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TC TO JOHN A. CARLYLE; 29 November 1827; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18271129-TC-JAC-01; CL 4:287-293.
21. Comley Bank, 29th November, 1827—
My Dear Jack,
It is a thousand pities to send a Letter all the way to Munich, of so very insipid a composition as this must needs be; written as it is under the influence of a most decided catarrh, which, tho' now on the wane, is not by any means concluded, and for the last three days has kept me in the most interesting state. Even now, I have two shirts on, and a huge uncomfortable comforter, and my seal-skin cap, and am gargling at intervals with a solution of cream-of-tartar and black-currant jelly. In short, I am an entire Moluimbo:1 "I cannot eat," as a sick Englishman says; I cannot even smoke!
Nevertheless a Letter must be written, that it meet the London foreign Mail on Tuesday; for I have put off far too long already; and unless I take heed, am like to lose all my old praise of regularity as a correspondent. The last Letter itself was too late (by two days or so?); and if you have written again before this arrive, it introduces a burble [tangle] into our correspondendence, a burble, "which has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished."— Your Munich Epistle had reached London in 9 days; and to our great joy, it arrived here on the 17th last. What wonderful things you must have seen by the road; things not to be comprised in one sheet, but in quires of sheets! Be sure you keep a full Notebook; and let us have the thing fresh and complete when you return. Meanwhile, your present whereabout is the matter that concerns us most; let us know all about your studies and pursuits, and your manner of existence in that strange Eichhal Schloss [Castle], with its marble-headed stoves, and its other exotic appurtenances. The old woman with her portion Thee [pot of tea] and her Schlafen Sie ja recht wohl [May you sleep very well]! set us all a-laughing, good dame; tho' except in the circumstance of its being our own Doctor Tongleg that was so addressed, there was nothing to laugh at in so charitable a wish. You mention that the journey "cost you more than you anticipated." Alas! My good Doctor, our anticipations of foreign cheapness are almost always false. You add in Arabic numerals that you have still a number of hard sovereigns left, which we took at first to be seventeen, but discovered afterwards to be eleven; for the writing there seems blotted out as with a tear. But do not, my good Brother, let thy mighty heart be cast down, for the Mammon of this world! A few more hard sovereigns we are yet, Thank Heaven, in a condition to furnish: write for what is necessary, and it will be sent, if you tell us also how to send it. Above all, do not neglect this same dissection and surgery, for the sake of any poor thrift there might be in the omission of it. Go on and prosper; learn all and everything that is to be learned: and if you come home to us a good well-appointed Man and Physician, we will not think the money ill-bestowed. Nay it is possible enough that you may even at Munich be able to earn so much yourself; at least, if you think of writing anything about foreign medicine (that is, so soon as you know it), I have little doubt the Frazer Reviewers will readily accept it. But let not this, or any other consideration, divert you from your grand task, which is to learn at Munich whatsoever is specially or only to be learnt there.
But now I reverse the speculum, and bring you from Bayern to your own old Fatherland. We have heard both from Scotsbrig and Craigenputtock not long ago; and all was well or nearly so in both places. Our Father's rheumatism was all but entirely gone a fortnight ago; and I think had any change for the worse taken place they would have written us, for I charged them strictly. Both our Mother and he had been at the "Michaelmas Market";2 the stuff also, including even the potatoes was safely housed; so that the goodman felt much more at ease. The only article of news that Mag sent me was tidings of the death very suddenly of Margaret Kerr, once of Bush, and whom we have often seen as the beauty of Hoddam Kirk, and truly one of the most bright and buxom women anywhere to be looked on. Thus in all provinces of existence are we reminded that man's foundation is on the quicksand, and that the fashion of this world passeth away.3 Happily there is another and a diviner one, which does not pass.
Neither our Mother nor Jane, as you will have guessed are yet here. My Mother will not come, till I go and fetch her, which may not be till after some number of weeks: Jane is ready to come directly; and has written to that effect. We sent back an answer encouraging her to come up forthwith; and requesting that she would appoint the day, when I was to wait for her by the Langholm coach. We still expect her shortly; but since that time she has not written a word. I desired Alick, last Wednesday, to have her expedited if he could. Whether he would get my letter I know not; for perhaps he was not at the market; Dumfries, it would appear, being turned topsyturvy by rejoicing that the Duke4 had come of age, on Monday last; an event which has filled three counties with sky-rockets, and whiskypunch, and every sort of tumult.
Here, at Comley Bank, we are all much as when you left us. Jane's complaint proved rather lingering, and no remedy, it seemed, but Time would avail: however she is now, when she does not walk too much, about as well as ever. As to myself, I do not reckon that I have fallen off in health, but rather improved; for this cold, which must soon be gone, I esteem of little moment; nay perhaps it may prove advantageous, for I have traced a sort of sub-feverishness lurking about me for several weeks, and I have hopes that this has brought it to a crisis and removed it.— Pray Heaven, you may have no catarrhs at Munich! Keep warm wrappages about you; for I am told the climate is very severe.— Alison Greave has left us with tears in her eyes, and we have got another handmaid who does very well; very superior indeed to Alison in working, as far as she is inferior in depth of meditation and intellectual acumen. I should mention also that a most superb Leghorn Bonnet has arrived from the Straw-platter of Meyer (Mary Gray);5 and by me, with due introductory narrative, been presented to the Highland Society, where tho' it is somewhat against their rules, we are in hopes it may gain a prize. Henry Inglis got it sent for us, thro' the medium of some Hebridian Laird, who is his brother-in-law.6 Poor Goody Graham has far more merit than many an Academician, who has carried off his prize-medal.
The Edinr Review is out some time ago; and the "State of German Literature" has been received with considerable surprise and approbation by the Universe. Thus for instance, De Quinc[e]y praises it in his Saturday Post;7 Sir W. Hamilton tells me that it is "cap'tal"; and Wilson8 informs John Gordon that it has "done me a deal o' good." May a bountiful Heaven be praised for its mercies! I suppose I shall by and by rise into a pitch of literary glory, which may all but equal me with the Stot9 himself. In the meanwhile I have written another long paper on Zacharias Werner, and sent it off the other day to Frazer, who seems very anxious to have it.10 He is just returned from (the west of) Germany; and, I suppose, is all agog about their Literature. He had seen Goethe, Tieck, &c; and engaged Julius to correspond with him.11— All this being off my hands, I took a week's recreation, and two days before this catarrhal visitation, had begun to prepare for Tasso, by reading his Life, Prose Works, &c &c. I hope to say something sensible about Tasso, if I have nothing of that sort to say, it will be better altogether to hold my peace. So much for my Literature, which is almost all I know of British Literature in general since you left us. To descend even lower, I may tell you that Patterson12 has got the College Prize, and his Essay is to be printed, and has been read with unexampled flourishing of drums and trumpets in Dr Hope's13 class-room. Henry Inglis reckons it rather bad; but all other men call it "splendid," or "most eloquent," or "magnificent," or "admirable." Happily I have not been trysted [afflicted] with too much talk on the subject; and so wait without prepossession to see it in print. Rate was here the other night, and even he spoke with moderation of it, concluding his eulogies in a single sentence, or two at most. The pious Æneas14 is hardly so bilious as he was last year; seems somewhat more argumentative; and talks as incessantly as ever about Chraist, and the Glory of God.— A much stranger visiter was here last Wednesday-night: Thomas De Quinc[e]y the Opium-eater in person with his two children, and sat till midnight! The week before I half accidentally met him one night at Gordon's: he grew pale as ashes at my entrance; but we soon recovered him again; and kept him in flowing talk to a late hour. He is one of the smallest men you ever in your life beheld; but with a most gentle and sensible face, only that the teeth are destroyed by opium, and the little bit of an under-lip projects like a shelf. He speaks with a slow sad and soft voice, in the politest manner I have almost ever witnessed; and with great gracefulness and sense, were it not that he seems decidedly given to prosing. Poor little fellow! It might soften a very hard heart to see him so courteous, yet so weak and poor; retiring home with his two children to a miserable lodging-house, and writing all day for the King of Donkies, the Proprietor of the Saturday Post.15 I lent him Jean Paul's Autobiography which I got lately from Hamburg, and advised him to translate it for Blackwood, that so he might raise a few pounds and "fence off" the Genius of Hunger yet a little while. Poor little De Quincey! He is an innocent man; and, as you said, extremely washable away.— Wilson has never been here yet; but I was to have gone and breakfasted with him that day I took my cold.— Jeffrey also I saw lately: he is still complaining of his health. There is not a word about the London Professorship, except that they are still engaged in filling up places; and, I suppose, still have their eye on that Frenchman, whom perhaps I already told you, D. Stewart had recommended, provided he could speak English. Williams16 is appointed to the Latin Chair; Dr. Turner17 to the Chemistry. There is some talk of Mitchell's18 succeeding Williams in that Rectorship: but I doubt, without right foundation.— As for myself I have lost all thought about London: at this moment, in particular, the image of the labour attached to that office is absolutely frightful. But here as everywhere, we should be in utrumque paratus [prepared either way]. "Il faut s'arranger" [It is necessary to make adjustments], as the French shopkeepers say when you have at length chaffered them into a bargain: il faut s'arranger should the wise man say in every possible condition of existence; for herein lies the essence of all practical philosophy.— But I am drawing towards my limits, and must despatch. I need not bid you write, for that is a standing petition. Write without delay; and as I am an honest man I will answer you in like manner. Tell us all about your household, what you do, what you see, and feel and taste and handle. The last letter had a vein of sadness in it, which however I imputed solely to the strangeness of your new situation, and the abrupt divulsion of so ma[n]y old habitudes, not yet replaced by new. Be of good cheer, my honest Jack; and think of Scotland when thou art lonely, and know that there are hearts there which must ever love thee. Learn what is to be learned and come back to us safe and sound and true as ever. I wish I could send you from Scotsbrig and the Craig all the affectionate imaginings and heartfelt wishes that are there from day to day entertained for you. But they come not even hither: and I, like you, must content myself with fancying them.— You will be minute and special when you write? Are you well in health, and moderately happy? How prosper you in speaking German? Have you seen Cornelius the Painter?19 And is Schelling, the Philosopher, in your University? We were greatly entertained with your graphic sketch of Sklegel: I hope, as above hinted, that you keep large memoranda of all these things among your papers, which by and by we shall read in concert with true edification. I have much to say about Books; but not now when my heart and head are alike wersh [tasteless] as water. I make no apology for dulness; the duller I have been, you will think me the more eager to be kind. And so God always bless you my Brother!— I am as ever, affectionately your's,— T. Carlyle.
You will make my best compliments to your hospitable Baron; and repeat the offer I made last time.— Gordon resolutely declares that he will write to you; but I have my own doubts.— We had Aitken20 here the other day, for the first time since he went to Minto. He likes his place well, his people indifferently, and his fellow-clergy ill. He strongly recommends precautions on your part against Munich winter
[JWC's postscript:] Janes best love, and a kiss if such things are allowable at Munich.


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A three-year-old from Royston has become one of the youngest people to gain membership into Mensa.
Sherwyn Sarabi, of East End Crescent, joined the society after taking an IQ test and scoring in the top one per cent of the population.
He took the test in September when he turned three but his family only received the results last Friday.
Sherwyn has amazed doctors and child psychologists with his intelligence and at the age of two, he could read, use an iPad and identify all the flags and countries of the world.
He said his first words at ten months and could name all 2D and 3D shapes at 18 months.
Sherwyn, who attends Rastrick Independent school, Brighouse, has already received his Mensa membership card and certificate.
His mum Amanda said: "He started school full time this month. He's doing all right.
"The teachers have him in class with pupils his own age to improve his social skills but then he also sits in with Year Three (seven to eight-year-olds) pupils for some lessons as well. His reading has improved so much."
Amanda said Sherwyn sits in classes with pupils more than twice his age for lessons in reading and writing.
A spokeswoman for British Mensa says although Sherwyn is not the youngest person to be invited to join the organisation, it is very rare for someone of his age to gain membership.
She confirmed there are only 100 members aged ten or under in the UK, including Sherwyn.


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Oh Machete, Machete, Machete what are we to do with you? Your first film was awesome and a complete blast to watch and your sequel would seem to be more of the same. But, occasionally you stray a bit too far into whacky town for me.
Clones? Laser guns? Mel Gibson? It's a bit far-fetched from your Grindhouse goodness for me. But you still manage to entertain.
Machete is recruited by the President to stop a madman with a missile aimed at Washington. What follows is a completely insane film replete with blood and guts and insanity thrown in the blender to make a really odd film.
I did enjoy this movie, more for the first half than for the second. It has basically the same make-up of the original but just feels a bit too odd. The beginning as I've said is pretty cool. Machete on a mission that causes him to be hunted by contract killers for a bounty on his head. But it's the second half where things derail slightly.
Mel Gibson is a super-scientist who has not only created clones but also a space station and science fiction weaponry aplenty. His vehicle for traveling around his factory looks like Luke Skywalker's speeder, and he is kidnapping Hispanics to work on his space station. His plan is to destroy the world and remake it in his own fashion with his own chosen people.
Uh, what? I thought I was set up for another fun'filled romp through action central not a rip-off of Moonraker. If your plan was to rip off a Bond film you could have picked something a tad better.
I know it sounds like I hated the film but it does have a few awesome moments. And the fights and action sequences are amazing. It just got a bit stupid is all.
Danny Trejo is awesome as Machete, and it's great to see my man Walt Goggins get a small part. And Mel Gibson is good at capitalizing on all the craziness that is being Mel Gibson. Sofia Vergara talking things that would make a sailor blush is worth some great chuckles. And it was great to see Cuba Gooding Jr. do something.
All in all it's passable and worth a rent only hardcore Machete afficionado's should consider buying. Three Stars.
I've added a link to the film's content advisory page here. And a link to Amazon's Machete Kills page here.
So if you liked the first you'll have fun with the second. If you hated the first you will not be a big fan of this one either. Peace out.


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Above hovers Christ, hands clasped before His chest, amid clouds that stand out against a background of gold and blue squares. The ornamented initial and foliage were, like the picture, executed at the time of the Duc de Berry.
Under the miniature the text of Psalm VIII praises the majesty of all creation.
The picture perfectly illustrates the opening verse: "O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens."
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Friday, July 3, 2009
Spam Creations
Joel got the idea to chew his way around a piece of Spam to make figures. We call these Spam Creations. If I can ever get my crap together, there's a video that goes with this where he's describing each creation. That's a homeschooled kid for ya ... hahahahahaa!!!!!! I don't know if this is a good thing or not.
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That's hilarious! I would love to see the video. :)ReplyDelete
My daughter loves Spam. Is it bad that I do too?
A. Why do you even have Spam in your cupboard?ReplyDelete
B. Out of curiosity, what is the main ingredient in Spam?
C. Does Spam change colors when it dries, and how sturdy is it as far as permanence for posterity's sake (will you be keeping a work of art or two in the kids' memory boxes)?
D. Did I read this right that he chews it up and spits it out and makes sculptures with Spam?
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I talked with a lady a year ago at an art show. I had my booth set up, the day was warm and sunny, and many hundreds of folks were enjoying music, art and wine. One of the things I love to do when manning my booth at a show is talk with people. People – in general – are interesting and sometimes say the darndest things.
At first this lady asked me about my work. We talked about the paintings and she browsed through the prints. We found, as we talked, that we had a few things in common: She grew up in the Central Valley of California and so did I; she has two daughters, I have two daughters; she has grandchildren and my grandson was one year old at the time of this art show. However, our take on being grandmas couldn't have been different. She didn't like being called "grandma." She said it made her feel old.
And I thought we were relating so well! She completed her purchase of a few prints and notecards and I wished her a good afternoon. I admit to having felt perplexed at her attitude. For me, from the instant I laid eyes on my grandson I fell deeply, head-over-heels in love. And my love only deepens and grows as he does. He's nearly 2 ½ as of this writing and through his eyes I find the world once again amazing and wonderful. Truth to tell, when I'm with Matt I feel younger. When he says, "Gamma, sit," not only do I do as commanded, I thrill at being called "Gamma."
I admit to being one of those women of a certain age…well, let's be frank, 60 is a mere two winters away and I don't really mind. Knowing what I know, and knowing there are categories of information I no longer have to learn, is a very cool thing. For instance, I know for a certainty what a "dash" is, and a "pinch," and a "tad bit." I've been cooking for nigh on 50 years now. I know how to iron a man's cotton shirt without making new wrinkles in it; I know when a cantaloupe is ripe.
I also know that midlife has a kind of relief to it. When you're a woman in your 20's you are so busy finding and being found…finding a mate is a fulltime job requiring great attention to hair, makeup and wardrobe. In the 30's and 40's career, family-raising…maybe even still doing the find/found tasks all require great energy and attention.
I'm loving the 50's – well, not the aches and pains of aging, nor the really weird fat re-distribution thing the female body does at menopause – but I'm loving the not having to pay so much attention to hair, makeup and wardrobe. I still have my suits in the closet, my "good" clothes, but my daily uniform now is comfortable khaki slacks, a tunic top and sandals, with which I wear fun socks. When he visits, Matt likes to help "Gamma" pick the socks I'll wear that day. Sometimes I like to wear my suit trousers with a tee shirt and man's long sleeve shirt (with the sleeves rolled halfway up) as an over-shirt. You just get to have fun with wardrobing when you don't have to obsess about it.
Rather, my attention is taken up with fulfilling some dreams I've been neglecting over the years. My art is also my home business and I love spending time in my studio. I have the pleasure and joy of experimentation and exploration. I finally have devoted time to writing. I've discovered that creativity in one area can often translate into others. One daughter introduced me to scrapbooking and I'm exploring that.
Relationships change in midlife. My daughters are grown and our relationship has changed…we're more friends than mom/daughter and it is so much fun. They are married and I love the phone calls that ask me the "how to" questions and the "why is my husband…" questions. My husband and I are great friends. We don't play the keeping up with the Jones thing, and so don't spend our money on the latest cars and gadgets; we do what brings us joy.


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National Rental Affordability Scheme
The National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) aims to increase the supply of affordable rental homes by June 2016 and to reduce the cost of rental housing for low and moderate income Australians.
The National Rental Affordability Scheme is a joint initiative between the Commonwealth, States and Territories. The Australian Government component is administered by the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
Victorian participation
The Victorian Government will participate in Round Five NRAS for dwellings constructed in Victoria and will support up to 2,000 incentives.
The State Contribution
For Round 5 the Victorian State contribution to NRAS will include consideration of an "in kind" contribution of Director of Housing owned land or property. The contribution will be equal in value to the cash contribution and will likely be provided as a capitalised ten year contribution up front.
The final decision on how many incentives the State will support will be based on the quality of applications received and the match between the applications and the State's decisions regarding the redevelopment of or disposal of current Director of Housing owned land.
What are the assessment criteria?
Applicants should visit the Commonwealth (FaHCSIA) website. All applications must be submitted to FaHCSIA as outlined in the Application Guidelines.
Applicants must satisfy both Commonwealth and State criteria. The Commonwealth criteria are outlined on their website. Additionally the State of Victoria has decided that for Round 5 the State will apply the following priorities in assessing applications from Victorian applicants:
- Preference will be given to applicants who can demonstrate that the NRAS incentive received will result in the provision of affordable housing for a period beyond the 10 year NRAS subsidy period.
- Preference will be given to applicants whose NRAS property(ies) is located in an area where affordable housing of the type proposed is both needed and scarce. In assessing affordability the benchmark will be whether the proposed discounted rent is no more than 30% of the gross income of the tenant target group.
Proposals that do not meet these priorities will still be considered but will be ranked according to the priorities.
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Many will surrender their dogs to local shelters when they move houses within the same town. Others will fly their canine friends from overseas when they move from one continent to the other. Paris moved to the United States from Poland with her family, but was dumped at a shelter just outside New York City, where she cries in her kennel all day.
There are so many good things to say about Paris: she loves people, she is even good with children, she is house trained, she is obedient, she is a ball of love. She wants to love and she wants to be loved. She is the perfect age at six-years-old: she still has plenty of life left in her, but she's way past the puppy crazies.
She was adopted once, but however hard the adopters tried, they couldn't work out the conflict between Paris and another pet in the home. See, Paris is the best companion one could ask for, but she needs to be an only pet. Because she's at the Yonkers Animal Shelter, which is a no-kill facility, there's little to none of the "urgency" that seems to make so many act, these days.
Paris' life may not be in danger, but for a sensitive dog like she, life at a shelter is no life.
And so Paris cries in her kennel all day…
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There have been a lot of good martial arts movies from other countries that have never made it to the theaters in our area. This has been changing over the last few years due in part to recent interest by domestic directors in the genre and the success of their ventures.
The new movie by M. Night Shyamalan, The Last Airbender (projected release date July 2nd 2010) is scheduled to premiere its first broadcast trailer during the Superbowl (the cost of the air-time for this trailer is more than most martial arts movie budgets). The movie's storyline is taken from the Nickelodeon animated series, Avatar. Much of the storyline and visuals of the cartoon have root in Asian tradition. The series went on for three seasons and has become a favorite with all ages. Paramount Pictures has budgeted 250 million dollars for this movie and two sequels betting it can make a favorite or two for Avatar fans. Can't wait for the Superbowl? Take a peek here:
If you are into Muay Thai you know about Tony Jaa known as the Jackie Chan of Thailand. If you have never seen Tony in action, you have been missing out. Not only is his Muay Thai execution incredible, he also does his own extreme stuntman work. Ong Bak 3 follows the tradition of the first two but with even more action. The really cool thing about the series is that the quality of the movie has grown immensely each sequel. Here is a quick look:
From China this year's top grossing sequel could possibly be Ip Man 2. Starring Donnie Yen (son of world famous Wushu and Tai Chi master Bow Sim-Mark) and Sammo Hung (Jackie Chan's real life Kung Fu brother), the series chronicles the life of Bruce Lee's most noteworthy instructor, Ip Man. Many of the heroes Bruce Lee portrayed in the movies were like the hero Ip Man was in real life. If Ip Man 2 is anywhere near as good as Ip Man 1 was it will be worth seeing three times if it makes to a theater near you. If it don't at least I can offer you a quick look here:
Not all the real good martial arts flicks from around the world make it to the theaters in the Pacific Northwest but more and more are making it to our homes through the Internet. Consumers have the ability to broaden their entertainment horizons using the web which in turn has led to providers needing to diversify in order to compete for those tight economy entertainment dollars. The end product in this case being big budget movies packed with martial arts action from around the globe coming sooner to a theater near you.


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Dr. Laura Cole earned both an undergraduate degree in finance and an MBA in management information systems from Auburn University before pursuing her Ph.D. in finance from the University of Tennessee. In the beginning of her academic career, Laura was a full-time business instructor at Macon State College. She joined the faculty of the UT Department of Finance in 2009 as a lecturer and director of the Masters Investment Learning Center. Currently, she teaches courses in introductory finance, financial statement analysis, and investments in the undergraduate program and Physicians Executive MBA (PEMBA) program.
Dr. Cole's research interests include corporate finance and governance, and her research with Diane DelGuercio and Tracie Woidtke has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, cited in the Wall Street Journal and featured on the Harvard Law School corporate governance blog.
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Top Ten: Strange Golden Globe Musical Snubs
Glenn here with a tuesday top ten on a topic dear to my heart, and Nathaniel's too. We both have a strange fondness for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual Golden Globe Awards. Beyond the gif-ready celebrities-getting-drunk setting and the organisation's occasional flurries of bonkers brilliance (too many to list), I think I like most of all that their splitting of films between drama and musical/comedy means so many very worthy films get big awards and nominations that they otherwise wouldn't have. The general rule of thumb is that musicals have a much easier time getting a nomination because there are far fewer of them and, thus, stick out more. Sure, Burlesque, Across the Universe, Nine, and Mamma Mia are recent examples of none too acclaimed musicals landing big time best picture nominations.
But what about those that didn't? There's more than you'd think!
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Given the somewhat lax definition of "musical" by the HFPA – Ray? Coal Miner's Daughter? Walk the Line? The Rose? – it's a surprise that Robert Altman's classic Nashville and Lars von Trier's masterpiece Dancer in the Dark weren't classified as such. The former because, well, it's also pretty funny, right? The latter because it was a true, honest to god MUSICAL in the tradition sense. Altman's ode to country garnered a whopping 11 nominations (including multiple for the now defunct "Best Acting Debut" category) and Dancer in the Dark snagged one for Bjork's performance. Still, it's about as dramatic as you can possibly get so we'll let it slide.
10. Xanadu (1980)
Nominated instead: Airplane!, The Coal Miner's Daughter (won), Fame, The Idolmaker, Melvin & Howard
Oh sure, laugh! Yes, this infamous movie was scorned upon release, but so was Burlesque and they had no trouble nominating that fabulosity twenty years later. Given the universal acclaim for, if nothing else, its soundtrack you'd think it could have at least gotten an original song citation for the title track. No, it's not great art but who's ever heard of Taylor Hackford's The Idolmaker since?
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Before the season started for the New York Knicks, the career of Amar'e Stoudemire seemed to a coming to an end at our very eyes
The former All-Star power forward was coming off a postseason where he was a non factor playing only eight minutes a game in three games against the Pacers. At the start of training camp, Stoudemire didn't sound very optimistic on playing any kind of meaningful minutes this season. It took about 60 games but Stoudemire has officially returned to his old dominant self.
Stoudemire was brilliant for the Knickerbockers scoring 23 points on 9/10 shooting to lead New York to it's fourth consecutive win. New York has been a completely different team since Coach Mike Woodson decided to insert Stoudemire and JR Smith into the starting lineup last Monday against the Pistons. New York has gone 4-1 since the new lineup, and are resembling a team that everyone thought would at least contend in the Eastern Conference.
"Amar'e has been playing unbelievably well," said Woodson. " He made plays inside and we were able to play off him some in the pick and roll. That allowed guys to get open for some open shots."
The team shot 54 percent from the field, and are now 12-1 this season when they shoot 50% or better. This was also the first time since April 12, 2012 that the Knickerbockers had four 20-point scorers in a game. Tim Hardaway J.R. led all scorers with 28 points, J.R. Smith had 22 and Carmelo Anthony added 20 points as the Knicks were able to overcome an early 12 point deficit against a Sixers team that has now lost 17 in a row.
"I love nights like this," Anthony said. "Four guys with 20-plus points. Sharing the ball. Making plays. Having fun out there. Taking the load off me. I love nights like that."
New York is still 3.5 games behind the Atlanta Hawks for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. The Knicks are looking to become just the third team since 1984 to make the playoffs after facing a deficit of at least five games with fewer than 25 games to play.
"We still have a ways to go," said Stoudemire. "We are still chipping away. We just got to keep winning."
It's also worth noting that Stoudemire has played 30+ minutes in three of the games, which is quite a feat for a player who was on a minutes restriction earlier in the season. He has averaged 18 points, 6.6 rebounds, and 1.4 blocks in those five games.
"It feels great. I have been working very hard to get back to my normal self again," said Stoudemire. "My confidence is there. It really never left. It was just a matter of working hard and getting back to top shape."
The 49 games played this season for Stoudemire will be highest since the 78 games he played in his first season with the Knickerbockers. He had not started in any games in the last two seasons up until these last five. It is only then that Stoudemire has said where he can be the dominant player he knows he can be.
"Amare is playing some of his best basketball that I have seen him play in a while, " said New York point guard Raymond Felton. " He is been fighting through injuries. Its really good to see him healthy and play like the way we know he is capable of playing. He been posting up and playing pick and pop great. What people are not seeing is he is playing tremendous defense. He is blocking shots, he in the right position and holding his own. He has always been scorer but nobody has noticed how great his defense has been."
Stoudemire and the rest of the New York Knicks return to the court Wednesday night when they play the Boston Celtics at TD Garden.


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10/23/2012 (10:01PM - 11:00PM) (Tuesday) : KRISTINA HEADS INTO SURGERY AS THE BRAVERMANS LEND THEIR SUPPORT - RAY ROMANO ('MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE') AND MATT LAURIA ('FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS') GUEST STAR - Kristina (Monica Potter) is at a loss when she learns Max (Max Burkholder) must give his speech in his bid for class president on the same day as her surgery as Adam (Peter Krause) struggles to contain his nervous energy. Meanwhile, Drew (Miles Heizer) is upset with Sarah's (Lauren Graham) decision to move them into Mark's (Jason Ritter) apartment, Joel (Sam Jaeger) is concerned for Julia's (Erika Christensen) health and well-being as she attempts to be "super mom," and Ryan (Matt Lauria) asks Amber (Mae Whitman) out on a date.
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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 762953, 8 pages
Service-Oriented Radio Architecture: A Novel M2M Network Architecture for Cognitive Radio Systems
1Institute of Communications Engineering, PLA University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210007, China
2Institute of China Electronic System Engineering Corporation, Beijing 100141, China
3School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Received 20 April 2012; Revised 4 July 2012; Accepted 4 July 2012
Academic Editor: Jianhua He
Copyright © 2012 Xu Dong et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In future cognitive radio networks, a number of spectrum sensors can be distributedly deployed to monitor the surrounding wireless environment, where the machine-to-machine (M2M) technology is considered to provide the interactions among sensors, cognitive engines, and other system modules. Thus, a flexible M2M network architecture is desired to develop cognitive radio networks. As a distributed system framework, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been well studied to provide the loose coupling, reusability, and scalability, where various system function modules are encapsulated into web services to build a virtual system. In this paper, based on SOA, we propose a flexible M2M architecture, namely, the service-oriented radio architecture (SORA), to develop the cognitive radio systems. It shows that our proposed architecture provides coordinated implementation of cognitive radio systems based on different development platforms. Furthermore, an SORA-based cognitive radio testbed is implemented, where the standard web service technologies and open source software tools are used to support the characteristics of SORA.
1. Introduction
In cognitive radio (CR) systems, the sensors are employed to monitor the surrounding spectrum environment, where the cognitive engines (CE) and software defined radio (SDR) techniques are needed to generate and carry out different communication strategies according to the actual environment. As an efficient method to develop CR systems, the machine-to-machine (M2 M) networks among sensors, CEs, databases, and SDR systems are drawing wide attentions. However, large-scale CR systems have posed a big challenge to develop the M2 M networks with respect to the flexibility and compatibility. For example, since different CR systems, testbeds, and prototypes could be implemented on different software and hardware development platforms, the heterogeneity of those platforms would lead to high incompatibility for cooperative development [1]. Then, the interfaces of a certain machine may not be reused by others due to the unique design of data interfaces. Moreover, considering a tightly-coupled architecture of SDR systems, for example, software communication architecture (SCA) [2], the interaction and integration among SDR system and other machines become even more difficult. Therefore, to deal with the above issues in future CR networks design, a flexible and compatible M2 M architecture needs to be considered.
Recently, building a large-scale and multinode testbed over wide areas becomes an urgent need for the research on future CR networks and has already been concerned by the European cooperation in science and technology (COST) IC0902 project [3]. The main objective of IC0902 project is to develop cooperative research activities in the field of CR networks. For the comprehensive cooperative research, different mechanisms, for instance, a larger-scale CR network testbed integrated from different CR testbeds or prototypes, are established, where the challenges to develop the M2 M networks mentioned in above need to be carefully considered. To this end, different complex inter-operations and interfaces are implemented among various platforms, especially when components of the system are developed with different programming languages and hardware platforms.
Since heterogeneous system integration and cooperative development have posed a big challenge over the past decade, as a solution, the service-oriented architecture (SOA) [4, 5] has been used to integrate and develop different interenterprise systems. An SOA-based system consists of the loose-coupled and platform-independent services with well-defined interoperable interfaces. Through web-based publish/subscribe mechanisms, the services can be flexibly orchestrated to develop appropriate applications. Thus, the SOA allows cooperative design and development, where reusability and scalability are considered.
In this respect, SOA has already been used to design the M2 M platforms [6]. In addition, Virginia Tech has built a cognitive radio open source system (CROSS) to integrate cognitive engines based on different intelligent algorithms [7], where CROSS utilizes socket connections and SOA approaches for inter-component communications to support portability and interoperability between components developed in different programming languages.
Using the principles of SOA, in this paper, we propose an approach to collaboratively design and develop the CR system, namely, the service-oriented radio architecture (SORA). To be different from the traditional-distributed radio architectures (e.g., SCA), SORA provides a distributed and modular radio communication system framework, which assembles a radio system over networks or even Internet (i.e., based on web service technologies). Moreover, as building a radio system consists of some blocks, the services in SORA are loosecoupled. Comparing to traditional radio system architectures, it shows that our proposed SORA is able to support the underlying heterogeneity, remote system invocation and integration, and meanwhile provide higher scalability, reusability, and flexibility.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we introduce the SORA in details. The work on developing an SORA-based CR testbed is shown in Section 3. Finally, the paper is concluded in Section 4.
2. Service-Oriented Radio Architecture
The principles and methodologies of SOA have been widely employed in different wireless communication systems with various applications [8–11]. Specifically, in CROSS, the SOA has been used to design and construct the CR systems. Comparing to the CROSS, a number of web service standards are considered in SORA-based systems to provide higher flexibility and compatibility. The CROSS developers utilize the SOA approaches to integrate their cognitive engines developed in different languages with an usual SDR platform, but the program and protocols of SOA are designed and developed by themselves, where the open standards of SOA are not employed. Thus, when a new system component is added into CROSS, its dedicated SOA framework needs a corresponding change. In contrast, the SORA is based on a series of international standards. The new component can be encapsulated according to the standards so that it is compatible with the original system without any change. Additionally, in SORA-based system, the components with different functions can be flexibly chosen and integrated to complete the corresponding communication task. Then, the characteristics of SORA will be detailed as follows.
2.1. An Overview
Our proposed SORA is an open architecture, where the principles and methodologies of service orientation are considered to design and integrate radio communication systems. Using SORA, different radio function modules are encapsulated into the network-base components (viz., services). Since radio services are published and discovered over networks, users are able to invoke and orchestrate different required services to implement various radio communication applications.
Two key issues are considered to define the SORA. Firstly, SORA is a distributed and modular system architecture, where the radio function modules can be deployed as services over networks. Secondly, SORA provides an open architecture, where the radio services adopt open and standardized interface descriptions and interoperation contracts. Different characteristics of SORA-based radio systems are summarized as follow.
2.1.1. Loose-Coupling
As the building blocks of radio systems, radio services are abstracted from various radio functions of actual employed hardware platforms, software programs, and operating systems. Thus, different radio services are able to interoperate in a neutral format.
2.1.2. Reusability
Services with different or same radio functions can be used in multiple separate radio communication systems to reduce the cost of development.
2.1.3. Scalability
Radio systems are expediently upgraded as either the software programs of the original services are updated or new services are integrated. Then, the legacy systems can be well compatible with new systems.
2.1.4. Reconfigurability
Reconfiguration is implemented to re-organize the newly involved services or re-define operational parameters of the original services according to the surrounding radio frequency (RF) environment.
2.1.5. Cooperative Development
Academic and commercial communities are able to independently design and develop the radio function modules and systems, which are then provided in a service manner. Therefore, different services are cooperatively integrated to develop a large-scale testbed or demonstration system over networks.
All these characteristics of SORA lead to the significant improvement of flexibility and compatibility during the processes of radio system design, development, and implementation, especially for cooperative research, test, and exploitation.
2.2. Framework
The framework of our proposed SORA is summarized in Figure 1, where three terms are considered, namely, radio infrastructures, services, and applications. Specifically, radio infrastructures provide the basic function of radios (e.g., encoder, modulator-demodulator (MODEM), RF module, and antenna, etc.), services that as act the infrastructure functionalities (i.e., blocks of the radio system that can be assembled), and radio communication applications are implemented through design and integration of various services.
The three terms of the framework are specified as follows.
2.2.1. Radio Infrastructures
It is known that different wireless networks (e.g., 2G/3G, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX) exist in the current wireless environment, simultaneously. In such environment, the radio infrastructures can be characterized by the heterogeneity, as they could be based on different development platforms and may belong to different operators and networks. In Figure 1, three components are considered as the infrastructures, including antennas, RF modules, and multiple programmable processors. With the development of digital telecommunications, software-based methods are widely used at the back of antennas and RF modules, where different functions, including encoding, modulation, and equalization, can be implemented in application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), or digital signal processors (DSP). Therefore, in our proposed structure, these processors are included as the infrastructures of radio systems, while different radio infrastructures are encapsulated as services using the standard web service interfaces.
2.2.2. Services
Using functionality description, different radio infrastructures are encapsulated and abstracted from the corresponding software/hardware platforms. The abstracted infrastructure is regarded as a service to be published, discovered, and invoked over networks. In our proposed architecture, the services are classified into four different categories, namely, waveform services, information security services, sensing services, and cognition services. The waveform services include functions of encoding, modulation, and protocols for interaction; the sensing services provide the RF environment to radios; and the cognition services enable reasoning and learning from the experiences. According to the requirements of different users, these services are employed to form various applications, where the service broker is considered to perform the management for service registration, publication, and discovery.
2.2.3. Applications
Through the service integration, a virtual radio is constructed to execute the different applications of radio communication. The applications, for example, voices, short messages, and multimedia, and so forth, are then converted into digital signals using the source encoder. Note that the source encoder can be regarded as a service.
According to the framework of our proposed SORA systems, we can show that the service layer plays a crucial role, since different radio infrastructures are encapsulated and abstracted as services to support the heterogeneity of underlying development platforms. Comparing to the traditional radio architectures, the services are deployed distributedly over different networks with our proposed SORA configuration, while a virtual radio system is constructed through integration of appropriate services to meet the requirements of different users. From this perspective, SORA is regarded as an agile virtualization method to assemble radio function modules in a network-based concept.
2.3. Technical Standards
The implementation of SORA is based on a series of web service standards, including the web service description language (WSDL) for service description, the simple object access protocol (SOAP) for service interaction, and the universal description, discovery, and integration (UDDI) for service registration, publishing, discovery, and integration, respectively.
It is noteworthy that these web service standards are open access and can be employed on multiple underlying protocols. For example, multiple physical and link layer protocols for different physical environments are usually considered with different transport and network protocols, including HTTP, TCP, UDP, and IP, for different network environments. Using these web service technologies, SORA can provide various protocols, interfaces, and platforms to support the underlying complexity. Thus, the SORA-based radio systems can be flexibly deployed, developed, implemented, and managed.
The web service standards used in SORA are briefly introduced as follows.
IT is a description language, which is based on extensible markup language (XML) to define the functionality of a web service. A service provider creates a WSDL document to describe the interface, message format, and network address. Since the information of a WSDL file is published in a service broker, the users are able to obtain the information of the available operations for the service. The XML Schema is used to define the data types in the WSDL document.
IT is a protocol specification to exchange messages for the implementation of web services. SOAP is based on XML with the characteristics of extensibility, neutrality, and independence. Hence, SOAP provides a high-level interoperation capability over different hardware platforms, operating systems, and programming languages.
IT is a set of XML-based protocols of the service broker (viz., the registry), which are considered for web service registration, publishing, and discovery. The UDDI registry is interrogated by the SOAP messages to provide an access to the WSDL documents that are required to interact with the web services listed in the registry.
According to the above introduction, different web service standards are defined and expressed in XML format. Therefore, the cross-platform sharing and reusing capabilities of XML are inherited to enjoy the flexibility and compatibility of SORA-based radio systems.
2.4. Use Case
A use case to illustrate the cooperation in developing an SORA-based CR access network is shown in Figure 2. In the proposed scenario, there are two operators and two research institutes, which are deployed over wide areas. Each one is considered with an individual network connected to an IP core network. It shows that although Operator A takes charge of a radio access network (RAN) with no cognitive capabilities, there have been some high-performance baseband processing and modem modules. On the contrary, Operator B possesses an expert system. Moreover, it is known that Institute A concentrates on the design and development of various sensors, while the artificial intelligence technologies and learning theory are developed at the Institute B.
Suppose that Operator B would like to build a CR access network for testing, however, due to the limited funds, the cooperation with Operator A is considered, where the research institutes A and B could work together to develop the SORA-based testbed. The process of the testbed development can be divided into four steps, including the service encapsulation, publication, discovery, and orchestration, which are defined as follows.
2.4.1. Service Encapsulation
All the participants, including Operator A, Operator B, Institute A, and Institute B, encapsulate their individual CR function modules as the invokable web services. Thus, these participants act as the service providers that generate the WSDL documents to define different service functionalities.
2.4.2. Service Publication
The WSDL documents are published in a UDDI service registry over the IP core network, where the registry is developed by a third party for public service publication and discovery.
2.4.3. Service Discovery
Operator B accesses to the service registry by utilizing the SOAP messages to find out the required services in the service list. Correspondingly, the locations, interfaces, and operations of different services are discovered using the WSDL documents.
2.4.4. Service Orchestration
According to the order of the signal processing in the CR system, different discovered services are orchestrated by the Operator B. Then, the services are invoked through the SOAP messages, where a virtual SORA-based CR access network is finally constructed.
The process mentioned above can be particularly used to develop the access point (AP) for the CR access networks. The AP is developed as a service client together with antenna and RF modules to provide the functionalities of service discovery, orchestration, and invocation. Thus, as a cognitive user accesses to the AP, a communication mission would be triggered. The process of the mission is summarized in 5 steps as follows.
Step 1. As the service client, the AP invokes the baseband and modem services from Operator A for signal processing;
Step 2. At Institute A, the sensing service observes the real-time changes of the RF environment and then sent the results to the service client;
Step 3. The client invokes the local reasoning service to choose and decide the new transmission channels and operational parameters according to the observation results;
Step 4. The client invokes the signal processing services to be reconfigured according to the reasoning results;
Step 5. The whole process of the mission is memorized as one experience, while the experiences are periodically analyzed by the learning service at Institute B.
From this case, we can show that the SORA-based CR system provides a solution for cooperative development and implementation, where the reduced time and cost of the development are considered.
Additionally, our proposed SORA can deal with the more complicated situations, for example, when multiple users with the same or different radio interfaces communicate with one SORA-based CR AP at the same time. In such a situation, the AP should invoke and integrate some new services to satisfy the new communication requirement, such as admission control service and access protocol processing services. Meanwhile, AP needs to organize multigroup services to process different radio access interfaces and protocols. Each group of services can be orchestrated to process a certain kind of radio access interface and protocol, for example, 3G, 802.11, and so forth. Thus, when devices with different radio interfaces communicate with the AP, it can individually and parallel process these requirements of devices by invocating of different groups of services. Note that since one AP has limited resources (groups of services), it should first invoke the admission control service to check out the user's access model. If AP allows the user to access, the needed resources for this communication will be allocated to the user and the corresponding waveform services (including the protocol processing services) are invoked to process this communication.
3. Cognitive Radio Testbed Based on SORA
To verify the feasibility of SORA, a CR testbed is developed based on the approaches of SORA while a dynamic spectrum access (DSA) scenario is demonstrated on the testbed. As shown in Figure 3, three components are considered for the SORA-based CR testbed, including a service registry, a service client, and several services. All the components are connected to an IP-based local area network (LAN). Then, using the service encapsulation, publication, discovery, orchestration, and invocation, a virtual CR system can be constructed.
3.1. Development Platforms
Different software and hardware tools are used to develop the SORA-based CR testbed. The software development environment is considered on the basis of Linux operating system. The hardware development platforms include various types of hosts and the universal software radio peripherals (USRPs) for the RF frontends.
3.1.1. Service Registry
The service registry is constructed on a web server which is developed by Tomcat. The registry is implemented by jUDDI for service publication and discovery in a UDDI standard format. A database management system developed by MySQL is employed to store different types of data, for example, WSDL documents.
3.1.2. Service Client
The Python-based client program is used to orchestrate and invoke the services. A software tool of the client, namely SUDS, is carried out to perform the SOAP invocations and analyze the WSDL documents.
3.1.3. Services
The service programs and the registry are developed on the Tomcat web servers. Since the Tomcat is based on java, a java runtime environment is built by eclipse to provide the services. Axis2 is used to generate the WSDL documents and manage the SOAP messages for the services.
The hardware and software tools are summarized in Table 1, where the development tools of different service functionalities (including sensing, waveform, and reasoning) and the simulation of the RF environment are introduced.
3.2. Service Encapsulation
From Table 1, it is noticed that the sensing, waveform, and reasoning function modules are developed in different software tools and programming languages. Since the Tomcat is a java-based web server tool, the software modules are encapsulated into a java-oriented service.
The service encapsulation plays a key role in the process of development, as it is crucial to develop the function modules of the SORA-based CR testbed. Thus, two steps are considered for the encapsulation as follows. The SOAP interaction is first enabled based on java, and then the WSDL documents is generated for service description.
As a function module interacts with SOAP messages based on java, according to web service deployment standard, the original program module, which can be developed in C, C++, or Python, is additionally equipped with a java interface. This work is implemented on the platform of Eclipse. As shown in Figure 4, the java interface program module communicates with the original function module through a socket connection. As an SOAP request arrives at the java interface, the function module will be informed and return the data processing result to the java interface, then the result will be sent back to the requester through an SOAP message. Thus, the java interface enables the original function module to be encapsulated as a service and communicate in SOAP contracts.
To make the encapsulated service independent from the original programming language, the additional java interface should be defined in a neutral manner. This work can be achieved by using Axis2 that generates a WSDL document for the service description. When the java interface is developed in eclipse, a ".java" file is generated. The related WSDL document can then be obtained automatically by loading the java file to Axis2. Note that Axis2 can be used to analyze and generate the SOAP messages.
3.3. DSA Demonstration
The process of service publication, discovery, orchestration, and invocation is demonstrated using a DSA scenario. In this scenario, the vector signal generator (VSG) randomly generates different waveforms in different frequency bands to simulate the appearances of primary users. As for the secondary user, the SORA-based CR system dynamically chooses and accesses the spectrum holes to communicate while avoiding interference with the primary users.
The information flow of service publication, discovery, orchestration, and invocation is shown in Figure 5. The WSDL documents are published in the registry by following the process of service registration. On the other hand, the service client discovers the services and obtains their WSDL documents, and then orchestrates the services.
According to the orchestration, the sensing service is invoked by the client to start and keep sensing the spectrum, while the current sensing results are returned to the client. Then, the client sends the sensing results and reconfigurable waveform parameters to the reasoning service. After that, the reasoning service decides the optimized waveform parameters in terms of the relating radio knowledge and returns the results to the client. Finally, the client sends the optimized waveform parameters to the waveform service. Waveforms at the transmitter and the receiver are configured, respectively, and then the communication starts.
When a primary user appears at the frequency band that is being used by the secondary user, the process of service invocation according to the orchestration is implemented again. Thus, the DSA is implemented.
Figure 6 shows a screenshot of the DSA demonstration on the SORA-based CR testbed. It is illustrated that the testbed can dynamically choose and access the spectrum hole with the maximum bandwidth to avoid interference with the primary users and satisfy the spectrum requirement of the secondary user. Then, the spectrum usage efficiency can be increased. Although SORA may not improve the performance of CR systems, it certainly facilitates the flexibility of system development and implementation.
4. Conclusion
In this paper, we have proposed a novel M2 M architecture for future CR networks, namely, the SORA. We have first introduced the difficulties faced by the M2 M network in future large-scale CR networks and recently cooperative research activities, where the SOA provides a solution. Then, we have proposed our SORA and the components to construct CR networks. Comparing to the CROSS, it has been shown that our proposed SORA provides a higher flexibility and compatibility in cooperative development of CR network. Moreover, we have presented our SORA-based CR testbed to demonstrate the feasibility of the architecture.
In conclusion, the proposed SORA shows the characteristics of loose coupling, reusability, scalability, platform-neutrality, and cost reduction. Therefore, SORA is able to facilitate the M2 M communications in future CR networks.
This paper was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, no. 2009CB320403), National Natural Science Foundation of China (nos. 60832006, 60832008), and National Science and Technology Major Project (no. 2009 ZX03007-004).
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Weekend Getaway Therapy & The Never Ending Slew of Annoying Illness (TMI blog beware)
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First, I want to say thanks to my aweseome spark friends who have listened to me whine and complain the last few weeks about, well, just about everything under the sun. You guys have given me invaluable amounts of sympathy, encouragement and advice -- THANK YOU!!
I'm hoping my moaning can stop soon (meaning I will finally be WELL and not have any reasons to gripe, fingers crossed!). I'm trying to stay positive, but it's hard when you are constatnly feeling like pooh!! BUCK UP STACEY!! I know ;)
I'm still having the headaches, but they aren't 24/7 like there were before. They aren't as severe either (thankfully!) . They come and go, but I'll take that over ALL the time and barely functioning like before! I discontinued all meds as of Friday too, so hopefully this is a good sign the rebound headache is tapering off??!!
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Seemingly par for the coarse, Friday night a raging UTI started. Not exactly the best way to spend a vacation, but I managed to power through and still had a good time, despite the blinding pain. I don't think I can ever recall having one THIS bad. Maybe my immune system is just such crap right now given all the stuff I've have the last 5 weeks? It's been years and years since I've gone through this, but HOLY COW!!! Literally, every time I go.. you know..... I cry and almost toss my cookies it hurts so bad. I have been loading up on cranberry juice, water, and AZO (amedicine that helps numb your urinary tract) since Saturday and even though they are barely putting a dent in it, they are the only thing keeping me sane at this point. Today is better, but now my right kidney is yelling at me.... Thankfully my doctors appointment is in less than 2 hours.
At this point I'd LOVE nothing more than to go a week with out a medical problem. I've seriously had something wrong with me every day since January 22nd!! And I swear, I am NOT a hypochondriac, I have a pretty high pain tolerance and I'm usually a pretty touch chickaddy... grrr frustration!
I'm thankful today I will finally have more information on my "hyper thyroid" diagnosis I received last week. A lot of things clicked together this weekend I've been experiencing (getting dizzy, hair falling out, fatigue etc) but I always just dismissed those things because there were other possible explanations. There are a lot of things I've read online though that don't make sense at all (like unexplained rapid weight loss... that's one symptom I'm wishing I did have, but that's not at all the case for me). I'm eager to talk to the doctor and see if the puzzle pieces line up.
Despite my body falling apart, we had such a great weekend. Everything aside it was just what the doctor ordered. We took Friday off and headed to Cali. Stopped to say hello to teh in-laws and after a small delay being rear ended on a freeway off ramp, arrived at our furnished apartment in Seal Beach. It was such a treat! My husband works for a corporate housing company and was able to book us one of their apartments. It was just a few blocks from the beach, which had the quaintest, most laid back and relaxed little beach town!!
We spent a lot of time just lounging around touring the little shops and restaurants, and loitering on the beach itself watching the wildlife, water, surfers, collecting sea shells, indulging in fresh pastries, and just zoning out in total relaxation!! The weather could not have been more perfect and it was a great get away for just hubby and I.
We also got to spend some quality time with my cousin and her husband who I haven't seen in 18 years. My sister also joined us, and coincidentally it was her birthday this weekend so we all had a ton of fun. Our cousin is from Lousiana and it was her first time in California, and seeing the beach. It was funny to see the culture shock she experienced. It really makes you look at the things we have/do very differently. I never really considrered what life in a big city looked like compared to someone who is more from the country. Probably the same way I'd be if I went to stay in the country LOL.
I wish we had more time with them, but depsite that we had a great time! The weekend ended too soon (in regards to the fun part). I always hate coming back to reality after such a well deserved awesome weekend. But I did miss my kids and puppies, so it's a catch 22.
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Sorry to hear you aren't feeling well. UTIs are terrible - you need an antibiotic. I tend to get a really nasty one every few years and I know how painful they can be. Glad you were able to have a fun and distracting weekend. Get better soon!
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Glad you had a fun weekend; I know you needed it. I hope that you were able to get some answers at your doctors appointment and now have a path forward. The waiting game is the hardest part.
p.s. That cinnamon roll looks delicious
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Your body is trying to tell you something...
I hope this all passes quickly for you!!!
PS... you look great! Don't wish for rapid unexplained weight loss! LOL We want you around, Missy!!!
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Your weekend sounds wonderful, except for the pain of course. Hope you feel better soon! There is nothing more frustrating than feeling like you are in a cycle of sickness that you can't break out of.
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I hope you get the answers you are looking for and that you feel better very very soon!
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I'm so glad you had a good time despite everything. I'm sorry you are having a rough time with sickness and other stuff. I hope that your Drs. appt. will have you a lot of answers so you can get on the mend.
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Hope the UTI clears up soon!
Glad you otherwise had a great vacation, and good luck at the doc's today!
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It looks beautiful! You look great despite the pain!
I really hope you are back to your normal healthy self soon!!!
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I hope you feel better soon!
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