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Because of the high cost of communication between processors, compilers that parallelize loops automatically have been forced to skip a large class of loops that are both critical to performance and rich in latent parallelism. HELIX-RC is a compiler/microprocessor co-design that opens those loops to parallelization by decoupling communication from thread execution in conventional multicore architecures. Simulations of HELIX-RC, applied to a processor with 16 Intel Atom-like cores, show an average of 6.85× performance speedup for six SPEC CINT2000 benchmarks.
On a multicore processor, the performance of a program depends largely on how well it exploits parallel threads. Some computing problems are solved by numerical programs that are either inherently parallel or easy to parallelize. Historically, successful parallelization tools have been able to transform the sequential loops of such programs into parallel form, boosting performance significantly. Most software, however, is still sequentially designed and largely non-numerical, with irregular control and data flow. Because manual parallelization of such software is error-prone and time-consuming, automatic parallelization of non-numerical programs remains an important open problem.
The last decade has seen impressive steps toward a solution, but when targeting commodity processors, existing parallelizers still leave much of the latent parallelism in loops unrealized.5 The larger loops in a program can be so hard to analyze accurately that apparent dependences often flood communication channels between cores. Smaller loops are more amenable to accurate analysis, and our work shows that there is a lot of parallelism between the iterations of small loops in non-numerical programs represented by SPECint2000 benchmarks.4 But even after intense optimization, small loops typically include loop-carried dependences, so their iterations cannot be entirely independent—they must communicate. Because the iterations of a small loop are short (25 clock cycles on average for SPECint2000), their communications are frequent.
On commodity processors, communication relies on the memory system and is reactive, triggered only when one core asks for data from another. The resulting delay is longer than the average duration of an iteration, and it is hard to overlap with computation, especially when the variance of durations is high, as in non-numerical workloads. The benefits of automatic loop parallelization therefore saturate at small numbers of cores for commodity processors.
Lowering the latency of inter-core communication would help, but it can only go so far, if communication remains reactive. We therefore propose a proactive solution, in which the compiler and an architectural extension called ring cache cooperate to overlap communication with computation and lower communication latency. The compiler identifies data that must be shared between cores, and the ring cache circulates that data as soon as it is generated.
To demonstrate this idea, we have developed HELIX-RC, a co-design incorporating a parallelizing compiler and a simulated chip multiprocessor extended with ring cache. The HELIX-RC compiler builds on the original HELIX code parallelizer for commodity multicore processors.5 Because it relies on invariants of the code produced by the compiler, ring cache is a lightweight, non-invasive extension of conventional multicore architecture. Because it facilitates proactive, low-latency inter-core communication, ring cache allows HELIX-RC to outperform HELIX by a factor of 3×.
2. Opportunities and Challenges of Small Loops
Prior loop parallelization techniques have avoided selecting loops with small bodies because communication would slow down execution on conventional processors.5, 20 On average, such techniques yield only about 60% coverage by parallelized loops for non-numerical programs. Excluding small loops limits overall speedup of such programs to less than 3 times no matter how many cores are available, because by Amdahl’s law, coverage dictates the overall speedup of a program through parallelization.
Because the intricacy of control and data flow scales down with code size, small loops are easier than larger ones for a compiler to analyze, which reduces the proportion of data dependences that must be accommodated at run time because of conservative assumptions about possible pointer aliases. As a result, the optimized bodies of small loops yield relatively independent iteration threads.5 So there could be a significant increase in core utilization, and concomitant overall speedup, if the compiler were able to freely select small hot loops for parallelization. Realizing that potential requires understanding the characteristics of such loops and optimizing for them.
To illustrate the need for low-latency communication, Figure 1a plots a cumulative distribution of average iteration execution times on a single Atom-like core (described in our work4) for the set of hot loops from SPECint2000 chosen for parallelization by HELIX-RC. The shaded portion of the plot shows that more than half of the loop iterations complete within 25 clock cycles. The figure also shows the measured core-to-core round trip communication latencies for 3 modern multicore processors. Even the shortest of these latencies, 75 cycles for Ivy Bridge, is too heavy a communication penalty for the majority of these short loops.
Loops within non-numerical programs generate values that are consumed by later iterations, but the compiler cannot know which iterations will use which values. So when the compiler distributes the iterations of a loop to separate cores, shared values that result from loop-carried dependences need to be accessible to any of those cores soon after being generated.
For loops parallelized by HELIX-RC, most communication of shared values is not between cores executing successive loop iterations, which HELIX-RC assigns to adjacent cores. Figure 1b charts the distribution of value communication distances (defined as the undirected distance between the core that produces a value and the first one that consumes it) on a platform with 16 cores organized in a ring. Only 15% of those transfers are between adjacent cores.
Moreover, Figure 1c shows that most (86%) of the loop-carried values in parallelized loops are consumed by multiple cores. Since consumers of shared values are not known at compile time, especially for non-numerical workloads, broadcasting is the most appropriate communication protocol.
It is well known that implementing low-latency broadcast is challenging for a large set of cores. HELIX-RC uses a hardware mechanism that achieves proactive delayed broadcast of data and signals to all cores in the ring for a loop. Such proactive communication is the cornerstone of the HELIX-RC approach, which allows the communication needed for sharing data between cores to overlap with computation that the cores carry out in parallel.
3. The HELIX-RC Solution
To run the iterations of small hot loops efficiently in parallel, HELIX-RC replaces communication-on-demand with proactive communication. It decouples value forwarding between threads from value consumption by the receiving thread. It also decouples transmission of synchronizing signals from the code that enforces sequential semantics. Extensions of conventional microprocessor architecture make this decoupling possible. Reliance on compiler-guananteed machine code properties keeps those architectural extensions simple and efficient.
HELIX-RC is a co-design that binds its compiler (HCCv3) to a processor architecture enhancement called ring cache. When the compiler generates a set of parallel threads to run on separate cores, they are rarely completely independent. While most of each thread’s code can run concurrently with other threads, there are segments of that code that must execute in strict sequence across the thread set. We call these sequential segments. The main role of the ring cache is to accelerate the communication of values and synchronizing signals needed to implement sequential segments correctly.
The ring cache is a ring network linking ring nodes, each of which is attached to a core in the processor. During sequential segments, this ring serves as a distributed first-level cache preceding the private L1 cache (Figure 2). HCCv3 marks the entry and exit points of sequential segments using 2 instructions that extend the instruction set. As a result, each core knows whether or not it is currently executing the sequential segment of a parallel thread, and it accesses the cache hierarchy accordingly.
Figure 2. The ring cache is a ring network that connects ring nodes attached to each core. It operates during sequential segments as a distributed first-level cache that precedes the private L1 cache (left side). Ring nodes propagate newly-generated values without involving their attached cores (right side). In this example, data generated by the rightmost core is available at the leftmost core when needed, so
wait a incurs no delay.
Compiler. HCCv3 automatically generates parallel threads from sequential programs by distributing successive loop iterations across adjacent cores organized as a unidirectional ring within a single multicore processor. HCCv3 parallelizes loops that are most likely to speed up performance when their iterations execute in parallel. Only 1 loop runs in parallel at a time.
To preserve the sequential semantics of the original loop, the code that implements a loop-carried data dependence, that is, one spanning loop iterations, must run in a sequential segment whose instances in parallel threads execute in iteration order. Variables and other data structures involved in such dependences—even those normally allocated to registers in sequential code—are mapped to specially-allocated memory locations shared between cores. HCCv3 guarantees that accesses to those shared memory locations always occur within sequential segments.
ISA. We introduce a pair of instructions—
signal—that mark the beginning and end of a sequential segment. Each has an integer operand that identifies the particular sequential segment. A
wait 3 instruction, for example, blocks execution of the core that issues it until all other cores running earlier iterations have finished executing the sequential segment labeled
3, which they signify by executing
signal 3. Figure 2 shows a sequential segment with label A being executed by the core attached to the leftmost ring node. Between
wait A and
signal A, a
store instruction sends the new value
5 for the shared location at address
0x00A to the ring node for caching and circulation to its successor nodes. The
signal A instruction that ends the segment also signals subsequent nodes that the value generated by segment
A is ready.
A core forwards all memory accesses within sequential segments to its local ring node. All other memory accesses (not within a sequential segment) go through the private L1 cache.
Memory. Each ring node has a cache array that satisfies both loads and stores received from its attached core during a sequential segment. HELIX-RC does not require other changes to the existing memory hierarchy because the ring cache orchestrates interactions with it. To avoid any changes to conventional cache coherence protocols, the ring cache permanently maps each memory address to a unique ring node. All accesses from the distributed ring cache to the next cache level (L1) go through the associated node for a corresponding address.
Because shared values produced by a sequential segment and the signal that marks its end are propagated through the ring node as soon as they are generated, this communication between iterations is decoupled from computation taking place on the cores.
Shared data communication. Once a ring node receives a store, it records the new value and proactively forwards its address and value to an adjacent node in the ring cache, all without interrupting the execution of the attached core. The value then propagates from node to node through the rest of the ring without interrupting the computation of any core.
Synchronization. Given the difficulty of determining which iteration depends on which in non-numerical programs, compilers typically make the conservative assumption that an iteration depends on all of its predecessor iterations. Therefore, a core cannot execute sequential code until it is unblocked by its predecessor.5, 20 Moreover, an iteration unblocks its successor only if both it and its predecessors have executed this sequential segment or if they are not going to. This execution model leads to a chain of signal propagation across loop iterations that includes unnecessary synchronization: even if an iteration is not going to execute sequential code, it still needs to synchronize with its predecessor before unblocking its successor.
HELIX-RC removes this synchronization overhead by enabling an iteration to detect the readiness of all predecessor iterations, not just one. Therefore, once an iteration forgoes executing the sequential segment, it immediately notifies its successor without waiting for its predecessor. Unfortunately, while HELIX-RC removes unnecessary synchronization, it increases the number of signals that can be in flight simultaneously.
HELIX-RC relies on the
signal instruction to handle synchronization signals efficiently. Synchronization between a producer core and a consumer includes generation of a signal by the producer, a request for that signal by the consumer, and transmission of the signal between the two. On a conventional multicore processor that relies on a demand-driven memory system for communication, signal transmission is inherently lazy, and signal request and transmission become serialized. With HELIX-RC, on the other hand, a signal instructs the ring cache to proactively forward a
signal to all other nodes in the ring without interrupting any of the cores, thereby decoupling signal transmission from synchronization.
Code example. The code in Figure 3(a), abstracted for clarity, represents a small hot loop from 175.vpr of SPEC CINT2000. It is responsible for 55% of the total execution time of that program. The loop body has 2 execution paths. The left path entails a loop-carried data dependence because during a typical loop iteration, instruction
1 uses the value of variable
a produced by a previous iteration. The right path does not depend on prior data. Owing to complex control flow, the compiler cannot predict the execution path taken during a particular iteration, so it must assume that instruction 1 may depend on the previous iteration.
In a conventional implementation coupling communication with computation, the compiler would add
wait 1 and
signal 1 instructions to the right path, as shown in Figure 3(a), to synchronize each iteration with its predecessor and successor iterations. If shared values and signals were communicated on demand, the resulting sequential signal chain would look like that highlighted in red shown in Figure 3(b). If we assume that only iterations 0 and 2, running on cores 0 and 2, respectively, take the left path and execute instruction
1, then the sequential signal chain shown in Figure 3(b) is unnecessarily long, because iteration 1 only executes parallel code, so the
wait instruction is unnecessary in that iteration. It results in a signal stall. Iterations 0 and 2, in order to update
a, must load its previous value first, using a regular load. So lazy forwarding of this shared data leads to data stalls, because the transfer only begins when demanded by a load, rather than when generated by a store.
In HELIX-RC, however, a
wait A unblocks when all predecessor iterations have signaled that segment
A is finished. That allows HCCv3 to omit the
wait 1 on the right path through the loop body. That optimization, combined with HELIX-RC’s proactive communication between cores, leads to the more efficient scenario shown in Figure 3(c). The sequential chain in red now only includes the delay required to satisfy the dependence—communication updating a shared value.
The decoupled execution model of HELIX-RC described so far is possible given the tight co-design of the compiler and architecture. In this section, we focus on compiler-guaranteed code properties that enable a lightweight ring cache design, and follow up with code optimizations that make use of the ring cache.
- Only 1 loop can run in parallel at a time. Apart from a dedicated core responsible for executing code outside parallel loops, each core is either executing an iteration of the current loop or waiting for the start of the next one.
- Successive loop iterations are distributed to threads in a round-robin manner. Since each thread is pinned to a predefined core, and cores are organized in a unidirectional ring, successive iterations form a logical ring.
- Communication between cores executing a parallelized loop occurs only within sequential segments.
- Different sequential segments always access different shared data. HCCv3 only generates multiple sequential segments when there is no intersection of shared data. Consequently, instances of distinct sequential segments may run in parallel.
- At most 2 signals per sequential segment emitted by a given core can be in flight at any time. Hence, only 2 signals per segment need to be tracked by the ring cache.
This last property allows the elimination of unnecessary
wait instructions while keeping the architectural enhancement simple. Eliminating
waits allows a core to execute a later loop iteration than its successor (significantly boosting parallelism). Future iterations, however, produce signals that must be buffered. The last code property prevents a core from getting more than one “lap” ahead of its successor. So when buffering signals, each ring cache node only needs to recognize 2 types—those from the past and those from the future.
In addition to conventional optimizations specifically tuned to extract Thread Level Parallelism (TLP) (e.g., code scheduling, method inlining, loop unrolling), HCCv3 includes ones that are essential for best performance of non-numerical programs on a ring-cache-enhanced architecture: aggressive splitting of sequential segments into smaller code blocks; identification and selection of small hot loops; and elimination of unnecessary
Sizing sequential segments poses a tradeoff. Additional segments created by splitting run in parallel with others, but extra segments entail extra synchronization, which adds communication overhead. Thanks to decoupling, HCCv3 can split aggressively to efficiently extract TLP. Note that segments cannot be split indefinitely—each shared location must be accessed by only 1 segment.
To identify small hot loops that are most likely to speed up when their iterations run in parallel, HCCv3 profiles the program being compiled using representative inputs. Instrumentation code emulates execution with the ring cache during profiling, which produces an estimate of time saved by parallelization. Finally, HCCv3 uses a loop nesting graph, annotated with the profiling results, to choose the most promising loops.
5. Architecture Enhancements
Adding a ring cache to a multicore architecture enables the proactive circulation of data and signals that boost parallelization. This section describes the design of the ring cache and its constituent ring nodes. The design is guided by the following objectives:
Low-latency communication. HELIX-RC relies on fast communication between cores in a multicore processor for synchronization and for data sharing between loop iterations. Since low-latency communication is possible between physically adjacent cores in modern processors, the ring cache implements a simple unidirectional ring network.
Caching shared values. A compiler cannot easily guarantee whether and when shared data generated by a loop iteration will be consumed by other cores running subsequent iterations. Hence, the ring cache must cache shared data. Keeping shared data on local ring nodes provides quick access for the associated cores. As with data, it is also important to buffer signals in each ring node for immediate consumption.
Easy integration. The ring cache is a minimally-invasive extension to existing multicore systems, easy to adopt and integrate. It does not require modifications to the existing memory hierarchy or to cache coherence protocols.
With these objectives in mind, we now describe the internals of the ring cache and its interaction with the rest of the architecture.
The ring cache architecture relies on properties of compiled code, which imply that the data involved in timing-critical dependences that potentially limit overall performance are both produced and consumed in the same order as loop iterations. Furthermore, a ring network topology captures this data flow, as sketched in Figure 4. The following paragraphs describe the structure and purpose of each ring cache component.
Ring node structure. The internal structure of a per-core ring node is shown in the right half of Figure 4. Parts of this structure resemble a simple network router. Unidirectional links connect a node to its two neighbors to form the ring backbone. Bidirectional connections to the core and private L1 cache allow injection of data into and extraction of data from the ring. There are 3 separate sets of data links and buffers. A primary set forwards data and signals between cores. Two other sets manage infrequent traffic for integration with the rest of the memory hierarchy (see Section 5.2). Separating these 3 traffic types simplifies the design and avoids deadlock. Finally, signals move in lockstep with forwarded data to ensure that a shared memory location is not accessed before the data arrives.
In addition to these router-like elements, a ring node also contains structures more common to caches. A set associative cache array stores all data values (and their tags) received by the ring node, whether from a predecessor node or from its associated core. The line size of this cache array is kept at one machine word. While the small line is contrary to typical cache designs, it ensures there will be no false data sharing by independent values from the same line.
The final structural component of the ring node is the signal buffer, which stores signals until they are consumed.
Node-to-node connection. The main purpose of the ring cache is to proactively provide many-to-many core communication in a scalable and low-latency manner. In the unidirectional ring formed by the ring nodes, data propagates by value circulation. Once a ring node receives an (address, value) pair, either from its predecessor, or from its associated core, it stores a local copy in its cache array and propagates the same pair to its successor node. The pair eventually propagates through the entire ring (stopping after a full cycle) so that any core can consume the data value from its local ring node, as needed.
This value circulation mechanism allows the ring cache to communicate between cores faster than reactive systems (like most coherent cache hierarchies). In a reactive system, data transfer begins once the receiver requests the shared data, which adds transfer latency to an already latency-critical code path. In contrast, a proactive scheme overlaps transfer latencies with computation to lower the receiver’s perceived latency.
The ring cache prioritizes the common case, where data generated within sequential segments must propagate to all other nodes as quickly as possible. Assuming no contention over the network and single-cycle node-to-node latency, the design shown in Figure 4 allows us to bound the latency for a full trip around the ring to N clock cycles, where N is the number of cores. Each ring node prioritizes data received from the ring and stalls injection from its local core.
To eliminate delays to forward data between ring nodes, the number of write ports in each node’s cache array must match the link bandwidth between two nodes. While this may seem like an onerous design constraint for the cache array, Section 6 shows that just one write port is sufficient to reap more than 99% of the ideal-case benefits.
To ensure correctness under network contention, the ring cache is sometimes forced to stall all messages (data and signals) traveling along the ring. The only events that can cause contention and stalls are ring cache misses and evictions, which may then need to fetch data from a remote L1 cache. While these ring stalls are necessary to guarantee correctness, they are infrequent.
The ring cache relies on credit-based flow control9 and is deadlock free. Each ring node has at least two buffers attached to the incoming links to guarantee forward progress. The network maintains the invariant that there is always at least one empty buffer per set of links somewhere in the ring. That is why a node only injects new data from its associated core into the ring when there is no data from a predecessor node to forward.
Node-core integration. Ring nodes are connected to their respective cores as the closest level in the cache hierarchy (Figure 4). The core’s interface to the ring cache is through regular loads and stores for memory accesses in sequential segments.
As previously discussed,
signal instructions delineate code within a sequential segment. A thread that needs to enter a sequential segment first executes a
wait, which only returns from the associated ring node when matching signals have been received from all other cores executing prior loop iterations. The signal buffer within the ring node enforces this. Specialized core logic detects the start of the sequential segment and routes memory operations to the ring cache. Finally, executing the corresponding
signal marks the end of the sequential segment.
The wait and signal instructions require special treatment in out-of-order cores. Since they may have system-wide side effects, these instructions must issue non-speculatively from the core’s store queue and regular loads and stores cannot be reordered around them. Our implementation reuses logic from load-store queues for memory disambiguation and holds a lightweight local fence in the load queue until the
wait returns to the senior store queue. This is not a concern for in-order cores.
5.2. Memory hierarchy integrationa
The ring cache is a level within the cache hierarchy and as such must not break any consistency guarantees that the hierarchy normally provides. Consistency between the ring cache and the conventional memory hierarchy results from the following invariants: (i) shared memory can only be accessed within sequential segments through the ring cache (compiler-enforced); (ii) only a uniquely assigned owner node can read or write a particular shared memory location through the L1 cache on a ring cache miss (ring cache-enforced); and (iii) the cache coherence protocol preserves the order of stores to a memory location through a particular L1 cache.
Sequential consistency. To preserve the semantics of a parallelized single-threaded program, memory operations on shared values require sequential consistency. The ring cache meets this requirement by leveraging the unidirectional data flow guaranteed by the compiler. Sequential consistency must be preserved when ring cache values reach lower-level caches, but the consistency model provided by conventional memory hierarchies is weaker. We resolve this difference by introducing a single serialization point per memory location, namely a unique owner node responsible for all interactions with the rest of the memory hierarchy. When a shared value is moved between the ring cache and L1 caches (owing to occasional ring cache load misses and evictions), only its owner node can perform the required L1 cache accesses. This solution preserves existing consistency models with minimal impact on performance.
Cache flush. Finally, to guarantee coherence between parallelized loops and serial code between loop invocations, each ring node flushes the dirty values of memory locations it owns to L1 once a parallel loop has finished execution. This is equivalent to executing a distributed fence at the end of loops. In a multiprogram scenario, signal buffers must also be flushed/restored at program context switches.
By co-designing the compiler along with the architecture, HELIX-RC more than triples the performance of parallelized code when compared to a compiler-only solution. This section investigates HELIX-RC’s performance benefits and their sensitivity to ring cache parameters. We confirm that the majority of speedups come from decoupling all types of communication and synchronization. We conclude by analyzing the remaining overheads of the execution model.
We ran experiments on 2 sets of architectures. The first relies on a conventional memory hierarchy to share data among the cores. The second relies on the ring cache.
Simulated conventional hardware. We simulate a multi-core in-order ×86 processor by adding multiple-core support to the XIOSim simulator. We also simulate out-of-order cores modeled after Intel Nehalem.
The simulated cache hierarchy has 2 levels: a per-core 32 KB, 8-way associative L1 cache and a shared 8 MB 16-bank L2 cache. We vary the core count from 1 to 16, but do not vary the amount of L2 cache with the number of cores, keeping it at 8 MB for all configurations. Also scaling cache size would make it difficult to distinguish the benefits of parallelizing a workload from the benefits of fitting its working set into the larger cache, causing misleading results. Finally, we use DRAMSim2 for cycle-accurate simulation of memory controllers and DRAM.
We extended XIOSim with a cache coherence protocol assuming an optimistic cache-to-cache latency of 10 clock cycles. This 10-cycle latency is optimistically low even compared to research prototypes of low-latency coherence.11 We only use this low-latency model to simulate conventional hardware, and later (Section 6.2) shows that low latency alone is not enough to compensate for the lazy nature of its coherence protocol.
Simulated ring cache. We extended XIOSim to simulate the ring cache as described in Section 5. We used the following configuration: a 1 KB 8-way associative array size, one-word data bandwidth, five-signal bandwidth, single-cycle adjacent core latency, and two cycles of core-to-ring-node injection latency to minimally impact the already delay-critical path from the core to the L1 cache. A sensitiviy analysis of these parameters as well as the evaluation of the ring cache in out-of-order cores can be found in.4 We use a simple bit mask as the hash function to distribute memory addresses to their owner nodes. To avoid triggering the cache coherence protocol, all words of a cache line have the same owner. Lastly, XIOSim simulates changes made to the core to route memory accesses either to the attached ring node or to the private L1.
Benchmarks. We use 10 out of the 15 C benchmarks from the SPEC CPU2000 suite: 4 floating point (CFP2000) and 6 integer benchmarks (CINT2000). For engineering reasons, the data dependence analysis that HCCv3 relies on4 requires either too much memory or too much time to handle the rest. This limitation is orthogonal to the results described in this paper.
Compiler. We extended the Intermediate Language Distributed Just-In-Time (ILDJIT) compilation framework,3 version 1.1, to use LLVM 3.0 for backend machine code generation. We generated both single- and multi-threaded versions of the benchmarks. The single-threaded programs are the unmodified versions of benchmarks, optimized (O3) and generated by LLVM. This code outperforms GCC 4.8.1 by 8% on average and under-performs ICC 14.0.0 by 1.9%. The multi-threaded programs were generated by HCCv3 and the HELIX compiler (i.e., compiler-only solution) to run on ring-cache-enhanced and conventional architectures, respectively. Both compilers produce code automatically and do not require any human intervention. During compilation, they use SPEC training inputs to select the loops to parallelize.
Measuring performance. We compute speedups relative to sequential simulation. Both single- and multi-threaded runs use reference inputs. To make simulation feasible, we simulate multiple phases of 100 M instructions as identified by SimPoint.
6.2. Speedup analysisc
In our 16-core processor evaluation system, HELIX-RC boosts the performance of sequentially-designed programs (CINT2000), assumed not to be amenable to parallelization. Figure 5 shows that HELIX-RC raises the geometric mean of speedups for these benchmarks from 2.2× for a compiler-only solution to 6.85×.
HELIX-RC not only maintains the performance of a compiler-only solution on numerical programs (SPEC CFP2000), but also increases the geometric mean of speedups for CFP2000 benchmarks from 11.4× to almost 12×.
We now turn our attention to understanding where the speedups come from.
Communication. Speedups obtained by HELIX-RC come from decoupling both synchronization and data communication from computation in loop iterations, which significantly reduces communication overhead, allows the compiler to split sequential segments into smaller blocks, and cuts down the critical path of the generated parallel code. Figure 6 compares the speedups gained by multiple combinations of decoupling synchronization, register-, and memory-based communication. As expected, fast register transfers alone do not provide much speedup since most in-register dependences can be satisfied by re-computing the shared variables involved.4 Instead, most of the speedups come from decoupling communication for both synchronization and memory-carried actual dependences. To the best of our knowledge, HELIX-RC is the only solution that accelerates all 3 types of transfers for actual dependences.
Sequential segments. While more splitting offers higher TLP (more sequential segments can run in parallel), it also requires more synchronization at run time. Hence, the high synchronization cost for conventional multicores discourages aggressive splitting of sequential segments. In contrast, the ring cache enables aggressive splitting to maximize TLP.
To analyze the relationship between splitting and TLP, we computed the number of instructions that execute concurrently for the following 2 scenarios: (i) conservative splitting constrained by a contemporary multicore processor with high synchronization penalty (100 cycles) and (ii) aggressive splitting for HELIX-RC with low-latency communication (<10 cycles) provided by the ring cache. In order to compute TLP independent of both the communication overhead and core pipeline advantages, we used a simple abstracted model of a multicore system that has no communication cost and is able to execute 1 instruction at a time. Using the same set of loops chosen by HELIX-RC and used in Figure 5, TLP increased from 6.4 to 14.2 instructions with aggressive splitting. Moreover, the average number of instructions per sequential segment dropped from 8.5 to 3.2 instructions.
Coverage. Despite all the loop-level speedups possible via decoupling communication and aggressively splitting of sequential segments, Amdahl’s law states that program coverage dictates the overall speedup of a program. Prior parallelization techniques have avoided selecting loops with small bodies because communication would slow down execution on conventional processors.5, 20 Since HELIX-RC does not suffer from this problem, the compiler can freely select small hot loops to cover almost the entirety of the original program.
To understand areas for improvement, we categorize every overhead cycle preventing ideal speedup. Figure 7 shows the results of this categorization for HELIX-RC, again implemented on a 16-core processor.
Most importantly, the small fraction of communication overheads suggests that HELIX-RC successfully eliminates the core-to-core latency for data transfer in most benchmarks. For several benchmarks, notably 175.vpr, 300.twolf, 256.bzip2, and 179.art, the major source of overhead is the low number of iterations per parallelized loop (low trip count). While many hot loops are frequently invoked, low iteration count (ranging from 8 to 20) leads to idle cores. Other benchmarks such as 164.gzip, 197.parser, 181.mcf, and 188.ammp suffer from dependence waiting due to large sequential segments. Finally, HCCv3 must sometimes add a large number of wait and signal instructions (i.e., many sequential segments) to increase TLP, as seen for 164.gzip, 197.parser, 181.mcf, and 256.bzip2.
7. Related Work
To compare HELIX-RC to a broad set of related work, Table 1 summarizes different parallelization schemes proposed for non-numerical programs organized with respect to the types of communication decoupling implemented (register vs. memory) and the types of dependences targeted (actual vs. false). HELIX-RC covers the entire design space and is the only one to decouple memory accesses from computation for actual dependences.
Multiscalar processors19 extract both Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) and TLP from an ordinary application. While a ring cache’s structure resembles a Multiscalar register file, there are fundamental differences. For the Multiscalar register file, there is a fixed and relatively small number of shared elements that must be known at compile time. Furthermore, the Multiscalar register file cannot handle memory updates by simply mapping memory to a fixed number registers without a replacement mechanism. In contrast, the ring cache does not require compile-time knowledge to handle an arbitrary number of elements shared between cores (i.e., memory locations allocated at runtime) and can readily handle register updates by deallocating a register to a memory location. In other words, HELIX-RC proposes to use a distributed cache to handle both register and memory updates.
The ring cache addresses an entirely different set of communication demands. Cache coherence protocols target relatively small amounts of data shared infrequently between cores. Hence, cores can communicate lazily, but the resulting communication almost always lies in the critical sequential chain. In contrast, the ring cache targets frequent and time-critical data sharing between cores.
While On-Chip-Networks (OCNs) can take several forms, they commonly implement reactive coherence protocols18, 21, 24, 25 that do not fulfill the low-latency communication requirements of HELIX-RC. Scalar operand networks22 somewhat resemble a ring cache to enable tight coupling between known producers and consumers of specific operands, but they suffer from the same limitations as the Multiscalar register file. Hence, HELIX-RC implements a relatively simple OCN, but supported by compiler guarantees and additional logic to implement automatic forwarding.
Networks that improve bandwidth between processors have been studied extensively.17 While they work well for Cyclic Multithreading (CMT) parallelization techniques that require less frequent data sharing, there is less overall parallelism. Moreover, networks that target chip-to-chip communication do not meet the very different low-latency core-to-core communication demands of HELIX-RC.9 Our results show HELIX-RC is much more sensitive to latency than to bandwidth.
Multiscalar,19 TRIPS,16 and T3 (Ref. Robatmil et al.15) are polymorphous architectures that target parallelism at different granularities. They differ from HELIX-RC in that (i) they require a significantly larger design effort and (ii) they only decouple register-to-register communication and/or false memory dependence communication by speculating.
An iWarp system2 implements special-purpose arrays that execute fine- and coarse-grained parallel numerical programs. However, without an efficient broadcast mechanism, iWarp’s fast communication cannot reach the speedups offered by HELIX-RC.
Several automatic methods to extract TLP have demonstrated respectable speedups on commodity multicore processors for non-numerical programs.5, 8, 13, 23 All of these methods transform loops into parallel threads. Decoupled Software Pipelining (DSWP)13 reduces sensitivity to communication latency by restructuring a loop to create a pipeline among the extracted threads with unidirectional communication between pipeline stages. Demonstrated both on simulators and on real systems, DSWP performance is largely insensitive to latency. However, significant restructuring of the loop makes speedups difficult to predict and generated code can sometimes be slower than the original. Moreover, DSWP faces the challenges of selecting appropriate loops to parallelize and keeping the pipeline balanced at runtime. While DSWP-based approaches focus more on restructuring loops to hide communication latency,8, 13 HELIX-RC proposes an architecture-compiler co-design strategy that selects the most appropriate loops for parallelization.
Combining DSWP with HELIX-RC has the potential to yield significantly better performance than either alone. DSWP cannot easily scale beyond 4 cores14 without being combined with approaches that exploit parallelism among loop iterations (e.g., DOALL).8 While DSWP + DOALL can scale beyond several cores, DOALL parallelism is not easy to find in non-numerical code. Instead, DSWP + HELIX-RC presents an opportunity to parallelize a much broader set of loops.
Several TLS-based techniques,7, 10, 20 including Stanford Hydra, POSH, and STAMPede, combine hardware-assisted Thread Level Speculation (TLS) with compiler optimizations to manage dependences between loop iterations executing in different threads. When the compiler identifies sources and destinations of frequent dependences, it synchronizes using
signal primitives; otherwise, it uses speculation. HELIX-RC, on the other hand, optimizes code assuming all dependences are actual. While we believe adding speculation may help HELIX-RC, Figure 5 shows decoupled communication already yields significant speedups without misspeculation overheads.
HELIX-RC shows how to accelerate non-numerical programs by exploiting parallelism between the iterations of their small loops. Successfully mapping the iterations of such loops onto multiple cores of a single chip requires a low-latency, broadcast interconnect between cores. This interconnect needs to be proactive (so that communication starts as soon as data is generated), and it must be able to update memory locations stored in each core’s private cache.
Adding multiple cores to a single chip has been proposed, studied, and realized in products since the 90’s (Ref. Olukotun et al.12), but the majority of these cores are still under-utilized even after more than 15 years’ effort in both compiler and programming language research. Having reached the “ILP wall,” industry now relies on these multiple cores to gain performance from each system. However, successful uses of multiple cores exist only when the goal is maximizing throughput combined with massive data parallelism or parallelism among multiple programs, as is available in Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) computing or within data centers. On the other hand, if single program performance is the target and there is little or no data parallelism available (e.g., non-numerical programs running on mobile phones or client computers), then only a few cores are actually used, leaving the majority of them under-utilized.1 Our work shows how to actually take advantage of the cores that are available within a single chip when running non-numerical programs, highlighting the great potential of including hardware support for a proactive, cache-based, low-latency core-to-core interconnect.
Our work demonstrates the fundamental value of having a low-latency interconnect to boost the performance of complex, non-numerical programs. The dependence between communication latency and performance of a program has already been observed in high-performance computing domains.17 Moreover, prior work on on-chip networks has shown the value of a low-latency interconnect both for programs with regular control and data flows22, 25 and for a novel research architecture.6, 21 Our work is the first to demonstrate the value of a cache-based, low latency interconnect between cores of commodity processors for accelerating complex, non-numerical programs running on a chip.
HELIX-RC has the potential to influence the adoption of proactive, cache-based, and one-to-many interconnects in commodity processors. To quantify the need for such solutions, we measured the communication latency between adjacent cores in several generations of Intel commodity processors. As highlighted in Figure 1a, conventional reactive solutions have latencies of around 100 cycles. The figure shows that, among the five generations of Intel processors we considered, adjacent core latency bounces around 100 cycles without a monotonic trend over time. This suggests that there is no reason to expect conventional solutions (reactive hardware-driven) to improve in the future.
HELIX-RC motivates shifting inter-core communication mechanisms towards alternative cache-based solutions, in which a compiler identifies for the hardware the code that will generate shared data. The architecture, for its part, will proactively communicate modified values to make them locally accessible by other cores. This allows a drastic cut in the latency of remote data access, which, therefore, allows a parallelizing compiler to take advantage of the substantial latent parallelism between the iterations of small loops.


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Common ragweed is a summer annual broadleaf weed that produces a high amount of pollen and is a highly competitive species. Ragweed is a species whose pollen is implicated in human allergies. This broadleaf weed does well in poor soil conditions that are low in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
The cotyledons of Common Ragweed are oblong in shape with leaves that have a purple underside and grow opposite one another. As the plant matures, its leaves will become alternate. Hypocotyls (main stem) are green with purple spots (in most instances).
Leaves can be distinguished through finely divided growth, are egg shaped and range from 4-10 cm in length. Stems grow erect with branching and grow long rough hairs. Fruits are yellow to brown in colour and are made of 4-7 projections that give them the appearance of a crown. Male flowers are found in the upper portions of the plant and female flowers are in the lower regions. Common ragweed can range from 20-250 cm in height.
Optimal growth conditions
The species Ambrosia artemisiifolia is commonly found in waste areas and it prefers full sunlight with low pH and high soil nutrients. The plant can also withstand dry conditions.

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When introduced back in 2017, the MB&F HM7 Aquapod was a legitimate amazement… Like a stun, truly. This watch, a jellyfish-inspired watch, with a plunging bezel, a vertical development with tourbillon, a respectable water obstruction and a natural plan, looked like nothing else available. Strong, abnormal, marvelous, imaginative, ugly… I’ve seldom encountered a watch that gathered such countless various descriptive words. Responses were solid, in the two bearings – which I consider an accomplishment for such an idea piece. Today, after the debut beat up adaptations , and the titanium/green model , MB&F dispatches another piece in the HM7 Aquapod arrangement, in red!
John Doe “What is that..?” – Me “MB&F’s most recent watch, a red HM7” – John Doe “sorry, I don’t get it” – Me “normal, that’s an UTO or unidentified timekeeping object“. John Doe “But why…?” Me “Why not, dude!”
While the inquiry on the off chance that I for one like or not this watch is superfluous here – every one of you will have his own assessment – the genuine point is extraordinary. Do we need to justify contemporary workmanship and to give a purpose for its creation cycle? Not that I am mindful of. Thought is above and beyond enough to comprehend the raison d’être of craftsmanship. In this example, consider this watch as an imaginative, unclassified, unexplainable piece of watchmaking craftsmanship. Will it please the majority? Surely not (and clearly, shockingly better thusly). Is it questionable, over the top, eccentric? Assuredly. Is it down to earth, practical, reasonable… so, does it bode well? No, yet who cares!
Following this supposition, which works for the majority of MB&F’s Horological Machines, the brand’s most recent piece makes no exemption for the standard. It is luxurious, conspicuous, huge, complex, practically ludicrous yet appropriately exceptional – and that makes it cool. In view of the HM7 idea, Max’ vision of a sea-going watch – don’t think of it as a jump observe either, yet a watch that can without much of a stretch take a dip – MB&F brings here a splendid, striking variant in platinum and red. Much more select, considerably more fragmenting than past models…
After a few space-inspired watches (HM2, HM3 and HM6), after a few vehicle inspired pieces (HM5, HMX and HM8) and even a plane-inspired creation (HM4), the MB&F HM7 Aquapod ventures out into the water with its more natural, less mechanical motivation. The plan has been made around the state of a jellyfish – see the round focal body and the lash, connected to the case like limbs. This new motivation was combined with old style MB&F components, for example, a strange presentation of the time or a vertically mounted development set under an enormous glass bubble.
The watch is developed around concentric rings, beginning from the focal tourbillon – heart and cerebrum of the watch… Just like a jellyfish has a ring of neurons as a mind. Around it are two pivoting rings that are utilized to show the time, with hours and minutes. At last, around the inward shell of this watch is set a unidirectional bezel, which can be utilized to time a jumping meeting – or cooking pasta, up to you. Not at all like most other jump watches available, the MB&F HM7 Aquapod’s bezel isn’t appended to the situation, yet glides separated, as though it was unattached to the case.
The watch is monstrous – 53.8mm in breadth, 21.3mm in tallness – smooth and bended for what it’s worth and sits on the wrist like nothing else you might have attempted previously. It’s both a visual and material article. The development, created and manufactured in-house by MB&F, has a balanced origination, with the managing organ (a one-minute tourbillon) set on top, directly in the focal point of the watch, uncovered under a profoundly domed sapphire air pocket. At long last, power is brought to the development by a winding rotor, put on the other side of this type, as a stabilizer to the tourbillon on top. The “arms” of this rotor are created from strong titanium in a complex three-dimensional way.
For its fourth release, the MB&F HM7 Aquapod embraces the most extraordinary and generally extravagant of the metals, just as one amazingly striking tone for its bezel. The combination of a 950 platinum case with a red addition for the bezel is differentiated, brilliant, strange and obviously, many will be stunned. In any case, it is actually this surprising demeanor that gatherers of such watches are looking for. Much the same as the green form, the clay bezel of the beat up models has been supplanted by a sapphire precious stone ring where numbers and markers are laser-engraved and loaded up with brilliant material, alongside a layer of splendid red lacquer.
Some other oddities have been executed on this new MB&F HM7 Platinum Red. Notwithstanding the new material and tones, the brand additionally adds a sapphire gem connect on top of the tourbillon’s balance. At long last, the hours and minutes rings includes another plan, with three-dimensional numerals etched in titanium – a material picked for its daintiness, to have as little weight on these ring, not to harm the development. They are whatever amount of more complex to machine than the aluminum rings utilized on other variants. The numerals are loaded up with untinted Super-LumiNova. An AGT Ultra innovation (Ambiant Glow Technology) iridescent ring encompasses the flying tourbillon.
The MB&F HM7 Platinum Red is delivered with 3 elastic tie (red, dark, white) formed in airplane grade Fluorocarbon FKM 70 Shore An elastomer – exceptionally soft to the touch – with collapsing lock in platinum. It will be restricted to 25 pieces and evaluated at CHF 155,000 (Excl. taxes).
Another amazingly bizarre, questionable piece by Max Büsser and Friends… adequately funny, I can recollect Max saying that the very first moment of his manifestations would be collectively perceived as great (simply great, no more), it would imply that his imagination is dead. No concerns Max, this one will again incite many restricting opinions!
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(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Every fall the massive Carlisle Swap Meet happens in Pennsylvania and draws gearheads from all over North America. This is a place to find cars, parts, memorabilia, and old stuff galore. Our man Joe Grippo was on the scene and while the weather was slightly more damp than anyone would have liked it to be, the people, the cars, the trucks, and the stuff were still there. Hardcore shoppers likely got great deals at the event because of the fact that the less intrepid gearheads of the world were probably at home wrapped up in a blanket drinking hot chocolate. Wussies!
You’ll see bikes, go karts, rotted cars, cool trucks, and even a wrecker that we featured as an eBay find a few weeks ago. That wrecker is incidentally one of the neatest and nicest we have ever seen. The ramp truck Chevrolet would be perfect to haul a bracket car around on and to move non-running projects as well.
Thanks to Joe and his wife for hitting the event despite the weather and sharing their photos with us. We’re always on the road for this deal and it stinks to miss it!


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With Restful Pet, your pet will experience NATURAL, SAFE, and EFFECTIVE relief from situational anxiety, digestive upset, and stress.
WHO IS HOMESCAPE PETS? We're Nana and Marcus (the humans). We're also Beau, Quinn, and Minnie (the pups). We're a family just like yours. Our pets are just like yours. We wanted to stop in and share with you a bit of who we are and why Homescape Pets exists.

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Fairbank Farms E. coli Outbreak LawsuitMarler Clark’s E. coli lawyers filed a lawsuit against Fairbank Farms on behalf of 12-year-old Andrea Munro, a Marshfield, Massachusetts resident, on November 3, 2009. Andrea ate ground beef produced by Fairbank Farms on September 24, 2009 and became ill with an E. coli infection on September 28. She was hospitalized for six days as a result of her infection. While hospitalized, Andrea tested positive for E. coli O157:H7.
Marler Clark filed two additional lawsuits in the outbreak, both on behalf of Maine residents. The claims of all Marler Clark clients have been resolved for confidential sums.
On October 31, 2009, Fairbank Farms recalled 545,699 pounds of fresh ground beef products for potential E. coli contamination. The U.S. Department of Agriculture stated that “The recall was based on an ongoing investigation by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts state health and agriculture departments into a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 infections.”
By November 3, 2009, the CDC announced that at least 28 people from 12 states had become infected with a matching strain of E. coli O157:H7. Further DNA testing on the bacteria isolated from ill individuals continued.
Of the 28 people who have become ill with E. coli O157:H7 during this outbreak, 26 became ill between September 17 and October 10, 2009. Six patients were reportedly hospitalized due to their E. coli infections, and three developed hemolytic uremic syndrome. Two people died in the outbreak as well.

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BLS, High School diploma or GED, and previous participation in fitness classes required. A minimum of two years of college level course in a health/fitness-related field or equivalent work experience preferred.
A fitness instructor is responsible for teaching fitness classes at the hospital and various community locations. This position works with all age groups and must remain abreast of changes in fitness research.
If you have any questions regarding careers at Henry County Hospital please contact us using the email address below.
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Just after eating foie gras macarons in New York, Padma Lakshmi touched down for a fab vacation in Italy. And what's the first scrumptious grub she tucked into when she landed? Apropos of a famous foodie with execellent culinary judgement, the host of Bravo's Top Chef went right for the world's best pizza. (With apologies to NYC.)
Indeed, while Padma's taking a load off in the land of superior carbohydrates, she's hitting wood-fired ovens like a champ. In a July 31 Instagram post, the famous foodie shared a series of snaps from her first day in the Italian city. "Had some bomb [pizza emoji]" she shared to caption photos of said snack — which, yes, looks bomb.
In one clip, "Sexual Healing" plays in the background as chefs drizzle olive oil over a freshly baked pizza. Erotic!
Next, followers get a close-up view of said pies. And in the next photo, Padma poses with the very people who prepared the classically Italian meal: the chefs of 50 Kalò Pizzeria. (Bow down!)
Scroll through to take a look at the cheese-drenched footage, and just try to resist ordering out for pizza on the spot:
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Excitement at the opportunities presented by the Middle East market for suppliers worldwide shows little sign of abating, as local factors including the strength of the economy, rising incomes and a regional trend towards healthier eating combine with international events such as the Russian ban on EU and US produce to attract truly global interest.
This was the principal messages gleaned from the Eurofruit Business Forum, which took place in Dubai this week alongside the WOP Dubai exhibition.
Visitors and exhibitors to the fair heard presentations from an international cast of speakers, learning of the planned global expansion of Saudi date exports, as well as the growing interest in the market from Polish topfruit suppliers, Belgian berry exporters, Moldovan apple and grape growers and US pear companies.
Europeans eye opportunities
Peter White of DAI Moldova stressed the excellent taste of the country's produce. "We may not be able to compete with the giant supply countries when it comes to volumes, but we can definitely compete on taste," he said. "Apples are the main item, but Moldova also produces great-tasting grapes, stonefruit and walnuts."
Jan Engelen of Belgian cooperative Veiling Hoogstraten revealed that just 1 per cent of Belgian strawberries were currently sold in the Middle East market, a figure that was "far too low".
"We believe in this market," he said, "and we want to see this percentage increase by next year. The berry segment is growing and the health perception of strawberries fits the consumer trend here nicely."
Rajpol's Dominik Wozniak focused on the quality of the Polish cooperative's apples and highlighted the potential of many of its varieties on the market, including Gala, Red Jonaprince, Golden Delicious and Champion.
A recurring theme was the challenge of introducing unfamiliar varieties to the Middle East. Belgian strawberries, for example, must compete with well established varieties from the US, Australia and Egypt – no mean feat.
"Ours have a shorter shelf life," said Engelen, "but they taste better. So our task now is to get local consumers used to this new product."
Learning from experience
Lessons can be learnt from the likes of USA Pears, whose Jeff Correa discussed the efforts made by the organisation to address the scant attention once given to pears by the region's buyers.
"It takes time to introduce a new variety to consumers," he explained. "When we released the Red Anjou here, many people initially thought it was an apple. Forelle and Bosc have good potential in the Middle East. We have started to communicate direct to consumers, through our new website, social media, consumer magazines and diet centres."
Stefano Iorini of Memag Trading discussed the opportunities for international suppliers in the Saudi market. The population's growing travails with obesity and diabetes are now encouraging a similarly huge trend in healthy eating, he said.
He equally stressed the importance of finding the right partner in the region, particularly when it came to the Saudi market, where variable transit times and high temperatures can present severe challenges.
Iorini strongly recommended the use of independent quality surveyors such as D-Quality Survey, whose Tia Borcharding highlighted the growing efforts being made in the region to improve quality standards. "We used to see category one fruit with category three quality," she said. "But things are now very different from when we started."
As a result of these rising standards, the surveyor's arrival reports are sought not just in the UAE, but also in Oman and Kuwait, while an opening in Saudi Arabia is imminent.
"We are also expanding into offering departure reports," she announced. "We will be starting in South Africa, as it is a big shipper to this market, so we will be able to link the departure reports with the arrival reports. This will be of great benefit, both to local traders and international suppliers."
Delivering on dates
Finally, Abdulrahman Al-Janobi, CEO of Saudi Arabia's National Center for Palms & Dates, told visitors of the organisation's efforts to boost the kingdom's date exports, not just throughout the Gulf, but also internationally.
"We cooperate closely with Saudi farmers to increase productivity and quality, as well as in innovations regarding processing and packaging," he said. "We produce 1.1m tonnes per year, but this year we expect around 1.3m. There are around 400 different varieties available, so one of our jobs is to encourage producers to grow the right ones – some are best for the domestic market, while others are more suitable for export."

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Coming to the end of the course
I'm wondering what happens when I finish the course. Will I still be able to go back and practice the old lessons or will I be locked out? I find the lessons so valuable for review and I don't want to have Duolingo lock me out from Swedish when I'm not proficient yet.
You can review to your heart's content. Any additional lessons/content will also be available. So do not worry.
And congrats on wrapping up the course!
Tack! I've been working on it for almost two years! But I'm an old guy and it's really difficult to learn a new language. (Notice I'm responding in English, my native tongue.)

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Dolce & Gabbana lends the classic black blazer an alluring update with this iteration made from stretch wool. A fitted silhouette, it has pointed lapels, and is elevated into the ultra-glamorous territory the label is known for with its leopard print satin lining.
material: 99% wool, 1% elastane
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Gov. Malloy Signs Order Implementing the State Water Plan
Reaffirms Commitment to Water as a Public Trust
(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Dannel P. Malloy today signed an executive order directing the state’s Water Planning Council (WPC) to immediately implement the State Water Plan that was submitted to the Connecticut General Assembly in January 2018.
The plan, which was ordered by the General Assembly through Public Act 14-163, was developed by the WPC to balance the needs of public water supply, economic development, recreation, and ecological health. It was completed through an exhaustive and transparent process that included an extended period of public comment from all stakeholders. The plan required legislative review and approval, but the legislative session ended without action from the General Assembly.
A major point of contention for some legislators was a provision in the State Water Plan’s executive summary that declares water a public trust – a declaration of public policy that has been enshrined in state statute for more than 40 years. The Governor’s executive order recommits to the definition of water as a public trust.
“The State Water Plan is a critically important initiative that puts the needs of Connecticut families ahead of the commercial interests of private water utility companies and big businesses,” Governor Malloy said. “We should all be able to agree that water is a precious resource that should be protected for the public’s interest and safeguarded for future generations in the event of emergencies. Today’s executive order does just that, ensuring that we waste no time safeguarding our clean water supply.”
In addition to implementing the State Water Plan, the executive order takes the following actions:
- Directs the WPC to coordinate and work with the advisory group established pursuant to Section 25-33o(c) to help implement the State Water Plan.
- Orders the WPC to resubmit the State Water Plan to the General Assembly for its review and approval by December 1.
“Connecticut’s water resources are among the purest and most well protected in the nation, and the State Water Plan ensures that this public trust resource will be wisely stewarded for future generations,” Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Rob Klee said. “This plan, developed through a consensus-based stakeholder process, provides the data and guidance needed for our state to make informed choices in managing this precious resource.”
“The preservation, management and use of water is critical to Connecticut’s future,” Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Raul Pino said. “I thank the Governor for championing this important, multi-year plan that is designed to ensure a balanced use of this most precious natural resource, and we look forward to working with the administration, the legislature and the other members of the Water Planning Council to enact the State Water Plan.”
“Public Trust is a policy that recognizes the public’s inherent right to clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment,” Alicea Charamut of Connecticut River Conservancy said. “Here in Connecticut, we are fortunate to have this public trust policy solidified in statute – a statute that has been in place for 40 years. But those who profit from our water resources consider this policy a threat to their bottom line and seek to undermine its principal. They claim its inclusion in Connecticut’s State Water Plan as it currently resides will introduce uncertainty and confusion. To the contrary, honoring Connecticut’s public trust policy will ensure that we have clean and adequate water for public health, the environment, recreation and the economy for generations to come.”
The WPC is comprised of representatives four agencies: the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the Department of Public Health, the Office of Policy and Management and Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.
The State Water Plan is the first of its kind in Connecticut.
**Download: Governor Malloy’s Executive Order No. 66

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Disney’s Live-Action Mulan Casts Jet Li, Gong Li & More
Disney’s adding more star power to Mulan with the additions of Jet Li and Gong Li. The live-action remake of Mulan is the latest effort from Disney to recycle their animated tales in a new light. This formula has so far proven to be very financially lucrative for the studio, spurning them on to develop even more projects of this ilk. Although the live-action Mulan was delayed to 2020 earlier this year, the casting process is well underway now.
Casting began late last year, when Liu Yifei was confirmed to play Mulan in the live-action retelling. However, she was the only cast member officially onboard for director Niki Caro’s film until ...
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Villa | 3 bedrooms | sleeps 6
European built to high standard contemporary designed with quality interiors by Isa Designs.Master bedroom with 6 ft four poster bed, luxury bathroom wet room & panoramic views.2 deluxe double bedrooms with bathrooms all air conditioned. Infinity swimming pool accessed directly from your bedroom. Cool off, sit in the pool & enjoy the view. The patio terraces provide comfortable sun loungers to enjoy the sun or relax in the shade under the ceiling fans on the terrace. Dine overlooking Choeng Mon Bay or soak in the Jacuzzi.
The open plan living area provides a fully equipped kitchen with everything you expect for self catering. Dining inside the villa allows you to enjoy the beautiful view in a air conditioned luxury ambiance. Luxury lounge with flat screened TV satellite/DVD. Walk down to the beach or visit the local bars and shops.ATM machines and internet cafes plenty. .Broadband/ Wifi now installed. Ongoing building work on the site, no interference to your holiday.Self cater in style, enjoy the sunsets, this is what relaxing is all about.
|Size||Sleeps up to 6, 3 bedrooms|
|Nearest beach||Cheong Beach 400 m|
|Will consider||Corporate bookings, Long term lets (over 1 month), Short breaks (1-4 days)|
|Nearest Amenities||400 m|
|Nearest travel links||Nearest airport: Koh Samui international airport 5 km|
|Family friendly||Great for children of all ages, Suitable for people with restricted mobility|
|Notes||No pets allowed, No smoking at this property|
Features and Facilities
|Luxuries||Jacuzzi or hot tub, Internet access, DVD player, Staffed property, Sea view|
|General||Air conditioning, TV, Safe, Satellite TV, Wi-Fi available|
|Standard||Kettle, Toaster, Hair dryer|
|Utilities||Clothes dryer, Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine|
|Rooms||3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms of which 3 En suites|
|Furniture||Double beds (3), Cots (1), Dining seats for 12, Lounge seats for 6|
|Other||Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair|
|Outdoors||Balcony or terrace, Private garden|
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Master bedroom has a fantastic 4 poster bed, as comfortable as any 5 star hotel, with a large en suite bathroom.
The Koh Samui region
Koh Samui has a all year temperture of approx 30 degrees c. The rainny season is November but as a tropical island it does rain in other months but not for long. It is approx 1 hours flight from bangkok and has one of the most beautiful airports in the world, it is always a pleasure to fly to the island.
The main tourist town is called Chawang and it approx 10 mins car journey from our villa. There are hundreds of bars restaurants and shops with a very thrilling night life in chawang and plenty of taxis to take you back to cheong mon.
The beachs on koh samui are the best in the world and there is always some beach you can find which will be praticaly empty. There are plenty of places to explore around the island from the big budda at Bophut to Elephant trekking in middle of the island but it is the weather which is so fantastic all the year round. You are living in Paradise if its is 5 days or 15 days there is always something to do.
Cheong Mon beach is approx 8 mins walk from the villa, and it is one the best beachs in the world. The sea is always warm and if you stay within 25 yards of shore, you will be lucky if the water comes up to your chin. The beach is in a bay and the waters just lap the sands, it is so relaxing having a meal on the beach at one of the restaurants by the sea.
As the island is so small, to drive around the island probably takes around 2-3 hours depending if you stop off at any of the beach bars for a cool relaxing drink.
Kalamona villa over looks over cheong mon beach with a gorgous view of the sea and island.. There are many restaurants and bars in cheong mon, plenty of ATM machines, shops and tailors.
Driving 10 mins by car you get to a lovely little place called Fishermans village, where it is much smaller and quieter than Chawang the main town but has excellent restaurants and shops and bars and once again you can have dinner just 1 or 2 meters from the sea on the beach, just haven!!!!
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What is Uniswap (UNI)?
Uniswap is a decentralized token exchange protocol that allows for peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading. It is based on the principles of liquidity pools and automated market markers (AMM) for trading ERC-20 tokens. Built in 2018, Uniswap is the second-largest project by market capitalization in the world. Uniswap aims to make it easier to buy and sell […]

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iPhone 5 Features
People are recklessly waiting for the smart phone as an upcoming star, because the 5th generation of iPhone is being released with all its glory. Apple does not announce the exact features of iphone5,but
we can expect some of the features or specifications of new iPhone 5,in terms of both hardware and software upgrades will surely fascinating any smart phone buyer.
Following are the most important specifications of upcoming phone.
1. Greatest A5 processor chip
2. icloud service
3. High resolution camera
4. 4-inch screen size.
Greatest A5 processor chip
The new icloud service is introduced for wireless remote a way of approach for music for all computers and mobile devices. icloud will allow to store photos, calendars’ and documents without storing in the iPhone memory. icloud can also be named as iphonemini.
High resolution camera
IPhone mini could have less storage than typical iphone; upto 8 gigabytes of storage. IPhone 5 will house the A5 as the main processor, Which technically is the same chip that currently powers the iPad 2? The A5 contains a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU with NEON SIMD accelerator and a dual core Power VR SGX543MP2 GPU, which means that the iPhone5 can do twice the work at once. The processor speed will be somewhere between 1.2 to 1.5 GHz, with probably a 1GB RAM.
IPhone 4 has the 5 megapixel camera so it is expecting the iPhone 5 have a rear facing 8 mp dual-LED flash camera. However, the iPhone 5 could be slightly wider and thinner. The dimensions are calculated to be: 4.33? x 2.36? and .27? thickness at the top and .21? at the Bottom, whereas the dimensions of iPhone 4 are: 4.5? x 2.31? x .37?. Some other features are; Face Recognition Security
4-inch Screen Size
·4G/LTE support – According the AT&T documents leaked by LulzSec, the Apple iPhone 5 will offer 4G and will be LTE (Long Term Evolution) network compatible. LTE is a project of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), and is the latest standard in the mobile network
· A new, sleeker body design
· OLED screen
· Scratch proof and shatter proof screen
· Wireless sync with iTunes
· Extended battery life
· Flash support
Some More About iPhone 5
· SIM-Less Phone – According to International Business Times, it is rumored that the iPhone 5 will feature a new SIM-less design with 2 to 3 internal antennas for CDMA and GSM compatibility, which will make it a “world phone”.
· Physical Keyboard
· Increased Ram (from 512MB to 1GB)
· New Multi-tasking Look
· HD Audio
· Built In GPS
These are some are the progressive points that we can expect from Apple, but these are not 100% true. Apple wants to compete against Android smart phone makers like HTC and SAMSUNG, so that’s why iPhone 5 will presenting these well defined features.
Release of iPhone 5
In summer WWDC, Apple follows the tradition to launch but this did’nt happen, so it will launch in early October. Iphone4 was the most successful smart phone, we are expecting, not only
expecting but sure about the sale of iPhone 5. Apple stores will definitely filled with people.
Regarding price of iPhone 5, it is not announced yet but expecting that it will be same price as iPhone 4 when it was released. But as we know Apple, the price of new iPhone 5 would be high earlier.


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Police in Detroit confirmed they situated the physique of 2-year-old Wynter Cole Smith Wednesday on town’s east aspect, bringing a tragic finish to a days-long seek for the lacking youngster.
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The Two-Yr-Outdated’s Father Speaks Out Alongside Police
The kid’s father, Almount Smith, has spoken out, per the Detroit Free Press.
“…no excellent news… She was discovered.”
Moreover, Lansing Police Chief Ellery Sosebee has shared that authorities’ “hearts are with the household of Wynter Cole Smith.”
“Our hearts are with the household of Wynter Cole Smith. We noticed an amazing quantity of help for this household… I promise that the household will get the justice they deserve.”
Wynter went lacking Sunday (Jul. 2) after her mom’s ex-boyfriend, Rashad Trice, 26, stabbed her mother earlier that night, the outlet studies. Trice has remained in police custody since being arrested early Monday.
The kid’s mom suffered non-life-threatening accidents and has already been discharged from the hospital.
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Authorities Joined By Volunteers In Search For Wynter, Police Say It’s Now A Murder Investigation
In the meantime, authorities had been joined by dozens of volunteers as they combed by way of wooded areas and roadway shoulders alongside the Interstate 496 overpass close to the Pink Cedar River, in addition to U.S. 127, on Wednesday, per the Lansing State Journal.
Wynter’s physique was found round 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, in response to authorities.
“At roughly 6:50 p.m. this night, the physique of Wynter Cole Smith was recovered by FBI brokers, this isn’t the result that we had been hoping for,” Sosebee stated throughout an look at Lansing Metropolis Corridor as per Fox 2 Detroit.
Moreover, Sosebee defined the investigation had turn out to be a murder case after discovering Wynter’s physique.
Nonetheless, authorities haven’t charged Trice with Wynter’s homicide as of Thursday. They initially arrested him on fees of felony sexual conduct, house invasion, illegal imprisonment, and home violence, the Detroit Free Press studies.
Tragic Replace: on Monday Michigan residents obtained an Amber Alert round 2:30 AM when repeat offender Rashad Trice violently beat his ex girlfriend and kidnapped her two 12 months outdated daughter Wynter Smith from her Lansing house.
Trice was caught and apprehended however the lady… pic.twitter.com/zCGn8LjxjS
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Homicide Costs Pending Towards Wynter’s Mom’s Ex-Boyfriend
In the meantime, Sosebee added that native police are coordinating with prosecutors to arrange the potential homicide fees towards Trice.
Authorities say Trice left with the kid from her Lansing house after reportedly stabbing the toddler’s mom on Sunday.
Police issued an Amber Alert after he reportedly fled to close by Detroit with Wynter, in response to the Detroit Free Press. Regulation enforcement finally arrested Trice in St. Clair Shores. Nonetheless, the kid was not with him on the time of his arrest.
This can be a creating story. You’ll want to test again in with The Shade Room for extra updates as they arrive.
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text: If you have watched Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Then you would not be able to strange to this series. Halloween is almost approaching. And I was thinking about what will be an excellent theme for this post. Then I am impressed by our new arrivals of Jewelry. It brings me a lot of inspiration. By the way, do you decide what looks will be your dressing up on Halloween? Or would you like to find out some interesting accessories for Halloween? As far as I’m concerned, Maleficent is a wonderful idea.

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The first details of Coffs Coast Rally have been confirmed with Raleigh Raceway to host exciting Super Special Stages during the event.
Serving as both the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship and RSEA Safety Motorsport Australia Rally Championship (ARC) finale, the event will take place at the end of November.
The two stages confirmed for Raleigh Raceway will feature exciting side by side racing between the best rally crews in the Asian Pacific region and Australia.
Taking place over a two-kilometre stage, crews will be paired up with another a similar seeded crew where they will race against both the clock and each other on the specifically designed course.
To remove any advantages, the crews will then swap starting places for the second pass of the stage.
Open to spectators, the Super Special Stages will run on the Saturday afternoon of the event, beginning in the afternoon and concluding under lights.
The exciting style is quite uncommon in Australian rally, with the 2019 Adelaide Hill Rally the last event to hold this sort of spectacle.
During that event, crews battled it out against each other under lights on the newly built circuit, The Bend Motorsport Park.
Raleigh Raceway regularly holds club level rallycrosses and was a major part of Rally Australia, however this will be the first time two cars go side-by-side in a competition.
More details on the final round of the ARC will be released in the coming weeks.
The 2022 Coffs Coast Rally will take place in and around the Coffs Coast on 25-27 November.


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Hua Hin is a top destination in Thailand and growing more popular each year featuring all the elements for a tropical vacation like few other. Besides its luxury 5 star hotels Hua Hin sports miles of sun drenched beaches, a placid ocean safe for swimming, many markets and seaside restaurants. Narrow streets meander through the down town area which always exude a jovial mood.
The area has top notch golf courses, fabulous water parks for family recreation, temples to visit, a national park and the Pal-U waterfall is great for a Sunday picnic. In our Hua Hin image gallery below we try to capture some of the town's charms, but this is a location much better experienced than looking at pictures of the nightlife, photos of beaches and its many other attractions.
The area is easily accessible being only 200 kilometers from Bangkok and sports luxurious seaside hotels and resorts, mid-range accommodation and cheap rooms right on the water’s edge. It is also a wine producing area and at the Hua Hin Hills vineyards you can hop on an elephant and go pick your own grapes before sitting down to the farms restaurant for a delectable meal. For a family friendly vacation along the Shores of the Gulf of Thailand, set your sights on this royal town.
Hua Hin Gallery
Hua Hin Beach
Fishing boats along one of Hua Hin's beaches
Black Mountain Water Park Hua Hin
Black Mountain is one of 2 water parks in Hua Hin and a huge draw with families.
Hua Hin Luxury Hotels
Hua Hin offers 1st class luxury 5 star hotels with private pools like the centrally located Cape Nidhra.
Golf Courses in Hua Hin
With more than 10 golf courses in and around Hua Hin it has become a magnet for golfing enthusiasts.
Khao Takiab Hua Hin
The Big Buddha statue on Takiab Hill in Hua Hin acting as overlord over he Gulf of Thailand.
Golfing in Hua Hin
Hua Hin features challenging golf courses as well as golf tuition.
Hua Hin at Christmas
Though Thais are predominantly Buddhist, they make an effort to decorate the town and create a Christmas spirit.
Hua Hin Beach
The beach in Hua Hin stretches for miles and except for a small area near the Hilton Hotel and Centara Grand Beach resort there are no rocks and the beach shelves slowly to make it safe for swimming.
Hua Hin Beach at sunset
The beach of Hua Hin at sunset as seen from Takiab Hill.
Hua Hin Harbour
The area near the Hua Hin harbour where many restaurants are built over the water.
Hua Hin Pony Rides
All along he beach pony rides are offers for kids and adults.
Beachfront Hotels in Hua Hin
Beachfront hotels like the Hyatt offers luxury accommodation in Hua Hin
Hua Hin Beach Life
Countless restaurants, bars and informal traders are found along Hua Hin Beach
Hua Hin Night Market
Hua Hin feature several large night markets where you can buy clothes, leather accessories and jewelry as well as enjoy mouthwatering food.
Hua Hin Night Market Restaurants
From seafood restaurants to Mexican food and European dishes, you can have your pic at the Hua Hin night markets
Bars and pubs in Hua Hin
The nightlife area around soi Bintabaht features an inexhaustable number of bars, pubs, restaurants, cigar lounges and wine bars.
Hua Hin Live Music Bars
Live music bars in Hua Hin
Plearnwan Hua Hin
Plearnwan is located in the main road of Hua Hin. Visually depicting Hua Hin of yesteryear you can get a glimpse of what Hua Hin looked like and how people lived 100 years ago.
Hua Hin Restaurants
Some restaurants in down town Hua Hin feature a wooden deck built over the water at high tide for a special dining experience.
Down Town Hua Hin
The down-town entertainment are in Hua Hin features anything from massage parlours to pubs and restaurants.
Hua Hin railway Station
The railway station in Hua Hin is a charming historic attraction still featuring the royal waiting room.
Hua Hin City Centre
View of Hua Hin city from Hin Lek Fai view point
Trendy beachfront restaurants in Hua Hin like I-Sea Restaurant are cool places to hang out on a Sunday evening.
Loykratong in Hua Hin
During Thai festivals like Loykratong elaborate floats and marches down the main road in traditional clothes creates a festive mood.
Hua Hin Market Village Mall
The developed infra structure of Hua Hin feature conveniences like the Market Village Mall among many others.
Marrakesh Resort Hua Hin
Hua Hin offers an extensive choice of beachfront condos like Marrakesh, for short term holiday rent.
Marrakesh Beachfront Holiday Condos
Marrakesh Beachfront Hua Hin
Sam Roi Yot National Park Near Hua Hin
Sam Roi Yot is a national park offering affordable accommodation one hour's drive from Hua Hin
Sam Roi Yot Beach
Sam Roi Yot Beach in Sam Roy Yot National Park near Hua Hin
Santorini Hua Hin
Located between Hua Hin and Cha-am Santorini is a shopping and entertainment park designed to emulate an image of Greece
Sheraton Hua Hin Resort
The Sheraton Hua Hin Resort & Spa features one of the biggest beachfront pools in Thailand
Monkey Mountain Hua Hin
Monkeys feeding on Monkey Mountain (Takiab Hill) in Hua Hin
Vana Nava Jungle Water Park
Vana Nava is the latest water park in Hua Hin. It features thrilling rides on huge water slides against a jungle theme backdrop.
Wat Huay Mongkol Hua Hin
Wat Huay Mongkol Hua Hin is a large and revered temple in Hua Hin.
Phraya Nakhon Cave
Located within Sam Roy Yot National Park is the beautiful and famous Phraya Nakhon Cave

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Not so long ago we posted a pair of Norton Antivirus ads featuring Dolph Lundgren doing battle with a unicorn
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I thought the animation was great- I have seen things worse.
I found this funny.
but i guess the funny elements of the video kinda faded away with the voice acting.
I must say - the idea was pretty original, and fun - the Voiceacting lacked a bit but it was allright, the only terrible thing in this video would be the mic.
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i loved this, very clever! i was gonna make a longer review about all the good points and creative criticism, but i took an arrow to the knee...
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Section 313(c) of the Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1313(c)), provides for drawback upon the exportation or destruction under CBP supervision of imported merchandise which has been entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, duty-paid, and which: Does not conform to sample or specifications; has been shipped without the consent of the consignee; or has been determined to be defective as of the time of importation; or ultimately sold at retail by the importer or the person who received the merchandise from the importer, and for any reason returned to and accepted by the importer or the person who received the merchandise from the importer. The total amount of drawback allowable will be 99 percent of the amount of duties paid with respect to the imported, duty-paid merchandise. See subpart P of this part for drawback of internal revenue taxes for unmerchantable or nonconforming distilled spirits, wines, or beer.

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We are a coffee shop and restaurant incorporating pizza which is made in a wood burning oven. Our menu caters for all tastes. We offer free unlimited Wi-Fi for our patrons which makes our venue an ideal business meeting place to have all your appointments and at the same time enjoy our delicious breakfasts and excellent organic coffee...
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This pooch is a regular Paw-blo Picasso.
Tillamook Cheddar, a 10-year-old Jack Russell terrier from Brooklyn, is quickly gaining notoriety as the world’s pre-eminent canine artist.
The dog’s abstract works — which are essentially scratch and bite marks on foam boards — have sold for more than $100,000 total in the canine’s decade-long career, and were recently displayed at the Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery on West 20th Street.
She’s also had 20 different exhibitions.
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I am sure that if you read my blog you have noticed 1. I’m a dreamer and 2. I have not been totally sure what I am doing or know what steps I should take to achieve my dreams. I really felt it this week. I kept asking myself what was I do? What is really going on in my life? Two things helped me not to freak out one was a reminder from a youtube video, the other was a reminder from myself in the form of a old journal entries. In the video Felicia Day talked about writing but really any dream/ creative talent. Creativity takes practice. The old journal entries simply reminded me of who I was and how far I came (which will be another blog).
With these reminders on my mind today,I spent the day focused on figuring how what success means to me, what dreams I want to make reality, and what I want my future to be. I did this by going through Donna Partow’s “21 Quick And Easy Ways To Make A Real Change In Your Life.” It is a short little 7 step e-book that use to be for free on her site. I believe that offer is over and she took the book down. It is a good simple book that can be a useful start.
By writing out my current goals and planing my daily schedule around it. I should have more interesting blogs to post and more writing to share with you as the days and weeks go by. First thing is first; what are my goals.
1.) I am going to read more than I watch television by reading a chapter in my Bible once a day and by reading at least a page in another book. For every chapter of the Bible I read and every page I read in my other book I will be rewarded with 10 minutes of television, with the exception of comic book, that ratio is 1 page = 1 minute.
2.) I am going to fit into my plaid pants by working out 15 minutes a day and 1 hour on Saturdays over the next 60 days. My reward will be a new outfit. – I want to draw attention to the fact that I am not trying to lose weight, simply trying to get into a healthier shape.
3.) I am going to strengthen my creativity by either writing or practicing a monologue for 10 minutes a day. After 2 months of doing this daily with 3 exceptions/ sick-days I will reward myself with a new video camera or editing software.
4.) I am going to post at least one video and one blog a week onto the internet (more specifically this blog) for accountability, feedback, tracking goals and growth and to find support that I other wise may not have found. Every 6 months of posting 1 video and 1 post, so that it adds up to be 45 posts I will reward myself with a weekend free of responsibilities.
5.) I am going to finish the 2nd draft of my novel in 1 year (May 3, 2015) by working on it for 2 hrs a week. I will reward myself with a party with my friends.
I have plans, tracking tools, negative consequences if I don’t meet my goals, and other information that I won’t bore you with. I do not think you would enjoy reading more lists (if you do let me know . I will share). I also plan on doing a video tomorrow to go along with this post. We shall see how that turns out. I may decide just to paint instead. Either way stay tuned for a video tomorrow.