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August 22, 2012
Kia is considering a new four-door coupe to compete with the Mercedes-Benz CLS.
According to Auto Express, the new vehicle will likely be a more conservative version of the GT Concept that was shown at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. The vehicle is expected to keep the GT Concept's silhouette, but the sucide doors and fins next to the headlights are gone.
Power will likely come from a range of gasoline, diesel and hybrid engines that will send power to the rear wheels. At the moment, the only rear-wheel-drive platform Kia has access to is the one used on the Hyundai Genesis. Unless Kia is developing their own RWD platform, expect the Genesis platform to be used.
"We'll have to wait until at least 2016 before the four-door coupé arrives, but when it does it will mark Kia out as a genuine cut-price rival to the German premium brands, and be the crowning glory of Schreyer's revamped line-up," a source told the magazine.
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Or more likely, Kia is planning a rear drive competitor to the Volkswagen CC, but that could be a very good thing. A Kia 4-door coupe would probably have to be priced around $35k, they obviously can't price this at $80k like a CLS550, no one would buy it. But priced against Buick, Acura, the Maxima, CC, and other front drivers, a rear drive swoopy 4 door could be a hit.
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It seems like Kia and Hyundai know how to make their two lineups different.
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I lived in Anchorage, home to more than half the state. Nearby, about 45 minutes away, is the town of Wasilla. I've driven through Wasilla many times, stopping at the strip mall on the highway for lunch while on the way to somewhere else. Well, the town isn't quite just that, but you get the idea. It's small.
And now the former mayor of Wasilla is the vice-presidential candidate for the Republican Party.
I understand that this is to try to get some of the Hillary voters to vote for McCain. But I'm really mystified. I can't imagine a less qualified person to be a heartbeat away from POTUS.
She's been Governor of the smallest state in the union for less than 2 years, and won that election largely because of Frank Murkowski's scandals. And now she's in the middle of a scandal herself, having admitted to using her position to get back at her brother-in-law.
The McCain campaign claims one of her qualifications is her support for drilling in ANWR, but all Alaska politicians, including Dem Senate candidate Mark Begich, support drilling in ANWR.
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I really don't think it was to attract Hillary voters. They supported her for policy reasons far more than her gender. Women are not like some other groups who obviously vote en masse based on race. I think a more reasonable assumption would be that McCain did it to appeal to the strongly conservative base of the party, and it certainly has. I also think it's tough to argue Pallin's lack of experience. The Dem candidate won't be a heartbeat away–he'll be the heartbeat–and he has no significant qualifications. Being Mayor and Governer for a couple of years is about as impressive as being a community organizer and State Senator for six. Oh, and a US Senator for 143 days before beginning his campaign. As far as I'm concerned, it's a wash.


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Featuring two of my favourite subjects - butterflies & bones - a GORGEOUS gothling fairy - sitting in front of a pile of skulls, looking picturesquely melancholic - as blue morpho and monarch butterflies fly by. This is my own original acrylic painting. My original acrylic painting. Prints available at [link] and [link]
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Lamborghini's Sixth Element: Carbon
Arriving from planet what-the-hell at the Paris Motor Show on Thursday was the staggering Sesto Elemento concept car, which illustrates, says the Sant'Agata, Italy-based manufacturer, the future of materials science and lightweighting in extreme sports cars.
Built almost entirely of carbon-fiber and carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP), the Sesto has a reported curb weight of a mere 2,202 pounds, which is not a lot of mass compared to the 570-hp V10 Lambo purports to have installed in the thing. The company says the car will accelerate from 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds.
Well, we'll just have to see about that! I insist on validating that number independently, over a long weekend in, say, Bavaria.
The Lambo represents one of the emergent trends of the Paris show: the ruthless hunt for unneeded grams. McLaren, Lotus and Lambo are all proposing to commercialize on a scale not previously seen carbon-fiber structures — particularly the monocoque, aka the passenger "cell" or "tub." There are three drawbacks to such structures: first, carbon fiber is difficult to work with, requiring a lot of hand work, autoclaving and other processes; two, the process is slow; and three, related to the first two, carbon fiber construction is very expensive. If not, you could use it to make economy cars that were much more, um, economical.
The watchword in the coming year or so is "rapid throughput," the development of processes to make carbon construction cheaper and faster.
And carbon fiber has yet another drawback. It's not a particularly malleable material with which to make complex, highly engineered 3D shapes that must carry load paths in different directions. For that reason, Lambo announced on Thursday a new alliance with the famed American golf club manufacturer Callaway, which has been developing a new kind of carbon fiber called "forged composite."
George Fellows, Callaway president and chief executive, was on hand to ink the deal in a signing ceremony with Lamborghini supremo Stephan Winkelmann.
As for the Sesto Elemento… wow, just wow. A cubist artillery shell, the car is absolutely stunning to look at, and in its riot of geometry is a little bit of a throwback to the hypercar Lambo Contach. Among its many engineering novelties, the wheels, parts of the suspension, crumple zones and body panels are all either carbon fiber or CFRP. Meanwhile, the traditional seat frames have been dispensed with and replaced with a body-molding of carbon-fiber built directly into the tub, like a Formula 1 race car.
Also fun is the car's red-capped gearbox hanging out the back like a dragster's parachute. Such touches obviously won't make it to production but the Sesto Elemento design language certainly will. If you put on your future product spectacles, you can start to see the outline of the next-generation Lambo hypercar, the replacement to the long-tenured Murcielago. Should be fun.


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Palestine's budget deficit increasing
The deficit value of the [Palestinian] Current Account amounted to $2,192.6 million (21.5% of the GDP in current prices), compared with a deficit in year 2010 which amounted to $690.9 million.
A joint press release by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) stated in the preliminary results of the Palestinian Balance of Payments 2011 that the deficit in the Trade Balance of goods amounted to $4,626.0 million (45.5% of the GDP in current prices).
It said that the deficit has increased by 26.6% compared with the year 2010.
The deficit in Services Balance amounted to $103.6 million reflecting a decrease of 66.8% compared with the year 2010; the decline in the deficit of Services Balance was caused by the increase of the Exports in Travel services, and decrease of imports of government Services.
According to the release, the surplus of $1,217.2 million was recorded in this account, showing an increase of 10.8% compared with year 2010.
The surplus was caused mainly by the surplus in Compensations of Employees working in Israel which reached $1,152.7 million, reflecting an increase of 16.3% compared with the year 2010.
Meanwhile, the investments income received from abroad amounted to $99.3 million showing a decrease of 26.9% compared with the year 2010, caused mainly by a decrease in the earnings received on the Palestinian Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) and Portfolio Investments, invested abroad.
According to the Net Current Transfers, the surplus value amounted to $1,319.8 million showing a decrease of 39.3% compared with the year 2010.
The donors' current transfers was 43.4% of total value of receipts from abroad, meanwhile the current transfers received from abroad other than donors was 56.6% of total current transfers from abroad.
The total value of receipts from abroad distributed as 38.0% for the government sector and 62.0% for other sectors (Private, Household and non-government organizations).
The surplus in the Financial Account (Direct Investments, Portfolio Investments, Other Investments, and Reserve Assets) which amounted to $1,619.5 million, caused mainly by the surplus in the item of currency and deposits in other investments, meanwhile the surplus in Capital Account amounted to $536.2 million.
The changes on Reserve Assets flows amounted to $33.7 million in 2011, which are reflected in the overall Balance surplus due to the absence of other financing resources.
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Code of Federal Regulations Title 28, Part 36, Sec. 36.302, Subpart C_Specific Requirements, Modifications in policies, practices, or procedures. The implementing regulations of the public accommodation standard of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Discriminatory Conduct Under the Fair Housing Act
Government Printing Office.
Code of Federal Regulations Title 24, Section 100.204 Subpart D_Prohibition Against Discrimination Because of Handicap. The implementing regulations of the "reasonable accommodation" standard of the Fair Housing Act. Example discusses seeing eye dogs.
Service Animal Information for the Air Traveler with a Disability
USDOT. Aviation Consumer Protection.
Guidance from the USDOT for air travel with service animals.
Fair Housing Information Right To Emotional Support Animals In "No Pet" Housing
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
An overview of the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act as they apply to the rights of people with disabilities to keep emotional support animals.
Pet Ownership In Assisted Rental Housing For the Elderly or Handicapped.
Cornell University Law School.
U.S. Code Title 12--Banks and Banking, Chapter 13--National Housing Sec. 1701r-1. Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983.
Table of State Assistance Animal Laws
Michigan State University College of Law, Animal Legal & Historical Center
The table shows different categories for types of laws dealing with assistance animals by state with links to those laws.
Assistance Dogs International's Guide To Assistance Dog Laws (PDF | 1.24MB)
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Beyonce + Jay-Z Rent $1 Million Nursery at Barclays Center for Blue Ivy
Beyonce Cradles Blue Ivy in New Photo
Beyonce Shares New Photo of Blue Ivy … Sort Of!
Beyonce Shares New Photo of Blue Ivy Wearing Watch the Throne Gear
Too cute! We can't even stand it. Beyonce updated her Tumblr, which is like a digital photo album for her scores of fans, and in it, she included the most adorbs pic of Blue Ivy ever. We can't even see Blue's face (you can do that here) as she is nestled in Mama's safe and secure arms, but she is showing props to her dad Jay-Z by wearing a Watch the Throne t-shirt or onesie.
It's never too early to get your famous offspring cloaked in musical gear while showing support for the family business.
Beyonce Pays Tribute to Blue Ivy + Jay-Z With Bedazzled Mani
Beyonce is an expert at glamming up and dressing down, but one thing that's consistent with the star -- her nails. Bey's taken a liking to blue nail polish ever since her beautiful baby girl, Blue Ivy, was born in January, but now she's taken her manicure a step further to also pay tribute to her hubby, Jay-Z. The 'Glory' rapper's mug is emblazoned right next to Beyonce's on her nails!
See New Photo of Beyonce + Blue Ivy
Blue Ivy Named Honorary Citizen of Hvar, Croatia
The spawn of Beyonce and Jay Z is not even six months old yet, and she's already getting the star treatment from a country that she doesn't even call home. Angelina Jolie should be getting a little nervous right about now. In case you were wondering if this honor would be bestowed upon your child first, we're sorry to report that Blue Ivy has been named an honorary citizen of Hvar, Croatia.
Beyonce Shares Tumblr Poem to Explain Blue Ivy Name
Since the birth of Beyonce and Jay-Z's baby Blue Ivy Carter, many have speculated on their daughter's unique name. The R&B queen posted a poem today (June 14) by Rebecca Solnit called 'A Field Guide to Getting Lost' that offers a little insight on why her newborn is named Blue Ivy.
Blue Ivy Carter Has A-List Babysitters
If you're Blue Ivy Carter, you pretty much have the world in the palm of your tiny four-month-old hand. Aside from having two of the most famous people in the music industry for parents, there are some other perks to it.
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Papers from 2012
The NSW Post School Programs eligibility assessment: a guide to functional assessments in 2012, Kathy Eagar, Janette P. Green, and Alan G. Owen
A review of options for Iintegrating quality into hospital pricing systems, Kathy Eagar, Jan Sansoni, Carol Loggie, Anne Elsworthy, Jennifer P. McNamee, Rebecca Cook, and Pamela Grootemaat
Review of Demand for Cochlear Implantation in NSW to 2021, Gary Eckstein, David L. Fildes, Robert Gordon, and Malcolm R. Masso
General Practice Survey: Planning after hours primary care - Illawarra Shoalhaven Medicare Local., David L. Fildes, Cristina J. Thompson, and Kathy Eagar
LOVEBiTES: An evaluation of the LOVEBiTES and respectful relationships programs in a Sydney school, Michael Flood and Vicki Kendrick
WikiLeaks: News in the Networked Era, Katharina Freund
Supplementary costing of Islet Cell Transplantation Services, Robert Gordon, Cristina J. Thompson, and Elizabeth J. Cuthbert
Effectiveness of 'signs and symptoms' campaigns for lun g cancer: a rapid review, Ross Gordon, Christopher Magee, Sandra Jones, Lyn Phillipson, and Lance Barrie
Physiological employment standards for firefighters: Report 3: Physical aptitude tests for contemporary firefighters, Herbert Groeller, Hugh Fullagar, John Sampson, and Nigel A.S Taylor
R2P Ideas in Brief: Pillar II in Focus - The Responsibility to Assist: (pp. 1-6) (vol.2, no.6), Charles Hawksley and Nichole Georgeou
R2P Ideas in Brief: Pillar II in Practice: Police Capacity-Building in Oceania (pp. 1-6) (vol.2, no.4), Charles Hawksley and Nichole Georgeou
Submission to the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), Freda Hui, Lee Moerman, and Kathy Rudkin
Modeling tie duration in ERGM-based dynamic network models, Pavel N. Krivitsky
Women in theatre, Elaine Lally and Sarah Miller
Delivering Design: Testing a new model for developing regional audiences for touring exhibitions and design projects, Jennie A. Lawson and Lisa Cahill
Future Frameworks: Towards a Strategic Plan for the Visual Arts and Museum Sector in NSW, Jennie A. Lawson and Amanda Reynolds
Evaluation of the implementation of the Kidney Health Check Policy, Malcolm R. Masso and David L. Fildes
The organisation of internal medicine services: rapid literature review of the evidence, Malcolm R. Masso and Cristina J. Thompson
Short report on: Inquiry into the utilisation of rail and infrastructure corridors. Prepared for the NSW Legislative Assembly, Committee on Transport and Infrastructure, Andrew McCusker and Nagesh Shukla
Encourage. Support. Act! Bystander Approaches to Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Paula McDonald and Michael G. Flood
The impact of Sure Start Local Programmes on seven year olds and their families, Edward Melhuish, Jay Belsky, Alastair H. Leyland, Angela Anning, Zarrina Kurtz, Jane Tunstill, Mog Ball, Pamela Meadows, Jacqueline Barnes, Martin Frost, and Beverley Botting
South East Coastal Adaptation (SECA): coastal urban climate futures in SE Australia from Wollongong to Lakes Entrance: final report, Barbara Norman, Will Steffen, Bob Webb, Tony Capon, Bill Maher, Colin Woodroffe, Kerrylee Rogers, Rob Tanton, Yogi Vidyattama, Jacqui Lavis, Hamish Sinclair, and Brian Weir
A systematic review to update the Australian physical activity guidelines for children and young people, Anthony D. Okely, Jo Salmon, Stewart Vella, Dylan Cliff, Anna Timperio, Mark Tremblay, Stewart Trost, Trevor Shilton, Trina Hinkley, Nicola Ridgers, Lyn Phillipson, Kylie Hesketh, Anne-Maree Parrish, Xanne Janssen, Mark Brown, Jeffrey Emmel, and Nello Marino
Usability testing of the New Assessment System for Aged Care, Alan G. Owen, Helen M. Hasan, Peter D. Samsa, and Janet E. Sansoni
Improving cancer outcomes among culturally and linguistically diverse communities: a rapid review of the literature, Lyn Phillipson, Karen Larsen-Truong, Sandra Jones, and Leissa Pitts
Asthma Management Program: Sixth Evaluation Progress Report, Karen Quinsey, James P. Dawber, Pamela E. Grootemaat, David L. Fildes, Peter D. Samsa, Darcy Morris, Cheryl M. Blissett, and Robert Gordon
Asthma management program: seventh evaluation progress report, Karen Quinsey, Darcy Morris, James Dawber, David Fildes, Pamela Grootemaat, Peter Samsa, and Robert Gordon
Detention of non-state actors engaged in hostilities: the future law – summary report, Gregory L. Rose
Review of CT legislation: Submission on Federal Criminal Code CT provisions, Gregory L. Rose
Triggers, algorithms and priority settings in the initial intake tools, Peter Samsa, Janet Sansoni, Alan Owen, and Kathy Eagar
A model and proposed items for the new assessment system for aged care, Janet E. Sansoni, Peter D. Samsa, Alan G. Owen, and Kathy Eagar
Overlaps between initial intake assessments and ACAT assessment and suggested modifications, Janet E. Sansoni, Peter D. Samsa, Alan G. Owen, and Kathy Eagar
An Assessment Framework for Aged Care, Janet E. Sansoni, Peter D. Samsa, Alan G. Owen, Kathy Eagar, and Pamela E. Grootemaat
Maritime cooperation in contested waters: addressing legal challenges in East and Southeast Asian waters' (NBR Special Report no.37 - pp1-6), Clive H. Schofield
Developing successful diversionary schemes for youth from remote Aboriginal communities, Kate Senior, William Ivory, Richard D. Chenhall, Teresa Cunningham, Tricia Nagel, Robbie Lloyd, and Rachel McMahon
Evaluation of the Bourke Alcohol Action Plan: final report, Teresa Senserrick, Marilyn Lyford, Reece Hinchcliff, Soufiane Boufous, Kathleen F. Clapham, Sally Torr, and Rebecca Ivers
Physiological employment standards for firefighters: Report 2: The physiological demands of performing physically demanding fire-fighting duties, Nigel A.S. Taylor, Hugh Fullagar, John A. Sampson, Daniel Steven Lee, Sean Notley, Simon Burley, and Herbert Groeller
Physiological employment standards for firefighters: Report 1: The essential, physically demanding tasks of contemporary fire fighting, Nigel A.S Taylor, Hugh Fullagar, John Sampson, and Herbert Groeller
Conceptualisation of gambling risks and benefits: A socio-cultural study of 100 Victorian gamblers, Samantha Thomas and Sophie Lewis
Health Profile & Needs Assessment - Planning after hours primary care in the Illawarra-Shoalhaven Medicare Local, Cristina Thompson, Gary Eckstein, Keith McDonald, David L. Fildes, Peter D. Samsa, Anita B. Westera, Elizabeth J. Cuthbert, and Kathy Eagar
Health Workforce Australia Expanded Scopes of Practice Program: compendium of data requirements and evaluation tools, Cristina J. Thompson, Karen Quinsey, Darcy Morris, Robert Gordon, Kathryn E. Williams, Patrea R. Andersen, Milena Snoek, Simon Eckermann, and Kathy Eagar
Health Workforce Australia Expanded Scopes of Practice Program: evaluation framework, Cristina Thompson, Karen Quinsey, Robert Gordon, Kathryn Williams, Simon Eckermann, Patrea Andersen, Milena Snoek, and Kathy Eagar
Accessible communications: tapping the potential in public ICT procurement policy, William J. Tibben and Gunela Astbrink
Are we making the grade? The education of children and young people in out-of-home care, Michelle Townsend
Rethinking Digital Ethnography Today, Sue Turnbull
Evaluation of the Alzheimer's Australia National Dementia Care Initiative: fourth progress report, Anita B. Westera and Cristina J. Thompson
Report of the interim evaluation of the Consumer Dementia Research Network, Anita B. Westera, Cristina J. Thompson, Darcy Morris, James Dawber, and Kathy Eagar
Demographics, labour mobility and productivity: ABDI working paper 387, Edgar J. Wilson, Kankesu Jayanthakumaran, and Reetu Verma
Approaches to risk assessment on Australian coasts: a model framework for assessing risk and adaptation to climate change on Australian coasts: final report, Colin D. Woodroffe, Peter J. Cowell, David P. Callaghan, Roshanka Ranasinghe, Ruben Jongejan, David J. Wainwright, Stephen Barry, Kerrylee Rogers, and Amy J. Dougherty
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program evaluation: tool kit, Heather Yeatman, Karen Quinsey, James Dawber, W Nielsen, Deanne Condon-Paoloni, Simon Eckermann, Darcy Morris, Pamela Grootemaat, and David Fildes
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program Evaluation: Interim Report, Heather Yeatman, Karen Quinsey, James P. Dawber, Deanne Condon-Paoloni, David L. Fildes, Janette P. Green, Darcy Morris, Wendy S. Nielsen, and Pamela E. Grootemaat
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program Evaluation: Final Report, Heather Yeatman, Karen Quinsey, James P. Dawber, Wendy S. Nielsen, Deanne Condon-Paoloni, Simon Eckermann, Darcy Morris, Pamela E. Grootemaat, and David L. Fildes
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program evaluation: supporting information, Heather Yeatman, Karen Quinsey, James P. Dawber, Wendy S. Nielsen, Deanne Condon-Paoloni, Simon Eckermann, Darcy Morris, Pamela E. Grootemaat, and David L. Fildes
Papers from 2011
Chapter 4: 'Water' - Resource Efficiency in Asia and the Pacific, Kim Alexander and James West
Outcomes in palliative care: report 11 January - June 2011: the Birds Nest Palliative Care Service, Samuel Allingham
Outcomes in palliative care: report 11 January - June 2011: Victoria, Samuel Allingham
Outcomes in Palliative Care, Report 11 January - June 2011: Queensland, Samuel F. Allingham
Outcomes in Palliative Care, Report 11 January - June 2011: Western Australia, Samuel F. Allingham
PCOC National Report on Outcomes in Palliative Care in Australia January to June 2011, Samuel F. Allingham
Review of disturbance emissions assessment techniques, D Arlt, H Bronzeado, R Cai, E De Jaeger, Z Emin, M Halpin, F Klein, I Papic, P Paranavithana, S Perera, H Renner, and F Zavoda
Review of flicker objectives for LV, MV and HV systems, Detmar Arlt, Herivelto Bronzeado, Rong Cai, Emmanuel De Jaeger, Zia Emin, David Guillot, Mark Halpin Halpin, Naoki Kobayashi, Matti Lahtinen, Igor Papic, Francisco Pazos, Sarath Perera, Jeremy Price, Herwig Renner, Xavier Yang, and Francisc Zavoda
PCOC National Report on Palliative Care in Australia July to December 2010, Sonia Bird and Samuel F. Allingham
The Age Newspaper, Rowan Cahill
Parent-school engagement: exploring the concept of 'invisible' Indigenous parents in three north Australian school communities, Richard D. Chenhall, Catherine Holmes, Tess Lea, Kate Senior, and Aggie Wegner
Evaluation of Indigenous teaching and learning at Australian universities: developing research-based exemplars for good practice, Kathleen F. Clapham
Stocking Up: Securing our marine economy, Laura Eadie and Caroline Hoisington
ABF Information Series Number 8: Mental health, Kathy Eagar, Philip Burgess, and Harvey Whiteford
Emergency department performance by states and territories, Kathy Eagar, James Dawber, Malcolm Masso, Sonia Bird, and Janette Green
Improving the allocative and dynamic efficiency of health care in NSW, Kathy Eagar, Alan G. Owen, Peter D. Samsa, and Cristina J. Thompson
Revision of a method to measure growth in subacute care beds for the purposes of the national partnership agreement on improving public hospital services: draft final report, Kathy Eagar, Cristina J. Thompson, Frances D. Simmonds, Patrick E. Steele, Kerry C. Innes, and Jennifer P. McNamee
The HNE health palliative care data project, David Fildes, Robert Gordon, and Alan Owen
Evaluating the CareSearch nurses hub: results of an on-line survey and telephone interviews, David Fildes, Peter Samsa, and Patrick Steele
Subacute care classification, costing and funding project: project plan, Robert Gordon and D Mazeska
Classifying, costing and funding sub-acute services in NSW: final report, Robert Gordon, Patrick E. Steele, and Janette P. Green
From school to...? - Post school programs for school leavers with disabilities in 2011, Janette P. Green, Megan B. Blanchard, and Alan G. Owen
A Draft Strategic Framework for Institutional Strengthening in Fisheries Management and Development, Quentin Hanich, Ian Bertram, Maruia Kamatie, Mbwenea Teioki, and Alistair McIlgorm
A Scoping Study into Timor Leste Legislation and Policies Relating to Fisheries Monitoring, Control and Surveillance, Quentin Hanich and Martin Tsamenyi
Investigation of material properties and behaviour of coal for DEM, David B. Hastie and Andrew P. Grima
Centrelink Prosecutions at the Employment/Benefit Nexus: A Case Study of Wollongong, Freda Hui, Lee Moerman, and Kathy Rudkin
Subject coordinators: Leading professional development for sessional staff, Geraldine Lefoe, Dominique Parrish, Janne Malfroy, and Jo McKenzie
Encouraging Best Practice in Residential Aged Care program: final evaluation report, Malcolm Masso, Anita Westera, Karen Quinsey, Darcy Morris, and Edwin Pearse
The United Nations and mass atrocity prevention: A review of current and potential capacity, Deborah Mayersen, Marissa Dooris, and Briony Lipton
Legacies and prevention of genocide and mass atrocities in the Asia-Pacific: A workshop report, Deborah Mayersen, Julia Mangelsdorf, and Aishath Latheef
Snowy River Recovery - Snowy flow response monitoring and modelling: Physical response to the spring 2010 environmental flow release to the Snowy River estuary, Errol McLean and Jon Hinwood
Early years experience and longer-term child development: Research and implications for policymaking, Edward Melhuish
Southern suburbs integrated case management: year one report, Alan Owen and Peter Samsa
Asthma management program: Fourth evaluation progress report, Karen Quinsey, David L. Fildes, Pamela E. Grootemaat, Peter D. Samsa, Robert Gordon, James P. Dawber, and Darcy Morris
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program Evaluation: National Workshop and Webinars Report, Karen Quinsey, Darcy Morris, Pamela E. Grootemaat, Heather Yeatman, Wendy S. Nielsen, Deanne Condon-Paoloni, and David L. Fildes
Evaluation of the Asthma Management Program: mid-term review report: Volume 1, Karen Quinsey, Alan G. Owen, Robert Gordon, James P. Dawber, David L. Fildes, Peter D. Samsa, Pamela E. Grootemaat, Darcy Morris, Cristina J. Thompson, and Kathy Eagar
Gaps in the Implementation of Environmental Law at the National, Regional and Global Level, Gregory L. Rose
Cancer Australia National Lung Cancer Program: Evaluation Tools Compendium, Peter D. Samsa, Cristina J. Thompson, and Kathy Eagar
Validation and clinical translation of the revised continence and patient satisfaction tools: Final report, Janet E. Sansoni, Graeme Hawthorne, Nick Marosszeky, Kate H. Moore, Glenn Fleming, and Elisabeth A Owen
AROC project: final report to the Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing, Frances Simmonds
Equity of access to rehabilitation services in Australia, Frances Simmonds, James Dawber, and Janette Green
Performing against the odds: developmental trajectories of children in the EPPSE 3 to 16 study: brief, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Aziza Mayo, Edward Melhuish, Brenda Taggart, Pam Sammons, and Kathy Sylva
Socio-Economic Activity and Water Use in Australia's Tropical Rivers: a case study in the Mitchell and Daly River catchments: final report for The Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge Research Consortium, Natalie Stoeckl, Michelle Esparon, Owen Stanley, Marina Farr, Aurelie Delisle, and Zulgerel Altai
Engaging industry: embedding professional learning in the business curriculum: final report 2011, Theo Theo Papadopoulos, Tracy Taylor, Eveline Fallshaw, and Michael Zanko
Climate Futures: Preparing Coastal Tourism for climate change, Colette Thomas, Deion Garvey, Aurelie Delisle, and Iain J. Gordon
Optimal machine configurations in radiotherapy: findings of a targeted literature review, Cristina Thompson, David Fildes, Pamela Grootemaat, and Robert Gordon
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March 7, 2009
IOWA CITY, IA - The University of Iowa men and women's cross country teams were recently named to the 2008 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) all-academic team. Hawkeye junior Jesse Luciano also received individual all-academic honors.
The Iowa women's team, who earned the honor for the sixth-straight season, had a combined GPA of 3.328 and is one of 162 teams to earn the award. The men's team earned a team grade point average of 3.285 and is one of 110 teams to earn the award. For a team to be considered for the USTFCCCA all-academic team award, they must have competed and compiled a team score at an NCAA Regional Meet. The team must also have a minimum 3.00 team cumulative grade point average.
Luciano is one of 40 men's cross country student-athletes to earn USTFCCCA all-academic honors. An accounting major from Villa Park, IL, he placed 15th at the NCAA Midwest Regional (31:32.55) and 43rd at the NCAA Championships (30:17.8). He has been named to the team for the second straight year. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must carry a minimum 3.25 cumulative grade point average and must finish in the top 15 (or top 10%) of the field at their respective NCAA regional meet or attain all-American status at the NCAA Championships.
"Each year we begin the season with a goal to race at the NCAA Championships and to earn USTFCCCA all-academic team honors," explained Head Women's Coach Layne Anderson "We are excited to have earned this honor for the sixth consecutive year. When coupled with our 24th-place finish at NCAA Championships, we look back on the 2008 cross country season as another outstanding year for our program."
"This is such a great accomplishment for our team," said Head Men's Coach Larry Wieczorek. "One of our goals each season is for our student-athletes to have academic excellence, as well as athletic excellence. It is reassuring for me to see our team perform well at the national level in the classroom and on the cross country course."


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Cons of using home equity to consolidate
By Dorothy
Rosen Bankrate.com
your cotton-pickin' paws off your nest egg.
Using home equity to pay off bills and make major purchases always
looks good on paper; that's why so many folks are doing it. How can you argue
with lower monthly payments, tax-deductible interest and no more credit card
debt? It's easy when you're the Dollar Diva.
Lower monthly payments
If you're a typical American consumer, you have too much high-interest debt,
and it's costing a bundle to service it. When a lender offers a chance to lower
those monthly payments with a low-interest, home equity loan or a cash-out refinancing,
it can feel like manna from heaven. But don't kid yourself; no one's passing
out free lunches. When you tap home equity to pay off bills, you kiss off those
high monthly credit card payments, but you don't kiss off the debt.
The lower monthly payment makes the debt look harmless. Look closer
and behold the same old wolf; he's just decked out in grandma's bonnet. Even
though the interest rate is less and the monthly payments are low, you usually
end up paying more over the long run because the payments are stretched out
over a longer period.
When debtors use home equity to pay off their bills, they usually
swear to God they'll never carry a credit card balance again; but they forget
to change their spending habits, and they forget to save for emergencies and
big-ticket items. When the car needs a new transmission, or they "need"
a vacation, the plastic get resurrected and the debt cycle resumes.
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Tax-deductible interest
Tax-deductible interest is the war cry lenders use to prod unwary homeowners
into using their precious home equity to fund major purchases and pay off debt.
It sounds good until you start running the numbers. Let's pretend you have $40,000
in 18 percent credit card debt; your current monthly payment is $1,000. Continue
the $1,000 payments, and the debt is history in 62 months. Total payments will
be $62,000 ($1,000 x 62) and total interest will be $22,000 ($62,000 minus $40,000).
Use a 9 percent home equity loan to stretch the payments out over
180 months and payments go down to $406. Total payments will be $73,100 ($406
x 180) and total interest, $33,100 ($73,100 minus $40,000); you'll pay $11,100
more interest with the home equity loan. If you're lucky, the tax deduction
will compensate for the extra $11,100, but don't count on it. The lenders are
the only ones who can bank on making big bucks on home equity loans; that's
why they spend big bucks marketing them.
No more credit card debt
Tapping home equity makes it easy to get rid of credit card debt, but that state
of bliss is usually fleeting. Why do folks rack up so much credit card debt
in the first place? Could they be living beyond their means? Most folks who
use debt to get rid of debt forget to change their negative spending habits
and end up deeper and deeper in the hole.
Home equity loans can be expensive
Home equity is something to cherish and preserve, not deplete. Here's what no
one tells you when you sign off on that home equity loan:
For most folks, the road to getting out of debt and achieving financial independence
is paved with discipline and belt tightening, not more debt. Debt paves the
road to bankruptcy court. Here are some tips to help you get on the high road
-- to financial freedom:
As a general rule, tapping home equity is a no-no; but where is it written you
can never break a rule? If you give birth to triplets and need another bedroom
added to your home, or the three of them get into Harvard in 2019, you might
consider home equity to get you over the hump. But only if you are in excellent
financial health, with no other debt, money in the bank for emergencies and
the discipline and resources to quickly pay back what you draw out.
-- Posted: Jan. 9, 2003
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Special Agent Galactica is every woman.
"She's a rock chick. She is a '50s dynamo singer. She's pop. She is whatever is necessary," says Jeffrey Johnson, the man beneath the make-up and pink wig, and artistic director of Ganymede Arts.
In addition to making sure he's fine-tuned Galactica's fluid personality, dance steps and lip syncs for her upcoming performance in Ganymede Art's Second Annual GLBT Fall Arts Festival, Johnson is also responsible for organizing the entire event, running Sept. 26 to Oct. 5 at the Church Street Theatre.
Naturally, performing is more fun than organizing.
"The art part of it is something that I thrive on — it's a passion," Johnson says. "I would much rather have my headphones on, kicking back and visualizing light cues, than having to balance the checkbook. But it has to happen."
With the help of five board members and seven volunteers, Johnson, who works part-time managing Go Mama Go!, has worked hard to raise the bar of Ganymede's annual festival.
"Last year was our first one, the first thing coming out of us as Ganymede arts. We didn't know what to expect," he says, adding that the inaugural festival featuring Karen Black successfully sold out five nights. "This year we decided to follow the same formula but to up it a little bit. Instead of bringing in one celebrity, bring two: one to open and one to close."
This year's opening headliner is legendary drag queen Holly Woodlawn.
"What I like to do is not get the usual artists that everyone expects to see," Johnson says. "There's an educational…and historical value that's important, especially for the younger audiences, to realize why they can walk down the street hand in hand today.
"That's the main reason why I'm bringing in Holly Woodlawn. She was one of the very first people who decided, 'You know what, I'm much more comfortable being a woman than I am being a man, and I'll be damned if anybody is going to tell me to live my life differently.' And she did it."
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I need to isolate my circuit from the power source of 5V dc. Since this is for medical use, and the device is powered by USB, the isolation needs to be at least 4kVrms, 5mm clearance, 8mm creapage distance. I searched for isolated DC-DC converters couldn't find any with those ratings and in small size. The remaining option I have, seems to be using 2 dc-dc converters in series. But that will be very inefficient and large in size. What could be the other ways to achieve this isolation?
I don't agree that you need to be an expert in medical device design to accomplish this task, but you do need to do some research.
Do not skimp on compliance testing. It will save your bacon.
No, Olin Lathrop is absolutely correct. I work for a FDA compliant medical device manufacturer, (also a pharmaceutical manufacturer). Designing your device is the least of your worries. Outside the scope of massproducing said device. If you still decide to build this "medical device" make sure you contact your business's insurance underwriter. if the failure of your device directly or indirectly affects any patient or provider, the legal actions sought against your company will never be worth what you got paid to make the device. And I agree, From an EE perspective, you either are trolling us.. or you are in over your head.
If you have to ask this kind of basic question about a medical device here, the answer is: You don't. You get someone that knows what they are doing to do this. Then you can learn from what they do and maybe next time you're ready to do it yourself, but not this time.
This is not a do-it-yourself or learn-on-the-job project.


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RSSI Measurements and RF Switch (50PA-338) Calibration Notes
I used the RSSI measurements from the first field experiement on Oct 20th, 2009 and the RSSI measurements on mesh testbed with the insertion loss=40dB to for my first attempt to calibrate the RF switch.
The simplest form of path loss is
- L = 10*n*log10(d)+C
We can set n and C as we want.
- 1 Summary of Findings
- 2 Field Test vs. Emulated Test with default setting
- 3 Why do we have bi-modal distributions for RSSIs? Primary Cause is Tx Antenna Diversity.
- 4 Another Cause of RSSI Fluctuation in Mesh Testbed
- 5 Field Tests with Two Nodes Connected by a Cable
- 6 Linear Regression for the Emulated Tests with 51dB Insertion Loss
- 7 Terminators Removed the RSSI Fluctuations on the Mesh Testbed
Summary of Findings
Initially I started this note as an RF switch calibration note, but I ended up investigating the cause of RSSI fluctuations particularly in the emulated experiments under the mesh testbed.
In the field, the interference or noise can cause RSSI fluctuations, but in the mesh testbed they are not likely to be the causes of RSSI fluctuations of more than 20dB.
The first cause is the tx antenna diversity, and its outcome is bi-modal distribution of RSSIs. The second cause is more chaotic. It seems to be the agitation by the RF switch attenuation setting to the channel condition.
The Cause of RSSIs Bi-modal Distribution : Tx Antenna Diversity
Researchers from Universit`a degli Studi di Roma and Universit`a di Palermo have investigated the cause of RSSI's bi-modal distributions, and they published a number of papers to explain this RSSI behavior.
Initially, in Are 802.11 link quality broadcast measurements always reliable?, they suspected that the power save mechanism is the primary cause of the bi-modal distribution, but they concluded in G. Bianchi, A. D. Stefano, C. Giaconia, L. Scalia, G. Terrazzino, and I. Tinnirello, "Experimental assessment of the backoff behavior of commercial ieee 802.11b network cards," in INFOCOM. IEEE, 2007, pp. 1181–1189. that the tx antenna diversity is the primary cause of the bi-modal distribution. According to this paper, the madwifi transmit diversity algorithm appears to cyclically (periodically) switch between the two antennas in the case of broadcast and multicast because the transmitter cannot obtain feedbacks from the receivers. In case of unicast, the transmitter utilizes the feedbacks from the receivers (ACKs) to determine which antenna to use.
In Domenico Giustiniano's PhD thesis, he showed that Intel's 802.11 also has similar tx antenna diversity scheme, so it is very likely to see this bi-modal distribution for other vendor's 802.11 devices utilizing tx antenna diversity.
Also according to UserDocs/AntennaDiversity - madwifi-project.org - Trac, "the switch that selects which antenna transmits tends to have about a 10dB-15dB attenuation on the non-transmitting antenna. So there is some power that goes to that non-transmitting antenna. Also, if you see fluctuations in output power levels of about that amount on one antenna, then it may be diversity kicking in."
Tanja Lang, Geoff Fellows and John Louis also observed in The Impact of Packet Type on Signal Strength in WLANs that the control packets have bi-modal distribution while data and management packets have uni-modal distribution, but they couldn't clearly state the cause of bi-modal distribution. It can be explained by the tx antenna diversity since most of the contol packets are beacons and probes which are broadcast packets while most of the data packets are unicast packets.
The Cause of Additional RSSI Fluctuation : Executions of RF Switch Attenuation Settings
These types of RSSI fluctuations were observed only under the mesh testbed. Whenever an SA (Set Attenuation) command is executed on the RF switch, the channel condition in the emulator is affected and the RSSIs end up in the different range of values. It looks more chaotic than the bi-modal distribution stuff. This RSSI fluctuations are gone once we installed terminators on the ports on the backend side of the RF switches.
What we need to do?
We have to disable tx antenna diversity in the emulator. It is not an option because with the tx antenna diversity, the error rate for broadcast frames such as beacons will increase a lot and it will cause more frequent disconnection and disassociation of the clients because the client usually think it is disconnected when it loses three consecutive beacons.
Also be sure to use terminators on the RF switches.
Field Test vs. Emulated Test with default setting
The set-ups were
- Antenna diversity was disabled at the field test and enabled at the Emulated Test.
- Management Frames (beacons, probes) were used.
When all measurements were taken into account, the exponent values don't seem to be those of free space. Median values were used. I also have drawn graphs using average values. It helps to have an exponent value close to two for the field test taking all measurements into account, but it makes the graph deviate for the exponent of two when the first measurement is dropped. It also makes the emulated test results deviate more from the exponent of two.
|Exponent (n)
|System Loss (C)
|The field experiement on Oct 20th, 2009/Median RSSI
|The field experiement on Oct 20th, 2009/Average RSSI
|Test on the mesh testbed/Median RSSI
|Test on the mesh testbed/Average RSSI
The first measurement which is done at the shortest distance look suspicious both in the field test and the emulated test, so I decided to drop the first measurement.
Now the exponent values is very close to two which is the typical exponent for the free space while they are losing linearity (R^2 decreased to ~0.74.)
|Exponent (n)
|System Loss (C)
|The field experiement on Oct 20th, 2009/Median RSSI
|The field experiement on Oct 20th, 2009/Average RSSI
|Test on the mesh testbed (exponent = 2, insertion loss = 40dB) / Median RSSI
|Test on the mesh testbed (exponent = 2, insertion loss = 40dB) / Average RSSI
In all cases so far, average RSSIs result in smaller exponent values than median RSSIs.
Now I decided to increase the insertion loss of the RF switch from 40dB to 40 + (40.47-29.08) = 51.39 (dB).
For some locations, I realized the RSSI values are multi-modal. For instance, the RSSI values at the first, fourth, sixth and eighth locations are definitely multi-modal.
while the RSSI values at second, third, fifth and seventh locations are uni-modal.
Why do we have bi-modal distributions for RSSIs? Primary Cause is Tx Antenna Diversity.
In the previous pictures, it seems that all RSSIs at all locations have bi-modal distributions. The reason that we observed uni-modal at the second/third/fifth and seventh locations is that the lower RSSIs seem to be below the receiver sensitivity.
If tx antenna diversity is the the primary reason for the multi-modal distribution of RSSIs, then the energy from the second antenna radiated to the cable between the first antenna and the RF switch is at least larger than -61 dBm (the min RSSI observed at distance = 0.5 meters). The difference between the higher RSSIs and lower RSSIs are about 30dB, and it corresponds to the loss from the disconnected second antenna to the cable end.
Therefore I disabled the antenna diversity particularly on the transmitter side. You can do this by
sysctl -w dev.wifi0.diversity=0 sysctl -w dev.wifi0.txantenna=1 sysctl -w dev.wifi0.rxantenna=1
It worked and the RSSI values at every location is now uni-modal. Compare the two pictures. The measurements with antenna diversity is in the first picture, and the those without antenna diversity is in the second picture. You can see the gap between max and min RSSI values is much smaller in the second picture, and it is actually uni-modal.
However, it is not just a vertically shifted version of RSSIs from the field test.
Also the exponent is > 2.1 and it is not a good fit to a linear function (R^2 = 0.46).
|Exponent (n)
|System Loss (C)
|Test on the mesh testbed (exponent = 2, insertion loss = 51.4dB, tx antenna diversity disabled)
Roundtrip Experiment
It also somehow emulated the first field experiment. The same locations (distances from the peer node) in the field experiments were selected. At each location, the node stayed for ten seconds.
First Experiment (Oct 27th, 2009)
Another issue that is observed is that the RSSI values tend to converge to different values when the attenuation setting is changed (i.e. channel condition is changed). It happened even though I manually fixed the rate to 1Mbps and the txpower to 17dBm. See the following picture. It is the graph of RSSIs measured when a node is having a round trip between two points (between d=0.5 meters and d=356.6 meters). This graph is not symmetrical. You can also notice that at the beginning point (d=0.5 meters) the RSSI is about -25dBm but when the node comes back to the same location at the end of the trip, the RSSI is about -36dBm.
Possibly the transmitter can adaptively control the txpower anyway, or the receiver change the gain dynamically. Also I note that any level of accuracy is not guaranteed for the RSSI (That's why the RCPI is in need, but I don't see a good implementation of RCPI yet.).
Second Experiment (Oct 28th, 2009)
I did the same experiments to compare the RSSIs when the tx antenna diversity is enabled and when it is disabled.
The set-ups were
- Default parameters were used (SAMPLE rate selection, default txpower)
- Management Frames were used to measure RSSIs.
They clearly show that the RSSIs from the node with tx antenna diversity has bi-modal distribution while the RSSIs from the node without tx antenna diversity has uni-modal distribution. It confirmed what I observed at the first experiment.
It is interesting to note that both graphs are not symmetrical, but the higher values of RSSIs in the first picture (with tx antenna diversity) have the similar pattern to the RSSIs in the second picture (without tx antenna diversity).
Also note that both experiments were performed with the same duration.
The number of packets (beacons) observed in the first picture is less than the number of packets in the second picture by about 200. It means that with the tx antenna diversity, the performance is degraded because the disconnected secondary antenna is selected for 50% of beacons.
Another Cause of RSSI Fluctuation in Mesh Testbed
Even though we realized that the bi-modal distribution is primarily due to the tx antenna diversity, there seem to some fluctuation in the RSSIs. I conjecture that the channel condition is irritated whenever the RF switches get the attenuation setting commands. Thus when the nodes are static, 1) Setting the RF switch with the same attenuation settings periodically (e.g. every one second, send the same SA command to the RF switch) and 2) Not setting the RF (i.e. do not send any command to the RF switch) switch have different impact on the channel condition in the mesh testbed.
Drive-by Experiment
I used Java GUI to do the drive-by Experiment, but the RSSIs measured at node 2 fluctuate by 20-30 dB which I didn't expect to see because the antenna diversity is disabled.
Here is the screen shot of the Java GUI. The red line shows the mobility path of node 1.
The summary of the set-ups is
- Tx antenna diversity is disabled on both ends.
- RSSIs were measured at node 2.
- The RSSIs of beacons were measured.
- Node 1 is a mobile node. Node 2 is fixed.
For the roundtrip experiments, every 10 seconds, the location information is updated by feeding an xml file defining the locations of node one and two to the netcat (nc). We didn't see any RSSI fluctuation once the tx antenna diversity was disabled. Weirdly enough, I observed the RSSI fluctuation on these drive-by experiments using Java GUI. I tried to varying the speed of the mobile node, but RSSI fluctuations were still observed at the lower speed settings.
Experiments with Two Fixed Nodes
I realized that these RSSI fluctuations happen only when I use the Java GUI.
I decided to fix the location of two nodes on the Java GUI, and ran an experiment. The summary of the set-ups is
- Tx antenna diversity is disabled on both ends.
- RSSIs were measured at node 2.
- The RSSIs of beacons were measured.
- Node 1 and Node 2 are fixed.
- The distance between two nodes is 250 meters.
- 200 beacons were measured for each experiment.
It is observed that the Java GUI keep printing the following xml.
<QUERY TYPE="nodeinfo"></QUERY> <PHYSICAL UNITS="meters" DIMENSION="2" MODEL="freespace" SCALEFACTOR="1.0610015965572788"> <NODE INPUT="1" X="251.64900869740194" Y="249.7639973962978"></NODE> <NODE INPUT="2" X="500.47050044314767" Y="248.82149174574576"></NODE> </PHYSICAL>
Even though the nodes are fixed, the RSSI fluctuations were observed. However, when the Java GUI stopped, the RSSI fluctuations disappeared. The RSSI values stayed at the same range of values when the Java GUI stopped. For instance, if the Java GUI stopped when the RSSI was around -63 dBm, the RSSI values stayed very close to this RSSI value.
I also used netcat (nc) to feed a xml file with the same location information.
nc 10.51.1.7 1234 < ./loc.xml
loc.xml is as follows (basically the same as the query generated by the Java GUI) :
<MESHTEST> <PHYSICAL UNITS="meters" DIMENSION="2" MODEL="freespace" SCALEFACTOR="1.0610015965572788"> <NODE INPUT="1" X="251.64900869740194" Y="249.7639973962978"></NODE> <NODE INPUT="2" X="500.47050044314767" Y="248.82149174574576"></NODE> </PHYSICAL> </MESHTEST>
The RSSIs is now in a different range.
The results from those experiments were summarized in the following graph. Only when the Java GUI is up and running, the RSSIs fluctuate.
Roundtrip Experiments Again
I created a script for this roundtrip experiment. The summary of the set-ups is
- Tx antenna diversity is disabled on both ends.
- RSSIs were measured at node 2.
- The RSSIs of beacons were measured.
- Node 1 is fixed, and Node 2 is mobile.
- Initially Node 1 and Node 2 are at the same location. Node 2 gets away from Node 1 until distance = range. Then Node 1 goes back to its initial location where Node 1 is located.
- Speed is adjustable.
- Mobile node (node 2) stay at a location at least one second. If hold time is set, a node stay at a location for "hold time" in addition to one second.
The results from these experiments clearly show that the RSSIs don't fluctuate so much during the hold time, and whenever the attenuation setting command is executed, the RSSI fluctuate and end up in a different range of values.
Roundtrip Experiments with Eight Nodes
The causes for the RSSI fluctuations were conjectured to be the followings
- Inappropriate Terminators => Try other types of terminators
- Inaccurate attenuation calculations => Try more accurate matrix calculations for smaller size
- Crosstalk (?) => Try to locate eight nodes
In response to the last suspected cause, I located eight nodes (eight ports on RF switch) on the plane, but connect only two physical nodes. The set-ups are the same as in RSSI_Measurements_and_RF_Switch_Calibration_Notes#Roundtrip_Experiments_Again.
It is not so much different from the results in RSSI_Measurements_and_RF_Switch_Calibration_Notes#Roundtrip_Experiments_Again.
Field Tests with Two Nodes Connected by a Cable
These tests were performed to see if the RSSI fluctuations observed in the mesh testbed is anomaly in the testbed or can be also observed in the field test. Two hybrid machines (p005 and p006) were connected by a cable. I changed the transmit power of the p006, and RSSIs were observed on p005. The summary of the set-ups is
- Tx antenna diversity is disabled on both ends.
- RSSIs were measured at p005.
- The RSSIs of control frames (beacons or probes) were measured.
- Transmit power of p006 varied from 0dBm to 17dBm.
- 100 beacons were measured for each experiment.
I expect to have a Received Power (dBm) = Transmit Power (dBm) - C (dB), but the similar relation is observed for the tx power between 12dBm to 17dBm only. I conjecture that the cable has non-linear loss characteristics.
The test results are as follows:
The RSSIs do not fluctuate so much although there were some outliners. The frequency of outliners is relatively small (less than 5% for every tx power setting).
Therefore it is tentatively concluded that the RSSI fluctuations are artifacts made under the mesh testbed with 8 ports RF switch.
Linear Regression for the Emulated Tests with 51dB Insertion Loss
I analyzed the drive-by experiments in RSSI_Measurements_and_RF_Switch_Calibration_Notes#Drive-by_Experiment to calibrate the RF switch. Since RSSIs fluctuate, I tried to find the linear regression by using four different interpolations.
- Upper envelope using linear interpolation
- Lower envelope using linear interpolation
- Linear interpolation
- Smoothing using an ideal low pass filter.
- Smoothing using a median filter.
The upper & lower envelopes of RSSIs, the RSSIs passed by an ideal Low Pass Filter (LPF) with 19 taps and the RSSIs passed by a median filter is as follows:
Some examples of linear regressions are seen in the following pictures. The complete results are given in the following table.
|Exponent (n)
|System Loss (C)
|Upper Envelope (using Linear Interpolation)
|Lower Envelope (using Linear Interpolation)
|Linear Interpolation
|Low Pass Filter
|Median Filter
Terminators Removed the RSSI Fluctuations on the Mesh Testbed
Once we installed terminators on the backend side of the RF switches, the RSSI fluctuations are gone.
After several trials, I decided to change insertion loss from 40dB to 34dB to match the RSSIs trend in the testbed with those from the field test.
The linear regressions for each test are as follow:
|Exponent (n)
|System Loss (C)
|Test on the mesh testbed
|Field Test


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The big star of the annual Washington vs. Eastern Washington matchup was supposed to be Eagles sophomore Rodney Stuckey - again. Instead a Husky sophomore took over, carrying his team on his back on the way to it's fifth victory this season.
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The stretch clinched the game for the Huskies as the Eagles never got closer than four points. Dentmon did exactly what leaders are supposed to do down the stretch, nailing all six free throws he attempted.
Dentmon, a two-year starter and a member of the 2006 Pac-10 All-Freshman team, added five rebounds, two assists and two steals in 31 minutes.
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I recently wanted to get hashtags from a string and convert this to a clickable link (think Twitter integration). There are several ways of doing this, but I wanted to use regex. I find using regex easier to use when manipulating string values, then say using a for loop to check for the hash for each word in a string. If you want to use the loop method, you will need to split the string and then loop through each word and then check for a hashtag at the beginning of the word, and then make it clickable using an ahref tag. You would possibly also have to encode '#' with '%23' to parse the string and display on the webpage.
Below is a small function that will take the input and replace a hashtag with a clickable link.
Code Sample:
public static string GetHashTag(string urlText)
Regex urlregex = new Regex(@"(#)((?:[A-Za-z0-9-_]*))", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase
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return urlregex.Replace(urlText, "$1$2");
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Already completely overwhelmed by the sheer religiosity of it all (the showdown between George W. Bush and Al Gore to see which could disgorge more flattering religious twaddle), I really had nothing to say by the time Bush was inaugurated. Where would one begin? Just listing the breaches of his first day in office would require more space than I give to this column.
His term since then seems to have been little more than a chain of opportunities to abuse the spotlight of his office to plug his private religious views. At times he's gone further, actually prescribing religious ritual. In so doing, he officiously pretends that the U.S. Presidency grants to its holder the "authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents," as President Thomas Jefferson so aptly described it when he was asked to recommend a Day of Prayer.
Jefferson said no: "Every religious society has a right to determine for itself the times for these exercises, & the objects proper for them, according to their own particular tenets; and this right can never be safer than in their own hands, where the constitution has deposited it." (Rev. Miller, 1808)
Bush's idea of "We, the People," seems to extend only to those who share his religious views. The rest of us, it seems to me (and many others), are simply guests, sojourners, if you will, in this land that was created and subdued for the private use of those who think George's Imaginary Friend is really real.
Now holy warriors say this Friend (real or imaginary) told them to kill thousands of civilians. The shock from this atrocity tore many of us apart inside -- particularly those of us who know that death is final: thus ends your one and only chance ever to live.
Had he not spent so much of his term promoting his own religion, perhaps I could forgive him during a crisis, just this once, for making our National Day of Mourning seem like so many Gospel tent sideshows. What he did surprised nobody, and that's why it was so wrong. So we pondered the finality of death our own way. Despite the strong urge, the guilt pangs, the taunts, we just knew it was wrong! Alone, once again, many of us wondered: Am I even a part?
I dreamed that while he was missing on the Day of Atrocity, Bush had been caught up in a visitation, à la Dickens, shown the meaning of Religious Liberty, and prepared to lead all Americans through this mess.
The ghost of Thomas Jefferson urged a way that lets everyone honor our dead: a simple Day of Remembrance, with religious exercises directed only by churches ("never safer than in their own hands"). The ghost of Jimmy Carter even taught him how to end a speech: "Thank you, and good night."
Some clergy spoke at the ceremony, but most prominent were the universally loved Americans who can reassure anybody: Ray Charles, Katie Couric, Christopher Reeve, Whoopie Goldberg, and more. Bush later graced the prayer vigil of a private church.
I wonder -- had this happened, had Bush experienced a change and decided to toe the Constitutional line as if the life of our country depended on it, would some have objected? (They faulted us for questioning what he did.) How could anyone have been anything but uplifted by the inclusiveness of a truly American Day of Remembrance?
Copyright ©2001 Cliff Walker; Portland, Oregon


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