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I accidentally messed up my
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/etc/xdg/menus ..... :(
Does anyone know what the default configuration is for this file?
Let's hope I learn my lesson of messing with the original file...
I am using the ppas for Xfce 4.10 and 4.12 on Xubuntu 12.04, but I think
The menu is in the package
so this is useful to know, but a reinstall of the package won't replace the config file, and purging the package so it removes the config file would remove a lot of Xfce, so those really aren't options.
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I saw the news post about JK being on (or off) the Zone, but is there anyway to play JK/MotS multiplayer without installing another program on my computer? I remember jk.net had a page waaay back in 1998 where people would host a game and post the IP address. I assume that's so old fashioned nowadays that no one remembers it, much less participates in it... :o
All you have to do is start a game and give others the IP, which they can manually type into their game and connect to it.
The latest version of Qtracker (when Ron Mercer finally releases it to the public, which shouldn't be too much longer, if he hasn't already as I post this, since I haven't checked in a week or so) creates it's own "master server list" for JK/MotS so we can do it again like we did in the old days, only completely through Qtracker.
Gamespy arcade also supports JK/MotS too btw.
But really, all you need to play JK/MotS with people on the internet is through exchanging IP's (of the server).
All you really would need is a forum or CGI form board for posting the IP's which you can easily copy and paste (or launch directly into the game if you want to go that route, like Qtracker, the MSN Gaming Zone, or Gamespy arcade do) and a description.
The old Jedi Board had spots for you to list the map(s), mod(s) (if any), score limit, time limit, game type, title of the server, admin nam, max players, and then a small space for describing the server as well. It was a big long list with each one date/time stamped, and I can't recall if there was an "archive" you could go back to, but that was pretty much it. You'd also want some control so you could delete entries for people who just spammed garbage in there.
If someone wanted to create such a board, that would be great.
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Sophomore Meredith Wilson
April 20, 2013
By Bill Ford
OMAHA, Neb. -- The Southern Illinois softball team split a doubleheader with Creighton Saturday afternoon at the CU Sports Complex.
The Salukis (20-23, 8-9 MVC) dropped a 6-5 heartbreaker in eight innings in the opener before rebounding for a 6-1 win over the Bluejays (25-12, 11-3 MVC) in Game 2.
"You've got to give the kids a lot of credit for sticking in there, hitting the ball hard and coming up with a huge win in the second game," said SIU head coach Kerri Blaylock.
Game 1
Creighton 6, SIU 5 (8 innings)
Game 1 Box Score
The two teams went through seven scoreless innings before the Bluejays got the better end of an 11-run eighth inning for the walkoff win.
The majority of a game was a pitcher's duel between SIU starter Brittney Lang and Creighton's Becca Changstrom. Lang struck out a career-best 13 batters while allowing just three hits with no walks through the first seven innings while Changstrom had a no-hitter broken up in the sixth, allowing just one hit with 11 strikeouts and two walks through the first seven.
Southern got back-to-back singles from Kelsey Gonzalez and Morgan Barchan with one out in the top of the eighth before Jayna Spivey hit her 11th home run of the season to give the Salukis a 3-0 lead. Taylor Orsburn and Allie VadeBoncouer followed with back-to-back doubles to score another run and Meredith Wilson drove in VadeBoncouer to put the Salukis up 5-0.
SIU retired Creighton's first batter in the bottom of the eighth before the next two Bluejays got on board with a single and a walk. Creighton pinch hitter Blake Ringle cleared the bases with a home run to cut the margin to 5-3 and the next three Bluejays singled to load the bases. Alexis Cantu drew a walk to drive in one run and Ellen Homan hit a walkoff 2-run single to lift the home team to the win.
Lang (10-12) suffered the tough-luck loss despite pitching one of the finest games of her career. Her final line was six runs allowed, all earned, on nine hits with 13 strikeouts and two walks in 7.2 innings.
"Except for one inning, Brittney threw by far the best game she has all season," Blaylock said. "I thought she got careful. She wanted to throw strikes and get out of the game instead of sticking with her plan."
SIU picked up seven hits in the game as no Saluki players recorded multiple hits.
Game 2
SIU 6, Creighton 1
Game 2 Box Score
A five-run fifth inning and strong pitching performances from Alyssa Wunderlich and Katie Bertelsen powered SIU to a Game 2 win.
"I give Alyssa Wunderlich credit for coming in and settling us down right away," Blaylock said. "I wanted to score a lot earlier than we did in the second game, but Bertie came in and just did a great job."
The two teams went scoreless through the first four innings before the Salukis exploded for five runs on six hits in the fifth. Jayna Spivey, Taylor Orsburn and Allie VadeBoncouer all picked up RBIs while Meredith Wilson drove in two runs.
The Bluejays picked up one run on a bases loaded walk in the bottom of the fifth before Bertelsen coaxed the final two outs of the inning to strand three Bluejays. Southern added an insurance run on a sac fly by Spivey in the top of the sixth, and Bertelsen kept Creighton off the board for the final two innings to pick up her second save of the season.
Wunderlich (7-9) picked up the win after allowing one run on three hits with five strikeouts and three walks in 4.1 innings. Bertelsen allowed no runs on two hits with two walks and two strikeouts in 2.2 innings.
Wilson went 3-for-4 with two RBI to lead the Saluki offense while Morgan Barchan went 3-for-5 with two runs scored and Kalyn Harker went 2-for-4 with a run scored.
The two teams will play the rubber match at noon Sunday.


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ZF-2597: Possibility to choose column in fetchCol
Add possibility to choose column in function fetchCol I would like to choose for example index 3 or 'name' now it allways select first column
$connection->fetchCol($sql, $bind , $index);
I think, that fetchCol() is intended for sql queries like this:
SELECT nickname FROM Users;
Defined column is not good way to do this, you should optimize your queries to select just column you need.
Please categorize/fix as needed.
This doesn't appear to have been fixed in 1.5.0. Please update if this is not correct.
Reassigning as Ralph is the maintainer of Zend_Db
As noted in the comments, there is an easy way to accomplish this.


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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 827317, 8 pages
Dynamic Channel Coordination Schemes for IEEE 802.11p/1609 Vehicular Networks: A Survey
Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Republic of Korea
Received 19 July 2013; Accepted 11 September 2013
Academic Editor: Wei Wang
Copyright © 2013 Hongseok Yoo and Dongkyun Kim. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
IEEE 802.11p/1609-based vehicular networks utilize a multichannel architecture to support vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. In the multi-channel architecture, the available channels in the 5 GHz spectrum are divided into one control channel (CCH) and multiple service channels (SCHs). Multiple SCHs are defined for nonsafety data transfer, while the CCH is used to broadcast safety messages called beacons and control messages (i.e., service advertisement messages). According to the channel coordination scheme, a radio interface alternately switches between the CCH and a specific SCH. The intervals during which a radio interface stays tuned to the CCH and SCH are called CCH and SCH intervals, respectively. Both intervals are set to a fixed value (i.e., 50 ms) in the standard. However, since the fixed-length intervals cannot be effective for dynamically changing traffic load, some dynamic interval division protocols have been recently proposed to support the dynamic adjustment of the CCH/SCH intervals for improving channel utilization. In this paper, we therefore provide a survey of dynamic interval division protocols for VANETs, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of them, and define some open issues and possible directions of future research.
1. Introduction
Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) apply advanced information and communication technologies to transport infrastructure and vehicles in order to enhance the current transportation systems. ITS provides a wide range of applications such as safety, security, congestion alleviation, environmental monitoring and protection, productivity and operational efficiency, comfort, and convenience. Due to potential benefits of ITS applications, many academic institutes, automotive industries, and governments over the world have paid increasing attention to ITS over the last few decades. In addition, until now, many standard activities have provided the overall system architecture and communications framework. A variety of groups including IEEE in the US, and the C2C-CC, ETSI, and ISO in Europe and other parts of the world are participating in the standardization [1].
ITS can be implemented based on various underlying network architectures. Among them, a vehicular ad-hoc network (VANETs), a special type of mobile ad-hoc networks, is one of the candidate network architectures. In a VANET, moving cars and roadside units create a mobile network in a self-organized manner without any permanent infrastructure. Due to its decentralized nature, a VANET is highly preferred by a variety of safety applications which cannot easily obtain help from central nodes, such as cooperative collision avoidance, blind sport warning, and approaching emergency warning [2].
A VANET is mainly characterized by high mobility and the restricted movement patterns governed by roads and traffic rules [3]. These characteristics lead to many challenges in designing vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication protocols. Particularly, to cope with the unstable nature of V2V and V2I links caused by high mobility, IEEE 802.11p has been proposed as an approved amendment to the IEEE 802.11 MAC/PHY standard to support wireless access in vehicular environments [4]. It introduces a modification to IEEE 802.11a at the PHY layer in order to cope with the fast-fading propagation environment. At the MAC layer, IEEE 802.11p relies on the prioritized channel access of IEEE 802.11e MAC. In addition, it simplifies the authentication and association operations, which are considered time-consuming for vehicular communications. In addition, the IEEE 1609 family of standards (denoted by IEEE 1609.x) [5], a higher layer standard on which IEEE 802.11p is based, is being standardized to support ITS applications. Currently, it consists of 5 published standards and 2 unpublished standards under development [6]. This standard defines architecture, communications model, management structure, security mechanism, and how it works with the physical layer and media access layer for high speed (up to 27 Mb/s), short range (up to 1000 m), and low latency wireless communications in the vehicular environment. Collectively, IEEE 802.11p and IEEE 1609.x are called wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) standards.
Specifically, IEEE 1609.4 specifies extensions to the IEEE 802.11p MAC for multichannel operations. In WAVE systems, there are two types of channels: control channel (CCH) and service channel (SCH). The available channels are divided into one CCH and multiple SCHs. The safety and control messages are exchanged between devices in the CCH and messages for nonsafety application services are exchanged in SCHs. According to the coordination scheme, each device should alternate between the CCH and SCHs. The intervals during which a device stay tuned to the CCH and SCHs are called CCH and SCH intervals, respectively. Both intervals are set to a fixed value (i.e., 50 ms) in the WAVE standard.
Recently, many researchers investigated the performance of multichannel operations of the WAVE standard [7] and demonstrated that the fixed-length CCH/SCH intervals cannot be effective for dynamically changing traffic load. In a congested vehicular traffic condition, the fixed-length CCH may not be able to handle a large amount of safety packets and control packets. In addition, in sparse networks, the CCH channel can be wasted due to infrequent transmissions from vehicles. On the other hand, some applications consuming a large amount of bandwidth, such as video download and map update, cannot obtain sufficient SCH resources due to excessive contention. Therefore, many protocols have been proposed to address the dynamic adjustment of CCH/SCH intervals. We call them dynamic interval division protocols in this paper. In these protocols, CCH/SCH intervals are dynamically adjusted according to their own criteria.
In this paper, we therefore provide a survey of dynamic interval division protocols for VANETs. First of all, we introduce the IEEE 802.11p/1609.4 multichannel operations mentioned above in detail in Section 2. The operations of the existing dynamic interval division protocols are summarized in Section 3. In Section 4, we qualitatively analyze the protocols and point out some open issues and possible direction of future research. Finally, Section 5 concludes this paper.
2. IEEE 802.11p/1609.4 Multichannel Operations
Figure 1 depicts the multichannel operations defined in IEEE 1609.4. The seven 10 Mhz-wide channels are available in the frequency band of 5.85–5.925 GHz: one control channel (CCH) and six service channels (SCHs). The channel access time is divided into synchronization intervals with a fixed length of 100 ms. A synchronization interval is further divided into CCH and SCH intervals. Each of intervals lasts 50 ms long. According to the channel switching scheme, all devices must stay tuned to CCH during the CCH interval for exchanging safety and control messages. A device can actively switch from the CCH to a specific SCH for its desired nonsafety application services.
IEEE 1609.4 defines a guard interval (GI) at the beginning of both the CCH and SCH as shown in Figure 1. GI accounts for the radio switching delay and the time synchronization error. Typical values for the guard interval are between 4 and 6 ms. During the guard interval, nodes are not allowed to send or receive data packets.
Since two or more devices which want to exchange data should stay tuned on the same channel, time synchronization is required for accurate multichannel operations. IEEE 1609.4 makes the CCH and SCH intervals to be synchronized to an external time reference, the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) which is often provided by the Global Positioning System (GPS). However, if a device fails to get the UTC from its local GPS, it should get time information from other nodes over the air. This becomes possible by using wave time advertisement (WTA) frames, which is available in the IEEE 802.11p specification. Given the UTC, a node aligns the start of the CCH interval with the UTC or a multiple of 100 ms after the UTC.
In the IEEE 1609.4 specification, the channel switching scheme described above is called alternating access. Besides the alternating access scheme, the IEEE 1609.4 additionally defines 3 more channel switching schemes as shown in Figure 2: continuous, immediate, and extended access. The continuous access scheme allows a node to always stay tuned to the CCH in order to exchange only safety-related data. Hence, this scheme is not suitable for nodes who are interested in both safety and nonsafety applications. The immediate access scheme allows nodes to start communications over the SCH immediately without waiting for the next SCH interval. The extended access scheme allows nodes to keep communicating over the SCH without switching to the CCH. Both immediate and extended access schemes have been designed to improve the delivery performance of bandwidth-demanding nonsafety applications, requiring a huge amount of data to be transferred. However, they can be only beneficial to those vehicles which are not interested in safety applications such as a cooperative collision avoidance. Consequently, the alternating access scheme is the best solution for supporting both safety and nonsafety applications. We only focus on the alternating access scheme in this paper.
For providing a nonsafety service, a node (called WAVE provider) initializes a basic service set (BSS). A WAVE provider could be a either a roadside unit or a vehicle. Each WAVE provider advertises its presence and offered services by periodically broadcasting WAVE Service Advertisement (WSA) messages during the CCH interval. WSAs contain the information about the offered services and the network parameters necessary to join the advertised BSS (its identification, its SCH, its EDCA parameter sets, configuration parameters needed to access the Internet, etc.). For reliability purposes, the standard suggests that each WAVE provider sends WSAs several times in the CCH interval. A WAVE provider also should choose the least congested SCH for its BSS in order to reduce interference between nearby BSSs. However, a specific scheme for selecting the least congested SCH is not specified in the standard.
Nodes (called WAVE users) interested in the services offered by the WAVE provider should monitor the CCH to learn about the existence and the operational parameters of available BSSs. When a WAVE user receives a WSA frame from a WAVE provider, it simply switches into the SCH advertised in the WSA and starts to exchange data with the WAVE provider.
3. Dynamic Interval Division Protocols
There has been substantial interest in multichannel MAC protocols for multihop ad-hoc networks [8]. On the other hand, only a few researchers have discussed the multichannel MAC protocols for VANETs. In this section, we review existing multichannel MAC protocols for VANETs. In particular, we only address protocols that handle issues for the dynamic adjustment of CCH and SCH intervals in this paper.
3.1. DID-MMAC: Dynamic Interval Division Multichannel MAC
To the best of our knowledge, Liu et al. first proposed an adaptive MAC protocol, which is called Dynamic Interval Division Multichannel MAC (DID-MMAC) [9], for the dynamic adjustment of CCH/SCH intervals. As shown in Figure 3, DID-MMAC further splits the CCH interval into three phases based on a type of different messages: Service Announce Phase (SAP), Beacon Phase (BP), and Peer-to-Peer Reservation Phase (PRP). WSA and beacon messages are transmitted in SAP and BP, respectively, and the exchanges of control messages for SCH reservations are performed in PRP.
For dynamically adjusting the intervals of SAP and BP in a distributed manner, DID-MMAC assigns different channel access priorities to different messages by differentiating the contention window (CW) and the interframe space (IFS). Table 1 summarizes CWs and IFSs assigned to WSA and beacon messages. According to the medium access control strategy of IEEE 802.11p (i.e., CSMA/CA), a node wishing to initiate a transmission invokes the carrier-sense mechanism to determine whether the medium is busy or not. If the medium is busy, the node defers the transmission until the medium is determined to be idle for a period of time equal to IFS. After IFS, the node will wait for an additional random time called backoff time before starting the transmission in order to avoid collisions. The backoff time is determined by * SlotTime (SlotTime is a basic time unit in the backoff process. Its value in the idle case depends on the duration that is required by different PHY techniques (e.g., slot time is 9 μs for the OFDM-based 802.11a) to detect the medium state), where is the random number selected between 0 and CW. Therefore, since IFSSAP is smaller than IFSBP, senders which have a WSA message to send always win the contention for accessing the medium against the other senders which have a beacon to send. Consequently, after all the WSA messages are transmitted, beacon transmissions can be allowed to proceed within the CCH interval. In DID-MMAC, SAP and BP end when the channel is idle during IFSSAP + 7 * SlotTime and IFSBPP + 15 * SlotTime, respectively.
PRP starts right after BP. The duration of PRP is calculated based on the network real-time traffic load. In order to make a node to be aware of the traffic load, DID-MAC adds two new fields called Service Indication (SI) and Traffic Indication (TI) into WSA and beacon messages, respectively. The SI field indicates the total data size of service and the TI field indicates the service status in vehicle side. Whenever a node receives WSA and beacon messages, it updates the traffic load based on SI and TI information in the received message. The duration of PRP is adjusted adaptively according to the estimated traffic load which is affected by the underlying peer-to-peer communication negotiation protocols. DID-MMAC adopts the modified MMAC [10] as the negotiation protocol. It is noted that since we are only interested in how to dynamically adjust the CCH/SCH intervals, we omit the explanation on operations related to the negotiation protocol in this paper. Readers who are interested in the details of operations regarding the negotiation protocol can refer to [9].
3.2. VCI: Variable CCH Interval
Wang et al. proposed a Variable CCH Interval (VCI) [11–13] multichannel MAC protocol to enhance the saturation throughput of SCHs while ensuring the transmissions of safety messages. Similar to DID-MMAC, VCI also divides the CCH interval into safety interval and WSA interval as shown in Figure 4. Periodic beacons are transmitted in the safety interval. During the WSA interval, nodes exchange control messages for SCH reservations. Service providers broadcast WSA packets and piggyback service information and the identities of SCHs to be used. Nodes which need the service can optionally respond to the WSA packet with an acknowledgement (ACK). Furthermore, a service user can initiatively send a request for service (RFS) packet to make an agreement with a service provider. In VCI, the length of safety interval () is determined by (1) where represents the total number of nodes sending safety packets, is the data rate of CCH, is a predefined factor according to current vehicular environment, and is the sending frequency of safety messages. In this equation, is the only variable and is affected mainly by . However, VCI does not mention how to calculate in a dynamically changing traffic condition
The residual synchronization interval except for the safety interval is divided into WSA and SCH intervals. VCI calculates the optimal ratio between WSA and SCH intervals for maximizing the channel utilization of SCHs. Ideally, the optimality is satisfied when the number of successful reservations equals the number of packets transmitted on all SCHs within the same contention domain. To achieve this goal, VCI analyzed the behavior of a single node and the stationary probability that the node transmits WSA or RFS packets during the predefined short time interval by using a Markov chain model. The analyzed results are used to calculate the average time consumed on the CCH for the negotiation of service packet transmission. Finally, VCI derives the optimal ratio between WSA and SCH intervals based on the average reservation time. As stated in Section 3.1, we do not address the explanation on operations related to the negotiation protocol in this paper. For the more detailed explanations, readers can refer to [11].
Basically, the CCH interval (safety and WSA intervals) is calculated by the roadside unit (RSU). The RSU broadcasts a packet (VCI packet) containing the length of the CCH interval to the nodes under its transmission range. For the reliable delivery, each VCI packet will be broadcasted at least twice. Under heavy traffic or congested conditions, the VCI packets may not be heard by some nodes. To tackle this issue, VCI adds a field representing the latest CCH interval information into the WSA/RFS packets. Moreover, when there exists no RSU, VCI selects a leader among nodes within one hop and allows the leader to broadcast the VCI packet.
3.3. DCI: Dynamic CCH Interval
D. Zhu and D. Zhu proposed a Dynamic CCH Interval (DCI) MAC protocol for the dynamic adjustment of CCH/SCH intervals [14]. DCI works identically to VCI except for the calculation of the WSA interval. Different with VCI that is based on the average time consumed on the CCH for the negotiation of service packet transmission, DCI calculates the optimal WSA interval based on the probability distribution of the reservation time for service packet in the CCH interval.
DCI defines as the maximum number of service data packets which can be transmitted on the given SCH interval. And then, it derives the minimum WSA interval for reserving the transmission of service packets. Finally, DCI obtains the optimal WSA interval by finding the optimal to minimize the difference between the sum of WSA and SCH interval and the residual synchronization interval except for the safety interval.
3.4. DSI: Dynamic Safety Interval
Yoo and Kim proposed a Dynamic Safety Interval (DSI) protocol for calculating the optimal safety interval under dynamic traffic conditions in a distributed manner [7]. Different with protocols mentioned before, DSI only addresses the issue of the adjustment of the safety interval. In particular, DSI calculates the safety interval considering the presence of hidden nodes. Note that DID-MMAC, VCI, and DCI do not consider the presence of hidden nodes.
DSI aims to allow the safety interval to accommodate transmissions from nodes within the same contention domain (a contention domain is a section of a network where data packets can collide with one another when being sent on a shared medium) as well as nodes hidden from them. The region within which hidden nodes reside is affected by three types of ranges related to packet transmissions in the IEEE 802.11 MAC: transmission range (), carrier sensing range (), and interference range (). Here, represents the range within which a packet can be successfully received by a node if there exists no interference from other nodes. is mainly affected by the transmission power and radio propagation models. is the range within which a transmitter triggers carrier detection. It is usually determined by the antenna sensitivity. is the range within which nodes in a receiving mode interfere with transmissions from other nodes. These ranges are tunable parameters that can significantly affect the MAC performance. Measurement studies such as [15] demonstrate that . In addition, many studies assume that and are typically more than twice [16]. In particular, and have default values of 2.2 times in the ns-2 simulator [17]. Assuming that the ratio of to is 1: and the ratio of to is 1: , and are regarded as tunable system parameters. DSI assumes that and are equal to 2.2.
Hidden nodes refer to the nodes located within of the intended destination and out of of the sender. When a receiver is receiving a packet, if a hidden node tries to start a concurrent transmission, collisions can happen at the receiver. For example as shown in Figure 5, node B is located within interference ranges of both nodes A and D so that node D's transmission interferes with the transmission from node A to node B. On the other hand, node A's is not overlapped with node E's , since nodes A and E are separated by a distance denoted by . Therefore, both nodes can concurrently transmit their packets without interfering with each other. is called spatial reuse distance and should be larger than the sum of and . DSI allows each node to share the safety interval with nodes whose distance from is smaller than .
In DSI, the extended contention domain (ECD) is defined, which is the region where nodes sharing the safety interval reside. Given ECD, each vehicle calculates the number of vehicles (denoted by ) within ECD and derives the safety interval based on , interframe space, the average backoff time, and the transmission time of a beacon.
4. Qualitative Analysis
In this section, we qualitatively analyze existing dynamic interval division schemes in terms of various aspects listed in what follows:(i)interval division criterion, (ii)SCH negotiation method, (iii)traffic condition considered, (iv)consideration on interference from hidden nodes, (v)cooperation with RSU, (vi)control message overhead.
DID-MMAC adjusts the CCH/SCH intervals based on the traffic load in a distributed manner without the help of RSU. In order to allow each node to measure the traffic load, it causes the message overhead by adding new fields called SI and TI into each WSA and beacon message. However, the message overhead per a message is negligible (i.e., 1-byte) as compared to the size of control and beacon message ranging from 100 bytes to 300 bytes. The operation of DID-MMAC is designed to work well in the saturated traffic condition. However, under the unsaturated traffic condition, if WSA, beacon, and control messages are randomly generated within the synchronization interval, each interval (i.e., SAP, BP, or PRP) will be repeated multiple times in a random pattern during the synchronization interval. In this situation, since nodes cannot detect the end of BP, it is impossible for nodes to estimate the PRP interval accurately. Regarding interference from hidden nodes, in DID-MMAC, hidden nodes outside of a given contention domain (CD) also transmit their beacons during their BP. BPs of nodes within and outside the CD may be overlapped in time. Therefore, transmissions from the safety interval are continuously exposed to the interference from hidden nodes.
VCI uses the number of vehicles within the contention domain and the average time () consumed on the CCH for the negotiation of service packet transmission as criterion for calculating the CCH/SCH intervals. VCI assumes the saturated traffic condition when it calculates so that it cannot avoid the performance degradation under the unsaturated traffic condition. Fundamentally, the CCH/SCH interval is calculated by RSU. Moreover, when there exists no RSU, a node is selected as a leader, and it calculates the intervals. The RSU or the leader broadcasts the VCI message periodically in order to advertise the calculated intervals to nodes within the coverage of them, which leads to the message overhead. However, the size of the VCI message is not specified in [11]. VCI also does not consider a network scenario with potential hidden nodes, and tacitly means the total number of nodes within the same contention domain. Therefore, VCI also cannot avoid interference from hidden nodes as in DID-MMAC. Regarding the SCH scheduling method, VCI introduces a new SCH negotiation (denoted by WSA/RFS/ACK exchange in Table 2) protocol, while DID-MMAC exploits an existing protocol called the modified MMAC.
As stated in Section 3.3, DCI works identically to VCI except for the calculation of the CCH/SCH intervals. DCI calculates the WSA and SCH intervals based on the probability distribution () of the negotiation time for service packet in the CCH interval. DCI defines the predefined threshold in the algorithm to calculate the duration of the CCH interval. Hence, DCI's performance is affected by the threshold. However, DCI does not include the method to determine the most appropriate threshold value.
DSI calculates the safety interval according to the number of vehicles (denoted by ) within the extended contention domain (ECD) in order to allow the safety interval to accommodate transmissions from nodes within the same contention domain as well as nodes hidden from them. The concept of ECD is newly introduced in [7]. Each vehicle calculates in a distributed manner without the help from the infrastructure such as RSU. In the process of calculating , each vehicle exchanges the latest information on the vehicle density within its proximity with its neighboring vehicles, which leads to the message overhead. In DSI, every beacon message includes the vehicle density information whose size is lower than 10 bytes. In addition, since DSI does not assume a specific traffic condition, it works well under any traffic conditions.
Table 2 summarizes the analysis results. We also introduce some open issues and possible directions of future research related to the dynamic interval division protocols for vehicular ad-hoc network as follows:(i)Most existing dynamic interval division protocols are defining a system parameter in their algorithm to calculate the CCH/SCH intervals. Hence, if the system parameter is not adjusted according to the dynamically changing network condition, the operation of the protocols cannot be guaranteed to work appropriately under the dynamic VANET environment. Therefore, a dynamic interval division protocol that is independent of such a parameter is needed.(ii)The authors of the DID-MMAC, VCI, and DCI protocols assumed the saturated traffic condition when they analyze the behavior of their SCH negotiation protocols. And then, based on the analysis results, they calculate the SCH interval. However, in vehicular ad-hoc networks, the traffic condition is dynamically varying with time and space [18]. Therefore, the analysis of the behavior of their SCH negotiation protocols should be done under the various traffic conditions.(iii)The interference from hidden nodes is known to deteriorate the MAC layer performance [19]. Although DSI considers the interference from hidden nodes when it calculates the safety interval, the DSI design is based on the deterministic propagation model where transmission/interference ranges are defined as the ideal circles as shown in Figure 5. Therefore, a new dynamic interval division protocol should consider the interference from hidden nodes under the probabilistic propagation model [20] which is more realistic than the deterministic model.(iv)All the existing dynamic interval division protocols assume that each vehicle periodically broadcasts a beacon message with the fixed rate and power. Although the use of the fixed rate and power is regarded as the default option of the typical VANET systems, many researchers are studying the dynamic use of the rate and power of beacon transmissions. Therefore, a new dynamic interval division protocol should calculate the safety interval considering the variable rate and power of beacon transmissions [21] which can affect the total load of the beacon traffic.(v)Except for the alternating access scheme, the WAVE standard additionally defines 3 more access schemes: continuous, immediate, and extended accesses. The analysis and tuning of them is an open issue.
5. Conclusion
In this paper, we have performed an extensive survey of various dynamic interval division protocols for IEEE 802.11p/1609-based VANETs. We summarized the operation of the existing protocols and discussed the advantages and disadvantages of them. Furthermore we also defined some open issues and possible directions of future research related to dynamic interval division protocols for vehicular ad-hoc networks.
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There has been a rolling correction in various sectors, but the S&P has held up much better.
(INDEXSP:.INX) futures are up 8-10 handles this morning as European markets bounce back from oversold levels. Japan is also actually near or at year-to-date highs as they didn't get as scolded much as some would have thought at the G-20 for their devaluation strategy. Traders looking for lower prices would not want to see a close above 1563-1575 in coming sessions. Pressing directional moves has been tough.
If you did cover some shorts into key support, you have the luxury of potentially testing some shorts into the bounce back. In the same vein, if you sold some excitement into the move above 1575ish, you had the luxury of testing some longs on Thursday and could probably book some into this up open. These are all "medium-term type tactical plays" if you use a very active approach. By the way, they are not easy to execute on.
Last week was an interesting one. The S&P wasn't able to sustain its breakout above 1573 as it reached 1597 but couldn't hold higher. On Thursday, the market had a successful test of its 50-day moving average, which also is a very defined support area that markets are watching in the 1536-1540 area. This could also be deemed the "neckline" if the right shoulder builds in coming sessions.
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Metals snapped back a bit after hitting lows last week. Gold (NYSEARCA:GLD) hit $130.50ish and now is opening around $138.50ish. It's in the gap that goes all the way up to $143.25, and then $145.50 is the next resistance spot. Be careful blindly shorting an up open as this commodity got stretched very far to the downside. But there is obviously some room here.
Tech continues to be mixed.
(NASDAQ:GOOG) responded pretty well to earnings. It broke its descending channel and now needs to stay above $790ish to stay constructive.
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(NASDAQ:EBAY) also didn't report enough to sustain the move off last month's lows. I'd give it some time and $50ish could be a magnet.
(NASDAQ:NFLX) is near big support of $159ish; see if it holds that.
(NYSE:LNKD) acts better than most but probably won't have a big move until earnings.
(NASDAQ:AAPL) has earnings on Tuesday and will get a lot of attention this week. It seems like everyone has taken their estimates and targets down a few notches for AAPL. The last pivot was $419ish, which broke last week. The stock has been battered and bruised, and now the question is, has it been battered and bruised enough? Many have thought that over the past few months and been wrong. Here are some thought from JPMorgan on AAPL:
AAPL itself reports earnings Tues Apr 23 after the close and expectations are pretty subdued (and seem to be falling every hour). The St is modeling (as of Thurs 4/18): revs $42.485B, GMs 38.5%, OMs 29.6%, EPS 10.07, tax 26.19%, iPhone units ~35MM, iPad ~16-17MM, Mac ~4MM. For June, the St is modeling revs $38.907B, GMs 38.81%, OMs 29.31%, EPS 9.08 (nearly every preview says, "We expect AAPL to guide June below the St"). Many people increasingly think AAPL could announce an updated capital return strategy in conjunction w/earnings on Apr 23. In terms of anticipation, the 1) base case expectations on capital: a dividend yield of at least 3.25% w/$7.5-10B of annual buybacks; 2) upside case on capital: a dividend yield of ~4%+ and/or a large 1x "special" dividend (similar to what MSFT did years ago) coupled w/an ongoing yield of ~3.75%+. Buyback pace of $10B+ annually; 3) downside case on capital: a dividend yield of less than 3% and an unchanged buyback.
I did put some
(NYSEARCA:SPY) short back on at the close Friday, and will see if I can add some on the open. I'm thinking that this could be the "right shoulder" potentially building but I don't have extreme conviction. I will measure the action the next few days. I went from portfolio approach last Monday back to tactical.
I think macro investors are just fine as I don't think the highs of the year are in (I also don't think this is 2007). The question is, do we see lower prices before resuming the macro uptrend? That is what we will be trying to measure this week.
Scott J. Redler is short SPY.


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Guest writer Joe Gaiter sat down with Jalil Johnson of Jackson State for an interview.
Joe Gaiter: What will you miss the most about playing at Jackson State University?
Jalil Johnson: I will miss the family atmosphere and the fans at Jackson state. I'm going to miss those Saturday's in our packed stadium making plays and getting the crowd excited and feeding off of their energy. I'm also going to miss how the whole team was a family and always did everything together.
Joe Gaiter: How will you prove yourself on the field?
Jalil Johnson: I'm a competitor, I want to be the best and I feel the only way to be the best is to beat the best. For instance, this year when I played against UAPB ALL AMERICAN Raymond Webber who is a very talented and physical receiver. We battled all game long and I came out on top but the battled actually is the reason why he and I are close friends now. I really respect him. I also ask coaches that coach me at The Russell Athletic HBCU Bowl to tell me what they think are my strengths and weakness so I can continue to get better. I feel just because I had a great season that doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement. I never think that I am too good. I always try to find a part in my game and better it so I can become a complete player.
Joe Gaiter: What goals do you have for the NFL?
Jalil Johnson: My first goal for the NFL is to make a team. My second goal is to be the best special team player I can be for them. I know the NFL is real big on player's being good on special teams because it is a key part of winning a game. My next goal is to work my way up and get into the rotation. I'm going to give it everything I have.
Joe Gaiter: What are your hobbies off the field?
Jalil Johnson: I love playing video games. I play them all the time. I also like to play with little kids because they are just so funny and full of energy. I'm also a big movie person.
Joe Gaiter: What NFL player reminds you of yourself?
Jalil Johnson: Reggae Wayne, the reason why is because he is a very hard working receiver that shows up every game . He also reminds me of myself because he is underrated. Everybody knows he is good but they don't understand how great he is because he never draws attention to himself.
Joe Gaiter: Who has been your biggest influence in your football career?
Jalil Johnson: Proving people wrong has always been my biggest influence. Being doubted all my life has really motivated me. I love to see the look on people face when I prove them wrong. The odds of a person from the delta of Mississippi even making it this far is slim. Another big influence is my close friend Antonio Johnson, he plays for the Colts. He really motivates me because he is also from Leland Mississippi. He always tells me that I can do exactly what he did because I am no different from him. You just have to want it more than anyone else and be willing to work hard for it.
Joe Gaiter: What is your biggest strengths on the field?
Jalil Johnson: My biggest strength on the field is my intelligence. I know and understand what the offence is trying to do to me. I pay attention to my surroundings such as down and distance so I know what to expect on the following play. I study film and I am able to recognize a receiver's route just by their release and stem. Knowing these things help take the thinking out of football and really let my talent show and is a big reason why teams tried to stay away from me in my conference.
Joe Gaiter: What is the hardest part about playing cornerback?
Jalil Johnson: The hardest part about playing corner is that you have no margin for error. You have no help and you are basically going against the other team's best athlete. You are truly on an island but this is also what I love the most about this position. I love the challenge and it's a position that few can play. I like making cornerbacks look easy when I read a receivers route perfect and jump it or when I just shutdown my side of the field . I love that feeling and I continue to keep working hard at it because receivers are getting faster, stronger, and better so you really have to be on top of your game.
Joe Gaiter: How will you elevate your skills to a NFL level?
Jalil Johnson: I will elevate my skills by working my tail off. If I make it to a camp I am going to find a veteran player and a coach and soak up all the knowledge and secrets that I can. Being in the NFL is a dream to me and I will work hard as I can to continue living it
Joe Gaiter: Who is Jalil Johnson?
Jalil Johnson: Jalil Johnson is a very motivated and hard working man from the delta who isn't scared to chase his dream. I have been through my ups and downs just like everybody else. I believe I can change people's lives with my positive attitude and actions. I'm trying to give people hope that they can do anything they believe in as long as they try. I'm no different from anyone else back at home in Leland. They can do exactly what I'm doing, so that's the example I am trying to set for the people at home and across the world. I want to be a role model for the kids who think they can't make it out the hood and projects without selling drugs and going down the wrong path. I'm making it now and I grew up in the same places they did. I feel like I did my job if I can change one child or person life. The reason why is because they will inspire someone just like I did them and the cycle continues. This is Jalil Johnson cornerback for Jackson State University.


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Laredo, TX -- The Laredo Fire Marshal discovered fire code violations during an inspection of detention cells at the Laredo Sector South Station Saturday.
The fire marshal and a department inspector accessed the facility and found six cells exceeding capacity, according to Laredo Fire Chief Steve Landin.
He said the excess of detainees is an "occupancy violation."
The inspection was made after a written complaint filed by a representative of the National Border Patrol Council, Local 2455, according to Landin.
"We told them they couldn't be doing that," said Landin.
Landin said he contacted U.S. Border Patrol Commander Robert Harris, and the two organizations are discussing a solution. He said his department made recommendations -- suggesting temporary cells, and different processing procedures.
A representative for the U.S. Border Patrol Laredo Sector could not confirm the inspection or the fire department's finding. They issued a written statement.
"The Laredo Sector Border Patrol is processing undocumented immigrants as quickly and efficiently as possible to try to avoid any hazards or safety issues," said Laredo Sector Public Affairs Officer, Sara Melendez, in the statement.


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sex, lies, and videotape
- Studio: Criterion Collection, The
- Release Date: Aug 4, 1989
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A movie of prodigious power and feeling that is also high-spirited, hilarious and scorchingly erotic.
The kind of picture to whip out the clichés for: Surprisingly original. Delightful. Brilliant. Funny as all heck. When 1989 is through, sex, lies, and videotape may well be remembered as the best film of the year. [11 Aug 1989, Daily Datebook, p.E1]
Electrifying As writer, director and editor, [Soderberghs] control is mesmerizing. It's also more than a little creepy; as though Soderbergh were drawing us, a step at a time, into a warm pool where intimate secrets flowed back and forth as simply as currents of water. [4 Aug 1989, Calendar, p.6-1]
Soderbergh is helped enormously by the interplay of his actors, whom he has cast like a master... [He makes] a film that goes past what it shows to disclose what can't be seen. It's a fine achievement. [4 Sept 1989, p.26]
Astonishing... One of the freshest American films of the decade. [4 Aug 1989]
A sexy, nuanced, beautifully controlled examination of how a quartet of people are defined by their erotic impulses and inhibitions.
What amazes is that at just 26, Soderbergh displays the three qualities associated with mature filmmakers: a unique authorial voice, a spooky camera assurance, and the easy control of ensemble acting. [31 July 1989, p.65]
Startling is the fact that a film so light on action and heavy on chat can be so achingly funny without having being crafted by a young Woody Allen.
What "The Big Chill" was to baby boomers, the inspirational sex, lies, and videotape is to the mall crowd. It's designer soul-searching, a looking glass for a generation.
It has more intelligence than heart, and is more clever than enlightening. But it is never boring, and there are moments when it reminds us of how sexy the movies used to be, back in the days when speech was an erogenous zone.
Twenty years ago, you could view early works of big-splash directors and often tell where they were coming from - or going. Yet Soderbergh and his debut project are mysteries. What can possibly come next? You won't be able to drag me out of line opening night. [4 Aug 1989, Life, p.1D]
Cunningly scripted and acted, and talky in the best sense, the film is engrossing to watch but not especially interesting to ponder afterward; it's certainly an improvement on formulaic Hollywood, but on a thematic level there's still more windup than delivery.
Sex, lies, and videotape discovers a distinctive, laconic rhythm right from the start, thanks to Soderbergh's taste for holding his shots just a bit longer than conventional, slick editing technique would allow. [11 Aug 1989, Friday, p.A]
Beautifully edited by Soderbergh, the film is evenly paced, its subtleties accreting slowly, and by the end it gathers powerful emotional momentum.
The writer in Soderbergh proves the ultimate weak link. In sex, lies' last third, he seems seized with a compulsion to make sense of it all, bring everything to bear, give everyone their moral comeuppance, their screenplay payoff.
The first half is full of verbal and visual surprises, but the later scenes are talky and dull, as if filmmaker Steven Soderbergh had lost interest in his subject and his characters. Which would be understandable, since the story often seems more calculated than heartfelt. [4 Aug 1989, Arts, p.10]
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 48 Ratings
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Negative: 2 out of 9
Aug 27, 2010It doesn't necessarily bring anything new to the table, but provides an interesting look at sex and relationships and all the kinks in betweenIt doesn't necessarily bring anything new to the table, but provides an interesting look at sex and relationships and all the kinks in between the two. You have to give director Steven Soderbergh credit for making a movie that focuses completely on sex without having any actual sex scenes (or even nudity). It's also nice to see a film that deals with the subject matter so maturely without having to get Woody Allen involved.… Full Review »
MarkR.Aug 24, 2009One of the best films I've ever seen. almost twenty years old and has lost none of its erotic and intellectual impact.
NachoC.Jul 20, 2009Wow. Soderbergh stop making big budget films, come back to writing solid screenplays and drawing the best out of actors. SLV was a fantastic Wow. Soderbergh stop making big budget films, come back to writing solid screenplays and drawing the best out of actors. SLV was a fantastic film, highly recommended.… Full Review »


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The Meadowlands
So, since I hadn't seen a live game in a year and a half, I had a friend in from Philly who said she was up for it and my boys were in town, I decided to head out to bucolic New Joisey and take in the game. As per reputation, it was a very different experience than seeing a game in Calgary or Montreal, starting with the fact that we were able to but tickets in the 14th row on the blueline at the door, and the crowd was thin (maybe 11,000) and pretty quiet. One of the hooks to the game was seeing the top two most recent finalists for the Vezina Trophy (for best goaltender)–Marty Brodeur, the Devil's first-ballot Hall of Famer, and Mikka Kiprusoff, the Flames' young star. Alas, this didn't really come off, as Kipper was rested after an overtime game in Philly the previous night and Brodeur–who had looked to my eye to be slipping a bit despite the award–was terrible. In fairness to the crowd, it was a bit of a strange game; the Devils controlled the first period territorially but got only one goal and not a lot of chances, and the best player in the game, Jarome Iginla, tied it up late, allowing the Flames to escape with an ill-deserved tie. Then, early in the second the Flames quickly scored two more, and then midway through the period after a great pinch by Warriner Iginla got a real clinker past Brodeur, and that was that. The Flames used their first-rate, physcial defense and speedy forwards to put on a defense-through-forechecking clinic, beautiful to watch if you're a student-of-the-game Flames partisan, but I guess it would be rather less so if you're a casual Devils fan. The pockets of Flaming-C jerseys were making more noise by the end of the game. So, anyway, I certainly enjoyed it.
Logistically, 1)New Jersey is, fact, much colder than the city, and 2)despite claims that it's nearly impossible to get there through transit, it was actually easy as pie; 15-minute bus ride to the Port Authority subway.


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In 1994 the gummint decided to reduce the number of assault rifles on the street by passing ...drum roll please.... an Assault Weapons Ban!!!
Duh duh duh DUUUHHHHH!
At the time conservatives said "Use some common sense; that won't work. Criminals, (being criminals) will still get their hands on illegally procured assault weapons."
O' course, "Wild Willie" Klinton knew better than that...he's one them thar' superior liberals, after all. All violence will now stop thanks to Willie. Thank Gaia!
But, numbers from ATF show that between 1993 and last year, the number of AK-47s (that's an assault rifle for all the Leftards out there) increased by 749 PERCENT!!!
The ATF explains some of the increase thusly:
ATF says the increases in the first half of the 1990s are partly the result of wider usage of its weapons database by local law enforcement agencies. But after that point, the numbers reflect a real increase in tracings of AK-type guns, the agency acknowledged.
But the ATF shows only an 11 percent increase in these weapons since 2005, the year after the ban expired. Hence, the remaining 670 percent must have occurred DURING THE BAN.
Of course, libs had to "correct" the record:
2004 study by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence concluded the U.S. ban on AKs and other guns was successful.uhhh.............yeah, r i i i I I I I i i ght
This article only mentions AK-47s, so how many other assault rifles (Steyr Aug, M16, M4, P90, etc. etc. etc.) were added to the arsenals of criminals, while ordinary citizens were restricted from obtaining the same weapons for defense against the heathen masses?
Hmmm...looks like conservatives were right again. Imagine that.


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Last night, I had the honor of being a part of something truly remarkable. Patterson Hood, though no stranger to the stage or City Winery, performed on stage at City Winery Napa for the first time. Last night, April 11, 2014, marked the second night the City Winery's latest venue, situated in the historic Napa Valley Opera House, was open for business, and this is the sort of business for which downtown Napa has been aching for a long time.
City Winery Napa, of course, serves wine, as well as other tasty adult beverages, but this does not make it unique. It also has a menu brimming with things like flatbreads, sauteed greens, chilled pea soup, and much more, and since this is what we ate in the middle of the old Napa Valley Opera House, I can tell you for certain it was very tasty. Good food and Bacchanalian delights, however, still do not make this place unique. What does, is the combination of all those things, the Opera House location, good food and drink, AND the opportunity to see utterly outstanding performances like the one Patterson Hood threw down last night.
Patterson comes across as a natural-born storyteller, whether it's the tales he tells while tuning his Baxendale Guitar, about which he said he'd run into a burning building to save, or the funny tale of a chronic stoner named Billy Ringo who falls out of a window, bong in hand, that seamlessly becomes the song "Better Than the Truth." Patterson's performance, like the man himself, was a thing of pure charm. Warm, funny, as flawed as you and I, and as often as not, softly morose. Think modern tales of classic woes and lessons learned that are universal, but at the same time, distinctively regional. A great show in a great venue that is sure to get better with age.
For more information about upcoming shows, to purchase tickets, or to get the low-down on becoming a City Winery VinoFile member, click here. Based on last night's experience, I can tell you this is THE place to be in downtown Napa.


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The Bedouin in the Negev, numbering approximately 210,000, is one of many communities which comprise Israel's pluralistic society. Unfortunately, historically this community has been ranked low in socio-economic indicators.
Recognizing that the Bedouin of the Negev need assistance, the government of Israel created a comprehensive policy - called the Begin Plan - aimed at improving their economic, social and living conditions, as well as resolving long-standing land issues.
To this end, Israel has allocated approximately 2.2 billion dollars (8 billion shekels), including over 330 million dollars (1.2 billion shekels) for specific economic and social development projects.
This January 2013 policy - named after then-minister Ze'ev Binyamin (Benny) Begin - is designed to solve a wide range of problems affecting the Bedouin population. Among the numerous initiatives that have begun or are planned are the expansion of technological and adult education, the development of industrial centers, the establishment of employment guidance centers, assistance in strengthening Bedouin local governments, improvements to the transportation system, centers of excellence for students and support for Bedouin women who wish to work or start businesses.
Israel is working with the Bedouin community on all aspects of the Begin Plan. Indeed, the plan was developed through dialogue and in close coordination with the Bedouin: In an attempt to expand on the previous Prawer Plan, Minister Begin and his team met with thousands of Bedouin individuals and organizations during the development stage. As a result, Bedouin traditions and cultural sensitivities were taken into consideration, and a plan was formulated to reinforce the connection of the Bedouin to their culture and heritage.
Furthermore, contrary to some claims, Israel is not forcing a nomadic community to change its lifestyle. The Bedouin in the Negev, who moved to the area starting at the end of the 18th century, began settling down over a hundred years ago, long before the establishment of the State of Israel. By now, most Bedouin citizens live in permanent homes.
Still, one of the major problems facing the Bedouin is housing. Almost half of the Negev Bedouin (approximately 90,000) live in houses built illegally, many of them in shacks without basic services. Isolated encampments and other Bedouin homes may lack essential infrastructures, including sewage systems and electricity, and access to services such as educational and health facilities is limited.
There are solutions to this problem and to the many other difficulties facing the Bedouin. For example, under the Begin Plan, the government is giving every Bedouin family (or eligible individual) that needs it, a resident plot. These lands are being developed to include all the modern infrastructures and will be granted free of charge. Bedouin families can then build houses according to their own desires and traditions. Those that move will be offered their choice of joining rural, agricultural, communal, suburban or urban communities.
Most of the Bedouin citizens will remain in their current homes. 120,000 already live in one of the seven Bedouin urban centers or eleven recognized villages. Of the remaining 90,000 that live in encampments or communities that are not zoned, only 30,000 will have to move, most of them a short distance (a few kilometers at most). The other 60,000 will have their homes legalized under Israel's initiative, which will develop their communities and grant the residents property rights.
Much has been made of those Bedouin who will have to move. However, almost half of them (14,000-15,000) have settled illegally within the danger zone of the Ramat Hovav Toxic Waste Disposal Facility. Given the threat to their health, and even lives should there be an incident at the facility, the government of Israel has an obligation to relocate these families.
The Begin Plan will also resolve land claims made by a number of Bedouin in the Negev, most of which have been in dispute for decades. Currently, there are 2,900 land claims regarding 587 square kilometers (227 sq. miles). Although these claims have no legal basis under Israeli law (and were not recognized under the previous Ottoman or British land law systems), Israel wants to resolve the issue. It will do so by adopting a compromise according to which all the Bedouin claimants will receive compensation in land and money equivalent to the full value of the land claimed. The Bedouin will no longer have to engage in lengthy court cases while the compensation process will be based on the principles of fairness, transparency and dialogue
There have been attempts to attack the Begin Plan (which its detractors deliberately misname the Prawer Plan in order to associate it with an outdated proposal). Many of those acting in the international arena against Israel's plan for the Bedouin belong to the camp which seizes upon any opportunity to harm Israel's reputation. Others have purer motives, but have based their opposition on false information distributed by Israel's opponents.
This opposition is unfortunate, particularly for the Bedouin who will benefit greatly from the Begin Plan. This new policy constitutes a major step forward towards integrating the Bedouin more fully into Israel's multicultural society, while still preserving their unique culture and heritage.
Most importantly, the Begin Plan guarantees a better future for Bedouin children. No longer will they have to reside in isolated shacks without electricity or proper sewage. Now they will live closer to schools and will be able to walk home safely on sidewalks with streetlights, alongside paved roads. They will have easier access to health clinics and educational opportunities. Their parents will enjoy greater employment prospects, bettering the economic situation of the whole family. To oppose the Begin Plan is to oppose improving the lives of Bedouin children.
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