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From May 23 to May 25, the Daedong Festival was held. The Daedong Festival is an annual event on the CBNU campus, where most students participate. In comparison to last year, the student pub was banned due to the new hygiene law. So instead of that, NAE-IL-RO, the student council expanded the food truck zone and allowed students to bring alcohol from outside. We would like to give you a brief tour of the Daedong Festival.
Dream Station – Put Wings on Your Dreams
The Dream Station is a great event hosted by NAE-IL-RO for those who want to get useful information or help about school programs. Surprisingly, Dream Station was not a program run by one booth. It was organized among many booths, which had different themes such as volunteering, start-up, writing, belt program. Each booth explains different programs. When you complete the program each Dream station booth gave you, you'll get a stamp. By collecting four stamps to submit it, your name is on present lottery system!
CBNU Signal – Our Funny Love Story
On the first day of the festival, CBNU Signal brought students sympathy and laughs. Before the festival, students sent their stories with songs via email. So, it was a kind of radio program. After the MC read a story from a student, crowds sympathized with the stories, they laughed or got angry at the senders for behaving as excellent listeners. With the story they played a song, which the sender wanted to listen to together with their audience. Sometimes crowds were amazed by the sender's sense for picking songs that came along with their stories.
Healing Zone – I Need Some Healing Time
The healing zone held various events on the front yard of the CBNU Museum from 11am to 5pm for students to feel in better mental condition. Students could borrow airbed mattresses and have a rest on the lawn under equipped parasol umbrellas for as long as they wanted. Also, there was a mini cafe with refreshing menu items and some board games for enjoying healing time with friends. Summing up, laying on the airbeds was not a time-wasting activity for students, rather it was a useful time for observing the movements of clouds and revivifying in a harmony with nature.
Food Truck Zone – Wide Range of Food Option
The food truck zone, which had many food trucks, sold a variety of foods, such as chicken kebab, fried chicken, Takoyaki, hot dog, and French fries. In the evening, people began to gather around the food truck zone. Until dawn, many people ate and drank in the food truck zone. Although students were banned from serving alcohol at their own pubs for legal issues, they gathered to talk and enjoy with alcohols which they brought from outside.
Daedong Song Festival – Who is the CBNU Singer?
There was a Daedong Song Festival at the second day of the festival. The talented performers sang songs that they chose and performed an exciting talent show for the student audience, filled with singing and dancing. In particular, there was a scene where the boyfriend of the tenth participant appeared on stage and proposed to his girlfriend. Everyone was excited and laughing. Totally there were ten participants showing off their singing talent. Ranking was decided by student votes. The eighth team, Yang Chang-pie, performed a song called "Lay me down" and won the grand prize.
Flea Market – Varied Experience with Many Booths
A flea market was held on the street at the Old-gate. Various clubs or individuals opened booths to sell or hold events. Good Neighbors Good Day, a central club, held bracelet making, face painting, and drawing booths. Resident College Venture Floor held snack sales, slime making, face painting, and flower sales booths. In addition, many students have experienced various booths, making perfumes, making jelly, and observing artwork, etc. Revenue of some booths would be donated.
Jeon Ye-Rim, the Dept. of Commerce and Trade
What kind of activity did you do?
I participated in the Deadong Festival Flea Market that is one of the Resident College Venture Floor programs. So, I was selling French marigolds that were planted in a pot and were grown on the Eco floor in the Residential College dormitory.
Did you have any difficulties operating the booth?
As we operated the booth on the last day of the festival, there were few people, who came to our booth. People were more interested in accessories or face painting than French marigolds. So, there were challenges in selling them.
What kind of experience did you gain?
In the beginning of the booth operation, it was difficult to sell because there were only a few customers and I was embarrassed by people who didn't look at me despite the fact that I was talking to them to advertise our product. But, I felt a sense of accomplishment by selling the French marigold because I did the whole process by myself.
Singers Performance- Evenings with Celebrities at CBNU
Dynamic Duo
One of the famous Korean hip hop duos-Dynamic Duo opened the Daedong Festival with their dynamic passion and songs. CBNU students could enjoy the festival with the best Dynamic Duo performances such as: "BAAAM", "No Make Up", "Jam" and some other new songs. Despite of the breezing evening, the atmosphere that their songs created engaged students very much. So, students were free to dance and rap together with them throughout the whole performance. The first day of the Daedong Festival ended with a big applause for the Dynamic Duo with lots of good expectations for the next day of this amazing festival.
On the second day of the festival, world-renowned star performer, PSY appeared. He is already known around the world for his big hit songs "Gangnam Style", "I luv it", "Daddy" and "Gentle Man". Even before Psy appeared, the festival was already very hot, and the audience cheered much louder when he appeared. Psy was moved by the enthusiasm of these students. So, he sang as many as 15 songs. At the same time a huge crowd of people enjoyed singing together. When Psy sang "Father" during the concert, this was the part of the scene where people in the audience turn on or shake their phone flashlights and sing along to a very beautiful song.
High Schools Rappers
For the High School Rappers performance, Yoon Jin-young, Jo Won-woo and Kim Yoon-ho warmed up the stage with their buzzworthy raps even if they were still young and fresh rappers. Also, they received generous public attention and responded warmly with their amazing raps such as: "Clloud", "H2ADIN" and others. All students were supporting them, and they could remember their high school memories, at the same time enjoy the whole festival by watching these wonderful teenage rappers. We hope to see these guys in future festivals, too.
On the last day of the festival, the Korean solo singer Sunmi brighten the last hurrah of the Daedong Festival. Sunmi is quite a legendary long run singer in Korea. She was once a member of a group called "Wonder Girls", formed by JYP Entertainment. After "Wonder Girls" disbanded, she rose once again as solo artist performing hits such as "24 Hours", "Full Moon", "Gashina". Among all the celebrities who performed Sunmi received the most applause for her wonderful show. Besides her awesome performance she touched the crowd with a little event she planned. With help from the Emcee, she picked five fans from the audience and gave them a gift box which contained her personal autographed CDs, lipstick, wallet, and more surprises.
Over the years the Daedong festival has been a main university festival amongst diverse universities in South Korea. It is important to study hard but also, it's important to rest well. Eventually, festivals help to rest physically and mentally, to be a part of the university's social environment and taking the best memories to last a lifetime. So, why not participate in and get positive energy from the future Daedong festivals and many other university festivals of CBNU?
Bang Do-won, Shermamatova Aizharkyn, Reporters & Park Yang-geon Cub-Reporter


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The stories of our athletes can be as unique as the stories of our kids. Each one comes to us with a desire to make a difference in their own lives and also in the lives of homeless youth. But no matter how they got to us, they will each take their own journey to the finish line. Covenant House is committed to being with them every step of the way.
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Vshaan | Tanhaa | The Desi Illusion
So we are finally back with yet another Music Video. We were really excited to share this with you guys, The special thing about this video is the lyrics which i'm sure many of you can relate yourself with.
As the Title says, "Tanhaa" Which means loneliness. The lyrics rightly encompass the song leading to it's title. The visuals in the video are equally stunning. The dance adds a anchor to the song and keeps your eyes glued to the scree and your ears stuck on the song. It definitely is one of those songs that one can listen on repeat. The lyrics and visuals aptly tell a story and the music gets stuck with you for days.
This amazing song is written and sang by Vshaan.
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Credits :
Singer & Composer : VShaan Sufi
Music Director : Adamya Sharma
Video Director : Jeetu Rall
Producer : Jaimin Goti
Creative Director : Chandramani Jangde
Director of Photography : Thind Ajmer Singh Vishal Verma Sachin Thesiya
Executive Director : Manish Gehlot
Edit & DI : Jeetu Rall
VFX : Jaimin Goti
Line Production : Tarun Sharma Goti Bhavya
Digital Marketing : Medha Raghuvanshi
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The most stylish and confident casual outfit is Sport and Urban. 😊
Fashion does not have rules. Ten years ago it was unthinkable to wear sports shoes with a suit and tie, but these days it's not only acceptable, it's chic as well!
Sport-shoes give your day that something special. You feel more comfortable, relaxed and you can stay keep walking for hours. With your feet on the ground, they give you an air of approachability, without losing your own personal style
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This project will retrofit the City of Bellingham's Park Place Sand Filter Facility to significantly increase the facility's ability to remove phosphorus from stormwater runoff. The reconstructed Park Place facility will treat roughly 105 acres of mixed development and forested area within the Lake Whatcom Watershed. The project will improve the phosphorus treatment by utilizing a cutting-edge technology, Phosphorus Optimized Stormwater Treatment (POST) Media, currently under development by the City of Bellingham. The POST media was approved by the Department of Ecology for pilot project use statewide in 2018.
This system will achieve large gains in the City's phosphorus reduction efforts, as required by the Department of Ecology as part of the Lake Whatcom Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Implementation Plan developed by the City and approved by Ecology. This retrofit will increase water quality treatment for runoff into Lake Whatcom. When completed in conjunction with other Water Quality Treatment projects in the watershed, the last remaining untreated runoff from areas inside City limits will receive treatment prior to discharge into Lake Whatcom.
The City is currently working with Herrera consultants to develop and test a customized treatment media which improves phosphorus removal in a sand filter type of system. The media is slated for pilot project installation in early 2019 at a City stormwater treatment vault in the Pullman St right-of-way near Silver Beach Elementary. In order for this system to be designed for use in the Park Place facility, the City must complete field research and performance monitoring as required by the Department of Ecology's Technology Assessment Protocol – Ecology (TAPE) process. The TAPE process requires at least one full season of monitoring and continual observations through a typical maintenance cycle.
The project will be funded by the following: Grant: Department of Ecology Stormwater Financial Assistance Program (SFAP), Non-Grant Eligible Items: City of Bellingham Watershed Fund, Grant Match Funds: City of Bellingham Storm and Surface Water Utility
Accomplishments: Geotechnical
Investigation performed February 28.
Next Milestone: Install POST Media
for pilot program monitoring at Pullman Street facility.
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This can work well for deliveries inside New York State, but often exceeds the price tag of the LTL Freight shipments as the distance increases. To figure your own shipping rate with this method, multiply the round trip distance from Seneca Falls, NY to your location by $1.25 per mile.
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- This will usually be the most cost effective method. With this process, we'll wrap and band your pallet of docks which will contain everything you need to set up and go. We'll then schedule the shipment and forward you the tracking number after pickup.
* Freight shipments are transported on an 18 wheeler, so obviously we must deliver to a location that can accommodate a rig that size. If the location is too tight, many of our customers have their docks delivered to their regular home or where they work. Remember: all of the components are individually very light, so it's not difficult to transport the dock from the drop location to the lake shore. Most docks will fit in the back of a pickup or on a small trailer.
* The freight company will call to schedule delivery once the shipment arrives at your local terminal. We've seen them be extremely accommodating - "You want your pallet Friday after 4pm, you got it!" We've also seen them be more rigid - "We do residential deliveries on Thursdays." You should prepare for the worst case, but it usually falls somewhere in the middle. The important thing is that you get the call so you can plan on the delivery.
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Bali is very famous for its beaches, culture, traditions, and friendliness of the locals. But when wanting a more memorable vacation, enjoying the warmth of a tropical island, tranquility, more personal and optimal are advised to stay at the beach villa Bali. It would be very easy to find this type of accommodation. Searching through the internet will make it easier to compare prices, facilities, and locations. This is important for the comfort of your stay while on vacation. In general, Bali's beach villas have been widely recommended for achieving the perfect tropical vacation.
Beach Villa Bali, A Promises The Ideal Gateway
Many of the coastal environments that have been converted into beautiful and comfortable tourist destinations. Staying at beach villa Bali makes it easy for you to quickly access white sand beaches. Before choosing beachfront villa Bali you can ensure the distance from the villa is not too far to reach the beach. The decision to choose a beach villa Bali near or far from the beach should be able to be adjusted to your needs.
The fact is, even though the distance of Bali's beach villas to the beach requires a little time, travelers don't need to worry. Access to the beach is easier because the local government has developed road access to the beaches. Further considerations that must be considered when deciding on a Bali villa as a residence are friendly for children, seniors or disabled visitors. This point is important if there is a part of your family in the category of one.
Staying at beach villa Bali will be more perfect if you can ensure all facilities before departure. Bali's beach villas are said to be perfect, especially when looking in the Seminyak area. A little walk, you can find a row of international standard bars, clubs, and restaurants. Enjoying seafood is a must when in Bali.
If you want to enjoy seafood at the beach villa Bali, you can look for fish, shrimp, crabs and more at the Jimbaran fishing market. The Jimbaran fishing market is very popular among travelers. If you don't want to bother, then just visit the best seafood restaurant to pamper your tongue.
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For the last couple of weeks, I've been talking about how to align yourself with goals that really matter particularly in your career.
Goals that really align with what it is that you're here to do.
In case you missed previous videos you can catch up and learn:
Video #1: The counterintuitive first step to figuring out your next career move
Video #2: The fail-proof way to know if your next career move is right for you
After watching these videos you'll now know:
- how to pick your career goal
- why that's important to you
- how to tune knowing you're on the right track in your body
Once you've got these steps down pat you'll be looking into how to make that happen.
Watch this week's video blog to learn how to keep negative self-talk at bay and make your goals a reality.
Short on time? Read on for the transcript.
In last week's video, I shared with you my goal of becoming a writer.
I know that that's what I want one day.
When I do choose to do that in the second half of the year, I won't have to wait to be an already successful author in order to be comfortable with writing. When I'm writing, I can say I am a writer.
Now saying I'm a writer is not about me being particular and ego-driven in terms of what I call myself…it's really about stepping into the energy of being an author.
There's a famous phrase that everybody throws around when it comes to being at work or negotiating or achieving a big goal and that phrase is:
To act "as-if"
Now, acting "as if" can be a really helpful tool to have the bravado before:
- going into a meeting
- discussing your your pay review with your boss
- doing something outside of your comfort zone
But more than that…
Acting "as-if" goes deeper because you energetically become what it is that you want.
So going back to my example of being a writer…if I was to act "as-if"…I would step into already being a writer. I would take action, approach problems, interact with people in a different way.
As I mentioned in the earlier videos….as Albert Einstein said:
"You cannot solve a problem at the same level of consciousness that created it."
When you're in a different state and you tell yourself…
"I'm a writer. I'm a successful New York Times best selling author"
Then I can step into that energy.
I can embrace the mindset of a successful writer by asking myself:
- How would they approach this?
- What's their first step?
And you can almost step into their shoes and make better choices and take better action.
This is much more aligned than the other way where you're in the fray thinking:
"I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what to do. I'm overwhelmed."
Can you feel the difference?
So this week I want you to really practice stepping into that version of you that has achieved that goal that you want.
What does she wear?
What does she say?
What decisions does she make?
What boundaries does she have in place?
Just practice stepping into her.
You know in the morning….something that I do is, I put on this ring I bought it for myself.
When I put on this ring I really take a conscious moment to step into all of myself in the highest potential.
It's a priming exercise to get in the zone and that really helps me embody that better way of being and that energy so that I can make smart decisions and handle what life comes to me on that day.
I don't get it perfect. I get angry. I cry.
I mess up all the time BUT consciously stepping into my higher self makes me a far happier, more peaceful person because I've taken the time to consciously step into this higher self.
In summary: embody that version of you that has already achieved the goal you're looking to achieve.
I'd love to know…
- How does embodying you having already achieved that goal feel?
- How does this practice land for you?
Leave a comment for me below.
Wishing you a beautiful week.
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A new crop of directors has surged to the front of the Oscar race
Many of this year's most anticipated movies haven't hit theaters yet, but the awards buzz is already deafening. While the directing category will likely include one or two filmmakers who've been nominated before — e.g., David O. Russell for Joy, and last year's winner, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, for The Revenant — some of the most daring, unexpected, and thrilling movies this fall have come from directors who have never been nominated for Best Picture or Director: Lenny Abrahamson (Room), Peter Landesman (Concussion), Tom McCarthy (Spotlight), and Patricia Riggen (The 33). The last first-time nominee to score a statuette for directing was Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity) in 2014, and given their extraordinary new films, one of these four may join him.
When she was approached to direct The 33, an intense reenactment of the 2010 Chilean mine collapse, Riggen thought, "I loved that they were considering a female director for a movie about mines and drills and men in boots and hard hats." The Mexican filmmaker behind 2007's Under the Same Moon doubled down by shooting the movie not on a soundstage but in real salt mines. "Thirty-five days, six-day weeks, 14-hour days," she says. "I wanted to give us all a taste of what it's like to be a miner." She got more than a taste. On the first day of filming, Riggen sat down in her chair and was immediately clobbered by a stone on her hard hat. "I took it as a good sign," she laughs. "I said to the mine, 'Okay, we know you're here, we'll respect you.' "
TOM McCARTHY SPOTLIGHT
He's the writer-director of critically adored indies The Station Agent and The Visitor, but you probably know him best as Scott Templeton, the unscrupulous Baltimore Sun reporter from The Wire. Now McCarthy's back in the newspaper business (sort of) as the director of Spotlight, the story of the Boston Globe investigative team that exposed the systemic sex abuse of children by Boston priests — and how the Catholic Church covered it up. McCarthy and his co-writer, Josh Singer, worked with the actual Globe reporters to make sure they got everything right. "Once we started digging into this story, we thought we had to be as true to the story as these reporters were," McCarthy says.
Irish director Abrahamson persuaded Emma Donoghue, author of the 2010 best-seller Room, to sell him the film rights with one radical promise: He wouldn't change anything structurally from page to screen. Room is about a mother and son imprisoned in a shed, and the film's first half never departs the 10′ x 10′ space. Though the plot is grim, Abrahamson elicits an incredible performance from Jacob Tremblay, now 9. "With Jacob, there were aspects of the story we just didn't want to burden him with," Abrahamson, a father himself, says. "We talked about what it was to feel really happy — what it felt like just before you fell asleep." The result is one of the most powerful experiences you'll have in theaters this year.
Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Peter Landesman was a novelist, painter, and journalist covering such thorny issues as sex trafficking and the Rwandan genocide. Now the writer of Parkland and Kill the Messenger is making his highest-profile film, Concussion. The movie is based on the true story of forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu (Will Smith), who discovered widespread brain damage among pro football players — and then fought to do something about it. Landesman let his journalist's rigor for accuracy guide both the film and its star. "This movie was too important to f— up," he says. "I didn't want any false accusations or historical inaccuracy to distract from this amazing story, and from Will's great performance."


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Stacksnetwork 9 July
RDMA(Remote Direct Memory Access)
RDMA (Remote Direct Data Access) is widely used in data centers, especially in AI, HPC, large data scenarios, because of its high performance and low latency. In order to ensure the stable operation of RDMA, the basic network needs to provide the ability of end-to-end lossless zero packet loss and ultra-low latency, which also leads to the deployment of PFC, ECN and other network flow control technologies in RDMA network. In RDMA network, how to set up the MMU (cache management unit) waterline is the key to ensure the RDMA network lossless and low latency. This paper will take RDMA network as a starting point, combined with the actual deployment experience, analyze some ideas of MMU waterline setup. What is RDMA?
RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access), commonly known as remote DMA technology, is designed to solve the delay of server-side data processing in network transmission.
Comparison of traditional mode and RDMA mode working mechanism
As shown above, in traditional mode, data is transmitted between applications on two servers. First, copy the data from the application cache to the TCP stack cache in Kernel. Then copy it to the driver layer.
Finally copy to the network card cache.
Multiple memory copies require CPU to intervene many times, resulting in large processing delay, reaching tens of microseconds. At the same time, CPU is too much involved in the whole process, which greatly consumes CPU performance and affects normal data calculation. In RDMA mode, application data can bypass the Kernel protocol stack and write directly to the network card. The obvious benefits are as follows:
Processing delay is reduced from tens of microseconds to 1 microseconds.
The whole process does not require CPU participation to save performance.
The transmission bandwidth is higher.
RDMA's appeal to the Internet
RDMA is applied more and more widely in high performance computing, big data analysis, IO high concurrence and other scenarios. Applications such as iSICI, SAN, Ceph, MPI, Hadoop, Spark, Tensorflow and so on have begun deploying RDMA technology. For the basic network supporting end-to-end transmission, low latency (microsecond) and lossless are the most important indicators.
low latency
The network forwarding delay is mainly produced at the device node (the photoelectric transmission delay and the data serial delay are neglected here). The device forwarding delay consists of the following three parts:
Storage and Forward Delay: Chip forwarding pipeline processing delays and each hop will produce about 1 microsecond chip processing delay (the industry has also tried to use Cut-through mode, single-hop delay can be reduced to about 0.3 microsecond); Buffer cache delay: when the network is congested, packets will be cached and wait for forwarding. The larger the Buffer, the longer the cache message will be and the higher the delay will be. For RDMA networks, Buffer is not as big as possible, and needs reasonable choice.
Retransmission delay: in the RDMA network, there will be other technical guarantees that no packet loss is lost. This part is not analyzed.
RDMA can transmit at full speed in lossless state, and the performance will drop sharply once packet loss retransmission occurs. In the traditional network mode, the most important way to achieve no packet loss is to rely on large cache, but as mentioned earlier, this is contradictory to low latency. Therefore, in the RDMA network environment, it is necessary to achieve no loss of packets under the smaller Buffer.
Under this constraint, RDMA achieves lossless dependence on network flow control technology based on PFC and ECN.
The key technology of RDMA lossless network: PFC
PFC (Priority-based Flow Control), based on priority traffic control. It is a queue-based backpressure mechanism that prevents buffer overflow and packet loss by sending a Pause frame to the upstream device to suspend packet delivery.
Schematic diagram of PFC working mechanism
PFC allows you to pause and restart any of these virtual channels independently without affecting the traffic of other virtual channels. As shown above, when the Buffer consumption of queue 7 reaches the set of PFC flow control lines, the reverse pressure of PFC will be triggered.
This terminal switch triggers the issue of PFC Pause frame and sends it to the upstream equipment in reverse.
The upstream device receiving the Pause frame will suspend the sending of the queue message and cache the message in Buffer.
If the Buffer of the upstream device reaches the threshold, it will continue to trigger the upstream pressure of the Pause frame.
Finally, data packet loss is avoided by reducing the sending rate of the priority queue. When the Buffer occupancy is reduced to recover the waterline, the PFC relieving message will be sent.
The key technology of RDMA lossless network: ECN
ECN(Explicit Notification) : displays Congestion Notification. ECN is a very old technology, but it's not common, and the protocol mechanism works between hosts.
ECN is a message that USES the ECN field of the IP header to mark the packet when a congestion occurs at the Egress port and triggers the ECN waterline, indicating that the message encounters a network congestion. Once the receiving server finds that the ECN of the message is marked, a CNP(congestion notification message) is generated and sent to the source server. The CNP message contains Flow information leading to congestion. When received by the source side server, the network device congestion can be mitigated by reducing the corresponding flow transmission rate, thus avoiding packet loss.
It can be seen from the previous description that PFC and ECN can realize end-to-end zero loss packets by setting different waterlines. The reasonable setting of these waterlines is the fine management of the switch MMU, which is the management of the switch Buffer. Next, we will analyze the waterline setting of PFC in detail.
PFC waterline setting
The switched chips have a fixed Pipeline(forwarding Pipeline), and the Buffer management is in the middle of the incoming and outgoing chip processes. When the message is in this position, the information of the entry and exit of the message is known, so it can be logically divided into incoming and outgoing directions to manage the cache separately.
PFC waterline is triggered based on inbound cache management. The chip provides 8 queues in the entrance direction, and we can map business messages of different priorities to different queues, thus providing different Buffer allocation schemes for messages of different priorities.
The component of the queue Buffer
Specific to each queue, its Buffer allocation is designed in three parts according to the usage scenario: guaranteed cache, Shared cache, Headroom.
Guaranteed cache: dedicated cache for each queue, ensuring that each queue has a certain cache to guarantee basic forwarding;
Shared cache: a cache that can be applied to be used in a traffic burst, and all queues are shared.
Headroom: cache that can continue to be used after triggering PFC waterline until the server response slows down.
Guaranteed cache Settings
Ensure that the cache is a static waterline (fixed, exclusive). The utilization rate of static waterline is very low, but the resource consumption is very large. We recommend that no guaranteed caches be allocated at actual deployment time to reduce the cache consumption in this section. In this way, the Shared cache space is directly used by incoming message, which can improve the utilization rate of Buffer.
Shared cache Settings
For Shared cache Settings, more flexible dynamic waterlines are required. The dynamic waterline can determine whether to continue to apply to a resource based on the current free Buffer resource and the number of Buffer resources used by the current queue. Because the Shared Buffer resources are free and the used Buffer resources in the system are constantly changing, the threshold value is also constantly changing. Compared with static waterline, dynamic waterline can make use of Buffer more flexibly and effectively and avoid unnecessary waste.
The ruijie network switch supports the allocation of Buffer resources in a dynamic manner, and the Settings of Shared cache are divided into 11 files. Dynamic waterline alpha equals queue can apply for cache divided by the residual Shared cache. The larger the extents of the queue, the higher the percentage of the queue available in the Shared cache.
The relationship between alpha value and availability of shared waterline
We might as well analyze:
The smaller the pending value of the queue, the smaller the maximum allowable share cache. PFC flow control will be triggered earlier when the port congestion. After the PFC flow control takes effect, the queue speed down can ensure that the network does not lose packets. However, from a performance perspective, if the PFC flow control is triggered too early, the RDMA network throughput will decline. Therefore, we need to select a balance value when setting MMU waterline.
Exactly how much the PFC waterline is set is a very complicated problem, and theoretically, there is no fixed value. In actual deployment, we need to analyze the business model and set up the test environment for waterline tuning to find the best waterline to match the business.
Headroom set
Headroom: as the name implies, it means the head space, which is used to cache the queue messages after the PFC is triggered and the PFC actually takes effect. How large is the Headroom setting? Here are four factors:
PG detects when XOFF waterline is triggered and when PFC frame is generated.
The upper stream receives PFC Pause frames to stop queue forwarding time (mainly related to chip processing performance, exchange chip is actually fixed value)
The transmission time of PFC Pause frames on the link (proportional to AOC cable/fiber distance)
The transmission time of the message in the link after queue suspension (proportional to AOC cable/optical fiber distance)
Therefore, the cache size required by Headroom can be calculated based on the network architecture and the traffic model. With 100-meter fiber line + 100G light module, 64 byte packet is cached, and the required Headroom size is calculated to be 408 cells (cell is the minimum unit of cache management, and a message will occupy one or more cells). The actual test data is also identical. Of course, given some redundancy, the Headroom setting recommendation is slightly larger than the theoretical value.
RDMA network practices
RDMA network has been established in the r&d center to simulate real business. The architecture is as follows:
Ruijie network RDMA networking architecture
Networking model: large core three-level networking architecture and the core adopts high-density 100G wire card;
In POD: Spine adopts BOX devices that provide 64 100G interfaces, while Leaf adopts BOX devices that provide 48 25G interfaces and 8 100G interfaces.
Leaf, as a server gateway, supports flow control based on PFC between servers (DSCP for identifying messages and PG mapping), and supports congestion ECN markup.
RDMA only runs inside the POD, and there is no cross-pod RDMA traffic, so the core does not need to perceive RDMA traffic.
In order to avoid congestion loss, PFC flow control technology needs to be deployed between Leaf and Spine. Meanwhile, Spine equipment also needs to support congestion based ECN markup.
Leaf and Spine devices support PFC flow control frame statistics, ECN markup statistics, congestion loss packet statistics, queue-based congestion statistics, etc., and support synchronization of statistical information to remote gRPC servers through gRPC.
Write in the last
In the research and development center, rgs-s6510, rg-s6520, rg-n18000-x series 25G/100G network equipment, large-scale tester, and 25G server have also been set up. After adding multiple business models and conducting a long immersion test, we have some recommended experience values for the MMU waterline setting for RDMA networks. In addition, there are some difficulties in the deployment of RDMA network, such as PFC storm, deadlock problem and complex ECN waterline design problem in multistage network. To these questions, Ruijie network also has some research and accumulation, looking forward to discussing with you.


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It happened! We got our first look at director Gareth Edwards' Star Wars story, it's called Rogue One, and it looks like a science fiction heist film with a rebellious female lead (played by Felicity Jones). Sure, everyone caught that there are different types of Stormtroopers this time out, and yeah, there's another Death Star in a Star Wars movie — but that doesn't mean this trailer isn't packed to the gills with exciting developments in Disney's stewardship of the Star Wars universe. With that in mind, let's crack open our geek brains and let them spill out all over this Rogue One trailer.
First, watch the trailer below, then strap in for our deep analysis:
The trailer starts with the audience being introduced to Jyn Erso, Felicity Jones' character. She's entering what appears to be the Rebel Base on Yavin IV that is put in jeopardy by the Death Star at the end of Star Wars: A New Hope.
We get our first glimpse of an X-Wing as Jyn is lead through the hanger, and we discover who is behind the voiceover rattling off Jyn's criminal record — it's Mon Mothma! In the original trilogy, we don't run into Mon Mothma until Return of the Jedi, when she's giving the briefing on the second Death Star (yes, the second Death Star plans are the ones where many Bothan spies died, not this one).
She's standing around the same display Leia and General Jan Dodonna use in A New Hope to monitor the Battle of Yavin happening above. General Dodonna is the man we see give the first Death Star briefing, he doesn't appear to be around Yavin at the moment.
This Mon Mothma actress will be familiar to anyone who has seen the Revenge of the Sith deleted scenes: it's Genevieve O'Reilly! She was cast as Mon Mothma for the third of the prequels, but her scene was cut from the theatrical release of the film (she still appears in the background). O'Reilly is reprising here, which is a fun connection to existing Star Wars lore (and gives me great hope for another cameo: see the kneeling figure part of this post).
Next, we see Diego Luna's character regarding Jyn. He's in the Rebellion military, as you can tell by his badge that displays his rank as two blue dots stacked vertically. Sadly, there isn't a consistent canonical through-line for this rank. Depending on which X-Wing video game you're playing, it's either a Captain or a Lieutenant, but those aren't canonical games any longer. The important thing is that he's not a private and he's not a general, he's a guy that's going to team up with Jyn to go on some secret missions. The rumor is this character is named Cassein Willix, but we'll just call him Diego Luna for now.
Jyn has the awesome line "this is a Rebellion, isn't it? I rebel." This is intercut with her kicking some Stormtrooper butt with a billy club of some sort (Diego Luna is in the background, so this is already part of the mission, despite how it is edited). There's also a brief shot of Jyn in an alley and behind her is a large humanoid droid. That droid (we'll catch a glimpse of him later) is probably the one played by Alan Tudyk (of Firefly and I, Robot fame). He looks large enough to be some sort of battle or enforcer droid, but it will be interesting to see if it is Jyn's companion or a tool of the Rebellion.
There's also this shot of someone detonating an explosion that sends Stormtroopers flying. It's the widest shot we get of this sand city that will be under siege. From what we see in this trailer, it looks like X-Wing pilots crash here and are taken captive. What's being blown up in this shot is a Hover Tank, which we'll see later.
Diego Luna and Felicity Jones are shown diving away from this explosion, so they're not the one detonating the bomb from above.
Mon Mothma seems to like the wordplay from Jyn (who has been on her own since she was 15, although rumor has it we might meet her father in this movie).
Mon Mothma has a mission for Jyn. A major weapons test is going down and they need to know what it is. We get our Star Wars original trilogy-era Star Destroyers, and the slow reveal of the dish being applied to the Death Star, which looks flat gray as it should, and it's great.
The dish uses Kyber crystals to focus beams and fire it. Those are the same crystals Jedi use in their lightsabers. I'm guessing they've already been installed by the time this dish gets up. Either way, this whole construction process is something Grand Moff Tarkin is canonically very close to (from the novel Tarkin). If we're actually spending any time on or near the Death Star, I'd expect Tarkin to show up in some manner.
Alarms start going off and Jyn and Diego Luna head off to do some sort of mission, leaving Yavin IV behind to eventually receive General Dodonna and Princess Leia in a future past Star Wars film.
Ben Mendelsohn's mystery Grand Admiral on the Death Star. There's so much to unpack about this shot. First, this is the canonical reintroduction of the rank of Grand Admiral into the Star Wars canon, and he is dressed in white like the most famous Grand Admiral from the Expanded Universe, Grand Admiral Thrawn. It was established in the novel Tarkin that Grand Moff is above the rest of the military, but a Grand Admiral would be the equal of the Imperial Navy. For comparison, a Grand Admiral would be Admiral Ackbar, while a Grand Moff would be Mon Mothma. He's got a pistol and he's standing in front of the original Death Star's targeting display, the one that will eventually show Grand Moff Tarkin the last picture of Alderaan.
Here's that Hover Tank that gets blown up (or another Hover Tank, like the one that gets blown up). It's piloted by a new type of Stormtrooper as well, one with a more angular lower mask and a visor perched up on the forehead. We'll see some brown-colored visor troopers later on, but these appear to be white.
Forest Whitaker's character has a cane and a power suit of some kind. Rumors about Rogue One's plot have Whitaker playing a third party that isn't straight Rebellion or Imperial. Many have speculated that he's going to be the connecting thread to bounty hunters that join the Rogue One team of Jyn and Diego Luna (and mystery Tudyk droid).
New Stormtrooper alert! Lucasfilm has trademarked the term "Shadow Trooper," and this could possibly be that new Trooper. However: There have been rumors of black Stormtroopers wearing a more traditionally-shaped mask, so we don't know how broad the term "Shadow Trooper" goes. What we can infer from another shot in this trailer is that eventually Jyn is going to go undercover as one of these guys, and they seem elite in the sense that all the Shadow Troopers travel together, rather than in mixed packs like the other troopers.
The question of what happens if our team is caught is paired with some captive X-Wing pilots. Later in the trailer when we see Donnie Yen about to fight some Stormtroopers, it's in front of a downed X-Wing. Whatever mission that everyone left Yavin IV for seems to end up in this desert town where downed Rebellion pilots are taken captive. Hover Tanks roll in and someone blows them up, maybe?
Anyway, we see some running that was clearly filmed in a London tube station, but will likely be filling in for some sort of base (likely Imperial based on the color scheme). We also get to see the back of the Tudyk droid, who is part of our Rebellion threesome.
New Stormtrooper alert! Here we get our first official look at the tan-colored troopers with a visor on the forehead. Amongst the Star Wars rumor mongers, these troopers have been referred to as Scarab Troopers, but no official name has been given to them yet.
Here's Donnie Yen introducing what looks like spear or swordplay into the Star Wars universe. While Forest Whitaker is wondering what happens if "they" break "you," we see Yen approach a group of Stormtroopers in front of a downed X-Wing (in that desert town we've been seeing). Then, with some quick martial arts, all the Troopers go down and Donnie Yen is a badass.
Here are those Shadow Troopers in a group once again. They don't have your normal Stormtrooper E-11 blasters, instead they have something larger and meaner looking. They appear to be fighting on the beach or a tropical planet, where we see the AT-AT's firing later on in the trailer.
A ship that looks mysteriously like Kylo Ren's transport from The Force Awakens blows up. Even though that ship was a First Order ship, the order of the edit of these shots makes it look like this might be an assault on a Rebellion target. This is also on the beach or tropical planet, and if there are AT-ATs around, it seems like the Empire could be the attackers in this conflict.
In the aftermath of the skirmish on this planet, the Grand Admiral surveys the damage. He walks through a shallow pool like the one we see AT-ATs stomp through, and approaches a structure surrounded by dead Stormtroopers.
Contrasting a white cape with a black one, a dark and hooded figure kneels before a shaft or chamber. The notable thing about this are the red guards, the Emperor's personal guard. Those guys don't go anywhere unless the Emperor is physically present, so my hopes for an Ian McDiarmid cameo reprising his role as Palpatine are at an all time high.
Forest Whitaker warns someone that if they keep fighting they might become something else, and we get to see Jain Wen's character, who is maybe some type of weapons expert for the Rebellion, running and firing in the daytime.
That cuts to what would be the money shot if you haven't been spending half a year playing Star Wars: Battlefront and are therefore used to seeing this perspective of AT-ATs. These walkers are a bit sleeker in design than what will eventually end up on Hoth, but it's one of those things we'll have to forgive because it looks cooler.
Finally, we see Jyn in some sort of Imperial uniform. The voice-over makes it seem like she might be switching sides, but insider info suggests Jyn and Diego Luna go undercover at one point, like Han and Luke did in A New Hope. The rumor is that Jyn would be dressing up as an Imperial Gunner, and outside of the bulky backpack on this outfit, it looks like that rumor might pan out. The uniform also looks like it could be a type of Shadow Trooper or, additionally, a TIE-Fighter pilot (assuming they get to fly somewhere). That same rumor has Diego Luna cosplaying as an Imperial Officer, though we don't see that in the trailer.
The most interesting thing about the Rogue One trailer is how it bowls over the time period that some of the Expanded Universe video games covered, while reintroducing things that feel like echoes from those now-deleted stories. Notably, the Dark Forces video game series had some Shadow Troopers, and featured a female Imperial spy that eventually joined the Rebellion called Jan Ors. And this is mere hours after Grand Admirals became a thing in the Star Wars universe once again.
Rogue One comes out December 16th this year, but this first teaser suggests we have a lot more exciting marketing info to digest before we're even ready for the real movie.


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It all began in a garage back in 2008 where me (Brad) and Gazz homebrewed on weekends. We got pretty good at it and as we are beer geeks at heart we always took things that one step further. In 2010 the idea for Tiny Rebel was born, with the result being our official launch in February 2012.
Only a year after opening, we took the Great Welsh Beer Festival by storm and won Gold (Dirty Stop Out), Silver (FUBAR) and Bronze (Urban IPA) in the Champion Beer of Wales competition.
…and only 4 months after that, we opened Cardiff's 1st ever, fully devoted craft beer bar called Urban Tap House. It's a beer drinkers haven, go check it out.
Our latest achievement was winning Gold for the 2nd year running in the Champion Beer of Wales competition. This year FUBAR took the crown.
We'll keep updating this with every milestone we hit, but for the other bits, you can check out our blog and join us on our little journey through beer.
Brad & Gazz


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Phantom 3 Advanced Video Lag FIXED!
So sometime around April 2016, I started to notice video lag, then turned into a bad 3 to 6 second lag with some drop outs. From what I noticed this started to happen after P3 Adv Firmware 1.8.80. I played around with downgrading, upgrading, sdcards, you name it. I figured I was stuck, then 1.9.60 firmware came out and I had hoped it would fix it.
Nope, no fix to the video lag issues I was having. After some time in the forums, no body seems to have a fix for this issue and nobody really seemed to understand what was going on. The only way I could get any kind of better performance was to switch from NTSC to Pal settings on the camera. Which would make the lag better 2 – 4 seconds. So I started to research some more.
Some time ago, someone had posted in the forums that they had the same video lag issue, took it to a hobby shop and they fixed it, told him his gimbal board was dirty and fixed he was. I thought about that for a while and thought to myself BS, something else was going on. I've repaired countless gimbal boards, and I've never really had one that was "dirty" to the point in which it wouldn't work anymore. Perhaps some dust, but nothing that I figured would cause the video lag issue. I've got over 30 hours flight time on my P3 Adv with over 200 flights and not a spec of dirt in my gimbal.
So I started to trouble shoot this issue, because it was outside the scope of what I'd call "normal" problems. Sure people have tablet settings wrong, etc. But I knew this wasn't that.
I did some tests flights and tried to log as much of what was going on as I could.
Cold Startup: No lag
10-30 seconds after power on: Lag begins
30-1min into flight: 3 – 6 second video lag
Every now and then it would stop lagging in flight for a short period (20-30secs). At this point I started thinking perhaps I just have a bad gimbal board, but I thought, no way, this thing has performed so well. Turns out, I was right. Something was going on.
I kept trying to feel the gimbal top plate after flights, trying to see if it was overheating. After all it performed well over the cooler months, now it's summer and now I have this lag issue, I started to suspect this was some kind of heat issue.
Suspecting a heat issue, I tore down the gimbal completely and noticed something I hadn't noticed before. There is some thermal pads on two of the 3 main chips on the gimbal board.
On the left is the heat sink contact pads, there is a thermal pad between the chips and the heat sink pads. NOTE: Thermal paste will NOT work as the chip does not make contact with the gimbal plate.
There is an ARM2 Microcontroler on the upper side of the picture seen here…
What I hadn't noticed before was that the ARM2 micro controller did NOT have a thermal pad, but did have a pad on the heat sink for it! I thought to myself is DJI nuts? No it doesn't make a lot of heat, but it does make some. DJI at some point thought it needed to be cooled, but never added the thermal pad for it! Perhaps after testing in their climate they figured it didn't really need it so skipped the 3rd pad! But down here is southern Texas, in 96F degrees this don't work.
I'm not sure if this is how all are, but I'm assuming so. The thermal pad(s) that DJI used on the other two chips are low quality and I suspect after some time just don't do the job of conducting heat.
So I jumped on Amazon and ordered some "BQLZR 15x15x1mm Soft Thermal Conductive Pads" link here, these little soft thermal conductive pads are good and cost $5.48! They are just the right size for the two larger chips, but the smaller Arm2 MC I had to trim just a tad so that it fit right without blocking anything. Take your time here when placing the pads as fitment is important.
When you place the pads, place them on the heat sink not the chips themselves. I found it's a lot easier to do it this way, then just flip the gimbal board over and place it down on to the heat sinks. Be careful with the motor flex cables they are all sensitive and easy to mess up. That flex cable is no fun to replace!
So after I put everything back together, I gotta say I was a little worried it wouldn't do anything. I was really thinking from the forum posts DJI must of put out some bad gimbal boards in the Advanced. But I had some hope.
Got it all back together, grabbed a battery and powered up. 30 seconds pass, I'm flicking the camera up and down, no lag. I wait, 2 mins, no lag. I shut it down, take it out front and do a flight, no lag in 90F degree heat. PROBLEM SOLVED!
So guess I'm going to add this to my list of repair services as I know not everyone will want to do a gimbal tear down. But if you do here's what ya need to do to fix your video lag issue. Perhaps next time I'll do a gimbal tear down how to.
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This repair would normally cost $60 plus shipping. There is however no way for me to say if your phantom 3 advanced is having this issue or not, however if you decide to ship us your phantom, we will troubleshoot it and find out if this is the issue or if something else is going on and speak with you before any work is done.
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I shouldn't have remembered him.
He was just a guy who walked through a restaurant. I didn't know his name. We never made eye contact. There was no connection between us at all.
But I could feel him.
The tingle down my spine. The command in his presence. The snap of tension in the air around him. That was the first time I saw him, and I was captivated.
The second time was different.
He was in the mysterious back elevator of my apartment building. Our eyes met for a fleeting second before the doors closed, and I was staggered. My breath was robbed. My senses on high alert. My body hummed.
That was just the beginning.
He was the leader of the mafia. I was about to fall in love with him, and his name…
Cole Mauricio
I believe this is my forth Tijan book with Carter Reed being my favorite. Once COLE hit my iPad, it was game on and I didn't come up for air until the very end. The biggest reason I devour a Tijan book is the plot twist. It's always there, it always shocks me and COLE did not disappoint.
As much as I loved the plot, it was the romance that lagged for me. I loved Addison and Cole's characters but them together…I didn't get the "feels". It felt rushed and I never felt the moment the connection switch went on. I wanted to get more of Cole's POV and to know his character better because he is a supreme badass with a softer side.
Now I want to go back and read Carter Reed, who does make a few appearances in this story!


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August 17, 2016, 7:00 pm
Stearns Beach
Turn trash into art and environmental awareness with the Makers Market of Ludington and A Few Friends for the Environment of the World (AFFEW). By using debris collected from the local shoreline of Lake Michigan, the community is invited to help construct a sculpture of a Lake Trout, the largest native trout species of Michigan.
Plastics and other inorganic trash collected from area beaches will be sorted by color and affixed to the form of the trout. The resulting sculpture will represent a variety of pollutants that make their way into Lake Michigan and aims to bring awareness to the pollutants that threaten native species of the Great Lakes.
The sculpture will continue to develop where the community is encouraged to bring in collected debris (weather-washed plastics and other clean inorganic trash, please) from local beaches to add to the sculpture. The final project will be announced and on display October 7th during Octoberfest.
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Both Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are clearly mixed-race, but they identify as black.
Barack Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., is from Kenya, while his mother Ann Dunham has mostly British ancestry. He has joked about his mixed parentage. A Mutt Like Me | HuffPost Life quoting Barack Obama as stating that "But obviously, a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me." He has also jokingly called himself "O'Bama", suggesting Irish ancestry.
Kamala Harris's father Donald Harris is from Jamaica, and he is likely mixed-race. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, is from Tamil Nadu, India. KAMALA HARRIS' JAMAICAN HERITAGE - UPDATED - 14.01.2019 - Jamaica Global Online and also this fun bit: DONALD HARRIS SLAMS HIS DAUGHTER SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS FOR FRAUDULENTLY STEREOTYPING JAMAICANS AND ACCUSES HER OF PLAYING IDENTITY POLITICS - Jamaica Global Online When someone asked her if she smoked marijuana, she responded "Half my family's from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?" Her father was not very pleased.
If the D.A. Is of Half-Asian Descent, Why Does the Press Label Her 'Black'? - Poynter
Race and the Law Prof Blog
Tiger Woods describes himself as 'Cablinasian' - "a blend of Caucasian, black, Indian and Asian".
Race in a Genetic World | Harvard Magazine
So she goes from black to mixed-race to white."I am an African American," says Duana Fullwiley, "but in parts of Africa, I am white." To do fieldwork as a medical anthropologist in Senegal, she says, "I take a plane to France, a seven- to eight-hour ride. My race changes as I cross the Atlantic. There, I say, 'Je suis noire,' and they say, 'Oh, okay—métisse—you are mixed.' Then I fly another six to seven hours to Senegal, and I am white. In the space of a day, I can change from African American, to métisse, to tubaab [Wolof for "white/European"]. This is not a joke, or something to laugh at, or to take lightly. It is the kind of social recognition that even two-year-olds who can barely speak understand. 'Tubaab,' they say when they greet me."


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Losses add up for estranged family
What You Have Left
By Will Allison
Novels made up of linked stories work like geological surveys: A deep, slender sample is drilled from here, another deep sample from over there, until a surprisingly complete portrait emerges. In Will Allison's first novel, "What You Have Left," seven of the eight chapters were originally published as stand-alone stories, and each chapter on its own sharply illuminates a moment in time. Taken together, they show something broader: layers of injury and deceit, love and anger, gestures gone wrong and hurts calcified into bitterness.
The book, which moves about in time from 1970 to 2007, centers on the aftermath of a series of losses. When Holly is 5, her mother dies from complications of a speedboat accident. After the funeral, her father drops her off at her grandfather's farm and never returns. For a few years there are stray calls and cards, and then nothing. Some of the chapters are from Holly's point of view as a mature (though, often, not-so-mature) woman; other chapters are told from the perspective of her husband, Lyle. Still others -- the book's strongest -- move back in time, to the early years of Holly's life as seen by her father, Wylie.
One of Allison's greatest gifts is his ability to come at a story from an original, surprising angle. In one chapter, Wylie is working as a process server. He hasn't seen Holly in three years, and she appears in the story only briefly, when Wylie calls the house where she lives with her grandfather. Still, as he attempts to serve a young mother with custody papers, the slipping away of his relationship with his own child infuses every moment of the story. In another chapter, the story of Holly's birth is tangled up with the story of Wylie's acquaintance Lester, whose newborn son has just died. Wylie, deeply ambivalent about becoming a father, focuses on Lester's misfortune as a way of comprehending his own luck. When Lester tries to cheat Wylie on a business deal, Wylie finds himself reluctantly colluding, and the layers of deception and guilt and resentment between them are complicated, astute and absolutely convincing. Just as it seems clear where the story is going, Allison spins it in another direction, one that's somehow both surprising and inevitable. The moment is stunning.
Elsewhere, the book works less well. An awkward chapter from Lyle's point of view, for example, begins with the difficulty his young daughter is having with mathematics, a metaphor that's stretched too far. Lyle and Holly are trying to quit smoking ("mathematically, it's a no brainer"), and their relationship, already shaky, begins to fall apart under the added strain. At a moment of despair, cruising for prostitutes, Lyle thinks that "The equation used to be so simple. Holly + Lyle = ... Now the arithmetic is feeling more like algebra or trig or any of the other math he'd never quite got the hang of. Too many variations on either side of the equation. ... The sum keeps getting closer to zero."
It's not convincing that he'd pursue a convoluted train of thought about equations and sums at the same moment that he's trying to choose a woman to pick up, and the insistence on math metaphors feels heavy-handed and irritating. What's more, one of Allison's strengths is the way he undermines any kind of "simple" equation: From the beginning, Lyle and Holly's relationship has defied the neat balance he now ascribes it. Still, even in less-successful chapters, there are wonderful, surprising moments. Here, it's Lyle seeing his wife's naked body as her robe falls open; Allison writes, "She's cinching the robe before he remembers to inhale again." So much is contained in that sentence -- the subtle play on cigarettes and "inhale"; a palpable sense of awe -- that it takes a moment to also realize Holly's gesture is one of withdrawal.
Some weak spots seem related to an imperfect transition from story collection to novel -- for example, action that we've already seen is occasionally summarized for us again. The backstory would have been necessary when these pieces were expected to stand alone, but in a novel it's redundant, explaining what we already know. And a convenient diagnosis near the end of the book seems like an attempt to pull together disparate elements and give the characters a chance at reconciliation.
For the most part, though, the novel's fractured structure works well with its themes of dislocation and loss. Each section shows a few days -- sometimes a few hours -- but Allison chooses so well that the gaps and elisions seem as essential to the novel as the events themselves. Allison jumps back 20 years, then ahead 26, then back again, then forward. Taking a sample from here, another from there, he shows us a landscape that is rocky and difficult but that has its own sere beauty -- the kind that, at the novel's best, can make us forget for a moment to inhale.


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Molly Mazzolini, class of 1998, stopped by the School of Communication & Design's Public Relations class to talk about her career in sports branding ahead of the championship game between Louisiana State University and Clemson University.
The Maroon named No. 1 Best College Media Outlet of the Year
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The Goodman Theatre is currently staging Annie Baker's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" through March 19th. Starring a fine cast of actors- David Darlow, Kristen Bush, Caroline Neff, Tim Hopper, Marton Csokas, Marilyn Dodds Frank, Mary Ann Thebus, Larry Neumann, Jr., and Alzan Pelesic- it's tautly directed by Robert Falls. A beautiful set, thanks to Todd Rosenthal, with fabulously authentic period costumes by Ana Kuzmanic, the whole is splendidly evocative of down-at-the-heels wealth. Through it's open doors, lush foliage beckons invitingly; sounds of falling rain and birds chirping – courtesy of Richard Woodbury- and indoor-outdoor shifting light and shadows by Keith Parham complete the ambience.
It is the country estate- now a farm- of Alexander Serebryakov's late wife, run by his daughter, Sonya and his stepson, Vanya, for his benefit. Vanya's aged parents and old nanny also live there, with a couple of man- servants. The professor, an intellectual snob and fraud is remarried to the lovely and much-younger Yelena; as the play opens, they've all been living there together. A long-time family friend, Dr. Astrov, is visiting. Vanya and Dr. Astrov, an environmental enthusiast, both love Yelena to distraction. Yelena and Sonya both adore the Doctor. Vanya hates the professor.
For the rest, we have the eternal Russian mid-19th century obsession with the meaninglessness of life, the certainty of the grave, the endless need to save face, the impetus to use romantic sexuality to fight ennui. Chekhov's unerring ability to drive to the heart of longing and despair comes to the fore. His language is elegantly simplified here through Baker's adaptation, based upon a literal translation from the original Russian by Margarita Shalina. Except for a few strange language choices, like the use of the word "creep" as a self-descriptive term, the European-influenced Russian phrases depicting life's central strivings and lost hopes are well expressed.
The best-drawn character is certainly Nanny, played by Mary Ann Thebus, whose directness of bearing and approach- not to mention her ability to feel human emotions untainted by despair- are a refreshing side-note if not antidote to the pervasive feelings of boredom everybody else describes. Her solution to many a worldly problem is to offer a bottle of vodka, and the only festive scene is when the men sing and dance drunk. The younger women try to foil this behavior, more's the pity, and to little avail.
This is a long play at 2 hours and 40 minutes, but it wouldn't be possible to cut it down without ruining the author's intentions. The personalities are well thought out and well developed. David Darlow is fiendishly unattractive as the self-absorbed phony intellectual Serebryakov. Kristen Bush is incandescent as his fully self-aware wife, Yelena. Caroline Neff gives us a Sonya full of sensual emotion tempered by duty. Tim Hopper displays the ultimate Vanya- his enormous Russian soul steeped in desire and self-recrimination, often leavened by droll humor- drives the play. Marton Tsokas' titanic Astrov is a complex and many-layered man.
While the characters emote and declaim, little seems resolved. Indeed, on the surface it seems that nothing really happens, but that is not it at all. The professor tries to enforce a disastrous change and is resisted, at the point of murder. A suicide is also thwarted, as is passion. Life is allowed to go on as before- a way of living bemoaned as intolerable is yet fought for and upheld; friendships are retained, a marriage is saved.
These characters' day-to-day existence and relationships are indeed meaningfully felt and lived, despite their verbal complaints to the contrary. And that is the point, very subtly delivered. The play is splendidly performed and is highly recommended.
For information and tickets to all the excellent productions at The Goodman Theatre, go to the Goodman Theatre website
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OBJECTIVEHbA(1c) is strongly related to the development of diabetes complications, but it is still controversial which HbA(1c) level to strive for in the treatment of type 1 diabetes. The aim of the current study was to evaluate HbA(1c), followed from diagnosis, as a predictor of severe microvascular complications and to formulate HbA(1c) target levels for treatment.RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODSA longitudinal observation study followed an unselected population of 451 patients diagnosed with type 1 diabetes during 1983-1987 before the age of 35 years in a region of Southeast Sweden. Retinopathy was evaluated by fundus photography and nephropathy data collected from medical records. HbA(1c) was measured starting from diagnosis and during the whole follow-up period of 20-24 years. Long-term weighted mean HbA(1c) was then calculated. Complications were analyzed in relation to HbA(1c) levels.RESULTSThe incidence of proliferative retinopathy and persistent macroalbuminuria increased sharply and occurred earlier with increasing long-term mean HbA(1c). None of the 451 patients developed proliferative retinopathy or persistent macroalbuminuria below long-term weighted mean HbA(1c) 7.6% (60 mmol/mol); 51% of the patients with long-term mean HbA(1c) above 9.5% (80 mmol/mol) developed proliferative retinopathy and 23% persistent macroalbuminuria.CONCLUSIONSLong-term weighted mean HbA(1c), measured from diagnosis, is closely associated with the development of severe complications in type 1 diabetes. Keeping HbA(1c) below 7.6% (60 mmol/mol) as a treatment target seems to prevent proliferative retinopathy and persistent macroalbuminuria for up to 20 years.
We thank Dr. Takahara (1) for the comment on our recent article exploring the impact of HbA1c, followed from diabetes onset, on the development of severe microvascular complications (2). As suggested, we have validated our results with Cox hazards analysis with severe microvascular events, i.e., laser-treated proliferative retinopathy and macroalbuminuria as a dependent variable and HbA1c (mmol/mol) as a time-dependent covariate.
For laser-treated proliferative retinopathy, we found a hazard ratio of 1.038 (95% CI 1.025–1.052, P < 0.001) and for macroalbuminuria, a hazard ratio of 1.075 (95% CI 1.050–1.100, P < 0.001).
Analyzing our data with Cox hazards analysis thus shows the strong influence of long-term HbA1c on severe microvascular complications, in agreement with our previous conclusions.
In our article, we chose to analyze and present the results in a way that was perhaps easier for a clinician to interpret and apply in clinical routine. With life-table analysis we found that the incidence of both laser-treated proliferative retinopathy and macroalbuminuria increased sharply and occurred earlier with increasing long-term weighted mean HbA1c. In the same manner, the prevalence of microvascular complications increased steeply with higher long-term weighted mean HbA1c, categorized in different groups.
In conclusion, our study irrespective of statistical methods shows a strong association between development of late complications and long-term mean HbA1c, and keeping the average HbA1c below 7.6% (60 mmol/mol) seemed sufficient to prevent microvascular complications for at least up to 20 years.


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