Here is a much-needed attempt to reconcile optimization with apportionment in just-in-time (JIT) sequences. It argues that apportionment theory & optimization based on deviation functions provide benchmarks for a process, & examines recent developments. ...

Romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock as Margaret Tate, a tyrannical business executive on the brink of deportation from the United States back to her homeland of Canada. Margaret coerces her young assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds) into marrying her so that she can stay in the country & he can stay in his job. In order to keep up the facade, Margaret must now endure a trip to Alaska to meet her future in-laws (Mary Steenburgen & Craig T. Nelson). ...

Romantic comedy triple. Sandra Bullock stars in ' The Proposal' (2009) as Margaret Tate, a tyrannical business executive on the brink of deportation from the United States back to her homeland of Canada. Margaret coerces her young assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds) into marrying her so that she can stay in the country & he can stay in his job. In order to keep up the facade, Margaret must now endure a trip to Alaska to meet her future in-laws (Mary Steenburgen & Craig T. Nelson). In ' Runaway Bride' (1999), Ike Graham (Richard Gere) is a successful, flippant & misogynstic New York journalist, who writes an accusing piece on the antics of Maggie Carpenter (Julia Roberts), a Maryland woman who has left three men at the altar. When Maggie protests about the inaccuracies in the article, Ike is fired. Ike decides to pursue the story further, & journeys to Maryl&, where he meets Maggie & discovers she is due to be married for a fourth time. As Ike gets to know Maggie, he begins to fall for her charms, & realises why so many men before have been led down the aisle. In ' Pretty Woman', lonely businessman Edward Lewis (Gere) hires LA prostitute Vivian Ward (Roberts) to give him directions when he gets lost, & later to be his escort while he goes wheeling & dealing for a week. He buys her clothes, she softens his heart & the unlikely couple fall head over heels in love. ...

Offers 118 Liverpool ideas that include cleaning & restoring the clocks at Liverpool Lime Street Station; releasing a group of five gorillas into Liverpool's Sefton Park; designing a book-jacket logo for Liverpool University Press; &, installing owl boxes around the city of Liverpool to encourage owls to move into the city. ...