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EVANSVILLE - Evansville-Vanderburgh County consolidation planners voted Thursday night to "move forward with reasonable diligence" — but probably with no referendum this year and possibly not next year, either.
Rebecca Kasha, chairwoman of the Evansville-Vanderburgh County Reorganization Committee, told the committee and a packed Civic Center meeting room that subcommittees don't appear far enough along in their work to forward a complete proposal to the City Council and the County Commissioners in time for a vote this fall.
"More and more people are coming to our subcommittee meetings, more and more people are expressing input," said Kasha, a League of Women Voters of Southwestern Indiana member who helped collect signatures for the petition drive that kicked off the current consolidation push. "I don't want to do anything to stop that process.
"So, while I wanted it to be on the ballot in 2010, the feeling I'm getting from the committee is that we can't meet the deadline that we had tentatively worked our backsides off to try to meet.
"... We have really given it everything we had to try to make this work."
The 12-member reorganization committee voted unanimously for a motion to keep working with no deadline.
Committee members had been working under the premise that a consolidation referendum could be held in conjunction with 2011 city elections by opening polling places outside the city. But attorney Mike Schopmeyer advised some of them before Thursday's meeting that legislation reorganize may preclude that possibility.
Schopmeyer is a partner at law firm Kahn, Dees, Donovan & Kahn, which works with the Indianapolis firm Krieg DeVault to advise the committee.
"The statute says 'Regularly scheduled election of the political subdivisions,' plural — and this body is studying both city and county," he said after the committee's meeting.
With no county elections scheduled in 2011, Schopmeyer said the attorneys are doing research.
"Our preliminary investigation suggests that the 2012 primaries or general election may be the next opportunity to vote on this referendum," he said. "We're still exploring (the law), but our preliminary viewpoint is that this referendum question may not be able to go on the ballot in 2011."
County Clerk Susan Kirk has said it could cost $60,000 extra to hold a referendum with May 2011 primaries for city offices. A referendum as part of the November 2011 general election would cost about $10,000 less.
Kasha said the next few weeks and months should be about compiling a comprehensive consolidation proposal and hearing out the public.
By law, the reorganization committee has a year, or until Jan. 11, to complete its work.
"I'd like the issue to be what the plan is about as opposed to when the plan is going to be done," Kasha said.
"But when that plan is ready for review by the public, I'd like to have a series of community discussions ... before we turn it over to the County Commissioners and City Council for their consideration and vote."
Before the full committee met, the public safety subcommittee voted to recommend that a consolidated government's governing body hire a consultant to study fire protection issues. The study would examine ways Vanderburgh County's fire departments could work together more efficiently.
Evansville Fire Chief Keith Jarboe gave the subcommittee an eight-page "scope of work for a cooperative services feasibility analysis" by Emergency Services Consulting International that would cost $78,624, but the subcommittee is not committed to that company or that price.
The subcommittee already recommended consolidating the Evansville Police Department and the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office into one agency under the sheriff. The vote included provisions to put parking police, Central Dispatch and animal control under the sheriff's direction, but the reorganization committee will recommend that parking police be a function of the Board of Public Works.
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August 28, 2012 2:47 pm
The tater trots for August 27 (and the full weekend).
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August 2, 2012 12:19 pm
Not all glovemen are destined to stay hopelessly inept at the plate. Ben looks at defensive stars who have added offense to their games this year.
Plenty of weak-hitting players from baseball's past and present have gotten by on good gloves alone. Most big-league benches boast a part-timer whose sole strength is an ability to play capable defense at premium positions. But despite Brendan Ryan's best efforts, relatively few players become stars unless they can combine good gloves with big bats.
Fortunately, not every good-field, no-hit player is destined to stay that way. Legendary glove man Ozzie Smith was a good player who turned into a great one when he learned how to hit in his late 20s. Defensive players of Smith's caliber are few and far between, but some of today's finest fielders could follow a similar trajectory. This season, the following five defense-first players who entered 2012 with reputations as easy outs have become much tougher to retire, transforming themselves (at least temporarily) into all-around threats instead of one-dimensional talents.
July 27, 2012 2:18 pm
The tater trots for July 26: Starling Marte's stellar start to his career, Carlos Gomez's near-record trot time.
Starling Marte got the party started on the first pitch he saw last night, so let's keep it going. Right to the trots!
May 7, 2012 3:00 am
Several teams are hit hard by injuries this weekend, including the Washington Nationals, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Milwaukee Brewers.
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April 25, 2012 2:53 pm
The tater trots for April 24: Chipper's birthday blast, Wieters' accidental home run, and Gomez's confused (and speedy) trot.
From ten home runs on Monday to 32 homers on Tuesday, baseball's random nature shows itself again. Thankfully, we had plenty of interesting trots last night, with notoriously slow trotters and famously quick trotters all getting their turn. And, even though it's already the last week of April, we're still seeing the first home runs of such stars as Carlos Gonzalez (who hit two out Tuesday night to make up for things).
April 10, 2012 10:30 am
Events that have happened already this season after not happening for all of 2011 help explain why we're still hooked on baseball.
There were 2429 major-league games played last season.* Most of the things that can happen in a baseball game happened in one of those. With a few exceptions, teams and players will do all of the same things in 2012 that they did in 2011—they'll just do them in a difference sequence and more, or less, frequently than they did before. When and how often they do those nearly identical things will determine which teams win divisions and which players win awards. We're suckers for those things, so another season of the same, reshuffled, is enough to suck us in. But we're not completely content with repetition. We also watch in hopes of seeing something we didn't see the season before.
*There would have been 2430, but no one felt like seeing another Dodgers-Nationals game in September. That missed game may have deprived us of history: Matt Kemp finished the season one home run away from 40 home runs, and Dee Gordon finished the season one home run away from one home run. For the alternate-history buffs: the man who would have started that game against the Dodgers, had it been played, was Tom Milone. Milone had the fifth-lowest home run rate among Triple-A starters last season, so that extra game might not have made Matt Kemp baseball's fifth 40-40 man. Then again, that home run rate might not have meant much, since there weren't many Matt Kemps in the International League. More on Milone a little later.
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August 31, 2011 5:00 am
Extreme power and speed picks join a very exciting VP week for outfielders.
Value Pick outfielders performed like they'd been hit by a hurricane this past week, but the batter Ozzie Gullen calls "The Tank" (Dayan Viciedo) is up, causing belated relief in Chicago as Adam Dunn hasn't been striking out for a few days now. And this author risks becoming "Rocket Man" as yet another Astro gets featured in Value Picks. But really, who outside The 610 Loop has paid any attention to the Astros recently, anyway? And a lack of attention often leads to value.
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August 12, 2010 3:15 am
Jim Edmonds tries on a new brand of the Red stuff, waiver claims start to crop up, and the latest roster tweakings from the senior circuit.
Placed RHP Carlos Silva on the 15-day DL; purchased the contracts of RHP Thomas Diamond and Casey Coleman from Iowa (Triple-A). [8/2]
Optioned RHP Brian Schlitter to Iowa; recalled RHP Mitch Atkins from Iowa. [8/3]
Optioned RHP Mitch Atkins to Iowa; recalled RHP Marcos Mateo from Iowa. [8/9]
Placed C-R Geovany Soto on the 15-day DL (sprained shoulder); placed 1B-R Derrek Lee on the Bereavement Leave List; recalled 1B-L Micah Hoffpauir and C-R Welington Castillo from Iowa. [8/10]
Traded INF-L Mike Fontenot to the Giants for CF-R Evan Crawford. [8/11]
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November 6, 2009 6:30 pm
A late-day addition to the Twins, Milwaukee's master plan's still brewing, and Royal Reconsiderations.
Announced their buyout of RF-R Jermaine Dye's option for 2010, and that Dye has opted for free agency; announced the receipt of $$-$ Fabulous Moolah from the Royals as part of the price of the Teahen trade. [11/6]
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October 18, 2009 2:38 am
A preview of the Dominican Winter League, taking a look at the teams, stadiums, managers, and players to watch for.
The "National Religion" came back on October 16th, as the Dominican League launched its 56th edition. Reliably praised as having the highest level of talent among the winter leagues, one should expect to watch another mix of highly ranked prospects, mid-level major leaguers, a few recognizable American players, veterans looking for another shot, and some major league stars between now and the end of the Caribbean Series in February. The league format has six teams playing a 50-game regular-season schedule, with the four best records advancing to a long 18-game round-robin playoff, and the two remaining best clubs play a best-of-nine final series to decide the league's champion. Without further ado, here's what this season will bring us:
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March 13, 2009 12:45 pm
A post-conference conversation with the man behind the indispensable pair of volumes of The Fielding Bible.
It might be a stretch to say that "defense" is John Dewan's middle name, but then again it easily could be. The author of the highly acclaimed The Fielding Bible has delivered an even more impressive second volume, making Dewan the industry's most influential voice when it comes to defensive metrics. A co-owner of Baseball Info Solutions, Dewan moderated the Baseball Analytics panel at last weekend's MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conference. Afterwards, he sat down with Baseball Prospectus to talk about why Carlos Gomez is a better defensive outfielder than Nate McLouth, why shortstops love Justin Morneau, and what it means to be a Molina.
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April 8, 2004 12:00 am
Carlos Gomez is a work in progress. At 26 years old, the Puerto Rico native has only 60 innings of professional ball under his belt in baseball backwaters such as Canton, Ohio and Allentown, Pa. With a high school career hampered by injury and a college career marred by ineffectiveness and then a bout of "Ankielitis," envisioning any kind of professional career at all for Gomez seemed a stretch. But persistence and a willingness to experiment have allowed Gomez to cast off his pitching woes and remake himself as a sidearming reliever, and intellectual curiosity has spurred him to incorporate objective research into his pitching approach. His is the story of Moneyball writ small, one player searching for any advantage he can get in order to rise through the professional ranks.
Traveling under the handle "Chad Bradford Wannabe," Gomez began posting to Baseball Primer last fall. Our first encounter found him searching for a way to gauge the level of his independent-league competition using Equivalent Average, a query which brought him to the attention of Baseball Prospectus' writers. Since then, he's become a popular member of the online baseball community, chiming in several times this past off-season on his experiences playing winter ball, his own research, and his evolving approach to the game. Gomez is slated to pitch for the New Jersey Jackals of the Northeast League this year.
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With the regular season just concluded, the NFL has yet to officially determine the 2013 NFL draft order, but as far as I can tell the Tennessee Titans currently hold the following selections in the 2013 NFL entry draft: 1st round, 10th overall (own) 2nd round, 40th overall (own) 3rd round, 71st overall (own) 4th round, 104th overall (own) 5th round, 134th overall (own) 7th round, 200nd overall (own) The NFL will award compensatory picks after potentially the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth (and seventh rounds), so the picks in the fourth and later rounds will in all probability end up being later than they are currently listed. The Titans will probably receive at least one compensatory pick. I will update the exact pick numbers when that information is released. The Titans currently hold six of their seven original selections, having traded away their sixth-round pick, 167th overall to the Minnesota Vikings for the 211th overall pick in the 2012 draft, which t...
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Sunset in the Rearview is a music blog focused on new music discovery, typically within the genres of indie-rock, electronic and hip-hop.
Sunset was founded by Lydia Simmons in 2008. It started simply as a way to share great music, but has evolved into a collection of new music, reviews, interviews, news, and more. It's different from the thousands of other music blogs in that it's not racing to post the newest music first; we serve as a bit of a filter. We give the music a good listen before posting it, making sure that we can say something worth your time reading when we do end up posting it.
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- Updated: February 2, 2012
The NBA closes-out its first full month of a 66-game abbreviated regular season and while most of the preseason favorites are playing true to form, a few have stumbled out of the gate. There have also been a few early surprise front-runners that are catching some attention after starting the season well off the radar screen.
It is easy to see how a team is doing in the standings, so this betting guide is designed to provide a weekly snap-shot of which teams are the top performers in the NBA where it matters the most; against the spread.
The three best teams in the league ATS have all taken turns at the top of this list this season and this week it is the Denver Nuggets turn to climb back into first. Their recent six-game winning streak, with the first five games being played on the road, came to a halt this past Sunday with a 109-105 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers as 5.5-point home favorites. The Nuggets are now 14-6 both straight-up and ATS. They are a balanced 7-3 SU (6-4 ATS) at home and 7-3 SU (8-2 ATS) on the road. The total has gone 'over' in 12 of their 20 games. Denver continues to be the most prolific scoring team in the league with an average of 105.8 points a game, but defensively it ranks near the bottom in points allowed; giving-up an average of 99.2 points a game.
The biggest surprise in the NBA this season continues to be the Philadelphia 76ers. They have won three straight and seven of their last 10 games to open a five-game lead over Boston in the Atlantic Division. The reason the 76ers are ranked so high on this list is a profitable 14-6-1 record ATS. They are 11-2 SU at home and 10-3 ATS. On the road, Philadelphia is 4-4 SU and 4-3-1 ATS. The total has stayed 'under' in 14 of its 21 games overall and in 11 of 13 at home. Balance has been the key for this team so far with an offense that has seven different players scoring in double figures and posting an average of 97.5 points a game. Defensively, the Sixers are giving-up just 86.1 points a game to carve-out the best scoring differential in the league at +11.4 points a game.
The third team that has been hovering at the top of this list for the past few weeks is the defending champion Dallas Mavericks. They have also won their last three games and seven of their last 10 to hold onto a one-game lead over San Antonio in the Southwest Division. The Mavericks have also provided a healthy return on investment with a 14-8 record both SU and ATS. They are 9-3 SU (8-4 ATS) at home and 5-5 SU (6-4 ATS) on the road. The total has stayed 'under' in 13 of the 22 games overall and is 5-7 at home and 4-6 on the road. This is another defensive-minded team that is ranked fifth in the league in points allowed; giving-up an average of 90.6 points a game. The Mavericks find themselves in the middle of the pack when it comes to scoring with an average of 94.7 points a game.
A couple of other teams that have been solid money makers this season are the Minnesota Timberwolves at 10-11 SU, but 13-8 ATS, the Chicago Bulls with the best SU record in the Eastern Conference at 18-5 to go along with a 14-9 record ATS, and the LA Clippers at 12-6 SU and 11-7 ATS.
A few early drains on the bankroll have been the New York Knicks at 7-13 SU and 5-15 ATS, the Detroit Pistons at 4-18 SU and 6-15-1 ATS, and the Charlotte Bobcats at 3-18 SU and 7-14 ATS.
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Mississippi bounced back quickly from its first loss of the season, but it faces a big challenge Wednesday when the No. 18 Rebels host two-time defending NCAA tournament champion Florida, which is eyeing a return to the rankings.
Florida (15-2, 2-0 SEC East) spent only one week in the top 25, falling out after a 65-51 loss to Florida State on Nov. 23. The Gators have since won 10 of 11, with their only loss coming at Ohio State on Dec. 22.
Florida is looking to win its seventh straight over Mississippi (14-1, 1-1 West) on Wednesday.
After an 85-83 defeat at then-No. 8 Tennessee on Jan. 9, the Rebels bounced back with a 74-71 win over LSU on Saturday. Chris Warren and Eniel Polynice each scored 15 points to lead five players in double figures.
Mississippi led by 22 points in the second half, but LSU had two chances to tie the game in the final minute, leaving coach Andy Kennedy disappointed in his team's lack of killer instinct.
"We played well in the first half, but self destructed in the second half," he said. "We were in control of the game and they could have died and gone away and didn't. They stepped up and made some shots and we turned the ball over too much."
The Rebels, who shot 50.0 percent in the first half en route to a 43-29 halftime lead, scored their fewest points in six games. Warren, Mississippi's leading scorer with 15.8 points per game, was held to just two free throws in the second half.
The Rebels are looking for their first win over the Gators since a 68-51 victory Feb. 16, 2002.
This is Florida's first game against a ranked opponent. The Gators, who are 14-2 against ranked opponents the last two seasons, have won four straight since losing to the Buckeyes, including a 72-56 victory over Auburn on Saturday.
Jai Lucas and Nick Calathes scored 16 points each while Marreese Speights added 14 and eight rebounds.
Lucas scored seven of his points in the final 3:30, keying a 9-0 game-closing run for the Gators after Auburn closed within 63-56.
"I just did what the team needed," Lucas said. "I wasn't trying to do anything spectacular. I was just trying to help us win the game."
Florida is allowing just 61.5 points per game—second-fewest in the SEC.
The game is the first for Mississippi's David Huertas against his former team. Huertas left the Gators following his freshman season in 2005-06 after averaging 2.5 points in minimal minutes. After sitting out last season as required, the 6-foot-5 guard is averaging 9.9 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists for the Rebels, starting the last six games and 11 overall.
Florida leads the all-time series against Mississippi 56-41, and has won by an average of 16.6 points during its current six-game winning streak. The Rebels have lost three of their last four in Oxford, Miss.


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A soft quantizer for assigning numerical weights to hard quantized output bits of a binary digital detector in a digital receiver based on the noise energy level of the received baseband data. An analog signal, derived from the discriminator noise level, is digitized by an analog to digital converter for use as an address to look up predetermined numerical weights for soft quantized values in a memory table. The addressed numerical weights are combined with the hard quantized output bits of the digital detector to generate soft quantized data values.
1. A soft quantizer for converting a demodulated signal, including recovered digital data and an analog noise signal, from a discriminator output of a digital receiver employing non-linear demodulation, to soft quantized digital values reflecting the numerical weight of the decoded digital data, based upon the noise energy of the received demodulated signal, comprising:
digital detector means to convert the recovered digital data from the discriminator to hard quantized digital data on a detector output line;
analog to digital converter means for filtering the analog noise signal from the recovered digital data, converting the analog noise signal to a digital representation and supplying said digital representation as an output signal;
addressable memory means having a plurality of addressable locations and from which previously stored predetermined numerical weights may be retrieved from one of the addressable locations as selected by the digital output signal from the analog to digital converter means; and
combiner means for combining the hard quantized digital data from the output of the digital detector with the numerical weights read from said addressable memory means to generate a soft quantized digital value reflecting the numerical weight of the detected data, based upon the level of the noise energy in the digital receiver.
2. The soft quantizer of claim 1 wherein the digital detector generates a one bit binary digital output, and wherein said combiner means comprises output lines from the addressable memory means for the soft quantized magnitude, and an output line from the digital detector output, for the soft quantized sign bit, whereby a sign plus magnitude binary representation of the soft quantized digital values is obtained.
3. The soft quantizer of claim 2 further comprising a latching means for latching the soft quantized output, said latching means clocked by the recovered data clock of the digital receiver.
4. The soft quantizer of claim 1 wherein said combiner means comprises additional address lines to the addressable memory means for receiving the output of the digital detector, whereby the soft quantized values are read directly as outputs of said addressable memory means.
5. The soft quantizer of claim 4 further comprising a latching means for latching the soft quantized output, said latching means clocked by the recovered data clock of the digital receiver.
6. A method of generating a soft quantized digital data value based upon the noise energy of the received demodulated signal at a discriminator output of a digital receiver, said method comprising the steps of;
converting the received demodulated signal from the discriminator output to hard quantized digital data;
filtering the output of the discriminator to obtain an analog noise signal from the received demodulated signal;
converting the analog noise signal to a digital representation;
addressing a predetermined table of numerical weights by using said digital representation of the noise signal; and
combining the addressed numerical weights with the hard quantized data values from the digital detector means to generate a soft quantized data output value based upon the analog noise signal and the recovered digital data in the demodulated signal.
7. The method of claim 6 for generating a soft quantized data value wherein the step of generating an address consists of concatenating the digital representation of the analog noise signal with the recovered digital data values.
8. The method of step 6 wherein the digital detector output is a one bit binary number, and the step of combining the addressed numerical weights with the digital detector output consists of appending the digital detector bit as a sign bit, whereby a sign plus magnitude soft quantized value is obtained.
This invention relates generally to digital communication systems and more particularly to the generation of soft quantized data values representative of the error probability of the received binary data in a digital receiver employing non-linear demodulation.
Digital communication systems, such as mobile data systems, are employing increasingly complex coding schemes to reduce the effect of channel noise. Decoders employing soft quantization are attractive for improving performance, but typical frequency shift keying (FSK) detectors used in mobile data systems are non-linear. The detected binary data is therefore not representative of the error probability of the detected data since the detector transforms the received data to binary ones or zeros, i.e. hard quantized data. FM threshold and limiting effects therefore ordinarily prevent good resolution of soft quantized data values from the signal level of the FSK detector output.
To solve this problem a soft quantizer utilizing an analog signal level derived from the audio noise level of the FM discriminator output is disclosed. This analog signal level is a better indication of the magnitude, or numerical weight, of the detected binary bits than the hard quantized data bits from the FSK detector output, so that the benefits of soft quantization in the decoding process can be obtained for FM/FSK mobile data systems.
It is a general object of this invention to provide a soft quantizer for use in a digital receiver employing a non-linear demodulation scheme.
It is a more particular object of this invention to provide a soft quantizer for an FM/FSK mobile data receiver which derives the soft quantized values from a hard quantized FSK detector and the FM discriminator noise level.
Briefly, in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the invention, a soft quantizer for use in a mobile data system to permit improved data reception inherent in soft quantized decoding is comprised of an analog to digital converter means, a memory means, and a combiner means. The analog to digital converter means is used to generate an address from an analog signal level indicative of the amplitude of the noise level in the recovered baseband signal of the receiver. A memory means is used to store predetermined numerical weights in a table addressed by the analog to digital converter means output. The combiner means, which may be simply an output line to the memory means, combines the FSK data bit with the analog to digital converter means output or with the memory means output to generate a soft quantized data value dependent on both the analog noise level and the FSK data bit.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the preferred embodiment of a soft quantizer according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an alternative embodiment of a soft quantizer according to the invention.
FIG. 3 is a circuit schematic of the preferred embodiment of the invention shown in the block form in FIG. 1 for use with an FM/FSK receiver and a microprocessor decoder.
FIG. 4 is a listing of the microprocessor steps for implementing part of the soft quantizing process used by the preferred embodiment of the invention of FIG. 3.
FIG. 5 is a table of soft quantized values for programming the memory table used in the preferred embodiment of the invention in FIG. 3.
Digital communication systems employing binary digital data transmission are using increasingly complex coding schemes to reduce data errors caused by channel noise. In the field of mobile data communications, binary digital data transmission has been generally limited to audio FSK, which is actually FM/FSK employing two levels of modulation, due to FM and voice compatibility requirements. The mobile FM channel is a particularly severe environment, and bit error rates fall off relatively slowly with increased signal level due to fast fading, a condition wherein relative motion between the mobile receivers and transmitters causes random occurrences of low signal level at the receiver, due to multi-path propagation. Although coding is useful for eliminating the effects of fading, the decoding process is significantly improved if the decoder can take into account those received data bits which are associated with the random occurrences of low signal level. This can be done if the decoder is given a numerical weight, or relative error probability for each detected bit, which measures the likelihood that the bit is erroneous, as a function of the FM discriminator noise level. This invention weights each data bit by the discriminator noise level which is derived from a part of the frequency spectrum where there is little energy from the data signal.
In general, a decoder estimates a decoded data bit based on a number of received data samples. For example, a threshold decoder decides if a group of syndrome bits, logically derived from received encoded bits, are predominantly binary ones or zeros to decide if a received information bit is correct. Mathematically this operation is an averaging operation, and the weights can be taken into account by using a weighted average. This is equivalent to representing each received data sample by a number between one and minus one, where the magnitude of the weighted sample represents the relative probability that the received sample is error free. In such a sign plus magnitude representation, the sign corresponds to the output of the binary detector and the magnitude corresponds to the numerical weight, or relative error probability. Then a binary exclusive--OR corresponds to multiplication in a sign plus magnitude representation, and a threshold operation corresponds to an average.
For very simple decoder systems, unsigned arithmetic is preferred. In such a case the value of a bit may, for example, be represented by four binary digits representing numbers ranging from zero to fifteen, corresponding to the one to minus one sign plus magnitude representation. The fact that the threshold corresponds to 7.5 is taken into account by scaling and using predetermined thresholds after the multiplication or summing operations corresponding to the exclusive--OR or the majority logic of a binary decoder. Representing a received data sample by a number of levels, corresponding to a binary value, is termed "soft quantization", whereas the representation of received data sample by a binary bit, or two level representation, is termed "hard quantization".
It should be noted that soft quantization may be used with any kind of decoding to gain improved performance since the process of hard quantization throws away information. Implementation of decoders for soft quantized data is known to persons skilled in the coding and information theory arts. For mobile data applications, block and convolutional coding is often used, and several decoding algorithms may be adapted to decode soft quantized data. In such decoders the soft quantized data values are correlated with various coded patterns of binary zeros and ones, and employ distance measures or averaging techniques in the correlation calculation to improve the decoding decisions.
The present invention concerns the generation of soft quantized data values in a digital receiver employing a non-linear demodulation scheme, such as FM/FSK used in mobile data systems. In a receiver using a non-linear demodulation scheme, it is difficult to build a detector with a soft quantized data output in which the detailed signal levels are proportional to the relative bit error probabilities. This is in contrast to a linear modulation scheme such as phase shift keying (PSK) where a linear receiver and an integrate-and-dump detector are employed. In a linear system the detector output level, proportional to the input signal plus noise level, is a measure of the relative bit error probabilities.
In a typical mobile data system, a soft quantized data value is best derived from the hard quantized FSK detector output and the FM discriminator output noise level. Because of the sharp threshold effect associated with an FM/FSK system, the FSK detector output level, even before it is hard quantized, is practically worthless as an indication of the numerical weight of a received bit. The FM discriminator output noise level is a better indication of the numerical weight of a received bit, although the weight is a non-linear function of the RF or IF noise characteristics of a typical mobile channel. In practice the numerical weights should be determined experimentally by measuring and averaging the received bit error rates as a function of discriminator noise level over typical operating conditions of the mobile data system.
FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of a preferred embodiment of a soft quantizer. The soft quantizer has an input line 21 to accept binary data from a digital detector, such as from FSK detector 62 in FIG. 3, an input line 22 to accept an analog signal functionally related to the energy of the noise in the receiver's FM discriminator output, such as from discriminator 60 in FIG. 3, and an input line 23 to accept a recovered data clock signal from the bit synchronizer in the digital receiver. An analog to digital converter 24 converts the analog signal level on input line 22 to a digital representation for use as an address to access a read only memory (ROM) 25. One of the address lines 21 of the memory means is selected by the binary data input. In other words, the memory address is the concatenation of the analog to digital converter 24 output and the digital detector 62 output. The output of the read only memory 25 which is selected by the address from A to D converter 24 is latched by a latch 26. Latch 26 is clocked by the recovered data clock on line 23 to hold stable values of the soft quantized data output on output lines 27. Alternatively, the soft quantized data output could be obtained at the output port of a microprocessor, with the microprocessor performing the functions of the ROM 25 and latch 26, as will be seen hereinafter in FIG. 3 and the related description thereof. It should be noted that the design of analog to digital converters, addressable memories, microprocessors and latches are well known to persons skilled in the digital arts, and these components are available as off the shelf items.
If a large number of quantizing levels are desired, it may be advantageous to use a sign plus magnitude representation of the soft quantized data output. This in effect halves the memory requirements since only the magnitude need be stored in the PROM or ROM memory means in the case of a symmetric demodulator, that is, one in which the magnitude of the weights are not a function of the binary data input. The block diagram for this alternate system is shown in FIG. 2. Here the binary data input appears on line 21 and is fed directly to the latch 36. The analog noise energy input appearing on line 22 is fed to the analog to digital converter means 34 generating the address used for memory means in a read only memory 35. The memory need only store the magnitude of the soft quantized values which are then addressed and read out to be combined with the binary data input in the latch 36. The latch 36 is clocked by the recovered data clock line 23 to provide stable soft quantized data values on output lines 27.
It should be noted that the block diagrams of FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 can be implemented in circuitry in a number of ways. A preferred embodiment for use in an FM/FSK mobile data receiver is shown in FIG. 3. The antenna 52, RF stage 54, IF amplifier 56, IF limiter 58, discriminator 60, FSK detector 62, and bit synchronizer 64, are all circuits well known to persons skilled in the art of digital communications.
As previously discussed, the FSK detector 62 transforms the received data into hard quantized binary ones or zeros so that the output of detector 62 is not useful for good resolution of soft quantized data values. On the other hand, the outputs of RF stage 54 and IF amplifier 56 are not hard quantized and have useful signal to noise level information to obtain soft quantized values. However, several reasons dictate that the preferred point for obtaining useful signal to noise information is from the output of discriminator 60. Obtaining the RF or IF signal usually entails some receiver modification whereas the discriminator output is usually available in higher quality receivers. Any bit errors introduced by discriminator 60 would go undetected if sampling is done at the RF or IF level. Significant bit errors also occur at relatively low IF signal to noise ratios. The discriminator typically provides useful signal strength indications at a lower range of signal level, for example, from -90 dBm to -125 dBm, as compared to a typical useful signal strength indication range of -40 dBm to -90 dBm for IF signals. IF signal strength therefore varies in a different manner than the discriminator signal strength. Since most data signal errors occur at or near the noise floor, the discriminator output is more useful in determining soft quantized data values.
Since the time waveform of the discriminator output does not contain much useful information on how good the recovered data bits are, the frequency spectrum of the discriminator is analyzed. The data energy is found in the lower portion of the frequency spectrum. While noise will also be in the lower portion of the frequency spectrum, most of the noise will be found in the higher portion of the frequency spectrum. A high pass filter portion 66 of A/D converter 24 filters the discriminator output signal on line 22 to obtain an analog noise level therefrom. An R-C network, generally designated 63, at the noninverting input of an operational amplifier 67 is designed to pass frequencies above the frequency spectrum of the data signal. This typically means setting the cutoff frequency of the filter above the highest modulating frequency of the data signal. Filter 66 is a second order Butterworth filter.
A signal coupling capacitor 69 passes the analog noise signal from filter 66 to a full wave rectifier 68, but blocks any DC level from amplifier 67. A pair of small signal diodes 71 and 72 are oppositely poled in respective feedback paths from the output to the inverting input of an amplifier 70 to full wave rectify the analog noise signal. Another amplifier 74 sums the signals at a node 73 and provides the full wave rectified noise signal, which will now be a DC level, to a low pass filter 76. While other simpler implementations of full wave rectifier 68 will be apparent, this implementation was selected because of the availability of two amplifiers 70 and 74 in a standard four amplifier IC package after using amplifiers 67 and 77 for filters.
Amplifier 77 in conjunction with an R-C network, generally designated 75, forms a second order Butterworth low pass filter to filter out frequencies above about 600 Hz which may be either residual or caused by signal rectification in rectifier 68.
Reference voltages VT1 and VT2 in circuit portions 66, 68, 76 and 88 may be simply provided by filtered resistor dividers (not shown) from supply voltage VS, with, for example, VT1=VS /2 and VT2=VS /5.
A combination of resistors 80 and 83 and a capacitor 81 on the input line 78 to the threshold comparator circuit 88 provide additional low pass filtering of the signal from low pass filter 76. Input line 78 is routed to the non-inverting input of each of a plurality of threshold voltage comparators 110, 115 and 120. The inverting input of comparators 110, 115 and 120 are each separately connected to respective ones of adjustable resistors 82, 84 and 86, which operate as potentiometers to supply an adjustable reference voltage to the comparators. Comparators 110, 115 and 120 are separately biased within the range of allowable comparator input values by adjustable resistors 82, 84 and 86. The range of the threshold levels must be small enough to accommodate the dynamic range of the FM discriminator noise energy level on data line 22. The comparators 88 in conjunction with the threshold level adjusting resistors 82, 84 and 86 provide a very simple and inexpensive analog to digital converter which has four possible outputs. Possible combinations are; all of the output lines 96, 98 and 100 are low, line 96 is high and the rest are low, lines 96 and 98 are high and line 100 is low, lines 96, 98 and 100 are all high. Rather than decoding these four possible combinations to a binary representation it is easier to feed all three output lines to the input port of microprocessor 102 and let the microprocessor do the decoding by a counting operation. Of course, if greater soft quantizing resolution is desired, additional comparators similar to comparators 110, 115 and 120 may be added to threshold comparator circuit 88, each having an input line, such as line 95, to microprocessor 25.
Output line 96 may also be used to activate an LED 94 through a current limiting resistor 92. The LED will then indicate the logic level of comparator output line 96 which may be used as a reference level to set the comparator threshold adjustment for the least significant bit. Typically this adjustment can be made by disconnecting antenna 52 and adjusting resistor 86 so that LED 94 just begins to blink on. In other words the comparator with the output signal on line 96 senses that the RF input signal at the antenna 52 is just beginning to overcome the noise of the receiver. Of course for a more accurate setting an accurate voltmeter could be connected to one of the input lines 78 of the comparators, or to output line 96.
Alternatively, microprocessor 102 could actually carry out the adjustment process if the gain adjust controlled the lower comparator threshold limit by a digital to analog converter connected to a microprocessor output port. It should also be noted that the voltage threshold levels established by resistors 82, 84 and 86 do not have to be linearly related. In fact here the threshold levels are preferred to be logrithmically related to give increments of about 5 dB or 10 dB. These threshold levels are selected to adequately cover the range of signal levels for which the numerical weights appreciably change. In general, any set of threshold levels could be used because the table of numerical weights in the microprocessor RAM or ROM memory can be programmed to reflect the chosen threshold settings. In fact it should be noted that the table in RAM or ROM of these numerical weights is actually a function of the communication channel and could be selected by the microprocessor for various channel conditions. The channel conditions could be periodically evaluated by keeping an update of the average received signal level and bit error rate estimated by the decoder.
In addition to decoding the comparator output lines 96, 98 and 100, the microprocessor accepts as an input the binary data bit detected by the FSK detector on line 21 as the most significant bit and also the recovered data clock signal on line 23 which may conveniently be used to interrupt the microprocessor each time a new data bit and analog signal strength level are received.
The microprocessor steps for implementing the soft quantizer are shown in FIG. 4. Basically this sequence of microprocessor steps reads the input bit and multiplies its value which is zero or one by 8 and counts the number of comparator lines that are high to generate a table offset which is then added to the starting address of the table to give the address in the table where the corresponding soft quantizer value is stored. This soft quantizer value can then be used in any number of decoding algorithms.
A table of soft quantizer values for a typical mobile radio fast fading channels is given in FIG. 5 corresponding to the table for the microprocessor steps in FIG. 4. These table values reflect the relative bit error rates as related to the noise energy in the discriminator output that are predicted from field tests. It should be noted that these are experimentally determined values and can be determined with a test receiver, employing the soft quantizer of FIG. 3 which is set up to receive a test pattern for which the microprocessor decoder can calculate the received bit error rate. The soft quantizer values in the table of FIG. 5 require four binary bits for storage and range from zero to fifteen, fifteen being the character "F" in hexidecimal code, for representing digital values ranging from a very good zero corresponding to a zero table value to a very good one corresponding to a table value of fifteen. In other words this is a sixteen level soft quantizer.
While an embodiment of the invention has been shown and described, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that changes and modifications may be made without departing from the invention in its broader aspects, and, therefore, the aim of the appended claims is to cover all such changes and modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
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Barry Geraghty's return to the saddle saw him finish sixth and second at Limerick on Sunday.
Nutan gave trainer Peter Schiergen his fifth victory in the Deutsches Derby with an emphatic success at Hamburg racecourse.
Recent Godolphin buy Majestic Queen had to settle for second as Ainippe took the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Brownstown Stakes.
The rest of the news from the meeting at Fairyhouse, where Fit For Function and Gary Carroll were involved in early drama.
A row over a sandwich appears to have caused a trainer to take out three of his horses from a meeting in Victoria, Australia.
Top Notch Tonto will try again over a mile and a quarter at York later this month after his recent return to winning form.
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Still 'pleased with progress' following Hatters promotion
Luton Town manager John Still is pleased with the progress his team is making following their return to League Two after five years.
The Hatters currently sit 18th in the table, seven places and two points behind Cambridge United who they visit on Saturday.
It is the first time both clubs have faced each other since being promoted from the Conference last season.
Still admits they need to score more goals but reckons Luton are improving.
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Veteran striker Paul Benson agrees permanent Luton Town stay
Luton Town have signed veteran striker Paul Benson on a permanent deal.
The 34-year-old spent last season on loan at Kenilworth Road, and was released by parent club Swindon Town earlier this summer.
He's agreed a two-year contract.
Benson's Luton record
- Scored 18 goals in 38 Conference games.
- Finished as Luton's second top scorer, behind Andre Gray (30) who has since moved to Brentford.
Speaking to the club's official website, Benson said that he was happy to secure his future.
"It's good to finally get the contract sorted. I'm looking forward to an exciting season for me and the club.
I think we have the players here to really push on and challenge at the right end of the table.
If we take the momentum from last season forward I really do think we have a real chance of going up again."
Meanwhile, the Hatters have also signed two young players following successful trials.
Left-back Mark Onyemah has put pen to paper on a two-year deal from Thurrock, while 24-year-old striker Charlie Walker has joined from Peacehaven & Telscombe.
Walker scored 43 goals for the non-league side last season.
Luton defender Steve McNulty has also committed his future to the club, signing a new two-year contract.
Luton Town striker Andre Gray seals Brentford move
Brentford have signed Luton Town striker Andre Gray for an undisclosed fee.
Speculation had been building that a deal was imminent, and the 23-year-old has now signed a three-year deal with The Championship newcomers.
Gray scored 30 goals for the Hatters last season as they secured the Conference title.
"We are naturally disappointed to lose Andre but it goes without saying that we wish him well at Brentford," Luton manager John Still told the club's official website.
"With only a year left on his contract, it was either a case of him extending with us or him moving on. It is a great move for him and I am confident that he will go on and enjoy huge success at Griffin Park."
Luton Town star Andre Gray set for Brentford switch
Luton Town striker Andre Gray could be about to seal a move to The Championship, with Brentford closing in on his signature.
The 23-year-old fired the Hatters to promotion from The Conference last season, netting 30 goals and finishing as the league's top-scorer.
Gray was also a target for Blackpool, but newly-promoted Brentford appear to have jumped to the front of the queue.
Meanwhile, Crawley Town have rejected a second offer from Luton for midfielder Andy Drury.
The Hatters are keen to bring the 30-year-old back to Kenilworth Road, but Crawley still see him as part of their plans.
"Their second offer was not much better than the first so we turned it down," Crawley manager John Gregory told The Argus.
"They both fell well short of our valuation of Andy and to be honest even if it was a penny less than the release clause then we wouldn't have accepted as I don't want him to go.
"I'm planning to build my team around Andy this season so unless they offer the amount that is in his contract and take it out of our hands then he is going nowhere."
Luton Town's bid to bring Andy Drury back to the club blocked by Crawley
League One side Crawley Town have blocked an approach from Luton Town for midfielder Andy Drury.
Drury previously spent time at Luton earlier in his career, before he was snapped up by Ipswich Town for a fee of around £150,000.
The Hatters were very interested in bringing the 30-year-old back to Kenilworth Road, but Crawley still see him as a key member of their squad.
"We have rejected Luton's approach because we have absolutely no wish to sell Andy," Crawley Town Chief Executive Michael Dunford said.
"He is an integral part of John Gregory's plans for next season and a very important member of our squad."
Luton have managed to get one deal over the line today however, with Welling United striker Ross Lafayette joining on a two-year deal.
Luton Town move for Lafayette
Luton Town have signed Welling United striker Ross Lafayette on a two-year contract.
The 28-year-old hit 17 goals in 41 games last season for the Kent club in the Conference.
Lafayette previously played for Hemel Hempstead and Wealdstone before joining Welling.
"Ross is a player we have had on our radar for a number of years, he's always someone we've had in mind," manager John Still told the club's official website.
"Ross has a lot of ingredients which make him an ideal signing. He's quick, he's strong and he knows how to score goals.
"Ross knows that he's got to work his absolute socks off to do well at Luton Town to be a success and I back him 100 per cent to do exactly that."
Luton Town swoop for Lowestoft's Curtley Williams
Luton Town have completed their first signing since returning to the Football League, with Lowestoft Town right-back Curtley Williams joining on a two-year deal.
The 24-year-old came through the ranks at Ipswich Town before joining the Glenn Hoddle Academy in Spain.
Williams helped Lowestoft to promotion from the Ryman Premier earlier this month.
"We've watched Curtley extensively this season and we've all been very impressed," manager John Still told the club's official website.
"He is an ambitious man who comes under the 'young and hungry' bracket, and one we see having a bright future ahead of him."
Meanwhile, Hatters striker Mark Cullen has penned a new three-year contract with the club.
22-year-old Cullen will stay at Kenilworth Road until the end of the 2016/17 campaign.
Civic reception for Luton Town following promotion success
An open top bus tour is being held in Luton on Sunday 4 May to mark the football club's return to the Football League.
The Hatters' players and officials will travel through the town from Kenilworth Road to St George's Square at 11:30 BST.
A civic reception will be held at the town hall later.
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The move of "Commander In Chief" to Thursday also makes way for the somewhat surprising return of "Less Than Perfect" to the network. ABC picked up the show for a fourth season last spring but has said hardly a thing about it since then.
"Less Than Perfect," which stars Sara Rue as an assistant at a news network, will air at 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays starting April 18. It will be preceded by episodes of "Hope & Faith" at both 8:30 and 9 p.m.;
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Philip Matyszak is a British non-fiction author, primarily of historical works relating to ancient Rome [1].
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Matyszak has a doctorate in Roman history from St John's College, Oxford. In addition to being a professional author, he also teaches ancient history for Madingley Hall Institute of Continuing Education, Cambridge University.[1]
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|Chronicle of the Roman Republic
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|Imperial Rome's First Dynasty
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|Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day
|Your guide to Sport, Sightseeing & Shopping in Rome, the City of the Caesars
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|Ancient Athens on Five Drachmas a Day
|Where to eat, drink and meet a philosopher your guide to the cradle of Western culture
|Thames & Hudson (September, 2008)
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Arlington International Racecourse has cut overnight purses by 10% and trimmed the purses of most of its few remaining graded stakes.
Arlington International Racecourse has cut overnight purses by 10% and trimmed the purses of most of its few remaining graded stakes.
Donegal Racing's Finnegans Wake tallied his first stakes victory in a thriller July 12, getting his head in front of fast-finishing Admiral Kitten at the wire to win the Arlington Handicap (gr. IIIT).
While Admiral Kitten has failed to hit the board in three straight starts, the 5-year-old son of Kitten's Joy will try to end that skid when he returns to the site of his biggest career win Saturday, July 12.
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Pope McLean's Crestwood Farm will host its annual stallion open house Sunday, Jan. 5, from noon to 5 p.m. EST at its stallion barn on Spurr Road near Lexington.
Multiple grade I winner and millionaire General Quarters (Sky Mesa -- Ecology, by Unbridled's Song) will stand at Pope McLean's Crestwood Farm near Lexington. His 2014 fee will be $5,000 stands and nurses.
Millennium Farms today announced 2014 stud fees for its four stallions, including grade I winner Swagger Jack. All fees are payable when the foal stands and nurses.
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Don't be surprised if the Keeneland paddock crowd around the tree listing "number six" is a bit thick before the Sycamore Stakes (gr. III) Thursday, Oct. 17. read blog
After two adventures in grade I company, trainer Graham Motion brings Wertheimer & Frere's homebred Nutello to the $100,000 Sycamore Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Keeneland on Oct. 17.
Arlington Million (gr.I) contender Rahystrada and trainer Byron 'Scooter' Hughes, a few hours before the running of the 1 1/4-mile turf event at Arlington Park. Watch Video
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Little Mike, who took the 2012 Arlington Million (gr. IT), will defend his crown against a field that includes the winners of group I races on four other continents in the Aug. 17 running at Arlington Park.
Defending Arlington Million (gr. IT) champion Little Mike, trained by Dale Romans, was pre-entered along with 13 others for the 31st renewal of the prestigious race Aug. 17.
The hard-knocking Rahystrada raced into the record books with his third $200,000 Arlington Handicap (gr. IIIT) victory July 13, the only horse to have won that many editions of the 1 1/4-mile turf event at Arlington Park.
Donegal Racing's multiple grade I winner Dullahan takes on two-time Arlington Handicap (gr. IIIT) victor Rahystrada in the July 13 renewal of the 1 1/4-mile turf event at Arlington Park.
Multiple graded-stakes winner Boisterous heads a noteworthy field in the $200,000 Monmouth Stakes (gr. IIT) for Phipps Stable and trainer Shug McGaughey June 9 at Monmouth Park.
Two-time grade I winner General Quarters had his first reported foal, a filly out of Hannah's Ink, by Pentilicus born at Jim Loebig's Red Sunset Farm near Ocala, Fla., in early January.
Bred by Mike Abraham, the filly is out of the Ghazi mare Silent Emotion, a stakes winner of $209,993 and dam of grade 1-placed multiple stakes winner Unspoken Word.
Trainer Chris Block was represented by his 1,000th winner Jan. 12 at Gulfstream Park, when 5-year-old All for Thee rallied through the stretch to score a hard-fought neck victory at odds of 12-1 in the second race of the day.
Off the success of multiple grade I winner Dullahan, Even the Score will see an increase in his stud fee from $10,000 to $12,500 in 2013 at Millennium Farms.
Roger Attfield, inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame this year, will try to add the Sycamore Stakes to his victory ledger when he sends out 10-year-old Musketier in the $100,000 race for 3-year-olds and older.
Millionaires Musketier and Rahystrada, with a combined 10 graded stakes victories between them, head a field of seven turf marathoners entered for the $100,000 Sycamore Stakes (gr. IIIT) Oct. 18 at Keeneland.
Ioya Bigtime, staked to a loping lead by Jeffrey Sanchez, refused to buckle under relentless pressure from favored Rahystrada to win the $200,000 Kentucky Turf Cup (gr. IIIT) on the grass course at Kentucky Downs Sept. 15.
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