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Robust nest systems minitask report

Robust NEST Systems Minitask Report

Lockheed Martin

UC Berkeley

University of Virginia

Santosh Kumar @ OSU

December 2003

Robustness questions

Robustness Questions

Given all NEST demos fielded this year, we are in a position to consider:

  • What robustness properties can be claimed of extant NEST (middleware and) systems?

  • What robustness issues have been observed by various teams that need to be resolved?

  • What low technology/cost strategies would defeat/diminish robustness of NEST systems?

List of sources

List of Sources

  • Field Experiment robustness experience reports (centred on Mica2 platform):

    • MIT: Fort Benning Grid

    • OSU: A Line in the Sand

    • UVa: Waking Up Big Brother

    • Vandy: Shooter Localization(includes many suggestions)

  • Lockheed Martin categorization of various failure scenarios that need to be handled by applications

  • Mitre evaluation of various short-, medium-, and long-term robustness issues

Robustness minitask red team perspective

Robustness MiniTaskRed Team Perspective

Kenneth W. Parker, Ph.D.

December 17, 2003

Our job

When I said, “The Red-Team should ‘shot down’ the Blue-Team’s proposal”, I didn’t have paint-ball guns in mind.

Our task was to searching out robustness problems.

We focused on transition and deployment impact.

The program’s success metric is transition.

Did not design an anti-netted-sensor systems.

We did think thought about counter-measures.

Don’t think this is the top problem.

Maybe 2 years from now.

Our Job

Multiple scales of consideration

Multiple Scales of Consideration

  • When viewed on a short time-scale robustness issues have a different character than when viewed on a long time-scale.

    One (of many) taxonomies:

  • Flaws and implementation issues.

  • Engineering issues.

  • Technology issues.

  • Fundamental science issues.

Flaws and bugs

Timer Module (9):

UCB timer module can exhibit up to 10% error.

May have been fixed ???

UCB clock is dead-on.

VU timer changes the semantics; less general.

VU clock is finer grained than UCB clock (a rare problem).

UO timer not yet available.

Timers are blocked by tasks.

Almost impossible to be sure no task will be running when the timer event occurs.

Antennas (9):

Monopole antenna with no ground plane.

Antenna connectors require special tools (easily broken).

We think there’s also an impedance mismatch.

MICA2 MAC layer (8):

Abstracts away needed timing control.

Have retry bugs been fixed ???

Anti-Aliasing Filter (8):

Acoustic sensor can’t be used without an anti-aliasing filter.

Flaws and Bugs

Flaws and bugs cont

Flash (8):

SRAM is about the right size for stack and local variables.

Everything else should go in non-volatile memory.

Non-volatile memory uses negligible power when sleeping.

Can be 100 or 10k times bigger for same power level.

Assuming low duty cycle.

External flash is too slow.

There exists a “fast” write method; but not used.

External flash is also too small.

Test Suit (7):

Some better than others.

Few showed up with adequate test suits.

Fault Identification (6):

Need better methods of identifying faults.

Hardware and software faults.

Flaws and Bugs (cont.)

Flaws and bugs cont1

Wireless Reprogramming (6):

Even the single-hop version corrupts the memory, too often.

No wireless recovery possible.

GenericBase chokes on high volume of data.

Does not support the 38.4 kbps transfer rate of MICA2.

Misc (5):

Degaussing circuit.

Wind guard on the microphone.

Temperature sensitivity.

General maintenance rate.

5% per day?

Battery management (4):

I have a drawer full of batters that are about 15% used.

Don’t work in motes, but do work in most other devices.

Mote battery death occurs when voltage drops.

Software measurement of remaining capacity (not useful).

Programming Boards (3):

Burn motes if turned on and external power is connected.

Old board often fails to reprogram.

Flaws and Bugs (cont.)

Engineering challenges

Engineering Challenges

Sensor Range (9):

  • Disruptive tech. usually offers something fundamentally new, in exchange for lower performance according to the legacy metrics.

    • The “legacy metric” seems to be, “sensing area per dollar”.

  • We will be allowed a higher cost per area if we offer new capabilities.

    • This is good; since bigger nodes tend to be cheaper per area.

      • Similarities to Grosh’s Law in computer architecture.

  • However, jumping to a 3 m range is too big a jump.

Engineering challenges cont

Sensor Range (cont):

Concealment needs limit node size per coverage area.

Mica2 ~20 sq cm.

One every 15 m might be “lost” in the environment.

One every meter easily found.

Useful area ratios 1e5 to 1e6.

Sensor range must be greater than average density (~ 1.3x).

Engineering Challenges (cont.)

Density requirement stemming from concealment criteria.

Engineering challenges cont1

Synchronization Metric (9):

30 sec to achieve 8 μs sync.

Drifts 30 μs every sec.

Good for ~1/4 sec.

Assuming ±8 μs drift.

i.e., total error ±16 μs.

For many synchronization models, accuracy is proportional to synchronization rate.

i.e., over some region.

Desirable metrics are:

Accuracy per duty cycle.

Range of applicability.

Alternative metrics. e.g. if common model doesn’t apply:

Accuracy at 0.5% duty cycle.

Duty cycle at 1 ms accuracy.

Engineering Challenges (cont.)

Engineering challenges cont2

Engineering Challenges (cont.)

Flash-Based Data Store (8):

  • Read cost comparable to SRAM.

    • Not with the 3-bit serial interface used in the Mote.

  • Write cost ~6 times read cost.

  • Erase cost ~400 times read cost.

    • Cost per byte can be made low with larger blocks.

  • Well known secret: use log-structures files systems.

    • Always write to end of log.

    • Update by writing new copy.

    • Clean blocks before erasing.

    • Well suited for garbage collectors.

Engineering challenges cont3

Service Composition Model (8):

Developed and demonstrated in isolation can’t be combined.

Key problem is timing conflicts.

Timing knowledge is implicit.

May have herd a viable standard:

Use pseudo-random timing.

Low duty cycle service.

Timing collisions result in clean event loss.

All servers can handle occasional event loss.

If this is “the” composition method it’s underused.

LPI and LPD (7):

All active signals must be below the noise floor (at receiver).

Must track noise level.

SNR determines the ratio of signal range to discovery range.

Typically need coding gain plus SNR to be about +6 dB.

Detestability 1 spot in 1000 might need 36 dB coding gain.

1 s interval; 17 min. per node.

Engineering Challenges (cont.)

Engineering challenges cont4

Packaging (7):

Sensor/environment interfaces.

Better Non-Volatile Memory (6):

Several new non-volatile memory technologies.

Ferroelectric memories.

Magneto-resistive memories.

Ovonic unified memories.

Ideal for low-duty cycle designs.

Debugging Harness (4):

Useful for development; not used in deployment.

Distributed debugging may require far higher comm. rate than the actual application.

Development cycles use far more power than deployment.

Engineering Challenges (cont.)

Technology challenges

Over-the-air Programming (10):

Efficient reliable multi-cast.

OS-style security.

An errant program should not be able to prevent loading.

Dynamic linking and loading.

Make incremental structure explicit rather than trying to discover it after the fact.

Extra finer grained.

Multiple levels of security:

Factory approved loads.

Platforms (third party code).

Over-the-air Programming (cont).

Platform grade security:

Protection from live-lock.

Protection from dead-lock.

Protection from corruption.

May require preemption?

Issue will be around for years.

Phenomenal progress.

Good enough for FY04.

We’re far from commercial.

Technology Challenges

Technology challenges cont

Almost Always Off Comms (9):

Tends to violate traditional comm. assumptions.

Complex trade space.

Higher power routs may be lower latency.

Wakeup rate vs. latency.

Different tasks may require different walkup rates.

Emergent scheduling vs. centralized scheduled.

Randomized schedules.

Combining multiple services yields complex schedules.

Different states will require different wake up rates.

Node Localization (8):

Must be very robust.

Multipart is key problem.

Improved ranging.

Not sure it’s really this hard.

Technology Challenges (cont.)

Technology challenges cont1

New Sensor Modes (IFF) (7):

What is the best way to detect people?

Nature suggests not sound.

Really want electronic olfactory.

Are there any senor mode for identifying combatants.

Which environments require or benefit from proximal sensing.

What quantities are mot useful in more congested environments.

Chem., bio., speech, power usage, civilian flight, …

Tragedy of the Commons (6):

No incentive to be a responsible user of shared resources.

No enforcement.

Not even a widely agreed upon definition of what is fair use.

Want better wealth distribution, but not communism.

Technology Challenges (cont.)

Technology challenges cont2

Byzantine Behavior Model (6):

Some nodes jabber continuously.

Some sensors, “See ‘reds’ under their beds”

In a real deployment a few nodes may be compromised.

Need mixed probabilistic and worst case analysis framework.

e.g., detection and tracking.

Also need robustness with respect to event loss.

Would greatly improve the viability of security.

Technology Challenges (cont.)

Technology challenges cont3

Technology Challenges (cont.)

Small Antennas (5):

  • We build a proper mono-pole antenna (per user manual).

    • It worked great.

    • In almost all environments.

    • Of course, it’s useless.

  • Building small antennas is hard.

    • Need to adapt to near-field environment (e.g., loading).

    • Incentive for longer wavelength (e.g., foliage).

    • Software adjustable antennas.

  • High dielectric antennas.

Small Antennas (5):

  • We build a proper mono-pole antenna (per user manual).

    • It worked great.

    • In almost all environments.

Fundamental scientific issues

Signal Processing Power (8):

For a technology family a joules-per-bit-op are nearly constant over a wide range of node size.

Key the vision of small nodes.

Given a fixed energy supply, not much incentive to use a more powerful node.

Mica2 gets ~3GbOPJ.

State of the art ~20GbOPJ.

Not ~300 GbOPJ.

Moore’s law helps this metric slowly (comported to intuition).

Doubles ~4 to 6 years.

Signal Processing Power (cont):

Big wins can be had.

ASICS are typically 400x more efficient.

Fully custom designs may be 1000x more efficient.

Requires use of non-GPP.

DSPs 4 to 12x.

PolyMorphic computing.

FPGAs 100x.

The alternative is to use complex signal processing algorithms.

Clearly part of the vision.

May not be enough.

Fundamental Scientific Issues

Fundamental scientific issues cont

N-Log-N (8):

Taxonomy of scaling:

O(N); centralized/monolithic.

O(sqrt(N)) or O(cbrt(N)); non-scalable.

O(N Ln(N)); quasi-scalable.

O(N); absolutely scalable.

N-Log-N (cont.):

Not going to build 13 different sized motes.

But we could built configurable motes.

SDR allows you to vary the comm. range.

You can vary the clock rate.

You may even be able to reconfigure the CPU.

Use a sentry-like service to vary the power rate.

Still need 2 or 3 types of hardware, but not 10 to 20.

Fundamental Scientific Issues (cont.)

N-Log-N (8):

  • Taxonomy of scaling:

    • O(N); centralized/monolithic.

    • O(sqrt(N)) or O(cbrt(N)); non-scalable.

    • O(N Ln(N)); quasi-scalable.

    • O(N); absolutely scalable.

  • However, can’t implement a spanning tree with motes.

    • Comm. range limits size.

  • N ln(N) implies Log_2(N) layers.

    • i.e., 10 to 20 layers (not 2).

Fundamental scientific issues cont1

Programmable Analog Triggers(7):

Negligible power, wakeup-triggers can be build for most <sensor, target, app> triplet.

Allow lower duty cycles.

Simply software; no polling of environment.

However, such triggers would have to be configurable in-situ.

Need the analog counterpart to FPGAs.

Signal Processing Methods (7):

Legacy signal processing methods assume:

Essence of problem is extracting signal in low SNR.

Abundant computation.

Next generation of signal processing will need to assume:

Special structure of signals are observable and useful.

Essence of problem is finding the few high SNR signals.

Computation is battery.

Fundamental Scientific Issues (cont.)

Fundamental scientific issues1

Non-Radio Comms (6):

Short range and low bandwidth may not favor RF comm.

Acoustic comm. may work.

E-field comm. will work.

Laser comm.

Chaos Theory (5):

A lot of work; not many answers.

Controlling emergent behavior will eventually be a critical problem.

Fundamental Scientific Issues

Laundry lists affect

Laundry Lists Affect

  • A major problem with “top-10” lists is they invite a “Laundry List” response from the audience.

  • I’m not trying to create check-list; I’m suggesting priorities.

Weighting functions

Weighting Functions

Frequently asked questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Appendix I

Disruptive technology 101

Disruptive Technology 101

  • Positive feedback exists in technology adoption.

    • Sales volume -> lower costs -> sales volume.

  • If the feedback is strong enough, the timing of the technology transition becomes chaotic.

    • Sensitive to such small events as to approach randomness.

  • New technology may be extremely difficult.

    • The P4 design team was bigger than the Manhattan Project design team.

  • The pace of change is fast.

  • It’s not always clear which technology will win.

  • The new technology may be in an unrelated field.

    • Thin film disks required replacing lots of MEs with EEs.

      This may be why technologists fail;

      it’s not why (properly managed) technology companies fail.

Disruptive technology 101 cont

Disruptive Technology 101 (cont.)

  • Most abrupt changes in technology are not disruptive.

    • Most of the time the leader in the old technology is the first-mover and the eventual leader in the new technology.

  • The disruptive transitions occur when performance outpaces customer’s needs.

Driving force is that Moore’s law outruns any sensible growth in demand.

  • Successful customers and companies anticipate the sustaining changes.

  • Disruption occurs when the “low-tech” solution wins.

  • New tech. Under-performs, but has other advantages.

    • Usually fundamentally different advantages.

  • New market becomes large and subsumes old market.

Model of synchronization

Model of Synchronization

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Who would have thought it would become a ''where were you'' moment? In 2005, NSW won a State of Origin series, no-one realising back then that they would not win another for at least seven series.

Asking the players charged with ending the streak where they were in 2005, when the Blues last tasted such success, showed what a dry run it had been. Some were still at school, the vast majority had not played State of Origin.

Almost to a man, they remembered that series; Andrew Johns' comeback in game two, and his wonderful performance in the game-three decider in Brisbane.

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Warner strode out to bat on Thursday afternoon with the poorest average of any Australian batsmen for the series and returned as man of the match and with the fastest century in Test history at the SCG.

Warner's 122 off 103 deliveries might have been the most insignificant century of his career, but with an important series on the horizon against New Zealand, it will matter very little to the burly left-hander.

"We've got to go over there [to New Zealand] and play with the same intent," Warner said. "We know swinging conditions are going to favour them a bit more ... but we've got to be on top of our game to beat them over there."

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"I like that left-right hand combination, I think it works great," Warner said. "We gel so well together out there. He complements the way I play and I complement him and the way he plays. You've got to work together as a partnership to get through those tough times. At the moment we're going very well."

Warner will now turn his attention to the one-dayers against India – the first of which is in Perth on Tuesday – but said he would be keeping one eye on his phone because wife Candice is expecting their second child this month.

There was plenty of debate about declarations in order to kick this dead rubber along, but none came to fruition.

In classic Warner style – as if to express his dismay and frustration in a match that never really took off because of inclement weather – he raced to eight runs from two deliveries; an all-run four through cover followed up by a booming cut shot.

He could have blunted a tired West Indies attack and batted sensibly to stumps. A rash shot had the potential to bring about more criticism, rightly or wrongly, of Warner.

Instead, it was an innings that typified the way Warner plays his cricket: with aggression, exuberance and an insatiable appetite – no matter the match situation – for runs, and plenty of them.

"We tried to go out there and be as positive as we could and we try and play with as much intent as we can," Warner said. "We tried to score some runs at a nice rate to give the fans something to watch."

His half century came from 42 balls – in the middle of a one-man attack on Jomel Warrican, who went for 16 runs in the over – and it wasn't until he was in his late 80s that Warner became more measured.

The West Indies began executing their skills better as Warner pushed towards his 16th Test century. It felt like they were suffocating him, but the 26 runs leading up to his century came from 27 balls and highlighted how effortlessly he manipulates the ball around.

Mark Taylor was the last Australian to score a hundred in a Test that had two consecutive days washed out because of rain, but his unbeaten 101 was in stark contrast to Warner's flashy knock.

It came from 227 balls, in comparison to Warner's century off 82, but both men were equally as deserving of man of the match honours.

In that game 26 years ago against Pakistan, Australia finished the match at 2/176 in their first innings – exactly the same score as Australia did on Thursday.

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painting my snowboard

I want to paint (THE TOP) of my snowboard BLACK.

Should I paint the top or wax the bottom first? Please give me pointers or directions. Get me started. Please and thank you.

Edit to conclude: I've edited my post more than once because it lacked detail to begin with.

Anyways, the top of my Morrow is not of my fancy. After reading all of the useful posts and combining the useful advice, I've come to realize I may: Sand the top to remove the top sheet (as best I can,) clean the sanded top with rubbing alcohol, paint the top with primer sealer (let dry for a day,) paint the top a solid black (let dry,) apply polyurethane for shine and to protect the paint and seal it in, get my bottom waxed, then slap a morrow sticker on the top, and get a stomp pad.

Thank you, AMessy, Jeklund, and EagleTalons. Happy shredding.

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“Robbie and I will be joined on the first episode of the (next) season of The Flash, and then we’ll see what happens,” Garber said. That leaves Amell not joining CW’s Legends of Tomorrow universe as a series regular, though he’s expected to make an appearance.

Fans have questioned how Amell would remain on The Flash while Garber would move to Legends of Tomorrow, given that their characters operate as a unit.

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So I’m sure that a lot of you are excited for whatever Sonic 25th anniversary stuff might happen, but I’m here to remind you of that Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be out on Wii U this week.

Okay I’m sure none of you actually care about yet another Mario & Sonic mini-game collection but you need to at least see this: it has Wario dancing to Reach For The Stars:

Anyway you can buy Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games for Wii U starting June 24th, but really there’s no reason to since you’ve just seen the best thing you’d be getting out of the game anyway. Well, aside from maybe Eggman dancing to Reach for the Stars, but I’m sure there’ll be a video of that soon enough anyway.

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The Japanese Nintendo Youtube account recently uploaded this new overview trailer for the 3DS version of Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, showing plenty of gameplay of the new modes. There are also new characters Sega managed to scrape off the bottom of the barrel like Eggman Nega and Shitty BowserZavok from the Deadly Six.

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I've owned a couple of acoustic amps and played through a bunch more. The Roland amps sound pretty good.

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Two problems not mentioned: 1. The power awitch is too easy to knock on accidentally for a battery amp, especiallly when carrying in a soft bag; 2. The cloth front doesn't protect the speakers as it should in an amp intended to be carried around a lot. But otherwise excellent. :-)

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Equipment.. Now this is where it gets interesting.. I will start by saying that, I only know the tools I use. I am sure there are plenty of other bits of hardware available from all good manufactures.. and shops etc.. So you must understand that this is only an account form my experience.

So, I started with the Roland Street cube, a battery amp, with the option to use a power supply.. not that you can plug into the Pavement.. It has a duel channel function. It has various effects, and a great guitar channel, as well as a really good vocal channel.. Considering the light weight and size of this, and how small it is, the amp works really well. I think it’s only 15 watts, but it has enough volume to do the job.. Overall, an excellent product. If you use the buildings right, with early reflection etc, then the sound will be just right you will have a great time..

Anyway, a chance was then presented to me to have a go at the new Roland AC-33. It’s essentially the same type of product, so duel channel etc.. but with more power.. One of its bragging rights is that it has over a 100db.. Oooh nanny I thought.. There are a few lovely extra functions.. a looper, which is excellent, and a Line out function which you can connect to other sources.. PA ..

I hadn’t read all the small print with regards to hidden functions. What man reads instructions I hear every woman say. However, after a short 10 minute spell I realised a small problem with it.. or should I say quite a large problem. Once you start playing your guitar and singing, there is an inboard protection circuit that lowers the volume to give longevity to battery life.. So you start up your song and within a short time laps, you loose about a 3rd of the volume which is compensating, and conserving the power.. . You must use New batteries of course, which I did.. but alas, no banana..

So, it was back Music Warehouse, and the very helpful staff, to return what was now my second amp. As I thought the first one was defected.. and I am back to my Street Cube..

So My message to Mr Roland is … doh It didn’t do it for me.. There’s no need for the battery conservation.. It puts you off you performance, and is too irritating to have to adapt to. A simple quick fix, with perhaps less battery life, and you have a massive improvement and 100db. All the bragging rights shall return// And I will return to shop for a New one.. I’m waiting !!

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"Thanks to everyone who has called and sent in demos for the pianist job. After many demos and auditions, we are pleased to announce the newest member of the Diplomats Quartet, Jeremy Elliot. He has attended Jacksonville University, the Alabama School of Gospel Music and the Steve Hurst School of Music. After obtaining his B.A. in music, he and his wife Kimberly now live in Braselton GA."

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Prized for their beautiful foliage, these fast-growing plants are also famously drought tolerant. Most are native to Australia. Lack of cold hardiness limits their use in the South. Sudden freezes or hard winters may kill fairly large trees to the ground or kill them outright. For this reason, some Southerners grow them as annuals or herba- ceous perennials for summer color. Still, some species are surprisingly hardy; they are listed here. None is bothered by deer.

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E. gunnii. CIDER GUM. Zones MS (protected), LS, CS, TS; USDA 7-11. Hardy to 510F. Dense form; upright, medium to tall treeto 3070 ft. tall, 1840 ft. wide. One of the fastest-growing eucalyptus. Silvery blue-green, oval to roundish young foliage; dark green, narrowly oval, 3- to 5-in.-long mature leaves. Small, creamy white flowers.

E. neglecta. OMEO GUM. Zones MS, LS, CS, TS; USDA 7-11. Hardy to 0F. Shrubby, fast-growing, small to medium tree to 20 ft. tall and 12 ft. wide (or larger). Handsome round, blue-green, paired juvenile leaves to about 2 in. long; excellent for cutting. Mature leaves are more oval in shape; they retain the attractive color of the juvenile foliage. Good-looking brown, peeling bark. Unimportant white flowers.

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“Seems like there is some serious buzz again and FSU officials are meeting today. Good news is there are rumors that the powers that be are starting to believe that being in the ACC may not be in the best interests of FSU. At least that’s what some of the paid sites are saying.

In the crosshairs of the SEC——> Florida State and surprisingly, Georgia Tech”

FSU has beaten the SEC champ at least 9 times, and we don’t even play in the SEC, lol:

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1988 champs 13-7
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I heard it was the Pac-12. I got it from a very reliable source.
Sounds like the powers that be have taken notice.

Also Hockey East is interested in FSU per WVUeerscountryroads.com

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For Stephen Marshall, tradition is not a historical concept; it is an unavoidable aspect of the contemporary. Through woodcuts, sculptures and the spaces between them, Marshall sets the stage for an encounter with a personal yet universal history of experience.

This is Marshall's first exploration into three dimensional work and large scale reduction colour woodcuts. Through his new work he positions himself as the narrator, holding a mirror up to himself and telling his own story whilst also turning it back on the viewer, revealing that everything in the present has an immediate relation to the past. His personal experiences transcend the individual and relate to the shared experience of living, the images in his work openly acknowledge that they are a construct of his visual memory and the finished artworks themselves are also the product of long and arduous processes.

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Marshall's unique and honest style is a new marriage of historical and contemporary practice. His use of pictorial forms as the mirror for human experience is at times uncomfortably frank but the overall effect reveals an elegant synchronisation between artist and audience.

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Sunday, January 20, 2013

So I did the interval training. I did one minute on the elliptical where I went as fast and as hard as I could, and then took a 2-4 minute break while my heart rate got back down. I did this about 5 times. I burned more calories than I usually do (no surprise) and it felt fantastic! Yeah okay I couldn't breathe, esp towards the end, but I think this really will help boost my results
I'm going to rest a bit and recover -- my sugars, of course, plummeted and I'm just waiting for them to steadily raise back up before I start my Tracy workout
Hopefully this'll help me bust through my plateau (that paired with improved eating habits)
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I've tried hot yoga before and I've gone a few times but never consistently. I had always tried to convince my husband to come with me as he would love the heat. After 4 years, he decided to come with me. He LOVED it. He is trying to gain mass and his quads hurt from squats so this really helped with the pain. It was nice to hear that he loved it. Looks like we finally found an activity to do as a couple after 12 years :)
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2. How will you go about reaching those goals and work toward those accomplishments? What do you need to do to make them happen?

It took a lot of journal time for me to come up with a goal that does not involve the scale! Granted in the next 8 weeks I would like to loose my second 10 pounds. That would be amazing. I wont even focus on that these next few weeks. Here is what I came up with.

1. What do I want to accomplish over the next 8 weeks. Well I would like to focus on my fitness level. I am not a runner, nor do I have time to run, so that cant be it. I dont have the extra 25 minutes to make my workouts an hour, so that wont work. I finally figured it out. I am going to accomplish a real freaking pushup. No bent legs. Up on my toes for real push up.
Now most of you think this may be a small goal, and you're right, but damn it I have NEVER in all my life been able to do a real one.

2. How will I achieve this goal. Well with Bob and Jillian of course! Over the last month, my workouts have consisted of the Cardio Max Weight Loss DVD with Bob and Last Chance w/ Jillian. Both of which require pushups in one form or another. I thought I'd give it a whirl and try a real one. Ha! I fell flat on my face! I could barely do 5 modified push ups without dying. I couldnt even do the 5 in a row. I had to pause after 2 or 3 to take a break. Wanna know what I can do 10 now in a row! My form is good and I feel strong. I still cant do a real one, but that will be my goal for this challenge- To do 5 real push ups and by continuing with my Bob and Jillian DVD's where they push me to push up I will make it. I am bound and determined to be a kick ass chick that can do real pushups!

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November bike ride

Thursday, November 07, 2013

It was so warm this morning that I went for a bike ride outside.

I'd brought the trainer up from the basement and my bike and intended to ride indoors but then decided to take advantage of the pleasant outdoor temperature and hit the road instead.

Bit of a wet morning, so me and the bike ended up filthy, but it was worth it. Got back in time to give the bike a toweling off and me a quick shower before work.

Didn't get out yesterday, so this is Day 1 of a new streak... and I'm going to focus on having gotten exercise on three of the past four days and not dwell on the day I missed.

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Does your knowledge of spirituality makes you light and playful, or it makes you a serious person?

Let me start with a real incidence of my life. I came across a very intelligent woman during the course of my spiritual interaction with people. The language that lady speaks, makes her appear quite intelligent. Her pursuit of knowledge and way of thinking makes me have an opinion that she is the epitome of sheer intelligence. When I look at her, I feel a divine light coming from infinite and grazing and illuminating her entire being. Just a gaze at her makes me expand in infinite beyond the beyond of all confining periphery of the existence. Just visualizing her in my mind, makes me feel a divine light emanating from her being, envelops and shrouds me, bring my all sense of perception to a complete standstill. To me she is the epitome of divine beauty, brilliant illuminating light of intelligence. Anyway, this is any perception, my problem (benediction), so, I don’t wish to burden you anymore.

Let us come to the main issue.

Being charged with my perception, I wrote to her “I appreciate and admire your spiritual maturity and intelligence”. But having been conditioned in her stereotyped Indian style of action and reaction behavioral pattern, she wrote back to me, “What is the meaning of your message? What do you mean?” She was a little bit aggressive. Again I visualized her, felt that she is frozen in her consciousness.

This incidence made me think – What is the parameter of judgement whether a person is on the right spiritual path or a wrong spiritual path? I would like to put my answer as following:

If your spiritual pursuit makes you playful, it makes you expand in the infinite space of cheerfulness, you are on the right path. And if your so-called spiritual engagement makes you a serious person, if it confines you in a fixed pattern of behavior, making you a material entity, then, you are certainly on a wrong path. If your spirituality makes you traditional (Rama), then you need to have a crude honest investigation of all pros and cons of your realization and if your spiritual exploration makes your every moment a nascent, fresh, chirping and smiling spirit (Krishna), then be sure that God has got imbued in your being; you are the manifestation of divinity. If you can’t tolerate appreciation, then how will you tolerate sheer criticism? Even Jesus had to be crucified. A spiritual person is beyond the selective judgment. Spirituality makes you accept everything. It makes you Shiva who accepts even poison; it makes you Socrates.

O beautiful divine lady, I am in love with you. I am such a person who every moment be in love with every person (you may read it beautiful women). That’s why I happened to write a book titled “In love with all beautiful women”.

Dedication and gratitude:

I dedicate this article to my beautiful wife who took the pain to type this article, as I am very poor in typing. I wrote this article in the morning at 5am, so I could not have got it typed by my staff. I really admire my beautiful wife who has great courage and stamina to tolerate such an idiot like me.

Thanks to every soul engaged in the exploration of divinity.

Swami Aaron, MBA

Aut- hor of:

·         A Date with God

·         In Love with All Beautiful Women

·         On the Wings of the Self

·         The Journey of Speaking Silence

·         Dancing on the Last Threshold of the Universe

·         Beyond the Beyond

·         Quantum Jump into God

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