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Seven families were on Tuesday evicted from disputed land reportedly under the possession of Harrison's Malayalam Plantation (HML) at Arapetta, near Mepadi.
The drive was led by the Police and Revenue departments on a directive of the Kerala High Court, Kesavendrakumar, District Collector Wayanad told The Hindu.
The court had directed the district administration on January 29 to evict those who had encroached upon the land in 2012, by following a Court's guideline issued in 2010, within two months, he added.
It was reported that a group of activists under the aegis of the Adivasi Kshema Samiti (AKS) and Kerala State Karshaka Thozhilali Union
(KSKTU), two feeder organisations of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), had encroached upon nearly 200 acres of the land in 2012 asking the government to resume the surplus land allegedly possessed by the HML and disburse it to landless people.
They had claimed their rights on the land by erecting huts at five sites at Arapetta under the Mupainad village; Anappara in Chundale; Perumkoda in Puzhuthana; Pozhuthana in Achuranom; and Thovarimala under Nenmeni villages in the district.
However, Wayanad Bhoo Samsarakshna Samiti president P.K. Murali said the court had directed the district administration to evict the
encroachers from the five sites but, the Revenue officials were misled and had evicted the tenants of the land (survey number 346 and 347, at Arepetta under the Kottapadi village) who were engaged in a legal fight with the HML on the right of the land since 1999 under the aegis of the Samiti.
The evicted site was not mentioned in the court order and the respondents in the case were the CPI(M), AKS and KSKTU, not those who had been evicted, he added.
He alleged that the present action by the district administration was to escape from contempt of court proceedings and tarnish the image of the Samiti.
Hence, we urge the intervention of the Human Rights Commission in the issue, Mr. Murali said.
But, Mr. Kesavendrakumar said the evicted land came under the purview of the court order.
The officials had retrieved one hectare of land and it would be kept under the possession of the Revenue Department. The eviction drives would be continued in the coming days, he added.
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Banking has had the fat years. Is this the start of the lean? The answer concerns us all. For while it's true that what's good for the nation's economic health is usually good for banks, the same holds in reverse. As suppliers - and, just as crucially, withholders - of credit, banks have a gearing effect on economic growth. In good times, they relax their lending criteria, enabling new businesses to flourish and established ones to expand. In their general eagerness to keep up with the competition, they do not always lend wisely. Even so, their open-handedness lubricates and enhances growth.
Then, when things turn sour, they go sharply into reverse. Lending decisions that once seemed reasonable now look lunatic, and they call in loans all over the shop - sometimes unnecessarily. Small businesses fail and big ones cancel the new factory. As banking's enthusiasm once helped to exaggerate growth, its alarm now accelerates recession. Overexcited boom turns to suicidal bust. And then the cycle starts all over again.
Banks say that they have learnt the lessons of past lending excesses - to the developing world and the property sector, among others. This time around, they are heavily exposed to the telecommunications sector, which was madly attractive during the technology binge, but now looks less so in the light of day. In the wake of 11 September, cracks have been exposed in other industries, such as the airlines. It may be true that banks are managing their loan books more judiciously, but an oncoming world recession - if that's what it is - promises to batter their profitability anyway.
Perversely, the industry may even be looking forward to the pain. At least this would substantiate its plaintive argument to a mistrustful government that it does actually suffer lean years in the course of the banking cycle. The attack on the World Trade Center may leave its mark on banking in other ways. Wholesale banking is as susceptible to boom and bust as retail and corporate banking, and this side of the industry was in trouble even before last month as the big deals dried up.
None of the large investment banks is British any more, but all of them have a substantial presence in London. And there may be some risks for the City in a post-WTC era. Thousands of banking staff have already been sacked around the world and many more will follow. As the US banks lay off staff, they may be tempted to wield the axe disproportionately savagely in London. Any move towards increased American isolationism would leave the City a lonelier place.
There is another, altogether more generic threat. London has successfully defended its position as Europe's most important financial centre and the world's most international. But in New York, there is now unease about working in vulnerable downtown high-rise buildings. If it spreads, could we see the end of "the financial centre" as such? We have the technology to work from wherever we like. Could this be what some are already calling "the end of geography"?
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Rosa and Nico are complicated. Rosa is the best PA Nico has ever
Rosa and Nico are complicated. Rosa is the best PA Nico has ever had. Her Russian is flawless, she's amazingly smart, and she excels at everything she does. During a business trip to California, he notices that she keeps getting messages from her ex, so he does what any normal guy would do - he throws her phone into the ocean and asks her to marry him.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Don't get Nico wrong... He doesn't want to have a 'real' marriage. He and Rosa get along like a house on fire, but their coupling would be like a business deal. She gets security and a definitive end to her last relationship, and he doesn't have to keep fighting off the fake blonde bimbos that want his wallet more than the man that holds it. It doesn't hurt that marrying her assures him that he won't lose a valuable business asset.
Eleven months down the road, Nico comes home from a business trip to find a very sober and serious wife waiting for him. He stood her up on her birthday, and adding insult to injury, he got her duty-free perfume as a gift. She understood that she shouldn't feel entitled to the same things a normal wife should have, but they were friends - and blowing her off was just mean. She admits to him that she took advantage of their agreed upon open marriage and slept with her ex.
Nico is furious. It's not because he has feelings for her, but the feeling of losing has never sat right with him. And to the man who she couldn't wait to abandon less than a year ago - well, that just stung. When she asks him for a divorce, he can't just blithely agree. He bargains with her to give him a month. It will coincide with the end of a business trip he needs to take, and bringing her along to the island paradise should afford him the opportunity to change her mind.
Rosa said she wants more than a ring on her finger and stifling loneliness, so he'll throw sex into the mix. After all, that's what she turned to when the chips were down. Otherwise, why would she even agree to see the man she didn't want before they were married? He doesn't count on having to seduce a woman who clearly wants him, but refuses to give in. There's no way their marriage could be anything more. Nico has no capacity for emotional contact, and Rosa has never wanted it.
Before the working holiday ends, Nico sees that he couldn't have been more wrong.
I can see where 'The Rings that Bind' is polarizing. Right off the bat we find out that Rosa has taken advantage of their open marriage, and that is definitely off-putting. I admit, I really hated that fact. Also, they spend almost a year married without any sort of attraction, so it was difficult for me to feel like their accelerated romance was genuine.
In the end, I turned around quite a bit. Learning about the characters' backstories gave a little insight, and the cheating incident wasn't quite what it seemed. (although, not exactly nice).
In summation - Alpha Hero with intimacy issues, emotionally damaged heroine, a romance with a little bantering, and some pretty sexy love scenes. Not bad for a book I was ready to hate.
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Winderman: NBA should have replay official for playoffs
Apr 20, 2011, 7:00 PM EDT
Before each playoff game, four referees enter their locker room. Only three emerge.
The fourth is in attendance in case of injury, a smart move by the league with so much at stake.
The greater issue, especially in light of some egregious officiating errors this postseason, is why not utilize that fourth pair of eyes?
No, not on the court. There's already enough clutter there. But why not in the TV truck, where numerous angles are available both in real time and on replay. With almost every postseason game on network TV, the camerawork also is at playoff level.
We're not talking about reviewing every call or even many of them.
But it would allow any replay situations to be handled faster and with a greater assortment of angles, and without coaches preening over shoulders or fans mucking up the process at the scorers' table.
Beyond that, if there is an egregious error late in a game, and a coach is willing to burn a timeout (such would be the cost, similar to the NFL), then an instant second look in the TV truck would be possible, those same after-the-fact replays that offer such a striking indictment after the score is final.
Yes, it would only be for the postseason, because it is the only time four officials are present, by rule, in the building. But it's not as if there isn't precedent. The NHL changes its overtime rules for the Stanley Cup playoffs, playing overtime the right way. And the NFL now has different overtime rules for its postseason.
Plus, by forcing coaches to keep a timeout in their pockets, it might lead to fewer stoppages along the way.
The NBA has strict standards of what can be reviewed and what can't.
But the playoffs mean more, which means individual plays mean more.
This isn't about nitpicking about block-charge. But what if the referee in the TV truck can get a definitive angle that shows the defender in the restricted area on a bang-bang final-seconds play?
To some, the argument is that it would leave much of the process to be determined by the quality of the television production.
As it is, TV dominates the process anyway, be it with the scheduling, the added timeouts, the lengths of the games.
Simply put, the NBA has decided that an extra referee at playoff games is not a luxury, but rather a necessity.
So should be getting the calls right, especially with the added means to do so.
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- frankvzappa - Apr 21, 2011 at 5:12 PM
how could the refs rig it for David Stern's preferred outcome if they had to get all the calls right?
- icu84bs - May 1, 2011 at 1:00 AM
I think the NBA already has it right. You can not start reviewing fouls, much like the strike / ball call in baseball, it would slow the game too much.
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Steve Hamm (@stevehamm31) of BusinessWeek - pictured below -got a big article on #cloudcomputing into last week's issue. It rightly points out that cloud computing is the big thing and will keep us busy for the next 10 years. Unfortunately, a lot of the article is misleading or missing key context.
His first example cited is Avon's use of a smartphone- and PC-accessible system for connecting Avon's 150,000 "sales leaders" with their reps (sales leaders are the consultants who recruit and run other consultants/reps and get a cut of the "upline" commission). Nothing in the article explains how this is a "cloud computing" solution. Remote/mobile accessible applications have been around almost as long as the Internet. The article doesn't say, but I suspect that the system serving up all this info is a traditionally developed and deployed one sitting inside the Avon firewall - making it a NOT CLOUD application. But I don't know for sure because the article doesn't say.
Hamm then goes on to parrot the ridiculous Gartner numbers I've discussed previously.
His next example is
Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania, which has started using a cloud computing system to let its 300,000 members find medical histories and claims information with their mobile phones.
Again, another mobile app but no qualification on the cloud. Is it running in an IaaS framework from Amazon or Rackspace? Is it built on a PaaS environment like Force.com or QuickBase? Are these SaaS applications hosted in an elastically scalable environment? At this point, we don't know.
Then we get treated to a total non-sequitor in the form of a note on the opportunities for chipmakers and handset manufacturers.
The shortcomings spell opportunity for plenty of companies in tech. Chipmakers such as Qualcomm (QCOM) and Intel (INTL) are creating products for portables that pack more capability on a single slice of silicon while reducing power consumption, making it easier to access information in the cloud from anywhere. Mobile-phone makers including Nokia (NOK) and Research in Motion (RIMM) are racing to come out with products aimed at business users that have all the ease-of-use of the iPhone (AAPL).
What the heck does this have to do with Cloud Computing? I'll tell you - not much.
Okay, so here's my favorite totally random observation in Hamm's article.
One of the most promising aspects of cloud computing is that it enables the creation of so-called virtual personal assistants. These software confections know people's interests and needs and go off and do useful things for them on the Internet, like suggesting a restaurant for a client meeting or offering reminders of where you have taken the client before. With GPS in smartphones, computing systems know where we are. And with artificial intelligence software, computers can be taught what we expect of them and how to anticipate our needs.
The Internet enables fun apps that can do things for you. What's that have to do with what industry people generally consider to be cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS)? Again, very little. You can deliver this functionality in a traditional in-house data center running on dedicated hardware and it ain't the cloud. This is AI, not cloud computing. Or AI + mobile + location services… but it's not necessarily running in a cloud environment.
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The present invention relates to an arrangement and method for providing wireless data communication services, between a client station (10) and a service providing station (15) and/or a computer network (13, 33), each of the client station (12), service providing station (15) or the computer network (13, 33) being connected to at least one radio transceiver (11, 12) and each being arranged with means (20, 30, 31) to convert data to be transmitted to data packets or data packets to data. The radio transceiver (11, 12) is arranged to transmit and/or receive data packets with at least one predetermined, by a user determined or randomly selected low radio frequency, said low radio frequency being within a range of about 1 kHz to about 30 MHz, preferably one or several of: 100-1800 kHz, 1810-1850 kHz, 3500-3800 kHz, 7000-7100 kHz, 10100-10150 kHz, 14000-14350 kHz, 18068-18168 kHz, 21000-21450 kHz, 24890-24990 kHz and 28000-29700 kHz bands.
1. An arrangement for providing wireless data communication services, between a client station and a service providing station or a computer network, each of the client station, service providing station or the computer network being connected to at least one radio transceiver and each being arranged with means to convert data to be transmitted to data packets or data packets to data, wherein the radio transceiver is arranged to transmit and/or receive data packets with at least one predetermined, by a user determined or randomly selected low radio frequency, said low radio frequency being within a range of about 1 kHz to about 30 MHz, preferably one or several of: 100-1800 kHz, 1810-1850 kHz, 3500-3800 kHz, 7000-7100 kHz, 10100-10150 kHz, 14000-14350 kHz, 18068-18168 kHz, 21000-21450 kHz, 24890-24990 kHz and 28000-29700 kHz bands.
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arranging a direct communications path, so-called tunnel, between the client station and the service provider,
generating a communication protocol (WPPTP) which allows a Point to Point Protocol (PPP) to be tunnelled through an Internet protocol network over said communication path,
transmitting or receiving said communication protocol by means of said transceivers, and
transferring said received communication protocol to or from a computer instruction signal.
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establishing a Control Connection, controlling the tunnel and sessions assigned to the tunnel,
maintaining a state for each client station connected,
creating a session when an end-to-end point-to-point protocol connection is attempted between a client station and a Network access Server (WPNS),
sending data packets related to a communication session over the tunnel between the communication protocol Access Concentrator (WPAC) and said Network access Server (WPNS).
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[0001] The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for providing wireless data communication services between client stations and service provider station or computer networks. Communication is established by connecting radio transceivers to at least each one of the client stations, service providing stations or the computer networks and arranging them with means to convert the data to be transmitted to data packets or data packets to data.
[0002] Furthermore, the invention relates to a wireless computer network system implementing a modified point-to-point protocol.
[0003] Presently, several types of wireless data communication systems are known and used. In many of the wireless network systems, specially for offices and business sites each stationary or mobile computer communicates with each other and one or several servers through special transceivers connected to each computer and communicating with base stations arranged nearby. Usually, IR radiation is used for communication between the transceivers and the base stations.
[0004] Another well known wireless data communication system is Mobitex. Mobitex is a mobile data network that makes information available for mobile or stationary users using radio modems. It is a packet switching radio-based cellular system. The Mobitex network consists of communication cells including base stations and exchanges, which transmit text and data as digital packets between a central unit and a number of mobile units through high frequency radio signals. Mobitex is specially suitable for transmission of short messages where connection or switching time and silent line are essential and time-consuming. Basically, Mobitex is designed for small amounts of data having great demands on quick handling and security. Moreover, the Mobitex systems require special hardware and equipments.
[0005] A packet radio application is described in European Patent Application No. 251,382. A transceiver for packet radio networks comprises a plurality of independently tunable receivers and a single transmitter tunable to the frequencies of the receivers. The transceiver is operable to transmit, store and receive packets of data. The invention uses available narrow-band radio technology but enables the packet radio system to have increased capabilities.
[0006] The problem with the known network systems is that they do not provide any possibility to establish a global network without need for special equipment, relay stations such as satellites, repeater stations etc. For example after a natural catastrophe or an emergency situation in some part of the world, without access to auxiliary communication means such as telephone lines or mobile telephone facilities, it is not possible to provide a data communications network, for example for rescue workers, which facilitates their work by coming in contact with a server at a distant headquarter to receive information or establish audio/visual communications there through, e.g. using Internet etc.
[0007] Existing network systems do not provide facilities for a direct access of a distant or mobile terminal to the network. A travelling employee, for example, when connecting hers/his computer to the network of hers/his office, must use a modem to establish communication through telephone lines (or a mobile telephone) or other locally available equipments (if adaptable to the computer) to access the network.
[0008] The main object of the present invention is to provides a wireless data communication network, substantially based on packet radio, which allows communication over long (from about zero to several hundred kilometers) distances without need for very special equipments and relay stations.
[0009] There is also needed a wireless, preferably a global data communication network which can easily be adapted to the existing wire or radio-based communication networks.
[0010] What is needed is an arrangement which provides for a wireless data communication network, in which the position of the service provider site is not vitally important, the service provider can be mobile and limited to regional boundaries etc.
[0011] There is a need for a possibility of establishing a virtual network service without a (dedicated) telephone line, mobile telephone services, integrated services digital network (ISDN) etc., which makes it possible to connect to the network services if there are no accesses to public lines.
[0012] Moreover, what is needed is a wireless data communication arrangement, which allows error-free communications with high security.
[0013] For these reasons, a radio transceiver is arranged to transmit and/or receive data packets with at least one assigned, by the user determined or randomly selected low radio frequency. In a preferred embodiment the conversions means are terminal node controllers (TNCs). The TNC automatically divides computer generated messages to be transmitted into data packets with a destination address, keys a transmitting function of the transceiver and sends the data packets through the transceiver. The transceiver may be arranged to scan the low radio frequencies for detection of a data packet. In an advantageous embodiment the data is compressed before transmission and multiple packets are transmitted on each frequency and/or channels are shared and/or packets are arranged with digital signatures to increase the transmission speed. For security reasons the packets are encrypted.
[0014] Advantageously, the invention is implemented in an at least partly wireless data packet communication network system. The system includes at least one client workstation and at least one service provider station. The communication is carried out by means of radio signals generated by radio transmitting stations, connected to the client's workstation or service provider station. The client workstation and the service provider station each are arranged with means to generate a communication protocol which allows a Point to Point Protocol (PPP) to be tunnelled through an IP network over said radio transmitting stations. A reliable communication is obtained as the protocol queries the status of communicating stations, provides in-band management, allocated communication channels and place outgoing calls, notifies the service provider on incoming calls, transmits and receives user data with follow control in both directions, and notifies the service provider about disconnected calls. Moreover, the communication protocol uses an enhanced Generic Routing Encapsulation mechanism to provide a flow and congestion-controlled encapsulated data packets. An advantageous feature is that the tunnel is defined between pair of Wireless Network access Server and a communication protocol Access Concentrator.
[0015] To increase the communication speed, plurality of connection sessions is multiplexed on a single tunnel and the point-to-point protocol packets are multiplexed and demultiplexed over a single tunnel. The functions of the network are divided; the communication protocol Access Concentrator is arranged to interface a network and control radio transceivers or terminal adapters, logically terminate a communications session of a point-to-point-protocol link control protocol, and if needed participate in point-to-point-protocol authentication procedures; the Wireless Network access Server is arranged for channel aggregation and bundle management for point-to-point-protocol multilink protocol, logical termination of various point-to-point-protocol network control protocols and multiprotocol routing and bridging.
[0016] To obtain a global network the radio communication is carried out over a low frequency band, preferably in range of about 1 kHz to about 30000 kHz.
[0017] The invention also presents an advantageous method for wireless data communication between a client station and a service provider, each being arranged with means to generate data packets and each being connected to a radio transceiver. The method comprises arranging a direct communications path, so-called tunnel, between the client station and the service provider, generating a communication protocol which allows a Point to Point Protocol to be tunnelled through an Internet protocol network over said communication path, transmitting or receiving said communication protocol by means of said transceivers, and transferring said received communication protocol to or from a computer instruction signal. The reliability is achieved by establishing a Control Connection, controlling the tunnel and sessions assigned to the tunnel, maintaining a state for each client station connected, creating a session when an end-to-end point-to-point protocol connection is attempted between a client station and a Network access Server sending data packets related to a communication session over the tunnel between the communication protocol Access Concentrator and said Network access Server. The known structure of the method characterised by that the control connection is a standard transfer control protocol session over which communication protocol call control and management information are passed. In one embodiment, for each communication protocol Access Concentrator (WPAC) and Network access Server (WPNS) pair both a tunnel and a control connection exists.
[0018] According to the method the flow control through the tunnel is performed by a sliding window used on the communication protocol by each side of the data exchange. Preferably the sliding window protocol allows acknowledgment of multiple packets with a single acknowledgment, and all outstanding packets with a sequence number lower or equal to the acknowledgment number are considered acknowledged.
[0019] The network according to the invention is also arranged with a security arrangement. In one embodiment the client station is arranged with a security key and an authentication device is arranged to provide an additional layer of security, by verifying whether a client station requesting access to the service provider station posses the security key before access to the service provider is accepted. In another embodiment, the security arrangement consists of two hardware devices: a security host and a security card, the security host being arranged between the service provider station and the communication means. The security card generates different access codes every time unit, which are synchronized with a code generated at the security host every time unit and at the connection time the client sends the code generated by the security card to the host and the code is correct, the security host accepts connection of the client with the service provider server. Yet another embodiment is possible, in which the security host prompts the client to enter a username and a password, said security host is arranged to allow the service provider station to initialize the communication means before running the security functions and to directly initialize the communication means connected to the security host without security checks from the security host, before access being accepted.
[0020] In the following, the invention will be further described in a non-limiting way under reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
[0021]FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a data communications network according to the invention.
[0022]FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a workstation site embodiment according to the invention.
[0023]FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a second embodiment of the data communication network according to the invention.
[0024] The arrangement according to the present invention, in its simplest form, includes at least two computer units communicating with each other in a network like configuration, a so-called workgroup, over a low frequency radio connection using radio packets. In this kind of networking, each computer unit can act both as a server and a client terminal.
[0025] A more complicated embodiment of the arrangement is illustrated in FIG. 1. The arrangement comprises a first computer terminal 10, for example a PC, connected to a radio transmitting and receiving unit, so-called transceiver unit 11 (TU). In this case, the computer unit and the transceiver unit 11 form the client workstation (WS) site of the data network arranged to access the network for services, such as file transfer, mailing, database handling, Intranet/Internet services etc. The network service provider (SP) site consists of one or several radio transceiver units 12, which can be connected either to a network 13 of computer terminals 14 and/or to one or several server units 15. The arrangement provides a wireless data communication network. The transceiver units 11 and 12 are arranged to operate in low-frequency bands, specially between about 1 to about 30000 kHz and particularly in one or more of 100-1800 kHz, 1810-1850 kHz, 3500-3800 kHz, 7000-7100 kHz, 10100-10150 kHz, 14000-14350 kHz, 18068-18168 kHz, 21000-21450 kHz, 24890-24990 kHz and 28000-29700 kHz bands (e.g. depending on which country or region transmission/reception is carried out.) The mentioned frequency bands, allow radio traffic of type I�Telegraphy and digital traffic (including packet radio) and on the highest frequency band also type II traffic, i.e. telephony, digital traffic (radio packets), SSTV (slow scan TV) and the facsimile, is possible.
[0026] The lower frequencies (1-30000 kHz) permit data communication over substantially unlimited distances between the workstation and the service provider (server or network) and no or very few link stations, repeaters or the like are needed. At the service provider site, the transceiver units 12 can be connected to gateways (not shown) to allow communication with different types of networks.
[0027] The workstation site is schematically illustrated in FIG. 2. The signals from the computer unit 10 must be converted to radio packets before they are transmitted to the service provider. The conversion is carried out in a Terminal Node Controller (TNC) 20. TNC automatically divides the data messages to be transmitted into packets, keys the transmitter 11 and sends the packets to transmitting part of the transceiver unit 11. While receiving packets (from the SP), the TNC 20 automatically decodes, checks for errors, and transmits the decoded message to the computer unit 10. In a preferred embodiment the computer unit 10 is serially connected to TNC 20 using transmit, receive and ground pins. The TNC in turn is connected to the transceiver unit, for example through an audio connection using Push to Talk, Mid Audio, ground and Speaker Audio connections. Obviously, these types of connections are given as an example and other forms of connections such as parallel, infrared etc. may occur.
[0028] The transceiver unit may be a combined or standalone transmitter and receiver, which at least can transmit and receive in the specified low frequency region. In an embodiment (but not necessarily) a client site transceiver includes one transmitter and one receiver unit but the services provider site transceiver includes one or several transmitters and one or several receivers.
[0029] Packets have many advantages over other digital communication modes, e.g. transparency, error correction and automatic control. Hence, the packet radio provides error-free communications because of the built in error detection schemes. If a packet is received, it is checked for errors before being transferred to its destination. Moreover, packet radio, unlike voice communications, allows many users to simultaneously use the same frequency channel.
[0030] To allow multiple packet transmissions on each frequency, shared channels and digital signature on the packets can be applied. Different kinds of (realtime) encryptions can be used to increase the transmission security. Furthermore, data transmissions over a wireless packet network (switched or directed) are much more difficult to capture than voice transmissions, for instance over a cellular voice network. Unlike conversations in the cellular environment, which are continuos and easy to monitor by simple eardroppers, massages in form of packets are sent in bursts. Capturing such messages is only possible if the radio frequency interface can be descrambled, which requires sophisticated equipments.
[0031] In an advantage embodiment a security host can be engaged. A security host is an authentication device that verifies whether a caller from a remote client is authorized to connect to the remote access server of the service provider. This verification may be a supplement to the security measurements already implemented at the remote access server. The security hosts may be a third-part application. The security host sits can be arranged between the remote client and the remote access server. The security host generally provides an additional layer of security by requiring a hardware key of some kind in order to provide authentication. Verification that the remote client physically posses the key takes place before access to the remote access server is accepted. This open architecture allows clients/customers to choose from a variety of security hosts to augment the security in the remote access server.
[0032] In an application, for example, a security system consists of two hardware devices: the security host and the security card. The security host is installed between the remote access server and its TNC (modem). The security card is a small unit, e.g. in size of a credit card. The security card displays different access codes every time unit. This number is synchronized with a code generated at a security host every time unit. When connecting, the remote client sends the code generated by the security card to the host. If the code is correct, the security host accepts connection of the remote client with the remote access server.
[0033] In yet another application, a security host prompts the remote client to enter a username (which may or may not be the same as the remote access username) and a password (which differs from the remote access password). The security host must be configured to allow Remote access server to initialize the communication means before the security functions take affect. The remote access server must also be able to directly initialize the communication means connected to the security host without security checks from the security host. The security host might interpret the remote access server's attempt to initialize the communication means as an attempt to dial out.
[0034] Depending on the used transmission frequency, modulation type and data compression of the packets, it is possible to obtain a transmission speed of from 1200 bps to 512000 bps (bits per second). Any known data compression technics can be used. The data compression mechanism can be integrated in the communication software, in the computer units, the TNC or the transceivers.
[0035] The communication protocol may be one or several known protocols, such as X.25, AX25, Dual, VANCOUVER, TCP/IP, etc. AX.25 (Amateur X.25) is similar to X.25 level 2 in structure with some extensions to make it more useful in the amateur radio environment, specifies channel access (ability to transmit on the channel) to be handled by a Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA).
[0036] When a transmission is required, the TNC monitors the channel to see if someone else is transmitting. If no one else is transmitting, then the radio keys up and the TNC sends its packet. All other transmitting stations (transceivers) detect the packet and do not transmit until the packet transmission is done. A collision may arise if two or more radio stations transmit at same time. If a collision occurs, none of TNC's will receive a reply back from the last packet it sent. Each TNC will then wait a random amount of time and then retransmit the packet. The AX.25 protocol offers both connected and connectionless operation modes, and may be used either for point-to-point links, or to carry other protocols such as TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) and NetRom. NetRom protocol uses AX.25 at its lowest layer as a data-link protocol and it features dynamic routing and node aliases.
[0037] DUAL protocol is configured to support connectionless-mode operations and it is designed to accept packets from higher layers. The receiving entity takes no remedial actions; if the frame is in error, it is discarded and the receiver is not informed about the loss of the traffic.
[0038] Substantially, the same transmission, packeting and un packeting procedures run on the workstation site are also run at the service provider site. At the service provider site, however, the TNC's may be connected to gateways to adapt the communication protocols to suitable network protocols.
[0039] Advantageously, another preferred protocol for the wireless data network according to the invention is a modified protocol which allows a Point to Point Protocol (PPP) to be tunnelled through an IP network, so-called WPPTP. WPPTP does not specify any changes to the PPP protocol but rather describes a new vehicle for carrying PPP. The WPPTP protocol is designed to perform following tasks:
[0040] Query the status of communication servers,
[0041] provide In-Band management,
[0042] allocate channels and place outgoing calls,
[0043] notify the server on incoming calls,
[0044] transmit and receive user data with follow control in both directions, and
[0045] notify the server about disconnected calls.
[0046] Moreover, WPPTP uses an enhanced Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) mechanism to provide a flow- and congestion-controlled encapsulated datagram service for carrying PPP packets.
[0047] To establish a communications path, a tunnel is defined between a pair of Wireless Network access Server (WPNS) and WPPTP Access Concentrator (WPAC). The tunnel carries PPP datagrams (radio packets) between the WPAC and the WPNS. Many sessions can be multiplexed on a single tunnel. A control connection operating over TCP controls the establishment, release, and maintenance of sessions and of the tunnel itself.
[0048]FIG. 3 illustrates a communications network implementing WPPTP. WPNS 31 can operate on general-purpose (wireless) computing/server platforms. The WPNS 31 handles the server side of the WPPTP protocol. Since WPPTP relies completely on TCP/IP and is independent of the interface hardware, the WPNS may use any combination of IP interface hardware including LAN and WAN devices. WPAC 30 is a device attached to one or more transceivers 11. The WPAC 30 needs only implement TCP/IP to pass traffic to one or more WPNSs. It may also tunnel non-IP protocols.
[0049] WPPTP allows functions of existing Network Access Servers (WNAS) 32, i.e. a device providing workstations temporary, on-demand point-to-point wireless network access, to be separated using a client-server architecture. The implemented functions by a WNAS 32 may be:
[0050] 1) Interfacing network 33 and control of external radio transceivers or terminal adapters. A WNAS 32 may interface directly to the wireless network 33 or an analog or digital network circuit 34 or attach via an external modem or terminal adapter. (The WNAS may handle frequency adaption, analog to digital conversion, sync to async conversion or a number of other alterations of data streams such as integrated TNC functions.)
[0051] 2) Logical termination of a Point-to-Point-Protocol (PPP) Link Control Protocol (LCP) session.
[0052] 3) Participation in PPP authentication protocols.
[0053] 4) Channel aggregation and bundle management for PPP Multilink Protocol.
[0054] 5) Logical termination of various PPP network control protocols (NCP).
[0055] 6) Multiprotocol routing and bridging between NAS interfaces (wireless to wire based etc.).
[0056] According to the invention, WPPTP divides these functions between the WPAC and WPNS. The WPAC may be responsible for functions 1, 2, and possibly 3. The WPNS may be responsible for function 3 and is responsible for functions 4, 5, and 6. WPPTP will address the protocol used to carry PPP protocol data units (WPDUs) between the WPAC and WPNS, as well as call control and management.
[0057] By decoupling WNAS functions, a flexible IP address management is obtained. Each calling workstation may maintain a single IP address as they connect to different WPACs as long as they are served from a common WPNS. If, for example, an enterprise network uses unregistered addresses, a WPNS associated with the enterprise will assign addresses meaningful to a connecting network. It is also possible to support non-IP protocols for dial networks behind IP networks. This allows known network protocols, such as Appletalk and IPX, for example to be tunnelled through an IP-only provider. The WPAC dose does not need to be capable of processing these protocols. Moreover, a multilink PPP bundle can be handled by a single WPNS, the frequencies comprising the bundle may be spread across multiple WPACs.
[0058] When a workstation tries to connect to a service provider, a Control Connection, which governs aspects of the tunnel and of sessions assigned to the tunnel, is established between WPAC, WPNS pair and operates over TCP. As the WPPTP is connection-oriented, after establishment of a connection, the WPNS and WPAC maintain state for each workstation attached to a WPAC. A session is created when end-to-end PPP connection is attempted between a workstation and the WPNS. The radio packets related to a session are then sent over the tunnel between the WPAC and WPNS.
[0059] The control connection is a standard TCP session over which WPPTP call control and management information is passed. For each WPAC-WPNS pair both a tunnel and a control connection exist. The control connection is responsible for establishment, management, and release of sessions carried through the tunnel. In this way a WPNS is notified of an incoming packet at an associated WPAC and a WPAC is instructed to place an outgoing call.
[0060] A control connection can be established by either the WPNS or the WPAC. Following the establishment of the required connection, the WPNS and WPAC establish exchange information about basic operating capabilities of the WPAC and WPNS. Once the control connection is established, the WPAC or WPNS may initiate data exchange. The control connection can also carry management related messages.
[0061] WPPTP requires the establishment of a tunnel for each communicating WPNS-WPAC pair. This tunnel is used to carry all user data exchange session PPP packets for data exchange sessions involving a given WPNS-WPAC pair. A key which is present in, for example the GRE header indicates which session a particular PPP packet belongs to. In this manner, PPP packets are multiplexed and demultiplexed over a single tunnel between a given WPNS-WPAC pair. The GRE header also contains acknowledgment and sequencing information that is used to perform some level of congestion-control and error detection over the tunnel. Again the control connection is used to determine rate and buffering parameters that are used to regulate the flow of PPP packets for a particular data exchange session over the tunnel.
[0062] Moreover, other control messages and management messages, such as connection reply, echo request, echo reply, outgoing and incoming call request, call clear request and disconnection messages, as well as error messages are transmitted between the WPAC and WPNS.
[0063] As mentioned above, the user data carried by the WPPTP protocol are PPP data packets. PPP packets are carried between the WPAC and WPNS, encapsulated in GRE packets which in turn are carried over IP.
[0064] For flow control a sliding window protocol may be used on the WPPTP by each side of the data exchange. The GRE protocol allows packet acknowledgments to be piggybacked on data packets. Acknowledgments can also be sent separately from data packets.
[0065] One feature of the WPPTP sliding window protocol is that it allows the acknowledgment of multiple packets with a single acknowledgment. All outstanding packets with a sequence number lower or equal to the acknowledgment number are considered acknowledged. Time-out calculations are performed using the time the packet corresponding to the highest sequence number being acknowledged was transmitted.
[0066] In a typical application a subscriber calls, for example an Internet Service Provider (ISP), to request for a connection. The ISP assigns a radio channel for connection, which may be initiated by the subscriber or automatically by the computer unit. Then the connection will be established by the subscriber running, for example a browser programme over the radio. The ISP then mails other initiation instructions by sending an initiation e-mail. The established connection will then appear as a normal network/Internet/Interanet connection.
[0067] In another application, a remote employee may wish to use a client station to connect to the computer network (local/wide area network) of his/her company by using the radio equipment (TNC, transceiver) connected to the client station. The entire computer network or parts of it can, according the invention, be a wireless, radio packet-based network. The employee may directly connect to the network by using special channel assigned to the transceiver or buy the service from a radio-based network service provider, which can connect the client station to the company network. The service then will be initiated as a normal network connection with full functionality between the client station and the company network and the employee can use services such as e-mail, LAN-connection services, file transfer etc.
[0068] In yet another application the client workstation, for example in a submarine (in a submerged position), can directly be connected to a remote network, service provider or server by sending connection request messages in variety of channels. The connection request messages are provided with unique identity of the network/service provider that the client wishes to contact. The receiving station(s) at the service provider site scans through all or special channels assigned to it and if it (they) detects a connection request directed to it, it will then lock to the frequency and a network connection will be established, e.g. through tunnelling and the client will login. The usual login procedures such as password and user id control will run.
[0069] The wireless network according to the invention is suitable and easily implemented, for example in an inter-planetary application having long distances between the network nodes. Depending on the frequency and protocols used, it is possible to install routers and amplification devices as satellites and planets which will give a travellers in the future and today's research satellites and unmanned vessels to access a network server (or a network such as Internet) for information exchange.
[0070] The embodiments described above are merely for exemplifying reasons, thus, the TNCs, WPACs and WPNSs may be integrated in the computers or the transceivers. A transceiver and a TNC, WPAC or WPNS could be integrated in one common device, such as PCMCIA card or plug-in board for easy installation into mobile or stationary computers.
[0071] The invention is not limited the illustrated and described embodiments, but can be varied in a number of ways without departing from the scope of the appended claims and the arrangement and the method can be implemented in various ways depending on application, functional units, needs and requirements etc.
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Good news, but look at the price action! Down 2% more, to add to down close to 3% yesterday.
It is in the news, but what is it doing for the stock? It has dropped again, now down to high 23's. I should have sold all of mine when DGLY reported, and I could have sold for 26 a share.
Who'se giving the negative downthumbs on this? Shorts? More police depts. buying this; the more it goes up. That's what we want, isn't it?
After reading this board, there is every viewpoint from a stock underpriced and ready to explode, to an overpriced stock that has produced nothing of any value with safety concerns. So, what is one to believe?
jridley, I LOVE IT! Wish it could come reality. He'd get his just desserts like he deserves.
Do you see them selling? NO. And most of the names you list are pretty smart cookies. They know that SO will spring back up. Wait until the hot southern summer comes, which SO serves mainly.
And the women will run as fast as they can to escape such ugly animals.
No, it's at the Dollar Store you work at.
Don't tell me what I am. Take your name, follow it, and exit.
Don't make false statements, attributing my comments to shorting. I don't even own the stock. And bragging about your 11% up sounds like a six-year old.
Your comment illustrates your level of mental development.
Who cares about seedy analysts' price targets. If you don't know the rigged analyst game, it's time for you to learn. too much run up, too fast, on a one trick pony drug co.
There is nothing here but continual pumping, every few minutes. Do you all work for Morgan Stanley or the other pumping analysts. Wonder how much they got paid.
FACT: CEMP produces NO other drugs than antibiotics. The huge drive up in price in no time does not impress me; it concerns me instead. Let's see where this stock goes, and who will eat crow.
You have said a mouthful that makes the most sense I have read here.
There's obviously a problem. This stock couldn't get to 25.01 to execute call options last week, and looks like the same pattern this week. The trading range is so narrow, I can only conclude there is problem with the supposed upward valuation of this stock. I am seeing nothing. It doesn't matter how many points we are up.
Comcast is an utter garbage outfit that provides pathetic service and abuses their customers. And they are allowed to continue to do so, with no fear of the FCC or any entity. Google "problems with Comcast," and you'll find 100's of thousands of horror stories. Comcast is so pompous and arrogant, they actually have forums on their own site where there are thousands of complaints and horror stories that their customers post. There should be a class action huge lawsuit where Comcast is ordered to change A-Z in their operation, and be ordered to return 50% of what its customers have paid for horrid phone, internet and cable service, like I have endured for YEARS, and been monitored and policed by their ":Executive Care" which means, abuse the customer, deny there are any problems, override your own rules and threaten to charge the customer for your incompetent technicians to come out, plug in their dirty meters, and tell you there are no problems. And, beyond that, they make sure that when the customer calls the appropriate department of the three services, and their case gets escalated to a Tier II tech, that Comcast will instruct the Tier II person to drop the case. That is Comcast. They deserve nothing but to have to operate per rules made by a court that is working for the people, the customers. Of course, that will never happen.
Going from 18.29 two days ago close to this? On rumors alone. Sounds like a sound buy - NOT! Be careful with stocks that jump like this, rumor buyouts or not.
Cover your #$%$.
Yeah, and morons pushed this up tremendously before earnings, and volume as well. We'll see about all the hoopla here in the next week.
Who cares? Wait for it to lose all its gains, and see where you're at then.


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I'm a longtime apartment dweller who is a new, first-time homeowner. More relevant to this discussion, I'm a first-time garden owner, and I'd like to hear your suggestions on designing a hillside garden with these plants. I have my layout narrowed to two designs that I sketched out, but I'm curious what others might think.
The area: It's a hillside that rises above a flat part of my backyard, so it mostly will be admired from afar (i.e. from the patio or pool). It's about 24' wide and about 20' deep (I could go a little deeper, but that would cut into space I plan to use for shrubs or a privacy hedge.) The hillside is at about a 45-degree angle.
I opted for a cool color palette, with purples, blues and pale peach, yellow and pink. Here are the plants I have to work with:
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* 1 echinacea summer sky, 34"
* 1 eryngium sapphire blue, 28"
* 1 baptisia starlight prairieblues, 36-60"
* 3 digitalis purpuea apricot beauty, 48"
* I also have two large batches of shasta daisies and have 5 lime-green hybrid lilly trebbiano bulbs (36-48") that can be incorporated, though I would have no problem using any/all of these elsewhere
From the choice of plants it looks like you are going for a wildflower hillside look. There will not be a structure to the design since you are not including any bushes between the groups of flowers.
If that is the look you want just plant the tall plants to the back and short plants in front.


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