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Jim Mack is an 18-year-old man, growing up with a very large cock.
Hannah's a rich lady who owns a near bankrupt factory. Heather is Hannah's 18-year-old daughter. Hannah will be a rich lady, if the factory goes bankrupt. However, lots of people will be out of a job.
In order for the company to survive, Hannah and Jim have to take part in a customer orgy. Hannah has to take part, because the lady who owns the customer company wants to have a wild time and she doesn't want to be the only owner doing it. Hannah and some hired girls service customers and Jim services the other owner lady. The company survives and Jim is a Supervisor.
The company's still on shaky ground and a major customer wants to service his own 18-year-old daughter. The only way that the daughter will do what her father wants is if she's not the only daughter servicing her father and there's also a new convertible involved. Both Hannah and Heather have to service customers, if the company is to survive. Jim trains Heather and then he and the ladies get involved in a family affair, while the customer also get involved in a family affair. The action is successful and the company again survives. Jim is then Assistant Manager.
The company is now poised to survive, when an opportunity arises for the company to move from survival to prosperity. A black owned company wants an orgy and they can't get it back home. If Hannah's company will set up the orgy, Hannah's company will get contracts that will let her company prosper and jobs will be safe. By now, Hannah's company has enough money to hire girls, but the local girls won't put out, unless Hannah and Heather do, because of the interracial aspect of things. Jim also gets involved again, because the wife of the black owner wants to attend the orgy. Jim sets things up and recruits the requested girls. The requested girls are white, black and Asian. Jim has to test the girls. In an inspired move, Jim also furnishes a fully dressed 'Secretary' to 'run things.' The orgy is on and it's wall to wall action. Hannah, Heather and the hired girls service the customers. When the customers need a bit of rest, the girls show them a bit of girl-girl action. Jim services the black owner's wife. The black owner then decides that he has to have the 'Secretary.' Jim then 'forces' the fake Secretary to service the black owner. The party then runs until the black guys can't get it up anymore, even with lip service. The orgy is a success and the black owner signs a profitable new contract. Hannah's company will now operate at a nice profit and all is well. Jim gets promoted to Manager.
Despite being only 18-years-old, Jim is running Hannah's company and doing quite well. Jim is also secretly servicing Heather, Hannah's daughter, so that Heather can be a 'good girl' around town. Heather's company then needs to do an installation in Hawaii. Jim has been pushing the technical staff pretty hard and he lets as many of the staff go in the Hawaii trip as he can. The unsupervised technical staff then decides to rent some Hawaiian girls. Of course, the wives of the technical staff find out and the wives want revenge, divorce is even discussed. Then the ladies want the professional staff Xmas party to be a strip bar party. Jim tries to talk them out of it, but to no avail. Hannah tries to talk them out of it, but to no avail. Jim then sets up a private strip bar party. Hannah and Heather will have to be waitresses at the party and they will have to go topless, if all of the other ladies do.
The wives work up some strip routines for the party, mostly pretty lame. One exception is a mousey little lady who obviously can't play the topless stripper role. However, no one thinks to tell Mousey and she steals the show. Mousey gets topless and then nude. The rest of the ladies try to keep up, but they mainly get naked.
The party ends with several of the ladies exiting in the nude.
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Recent History of California State Massage Regulation
By Beverly May
In late 1991, the California chapter of American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA-CA) organized the California Coalition on Somatic Practices. This informal group, representing massage and somatic associations, individuals and school owners, developed a 40-page informational packet and survey on questions of professional identity and regulation. In 1995, almost 20,000 surveys were sent throughout the state. At that time, just over a majority of massage therapists supported state regulation. Non-massage somatic practitioners, who are not subject to local vice laws, mostly did not want to be regulated.
Six years later, AMTA-CA surveyed our members specifically regarding massage regulation. All the massage and somatic organizations that might be affected were offered copies of the survey. Only the Association of Bodywork and Massage Professionals (ABMP) did a concurrent survey.
With fairly strong support from our members for a state law to pre-empt local vice regulations, AMTA-CA began to explore feasibility. ABMP, with a large California membership, was told that we would not proceed if they were in opposition, and we encouraged their participation. Our intent was that non-massage, somatic specialties be exempt, as is fairly standard in the newer state licensing laws now in existence.
We began with a fairly broad principle - if there is going to be regulation, one state regulation is preferable to multiple and vastly differing vice ordinances. It has been our experience after at least three decades of working on repeal or reform of local ordinances, that very little progress is possible at that level. Both AMTA-CA and ABMP were in agreement regarding provisions such as full grandfathering and pre-emption of these local ordinances.
Only AMTA-CA committed to hiring a lobbyist. We prepared to introduce a bill in the 2003-2004 legislative session. Although it was extremely optimistic, we expected to mobilize supporters and work with opponents and other stakeholders.
Then, San Diego assemblywoman Christine Kehoe agreed to author the bill. Under the pressure of meeting the bill-filing deadline, communication broke down and caused some initial chaos.
We expected a "spot bill," worded as "an intent to study the need for regulation," allowing us time to work on the actual wording. Instead, the assemblywoman's staff cut and pasted sections from AMTA and ABMP Model State Codes that we had sent, along with sections of bills pending in other states. The result was a bill that no one liked pieced together in order to keep the bill active.
Many states, including California, require submission of a Sunrise survey documenting the need for state regulation. Typically, it's based on potential harm to the public by the unregulated profession. There is little proof that massage practitioners actually do much physical harm.
The Sunrise survey introduced in 2003 took the position that massage is not causing any significant physical injury, but that the public would be better served by state regulation rather than the patchwork of local regulations. We believe the public is harmed emotionally and financially by the current situation - as individuals, as well as in the costs borne by communities in their mostly futile efforts to prevent the use of massage as a front by the sex industry. The costs of state regulation would be borne by the pooled fees of all licensees. The 30,000 or so California massage therapists also are harmed by being subject to varied and expensive local requirements, paying for criminal investigations and permit fees in multiple cities.
At the same time, a committee representing AMTA-CA, ABMP and massage schools formed to discuss revisions to the bill, producing a version that we felt could begin the process of negotiation with other stakeholders including local officials, employers, other schools and other professions.
In November 2003, AMTA-CA agreed to pull the bill from consideration as there was still too much work to do to prepare for upcoming Sunrise hearings. Fast-forward to the 2005-2006 session when finding an author was not easy. Gov. Schwarzenegger had just come to power with plans to do away with over half the boards regulating professions, and a serious budget crisis was taking attention from legislators. Our best option was a promise from then Senator Figueroa, Chair of the Senate Business and Professions Committee (as well as the joint committee, which would hear our Sunrise application) to come up with something if we passed the hearing. Her option was to author a bill with no sponsoring organization, but with AMTA and ABMP both providing the type of support that sponsors generally do. However, rather than a license law, Figueroa insisted on the odd California model of a private agency created by the legislature to issue certifications and regulate certificants - unlike the previous licensing bill, this would be a title act, allowing those not certifying to work under other titles.
With lobbyists for both AMTA-CA and ABMP working together, S.B.421 died in the very final hours of the session due to opposition mostly by the California Chiropractic Association (CCA), and to a lesser degree, the Physical Therapy Association, over scope of practice issues.
During the most recent session, Senator Oropeza authored S.B.731, using the language from S.B.421, with AMTA-CA as the sponsoring organization. ABMP was in support and both groups worked very hard to address the concerns that defeated the prior bill. The CCA formally supported it after the massage associations agreed to remove the definition (scope of practice) of massage. Typically, title acts don't need definitions, unlike practice (license) acts, which regulate both the practice as defined and the titles used. S.B.731 also died in the final hours. Despite having the votes to pass, it got caught up in strange politics which caused numerous bills to be bundled and held back.
For the second year of this session, it looks like we can take a "gutted bill" - one that still is active, and insert our language. We have a powerful author and likely will co-sponsor with ABMP. If all goes well, it would be a bill that has passed the first house and is in the second committee of the second house (where S.B.731 stalled). It will have a new number this next year.
California is a very large and diverse state. With more than 200 schools teaching massage at all levels of training and vastly differing requirements throughout the state, the profession itself has unique regional needs and perspectives. The state is not very supportive of new state regulations. We feel this optional title act is a reasonable solution. Those who prefer to work under their local massage ordinances, or in areas having none, can continue to do so. The bill has tiers of 250 and 500 hours, with the lower tier phasing out after five years. Those certified by the board will be exempt from the need for local massage permits and cities must recognize them in zoning and fees as they do other professions. By doing so, massage therapists in California finally can avoid regulations prepared for vice control.
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|Aug 4, 2003
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|Aug 4, 2003
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|Mao-Ching Chiu
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for estimating the link quality of a channel, and more particularly to a method and an apparatus to utilize a fading value to modify an estimated link quality thereby deriving a quality measure being close to the actual quality of said channel.
2. Description of Related Art
In a wireless communication system, the link quality of a channel is an essential reference parameter whether for the transmission party or the reception party. For example, if the link quality between an access point and plural nodes covered by said access point is able to be precisely measured, the MAC layer (media access control layer) of said access point can properly switch the comminuting channel among the plural nodes or decrease/increase the signal transmission rate.
Basically, link quality is determined upon the measured signal-to-noise ration (SNR). Although the parameter is useful in evaluating the link quality of a communication channel, it has been found that the precise link quality is hard to be represented merely by an SNR. Some additional factors, such as the fading factor resulted from the multipath, may possibly affect the accuracy of the measured quality.
Accordingly, it is desirable to provide a new method and an apparatus for estimating a link quality of a communication channel.
An objective of the present invention is to provide a novel method and an apparatus for estimating the link quality of a communication channel, where the fading factor caused by the multipath transmission is addressed to modify the estimated quality value.
To achieve aforementioned objective, the method in accordance with the present invention mainly comprises the steps of:
estimating a noise quantity (B) of said channel based on two long training symbols contained in a received OFDM packet transmitted over said channel;
summing the absolute values of estimated subcarrier gain values (Hk) of said subcarriers thereby obtaining an estimated channel gain value (A) of said channel;
estimating a fading value (F) of said channel based on said estimated subcarrier gain values; and
subtracting said fading value (F) from said estimated channel gain value to derive a channel gain measure (A-F), whereby the link quality of said channel is defined as a ratio of the actual channel gain value to the noise quantity (B).
Other objects, advantages and novel features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
The present invention is to provide a novel method and an apparatus for estimating the link quality of a communication channel over which OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) packets are transmitted. As well known in the art, the head of an OFDM packet includes a PLCP (physical layer convergence protocol) segment in which ten short symbols and two long symbols are contained. In the present invention, the two long training symbols are utilized to estimate some parameters for determining the link quality. It should be noted that said channel is deemed as being composed of N subcarriers and each of which represents a specific frequency. For instance, the 802.11a channel has a total of 64 subcarriers, wherein 52 of the 64 subcarriers are used the most.
With reference to
Therefore, the noise quantity (B) of said channel is estimated by summing the absolute values of the all difference values between two respective subcarrier gain values (Hk,1 and Hk,2), as represented by the relationship
Moreover, to obtain a measure that is much closer to the actual gain value of the subcarrier, the aforementioned two parameters are further averaged to calculate an estimated subcarrier gain value Hk as shown in
By summing up all the absolute values of all estimated subcarrier gain values (Hk) of all subcarriers, the entire channel gain value (A) is obtained. The estimation of the channel gain value is expressed with an equation
In order to represent the influence on the channel resulted from the multipath, a fading value (F) is further taken into consideration. The fading value is derived by the relationship
in which the ratio of the estimated channel gain value (A) to the total quantity of the subcarriers (N) stands for an average subcarrier gain value for each subcarrier. Actually, the difference in quantity between the estimated subcarrier gain value Hk and the average subcarrier gain value
can be deemed as a deviation. Therefore, the fading value (F) for the channel can be calculated simply by accumulating the absolute values of all deviations.
As described above, parameters including the estimated channel gain value (A), the fading value (F) and the noise quantity (B) of the channel are all calculable based on the subcarrier gain values Hk,1 and Hk,2. After said three parameters (A, F, and B) are obtained, the link quality (LQ) of the channel can be defined as
As shown in the link quality equation, if the fading value is not taken into account, only the ratio of parameter (A) to (B) is considered, which substantially represents a signal-to-noise ratio of the evaluated channel. However, since the fading value is provided in that equation, even when a channel has great variation in channel gains, the link quality can very precisely be estimated according to the method of the present invention.
Moreover, the link quality estimating method described above is able to be implemented with such an apparatus as shown in
The channel gain estimating means (10) is for estimating the first and the second subcarrier gain values (Hk,1, Hk,2) for each subcarrier based on said two sequentially received long training symbols of a received OFDM packet.
The calculating means (20) computes the noise quantity (B), the fading value (F) and the estimated channel gain value (A) based on foregoing equations.
With the calculated parameters, the link quality calculating means (30) further computes the link quality (LQ) of the channel upon the relationship
In conclusion, the purpose of the present invention is to introduce a fading value to modify the estimated link quality thereby considering the real conditions of the estimated channel.
It is to be understood, however, that even though numerous characteristics and advantages of the present invention have been set forth in the foregoing description, together with details of the structure and function of the invention, the disclosure is illustrative only, and changes may be made in detail, especially in matters of shape, size, and arrangement of parts within the principles of the invention to the full extent indicated by the broad general meaning of the terms in which the appended claims are expressed.
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|Manabu Mukai
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|Takahiro Kobayashi
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|Qualcomm Incorporated
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|375/224, 375/136, 375/227, 455/13.4, 375/226, 375/132, 375/346
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|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Aug 4, 2003
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I have an interview set up for a compliance position next week. I do fine until I get asked the "So why XXXXX position". Does anyone have some standard cheesy answer that usually works in this scenario? I can answer why AM/ER/Corp Fin but completely blank on BO positions
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If you're having a hard time with that question, you may want to reconsider. Imo, there's nothing worse than waking up every morning hating what you do. Is there no way you can land some ER or AM position at a boutique? I'd take that over a BO compliance gig at a BB but that's just my .02
My lease ends July 31st and after that I'm on my own. Trust me, I'll take ER/AM/Corp Fin over BO but I'm not going to turn down a BO offer with nothing in hand. I'm still currently sending resumes everywhere and will continue until I get the best possible offer by july
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Honesty might be the best policy. You want to have this position because you want to be in banking. If they press you about why specifically you want this BO position, say your goal is to build a career in banking, and that you'll work your butt off in this position just for the opportunity to be in the industry. Telling them that this is a great opportunity is completely true - you wouldn't be wanting this position if it wasn't the greatest opportunity you have at the moment.
Good luck turning this into something better. Learn what you can from where you are. At least a BO role will give you more time to study for the CFA, or whatever else you choose to do to jumpstart your career.
Honesty might be the best policy. You want to have this position because you want to be in banking. If they press you about why specifically you want this BO position, say your goal is to build a career in banking, and that you'll work your butt off in this position just for the opportunity to be in the industry. Telling them that this is a great opportunity is completely true - you wouldn't be wanting this position if it wasn't the greatest opportunity you have at the moment.
Good luck turning this into something better. Learn what you can from where you are. At least a BO role will give you more time to study for the CFA, or whatever else you choose to do to jumpstart your career.
I'm going to go ahead and say that this is really bad advice and have to comletely disagree. I used to interview people for BO jobs at a BB bank and someone who comes in with the "honest" approach you list above is automatically done before I can get them out of the room. No compliance department wants an FT employee that is not looking(or at least pretending to look) at this as a career option and will work to advance themselves. If I was looking for someone like what you list above, I would look through a temp agency.
Now, to respond to the OP, if this is all you have and your situation does not allow you to remain unemployed while lookin for jobs and you absolutely NEED the compliance gig, you better go into the interview and figure out how you can convince them that this is he right position for you, (which unfortunately you will need to figure out on your own).
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Until now, banning was IP based only. It worked fine to the point when you got a pesky and persistent type who kept changing their IP address and continued to bother you. Those times are over – you can now ban visitors by IP and set an additional ban cookie on their browser.
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