A multi-position seat for a kayak or other watercraft includes a seat frame and a pivotally connected back support. Rear projection televisions may have a thick base and a thin top. Multiple calibrated pixel coordinate estimates are generated and processed at a pre-defined sampling rate to determine a valid pixel position to minimize sampling delays due to settling times. A source-to-destination link quality parameter representing SD link quality may be extracted by the CRS from the packet transmitted by the destination station. Accordingly, the service model is tailored to the specific characteristics of the data center and is provided with instructions as to how to partition instances of the service application throughout the distributed resources of the data center. The application server selectively sends, in response to the call message, dummy data to a serving access network of a given UE associated with the communication session in order to facilitate a transition of the given UE to a dedicated-channel state.