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Minutes of Board Meeting held at The Tontine Hotel, Greenock, at 9am on Monday 10 November 2014
Present: Mr D C McGibbon, Chairman
Mr M Easton
Mr S A Ure
In attendance: Mr R Hadfield, Scottish Government (Assessor)
Mr B Fulton, Operations Director
Mrs C Craig, Commercial Director
Mr A Collier, Chief Risk Officer
Mr C P Paterson, Board Administrator
Mr McGibbon noted apologies for absence from Mr S Hagan. He welcomed Mr Hadfield, Mr Fulton, Mrs Craig, Mr Collier and Ms Roberts to the meeting.
Operational Performance update.
1.1.12 Mr Stirling noted that it would be preferred if reference to him compiling a paper was deleted as the topic was being addressed in another manner.
Subject to the foregoing amendment the Minutes of the Board Meeting held on 20 August 2014 were approved.
Mr McGibbon was pleased to note that the Company had now taken delivery of MV Loch Seaforth.
Mr McGibbon thanked Mr Dorchester and Ms Roberts for the efforts towards achieving the recent Pay Deal. Mr Dorchester indicated that the Minister for Transport and Veterans, Keith Brown, MSP, had been pleased about the discussions held with the recently appointed RMT General Secretary, Mick Cash. Mr Dorchester hoped that the Company could benefit from a similar opportunity.
Mr McGibbon enquired of Mr Hadfield if the Build Contract for the latest hybrid ferry had been concluded. Mr Hadfield responded that the Minister had signed a Contract with Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd. Mr Dorchester noted that the Company would consequently await sight of the Charter Party and Build Contract documents.
Mr Ure noted that ports required significant infrastructure improvements in the case of whichever route the new hybrid vessel would be operated on. He also noted that the Minister had announced the tenders for two new 100M ships and that the PQQ had been issued, with the ITT expected at the end of November 2014.
Mr McGibbon noted that the Company had hosted its inaugural CalMac Travel and Tourism Conference in Oban on the 28th October and it had been a great success. He was pleased to note the attendance of the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Food and Environment, Mr Richard Lochhead, MSP, as well as delegates from other countries.
MANAGING DIRECTOR'S SUMMARY
Mr Dorchester presented his paper.
1. Safety and Environment
Mr Dorchester noted that there had been one RIDDOR and six MAIB reports submitted in the last period.
1.1.6 Mr Dorchester noted that the investigation and matter regarding HMS Dauntless was now closed.
1.1.7 Mr Dorchester noted that the Audit team had been working hard to close out non-conformities and there was less tolerance of carried-over items.
1.2 Key Business issues
1.2.1 Safety campaign
Mr Dorchester noted that an overview of the Aristos safety leadership programme created by the Wood Group would be presented later.
1.2.2 Weather
Mr Dorchester noted that the considerable increase in weather cancellations and the long-term weather forecast would provide a challenge in managing potential disruptions.
1.2.8 Stornoway
Mr Dorchester noted that the Stornoway Port Authority had released a recent estimated works completion date of 15 December. Mr Ure noted that the approaching dates of the annual overhaul of the MV Isle of Lewis, the reinstatement of the MV Clipper Ranger's ramp and the refurbishment of Ullapool Linkspan would prove to be additional challenges due to the anticipated timing of the Stornoway works completion.
The Board discussed the Stornoway works and the anticipated completion date.
1.2.17 Pay negotiations
Mr Dorchester noted that the Nautilus Telegraph had reported the Unions' agreement to the new Pay Deal before the Company had been advised.
1.4 Our people
1.4.1 Gangway
Mr Dorchester was pleased to note that Gangway, the Company's digital platform for staff, had been launched. Ms Roberts noted that the platform gave staff the opportunity to receive push messages, arrange on-line meetings, set up communities, collaborate on topics and share work-related pictures and comments. It would also be accessible from staff members' mobiles.
Mr Dorchester encouraged the Board to view the platform.
1.5 Technical
1.5.2 MV Loch Seaforth
Mr Dorchester noted that the new vessel was currently berthed at Inchgreen.
1.5.6 Vessel replacement strategy
Mr Dorchester noted that Ms Milliken was liaising with Transport Scotland in the matter of the Vessel Replacement Strategy
1.5.7 Hybrid report
Mr Ure noted that QinetiQ had been engaged to provide a study on the performance of the hybrid vessels. In response to Mr Hadfield's interest in the matter Mr Ure agreed to provide a copy of the study's terms of reference to him.
Action1 Mr Ure
The Board discussed the reliability of the hybrid vessels and the significantly higher amount of lost operational time over other fleet vessels.
1.6 Competitors and Regulation
1.6.8 MV Sewol
Mr Dorchester noted that the MV Sewol was apparently carrying three times the permitted tonnage in freight and vehicles. Mr Easton noted that the Company should reinforce support to ship and port staff for ensuring that goods vehicles' weights were checked on weighbridges. Mr Ure noted that the Company did not put any commercial pressure on Masters to convey any particular vehicles.
2. Strategic Developments
2.7 A&BC Forum
Mr Dorchester noted that he and Mr Drummond had attended the Argyll & Bute Council's Economic Forum and awaited news on what actions would result from it. He would advise the Board of anything appropriate in due course.
4. Outlook
5. Civil engineering
Mr Dorchester noted the significant amount of civil engineering works that would be carried out in the network over the next three years and that the Company would be planning for each project.
Additional discussion
The Board discussed how Audit preliminary results could be shared.
FINANCE REPORT
Key financial highlights for FY 14/15 6 months.
Mr Drummond presented his report.
Mr Drummond noted that the report presented the financial performance of the Company for 6 months to date. The performance showed a positive variance ahead of plan, being 4% ahead of plan due to a successful summer.
CHFS Contract year 7 update
Mr Drummond emphasised that the figures provided for Contract Year 7 provided a provisional base case to be signed off and to be subsequently used as a basis for Contract Year 8.
The Board discussed the matter of costs arising from performing new and additional requirements, noting that whole life models would help inform the business in respect of new tonnage operational costs.
The Board enquired about whether or not the table represented benefits and Mr Drummond responded that benefits would be tracked. Mr Dorchester noted that a paper describing what will be delivered and how would be brought to the Board in due course.
Mr Collier expanded on Project Anchor's progress, noting that the contractor had been on-site conducting ground investigations. He noted that it had been stressed to CMAL and the Contractor that Wemyss Bay would not be released for the planned refurbishment until the Gourock upgrade was complete.
Mr Drummond noted some welcome progress with Project Ecoship as procurement for the Ships Energy management System was now being re-tendered. It was of interest that there was anecdotal evidence that some ship's crews were competing over who could burn less fuel.
CHFS BID UPDATE
Mr Drummond noted that the Transport Scotland Procurement Team had started work on a competitive dialogue process for the Tender Competition.
The Board and Mr Hadfield discussed a competitive dialogue approach to the Tender and its effect on the process. It was recognised that care had to be taken on how to respond to Transport Scotland regarding the bid process. Mr Drummond indicated that he would circulate a proposed response to the Board for comment.
Action3 Mr Drummond
As an example of a service not captured in the current Contract, Mr Drummond highlighted Retail Operations.
Ms Sumner, Ms Daniels, Mr Taylor, Mr Main and Mr Slorach joined the meeting.
DML CUSTOMER MATURITY - IMPROVE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Mrs Craig introduced an overhead projection presentation.
Mrs Craig outlined how the Company was focusing on improving the Customer Experience and noted that a Working Group had been set up to examine current travel.
Mrs Craig noted that the customer experience needed to be viewed differently in order to improve it. She noted that it was not currently included in the Corporate Plan but that it should be considered. A lot of initiatives had already been introduced but there still some gaps. She noted that customer evidence is important so that it can be seen that the Company will introduce improvements that have been requested.
Mrs Craig noted that customer research is not generally available from other sources as a comparator. Listening to customers was important. Social media such as Twitter gave the opportunity for the Company to respond quickly and address negative comments. The Company's YouTube channel currently has 120 videos which inform customers.
Mr Dorchester and Mr Collier left the meeting.
Mrs Craig noted that it was important to be more focused on how to improve the customer's journey and more initiatives would be developed and introduced to address this.
CUSTOMER OPERATIONS
Ms Sumner introduced an overhead projection presentation.
Ms Sumner also introduced Ms Daniels, Mr Taylor, Mr Main and Mr Slorach who were either based at, or were employees of, the Contact Centre. Each gave a small presentation on their roles and contribution to the operation of the Contact Centre or the Company's operations.
Ms Sumner indicated that awards for customer excellence were being considered as one way of encouraging staff effort at the Contact Centre.
Mr McGibbon thanked the Ms Sumner, Ms Daniels, Mr Taylor, Mr Main and Mr Slorach for their presentation.
Ms Sumner, Ms Daniels, Mr Taylor, Mr Main and Mr Slorach left the meeting.
Mr Wood and Mrs Dyer joined the meeting.
Mr Dorchester and Mr Collier returned to the meeting.
SAFETY ORIENTATION TRAINING
Mr Wood introduced the Safety Orientation Training presentation. Four Safety Orientation Training video modules were shown to the Board.
The Safety Orientation Training consists of a number of videos which a user is required to watch, starting with introductory videos from Mr Dorchester and Mr Stirling, followed by selection of videos addressing various ship and port operations with a subsequent multiple choice questionnaire. The correct selection of the correct answers results in a Course Completion Certificate.
Mr McGibbon thanked the Mr Wood and Mrs Dyer for their presentation.
Mr Willison-Gray and Mr Black joined the meeting.
COMMUNITY BROADBAND SERVICES OPPORTUNITY
Mr Drummond introduced the paper and noted that Board approval was sought to agree funding for Contract bid strategy, preparation and initial bid submission.
Mr Willison-Gray noted that 85% of the population currently has access to BT's network. Rural communities however are well less well served. Local rural and remote communities across Scotland were being encouraged by Community Broadband Scotland to develop solutions.
The proposal suggested that the existing broadband network built by Horsebridge Network Services for the Company could be extended to rural and remote communities as a separate business opportunity in a joint venture with David MacBrayne Ltd. More customers would provide economy of scale savings.
Mr Willison-Gray noted that the Contract award would be announced in March 2015. He advised that the Contract was estimated to break even in 2 to 2½ years. Mr Drummond noted that a main risk was not capital costs but ongoing running costs.
Mr Hadfield noted that he would follow up the proposal bi-laterally and would review resource and costs. Mr Drummond noted that the venture would be entirely funded by David MacBrayne Ltd.
Mr McGibbon noted that the Board approved the submission of the bid in principle.
Mr Willison-Gray left the meeting.
MARCHWOOD OPPORTUNITY
Mr Drummond presented the paper.
Mr Drummond noted that the business opportunity was now being presented to the Board for 'Go/No go' approval. He noted that the PQQ process had been completed and the joint venture was one of three successful applicants from 15 original submissions. The opportunity was set up as a joint venture with an external company, GBA Group, which provides logistics services to motor manufacturers, shipping lines & the renewable sector.
Mr Black noted that in terms of the current proposed bid, PwC had been advising the MoD, resulting in a robust bid process. The MoD was principally looking at outsourcing tasks to release armed forces from handling and logistics tasks.
Mr Black noted that GBA Group currently enjoys 75% of the vehicle shipping market and had not lost a contract once it was secured. GBA Group also had port operations and logistics experience.
Mr Drummond and Mr Black outlined further positive aspects of the bid and noted that [FOISA Status - Exemption under Section 30 (Prejudice to Effective Conduct of Public Affairs)]
Other potential bidders had been identified. Mr Drummond highlighted that the joint venture holding would be on a 50/50 basis.
The Board discussed the joint venture proposal. Mr Dorchester emphasised that the CHFS Bid was the main focus and that the Marchwood Bid would not detract from that. Additional resource would be brought in as and when necessary.
Mr Black noted a timetable challenge and indicated that a prepared Bid would need to be put to the Board in December.
After further discussion, the Board approved the preparation of a detailed bid paper.
Mr Black left the meeting.
FURTHER BUSINESS
Accessibility Fund
Mr Hadfield noted that the Minister had announced that a new £500,000 fund had been launched to improve accessibility on Scotland's ferry network. The Fund will be open to bids from the public and private sector, and Mr Hadfield hoped that the Company would consider submitting a bid.
Dunoon/Gourock Steering Group
Mr Hadfield noted that the Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, MSP, had attended the meeting. He noted the unfortunate timing sequence of the CHFS and AFL Contracts.
Northern Isles Contract
Mr Hadfield noted that RBS Leasing had announced it interested in making the current vessels available for leasing for the next Contract. Local Councils were keen to see new tonnage however, but there were constraints in operating larger vessels from Aberdeen Harbour.
Corran Contract
Mr Hadfield noted the possibility that the Contract might be let to avoid conflicting with State Aid rules.
To be held at Gourock on 4 March 2015.
Hybrid report
To provide the report terms of reference to
Mr Hadfield.
Circulate Board with paper presented at meeting with Mr Lee Shedden.


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Arsene Wenger signed five players in August – Mikel Arteta, Per Mertesacker, Andre Santos, Yossi Benayoun and Park Chu-Young.
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ATTIC, PART 2: DRYWALLING
05.04 - 10.04 -- feed them, and they will come
click to see the full photo galleryWe were anxious to get to the drywalling since it would mark a milepost in the attic renovation, a phase where we could see a real and dramatic change from the way it was before.
We were lucky to have Dad and Malinda come out to help us get started, get things wired (a huge, huge help, since they basically got all the electrical, cable, and phone outlets wired AND showed us how to do all sorts of nifty wiring stuff so we don't go electrocuting ourselves), and show us the ropes for putting up drywall. Thanks to them, the back third of our attic and the area around the stairwell were done by the time they left and we were well on our way.
But it's a big room, with a lot of extra work involved at every step, and they're only human, after all, so there was still a lot left to do. Namely, the remaining slanted sections of the ceiling and the very large dormer on the south side of the house. And of course, we hadn't exactly made it easy on ourselves with the insulation we chose, which caused its very own special set of problems.
See, we did our research. And everything we read said R38 insulation for the ceilings and R25 for the walls for homes in the Pacific Northwest. Which seemed pretty high, considering it was the same values recommended for Wyoming, but whatever.
Well, we wanted to do this right so we intended to put in the correct value of insulation. Little did we know how expensive it was. And since we needed to cover so much area, well, it ended up costing 3x what we had originally budgeted, and that was after we had decided that there was no way we could afford the R25, let alone R38, so we would buy the highest we could possibly manage: R21. We did, however, get a big price break for buying all the rolls at 24 inch widths even though only the rafters are that wide. It ended up being cheaper to buy enough for the whole attic in the wider widths than to buy just what we needed for the ceiling and then a narrower width for the walls. Not the most ideal situation, but it was the best we could do and still be able to do the project.
Two problems, though. The higher R value meant a thicker bat, which were going over Styrofoam vent baffles (see part 1) that already were taking up an inch of space in the rafters. So by the time we had the insulation installed, there wasn't any give whatsoever and it made hanging the drywall infinitely harder, especially on the slanted sections of the ceiling. It was like trying to cram 4 tennis balls in a can that's only meant to hold 3. Which, yeah. And then doing it at an angle, above your head.
The other problem, which we only found out after it was too late, was that the information we had on what R value to use was wrong. Oh, the R38 for the ceiling was right, although we could've gotten away with as low as R19, but for the walls, we really only needed R11. We've never felt a closer kinship to Homer Simpson than when we found that out. (We were somewhat vindicated later when we learned that because we were insulating an attic, the recommended R value really was R25, but that was cold consolation (pun intended) considering we'd had to smash up the insulation so much when we put up the drywall that we'd negated whatever extra insulating value it had.)
But those're the pitfalls of doing the work yourself and it was too late to do anything about it. Unfortunately, as I said above, it made the actual drywall work extremely difficult. Just holding the sheets in place took at least two very strong people pressing with all their weight against the drywall and then a third person to tack it in place. Plus, we started out using drywall screws alone -- in theory, the right idea, in practice, sucktacular -- so it took so much work (and aggravation) just getting the sheets tacked up that everyone's energy was wiped out after only a few sheets.
And then, of course, the infamous angles. Our roof has a fairly steep pitch and the kneewalls are only about 5 feet high, not to mention the house was built 90+ years ago. And then there's a substantial dormer that cuts the space in half and none of the crossbeams are level with each other...it was like trying to drywall a room in an M.C. Escher drawing.
It was all such a problem that by the time my friends from work came out to help us, it'd been two months since we'd made any progress on the drywall. We coaxed them out with promises of a spread the likes of which they'd never seen, which may or may not have been an exaggeration. We did our damnedest, though, to live up to the hype. Including Sal's famous wings, a recipe so incredibly good that it has the power to bend people to your will and must therefore only be wielded with the greatest of care. Or when you need help drywalling your attic.
Our only regret? Not bribing them to come out sooner. See, if we'd only watched Witness lately, we would've been reminded that the Amish have it all figured out:
lots of food + lots of people = barns raised in a day
Anyway, thanks to our friend's expertise and the help and hard work of our other friends, we not only managed to bang out the rest of those sections that had been holding us up for so long, we did it in about five hours.
Among other things, we also learned that drywall nails are your friends (use them to tack the sheets up, then go back and use screws to firmly fix them in place), the secret to drywalling difficult sections is not to overthink it (instead of trying to drywall around the rafter beams, just cut slots in the drywall for them to go through), and that "hot mud" is a gift from the gods.
Oh, we still have drywalling to do, make no mistake. But it's work that we can do ourselves -- the kind of work we thought most of the project would be, originally. More importantly, though:
Master suite, here we come!
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Nakayama Miki
In this Japanese name, the family name is Nakayama.
Image from Pictorial History of Modern Japan (Vol. 2) by Sanseidō
18 April 1798 (2 June)
Sanmaiden Village, Japan (currently Tenri)[1]
26 January 1887 (18 February)
Shoyashiki Village, Japan (currently Tenri)
Tenrikyo
Iburi Izō
Shinbashira
Nakayama Shinnosuke
Nakayama Shōzen
Ofudesaki
Mikagura-uta
Osashizu
Supplemental texts
The Doctrine of Tenrikyo
The Life of Oyasama
Anecdotes of Oyasama
Joyous Life
Creation narrative
Jiba-Kanrodai
Sazuke
Tenrikyo Church Headquarters
Oyasato-yakata
Tenri University
Sankōkan Museum
Tenri Central Library
Tenri Hospital
Tenri, Nara
Nakayama Miki (中山 みき, 18 April 1798 – 26 January 1887 by the Japanese calendar[lower-alpha 1]) was a nineteenth-century Japanese farmer and religious leader. She is the primary figure of the Japanese new religion Tenrikyo. Followers, who refer to her as Oyasama (おやさま), believe that she was settled as the Shrine of Tsukihi from the moment she experienced a divine revelation in 1838 until her death in 1887.
Upon her divine revelation, she gave away most of her family's possessions and dismantled the family's house, thereby entering a state of poverty.[2] She began to attract followers, who believed that she was a living goddess who could heal people and bless expectant mothers with safe childbirth.[3] To leave a record of her teachings, she composed the Ofudesaki and taught the lyrics, choreography, and music of the Service, which have become Tenrikyo's scripture and liturgy respectively.[4] She identified what she claimed to be the place where God created human beings and instructed her followers to mark the place with a pillar and perform the liturgy around it, which she believed would advance humankind toward the salvific state of the Joyous Life.[5] In the last several years of her life, she and her followers were arrested and detained a number of times by the Japanese authorities for forming a religious group without official authorization.[6] A year after her death, Tenrikyo Church Headquarters received official authorization to be a church under the Shinto Main Bureau.[7]
Tenrikyo doctrine maintains that Nakayama Miki was the fulfillment of God's promise to humankind at creation, which was that after a certain number of years had elapsed, God would be revealed through the soul of the mother of humankind at the place of creation and inform humankind of its origins, purpose, and means of salvation.[8] Doctrine also maintains that as the Shrine of God, Nakayama's words and actions were in complete accordance with the divine will and that upon her death, her soul withdrew from physical existence and became everliving.
Nakayama Miki, née Maegawa, was born on 18 April 1798[1][lower-alpha 2] (2 June) at dawn, around five o'clock in the morning.[11] She was born in Sanmaiden Village, Yamabe County, Yamato Province, or present day Tenri, Nara, to a family of the farming class. Her father Maegawa Hanshichi was a member of the Tōdō clan[1] and held the title of musokunin, a samurai-like status which entitled him to have a surname and carry a sword, though without stipend.[12] He was also an ojoya, a head of a group of local villages.[13] Her mother, Kinu, was from the Nagao family of the same village and was said to have excelled in needlework.[14]
In the first decade of her life, Miki learned how to write with a brush from her father and how to sew and spin cotton from her mother. From the ages of nine to eleven, she attended a private school for children at a nearby village, where she was educated in reading and writing. At home, she learned needlework from her mother and became proficient enough to make handicraft items and to cut garments out of wide bolts of cotton.[15]
The Maegawas were pious adherents of the Pure Land school of Buddhism and belonged to a local temple. In her childhood, Miki became familiar enough with Buddhist prayer so that by the age of twelve or thirteen, she was able to recite from memory various sutras as well the hymns from the Jōdo Wasan. At that time, she expressed an interest in becoming a nun. However, Miki's parents, on the suggestion of Miki's aunt, Kinu, asked her to marry Nakayama Zenbei, the son of Miki's aunt. At first, Miki hesitated to agree to the request out of her desire to become a nun, but eventually she consented, on the condition that even when married she would be allowed to continue her Buddhist prayer.[16]
On 15 September 1810 (13 October), Miki took part in her bridal procession to the residence of the Nakayama family in the village of Shoyashiki.[lower-alpha 3] Dressed in a long-sleeved kimono, she was carried in a palanquin and was accompanied by attendants carrying a trousseau of five loads – two chests of drawers, two long chests, and a pair of boxes.[18] The Nakayama family, like the Maegawa family, held some prestige in the local area. The custom in Shoyashiki was for the male head of the Nakayama household to inherit the post of toshiyori (village head), and in Miki's lifetime, her father-in-law Zenyemon, and later, her husband Zenbei served as toshiyori.[19] In addition, the Nakayama family was a major landholder in the village.[lower-alpha 4]
In 1813, Miki's in-laws entrusted her with the management of all household affairs. The Life of Oyasama, Tenrikyo's biography of Miki, portrays her as a diligent and productive worker. According to its account she did every type of farm work except for the men's tasks of digging ditches and plowing rice fields, pulled more than half an acre of cotton a day, and wove fabrics twice as fast as the average woman.[20]
In the spring of 1816, she completed a training course known as the Fivefold Transmission at Zenpuku Temple, her parish temple in Magata Village (now a district of the city of Tenri). During the Fivefold Transmission, she attended lectures on the writings of Hōnen, meditated, underwent tonsure, and made a vow to repeat the nenbutsu for the remainder of her life.[21] Those who enrolled in the Fivefold Transmission were initiated into the mysteries of the Pure Land sect and were considered to have reached the highest level of faith.[22]
In June 1820, Nakayama Zenyemon, Miki's father-in-law, died at the age of sixty-two. In July 1821, Miki's first child, also named Zenyemon (later renamed Shuji) was born. Her first daughter Omasa and second daughter Oyasu were born in April 1825 and September 1827 respectively. In April 1828, Miki's mother-in-law Kinu, died.[23]
The anecdotes from The Life of Oyasama depict Miki as a charitable and forgiving mother. When a man was caught stealing a bag of rice from the Nakayama family's storehouse, Miki allowed him to keep the rice instead of turning him in to the authorities.[24] When the mothers in her village suffered from a lack of milk, she would offer to nurse their infants. In 1828, one of the infants she was nursing, a boy named Adachi Terunojo, contracted smallpox.[25] To pray for his recovery, she underwent a hundred-day prayer, walking barefoot to the village shrine every day.[26]
In 1830, Miki's second daughter Oyasu died. Her third daughter, Oharu, was born on 21 September 1831. Her fourth daughter, Otsune, was born on 7 November 1833 and died two years later in 1835. Her fifth daughter, Kokan, was born on 15 December 1837.[27]
On 26 October 1837, Nakayama Miki's eldest son, Shūji, felt an acute pain in his leg while sowing barley in the fields. A village doctor named Gensuke was summoned to treat the leg.[28] When Shūji's condition did not improve, the family called for Nakatano Ichibei, a shugenja (ascetic monk) who was renowned in the area for his healing rituals. Ichibei offered prayers on three occasions, but after each time Shūji had only temporary relief before the pain returned. After Zenbei, Miki's husband, made another entreaty to Ichibei, he agreed to conduct an incantation (yosekaji), a ritual intended to invoke the Buddha's compassion.[29] Over the course of a year, the incantation was conducted nine times.[lower-alpha 5]
When Miki and Zenbei had sudden physical pains on the evening of 23 October 1838, Zenbei sent a messenger to Ichibei, who on that day was visiting his relatives in Shoyashiki for a local festival. Ichibei held another incantation the following morning. However, as the woman who regularly served as his medium,[lower-alpha 6] Soyo, was not available, he asked Miki to serve as medium instead.[32] In the middle of the incantation, Tenrikyo's doctrine asserts that Miki had her first divine revelation.[lower-alpha 7]
After the first revelation, Miki remained in a trance while the Nakayama family discussed how to respond to the request. Over three days, the family made several refusals, asking the divine presence to leave, but with each refusal Miki's trance grew in intensity and her responses became more severe. Then, at eight o'clock on the morning on 26 October 1838, Miki's husband Zenbei accepted the invitation on the family's behalf and her trance stopped. On this day, according to Tenrikyo's doctrine, Nakayama Miki was settled as the Shrine of Tsukihi and the Tenrikyo teachings were founded.[34]
Poverty and ministry
For the three years or so following the revelation, Miki secluded herself in a storehouse. In the 1840s, Miki gradually gave away her personal belongings and the possessions of the Nakayama family. Then Miki requested that her husband Zenbei dismantle the main house, starting with the roof tiles at the southeast corner followed by the tiles on the northeast corner and the gable walls.[35]
In 1848, she began to give sewing lessons at her home, and in 1852 her daughter Oharu was married to Kajimoto Sojiro, the younger brother of one of the sewing students. Around this time, her son Shūji opened a classroom at home and began to instruct the village children in reading and writing.[2]
On 22 February 1853, Miki's husband Zenbei died. In the same year, the dismantling of the Nakayama house was completed, and Miki sent her youngest daughter Kokan to Naniwa (in present day Osaka) to chant the divine name, thus marking the first instance of missionary work in the Tenrikyo tradition.[36]
In 1854, Miki began to administer the grant of safe childbirth (obiya-yurushi), first to her daughter Oharu during her pregnancy. After Oharu delivered the baby safely, expectant mothers who had heard about the grant visited the Nakayama residence and requested that the grant be administered to them as well. The grant, a form of faith healing, was conducted by stroking and breathing on the recipient's stomach three times. Recipients of the grant, Miki instructed, would be assured of a rapid and easy delivery and would not need to observe the postnatal customs of the day, such as wearing an abdominal band, not eating certain foods, or leaning against a support.[37]
Scripture and liturgy
See also: Ofudesaki, Mikagura-uta, and Service (Tenrikyo)
In 1864, Iburi Izō, a carpenter and a close disciple of Oyasama, constructed Tenrikyo's first house of worship, the Place for the Service (tsutome no basho).
From 1866 to 1875, Miki taught the Mikagura-uta, the songs of Tenrikyo's liturgy, the Service. The Mikagura-uta is divided into five sections; sections one, two and three are performed seated with hand movements while sections four and five are dances. Section one was composed first, in 1866, followed by section five from January to August 1867. In 1870, sections two and four were composed, followed by section three in 1875.
From 1869 to 1882, Miki composed what would later be called the Ofudesaki, a Tenrikyo scripture believed to contain her divine revelations. The Ofudesaki was written in the hiragana script and in the waka style of Japanese poetry, and has since been compiled into 1,711 verses divided into seventeen parts.
In 1874, Miki collected the kagura masks she had requested from her older brother Maegawa Kyosuke. The kagura masks would be used for the Kagura Service, a subset of the Service.[38]
On 26 May 1875 (29 June), Miki located the Jiba, where she claimed was the spot where God created human beings. According to The Life of Oyasama, she identified the spot by walking randomly around the yard of her residence until her foot stopped. To confirm, she asked the other followers who were present to walk around blindfolded and their feet stopped at the same spot. She instructed her followers to mark this spot with a stand called the Kanrodai, or the stand of heavenly dew. Later that year, a wooden prototype of the Kanrodai, built by Iburi Izō two years earlier on Miki's request, was brought out of the storehouse of the Nakayama residence and placed on the Jiba.[39]
In 1877, Miki taught the women's instruments to be used in the liturgy – shamisen, kokyū, and koto. On 26 August 1880 (30 September), the liturgy was performed for the first time with the full set of instruments.[40]
In 1881, the construction of a stone version of the Kanrodai commenced with a search for stones in a nearby village. In May and September of the same year, the first and second layers of the stand, respectively, were put into place. However, in March 1882, the chief of the Nara police station confiscated the two layers, a measure taken to prevent the performance of the Service the next day. In the same year, Miki expressed her regret over the confiscation in the final verses of the Ofudesaki, completed that year, and made revisions to sections one and three of the Mikagura-uta.[41]
An early instance of persecution occurred in 1866, when several yamabushi monks caused a disturbance at Miki's residence and filed a complaint to the local magistrate's office regarding the activities taking place there. The magistrate's office questioned Miki and her followers and advised them to obtain government authorization first before continuing their activities. Miki's son Shūji went to the Yoshida Administrative Office of Shinto in Kyoto and received government authorization in 1867. However, the authorization became invalid in 1870 when the Yoshida Administrative Office was terminated by the recently installed Meiji government.[42]
In 1876, Miki's son Shūji obtained a license to operate a steam bath and inn as a pretense to allow more followers to gather without arousing suspicion from the police.
Main article: The Life of Oyasama
The Life of Oyasama, Foundress of Tenrikyo is the biography of Nakayama Miki published by Tenrikyo Church Headquarters.
Efforts to compile a biography of Nakayama Miki began not long after her death in 1887. An instruction recorded in the Osashizu, dated 13 October 1890, requested that the followers produce a record of Nakayama's life.[43] In response to this request, Nakayama Shinnosuke, the first Shinbashira, supervised the composition of the script for the Besseki lectures, which was completed in 1896. Based on this script, Nakayama Shinnosuke wrote a biography dated 3 July 1898 (referred to as the katakana version) and another one around 1907 (the hiragana version). Nakayama Shinnosuke's hiragana version became the basis of future biography compilations including The Life of Oyasama.[44]
Besides Nakayama Shinnosuke's writings, a number of other writings containing biographical information were produced by various individuals. When the Tenrikyo followers made a written request in December 1886 to establish a church, four early Tenrikyo leaders – Kōda Chūsaburō, Shimizu Yonosuke, Moroi Kunisaburō, and Masuno Shōbei – submitted Saisho no yurai (最初之由来) along with the request.[44] In 1891, Hashimoto Kiyoshi wrote Tenrikyōkai yurai ryakki (天理教会由来略記), which was written to be submitted to groups outside the church.[44] During the church's efforts to obtain sectarian independence at the turn of the century, Tenrikyo Church Headquarters commissioned biographies from non-Tenrikyo writers, Udagawa Bunkai in 1900 and Nakanishi Ushirō in 1902.[44] Around this time Tenrikyo followers such as Okutani Bunchi and Masuno Michioki independently wrote biographies as well.[44]
In 1925, the Department of Doctrine and Historical Materials was founded. The department gathered historical materials and produced "The Life of Oyasama; with Revised Historical Data" (御教祖伝史実校訂本) around 1936.[45][46] This was later published in volumes 29, 30, 32, 37, and 47 of the journal Fukugen (復元).[46]
In 1952, a group of scholars of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters known as the "Kōki Committee" began to prepare a number of drafts of Oyasama's biography.[46] In so doing, they decided to use the research of Nakayama Shinnosuke as the primary historical reference. The first draft was put together by an early Tenrikyo theologian, Ueda Yoshinaru, in the same year.[44] All drafts from the first draft to the seventeenth draft (released 26 August 1955) were referred to as Tenrikyō kyōso den sōan (天理教教祖伝草案).[46]
The eighteenth draft was prepared on 18 October 1955. From this draft to the twenty-second draft (17 March 1956) are referred to as Tenrikyō kyōso den kōan (天理教教祖伝稿案).[46] After the release of the twenty-first draft in February 1956, the "16th Doctrinal Seminar" was held to discuss aspects of the draft that still needed improvement.[46] Upon revision of the twenty-second draft, The Life of Oyasama, Foundress of Tenrikyo was published on October 26, 1956.[44]
Since its first publication, The Life of Oyasama has gone through two revisions. The first revision, published on 26 December 1981, made several historical corrections and additions. The second revision, published on 26 January 1986, changed certain expressions deemed unsuitable.[46]
The English translation has gone through three editions, the first in 1967, the second in 1982, and the third in 1996.
See also: Tenrikyo theology
↑ The dates in the article will retain the counting of the traditional Japanese calendar while preserving the appearance of the modern calendar. For example, in the Japanese calendar, Nakayama's date of birth is the 18th day of the 4th month, Kansei 10 (寛政10年4月18日), which is rendered above as 18 April 1798. The corresponding Gregorian calendar date will appear next to it in parentheses.
↑ The family register at the Tanbaichi town office records her birth date as the fourth day of the fourth month of Kansei 10. However, this is likely a clerical error made as the former temple registers of the Edo period were being edited and compiled by the Meiji government.[9][10]
↑ Shoyashiki was originally a part of the village of Mishima, a shōen supervised by the Kasuga Grand Shrine in 1181. During Miki's lifetime, Shoyashiki was an independent village, but since 1877 Shoyashiki has been merged with Mishima.[17] Today Mishima is a district of the city of Tenri.
↑ A local folk song at the time went, "Looking at Shoyashiki Village from the west, Adachi has the wealth, Zenyemon has the land, and Kaseya on the far side has the mistresses."[17]
↑ An incantation was an elaborate affair, requiring that the family of the afflicted invite the neighbors, serve them meals, and give rice to the villagers out of respect for the dead. In this case, each session cost the family four hundred monme (roughly US$1,052 as of 1993).[30]
↑ The medium's role was to hold the gohei, which were believed to be conductors through which the deity could enter the medium's body, and communicate the deity's will to the shugenja.[31]
↑ The surviving primary sources, such as Nakayama Shinnosuke's Oyasama gyoden (1907), vary regarding the exact phrasing of her first divine revelation. The Doctrine of Tenrikyo has the following phrasing: "I am God of Origin, God in Truth. There is causality in this Residence. At this time I have descended here to save all humankind. I wish to receive Miki as the Shrine of God." The second Shinbashira Nakayama Shōzen, who authorized Tenrikyo's doctrine, has stated that the compilers of the doctrine decided on this phrasing "by drawing on points that seemed most authentic and by choosing words that are supported by the Scriptures."[33]
1 2 3 van Straelen 1954, p. 15.
1 2 Ellwood 1982, p. 41.
↑ Ellwood 1982, p. 42.
↑ Ellwood 1982, pp. 44-9.
↑ Ellwood 1982, pp. 47-50.
↑ Tenrikyo Church Headquarters 1993, pp. 20-28.
↑ Yamazawa 1946, pp. 1-79.
↑ Kyōso den hensan iin 1956, pp. 1-136.
↑ Tenrikyo Doyusha 2014, pp. 2-3.
↑ Tenrikyo Doyusha 2014, p. 7.
↑ Tenrikyo Church Headquarters 1996, p. 8.
↑ Tenrikyo Church Headquarters 1996, pp. 8-9.
↑ Tenrikyo Doyusha 2014, pp. 10-12.
1 2 Tenrikyo Doyusha 2014, p. 16.
↑ Tenrikyo Doyusha 2014, p. 17.
↑ Tenrikyo Church Headquarters 2014, p. 11.
↑ van Straelen 1954, pp. 18-19.
↑ Nakayama 1994, p. 16.
↑ Tenrikyo Doyusha 2014, pp. 152-156.
↑ Nakayama, Shozen. "The Doctrine and Practice of Tenrikyo." The Theological Persepctives of Tenrikyo: In Commemoration of the Centennial Anniversary of Oyasama. ed. Oyasato Research Institute, Tenri University. Tenri, Japan. 1986. p.9.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Oyasato Institute for the Study of Religion (1997). Kyōsoden hensan shi [Compilation history of the Foundress' biography]. In Kaitei Tenrikyo jiten. (pp. 279-280). Tenri, Japan: Tenrikyō Dōyūsha.
↑ The Theological Persepctives of Tenrikyo: In Commemoration of the Centennial Anniversary of Oyasama. p.9.
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Nakayama, Shōzen (1994). Lectures on The Doctrine of Tenrikyo. Tenri, Japan: Tenrikyo Overseas Mission Department.
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RECEIVING CIRCUIT, USE, AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING IN A RADIO NETWORK
A receiving circuit, use, and method for receiving in a radio network is provided, wherein switching is performed continuously between a first signal, which is received over a first antenna, and a second signal, which is received over a second antenna, to form an input signal. The input signal is converted analog/digitally into a digital signal, the digital signal is correlated to output a correlation signal, the correlation signal is compared with a threshold, and the switching for data reception in a current switch position is stopped when the correlation signal exceeds the threshold.
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HERNANDEZ, WILLIAM
Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC (P.O. BOX 1364, FAIRFAX, VA, 22038-1364, US)
1. A method for receiving in a radio network, the method comprising: switching continuously between a first signal, which is received over a first antenna, and a second signal, which is received over a second antenna, to form an input signal; converting the input signal into a digital signal; correlating the digital signal to output a correlation signal; comparing the correlation signal with a threshold; and stopping the switching for data reception in a current switch position when the correlation signal exceeds the threshold.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein a preamble is transmitted for correlation and wherein a time period between two switchings is shorter than a transmission time for the preamble.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the time period between two switchings is shorter than half of the transmission time for the preamble.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the switching is cyclic.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein a time period between two switchings is lengthened when a determined received power exceeds an additional threshold.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the switching is stopped after the threshold is exceeded until it is determined that the transmitted data are complete.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the switching is stopped after the threshold is exceeded depending on a time switch.
8. A receiving circuit of a radio network comprising: a first input configured to receive a first signal and being connectable to a first antenna; a second input configured to receive a second signal and being connectable to a second antenna; a switching device, which is connected to switch between the first signal and the second signal; an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the first signal or the second signal into a digital signal; a synchronization device configured to correlate the digital signal to output a correlation signal; a comparator configured to compare the correlation signal with a threshold; and a control circuit, which is connected to the switching device and the comparator.
9. The receiving circuit according to claim 8, wherein the synchronization device has a correlator, a cross-correlator, or an autocorrelator, for correlation.
10. A use of the synchronization device and a comparator of a receiving circuit of a radio network for comparing a result of a correlation with a threshold and to stop continuing switching between at least two signals of different antennas when the result of the correlation exceeds the threshold.
This nonprovisional application claims priority to German Patent Application No. DE 10 2008 018 869.7, which was filed in Germany on Apr. 14, 2008, and to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61,045,762, which was filed on Apr. 17, 2008, and which are both herein incorporated by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a receiving circuit, a use, and a method for receiving in a radio network.
2. Description of the Background Art
Modern receiving circuits for high-frequency radio signals for use in local radio networks are characterized by a very high sensitivity. Different radio networks at the same transmission frequency can interfere with each other. With an increasing density of the radio networks, this can result in increasingly worsening transmission conditions. Radio networks of this type are described, for example, in industry standards IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.1, or IEEE 802.15.4, which sometimes utilize the same frequency bands.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide as improved a receiving method as possible in a radio network.
This object is achieved by the method with the features of independent claim 1. Advantageous refinements are the subject of dependent claims and included in the description.
Accordingly, a method for receiving in a radio network is provided. In the method, switching is performed continuously between a first signal, which is received over a first antenna, and a second signal, which is received over a second antenna, to form an input signal. In addition, a third antenna with a third signal can be provided, which is integrated into the switching process. Switching is alternated, in contrast, in the case of only two antennas.
The input signal is converted analog/digitally into a digital signal. Filtering and/or amplification are preferably provided before the analog-to-digital conversion.
The digital signal is correlated to output a correlation signal. In so doing, advantageously, the digital signal is correlated with itself (autocorrelation) or with a predefined signal (cross-correlation). The correlation signal is an output signal of the correlation and indicates an extent of matching.
The correlation signal is compared with a threshold. Preferably, the threshold is a constant threshold value, which is advantageously programmable.
The switching for data reception in a current switch position is stopped when the correlation signal exceeds the threshold. For this reason, the signal path of the particular antenna is held in the switch position of the switching device in which the correlation signal precisely of said antenna exceeds the threshold.
The object of the invention furthermore is to improve a receiving circuit of a radio network as much as possible.
Said object is achieved by a receiving circuit with the features of independent claim 8. Advantageous refinements are the subject of dependent claims and included in the description.
Accordingly, a receiving circuit of a radio network is provided. The receiving circuit has a first input, which to receive a first signal is connectable to a first antenna, and a second input, which to receive a second signal is connectable to a second antenna. Preferably, the first input and the second input are terminals of a monolithically integrated circuit.
Preferably, the receiving circuit has a switching device, which is connected directly or indirectly to the first input and the second input for switching between the first signal and the second signal, so that the first signal and the second signal reach a switching device via a respective connection. For the direct connection, an electrical conductor is advantageously formed between the input and the switching device. Alternatively, it is possible in principle to provide in each case an amplifier or a filter for a direct connection between each input and the switching device.
Preferably, the receiving circuit has an analog-to-digital converter, which is formed to convert the first signal or the second signal into a digital signal depending on the switch position. In so doing, the signal just put through by the switching device is converted.
Preferably, the receiving circuit has a synchronization device, which is formed to correlate the digital signal to output a correlation signal.
Preferably, the receiving circuit has a digital comparator which is formed to compare the correlation signal with a threshold. The threshold is advantageously programmable as a register value. Alternatively, the threshold can be calculated or is unmodifiable as a fixed value.
Preferably, the receiving circuit has a control circuit which is connected to the switching device and the comparator. Preferably, the control circuit is formed to control the switching device for continuous switching between the first signal and the second signal. It is also preferable that the control circuit is formed to stop the switching when the correlation signal exceeds the threshold.
Preferably, the switching device, the analog-to-digital converter, the synchronization device, the comparator, and the control circuit are integrated monolithically on a semiconductor chip.
Preferably, the receiving circuit is formed and set up to carry out the previously described process.
The invention furthermore has the object of providing a use.
This object is achieved by a use with the features of independent claim 10. Advantageous refinements are the subject of dependent claims and given in the description.
Accordingly, a use of a synchronization device and a comparator of a receiving circuit of a radio network is provided. The synchronization device and the comparator are used for comparing a result of a correlation with a threshold and to stop a continuing switching between at least two signals of different antennas. In this regard, the stopping of the continuous switching occurs when the result of the correlation exceeds the threshold.
The refinements described hereinafter relate to the receiving circuit, as well as to the use and to the receiving method. Advantageously, the receiving circuit in this regard is formed and set up for the process steps.
In an advantageous embodiment, a preamble is transmitted which is used for correlation in the receiving circuit. Preferably, a time period between two switchings is shorter than a transmission time for the preamble. Especially preferably, the time period between two switchings is shorter than half of the transmission time for the preamble.
According to an advantageous refinement, the switching is cyclic. The time intervals between two switchings are preferably equal during the cyclic switching. Under certain conditions, one can depart from these cyclic switching.
According to an especially advantageous refinement, a time period between two switchings is lengthened when a determined current received power exceeds an additional threshold. The received power can be determined, for example, as a received field strength. The additional threshold thereby can be set independently, particularly programmed. This is based on the realization that the probability for receiving a valid signal increases when there is a significantly high received power of a received signal.
In an advantageous refinement, the switching is stopped after the threshold is exceeded until it is determined that the transmitted data are complete. The completeness is preferably determined in that a data frame is completely loaded into the memory. The frame length is advantageously determined from the data of the frame itself. Preferably, in the case of completeness, a control signal is generated and applied at the control circuit to initiate the switching process.
According to an alternative refinement, which can also be combined with a completeness check, the switching is stopped after the threshold is exceeded depending on a time switch. The time switch is, for example, a timer or a monoflop. The time switch is started, for example, by validity information (SFD) in the frame.
Preferably, the synchronization device has a correlator for correlation. Advantageously, the correlator is a cross-correlator or an autocorrelator.
Further scope of applicability of the present invention will become apparent from the detailed description given hereinafter. However, it should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating preferred embodiments of the invention, are given by way of illustration only, since various changes and modifications within the spirit and scope of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from this detailed description.
The present invention will become more fully understood from the detailed description given hereinbelow and the accompanying drawings which are given by way of illustration only, and thus, are not limitive of the present invention, and wherein:
FIG. 1 is a schematic flowchart of a method;
FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a receiving circuit;
FIG. 3a is a schematic diagram to illustrate the switching; and
FIG. 3b is a schematic diagram of a time sequence of a correlation result.
A block diagram of a receiving circuit of a radio network node is shown schematically in FIG. 2. The receiving circuit is connected over a first input 101 to a first antenna 10 and over a second input 102 to a second antenna 20. First input 101 and second input 102 are connected furthermore to a switching device 130 to switch between a first signal rf10, receivable over first antenna 10, and a second signal rf20, receivable over second antenna 20. Switching device 130 may have one or more switching transistors to form the switching function. Switching device 130 in this regard is part of an analog subcircuit 110, which is formed for additional analog functions, such as amplification or filtering.
The signal output by switching device 130 as an input signal reaches an analog-to-digital converter (A/D) 120, which converts the input signal into a digital signal dig and outputs it at output 103. Analog subcircuit 110 and analog-to-digital converter (A/D) 120 are part of an input circuit (RXA) 100 of the receiving circuit. A digital evaluation circuit (RXD) 200 is connected downstream of input circuit 100 in receive path 1. Digital evaluation circuit 200 has a correlator 210 and a digital comparator 220. In addition, the evaluation circuit may have a plurality of additional circuits, which are not shown in FIG. 2 for the sake of a simplified illustration.
The digital signal dig is correlated in correlator 210, which is, for example, an autocorrelator or a cross-correlator, whereby correlator 210 outputs a correlation signal s depending on the correlation. The correlation signal s in this regard is a measure, for example, for the determined matching. The correlation signal s is compared in digital comparator 220 with the threshold PDT, which may be fixed or programmable or can be calculated. An output 203 of comparator 220 is connected to an input of control circuit 300. Control circuit 300 in this regard is formed to control the switching via switching device 130 by means of a switching signal at switch input 131, in that an output of control circuit 300 is connected to switch input 131 of switching device 130.
Digital evaluation circuit 200 has an output 202 connected to correlator 210 to output data D of a frame, which is stored in a memory not shown in FIG. 2. In addition, a monitoring means (not shown in FIG. 2) may be provided, which in the case of complete storage of the data D of a frame generate a control signal st and output it to an input of control circuit 300.
A possible process sequence is described in greater detail hereinafter with reference to a schematic flowchart of the exemplary embodiment of FIG. 1. The sequence is started in a step 1. In step 2, switching device 130 switches to first antenna 10, so that the first signal rf10 is converted as an input signal by analog-to-digital converter 120 into the digital signal dig. The digital signal dig is correlated in step 3 to output a correlation signal s.
In step 4, the correlation signal s is compared with a threshold PDT for a certain time period, for example, of less than 50 μs. If during this time period correlation signal s does not exceed the threshold PDT, switching to second antenna 20 is carried out in step 5 by switching device 130. This has the effect that the second signal rf20 is converted as an input signal by analog-to-digital converter 120 into the digital signal dig. The digital signal dig originating from second antenna 20 is correlated in step 6 to output a correlation signal s. In step 7, the correlation signal s is in turn compared with the threshold PDT for the specific time period, for example, of less than 60 μs. If the correlation signal s during this time period is below the threshold PDT, in step 2 switching to first antenna 10 is again carried out by switching device 130. The steps 2 to 7 therefore cause a continuous switching between first antenna 10 and second antenna 20, provided that the correlation signal s does not exceed the threshold PDT.
If the threshold PDT of the correlation signal s is exceeded in step 4, the switching is stopped and the process is continued in step 8 with the switch position to first antenna 10. In this regard, data D are received. If a frame with data D has been completely received and loaded into a memory, the sequence in steps 2 or 5 is continued (not shown in FIG. 1). The procedure is similar if the threshold PDT is exceeded by correlation signal s in step 5. In this regard, the process is continued in step 8 with the switch position to second antenna 20. In this regard, data D are again received. If a frame with data D has been completely received again and loaded into a memory, the sequence is continued in step 2 or 5 (not shown in FIG. 1).
A preamble is transmitted for correlation. The time period between two switchings is to be shorter thereby than a transmission time for the preamble. Advantageously, the time period between two switchings is shorter than half of the transmission time for the preamble. The time period between two switchings can be different or depend on other parameters or measured values.
An example with a time period of 41 μs between two switchings is shown schematically in FIGS. 3a and 3b. Between time points t0 and t1, switching device 130 is controlled for 41 μs in a switch position corresponding to first antenna 10. Between time points t1 and t2, switching device 130 is controlled for another 41 μs in a switch position corresponding to second antenna 20. Accordingly, in the exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 3a and 3b, switching is performed cyclically with a time period of 41 μs.
Shortly after time t1 of the switching, a preamble P is transmitted by another node. The preamble in the exemplary embodiment of FIG. 3a comprises eight symbols y1, y2, y3, y4, y5, y6, y7, and y8. Due to the independence of the transmitting node and the receiving node of the radio network, the beginning of the transmission of preamble P is not synchronized to the switching times t0, t1, or t2 but is completely random. The time period of 41 μs between two switching time points (t1 and t2) is thereby shorter than the transmission time of three symbols, accordingly shorter than ⅜ of the transmission time for preamble P.
In FIG. 3b, the time sequence of the correlation signal s is shown schematically in relation to the switching time points illustrated in FIG. 3a. The illustration of the correlation signal s begins at time point t0 until time point t1 whereby the correlation signal s does not exceed the threshold PDT. Accordingly, the switching is not stopped and at the next switching time point t1, the switch is made from first antenna 10 to second antenna 20. In fact, the transmission of the preamble begins after time point t2, but second antenna 20 is not set up in such a way that the correlation signal s exceeds the threshold PDT during the receiving by second antenna 20.
Only after the repeated switching to first antenna 10 at time point t2 does the correlation signal s exceed the threshold PDT at time point t3. The switching is stopped at this moment, so that the switch position for first antenna 10 is set up to an interrupt condition. This type of interrupt condition, for example, is a time switch signal or complete loading of the data D of a frame in a memory.
The invention is not limited to the shown embodiment variants in FIGS. 1 through 3b. For example, it is possible to provide a different cycle with, for example, more than 41 μs between two switchings. It is also possible to adjust the time period between two switchings to a receive field strength of the particular antenna 10, 20. The functionality of the receiving circuit according to FIG. 2 or the method according to FIG. 1 can be used especially advantageously for a radio network of industry standard IEEE 802.15.4.
The invention being thus described, it will be obvious that the same may be varied in many ways. Such variations are not to be regarded as a departure from the spirit and scope of the invention, and all such modifications as would be obvious to one skilled in the art are to be included within the scope of the following claims.
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Police yet to give permission for Amit Shah's rally in Kolkata on 11 August, says BJP Yuva Morcha
The BJP Yuva Morcha on Wednesday said that they are yet to receive any communication from the Kolkata Police regarding permission for BJP President Amit Shah's proposed rally in Kolkata on 11 August
Press Trust of India August 01, 2018 16:03:37 IST
Kolkata: The BJP Yuva Morcha on Wednesday said that they are yet to receive any communication from the Kolkata Police regarding permission for BJP President Amit Shah's proposed rally in Kolkata on 11 August.
File photo of BJP president Amit Shah. Twitter@AmitShah
Yuva Morcha state president Debjit Sarkar told PTI that they have submitted a formal application to police, seeking permission for Shah's rally. He said they will move court if police deny permission.
"We submitted an application to police on Tuesday, seeking permission for the rally. We have mentioned five venues in Kolkata for the meeting, but police are yet to give us permission. We need time to prepare for the rally," he said. Police's reaction was not available immediately
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Narendra Modi named Somnath Temple trust chairman, becomes second PM to hold post
Modi, one of the trustees of the Shree Somnath Trust, was named to the top post unanimously during a meeting which he attended via video conferencing
Doubling farmers' income is Narendra Modi government's highest priority, says Amit Shah
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Kolkata Police said that a clash between BJP workers and the stone-pelters was averted after a huge police contingent rushed to the spot to bring the situation under control
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Freudenberg Doubles Up on Battery Pressure Controls
Non-woven fabrics enhance permeability and water tightness
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Freudenberg Sealing Technologies (FST) has launched production of a pressure compensation element for electric-vehicle batteries that combines the functions of two separate units used in current electric vehicles.
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Dubbed DIAvent, the integrated valve helps release excess pressure during normal operations and provides emergency venting in the event of an accident or severe damage.
The system is cheaper and easier to install than current dual-valve pressure equalization systems, according to the supplier.
The patented valve replaces typical microporous film—such as polytetrafluoroethylene—with a blend of two nonwoven materials with different properties: air permeability and water tightness.
A water-repellent fabric on the outside layer of the valve allows air exchange rates of 8 liters per minute with minimal pressure differences and protects against 100 mm of water. If the water pressure rises above this, a second inner layer of nonwovens is activated so that no water can enter the housing.
In Case of an Emergency
If the pressure in the housing exceeds the atmospheric air pressure by more than 50 millibars, emergency degassing is initiated. At this level, an umbrella valve opens and can discharge gas at 40 liters per second.
At the end of the process, the valve automatically closes to make it easier to remove a damaged battery, FST says.
The automated open and closing capability also supports pressure equalization in normal operation, such as when batteries with high energy density are exposed to rapid temperature fluctuations.
Only a few liters of air per minute are exchanged in both directions during normal operation. But in an emergency, the entire quantity of gas emitted from a defective cell must be removed in a few seconds. Otherwise, FST says, the internal pressure could cause the housing to burst.
FST introduced the technology earlier this year in Volkswagen's e-Caddy and e-Transporter electric cargo vans sold in Europe and Mexico.
FST battery pressure valve in BEJV's new electric crossover vehicle
High-volume applications now are ramping up in China with the ArcFox electric crossover vehicle produced by Beijing Electric Vehicles, BAIC's EV joint venture.
The supplier says it also has development programs with several other customers and expects to announce additional contracts year-end.
FST expects demand for the integrated system will increase as higher energy density batteries are introduced. Such batteries increase the amount of gas that has to be quickly removed in case of an emergency, as well as the amount of air exchanged during normal operations.
2017 Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid Blue
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using System;
using factor10.VisionThing.CameraStuff;
using SharpDX;

namespace Larv.Serpent
{
    public class SerpentCamera : MoveCameraBase
    {
        public const float CameraDistanceToHeadXz = 9;
        public const float CameraDistanceToHeadY = 5;
        public const float DefaultTension = 7;

        private float _lastTime;

        private readonly BaseSerpent _serpent;

        public float MaxTension;
        public float Tension;
        public float TensionIncreaseFactor;

        public SerpentCamera(Camera camera, BaseSerpent serpent, float tension = DefaultTension, float tensionIncreaseFactor = 1, float maxTension = DefaultTension)
            : base(camera)
        {
            _serpent = serpent;
            Tension = tension;
            TensionIncreaseFactor = tensionIncreaseFactor;
            MaxTension = maxTension;
        }

        protected override bool MoveAround()
        {
            var dt = ElapsedTime - _lastTime;
            _lastTime = ElapsedTime;

            if (Tension < MaxTension)
                Tension = Math.Min(MaxTension, Tension + dt*TensionIncreaseFactor);

            var target = _serpent.LookAtPosition;
            var direction = _serpent.HeadDirection;

            var target2D = new Vector2(target.X, target.Z);
            var position2D = moveTo(
                new Vector2(Camera.Position.X, Camera.Position.Z),
                target2D,
                target2D - direction.DirectionAsVector2()*CameraDistanceToHeadXz,
                dt);

            var newPosition = new Vector3(
                position2D.X,
                target.Y + CameraDistanceToHeadY,
                position2D.Y);

            var v = dt * Tension;

            var nextPosition = Vector3.Lerp(Camera.Position, newPosition, v);
            var nextTarget = Vector3.Lerp(Camera.Target, target, v);

           //_log.Insert(0,string.Format("{0} {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7}", dt, v, Camera.Position, newPosition, nextPosition, Camera.Target, target, nextTarget));
           // while (_log.Count > 500)
           //     _log.RemoveAt(_log.Count - 1);

            Camera.Update(nextPosition, nextTarget);

            //if (Camera.KeyboardState.IsKeyPressed(Keys.M))
            //{
            //    var s = string.Join("\r\n", _log);
            //    s = s.Replace("X:", "");
            //    s = s.Replace("Y:", "");
            //    s = s.Replace("Z:", "");
            //    System.Diagnostics.Debug.Print(s);
            //}

            return true;
        }

        //private static List<string> _log = new List<string>();

        private static Vector2 moveTo(
            Vector2 camera,
            Vector2 target,
            Vector2 desired,
            double elapsedTime)
        {
            var d2TargetDesired = Vector2.DistanceSquared(target, desired);
            var d2CameraDesired = Vector2.DistanceSquared(camera, desired);
            var d2TargetCamera = Vector2.DistanceSquared(target, camera);

            if (d2TargetDesired < 0.0001f || d2CameraDesired < 0.0001f || d2TargetCamera < 0.0001f)
                return desired;

            var d1 = d2TargetDesired + d2TargetCamera - d2CameraDesired;
            var d2 = Math.Sqrt(4*d2TargetDesired*d2TargetCamera);
            var div = d1/d2;

            float angle;
            if (div < -1f)
                angle = MathUtil.Pi - (float)Math.Acos(div + 2);
            else if (div > 1)
                angle = (float) Math.Acos(div - 2) - MathUtil.Pi;
            else
                angle = (float) Math.Acos(div);

            var v1 = camera - target;
            var v2 = desired - target;

            if (v1.X*v2.Y - v2.X*v1.Y > 0)
                angle = -angle;

            var angleFraction = angle*elapsedTime*10;
            //_log.Insert(0,string.Format("{0}", angleFraction));

            var cosA = (float) Math.Cos(angleFraction);
            var sinA = (float) Math.Sin(angleFraction);
            var direction = new Vector2(v1.X*cosA + v1.Y*sinA, -v1.X*sinA + v1.Y*cosA);
            direction.Normalize();
            return target + direction*v2.Length();
        }

    }

}


Last Saturday, in yet another effort to raise money for the All-Steinway Appeal, the Loughborough Endowed Schools Music School hosted a fundraising concert at Emmanuel Church featuring several alumni of the school, winners of the solo keyboard competitions, and some of the Music School's brightest talent.
The varied programme featured alumni Andrew (voice), Gemma (violin), Corinne (flute) and Charlotte (jazz saxophone), and included classical, jazz and musical theatre. The other performers also got to perform on the magnificent Steinway Model D borrowed for the occasion, which truly sang thanks in no small part to the splendid acoustic of Emmanuel Church.
The All-Steinway Appeal is an effort to turn the LES Music School into an All-Steinway School: only a few exist in the country. This must begin with the purchase of a Steinway Concert Grand for the Recital Hall, followed by uprights for the classrooms and individual tuition rooms, along with a grand for the Grammar School.
This is an exciting prospect especially for a piano student such as myself, and I am sure this will inspire students for years to come.


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Q: Find noncontinuous $F : \Bbb{R}^{\Bbb{R}} \to \Bbb{R}$ such that if $f_n \to f$ in $\Bbb{R}^{\Bbb{R}}$, then $F(f_n) \to F(f)$ I'm reading the book General Topology by S. Willard and I came across the following problem.
We have to find an example of a noncontinuous function $F:\mathbb R^\mathbb R\to \mathbb R$ with the property that
whenever $f_n\to f$ in $\mathbb R^\mathbb R$, then $F(f_n)\to F(f).$ Here $\mathbb R^\mathbb R$ denote a space
with the product topology and $\mathbb R$ is equipped with the usual topology. Please give
me some hint.
Edit (T.B.) The problem comes from section 10, specifically as a problem illustrating the points in (10.6).

A: It is not an answer, but this example may be funny.
Let $X$ be the subspace of $]0,1[^{]0,1[}$ consisting of measurable functions (with the product topology), and let $F : X \rightarrow ]0,1[, f \mapsto \int f$.
Then $F$ is sequentially continuous by the Dominated Convergence Theorem, but nowhere continuous since it is surjective on every open subset.

A: The more I look into this, the more I suspect that Willard slipped up here: it appears that the existence of such function depends on the existence of certain large cardinals and hence on one's set theory. It is possible to find such a function from a subspace of $\mathbb{R}^\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}$; one subspace that works is $X = \Sigma_0 \cup \Sigma_1$, where $$\Sigma_0 = \{f \in \{0,1\}^\mathbb{R}:\{x \in \mathbb{R}:f(x) = 0\} \mbox{ is countable}\}$$ and $$\Sigma_1 = \{f \in \{0,1\}^\mathbb{R}:\{x \in \mathbb{R}:f(x) = 1\} \mbox{ is countable}\}.$$ It's not hard to check that $\Sigma_0$ and $\Sigma_1$ are dense, sequentially closed subsets of $X$. Now just define $F:X \to \mathbb{R}$ by $F(f) = 0$ if $f \in \Sigma_0$ and $F(f) = 1$ if $f \in \Sigma_1$. If $\langle f_n \rangle_n \to f \in \Sigma_i$ (where of course each $f_n \in X$), there is some $n_0$ such that $f_n \in \Sigma_i$ for all $n \ge n_0$, whence $F(f_n) = i = F(f)$ for all $n \ge n_0$, and $\langle F(f_n) \rangle_n \to F(f)$, so $F$ is sequentially continuous. However, $F^{-1}[(-1/2,1/2)] = \Sigma_0$ is not open in $X$, so $F$ isn't continuous.
If you want to try a substitute exercise based on the material in Section 10, find a sequentially continuous, non-continuous function from $\mathbf{\Omega}$ to $\mathbb{R}$, i.e., a function $f:\mathbf{\Omega} \to \mathbb{R}$ such that $f$ is not continuous, but $\langle f(x_n) \rangle_n \to f(x)$ in $\mathbb{R}$ whenever $\langle x_n \rangle_n \to x$ in $\mathbf{\Omega}$. Hint: This can be done with a function that is constant on the set $\{x \in \mathbf{\Omega}:\omega_0 \le x < \omega_1\}$.
In Willard's notation $\mathbf\Omega$ denotes the set of ordinals $\{\alpha:1\le \alpha\le\omega_1\}$ with the order topology (i.e. the sets $(\gamma,\omega_1]=\{\alpha\in\mathbf\Omega: \alpha>\gamma\}$, $[1,\gamma)=\{\alpha\in\mathbf\Omega: \alpha<\gamma\}$ for $\gamma\in\mathbf\Omega$ form a subbase).

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Q: json_encode() if the number of elements in the array more then 3 I have an array that contains the following elements:
array(4) {
  [0]=> array(2) { ["home"]=> string(5) "Niort" ["away"]=> string(12) "Valenciennes" }
  [1]=> array(2) { ["home"]=> string(15) "Kuban Krasnodar" ["away"]=> string(3) "Ufa" }
  [2]=> array(2) { ["home"]=> string(17) "Fratangelo, Bjorn" ["away"]=> string(13) "Bhambri, Yuki" }
  [3]=> array(2) { ["home"]=> string(13) "VfL Wolfsburg" ["away"]=> string(15) "Bayern Mnchen" }
}

And I am trying to convert it to a JSON array with:
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
  array_push($events, $row);
}
echo json_encode($events);

It does not work.
However, when I reduce the number of elements to 3 or less, it works perfectly.
Why is this happening? How can I convert more items?

A: Your php array and code should look like this:
<?php

$array1= array(
array( "home"=>  "Niort" ,"away"=>  "Valenciennes" ),
array( "home"=>  "Kuban Krasnodar", "away"=>  "Ufa" ),
array( "home"=>  "Fratangelo, Bjorn", "away"=>  "Bhambri, Yuki" ),
array( "home"=>  "VfL Wolfsburg", "away"=>  "Bayern Mnchen" )
);

echo json_encode($array1);


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China Botanic Pharmaceutical Granted China Patent for Siberian Ginseng Extraction Process
...HARBIN China June 30 2011 Asia/ -- China Botanic Pharma...The patent for Extraction of Effective Parts of Siberian Ginseng and ... It is highly gratifying to receive patent protection for our advance...
http://www.bio-medicine.org/inc/biomed/medicine-technology.asp
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HARBIN, China, June 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- China Botanic Pharmaceutical Inc. (NYSE AMEX: CBP) ("China Botanic" or the "Company"), a developer, manufacturer and distributor of botanical products, bio-pharmaceuticals and traditional Chinese medicines ("TCM") in China, today announced that the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China has granted China patent No. ZL200710301682X to China Botanic for its proprietary process to separate and extract effective parts of Siberian Ginseng (Acanthopanax). The patent will also protect the resulting Siberian Ginseng extracts and their applications and will provide market exclusivity for a period of 20 years.
The patent for "Extraction of Effective Parts of Siberian Ginseng and their Preparation and Application" is the catalyst that will continue to drive the development of the Company's innovative Acanthopanax series. Among recent successes using these processes are Lyophilized Syringin Powder and Total Flavonoids capsules. These medicines are powerful new tools in combating depression and senile dementia and have been recognized as "class one new drugs" and "innovative drugs" by the State Food and Drug Administration of China. The patent covers a wide variety of possible Siberian Ginseng extraction methods and applications, creating a high barrier to entry for competitors seeking to develop similar Siberian Ginseng products, and, as a result, it confers significant independent intellectual property rights on the Company.
"It is highly gratifying to receive patent protection for our advancements in the treatment of depression using all-natural Siberian Ginseng extracts. With our exclusive access to a large proportion of the Siberian Ginseng resources, and now this important protection for the extracts we obtain from the plant, our methods of preparation and their applications, we feel this is a major step forward. The issuance of this patent will enhance the commercial potential of our Siberian Ginseng applications in China, one of the largest markets for depression therapies, and further strengthen our leading market position," commented Mr. Shaoming Li, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of China Botanic.
"We believe Syringin Powder will be our most powerful depression fighter to date and we continue to discover additional properties of Siberian Ginseng every day. We are excited about future revenue growth and opportunities created as a result of the patent and the high-quality efforts of our R&D program, which continues to earn us attractive returns. We also plan to apply for a series of domestic and overseas patents for each Siberian Ginseng extract that has deep development value and eventually form a patent protection network for our core technology," concluded Mr. Li.
ABOUT CHINA BOTANIC PHARMACEUTICAL INC.China Botanic Pharmaceutical Inc. is engaged in the research, development, manufacturing, and distribution of botanical products, bio-pharmaceutical products, and traditional Chinese medicines ("TCM"), in the People's Republic of China. All of the Company's products are produced at its three GMP-certified production facilities in Ah City, Dongfanghong and Qingyang. The Company distributes its botanical anti-depression and nerve-regulation products, biopharmaceutical products, and botanical antibiotic and OTC TCMs through its network of over 3,000 distributors and over 70 sales centers across 24 provinces in China. For more information, please visit www.renhuang.com.
Safe Harbor StatementThis press release contains certain statements that may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based upon management's beliefs, assumptions and expectations of the Company's future operations and financial performance, taking into account the information currently available to management. These statements are not statements of historical fact. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, some of which are not currently known that may cause actual results, performance or financial condition to be materially different from the expectations of future results, performance or financial condition expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on current plans and expectations and are subject to a number of uncertainties including, but not limited to, the Company's ability to manage expansion of its operations effectively, and other factors detailed in the Company's annual report on Form 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. You are cautioned not to unduly rely on such forward-looking statements when evaluating the information presented herein.Company Contact:
CCG Investor Relations:China Botanic Pharmaceutical Inc.
Mr. Mark Collinson, PartnerMs. Portia Tan, IR Contact
Phone: +1-310-954-1343 (Los Angeles)Tel: +86-451-8260-2162
Email: mark.collinson@ccgir.comEmail: ir@renhuang.com
Website: www.ccgirasia.comMr. Crocker Coulson, PresidentPhone: +1-646-213-1915 (New York)Email: crocker.coulson@ccgir.com
SOURCE China Botanic Pharmaceutical Inc.
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Christian Konopatzki, lead marketing specialist and CEO of CTARS FZE , has been awarded the Best Affiliate Marketer for 2021 at this year's Small Business Awards ceremony.
The Small Business Awards ceremony is held by Corporate Vision, an organization dedicated to the future of better business. Their main goal is to better universal business practices across the board, and to further this goal, they focus on spotlighting advances in HR, marketing, coaching, and recruitment spheres. Corporate Vision wants to shine a light on those who contribute to better business everywhere, and they do this by offering prestigious awards.
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This award is recognized internationally as one of the top awards in the field. With leaders in every category, an award from the Small Business Awards is ideal to drive competition between small businesses and push for an even higher level of quality in global business practices.
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