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Woe to the Complacent
1Woe to those who are at ease in Zion #Is 32:9-11Zph 1:12
and to those who feel secure on the hill of Samaria —
the notable people in this first of the nations,
those the house of Israel comes to.
2Cross over to Calneh #Gn 10:10Is 10:9 and see;
go from there to great Hamath; #1Kg 8:652Kg 18:34Is 10:9
then go down to Gath #1Sm 5:82Ch 26:6 of the Philistines.
Are you better than these kingdoms?
Is their territory larger than yours?
3You dismiss any thought of the evil day #Am 9:10
and bring in a reign of violence. #Am 3:10
4They lie on beds inlaid with ivory, #Am 3:15
sprawled out on their couches, #Am 3:12
and dine on lambs from the flock #Ezk 34:2-3
and calves from the stall.
5They improvise songs # Hb obscure to the sound of the harp #Am 5:23|NoBook| 8:10
and invent # Or compose on their own musical instruments like David. #1Ch 15:16
6They drink wine by the bowlful #Am 2:8|NoBook| 4:1
and anoint themselves with the finest oils
but do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph. #Jr 8:21Lm 2:11
7Therefore, they will now go into exile
as the first of the captives, #Am 7:11
and the feasting #1Kg 20:16-21Dn 5:4-6 of those who sprawl out
will come to an end.
Israel's Pride Judged
8The Lord God has sworn by Himself #Gn 22:16Jr 22:5|NoBook| 51:14 — this is the declaration of Yahweh, the God of Hosts:
I loathe Jacob's pride #Lv 26:30Dt 32:19Ps 106:40
and hate his citadels, #Am 3:10-11
so I will hand over the city #Hs 11:6 and everything in it.
9And if there are 10 men left in one house, they will die. #Am 5:3 10A close relative # Lit His uncle and burner # A burner of incense, a memorial fire, or a body; Hb obscure #1Sm 31:122Ch 16:14Jr 34:5 will remove his corpse # Lit remove bones from the house. He will call to someone in the inner recesses of the house, "Any more with you? "
That person will reply, "None."
Then he will say, "Silence, because Yahweh's name must not be invoked." #Is 48:1Jr 44:26Hs 4:15
11For the Lord commands:
The large house will be smashed to pieces,
and the small house to rubble. #Am 1:1|NoBook| 9:9
12Do horses gallop on the cliffs;
does anyone plow there with oxen? # Some emend to plow the sea
Yet you have turned justice into poison #1Kg 21:7-13Is 59:13-14
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood #Is 5:20Am 5:7Rv 8:11 —
13you who rejoice over Lo-debar #Jb 8:14-15Ps 2:2-4Lk 12:19-20
and say, "Didn't we capture Karnaim
for ourselves by our own strength? " #Ps 75:4Is 28:14-15
14But look, I am raising up a nation
against you, house of Israel #Am 3:11 —
this is the declaration of the Lord,
the God of Hosts —
and they will oppress you
from the entrance of Hamath # Or from Lebo-hamath #Nm 34:7-82Kg 14:25
to the Brook of the Arabah. # Probably the Valley of Zared at the southeast end of the Dead Sea
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Originally posted by watcher3339
First, please don't take this as an attack on you. Because it isn't. I would like to acknowledge and appreciate that you told another poster he doesn't have to agree. You are one of the few who favor the protests who seems to recognize that people have the right to disagree!
But, in terms of the message. It isn't clear. It is so multifaceted as to be meaningless.
"They took our homes!"
"They took our jobs!" (makes me think of South Park)
"gender inequality" (in one fo the most gender neutral places on earth)
"Student Loans" (uh, yeah, that we all signed up for and held our breath praying that someone would give them to us)
It's one big chorus of rabble rabble rabble rabble.
One person supporting the "movement" on here said that we need to protect the environment and invest in clean energy. Another, on here, supported the movement by saying no more of their tax dollars to fund solar programs...
Originally posted by RandomThought
You guys obviously don't know what occupy wallstreet is all about. You think its all children then you are just plain and simple being ignorant. I'm not going to sit here and explain what its all about, its all over the web and easy to obtain information.
You think people are doing this because they don't want to work? are you kidding me?
Originally posted by solsticks
Although, I must add: This whole thing reminds me of the beginnings of the French Revolution...the everyday working class, the regular everyday people, getting...well, just plain upset...agenda, or not...and 'that' is a scary thought. An unorganized mass of angry people with no central direction spiraling towards no particular goal in the midst of an economic and social breakdown of society.


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Car has about a 5 amp electric draw and battery going dead at night. Pulled all lights like door, glove box, trunk, hood, etc; pulled all the fuses in the fuse box, all the relays, pulled the radio out, unplugged the computer, disconnected the alt. The only thing remaining that could be causing the draw that I can think of is the starter. But I have never heard of a starter causing a problem like this before, nor can I guess where the 5 amps is going? Any ideas?
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Satellite teams didn't wanted Marquez. They chose the stable sponsorship instead a rider with a factory-spec bike who could have been able to take podiums. This is the way MotoGP goes, it's fantastic.
And the solution: drop the rookie rule instead of dropping the stupid 4-bike rule. Because rookies could "stay in Moto2 or do other things", lol.


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Infiniti's JX35 crossover merits tick marks in just about all the boxes you'd likely find beside a list of family value virtues and is equipped with plenty of the bells-and-whistles variety devices that pander to family-friendly vices.
It's drawn to a large scale on the outside, and wrapped in an impressive square footage of boldly bent and fashionably formed sheet-metal.
And it's big – class-leading, according to Infiniti – on the inside, where there are enough seats to accommodate seven family members. Along with, if you select all the options, a just-about-everything-but-a-kitchen-sink list of luxury level equipment that ranges from functional to fun, and in some instances annoying.
Behind its shiny grille resides a 265-hp V-6 mated, quite compatibly it turns out, with one of those continuously variable-type automatic transmissions and their combined efforts propel you down the road with decent levels of force and efficiency. This is all held up off the pavement by a suspension that does as good a job as you'd expect of making it go where you want it to.
Families that can afford one, and who want and need what the JX35 competently delivers with class, will likely find true happiness with it.
And Infiniti dealers hope they will, too. The JX35 arrived in Canadian Infiniti showrooms this past spring expanding the brand's "truck" offerings to four and slotting in above the sporty EX35 and mid-size FX35/FX50 and below the bigger, considerably pricier, more traditional and also seven-seat QX56. The JX35's role is to boost Infiniti's share of the 65,000-unit (last year) Canadian luxury SUV segment from just less than 3,000 units to a higher and more profitable number.
The JX35 is built on a version of the corporate front-drive platform found under the also-family-oriented, also-seven-seat and also – when loaded to its $50,000 max MSRP level – luxurious Nissan Quest minivan. The JX35's bodywork stretches 4,989 mm, just 111 mm less than the van's, although the swoopier styling successfully conceals its minivan-like interior.
"Like" being the operative word, as at 2,116 litres, total cargo volume doesn't match the van's 3,070 litres. With all seats in use, there is 447 litres of room behind the rear one and 1,155 litres behind the middle row. So you can carry seven and very little of their stuff, or four or five and a considerable amount of it.
The front row is well catered for by leather-upholstered seats that offer good lateral support. Two middle-rowers will be happier than three, and those condemned to the steerage-class seats in the stern will find it cramped and headroom marginal if they are adults, but won't suffer too much if they're children. Wide doors and the clever evolutions performed by the middle seats make access to the rear pair easy. The twin-panel sunroof makes the rear area feel open and airy.
So, it's not as useful as one of those déclassé minivans but it is pretty darn capable in classier crossover vehicle terms, which makes it a sensible family vehicle choice.
And a pleasant one to live with, if you're taste for luxury vices extends to the latest comfort, info, entertainment and communication technology.
A base JX35 lists at $44,900, which buys you loads of features including a power rear hatch, but our tester came with $13,500 of option packages that appear intricately interconnected in ways that result in a bigger number at the bottom of the contract. Which in this vehicle's case was $60,395.
These packages can enhance the JX35's already extensive safety features list with an around-view monitor and Backup Collision Intervention system that can apply the brakes if you persist in your efforts to back into something in your path. As well as Lane Warning and Departure Prevention and Blind Spot warning systems and Intelligent Cruise control and Distance Control Assist that warns of slowing traffic ahead. All of which will drive you to distraction unless you switch them off – but may save some oblivious or distracted JX35 driver the embarrassment of running into you.
There's also a 200-mm nav and info touchscreen, voice recognition, a Bose Surround Sound audio system that's superb (and the interior is quiet enough to let you enjoy it), rather nice maple and polished aluminum trim, heated memory seats, heated outboard middle row seats (no toasted buns for the other three rear riders), and two colour monitors in the rear but with just a pair of headsets.
This is a luxuriously fitted out and comfortable cabin that also sets you above the hum-drum of daily traffic with its lofty driving position.
The only engine is the 3.5-litre V-6, which makes 265 hp and 248 lb-ft of torque, idles so smoothly you're barely aware it is running and revs like a racer. The CVT is the first offered in an Infiniti and fortunately has benefited from continuous improvement, so it actually works well. It helps the JX35 to launch satisfyingly hard and accelerate up to merging speeds quickly. You can change its response by selecting sport and ECO modes, and shift it yourself through six "ratios", although why you would want to is questionable. Power is delivered to the wheels through an all-wheel-drive system.
Given the JX35's mass, fuel economy ratings of 11.5 litres/100 km city and 8.5 highway aren't too bad. I averaged 11.2 in rural/suburban type driving and 10.1 at a highway cruise.
Steering connectivity feels vague and, with its mass, changing direction isn't its favourite thing, but it's no worse than others in this category. Not much "fun" to drive, but not an unpleasant chore, either.
The JX35 is a successful mix of size, family practicality, high style and, as reasonable as you could expect, efficiency and performance.
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2013 Infiniti JX35
Type: Seven-passenger luxury crossover
Base Price: $44,900; as tested, $60,395
Engine: 3.6-litre, DOHC, V-6
Horsepower/torque: 265 hp/248 lb-ft
Transmission: CVT
Drive: All-wheel
Fuel economy (litres/100 km): 11.5 city/8.5 highway; premium gas
Alternatives: Acura MDX, Lexus RX350, Lincoln MKT, Mercedes-Benz R-Class, Buick Enclave, Mazda CX-9
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It feels big and ponderous and the suspension will muscle you around on back roads, but it's also very smooth.
The JX35 is size-large haute sheet-metal couture from any angle.
Not surprisingly from Infiniti, its insides are elegantly and tastefully done.
Not too agile, but it's big enough to bully anything its driver, despite the warnings it sends, might hit.
Well, it's not very, is it.
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Here is "Cindy from Vegas'" infamous phone call that sparked a huge reaction from you guys. In case you missed it, Cindy said won't vote for Mitt Romney because he reminded her of a high school crush that that doesn't like you back … Tom was pretty befuddled by her explaination but Cindy said she spoke for a lot of women. What do you think?
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The present invention relates to antenna performance rating systems, and more specifically to a system a measuring the performance of competing antennas under designated environmental conditions.
In designing a wireless network, a designer will position the base stations such that they will provide optimum coverage and, hence, revenue. The designer must work out a link budget to assure that the wireless subscriber's handset is able to communicate with acceptable quality within the advertised coverage area. This link budget involves determining the optimum number of base stations and the effective radiated power (ERP) of each base station. Since designing a link that would be 100% reliable under all conditions would be cost prohibitive, network providers strive to minimize the drop rate of mobile phone communications to a commercially acceptable level, e.g., 5%. Thus, designers of mobile wireless communication systems typically specify a confidence level, e.g., 95%, of communication link success between the mobile and the base station.
Prior art methods of rating antennas used in mobile wireless communication systems measure the peak or average gain of the antenna only. Additionally, it is common practice to assume a constant gain for both transmit and receive antennas. This assumption is valid for a base station transmit antenna since its position and operating conditions are stable. The receive antenna (such as in a handset or other wireless communication device), however, operates in a much more complicated environment in which reception and transmission conditions vary greatly. First, its orientation in 3-dimensional space is somewhat arbitrary since different users hold the communication device in different orientations (referred to as the "range of talk positions"). Second, what might otherwise be an omni-direction pattern of signal radiation from the mobile antenna becomes a directional pattern because of absorption of the radio signal by the head and hand of the user. Thus, the gain of the handset antenna is a function of both the azimuth angle and the elevation angle, as well as the absorption of the signal by the user.
Previous methods of measuring antenna performance are disclosed, for example, in U.S. Pat. Nos.: 5,233,537; 5,300,939; 5,507,101; 5,548,820; 5,574,981; 5,590,415; 5,670,965; 5,856,809; 5,969,664; and 6,031,498. These and all other patents cited herein are each hereby specifically incorporated herein in their entirety by reference. As mentioned above, all of these previous methods rely upon a measure of the peak or average gain only, which is defined as Peak/ave. However, the peak gain occurs at only one point in space. Thus, there is a need in the field of wireless communications for a method of measuring the performance of antennas such that a power budget can be set to provide a reliable link performance in its operation environment over the intended field of view. Many wireless communication devices are portable and are used in an arbitrary orientation relative a corresponding send/receive station. Therefore, the environmental conditions for the receive antenna can vary greatly. Thus, there is a need in the field of wireless communications for a method of measuring antenna performance wherein the operating angle of the receive antenna relative to the base station varies, reflecting actual operating conditions. Furthermore, prior art methods also assume a constant, omni-directional signal radiation from the handset antenna. However, as explained above, the hand and head of the user absorbs radiation from the handset antenna, thus distorting the pattern of radiation from the handset antenna. Thus, there is a need in the field of wireless communications for a method of measuring the absorption of radiated signal energy by the user's hand and head. The present invention addresses all of these shortcomings of prior art antenna performance measuring systems.
One aspect of the present invention is a method of comparing the relative power needed for different antennas for a desired level of performance under designated environmental conditions, e.g., field of view, i.e., azimuth and elevation ranges.
Another aspect of the present invention is a method for statistically characterizing antenna performance in various environmental conditions so as to allow system designers to achieve a certain transmission confidence level.
Another aspect of the present invention is a method for determining the minimum power level needed for a particular level of gain to complete a reliable wireless communication link.
Another aspect of the present invention is a method of comparing different antennas over a range of power levels and usage conditions.
Another aspect of the present invention is determining the performance of an antenna within a wireless communication device.
FIG. 1. Representation of the typical angle with which a handheld phone is held by a user.
FIG. 2. Example of the measured gain of a monopole antenna over a typical field of view.
FIG. 3. Example of antenna performance data plotted as a probability density function for a simple monopole antenna in talk position.
FIG. 4. Example of data from a probability density function converted into a cumulative distribution function for a simple monopole antenna in talk position.
FIG. 5. Example of a gain probability function for a 75 mm whip antenna in talk position.
FIG. 6. Schematic representation of anechoic chamber and testing apparatus.
FIG. 7. Example of a polar plot of the total gain at theta =90 for the Performa Pro™ antenna and a monopole antenna.
FIG. 8. Example of data representing the fraction over a scan angle that the Performa Pro™ (designated "400301") and the monopole antenna will have a gain greater than a particular value, referred to as "total gain" or "true gain".
Antenna performance measurement using the present invention can be done in a wide variety of means, including, but not limited to: bare antennas, antennas mounted in cell phones, mobile and desktop computers, PDAs, GPS receivers, etc. A particular embodiment is described herein, which refers to cell phones as an example. However, the present invention is applicable to a wide a variety of antenna usages. Furthermore, this statistical performance rating of the present invention can be performed using either send or receive functions. While the detailed description enclosed herein primarily addresses particular embodiment procedures for antenna testing and comparison using the receive mode, the statistical performance rating of the invention can be performed using either the receive or the send function of an antenna or device containing one or more antennae. Briefly, statistical performance characterization using the send function would be very similar to the method used in receive mode (as described in detail herein), except that the unit under test would send out signals of desired frequency range to be collected by a signal analyzer. The results are tabulated and the statistical calculations are made using the same method for send or receive mode of data collection. When sending (also called broadcasting) signals from the unit under test, the gain is directly related to the amount of power fed into the unit in order to produce the outgoing signal. Thus the greater the amount of power fed into a properly tuned and matched antenna circuit during broadcast, the stronger the signal and the higher the gain, as would be obvious to one skilled in the art. For an antenna that is not perfectly omni-directional, different power levels may be needed to complete a wireless communication link in different directional orientations, operational angles and environmental conditions, relative to the corresponding receive antenna. Therefore the present invention can be used to measure and statistically characterize the performance of an antenna, or a device containing one or more antennae, where the performance is a function of the amount of power needed for broadcasting a signal in order to complete a wireless link within a desired level of probability for a satisfactory link. Furthermore, the present invention would allow a user to statistically predict which candidate antenna would require less transmit power to complete a satisfactory link, and thus, which antenna would be expected to allow the wireless communication device to run the longest on a given battery.
The first step to characterizing the antenna performance is to define its nominal operating environment. Typically, a user will hold a mobile phone at 60 degrees from the vertical as shown in FIG. 1 on either the right or left side of the head. This 60 degree angle can be referred to as "talk position". With the phone in this position, the base station position in azimuth can typically be assumed to be equally probable over 360 degrees. The base station, meanwhile, is assumed to be at an elevation ranging from −5 to +15 degrees. GPS, Bluetooth®, ISM or other data or voice links, as would be obvious to one skilled in the art, can benefit from 360 degree directional tests to simulate actual usage. The gain of the monopole over this field of view (FOV) is illustrated in FIG. 2. Elevations higher than 15 degrees are not measured for cell phone antennas since this would indicate that the distance to the base station is close enough so that antenna gain will not be a limiting factor.
The next step is to determine the Probability Density Function of the gain over this field of view and integrate that distribution to form the Gain Distribution Function. Finally, this Gain Distribution Function is inverted to provide a measure of the probability that the antenna gain within the solid angle is greater than a given confidence value. Mathematically, these steps are described as follows:
The Gain Probability Function is defined in terms of the probability of exceeding a specified gain as:
The density function, fG (u), is determined by calculating a gain histogram over the field-of-view which is then integrated to form the Gain Probability Function. An example of a density function and the associated cumulative distribution function for a 75 mm monopole in talk position is shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, respectively. An additional method of analysis is depicted in FIG. 5, which represents the fraction over a scan angle that a 75 mm whip antenna in talk position will have a gain greater than a particular value.
FIG. 6 is a schematic representation of the testing apparatus and the anechoic chamber of the present invention. The anechoic chamber is used in the invention's present best mode, however, one skilled in the art would recognize that other test environments could be used and the testing apparatus of the present invention. In order for the Gain Probability Function of the present invention to be calculated, the requisite data must be acquired from the unit under test (UUT). The basic procedure is as follows:
Install the UUT (2) on the dielectric support (3) within the Anechoic Chamber (16).
Connect the RF cable (4) to the UUT (2). The RF cable is connected via a Rotary Joint (5) to Port 2 of the Vector Network Analyzer (8).
The RF absorber (14) is used to minimize wave reflections within the Anechoic Chamber (16) which would otherwise corrupt the antenna measurement.
The data acquisition parameters (frequency, azimuth range, elevation range, power level, polarization) are set using the application software installed on the PC controller (10).
The necessary data is transmitted to the Probe Array Controller (7) and Vector Network Analyzer (8) via the GPIB interface (9).
The Probe Array Controller controls the Azimuth Positioner (6) and sequentially activates the Probe Elements (1) of the Spherical Probe Array (15) at each azimuth position with an RF signal provided by Port 1 of the Vector Network Analyzer (8); the RF signal can include a scan over a desired range of frequencies.
The response of the UUT (2) is measured on Port 2 of Vector Network Analyzer (8) for each position over the azimuth/elevation range; the response is detected as output voltage from the antenna or device containing the antenna, which is then converted by the analyzer to power, which is related to the gain of the antenna.
The data is converted to calibrated gain (13) and stored by the PC controller (10) The calibrated gain data (13) over the specified azimuth/elevation range forms the basis for the Gain Probability Function computation (12) described herein.
For a cellular phone network, the polarization is assumed to be vertical, however, scattering from nearby objects as well as ground reflections result in polarization diversity. The present invention can characterize both vertical and total gain to account for performance variations due to multi-path effects. Additionally, the present invention allows a much more robust basis for antenna comparison than simply peak or average gain since the ordered statistical method of the present invention is impervious to deep nulls which can bias average gain measurements.
Additionally, the present invention provides a method to predict the amount of radiation that would be absorbed by the user of the wireless communication device. The radiation absorbed by a user, called SAR (Specific Absorption Rate), is dependent upon the power level needed to complete a communication link, and may also depend upon the antenna performance in different angles of orientation, for antennae which are not perfectly omni-directional. Because the invention allows statistical prediction of power level, and direction dependence, the radiation absorbed by a user of communication devices containing different antennae can also be statistically compared.
The current best mode for gathering data for computing the Gain Probability Function of the present invention is described as follows (various modifications can be made by one of skill in the art without departing from the scope of the presently claimed invention):
1) Determine the usage model parameters, e.g., a frequency band, a bare antenna or an antenna installed in a device, on a tabletop, in a handheld or in a wristwatch, or other antenna applications.
2) Determine the field of view parameters for a wireless link, i.e., the azimuth range and the elevation range.
3) Run a test set of data for calibration using a known antenna (e.g., a standard dipole antenna), which will serve as a control for comparison of the unit to be tested.
4) Place the unit in an anechoic chamber by: affixing to a bare pedestal, worn or held by a person, or mounted on a phantom head with hand filled with SAR solution that approximates the absorption of a real person's head and hand, or, alternatively, in a plastic container and rubber glove filled with SAR solution, as schematically depicted in FIG. 6 (glove not pictured).
5) Provide an excitation signal (source signal), which is generated by a network analyzer (such as the Agilent® HP 8753®); in the particular embodiment described herein for cell phones, the signal is a planar wave signal which can be stepped over the frequency band to cover the desired frequency range. Alternatively, the input signal could be a near field signal, a far field signal or another type of excitation signal; in an additional alternative embodiment, the actual modulated signal could be used (such as CDMA, PCS, GSM, TDMA or other protocols) in which case the ordered statistic method could be indicative of sensitivity, rather than calibrated gain. Alternatively, an antenna within a wireless communication device, rather than just a bare antenna, could be tested.
6) The response is measured by a signal recording circuit in the form of voltage out from the terminals of the unit under test; measured voltage is converted to power by the signal analyzer and recorded digitally on computer memory by the application software employed by the network analyzer or other software capable of manipulating data and storing in a particular configuration as desired by the user; the data is managed by the vector network analyzer, and can be transferred via a general purpose interface bus (GPIB); the data management can be referenced to IEEE 488 standard for the GPIB.
7) The test pedestal is then rotated step-wise over a range of elevation and azimuth angles for each frequency range tested, with a selected bandwidth of frequencies being tested in a step-wise manner.
Thus, the measurement parameters can include frequencies, azimuth angle and elevation ranges. The measurement parameters can also be environmental conditions such as polarization shift due to reflections of the signal off of various physical structures. The data format is predetermined by the user or dictated by the particular software requirements, but is typically ASCII or binary. The predetermined order of testing steps is controlled by the applications software.
After collection of measurement data, the data is then used to generate a histogram and then calculate the Gain Distribution Function and the Gain Probability Function. The histogram data form a set of bins, min>max, over the range of points. This then becomes the basis for plotting the density function. For each frequency tested, the data generated for each elevation and azimuth angle is put into quantized, discrete bins, as depicted graphically in FIG. 3.
Another method of analysis is to compare the performance results of two or more antennas. For example, the Performa Pro™ antenna from RangeStar Wireless, Inc. can be compared to a typical monopole antenna. FIG. 7 is a polar plot of the total gain at theta =90 for the Performa Pro™ and the monopole. Although the Performa Pro™ (max =−1.1 dBi, mean =−4.3 dBi) has a lower peak gain than the monopole (max =−0.4 dBi, mean =−6.2 dBi), it exhibits a higher mean gain with shallower nulls. FIG. 8 is an example of data representing the fraction over a scan angle that the Performa Pro™ (designated "400301") and the monopole antenna will have a gain greater than a particular value, also known as "total gain" or "true gain".
It should be noted that computer simulation software is capable of simulating the conditions of an actual chamber test environment, and that such simulation software would then generate the data used to perform the probability calculations of the present invention. An example of such software is Ansoft HFSS7 3D EM™ simulation software.
It is also contemplated that the method of the present invention could be used to test antenna performance under actual usage conditions. In such a test environment, the test equipment of the present invention could be placed in a transmission tower, or placed freestanding external to the transmission tower but configured with the transmission tower, to measure antenna performance under actual usage conditions. A bare antenna or an antenna installed in a device would then be placed at varying angles of azimuth and elevation (e.g., nearby hills and valleys) to receive the signal from the transmission tower. Such a testing arrangement would be useful in pinpointing so-called "dead zones" within cell sites. Once such dead zones were identified, corrective measures could then be taken (e.g., additional transmission tower) within the cell site to maximize coverage and, hence, revenue.
Although the foregoing invention has been described in some detail by way of illustration and example for purposes of clarity of understanding, it will be obvious that certain changes and modifications may be practiced within the scope of the appended claims.
All publications, patents, and patent applications are herein incorporated by reference in their entirety to the same extent as if individual publication, patent, or patent application was specifically and individually indicated to be incorporated by reference in its entirety.
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Jet skis. Photo: Pat Scala
Jet-skis are the blowflies of the bay: on a hot summer day they multiply to plague proportions and for anyone in their proximity not of their kind, they are a pest.
Being a lapsed motorcyclist, I can understand the appeal of speed delivered at the twist of a throttle, but even by motorcycling standards there is something obscenely foolish about jet-skis.
This form of aquatic self-expression has been attacked by media commentators and politicians over the past couple of weeks following the death of a swimmer after being struck by a jet-ski off Port Melbourne in late February. The pressure is on for tighter controls.
Putting the safety, noise and nuisance arguments aside for a moment, there is another aspect to jet-skis that should be contemplated. Most governments are now paying at least lip service to the issue of climate change and the human contribution to the warming of the planet. But the popularity of high-speed, petrol-powered pleasure craft such as jet-skis must indicate the message has been completely ignored, at least in the demographic that goes in for these things.
And it is going to be tricky for any government in Victoria to play the environmental moral card when both sides of politics annually celebrate the festival of fossil fuel foolishness that this weekend is taking place at Albert Park.
Like the grand prix, there might be some argument that jet-skis are a safety valve for letting off steam. There is a case that in our highly regulated, safety-conscious society there is a need for the outrageous and for risk taking. Just look at how the base jumpers who leapt from the Rialto this week were feted as daredevil heroes.
If jet-skis were used as a means of transport, their existence might be justified, but from what I can see little transportation is done. They are mainly about high-speed fun - sometimes just going around in circles as fast as possible. I speak with experience as I own a sea kayak and regularly share Port Phillip Bay waters with the jet-ski set.
On the road these days, as in other places, rules are becoming ever tighter. Yet out on the water, apart from designated places and certain situations, there is no limit to how far a throttle can be opened. Your engine can howl and propel you as fast as it can manage, except within 200 metres of most parts of the bay shore line and within 50 metres of a swimmer, a jetty or another non-powered craft, where the speed limit is five knots or 8km/h.
About a month ago, I was paddling my kayak not far off the beach at McCrae. A shiny black jet ski was just in front of me keeping to the 8km/h speed limit that they are supposed to observe here.
The guy at the controls looked like he was just managing to restrain himself. He was a tough looking character with a lot of body art. There was a girl on the back with her long hair in a ponytail and they were a bit closer to the shore than me.
I was paddling the five kilometres between the Dromana and Rosebud piers and was going as hard as I could. My kayak can do about 10km/h if I push it. I passed the guy on the jet-ski. At this point, as I have subsequently discovered talking to an officer from Transport Safety Victoria, I was probably the one breaking the law, because the speed limit applies to all craft.
Anyway, it was a foolish move: I must have confronted the jet-skier's masculinity in front of his companion. My kayak was about half a boat length in front of the jet-ski when the guy with the tatts gunned it, blasting past some nearby swimmers, across my bow and out into the bay.
OK, I confess that numerous times on my motorbike I have zoomed off from the lights to put a vehicle like a Porsche in its place - but I stopped accelerating when I reached the speed limit.
Not only was this jet-ski guy closer than 50 metres to both me and the swimmers when he took off, but he turned around and came roaring back to the shore without slowing at the 200-metre point.
Marine protocol says power craft give way to sail or paddle power. In about five years of kayaking I have had power craft give way twice. Most seem to be ignorant of the rule or in contempt of it. I suspect the latter.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Updated: August 19, 4:44 PM ET
Baseball's early blunders
By Paul Lukas
Special to Page 2
Uni Watch doesn't know if there was something in the water, if the stars were in some sort of bizarre alignment, or if Bud Selig's toupee was just on crooked. But
clearly was amiss on April 10th, a day that probably set some kind of record for uni-related weirdness and set the tone for several other oddities over the course of the ensuing week.
The peculiarities began at Yankee Stadium, where Miguel Tejada, who normally wears uniform No. 10, scored on a
head-first slide
and emerged with the "1"
partially detached
from his jersey. He removed the loose numeral in the dugout and then played the rest of the game
as No. 0
"There's actually only a small amount of thread and adhesive holding the numbers on," says reader
Joe Hilseberg,
who brought Tejada's temporary renumbering to Uni Watch's attention and used to work in the Baltimore shop that does the stitching for the Orioles and Ravens. "Plus they're subjected to daily laundering in industrial-strength washers, so I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often."
Meanwhile, over in Houston, Craig Biggio spent the afternoon wearing a
"Houston" jersey
against the Reds, while his teammates were all wearing
"Astros" jerseys
. To hear Biggio tell it, he wasn't even aware of the snafu until the following day, when some reporters mentioned it to him. (For the improbable details, scroll down to the second item on
this page
The trifecta came in San Francisco, where the Rockies were wearing, well, not exactly the wrong jerseys -- more like a
cry for help
. Uni Watch, ever detail-obsessive, is particularly amused (read: horrified) by the purple straps on J.D. Closser's shin guards. Can clown suits be far behind?
Speaking of which, down in Atlanta, the Braves were unveiling their first-ever alternate jerseys --
! Memo to Bobby Cox, who last year said he'd "rather wear pink" than be forced to wear a
gray dugout jacket
: Be careful what you wish for.
The next day, the Red Sox had their home opener and wore their
gold-accented championship jerseys
for the occasion. Uni Watch had previously questioned the propriety of a one-day uniform, but it wasn't clear until game day that the jerseys were even more specialized than that: The Sox only wore the gilded garb
for the pregame ring ceremony
, and then switched to
their regular jerseys
(with a one-day championship sleeve patch) for the game. So it has come to this: It's not enough to have home jerseys, road jerseys, batting practice jerseys, alternate jerseys, throwback jerseys,
futuristic jerseys
, and
home run derby jerseys
-- now we need
pregame World Series ring ceremony jerseys
too. What's next -- the postgame interview jersey?
The uni gremlins were at work again the following day, April 12th, when Reds starter Aaron Harang took the mound in St. Louis with
"CNCINNATI" on his jersey
. Reader
Patrick Hyde
reports that Fox announcer Joe Buck commemorated the occasion by saying, "There's no 'I' in 'team,' and apparently not on Harang's uniform either." Harang, who switched to a properly spelled uni for the third inning,
later said
he'd apparently been wearing the defective jersey for three days, but nobody had noticed the typo because it had been hidden under his dugout jacket.
A few days after that, on April 15th, the Dodgers celebrated the anniversary of
Jackie Robinson
's 1947 debut by wearing
old-school "Brooklyn" jerseys
for a home game against the Padres -- a classy move, except for a few problems. For starters, the Dodgers never wore "Brooklyn" at home. More importantly, they didn't wear "Brooklyn" at all
in 1947
. In fact, Robinson
wore a "Brooklyn" jersey at any point during his career -- the team's last "Brooklyn"-emblazoned season was
, when Robinson was still in the
Negro Leagues
. Of course, Robbie never wore his pants
like this
either, so historically inaccurate jerseys were the least of the Dodgers' problems here.
Stop the Presses!
Did you know that the Mets have five different jersey designs? Or that the Yankees don't use alternate uniforms? Or that some teams come up with new uni designs just so they can -- gasp! -- sell more merchandise?
These and other groundbreaking factoids come courtesy of an
Associated Press article
that circulated last weekend in many newspapers and web outlets. It's nice to see that the AP has finally discovered the uniform beat -- a mere six years after Uni Watch started covering it. Oh, and this just in from the AP: Most players are overpaid, some of them may have taken steroids, and the new Pope is Catholic.
The best part of the AP uni story is at the end, where Nationals manager Frank Robinson complains that today's uniforms have "too much red." The seeds of Robinson's scarlet fever were appparently planted decades ago -- remember, he began his playing career wearing
and finished it wearing
. And just when he thought he'd escaped the crimson curse by
managing the Expos
, Major League Baseball decides to move the team to Washington, gives it facelift, and makes him wear
. Poor Frank -- if you cut him, does he not bleed bright red? Maybe he should inquire about swapping jobs with
Ken Macha
Will Golf for Food
Just askin': Why does
this guy
feel the need to
pimp himself out to Nike
? What, like he doesn't already have enough money? Or the swoosh doesn't have enough exposure? Seriously, will anyone be surprised if he gets the swoosh imprinted on his teeth when he goes in for his next dental bleach job?
Still, the swoosh is better than that annoying
personalized logo
he sometimes insists on wearing. All of which gives Uni Watch an idea: If gazillionaire golfers can have personal logos, why can't uniform columns? So here's our latest
design contest:
Come up with a Uni Watch logo. Designs involving the initials "UW" are acceptable, but strong consideration will be given to more conceptual entries -- an illustration of a well-tailored stirrup, say, or a purple swatch emblazoned with a red circle-slash symbol. Use your imagination, people.
Whatever you come up with, it should look sharp in a wide variety of promotional contexts: caps, T-shirts, keychains, temporary tattoos, timepieces (a Uni Watch watch!) -- think "merchandising blitz." Send your entries, including your full name, city, and state,
by May 1st.
Catching Up
Let's hope this new contest inspires better results than last month's challenge to create
a better hockey uniform
, which resulted in only two submissions --
-- neither of them particularly noteworthy. That's not to say the contest didn't provoke any reaction, however: Several dozen readers wrote in to accuse Uni Watch of blasphemy merely for suggesting that the basic hockey uniform template could be improved upon (these folks apparently missed the column's proviso that Uni Watch's suggested hockey changes were "just for argument's sake"), and several more offered lengthy explanations of why the untucked jersey and shorts are necessary for practical reasons. The message is clear: Leave hockey uniforms the way they are. Are you listening, Reebok?
In other follow-up news, the NBA's ever-helpful senior director for apparel,
Christopher Arena,
has confirmed Uni Watch's suspicion that Golden State's old "The City" jerseys
never had player names on the back
, even though subscript names appear on the jersey's current
throwback rendition
. Arena explains: "As the NBA recreates uniforms for the NBA Hardwood Classics program, we implement all of the applicable outfitting guidelines that apply to today's NBA. For example, player names are required, the NBA logo is required, etc. For this uniform, the only logical placement, without deviating too much from the original uniform, was to position the player name below the trolley car graphic."
Meanwhile, longtime Uni Watch comrade-at-arms
Tom Shieber
-- the man behind the Baseball Hall of Fame's excellent
"Dressed to the Nines"
online uniform-history exhibit -- has obligingly sent along the artwork for the
memorial patch
that the Blue Jays are wearing on their
right sleeves
this season in honor of Doug Ault, John Cerutti, and Bobby Mattick. Using the team's original jersey font is a particularly nice touch -- or so Uni Watch initially thought. But a closer look reveals that the letterforms on the old unis had
rounded corners
, while the initials on the patch have block corners. Tsk-tsk -- Uni Watch is compelled to dock the Jays a few points for typographic inconsistency.
And on the managers-in-civvies front, reader
Eric Williams
has turned up a photo of Art Howe's
Connie Mack impersonation
. Howe wore this getup while delivering the lineup card prior to a throwback game in 2000, when he was managing Mack's old team, the A's. The woman shown next to him is Mack's daughter Ruth Mack Clark, who walked Howe from the dugout to the plate and later wrote a note saying Howe "really does resemble
my dad
." Uni Watch has always thought
looks more like
Humpty Dumpty
, but Ruth was 86 years old at the time, so we'll cut her some slack.
Paul Lukas has never been mistaken for Connie Mack (and hopes he's never mistaken for Art Howe). Archives of his pre-Page 2 "Uni Watch" columns are available
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Continuing my journey through 111 of the great western mystics that I began in late 2004, recently I've been plodding through the A. C. Ionides translation of Proclus' Elements of Theology, and — in all candor — have been hating almost every minute of it. Meanwhile, I've also been reading Brian Hines' cleverly executed introduction to Plotinus crafted specifically for spiritual seekers, Return to the One: Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization. Compared to Proclus' overly mechanistic and abstract (to the point of desiccation) mapping of the cosmos, I'm finding Hines' commentary on Plotinus to be thoroughly fun by comparison. Most enjoyable of all, I'm learning how the intellectual story of mysticism unfolded in the early church, thanks to Andrew Louth's magisterial (and all too brief) The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys. Next up on my reading schedule is a true warhorse of the contemplative tradition; a five-star, major-hitter mystic: Pseudo-Dionysius, aka Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, aka Denys (as Louth and others in the tradition call him). Denys/Pseudo-Dionysius, an unknown Syrian mystic theologian writing around the year 500 CE, crafted the ancient world's most finely honed integration of pagan Neoplatonism and Christian spirituality in his few short treatises and letters; his corpus of writings therefore became massively influential throughout the church both east and west, with the author of The Cloud of Unknowing and St. John of the Cross among his disciples. So needless to say, I've been looking forward to the day when I would sit down and savor the Dionysian corpus, even if only in translation.
Well, as that day looms nearer, my anticipation has suddenly grown cold. In fact, I'm thinking I'm going to delay reading the works of Pseudo-Dionysius for several months, perhaps even a year.
Why? Because I don't think I have a solid enough grasp on either early Christian doctrine, or Neoplatonism, to do Denys justice. And so I think I'm going to take a few months off and do some remedial reading, as it were. Louth argues persuasively that Proclus is too important for me just to dismiss because I'm impatient with an old translation. So I'm going to give the Elements of Theology another try, only this time using the E. R. Dodds translation. Louth also suggested that another Neoplatonist — Iamblichus — was an important influence on Denys. This surprised me, for I have tended to dismiss Iamblichus as a magician rather than a mystic. But repenting of my intellectual arrogance, I decided it's only fair to actually read Iamblichus before blowing him off, so I'm going to take a crack at his De Mysteriis. Meanwhile, to help me bone up on my theology I'll be dipping into J. N. D. Kelly's Early Christian Doctrines, and probably also Norman Russell's The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition. Meanwhile, to sharpen my knowledge of Neoplatonism, particularly as it helped to shape the emergence of Christian mysticism, I'm going to turn to one or more of these titles: Thomas Finan's The Relationship Between Neoplatonism and Christianity, Dominic J. O'Meara's Neoplatonism and Christian Thought, John J. O'Meara's Studies in Augustine and Eriugena, and — if I can find a copy (I currently have an interlibrary loan request on this one) — S. Gersh's From Iamblichus to Eriugena: An Investigation of the Prehistory and Evolution of the Pseudo-Dionysian Tradition.
As much fun as all this academic reading will be, I don't just want to stop reading the mystics while I'm on my Neoplatonic learning curve. So in addition to Iamblichus and Proclus, I figured I'd go back to Origen and Gregory of Nyssa and polish off a couple of anthologies that look particularly promising: Origen, Spirit & Fire: A Thematic Anthology of His Writings edited by Hans Urs von Balthasar, and From Glory to Glory: Texts from Gregory of Nyssa's Mystical Writings, selected and introduced by Jean Daniélou.
Finally, lest anyone should worry that I'm stuck on a first-half-millennium feedback loop, as I take this extra year to fortify my understanding of the headwaters of Christian mysticism I will still be dipping into the streams of the later tradition: for example, at the moment I'm working my way through The Cloud of Unknowing as well as two works by Teresa of Avila: The Book of My Life and Interior Castle.
So given all this, I think Pseudo-Dionysius can wait a number of months. It's not like I won't have anything to read in the meantime.


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