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James Ashton: Plenty to credit, but Osborne must tackle the investment deficit
The Chancellor knows he has the ingredients for a sustained recovery. The trick is to get them in the right proportion so the mixture is palatable for all
There is much to credit from yesterday's Autumn Statement: higher growth, lower borrowing, rising employment. Five years on from the banking bust, the figures told a story of an economy on the mend.
And yet there is so much to question too, such as: if more people are in work, when will the social security bill start falling? And, if confidence is breeding in the capital's boardrooms, when will business investment begin rising again?
George Osborne knows he has the ingredients here for a sustained recovery. The trick is to get them in the right proportion so the mixture is palatable for all.
Chief executives I talk to aren't universally happy with their lot – that wouldn't be their style. The retailers fret that shoppers faced with rising living costs can't dip into their savings forever; engineers and consumer goods bosses worry about the softness in the eurozone hitting trade.
But the mood three-and-a-half years into the coalition is glass half-full, not half-empty. The economy is off the floor and many indicators are pointing in the right direction: manufacturing, services, construction, retail sales. Moves such as reducing corporation tax to 20 per cent by 2015 have been popular, with evidence to support it has led to headquarters relocating here.
Now is the time to press again the case for right sort of recovery. Osborne knows it too. There is too little trade and investment going on despite all the hoop-la that surrounded David Cameron's sales trip to China. The housing market is proving to be our saviour once again.
First of all, business investment. The Government cut back as soon as it came to power but official forecasts suggested that the private sector would be spending freely by now. Yet business investment is falling this year, not rising. Some say it should be interpreted as a lagging indicator – why invest when inventories can be run down? The alternate view is that businesses that sat on their hands during the recession are trying to reap the benefits of the upturn without yet loosening the purse strings – hence lacklustre wage growth.
Infrastructure spending is part of this puzzle too. Just like the economic growth spurt after several fallow quarters, building projects must play catch-up too. The £25 billion pledged by willing insurance companies this week is a fraction of what is needed to pay for new roads and rail.
What about trade? Building up exports depends on finding the right export markets. It's undeniably slow going. China has required the nuts, bolts and widgets manufactured by Germany for its building boom. Now it is switching to more of a service-led economy, Britain senses its chance. In the meantime, doubling export finance to £50 billion strengthens the arm of trade minister Lord Livingston. Much of it is aimed at small businesses who haven't carved out export markets before. Maybe then we will sell more goods to China than little Belgium and Luxembourg.
While Osborne hopes for better in his rebalancing act, the one area of boom-boom Britain has been housing again, spurred on by the Help to Buy programme. Stamp duty receipts are set to double over the next five years to £17 billion. It's easy to get addicted to this. The imposition a year ago of the seven per cent tax rate on homes being sold for more than £2 million has barely caused the luxury house market to pause for breath. The Funding for Lending has already been refocused on to small business and away from residential property. And not a moment too soon, with a house prices forecast to grow by seven per cent in 2015. Sound that alarm: that just happens to be election year as well as the earliest date of an interest rate rise which will signal the cheap money era drawing to a close.
What can Osborne do differently? He doesn't want to choke off housing, but yesterday brought few new incentives for the kind of growth he sat about to capture on entering Downing Street. A £1 billion injection to the High Street, including measures to fill vacant shops, unblocking building projects, tax relief on some trading funds and social enterprise are all welcome but add up to tinkering at the edges. Of much more significance is the National Insurance relief on employing those under 21, a nod to tackling our youth unemployment problem.
Osborne won't do anything to jeopardise the momentum he has already built and nor does he have the money for major changes. But it hasn't stopped him going after a few Conservative sacred cows. There was a crackdown on non-doms' employment contracts, foreign residents who will now have to pay capital gains tax on their multi-million pound property deals, and the structure of company partnerships which could mean more to contribute to the Treasury for some hedge funds.
In fact, taken together with the rising banking levy for lenders that are based here, it is easy to argue that the Chancellor is making sure that those who are drawn to the capital to live and work are paying for the privilege.
A better message might have been deeper public sector cuts to free up cash for investment. The private sector might be more comfortable following the Chancellor's lead.
Osborne won the argument that the deficit can be cut at the same time as stimulating growth. But he will only taste true success in reviving the British economy if he can do so without letting the nation fall back into its old bad habits.
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Dragon Kill Points.
Basically, every time your raid downs a boss, everyone who participated receives, lets say 10 DKP. This isn't a currency in game, but just a form of bidding in guild raids. So when an item drops, you can bid however much DKP you'd like for the item. |
For not knowing what it is...THAT IS A 50 DKP MINUS!!!!
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Dragon Kill Points is an external loot distribution system employed by guilds to gauge participation and reward accordingly.
Dragon Kill Points.
It's a system used outside the game to tally up your boss kills/raid attendance to determine who would get loot in a raid. Basically, you'd give 5 points/boss, 10 for a full clear. Set pieces would cost 25 points, off set pieces 20, pieces off the last boss would be 30/35 depending on set/off-set. Some pieces would be cheaper if their usefulness was less (usually resist gear). So as a player, you'd get points by bosses you were there to kill and lose points as you got items. When an item dropped, the Loot Master would link it, ask people to whisper him if they wanted it. He'd jot the names down, check the DKP scores and assign the item to the person with the most DKP, and deduct the amount of point from that person. I had to do Loot Master/DKP work in a few MC run, and let's just say it takes quite a while and you just AFK trash to make sense of it all. |
Dragon Kill Points. o.o thats.... surprisingly complicated and woulda been rather painful... You've been playing for at least 4.5 years and you've never heard of DKP?Since when was DKP used exclusively in Classic? i dont know, i just thought DKP was used more in classic... i think... anyways i didnt know what DKP meant, only that it was some kind of bidding system and from what ive seen in the other comments, a rather painful one
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o.o Yeah, I had to have screenshots of attention for every boss kill (as there would be swaps in the night so I couldn't just award full run points to everyone there at the beginning), then I would have to calculate the site's DKP list + points awarded in the night on encounters the player was present, and duck DKP. I'd get whispers of "Are you sure DrunkDwarf really had more DKP than me for that Bindings ?" I had like 3 notepads opened outside of WoW and just updated the site after the run... sometimes the following day from work -_- since finishing up the raid at 1 a.m. meant I had 5 hours of sleep left. And I left out class priorities for items, where DKP "bonuses" were awarded when calculating if a player had more DKP than an other depending on the item ;) That's why some guilds just loot counciled. We ended up saying screw it all for Karazhan and just went with free rolling, brought back DKP as we progressed to Gruul. |
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For not knowing what it is...THAT IS A 50 DKP MINUS!!!! Ahahahahaha, I love that vid. |
You've been playing for at least 4.5 years and you've never heard of DKP? I never heard of it and I started just before lich came out on EU account. Then again I never did guild stuff. I only had them to talk to people. Dragon kill points (usually abbreviated with the acronym DKP) designates a kind of currency which is earned by participating in endgame raids and spent by acquiring loot from endgame bosses. The term DKP is also frequently used to designate raid-level loot system in general. The most popular systems for endgame loot distribution are point-based (and thus DKP systems). The very first endgame loot distribution system was developed by the guild Afterlife in 1999 and named for the original two EverQuest end bosses, both of whom were dragons.[1] Oh yay more stuff from everquest. I hate the ding thing >.> I hear no ding >.> For not knowing what it is...THAT IS A 50 DKP MINUS!!!! Vid?
Edited by Momoka on 3/1/2013 7:49 AM PST
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Some people/guilds have different systems, but its all basically the same thing. Points rewarded for killing dragons (bosses). When you are killing new bosses people who have been in the guild longest usually get loot first, at least thats how it was in the guilds i was in. Sometimes people would get together and talk it over see who needs a piece of loot more then another. So that way people who were going to pass didnt put in a bid and the guy who everyone says needed the item would just put in a minimum bid and win the item. One other thing too, is that the last guild i was in used a mod that would automatically take bids and announce who won. But one of the first guilds i was in didnt use a mod and if the officers liked you or they didnt like someone bidding they would whisper you and say "hey this other guy bid 100dkp but you only bid 75, if you want it you should bid more". I thought that it was kinda lame that they did that. Might as well do loot council and give all the loot to your friends if you're gonna do stuff like that.
Edited by Qtcutecuetee on 3/1/2013 7:49 AM PST
I prefer DKP systems over Loot Council systems. I know in the 3 guilds I was in, the Paladins just "loot counciled" the tier drops ahead of time. Especially in the one guild without fixed DKP costs that used DKP bidding instead (so the highest bidder got the item rather than the highest DKP holder) it saved us a ton of DKP as no one would out bid anyone on tier drops and we'd save all that extra DKP for inter-class drop bids ;) The other guilds just did it to prevent having 1 geared up Paladin and the rest in blues, diminishing our overall effectiveness. Some of the other classes were jealous of our teamwork on that side, but they never managed to convince their fellows to go for it. Dunno why us Paladins got along so well together in all the guilds I've been in, maybe it's because we all emphathised at our "decurse!" role and how painful it was -_-. |
o.o thats.... surprisingly complicated and woulda been rather painful... It really isn't. Participate in raid encounters, get points, use points as currency for gear. It encourages active raid attendance and participation and rewards long-standing loyal raid members. Some people say it's bad for new team members. I say those people are idiots. You can't expect to join a brand new team and get a bunch of loot your first time in. If you want to start getting loot, you need to show up to raids and start saving points. You need to contribute. If you want to see complicated, take a look at EPGP: http://www.wowpedia.org/EPGP It has things in common with DKP, but it's far more rewarding to those who really put time and effort into their raiding. It can award points for simply showing up to a raid (even if you're sitting out for the night and acting as a fill-in), providing food and flasks to the team, sticking around the whole raid night, or pretty much anything that helps your raid team in some way.
Edited by Vanarela on 3/1/2013 7:59 AM PST
http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=4403 These 2 achievements are from the original Onyxia rage wipe animation. Just watched the vid again. Man that brought back some memories. |
Its actually not as complicated as some people say. Sure some guilds made it complicated but it was up to each guild to decide the rules, and there were many many variations. And of course, wow did not invent it. The idea goes back to EQ1, if not further.
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Lach, Saul and Schankerman, Mark (2008) Incentives and invention in universities. The RAND Journal of Economics, 39 (2). pp. 403-433. ISSN 0741-6261
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We show that universities in the United States that provide stronger royalty incentives to faculty scientists generate greater license income, controlling for university characteristics. We use pre-sample data on university patenting to control for the potential endogeneity of royalty shares. Faculty responds to royalties both in the form of cash and research lab support, indicating both pecuniary and intrinsic research motivations. The impact of incentives is larger in private than in public universities, and we provide new survey evidence on the organization and objectives of university licensing offices to explain this difference. Royalty incentives work both by raising faculty effort and sorting scientists across universities. The primary impact of incentives is to increase the quality rather than the quantity of inventions.
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Energy-efficient buildings (EeB) will consist of a financial envelope of € 1 billion to boost the construction sector, and aims at promoting green technologies and the development of energy efficient systems and materials in new and renovated buildings - this, with a view to radically reducing their energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
The programme will be financed jointly by industry and the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7). The research programme will begin with coordinated calls for research proposals which should be launched in July this year.
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The public-private partnership "Energy-efficient Buildings Initiative" is targeting the construction sector at large. Construction accounts for more that 10 % of the EU's GDP and employs 32 million people in large, medium and small enterprises. There are 2.7 million enterprises in the EU in the construction sector, of which 95 % are SMEs.
There is a stock of 160 million buildings in the EU. The present rate of construction of new buildings is below 2%/year in all major European countries. These figures push the hope of having a truly energy-efficient built environment far beyond one century and probably closer to two centuries if action is limited to new buildings. For that reason focus is needed on the renovation of existing buildings. There is a need to act at a EU level if we want to make a substantial impact. Public buildings will be considered as a priority.
Challenges ahead
The energy consumption of houses and buildings taking into account the whole life cycle is responsible for 40% of total EU energy consumption and is the main contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (about 36% of the EU's total CO2 emissions and for about half of the CO2 emissions which are not covered by the Emission Trading System). Therefore reducing energy consumption during the whole life-cycle of the buildings is an effective action against climate change and will also contribute to decreasing the EU's energy import dependence.
Having recognized the social and economic impacts of energy savings in construction, the sector is fully aware today of being confronted by a huge responsibility.
In March 2007, the European Council has set clear goals: Reduction of 20% of the total energy consumption; 20% contribution of Renewable energies to total energy production; 20% reduction of Greenhouse gases (GHG) below 1990 emissions.
In this context, the building sector must assume very ambitious objectives of 165 Mtoe (millions of tons of oil equivalent) in energy reduction and contribute with 50 Mtoe from Renewable energies in 2020. To understand the nature of the challenge, these figures are equivalent to the total joint energy consumption of Spain, Portugal, Greece and Ireland in 2004.
The way forward
The PPP EeB will speed up research on key technologies and develop a competitive industry in the construction sector with the focus on energy-efficient processes, products and services. The main purpose is to reach the goals set forth for 2020 and 2050 to address climate change issues and contribute to improving EU energy security of supply, thereby transforming this challenge into a business opportunity. Specific attention will be given to the development and integration of design and simulation tools, new materials, building systems and equipment and ICT for energy efficiency. Main R&D priorities could focus on:
- Energy efficiency in buildings and districts while improving the quality of life (comfort and indoor environment) of citizens.
- Development of ICTs for energy-smart buildings and districts, and integration of Renewable Energy Systems in buildings and districts.
- Use of nanotechnologies, materials, components, systems, construction processes and their integration into energy-efficient buildings.
- Large scale demonstration actions will integrate and demonstrate innovative technologies in their final phase of development.
- Industrialisation of products and components contributing to the Energy Efficiency of Buildings, such as phase-change materials, insulation materials, smart windows and facades.
- Adaptation of design processes, finding adequate financing, initiating new commissioning procedures, tackling behavioural issues, ensuring knowledge transfer.
- EeB will benefit from the integration into buildings and districts of the latest technologies coming out of long-term research on Renewable Energy Systems and other clean technologies such as fuel cells being funded under other initiatives.
Next steps
In order to guarantee a quick start, we will make use of existing instruments. The Commission should launch cross-thematic calls for research proposals from the FP7 thematic areas "Nanotechnologies, Materials and Production technologies", Environment, Energy and ICT in July 2009. A multi-annual work programme will be developed together with the industry.
For the construction sector, complementary actions with existing activities done by Member States will be sought. For instance, an ERANET² "ERACOBUILD" has recently been established. which involves 21 Member States and focuses on sustainable renovation of buildings and value-driven construction processes.
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²An ERA Net is a scheme dedicated to support the coordination and networking of national and regional research programmes from different EU Member states and FP7 Associated countries


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My post action works for all test users. I have submitted screenshots of the working post action to the Facebook App Approval people and still they decline to approve. They say I should make sure my action works for all test users!
It's very hard to "fix" something that works. Facebook indicate that they understand and have followed my steps to reproduce properly, they merely specify that my app say "Sorry! Not posted to Facebook!. Yet my app consistently posts to Facebook for all my test users!
Any idea's on how to get my app approved? Am I missing something?
EDIT: OK I have gone back to my Auth Test User and enabled sandbox mode, now I CANNOT make posts to the test user. As least I have replicated Facebook's disapproval reason. I have no idea why I cannot post to the Auth Test User in sandbox mode. I CAN post to the Auth Test User with sandbox mode off, as well as my own timeline and my Dad's, who added as a test user. If I work it out I'll post back. But if anyone has any idea's as to how to post to the Auth User in sandbox mode....
The app is getting the right permissions from the Auth Dialogue Test User. If I do a test post in the Graph API explorer with the access token given to my app (that subsequently errors the post action in sandbox mode). I get this:
{ "error": { "message": "An unexpected error has occurred. Please retry your request later.", "type": "OAuthException", "code": 2 } }


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Synchronizing The Sampling Time Of Digital DataSynchronizing The Sampling Time Of Digital Data patent applications listed include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.Related Categories: Pulse Or Digital CommunicationsSynchronizers > Synchronizing The Sampling Time Of Digital Data Clock and data recovery device, sampler and sampling method thereof 01/15/15 - 20150016579 - A clock and data recovery device, a sampler and a sampling method thereof are provided. The sampler includes a phase generation circuit and a first edge sampling circuit electrically connected with the phase generation circuit. The phase generation circuit is configured to generate a plurality of first phases which have... Calibration of clock path mismatches between data and error slicer 01/08/15 - 20150010121 - Embodiments include systems and methods for calibrating effective clock path mismatches in a receiver circuit. For example, a serializer/deserializer (SERDES) circuit includes a data slicer that generates data sampler decisions by sampling an input signal according to a clocking signal, and an error slicer that generates error slicer samples by... Timing control for unmatched signal receiver 01/01/15 - 20150003574 - A device with an I/O interface includes a replica clock distribution path matched to a clock distribution path of an unmatched receiver circuit. The device can monitor changes in delay in the replica path, and adjust delay in the real clock distribution path in response to the delay changes detected... Receiver circuit and receiving method 12/25/14 - 20140376675 - A receiver circuit includes: an input ADC configured to convert an input data signal to sample data in accordance with a clock; a boundary phase computation circuit configured to determine the boundary phase of the input data signal based on the sample data; an eye pattern computation circuit configured to... Receivers and semiconductor systems including the same 12/18/14 - 20140369453 - The receiver includes a first buffer configured to buffer a data to generate a first internal data, a first delay unit configured to retard the first internal clock signal by a first delay period to generate a first delayed internal clock signal, and a second buffer configured to buffer the... Digital receivers 12/18/14 - 20140369454 - A method for processing a received digital signal includes generating a clock signal used for sampling the received signal by comparator which compares the received signal to a reference. A phase shifter adjusts the phase of the first clock signal to maximize the vertical eye opening of the signal at... Using multiple oscillators across a sub-network for improved holdover 11/27/14 - 20140348278 - A method and system are provided for improving maintenance of timing information when a node enters holdover due to a lost connection between a sub-network and a reference clock. Each node within the sub-network sends information concerning the drift of its local oscillator to a single node, and the single... Digital signal up-converting apparatus and related digital signal up-converting method 11/27/14 - 20140348279 - A digital signal up-converting apparatus includes: a clock generating circuit arranged to generate a reference clock signal; an adjusting circuit coupled to the clock generating circuit and arranged to generate a first clock signal and a second clock signal according to the reference clock signal; a baseband circuit coupled to... Methods and systems for clocking a physical layer interface 10/23/14 - 20140314190 - A method for clocking a physical layer ("PHY") and a controller of a computing device, comprises the steps of: generating a reference clock signal; synchronizing a plurality of clock signals as a function of the reference clock signal; and clocking the controller and the PHY using the plurality of synchronized... Apparatus and method for detection of time tracking failure 09/18/14 - 20140270024 - According to an example embodiment of this application, a method may include calculating a timing offset estimate based on a received reference signal; accumulating consecutive timing offset estimates to generate a cumulative timing offset estimate; comparing the cumulative timing offset estimate against a threshold; and determining whether a time tracking... Communication system with charge pump mechanism and method of operation thereof 09/18/14 - 20140270025 - A method of operation of a wireless communication system includes: synthesizing an incoming clock reference by differentiating an even cycle signal and an odd cycle signal; commutating a pair of resistors (R1, R2) based on the even cycle signal and the odd cycle signal; and controlling an amplifier output by... Multi-wire single-ended push-pull link with data symbol transition based clocking 09/18/14 - 20140270026 - System, methods and apparatus are described that facilitate transmission of data over a multi-wire data communications link, particularly between two devices within an electronic apparatus. A sequence of data bits is converted into M transition numbers, which are then converted into a sequence of symbols. The sequence of symbols is... Protection control apparatus 09/18/14 - 20140270027 - A protection control apparatus includes a control-signal output circuit configured to generate a sampling signal in synchronization with a 1PPS signal and output, as a control signal, data numbers cyclically counted up every time the sampling signal is generated and the sampling signal and a data output unit configured to... Dithering circuit for serial data transmission 09/11/14 - 20140254731 - A system for determining a unit time of a serial transmission protocol, wherein the serial transmission protocol defines a unit time (UT) by transmitting a calibration pulse having a predetermined length of N*UT and wherein a receiver is operated by system clock, includes: a clock divider for dividing the system... Receiver and methods for calibration thereof 07/31/14 - 20140211896 - There is disclosed a receiver and associated methods in which a received signal can be sampled at the symbol rate rather than oversampled. This reduction in the sampling frequency compared with conventional receivers lowers power consumption. Quality metrics in receiving the data (e.g. packet error rate, etc) are not adversely... Signal processing circuit and signal processing method 07/10/14 - 20140192938 - A signal processing circuit includes: a delay line configured to output, to a plurality of taps, signals with different delay times obtained by delaying an input signal, respectively; and a plurality of synchronization circuits configured to sample the signals from the plurality of taps in a phase in synchronization with... Alignment of non-synchronous data streams 07/10/14 - 20140192939 - An apparatus for aligning non-synchronous input data streams received in the apparatus, the apparatus comprising an analogue to digital converter arrangement for digitising the data streams into a plurality of sequences of samples; and a synchronisation processing arrangement for generating alignment pulses for each sequence of the plurality of sequences... Communication channel calibration for drift conditions 07/10/14 - 20140192940 - A method and system provides for execution of calibration cycles from time to time during normal operation of the communication channel. A calibration cycle includes de-coupling the normal data source from the transmitter and supplying a calibration pattern in its place. The calibration pattern is received from the communication link... Communication system including multiple receiving antennas and time tracking method thereof 06/19/14 - 20140169513 - A tracking method and apparatus of a communication system to prevent a timing difference and bit error rate performance degradation caused by unstable characteristics of a plurality of circuit devices are provided. The tracking method and apparatus include sampling signals received at receiving antennas, tracking sample values resulting from the... Eye pattern generation of unequalized eye patterns using a serial receiver with embedded eye capability 05/15/14 - 20140133614 - The technique uses the free-running or 'slave' mode of these serial receivers in which the receiver does not lock to the incoming data. To date, this mode has been used for oversampling but not for sampling at the actual data rate with a recovered clock in order obtain eye pattern... Estimation of sample clock frequency offset based on error vector magnitude 05/08/14 - 20140126676 - A low complexity system and method for operating a receiver in order to estimate an offset between the actual sample clock rate 1/TS′ of a receiver and an intended sample clock rate 1/TS. The receiver captures samples of a received baseband signal at the rate 1/TS′, operates on the captured... Method and apparatus for sampling a serial data stream using a clock signal, based on a counter pattern 03/06/14 - 20140064421 - In one embodiment, a method includes determining pre-calculated information. The pre-calculated information is used to determine a counter pattern for a reference clock. The counter pattern include, for at least one data bit, a number of reference clock cycles of the reference clock that is determined based on a frequency... Apparatus & methods for symbol timing error detection, tracking and correction 02/20/14 - 20140050288 - Systems and methods for adjusting timing in a communication system, such as an OFDM system are described. In one implementation an error signal is generated to adjust the timing of a variable rate interpolator so as to adjust FFT timing. The error signal may be based on detection of significant... Techniques for varying a periodic signal based on changes in a data rate 02/06/14 - 20140037033 - A circuit includes phase detection, frequency adjustment, sampler, and control circuits. The phase detection circuit compares phases of first and second periodic signals to generate a control signal. The frequency adjustment circuit adjusts a frequency of the second periodic signal and a frequency of a third periodic signal based on... Method and device for establishing router neighbor 12/19/13 - 20130336434 - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and a device for establishing a router neighbor. The method includes: obtaining a first discovery protocol Hello message sent by a neighbor router, where the first Hello message carries identification information and priority information of the neighbor router; and determining whether... Data recovery circuit and operation method thereof 10/03/13 - 20130259177 - In a data recovery circuit, a sampling circuit is configured to sample data using a plurality of sampling clock signals having different phases relative to one another and to output a plurality of sampled data. A recovery data generation circuit is configured to perform a logic operation on the plurality... Apparatus, system, and method for timing recovery 09/19/13 - 20130243138 - Described herein are an apparatus, system and method for timing recovery in processors by means of a simplified receiver architecture that consumes less power consumption, has lower bit error rate (BER), and higher jitter tolerance. The apparatus comprises a phase interpolator to generate a clock signal; a first integrator to... System and method for determining a time for safely sampling a signal of a clock domain 08/22/13 - 20130216013 - A system and method are provided for determining a time for safely sampling a signal of a dock domain. In one embodiment, a frequency estimate of a first clock domain is calculated utilizing a frequency estimator. Additionally, a time during which a signal from the first clock domain is unchanging... Phase control block for managing multiple clock domains in systems with frequency offsets 08/01/13 - 20130195234 - A circuit for performing clock recovery according to a received digital signal 30. The circuit includes at least an edge sampler 105 and a data sampler 145 for sampling the digital signal, and a clock signal supply circuit. The clock signal supply circuit provides edge clock 25 and data clock... Method and apparatus for regulating the sampling phase 04/25/13 - 20130101075 - Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and circuits for controlling the sampling phase of a signal that is to be regenerated by sampling, particularly a serial communication signal, having method steps or means for oversampling the signal in order to ascertain samples of the signal during predetermined sampling phases,... Sampling phase selection method for a stream of data bits 03/07/13 - 20130058445 - The current disclosure discloses a sampling phase selection method for a data stream, wherein the data stream has a variable data rate in a fixed time period. The method comprises the following steps: generating M section signals with the same time interval during the fixed time period of the data... Implied clock 01/10/13 - 20130010908 - Systems and methods providing clocking between various components or sub-components are shown. Embodiments implement an implied clock technique which reduces the number of signal lines, signaling overhead required for an encoded clock signal, and/or and power consumption for a high speed communication link. In accordance with embodiments efficient communication is... Sampling clock selection module of serial data stream 10/25/12 - 20120269308 - A sampling clock selection module for a serial data stream is disclosed. The sampling clock selection module includes a multi-phase generation circuit, a sampling circuit, a comparison unit and a logic operation unit. The multi-phase generation circuit generates a plurality of non-overlapping clock phases derived from a reference clock signal.... System and method to overcome wander accumulation to achieve precision clock distribution over large networks 10/18/12 - 20120263264 - A system and method for synchronizing clocks across a packet-switched network eliminates wander accumulation to enable precision clock distribution across a large network. In addition to standard Precision Time Protocol (PTP) synchronization messages or similar time synchronization messages, each clock regenerator stage receives a grand clock error message from the... System for adaptive sampled medical signal interpolative reconstruction for use in patient monitoring 10/11/12 - 20120257698 - A patient medical signal processing system adaptively reconstructs a medical signal sampled using a varying sampling rate. The system includes an input processor and a signal processor. The input processor receives first data and second data. The first data represents a first portion of a medical signal derived by sampling... Data recovery apparatus and method by using over-sampling 07/05/12 - 20120170697 - A data recovery apparatus and method by using over-sampling are provided. The data recovery apparatus by using over-sampling includes an over-sampling module, a data regeneration unit, a phase alignment unit, a phase decision module, and an output data correction unit. The over-sampling module samples serial data according to a clock... Adaptive frequency synthesis for a serial data interface 06/21/12 - 20120155586 - Various embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, devices and methods of oversampling electronic components where high frequency oversampling clock signals are generated internally. The generated oversampling clock is automatically synchronous with the input clock and the input serial data in a serial data link, and is adaptive to... Systems and methods for improved timing recovery 06/21/12 - 20120155587 - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for timing recovery. As an example, timing recovery circuits include: a first digital interpolation circuit, a second digital interpolation circuit, a phase selection circuit, and a sampling clock rotation circuit. The first digital interpolation circuit is operable to receive a... Oversampling circuit, serial communication apparatus and oversampling method 04/26/12 - 20120099688 - An oversampling circuit includes: a generation unit configured to generate multiphase serial data by delaying serial data by a predetermined time; and an oversampling unit configured to oversample the multiphase serial data by using multiphase clocks, wherein a phase difference of the multiphase serial data is set to be a... Glitch-free oversampling clock and data recovery 04/19/12 - 20120093273 - A clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit includes an edge detector, an edge selector, and a phase selector. The edge detector is arranged to detect edges of serial input data and to provide an edge detection result. The serial input data is oversampled utilizing multiple clock phases. The edge selector... Clock data recovery circuit and clock data recovery method 02/16/12 - 20120039426 - A clock data recovery circuit includes a receiving circuit that takes in input data based on a sampling clock, a demultiplexer that converts serial data output from the receiving circuit into parallel data, a clock/data recovery part that detects phase information from the parallel data output from the demultiplexer and... Multi-channel sample rate converter 02/09/12 - 20120033771 - A method of sample rate conversion and clock synchronization for multiple asynchronous input signals using a single processing core. A sample processing clock with a frequency equal to or higher than the input signal clock frequencies is provided. The clock period is divided into a number of time slots corresponding... Slicing level and sampling phase adaptation circuitry for data recovery systems 01/26/12 - 20120020444 - The invention creates a slicing level and sampling phase adaptation circuitry for data recovery systems. The invention explores the boundary of the eye opening to decide the optimal slicing level and sampling phase with a simple bit error rate estimation technique. Bit error rate estimation is achieved with several collaborating... Wireless sensor synchronization methods 01/26/12 - 20120020445 - A method of sampling data includes providing a plurality of wireless nodes, wherein each of the wireless nodes includes a receiver, a real time clock and a counter. Ticks of the real time clock are counted by the counter. The method also includes broadcasting a common beacon for receipt by... Phase detection method and circuit 01/12/12 - 20120008723 - Phase detection methods are provided. According to a first embodiment, a signal is sampled in order to obtain an amplitude sample. Then an absolute value of the difference of the amplitude sample minus an average of amplitude samples is calculated. According to a second embodiment, the signal is sampled at... Apparatus and method for clock and data recovery 08/11/11 - 20110194659 - Apparatus and methods for clock and data recovery are disclosed. In one embodiment, a clock and data recovery system includes a sampler, a deserializer, a phase detector and a frequency detector. The sampler may be configured to sample a serial data stream to produce data samples and transition samples. The... Apparatus and method for rotational frequency detection 08/11/11 - 20110194660 - Apparatus and methods for rotational frequency detection are disclosed. In one embodiment, a rotational frequency detector is configured to receive samples taken from a serial data stream and to generate a frequency up error signal or a frequency down error signal. The rotational frequency detector processes a first set of... Digital audio processing system and method 08/11/11 - 20110194661 - A digital audio processing system includes an input to receive a phase component of a signal. The digital audio processing system includes symbol recognition logic to adjust a sample of the phase component using an offset value. The symbol recognition logic maps the adjusted sample to a nearest predetermined phase... Method for clock and data recovery 07/14/11 - 20110170644 - An input bit stream including a clock signal and data bits is oversampled to obtain one or more sets of data samples. One or more sets of non-transitioning phases corresponding to data samples that do not switch between zero and one are then identified. Center phases corresponding to the one... Method and apparatus for estimating symbol timing 06/23/11 - 20110150157 - Provided is a symbol timing estimating apparatus and method that may generate at least one sampled preamble signal by sampling a preamble signal with changing a phase of the preamble signal based on a symbol speed, calculate a power value of each of the at least one sampled preamble signal,... Radio communication apparatus and method 06/23/11 - 20110150158 - A radio communication apparatus includes a clock reproducer unit which repetitively detects a symbol timing from a Nyquist point in detection-result data. A symbol generator unit controllably generates or non-generates a to-be-transmitted symbol or symbols at every symbol timing detected by the clock reproducer unit, converts the to-be-transmitted symbol or... Apparatus and methods for estimating and compensating sampling clock offset 05/26/11 - 20110122979 - An apparatus for sampling clock recovery (SCO) and methods for estimating and compensating SCO are provided. The apparatus comprises a symbol timing adjustment module for shifting forward or backward symbol timing of the transmitted OFDM symbols; a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) processor for performing DFT to an output from the... Method and apparatus for deskewing data transmissions 04/28/11 - 20110096882 - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for addressing the issue of clock skew in a data signal while making efficient use of space on an integrated chip (IC) by utilising a physical delay line controlled by a state machine in conjunction with pre-requisite chip architecture. The pre-requisite chip... Method and apparatus for bandpass digital to analog converter 03/31/11 - 20110075780 - Systems and methods for providing a mechanism by which digital signals can be converted to analog signals with an efficient structure that reduces the number of filters required by providing a mechanism for cancelling images that would otherwise be generated. By adjusting three parameters in the system, a selection can... Clock recovery circuit and data recovery circuit 03/17/11 - 20110064176 - A serial input signal is sampled in synchronization with a plurality of first clock signals to obtain a plurality of sampling data pieces. A phase comparison circuit outputs a serial phase information signal based on the sampling data pieces. A serial-parallel conversion circuit performs a serial-to-parallel conversion on the serial... Method for carrying out bidirectional communications 11/25/10 - 20100296614 - In a method for carrying out bidirectional communications between a first electronic unit and a second electronic unit, a clock signal and an input signal synchronized with the clock signal are transmitted from the first electronic unit to the second electronic unit, and the second electronic unit transmits a response... Method and system for bit detection and synchronization 10/21/10 - 20100266079 - A bit synchronization method is proposed. The method includes buffering a plurality of samples from a signal stream, scanning the buffered samples for transitions and updating a zero-crossing histogram buffer upon detection of the transitions. The method further includes detecting at least two peaks simultaneously from the updated zero-crossing histogram... Edge-based sampler offset correction 09/02/10 - 20100220828 - Embodiments of a circuit are described. This circuit includes a receiver circuit including a first sampler (312-1) and a second" sampler (312-2). A clock-data-recovery circuit (324) in the receiver circuit adjusts a sample time of the receiver circuit so that the sample time is proximate to a signal crossing point... High availability clock synchronization and distribution for mobile backhaul networks 07/08/10 - 20100172453 - Fully redundant clock systems are provided on network nodes coupled by redundant multisegment psuedowires (MSPWs) within an internet-protocol (IP)-based mobile backhaul network. The primary clock system includes a primary master clock on a first node and a primary slave clock on a second node coupled via a primary MSPW, while... Multirate resampling and filtering system and method 06/24/10 - 20100158178 - A discrete time signal resampling circuit (200). A data sample processing module (260) removes selected samples from a sequential plurality of discrete time signal samples to implement fractional resampling where the data sample processing module stores fewer samples than the number of samples between samples to be removed. A coefficient... Symbol timing acquisition using early-late interpolation 06/24/10 - 20100158179 - Symbol timing acquisition is described for a wireless broadband signal received at a user terminal from a gateway via a satellite. In-phase and quadrature channels of the wireless signal may each be sampled at a rate of one sample per symbol. The samples may be interpolated to generate an early... Methods of processing a wireless communication signal, wireless communication synchronization methods, and a radio frequency ideentification device communication method 06/10/10 - 20100142665 - Wireless communications devices, methods of processing a wireless communication signal, wireless communication synchronization methods and a radio frequency identification device communication method are described. In one aspect, a wireless communication device includes an antenna configured to receive electromagnetic energy corresponding to a wireless communication signal outputted using an interrogator and... Reception apparatus 05/13/10 - 20100119023 - In a reception apparatus 1, a multiphase sampling clock signal is generated by a sampling clock signal generation circuit 40, based on a clock signal which has been phase-adjusted by a phase adjustment circuit 50. The data of each of the bits of a serial data signal is sampled and... Apparatus and method for digital up converting in a mobile communication system 04/29/10 - 20100104055 - An apparatus and method for digital up converting in a mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a Selectable Input Logic (SIL), a Scalable Clock Distribution Logic (SCDL), a filter logic, and a mixer logic. The SIL performs decimation at a decimation rate. The SCDL controls a clock frequency.... Sample rate converter 04/15/10 - 20100091922 - A sample rate converter circuit receives a first signal at a first sampling frequency and for outputs a second signal, representative of the first signal, having a second sampling frequency. The sample rate converter comprises: a buffer, for storing data samples received from said first signal; a first loop circuit,... Circuit for a radio system, use and method for operation 04/15/10 - 20100091923 - A circuit and method of operation for a circuit of a radio system in which a system time is divided into symbols, in which a system clock generator is activated in an operating mode, so that the system time is determined from an output clock signal of the system clock... System and method for multilaterating a position of a target using mobile remote receiving units 04/15/10 - 20100091924 - A method of multilaterating the position of a target, including the steps of deploying a plurality of time synchronized receiving units in a network that allows the receiving units to communicate with a central processor; receiving a target signal from the target at each receiving unit; determining a time of... Recovering data from an oversampled bit stream with a plesiochronous receiver 03/04/10 - 20100054382 - Data is recovered in a plesiochronous receiver from an oversampled bit stream. In one example, a bit stream is received and oversampled in blocks to produce successive sets of samples, each set of samples representing a same number of bits. Transitions are found in the samples. Positions of the found... Adaptive clock and equalization control systems and methods for data receivers in communications systems 02/25/10 - 20100046683 - Systems and methods for adaptive clock and equalization control are provided for data receivers, which are based on a "closed loop" sampling clock framework that employs controllable and dynamically adapted time offsets on both local data and amplitude clocks. The controllable clock offsets are dynamically adapted using signal processing methods... Bust-mode clock and data recovery circuit using phase selecting technology 02/18/10 - 20100040182 - A bust-mode clock and data recovery circuit using phase selecting technology is provided. In the data recovery circuit, a phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit is used for providing a plurality of fixed clock signals, each of which has a clock phase. An oversampling phase selecting circuit is coupled to the phase-locked... Method and computer program for identifying a transition in a phase-shift keying or frequency-shift keying signal 01/14/10 - 20100008457 - A system for identifying phase transitions in phase-shift keying signals and frequency transitions in frequency-shift keying signals broadly comprises a memory and a computing element capable of: selecting a portion of the signal to analyze, wherein the signal comprises a plurality of data samples; applying a transform to the signal... |


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Carjacker crashes not once, but twice!
For the fourth installment of my video blog dedicated to great police chases, we get two carjackings for the price of one as police attempt to apprehend a would-be criminal.
Today's video blog features a carjacker who decides to run from the law anyway he can. At first, he takes a sedan from an unlucky motorist, and about a minute later, the driver crashes into a minivan on the freeway. Seeming undeterred, the carjacker runs across traffic and darts toward a pickup truck as the vehicle's driver flees in terror. Cops shooting at the truck seem not to phase this guy one bit, but soon enough he loses control of the vehicle and fishtails into another truck. Cop cars swarm then the area and make the arrest.