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21. Simon Hughes (Southwark, North and Bermondsey) (LD): What plans there are for the amalgamation of courts in London. [161261]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs (Mr. David Lammy): I am advised by the Greater London Magistrates Courts Authority that it proposes to amalgamate the Barnet and Hendon magistrates courts, and also the Bow street, Horseferry road and Marylebone magistrates courts, although no date has yet been set for completion of that. The Court Service is investigating the co-location of West London county court and West London magistrates court.
Simon Hughes : I am grateful for the Minister's helpful reply. He may be aware that there was a great outcry last year when there was a proposal for three family court centres in London, but none in south or west London. The Greater London Magistrates Courts Authority changed its mind and provided five, which was welcome. Will he ensure that before any decisions are agreed,
Mr. Lammy: Access to justice was at the core of the Courts Act 2003, which passed through the House towards the end of last year. The unified Court Service will ensure that differentiation between the magistrates courts committees on one hand and the Court Service on the other will be brought to an end. We are able to get that flexibility so that justice is seen to be done locally throughout London and, indeed, the rest of the country.
22. Dr. Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test) (Lab): What plans the Department has to undertake a review of the current arrangements for recording those eligible to vote. [161262]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs (Mr. Christopher Leslie): Although my Department has no plans to carry out such a review, the independent Electoral Commission has reviewed electoral registration procedures, which formed part of the proposals in its "Voting for Change" report in June 2003. The Government are currently considering the recommendations made by the commission.
Dr. Whitehead : Does my hon. Friend accept that if we look at the latest returns for registered parliamentary electors we see what is effectively a slow collapse of registration in a number of urban and inner-city areas? Does he accept that if that trend continues, it will in the long term undermine the integrity of the electoral process? Will he consider measures targeted on urban areas to rectify the problem?
Mr. Leslie: My hon. Friend will know that my hon. Friend the Member for Vale of Clwyd (Chris Ruane) recently held a debate on this matter in Westminster Hall. I know that it is of concern to a number of colleagues who have noticed changes in the electoral register, either inflating or decreasing the numbers. In many cases, that is due to population change, but perhaps local returning officers are being more accurate and assiduous in putting names on the register, ensuring that there is no duplication and so forth. We have new powers for rolling registration, and we have given returning officers extra powers to canvass, making sure that our registers are accurate. I hope that that gives my hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Test (Dr. Whitehead) some assurance.
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield) (Con): Does the Minister accept that the integrity of the electoral register is vital, and that there should be safeguards so that when people registerpeople have registered cows, dogs and childrenchecks are undertaken by the appropriate officer to ensure that all those who are registered genuinely have the right to vote? Bearing in mind that
Mr. Leslie: I agree: the sound integrity of our electoral register is important. I have not visited the hon. Gentleman's constituency and seen any instances of cows and dogs being registered, as he suggests, and to my knowledge they are not on the register in my constituency. We want to make sure that the new powers available to registration officers are used to ensure, by door-to-door canvassing as well as the paper canvass process, that we get the best possible electoral register.
23. Mr. Gordon Marsden (Blackpool, South) (Lab): What assessment has been made of the adequacy of employee protection for those called for jury service. [161263]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs (Mr. David Lammy): The Government strongly support the idea that people should feel secure in the workplace. The Minister with responsibility for courts is in discussion with the Minister for Work to ensure that adequate protection is put in place for those employees summoned for jury service.
Mr. Marsden : My hon. Friend is aware of the case of my constituent who was employed on a construction site when he was summoned for jury service. He accepted, and informed his employers. They wrote direct to the Court Service without his knowledge in an attempt to have him excused, and when that request was refused, they sacked him. Does my hon. Friend agree that that raises disturbing questions about employee protection, particularly when employees have not been employed long enough to have recourse to an employment tribunal? Will he, his colleagues and officials look at other mechanisms, such as temporary protection and the arrangements that I understand pertain in Canada?
Mr. Lammy: My hon. Friend is right. The Contempt of Court Act 1981 can be brought to bear where it can be seen that an employer has interfered with the judicial process, but we need to do more in this area, particularly as we begin to implement the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to ensure that more people on the electoral roll are able to do jury service. People need to feel secure in their employment when they are doing jury service. We have undertaken to do more; conversations are going on within government, and I hope that we will be able to come forward with something shortly.
24. Angela Watkinson (Upminster) (Con): What action has been taken to prevent fraud in all-postal voting pilots. [161264]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs (Mr. Christopher Leslie): Any electoral system is potentially open to fraud, but it is important to remember that a number of electoral
Angela Watkinson : I thank the Minister for his reply, but he will be aware of the opportunities for fraud in houses in multiple occupation, where there is a frequent turnover of occupants, all of whom receive their mail through the same letter box. Will he therefore consider introducing special safeguards to ensure that the declarations of identity that accompany ballot papers from those properties relate to the person named on the ballot paper?
Mr. Leslie: It would not be right to inflate the notion that there is a big problem with houses in multiple occupation and postal voting, because there is no specific evidence that there is. However, I accept the hon. Lady's concerns, which she shares with other hon. Members, about a single letter box serving a number of flats. Recently, in Brighton and Hove, a team visited houses in multiple occupation to make sure that ballot papers were properly delivered, and we want to build on that, possibly in the all-postal pilots.
32. Mr. Eric Illsley (Barnsley, Central) (Lab): What proposals he has submitted to the Select Committee on the Modernisation of the House of Commons on the provision of personal digital assistants to hon. Members. [161273]
The Deputy Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Phil Woolas): My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House has submitted no such proposals
Mr. George Osborne (Tatton) (Con): Why not?
Mr. Woolas: Hang on! However, my right hon. Friend welcomes the fact that the Information Committee has looked at personal digital assistants and other hand-held technology, and has already made recommendations to the advisory panel on Members' allowances, which, for the benefit of the House, was formerly known as the Speaker's advisory panel.
Mr. Illsley : I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his reply. He will be aware, as most Members are, of the huge growth in e-mail to Members and the time needed to deal with the vast amount of electronic correspondence. Does he agree that the provision of hand-held personal digital assistants will enable
Mr. Woolas: My hon. Friend is a technophile, and is using the new technology to the advantage of his constituents. I am pleased to tell the House that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House is also a technophile, and is keen to make progress on the matter. As I said, proposals have been submitted to the advisory panel, and I invite my hon. Friend to write to the Senior Salaries Review Body and put the case for the new technology.
Sir Patrick Cormack (South Staffordshire) (Con): As someone who is not a natural technophile, may I ask the Minister whether he is aware that Members can become so submerged in information that they are unable to make decisions?
Mr. Woolas: It is patently obvious to all Members of Parliament that it is entirely possible to become submerged in information and not get on with the job in hand. However, in response to the hon. Gentleman's serious point, Members of Parliament, whatever their party, are better able to serve their constituents if they have access to new technology. I am sure that he agrees that the new provisions that have been introduced have benefited our constituents.
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Royals boss Alan Pardew wanted Doherty to add competition for the centre-back positions.
But the main stumbling block was that Spurs would want to recoup most of the £1m they paid for Doherty when they signed him from Luton in April 2000.
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Newport Beach has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that a police officer used excessive force against a man before arresting him.
The settlement with Thomas Quinn includes no admission of wrongdoing, and City Attorney Aaron Harp said the city believes officers acted properly.
Quinn's lawsuit, which was filed in August in Orange County Superior Court, accused an officer of pulling down Quinn's pants and repeatedly punching him after his ex-girlfriend called police to his home.
In a court filing, the city said Quinn "became angry and started fighting" when officers spoke to him and patted him down.
Quinn was arrested that night on suspicion of obstructing an officer, but the District Attorney's Office declined to file charges, Harp said.
Harp said the city calculated it could have cost about $50,000 to defend the case all the way to trial. In addition, if a jury had awarded even a small amount of damages to Quinn, the city could have had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees, Harp said.
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The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs
By Martin H. Manser
This volume includes more than 1500 English-language proverbs that are widely recognized today. Arranged alphabetically, entries provide the meaning of each proverb, the date it was first recorded, variant forms of the proverb, other proverbs that are similar and opposite to it in meaning and examples of the proverb's use. This dictionary should provide readers and students with insight into this aspect of the English language.


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The two-speed economy has sparked two-speed executive pay in small companies.
Salaries for many mining bosses more than doubled in 2009-10, and some chief executives of well-performed small industrial companies had big pay rises.
But the average gain for CEOs of small- and mid-cap companies was low. The gap between their pay and CEO pay in top-100 companies was almost $3 million.
A standout was
Sandfire Resources CEO Karl Simich's pay jumped from $180,000 to $661,643. He will do even better from his 3.5 million shares in the booming gold explorer.
Cape Lambert Resources executive chairman Tony Sage scored a $1.75 million pay rise to $2.79 million, thanks mostly to a cash bonus of $1.35 million. The resource investor's average annual total shareholder return over three years is 75 per cent.
With more miners breaking into the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index, average pay for small- and mid-cap CEOs should, in theory, rise. Bigger gains are more likely in coming years.
The Australian Financial Review analysis shows CEOs of companies ranked 101 to 300 by market value had average pay of $1.3 million in 2009-10. CEOs running top-100 companies averaged $4.2 million.
The average rise for CEOs of all top-300 companies was 2 per cent, with little difference between big and small companies. Still, a 2 per cent rise means considerably more take-home pay for a CEO earning $4.2 million than for another earning $1.3 million.
"The pay gap between CEOs of top-100 companies and the rest, at least for fixed salary, will get even bigger in coming years," says leading remuneration consultant John Egan, of Egan Associates. "Even a small percentage gain means a big lift in absolute dollars for CEOs on very high salaries." A wider pay gap between large and small companies would be at odds with the outperformance of small-cap stocks since 2009. The Small Ordinaries Index has returned 7 per cent year to date, compared to a slightly negative result for the S&P/ASX 50 Index.
Greater leverage to Australia's stronger economy and the growing number of miners in the small ords index partly explains the higher return. Also, many small companies responded faster to the global financial crisis and were more entrepreneurial.
Macquarie Funds Management small-cap expert Neil Carter believes the large pay gap between blue chips and mid-cap companies is unjustified. "The relationship between pay and performance simply isn't there in enough blue-chip companies," he says. "Smaller companies generally have a much stronger pay-for-performance culture, with a higher proportion of 'at risk' pay than the blue chips, albeit with some exceptions. It's hard to see how a CEO of a top-100 company deserves many times more pay than the CEO of a mid-cap company in the same industry."
A common justification of high CEO pay is the shallow pool of elite executive talent, and the need for top-100 companies to sometimes recruit overseas. But an important study co-written by Alessandra Capezio, internal research fellow at Australian National University's research school of business, found CEO pay in the top 500 Australian Stock Exchange companies between 1999 and 2006 was influenced only by company size. The bigger the company, the bigger the CEO pay.
The research, to be published this year in the prestigious Journal of Management Studies, found no link between CEO pay and performance, or even board independence and CEO pay and performance.
Entrepreneurial CEOs who built small and mid-cap companies from nothing might bemoan that company size counts more than their innovations and talent when setting pay. And granting options, a key source of wealth for successful small-cap CEOs, is less attractive after removal last year of the tax deferral concession for employee shares and rights. Taxing options upfront has made it harder for small companies to issue large slabs of them to directors in lieu of high salary.
"This change has put a real crimp on start-up and small mining companies that need to preserve their cash and have traditionally paid a lot of options to recruit executives," Guerdon Associates director Michael Robinson says.
"Mining executives now have greater incentive to work for offshore companies in countries that have more favourable tax treatment of options."
Many CEOs of smaller companies will surely push for higher pay if the mining boom continues. Low average pay gains in 2009-10 were partly due to boards setting salaries earlier when the mining sector was recovering.
And smaller companies are more volatile than blue chips. Stronger recent small-cap outperformance follows horrific performance during the bear market. Boards might wisely wait for more sustained performance before showering small-cap CEOs with hefty pay rises.
But there is enough evidence to suggest the CEO pay gap between large and smaller companies is excessive. Narrowing it depends on the mining boom finding an even higher gear.
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The use of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) antenna arrays for applications such as interference counter-measure, attitude determination and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) enhancement is attracting significant attention. However, precise antenna array calibration remains a major challenge. This paper proposes a new method for calibrating a GNSS antenna array using live signals and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). Moreover, a second method that employs the calibration results for the estimation of steering vectors is also proposed. These two methods are applied to the receiver in two modes, namely calibration and operation. In the calibration mode, a two-stage optimization for precise calibration is used; in the first stage, constant uncertainties are estimated while in the second stage, the dependency of each antenna element gain and phase patterns to the received signal direction of arrival (DOA) is considered for refined calibration. In the operation mode, a low-complexity iterative and fast-converging method is applied to estimate the satellite signal steering vectors using the calibration results. This makes the technique suitable for real-time applications employing a precisely calibrated antenna array. The proposed calibration method is applied to GPS signals to verify its applicability and assess its performance. Furthermore, the data set is used to evaluate the proposed iterative method in the receiver operation mode for two different applications, namely attitude determination and SNR enhancement.
Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) applications utilizing antenna arrays are starting to gain significant attention due to their lower hardware and computational costs. Rapid advances in electronic systems, software define radios (SDR) and miniaturization of radio frequency (RF) front-ends and antenna arrays have opened the way for array processing to play an important role in future receivers [
In general, GNSS applications based on antenna array processing utilize calibrated and non-calibrated array approaches. Methods not requiring calibration do not employ any information about the array configuration, orientation or direction of the incident signals. They do not generally involve the directions of arrival (DOA) of signals in their structure and could be employed as stand-alone methods for anti-jamming and anti-spoofing [
Antenna array calibration has been studied for decades and is employed in many applications such as sonar, radar and direction finding [
Calibration is traditionally conducted in an anechoic RF chamber such that the antenna array receives a signal from a precisely known direction. The signal direction is changed in incremental steps until all directions of interest are included. Amplitudes and phases are then measured in the receiver as a function of the incident signal direction. The calibration methods proposed in the literature generally differ in modeling and estimating the uncertainties. GNSS array calibration can also be carried out with live line of sight signals since the satellite positions are known. Antenna calibration using GNSS signals and resulting challenges such as mutual coupling, phase centre variations, cross talk in the RF-front end and other effects have recently been studied in the literature [
This paper first derives a new model taking all of the factors that produce calibration uncertainties into account. This model separates the constant unknown parameters and those that are dependent on signals DOA to simplify the interpretation of the calibration uncertainties and, more importantly, enable the use of the calibration results for steering vector estimation. A two-stage optimization is employed to fit the measurements with the proposed model in which the first stage estimates the constant unknown parameters and the second stage finds the DOA dependent part and save them in the form of a set of look up tables, each of which assigns amplitude and phase compensation coefficients to one antenna element.
In the next part of the paper, the second mode, which is the receiver operation mode, is described. During the calibration procedure, accuracy is the main concern rather than processing time and computational complexity since the calibration procedure for a fixed antenna array platform generally needs to be performed only once. However in applying the calibration results in the receiver operation mode, the processing time and computation complexity are important concerns. For this reason, in the operation mode, an iterative method with a very fast convergence is proposed to estimate the steering vectors of the satellite signals by applying the estimated calibration coefficients and matching the compensation phase and amplitude coefficients from prepared look up tables.
In order to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of both methods introduced above, a set of real GPS L1 signals was collected and processed. The experimental set up was similar to [
In Section 2 the system model is presented. Section 3 introduces the two-stage optimization for calibration, followed by proposing the iterative method for estimating satellite steering vectors. Practical tests and data analyses are provided in Section 4 and finally, Section 5 concludes the paper.
Assume an
Under the assumption of perfect antenna elements (identical isotropic elements) and ignoring the measurement noise, the
Since the proposed calibration method is based on receiving GNSS signals during antenna platform motion, Doppler frequency varies due to the changes in the relative velocity between the antenna array and the satellites, which are not negligible. Even in the static case, Doppler frequency is gradually changing due to satellite motion. In the calibration process using a multi-antenna receiver, acquisition, tracking and positioning procedures can be only performed for the received satellite signals at the reference antenna (reference antenna) and the generated local codes can be used to despread the received signals at the other antennas (secondary antennas) as shown in
During the tracking stage of the signal of each satellite, the phase of the signal at the reference antenna is kept approximately zero and the phase of the signals at the other antennas are measured relative to that of the reference antenna. For simplicity, amplitudes are also normalized with respect to the signal at the reference antenna. This removes the term responsible for Doppler frequency changes from observations as well as phase changes due to the alteration of signal DOA for the master antenna. Therefore, the normalized signal vector that is actually obtained from the multi-antenna receiver, denoted by,
The model proposed in In the first stage, it is assumed that there is no dependency on signals DOA, In the second stage, the estimated
In the first stage, it is assumed that there is no dependency on signals DOA,
In the second stage, the estimated
The second stage of the calibration process takes significant time (a few hours is needed to allow the elevation angles of satellites to change in the sky for a full calibration) to extract the DOA-dependent calibration uncertainties. On the other hand, the first stage which compensates for the constant parameters can be performed rapidly (in a few seconds). In many applications, the antenna array configuration is fixed with respect to the body-frame coordinate system and therefore, the radiation pattern of the array, obtained once from the second stage of calibration, does not change. However, the cable lengths, the initial phases of front-end channels and other parameters modeled through the constant matrix
Estimation of steering vectors of the incoming signals can be employed in many GNSS multi-antenna applications such as anti-interference, multipath mitigation, SNR enhancement. However, in most cases this cannot be done unless employing a calibrated array. In this section, it is assumed that the antenna array is calibrated using the method introduced in the previous section. In other words, the amplitude and phase compensation coefficients are available through matrix
An iterative approach for estimating the steering vector is now proposed. Considering
Although the values of Φ Initialize At the Considering Use Set q = q+1 and return to Step 2 (next recursion).
At the
Set q = q+1 and return to Step 2 (next recursion).
It can be observed that estimating the uncertainties in two stages (the constant part and the compensation look up tables) enhances the robustness of the current steering vector estimation method. In fact, the initialization from the input measurement and constant matrix
A set of GPS L1 signals was collected to test the proposed calibration approach. In this data collection, an array of three antennas (Antcom L1 GPS antennas due to their relatively stable phase centre) mounted on the top of a vehicle was employed. The three antennas, after amplification, were connected to a three-channel National Instrument (NI) RF front-end in which the channels are synchronized through a common clock. The received signals were then sampled, down converted and stored for post processing. One of the antennas was chosen as the reference antenna and the origin of the body frame coordinate system. The received signal at this antenna was split into two branches and the second branch was connected to a NovAtel SPAN™ LCI system (NovAtel Inc., Calgary, AB, Canada), which includes a NovAtel SPAN® enabled GNSS/INS receiver (SPAN SE) and a tactical grade IMU LCI. The low noise and stable biases of the accelerometer and gyro sensors make the IMU well suited for ground or airborne survey applications. IMU measurements were sent to the receiver where a blended GNSS/INS position, velocity and attitude solution was generated at a rate of 200 Hz [
The data collection setup and the test trajectory are shown in
An open source MATLAB-based single antenna software receiver in [
The measured amplitudes and phases for these satellite signals
The estimated compensation amplitudes and phases from the second optimization in
It was shown in Section 3.2 that the use of the proposed iterative method along with using the estimated
In this section, the calibrated three-element array is used in two practical applications to highlight the effectiveness of the proposed method in the receiver operation mode. In the first example, the heading angle of the moving vehicle is estimated from the signal of only one satellite and in the second example, using the signal of each satellite, the antenna array beam pattern is shaped to steer the main lobe of the beam pattern toward the direction of that signal and accordingly to enhance its carrier to noise ratio (C/N0).
Precise attitude determination is essential in various applications. Differential carrier phase measurements from several receivers with precisely determined baselines can be employed to derive attitude parameters. Since performance degrades by shortening the baselines between receivers, the applicability of these methods might be confined to applications where, antennas separation is extremely limited. Herein, beamforming using a calibrated antenna array is employed for attitude determination, which can be an alternate option in these situations. Moreover, in contrast to standard attitude determination, in this method only one GNSS signal along with an adequate number of antenna elements is enough for attitude determination. This is another advantage of this approach, especially in challenging environments where the number of available signals is low. However, the challenge is carrier phase multipath.
In order to evaluate the performance of attitude determination based on beamforming, a test was performed with the calibrated antenna array. For the sake of comparison, the SPAN LCI system was used as a reference to evaluate the accuracy of the estimated heading angles. Assuming a horizontal motion and considering
Since the measurements employed in heading estimation are the same as those used for the calibration process, this test is more of a consistency test than an accuracy performance test.
In order to check the consistency between the estimated heading angles from these three PRNs, estimated heading angles from PRN 16 and 30 are subtracted from those of PRN 31. The results, along with the mean and the RMS values are shown in
In another test, in order to verify the calibration and estimated heading results independently, PRN 31 is excluded from the calibration process and stage 1 and 2 of the calibration method are repeated without using this PRN. Then the heading angles are estimated using the signal of this PRN and the calibrated array. The results for this test are shown in
In order to show the performance of C/N0 enhancement employing the calibrated array, the measured C/N0 values after beamforming for the array antenna and for the single antenna are compared. The C/N0 values are calculated as the ratio of the received satellite signal power to the noise density calculated by a noise floor estimator that correlates the received signal with a normalized fictitious PRN [
The expression in
A novel two-stage precise calibration method using satellite signals for GNSS applications was proposed. In this method, all of the main uncertainties in the calibration process were modeled and it was shown that they could be separated into two parts; one is constant and the other one consists of DOA-dependent parameters. One solution for the associated optimization to this problem was introduced in the form of two eigenvalue decomposition problems. Although the estimated constant term could provide coarse estimates of satellite steering vectors, for more precise calibration the second stage provided compensation amplitude and phase for each incident signal corresponding to its DOA in a form of a set of look up tables for each antenna element. The proposed two-stage calibration process not only simplified the interpretation of uncertainties, but also was used to come up with an iterative method with a fast convergence to accurately estimate satellite signal steering vectors. The effectiveness of this method in both calibration and receiver operation modes was evaluated by using a set of collected GPS signals in two different GNSS multi-antenna applications. Although an IMU unit was employed in this case for calibration and its performance evaluation, heading, roll and pitch angles could also have been provided by the carrier phase measurements obtained by the antenna array using standard GNSS attitude determination methods. In this paper, the measurement noise and carrier phase multipath were not explicitly considered in the mathematical model of the calibration although the measurements might be affected by them. This may reduce the accuracy of the calibration results. For example, although carrier phase multipath might be compensated in the second stage of the calibration process for certain observables, the compensation values are not necessarily applicable to the other observations. Moreover, a weighting model could be used to reduce the effect of noisier observations (e.g., signals from satellites with lower elevation angles) instead of using the equal weight model employed in this paper. Herein the results of calibration were verified through attitude determination and beamforming applications and employing the IMU measurements as a reference. However, estimating the accuracy of the calibration procedure as an independent block has not yet been investigated. Studying an approach to express the accuracy of the calibration results as a function of azimuth and elevation angles is suggested as future work. Furthermore, repeating the performed data collection for a certain antenna array for a long period of time in different environments and checking the consistency between the results to observe the effect of carrier phase multipath is suggested for further research on this paper.
Authors namely, Gérard Lachapelle, Saeed Daneshmand, Negin Sokhandan and Mohammad Amirani-Zaeri, have cooperated in technical parts, data collections and analyses and writing of this paper. Fund for this research was provided by Lachapelle's iCORE grant.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Antenna array configuration in the body frame coordinate system.
Multi-antenna receiver structure in the calibration mode.
Multi-antenna receiver structure in the operation mode.
Data collection set up.
Tracking results of the multi-antenna receiver for one satellite signal.
Estimated position solutions and the corresponding errors by the software receiver.
Measured amplitudes for Antenna 2 and Antenna 3 for PRNs 20, 16, 30, 32, 31 and 23.
Measured phases for Antenna 2 and Antenna 3 for PRNs 20, 16, 30, 32, 31 and 23.
Amplitude and phase of the estimated calibration coefficients.
Normalized errors for two stages of the calibration process.
Heading angle determination results and the estimated errors compared to the IMU estimates for PRN 16, 30 and 31.
Consistency of heading estimates for different satellites (PRN 16 and 30 are compared to PRN 31).
Heading angle determination results for PRN 31 when this PRN is not used in the calibration process.
Normalized array antenna beam patterns after beamforming for PRNs 20, 16, 30, 32, 31 and 23.
Comparing C/N0 for a single antenna receiver and the beamformer for PRNs 20, 16, 30, 32, 31 and 23.
Azimuth and elevation angles of satellites at the time of the data collection employed for the array calibration.
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Kentville police have arrested a second person this week for allegedly driving while drunk.
Kentville Police and the RCMP were conducting a joint checkpoint at 10:30 p.m. on July 23 to look for motor vehicle and criminal code violations on Chester Avenue in Kentville.
A 56-year-old Kentville man was arrested and charged with impaired driving and failing a breathalyser.
He will appear in Kentville court at a later date to answer to the charges.
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While I love my Nexus 7 tablet, that thing is ancient! Over a year old! Rumors are circulating that suggest I can finally send it to its final resting place soon.
I'm kidding of course, the N7 has actually held up really well and is still my favored tablet. But I am interested to see what Google offers in their next iteration.
Yesterday a bunch of press folk were invited to join Google's Sundar Pichai for breakfast on July 24th. No details about the event were given, but speculation I've seen includes Android 4.3, the latest news on Chrome OS, and a new Nexus 7. Maybe all three!
Earlier in the day, Android Authority posted a leaked image from an unnamed retailer that listed prices for a Nexus 2 7" device. Assuming the image is legit, a 16 GB model will be $229 and a 32 GB model will be $269. That's more than the current Nexus 7, which is a little disappointing, but I guess it depends on what's under the hood and what the screen resolution is. All the leaked image says is "quad core."
Maybe it's wishful thinking but leaked prices + press event = new hardware in my mind. I'm envisioning a new Nexus 7 running Android 4.3 and sporting a nice high resolution screen (I've heard 1980x1200 mentioned). I'm really curious to see if they go with a Tegra 4 or move to a Snapdragon processor.
[Update: After I'd submitted this post (I don't really write them at 6 am every morning) we got even more leaks. Engadget was sent evidence that OfficeMax will be getting the new Nexus 7 in their inventory, but not necessarily on store shelves, by the 20th of this month, and Android Central was sent some pics that are supposed to be the new tablet. Their keen eyes picked out that the device would be running Snapdragon. Assuming this is all legit.]
Whatever they build, I'll probably buy one since I'm a fan. What about you? (I'm going to be so disappointed when the 24th rolls around and the event is really to talk about a new API for Google Maps or something.)
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Malani Argues Drug Research Loses Momentum as Patients Choose Existing Treatments Over Clinical Trials
Is medical research a victim of its own success? A surprising economic analysis suggests that each new medical innovation may make the next more difficult to achieve, because patients prefer to stick with proven — though potentially inferior — treatments rather than trying something new. Good effectively becomes the enemy of great.
The finding confirms the experience of many medical researchers struggling to recruit patients for their next clinical trial. But the solution proposed by the study's authors — to pay trial participants higher stipends — makes some clinicians queasy.
The analysis1, published this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, shows that the percentage of HIV-infected men who enrolled in clinical trials plummeted immediately after a regimen of antiretroviral drugs known as HAART hit the market in 1996 (see 'The price of success'). The precipitous decline, seen in data from the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study of around 7,000 homosexual and bisexual men in four US cities from 1984 to 2005, occurred even as federal funding for HIV research nearly doubled. HAART simply worked so well, says Anup Malani, a law professor at the University of Chicago, Illinois, and an author of the new study, that patients were no longer motivated to sign up for clinical trials as a way to gain access to better treatments.


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The first Israel aircraft to touch down on German soil on a commercial flight landed here today as El Al, the Israel national airline, began a series of test flights to study the feasibility of such a service.
The run will be from Lydda, via Athens and Rome, and is designed primarily for the transportation of mail and urgently needed reparations items. The service, which should be in operation shortly, is planned as a weekly one. The plane which landed today was a Commando cargo plane.


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The Antlers / Phantogram – Live @ Canopy Club
April 21, 2010
Phantogram is a band from upstate New York that I was introduced to by Cheryse, when she did an artist spotlight on them early this year. Since then, the duo's profile has raised significantly with positive reviews across the board on their debut album Eyelid Movies and plenty of blog buzz. In their opening set for The Antlers on Saturday, they drew a pretty sizable crowd of both newcomers to the band and adoring fans who knew their songs by heart and chatted with the band in between songs. Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter were very likable and seemed genuinely thrilled to be there, even when their video effects malfunctioned for the first couple of songs. Their set-up was very minimal with Sarah working the synths / laptop, Josh on the guitar / sampler and both of them on vocals, but they were able to create an expansive, dazzling sound with the tools in their arsenal. I was extremely impressed with how they recreated some of nuances from the album like vocal looping and digital samples on stage.
Perhaps the most extraordinary about Phantogram, is the songs themselves, which are well-crafted and fully absorbing. The band has undoubtedly strong songwriting chops which were very visible in the live performances of captivating electro-pop songs like "Mouthful of Diamonds", "Running From The Cops", and "When I'm Small". Their songs are easy to sing along with and even easier to dance with. Josh and Sarah's vocal harmonies were fantastic, bucking the trend of electronica bands who can't deliver live on vocals. Sarah especially is a magnificent vocalist and was able to sing sublimely while playing the synths/keyboards and triggering lights / videos on her laptop. They added some additional harmonies with vocal looping which was very cool to see. The video projections were well done, images like fuzzy static and rippling water matched the bands aesthetic very well (they also utilized strobe lights which are always fun). The band played through a short set of highlights from their Eyelid Movies and a vinyl-only track called "Make A Fist". I imagine with as much talent and charisma as they showed on stage, they'll have no problem headlining their own shows soon.
MP3 Mouthful of Diamonds
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The Antlers made my favorite debut album last year and since Hospice was released I've been able to see the band three times. This was the first headlining set I'd seen them perform and it's amazing to see the progression of this band in such a short time (check out they're touring schedule: next month: Europe, then opening for The National, then Lollapalooza). The band has grown to be even more dynamic and passionate in their performance since the last time I saw them, which was showcased in their opener "Kettering", which had Pete hitting some high notes that I didn't know existed. There was a jump in the crowd when the Micheal's drums came in after the quiet intro. The percussion is noticeably louder and more energetic then on record, while Darby's keyboards still play a huge part in create that haunting, dreamy atmosphere. One thing that amazes me every time I see this band is how they maintain the emotion of the record, which is really one you have to hear front to back, in their live set. This is a testament to the band's dedication and visible passion to their music, at some points it's hard to watch as Pete sings so honestly about tragedy and heartbreak.
One very exciting part of the show was when the band debuted a new song that had never been played live. The song felt very consistent with the rest of the band's catalog, with a very pretty keyboard melody and some of Pete's lovely falsetto-ed vocals. Next up was the seminal moment of the show, "Two" which is one of my favorite songs of the last few years and was, like always, a magnificent and profoundly affecting performance. The introduction of the song also featured the best line of the night, after the band humorlessly debated the "newness" of the song, Pete quoted Marty McFly, "but your kids are gonna love it" and then jumped immediately into the song. Back to the Future references always make me smile. I had to make a quick exit before their final song, "Wake", but I'm sure it provided as epic of a climax to the show as I remembered it last time. Overall it was another excellent showing from the trio, but after following this band closely for nearly a year and a half, I wouldn't expect anything less.
MP3 The Antlers – Kettering
MP3 The Antlers – Two
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Duluth city, business leaders celebrate guilty verdict against Last Place on Earth
By Mike Creger / Duluth News Tribune
City officials and downtown business owners were joyous after a Minneapolis jury found Last Place on Earth store owner Jim Carlson guilty on most counts early Monday afternoon.
"We are feeling relief that the long, painful problem in our community is over," Mayor Don Ness said in a news conference called an hour after the verdicts were announced.
Carlson was found guilty of 51 of 55 charges in U.S. District Court for allegedly selling misbranded drugs and money laundering. Getting this verdict was a long process, Ness said.
"It's the culmination of over two years of this community combating open sales of synthetic drugs in downtown," Ness said. "The process worked. If someone is set on harming our community, there will be consequences."
City Councilor Sharla Gardner, who represents the area of downtown that included the head shop, said she expected the verdict.
"It was only in Mr. Carlson's world that there was a belief that he wasn't committing a crime," she said. "Our vision of downtown will be realized and we can move forward in our city without having this cancer to deal with."
Duluth Chief of Police Gordon Ramsey said thousands of hours were spent on issues related to Last Place on Earth.
"This impacted a lot of families and a lot of people," he said. "This case was worth the time of all of us.
"People are going to jail for their actions."
Mark Fredrickson has been the most vocal downtown business owner when it comes to the negative effects Last Place on Earth customers have had in the area. And with good reason: Fredrickson's ShelDon printing company is next door to the shop.
"I'm thrilled for downtown," he said.
Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce President David Ross said he often worried about the case because of "how brazen Mr. Carlson has been" when it comes to denying his culpability.
"I wondered why he was so confident, that maybe he knew something we didn't."
The 51-count guilty verdict erased any of those notions, Ross said.
"This is very reassuring that maybe he or his attorney weren't as smart as they thought they were."
"It is a tremendous day for our community," Ross said.
He said city, state and federal officials showed great discipline in charging Carlson and his co-workers knowing that the case would probably set national precedent.
"We wanted to lead the way," Ross said. "This is extremely gratifying."
Ross said sales downtown along with police reports show that Last Place "had a negative impact that once closed, reversed itself."
Eric Faust is an Old Downtown investor who is banking his success on the Last Place on Earth disappearing from the scene. His Duluth Coffee Co. opened in the past year across the street from the head shop.
"It's a great thing," Faust said of the convictions. "It's a big step forward and a breath of fresh air for (Old Downtown)," he said.
He said the area, home to several new food and entertainment businesses, can now "turn the corner" without interference from the shop and its customers.
"We're working to make the whole area better, and getting rid of that place is a key piece," Faust said.
A recent survey conducted by the Greater Downtown Council found that local businesses, property owners and employees found downtown safer and more appealing in recent months, partly because of the closing of Last Place on Earth.
Forty-five percent of respondents said downtown was more inviting and appealing, 39 percent said it feels safer and 30 percent of business owners surveyed said retail sales have increased. Forty percent said pedestrian and walk-in traffic has increased.
Greater Downtown Duluth Council President Kristi Stokes said the closure of Last Place on Earth has resulted in significant positive changes.
"And that will only get better," she said. "Justice has been served. This means our downtown businesses can get back to doing what they do best: providing a great experience for their customers and clients."
While the verdicts handed down Monday don't necessarily mean the end of Last Place, it will continue to be shut down as it has been for the past three months.
"It's been great," Fredrickson said of the atmosphere downtown. "People have made big investments in the area and to have that cancer in the middle of it has been terrible."
He said the verdicts are not only a win for businesses and customers on Superior Street but also for those who were buying synthetic materials.
"It's not just about commerce but also the human cost."
Fredrickson said the decisive nature of the verdicts, guilty on most counts, shows that "there doesn't seem to be much wriggle room" when it comes to appeals.
Ness said the case will set a precedent.
"There is now a pathway forward," he said. "We've created a path for combating synthetic drugs in this country."
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Hockey Card Trading - Especially JagrI have been collecting sports cards since my childhood. But about 15 years ago narrowed my collection to Hockey. I have over 200 complete sets, from 1978/79 Topps thru some in the 2000's. Most are base, but also include some of the insert sets. About five years ago I stopped trying to complete sets and turned to Jaromir Jagr, my favorite. At present I have over 1800 cards of Jaromir that are listed on Beckett and over 60 more cards and items that are not found in Beckett.
I belong to a number of trading sites including Hobby Insider, Sports Card Forum, Ultimate Cardboard, and Trading Cards Central. I also have a rating well over 1000 on eBay, having sold and bought there for a number of years. On none of these sites do I have a negative. Please check out my Want/Trade Lists (also a list of good and bad traders) @ www.freewebs.com/puckar Hope we can put together a trade mutually beneficial.


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Investors Cheer, Greens Jeer Canada Emissions Plan
Date: 30-Apr-07
Country: CANADA
Author: Jeffrey Jones
Environmentalists were angered with the C$8 billion (US$7 billion) Green Plan, released Thursday by Environment Minister John Baird, saying it would not stop rising emissions.
It features industry-friendly targets based on emission intensity, or per unit of production, rather than absolute reductions of carbon dioxide. Under the intensity strategy, emissions can rise if economic output is at a brisk enough pace.
Some industry officials had feared the government would force more stringent reductions of carbon dioxide, a gas blamed for global warming, forcing them to cancel plans for multibillion-dollar Alberta oil sands projects.
Officials in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government began the selling Canadians on the plan on Friday.
"I would suggest we're on a very responsible track in terms of our obligations as stewards of the environment. But it will also allow us, in an equitable way across Canada to protect our economy," said Jim Prentice, Indian Affairs and Northern Development minister and member of Parliament from oil-rich Alberta.
The government plan aims to reduce nation-wide emissions to 20 percent below 2006 levels by 2020. Industry will be responsible for 60 megatonnes of the planned 150 megatonne cut.
At that level, Canada will renege on its commitments under Kyoto.
"Everyone agrees for Canada to meet its Kyoto obligations in the next three years is essentially impossible without completely eviscerating the Canadian economy," Prentice said.
David Suzuki, Canada's best-known environmentalist, called Baird's plan an "embarrassment" that will allow emissions to rise for several years.
"Calling this plan a strategy is actually giving it far too much credit," Suzuki said in a statement. "It's a sham, and a complete abdication of our international commitment."
Energy bosses said they favored the intensity-based cuts, but pointed out they will not come without costs to producing electricity and fossil fuels, like oil sands, the target of billions of dollars of investments.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's oil and gas subgroup, which includes such big-name stocks as Petro-Canada, Suncor Energy Inc. and EnCana Corp., rose 1 percent as expected costs under the plan came in under what investors feared.
Emissions cuts could add 44 Canadian cents to the cost of producing a barrel of crude from mined oil sands and 53 Canadian cents a barrel to steam-driven oil sands, predicted Andrew Potter, analyst at UBS Securities.
The utilities group, with such companies as TransAlta Corp. and Fortis Inc., eased half of 1 percent.
TransAlta Chief Executive Steve Snyder was among many industry officials who said he was pleased that Baird employed many of the ideas gleaned in consultation with industry.
The plan will boost prices for electricity, however, said Hal Kvisle, CEO of TransCanada Corp. which like TransAlta produces power at gas- and coal-fired plants.
"The right strategy, we believe, in Alberta is to continue running the existing coal plants more or less as is and to pay into the technology fund C$15 or C$20 a tonne for the CO2 emissions," Kvisle said on Friday.
The fund for environmental technology development is one way under the plan companies can meet targets. They will also be able to make straight cuts and trade emissions.
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Municipal By-Law No.113-2016 Open Air Burning. A signed copy of this document is available at the municipal office through the Chief Building Official/Municipal By-Law Enforcement Officer at 905-349-2822 Ext 27.
Any person setting an open-air fire in the Township of Alnwick/Haldimand shall be responsible for any damage to property or injury to persons occasioned by the said open air fire, and; be liable for all costs incurred by the Fire Department of the Township of Alnwick/Haldimand, including the costs of all personnel, equipment and apparatus responding to extinguish the said open-air fire. In addition to the costs above, a fine will be levied to the person responsible up to $5,000.00 under the Provincial Offenses Act, (Ontario).
Any persons who is planning a controlled fire is advised to notify Fire Administration Office at 905-349-2542 to supply the appropriate documentation required by By-Law #113-2016.
For additional information regarding open air burning in your area, please contact the following Fire Department personnel:
Fire Chief: Mr Allen Mann 905-349-2542
Deputy Fire Chief: Mr. Allan Sheppard
Station #1: Mr. Rick Nelson, District Chief
Station #2: Mr. Robert Gourd, District Chief
Station #3: Mr. Eldon Taylor, District Chief
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434 Edwardson Road - Grafton
Phone: 905-349-3496
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2267 County Road #23 - Centreton
Phone: 905-349-2542
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9059 County Road #45 - Roseneath
Phone: 905-352-3468
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Alnwick/Haldimand Fire Rescue
2267 County Road 23, PO Box 176
Grafton, ON K0K 2G0
Municipal Office, 10836 Cty. Rd. 2, PO Box 70 Grafton ON K0K 2G0 Tele: 905-349-2822 Fax: 905-349-3259


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A MAN once described by detectives as a "predator" because of the way he had terrorised young sportsmen across St Helens has failed in his bid to overturn a sexual offences prevention order.
A judge at Liverpool Crown Court upheld the stringent order against Akinwale Arobieke which bans him from asking to touch men's muscles or asking them to perform squat exercises.
The powerfully built 46-year-old, who is infamous across St Helens and neighbouring towns, insisted he did not get sexual gratification from touching muscles and brought a challenge against the order.
Despite Arobieke never being convicted of a sexual offence, Judge William George ruled the order should remain in place.
He told Arobieke: "This is a matter which has caused me much anxious consideration, but we must remember that serious sexual harm can be psychological or physical.
"At the end of the day we are not going to allow this appeal. We consider that the test for making an order has been satisfied."
In 2003, a complex investigation run by detectives in St Helens, codenamed Operation Ice, secured a conviction against Aki for 15 counts of harassment, as well as a charge of intimidating a witness.
During an exhaustive police investigation into Arobieke, from Liverpool, 123 young men and teenage boys, mostly from St Helens, were interviewed.
Most often the youngsters would be involved with gyms, colleges, and rugby league clubs, both professional and amateur, in St Helens and other rugby league heartlands in the North West.
On his release from prison on licence in 2006 Merseyside Police secured an interim SOPO against Arobieke which also banned him from entering St Helens and hanging around near gyms or sports clubs.
But in 2007 a court ruled he had breached the order by feeling a man's biceps in a Preston shopping centre and he was jailed for a further 15-months.
A formal explanation on the judgement will be made in court later this month. Among the likely terms of the order is that Arobieke will not be permitted to spend time in St Helens in the future, unless it is at a bus or rail station as he travels to and from work.


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A New Haven woman is accused of shooting at her own car after an argument in the city early Saturday morning.
Officers were called to the area of Lombard and Filmore streets about 2:15 a.m. for the report of shots fired.
Police said 38-year-old Lawanda Y. Flagler tried to leave the scene and even hide the firearm in the wheel well of a car nearby.
Flagler told police she went to pick up her husband's car after he was arrested in West Haven. When she arrived, the man and three women were there and they "attacked her," police said.
Witnesses told police that Flagler went into her husband's car and grabbed the gun. Then Flagler loaded the gun with bullets after the women tried to fight.
A group of women said Flagler fired the gun at them but shot her own car, which was close by.
A bullet hole was found in Flagler's car hood.
Police said the handgun was stolen during a home burglary in North Haven in 2011.
Flagler was arrested and charged with carrying a pistol without a permit, reckless endangerment, unlawful discharge of a firearm and possessing a stolen firearm.
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