Choose to receive the good things and rely on God and friends wo help through the not so good things. One step at a time.
1 Chronicles 4:10 Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from harm that it may not pain me!” And God granted him what he requested. Luke 22:46 and said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
Matthew 26:41 “Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Good Morning, my default self talk (Yes I talk to myself, I learned to not argue, and now I get expert advice) is Today is the best day to have a Good Day.
My self talk greatly improved once I yielded and understood how to yield my mind/will/emotions to Jesus. The Way, the Truth, The Life. Once I do that (yes it is an active path, not a once event, I must choose to listen to Him first, every chance I can refocus my mind to Him, it is an act of will to yield), the each moment turns to God and good.
Do I still walk through dark spaces and paths, yes – everyday. Do I let them rule me, NO! I yield and He rules. Do I feel bad, depressed, angry, alone, bad, powerless, yes. I feel that until I yield those feelings to Him. I think that until I yield to Him.
Ethics is about knowing and doing what is good or right, and workplace ethics is about knowing and doing what is good or right at work. Yielding to Jesus makes ethics a ‘cake walk’. It makes what I do in secret when no one is looking or listening the same as what I do publicly. Nothing in my life or this life is 100% pure or sound, I dust myself off, stand back up, listen to Jesus then move on in the direction I hear Him speaking to me in my knower place.
Have a great day today. Start right now.
Psalm 143:8
Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning; For I trust in You; Teach me the way in which I should walk; For to You I lift up my soul.
that is only because I anchor myself to real power and authority.
I have a 4WD truck and a tow strap. It has power and authority but has to be guided properly or it is useless to pull any other vehicle out of being stuck. If I set the pull up wrong, then everything gets shaking in a bad way.
I can only help and be effective if I am properly guided. My world may be shaking, I will not be due to the guidance I am yielding to.
He will not fail me. There were two times I thought He had, once I got past those events and looked back, I failed to be guided and that is why I was shaken.
Have a great day, be on the lookout for how you can listen better to the Big Guy who wants to help me and you.
– Science/Immunology magazine discussing “spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination” full article on substack https://lnkd.in/gdWtb8zW
– Florida Governor Ron Desantis called for a grand jury investigation into the mRNA vaccines. The Florida Supreme Court just issued an APPROVAL for the request.
– Former Australian Medical Association president Dr Kerryn Phelps (also former member of parliament, MP) talks openly about her vaccine injury and that of her partner, https://lnkd.in/gevHDb5D Other notable Australians, including ABC News journalist Eleni Roussos, speak of their problems after the vaccines.
– Member of UK Parliament Andrew Bridgens gave a 20-minute speech in Parliament demanding a pause on the mRNA vaccine program. https://lnkd.in/gu2q6sm8
– JAPAN: Dr Masanori Fukushima, Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University, warns about vax harms to the Japanese Ministry of Health: https://lnkd.in/gD9k-tsr
– Dr. Aseem Malhotra is a UK cardiologist who previously worked in public health. He’s twice-vaccinated and was previously pro-mRNA vaccine. In the last year, though, Dr. Malhotra noticed that the mRNA vaccines weren’t what they seemed, and spent months studying data and producing his findings. He’s now publicly calling for an immediate suspension of the mRNA vaccine program.
– Dr. Ahmed Malik, a physician and surgeon in the UK, added his voice recently. “Whoever thought it was a good idea to shut me up you made a really big mistake”. Dr. Malik posted a video along with a petition to support medical freedom of speech on the COVID vaccines. his twitter https://lnkd.in/gXv52GdT
– ISRAEL: Professor Shmuel Shapira is a physician and scientist and was the leader of the Israel Institute for Biological Research for 8 years, as well as being a retired Israeli Army Colonel. Professor Shapira worked closely with the Ministry of Health and the Israeli government for many years on various research and development projects. Professor Shapira has been published in local media recently, including Israel National News.
– THAILAND: Prof Thiravat Hemachudha is not only a Prof of Neurology, but he is from Chulalongkorn University – number 1 university in thailand.https://https://lnkd.in/gJuW9kKG
Passed away in his sleep December 18 at home in Kirbyville Texas with John Wayne playing on the TV.
James was born April 30 1936 in Kirbyville Texas to parents Robert Charleston Smith and Jesse Lorene Grissom Smith. James was Mason for over 60 years. He worked in the oil patch and then at the Evadale paper mill from around 1957 to 1988 in the power house. He served on the Eastex FCU board of directors, the Jasper Newton Electric Cooperative board of directors. He was elected Jasper County Precinct 3 Commissioner in 1988 and served from 1989 to 2000. He served on the Kirbyville Chamber of Commerce and was citizen of the year in 1993. He loved fishing from his camp on the Neches river, Sam Rayburn Lake, hunting. He enjoyed his grandchildren and helping his neighbors and community. He never met a stranger. He loved attending his church in Kirbyville and playing 42 dominoes.
He is preceded in death by his wife Frances Doggett Smith
His parents, his siblings Jesse (Jack) Charleston Smith, Thomas Elbert Smith, Hazel Irene Smith, Robert (Tap) Elton Smith, grandson Joshua B. Hargrove.
He is survived by a sister Dixie West, his daughters Leisa D Hargrove , husband John Hargrove, Paula A. Barclay , husband Marc Barclay, grand children Eli Barclay , Hillary Burrows , husband Reid Burrows, Heather Wise, husband Warren Wise, great grandchildren Grant and Callan Burrows, Weston and Julia Wise, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins, and his long time family friends Audie Ferguson and Welden Smith.
The Family wants to special thanks to the neighbors
Jill Fowler, Melissa Aymond, and Archie Nelson and Greta for helping James out 24×7 when he needed someone asap.
We thank Audie Ferguson and Welden Smith for the many decades of friendship and caring for James. He loved you both and our family loves you too.
We thank each one in attendance today for coming to show your support and love for James.
Wealth – James had it all. The true treasure of family and friends.
James was a generous man with the desire to help anyone he could. He never met a stranger. He could talk to anyone anywhere.
He was stubborn to a fault, this was also his strength. He would not give up. He could make you mad, then either help you or get you to help him.
Grandkids, his whole body would shake with joy and laughter describing some mischief he and the grandkids had done..
He could trade anything or talk you into selling him something you never thought about selling or he would just as easily give you the shirt he was wearing or anything else if he thought you really needed it.
No better friend in a time of need.
He rose from the poverty of 1936 great depression to a long career working hard long hours at the evadale mill to provide for his family. He wanted to play basketball but could not because he did not have the money to buy shoes. He wanted to be a civil engineer but could not afford to attend college.
He served his community as a county commissioner then as a director at Jasper Newton Electric Co-op.
He thought of himself as poor, but like the movie, Jame Smith was the richest man in town because of the family and friends he made during his 86 years.
up until JNEC started operations in 1943 to 1944, Buna town had a diesel generator that powered electricity to the town areas that ran from morning to around 10pm each day.
on friday nights for football, the tower went dark to power the foot ball field lights.
a great uncle and aunt (Avery and Alma Hargrove) ran a general store/grocery store – H&H Cash and Carry (before the Roden Theater and where the Dollar store use to be across from the Mixon building), Aunt Alma got a loan and built the Hargrove Hotel in the early 1920’s which is now the Scurlock building.
Burke and Howard got into a fist fight with Mr Cummins in the late 1930’s on the stairs in the old brick building that was torn down over an unknown issue. Cummins was the principal at the time and later the BISD Superintendent
The 3.5 GHz band has been an interesting journey. I did not have any experience with it until summer 2020 when starting the fixed wireless operation ElektraFi in Buna TX (2 hours east of Houston) in the pineywoods of SE Texas. Dense Everygreen pine forests with pockets of deciduous trees. Trees can be from 30 to 120 feet in height. open pasture land is common with walls of trees around them or within large tracts of land. Rural space, population groups in small towns and small settlements (anywhere from a coupe of houses to 10 to towns of several hundred homes)
Started with LTE 3GPP Airspan Airharmony 4200 then migrated to Airspeed 1030 within 4 months mainly due to hurricane damage 30 days into the startup.
Mainly due to stubborn trial and error, we got it to work well, providing 25 / 35 /50 Mbps internet service out to 5 miles with up to 30-foot antenna pipes or on taller roofs.
lessons learned Vendors are almost useless at providing good operational guidance in making design decisions. Lots of trial-by-fire testing yielded what worked – very hard and cost time and money.
Examples – questions on loading of PCI/cells – we did not know that for 20 MHz channel sizes and planning for 64 to 256 QAM modulations (did not know until too late) that we should cap CPE capacity at around 30 and make sure all CPE’s were CAT12 or later models.
SMALL ops EPC servers, keep the seat count below 450, ideal size is about 350 max.
Signals and qualifications
RSRP of -105 minimum and SINR of 15 or higher to get to consistent 64 and 265 QAM modulation support and best use of PRB’s in the 20 MHz channel. Use the features properly with good signals and it works well. That mix of guidance would have been nice to have the details prior to building a site #1. #experience#startup#design
Fast forward to 2022 and putting in Tarana BN (SECTOR Radio) and RN (CPE)
Trees still matter, the Tarana spatial modulation and handling enables faster in the same environment of foliage. The RF digital drop point is sharper, thus blow by blow the Tarana solution has less range than 3GPP LTE in the same path geometry #testing#environment#digital#cbrs
Tarana needs the pathloss to be 149 dB or better and the SINR to be 10 or better for a reliable delivery of 100 to 200 down and 20 to 50 up. This will work well out to 8 miles in our forested environment with the RF highway path even with NLOS – totally depends on clutter and terrain. Tree foliage loss still obeys physics even with Tarana Star Trek Magic. #geometry
CBRS and SAS
The Tower sector radios (BN’s) are less impacted by DPA spectrum grant suspensions than the RN’s most of the time. By less impacted I mean they can move faster to non DPA spectrum channels than the RN’s can. I am hopeful that Tarana and the SAS providers can arrive at a faster move cycle to make DPA events smoother and minutes instead of hours long outages.
The 3.5 GHz band has been an interesting journey. I did not have any experience with it until summer 2020 when starting the fixed wireless operation ElektraFi in Buna TX (2 hours east of Houston) in the pineywoods of SE Texas. Dense Everygreen pine forests with pockets of deciduous trees. Trees can be from 30 to 120 feet in height. open pasture land is common with walls of trees around them or within large tracts of land. Rural space, population groups in small towns and small settlements (anywhere from a coupe of houses to 10 to towns of several hundred homes)
Started with LTE 3GPP Airspan Airharmony 4200 then migrated to Airspeed 1030 within 4 months mainly due to hurricane damage 30 days into the startup.
Mainly due to stubborn trial and error, we got it to work well, providing 25 / 35 /50 Mbps internet service out to 5 miles with up to 30-foot antenna pipes or on taller roofs.
lessons learned
Vendors are almost useless at providing good operational guidance in making design decisions. Lots of trial-by-fire testing yielded what worked – very hard and cost time and money.
Examples – questions on loading of PCI/cells – we did not know that for 20 MHz channel sizes and planning for 64 to 256 QAM modulations (did not know until too late) that we should cap CPE capacity at around 30 and make sure all CPE’s were CAT12 or later models.
SMALL ops EPC servers, keep the seat count below 450, ideal size is about 350 max.
Signals and qualifications
RSRP of -105 minimum and SINR of 15 or higher to get to consistent 64 and 265 QAM modulation support and best use of PRB’s in the 20 MHz channel. Use the features properly with good signals and it works well. That mix of guidance would have been nice to have the details prior to building a site #1. #experience#startup#design
Fast forward to 2022 and putting in Tarana BN (SECTOR Radio) and RN (CPE)
Trees still matter, the Tarana spatial modulation and handling enables faster in the same environment of foliage. The RF digital drop point is sharper, thus blow by blow the Tarana solution has less range than 3GPP LTE in the same path geometry #testing#environment#digital#cbrs
Tarana needs the pathloss to be 149 dB or better and the SINR to be 10 or better for a reliable delivery of 100 to 200 down and 20 to 50 up. This will work well out to 8 miles in our forested environment with the RF highway path even with NLOS – totally depends on clutter and terrain. Tree foliage loss still obeys physics even with Tarana Star Trek Magic. #geometry
CBRS and SAS
The Tower sector radios (BN’s) are less impacted by DPA spectrum grant suspensions than the RN’s most of the time. By less impacted I mean they can move faster to non DPA spectrum channels than the RN’s can. I am hopeful that Tarana and the SAS providers can arrive at a faster move cycle to make DPA events smoother and minutes instead of hours long outages.
Most of my life personally or work/career wise happened not by design or my strategic plan in the details
I planned on being a power engineer at the electric utility company and becoming an engineering manager over a team of power engineering building transmission lines and substations. I trained for that in a work study program in college with Gulf States Utilities over 2 years.. Because of a hobby called amateur radio and practicing Morse code transmission on my lunch hour in Lake Charles Louisiana, my future boss when I graduated saw me doing that. On graduation, he ‘stole’ me from the transmission engineering manager to run a microwave radio and tower replacement project that covered 250 substations and 400 miles of coastline areas of Texas and Louisiana. That started my decades long career into Telecommunications. Practicing Morse code and working harder than anyone else around me, constant learning, being a solution to every problem that I encountered is what landed me that opportunity.
I planned on starting and retiring from the power company (great benefits, retirement, 401K etc). The merger started in 1992 and was to close in early 1994. I exited due to culture differences in companies in mid 1993 and landed at a consulting company and started rebuilding microwave systems for pipelines. Not in my original plan.
As a result of doing this work, I started a consulting company intending to work for Oil and Gas companies in Telecom and Scada. After a couple of years of work, in 1997 I was invited to do a project for an electric co-op in East Texas. That grew to a multi-state consulting project list with dozens of Co-ops over the next 22 years and a couple of overseas projects. Again – not in my original plan. But very beneficial to me in work and personally.
In 2014 I was offered a position at the electric co-op that started the journey in 1997. In 2019 I was offered a position to be CTO of 11 co-op G&T. at the beginning of the pandemic, I again entered the consulting market solo. none of this was primary to my plan.
While at the co-op between 2015 and 2019, I hired these guys known as Skyhelm to help me with Telecom projects. One of these guys was Ryan Jenkins.
The unplanned path from practicing Morse code at age 19 to now being part of the startup known as ElektraFi was not part of my original primary plan.
The simple things you do and enjoy can result in a lifetime of good fortune.
I see now the most important thing I focused on during this journey was working hard, continuous improvement, and being a person with a solutions vision for any problem presented.
I say this to illustrate that my detailed plans often do not work out the way I envisioned. Find a path that feels right and you can enjoy and the work will lead you where you need to go with a good positive focus.
Spring 1983 —- as communications engineer, Hargrove oversees the engineering efforts and construction efforts begun last year to upgrade the microwave network to specifications effective in 1985. By the end of 1984, his work will help increase the system’s capacity to 2880 channels and provide two separate parallel communication routes to each division for more dependable service.
John Hargrove Seeking Truth and Reality 