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MK3 fan made movie or hollywood
i have been hearing alot about this movie and i have high hopes for it.. i enjoyed the first movie and was disgusted by the second one... hopefully the 3rd installment into the MK series will go back to its routes. and i am hoping that they will cast actors who fit the parts perfectly not just who ever they could get or some one cause they are famous... the first MK cast no name actors except for two... they were perfect for the parts... the second one ... the characters were just flaky.. so that being said.. who is making the frelling film

subzeromastersubzeromaster
i have been hearing alot about this movie and i have high hopes for it.. i enjoyed the first movie and was disgusted by the second one... hopefully the 3rd installment into the MK series will go back to its routes. and i am hoping that they will cast actors who fit the parts perfectly not just who ever they could get or some one cause they are famous... the first MK cast no name actors except for two... they were perfect for the parts... the second one ... the characters were just flaky.. so that being said.. who is making the frelling film
that chill down your spine when your afraid.. thats me....
no one. ever.

Art LeanSurgir_Da_Sepultura
RE: MK3 fan made movie or hollywood
no one. ever.
You dont know that, so stop acting like an asshole and talking like you know something.

ZentileZentile
You dont know that, so stop acting like an asshole and talking like you know something.

Surgir_Da_Sepultura Wrote:
no one. ever.

Oh, Ok.

Actually this time I do agree with Zentile; If you can't add anything worthwile to the topic, then best keep quiet.

mkrevolutionmkrevolution
Surgir_Da_Sepultura Wrote:
Oh, Ok.
Actually this time I do agree with Zentile; If you can't add anything worthwile to the topic, then best keep quiet.
MK : REVOLUTION :: VERSION 4.0
His opinion isn't worthwhile? The best thing to do here is to ignore him, and then if they do make an MK3 movie, come back to these threads and rub his face in it. Spite 101.

NitroDeSadeNitroDeSade
His opinion isn't worthwhile? The best thing to do here is to ignore him, and then if they do make an MK3 movie, come back to these threads and rub his face in it. Spite 101.
-+[o]+-

NitroDeSade Wrote:
His opinion isn't worthwhile? The best thing to do here is to ignore him, and then if they do make an MK3 movie, come back to these threads and rub his face in it. Spite 101.

It's not that it's his opinion or not. He's saying it like he knows for a fact, when he obviously doesn't.

NitroDeSade Wrote:
It's not that it's his opinion or not. He's saying it like he knows for a fact, when he obviously doesn't.
I apologise if it sounded rude, sure my post was just meant to be wry and sarcastic but in a light-hearted way, not a rude "I'm a know-it-all"... I just usually can't be bothered to insert smilies, and on the net text is not always read in the tone that the author was saying it in his head.

But i truly believe, in my opinion, that the movie is never ever going to emerge. At what point will any of your faiths ever be swayed to be open to this idea? Do we have to wait another 3 years? 5? 10? Are Mortal Kombat fans just meant to fantasise and believe "it's coming out" until they actually say "it ISN'T"... because in the movie business very VERY rarely do they ever come out with a definate 'no'... just let the dust settle and leave a lot of people wondering.

We're coming up to the 8th years since Mortal Kombat Annihilation... 8 YEARS since the previous movie that was an absolute disaster. It was a commercial flop, hated by the media, hated by Mortal Kombat fans, hell it's number 48 on the Internet Movie Database's "WORST 100 MOVIES EVER"! The TV series that emerged 1 year later was canned, the next TV series (FOMA) was cancelled before it even was filmed and was later simply shown online.
MK and Threshold productions have just been failing and failing since 1997 and Annihilation - just remember, 8 years since the passing of a sequel that was absolutely dreadful by everyone's standards.

That's not a lot of hope for second sequel - especially since there's not been ANY concrete news, just rumours and heavy gossip. Don't get me wrong - I'd LIKE a third movie, hell I'm the biggest nutswinger of Mortal Kombat Conquest ever, so I got no bias disliking for live-action MK or the Threshold... I'm simply trying to be realistic from the business side of things, as I'm fairly certain that there's gonna be a lot of disappointed MK fans out there otherwise.

I'm not telling you to be as pessimistic as I am, I simply want some of you to be more open to the idea that there's a fair chance that it might never happen.

I apologise if it sounded rude, sure my post was just meant to be wry and sarcastic but in a light-hearted way, not a rude "I'm a know-it-all"... I just usually can't be bothered to insert smilies, and on the net text is not always read in the tone that the author was saying it in his head.
But i truly believe, in my opinion, that the movie is never ever going to emerge. At what point will any of your faiths ever be swayed to be open to this idea? Do we have to wait another 3 years? 5? 10? Are Mortal Kombat fans just meant to fantasise and believe "it's coming out" until they actually say "it ISN'T"... because in the movie business very VERY rarely do they ever come out with a definate 'no'... just let the dust settle and leave a lot of people wondering.
We're coming up to the 8th years since Mortal Kombat Annihilation... 8 YEARS since the previous movie that was an absolute disaster. It was a commercial flop, hated by the media, hated by Mortal Kombat fans, hell it's number 48 on the Internet Movie Database's "WORST 100 MOVIES EVER"! The TV series that emerged 1 year later was canned, the next TV series (FOMA) was cancelled before it even was filmed and was later simply shown online.
MK and Threshold productions have just been failing and failing since 1997 and Annihilation - just remember, 8 years since the passing of a sequel that was absolutely dreadful by everyone's standards.
That's not a lot of hope for second sequel - especially since there's not been ANY concrete news, just rumours and heavy gossip. Don't get me wrong - I'd LIKE a third movie, hell I'm the biggest nutswinger of Mortal Kombat Conquest ever, so I got no bias disliking for live-action MK or the Threshold... I'm simply trying to be realistic from the business side of things, as I'm fairly certain that there's gonna be a lot of disappointed MK fans out there otherwise.
I'm not telling you to be as pessimistic as I am, I simply want some of you to be more open to the idea that there's a fair chance that it might never happen.
Actually, it sounds like you're the one who needs to be more open to the idea that it might actually happen.

Actually, it sounds like you're the one who needs to be more open to the idea that it might actually happen.
It's been almost 4 years since i was a regular here, before that I used to believe that there might have been a third movie, to make up for part 2. Years have passed, and still nothing. I don't know if you've been sitting around since 1997 wondering "I wonder what the next movie will be like", but I can tell you I have, and in that time there's be NO new evidence that the movie was in anyway coming together - rumours and 18-month old "requests of input" from an 'official' MK site are hardly signs of proof. Actos saying they were approached means nothing either.

Hell Mortal Kombat.com states the following:
"There is a rumor going around that one of the most awesome Mortal Kombat fighters will die in the third movie. If that were the case, which even MortalKombat.com isn't sure about, who would you want it to be, if it had to be somebody?"

They're the official site, apparantly straight from the makers themselves and even they dont have a clue what's going on - how can you have faith in that? The entire Threshold network has been dead and silent on ALL of its projects in 18 months. I wouldn't be surprised if Threshold was going into liquidation.

It's MORTAL KOMBAT, nothing more - the craze of MK died back in the mid-90s, it was a fad. Sure some people have come into MK through MKDA, but the vast majority of its fans quit caring years ago, the days of the action figures, baseball caps, stickers, trading cards, frisbees and comics are long gone.
A third movie is not going to set the world of mainstream cinema on fire like Lord of the Rings or Star Wars, there is NO other reason for it to be so secretive except for one... that NOTHING is being done.

It's been almost 4 years since i was a regular here, before that I used to believe that there might have been a third movie, to make up for part 2. Years have passed, and still nothing. I don't know if you've been sitting around since 1997 wondering "I wonder what the next movie will be like", but I can tell you I have, and in that time there's be NO new evidence that the movie was in anyway coming together - rumours and 18-month old "requests of input" from an 'official' MK site are hardly signs of proof. Actos saying they were approached means nothing either.
Hell Mortal Kombat.com states the following:
"There is a rumor going around that one of the most awesome Mortal Kombat fighters will die in the third movie. If that were the case, which even MortalKombat.com isn't sure about, who would you want it to be, if it had to be somebody?"
They're the official site, apparantly straight from the makers themselves and even they dont have a clue what's going on - how can you have faith in that? The entire Threshold network has been dead and silent on ALL of its projects in 18 months. I wouldn't be surprised if Threshold was going into liquidation.
It's MORTAL KOMBAT, nothing more - the craze of MK died back in the mid-90s, it was a fad. Sure some people have come into MK through MKDA, but the vast majority of its fans quit caring years ago, the days of the action figures, baseball caps, stickers, trading cards, frisbees and comics are long gone.
A third movie is not going to set the world of mainstream cinema on fire like Lord of the Rings or Star Wars, there is NO other reason for it to be so secretive except for one... that NOTHING is being done.
Well I just did some research and apparantly Kasanoff is putting all his efforts into an animated movie entitled Foodfight out in 2005 and his plans for Threshold are to make them the future for all CGI-animated movies.

With that on the cards - it seems even more unlikely Mortal Kombat 3 is going to emerge... IF (BIG 'if' there), it certainly wouldn't be until well after Foodfight was released in 2005.

Well I just did some research and apparantly Kasanoff is putting all his efforts into an animated movie entitled Foodfight out in 2005 and his plans for Threshold are to make them the future for all CGI-animated movies.
With that on the cards - it seems even more unlikely Mortal Kombat 3 is going to emerge... IF (BIG 'if' there), it certainly wouldn't be until well after Foodfight was released in 2005.
Well put Surgir.

DanteThePoeticDanteThePoetic
Well put Surgir.
"As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is"

Sorry to drag this back from the dead, but I've either severely lost this argument or completely utterly totally won it (not quite sure haha).

A photo yesterday finally has the new MK cast photo prior to shooting commencing this week on the Mortal Kombat reboot movie.

In 2003 when this post began, reboots were pretty much not even a thing. I'm so glad Mortal Kombat has had its resurgence (I'm utterly loving MK11 like I never knew I could an MK game again after all these years), so in one way I was totally 100% right, there never was an MK3 from Threshold entertainment.

On the other hand there's a new (third) MK movie being made... was I right or was I wrong? Though my argument was about there being a sequel to Annihilation, at the same time they are making a new MK movie... so did I get it wrong?

Nevertheless I'm utterly delighted regardless, even if I did lose the argument haha (but I think I won, after all this isn't Kasanoff's MK Devastation! :).

Yours confusedly,

Art.

PS. Anyone else find it terrifying that we live in a technological era where I can just continue a conversation I was part of when I was only a year past 20 and now am on the steady approach to 40??!?!

Sorry to drag this back from the dead, but I've either severely lost this argument or completely utterly totally won it (not quite sure haha).
A photo yesterday finally has the new MK cast photo prior to shooting commencing this week on the Mortal Kombat reboot movie.
In 2003 when this post began, reboots were pretty much not even a thing. I'm so glad Mortal Kombat has had its resurgence (I'm utterly loving MK11 like I never knew I could an MK game again after all these years), so in one way I was totally 100% right, there never was an MK3 from Threshold entertainment.
On the other hand there's a new (third) MK movie being made... was I right or was I wrong? Though my argument was about there being a sequel to Annihilation, at the same time they are making a new MK movie... so did I get it wrong?
Nevertheless I'm utterly delighted regardless, even if I did lose the argument haha (but I think I won, after all this isn't Kasanoff's MK Devastation! :).
Yours confusedly,
PS. Anyone else find it terrifying that we live in a technological era where I can just continue a conversation I was part of when I was only a year past 20 and now am on the steady approach to 40??!?!


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\section{Introduction}
In a UWB relay channel, two diversity techniques, i.e., cooperative communication and UWB radios are combined and the system performance is improved considerably \cite{Sendonaris2003}.

The relay channel was first introduced in  \cite{vandermeulen-aap-1971}. In \cite{covergamal1979}, the relay channel was studied carefully, e.g., special capacity results and the best achievable rates via two coding schemes, namely decode-and-forward (DF) and estimate-and-forward (EF) strategies were obtained. We have other studies on the relay channel in\cite{gamalaref1982, gamalzahedi2005, aleksicrazaghi2009, cover2007, hodtani2008, hodtani2009}.

Limited research has been done on the capacity bounds for frequency-selective block-fading relay channels. Achievable rates using amplify-and-forward (AF) with network training in which the source node and the destination node broadcast training symbols and each relay node carries out channel estimation are analyzed in  \cite{wang2006}, for narrow and wideband relaying over frequency selective fading channel. In \cite{zolfa2009} an upper bound and DF lower bound were derived for UWB relay channel with an assumption of independent noises at the relay and destination. In \cite{goldsmith2011} Gaussian relay channels with correlated noises have been studied.

\textbf{Our Work}, includes first, the investigation of a more general lower bound that is achieved by partial decode-and-forward scheme (PDF) and determining it for frequency-selective block-fading UWB relay channel. Our result encompasses the DF lower bound in \cite{zolfa2009}. Second, we obtain the UWB new version of max-flow min-cut upper bound with the assumption of correlated noises at the relay and destination. Third, we show that the upper bound coincides with the lower bound in two special cases of degraded and reversely degraded relay channels when the corresponding correlation coefficients are applied and the capacity is determined.

\textbf{Notation:} Throughout the paper $\Re{(.)}$, $\mathbb{E}$, $var(.)$ and $cov(.)$ denote real part, expectation, variance and covariance operations, respectively. $\lfloor x\rfloor$ returns the largest integer $\leq x$. $diag(.)$ builds a diagonal matrix and $C(x)\triangleq\log(1+x)$.

The paper is organized as follows: In Sec. II we define the UWB relay channel model. The lower bound on the capacity of the relay channel obtained via PDF strategy and the max-flow min-cut upper bound for the defined channel model are derived in Sec. III. Two capacity achieving cases corresponding to the degraded and reversely degraded relay channels are discussed in Sec. IV and Sec. V, respectively. Numerical results are illustrated in Sec. VI and finally, we provide the conclusion in Sec. VII.
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\section{System Model}
We assume that data is sent in blocks of size $K$ as a train of impulse based UWB signals to the destination via link 1 and to the relay via link 2, as depicted in Fig.\ref{figure1}. Based on the received signal, the relay builds a secondary message and forwards it as a UWB signal to the destination via link 3. We assume that all nodes are perfectly synchronized and channel state information (CSI) is available at the receiving terminals only. The fading coefficients between different nodes are assumed mutually independent identically distributed. We assume arbitrarily correlated noises at the relay and destination. The complex baseband impulse response of each UWB link can be considered based on the Saleh-Valenzuela (S-V) model \cite{ieee802.15.4a}
\begin{equation}
h(t){}={}\overset{\sim}{\beta}\sum_{l=0}^{L-1} \sum_{i=0}^{M-1}a_{i,l}e^{j\phi_{i,l}}\delta(t-T_{l}-\tau_{i,l}),
\end{equation}
where $L$ is the number of clusters and $M$ is the number of rays in each cluster. $T_{l}$ and $\tau_{i,l}$ represent the cluster and ray arrival times. The factor $\overset{\sim}{\beta}$ jointly models the pathloss, shadowing, and antenna insertion loss. $a_{i,l}$ is the gain of the $i$th path in the $l$th cluster and finally $\phi_{i,l}$ is the complex baseband phase of each multipath component.\\
We know that if the transmitter sends a block of $K$  symbols $(x_{0},\cdots,x_{K-1})^{T}$ through the above UWB channel, the received signal $(y_{0},\cdots,y_{K-1})^{T}$  is in the form \cite{arikan2004}:\\
\begin{equation}
\begin{array}{@{}lc@{\quad}@{\quad}@{\quad}r@{}}
y_{i}=\sum_{k=0}^{K^{'}-1}g_{k}x_{i-k}+z_{i}&&(i=0,\cdots,K-1)
\end{array} \label{eq.2}
\end{equation}
where $z_{i}$s are complex zero mean additive white Gaussian noises, $K^{'}$ is the ISI length due to the multipath fading, and $g_{k}$'s are related to the channel impulse response as\\
\begin{equation}
g_{k}{}={}\sum_{i,l:\lfloor(T_{l}{}+{}\tau_{i,l})/T_{s}\rfloor {}={}k} \overset{\sim}{\beta} a_{i,l}e^{j\phi_{i,l}}.
\end{equation}
\begin{figure}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3in]{figure1.pdf}
\caption{Illustration of UWB relay channel.}
\label{figure1}
\end{figure}
In this equation, $T_{s}{}={}\frac{1}{W}$, where $W$ is the bandpass channel bandwidth. We assume that the channel coefficients stays constant within each block of data transmission and change in an independent and identically distributed fashion from one block to another, i.e. a block fading channel is considered because the UWB channel is underspread \cite{ieee802.15.4a}. The size of each block, $K$ is constrained by the channel coherence time and can be at most equal to $\frac{T_{c}}{T_{s}}$. Taking the DFT of the two sides of (\ref{eq.2}), we obtain the frequency domain UWB channel model \cite{arikan2004}. The vectors $\textbf{G}^{(n)}(n=1,2,3)$, $\textbf{X}_{\textbf{1}}$, $\textbf{X}_{\textbf{2}}$, $\textbf{Y}_{\textbf{1}}$ and $\textbf{Y}$ corresponds to the $K$-point DFT of vectors of complex baseband channel coefficients related to each link, the transmitted signals from the source and the relay and the received signals at relay and destination, respectively. Now, we can formulate the input-output relation for the UWB relay channel in the frequency domain as
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\begin{eqnarray}
Y_{1i}&{}={}&G_{i}^{(2)}X_{1i}+Z_{1i}\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad\quad(i=0,...,K-1) \nonumber\\
Y_{i}&{}={}&G_{i}^{(1)}X_{1i}+G_{i}^{(3)}X_{2i}+Z_{i}\label{eq.4}
\end{eqnarray}
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where $Z_{i}\thicksim \mathcal{C}\mathcal{N}(0,N)$ and $Z_{1i}\thicksim \mathcal{C}\mathcal{N}(0,N_{1})$ are complex circularly symmetric zero mean additive white Gaussian noises with correlation coefficient $\rho_{z_{i}}{}={}\mathbb{E}\left\lbrace Z_{1i}Z_{i}^{*}\right\rbrace /\sqrt{NN_{1}}$.
\section{Upper and Lower Bounds on Capacity}
In this section, we provide the PDF achievable rate and max-flow min-cut upper bound for the capacity of the UWB relay channel.
\subsection{UWB Lower Bound}
When the channel between the source and the relay is better than the channel between the relay and the receiver, DF strategy gives the best achievable rate. To date the best rate achieved by DF strategy is obtained in \cite[theorem 7]{covergamal1979} by substituting  $\widehat{Y}_{1}{}={}\phi, V{}={} X_{2},U{}={}(X_{2}, U)$ which we call it as PDF. A delay-constrained form for this lower bound can be expressed as
\begin{small}
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\begin{eqnarray}
C{}&\quad \geq& {}\sup _{(\textbf{X}_{\textbf{1}},\textbf{X}_{\textbf{2}},\textbf{U})}\min\bigg\lbrace \dfrac{1}{K} \sum_{i=0}^{K-1} I(X_{1i},X_{2i}; Y_{i}),\nonumber\\
&&\dfrac {1}{K} \sum_{i=0}^{K-1} I(U_{i};Y_{1i}\mid X_{2i}){}+{}I(X_{1i};Y_{i}\mid X_{2i}, U_{i})\bigg\rbrace \label{eq.7}
\end{eqnarray}
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\end{small}
where the supremum is taken over all joint probability mass functions of the form
\begin{equation}
\label{eq6.prob.distr} p(\textbf{X}_{\textbf{1}},\textbf{X}_{\textbf{2}},\textbf{U}){}={}\prod _{i=1}^{K}p(X_{2i})p(U_{i}\mid X_{2i})p(X_{1i}\mid U_{i}X_{2i})
\end{equation}\\
The resulted UWB version is expressed in the following theorem.
\paragraph*{Theorem 1}
A delay-constrained achievable rate with PDF strategy for frequency-selective block fading UWB relay channel is given by
\begin{equation}
R=\max _{
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\begin{small} \begin{matrix} \overline{\alpha}_{0},&\dots ,&\overline{\alpha}_{k-1}\\
\overline{\beta}_{0},&\dots ,&\overline{\beta}_{k-1}\end{matrix}\end{small}
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}\min \left\lbrace \dfrac{1}{K}\sum_{i=0}^{K-1}C(\gamma_{1i}), \dfrac{1}{K}\sum_{i=0}^{K-1}C(\gamma_{2i})\right\rbrace ,\label{achievable}
\end{equation}
\begin{small}
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\begin{eqnarray}
&\gamma_{1i}&{}={}\label{achievable1}\\
&&\dfrac{\vert G_{i}^{(1)}\vert^{2}P_{1}{}+{}\vert G_{i}^{(3)}\vert^{2} P_{2}{}+{}2\sqrt{P_{1}P_{2}}\Re \left\lbrace  \sqrt{\overline{\alpha}_{i}\overline{\beta}_{i}}G_{i}^{(1)}G_{i}^{(3)^{*}}\right\rbrace}
{N}\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
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\end{small}
\begin{small}
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\begin{eqnarray}
&\gamma_{2i}&{}={}\label{achievable2}\\
&&\left( 1+\dfrac{\big\vert G_{i}^{(2)}\big\vert^{2}\vert \alpha_{i}\vert \vert\overline{\beta}_{i}\vert P_{1}}{\big\vert G_{i}^{(2)}\big\vert^{2}\vert \beta_{i}\vert P_{1}+N_{1}}\right) \left( 1+\dfrac{\big\vert G_{i}^{(1)}\big\vert^{2}\vert \beta_{i}\vert P_{1}}{N}\right) {}-{}1\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
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\end{small}
\paragraph*{Proof}
We now construct the code book and find the achievable rate based on the code book definitions. We assume that the source and relay nodes transmit their signals per complex baseband sample with average powers $P_{1}$ and $P_{2}$, respectively. For every $i\in\lbrace0, 1, \ldots, K-1\rbrace$ define $\overline{\alpha}_{i}$ and $\overline{\beta}_{i}$ as complex variables with $0\leq\vert\overline{\alpha}_{i}\vert, \vert\overline{\beta}_{i}\vert\leq1$ and assume that $\vert\alpha_{i}\vert{}={}1{}-{}\vert\overline{\alpha}_{i}\vert$ and $\vert\beta_{i}\vert{}={}1{}-{}\vert\overline{\beta}_{i}\vert$. Let $\setlength{\arraycolsep}{0.0em}
X_{2i}\thicksim \mathcal{C}\mathcal{N}(0,P_{2}), N_{1i}\thicksim \mathcal{C}\mathcal{N}(0,\vert\alpha_{i}\vert P_{0}), U_{i}\thicksim \mathcal{C}\mathcal{N}(0,P_{0}), M_{1i}\thicksim \mathcal{C}\mathcal{N}(0,\vert\beta_{i}\vert P_{1})\setlength{\arraycolsep}{5pt}
$ and $\setlength{\arraycolsep}{0.0em}
X_{1i}\thicksim \mathcal{C}\mathcal{N}(0,P_{1})\setlength{\arraycolsep}{5pt}
$, where $X_{2i},N_{1i}$ and $M_{1i}$ are mutually independent. First generate normal distributed random variables $X_{2i},N_{1i}$ and $M_{1i}$. Then, define $U_{i}$ and $X_{1i}$ as (\ref{eq6.prob.distr}) suggests in the following way
\begin{eqnarray}
U_{i}&{}={}&\sqrt{\overline{\alpha}_{i}\dfrac{P_{0}}{P_{2}}}X_{2i}{}+{}N_{1i}\\
X_{1i}&{}={}&\sqrt{\overline{\beta}_{i}\dfrac{P_{1}}{P_{0}}}U_{i}+M_{1i}\\
&{}={}&\sqrt{\overline{\alpha}_{i}\overline{\beta}_{i}\dfrac{P_{1}}{P_{2}}}X_{2i}{}+{}\sqrt{\overline{\beta}_{i}\dfrac{P_{1}}{P_{0}}}N_{1i}{}+{}M_{1i}\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
The random code associated with this distribution is then given by
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\begin{equation}
\begin{array}{@{}rcl@{\quad}rcl@{}}
\textbf{X}_{2}(s)i.i.d.&\thicksim & \mathcal{C}\mathcal{N}_{K}(0,P_{2}\textbf{I}) & s&\in &[1,2^{R_{0}}]\\
 \textbf{N}_{1}(w_{1})i.i.d.&\thicksim & \mathcal{C}\mathcal{N}_{K}(0,\textbf{C}_{\textbf{N}_{1}}) & w_{1}&\in &[1,2^{nR_{1}}]\\
 \textbf{M}_{1}(w_{2})i.i.d.&\thicksim & \mathcal{C}\mathcal{N}_{K}(0,\textbf{C}_{\textbf{M}_{1}}) & w_{2}&\in &[1,2^{nR_{2}}]
\end{array}
\end{equation}
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where the covariance matrices of $K$-variate complex normal distribution of $\textbf{N}_{\textbf{1}}$ and $\textbf{M}_{\textbf{1}}$ are
\begin{eqnarray}
&\textbf{C}_{\textbf{N}_{1}}{}={} diag(P_{0} \vert\alpha_{0}\vert,P_{0}  \vert\alpha_{1}\vert, \cdots, P_{0} \vert \alpha_{K-1}\vert )&\\
&\textbf{C}_{\textbf{M}_{1}}{}={}diag(P_{1} \vert\beta_{0}\vert, P_{1} \vert\beta_{1}\vert, \cdots, P_{1}\vert \beta_{K-1}\vert ),&
\end{eqnarray}
and $\textbf{U}$ and $\textbf{X}_{1}$ are constructed as
\begin{small}
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\begin{eqnarray}
\textbf{U}(w_{1}\mid s)&=&\sqrt{\dfrac{P_{0}}{P_{2}}}[\overline{\alpha}_{0} \;  \overline{\alpha}_{1} \; \cdots \; \overline{\alpha}_{K-1}]\times \textbf{X}_{2}(s)\\
&&{}+{}\textbf{N}_{1}(w_{1})\nonumber\\
\textbf{X}_{1}(w_{2}\mid w_{1},s)&{}={}&\sqrt{\dfrac{P_{1}}{P_{2}}}[\overline{\alpha}_{0} \overline{\beta}_{0}\;  \overline{\alpha}_{1}\overline{\beta}_{1}\;  \cdots \;\overline{\alpha}_{K-1}\overline{\beta}_{K-1}]\times \textbf{X}_{2}(s)\nonumber\\
&&{}+{}\sqrt{\dfrac{P_{1}}{P_{0}}}[\overline{\beta}_{0}\; \overline{\beta}_{1}\;  \cdots \; \overline{\beta}_{K-1}]\times\textbf{N}_{1}(w_{1})\nonumber\\
&&{}+{}\textbf{M}_{1}(w_{2})
\end{eqnarray}
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\end{small}
where $\times$ denotes an element by element matrix multiplication.
Then if
\begin{small}
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\begin{eqnarray}
R_{0}&<&\frac{1}{K}\sum_{i=0}^{K} I(X_{2i},Y_{i})\\
R_{1}&<&\frac{1}{K}\sum_{i=0}^{K}\min\left\lbrace I\left( U_{i};Y_{1i}|X_{2i}\right),R_{0}+I\left(U_{i};Y_{i}|X_{2i}\right) \right\rbrace \\
R_{2}&<&\frac{1}{K}\sum_{i=0}^{K-1}I\left(X_{1i};Y_{i}|U_{i},X_{2i}\right)
\end{eqnarray}
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\end{small}
where
\begin{small}
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\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq.16}I(&X_{2i}&;Y_{i}){}={}h(Y_{i})-h(Y_{i}\mid X_{2i})\nonumber\\
&{}={}&\log \big(\pi e\; var(Y_{i})\big){}-{}\log \big(\pi e\; \mathbb{E}\;var(Y_{i}\mid X_{2i})\big) \nonumber\\
&{}={}&\log\left( 1+\frac{\left|G_{i}^{(1)}\sqrt{\overline{\alpha}_{i}\overline{\beta}_{i}P_{1}}{}+{}G_{i}^{(3)}\sqrt{P_{2}}\right|^{2}}{\left|G_{i}^{(1)}\right|^{2}P_{1}\left(\left|\alpha_{i}\right| \left|\overline{\beta}_{i}\right|+\left|\beta_{i}\right|\right)+N}\right),\\
I(&U_{i}&;Y_{1i}\mid X_{2i}){}={}h(Y_{1i}\mid X_{2i})-h(Y_{1i}\mid X_{2i},U_{i})\nonumber\\
&{}={}&\log \bigg(\pi e\; \mathbb{E}\;var(Y_{1i}\mid X_{2i})\bigg)\nonumber\\
&&{}-{}\log \bigg(\pi e\;\mathbb{E}\; var(Y_{1i}\mid X_{2i},U_{i})\bigg)\nonumber\\
&{}={}&\log \bigg(1+\dfrac{\big\vert G_{i}^{(2)}\big\vert^{2}\vert\alpha_{i}\vert \vert\overline{\beta}_{i}\vert P_{1}}{\big\vert G_{i}^{(2)}\big\vert^{2}\vert\beta_{i}\vert P_{1}{}+{}N_{1}}\bigg),\\
I(&U_{i}&;Y_{i}\mid X_{2i}){}={}h(Y_{i}\mid X_{2i})-h(Y_{i}\mid X_{2i},U_{i})\nonumber\\
&{}={}&\log \bigg(\pi e\mathbb{E}var(Y_{i}\mid X_{2i})\bigg){}-{}\log \bigg(\pi e\mathbb{E} var(Y_{i}\mid X_{2i},U_{i})\bigg)\nonumber\\
&{}={}&\log \bigg(1+\dfrac{\big\vert G_{i}^{(1)}\big\vert^{2}\vert\alpha_{i}\vert \vert\overline{\beta}_{i}\vert P_{1}}{\big\vert G_{i}^{(1)}\big\vert^{2}\vert\beta_{i}\vert P_{1}{}+{}N}\bigg),\\
I&(X_{1i}&;Y_{i}\mid X_{2i},U_{i}){}={}h(Y_{i}\mid X_{2i},U_{i})-h(Y_{i}\mid X_{1i},X_{2i},U_{i})\nonumber\\
&{}={}&\log \bigg(\pi e\; \mathbb{E}\;var(Y_{i}\mid X_{2i},U_{i})\bigg)\nonumber\\
&&{}-{}\log \bigg(\pi e\; \mathbb{E}\;var(Y_{i}\mid X_{1i},X_{2i},U_{i})\bigg)\nonumber\\
&{}={}&\log \bigg(1+\dfrac{\big\vert G_{i}^{(1)}\big\vert^{2}\vert\beta_{i}\vert P_{1}}{N}\bigg),\label{eq.17}
\end{eqnarray}
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the rate $R=R_{1}+R_{2}$ can be achieved with arbitrarily small probability of error and the proof of Theorem 1 is completed.
\subsection{UWB Upper Bound}
A $K$-block delay constrained form for the max-flow min-cut upper bound on the capacity of the general relay channel, established in \cite[theorem 7]{covergamal1979} can be expressed as
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\begin{eqnarray}
\label{upperbound}C\leq \sup_{p(X_{1},X_{2})}\min\bigg\lbrace\dfrac{1}{K}&\sum_{i=0}^{K-1}&I(X_{1i},X_{2i};Y_{i}),\\
\dfrac{1}{K}&\sum_{i=0}^{K-1}&I(X_{1i};Y_{i},Y_{1i}\mid X_{2i})\bigg\rbrace\nonumber
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The UWB version of this upper bound is expressed in the following theorem.

\paragraph*{Theorem 2}
The delay-constrained max-flow min-cut upper bound on the capacity of a frequency-selective block fading relay channel is given by
\begin{small}
\begin{eqnarray}
C{}\leq{}\max_{\setlength{\arraycolsep}{0.0em}\begin{small}\begin{matrix} \overline{\alpha}_{0},&\dots,&\overline{\alpha}_{k-1}\\
\overline{\beta}_{0},&\dots, &\overline{\beta}_{k-1}\end{matrix}\end{small}}\min\left\lbrace \frac{1}{K}\sum_{i=0}^{K-1}C(\gamma_{1i}), \frac{1}{K}\sum_{i=0}^{K-1}C(\gamma_{3i})\right\rbrace, \label{eq.uwb upper bound}
\end{eqnarray}
\end{small}
where
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\begin{eqnarray}
\gamma_{3i}{}={}&&P_{1}\dfrac{(1-\vert\overline{\alpha}_{i}\vert\vert\overline{\beta}_{i}\vert)}{1-\vert\rho_{zi}\vert^{2}}\\
&\bigg(&\dfrac{\vert G_{i}^{(1)}\vert^{2}}{N}+\dfrac{\vert G_{i}^{(2)}\vert^{2}}{N_{1}}-2\dfrac{\Re\big\lbrace G_{i}^{(1)}G_{i}^{(2)^{*}}\rho_{zi}\big\rbrace}{\sqrt{NN_{1}}}\bigg)\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
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and $\gamma_{1i}$ has been defined in (\ref{achievable1}).
\paragraph*{Proof}
We start from (\ref{upperbound}). By noticing that normal random variables have the maximum entropy and by letting $X_{1i}$ and $X_{2i}$ each have the maximum allowed power $P_{1}$ and $P_{2}$ and by choosing $E(X_{1i}X_{2i}^{*})=\sqrt{\overline{\alpha}_{i}\overline{\beta}_{i}P_{1}P_{2}}$, the first term $I(X_{1i},X_{2i};Y_{i})$ is upper bounded by $C(\gamma_{1i})$, the same expression as in the lower bound. The proof is a trivial extension of that in \cite[theorem 4]{covergamal1979} and is skipped here. For the second term, by the same assumptions we have
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\begin{eqnarray}
I(&X_{1i}&;Y_{i},Y_{1i}\mid X_{2i}){}={}h(Y_{i},Y_{1i}\mid X_{2i})-h(Z_{i},Z_{1i})\nonumber\\
&\leq &\dfrac{1}{2}\log \big( (2\pi e)^{2}\mathbb{E}\;\det cov(Y_{i},Y_{1i}\mid X_{2i})\big)\nonumber\\
&&-\dfrac{1}{2}\log\big((2\pi e)^{2}\mathbb{E}\;\det cov(Z_{i},Z_{1i} \big)=C(\gamma_{3i})
\end{eqnarray}
where
\begin{eqnarray}
\mathbb{E}\; &\det\; &cov(Y_{i},Y_{1i}\mid X_{2i})\nonumber\\
&=&NN_{1}\big(1-\vert\rho_{z_{i}}\vert^{2}\big)+P_{1}NN_{1}\left(1-\vert\overline{\alpha}_{i}\vert \vert\overline{\beta}_{i}\vert\right)\nonumber\\
&&\bigg(\frac{\big\vert G_{i}^{(1)}\big\vert^{2}}{N}+\frac{\big\vert G_{i}^{(2)}\big\vert ^{2}}{N_{1}}-2\frac{\;\Re\left\lbrace G_{i}^{(1)}G_{i}^{(2)^{*}}\rho_{z_{i}}\right\rbrace}{\sqrt{NN_{1}}}\bigg),\nonumber\\
\mathbb{E}\; &\det\; & cov(Z_{i},Z_{1i} \big)=NN_{1}\left( 1-\vert\rho_{z_{i}}\vert ^{2}\right)
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Due to space constraints, the details are omitted.
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\section{Capacity of Degraded UWB Relay Channel}
\paragraph*{Theorem 3}
The delay-constrained capacity of the degraded frequency-selective block fading relay channel is
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\begin{eqnarray}
C{}={}\max_{\overline{\alpha}_{0},\ldots, \overline{\alpha}_{k-1}}\min\bigg\lbrace\dfrac{1}{K}\sum_{i=0}^{K-1}\log\bigg(1+\frac{1}{N}\big(\vert G_{i}^{(1)}\vert^{2}&P_{1}&\nonumber\\
+\vert G_{i}^{(3)}\vert^{2}P_{2}+2\sqrt{P_{1}P_{2}}\;\Re \bigg \lbrace\sqrt{\overline{\alpha}_{i}}G_{i}^{(1)}G_{i}^{(3)^{*}}\bigg \rbrace\big)&\bigg)&\nonumber\\
,\dfrac{1}{K}\sum_{i=0}^{K-1}\log\bigg(1+\dfrac{\vert G_{i}^{(2)}\vert^{2}\vert\alpha_{i}\vert P_{1}}{N_{1}}\bigg)&\bigg\rbrace &
\end{eqnarray}
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\paragraph*{Proof}
We evaluate the upper and lower bounds on the capacity of the degraded UWB relay channel and show that they coincide with each other.
As stated in \cite{covergamal1979} a relay channel is called degraded if the following relationship holds
\begin{equation}
p(y\mid y_{1},x_{1},x_{2}){}={}p(y\mid y_{1},x_{2})\label{eq.degraded}
\end{equation}

To adapt the general input-output relation (\ref{eq.4}) to this condition, we rewrite (\ref{eq.4}) as
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\begin{eqnarray}
Y_{1i}&{}={}&G_{i}^{(2)}X_{1i}+Z_{1i}\nonumber\\
Y_{i}&{}={}&\dfrac{G_{i}^{(1)}}{G_{i}^{(2)}}Y_{1i}{}+{}G_{i}^{(3)}X_{2i}{}+{}Z_{2i}\end{eqnarray}
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where
\begin{equation}
Z_{2i}{}={}Z_{i}-\dfrac{G_{i}^{(1)}}{G_{i}^{(2)}}Z_{1i}
\end{equation}

In order to hold (\ref{eq.degraded}), $Z_{1i}$ and $Z_{2i}$ should be independent for each $i$. For normal distributed random variables correlation and dependency are equivalent terms, thus we find $\rho_{zi}$ so that $Z_{1i}$ and $Z_{2i}$ become uncorrelated. This is achieved when\\
\begin{equation}
\rho_{zi}{}={}\left( \frac{G_{i}^{(1)}}{G_{i}^{(2)}}\right) ^{*}\sqrt{\frac{N_{1}}{N}}\label{eq.rodeg}
\end{equation}
\paragraph*{Achievability}
The achievable rate is resulted from the substitution of $U_{i}{}={}\sqrt{\frac{P_{0}}{P_{1}}}X_{1i}$ in the code book of Theorem 1, i.e., by setting $\overline{\beta}_{i}{}={}1$ in (\ref{achievable}),  (\ref{achievable1}) and  (\ref{achievable2}).
\paragraph*{Converse}
We have computed the max-flow min-cut upper bound in the previous section for the general UWB relay channel. The upper bound on the capacity of degraded UWB relay channel can be obtained if we apply the condition (\ref{eq.rodeg}) to the established upper bound (\ref{eq.uwb upper bound}) and to make the notations consistent with the achievability part, choosing $E(X_{1i}X_{2i}^{*})=\sqrt{\overline{\alpha}_{i}P_{1}P_{2}}$ in the proof of the upper bound. By applying these substitutions the obtained upper bound coincides with the lower bound and the proof is completed.

\section{Capacity of Reversely Degraded UWB Relay Channel}
\paragraph*{Theorem 4}
The delay-constrained capacity of the reversely degraded frequency-selective block fading relay channel is
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\begin{eqnarray}
C{}={}\dfrac{1}{K}\sum_{i=0}^{K-1}\log\bigg(1+\dfrac{\vert G_{i}^{(1)}\vert^{2} P_{1}}{N}\bigg)
\end{eqnarray}
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\paragraph*{Proof}
As stated in \cite{covergamal1979} a relay channel is called reversely degraded if the following relationship holds
\begin{equation}
p(y_{1}\mid x_{1},x_{2},y){}={}p(y_{1}\mid y,x_{2})
\label{revdegraded} \end{equation}
To adapt the general input-output relation (\ref{eq.4}) to this constraint, we rewrite (\ref{eq.4}) as
\begin{eqnarray}
Y_{1i}&{}={}&\dfrac{G_{i}^{(2)}}{G_{i}^{(1)}}Y_{i}{}-{}\dfrac{G_{i}^{(2)}G_{i}^{(3)}}{G_{i}^{(1)}}X_{2i}{}+{}Z_{3i}\\
Y_{i}&{}={}&G_{i}^{(1)}X_{1i}{}+{}G_{i}^{(3)}X_{2i}+Z_{i},\quad \nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
where
\begin{equation}
Z_{3i}{}={}Z_{1i}-\dfrac{G_{i}^{(2)}}{G_{i}^{(1)}}Z_{i}
\end{equation}
In order to hold (\ref{revdegraded}), $Z_{i}$ and $Z_{3i}$ should be independent for each $i$. This is achieved if\\
\begin{equation}
\rho_{zi}{}={}\frac{G_{i}^{(2)}}{G_{i}^{(1)}}\sqrt{\frac{N}{N_{1}}} \label{eq.rorevdeg}
\end{equation}
\paragraph*{Achievability}
The achievable rate is resulted from the substitution of $U_{i}{}={}\sqrt{\frac{P_{0}}{P_{2}}}X_{2i}$ in the code book of Theorem 1, i.e., by substituting $\overline{\alpha}_{i}{}={}1$ in (\ref{achievable}),  (\ref{achievable1}) and (\ref{achievable2}).

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\paragraph*{Converse}
The upper bound on the capacity of reversely degraded UWB relay channel can be obtained if we apply the condition (\ref{eq.rorevdeg}) to the established upper bound (\ref{eq.uwb upper bound}) and to make the notations consistent, choosing $E(X_{1i}X_{2i}^{*})=\sqrt{\overline{\beta}_{i}P_{1}P_{2}}$. By applying these substitutions the upper bound is reached and coincides with the lower bound as follows
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\begin{small}
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq.revdeg previous} C{}={}\sup_{\overline{\beta}_{0},\ldots, \overline{\beta}_{k-1}}\min\bigg\lbrace\dfrac{1}{K}\sum_{i=0}^{K-1}\log\bigg(1+\frac{1}{N}\big(\vert G_{i}^{(1)}\vert^{2}&P_{1}&\nonumber\\
+\vert G_{i}^{(3)}\vert^{2}P_{2}+2\sqrt{P_{1}P_{2}}\;\Re \bigg \lbrace\sqrt{\overline{\beta}_{i}}G_{i}^{(1)}G_{i}^{(3)^{*}}\bigg \rbrace \big)&\bigg)&\nonumber\\
,\dfrac{1}{K}\sum_{i=0}^{K-1}\log\bigg(1+\dfrac{\vert G_{i}^{(1)}\vert^{2}\vert\beta_{i}\vert P_{1}}{N}\bigg)&\bigg\rbrace &
\end{eqnarray}
\end{small}
Now, we show that the first term in (\ref{eq.revdeg previous}) is always greater than the second one. Consider $S$ as the subtraction of the second term from the first term of (\ref{eq.revdeg previous}), determined as
\begin{equation}
S=\dfrac{1}{K}\sum_{i=0}^{K-1}C(\zeta_{i})
\end{equation}
where
\begin{small}
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\begin{eqnarray}
\zeta_{i}=&&\\
&&\dfrac{\big\vert G_{i}^{(1)}\big\vert^{2}\vert \overline{\beta}_{i}\vert P_{1}+\big\vert G_{i}^{(3)}\big\vert^{2}P_{2}+2\sqrt{P_{1}P_{2}}\;\Re\left\lbrace \sqrt{\overline{\beta}_{i}}G_{i}^{(1)}G_{i}^{(3)^{*}}\right\rbrace}{N+K\big\vert G_{i}^{(1)}\big\vert^{2}\vert\beta_{i}\vert P_{1}}\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
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\end{small}
We now show that $\zeta_{i}\geq 0$. The minimum value of $\zeta_{i}$ happens when $\sqrt{\overline{\beta}_{i}}G_{i}^{(1)}G_{i}^{(3)^{*}}$ is a real negative value, so considering the worst case, we choose
\begin{equation}
\sqrt{\overline{\beta}_{i}}=-\big\vert\sqrt{\overline{\beta}_{i}}\big\vert\dfrac{G_{i}^{(1)^{*}}G_{i}^{(3)}}{\vert G_{i}^{(1)^{*}}G_{i}^{(3)}\vert}.
\end{equation}
Now, the numerator of $\zeta_{i}$ can be written as
\begin{equation}
\left(\big\vert G_{i}^{(1)}\big\vert\big\vert\sqrt{\overline{\beta}_{i}}\big\vert\sqrt{P_{1}}-\big\vert G_{i}^{(3)}\big\vert\sqrt{P_{2}} \right)^{2}\geq0
\end{equation}
and the denominator of $\zeta_{i}$ is always positive. Therefore, $\zeta_{i}\geq0$ and $S\geq0$. So, the minimum of the two terms of (\ref{eq.revdeg previous}) is the second one and the capacity is achieved by maximizing the second term with respect to $\overline{\beta}_{i}$ which results in $\overline{\beta}_{i}=0$. This completes the proof of the Theorem 4.
\section{Numerical Results}
\begin{figure}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3.2in]{PDFfig.pdf}
\caption{Comparisons of the bounds on the UWB relay channel capacity}
\label{figure2}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=3.2in]{PDFfig3.pdf}
\caption{PDF and Upper bound for different values of $\rho_{zi}$}
\label{figure3}
\end{figure}
In this section, we present illustrating figures to examine the obtained general achievable rate (PDF) and the max-flow min-cut upper bound and compare them with the DF achievable rate which is a special form of PDF by substituting $\overline{\beta}_{i}=0$ which was investigated in \cite{zolfa2009}. The simulations are done based on the channel model for residential NLOS environments in \cite{ieee802.15.4a}. The transmitted powers by the source and the relay nodes are equal to the maximum allowed power for the UWB systems, defined by FCC ($-$41.3dBm/MHz). We assume equal noise power spectral densities at the relay and destination($-$114dBm/MHz). The distance between the source and destination is fixed at $d_{1}=3m$ and the bounds are plotted versus the distance between the source and the relay. In Fig. \ref{figure2}, we set $\rho_{zi}=0$ in the upper bound. As we see when the multiple-access channel is the bottleneck, the three bounds reach the same rate. The difference occurs when the broadcast channel is the bottleneck in which PDF performs better than the DF and this improvement increases as the relay moves toward the destination. The capacity of the direct transmission is also plotted in which the power of the source is assumed twice its power in the relay channel scenario for a more fair comparison. In Fig. \ref{figure3} the upper bound for three different values of $\rho_{zi}=0, 0.6, 0.9$ is plotted. It can be observed that the upper bound increases for higher values of correlation coefficients and also the peak value occurrence of the upper bound moves toward the destination.
\section*{Conclusion}
In this paper, we first computed an achievable rate obtained with PDF coding scheme and the max-flow min-cut upper bound with correlated noises at the relay and destination for a relay channel with UWB links versus channel coefficients, transmitted powers and correlation coefficients of noises with the assumption of known CSI at the receiving terminals only. Then, by appropriately finding the corresponding noise correlation coefficients, we established the capacity of degraded and reversely degraded UWB relay channels. The UWB lower and upper bounds obtained here can be used for further investigation of the UWB relay channels, specially for the ones with known capacities.

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"Conspiracy Theorists" are Conspiracy Realists
Posted by truther on January 30, 2013, filed in: Featured, Latest News, Strange
"Conspiracy theorist" is a way of marginalizing people who recognize the bitter truth. These people who believe in God, country, family and freedom, are also labelled "far right extremists." This is the mind game played by Satanists — Communist Jews and Freemasons — who control government and the mass media.
The Arabs don't "hate your freedom." The White House hates your freedom, because it's the only thing that stands between them, and unlimited power.
by Jolly Roger (slicingthroats@yahoo.com)
From 1/08/2005 – Reposted with comment by Carolyn Hamlett
Edited/Abridged by henrymakow.com
The common perception is that someone who is labeled a "conspiracy theorist" is suffering from some type of psychological disorder, and that label is usually applied to people by our government, and our news media.
The next thing to consider, is that the label is applied to anyone who questions our government's version of events in any matter. Doesn't it logically follow that the media are teaching us to assume that anyone who questions the government is insane? When that label is applied to a person, doesn't it become easy to dismiss everything they say without even hearing it? How convenient for them.
I think the label first became widely used to slander people who questioned the details surrounding the JFK assassination, and forty years later, there aren't too many thinking people who still believe the Warren Commission's "lone gunman" explanation. That explanation is doubted by everyone who has taken the time to look into the details, and believed only by people who refuse to…
WHY DO PEOPLE BURY THEIR HEADS?
The real question is not why people theorize about conspiracies, but why people choose to believe the government's version of events when it's obvious that they're lying.
One reason is that most people never see the evidence because our "news" industry hides it, and another reason is that the same news industry will quickly associate anyone who questions the government with the people who see Elvis, Bigfoot, and UFO's.
But sadly, I think the main reason people choose to believe the government's version of events despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, is because it's easier, and safer.
If you ignore most of the evidence, and accept as plausible whatever ridiculous explanation the T.V. provides, your life remains simple, and you get to sit on your ass and watch more T.V.
If on the other hand, you pluck your head from that same ass and realize you've been lied to, as a citizen in a democratic society, you're instantly burdened with being responsible for doing something about it.
Every citizen of the United States has a civic duty to participate in their government, and keep themselves informed of its actions, or government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" isn't possible.
You were warned that "eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, " but you chose to ignore your government, and believe whatever they told you, and because of this, Americans have lost their freedom. Although presidents and senators are public servants, unlike the dog catcher and mailman, they wield a lot of power over people's lives, and that's why they have to be watched, and scrutinized…
I'm sorry if I sound angry, but the fact of the matter is that I am angry. While you were staring into the television like an idiot, our freedom, wealth, and constitutional protections have been stolen from us, and because you're stupid enough to believe the manure being shovelled by our government, you've allowed them to commit bigger and more heinous crimes.
Because you were too lazy to research their nonsensical economic policies, and see them for the scams that they are, we'll all soon be living in poverty. And because you're so lazy, apathetic, and easily lied to, millions have died for the profits of a few. I have every right to be angry, and only a fool wouldn't be.
Only a small portion of my anger is reserved for the government of the United States, because they only did what can be expected of any government. They grabbed money, power and control where it was easy to do so. Most of my anger is directed toward my fellow American citizens, because they allowed it to happen by believing whatever they're told, and not doing what's expected of them.
Patriotism in America does not mean waving the flag in blind loyalty to the government. As an American citizen, you have a civic duty to question your government, and hold them accountable for their actions, not use the flag as a blindfold. The American people have been duped once again, and it doesn't seem like it's a difficult thing to accomplish.
America's latest "conspiracy nuts" are better known as the 9-11 truth movement. The news media are doing their usual job of slandering them with their usual childish name calling, but for more than 10 years, they have refused to show you the documented fact, scientific data, expert testimony, photographic evidence, or the credible eyewitness accounts that prove U.S. government complicity in the events of September, 11, 2001.
If this were just a "crazy conspiracy theory," I don't think people in our government would have worked so hard to destroy, hide, and lie about the evidence. The White House tried to derail every investigation into the matter. If we had an honest government, we wouldn't have conspiracy theories. We would have honest investigations, and fair trials, but these things are disappearing from America.
There are disturbing facts regarding the events of September 11 that every American needs to be aware of , but naturally, none of it will be on T.V. I've met a lot of people in the 9-11 truth movement, and I can assure you that none of them are crazy, paranoid, or even "conspiracy theorists."
One generalization I can make about them is that they all seem to be very intelligent. Maybe the smartest thing you could do would be to start listening to them. The Arabs don't "hate your freedom." The White House hates your freedom, because it's the only thing that stands between them, and unlimited power.
"Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Freedom" – Thomas Jefferson
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Home Blog What Is Connected Data?
The idea underpinning connected data is a fundamentally simple one. It means that all data across the enterprise is connected into, and visible through, a central location with context and interrelationships determined as the first step toward building a "golden record" of an entity such as a customer, product, or service. Connected customer data is particularly problematic given the number of business functions that interact with customers, and given that the customers themselves often generate data through devices, digital channels, or other means. Competing in a digitally connected world calls for a central point of data control now referred to as a customer data platform (CDP).
The connected data concept is a recognition that the historical division of data between business functions – such as sales, service, marketing, and operations – no longer provide benefit to the organization at large. This wasn't always the case: businesses for centuries had found it easier to divide their activities among specialists, allowing salespeople to sell and crafters to craft and keep any resulting data separate. Those functions further specialized into channels such as call centers, stores, internet, email, etc. That is no longer a viable strategy in the modern world, largely because consumers interact with brands across dozens of possible touchpoints and can show up in any engagement system at any time.
Given that today's customers have an almost unlimited array of ways to engage with a brand, the functional or channel-focused approach taken by marketers based on siloed data creates a gap between customer experience and expectations. In a recent Customer Experience Impact Survey, 86 percent of customers said they would willingly pay more money for a better experience yet only one percent of customers felt brands met their expectations. Brands have failed to close this customer engagement gap over the years, in large part because of their investments in siloed channels and technologies. Connected data counteracts this siloed approach to technology investment, arming brands with the right information, at the right time, to close the customer engagement gap and forge powerful customer experiences.
Connected data is a foundational concept required to provide the deep level of customer understanding necessary for highly personalized and contextually relevant engagement in today's digital world. Without connecting data across all systems, this level of understanding falls short of customer expectations. A CDP is required as the basis for this deep understanding, to ingest all of the data, connect all of it, and make it accessible throughout the enterprise.
This single point of data control creates the right conditions to construct, continually update, and provide a customer "golden record" that is so crucial to enterprise engagement, cross-channel marketing, and omnichannel experiences. The golden record allows the enterprise to understand customer behaviors, preferences, and trends across all touchpoints throughout the entire customer lifecycle.
For an enterprise to truly have connected data, they must integrate all data sources, types, and cadences across the enterprise. So whether the data comes from the CRM, email service provider, web analytics, social media, or Internet of Things (IoT), all interaction data is stitched together and visible through a unified view. This advanced single customer view is then able to drive advanced analytics and real-time engagement flows, personalizing interactions with consumers in contextually relevant ways to close the engagement gap.
The volume of data every enterprise must contend with has exploded. Worldwide, the amount of data generated every day is double the amount of data generated from the beginning of recorded history up to the year 2003. The sheer scale of data created across the enterprise is enormous, and right now it's all locked down tight in functional silos … inaccessible to everyone who doesn't work in that particular silo.
With the rise of digital engagement, including IoT and all the device data it entails, it's becoming less and less viable to operate with siloed data. Customers increasingly leave brands that are unwilling or unable to provide relevant experiences or act in a customer-centric manner. Connected data allows marketers and other stakeholders to know their customers more closely and more completely than ever before. There is tremendous potential value in creating a connected data environment, and the brands that recognize that will be the ones who remain competitive in the age of the empowered customer.


UPDATE: This contest has officially ended.
Design an email that displays data in an interesting way.
While data drives the strategy and design behind a lot of email marketing, we haven't seen a ton of emails that actually display data in an email in a creative way. So, we want to see what you can come up with.
Design an email that displays data—real, imaginary, whatever—in the actual campaign. It can be a nicely designed table full of stats or a full-blown, responsive infographic (here's some inspiration). Just share the results below for your chance to win some cool prizes.
We'll be judging based on creativity, overall design, code implementation, and email client support. The contest ends Friday, May 29th. The Litmus team will then judge the entries and announce the winner a few days later.
Entry must be built for this contest. While you can use a concept you've sent before, don't just post the web link to something you shipped last month.
You must be a member of the Litmus Community.
Please fill out your Community profile so that we can get in touch easier.
You must submit your design as a Builder embed in a comment on this discussion thread. Here's how to do that.
All entries must be submitted on or before Friday, May 29, 2015.
I'm not eligible for the contest as I'm part of the Code School team!
A couple things: this is proof that you probably don't ever want to actually do what I did here. It was totally fun to build but it's past the clipping point for the web clients and it hurt Mailbox so bad that it just outputs some of the text and links to an HTML file. The tests look good, though! (Except old Outlook cause I'm using nested 100% tables without conditional restrictive tables).
Dan this is pretty cool but... Maroon 5??
But seriously this is such a creative way of coded data viz. The faux-gradient in the nice touch too!
Hello Litmus Community! I am excited to present this submission on the behalf of eROI, a digital agency in Portland, OR, of where I am a developer.
For our "Data Visualization" submission, we conceived an email campaign that number-crunches subscriber preferences to calculate a score. This score, as well as our campaign, is called The Brunch Index.
One of the most popular weekend activities in Portland, rain or shine, is going out for brunch with your friends, your family, even your dog. But finding the perfect spot can be difficult. We wanted there to be a tool beyond skimming pseudo-helpful Yelp reviews or zooming in around your house in Google Maps and searching "brunch." A tool that could cull from all the brunch spots in town and let us know what restaurant we would probably like the most, because there are a lot of different factors and preferences that make a great brunch spot: Is it easy to get a table for a bigger group of friends? Can I sit outside with my dog? Is it across the street, or all the way across town? This tool would be like an OKCupid for breakfast sausage and mimosas.
Weather: Whatever the forecast was for the day, we would use the headline treatment to visualize that. Rain had a cheeky headline with CSS animated raindrops, while a sunny day indicates sunbeams. This function drops out in non-webkit clients. We change background colors based on the forecast, and the score would give less weight to factors like outdoor seating.
Radar Chart: We use an animated SVG that's dynamically generated server-side to visualize how the five most-important factors are associated with highest match. To ensure that each subscriber would see a graph regardless of what email client they use, we display the SVG in webkit clients, a background PNG for all non-webkit and non-Outlook clients, and finally an embedded image on Outlook clients. The screenshots won't show the SVG in its full glory, so view it in the builder or as the stand-alone web page and refresh to see the animation.
Brunch Index Score Bar: When the email is opened, a bar animates from 0 to the Brunch Index score for each brunch spot using CSS animations. In non-webkit clients, it defaults to what would have been the end state of the animation.
Stylized Title Tags: The data points represent the most important filters to each subscriber and when an icon is hovered over, a stylized title tag appears to explain each icon for clients that support :hover, :before and :after selectors. Since these selectors are not supported in a lot of clients, it's more useful if viewed on a separate webpage.
Animated Ad: To support this campaign, and so that the designers could have a bit more fun, we put an ad space at the very bottom of the email (instead of the top, to not annoy our subscriber) that we animate to provide more incentive for our advertisers. Who doesn't love Bottomless Mimosas?
I want to note here that some features are more proof-of-concept and not actually implemented, such as the dynamically generated radar chart, as well as the preference center itself. A lot of elements here would be dynamically generated and styled through data from a preference center.
We chose to limit the options in the email to three to prevent choice-overload. I could talk ad-nauseam about all the cool things we love about this email, but I'll just let you check it out.
Edit 4/14/16: Image URLs changed.
Our company works closely with Save the Rhino as our chosen charity. We have created this infographic to raise awareness of the work of the charity, and to show why it is important.
We thought it would be valuable to communicate some interesting facts about the rhino, as a way of capturing people's imagination and engaging them with the story.
That looks amazing! Impressive job putting all the webtext and white table borders in there!
Thank you, its been quite a challenge!
Great email. Love the awesome background image!
A Data driven Customer Revoo Scored Lookup-table powered by AmpScript.
For this build I included comments. At line 88 (at the top of the <body>) I have all the AmpScript set up as proof-of-principle & throughout the Markup to show where the data driven variables would be injected.
*Please inspect the markup to see the comments. Also added the word "DYNAMIC" which you can search for to clearly see where these variables sit.
Felt it was better to leave the creative in-tact and comment the code, otherwise the email would have no visual representation.
Great job on the sizing. When you can see all them, the graphs are easily viewed for comparing them all at once and in the small screen version the size is great for focusing on that one item.
Blimey this really is "Holy Table Cells!" Very impressive!!!
We redesigned our weekly newsletter so that our readers know exactly what they're getting with each edition. The top of the newsletter has animated gifs showing how many articles from each category are included, and we use color strategically throughout the email to indicate category. Each article also has a "hotness" graph to show the popularity of that article when the newsletter was sent (based on shares over time from the ShareThis tool). If anyone has ideas for how to make the hotness piece update in real-time, we'd love to hear them!
Here is mine. It's an email I coded for work. It's not the best but it took me two days of coding and testing to make sure it looked good in Outlook (big surprise) It's not perfect, but it's the best email I've ever done. It was super time consuming to get the tables with different colors side by side and to not have overlap.
Nice use of colour and love the icons!
Long time fans, first time posters here from PitchBook Data, a financial information provider for leading dealmakers and advisors. As in-house graphic designers, miss Jess Chaidez and I held our first design hackathon where we holed ourselves up with snacks, a whiteboard, and our custom swag coffee mugs on a mission to create something wonderful. Our theme was email design, specifically data design in email for this contest :-) We really wanted to work on/emphasize the responsive/mobile-friendliness of the email since it's an issue we struggle with marketing for a B2B company. It was definitely a lot of fun, a lot of work, and a huge learning experience!
Here's what we came up with, with a blog post on our process to follow soon!


Founded in 2001, Ridgeview is a K-12, classical charter school located in Fort Collins, Colorado. It enrolls around 800 students annually and focuses on a true liberal arts education to develop the intellect and character of each of its students.
Ridgeview Classical Schools offers a tuition-free education. Our enrollment process requires the attendance of an informational meeting to ensure proper understanding of Ridgeview's curriculum, goals, and values.
Ridgeview prides itself on the centrality of Socratic discussions, purposeful discussions of literary texts, conceptual approaches to mathematics and science, and a close scrutiny of primary source documents.
Ridgeview Classical Schools strongly encourages physical activity and facilitates opportunities for students to be more active through sports and clubs.
Ridgeview attracts students through an open lottery and molds them into a group that endeavors to seek out the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in texts, arts, music, science, and nature.
Our payment and donation portal allows community members to contribute donations to Ridgeview, contribute through various purchasing programs, facilitate the payment of student fees, and purchase various school-branded items.
What is Gift Card Rewards or Scrip?
Scrip is simply another word for gift cards and gift certificates, the kind you can purchase at most national retailers and use like cash. Our school buys them at a discount (from 3-21%) from local grocery stores and Great Lakes Scrip Center, a national gift card/certificate clearing house for non-profit organizations. When you purchase the gift cards and certificates at their face value from Ridgeview, the school keeps the discount as a profit.
Why does my family want to participate in the Gift Card Rewards Program?
Families that participate in the program will receive 80% of the profit the school earns from their Gift Card Rewards purchases as a family credit. This credit can be used each year to pay for school fees, sports/clubs fees, yearbooks, Veritas, Madrigals, Summer Academy or can be accumulated from year to year to help pay for the 6th grade EcoWeek trip and any High School trips that may be planned.
How much can your family earn using Scrip?
Go to www.shopwithscrip.com and set up your account. While there, you can check out the hundreds of participating vendors and set up Presto Pay as your payment preference if you wish. You can place your order online or you can drop by Ridgeview during on-hand sales and buy cards from select vendors including most grocery and home improvement stores. On-hand sales are currently Monday and Friday mornings from 7:30 – 8:00. We will be adding more times, including afternoons, as we get volunteers.
1. Participation in the Scrip Program is voluntary.
2. The Scrip Program is being offered to help families offset the cost of the 6th grade EcoWeek, school fees, events, Year Book and other school program costs. Contact the Scrip Program coordinator at scrip@ridgeviewclassical.com with questions.
3. The RCS Scrip Program uses the services of a certificate broker, Great Lakes Scrip Center (GLSC). GLSC purchases gift certificates and gift cards in large quantities at a discount from major food and retail chains. As a school organization we are able to buy our non-grocery certificates/cards from GLSC at a discount, which we sell to you at face value, thereby making a profit. The discount ranges from 1.5 to 18 percent of the certificate value. Discount percentages and participating retailers are subject to change without notice. Scrip purchases are non-tax deductible because you receive dollar-for-dollar value.
80% of the profit will become a credit for school families to be used for the above-mentioned school-related expenses. The remaining 20% will be used to cover the program's expenses and go to Ridgeview Classical Schools' general fundraising account. SCRIP CREDIT HAS NO CASH VALUE. Any credit remaining when a family no longer has an enrolled RCS student will revert to the RCS general fundraising account.
4. Every family must submit a completed and signed enrollment form prior to participation in the Scrip Program. Each family will be assigned a unique customer ID number after their first order has been placed. This number must appear on all subsequent orders and payment checks to ensure credits are accurately recorded. Orders will not be accepted from families that are not enrolled.
5. During the school year, Scrip will normally be ordered on Monday and picked up on Thursday afternoon or Friday. This schedule allows you to check the Sunday ads and plan your shopping. When a school holiday falls on Monday or Friday, an altered order and pickup schedule will be published in the weekly newsletter. Please watch for this and plan accordingly. There will be no scrip orders the weeks of Thanksgiving Break, Christmas Break, Spring Break and Easter Break. If you are unable to pick up your order on the scheduled day, contact the Scrip coordinator to make other arrangements. If we have the necessary volunteers, we will have a weekly order in the summer. The summer schedule will be announced in the spring.
6. Put your completed Scrip order forms and payment in an envelope with your name and family number written on it. Orders can be left at the front desk or with Scrip volunteers at any time during the week. Orders may also be placed through the GLSC website, www.shopwithscrip.com. All orders turned in or placed through the website by 8:00am on Monday will be included in that week's order. NO LATE ORDERS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Once the weekly order has been submitted on Monday morning, we are unable to add to it or subtract from it. Late orders will be processed with the next order. Payment must be included with your order. Checks should be made payable to RCS. Please write "Scrip" and your family number on the memo line of your check.
7. Filled orders will generally be available for pickup on Fridays between 7:15am to 8:00am and 2:15pm to 3:15pm (OR as announced in the weekly notes due to volunteer availability).
Certificates/cards will only be given to the registered Scrip participant unless a signed Pick-up Waiver has been turned in to the Scrip committee. In this case, only those listed on the release may pick up the gift cards.
Gift cards are just like cash. Once your order is picked up, either by you or by those you have named on your signed Pick-up Waiver, neither Ridgeview Classical Schools nor the Scrip Committee is responsible for lost, stolen, or misplaced certificates.
When you pick up your gift cards, please verify the accuracy of your order. Your signature on the order form indicates you have received your order in its entirety. In the unlikely event you should find a discrepancy in your Scrip order, please contact the Program Coordinator immediately.
If you are unable to pick up your order on the scheduled day, please contact the Scrip Coordinator at scrip@ridgeviewclassical.com to make other arrangements.
GIFT CARDS ARE NOT RETURNABLE.
Occasionally, GLSC may temporarily run out of a particular retailer's gift cards. When that happens, they will place the item on backorder and, when it is available, ship it with our next order. Backordered gift cards will be indicated on your order form and will be given to you when received - usually the next pickup day.
If participation in the program is sufficient and we have volunteer help, we will increase Scrip pickup days and have an inventory of popular gift cards on hand so spur-of-the-moment purchases can be made.
8. Family or friends may help your family earn credit by ordering certificates through you. If you collect orders and payment from your family and friends, compile all orders and submit one order form and write one check to cover the entire order. Third party checks and order forms from non-RCS families will not be accepted. You will receive the entire order to distribute to your friends and family.
9. A statement of your Scrip Rewards total will be distributed once each semester. However you may request your total via email to scrip@ridgeviewclassical.com at any time.
10. Some Gift Certificates/Cards have a non-use administrative fee that is deducted from the balance of the card if not used over a certain period of time. Others may expire if not used within 1-2 years. To view a copy of the vendor guidelines visit the Great Lakes Scrip website at www.glscrip.com and click on retailers, then search for the store (they are listed in alphabetical order). A copy of GLSC's participation retailers, available denominations, discounts and usage guidelines are available upon request. King Soopers cards are ordered locally and are not listed on GLSC's web site.
11. Checks returned because of non-sufficient funds (NSF), will be charged a $20 fee payable to Ridgeview Classical Schools. After one NSF check is tendered, Scrip ordering privileges will be limited to money orders only.
12. Requests for allocations of Scrip funds must be made using the designated lavender Allocation Forms available at the front office. Requests made using any other format will not be accepted. Requests must be approved before funds will be pulled from your account to cover the school-related expense(s). After your account has been verified and your request approved, the expense will be covered using funds from your account. In the case of school concerts, plays/musicals, dances and recitals, an Allocation Form must be submitted at least five (5) business days before the event. If the request is approved, a notice will be placed in the cash box stating that your family is approved for admission to event. No Allocation Forms will be accepted at the door to the event.
We're working hard on the Ridgeview Classical Schools website to reach our goal of Level AA accessibility. Part of this process involves providing accessible PDFs. This page may contain PDFs which are not yet accessible. If you require an accessible version of one of the above documents, please contact the Media Coordinator.


This might be the coolest thing to ever happen to music.
It's a widely accepted truth that Grimes' 2012 album Visions is kind of a masterpiece. Further confirmation of the universality of that fact has recently emerged from the world of classical music, as the Montreal, Canada-based group Plumes has recently given it a pretty enormous co-sign.
The group will be hosting a concert series called "Many Visions: Plumes Deconstructs the Music of Grimes" which will tour Canada later this month. Thankfully for those of us across the pond, there are plans to stream the events, in which we'll hear reworked, classical versions of all the tracks on Visions by 13 different composers. In other words, you'll be able to get your religious experience over the internet.
"We wanted to see how we could bridge the gap between popular and classical music – we have a suspicion it's smaller than people think. We want to think about interpretation and rearrangement, not only in terms of musical material but also in terms of the spirit of an artist. That led us to Grimes, whose DIY attitude seems to resonate across genres."


Clinton Rothwell routinely arrives to rehearsals at the Inland Pacific Ballet by way of his beloved Harley Davidson motorcycle.
Dressed in black leather, with his long gray hair flowing freely, he's not what most would consider a typical dancer. But the choreographer never really has fit into a mold.
"It's all about being yourself," he said.
It's a mantra fitting for Rothwell, whose career began in 1960 at London's Royal Ballet School, with its first and second Royal Ballet companies. He's performed with the San Francisco Ballet, the National Ballet of Holland and the National Ballet of Canada, and today enjoys exploring music and dance compositions. He is the choreographer behind the Inland Pacific Ballet's latest production of "Beauty and the Beast," which opened last month at the Bridges Auditorium in Claremont and had a run at the Lewis Family Playhouse in Rancho Cucamonga last weekend.
The ballet continues this weekend at the Arcadia Performing Arts Center and ends May 16 with two shows at the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside with principal performers Meilu Zhai, in her debut as Beauty, along Cameron Schwanz dancing the role of the Beast with Jonathan Sharp as Beauty's father.
"Beauty and the Beast" is the latest production of the Montclair-based Inland Pacific Ballet, whose studio and company are celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. It's been quite the ride, with the ballet company now performing in three counties, said Victoria Koenig, company artistic director and co-founder along with Kevin Myers.
"We hope the community continues to grow with us as we try to do the best work possible," Koenig said.
An entire generation grew up with the Disney version of the classic story, but Rothwell said he wanted to go beyond that. He researched the beloved original story of "Beauty and the Beast," noting its nuances and coming up with choreography to tell the age-old story of love, kindness and acceptance now being performed by the ballet company.
The 70-year-old dancer acknowledges there are some similarities between his life and his art.
In addition to the choreography, Rothwell created the musical score as a "sound collage" featuring compositions from many of great classical composers such as Dimitri Shostakovich, Antonin Dvorak, Felix Mendelssohn, Jules Massenet, Sergei Prokofiev, Pytor Illyich Tchaikovsky and Alexandor Glazounov. He called ballet an extension of sound in the form of a moving sculpture.
He again will be teaching this summer, while encouraging his students to try their hands at choreography.
"You never know what lies beneath the surface and many of the 14- and 15-year-olds I've encountered have true talent, not only with dance but with creating, and that should be fostered," Rothwell said.
When: 2 p.m. May 9-10 in Arcadia; 2 and 7:30 p.m. May 16 in Riverside.
Where: Arcadia Performing Arts Center, 188 Campus Drive, Arcadia; Fox Performing Arts Center, 3801 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside.
Tickets: $24-$44. Senior, child and group discounts are also available.


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Don Newhouse (1883-1947)
"Crackers the Pup" from Crackers, 1930s
Donald Newhouse was born in Norwich in the fourth quarter of 1883, the son of a watchmaker. He is recorded as boarding in Hendon in the 1911 census, when his profession was listed as "artist". His earliest identified work was for the comics of James Henderson & Sons, including The Big Comic (1917), Comic Life (1917) and Lot-o'-Fun ("Pitch and Toss", 1920-, taken over from Joe Hardman). His earliest work for the Amalgamated Press was "Bertie Blobbs" for The Funny Wonder in 1918, and when Hendersons were taken over by the AP in 1920, he worked for them more or less exclusively.
He was one of a small group of artists based in Norwich, including Louis Briault and Harry Banger, and around this time he took on an assistant, Roy Wilson, who went on to be a very successful comics artist in his own right, but for now allowed Newhouse to increase his output. Strips they drew include "Chips Comic Cinema" (Illustrated Chips, 1921), "Funny Films" (Jolly Jester, 1922), "Reel Comedies" (Funny Wonder, 1922), "Three Jolly Sailor Boys" (Comic Cuts, 1926), "Basil and Bert" (Jester, 1929), "The Happy Family" (Larks, 1927), and "Lizzie and her Comical Courtiers" (Jester, 1931).
Wilson left Newhouse's employ in 1933, and Newhouse continued to draw strips for the AP's comics through the 1930s and 40s, including "Crackers the Pup" for Crackers, "Gus Grit the Ancient Brit" for Jester, "Professor Noodles and his Natty Notions" for Funny Wonder. Clark says that in the late 40s and early 50s his work appeared in Gerald Swan's comics, but these must have been stockpiled work or reprints, as Newhouse died in Norwich in the first quarter of 1947.
Alan Clark, Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors, The British Library, 1998, pp. 118-119
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The motivation behind self-driving cars is two-fold. The first is convenience. It is a lot more convenient to lay back and relax behind the wheel than driving yourself. Especially under a lot of traffic, driving can be stressful. With fully functional automated cars, one can potentially even be productive while waiting in traffic or relax and watch a movie. The second motivation is safety. A great deal of traffic accidents are caused by human error. If all humans are removed from driving, traffic accidents should significantly decrease.
The problem with self-driving cars is that they are required to make ethical decisions. The biggest one that comes up is the trolley problem, with the added element of the driver and passengers in the car. What should a self-driving do in a situation in which it has to choose whether to save the driver and passenger's life versus saving the life of pedestrians. The opinion is very clear, but unhelpful. A group of researchers found that while most people agree that a utilitarian model where self-driving cars prioritize the life of pedestrians is the most moral one, most people would be reluctant to drive in a car with such a model. The effect of this is that this goes against the utilitarian approach itself, because by delaying the adoption of self-driving cars, we are preventing the decrease in road fatalities expected from their full deployment.
If we take this into account, it seems like the most utilitarian answer would actually be to create an AI the prioritizes the lives of the driver and passengers. The difficulty lies in the fact that people might be unwilling to accept this. There's this pressing fear of knowing a huge chunk of metal may just run over you without a second thought. Perhaps the solution would be to convince people that even with an AI prioritizing the lives of passengers in the car, the likelihood of you being killed in a car related accident still decreases with the adoption of AI technology.
Another difficult part is the role of the government in all of this. As you can see, my opinion is that its best if the car chooses to protect drivers and passengers. Given that, I believe the role of the government would be to ease the adoption of this model. AI and cars deal best with clear cut roles. A benefit would be a reeducation of both drivers and pedestrians on how to best protect yourself from the adoption of self-driving cars. For example, a greater emphasis should be made in letting people know that they shouldn't jaywalk. An AI car may not react well to a pedestrian coming out of nowhere. Another change should be a greater emphasis on using turn signals whenever possible: when entering a road, when switching lanes, etc. The good part of this is that as self-driving cars become more prevalent, the cars will adopt all these clear-cut rules themselves and better interact with other self-driving vehicles.
Personally, when I have the money to do so, I will invest on a self-driving car. I hate driving. It makes me anxious and nervous. Hopefully when the time comes, the technology will be more mature and more widely adopted.