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Backhand slice: 5G and the surprise for the wireless cloud at the edge
Where the world's network operators debate what benefits there may be from relocating network functions from their base stations to cloud data centers. NFV can achieve many goals, yet stakeholders are far from agreement over which goals take precedent.
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We talk way too often about what a technology enables people to do. 5G wireless is about people doing a lot of work with the goal of enabling a technology. Its objective is to spread a very fast signal through the airwaves, using transmitters whose power curve is just under the threshold of requiring artificial cooling. It needs to be faster than what we have now, for enough customers and enough providers to invest in it, so that it may achieve that main objective.
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Assuming 5G deployment proceeds as planned, and the various vast political conspiracies, small and large, fail to derail the telecommunications providers' plans, it will reach the peak of its goals once it has achieved the virtualization of its packet core (which was begun with 4G LTE), its radio access networks (RAN), and the customer-facing functions of its data centers. 5G will make telcos into "edge cloud" providers.
But it's from atop the highest peak, as any Everest climber or any great John Denver song might tell you, that one obtains the best view of oneself, and one's own place in the world. The common presumption, when the topic of network functions virtualization (NFV) is brought up with respect to 5G, is that all this virtualization will take place on a single platform. Not only is this critical issue undecided, but there would appear to be a dispute over the decided or undecided nature of the issue itself.
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"How does the cloud and the network come together?" asked Nick Cadwgan, director of IP mobile networking for Nokia. "The whole industry has jumped upon NFV. But really, you've got to think about it as a holistic problem. In other words, what you do in the cloud, or what they do with their services, impacts the network. What they do in the network potentially impacts the cloud. We will see the further application of cloud and Web-scale technologies. But we've got to do it very intelligently."
We begin this third leg of our 5G adventure at the summit of the technology's goals and ambitions. From here, everything that lies west seems within our reach. It's usually in the descent where things start getting tricky, and the west gets wilder than even our dreams.
In a telecommunications network, a network function is the software that facilitates a specific service being delivered to a customer. It's a machine, described as code. If the entire network were devised as a mechanism to service one person, then a network function is the code for that mechanism.
So NFV is a means for maintaining that function in a data center, usually on a cloud platform (OpenStack is one example, VMware vSphere another) and utilizing software-defined networking (SDN) to devise -- and change, whenever necessary -- the chain of processes through which that service is delivered. Telecommunications networks utilize NFV today. It's a revolution that has already happened.
Read also: 5G mobile networks: A cheat sheet (TechRepublic)
The problems telcos face with implementing NFV on the scale of 5G are fundamental ones. For example: Who is the customer, really? Should a 5G virtual network function (VNF) serve the telco first and foremost? Or should the customer truly be the end user, the subscriber, the person paying the bills -- in which case, the network should take on a distributed multi-tenant model, not all that different from Kubernetes and microservices? Or for a third possibility that's altogether different, should the VNF serve a kind of impersonal entity called the "use case," fulfilling a role that's crafted exclusively for the type or class of customer being served -- for instance, healthcare, logistics, content creators, content providers, or emergency services?
"You're moving finally towards truly embracing absolutely cloud-native, which means you have to have containerized cloud-native computing capabilities."
— Sree Koratala, head of 5G Technology North America, Ericsson
Should there be just one cloud? Or, when you bring security into the equation, can there be? Must the end customer's VNFs remain segregated from the telco's VNFs -- in other words, should they never reside on the same servers together? Isn't the mixture of different tenets from any class the very problem virtualization was designed to solve?
There's basic agreement among the 3GPP members with regard to topics like the functioning of 5G New Radio, the design of antennas, and the goals for integrated circuits for smartphones and tablets. Yet with respect to the topic of network slicing -- the division of labor between services -- not only is there disagreement on the subject matter, but open disagreement about what the parties are disagreeing about.
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"There's just a lot of rope to hang yourself with here," remarked Tom Nadeau, now the technical director of NFV for Red Hat. The author of the world's seminal publication on SDN and its follow-up book on NFV, previously a distinguished engineer at Juniper Networks, and the chief architect of Brocade's SDN controller, perhaps no one on the planet appreciates the position the 5G telcos find themselves in today, better than Nadeau.
"You have to ask yourself why 3GPP is insisting on designing that stuff anyway," Nadeau told ZDNet Scale.
"There's been a long transformation of standards in the last five years, as you've seen. There's a raging debate at the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) right now about what network slicing is. There, I think there's a lot of confusion, because a) there's not a lot of operators around to temper the enthusiasm of the vendors; and b) standards organizations need to understand their place in the universe. A lot of standards today are trying to continue what they did ten years ago or more, where they were the place, and they did the innovation on paper. And the reality is, the innovation happens in a lot of open source communities today, where people bang away, try different things, and make things work as a collaborative community -- versus this model where people vote for that picture or this picture, and it's the usual camel that's a horse designed by committee."
Nadeau's experience with open source comes not only from his contributions to Juniper and to Brocade, but to the open source OpenDaylight SDN controller. Vyatta was Brocade's commercial implementation of OpenDaylight, prior to that company's acquisition by Broadcom. In his book on SDN, co-authored with Ken Gray, he chronicles the state of affairs that led to the creation of SDN, and thus of NFV, in the first place: Prior to 2011, no single network controller possessed the ability to manipulate the state objects (what we might call today the "metadata") generated by multiple vendors' network appliances. Any network application was hard-wired for the appliance which served it. As a result, routing traffic through a massive enterprise network based on dynamic logic or on policy was impossible.
Tom Nadeau's telling of ancient history -- more accurately, of seven years ago -- points to the very real opportunity that history, if not repeating itself entirely, may take a page from Mark Twain's playbook and try rhyming. Specifically, if network slicing should become hard-wired to the class of customer or user that each slice would serve, then a network management platform runs the risk of becoming incapable of orchestrating activity on that network based upon conditions the entire network would face as a whole.
Read also: 5G could widen the gap between haves and have-nots (CNET)
It would be as though each slice were an island unto itself. And that may be what some 5G stakeholders would prefer.
"Network slicing is about the ability to virtually create a set of capabilities that you're able to control and extend, as the end consumer of that slice, moving along the different locations of a distributed site," defined Sree Koratala, head of 5G technology and strategy in North America for wireless equipment provider Ericsson.
Koratala pointed out the major industry use cases being singled out for 5G, including high-speed broadband on one side of the scale, and narrow-band IT-oriented signaling on the other side. Each of these use cases would carry with it a different resource demand profile. It would be easy enough to automate the resource requisitioning process for each case, assuming it were designated its own exclusive network slice. But if these slices shared a physical network, the reason for that sharing would not be solely to drive up utilization, but also to share resources. That sharing requires a multi-tenancy model, where the underlying platform is aware of each slice's role as a tenant unto itself, but is also policing and mitigating the interactions between those slices and the platform.
"These are the requirements that we are addressing as we are designing our edge cloud solutions," Koratala told ZDNet Scale.
"That is the biggest difference: We are moving from a centralized compute paradigm to a distributed one with 5G."
— Oguz Sunay, M-CORD chief architect, Open Networking Foundation
The first type of wireless technology that was officially given its own "G" was 2G, based on a standard born in Europe called Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). Begun in 1982, it was a formalization of the circuit-switched architecture that had defined telephony up to that point, with the intention of enabling telcos worldwide to implement the same system. This way, Americans traveling to Europe wouldn't need to rent European phones to make phone calls.
Read also: Who's most ready for 5G? China, not the US, leads all (CNET)
The move away from GSM was about making the network packet-switched, like the Internet, with bundles of digital data traveling in asynchronous streams. The software with which such a network is run is called the packet core. 3G marked the beginning of its implementation, though it was during the perhaps truncated 4G era that 3GPP formally implemented what it calls Evolved Packet Core (EPC). It's this component that authenticates mobile devices as they enter the network through a cell, assigns those devices access points and gateways to the cellular network, ensures a specific quality-of-service (QoS) level for each user function a device may access, and applies the correct service charges for that level.
A fully virtualized network would apply NFV to EPC. Ericsson already has a method for doing so, called Virtual EPC (vEPC), which telcos and service providers use for their 4G networks today. It is the core software of 4G LTE, wrapped up in a virtual network function. So does Nokia, with its Cloud Packet Core. So does Cisco, with its Ultra Packet Core. VEPC is already a nice little market unto itself. As industrial analysis firm Research and Markets projected last January, it will command about $8 billion in worldwide revenue by 2022, growing at an annual rate of over 50 percent.
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It's a capital improvement project the size of the entire planet, replacing one wireless architecture created this century with another one that aims to lower energy consumption and maintenance costs.
The grand prize for 5G virtualization, however, is the radio access network (RAN). This is the component that is typically run inside the base station, and which 5G would seek to wrap up into its own VNF, called VRAN, move onto a cloud platform, and slice and dice into customer-centric segments. This is the unknown quantity, at the spot where 4G LTE stops and 5G begins.
All of a sudden, this side of the industry looks a lot more like the PC market (personal computer, in case you were wondering) in the 1980s. When the era of graphical computing began in earnest, the major players at that time (e.g., Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Commodore) tried to leverage the clout they had built up to that point among consumers, to help them make the transition away from 8-bit command lines and into graphical environments. Some of those key players tried to leverage more than just their market positions; they sought to apply technological advantages as well -- in one very notable instance, even if it meant contriving that advantage artificially.
Read also: Why Estonia finds itself in the middle of a 5G arms race
With the nascent wireless network virtualization market, vendors there are already making their case that their expertise in virtualizing one component may be leveraged for virtualizing the others. It's a kind of togetherness that was known in the PC software market of old as bundling.
"From the infrastructure side, the first step would be to deploy and scale the NFV infrastructure -- which means, you want to have an infrastructure for highly distributed workloads, starting from the network side -- whether it's Evolved Packet Core or VRAN -- and then the ability to prepare for network slicing that is key for enterprise services," explained Ericsson's Koratala. "The next step is to evolve that orchestration and implement that network slicing, so that you're able to exploit the flexibility and the elasticity of the network to meet fast-changing customer demand. Then you're moving finally towards truly embracing absolutely cloud-native, which means you have to have containerized cloud-native computing capabilities, which are comprised of microservices that are deployed in the network and scaled very efficiently from small to large."
"The way that I would evolve, say, a higher-level IT application like an SAP system or a billing system, is going to be very different from the way I would evolve a function close to the network, like the mobile core." explained Nokia's Nick Cadwgan, speaking with ZDNet Scale. "We've got to do it very intelligently, but we've got to think about the challenge holistically.
"And I think what we're seeing with our customers is this realization that they've got to embrace the cloud and the network together," Cadwgan continued, "if they're going to deliver this vast range of services and experiences. Whether you want to talk about how they deliver it, how they host it -- there are lots of terms about central clouds and edge clouds -- we're going to need more. We're going to need evolution in the network as well to make it all happen. And we have to tie it together."
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As we've already explored fairly thoroughly here in Scale, an edge computing system is a cluster of servers stationed very close to where the data for computing applications is gathered together, in order to minimize latency. This may be closer to the customer than the hyperscale data center, and in the case of edge micro data center providers such as Hyper IO, right alongside the WTF where you'd expect to find the base station. It's somewhat ironic that 5G would seek to move servers away from transmitters, while edge architectures would replace them with more servers.
Read also: What is 5G? Everything you need to know
Architects participating in 5G are well aware of the implications of Cadwgan's clarion call, to start seeing the cloud and the core as, if you will, two trunks on the same elephant. The problems with this architecture begin with the question of where the head -- the part that runs things -- ends up being located.
"There's convergence, but at the same time, edge and core are different," declares Guru Parulkar, the executive director of the Open Network Foundation (ONF) and the chief of the Open Network Laboratory (ON.Lab). Parulkar's contributions to SDN are many, not the least of which is having directed the Stanford University project that led to the creation of OpenFlow, the first -- and now, the most common -- open source framework for SDN control.
"If you just keep adding more LTE base stations, more small cells, you have a certain cost profile for delivering that additional data. And you never catch up. You basically have to bring down your cost of delivering each gigabyte of data faster than your price per gigabyte is dropping."
— Joe Madden, founder and principal analyst, Mobile Experts
"We are focusing on what you might think of as a multi-access edge," Parulkar continued, speaking with ZDNet Scale, "that will include wireline and wireless. Then the core is the core. You might have a tiered cloud -- a telco cloud and a public cloud -- but then at the edge, you have a multi-access edge that is converged in the sense that it can support multiple types of edge access -- wireline and wireless -- and it is still a common platform on which you can run both networking functions as well as customer-facing functions, customer services. You may differentiate them, but they are still running on the same platform. And in that sense, they are converged."
Wherever the edge or parts of the edge end up being physically located, from ONF's perspective, it will host the network slices for both the network-facing and customer-facing VNFs. They'll share this platform. But the central data center for customer-facing functions would be kept separate from the one for the telco's central office. Think of these slices like differently colored stripes, but only with respect to the edge servers.
Read also: Stingray spying: 5G will protect you against surveillance
"The 5G network, if nothing else, is going to have to be a very distributed cloud infrastructure," explained Oguz Sunay, the ONF's chief architect for the open source telco virtualization platform known as M-CORD (the latter part of which originally stood for "Central Office Reimagined as a Datacenter").
"That is the biggest difference: We are moving from a centralized compute paradigm to a distributed one with 5G. The main reason for that is really latency. For the first time in the history of cellular communications, [low] latency is one of the primary goals that we're tackling. That necessitates the edge cloud."
The "access" to which Sunay and Parulkar refer is different from the capital-A "Access" in "Radio Access Network." The latter is the system with which mobile devices make contact with the WTF, while the ONF idea of access is more in line with data centers and operating systems. Although a typical cloud computing platform (or a hyperconverged platform) may pool together storage, computing, and memory resources, the ONF's M-CORD design adds network accessibility to this list. ONF calls this "access-as-a-service" (AaaS).
"The edge cloud," Sunay went on, "should be a convergence area for the different use cases and business verticals. That requires the necessity for network slicing. To date, M-CORD is the only platform that has showcased network slicing that includes not only the slicing of the network functions, but also the slicing of the radio access. So we treat those resources as fundamental groups in the edge cloud."
In enterprise data center design -- particularly with VMware environments -- there's a concept called microsegmentation. It's a way of tagging resources throughout a network at a very granular level, in such a way that they may be perceived as though they were strung together. That way, a security policy can apply to each string as an individual and isolated unit, even when it physically stretches across server boundaries. It's microsegmentation that enables a new class of access isolation, making it appear that many tenants are operating completely separate systems even though they may be sharing the same memory and storage.
"What is the potential of edge computing in a factory? What we see is, we can generally shift intelligence away from end devices to the network."
— Dr. Andreas Mueller, chairman, 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation
Is microsegmentation the true identity of network slicing as ONF and M-CORD perceive it? Put another way, are we not only slicing the network but dicing it as well?
Not really, responded Guru Parulkar. "Slicing can give you a lot more ties to physical resources," he told us. "It can give you isolation; it can give you different QoS for different slices; and the slicing can be based on different attributes. So in the context of RAN, slicing gives you a lot more flexibility and control, that I don't know VMware architecture would give."
Conceivably, if a customer were to run a VMware environment on a network slice, then microsegmentation could take place in the isolated context of that slice. Likewise, if the customer ran Kubernetes clusters, they would inhabit a virtual topology inside a network slice. So the type of isolation that normally defines access and identity in a virtual data center context would itself be separate from the isolation of the virtual RAN. That said, it's conceivable that an application running in the telco context may eventually adopt a microservices architecture -- the most sophisticated model of distributed computing. So it would take a very strong isolation mechanism to keep telco microservices and customer microservices in their own respective slices, and thus to make the telco's orchestrator and the customer's orchestration leave each other alone.
Yet this is not a problem that AT&T wants to find itself involved with solving. In the minds of its engineers, if they're having this problem, they're doing something wrong.
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"Without getting into too many details of the architecture, obviously we don't want to mix everything together," said Igal Elbaz, AT&T's vice president for ecosystem and innovation. "So think about this as co-existing geographically. We have a physical location at the edge. We have a central office. I want to make sure my user plane and my IP services are supported from there; but at the same time, at the same geography or the same site, I can also host services."
Elbaz was very clear and emphatic in his assertions that customer services and telco services will be physically separated from one another, telling us that it wasn't even a debate -- that the matter had already been settled, and from AT&T's perspective, there was no alternative.
It is no small matter -- not only the dispute, but the dispute over whether a dispute exists. It gets to the heart of where the edge will finally be located, but also whether China Mobile's original notion of virtualizing the RAN -- a notion which AT&T says it supports in its entirety -- is even feasible.
On the other side of the hills, where 5G must metamorphose from a technology into a market, is where the west gets not only wild but weird. At last, we can see the end or ends of our trail or trails, in a realm of the unresolved, the indeterminate, and from time to time the completely imaginary.
Read also: How US carriers moved up the timeline on 5G
At Waypoint 4, we come to the first fork in the trail, and it's completely unexpected. The potential success of virtualization in 5G may yet call into question whether those "smart devices" you've probably read about, truly need to be smart. If we can relocate the base station functions to the cloud and make them faster in the process, could we potentially do the same with Internet of Things devices? Or any other kinds of devices?
Waypoint 5 brings us to the question of whether the generic, "white box" servers on which hyperscale data centers such as Facebook's were founded, are truly what the major telcos need to manage their network services. Should they instead borrow a page from the playbook of FPGA accelerator developers or ARM server makers, and remake the telco server in their own image instead? And finally at Waypoint 6, we come to realize there's another set of stakeholders in 5G whose interests aren't always at issue: The equipment manufacturers, who may not be all that interested in the cheapening and commoditization of their principal product as the architects had hoped.
This ride is about to get wild. Hold firm.
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5G camps debate standardizing individual network slices by Monica Alleven, FierceWireless
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Q: ASP.NET web application session timeout issue on local IIS Express on Windows Server 2019? I have an ASP.NET 4.x MVC application which is hosted on our local Windows 2019 Server on IIS Express.
In web.config file session timeout is configured for 8 hours (Session mode in process). Which means if a user logins he shoud remain logged in for 8 hours, but this is not happening. End users who are using this application on local network, they get logout just after few minutes and they have to log in again and again.
I have even configured this time on IIS settings but still no success.
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Below you can find example how it has been handled in my application where time of automatic logging out was increased to 60 min:
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        OnValidateIdentity = SecurityStampValidator.OnValidateIdentity<ApplicationUserManager, ApplicationUser>(
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Comparison Between ERA5 and CFS Datasets of Extratropical Cyclones Associated With Extreme Wave Events in the Atlantic Ocean
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Atmospheric and ocean datasets using numerical modeling allied to data assimilation are valuable tools for planning and maintaining marine activities, particularly due to their spatial coverage and resolution. However, even modern analyses and reanalyses present critical errors where cyclonic winds are often underestimated in some locations, leading to issues in wind-wave climate hindcasts and forecasts. This work aims to evaluate two of the newest datasets available regarding their ability to reproduce extratropical cyclone tracks associated with extreme waves in the Atlantic Ocean. The analysis is focused on the storm track position and cyclone intensity, two important features that control the wave climate. The datasets used are the ECMWF's ERA5 and NCEP's CFSv2. The cyclones are identified and compared between 2011 and 2018 using the relative vorticity at 850hPa and the intensity is measured through the 10-meters wind speed. The results show that the differences in track density exist mainly in coastal areas and they can be related to the coarser resolution of CFSv2 compared to ERA5. CFSv2 presents a higher number of cyclones associated with extreme wave events in the South and North Atlantic, corresponding to 87.1% and 89.2% of the cyclones identified, while ERA5 presents 66.6% and 59.5% respectively. The maximum intensity distribution shows that CFSv2 tends to produce more intense cyclones than ERA5, even for identical storms in the datasets. The distances of matching cyclones in the two datasets are around 0.5°.
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A native son of Greensboro, North Carolina, George E. Preddy became one of America's top flying aces during World War II. At the end of the war, he was the third-highest ace in the European Theater of Operations (ETO). He rank seventh among American pilots of all wars with 26.83 aerial victories. Historians speculate that he might have emerged as the nation's premier ace had not his plane been shot down by friendly fire on Christmas Day 1944.
Born on February 5, 1919, Preddy grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. As a young man (21 years old), Preddy thrice failed to pass the U.S. Navy physical exams. During the summer of 1940, he tried instead to join the United States Army Air Forces, passed his physical, and started his successful flying career.
His meritorious military service began in Australia and ended in Europe. Flying a P-40 in Australia, he damaged two enemy aircraft in 1942. Later that year, his plane collided with another American plane, and he suffered injuries that required months to recover. In 1943, Preddy was assigned to the 352nd Fighter Group in Bodney, England. For his service during the latter half of 1943, while flying a P-47, Preddy earned a Silver Star, the third highest military honor awarded to American serviceman; he escorted and defended bombers and shot down several enemy aircraft. He shortly afterward flew the P-51 Mustang and increased his victory count. July and August 1944 were his most triumphant months; in his plane, Cripes A' Mighty 3rd, he shot down four Nazis in July and six on August 6. For his August 6th mission, he earned the Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest honor given to American military personnel. During the summer and fall months of 1944, and under Preddy's leadership, the 328th Fighter Squadron became one of the most successful squadrons in the ETO (it shot down 25 enemy planes on November 2).
On Christmas Day 1944, Preddy died while in the service of his country. On that Christmas Day mission, Preddy shot down two Nazis. When returning to base, he saw several German planes at low altitude. In pursuit of them, Preddy and his aircraft were hit by American anti-aircraft fire.
K. Randell Jones and Caitlin D. Jones, eds., Scoundrels, Rogues and Heroes of the Old North State. Written by Dr. H. G. Jones ( Charleston, SC, 2007) and Joe Noah, "Synopsis of George Preddy: Top Mustang Ace." Preddy Memorial Foundation, http://www.preddy-foundation.org/startpage.htm (accessed August 30, 2008).


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Kensington Palace, London W8. Part 2. Queen's State Apartments and King's State Apartments.
January 15, 2019 January 8, 2019 nicknicklambert Attractions, Exhibition	1600s, 1700s, architecture, art, attraction, Britain, British, British Royal Family, building, Central London, culture, Exhibition, garden, Georgian, historical, history, Kensington, London, monarchy, museum, Palace, Royal Family, show, Stuart, TOTastemaker, tourism, tourist attractions, Tourist London, travel, West London
Kensington Palace has been a place of residence of the British Royal family since 1689. It was bought as a completed building by William and Mary when they ascended to the throne. Those parts not being lived in are open to the public. Currently they contain four exhibitions, one ticket allows entry to all four. Entrance to the Palace gardens, including the attractive sunken gardens is free and these are certainly worth the time it takes to walk round them on days when the weather is clement. The first two exhibitions are about Queen Victoria and Princess Diana's dresses. They are both interesting in different ways, I have a blog post about them here: Kensington Palace, London W8. Part 1. Victoria Revealed & Diana, her fashion story.
The next two exhibitions are The Queens' State Apartments, which has the rooms decorated as they were in the 1690s, during the reign of William and Mary, and The King's State Apartments, which has the rooms restored in the way they were in the early 1700s, during the reign of Georges I and II.
These are arranged in reverse chronological order, entry is through the sumptuous King's Grand Staircase. Decorated in the time of George II, this is broad and spacious, we are overlooked by painted figures as we ascend. The staircase is certainly grand, immediately we can tell that we are in an era when conspicuous wealth was expected of the monarchy. The mural was painted by William Kent in 1724 and contains depictions of many actual members of the royal court at the time. Kent even included himself in the painting, he is the man wearing a brown turban and holding an artist's palette, and the lady looking over his shoulder was reportedly his mistress.
The rooms in the King's State Apartments have many wonderful Georgian features. The fireplaces and ceilings are spectacular. One ceiling is decorated with shields representing the members of the Order of the Garter, with its insignia making the centrepiece. The King's Gallery has a mantelpiece with a map of the British Isles and Western Europe. This is linked to a weather vane on the roof, so that King George could see how the wind was affecting his fleet. It is still working today. The drawing room has some interesting examples of gaming tables from the era and the best perspective of the gardens, down to the lake.
The Queen's State Apartments are 17th Century and this exhibition is more intimate, showing their bedrooms, their dining room and gives a little more of an insight into how they went about their, still opulent, daily lives. The furniture and delft is remarkable and the tapestries and bed coverings are extravagant. It is interesting to see the shortness of the four poster bed, it was thought at that time to be beneficial to health to sleep in a sitting position.
The exhibitions also contain lovely examples of the fashions at the time, there are some wonderful farthingale supported embroidered skirts, which look spectacular but must have been completely impractical to wear.
Between all four of the shows here, it would be difficult to do it justice in less than a couple of hours, there is almost too much to see in one visit. Perhaps it would be worth viewing the Palace on one day and the Gardens, Park and Orangery, which are free to enter, on another. This way you could spread the visit over a couple of days and only have to pay the, not inconsiderable, entry fee once. Kensington Palace and Gardens is one of the most historic visitor attractions in London, the exhibitions are well stocked and informative, although it is not cheap to visit, it should be among the sights that you consider when in London. It is free to enter with an Art Pass, if you have one of these you should not miss it, Kensington Palace is a highlight of their offer.
Handel & Hendrix in London, Brook Street, London W1
December 28, 2018 November 30, 2018 nicknicklambert Attractions	1700s, 1960s, Carnaby Street, classical, Handel, history, London, museum, music, Oxford Street, photo, photography, psychedelia, rock, tourism, tourist attractions, Tourist London, travel, west end
London has a number of small and quirky museums. This one dedicated to life and works of George Frederic Handel and Jimi Hendrix is certainly an unexpected combination. Handel lived at 25 Brook Street for 36 years in the 18th Century and Hendrix lived at number 23 for short time in the 1960s.
Bach's house is decorated in the slightly austere Georgian style that was fashionable when he lived there. It does contain some beautiful musical instruments, including a wonderful harpsichord and a chamber organ. The bedroom has a four poster bed and there are some good paintings and a bust of Handel too. There are recitals held in the music room at least once a week and the staff are knowledgeable and helpful.
The Hendrix flat is laid out somewhat differently. The bedroom/living room is decorated as it would have been when Hendrix and his girlfriend lived here, this is borne out by the many photos of the room published during this time. The rest of the apartment is done in a more traditional museum style, with guitars and jackets in glass cases and commemorative posters on the walls. The bedroom is interesting, the fact that it is so classically psychedelic Carnaby Street 1960s in style probably reflects the huge effect that he had on the fashion of the time.
Unlike many museums in London, this one is not free unless you have a National Art Pass. It is small but it does contain a number of curious items. It is striking to compare what the height of fashion was in the centre of London two hundred years apart – and there is something apt in the fact that it doesn't open until 11am on any day. Half an hour or forty minutes will adequately see you round this exhibition, but if you are a fan of either rock or baroque, I think there will be something here to please you.
Kensington Palace, London W8. Part 1. Victoria Revealed & Diana, her fashion story.
October 19, 2018 October 19, 2018 nicknicklambert Attractions, Exhibition	#LoveLondon, architecture, art, attraction, Britain, British, building, culture, Exhibition, garden, historical, history, Kensington, London, museum, Palace, Princess Diana, Queen Victoria, Royal Family, sculpture, statue, tourism, tourist attractions, Tourist London, travel
Kensington Palace has been a place of residence of the British Royal family since 1689. It was bought as a completed building by William and Mary when they ascended to the throne and it has been expended and improved since, by both Christopher Wren and by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Part of the palace is still used as living accommodation by the Dukes and Duchesses of Cambridge and Sussex.
Those parts not being lived in are open to the public. Currently they contain four exhibitions, one ticket allows entry to all four. Entrance to the Palace gardens, including the attractive sunken gardens is free and these are certainly worth the time it takes to walk round them on days when the weather is clement.
Victoria Revealed is an exhibition about the life of Queen Victoria. She was born in Kensington Palace and lived here until she became monarch in 1837. It consists of eight rooms detailing her life in, mainly chronological, order. It does contain some interesting personal items such as the dolls with which she played as a child. The portrait of her at the time of her coronation, shows why she was considered a beauty in her youth.
It has the uniform that her husband Albert wore on their wedding day. This has embroidered messages, such as "dearly loved" and "Oh my Angel Albert", on the cuffs collar and pockets. It also has a garter, tied visibly, just below the left knee. It also has the gilt bassinet which held many of her nine children, as babies.
The rooms are relatively sparsely decorated, but have some nice busts and a few interesting paintings, including a couple of the Great Exhibition and the Crystal Palace, in which it took place. The Great Exhibition was opened in in 1851 by Queen Victoria herself. In the gardens of the palace, stands "The Queen Victoria Statue" designed, in marble, by her own daughter Louise, who was a celebrated artist of the time.
The presentation contains a moving memorial to Albert. Victoria was strongly affected by his death, she wore mourning clothes and withdrew from public life for many years after. Victoria Revealed is a fascinating show, the items on display are sympathetically exhibited and give a nice insight into her personal life.
Also on the first floor is "Diana, her fashion story". This is a collection of Princess Diana's most famous suits and dresses. There are about 20 of her outfits on show here, along with notes about the designers and details of the occasions on which she wore them. They are interesting in that they mark the fashions of the time as well as well as being beautifully designed. It is surprising how many of them are recognizable, it seems that time has proven that Diana really was a fashion icon of the 1980s and 90s.
Antony & Cleopatra, National Theatre, South Bank, London
October 2, 2018 September 27, 2018 nicknicklambert Theatre review	Ancient Rome, Cleopatra, drama, Egypt, historical, history, London, national theatre, play, Ralph Fiennes, Shakepeare, Simon Godwin, Sophie Okonedo, South Bank, theatre, Tim McMullan, tragedy, travel, visit London, west end
Antony & Cleopatra is always a big undertaking. The play is an uneasy mix of love and war, it requires a wide variety of settings, scenes and textures and it is usual that a choice is made to make it either bellicose or romantic. Simon Godwin has made the brave decision to have it both ways. The talent and apparatus that are at his disposal at the Olivier theatre allow him to pull it off triumphantly.
The cast is high quality and on top form. The set and choreography are stars in their own right. Hildegard Bechtler, set designer and Evie Gurney, costume designer do a wonderful job. I doubt that it would be possible to do the transformations from opulent Alexandria, through Roman war rooms to topside ship decks, with such efficiency on any other stage. It is beautifully done and gives the piece a cinematic quality that it is uncommon to see in the theatre. they have lavished money, care and attention to detail on this production and it has not gone to waste. The costumes are sumptuous, Cleopatra really does dress like a queen.
The huge change in ambience between the military settings and the romantic ones make it easy to see the dichotomy that Antony faces between duty and desire. He begins the play lounging by the pool but it not long before he is army fatigues. Ralph Fiennes plays Antony with a hint of midlife crisis, but when he is with Cleopatra there is never any doubt of his love for her. The chemistry between them is palpable, they are sultry and sensual, the perfect star crossed couple. Sophie Okonedo is every inch the Egyptian Queen, expecting adoration and receiving it; sharp and soft, petulant and magnanimous, veering between vulnerable and dangerous. She owned the role, it feels like the part she was born to play.
The acting throughout is very good, Tim McMullan is excellent as Enobarbus. Hannah Morrish brings out the role of Octavia well, we see she is poorly used by Caesar as well as Antony, but takes what slight revenge she can. Fisayo Akinade is funny and sad as Eros, Antony's freed slave.
Antony & Cleopatra is three and a half hours long, however there are a couple of light and funny scenes and director, Simon Godwin, makes good use of these to give relief from the tension and high drama. The ending of this play is often difficult to stage, but here it is done in a very authentic manner. There is a glimmer of compassion to the finale of this play, that is not often there in Shakespearean tragedy. A word of warning to those who suffer from ophidiophobia – you may wish to get seats a little way back from the stage.
Everything about this show oozes high production values, right down to the programme, which has copious information about the background to the play. This is exactly the type of production that gives the National Theatre its worldwide renown.
Now The Hero, Swansea International Festival.
September 13, 2018 September 13, 2018 nicknicklambert Exhibition, theatre	14-18NOW, art, choir, classical, culture, Day out, drama, event, Festival, history, LIFT festival, music, Orchestra, show, Swansea, theatre, tourism, travel, Wales, war, WWI
Swansea International Festival runs from the 22nd September to the 7th October this year. It has many interesting events, among them a stand up performance by Rob Bryden and a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe".
The centrepiece of the Festival is a Welsh Commission for 14-18NOW called "Now The Hero" 14-18NOW have collaborated with various artists to make some very compelling pieces over the past few years, related to the centenary of the First World War. A particularly thought provoking event earlier this year was "Fly by Night" where thousands of pigeons with LED lights were released over the Thames at sunset.
"Now The Hero" is their final piece and it looks like another winner. It is an immersive musical/theatrical parade, starting in Swansea Bay and finishing with a choir recital in Brangwyn Hall in the city. It tells the story of three Welsh warriors from different time periods. There is an ancient Celtic soldier, a First World War conscript and a contemporary service man. There is also a voice for peace, with Eddie Ladd voicing quotes from protestors at Greenham Common's women's camp.
The music is a choral requiem written by Owen Morgan Roberts and Owen Sheers. It is based on a traditional old Welsh poem "Y Gododdin" and will be performed by Cambridge choir, Polyphony. Brangwyn Hall where the event finishes contains "The British Empire Panels" a work originally commissioned to be hung in the House of Lords but rejected by them as too colourful. It was notoriously described at the time by Lord Crawford as "all tits and bananas", however almost a hundred years later it is regarded as a powerful commemoration of Welsh participation in the First World War.
This event will transform Swansea over the course of five days on 25th to 29th September and it looks as though it will be a spectacular highlight of the Swansea International Festival.
Other performances at the Festival are The BBC National Orchestra with Karl Jenkins and The Welsh National Opera doing "Rhondda Rips it Up" with Lesley Garrett and Madeline Shaw. So if you are looking for some art and culture at the end of September, Swansea is the place to be!
Taster Classes at the City Lit, Keeley Street WC2.
September 10, 2018 September 10, 2018 nicknicklambert London	#LoveLondon, Ancient Greek, Ancient Rome, art, City Lit, class, classics, date idea, Day out, design, education, entertainment, Hidden gem, history, Homer, Latin, learning, lesson, London, music, piano, school, things to do, travel, Wordpress
The City Lit is an adult education college situated in the heart of London's West End. It has a huge number and variety of classes. Twice a year, usually in April and September, they have open days, where prospective students can visit the college, to see what it is like and to discover whether City Lit has anything to offer them.
During these open days they also host over 100 different Taster classes, so one can see what the course is like. Some of these are free, the rest cost either £5 or £10. Examples of taster lessons are: History, Discover Spanish, Adult Ballet, Stand Up Comedy, WordPress, An Introduction to Art and Architecture in Persia, Piano for Absolute Beginners, Screen Printing….. They even have a number of magical mystery courses where the student is not told what they will study until after they arrive in the classroom.
Over the course of past two sets of Open Days, I have attended four of the Taster classes and have enjoyed them immensely. This was really my introduction to the phenomenon of education as entertainment. The four classes that I took were: Introduction to Arabic, WordPress, a brief overview, Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey and Curious – blue which is one of the mystery lessons.
The Arabic gave a basic overview of how the language works, we did not really get any insight into the alphabet or written Arabic, and by the end of the lesson we were all able to introduce ourselves, say where we were from and make the general opening conversation pleasantries. This is certainly enough for one to be able to know whether taking the full term class is something that would be of interest.
WordPress was much more practical and the classroom had many very up-to-date PCs. By the end of the lesson everyone in the class has set up their own WordPress account, made a webpage with text, pictures, video and sound. The computer courses are often single unit workshops to work on a specific programme or platform. The taster would be enough to inform you whether the medium would be constructive in your business or life.
Homer was a much more relaxed affair. An informative discourse, telling the story of his epic poems, the time in which they were written and a chat about why they have remained of interest for such a long period of time. City Lit has a large selection of humanities and social science classes and this would be a good test of whether this kind of course might be what would be of interest.
The Curious Blue course, the mystery course, was the busiest of all the classes that I tried. It surprised me that for so many people that it was not important what class they attended, it was more about the enjoyment of taking part. It turned out that the course was an introduction to Latin. The class was fun and very informative, we learned almost as much about English and language structure in general as we did about Latin.
There is a great deal of camaraderie in learning and I interacted with many people over the series of lectures – all of them in a positive way. Everybody I spoke to was having an enjoyable time and many were learning about themselves as well as their chosen subjects. One person I chatted to had taken the "Piano for Absolute Beginners" taster course and was amazed at his ability to play the chorus of "Ode to Joy" by the time the class was over. A lady I spoke to in the Latin class had signed up for the "Stand Up Comedy" course because she had taken the taster course and enjoyed it so much.
City Lit's open days were, for me, a truly eye opening adventure. I enjoyed them thoroughly. I had forgotten that learning was such a positive experience, the building was buzzing with excited chatter. I recommend them heartily and I know that I will be looking out for the dates of their open days and taster classes in the coming years!


You've probably wondered on more than one occasion what the difference between 50 and 75 Ohms coaxials is. For the vast majority of times, manufacturers do not clearly indicate in the guides and instruction books why one type of cable or another should be used. Let's try to work it out with this post.
The composition of the coaxial cable is divided into three distinct parts. The centre is known as the conductor; it can be made of twisted wire or solid wire. It is generally made of aluminum and copper, a combination of both materials.
The part around the centre is called the dielectric, whose main mission is to isolate the conductor centre. It is usually made from a composition of plastics and foam.
And finally, on the outside, the shielding, made from a combination of aluminium or braided mesh. This shielding is usually covered by materials such as PVC to protect it from external aggression.
Before going on to establish the differences between the two coaxials, let's know what the Ohm is and what it is for.
If we refer to its technical definition, the Ohm is a unit of resistance to the passage of electrical current in a given conductor. For example, the battery resistance of vehicles is measured in this unit; all applications where direct current is used are measured in Ohm.
In contrast, in those AC applications, impedance is measured, not resistance.
Let's go now with the issue kit. Currently, two types of impedances are handled on the vast majority of cables used in applications: 50 and 75 Ohm.
Some companies in the industrial connectors sector have the 50 Ohm coaxial cables that are more advantageous for high power ratings of between 50 and 100 W. Generally, for any device that acts as a transmitter and receiver, a cable of this type is used: televisions, telephones, radio communication systems that have 2 ways….
If you want to be absolutely sure that the signal loss will be minimal, the 75 Ohm cable is the best alternative. The best option when the equipment to be connected is AM or FM type.
Finally, it is worth considering one point: the impedance of all equipment and components installed must be exactly the same. In other words, if you are going to install a certain transmission equipment with an impedance of 50 Ohm, you should know that both the cable and the antenna must also be 50 Ohm. Otherwise, you will face a coupling problem, which will result in a degraded signal.
Of course, Alfar SL offers coaxial cables of different impedance, so that you can start any project, regardless of its power.


In order to be able to understand mobile marketing, you need to understand what people do on their mobile devices.
Mobile in a new marketing channel that is unlike any other. You have to think about what marketing objectives your trying to accomplish before you just jump into a mobile marketing strategy. You need to understand how people interact with mobile marketing tactics so you can create a mobile strategy that keeps your customers attention and is engaging.


Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers by Steven Ward	Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017.ISBN 978-1107182363. Pp. x, 282. Hardback, £75.00.
Rising Powers Quarterly is a peer reviewed, non profit, free-access journal dedicated to the growing role of rising powers in global governance.
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The complete Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers. Approved by the 1996 NASW Delegate Assembly and revised by the 2017 NASW Delegate Assembly.
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Formerly referred to as the "Committee on Inquiry." The Ethics Committee is a private professional association's grievance process for social workers or clients who feel that an NASW member has breached the NASW Code of Ethics.


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As the social media behemoth continuouslies transform how they present as well as promote content, I wished to share a couple of different alternatives for posting video - Post Videos to Facebook.
Video is rapid ending up being the darling of material advertising as well as social sharing. It is a great device to utilize to capture web content because it can be broken down right into a lot of components. Its existing the most common media on Facebook and YouTube is the # 2 online search engine after Google, so accumulating and sharing your stories with video is a valuable engagement technique.
In this instance, I fired a straightforward meeting with my apple iphone. It was my first time and I wish you are thrilled by my steady hands! As you could see, I held the apple iphone up and down, which is a problem. YouTube's native layout is straight. We utilized Adobe After Impacts to produce a straight history with some stock video and also the customer's logo design. I make certain you can do the same with a number of the video modifying tools available. You might just as quickly make use of a still photo. Or you may want space to include your branding and do it intentionally.
When the video was ready, we posted it on YouTube and also on the customer's websites. I bewared to make use of different text in each place to prevent a prospective charge in Google for replicate material.
When posting to Facebook, I experimented with showing the video to see just how it would certainly display in the newsfeed. I don't necessarily advise posting a video 3 different times in a row in various means, however I'll have to see just how the fans react to it. It could appear like spam or it might obtain their focus. If they despise it, it will certainly scroll by in no time so don't worry too much concerning exploring within reason.
Facebook is broadening their newsfeed and getting more visual. I imply literally. They are evaluating a wider column that truly highlights image and also video posts. Theoretically, that must mean larger pictures get discovered. So I intended to see which type of message was one of the most visual. The champion was the upload from my computer. In this instance I utilized the "Upload Photo or video" standing kind and uploaded the mp4 documents that we produced. It took permanently and also I thought it really did not function up until I saw it current feed. It looks excellent, takes up the whole size of the information feed column and also plays with one click on the picture.
Next I took a display shot from the video and also waited on my desktop computer. I posted this as an Image Upload and also enter a status update that included a connect to a blog post on the customer's site that consists of the video. This is good due to the fact that it forces followers to click on the web link and also go to the customer's site if they intend to view the video. The disadvantage is that they might refrain from doing that and also will never ever see the complete message. In addition, setting it up as a picture blog post adds the picture to the Facebook Photo gallery so it comes to be an item of evergreen material.
Last I posted the YouTube web link directly as a Standing Update. This offers you a little video window that could play right current feed and includes the title and also summary you put on YouTube. This supplies the advantage of seeing directly in Facebook, yet it resembles a little news web link blog post, which is usually the least clicked-on sort of article. You could additionally add YouTube as an Application for your page, but I do not have that established for this web page today.
Interested regarding the results? Message # 1 is the leader with around 40% more views compared to post # 2. It also has one of the most likes. Article # 3 has by far the least views and also no sort or comments. Its feasible that it may have something to do with that this is also the order I posted in, however the posts were made within mins of each other. Interestingly, all posts got sights, so perhaps it had not been the worst point to three-way message.


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The Hungarian Coalition ( (MK); , Mađarska Koalicija (MK)) was a political coalition composed of 3 ethnic Hungarian political parties in Serbia: the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, the Democratic Party of Vojvodina Hungarians, and the Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians. The leader of the Hungarian Coalition is István Pásztor.

Political goals

The Hungarian Coalition advocates the creation of an autonomous multiethnic region in northern Serbia (see: Hungarian Regional Autonomy), which would include municipalities with a Hungarian ethnic majority (Kanjiža, Senta, Ada, Bačka Topola, Mali Iđoš, Čoka), as well as ethnically mixed municipalities of Subotica and Bečej and municipality of Novi Kneževac, in which the majority of population are Serbs. The center of this autonomous region would be Subotica.

Participation in elections

State elections

In 2008 Serbian parliamentary election, the Hungarian Coalition won 4 seats in the Serbian parliament. On April 25, 2008 the Hungarian Coalition got the support of Croat party Democratic Union of Croats for these elections.

Provincial elections

On the provincial elections in Vojvodina in 2008, the Hungarian Coalition won 7% of votes in the first election round.

Local elections

In 2008 local elections in Serbia, the expectations of the Hungarian Coalition were to win majority of votes in the local parliaments of municipalities of Serbia with ethnic Hungarian majority, but this was the case only in municipality of Kanjiža, where Hungarian Coalition won 50.91% of votes. The Coalition also won the plurality of votes in municipalities of Senta (31.87%), Bačka Topola (46.25%), and Mali Iđoš (37.18%), while in municipalities of Čoka and Ada, the Hungarian Coalition was second largest political option, after Democratic Party (In Čoka, Democratic Party won 29.08% of votes and Hungarian Coalition won 24.47% of votes; in Ada, the coalition led by Democratic Party won 29.25% of votes and Hungarian Coalition won 25.70% of votes). In the ethnically mixed municipality of Subotica, the Hungarian Coalition was also second largest political option after coalition led by Democratic Party (Democratic Party coalition won 40.16% of votes and Hungarian Coalition won 27.14% of votes in Subotica), while in the ethnically mixed municipality of Bečej, the Hungarian Coalition won the plurality of votes (29.63%). In the municipality of Novi Kneževac with an ethnic Serb majority (claimed by Hungarian Coalition as part of future autonomous region), the Hungarian Coalition was third largest political option with 17.63% of votes (Largest political option in Novi Kneževac municipality was coalition led by Democratic Party with 27.18% of votes, and the second largest was Serbian Radical Party with 22.46% of the votes).

References

External links
 Hungarian Coalition official site
 Hungarian Coalition official site

Defunct political party alliances in Serbia
Hungarian political parties in Serbia
Politics of Vojvodina

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The Art Angle
The Art Angle Presents: A Star-Studded Art History Game Show (With Kids!)
Three famous art-world figures. Three children. Forty-eight famous artworks. What could go wrong?
Artnet News, December 24, 2020
Who could this be? Courtesy Artnet News.
Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week's biggest story down to earth. Join host Andrew Goldstein every week for an in-depth look at what matters most in museums, the art market, and much more, with input from our own writers and editors, as well as artists, curators, and other top experts in the field.
What happens when you pair three-to-six year-old children with esteemed art-world figures to play an art-historical guessing game?
For our final episode of 2020, we decided to find out.
We invited three of the most respected cultural leaders in the world—Naima Keith, the vice president of education and public programs at LACMA; Carolina Miranda, a Los Angeles Times columnist who covers art, architecture, and urban design; and Martin Kemp, the foremost Leonardo da Vinci scholar in the world—to be paired with some really adorable kids for a virtual guessing game.
Over Zoom, each illustrious guest was introduced to their diminutive teammate, who was shown a series of (very) famous artworks from throughout the history of art. The children were asked to describe what they saw in each work—and the grown-ups were responsible for guessing the artist and title.
Have you ever had a four-year-old try to explain a Jackson Pollock drip painting? A Damien Hirst shark sculpture? A Grant Wood piece? We didn't think so.
Listen above and subscribe to the Art Angle on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, or wherever you get your podcasts. (Or catch up on past episodes here on Artnet News.)
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Halloween is finally here! As a parent we are rarely scared of ghosts and goblins, but we do find sending our kids out trick-or-treating about as frightening as watching a "Friday the 13th" marathon in the dark at an old abandoned lake house all by ourselves.
The Old Town Newhall Library has their Halloween Family Movie showing at 3:30 and is followed by a costume parade at 5pm through the safe and well-lit library.


And that's the problem. I have a constant mental struggle between maintaining my weight loss and reaching my running goals.
Each time I train for a marathon, I gain weight. I'm now the heaviest I've been in years. Although I know I'm fit and not fat, I struggle. I still have the overweight and unhealthy me living in my head. That person tells me that I shouldn't take rest days. That I shouldn't eat after I run (and NEVER during a run) and that I need to exercise for at least 90 minutes every single day.
That person also tells me to do more cardio and less strength training. She also calls me fat, just because I gained some holiday pounds. She's a great friend of weight loss, but not a great friend to my running goals or to my self-confidence.
Looking back at the injuries that have kept me from running over the past three years, all of them are related to overtraining. Overtraining that was caused by my insistence on exercising when I was in pain, tired, or just simply needed a day off. I'll take on ANY challenging running workout. Hills? Check. Speed intervals? I'll do them twice. Day off? No freaking way.
As you can imagine, this could do wonders for my *ahem* bottom line, but is not good for my running performance. Running well and healthy is about training cycles. In a running year, I should have training periods and maintenance periods and even weeks off, but if the voice inside my head is constantly niggling me about the weight I might be gaining when I take that time off, I'm never going to become a better runner. Just a more injured and therefore slower runner.
I know what it takes to lose weight. For me, it takes 90+ minutes of exercise every day. A strict diet.
I also know what it takes to improve my running speed and endurance. For me, it entails running a lot on Saturday, quickly on some days, slowly on others. Lots of rest including rest days. Adequate fuel during long runs and ALWAYS after the tough workouts. And sometimes a little weight gain.
I know that these two things don't have to be mutually exclusive. In fact, they aren't mutually exclusive seemingly for most everyone else. Running is a great tool for weight loss and weight maintenance. In fact, it's the best tool, because running is so darn fun.
But not for me lately.
I hesitated to write this post because I don't want to trivialize other people's battle with weight loss or the real problems that exist in the world. It's also hard to admit that while I physically left the old me behind, I'm still dealing with her on the inside. Losing weight didn't solve all of my problems. Before, I physically couldn't meet my running goals. I don't want the mental and emotional old me to hold me back from achieving my running goals now. If I want to qualify for Boston, which I REALLY do, I have to incorporate rest and proper fueling into my training. If I don't, I'll end up overtrained or injured and ruin all chances of qualifying in May.
Right now, I'm struggling to rectify the beginning of my Windermere marathon training cycle with the extra pounds I'd like to lose from the holidays. For me, now, it's about taking each day as it comes – and putting healthy before skinny. And someday, hopefully, I'll replace the fat me in my head with the fit badass runner I am.
Have you lost a lot of weight because of running? Does your fear of gaining weight impede your running performance or interfere you enjoyment of it?
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I lost 70 pounds about 5 years ago and have kept it off, not including time for pregnancy and recovery. I did not start running until I had lost almost all of that weight. In fact, I exercised very little until I lost well over 40 pounds, and I started with aerobics and weights, and then moved to running as I neared my weight-loss goal. I am very much of the opinion that you eat to control weight, exercise to be fit. That being said, when I started training for my first marathon, my weight went up and I completely freaked out. I knew that lots people gained weight when training, but I assumed that wouldn't happen to me. After all, I had maintained my weight for several years, I went through a pregnancy and lost that weight, so a marathon wasn't going to cause me any trouble.
But, obviously, it did. I put on around 7 pounds and they hung around after the marathon was over, largely because I forgot that I didn't need to eat like I was training for a marathon if I wasn't, you know, training for a marathon. My weight is back where I like it to be now, and I have learned to ease up on myself. I weigh myself every morning. I have tried to ditch the scale, but I just can't. Instead, I have a range, and if my weight is within that range, then no worries. If my weight goes up over that, I have to think about what is going on. I haven't run another marathon, so I can't blame training. It is usually that I am eating mindlessly and need to get back on the wagon.
I think all of this is a long-winded way of getting to the point that there are a lot of resources out there, for better or worse, that help people lose weight. There is very little help for people dealing with the mental and emotional fallout of losing weight. I still see myself as kind of fat, so I am often surprised when I catch my reflection in a window and realize that it is me. I thought that if I lost a lot of weight then I would never have to think about my weight again. Not true. I still think about it a lot. Maybe even more now than I used to. Running is a tool in my kit for controlling my weight, but honestly, it isn't the best tool. If I ramp up training, I get hungry and I put on weight. I have to balance weight, activity, and fuel intake. I have learned to make allowances for marathon training, beer, and the occasional cupcake.
Thank you so much for your comment – I love your perspective and it's good to know I'm not the only one that feels this way. I definitely need to work on gaining perspective too – it's about the big picture, not the number on the scale that morning that determines how I run and look all year long.
I agree – but I wish I had an answer! I think that a big thing is taking things one day at a time but keeping the big picture in mind is key for me!
Cilantro, I really love this post. I know that so many of us struggle with this, at least to some extent.
What helps me is to understand that ALL runners, elite and just about everyone else included, have some fluctuation in their weight depending on where they are in the training cycle. I accept that during the winter I'll be up about 5 lbs. over my summer training weight and then at the peak of my training I might be a few pounds lower than that. That lowest low is not sustainable and I don't expect it to be.
There's something else that you allude to that helps too – there's a difference between a low number on the scale and being super fit. Pepper and I were just talking about this on our run last weekend – she was complaining about feeling heavy because she's gained some weight since being injured and I observed that she still weighs significantly less than me at my fittest. My fit weight is a lot higher than what a lot of people consider super thin, but I'm pretty small at that weight. If I focused on the #, I'd be pretty disappointed. Instead I try to focus on how I feel and how fit I am – as Clove said, I try to focus on what my body can do rather than what it looks like or what the # is on the scale.
I really hope you're able to put the weight loss stuff behind you and move to being a performance focused runner. I can't wait for you to BQ and beyond!
THANKS so much for sharing this very personal struggle!!!
Thank you – it was scary to recognize and admit it! I know intuitively that how I feel isn't 100% rational, but I still have nightmares where I overeat or stop exercising and wake up back at 235 pounds! It's a crazy mental battle and one that I didn't even realize I'd struggle with when I started losing weight. I have to think that someday I'll get over it, but then I'm sure a new anxiety will replace it!
I don't know if you mean literal nightmares, but I absolutely have dreams where I look down a realize I have gained all that weight back and started smoking again. I think 'Now I have lose weight AND quit smoking again?!?! Whaaaaaa! It was too hard the first time, I can't do it again!" And then I am so relieved when I wake up and that hasn't happened.
I have actual dreams too and they are horrible!
Cilantro, we have such similar stories, it's crazy! Even at my goal weight, I didn't look like the runner, or person, I had visualized myself looking like when I started losing weight. Since I hit that goal, two and a half years ago, it's something I struggled with every since. I tear myself apart for it all the time. In the end though, it's not the number on the scale, or even the race clock, that matters, it's that you got out there and put in the effort and are grateful for what your body can do that day.
First, congrats on meeting and maintaining your goal weight! I sometimes say that learning how to maintain is way harder than learning how to lose was! I think it's so important we help each other keep things in perspective too – because I still feel "big", and that's worse when my clothes don't fit because I'm gaining weight! I think for me, the hardest part is listening to my body to eat when I'm hungry, because I lost weight by disconnecting myself from that! Now I need to listen or it affects my run (and my mood)!
I have a similar fear – that if I stop exercising for one day, I'll never be able to motivate myself to start again. I'm learning to take days off, but it's paralyzingly hard sometimes.
I love this post! I can totally relate….
I started running to lose weight and manage stress- I had gained weight in college, and was entering the fun world of law school. That was in 1997. Over the course of law school, I managed to maintain a pretty steady workout regime, but didn't have the best eating habits. I dropped 30 pounds, and not nearly the right way. It was mostly done by restricting what I ate. In retrospect, I lost way too much, and didn't look healthy. But, I was battling the percieved "fat me," and was terrified that with one last bite, I would end up where I started.
So, when I started my first law job out of school, I realized that I couldn't sustain not eating and working out as a weight loss mechanism.I started reading about healthy eating, and talking to other people who where into health as much as fitness. Then, in 2001, I was recruiting to join a team for the Cleveland Coporate Challenge, and I was hooked. I also started meeting more runners, and started running further and faster than I ever would. For years, I would start my mornings by running through the neighborhoods and downtown areas of Cleveland, Tremont, Ohio City. In many ways, I bonded with my own hometown in a way I had never done before.
I also learned about overtraining and overuse pretty quickly. But, at 25, it took me another five years to realize that one is better to take a rest day when you feel that icky twinge rather than lose a few weeks entirely.
My weight also strarted to creep up. That bothered me, but I tried to keep it within a range. Weighing myself every day is key for staying on track. I also started following the "Body for Life" eating method, and I liked the results. So, I loosened up on myself a bit.
Then, in 2003, I got the bug to do my first marathon.Suddenly, with the long runs and pre and post fueling, my weight started to creep up again. On race day, I was 7 pounds heavier, and pretty bummed about it. But, i finished my first marathon- Akron- and it was an experience of a lifetime. But then I found that shedding that weight, post race, was not that easy. After the race, I was sore for a couple of weeks, and the days kept getting shorter. I was still eating, but not running anywhere as much.
The next year, I ran Akron again. I didn't carb load, and I had a roast chicken for dinner the night before. I was keeping a great pace until the 13 mile mark, and then I fell apart. I finished, but it was grisly. I hit the wall, and realized that I still do have asthma after all. Lesson learned.
I ran four marathons in the following years, and two were at Boston (I BQed in Columbus and Milwaukee). As a former smoker, asthmatic, formerly out of shape person, it was the best life experience ever. But the weight issue was there for each race. Ironically, I remember complaining about my weight going into the 2008 Columbus Marathon. I ended up with a marathon PR.
I really think that women are genetically predisposed to holding on to weight when training for endurance events. No matter how hard I tried, I could never lose weight while training for a marathon. My male running buddies would drop weight without even trying, or would struggle to keep weight on.
Anyway, I don't run as much these days, but I try to feel fit and stay active. I really think that the important thing is that, despite the past us's, we are all out there, challenging ourselves, and feeling totally alive in the process.
You are so very welcome! I am right there with you. You said it perfectly. And, it sounds like you are doing great. And, thank you for inspiring me to get out there!


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Q: Probability That Someone's Number Choice is Greater Than the Others My friend and I are selecting numbers independently, and we both select a number from the set
$\{1, \cdots, 10\}$. What is the probability that I select a number strictly larger than my friends. We can choose the same number.
I am stuck on this problem. I know that we can use $P(E) = \frac{|E|}{|S|}$ and that our sample space $|S| = 10$.
I don't know exactly how to proceed. If I choose $10$ than I'll have the largest number, but this doesn't really help me solve this. Suggestions on how to proceed?

A: Let the number chosen by your friend and you be $X,Y\in\{1,...,10\}$ respectively.
$$P(Y>X)=P([X=1\text{ and }Y>1]\text{ or }[X=2\text{ and }Y>2]\text{ or...or }[X=9\text{ and }Y>9])\\=\sum_{x=1}^9P(X=x\text{ and }Y>x)$$because all events are disjoint. Since $X,Y$ are independent, we get$$\sum_{x=1}^9P(X=x)\times P(Y\in\{x+1,x+2,...,10\})=\sum_{x=1}^9\frac1{10}\times\frac{10-x}{10}=0.45.$$

Alternatively, there are $10\times 10=100$ equiprobable ordered pairs $(X,Y)$ out of which $Y>X$ in $\binom{10}2=45$ pairs corresponding to selecting $2$ distinct numbers from $\{1,2,...,10\}$ and taking the larger one as $Y$. The probability is$$\frac{\binom{10}2}{100}=0.45.$$


particularly talking about supervised learning.
trees as representation of certain kinds of hypothesis.
Optimization with Gradient Descent and then have it paralyze it.
And so, now we're gonna talk about a few selected topics in unsupervised learning.
So, this is a very broad field as well.
to be familiar with, but is by no means a coverage of the entire area.
then unsupervised learning is perhaps the one that stands out the most.
you can think about all four of these.
the learning comes explicitly in the data.
In reinforcement learning the feedback is supplied by the environment.
trying to put them to use.
learning a probabilistic model of the data.
So, applications of unsupervised learning include detecting outliers.
So, we use this factory behaving normally or not.
talked about, given that there's no class labels.
is this one most similar for.
And, thereby classify it as within that group.
you may say, let's just send the sequence ab and repeat seven times.
And so this is a shorter representation of that string.
then putting them to use for various services.
this is by no means the only form of unsupervised learning.
But, it's the one that you'll bump into quite a bit.
Another common one that we're not gonna spend much time on is dimension reduction.
different scenarios but the output is usually the same.
Which is a set of sets of data items.
your goal is to group them by similarity.
that communicate more closely than other communities.
the clusters but the output is still the same it's the set of sets of items.
with some motionographers here at the University of Washington.
adapted them for environmental monitoring.
the patient and put particles in that sample through a capillary single file.
the particle you can sort of work out which kind of pathogen it is.
one of a small set of possible critters.
So, you kind of know what you're looking for.
Or we're trying to lab bench in a kind of controlled environment.
particles rubbishing the microbial populations of the open ocean.
And this is the completely unknown.
there's really nothing that's known below the surface.
I said they push them through single file.
single file, when you are under water and the boat's doing this, okay.
So, that's one of the problems.
the data analysis because now the data is much noisier, okay.
So as light shines through.
This particle stream it's collected on either side by various detectors.
which ones are at the edges so you can filter out the ones at the edges.
And then there's other detectors for various wavelengths of light.
the you only are worried about the.
Particles that were in the middle of the stream.
clusters that represent different microbial populations.
So, in this case, we looking at size.
refraction patterns of these different populations are understood.
But, in the data stream you still need to figure out what these clusters are.
algorithm called k-means to analyze this data.
And so we'll talk about k-means next.