisture found in dunes. Without these plants, though, lakeshore dunes would resemble desert dunes, constantly changing and moving across the landscape. The dune ridges that line the eastern shore of Lake Ontario are stabilized by plants that are specially adapted to the harsh conditions.
In total, 315 vascular plant species have been reported living on our dune<|fim_middle|>lands Main Page | system. These can be grouped into four recognizable plant communities: the American beachgrass community; the poison ivy-dune grape-cottonwood community; the red oak-red maple forest community; and the alder thicket community. The following description of the dune flora of eastern Lake Ontario includes a general discussion of each community and the dominant plants that make up at least half of the cover found in each. A checklist is also provided. It includes the 46 most common dune species, plus 23 additional species that are readily visible from public access points.
THE BEACHGRASS COMMUNITY
Immediately adjacent to the beach lie long, sparse stands of beachgrass and tall wormwood, punctuated by stands of cottonwood saplings and shrubby dune willows. This is the beachgrass community that occurs on our foredunes, the first line of dunes above the beach. This community can also be found on blowout areas on the interior dunes, and at the back of the barrier in disturbed areas.
Beachgrass (or marram grass) is a tough, coarse grass that may grow to knee height; it spreads by underground runners known as rhizomes. The rhizomes travel in a line parallel to the surface, a few inches down, sending up new shoots called tillers every foot or so. Beachgrass tillers form a barrier that slows down wind, especially in the first few inches above the surface where most sand movement occurs. In this way beachgrass acts as a wind break, much as a snow fence does in the winter.
Not only can beachgrass endure the onslaught of the wind, it also thrives under burial by sand. It responds by growing vigorously up through the sand and by starting new rhizomes as the old ones become buried. The successive layers of rhizomes, with fine roots growing from them, form a tight network that holds sand in place, allowing dunes to grow and stabilize.
Tall wormwood is a biennial plant that grows scattered among the beachgrass tillers. It germinates from seed in early summer, producing small, lacy gray-green tufts of vegetative growth as summer progresses. While many individuals succumb to desiccation or burial before fall, some survive to produce tall, bushy stems that bloom late the following summer. Several similar species of wormwood occur on most United States seacoast dunes and throughout the Great Lakes. Tall wormwood is closely related to the ornamental dusty miller, and to the sagebrush of the western plains.
Eastern cottonwood, a tree that commonly grows along riverbanks throughout the eastern and midwestern United States, has windblown seeds that are released in June, blanketing the lakeshore area. The seeds germinate in damp, open sites in the drift line at the upper limit of summer waves, with seedlings appearing in late June to early July. Although most of them are washed away, in some years high water levels do not reach the seedlings, and a new line of cottonwood trees is established to grow up and join beachgrass in trapping sand to build dunes. As sand continues to accumulate, cottonwoods can sprout new roots along the buried portion of their trunks, thus enabling cottonwood to be the only dune-forming tree on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario.
Sand-dune (heart-leaf) willow and sand cherry are two rare shrubs that belong to the beachgrass community. Sand-dune willow has broad, leathery, heart-shaped leaves densely covered with white hairs. It spreads by rhizomes, forming loose, multi-stemmed colonies that rarely grow more than 8 to 10 feet tall. Sand-dune willow is restricted to the Great Lakes dunes, and is listed as threatened in New York State. However, it is common on our Lake Ontario eastern shore, where it grows along the tops of the foredunes, into low interior areas called swales, and even onto stabilized secondary dunes.
Sand cherry is a low shrub, rarely growing more than three to four feet high, that remains vigorous only where sand continues to accumulate. It is most conspicuous in early June when covered with delicate white blossoms. Sand cherry is easily visible from the beach when in bloom, but is very rare on the eastern shore dunes. Sand cherry is listed as rare in New York State.
A few hardy beach annuals are scattered near the beachward toe of the foredunes, especially in the rows of wind-driven debris. They are entirely at the mercy of waves, wind, and human activity, but somehow they manage to germinate, grow, and reproduce each summer before fall and winter storms wash them away. Beach clotbur has rough, sandpapery, triangular leaves and sharp burry fruits. It is the most common beach plant on the eastern shore. Sea rocket grows only on sandy beaches and is quite uncommon on the eastern shore. It has thick fleshy leaves and tiny white flowers with four petals.
In some years after a strong wind, the beach will contain narrow lines of seedlings of many plants not particularly adapted to beach living. These plants are fun to explore even though they are generally gone within a few weeks.
THE POISON IVY - DUNE GRAPE - COTTONWOOD COMMUNITY
The beachgrass community changes growing conditions on the sand it occupies and on the interior dunes behind it. Plants shade the surface, moderating temperature fluctuations and moisture availability. Leaves that drop each year decompose and release plant nutrients. Moving sand falls as wind velocity drops, so both wind speed and sand movement decrease behind the first dune. Terrain is rolling on the interior dunes, with damp swales and dry secondary dunes, and some blowout areas where sand is still moving. The poison ivy-dune grape-cottonwood community takes advantage of these improved but variable conditions, featuring several new plants in addition to declining proportions of beachgrass community members.
Dominants of this community are common, widely distributed plants that live together in an uncommon arrangement on the dunes. Cottonwoods, still the only trees in evidence, are clumped on the tops of the secondary dunes. In most habitats poison ivy and dune (or riverbank) grape have strong climbing tendencies, but not on the dunes. Here they grow together in large, tangled, bushy patches two to five feet high.
Chokecherry, a shrub with clusters of bitter, deep purple berries, is abundant in this community. Another common plant is the European buckthorn, a shrub with deep green, glossy leaves and poisonous black berries. On the ground, beachgrass has given way to gray and Canada goldenrod, spotted knapweed, and a variety of grasses and grasslike plants. Baltic rush is one grasslike plant that is characteristic of Great Lakes dunes. This plant can be recognized by its 12-to 18-inch tall, dark green, slender stems, growing in a line from an underground rhizome. These plants form dense stands in damp swales.
THE RED OAK - RED MAPLE DUNE FOREST COMMUNITY
High dunes are scattered along Lake Ontario's eastern shore. The high dunes support a red oak-red maple dune forest. The red oaks and red maples are joined by American beech, sugar maple, and black cherry to form an open-canopied overstory. Thriving understory trees include striped maple, shadbush and chokecherry. Dune grape and poison ivy are still present, but in lower proportions. The beachgrass community species are entirely gone, needing full sun to survive. On the ground, dense patches of red raspberry alternate with poison ivy-dune grape thickets. Dominant species on the ground include late- and blue-stem goldenrods and wild sarsaparilla. All of the aforementioned plants are common upland species of the surrounding area.
THE ALDER THICKET COMMUNITY
The transition zone between dunes and wetlands is an almost impenetrable tangle of shrub thickets. This community can be viewed from ponds and streams that course through the wetlands behind the barrier. Speckled alder, which dominates the closed canopy, forms multi-stemmed clumps about 20 feet tall. Sometimes winterberry or nannyberry dominate, particularly near the bottom of forested high dunes. A few large, multi-stemmed hybrid willows rise above the thicket, as do some young green ash trees. Dune grape is abundant and climbs in this dense community. Black cherry saplings, smaller shrubs of arrowwood, and chokecherry are scattered among the dominants. On the ground, patches of red raspberry are found on drier mounds alternating with sensitive ferns, wetland grasses, and sedges in the wet depressions.
Vegetation of the interior and back dunes is dependent on the stabilized conditions provided by an intact foredune. Beachgrass is adapted to the natural challenge of nature, but not to the added stress of human intrusion. When beachgrass cover is disturbed, sand blows into the barrier, burying and killing the plants.
FIELD LIST of Vascular Plants
This fact sheet is based on research supported by the New York Sea Grant Institute and the Edna Bailey Sussman Fund. The work was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Donald J. Leopold at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Permission to study the area was provided by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, The Nature Conservancy, and Mr. Ed Wyroba. Special thanks to Dieter Busch, Lee Chamberlaine, Tom Cutter, John DeHollander, Diann Jackson, Diane Kuehn, Pat Peterson, and Jennifer Pultz for their review and assistance with this publication. Illustrations by Diane Kuehn and Mary Burdette Watkins.
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Mitchell, R.S. 1986. A checklist of New York State plants. New York State Museum Bulletin No. 458. State University of New York, Albany, NY. 272 p.
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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. 1990. Protected native plants. NYSDEC Division of Lands and Forests, Albany, NY. 18 p.
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It's been a while for me not to post anything on my blog but this time I have a new section called Her Lookbook! In this new child category of 'Beatitude'. I will not write as many words as usual, since it is called Lookbook, I will only post closer pictures<|fim_middle|> has always been my favorite color because it always matches with any color thus I don't need to put a lot of effort in choosing what color that suits well with my bottom outfit.
This leather bag has always been my favorite. It is really handy and casual that suits well with any kind of colorful or perhaps dark color outfits.
Last but not least, this is currently my favorite sandals. I love it because of its unusual model and precisely its comfort.
I think that's all for now and I am really sorry that I have been gone for a long time since my semester in uni has been utterly hectic. Nevertheless, I hope I can make it up to you with this new section. Thanks for sticking with me! | of outfit that I am wearing and I hope this category will help you more to inspire your fashion weekly preference!
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If you're going to call it quits, it's nice to know you're going out on top. Such is the case with local hard rock/alternative metal band FallRise, who will play their final show ever on Saturday, March 12 at Ace of Spades. The extremely popular and very hard working local group announced in late 2015 that they had come<|fim_middle|> with a Facebook post and a bunch of "noooo" comments, FallRise has one helluva final show lined up for March 12 featuring other local heavy hitters like The Alpha Complex, White Knuckle Riot, Sages, Madison Ave, A Mile Till Dawn, Conceived in Chaos and Heat of Damage. Doors will open at 5 p.m. for this "mini-fest" and tickets will be $20 at the door, $15 ahead of time.
This may be your last chance to see FallRise live, so join the band "for one more night, one more performance, one more memory as we end this journey on the highest note possible." Visit Facebook.com/fallriserock for more info and for teasers about what some of the band members might be up to after the curtain falls at FallRise's final gig. | to a unanimous decision that it was time to pursue other interests, stating on their Facebook page that, "As time moves on, a person's goals and aspirations can change, and this is what has happened with the members of FallRise." They went on to say that, "We feel it is time for us to continue on a new endeavor and take the life lessons we gained from FallRise to benefit our future." Not ones to just fade out | 92 |
From Cape to Casablanca
'Prête-moi ton rêve' prioritizes showcasing African art to African audiences
Touring the African continent, the travelling exhibition organized by the Fondation pour le Développement de la Culture Contemporaine Africaine (FDCCA) under Director Fihr Kettani, emphasises the importance of collaboration across the continent in changing the rules of engagement with African art.
Siriki Ky, L'Afrique face à son destin (Africa facing its destiny), 2019. Painted metal on plastic tarpaulin, 400 x 180 x 200cm.
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Zahra Abba Omar is a journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA launches G.A.S, a years-in-the-making, Foundation focusing on Art and Ecology | that would connect Cape Town to Cairo. It would have been a coloniser's delight – easing the movement of British settlers, African labourers, and colonial riches. The exhibition 'Prête-moi ton rêve', or 'Lend me your dream', traces this route from northern Africa to the tip of the continent, but for starkly different reasons. Opening in Casablanca on 18 June this year – the first stop of its tour – the travelling exhibition will voyage to Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa, before returning to Morocco in June 2020. Its last destination will be Marrakech, which will then be the capital of African culture of the year. Organizers purport it to be the first exhibition of its kind.
The exhibition is organised around three events: the main exhibition, a tribute to a local artist in recognition of their work, and a "Carte Blanche" exhibition, dedicated to artists from the host country and organized by a young resident curator. The main exhibition brings together major works by some thirty internationally recognized artists. This star-studded main exhibition includes Ghanaian artist El Anatsui who has long established himself as a pioneer of repurposing materials, internationally-renowned South African artist William Kentridge who is known for his experimental work across a spectrum of mediums, Malian artist Abdoulaye Konaté, who has re-popularized traditional textile techniques, and Chéri Samba of the Democratic Republic of Congo who is the founding figure of the 'Popular Painting' movement, redefining political and figurative art in the '80s and '90s. The other participating artists of the main exhibition are: Barthélémy Toguo, Ouattara Watts, Jane Alexander, Olu Amoda, Mahi Bine Bine, Zoulikha Bouabdelah, Meriem Bouderbala, Soly Cissé, Viyé Diba, Adel El Siwi, Jems Koko Bi, Bill Kouelany, Siriki Ky, Mohamed Melehi, Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo, Nenna Okoré, Mohammed Omar Khalil, Yazid Oulab, Kofi Sétordji, Joseph Sumégné, Fathiya Tahiri, Freddy Tsimba, Fatiha Zemmouri, and Dominique Zinkpé.
Installation view of 'Prête-moi ton rêve'. El Anatsui, Iris, 2012. Alluminium & copper, 300 x 310cm (left). Ouattara Watts, Untitled, 2018. Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 218cm(middel). Kofi Setordji, Dialogue, 2018. Oil on hessian, 210 x 200cm (right). ©Fouad Maazouz
The exhibition is organised by the Fondation pour le Développement de la Culture Contemporaine Africaine (FDCCA) or the Foundation for the Development of Contemporary African Culture. Established in January 2019, this non-profit association is driven by the purpose of creating and carrying out projects of cultural and artistic value in the field of contemporary African culture. Director of the Foundation, Fihr Kettani, describes how "Through its projects, the young foundation wishes to defend certain issues that it cherishes. Inter alia, it wishes to contribute to the development of artistic collaboration amongst Africans, to participate in boosting the intra-African art market, to contribute to making contemporary African art more visible in Africa, to support the development of artistic professions in Africa."
The idea to create the pan-African exhibition 'Prête-moi ton rêve' was born during the preparation of the exhibition of Abdoulaye Konaté at Galerie 38 in Casablanca. Kettani explains how Konaté, surrounded by his friends and fellow artists during the Segou Art Festival, discussed a shared feeling of remorse, as contemporary African artists who had become celebrated in the West, about being insufficiently showcased and exhibited on their own continent. The idea of meeting in large numbers on African soil and creating pieces for an exhibition that would travel to several African capitals to meet African audiences was thus born.
The unifying power of Abdoulay Konaté, Yacouba Konaté, and Brahim Alaoui, as the curators of the exhibition and of great artistic stature in their own right, quickly convinced some thirty renowned artists to participate in this ambitious project. Kettani notes that, "While the curators were working on the curatorial concept of the exhibition, the Foundation's team was striving to organize the exhibition on a practical level – to raise the funds to finance it and the right partners to ensure that the project met the expectations of all the artists involved." Several artists taking part in 'Prête-moi ton rêve' were also central to the organization of their exhibition. Their artistic residencies began in Casablanca in August 2018 and ended in March this year.
Installation view of 'Prête-moi ton rêve', with a tapestry Abdoulaye Konaté (Rouge touareg n°1, 2018. 500 x 287cm) in middle of the room. ©Fouad Maazouz.
'Prête-moi ton rêve' is currently gearing up for its second iteration, to be hosted by the prestigious Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Senegal to coincide with the Museum's first anniversary on 6 December. The FDCCA is working alongside the Museum's executive management and its multidisciplinary teams to further enrich the exhibition by integrating new artists in what Kettani considers to be an African collective intelligence at play for the benefit of an artistic project aimed at African audiences. The travelling exhibition is thus an exemplar of artistic collaboration amongst Africans. For Kettani, "This positive intra-African collaboration symbolizes at its humble level the idea of a continent that takes charge of its own destiny and demonstrates unlimited potential."
This question of autonomy is important, especially in an art world that continues to be dominated by the Western market. The touring exhibition's mission to unite African countries through art presents a reconfiguration of the cartography of the contemporary art map, placing Africa, and the methods, aesthetics, histories, and stories of living African artists at the centre. Kettani details how the Western art market, through its large-scale fairs, galleries and auction houses, has for many years helped contemporary African art to gain visibility on a global scale, resulting in the international scene's interest in Africa. This has been a positive experience for some of our artists, some of whom have achieved immense success in Europe and the United States. "'Prête-moi ton rêve' aims," he declares, "to share the successes of its artists with African audiences and wishes to inspire other projects that could contribute in general to the development of a stronger and more autonomous African art market. Africans could thus re-appropriate their successes and write their contemporary art history themselves."
Barthélémy Toguo, Homo Planta I & II, 2018. Acrylic & ink on canvas,200 x 200cm. Courtesy of Fondation pour le Développement de la Culture Contemporaine | 1,539 |
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J�tna-R�nir: The Mysteries of the J�tnar
The mythologies of many cultures and religions refer to a race of titans or giants that predate Mankind on Earth; in some mythologies they even predate the advent of the Gods Themselves. In almost every case, these giants are held to be entities of great wisdom, knowledge and magickal expertise, although they are often said to be inimical to both the Gods and men. In many instances, the mythologies speak of a great war between the giants and the Gods, in which the giants are virtually annihilated, often as the result of a titanic flood. But in as many versions, some giants survive, to continue their struggle against the Gods and men, or to lay in wait, until "the stars come round again, " and they may re-emerge, for good or ill.
In certain Traditions of Witchcraft, the ultimate roots of the Craft are traced back to the Biblical Nephilim, the titanic offspring of the fallen angels known as the Watchers, and the wives they took among the tribes of Man.1 Indeed, many believe that one must be a lineal descendant of these Nephilim, that the legacy of the "witchblood" must flow in one�s veins, in order for one to be a "true" Witch. This rather extreme exclusivity aside, I believe that a similar story can be told about the origins of Witchdom (Northern European or Germanic Witchcraft), 2 although the theory does challenge much of the lore that has been passed down to us from our ancestors.
Anyone familiar with Norse mythology is aware of the epic and perennial conflict between the Gods and the giants, those mysterious and unpredictable beings known in the myths as the J�tnar. By the same token, anyone familiar with this situation is also aware that many J�tnar found a place among the Gods of Asgard: Hel or Hella, Skadhi, Gerd and Mimir, to name a few. And, although he is largely held to be a villain, Loki - a full-blooded J�tun - was nonetheless the blood-brother of the All-Father, W�den. So it is obvious from the beginning that, whatever hostility may exist between the Gods of Asgard and some of the J�tnar, it is by no means universal amongst that eldritch folk.
In order to consider this version of Craft mythos, we must look, with open minds, at two important aspects of the Norse legends:
The nature and origin of the enmity between the J�tnar and the Gods.
The nature and origins of the Vanir.
The legends tell us that the primal J�tun, Ymir - also known as Aurgelmir - brought forth by a kind of parthenogenesis the first generations of the J�tnar. We are further told that W�den and his brothers killed Aurgelmir, and almost all of the J�tnar were swept away in the flood created by the release of Aurgelmir�s blood; only one J�tun, Bergelmir, and his family escaped. Finally, we are told that W�den and his brothers used the body of Aurgelmir to fashion Midgard - this world - and that they in fact used his eyebrows to form a hedge around it to keep out the J�tnar who still lived.3
This portion of the myths presents some tantalizing material. First, we have to acknowledge that, for whatever reason, W�den and his brothers killed the progenitor of the J�tun-race; their "Adam, " if you will. And, in some translations, it is made clear that they did so while he slept. This nefarious "king-slaying" would be enough to earn the ire of any tribal people. Further, the slaying of Aurgelmir results in an incidental but devastating genocide against the J�tnar, and we today are keenly aware of the outrage that genocide can engender in the survivors. Lastly, the body of the slain founder of the J�tun-race is desecrated, and its dismembered parts used to create a world that the remaining J�tnar are then barred from entering.
I would submit that, from the perspective of the J�tnar, there exist many reasons to hate and fear W�den and his kin, including his creation and favorite plaything, Man.
But one has to ask: Did W�den and his brothers build a hedge to keep out one lone J�tun and his flood-bedraggled family, last seen clinging precariously to a wooden coffin? It would seem like a great deal of trouble for such a relatively minor threat. Unless the truth is that W�den was fully aware that an entire sub-tribe of J�tnar survived the flood in the distant reaches of Utgard, the Outworld.
Which brings us to the matter of the Vanir...
By following the Norse creation myth to this point, one logically concludes that, following the death of Aurgelmir, the creation of Midgard and the creation of the first man and woman, there exist four types of sentient beings in the Nine Worlds: W�den and the Aesir, mankind, the J�tnar and the dwarves.4 These are all neatly and accurately "documented" in the myths, and no mention is made of any other sentient races.
But then, quite suddenly, an entire tribe of beings, equally as powerful as the Aesir, makes its appearance, apparently out of nowhere: enter the Vanir. Not only are the Vanir powerful enough to battle the Aesir to a standstill and force a truce, but their customs and magicks are quite unlike those of the Aesir. As the myths progress, the Vanir become associated with the realms of natural fertility and indulgence, peace and plenty and the "internal" magicks of intuition and nature, in contrast to the "external" runic magick of W�den and the Aesir. They are intimately bonded, it would seem, to the "stuff" that the Worlds are made of; that is, the very body and blood of the first J�tun, Aurgelmir. In addition, it should be noted that, following the Aesir/Vanir truce, when the Gods of Asgard marry and mate with the J�tnar, it is most often the Vanic Gods and Goddesses who do so.
And, as the myths progress, the J�tnar are revealed as something more than just brutish, cartoon villains. In fact, it becomes clear that they are beings of vast wisdom and knowledge, possessing magickal powers that baffle and befuddle even the Gods. Nor are they the murderous barbarians some would have us believe - Utgard-Loki obviously has Thorr, Loki and their companions in his power, but releases them unharmed, impressed by Thorr�s demonstration of sheer strength. Yet the J�tnar must be considered "armed and dangerous;" why else would the Aesir, when confronted by Skadhi, come alone to exact vengeance for her father�s death, decide to negotiate rather than simply destroy her through their superior numbers?
Again, we see a people as powerful, in their way, as the Aesir, but also fundamentally different. In fact, it would seem that the J�tnar have much more in common with the Vanir than with the Aesir. This comes as no surprise to me, as I believe that the Vanir and the J�tnar are, in fact, two branches of the same tribe.
While there is, obviously, nothing in the mythologies to support my intuition in this, I believe that the Vanir represent the descendants, if you will, of J�tnar who ventured away from their "homeland" in the vicinity of Aurgelmir, in that timeless time before the creation of the Nine Worlds. Since this all took place in "mythic time, " as so convincingly set forth by John Lindow, 5 there would have been plenty of "time" for the proto-J�tnar to proliferate and grow numerous enough to warrant and encourage such a migration. It may, in fact, have happened even before the birth of W�den and his brothers. And there is, hidden within the mythology, a possible motive for this migration.
Audhumla is the great "cosmic cow, "6 whose licking at the blocks of yeasty venom7 uncovered Aurgelmir and, later, Buri, grandsire to W�den. But in the later tale of the murder of Aurgelmir and the destruction of the J�tnar, She is not mentioned. It is my contention that, in the way of bovines, She wandered off into the trackless wastes of Utgard, and that some of the proto-J�tnar followed, either from curiosity or in an effort, perhaps, to protect Her. These folk evolved separately from their kindred, without the influence, good or bad, of the Aesir and Mankind, discovering much arcane lore and developing powerful magicks through their communion with primal forces in Utgard, as well as the spirits of Muspelheim and Nifelheim. These folk eventually fashioned and occupied the World that would become known as Vanaheim. Perhaps they even fashioned it, in an eerie echo of another such process, from the body of Audhumla...
The war between the Aesir and the Vanir is said to have begun when Gullveig of the Vanir came to the Aesir and demanded gold. Asking for and receiving weregild - essentially monetary compensation for the death of a relative or clanmate - was a common practice in Norse society. I believe that, upon "returning" from Utgard and creating the World of Vanaheim, the Vanir then sent Gullveig (who may also be a hypostasis of Freyja) to the Aesir to demand of W�den and his people weregild for the death of Aurgelmir.
(The response from the Aesir was to attempt to kill Gullveig by burning her alive. They tried three times. She was reborn each time, and after the third attempt, war was joined between the two tribes.)
If we follow the line of reasoning set forth thus far, then the origins of the Vanir are no longer veiled in mystery, but are part and parcel of the existing mythology, and their sovereignty over the "natural world" is handily explained. The so-called "natural world" is blood of their blood, flesh of their flesh, and what could be more, well, natural? That they stand, at times, with the Aesir against some J�tnar, only to woo and wed others, is no more unreasonable than the "tribal politics" that are part of the human historical record. One need only peruse the history of Europe itself in a general manner to realize that it takes but a single generation to create sufficient differences between people who were once one tribe that war is the inevitable outcome. Why should we expect the Gods to be any different?
There are many in the Craft, and even some outsiders, 8 who believe that Witchdom, or contemporary Witchcraft, is the direct descendant, through Saxon England, of the cult of the Lord and the Lady, who are none other than Freyr and Freyja of the Vanir, Children of Aurgelmir and J�tnar to the very core. Their names, in fact, mean "Lord" and "Lady, " and it cannot be denied that, in the mythological texts, Freyja is the mistress of many of the powers now held to be the province of the modern Witch. This lineage is particularly well seen in the practice of the Elder Craft, more commonly known as British Traditional Witchcraft, where the now-popular and ubiquitous notions of the Gardnerian Synthesis are not present. There are no "Elements" in the Elder Craft; rather, the emphasis is on the Land, Sea and Sky. This can, if one wishes, be traced directly back to the reverence which must have been felt by the Vanir/J�tnar for the body of Aurgelmir, as transformed into the material world. Shapeshifting is another area of lore and skill emphasized in the Craft, which, according to the texts, was obviously a specialty of the J�tnar. There are many "pointers, " if you will, in the practicum and lexicon of the Craft that one may follow, if it<|fim_middle|> we make the further leap to associate the Vanir and the J�tnar, this tension is even more logical and expected, and the eerie, eldritch and often despised nature of Witchdom, as compared to the forthright and linear path of Asatru, is readily explained.
To suggest that the Vanir are cousins, at least, to the J�tnar is something close to heresy for those who cleave to the primary texts as they are normally interpreted. But Witchdom is, by its very nature, iconoclastic. And all those who practice the Craft deeply have an intuitive feeling that its roots stretch back into the distant past, the scholarship of such worthies as Ronald Hutton9 notwithstanding. Those of us who have sunk deep into the well of the Craft know, in our guts, that the threads of lore, ritual and spellwork that we hold in our hands today were first woven eons ago. We often hear our contemporaries claim that the Craft was first practiced by Neolithic man before the dawn of recorded history.
If I am right in my surmise, the truth is even more fantastic, and the Craft as we know it was first practiced before the very existence of time itself, by that eldritch and magickal folk we know today as the J�tnar.
1 Huson, Paul; Mastering Witchcraft; Perigee Trade (December 5, 1980).
2 Edred (aka Edred Thorsson); Witchdom of the True; Runa-Raven Press (1999).
3 In some versions/translations, W�den is said to have created Midgard from the body of Aurgelmir, and to have placed it among other worlds in the branches of the World Tree. In other versions/translations, he is said to have fashioned and placed all of the Nine Worlds. But since two of those worlds - Nifelheim and Muspelheim - clearly pre-exist W�den, then the former case makes more "mythic sense, " and, incidentally, works better in my particular theory.
4 The dwarves were created from maggots found in the flesh of Aurgelmir. W�den and his brothers gave them the gifts of man-like form and thought, and even set four of them to hold up the corners of the sky, which was, incidentally, fashioned from the dome of Aurgelmir's skull...
5 Lindow, John; Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs; Oxford University Press (September 1, 2002).
6 It is quite probable that Audhumla was, originally, envisioned as an aurochs, rather than as a domestic cow. The aurochs were wild bovines of pre-Viking Age Northern Europe, and had more in common with North American bison than with domestic cattle.
7 For the complete Norse creation myth, the reader is referred to one of any of the excellent translations and/or compilations of the primary texts.
8 Edred; Witchdom of the True; Runa-Raven Press (1999). Also Coulter, James Hjuka; Germanic Heathenry: A Practical Guide; Authorhouse (August 1, 2003).
9 Hutton, Ronald; The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft; Oxford University Press (April 1, 2001).
Copyright: Copyright � RuneWolf 2005 | is one�s fancy, back to the forbidding crags of J�tunheim, or to the shining meadows of its sister-realm, Vanaheim.
Edred, among others, speculates that the tension between the modern revival of the Odhinnic cult as seen in Asatru and the resurgence of the cult of the Vanir as seen in modern Witchcraft, is no more or less than the age-old tension between the Aesiric and Vanic streams. If | 101 |
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Tsebiyah Mishael is a New York native and graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in Westchester, New York, where she studied acting, history and writing. She enjoys writing about social and race politics, news, popular culture and any combination of all of the above. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York and makes a living as a writer, singer and actor. She is currently working on her debut solo EP, and stars as Tamika in the off-broadway "Sistas The Musical." For more info, follow Tsebiyah on twitter @Tsebiyah or visit her website: www.tsebiyah.com for photos and her personal blog.
Tomás Doncker, internationally acclaimed guitarist, has collaborated with Pulitzer prized winning poet, Yusef Komanyakaa, to produce "Big Apple Blues," a funky, bluesy portrayal of New York City and all the history it holds. Doncker's past collaborations are nothing to sneeze at, including names like Yoko Ono and Grammy-winning producer Prince Charles Alexander. Yusef Komanyakaa, a professor<|fim_middle|>" Is Actually Dope!
The album begins with a bang, the title song starting with no less than a rumbling explosion of growling vocals, sizzling bass and the tremor of sustained guitar riffs. But the track soon settles into a smooth and dark mood of storytelling, which builds with steady intensity. In "The New Day," in which the hard workweek is contrasted against the slowness of Church Sunday, and the opportunity to recharge. The song itself sounds like a Sunday morning, with bright sunny chords around a slow swinging drum beat and bass, laced with the sweetness of Doncker's vocals. You can listen to it below.
The whole album is a unique combination of Southern soul and city chaos, which makes sense when you look at the title, "Big Apple Blues." In fact, it seems to be held together almost entirely by contradictions. Doncker's raspy vocals are hard to place at first; is it gritty and angry, or smooth and smiling? This contradictory makeup ends up working out to his advantage. Doncker's versatility shows off brightly in the course of the album, as he puts to use both the sweetness and roughness of his texture at appropriate times, and painting a colorful, vivid picture for the listener. Komanyakaa's lyrics bring the entire vision together, of course, with a style of storytelling that keeps the imagination at work while playing through the album.
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When it comes to the tracks on "Big Apple Blues," the bluesy-er, the better. The album hits its strong points with songs like "Hellfighters of Harlem," which is most clearly an ode to the rich civil rights history of New York, and is equipped with harmonies that are reminiscent of the hauntingly full vocals of The Temptations in "Papa Was A Rolling Stone." "At This Midnight Hour" showcases the tiny tremors in Doncker's voice, which can be hard to catch without the opportunities that specific song presents. Check out "Hellfighters of Harlem" below.
"Coney Island" presents a similar vibe as "The New Day," but with a more idyllic, nostalgic feel. You can hear the smile in Doncker's voice as he communicates Komanyakaa's picturesque language. This song serves as the example for how Yusef and Tomás' collaboration works; Yusef's lyrics here are childlike and simple, and Tomás' guitar and vocals imitate- and support -that exceptionally well. Doncker provides the color for an image constructed by Komunyakaa.
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Their seemingly effortless ability to support each other's medium using their own probably has something to do with the fact that the two have collaborated before, which yielded "Moanin' at Midnight: The Howlin' Wolf Project" album. The project was more than well received from sources such as Popmatters, All About Jazz, and Howlin' Wolf's own official website. The album is officially released today, October 21st, via True Groove Records. "Big Apple Blues" will be introduced live to audiences at the Dodge Poetry Festival, October 23-26th, sponsored by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. You can listen to the entirety of Big Apple Blues on Soundcloud now.
Art big apple blues Blues Church Creativity guitar Harlem jazz new music new york New York City sundays tomás doncker tomás doncker band yoko ono yusef komunyakaa | at New York University and world renowned poet, has seen more of the world than just New York, as a Louisana native who spent a considerable amount of time in Vietnam. Even though his words are centered around the Big Apple in this project, they paint a unique and authentic picture of New York that is undoubtedly fed by Mr. Komunyakaa's incredible life experiences. As a result, Tomás Doncker Band's finished project is a wealth of creativity and vibrant storytelling.
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This year I am starting something new! New Years' Resolution time, right?
Here's the backstory. I<|fim_middle|> minutes everyday creating something. #365create Follow along on Instagram!
Everyone has 10 minutes a day, right? Some projects will be kind of slow, but hey, you are creating something 10 minutes at a time! Pictured above are the first 5 days of January for me. I knitted a couple more rows on Kaleb's blanket and I hand bound a doll quilt. Yes, I gave my daughter an unfinished doll quilt for Christmas, lame I know!
I am anxiously waiting in the mail for my Farmer's Wife quilt book. I am going to attack that this tax season with my 10 minutes a day. You can play too! I will keep you updated on how I get this quilt done with 10 minutes a day!
What are you going to create? Do you have 10 minutes? | love to sew, crochet, knit, embroider, play with my Silhouette; pretty much ANY kind of crafting, I love!!! But I also love my kiddos and have 4 of them, so I am BUSY! And lets not forget the house that I like to take care of (well mostly, I hate dishes. 🙂 I have a lot of projects that I have started over the years (I think I have heard them called UFOs- unfinished objects). I also have new projects that I want to start! But I NEVER get around to it!
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Adwoa Aboah, photographed in West Hollywood. Aboah wears a gown by Rosie Assoulin, earrings by Vita Fede.Photograph by Lauren Dukoff.
How Instagram Changed @gurlstalk Founder Adwoa Aboah's Life
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For some (many?), Instagram is a place where anonymous commenters emerge from an online abyss to say nasty things about strangers. But, for Adwoa Aboah, the 24-year-old British model who founded the empowering account called Gurls Talk in 2015, after she checked out of rehab, the social network changed her life. "It makes me happier than anything, and it gets me up in the morning," she says from behind the wheel of her Jeep Wrangler in Los Angeles, where she moved, post-treatment, from London for a fresh start. "It keeps me from going back to that dark place."
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The @gurlstalk account is, she says, "a space that creates a trusting and loving environment—where you can realize there are tons of other girls that are going through similar things." Aboah is refreshingly, even fearlessly, frank about her challenges with alcohol, drugs, and low self-esteem, which began when she felt displaced in a boarding school outside London. ("I think I wore a hat for two years straight," she likes to say.) Earlier this year in Teen Vogue, she talked with longtime pal Cara Delevingne (they have matching half-heart tattoos) about a suicide attempt.
Photograph by Lauren Dukoff.
Aboah modeled in spurts when she was young, but her career took off when she got sober and realized "I can't be anyone else." Tim Walker photographed her for the cover of Italian Vogue last December, and when she posted a cover she did for i-D on Instagram, the caption said, "I feel truly blessed to be on this journey that someone, somewhere has thrown at me." Aboah blushes and lets out a giant smile when she<|fim_middle|> has worked for brands like Tom Ford, Balmain, and Moschino—talks to Derek Blasberg about his rapid ascent in the fashion world.
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They belong to the Instagram generation – where they have built a cult following<|fim_middle|>ison. | for their uniquely Sri Lankan brand. Yet for Akarsha Weerasooriya and Saliya Gunasekera, this is only the beginning of their entrepreneurial journey.
They have done just that. With their first collection of high quality T shirts that came out with the launch during the Season, CMB1948 made an impression. The T Shirts sold out in no time; "Our audiences identify with the brand – it is hip, it is now and it is very, very social media savvy so they can connect with the brand instantly," adds Saliya.
"We are a totally Sri Lankan brand. In appeal and in identity. Clean, simple lines that bring home the fragrance of our island home. Memories that linger on of the beaches, the emerald seas, the blue green mountains and the breathtaking scenery. And our people. The ones you meet every day. The ones with whom you celebrate life and love.
Their next collection will be launched tomorrow, 19 January – a curated collection will be available at a pop up store at Dolce Italia on Skelton Road, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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H<|fim_middle|> a clean sheet. | emel Town goalkeeper Jamie Butler believes that a win against Whitehawk tomorrow could be just what the Tudors need to get their promotion hopes back on track.
Hemel go into the game on the back of two draws and two defeats from their last four National League South matches, and Butler knows that the Tudors must start putting together a run of form if they want to make the top-five.
One win would get us right back up there with a game in hand, and it would give us the confidence that we need to go on a good run.
"We've had a bit of a mixed season – we started off well but we haven't had a great deal of consistency since the first five games," said Butler. "We seem to win a couple, lose one, then draw one so we need to start putting a little bit of a run together.
"It's frustrating because we have given a lot of leads away. We are dangerous going forward but defensively we haven't had a settled back four. As soon as we can get that, we can start to build relationships and that will only help us.
Butler knows that he could be in for a busy afternoon on the south coast tomorrow, but believes that a win could be vital in the context of the playoff race.
"We've watched a bit of Whitehawk and I would say that they are quite similar to us – they like to play football and have got players who can hurt you going forward but we have got to go there and get a result," said the Hemel number one.
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And just today Shop Savvy released the their estimation of percentage of smartphone users that use Shop Savvy based on a comScore Report on U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share. By their estimation Shop Savvy is used by more than 10% of smartphone users.
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We all as human beings suffer stress. I have heard there is 'good stress' Really? Not in my experience because the 'good stress' in my experience is not what you notice. You certainly notice 'bad stress'.
We all get anxiety and stress and if it's prolonged it can lead to depression. Stress is also unavoidable, but in my view it can be managed. This article looks at a way of 'rationalising' the issues that lead to negative thoughts, those thoughts that lead to emotions of which<|fim_middle|> can expand on later in the day. Doing this may give you a sense you are doing something.
We all have problems; I hope you will find it useful in tackling those issues. | one is stress. As negative thoughts are basically the roots of stress, anxiety and depression.
Good sleep patterns. If you have problems with sleeping this reduces the capacity to cope with problems that inevitably come along. You can cope with them much better when you sleep well. Find out your optimum hours of sleep you need. Everyone is different but recommended for adults six and a half to nine hours. I once heard that one hour before midnight is worth two hours after midnight.
Develop a routine where if possible you go to bed at the same time each night. Preceding with this a good bed time routine. For example, avoid activities that stimulate the brain. Everyone has their own way of relaxing.
I realise that some of you reading this will work on night shifts or differing shifts, this is more difficult to manage but if you can't get the same time you may be able to follow the same bed time routine. This prepares the body for sleep.
Breathing exercises are a very good way of relaxing the body. There are many techniques which can be found on the internet. One I recommend to my clients is to take a deep breath, hold it for a while and then blow out. The emphasis on the 'blow out'. This is portable and can be used virtually at any time if you feel you are getting stressed about something.
What is in your control and out of your control?
When faced with something that worries you, ask yourself can I do anything about the issue or is it out my control. If it is out of your control try to replace the though with something else.
If it is in your control ask yourself will it matter in a week, a month, six months and a year.
If you have an issue you have to sort, the first rule is don't leave it. The problem with leaving a problem is that you don't stop thinking about it or it is there in the background.
Tackle the problem immediately; if the problem seems too big, break it down into smaller parts. If the problem keeps you awake, write a brief plan of action which you | 420 |
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You could be the most compelling offline copywriter but you can still fail on the web. The difference roots on the web being interactive and the other one is not. The target audiences on web marketing are usually scanners and skimmers. They don't really want to read, to browse is the more appropriate term.
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"I worked a bunch of stupid jobs." These are the words of one of the smartest internet marketers on today's internet marketing circuit. This man who worked as pizza delivery boy before is now known as the man who is continuously carrying on the most up-to-date advances in the internet's Information Marketing industry. Dean is presently categorized as one of the most triumphant person in Internet marketing business today.
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Golf resort Black Stork in Veľká Lomnica on the sunny part of High Tatras is the largest golf course in Slovakia, with training grounds, professional PGA trainers<|fim_middle|> course, it is worthy to visit such a scenery and – play golf. This course is domicil of Lomnicky GK.
Black Stork - Veľká Lomnica - Black Stork (9) is not yet in our pool of Golf Courses for orders. | , rental, golf school and a shop. In the centre of the course is the International **** hotel.
The history of the Black Stork golf course (Černý čáp in Czech, Čierný bocian in Slovak) is dated back to 1999 when the local driving range with a temporary clubhouse were inaugurated. Six years later golfers started to play on nine holes and other nine holes were added to them a year later, since September 2007 a new nine holes were opened to the public.
Apart form 27 holes golf course a public course with nine par 3 holes, a putting green, indoor tees and a golf simulator.
The course itself has charactaristicss which satisfy all golfers. There are 4-5 tees on each hole for men, women can play from two tees. Its par is 72 with a classical set of holes of par 3, 4 and 5. Today 3 combinations can be played – Village Course (length 5.805 meters from yellow tees, 4.909 meters from red tees), Panorama Course (length 5.539 meters from yellow tees, 4.638 meters from red tees), International Course (length 5.650 meters from yellow tees, 4.769 from red tees).
The rating of the course shows that it is not very easy course. First four holes prove it, there are water hazards straggled and biting in the course. Nevertheless, even the other holes are not depleted. The longest hole is Nr. 10, par 5, 485, or more precisely 417 metres long and the shortest hole is Nr. 17, par 3, which is 128, or more precisely 98 metres long. The most difficult hole is Nr. 5 at Village Course and Nr. 12 at Panorama Course.
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After experiencing the spectacle of the latest Oddworld at E3, Happy Puppy couldn't resist having a little bowwow, er, powwow with Oddworld Inhabitants cofounder and president Lorne Lanning. Before his foray into video games, Lorne spent 12 years masterminding commercials and the special effects for movies and visual attractions. He also has all kinds of thoughts on where games are headed. Check out what Abe's daddy had to say in our exclusive interview.
Happy Puppy: How is the new Oddworld game coming along?
Lorne Lanning: Like wrestling a room full of monkeys back into a barrel.
HP: Got a release date yet?
Lorne Lanning: Spring of 2001.
HP: You talked about having trouble with the PlayStation2 hardware as far as anti‐aliasing goes…has that been ironed out?
Lorne Lanning: We've spent a lot of time and money to get the image quality much better, but it's still not as perfect as we would like.
HP: Can you explain what you are trying to accomplish with Munch as far as expanding our concept of games?
Lorne Lanning: Okay, try to think of it like this: you will be controlling Munch and Abe, who are now more dynamic than you've seen or felt even from a character like Mario. You use their GameSpeak® to control and reposition other characters, like you would in Age of Empires with a mouse. You manage resources of factories and natural facilities, like you would in RTS and Sim games, but we've lightened the cryptic qualities to keep it simple but involved, and fun. And you will unfold an action‐adventure story in classic Oddworld tradition. As you enter specific areas, you will find that there are puzzles, but it's definitely not a puzzle game.
HP: You talked about some high concepts at E3 as far as the plot to Munch goes. Who came up with the whole consumerism vs. mysticism theme?
Lorne Lanning: Consumerism vs. mysticism is something that has been the backbone of much of my thinking since before I can remember. In creating the content of Oddworld, this concept was a natural choice for me.
HP: How long has the idea of Oddworld actually been in development?
Lorne Lanning: The Oddworld quintology was really a compilation of many short (and some long) stories that I had been working on for years prior to founding the company of Oddworld Inhabitants with Sherry. The themes of these stories were consistent and related to one another in so many ways, that eventually they seemed to synthesize together into one massive epic. The epic had really been envisioned as motion pictures first, but through games they actually found their way into reality. The very first beginnings of the Oddworld stories probably started around 1987. They just weren't compiled or called Oddworld yet.
HP: What's the story this time around? Who are the main players?
HP: Munch seems to be a mix of a number of genres. Explain the strategy portion of it — I heard you have to care for the environment.
Lorne Lanning: In an RTS game, you build forces and use them for a specific strategic goal. You use a mouse to grab characters and position them to do your bidding, such as, 'guard here' or 'attack' or 'gather resources.' In Munch's Oddysee, you use the characters you're controlling to GameSpeak other characters. You can relocate them, put them to work, have them gather resources, have them defend an area, or use them as weapons. But you've never done this before with dynamic‐controlled characters that feel like they have great physics and are very lifelike. Imagine Age of Empires being controlled by Mario, and you might start to get the idea.
When it comes to the simulated landscape elements, land will be fertile if it hasn't been polluted and if the rains are still coming. But if the land has been raped and is barren of water or trees, then the life‐forms that live on the land will come into hard times, reproduce less often, etc. It's critical to us that the gamer has responsibility over the landscape. The gamer's actions, or lack of actions, will influence the state of the landscape, and as a result, influence the availability of resources and the behavior of the lands' inhabitants.
We will also be cycling between day and night. Some of the world's creatures live by day, others by night. A factory is in full production during the day, and tends to wind down at night. Nocturnal creatures come out to hunt at night, but sleep in caves during the day. You'll have the ability to wait out circumstances and decide that it would be wiser to attempt infiltration of a factory at night, rather than in daylight. Strategies abound when you have a playing field that behaves this way.
The more fertile a land is, the more it produces plants, creatures, etc. These are all resources that the player depends on. The more barren a land is, the fewer resources it produces. The more polluted a land is, the more problems arise. Ultimately, you have the power to influence the environment toward or away from any of these possibilities. Many times, you will need to<|fim_middle|>'s Oddysee. There are five major parts to the story as a whole. The second game in the quintology is Munch's Oddysee. The quintology is one massive—and I do mean massive—story that needed to be broken into five parts. Throughout the quintology, the Oddworld universe will reveal more of itself to the gamer. More and more characters will be introduced, and the plot will continually thicken. It's not like we are coming up with each of these games as they come along. We know how the stories will grow and where they are going. Right now, Oddworld might seem like a fairly small place with just a few dilemmas. However, as the quintology unfolds, you will find that everything we showed you from the beginning has major importance as we come toward the end. As for the basis of the story, its focus is on Abe and his quest to deliver his people out of repression. But the more good that Abe does, the worse things become, and the more twisted things become. Also, each quintology game introduces a new central character. Munch's Oddysee introduces Munch, and thus Abe and Munch go about the mythology. The third game in the quintology is called Squeek's Oddysee. In this game, you will control Abe, Munch, and Squeek all at once. By the fifth game, you will control five primary characters all at once.
Additional good news is that people won't have to play all five games to figure out what's going on. Each game will stand on its own as a story and as an experience. However, if a gamer is familiar with the previous games, it will make the new stories that much more interesting.
HP: Finally, how do you think the PlayStation2 will do in the coming years?
Lorne Lanning: It's got some issues of its own, and also some heavy competition coming from Microsoft. In the beginning, we felt very confident about Sony's success with its 128‐bit system, but we also expected to see much better software coming out of Japan when it was released. If the system proves too hard for people to develop for, then it's going to be that much harder for Sony to win the next round. In the end, it's good, solid software that sells game systems, regardless of how powerful the chips are.
Lorne brings 12 years' experience in the field of computer‐generated special effects to the helm of the Oddworld team. Prior to forming Oddworld Inhabitants, Lorne was the creative director of special projects at Rhythm & Hues Studios. While at Rhythm & Hues, he was visual Efx supervisor for MCA/Universal's Seafari attraction, and the MGM Grand 3D stereoscopic show, EFX. Prior to this, he served as technical director for several award‐winning commercials such as Mazda Time Machine, Reebok Catapult, Goldentex, and special venue films such as the Hanna‐Barbera Funtastic Adventure ride film, and Euro Disney's LeVisionarium circlevision attraction. Prior to special‐effects production, Lorne worked for TRW as a technical director for aerospace visualization. Lorne is the indefatigable mastermind of Oddworld Inhabitants, stamping his indelible imprint on every aspect of production, from Abe's distinctive gait to all of Oddworld's many inhabitants. With the multiple‐award‐winning Abe's Oddysee and Abe's Exoddus under his belt, Lorne is now scheming to extend the Oddworld franchise into the home of every man, woman, and child on Earth, starting with Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee. | nurture the environment so that it will bring forth what you need.
HP: What else will players get to do?
Lorne Lanning: Let's say your goal to a particular level is to shut down a factory. There would be several different ways that you could achieve this. You could rescue the employees of the factory and cause it to have no labor, thus it would shut down. You could steal all the employees and bring them to another local factory, and thus shut it down a different way. You could kill the employees that are gathering resources for the factory, and still succeed in shutting it down. As the approaches to solving problems are in how you utilize the chemistry of the characters and mechanics of the game, you can utilize these chemistries in completely different ways or different strategies to achieve similar goals. However, how you achieve your goals can have an impact on the environment, on other characters' attitudes, and on your own Quarmic status.
HP: You have prior Hollywood experience on your resume, correct? What kind of projects did you work on?
Lorne Lanning: Commercials, motion pictures, theme‐park attractions.
HP: Any relation to Lorne Michaels?
Lorne Lanning: Aren't people usually related by last names?
HP: Convergence of games and movies is a much‐talked‐about event. Do you believe in this idea?
Lorne Lanning: It's all entertainment. When the interactive systems are powerful enough and the designers are being creative enough, then we will see that games (which should be called something different by then) will actually give us all of the emotional and intellectual rewards we expect from movies. But they will also have additional and more potent aspects. The day when this begins to happen, movies are going to be in big trouble.
HP: Any plans for an Oddworld movie or cartoon?
Lorne Lanning: It's always been part of our plan to bring Oddworld to the big screen and to other mediums. As of right now, there's been a lot of talk, but we haven't signed anything on the dotted line.
HP: What are some of your favorite movies?
Lorne Lanning: My favorite movies of all time are: Blade Runner (director's cut), Clockwork Orange, 2001, Apocalypse Now, The Time Machine, Empire Strikes Back, Schindler's List, and Ghost in the Shell. I greatly appreciate the depth of story and subtext in these movies. They're a rarity in a world where Hollywood force‐feeds us a constant barrage of boring, formula crap. I want to throw up at 95 percent of the movies that I see. But my favorite movies all take inspiring and controversial concepts and bring them to life in wonderfully lit, rich, dramatic worlds. They are interwoven with vast complexities and manage to pull it off in very simple and elegant ways through fabulous writing, cinematography, and production design. I must have watched Ghost in the Shell more times than any other movie, ever.
HP: Did you grow up playing games?
Lorne Lanning: I had a paper route when I was a still in junior high, which meant that I always had plenty of quarters and was playing plenty of pinball. Which also meant that as soon as Pong and Asteroids and all those old classics came out, I was dumping my whole income into them. It also helped that my dad was an engineer for ColecoVision.
HP: What made you decide to make the switch from movies to games? A lot of people put movies on a pedestal, you know.
Lorne Lanning: One reason is that I'm a big believer in game technology and its ability to become a very important entertainment medium and art form. The other is that it's incredibly difficult to control content if you're working with Hollywood. The studios want to control everything and the budgets are just too high. The higher the price tag of the project you're trying to create, the more people will be involved and the less likely it is to succeed or to be a quality project. Also, in the game world, we're our own content providers. In Hollywood, we're a service business. In games, we have creative and management control, which is extremely important to us. In Hollywood, even the best directors don't have full creative control. By the time we get involved with Hollywood again, we'll be the client, not the vendor.
HP: Obviously, you're pushing how far games can go, but for the most part, they lack the emotional factor of the best movies. Have you set out to change this?
Lorne Lanning: Definitely, but this is something that is hard to describe with words. I think Munch will take this fusion a lot further than it has been taken in the past. But ultimately, we're still a generation or two of hardware away (beyond 128‐bit) from the power we're really going to need to convince nearly all people that this medium is the ultimate medium.
HP: Was it hard converting a 2D game into 3D?
Lorne Lanning: No, because it's all just mechanics that can easily transfer. What's hard is figuring out how to make 3D better and stronger than what it's been before. In most real‐time 3D games, the two biggest shortcomings that we identified and addressed deal with the camera's systems and the character's sense of truly being aware in the world. Many people do not enjoy roving, wild, whip‐panning camera activity that comes with over‐the‐shoulder or POV. So we will be doing a different twist to the camera logic that aims to fix the orientation and motion‐sickness problems that result from the status quo of what's going on out there. Our camera system will feel more cinematic in its delivery, without compromising play ability.
As for characters, we feel the industry is suffering from a 'virtual idiot' phenomenon. What was very easy for a character to accomplish in a 2D gaming environment has become much more difficult in 3D. The controls and characters don't seem to know where the pick‐up item is; they can't figure out the doorway is right in front of them without slamming into the wall; they jam up in tight corridors because controlling efforts are not precise. For example, pick‐up items used to take one fraction of a second in 2D, but now, in even some of the best examples like Zelda or Mario, a pick‐up item (or sign to read) takes five times longer, and as a result, makes the character look stupid. So we've been working on a system that helps the game's inhabitant identify where it is in the environment, and also recognizes what items of interest might be nearby. So picking up an item should be as fluid as it used to be in 2D, yet still look totally real and convincing in 3D. The same applies to a character running through a hallway, entering a tight doorway, or anything else that involves having the desire of the game player manifest more easily in controlling the game's inhabitants.
HP: Oddworld is supposed to be a five‐part series. What could possibly follow a game like Munch?
Lorne Lanning: The quintology started with Abe | 1,493 |
We<|fim_middle|>. | love New Jersey for so many reasons, not the least of which is how fortunate we are to have great outdoor spaces. In fact, some of the best amenities in our region are the miles of multi-use trails — the Circuit Trails — that connect those outdoor spaces with our neighborhoods and communities.
The Circuit spans nine counties in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. When complete, the network will include 750 miles of interconnected trails. As of today, more than 320 miles are completed, one quarter of them in New Jersey. The Circuit provides our region a place for healthy transportation and recreation, connects our people to green spaces and area waterways, and makes our communities more welcoming places to live and work.
Our region is also home to abandoned rail corridors. These corridors are significant to the Circuit vision — when converted to trails, they make up more than 75 percent of current and planned trails in the network. A vital link on the Circuit that remains undone is NJ Transit's inactive rail bridge over Route 130 in Pennsauken. Rails-to-Trails Conservancy has developed a plan aimed at completing a trail segment across the bridge to connect Merchantville to Pennsauken, Camden and the Ben Franklin Bridge into Philadelphia, creating access to the active recreational opportunities people in the region desire. In fact, this section of abandoned rail, once converted to a trail, will be one of the only walkable, bikeable travel options between Pennsauken, downtown Camden and Philadelphia. In its present state, the overgrown rail bed is an illegal dumping ground and was the site of an attempted abduction of a 14-year-old in 2014. A cleared trail will not only offer active recreation, but will be safer for all residents, young and old.
It's very exciting that after many years of advocacy and partnership, this trail project is primed to become reality. The rail-to-trail conversion has the support of the Camden County Board of Freeholders, Pennsauken and Merchantville elected officials, regional community organizations and, most importantly, the community. Partnering with UrbanPromise, the Delaware Gardens Neighborhood Initiative, and volunteers from Dow Chemical in Pennsauken, we have hosted community cleanups on the corridor, inviting residents to envision the path as a formal trail — one they can claim as their own.
Even more good news is that more than enough public funding — specifically designated for trail development — is now available in New Jersey. This funding would cover the expense of the Route 130 bridge enhancements. The county freeholders have committed to the first step in the process, which is an engineering inspection of the Route 130 bridge to assess the structural integrity of the overpass. Once complete, it will be clear what actions are necessary to make the bridge safe for bicycle and pedestrian use.
Beautifying the land on and around abandoned corridors has historically been shown to increase property values, benefit the health of a community and contribute positively to a community's identity, safety and revitalization.
We are proud of the work that's been done to bring together partners from Camden County in support of this trail. It's our hope that this momentum puts us on the right path forward — closer to a trail that connects Burlington and Camden, right through Pennsauken.
Betsy McBride is the mayor of Pennsauken and has worked since 2014 on efforts to build the Burlington-Camden Connector. Liz Sewell is a trail planner in Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's Philadelphia-Camden office and is working with the Circuit Trails Coalition and local officials to move the project forward.
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We drove down on a Monday. The<|fim_middle|> beautiful, but hot day. I was determined to make out to the small spoil islands, and if possible, the small keys beyond.
In addition to being an inefficient kayak, the viewport proved to be a distraction. I'd stop paddling and float along to see what was down below. Unfortunately, I also splashed lots of water onto the port while paddling, and that created obstructions. Before I knew it I was coming up on a channel marker, then realized is was the wrong marker. I thought I was coming up on the near side, but as it turns out, I was in the middle of the channel. Fortunately, this one doesn't get the traffic that the Indian River gets, so I was OK. I scoot on through and headed toward the spoils.
The spoil islands themselves were very different from the ones in the Indian River. These were shallows with a silty base, held together with mangroves. I tried to step out, but my feet sank into the silt. When I got back into the kayak I splashed milky liquid all over the viewport. Oh well. An osprey kept watch with a fish he had caught.
I could see fish, anemones, and coral down below. I hadn't brought my GoPro, but I held Fuji the waterproof camera under the water for a couple of shots.
The next Key was further off than I had thought. I could have made it quite easily, but I was on a bit of a time crunch, what with rental fees and all. I started to make my way back. That also proved a bit longer than I thought. As I approached, activity increased along the beach behind the resort. There were other kayaks and stand up paddle boards, but none venturing out as far as I had. There were also jet skis zipping about. I decided to give them a wide berth.
I joined Laura at the pool where she had been all morning. There weren't many people out at the lower pool, so we set up camp for the rest of the day. Lunch was from the local snack bar, as were some very tasty drinks.
Dinnertime came and we were in no mood for more exorbitant prices at the resort. Instead, we headed into Key Largo and found a place called Sharkey's. It was out of the way, but had great food at a fraction of the cost at the resort. We watched the boat traffic along the channel just below the joint while we ate.
We made it back in time to catch a spectacular sunset. | drive from Fort Pierce to the Keys is not the most exciting stretch, until you reach the end of the Turnpike. There, US 1 takes over, and the two-lane route leads over wetlands and mangroves. While beautiful, the area is fenced, and there is nowhere to stop. Eventually we reached the bridge crossing Blackwater Sound and arrived at Key Largo.
Our room wasn't quite ready, so we had some time to explore. As we drove down coastal highway I could have sworn that we passed the same weathered old denizen of the Keys multiple times. If it hadn't been for subtle differences I would have sworn that it was the same person. There was always dirty, stringy, long blonde hair and deep creased tanned skin. Sometimes it was a woman, and sometimes it was an aging surfer dude. There was always a bicycle. It was a bit creepy.
In contrast, our room was luxurious. We had views westward across the Gulf of Mexico. We opened the sliding doors and watched as an afternoon storm rolled by.
When the rains stopped we set out to explore. The resort had a nice beach area along the gulf, and a place to rent various water sport gear. The pool area was on the other side of the hotel. The pools were smallish, but there were two of them – an upper pool for families and a lower one for adults. We took advantage of the lower pool with its cascade.
Dinner was excellent, but quite pricey in the hotel restaurant. We watched the sun set into the Gulf through a thick layer of clouds.
Laura's plan was just to camp out at the pool. I jokingly said we could have had a much less expensive holiday by getting a room at the local Embassy Suites. However, I wouldn't have been able to accomplish my objective for the morning, which was to kayak out to the smaller keys visible across the channel.
I left four kayaks back at Amy's house in Fort Pierce. Despite being surrounded by water, I hadn't brought a single boat down with me. We had called earlier, and the resort said that they couldn't provide a place to keep the kayaks secure. I didn't want to leave the boat on top of my car, and I certainly couldn't keep it in the room. That meant I was stuck with whatever they had available for rental.
That turned out to be a sit on top that paddled like a bathtub. It did have one redeeming feature – a Plexiglas viewport in the bottom of the kayak.
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For once our opinions are relevant and timely instead of only thoughtful and brilliant! Three of the Grouches got to take in a preview screening of Steven Soderbergh's newest film, The Informant!. Matt Damon stars as Mark Whitacre, a manager at agri-conglomerate ADM in the early 90s.<|fim_middle|>, Tom Wilson, and the Smothers Brothers in a comedy if they are all going to play straight?
The highest praise I can give The Informant! is that it is spot-on tonally. Rather than playing the plot straight, Soderbergh turns the story into a madcap adventure into one businessman's twisted mind. The plot is interesting enough but the true strength comes in all the clever little touches and humorous absurdities. I wouldn't call it laugh-out-loud funny for the most part but it's always amusing and intensely fun. Damon should get some Best Actor consideration. In short: see this because not only is it terrific but I fear it will need every dollar it can scrounge up. The Oscar season is truly off and running. | He tips the FBI off to his firm's schemes to fix prices for corn derivatives. But rather than a corporate or crime thriller – this is no Michael Clayton or The Firm – The Informant! is a zany journey through Whitacre's twisted motivations and off-kilter personality.
Speaking as someone who knew next to nothing about the ins and outs of the Mark Whitacre story, I loved watching the plot unfold and seeing the case for/against ADM unfold. Damon was hilarious and transformative, and Marvin Hamlisch's score reminded me of one of my favorite movies, The Sting. Even before the big reveals towards the end, I enjoyed playing the "crazy like a fox?" or "just plain crazy?" game with Damon. Highly recommended.
Frustratingly obvious and consistently flat, The Informant! knows where the jokes should be, but fails to deliver on any of the punchlines. Perhaps because I knew the story ahead of time, the barely-there plot isn't as twisty as it thinks it is. But maybe most disappointing is the criminally underused supporting cast. What's the point in having people like Scott Bakula, Tony Hale | 235 |
Basically, I have data that ranges from 2015 to 2017 in a YYYYMM format (that I also broke out into Year and Month) for a list of members that would be used to calculate a rate per month: sum(num)/sum(denom). What I'm trying to do is create a "reference line" with a confidence interval that will display the average rate over the 3 years per month. So it can't be constant, which is the problem I've been running into. If in January the rate averages to be 55, I want the line to be at the 55 mark. But if the June average rate is 63, I want it to be at the 63 mark and so on. This is what I currently have looks like, but the reference line is just displaying the overall average not the average<|fim_middle|>'t want the reference line to be a whole average, but average of January 2015-2017 rates, then average of February 15-17 rates, etc.
and choose to calculate Ref Lines per Cell, you may get it.
Thank you. This solved that question. However, it looks like it's better if I calculate my own confidence intervals display wise. I can smooth out the shading better. | per month like I want it to. The point of the confidence interval is to help portray when the current month's rate is slightly lower than prior year but still within average/confidence interval. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have figured a way using my own calculated confidence intervals to use stacked area to shade the wanted band. I'd still like to know if there is a way to use Tableau's calculations? Again, I wouldn | 88 |
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New HVAC Installations: What Does a New Air Conditioner and Furnace Cost in Indianapolis?
All of these factors and more help to decide the style, size, and level of work necessary to properly heat and cool a home, which usually goes into the cost of the new system.
Due to the fact that every home's heating and cooling system must be totally custom created and installed, it is very tough for good contractors like Broad Ripple Service Experts to give a specific estimate without understanding all the factors on-site through an in-home comfort analysis. However, we can provide broad ranges of the possible HVAC system price based on the general size of a home that isn't yet 30 years old. It's important to note that, even the price ranges above may vary much more, depending on all the factors and circumstances of a particular home and homeowner.
Central heating and cooling systems are similar to vehicle classes. Systems usually fall into broad (and sometimes inaccurate) ranges of "economy", "mid-level", and "premium". However, because every homeowner is unique, each new heating and cooling system is manually installed, and because of all the prior factors we discussed, the<|fim_middle|>-Fi options now exist.
Other home comfort choices include adding the recommended amount of insulation or redesigning, correcting, and cleaning ductwork to make sure the system performs efficiently. Some selections can be bought as a set, but many of these choices must be figured out through a complete Home Comfort Analysis, which is a free service we offer.
All of these options must be considered very carefully, since the best air conditioner or furnace will never correctly control the comfort of the home if the duct work, attic insulation, or air filter is deficient for the home and its inhabitants. To read more or get your free Home Comfort Analysis, which includes your individualized new system estimate, call 317-527-0271 now, or download our free eBook "Home Heating and Air Conditioning for Dummies". | process and ultimate pricing of a heating and cooling system could be compared to picking vehicle "Options."
Home comfort Options include size and efficiency, in addition to air quality control, such as the efficiency of air cleaners and air filters. Air quality control systems are essential for homeowners with infants and children, people in the home with allergy or respiratory problems, or climate control issues that need humidification controls. Thermostat controls are also an important part of the home comfort puzzle, and a large selection of mobile and Wi | 100 |
AIIMS Doctors Find New Source of<|fim_middle|>let concentrate. | Platelets
By Kounteya Sinha
This dengue season, you don't have to go frantically looking for blood donors to save your loved ones, nor buy expensive platelet kits. In a move that will come as a major boon for family members not knowing where to arrange for the life saving platelets, doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences have found a rich new source of platelets– buffycoat..
Buffycoat is a layer in our blood as tiny as 1% of total volume of blood that till now was completely overlooked but was recently found to be highly rich in platelet content.
Doctors at AIIMS, just like they stock up blood in banks, are now separating the buffycoat layers from normally donated blood and saving the platelets for future use.
The advantage– patients in AIIMS will get platelet as and when they want it without facing any shortage during peak dengue months. What's best, the platelets will come for free. At present, family members of dengue patients needing plattelets have to first undergo HIV, Hep B and C tests to prove their blood is safe and check their haemoglobin count. They have to then donate blood and purchase a single donor platelet kit that costs nearly Rs 6,700.
In comparison, platelets derived from the buffycoat layer of four units of donated blood is equivalent to a single such kit. Infusion of one kit increases platelet count by almost 50,000 in a patient within minutes.
"Most of the patients who come to AIIMS are poor and come from outside Delhi. They can't afford a platelet kit nor go looking for people to donate blood. We have therefore started the production of platelets from whole blood donations. Patients from now on in AIIMS will get platelets for free at any time they want," said faculty in charge of AIIMS' blood bank Dr Kabita Chatterjee.
The buffycoat method of platelet production is widespread in western countries. "We didn't start it till now. We actually didn't know that this layer was rich in platelets," Dr Chatterjee said.
With this production method, whole blood donations are taken in room temperature and platelets are processed within six hours of collection. The whole blood is spun and the plasma and red blood cells are both extracted, leaving the buffycoat layer which contains leukocytes and platelets.
The buffycoats from four donations are then put into a sterile connecting device pooled together. The platelet is then extracted through a leukoreduction filter to produce a pooled plate | 535 |
Why care about Aerodynamic Drag & Rolling Resistance?
For most people getting faster is all about improving fitness. That means increasing power or reducing weight.
But what if you want to go as fast as you possibly can, with no more training time? That is where reducing the resistive forces of Aerodynamic Drag and Rolling Resistance helps - a lot!
The air in our atmosphere is made up of many molecules of gas which vary in density depending on weather conditions and altitude. The faster we ride the more we start to notice the resistive force caused by these molecules. The question is how can a rider reduce this resistive force?
Frontal Area is one factor. The size of a rider and machine, when viewed from the front, is a huge determinant of the amount of resistive force. Reducing that area helps.
Slipperiness is another factor. The shape of a rider and machine is another determinant. In the same way that a fish can move more effortlessly than a brick, some riding positions or bike configurations result in lower resistive forces.
The combination of Frontal Area and Slipperiness is known by aerodynamicists as CdA. It is a number which can be measured, and usually reduced, leading to faster bike riders. One of the purposes of Fast Aero Lab is help you carry out and then analyse simple field tests, using a power meter, which will determine rider CdA. Then you can make changes to reduce it and find "free" speed.
As we ride along the tyres of our bike are constantly flexing where they make contact with the road. This flexing consumes power and represents a resistive force which increases with rider and machine weight, and with speed. But can it be reduced?
To some extent reductions in rider or machine weight will reduce rolling resistance, but there are more achievable gains in intelligent choice of tyre and inflation levels. Some tyres are faster than others but they all have an inflation level sweet spot depending on the road surface and the rider weight.
Rolling resistance is measured with a coefficient called Crr. Again it can be measured, and reduced, leading to faster bike riders. Another purpose of Fast Aero Lab is to help you carry out and then analyse simple field tests, using a power meter, which will determine rider Crr. Then you can make changes to reduce it and find "free" speed.
The Analyse page on this site provides a simple way to run the calculations on a power meter file (.tcx or .fit) that will reveal a rider's CdA, Crr, or both. But first you need to record a suitable file, representing the right kind of field test, and these instructions are here to guide you through the process.
Field tests used to establish CdA &/or Crr must comprise multiple laps. They can be laps of a<|fim_middle|> (combined). We suggest weighing both together immediately before the test.
You must also know Air Density. You can get this from a weather report (see the link on the calculation page) or it can be measured just before the test with a hand-held weather meter (available on ebay).
Simply use our analysis page to get your numbers. The steps to follow should be self explanatory.
Reducing aerodynamic drag is a big priority in getting faster - but only so far. There comes a point where extreme riding positions will have a negative impact on a rider's ability to deliver power to the pedals. This can be a temporary loss, until the rider adapts to the new position, or indefinate. A rider's goal should be to maximise the ratio of sustainble power (watts) to aerodynamic drag Watts/CdA and this is where things can get complicated.
A bike fitter with the right training can help with this issue of Integrative Aerodynamics & Biomechanics and you can use this site to set up an online consultation with a world class expert. All we need is photo or video files of you riding, on the road or a static trainer, plus a few key fit measurements. | velodrome, or laps of a road circuit. In the velodrome case you need to know the length of the velodrome, and in the road case you need to know the length of a lap or tag each lap with an interval. Every lap must start and finish in the same place - this is an important detail which lets the test protocol work.
Road laps should be at least 250 metres in length and run on a circuit where the rider will not have to touch the brakes (this invalidates the data) or where there is traffic (this also invalidates the data as it influences airflow).
CdA or Crr only field tests can then be used to calculate a Cda or Crr for every valid and completed lap, allowing you to experiment with different positons or configurations across laps. A CdA and Crr test uses a slightly different protocol which requires multiple laps completed at different speeds to calculate a CdA an a Crr together. We recommend starting with a CdA only test as it's the easiest to complete and focusses on the resistive force which promises the biggest gain for most bike riders.
Evaluating CdA is done at high speeds, with laps above 32kph (20mph) where this resistive force is most evident. We can calculate a CdA for every lap completed above this speed.
Evaluating Crr is done at low speeds, with laps below 16kph (10mph) where this resistive force is most evident. We can calculate a Crr for every lap completed below this speed. To focus on tyres and inflation, not the effect of road surface, tests should be run on the same track or road circuits.
This protocol requires the completion of 10 flat (e.g. track) laps, at increasing speeds, with a speed increment off at least 1.6kph (1mph) per lap. Laps which don't fit the speed requirement will be automatically discounted but will not stop you running the calculation, so long as there are at least 10 valid laps. There should be no changes in position or configuration. We will calculate one CdA and one Crr for the series of 10 or more laps.
The recorded file provides most of what is needed to run the calculation, with 2 exceptions.
You must know Rider & Machine Weight | 485 |
Webinar Smart Village - Going Beyond the Bulb
PES Webinar Smart Village - Going Beyond the Light Bul<|fim_middle|> in Juno Beach, Florida.
Niru is also heavily involved with IEEE. She is currently the Ambassador for IEEE Smart Village (previously IEEE Community Solutions Initiative (CSI)). She is also part of the IEEE Global SIGHT steering committee and IEEE USA's Energy Policy Committee. She also served on IEEE's Humanitarian Ad Hoc Committee whose primary responsibility was to set direction and policies for IEEE member engagement in Humanitarian activities. She has also served as IEEE's Region 6 (Western US, Alaska and Hawaii) Women in Engineering coordinator helping set up various Women in Engineering groups for the benefit of IEEE women engineers and also for helping in K12 outreach efforts for engineering. | b
IEEE Power & Energy Society Women in Power Webinar Series
Smart Village- Going Beyond the Light Bulb
10 November 2015 12:00 pm eastern
Presented by Nirupama Prakash Kumar, NextEra Energy Resources
IEEE Smart Village has been striving to get basic electrical services to a million people in 5 years, in the most underserved regions of the world, through renewable energy sources. Its ultimate goal is to get electrical services to 50 million people in the next 10 years. However, IEEE Smart Village aims to go beyond just lighting and electrical services. Through its model of partnerships with local NGOs and Entrepreneurs, it strives to create local businesses and local jobs. Through its initiatives in education and community based solutions, it aims to create community development with lasting change. All these initiatives make IEEE Smart Village unique, in the sense that it is going 'beyond the light bulb' to create truly Smart Villages around the world. This talk will introduce IEEE Smart Village and its various initiatives to achieve its vision.
The Presenter:
Niru obtained an undergraduate degree in power systems engineering from University of Mysore, India. After working for IT consulting companies, she decided to move to the U.S. and further her interests in power systems engineering. She finished her MS in Energy Systems from the University of Washington in Seattle and went on to work with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a Dept. of Energy run National Laboratory. Her research interests included effective demand response techniques to improve energy efficiency. She completed her MBA from Cornell University last summer where she was recognized both as an 'Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow' as well as an 'Emerging Markets Fellow'. Her interests now include the most cost effective methods of making technology accessible to the base of the pyramid. She also works as a storage analyst in the Energy Storage Business Development Group at NextEra Energy Resources | 390 |
Why Supplement- Is it really necessary to supplement?
Is it really necessary to supplement?
I am going to talk a little bit about common misconceptions about supplementation and whether or not its really necessary to supplement.
Did you know 90% of diseases are preventable?
I was blown away with how much I learned. One thing she addressed was the dramatic decline of our health care. Although we spend the most money on our health care, we are ranked as one of the unhealthiest countries.
I think a big part of this is because we are part of a society that is focused on treating and not preventing or getting to the root cause of disease. When we are sick we seek out medicines instead of finding the root cause of why certain things happen. Don't get me wrong I am not against Doctors, Hospitals or Medicine. In fact I am extremely grateful for them and I KNOW MANY TIMES THEY ARE NEEDED!!! As I battled through Hyperemeis I can't imagine how i would have functioned without Zofran. I just think sometimes certain things can be treated and prevented with changes to our diet and supplements. For example, I can't tell you how many people I know whose Doctors prescribe steroid crèmes and lotions to help their childs eczema and after just switching to our laundry or adding in a few supplements no longer has any signs of eczema. Just the past few weeks two friends have seen dramatic improvement in their childrens skin by changing cleaners/adding in supplements.
Part of my job as a Health Consultant is seeking to get to the root of what is causing the symptom/disease? What is happening in the body to cause this symptom? What is your diet like? Have they had any past use of antibiotics (antibiotics kill good bacteria and often cause issues in the gut). Most of the time laundry, changes in the diet, and adding in supplements to boost the immune system/restore the gut are all children need. Had these parents not made these changes, their children would still be suffering. My friend Steph tried all those products- probably costing her lots of money and found no relief. Not only did Shaklee products help, but he is no longer suffering. You can read her story here.
For my friend Laura, all she did after trying so many different things with her children was switch to our non-toxic laundry and the eczema went away! Often times we don't realize how big of a role cleaners play in our health. To read more check out this post on laundry being found in our bloodstream or this post. For many children just changing laundry is all they need to do, but for others they need to restore the gut (using probiotics) and help build up the immune system. Check out this blog post from my friend Harper here on why changing diet and supplements is so important. I have lots of great info to share on eczema if<|fim_middle|> pesticides. There is a 38% decline in nutrient value in produce, and even the soil is not as nutrient rich as it once was! Countless studies show the health benefits of nutritional supplementation. Just a few facts on how many diseases can be preventable with proper nutrition and supplementation….
The amazing part about prevention is it really does save you money in the long run. People share with me all the time how much money they save from fewer Doctor visit, prescriptions, medical bills, sick days, etc. And you can't put a price tag on feeling better and having a better quality of life!
Take my friend Ambers story for example whose daughter struggle with asthma- was on a bunch of prescription medications-spending hundreds of dollars a month went to switch cleaners/supplements and now spends very little on supplements to keep her daughter off her meds!!! NO asthma or allergy medications, NO doctor visits, NO antibiotics for 7 months, and NO real sicknesses. Yes not only will she not have any side effects from the meds, but she is also saving money.
Pharmacy Costs $392. 54 before insurance ($236.66 out of pocket).
Did you see this is $1015.32 out-of-pocket in only seven months! For the past 7 months, do you know what I have spent?
Did you know Shaklee has been around for over 56 years and the average Shaklee user uses their products for over 17 years! The landmark study alone sold me that showed people who take Shaklee supplements had overall better health than those who took another supplement or no supplement at all.
There were 3 groups studied: one group used Shaklee for over 20 years, another group used other brands, and the other used no supplements. Guess which group was the unhealthiest?… The one who took the other brands. And the healthiest group was the Shaklee group. Ours is the only company in the world with proof of the long-term health benefits of its products.
Proving Supplementation can help prevent disease!
Remember not all supplements are the same. To learn more about how Shaklee supplements are unique check out these posts!
Its been incredible to be a part of a company that changes lives. I love hearing how my family and friends energy, digestion, allergies/asthma, immunity, losing weight, joints, and so many more things have changed after using the products. I would love to help you as well! If you have any health concerns- Shaklee has 100% satisfaction. I encourage you to try the products and if you don't like them you can get your money back!
Today is the final day to take advantage of Shaklee's amazing $68 savings.
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Still catching up on pregnancy posts!
Here is a little run down of our gender reveal (yes back in Janurary). Sigh.
For Malayna we did a little Gender Reveal party which was fun. We found out the gender at the ultrasound and then had family and friends over for the big reveal. We put a pink m&m in the cupcake for them to bite into and find out it was a GIRL!
For this pregnancy we wanted to find out the gender again. Can I say how much I love finding out the gender. In fact both times I was pregnant I highly considered getting an early ultrasound done to find out the gender, but held myself back ;). I just am always so anxious to find out the gender.
This time I wanted to find out in a more special way than by the ultrasound. We gave Lauren the card with the ultrasound and gender and she planned a special revel for us.
She gave Sam, May, and I each special gifts revealing the gender.
We all got to open them at the same time. Lauren picked the perfect gifts for each of us and it was so special to each get one.
After we had Malayna reveal to everyone "BOY" on a special video.
We are over the moon to be having a boy and excited for all that little boys bring- lots of energy, adventures, wrestling matches, fishing/hunting, trains and more!
She is very excited to be a big sister!
Updates including some videos and pictures on my "Work from Home" and "Shaklee" tabs! Check them out! Lots of exciting things happening!
Here are a few of my favorite high protein snacks I love to make! I'm trying to get as much protein as I can because I always notice I feel the best and have the most energy when I eat enough protein.
Proteins act as the building blocks that make up a large part of every cell in your body, including muscle, skin, bone, and hair; they are also essential for building enzymes, hormones, and hemoglobin.
1C. natural peanut butter: I think Trader Joes or Costco natural brand is the best.
Laurens incredible homemade granola bars!!
1 cup total of any combination-I used craisins, chocolate chips, chia seeds, and unsweetened shredded coconut. Use whatever dried fruit, seeds, etc. that you'd like!
In a medium saucepan, melt the honey, peanut butter, and coconut oil together. Remove from heat and stir in oats and your one cup mixture of dried fruit, etc.
Spread into in ungreased 8×8 glass pan and refrigerate for 2 hours. Then cut into bars, wrap in plastic wrap, and keep in the fridge. So convenient!
Pulse dates in a food processor or magic bullet (that's what I have) until it becomes a paste. Then add the peanut butter and cherries and pulse again. Scoop out with a spoon and form into balls. Set in fridge.
They give you energy: Protein stimulates certain cells in the brain that keep us awake and increase our energy expenditure throughout the day.
They fill you up: Studies show people who eat a meal or snack containing protein feel fuller longer and that means a reduction in overall daily calorie consumption because subjects were simply not as hungry between meals or at mealtime.
They maintain lean body mass: Protein is essential for maintaining muscle mass whenever you are on a calorie-restricted diet, exercising, or building muscle. Without enough protein in the diet, the body starts to use muscle mass for energy and this leads to decrease in lean body mass and a drop in metabolism. Leucine, an amino acid in protein, especially, is good at maintaining lean body mass during low-calorie diets.
Interested in trying out Shaklee's protein this month? This month Shaklee is offering free membership ($19.95 value) and free cafe late protein ($48 retail value).
Top 5 Reasons I love Shaklee Cleaners: FREE BASIC H OFFER!!!!
Don't miss my YEAR OF FREE CLEANER (BASIC H) OFFER AT THE END to celebrate St.Patty's Day! Go GREEN!
1. They are safe and non toxic.
This has been the biggest reason we have switched over to Shaklee cleaners. One thing I have learned after doing lots of research is many "free and clear" or "green" cleaners still have traces of chemicals in them. Malayna can even help me clean and I never have to worry if I spray around or near her what effect it could have on her! In fact she can even help clean!
Check out this article on BabyGanics: EWG's guide has highlighted how many cleaning products contain toxic chemicals and how difficult it is for even careful consumers to find out exactly what's in them.
Fact: More than 9 our of 10 suspected poison exposures occur at home with household products.
Fact: Women who work at home have a 54% higher death rate from cancer than those who work outside the home.
Shaklee runs over 100,000 quality tests a year to ensure they are pure and safe.
2. They save money and last a really long time.
I hardly ever have to buy cleaners because all of them are so heavily concentrated. Natures bright (stain remover) lasts us around 9-12 months and works so well with getting stains out! The dish and hand soap I dilute with water because you only need a small amount. These tend to last me 6-9 months. The laundry powder has lasted some families of 3 up to 1 year! I love not having to buy any cleaners at the store anymore or even walk down the cleaning aisle and get an instant headache from the fumes.
They are safe not only for your family and home, but on the planet.
1972- Basic-L, one of the first biodegradable laundry detergents without phosphates, nitrates, or borates.
2000- Shaklee becomes the first company in the world to obtain Climate Neutral certification and totally offset its carbon emissions, resulting in a net-zero impact on the environment.
I use basic H on pretty much everything and it always works incredibly well. We have a running joke in our family that if there is a spill, accident, or stain- "No worries basic h will fix it." I had a friend recently who has a stain on her couch and tried every cleaner imaginable- I put some basic H on it and it immediately came out!! I use Basic H to dust, clean windows, remove stains, do dishes, clean sinks, bubble baths for kids, clean veggies, natural bug repellant, the list goes on!
I could share story after story about how just switching laundry helped clear up a childs eczema or how my cousin stopped spitting up when they switched dish soaps/dishwasher cleaners (the bottles were being washed with the soap and traces are still left on bottles which is left behind when a baby drinks from the bottle). Not to meantion how many peoples allergies, asthma, migranes/headaches improved!
Shaklee has 100% satisfaction in all their products- try out the cleaners- and if you don't like them you can get your money back!
5. I only use a few products to clean my entire house.
Its nice replacing 10 cleaners with just 1! I primarily use the Basic H for 90% of my home, and basic G, Natures bright, and scour off as needed. That's all I need!
If you are interested in trying out the cleaners Shaklee has a special ending soon!
With any 50PV purchase receive FREE MEMBERSHIP ($19.95 value) and FREE CAFE LATE ($48) protein….
This amazing $68 savings doesn't end here!!! To celebrate BEING GREEN! I am also throwing in a FREE BOTTLE OF BASIC H- a years worth of free cleaner!
Already a member and want the free Basic H? Refer any family/friend to me and I will happily give you a FREE BASIC H on your next order!!
Two years old is SO MUCH FUN (and exhausting….). This age is such a blast with all the things she is able to do now. Its fun to actually have a meal together and have a conversation. Malayna's personality comes out more and more everyday- she is so full of life, brings joy to those around her, VERY LOUD (don't know where that comes from), messy (can destroy a room in 30 seconds), plays so hard, and definitely knows what she wants.
As she grows older I am more and more grateful for the incredible church we can be a part of. Even at just 2 years old, she is beginning to grasp concepts like Jesus healing people and caring for others. I love picking her up from a Sunday morning at Kidsworld and hearing what she is learning. One of my favorite things is hearing her pray and thank God for the little things- like dip or a spoon.
For her birthday we took her to Monkey Joes- a fun indoor jump place. She had a blast and then went out to lunch at 2Toots- a restaurant that brings out food on trains. Lets just say she was one happy girl.
Her current obsession is ducks and trains. We have to read 10 Little Rubber Ducks before every nap and bed. Lets just say we have the book memorized. How is it that kids want to read the same thing over and over and over again?? She has a big and small duck that she carries with her everywhere.
She still loves loves loves trains. She carries Chuggington with her everywhere and will easily play with trains for long periods of time. She has woken up in the middle of the night and yelled out, "Ride the rails." True story. Her favorite show is still Curious George and favorite movie is Despicable Me. She has minon band aids she has to wear every day.
She loves her newest cousin beautiful baby Viola. In fact she talks about her often and calls random strangers and our baby Viola. She calls her Iola and it sounds so cute.
She loves to touch my belly and say its ok baby. Or play Doctor and try and hear the heartbeat.
I am also loving this age because she is into doing a lot of crafts/painting/coloring (My fav).
And her other favorite obsession is playing in the sink. Love you baby girl! Each day with you is such a gift. | you would like to learn more let me know!
Probiotics dissolved, alfalfa, 1/4 increadivites, 1/2 nutriferon!!
Eczema testimonies are just the beginning. Allergies, asthma, digestion, energy, mood, anxiety, weight loss, immunity and more are all things I have seen diet and product support helping!
Only 2% of the population gets the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables in our diet. Did you know it is recommended to eat 5-9 veggies a day! On top of that most food nowadays is heavily processed, or not grown locally or organically- thus losing a lot of the important nutrients our bodies need! The practices of agricultural have changed a lot nowadays as well as many farmers rely on | 160 |
People, these days have become intolerant. Be it in joint families, offices, schools, colleges, apartment , society or in any community, we often find people struggling hard to stay peacefully with each other, even for a short period of time. Adjustment and co-operation, it seems have no or very little significance these days. This is probably the reason why we are fast losing the concept of joint families (even in India where nuclear families were rare even 2 decades back).
Though the moral science chapters in our early school days explained the need and ways to adjust with our surroundings, the sad part is that with growing age the lessons of these chapters have faded away from our memories.
Let me take you back to your biology books which taught about the social nature of human beings. We are meant to live in a society surrounded by a variety of people each having their own mindset, personality and attitude which will differ from our points of view.
Since we cannot afford to make ourselves isolated by opposing, confronting and fighting every time for petty issues, it makes sense to practice the art of adjustment.
Why create enemies when you can live peacefully with a little adjustment! Nobody likes a complaining partner/neighbor/friend/colleague and I guess even you share the same thought too. Sometimes it is absolutely okay to compromise or settle issues with people in a peaceful manner.
So try to adjust with people around you for your own good if not for them.
Trust me it gives a feel of satisfaction and peace when you learn to maintain peace with your surroundings. Though it is obvious that your ego will come in the way, but in the end it depends on you how you manage to control it.
In the initial days, things will be tough..Gradually your ego will became weak and eventually vanish in the long run.
People who are matured know how to adjust to changing circumstances. Don't you want to be one of them? When you learn the art of adjustment you create a positive approach toward life and learn to move away from silly fights and unnecessary arguments.
Annoying people will always be annoying. Why fight with an idiot and ruin your peace of mind! Ignore and move away from such people.
We fight, we resist, we oppose and we confront all the actions that offend us. A very few of us can admit our own faults (which takes enough maturity, courage and positive approach). To err is human and since we cannot be right always, sometimes it is better to admit our limitations and adjust with the views of people around us.
You can avoid a number of unnecessary conflicts and fights with a little adjustment. A minute of heated argument can waste your whole day. Avoid such situations and stay<|fim_middle|>Are You Burying Your Light Behind a Mask of Modesty?
It is very important to adjust, in every aspect of your life. I think the two issues why people don't are arrogance, and devotion.
You cannot adjust, if your ego says you are right. I have known people who are so stubborn about this, even when they know they are wrong, they will not budge.
Devotion is another issue. If you believe your concept is the TRUE path, than anything less is an attack on your believes. We see this in politics all the time, it is either one way or the other, and if you don't agree you are unpatriotic.
Adjustments indeed are necessary for peaceful life and you have nailed the points very well.
I always love the way you share your artwork this deepens the connection.
Wonderful post, Tuhin. Especially in view of the craziness going on in the world right now with respect to intolerance. I am very fortunate to live in Canada. We welcome those with differences to come to our country and enhance our culture. That attitude of inclusion and an openminded attitude toward others has helped build Canadian culture.
I keep hoping that via social media, our world keeps getting smaller and therefore we see each other as people first, different second (or maybe fourth or fifth). We can only adjust ourselves, our thoughts and actions. If we start interacting with others from where the place where we find our principles, we'll interact better with those around us. | calm and quiet.
ii) your friend circle grows when you start adjusting with people.
iii) No matter how tough the situation is you can confidently tackle it.
iv) You can survive even in the most adverse conditions and situations.
We all have that one person either in our professional network or in our personal circle who goes very easy with even the most difficult-to-handle people. While different people may explain this trait by using different logic, the fact is that these sensible people are matured enough to understand that it is better to adjust than to waste energy and time in confronting people for petty issues. Individuals who can adjust with anyone irrespective of their bad temper, behavior, abnormality are not magicians. They are as common as you, me or any other people around us. What sets them apart is their ability to go well with people whom they deal with in their everyday life.
In today's world you cannot afford to cut yourself from the society and live arrogantly without caring for the world. We need our friends and well wishers in the walk of life. Adjusting and acting responsibly with people takes you closer to their heart.
Now that you have understood the benefits of adjusting with people it is important to know how to do this. In the coming post I will explain in details a few effective steps to help you learn this art. Please feel free to share your views or post your queries in the comment section.
You have hit the nail on the head; it is easier to keep the peace at times and let it go. The ego (my ego) wants to be "right" but sustaining a relationship is so much more important than "winning".
You are right on stating it is a mature person who can let go.
We all need one another – no man is an island.
Adjustment is indeed a process, and often a worthwhile one. There are time when it becomes necessary to walk away though as some people simply demand too much and it takes too much energy to cater to them.
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The demand for advanced design method to<|fim_middle|> simulate an accurate model, which can be used to estimate fatigue life time of notched metallic components under multiaxial variable amplitude loading case that will be outlined in the next steps of this research. | accurately analyse fatigue damage of complex systems under multiaxial variable amplitude loading condition, in conjunction with the minimum safety factors due to more emphasis on lighter structures, saving materials and cost reduction has been extremely increasing. The correct prediction of fatigue lifetime under multiaxial cyclic loading seriously depends on the description of local elastoplastic stress-strain sequences at the critical point on a component . Furthermore, it's universally agreed that in all engineering components local elastoplastic stress/strain will vary according to the geometrical features and degree of multiaxiality. Consequently, estimating these sequences will be more complicated by the presence of notch under multiaxial loads. Accordingly, calculating the local elastoplastic stress-strain properties with sufficient accuracy will result in a reliable and realistic fatigue assessment. However, procedural standards to plot the local elastoplastic stress-strain properties without performing experiment work are not yet available when the reversal stress/strains are involved. For the sake of accuracy, people come to believe that performing an experimental investigation is the best way to accurately estimate the local stress-strain response of components under multiaxial loading. In contrast, engineering designers argued that time and monetary requirements in the experimental investigation, in addition to the economic consideration or sometimes difficulty in accessing an accurate experimental testing machine parallel to the development of modern programing have increased attention on the use of numerical simulation model analysis. In the light of the above well-known fact, the present paper summarises an attempt to correctly formalise a novel model to be used to predict fatigue life time of unnotched components. The proposed elastoplastic model was analysed by using finite element (FE) program system ANSYS under reversed constant/variable amplitude uniaxial and torsion, as well as in-phase and out-of-phase multiaxial (tension-torsion) strain controlled loading at room temperature. From a reliability and safety point of view, a systematic validation exercise is followed by: First, using 38 experimental data sets from other technical literatures [6,7,8,9,10 &11] generated by testing 6 different materials under various loading conditions. Second, comparing the predicted local stress-strain properties with the result obtained from Jiang's model that was built based on the material properties and constants obtained from the experimental test. To conclude, the local predicted hysteresis loops are compared with their experimentally determined counterparts and the results from Jiang's model. Such an extensive exercise showed that the proposed model has the capability of describing the local elastoplastic deformation features of materials under different cyclic loading. The overall scientific goal beyond this research is to formalise and verify a novel systematical study to | 545 |
Long green slightly flattened pods pod often streaked with<|fim_middle|> some seed that is a little older than the seed I first thought I would send you. I think the older seed will be okay. I would be interested in learning about the culinary characteristics of the seed. | red. Fairly large white or light tan seeds spotted with red. Long productive vines. From street vendor in Baku, Azerbaijan.
wed love to buy some seeds from you. is this variety still listed for 2019?
I have been hoping I would get requests for seed through Grassroots Seed Network and you are the first to do this. My listings are not in very good shape because I having been waiting to find out if I would get any request before doing more work on them. I also have seeds listed at he Seed Savers Exchange. SSE has become a free service so you can go there to see more of my listings and those of other seed savers without paying a membership fee to view the listings and to request seeds.
I hope GSN will become more active because I prefer the approach to sharing seeds at GSN over the approach at SSE. You can find my contact information to use to contact me directly at the SSE seed sharing site. I'm not sure how this system you used to contact me works. However, I think I have found your contact info at your farm website so I think I will be able to contact you directly if I have more information for you.
My supply of Azeri Red and White seed is a little low and so is my supply of Tennessee Cut Short. However, I have enough of both of these seeds to share 35 seeds of each without reducing my supply of seeds below the number I need for my own use. Just send me your address and I will mail you samples of these two seeds. I don't know very much about the Azeri bean having kept it going to preserve it without getting around to using it in cooking.
Jim, they have just made this (Grassroots Seed Network) Free of Fees, and have a fundraiser going to support this move.
We will gladly grow the Beans out and save some to dry for cooking, and let you know about the culinary uses we come up with!
Shall we mail you a check? As, we don't have a digital money acct.
Nama, A check is okay. I can send a little larger sample which will include | 436 |
Monster truck shows are a staple in the heartland of the United States, a spectacle of automobile carnage where trucks with gigantic wheels do obstacle courses to run over old model cars. The highlight is the Bigfoot, where older cars are crushed afoot. While there are many gasoline powered monster trucks are now running the circuit, one has clearly separated itself from the pack.
Meet the first all electric monster truck, officially known as the Odyssey Battery Bigfoot No. 20 Monster Truck. While it has been on display in trade shows, the Autorama Car Show in Kansas City MO would<|fim_middle|> Odyssey batteries, it is limited only to 400 deep discharge cycles. Secondly, lithium ion batteries provide all the power needed in a standard electric car while in Bigfoot No. 20, there are additional batteries needed for the power steering and the brakes to operate.
Thus in its maiden show in Kansas, officials said that Bigfoot No. 20 would be participating in "two car-crush demonstrations per day" or a politically correct way of saying that the electric monster truck would pulverize old conventional engined vehicles that stand in its way.
With this monster on wheels, gone are the days of electric cars being pictured as wimpy golf carts to now pure muscle on steroids powered by battery electricity. | be the first time the vehicle would be put to the test.
The Bigfoot No. 20 is powered by three rows of ten (10) EnerSys Odyssey batteries that provide 360 volts of power to a 260 KW, or 350 horsepower electric motor. These batteries are very different from the standard lithium ion batteries used in current model electric cars. Each battery weighs nearly thirty eight pounds and can produce 540 amps for cold starts and a maximum output of 1200 amps for about five seconds. Put together, the battery can force the electric motor to create 850 ft-lb of torque.
While this is superb power, there are certain disadvantages are apparent. First is the number of deep discharge cycles. In a standard lithium ion battery, there are thousands of discharge cycles that can be done and a life span of decades before the battery's service life is spent. For the | 193 |
Clean the fish pieces. Mix kashmiri chilli powder, turmeric powder, pepper powder, ginger-garlic paste and salt into a paste adding little water.
Marinate the fish with the paste and keep for half<|fim_middle|>..wonderful!
Seems simple to make and looks lovely here.
Delicious fish fry,yummy with rice!!
hi Shabs the fish look perfectly fried.
This is such a beautiful post,yet simple.
Super tempting...Fish fry looks awesome!
First time here from Kerala Kitchen Event..Congratulations for the award.
Your fish fry and my stir fried chicken recipe are almost the same but I think your recipe was much more delicious on the one that I made. Thanks for sharing it here. | an hour.
Yummy fish!! Very much tempting..
Perfect side dish with dal and rice.
I never get this when I fry my fish. thanks for the recipe and hopefully I'll be able to get as close to yours as possible. Love eating this fish immediately after it's fried as you can get the crispiness of the skin | 67 |
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Farah bullish on his<|fim_middle|> this into consideration, it's going to be hard to get people to work and to be open. So, they ended up giving us close to 11 months' free rent."
Khalil Farah inside his new Spanish restaurant Los Toros in downtown Halifax. - Ryan Taplin
Farah spent most of that time renovating. He now has a 95-seat restaurant with additional seating for 160 outdoors. Filling those seats is just one of the challenges of opening now.
"I'm not nervous about the number, not at all. I was nervous about the kitchen, and I'm very worried about the pandemic, if people can come out and if we can seat enough people to pay the rent because the rent is not cheap here. That's my main concern, but there's light at the end of the tunnel now," he said.
"We were going to open in November and then we decided to wait to see if they were going to close again, and they did close again. I had a full team, but I lost most of my kitchen staff. Servers, I probably lost two or three."
The pandemic has also affected shipping times for supplies. Wine, vermouth and sherry are imported from Spain, but not all of it has arrived. The shipping time for cheese has doubled from three to six weeks. Fortunately, as with cured meats, the freshness of aged cheeses is not a concern.
Farah said Spanish cuisine is so varied it could form the basis of menus for 20 different restaurants. His will feature paella and, on Friday and Saturday, the first two nights of business, which were "fully booked," every single table ordered it.
The most popular paella so far is the mixed, which includes both meat and seafood.
"I expected the vegetarian to be ordered a lot, but we've sold only one," he said.
"It takes time, but we do have 12 burners. I'm going to take the months before summer . . . to see how much we can put out. We put on the menu that it's a 30-minute wait because it does take about 20-22 minutes to cook, and you can't make it faster, it doesn't work."
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As an eye-catcher to capture the attention of passersby, it's hard to beat a life-sized steel bull in front of your restaurant.
Khalil Farah spent $13,000 to have the thousand-pound bull built in China. It's modelled on one that stands outside his favourite restaurant in Spain.
"If I wanted to get it made in the States, it probably would have been about 40," said Farah, owner of the newly opened Los Toros, located on the Halifax waterfront.
Farah, who also owns Orso Pub and Grill and the Snappy Tomato, has been in the restaurant business since 2006. After he and his wife travelled to Spain several times, he decided Spanish cuisine would be his next concept.
"If you look here, at the waterfront, we need diversity," Farah said.
"The main thing when you go eat in restaurants is Italian. But we think that people are now more accepting of different foods, different spices, it's not like 1990 anymore. So, I thought to bring in Spanish, tapas, pintxos (Basque-style tapas), stuff like this, paella. Nobody does paella here, and I think it will be a good add to the waterfront and to Halifax in general."
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Farah had been looking for a waterfront location and thought he might open a restaurant in the Queen's Marque project. But his Realtor told him there was a chance to take over a space owned by the Armour Group — also the developer of Queen's Marque, which is basically next door — that once housed the venerable Stayner's Wharf.
"We had to put in an offer of how much we wanted to pay, and we asked for six months (free rent) originally so we could renovate," said Farah.
"The lease is for 10 years. However, when the time came to sign the lease, the pandemic started so I said we have to take | 511 |
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Anna Stirr is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is the author of Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal (Oxford University Press, 2017) and co-director, with Bhakta Syangtan, of Singing A Great Dream: The Revolutionary Songs and Life of Khusiram Pakhrin (2020). She performs Nepali folk music as a singer, flutist, and percussionist.
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Dr. Anna Stirr is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii Manoa. She is the author of Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal (Oxford University Press, 2017), which won the 2019 Bernard S. Cohn Prize for first books on South Asia from the Association for Asian Studies. She is the co-director, with Bhakta Syangtan, of the documentary film Singing A Great Dream: The Revolutionary Songs and Life of Khusiram Pakhrin (2020), which won Best International Documentary and Best International Director at the Darbhanga International Film Festival in India. Dr. Stirr holds a BA in music and religious studies from Lawrence University in Wisconsin, and an MA, MPhil, and PhD in ethnomusicology from Columbia University. She has also taught at Oxford University, Leiden University, and the New School. Her research focuses on music, dance, language, intimacy, and politics in South Asia, particularly in Nepal and the Himalayan region. She performs Nepali folk music as a singer, flutist, and percussionist.
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One of our Senior Trainers, Dave served as an Avionics Technician in the Royal Air Force for eight years before moving into the training sector. As a former apprentice himself, he talked to us about why training the next generation is so important to him, how MTC Apprenticeships' focus on quality sets us apart, and his advice for apprentices to get the most out of their programme.
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I began my career as an apprentice myself, following an apprenticeship in Aircraft Engineering as an Avionics Technician in the Royal Air Force. After eight years in the military, I moved into the training sector, first as a Trainer specialising in Fluid Power, and then as a Senior Trainer focusing more on the management side of things, and looking after the training team, the workshop and the apprentices. After four years with another training provider, I joined MTC Apprenticeships, again progressing from Trainer to Senior Trainer, becoming a fully qualified Work-Based Assessor and now managing the work-based assessor team. One of the things I love about my current role is that I look after the apprentices all the way through their programme, from their very first days in the training centre right through to watching them<|fim_middle|>roud to partner with
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What would you say are your career highlights?
Serving my country and having an impact whilst I was in the military – it was great to be able to carry out the job role I was trained to do in situations that really mattered and made a difference due to the nature of the operations we were working on. It's also a highlight for me that I'm now able to pass on that expertise on to the next generation – it makes both experiences feel even more valuable.
Why did you decide to become a trainer?
I've always looked up to the people who trained and shared their skills with me, and had a lot of respect for them and what they did. I wanted to follow in their footsteps and pass on the life experience and knowledge that I've gained to the next generation too. I also really like all the different personalities you're surrounded by as a trainer – it's great to watch the learners mature and grow into adults, and I'm pleased to be able to support that process.
What do you enjoy most about your training role?
The people. I really like working with the apprentices and helping them to develop the behaviours that will support them to be successful both professionally and personally. I also really enjoy working with the employers, it's fantastic to see our apprentices maturing, to watch them getting on with things in the real world and adding real value to their employers' teams and businesses. It's very rewarding.
How is the Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre different from other training centres?
Our focus is on quality, rather than quantity like some other training centres. We're here to produce exceptional future technicians and engineers that will make a real difference in their workplace – and will deliver genuine value to their employers. We work very closely with all of our employer partners to make sure our programme meets their requirements and objectives, and we plan individualised journeys which of course benefit both the business and the specific learner.
What makes a good apprentice? What qualities do apprentices need to make the most of their opportunities here?
I'd say a good work ethic, a mature attitude towards learning, and a good sense of humour! You'll get the most out of your apprenticeship if you have the passion and drive to always want to do more, and to strive for excellence at every opportunity. This is a professional and competitive industry, so you need to be reliable and at your best to get the most from your career. If you can do that, you'll naturally reap the rewards of a career in an exciting industry which offers a huge variety of roles and opportunities.
What advice would you give to prospective apprentices?
Don't be put off if you haven't got any practical engineering experience – you don't need to be technically gifted, or taking stuff apart since you were a kid. If you're interested, enthusiastic and willing to learn, as well as open to asking questions and accepting help and support, then an apprenticeship will help you to do the rest.
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