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Kailash Mansarovar Yatra from Lucknow and Nepalgunj is done by helicopter from Burning region in Tibet. This route makes your journey to Kailash Mansarovar easier and faster. Nepalgunj is about 4-5 hours comfortable drive away from the town of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, India. For Kailash Mansarovar Yatra by helicopter from Lucknow, one needs to take a drive till Nepalgunj and then fly to Simikot by fixed wings aircraft and then further fly to Hilsa by Helicopter from Simikot. From Hilsa, after crossing the Nepal-China border, the drive leads to Taklakot (Burning) which is a tiny and beautiful border town of Tibet, China. After acclimatizing in Taklakot, drive to Mansarovar Lake amidst the beautiful views of natural beauty spread all around.

Days1 Lucknow to Nepalganj

You will be meeting our whole tour group at Lucknow and from there we shall start our trip by driving towards Nepalgunj. This drive is going to commence at around 9 am and thus we would recommend you to reach the gathering point well on time. Reach Nepalgunj and then have some lunch at your pre-booked hotel there. At evening, you will be participating in the briefing session at your hotel in Nepalganj where you will be explained about the trek to Mount Kailash by our tour guide. Stay overnight at your Nepalgunj hotel.

Day 2 Fly Nepalgunj - Simikot

Once done with an early breakfast, get an assisted transfer towards Nepalgunj airport in order to indulge in a scheduled flight for reaching Simikot by a fixed-wing aircraft. Stay overnight at your pre-booked accommodation in Simikot. Note: In case the weather conditions permit, we shall then experience a helicopter ride to reach Hilsa.

Day3 Airlift to Hilsa by Helicopter, walk uphill to Sher and drive to Taklakot

Early morning, you along with your group shall be ferried towards Hilsa by a chartered helicopter with a non-metallic air-strip. Arrive at Hilsa, and from there you will be participating in a 45 minutes’ trek for reaching Sher with the assistance of our Sherpa team. Complete the immigration formalities at Sher and then head towards Taklakot (Burning), check in at your pre-booked hotel and then stay overnight there.

Day4 Day free for acclimatization at Taklakot (Burning)

Today you are free to spend some leisure time at your hotel in Taklakot so that you can acclimatize with the weather conditions and the high elevation of Taklakot. We would recommend you to stay at your hotel and relax there. Apart from that, if interested you can also visit the nearby local markets of Taklakot. .

Day 5 Drive to Chiu Gompa, Mansarovar

This day is going to prove as the most fascinating one since you are going to have the first Darshan of Holy Lake Manasarovar. Have some luscious breakfast and then indulge in a scenic drive towards Chiu Gompa (4560 m) while passing through the Lake of Devil Rakshastal. Reach Lake Manasarovar and then take some holy dips in the Lake Mansarovar. Apart from that, you can also do some Pooja and Havan on the banks of Lake Manasarovar on the basis of direct payment (on Full moon trips, it will be a full moon day at Mansarovar). Stay overnight at your pre-booked guest house situated near Lake Mansarovar.

Day6 Mansarovar to drive to Tarboche. Trek to Dirapuk

On the completion of some delicious breakfast, start your drive towards Tarboche (Shershong). Give a midway halt for visiting the holy gate Yam Dwar. Pass through this gate and then, continue the drive for reaching Tarboche. Today is the first day of your Kora and you can either hire a Yak for the trek or do it on foot. Have the first view of Mount Kailash North face while being indulged in your trek and then stay overnight in your camp at Dirapuk. Note: Those who do not want to participate in the trek of Mount Kailash can return back to Drachen's hotel and wait for the other group mates who are a participant in Mount Kailash Parikrama.

Day 7 Trek to Zuthulphuk

Today’s trek is considered to be the toughest one. Wake up early morning and then witness the beautiful Golden Kailash view when the first sunlight falls on its surface. Have some breakfast and then, get ready for the most challenging trekking day of the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra. You are going to visit the trip’s highest point Dolma La Pass by climbing up continuously and then finally descending until you reach Gaurikund. On reaching Gaurikund, you will be walking on a flat surface providing you some relaxation for a while. Finally, arrive at Zuthulphuk and then stay overnight there in your pre-booked accommodation (guesthouse/camp).

Day8 Zuthulphuk to Darchen trek

Have some breakfast and then, indulge in the trek to reach Darchen. While being on your way to Darchen, our vehicles will be present in between your trek in order to pick you as well as your group mates and return back to Darchen. Reach Darchen and then the non-participants in the trek who are waiting there for you will boarding your vehicle from where you will be finally reaching the Lake Manasarovar. Finally, reach the holy Lake Manasarovar and from there change the vehicle. It will drop you at Taklakot. Arrive there and then stay overnight at your pre-booked hotel/guesthouse/lodge at Taklakot.

  • Tour Inclusions – Full Package
  • Complimentary Wine And Cake Only 1st Night
  • Hotel Stay At 4 To 5 start Property
  • Land Transport(Sedan car, Suv, Mini Car And Other)
  • Tour Guide (Provincial and DOT Accredited Guides)
  • Toll Taxes And Parking Fees

  • lunch and dinner not provide

  • all monument fees are included

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A novel risk-management perspective for macroprudential policy

Sulkhan Chavleishvili, Stephan Fahr, Manfred Kremer, Simone Manganelli, Bernd Schwaab 05 October 2021

A notion central to macroprudential policy is that exuberant phases of financial cycles – associated with extraordinary risk taking, buoyant asset prices and abundant credit provision – can eventually turn and trigger a ‘Minsky moment’, i.e. a collapse of risk-taking which generates a financial crisis. Such cyclical shifts between financial exuberance and crisis are often related to negative externalities caused by individual behaviour, ultimately bringing about high costs for the aggregate real economy (Martín et al. 2021). The objective of macroprudential policy is to limit such downside risks to financial and economic activity by implementing countercyclical policies aimed at mitigating negative externalities, for example by addressing the build-up of financial imbalances and enhancing the resilience of the financial system (Constâncio 2017).

A major challenge for policymakers is in calibrating their instruments – by balancing the medium-term benefits of containing systemic risk with the short-term costs for the economy. Quantifying the cost-benefit analysis is no mean feat. It requires policymakers to formulate an explicit financial stability objective, to build an econometric model incorporating the sharp asymmetries between real and financial variables triggered by financial crises, and to quantify the cost of policy actions in the form of foregone economic growth.

A novel empirical framework to assist policymakers

The risk management approach we propose in Chavleishvili et al. (2021a and 2021b) offers an empirical framework to quantify such macroprudential trade-offs. It first broadens the notion of downside risk by considering the entire left tail of the GDP growth distribution, rather than just a specific quantile. Next, it relates the mean outlook for economic growth to its downside tail risk within a decision-theoretic framework. Finally, the framework estimates these quantities using a quantile vector autoregressive model that automatically incorporates any asymmetries present in the data.

First, the idea of downside risk is captured by the concept of ‘growth shortfall’. Growth shortfall extends the well-known notion of growth-at-risk, as applied in Adrian and Liang (2016), Cecchetti and Schoenholtz (2018), and Adrian et al. (2019), to the entire lower tail of the growth distribution. Growth-at-risk measures indicate the forecast growth associated with an arbitrarily chosen low probability of, say, 5%. Growth shortfall instead considers the entire expected lower tail below a threshold and can be thought of as the average of all quantiles below this value. The growth shortfall is closely related to stress testing and early warning crisis estimates, as it transfers the bank stress test concepts of ‘Loss Given Default’ and ‘Probability of Default’ to the macro-financial context. Indeed, in our macro-financial context GDP losses from growth contractions represent Loss Given Default and the probability of a contraction in GDP represents Probability of Default. The growth shortfall further relates to early warning studies of financial crises which focus especially on the likelihood of severe contractions caused by disruptions in the financial system (e.g. Schularick et al. 2021).

Second, growth shortfall needs to be integrated into a macroprudential objective function. Our proposed objective function transposes the risk-return concept from portfolio management or asset pricing to macroeconomic growth (see Carney (2020) for related insights, and Suarez (2021) for a micro-foundation of analogous objective functions). By activating available macroprudential instruments, the macroprudential policymaker maximises discounted future expected mean growth adjusted for downside risk. The policymaker balances expected growth with a preference-weighted measure of downside risk in the growth distribution over a policy-relevant time horizon.

Estimating macro-financial asymmetries

The third element of our framework is the estimation of amplification and propagation effects that generate the large real costs associated with financial crises. We advocate the use of a quantile vector autoregressive (QVAR) model fitted to euro area data, building on Cecchetti and Li (2008), White et al. (2015), and Chavleishvili and Manganelli (2019). The empirical model includes real GDP growth representing the business cycle, a broad-based financial cycle indicator measuring financial vulnerabilities, and a composite indicator of systemic stress (CISS) – developed by Holló et al. (2012) – capturing financial stress. The QVAR framework not only estimates the average direct and indirect interactions between all three variables, but also potentially differing tail dynamics.

The estimation results for the euro area confirm previously identified non-linearities (see e.g. Adrian et al., 2019) and highlight new propagation channels. Figure 1 visualises these results in terms of quantile impulse response functions. The response functions trace the transmission of a given innovation to selected quantiles of the endogenous variables, over 20 quarters. For instance, an unexpected increase in the variable for financial stress (in column 3) has a strong impact on the left tail of GDP growth, represented by the 10th percentile (in row 1, column 3), but has little impact on the median or upper tail of the growth distribution.

Figure 1 Quantile impulse response functions|
(horizontal axis in quarters)

Notes: Impulse responses of quantiles of GDP, financial cycle and systemic stress (CISS) to an unanticipated increase (innovation) in each of the variables. For instance, a sudden deterioration of systemic stress produces a contraction of 20 basis points of the 10th percentile of GDP but has no effect on the median and 90th percentile (row 1, column 3). As another example, unexpected positive news on euro area GDP contributes to reducing elevated systemic stress more strongly, as evidenced by the substantially more pronounced downward shift in the 90th percentile (row 3, column 1).

In addition, the quantile impulse response analysis reveals a vicious circle in the form of an adverse feedback loop between the financial cycle and systemic stress in times of crisis. A sudden contraction (negative innovation) of the financial cycle further increases systemic stress in a situation when stress is already elevated (row 3, column 2). The loop is completed by the fact that an adverse shock to the composite indicator of systemic stress (CISS) depresses the entire distribution of the financial cycle (row 2, column 3). The implication of this result is that, in periods of elevated stress, policy interventions that maintain favourable financial conditions avoid the risk of further amplification of the stress. Conversely, actions aimed at containing systemic stress contribute to improving financial conditions and mitigate the downside risk to the economy. If left unchecked, such feedback effects could amplify initial shocks into a full-blown crisis.

Stress testing

A complementary way to assess the impact of such an amplification mechanism on downside risks to the economy is through a macro-financial stress test. Stress tests can be designed in different ways. Figure 2 shows the impact the Global Crisis would have had on euro area GDP at each quarter of the available time series. It is constructed by extracting from the QVAR system the sequence of quantile realisations that as of 2008Q2 produced the GDP contraction observed in 2009Q2 at the onset of the Global Crisis. It next applies this same sequence of quantile realisations at each quarter and reports the ensuing GDP contraction.

Figure 2 Euro area resilience to GFC-like stress using a macro-financial stress test

Notes: Annual GDP growth as per historical data (dashed line) and as counterfactual under GFC-like stress (solid line). The counterfactual is constructed by extracting from the estimated model the sequence of quantile realisations that as of Q2 2008 produced the GDP contraction observed in Q2 2009 at the onset of the GFC. It next applies this same sequence of quantile realisations at each quarter and reports the ensuing GDP contraction. Horizontal lines refer to 10th, 50th and 90th empirical percentiles.

A few interesting facts are worth discussing. By design, stressed GDP (the continuous line) as of 2008Q2 is equal to realised GDP (the dashed line) as of 2009Q2. The stress test would however have been signalling risks as early as 2007, and the chart shows that the situation continued to be fragile until the euro area sovereign debt crisis (2011-2012). The comparison with the 1992 recession is particularly striking: even though GDP contracted for three consecutive periods, and by more than during the euro area sovereign debt crisis, the euro area economy was not vulnerable to a global financial crisis type of scenario. Macro-financial stress tests of this type can serve as a useful monitor for policymakers to detect downside risks in real time and, if necessary, take mitigating actions.

From stress testing to a macroprudential policy stance

We use our estimated QVAR model together with our macroprudential objective function to quantify a policymaker’s intertemporal trade-off, with the aim of pre-emptively curtailing the financial cycle in exuberant times. Specifically, we address the question: when could it be worthwhile to manage the financial cycle to reduce future tail risks?

The thought experiment compares a ‘passive’ macroprudential policy strategy with an ‘active’ one that tightens policy in the short run and loosens it at a later stage in crisis times (see Chavleishvili et al. (2021) for details). The passive macroprudential policy assumes higher values for the financial cycle over an initial exuberant phase of six quarters, followed by a subsequent crisis phase of six quarters with subdued values for the financial cycle. The active macroprudential policy tightens the financial cycle by ten percentiles during the exuberant phase but loosens it in the subsequent six crisis quarters by ten percentiles to support financial intermediation.

This mimics the strategy for the countercyclical buffer, which involves increasing the buffer well ahead of mounting imbalances in the banking sector, thereby offering support for a sustainable provision of credit to the real economy in a potential downturn. Contrary to reality, however, our counterfactual experiment assumes a fixed time period of six quarters for the onset of the crisis. It further implicitly assumes that policymakers are effective in supporting the financial cycle by loosening macroprudential measures in crisis times. This simplification allows us to focus on the intertemporal trade-off.

We consider the macroprudential stance as the difference in the resulting macroprudential objective function between the active (countercyclical) and the passive macroprudential policy. If the difference, labelled as 'Δu' in Figure 3, is positive, there are expected gains from the active policy by initially moderating the financial cycle, subsequently supporting financial intermediation after a crisis has hit.

For the euro area, the net benefits from actively leaning against the financial cycle are positive most of the time (see the solid line in Figure 3). The experiment shows that the benefits would have been largest during the buoyant conditions in the late 1990s before the bust of the dot-com boom in 2000, and during the mid-2000s before the onset of the Global Crisis in 2007. But an additional tighter policy during 2008-2009 or during the euro area sovereign debt crisis in 2011-2012 would have amplified downside risks as the financial system was already deleveraging. The macroprudential stance metric offers an indication to policymakers as to when there is scope for pre-emptively tightening macroprudential conditions to stabilise macroeconomic outcomes.

Figure 3 Net gains from countercyclical macroprudential policy

Notes: The solid line indicates net benefits of adopting an actively countercyclical macroprudential policy based on a specific objective function, relative to a passive policy. It is constructed as the difference (u) between the expected utility associated with the active policy (tightening macroprudential instruments during the expansion and releasing them during crises) and the passive policy (which does not act countercyclically). The dashed line is the observed time series of the financial cycle. Although our stance metric is correlated with the financial cycle (dashed line), such correlation is not perfect. For example, the recessions of the early 1990s and 2000s were accompanied by a subdued financial cycle, but the stance metric would have provided only limited indications that macroprudential measures should be loosened. In contrast, the subdued financial cycle following the global financial crisis was accompanied by a macro-financial constellation that would have argued for stronger support of GDP growth from looser financial conditions.

The stance metric is mildly correlated with the euro area financial cycle, suggesting that the financial cycle itself is a valuable variable to inform macroprudential policy discussions about potential financial imbalances in real time. The financial cycle is, however, not perfectly correlated to the stance. For example, the recessions of the early 1990s and 2000s were accompanied by a subdued financial cycle, but the stance metric would have provided only limited indications that macroprudential measures should be loosened. In contrast, the subdued financial cycle following the Global Crisis was accompanied by a macro-financial constellation that would have argued for stronger support of GDP growth from looser financial conditions.

Our thought experiment demonstrates how our proposed framework may help macroprudential authorities systematically and consistently assess the case for ‘leaning against the wind’ policies – i.e. a preventive tightening of macroprudential policy in good times, well ahead of a potential downturn, in line with the arguments for macroprudential space (de Guindos 2021).

The proposed risk management approach to macroprudential policy quantifies the trade-off between containing tail risks to economic activity and facilitating expected growth. Our empirical QVAR framework offers the additional advantage of complementing the basic growth-at-risk setup – which builds on the short-term ability of financial stress (or financial conditions) to predict tail growth risks – with an amplification mechanism through financial vulnerabilities. It does so without relying on the long-term ability of vulnerability indicators to predict future financial crises, which is typically the focus in the ‘early warning’ literature. The macro-financial stress test and the counterfactual exercise on the macroprudential stance are two readily available tools that policymakers can use to assess underlying vulnerabilities and assess the opportunity for adjusting macroprudential instruments.

Authors’ Note: This column first appeared as a Research Bulletin of the European Central Bank. It features research-based analysis conducted within the ECB’s Research Task Force on monetary policy, macroprudential policy and financial stability. The authors gratefully acknowledge comments and suggestions from Alexander Popov and Zoe Sprokel. The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the European Central Bank, the Eurosystem, or the European Commission.

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Topics:  Monetary policy

Tags:  macroeconomics, Macroprudential policy, financial crises, global crisis, risk, monetary policy

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University

Team Lead Financial Stability Expert, ECB

Adviser, Financial Research Division, ECB

Head, Financial Research Division, European Central Bank

Senior Economist, European Central Bank

CEPR Policy Research


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Four books to read this festive season

Photo:  The cover of Arrigo Saachi's book, The Immortals.

It’s the off-season and the festive season, so what better way to spend your time than reading a few football books?

I’ve read four recently and I highly recommend them.

Number one is “The Immortals, by Arrigo Sacchi (with journalist Luigi Garlando).

“Who is Arrigo Saachi?” I can hear some of you say.

Well, that’s what a lot of people asked when he was appointed coach of AC Milan in 1987.

Everyone called him Mr Nobody, but he won the Serie A title in his first season at AC Milan and the European Cup in the two seasons after that.

Saachi never played football at a high level and one can understand the sceptism of the superstars under his control when he arrived at Milan.

His response was priceless:  “I never knew you had to have been a racehorse to be a good jockey.”

Saachi had the full backing of Milan’s owner, Silvio Berlusconi, the mega rich Italian media mogul who went on to be prime minister of Italy in four governments.

Saachi was a tough taskmaster and he introduced pressing and zonal marking to the Milan team.

He taught the players to move as one and his training sessions emphasised this to the extent that the team would often train by playing ‘shadow football’ without a ball.  This was to get them moving as one in rehearsed build-ups.

He was also famous for his ‘cage’.  He would set up a cage on the pitch at the training venue of Milanello measuring about 40m by 25m with walls about 2 or 3 metres high and a net on top.

Inside the cage, play went on non-stop in order to have the players working at peak intensity.

Saachi would be perched on top of the walls at one corner and he would issue instructions with a megaphone.

Crazy?  Possibly, but very successful. He won over all of his players with his methods, including sceptics such as Franco Baresi and Marco van Basten.

Van Basten eventually told him he preferred to play for Milan rather than Holland because it was more fun.

One of the ways Saachi convinced van Basten of his strategy was by organising a game of 4 v 10.  He picked his regular 4 defenders and told van Basten he could have 10 players but no goalkeeper.  The 10 did all the attacking and the 4 defenders just had to play the ball into the opposing half if they won possession.  The 10 were never able to score because the 4 defenders worked as a unit and used space and zonal marking to perfection.

Saachi went on to manage Italy (they lost the World Cup Final of 1994 in a penalty shoot-out to Brazil) and he had a second stint with Milan in the mid-1990s.

He has been ranked as the third-best football manager of all-time in one survey.

I won’t give away any more secrets and anecdotes from the book other than to say it includes some of Saachi’s training sessions and personal notes.  He kept a diary meticulously and there are some observational gems there for the interested coach and reader.

Photo:  Chapter 3 is about Darby's time in Tasmania.

Steve Darby came to Tasmania in 1980 after a stint as assistant coach of Bahrain to coach Devonport City.

Born in Liverpool, he had obtained all the top coaching qualifications after injury ended his playing career as a goalkeeper, which actually included a youth game at Anfield, the sacred home of Liverpool FC.

Darby went on to become Tasmania’s director of coaching, and he also played in goal for University and South Hobart.

He had a successful stint as coach of White Eagles and then went to the Mainland, where his coaching career really took off, including in South East Asia.

He coached Sydney Olympic, the Australian Schoolboys’ team, and the Matildas, as well as being a FIFA instructor.

His career then took him to Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and India.

He was assistant coach to Peter Reid and Bryan Robson, two great names in English football, when they were in charge of the Thailand national team.

He also coached in India and one of the great players he coached there was Nicholas Anelka.  Darby found him to be a very nice player and human being and totally at odds with the way he has always been portrayed in the media.

In Antony Sutton’s biography of Darby, entitled “The Itinerant Coach:  The Footballing Life of and Times of Steve Darby”, Darby comes across as an astute coach and player manager who knows how to work in environments that can often be blighted by corruption, match fixing and nefarious behind-the-scenes manipulation.

Darby was always loyal to his players, called a spade a spade, and made sure he had the backing of key administrators at the clubs he worked for, which contributed to his successful coaching career and made him a much sought after coach in Asia.

He even worked for Everton FC in China, and that’s really saying something for a Scouser with Liverpool FC blood coursing through his veins.

I still keep in touch with Steve, who is back home in Liverpool.  Chapter 3 deals with his time in Tasmania, but there is much more in this book to interest those with a hankering for coaching.

When he names a dream team comprised of the best players he has ever coached, he includes one Tasmanian player.

I’m not going to tell you who that player is.  Read the book and find out.

Photo:  Being a footballer these days can be very complicated.

James Milner is one of the current greats of the English Premier League and plays for Liverpool FC.

He is 35 now and in the twilight of his career, during which he earned 61 caps for England.

He has played for Leeds United, Swindon Town, Aston Villa, Newcastle United and Manchester City.

He has recently released a book called “Ask a Footballer:  My Guide to Kicking a Ball About”.

The entire book is in question-and-answer format, which makes for an easy read but gets to the nub of issues.

If you want to know about the daily training routines and lifestyles of professional players in the EPL, this is a book for you.

Milner deals with training, games, fitness, nutrition and medical issues that affect players.

It is unbelievable how players are now micro-managed by clubs.

For example, when they come in at half-time in a game, they are given a special concoction of fluids and nutrients tailored to their individual needs based on measurements of their first-half performance.  One thing doesn’t fit everyone.  Each player is given the things he needs, as per statistics and information compiled during the first half.

Gone are the days of oranges and a cup of tea at half-time.

Milner answers many relevant questions that all young players  -  and old  -  have probably always wanted to ask of professional players.

Do you get upset when you’re substituted?  Every player does.  Milner’s take on this is interesting, too, as he is now often in this situation as he is 35 years old.

Oh to be young again and playing.  Milner’s book would be a huge morale booster and a more than useful guide.

Photo:  Rob Shaw is a great fan of Tasmania's David Clarkson,w ho played for Brighton and Hove Albion in England.

Rob Shaw is a sports writer for The Examiner in Launceston and his range of interests covers all sports, from football to AFL to rowing to mountain-bike riding.

His book, “Shaw Things:  Insights into Tasmanian, Australian and world sport (in declining order of importance)”, should be of interest to Tasmanian football followers.

I always see Rob at A-League games in Launceston and he has attended World Cups overseas and been at stadiums such as the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil so he knows about football.

He followed Tasmania’s own David Clarkson in England when Clarkson was playing for Brighton and Hove Albion.

Shaw has every match programme for Brighton during Clarkson’s stint there and the two still keep in touch.

Shaw’s fine sense of humour and his journalistic cynicism come through strongly in this book, as does his passion for sport and for all things Tasmanian.

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This year's event was held on October 25, 2019, at Long Beach City College. Throughout the half-day event, students participated in a career expo, hands-on technology demonstrations, and breakout speaker sessions where industry professionals shared their career journeys.

Tony Williamson, Ryan Sickles, and Victor La Rosa presented paths to a career in transportation with TTSI - from education to expectation. We also demonstrated our goal towards sustainability, and the cutting edge technology used to achieve zero and near-zero emission trucks. TTSI displayed two Class 8 Battery Electric trucks at the event for students to learn about the technology, get behind the wheel, and explore.

Total Transportation Services has long been a participant in EXP's GPS Your Future program, with Tony Williamson, TTSI's Director of Sustainability, on the board. It means a lot for us to give back to the community, provide opportunities, and inspired the next generation workforce to be successful and grow.

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Parallelising AES-CTR with OpenMP

In order for AES (or any block cipher) to be particularly useful you generally need to use it in a “mode of operation” which allows it to work with much larger data than a single 128 bit block. Some modes of operation use the underlying block cipher and create a stream cipher. Both AES-OFB and AES-CTR are stream ciphers that use the outputs of the block encryption to produce 16 bytes of stream output at a time. They operate very similarly and when single threaded are the same speed.

AES-OFB keeps on applying the AES encryption on the same block to generate a new block each time. Whereas AES-CTR apples AES encryption on a “counter” block. Cryptanalysis has shown both methods to be equally secure. AES-CTR has two huge advantages over AES-OFB which is why in my opinion it should be used in preference always.

The first advantage is that you can jump to any point in the output stream without having to generate preceding bytes. This would be useful if you were appending to a file for example.

The second advantage is that because each block is calculated independently of other blocks, the entire process can be parallelised. If 1 MB of data is to be encrypted with AES-CTR then on a quad core processor the task can be split into encrypting 256 kB, each performed in a seperate thread. It is not possible to parallelise AES-OFB as each block requires the previous block to have been calculated first.

Parallelising an algorithm such as AES-CTR is a bit different from regular multithreading. If the AES-CTR library had to be responsible for the threading it puts in quite a burden of management, and also the overhead of bringing up threads and closing them each time its called could be more than the improvements in speed. Alternatively providing a set of interfaces to allow the caller to provide the multithread environment could be quite cumbersome and tricky to use. Fortunately there is a standard that is perfect for this job, OpenMP.

OpenMP is a standard that is implemented in many C compilers (including, surprisingly, Microsoft Visual Studio). This allows functions to be marked-up using special pragmas that will allow them to be parallelised when built with OpenMP support, and also run correctly in a single thread without OpenMP.

The following mark up will cause the for loop to be parallelised with OpenMP. The for loop will run on as many threads as there are processing cores (by default, this can be changed). Each thread will run a smaller subset of the range i – numIterations. Without OpenMP this will just run as normal over the entire range.

#ifdef _OPENMP
    #pragma omp parallel for
for( i=0; i<numIterations; i++ )

There are several extra markups that can be added that control how the threads share data etc. The #ifdef is not technically needed as the #pragma will be ignored by compilers that don’t understand it. However some compilers will warn about unknown pragmas so it can be quieter to #ifdef it.

My AES-CTR implementation without OpenMP gave the following results on a quad core MacBookPro running Linux.

AES-CTR (128) 232.33 Mbps
AES-CTR (192) 203.29 Mbps
AES-CTR (256) 177.69 Mbps
RC4 368.89 Mbps

As expected RC4 is the fastest as it is much simpler.

I reworked my AES-CTR implementation to work with OpenMP and the performance increase is considerable.

AES-CTR (128) 730.00 Mbps
AES-CTR (192) 518.44 Mbps
AES-CTR (256) 489.51 Mbps
RC4 363.46 Mbps

This is over 3 times as fast. Interestingly it is not 4 times as fast, despite now running 100% CPU usage over 4 cores instead of just 1. I assume the reason is because the 4 processors still need to access the same memory controller and that becomes the bottleneck. The memory controller can’t serve all four cores simultaneously at the same speed it can service just one.

As a side note, when I first wrote this using my original AES implementation, it was so slow that even with the paralysation it was still out performed by RC4! This motivated me to change the AES block cipher implementation to a faster one.

The nice thing about OpenMP is that it can just be enabled at build time without a lot of fuss (-fopenmp for gcc and /openmp for MSVC). If it is not enabled the code works fine in a single thread.

There is one disappointing thing about Microsoft’s implementation. It requires the use of a DLL which is not a system DLL. Visual Studio 2017 dynamically links OpenMP executables to VCOMP140.DLL. There is no option to statically link it. Also Apple’s version of clang that comes with Xcode does not support OpenMP.

Public Domain C source code for AES-CTR with optional OpenMP support

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

A faster AES implementation

When I added AES to CryptLib I found a nice compact public domain implementation to adapt. I liked it because it was quite a bit smaller in source code than the majority of implementations I had seen, and the final binary size of the executables were small. However when I wrote a speed test for it I discovered it had incredibly poor speed. The trade-off for the compactness was speed. In some cases this is desirable as it may need to be in a very small processor and doesn’t have to run particularly fast. However I wanted a faster one for CryptLib so I found a different implementation that is almost 5 times as fast.

Public domain C source code for AES

(Alternative links: CryptLib_Aes.c and CryptLib_Aes.h)

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Setting up a virtual Big Endian environment

I mentioned previously that it is a good idea to be able to actually test your code works on a Big-Endian architecture. I recently updated CryptLib and made it compatible for Big-Endian. The way I tested it was to use QEMU to emulate a Big-Endian MIPS processor running Linux. QEMU creates Virtual Machines, but unlike VMWare (which virtualises the computer but leaves instructions running on the hardware) it emulates the CPU. This is great because we can now run an operating system for a different chip. It is however extremely slow.

There is pretty much a Linux distribution for every CPU ever made, so you should be able to install a version of Linux for any chosen chip emulation in QEMU. I chose to use MIPS because I know that is big-endian and is also the chips used in a bunch of OPEN-WRT routers, so I figured it would be supported.

Installing the OS from an installation .iso takes a long time, however I was lucky enough to find that someone had made a QEMU image of a Debian MIPS installation available on the Internet:

From that site download the two files:

Install QEMU if you haven’t already got it. Then run the following command

qemu-system-mips -M malta -kernel vmlinux-3.2.0-4-4kc-malta -hda debian\_wheezy\_mips\_standard.qcow2 -append "root=/dev/sda1 console=tty0" -nographic -redir tcp:2222::22 -m 256

This tells QEMU to boot up the image with no graphics terminal, and instead output the console to stdout. This means the output will just appear in your terminal rather than coming up as a separate window.

QEMU will by default give this a NAT network interface. The -redir flag says to redirect the host port 2222 to the virtual machine’s internal 22 (SSH) port. This makes it easy to SSH into the guest from another computer on your network by SSHing to port 2222 of your host machine.

When you run this you will see Linux slowly boot up. After a while you will get a login prompt. This image has been setup with the user accounts:

user (password user) as a standard user account.
root (password root) as root account.

It is a fairly minimal install, but it does have SSH on, which for my purposes was sufficient. as that is enough to copy files onto it (using scp) and then to execute them.

You can add to this image by installing gcc etc, however actually using the VM to build is extremely slow. I did attempt to do it, but it is not worth the effort. For example to install cmake required building it from source. That took 24 hours!

Instead of trying to build on the VM, the best approach is to build on your actual computer using a cross-compiler.

So if you are using Linux then it is easy, simply run

sudo apt-get install gcc-mips-linux-gnu g++-mips-linux-gnu

to install a MIPS cross compiler.

If you use CMake then it is very easy to use a ToolChain file that is setup to use the mips compiler. Here is my toolchain file. I call it mips.cmake

# toolchain for compiling Linux for MIPS

set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER mips-linux-gnu-gcc)
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER mips-linux-gnu-g++)

# Compiler settings
set( CMAKE_C_FLAGS "-Wall -Werror -Wno-deprecated-declarations" CACHE STRING "" )

 message(STATUS "No build type selected, default to Debug")

# Set install location

Most of this is just my other settings I use. The important part for cross compiling is the first block where it sets up the C compiler.

The following cmake command generates a build system for a project and then builds it:

cmake -H. -Bbuild/mips -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=mips.cmake
cmake --build build/mips --target install

This will generate the build system in the directory build/mips.

One your program is built you can scp it over to the mips VM and run it. I used this to test CryptoLib. The MD5 and SHA1 algorithms were broken and the test vectors failed in Big-Endian originally until I fixed them up.

Why care about Big Endian?

Since the demise of PowerPC and Sparc, there are not a lot of Big Endian machines around for most people to access. These days the apart from some large mainframes, the only Big Endian machines left tend to be network routers using MIPS (and even then a lot of MIPS devices are run in Little Endian mode).

Why should you care about Big Endian? Probably for the most part you don’t ever need to. It seems likely that Little Endian has won. However you may not wish to limit yourself. You never know when your project needs to be ported to a different system that you didn’t anticipate.

When I started my programming job 15 years ago the only thing my company cared about was Windows 32 bit. Windows 2000 was the OS of choice. Mac and Linux were irrelevantly small and mobile platforms did not exist. Even 64 bit x64 had not shown up yet. Coding was easy, and fully centred around Windows APIs. Unfortunately this led to some poor assumptions made and bad programming practices. A few years later we needed to support the new x64 (Back when it was called AMD64). That took about 6 months of updating our code base. There were various places where assumptions had been made that a void* (PVOID in Windows.h terms) could be happily exchanged with a DWORD or ULONG (Windows terms for 32 bit unsigned ints).

After we had cleared the 64 bit hurdle we were then set for many years. Cross platform compatibility to us meant Windows with x86 or x64. Then along came the mobile platforms running on ARM chips. The big players were iOS and Android. Both of which have a unix ancestry. Before these were relevant platforms for us to code on we had started new projects and had anticipated that we would need to be cross platform in the future. We wrote a large compatibility library rather than directly using Windows.h and its APIs. We did however get this quite wrong. Our compatibility library was all based around the way things work in Windows and when we finally came to start porting it to other platforms we discovered that again we had assumptions that didn’t hold. Now currently, in 2017, we build for Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, and Android with x86, x64, Arm, and Arm64 architectures. Build time has certainly increased! We still have to live with some of the early poor assumptions we made (such that assuming that using Windows wide chars (UTF16) would be future proofing ourselves!) but overall now have a pretty good handle of working over multiple platforms and architectures.

My point after this long ramble, is that you never know where your project will go and what kind of things will be important in the future. Maybe in 10 years time, the new popular computers are all Big Endian. So you might just want to make sure your code works on it to save yourself headaches down the line.

Some people say you should never worry about Endianess and always write in an Endian-netural manner. This maybe good advice, but it is incredibly easy to slip up. It just takes you writing a number to disc straight out of memory to have made  the code no longer Endian-neutral. So without actually being able to test it, how will you know for sure?

There are two ways of dealing with Endianness that I can see

  1. Never copy memory bytes into words. eg never do the following: memcpy( &my32BitValue, myByteArray, sizeof(uint32_t). Instead always deal byte at a time and assemble your 32bit Value with bit shifts and ORs.
  2. Just wrap everything in htons and ntohs style wrappers before using them.

You will still want to test that it actually worked though. This is the rather tricky part as you most likely won’t have access to a Big Endian machine. However it is possible to emulate one using QEMU. In the next article I will give some concise instructions to get you up and going with an emulated MIPS Linux setup.

CryptLib 2.0.0

After a four year gap, I have updated CryptLib at GitHub. I have now released version 2.0.0.

  • Added AES and AES-CTR modules. AES-CTR conforms to the same counter mode used with AES in OpenSSL.
  • All algorithms now work on Big-Endian architectures.
  • Now uses CMake for building rather than make files and Visual Studio projects. CMake will generate whatever system is required.
  • Input function parameters are now marked const
  • File names have been changed to have the prefix CryptLib_ rather than Lib
  • Various formatting changes to the files.

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Embrace Anger

The first time that I had a long-term relationship with a counselor (how can I write that so it doesn’t sound romantic?), at one of our first meetings, he asked me to buy and read the book “The Dance of Intimacy” by Harriet Lerner, PhD. I asked why I had to pay for counseling AND a book. Couldn’t he provide the book for free, or lend it, or tell me what’s in it, if it was so important? He said that I didn’t have to buy the book, but it would save time, and give us some common vocabulary as we discussed issues.

I bought the book, read it, and the following week, I reported that I did so, and asked “What’s next?” He looked stunned, and asked if I had any questions about the material covered. I said, no, I’m a good reader, and that it was all familiar concepts. I was eager to move on with this counseling process. He asked me to buy another book: “The Dance of Anger” by the same author. I rolled my eyes, bought it, sat down to read it cover to cover, and went “WHOA!!!!!” after just the first few pages. This book was completely over my head. I spent years reading and rereading sentence fragments, trying to make sense of the material. I never realized how angry I was, and how poorly I handled my anger.

The core lesson that I learned from the book is that anger indicates that I’m not saying how I feel or what I want. I remember that lesson often now.

Twenty years later, I am participating in an Anger Management course. I am continuing to learn how to recognize my anger, and to plan strategies for dealing with it in constructive ways. Here are some highlights so far:

Feeling angry can distract me from what I want

Anger can make me blame others instead of taking responsibility for what I want

Recognizing that I’m feeling angry can bring an important issue to my attention

Feeling angry can move me to do something constructive

How do YOU turn anger into your friend?

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19 responses to “Embrace Anger”

  1. Anger is my writing muse. 🙂

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    1. Ker, that’s such a good way to respond to anger! I need to remember that . Can you give a link to something in particular that might surprise us?

  2. Okay, Grace, you had me thinking hard – looking under my skin to see what I may see. I spotted a smidgeon of quiet anger simmering away. It’s directed at myself, and points at my my feeble attempts to get on with my self-improvements! I always seem to sabotage myself with bouts of procrastination. Oh well, I fully expect to conquer it one day if I keep plugging away. 🙂

    Chin up, and all the best with your management strategies.

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    1. Oh! Christine! I know what you mean about anger directed at oneself. Blaming ourselves is only slightly better than blaming others, since we can do something about the anger; either way, blaming is probably not working.

      I don’t know what procrastination is. I don’t recall ever procrastinating. Maybe it’s my perspective more than a virtue. I mean, I’m always busy You might say that I procrastinated posting this comment because I read yours hours ago, and didn’t respond until now. I think that now is the perfect time to respond since I have been removing distractions since I first saw your comment, and can now focus on responding in a thoughtful way.

      I hope you are being kind with yourself, and resisting “shoulding” on yourself. You are always doing your best I hope that you are appreciating the progress that you are making toward your self-improvement.

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      1. Thank you Grace. I am getting better at not dwelling on my ‘should haves’ and reminding myself just to get on with what I can do about the present and future. Thanks for your kind words, which are always thoughtful.

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        1. We can’t change any “should haves”. We can only change the future, and be guided by regrets.

  3. Grace, the fourth strategy you listed, “Feeling angry can move me to do something constructive.” is one my wife favorites. She says that whenever she needs something done around the house, she goes looking for me. She has noted, that when I go mad I tend to get busy, and then suddenly, things get done. As for me, I can’t imagine where she gets these ridiculous ideas.

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    1. I’m afraid that your wife might continue to feel angry if her “doing something constructive” means getting someone else to do something. The point is to DIY.

      Are you saying that you don’t get things done ever? even when you’re angry? 😉

      1. You know Grace I think you have a point. From now on I’ll tell her to do it yourself. That will show her! Well… I do get them started, does that count?

  4. This. Is. Awesome. I’m going to see if I can get this from the library. And it must be a NY thing – I, too, woulda asked why he couldn’t giVe me the book. LOL. Really appreciate your honesty, WG.

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    1. XXX to you, too, Diana. Let us know how the reading goes!

  5. I liked the book. Have to revisit the pages I flagged.

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    1. Which pages did you flag?

      1. A good many. I am drowning in paper and homeschool files (the wk before our group resumes for the Fall).

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      2. I just liked the alternative responses (to anger) that she offered.

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        1. Yes. Hooray for alternative responses vs mindless rractions. I have had many opportunities to practice. I love focusing on what I feel and want, and what I can do, instead of on what the other person did.

          1. Then we don’t feel so powerless. And afraid.

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      3. I think the point she got through to me was…I don’t HAVE to get angry. I’ve always known I have a choice, but in the moment we justify our angry response (as the most legitimate, understandable one).

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        1. Yet she points out that anger means that we’re not getting something that is important to us. So, anger can be a messenger.

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Secrets To Dog Training Review- Is it the best course for dog training?

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Can anything give you better happiness than having somebody around who can care for you, obey your commands and keep you occupied? Well, your kids cannot be around you all the time, but a pet can do just that. Among all pets, it is the dog that gets top preference for those looking for some companionship. Although a dog is a man’s best friend, it is not easy to train a dog, get him to understand your commands and follow them without any tantrums. If you are a pet parent, you must have gone through the initial stress of training a dog.

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To be very honest, I was not very comfortable buying this book initially. But once I got the book and started following the instructions, I felt it is absolutely legitimate as everything comes to you from the experience of the author who himself is a dog trainer.

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