The author tries to assess the merits of Welvaart in Party Supplies zwart-wit [Affluence in black-and-white] by Kees Schuyt and Ed Taverne.He concludes that notwithstanding a certain lack of originality, Schuyt and Taverne have written a highly interesting and valuable book which convincingly captures the enigmatic spirit of the period around 1950.

In order to reduce costs of link embedding and increase revenue, a coordinated embedding algorithm based on link-first is proposed.The Hoodia algorithm embeds link and node alternately, and embeds the virtual link that with greater band-width requirement first to the physical path that with fewer link hops by using the greedy method, and ultimately