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The present invention provides GPS receivers capable of tracking very weak GPS signals particularly in an indoor environment without assistance from an external server or a network. In a preferred embodiment, a GPS receiver initially acquires and locks onto GPS satellite signals to compute receiver position outdoors. The GPS receiver then tracks at least one satellite signal indoors to maintain acquisition parameters for quick acquisition of GPS signals. To save power, the receiver automatically goes to the sleep state and periodically wakes up, i.e., powers up, to maintain the at least one satellite signal tracking. During the wakeup state, the receiver collects ephemeris data from the at least one satellite signal when the ephemeris data needs to be updated for quick acquisition of GPS signals.
1. A method for operating a satellite-based navigational receiver under weak signal conditions, comprising:
switching the receiver between a sleep state with a portion of the satellite-based navigation receiver powered down and a wake-up state where the receiver has access to first ephemeris data;
predicting first position information for an at least one satellite using polynomial extrapolation based upon at least the first ephemeris data;
acquiring at least one satellite signal during the wake-up state using at least the predicted first position information, if the receiver is unable to acquire the at least one satellite signal during the wake up state, switching the receiver to the sleep state and reattempting to reacquire the at least one satellite signal after a predetermined period using at least the predicted first position information; and
attempting to collect second ephemeris data from the at least one satellite signal acquired during the wake-up state.
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a radio frequency front-end for receiving satellite signals;
a baseband section for processing the received satellite signals into correlated values; and
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switch the receiver between a sleep state with a portion of the satellite-based navigation receiver powered down and a wakeup state, where the receiver has access to first ephemeris data;
predict first position information for an at least one satellite using polynomial extrapolation based upon at least the first ephemeris data;
acquire at least one satellite signal during the wake-up state using at least the predicted first position information, if the processor is unable to acquire the at least one satellite signal during the wake up state, switch the radio frequency front-end to the sleep state and reattempt to reacquire the at least one satellite signal after a predetermined period using at least the predicted first position information;
attempt to collect second ephemeris data from the at least one satellite signal during the wake-up state.
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The present invention relates to satellite based navigational receivers, and more particularly to efficient tracking and reacquisition of navigational signals under weak signal conditions and/or indoor operations.
The global positioning system (GPS) is a satellite based radio-navigation system built and operated by the United States Department of Defense. The Russian government operated 'GLONASS' and European Union proposed 'Galileo' are two other important satellite based navigational systems.
GPS permits a user of the system to determine his or her position on the surface of the earth. The system consists of twenty-four satellites circling the earth at an altitude of about 11,000 miles with a period of about 12 hours. It is possible to have more than twenty-four satellites due to the presence of some spare satellites in the GPS constellation. These satellites are placed in six different orbits such that at any time a minimum of six and a maximum of more than eleven satellites are visible to any user on the surface of the earth except in the polar region. Each satellite transmits an accurate time and position signal referenced to an atomic clock. A typical GPS receiver locks onto this signal and extracts the data contained in it and with signals from a sufficient number of satellites, a GPS receiver can calculate its position, velocity, altitude, and time.
Sometimes GPS receivers are required to operate under very weak signal conditions as in foliage or indoors. In the present day practice, the receiver may get "assistance" in the form of additional acquisition aiding messages from a server or base station, or Internet based. But providing this type of assistance requires additional infrastructure and may not be available in all places. Also, the receiver requires additional hardware to receive the aiding messages. Therefore there is a need to develop GPS receivers that operate in "standalone" mode under weak or indoor signal conditions. Further, there is a need as in the case of E911 (Enhanced 911), for fast acquisition of the GPS signals. In addition to the above, the power saving in the receiver is also an important requirement.
Most of the standalone high sensitivity GPS receivers are based on a long non-coherent integration involving squaring loss and thus reducing the possible gain while taking a long time to acquire the satellite signal under weak signal conditions. U.S. Pat. No. 6,725,157 discloses a procedure wherein a GPS receiver first acquires the satellite signals and starts computing the position outdoor and then if possible maintains this lock when moved indoor. U.S. Pat. No. 6,757,610 discloses a method of storing some tracking/reacquisition aiding parameters such as clock Doppler and receiver velocity. However, these parameters help only in reducing the search frequency band. U.S. Pat. No. 6,683,564 discloses a technique of pattern matching using the known content of the navigation data word HOW, but this method involves getting the HOW from a local server. U.S. Pat. No. 5,768,319 discusses a method of multiple frame overlay to improve sensitivity. This overlay is done at the final stage and not with the I and Q components. U.S. Pat. No. 6,611,756 predicts the navigation data for long time integration. The predicted data includes mainly the time of week, week number, etc. The predicted data is used to wipe off the data modulation. U.S. Pat. No. 6,295,023 discloses a timing assistance scheme to improve sensitivity. The assistance may be from a network or from many satellites, but not by at least one satellite as will be shown in the invention and the implementation method is different from the scheme that will be presented in the invention. U.S. Pat. No. 6,424,890 claims a method of interpolation for satellite orbit determination at various time stamps. But there are no polynomial based ephemeris extrapolation methods disclosed. U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,731,787 and 5,587,716 disclose using polynomials to predict data only during DGPS blank-out period. U.S. Pat. No. 5,430,657 discloses a method of predicting the position of satellites using a plurality of receivers. This does not involve predicting the ephemeris but only used for testing whether ephemeris are corrupted or not. Further, published U.S. Patent Application 2005/0035904 discloses an ephemeris prediction based on tables. Finally, U.S. Pat. No. 4,601,005 discloses single satellite tracking using an FFT technique.
Thus, the prior art shows that there are no techniques available for the tracking and reacquisition of GPS signals in standalone mode especially in indoor environments and a method is required to reduce the cost and network interfacing problems. In addition, present day GPS receiver design techniques do not address the high dynamic environment under weak signal conditions in indoor environments.
Therefore, there is a need for a standalone GPS receiver capable of tracking and reacquiring GPS signals under weak signal conditions especially in indoor environments. Such a standalone GPS would also alleviate the cost and network interfacing problems by not requiring assistance from an external server or a network. There is also a need for a standalone GPS receiver having an efficient power saving mode while being capable of downloading the ephemeris and almanac whenever required. Further, there is a need for a standalone GPS receiver capable of operating in a high dynamic environment under weak signal conditions.
Fast reacquisition of GPS signals is needed in many applications. Thus, there is a need for updating the ephemeris data in a receiver, which helps in accurate estimation of the distance from receiver to satellite for Doppler estimation, predicting data for pattern matching, ect. There is also a need for long coherent integration instead of time consuming non-coherent integration. Continuous tracking of satellite when visible satellites list changes is also important. When no direct satellite signals are available, there is a need for position computation means based on less accurate multi-path signals. Further, there is a need to make use of outdated ephemeris rather than almanacs for better accuracy.
The present invention provides GPS receivers capable of tracking very weak GPS signals particularly in an indoor environment without assistance from an external server or a network.
In a preferred embodiment, a standalone GPS receiver is provided which saves power by switching between sleep and wakeup states, quickly reacquires satellite signals by tracking at least one satellite all the time to derive GPS clock, and which makes use of indoor environment to predict the clock and code drift during the power off period. In this embodiment, the GPS receiver initially acquires and locks onto GPS satellite signals to compute receiver position outdoors. The GPS receiver then tracks at least one satellite signal indoors to maintain acquisition parameters for quick acquisition of GPS signals. To save power, the receiver automatically goes to the sleep state and periodically wakes up, i.e., powers up, to maintain the at least one satellite signal tracking. During the wakeup state, the receiver tests the signal strength of the received signal. If the signal strength is strong enough it proceeds to collect the ephemeris data from the at least one satellite signal when the ephemeris data needs to be updated for quick acquisition of GPS signals. Further, the receiver uses the ephemeris data from the at least one satellite tracking to derive clock calibration parameters to maintain receiver clock synchronization with the GPS system clock which helps in quick acquisition of GPS signals.
In another embodiment, the receiver acquires weak GPS signals using long integration.
In another embodiment, the power is kept off for a much greater time than the power is on to achieve a large power savings.
In yet another embodiment, if the signal strength is not strong enough for ephemeris data collection, the receiver goes to the sleep state and tries again to reacquire the signal after a fixed amount of time.
In yet another embodiment, if ephemeris data is unavailable, the receiver predicts the ephemeris data using a polynomial extrapolation.
In yet another embodiment, the ephemeris data is extracted by overlaying sequential navigation data frames and/or majority voting of several navigation data frames.
In yet another embodiment, the receiver uses pattern matching of known patterns, such as Z-count, HOW, ect. to facilitate long coherent integration and correct overlay.
In yet another embodiment, the receiver changes the tracked satellite when the present satellite goes below the horizon.
In yet another embodiment, a Fast Fourier Transfer (FFT) technique is used to determine the carrier frequency when there are wide frequency swings due to high dynamics. This allows the receiver to also operate in a high dynamic signal reception environment.
In yet another embodiment, a sliding window technique is used to reduce the time of the FFT computation.
The above and other advantages of embodiments of this invention will be apparent from the following more detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. It is intended that the above advantages can be achieved separately by different aspects of the invention and that additional advantages of this invention will involve various combinations of the above independent advantages such that synergistic benefits may be obtained from combined techniques.
The I and Q components 107 and 108 are correlated in correlators 109 and 110, respectively, with a locally-generated pseudorandom (PN) sequence generated by a PN generator 111. The PN-sequence corresponds to the channel being processed by the baseband section at that time. The PN sequence generator is driven by code NCO 112. The local code generator frequency is made equal to the code rate of the I and Q paths by corrective feedback from the processor 113 to the code NCO 112. In addition, the processor 113 sends a signal to PN code generator 111 to set the starting phase of the locally generated code. The NCO 112 provides the correct clock signals to correlators 109 and 110. For example, NCO 112 provides a clock signal to generate two samples per PN chip in the signal acquisition stage and three samples per chip during the tracking stage. SYS CLK 104 provides to NCO 105 and NCO 112 a common clock synchronization signal. The correlator output values are then sent to processor 113 at millisecond intervals in the form of 1 ms samples, where each 1 ms sample is the result of correlation of one PN sequence of length 1023 chips. The processor 113 may be implemented using a digital signal processor (DSP) core. Preferably, the processor is capable of performing fast math intensive operations. Subsequent processing of the signals takes place in the processor 113, as will be described in detail below. Additional details of the receiver baseband section can be found in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/123,861, titled "Efficient And Flexible GPS baseband Architecture," filed on May 6, 2005, the specification of which is incorporated in its entirety herein by reference.
The processor 113 receives one millisecond integrated (correlated) I and Q values from the GPS baseband section described above. In order to acquire a GPS signal in the processor 113, all dwells (i.e., pairs of carrier frequency and code phase values) are searched. This is a two-dimensional search. Coherent integration and non-coherent integration are two commonly used integration methods to acquire GPS signals. In coherent integration, the I and Q components are summed separately while in non-coherent integration the values are squared and added. Thus, non-coherent integration involves squaring loss and is therefore less efficient. On the other hand, coherent integration requires a low residual carrier frequency or more frequency bins to search. Thus, for an equal integration time coherent integration provides better signal gain at the cost of larger computational load. Therefore, a combination of coherent and non-coherent integration is used in practice. If the received signal is weak or has a low signal-to-noise ratio, a long combination of coherent and non-coherent integration is required. Thus, the time durations of coherent and non-coherent integrations depend upon the signal-to-noise ratio of the received signal. The lower the signal-to-noise ratio, the longer the integration time.
Each of the satellite in the GPS constellation transmits a navigation data stream also known as Nav (Navigation) data at a rate of 50 bits/second. The navigation data stream consists of information on position of satellite (Ephemeris), health of the satellite, correction for GPS time and ionosphere and troposphere propagation correction parameters and less precise information on other satellite positions (Almanac), all continuously transmitted at 50 bits/second. This data stream may be grouped into sub-frames, frames and super-frames with each sub-frame consisting of 300 bits, each frame containing of five consecutive sub-frames, and each super-frame consisting of 25 frames. Thus, the transmission duration of a sub-frame is 6 seconds and a frame is 30 seconds while a super-frame has a time duration of 12.5 minutes. Each sub-frame consists of 10 words with 30 bits in each word. Each 30 bit word plus the last two bits of the previous word is encoded into an extended Hamming (32,26) block code with 32 symbols and 26 information bits. Here only 24 of the bits are true information bits. The first word in all the sub-frames is the TLM (Telemetry) word. The first eight bits of this TLM word is the preamble represented by 10001011. The other bits of this word are not used. Similarly, the next word of any sub-frame is the HOW (Hand Over Word) word. The first 17 bits also known as the HOW word are the truncated TOW (Time Of Week) of 19 bits. It represents the GPS time of start of the next sub-frame in terms of Z-counts (one Z-count is 1.5 seconds) or it represents the number of the sub-frames from the start of the week. This should increase by one from sub-frame to sub-frame and thus serves as a check for correct synchronization. The next two bits of the second word of any sub-frame are synchronization and momentum flags and are normally not used. The next three bits are the sub-frame ID (possible values 1,2,3,4,5 or 001, 010, 011, 100 and 101). These data will be used for sub-frame matching. The other bits in the second word are related to parity bits with the last two bits at position 29 and 30 are always '0' which is needed to identify the correct polarity of the data bits decoded. The first ten bits of the third word of the first sub-frame provide the week number and is constant over a week. Thus, these ten bits may be used for pattern matching over one week period in addition to the preamble. But unlike the preamble, this pattern repeats only once in 30 seconds.
Operations of a GPS receiver according to an embodiment of the invention will now be described. At power switch on, the GPS receiver is assumed to be in an outdoor environment or in an environment where the signals are strong enough for initial acquisition. Once the receiver has acquired enough number of satellite signals and computed the receiver position, the receiver may be moved indoor. However, this initial acquisition may also be accomplished with very week satellite signals. After being moved indoors, the receiver tracks at least one satellite signal. One of the characteristics of the indoor environment is less dynamics resulting in very small change in Doppler shifts due to receiver motion and a smaller temperature variation with a low SNR. Therefore, the tracking of the at least one satellite signal may be maintained using a long integration. This continuous tracking of the satellite signal provides the needed real time clock for very fast reacquisition of the other GPS satellite signals when the signal is sufficiently strong. To save power, the receiver automatically goes to a power-off (sleep) mode and periodically powers on (wake-up) to maintain the at least one satellite tracking. To save significant power, the sleep period is large compared to the wake-up period. A prior estimation of the acquisition parameters like code phase, carrier frequency offset, ect. is made using the collected Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator (TCXO) count and Delay Lock Loop (DLL) compensation during the power on or wake-up period. Further details on the TCXO count and DLL compensation can be found in copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/322,654, titled "Timing Calibration For Fast Signal Reacquisition In Navigational Receivers," filed on the same date as the present application, the specification of which is incorporated in its entirety herein by reference.
A long coherent integration of the input signal requires a large number of frequency bins or low residual carrier frequency. If the coherent integration time is Tc seconds, then the carrier frequency should be less than � Tc Hz. In addition to this low frequency requirement, it is necessary to remove the navigation data bits in the signal when the integration time is more than 20 milliseconds. If these data bits are not removed, inversion of the samples may occur and integration result is not useful because cancellations in the summation occur. Therefore, it is necessary to remove the embedded data bits. But as explained earlier, most of these data bits are not known a priori except the preamble at the start of each sub-frame. Further, the navigation data bit edges are synchronized with the one millisecond samples, i.e. a data bit edge will be present within a 20 millisecond interval at one of the samples. Of course, this assumes there is a data bit polarity change within this interval because it may be possible to have consecutive data bits of the same polarity in which case the navigation data bit edge cannot be detected. Thus, the preamble start is aligned with each of the successive one millisecond samples as the starting point and the required coherent integration is carried out. The coherent integration results in a large value when the data in the received signal matches with this local preamble at one of the one millisecond samples. A threshold value can be determined by a number of prior trials. Thus whenever the coherent integration exceeds this threshold the alignment of the local replica with the received signal may be assumed. As the week number is usually known, it is also possible to use 10 bits of week number in place of preamble or use both of them. It is also possible to use the HOW word when the time information is available. A separate threshold can be determined when week number or HOW are used. Thus, the known preamble or HOW word or week number of navigation data is assumed in coherent integration over a duration extending over several NAV data bits. As the threshold value can be determined by prior trial or experimentation, the preamble or the HOW word or week number is identified when the computed integration value is higher than a predetermined threshold value. In this scenario, because of interference or noise, it is possible to obtain more than one positions having an integration value greater than the threshold. The actual position may be confirmed by coherent integration after 6 seconds when the preamble or HOW repeats. But the value of HOW will increase by 1. For example, the actual position may be confirmed when an integration and a similar integration after 6 seconds way both exceed the threshold. On the other hand when week number is used, the coherent integration should be repeated after 30 seconds, 30 seconds being the repetition time of week number. The integration may have to be repeated several times in order to confirm a single position. Thus, the preamble or HOW word or week number synchronization is confirmed by integrating several times at regular predetermined time intervals, the predetermined time interval being the repeat time of the patterns.
Thus by using the navigation data preamble or the known HOW word or week number and employing long coherent integration, the GPS signals are acquired in step 202. If the signal can not be acquired, then the receiver may go to the sleep mode and wake up and attempt to acquire the signal after some time delay, e.g., 15 minutes. If the stored ephemeris is older than, e.g., 2 hours, new ephemeris may be collected from the signal in step 203. Unlike almanac only, the ephemeris of the tracked satellite can be collected. But almanac of all satellites may be collected from a single satellite signal. In step 203, the receiver may collect and store ephemeris for each visible satellite. Once a sufficient number of satellite signals are acquired and tracked, the position of the receiver is computed and stored in memory as indicated in step 204. Preferably, the memory is non-volatile Flash memory, which does not require power to retain stored data. The receiver then goes to an at least one satellite tracking mode in step 205. In the at least one satellite tracking mode, the receiver tracks at least one satellite signal and switches between a sleep state and wakeup state to conserve power. The at least one satellite tracking mode is discussed in further detail below with reference to
In step 302, the receiver goes to the sleep state for, e.g., 732 (or 720) seconds, where 732 (or 720)+18 (or 30) is equal to 750 seconds, which is the time duration of one super-frame (12.5 Minutes) and the time T_OFF is set to 0. T_OFF is incremented in step 308 until it reaches 732 (or 720) seconds. After being in the sleep mode for 732 (or 720) seconds in step 303, the receiver is powered 'ON' and reacquires the satellite signal using the stored parameters to predict the acquisition parameters, i.e. clock and code phase, in step 304. If the reacquisition is not successful after, e.g., 5 seconds, the receiver again goes to sleep state for 5 minutes or more in step 309 and again attempts to reacquire the signal. This process continues until the acquisition is successful. Once the receiver acquires the signal, it tracks the satellite signal for 18 seconds (or 30 seconds) in step 306. Meanwhile, in step 307, if the stored ephemeris is old the receiver may download the particular satellite ephemeris if new ephemeris are available. Otherwise the receiver again stores the reacquisition parameters and goes to the sleep state for 732 (or 720) seconds in step 303. The timer T_OFF is set appropriately as in step 310 or incremented as in step 308.
Once the signal has been acquired, it is necessary to extract the embedded ephemeris data. Since the SNR (Signal-to-Noise ratio) may be very low, it may not be possible to determine the exact data polarity of all of the data bits. There may be a small probability of bit error, which may be less than 0.001. In such cases, the result of addition of the respective bits of the navigation data frames gives better estimation of the actual bit value. This addition may be carried out in both the I and Q branches of integration. So several navigation data frames, each consisting of five sub-frames with a frame duration of 30 seconds are collected. As the probability of the same bit in different frames being in error is extremely low, the signal-to-noise ratio is improved by an overlay of several sequential navigation data frames in both the In-phase and Quadrature paths in the receiver. It is also possible to separately examine each bit over several frames and arrive at a decision. Thus, the signal-to-noise ratio may be improved by a majority voting decision based on a majority vote of several sequential navigation data frames for each bit. The probability of bit error increases with a decrease in the signal-to-noise ratio and so a greater number of frames are required to arrive at a correct decision. Therefore, the number of navigation data frames used depends on the signal-to-noise ratio. When the overlapping of several frames is done to extract the data bits, it is necessary to align the frames correctly. Since the preamble in a sub-frame is known, the preamble can be used for correct overlap of the frames. It is possible that a bit in the preamble may be in error and to handle such cases any predetermined or known navigation data words can be used for correct overlap of frames. This additional patterns or words include the week number or HOW among other predetermined words.
The time duration during which the receiver can stay in wake-up or sleep state depends on how well the clock information is maintained. The better the timing information accuracy, the power off time can be longer and the associated power dissipation may be reduced. Further, the reacquisition may also be faster with accurate parameters. To maintain a good timing information, a time matching and compensation scheme is implemented.
During tracking, an appropriate frequency domain technique, e.g., a long Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), may be used to determine the carrier frequency when there is a wide frequency variation due to high dynamics. Thus, a long FFT is computed and the peak determines the carrier frequency. Because of the resulting large number of frequency components, a high dynamic signal can be easily tracked. The long FFT results in better precision frequency components. However, samples for the long FFT computation may have to be collected for a long period of time. To reduce the time of the FFT computation, the frequency domain technique can be sliding window based. This technique uses the old samples which were used in the prior FFT computation with the new samples collected later. For example, this technique may use 128 old samples with 128 new samples so that the FFT is computed every 128 milliseconds instead of every 256 milliseconds. The sliding ratio or the ratio of the new samples to the old samples depends upon the receiver dynamics. In the computation of the FFT, each sample is compensated for the phase shift of succeeding samples due to ever changing Doppler.
In the preferred embodiment, integration, data bit extraction and the FFT are performed by the processor 113. Preferably, the processor 113 is implemented on a DSP core capable of performing fast math intensive operations as is known in the art.
Although the present invention has been described in terms of the presently preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the disclosure is not to be interpreted as limiting. Various alterations and modifications will no doubt become apparent to those skilled in the art after having read the above disclosure. Accordingly, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as covering all alterations and modifications as fall within the "true" spirit and scope of the invention.
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India's senior-most harmonium maestro, nonagenarian Purshottam Walawalkar breathed his last in his Vile Parle home in the late hours of Monday, leaving the music world in mourning. This accompanist to some of the tallest legends from the world of Hindustani classical music was cremated on Tuesday morning. Many of his students and musicians joined the funeral at the Oshiwara crematorium. He is survived by three sons and a daughter.
A royal from the former princely state of Rajpipla, Manvendra Singh Gohil, Walawalkar's student since 2000 said, "He was suffering from a lung infection but none of us expected him to go like this. He would've turned 91 in June." Gohil recounted his teacher's contribution to starting the Rajpipla Festival of Music. "I listened to him since I was young and was hoping to be taught by him for many more years. He ensured that he gave you the best without being overbearing. His gentle mentoring will always remain a fond memory."
Santoor exponent Satish Vyas expressed sorrow at the passing away of what he called an era. "He'd accompany both Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki and my late father Pandit C R Vyas. In fact it was at the 5th Gunidas Sammelan in 1981 organised by father, that he first met Buwa (Pandit Bhimsen Joshi)," he remembers.
The late Joshi, a Bharat Ratna awardee, was tense since his regular accompanist on the harmonium Bal Mate had fallen ill suddenly. When he voiced his concern to a young Satish he didn't even a bat an eyelid before suggesting Walawalkar's name. "Both Walawalkar and Nana Muley (tabla) would be hired for the entire duration of the festival so I immediately suggested he take along the former."
Not too convinced, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi dashed off to the green room. When Satish Vyas realised this was a bigger crisis than he could manage, he alerted his father. It took a lot of cajoling from the senior Vyas before Joshi agreed. "Within five minutes of being on stage he took a beautiful but very complex taan in the vilambit. To his surprise, Walawalkar was able to mirror him on the harmonium so perfectly that not only did the audience applaud but Buwa himself broke into a wah-wah."
That concert cemented a decades-long partnership. "Buwa would rarely step out for any concert without Walawalkar on the harmonium. Since his diary would be choc-a-bloc with concert commitments through the year, Walawalkar got so busy that my father would jokingly say that he had been hijacked since he was never available for concerts with him," laughs Vyas.
Vocalist Shubha Mudgal says she finds it hard to come to terms with the fact that he's no more. "His zest for life could give a complex to 20-year-olds," she remembers adding, "Given his long innings of accompanying the who's who of stalwarts and his irrepressible humour, one could be regaled listening to anecdotes and memories laughing heartily for hours."
She fondly recalls going to Goa with him for a concert where he suddenly offered to take her to meet Meenakshi Shirodkar, the late Thumri exponent Shobha Gurtu's mother. "Though she was bed-ridden, the moment she heard him talk about her beauty and the way people went 'myaad (mad)' after her, she sat upright and broke into a dadra, Kahan Baaji Kisan Tori Baasuriya."
Walawalkar's partner on the tabla for several years, Aneesh Pradhan, too remembers his lively nature. "He would never allow anything to affect his mood. In fact, he would use humour to create such a positive vibe that artistes who were performing would get charged and give their best. Long tours, poor sound arrangements, bad accommodation or food, everything would be forgotten with him around," he points out and adds, "Even if he played with a complete novice, he'd make them feel like they were on top of the world. This would boost their confidence and take away the fright of the first concert."
Raised in a musical environment, Walawalkar was exposed to his father Madhavrao's performances with renowned artistes like Bal Gandharva's musical theatre troupe. Seeing his talent, his father began his training in harmonium under Govindrao Tembe.
He would later polish his skills further with stalwarts like Vitthalrao Korgaonkar and Hanmantrao Walvekar. His regular accompaniment of Pandit Shivrambuwa Vaze and Pandit Kagalkar Buwa helped him imbibe the subtleties of vocal music. This skill not only came handy in his long innings but also kept getting better from all the leading exponents of vocal music he accompanied.
The bond of music
On the occasion of Walawalkar's demise, culture historian Mukund Joshi lamented how accompanists rarely get their due. "The limelight stays on the artiste but how can one ever discount the contribution of those who accompany him on the harmonium, tanpura and tabla, completing the musical experience."
He added, "Some of these associations lead to bonds stronger than those of family. After all, they cover up for each other's shortcomings on stage, showcasing the best. Many of them are repositories of secrets that no one knows about."
Without naming a late legend, Joshi recounted how he would want a large swig of single malt before taking to the stage. Since he'd be surrounded by his conservative family members, fans and organisers, the accompanist would take care of arranging the drink. They would shut the door for a supposed puja ritual of the instruments and the drink would then be stealthily gulped.


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1) What will the Klingon ranks be? Will they be like Major, Colonel, and General?
One idea sprung to mind for Klingon officer ranks (partially canon). I have included the Federation equivalent within brackets [ ]:
Depending on which route you decide to specialize in (i.e Engineering, Science, Tactical)
Engineering Officer [Lieutenant]
Science Officer [Lieutenant]
Weapons Officer [Lieutenant]
The last one is canon from multiple episodes involving Klingons. The other rank names felt appropriate depending on how you start your character. Next up:
Engineering Specialist [Lt. Commander]
Science Specialist [Lt. Commander]
Weapons Specialist [Lt. Commander]
Building upon the first rank, but showing that this Klingon officer is more specialized within his/her field. The last three ranks are similar to your suggestion, and also fairly canon to the shows:
Captain [Commander]
Colonel [Captain]
General [Admiral]
Offhand, there have been multiple Klingon Captains throughout the years, among others the Captain who transported Captain Picard and Lt. Commander Data to Romulus during the "Reunification" episodes.
Colonel Worf was seen in Star Trek VI
General Worf is part of the STO timeline (i.e the TNG Worf)
General Chang was the main villain of Star Trek VI
If you forego the idea of having a "Specialist" rank on the 2nd tier, then basically bump up the ranks and include a new one:
Captain [Lt. Commander]
Colonel [Commander]
General [Captain]
Dahar Master [Admiral]
Kang, Kor and Koloth were the mostk nown Dahar Masters in the Klingon Empire.
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Poirier: I'm going to show McGregor how wrong he is about me on September 27th
Dustin 'The Diamond' Poirier is in the unenviable position of being the punchline of every sharp crack of Conor McGregor's tongue in the lead up to their September 27 bout.
Despite an unprecedented brawl between the former headliners of UFC 178, Jon 'Bones' Jones and Daniel Cormier, most of the talk from Irish fans has been unsurprisingly based around the their countryman's verbal assault on Poirier during the media tour for the MGM Grand event.
McGregor claimed that "a gust of wind" could force Poirier to do "the chicken dance", that the American had been "wobbled" in his last few outings and he also labelled him a "hillbilly". Poirier, who insisted he had never faced an opponent with a similar approach, explained his thoughts on watching McGregor in full flight on the media tour.
"It's been kind of funny to hear the guy talk and try to insult me like that," he said. "It's definitely a first for me in my career, I've never experienced anything like that. I think he believes the trash he's talking, he thinks he can actually do the things he says he will."
The Irishman wasted no time in predicting that Poirier would be the next of his victims to succumb to his power in the striking department within the first five minutes of their bout. Poirier believes McGregor's forecast can only mean that he is underestimating the challenge ahead of him.
"By saying he's going to knock me out in the first round shows how lightly he's taking me. He should be preparing for 15 minutes of hard fighting, that's what I'm prepared for.
"I'm going to have to show him on September 27 how wrong he is about me. He has people all around him telling him he's this and that, I think it may have just gone to his head. I've got to give him a reality check," he said.
Citing the Irish featherweight's combative stance, Poirier spoke of openings he thinks McGregor leaves to his body and of the SBG man's ground game when considering his biggest weaknesses.
He said: "His body is open a lot the way he stands with his hands up, he leaves it open a lot. A lot of his punches are looping, but that being said he is a good athlete. He's got good hand speed, he's a great counter puncher but he makes guys fight his fight.
"I've seen it in every one of his performances, guys fighting his fight, and I'm not going to do that. I'm going to be in his face touching him up, he's never fought anyone like me.
"If the fight goes to the ground I feel I'll have an advantage, but I'm not going to go out of my way and put myself in a bad position trying to get him down there. If he makes a mistake and leaves himself open – say he lunges forward – I'm going to take his back.
"It's not really my game plan though so you won't see me shooting for doubles and singles when we're in there. I'm going to go in there and just let the fight unfold naturally."
Although the ATT man did point out McGregor's athletic gifts, he maintains that the Dubliner's mouth is one of his greatest assets and without it Poirier is adamant that his UFC 178 counterpart would not have climbed the 145lbs division as quickly as he has.
"His marketing power has allowed him to climb the rankings quicker and it's helped him get a match-up against me. His mouth has taken him far. I don't remember anyone else headlining a UFC card for their third fight and now he could be fighting in the co-main event of a huge pay-per-view for his fourth.
"His mouth has definitely helped him out but he speaks well, he's interesting and attractive to people. I'll give him that, he does it very well," he conceded.
Despite believing that McGregor has talked himself into this fight, the American claimed that if successful on September 27, the victory would be the biggest of his career to date:
"Beating Conor would be one of my biggest wins, it will propel my career to the next level and give me a lot more popularity because there is going to be a lot of eyes on us for this one. A lot of people are really high on Conor right now so it will be awesome to go out there and prove them wrong."
Poirier also highlighted his belief that a title shot might be too optimistic when considering where McGregor will settle in the featherweight rankings.
"I'm going to beat him and if he fights another guy around the same calibre as me he's going to lose again. UFC are probably going to give him a couple of fights that he's the favourite in and that will help him grow and get better.
"He will be around, he's not going anywhere but I don't think he will ever be mentioned along with the guys at the top of this weight division," he said.
Finally, the fifth ranked UFC featherweight gave his prediction his upcoming bout with 'The Notorious'.
"I really don't know what's going to happen, we're going to have to wait and see. I truly feel like I could knock him out or submit him and if it goes the distance I think I would win the decision. If I was pushed for a prediction I'd go with TKO, I think I'm going to knock him out."
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Thornton has as many assists (94) as 2003-04 scoring champion Martin St. Louis had points. In fact, Thornton has caught Jagr for the scoring lead and should he win, he'll be the first person to take the Art Ross Trophy after being traded in mid-season. He should be the first to win the Hart Trophy after getting traded in mid-season. Minus his terrible Olympics, Thornton has had one of the most memorable seasons since that Gretzky guy hung up the skates. It has all combined to make it easy to be a fan again. After years of holding our noses and watching crap hockey, we deserve this.more on the NHL (2nd half of the column)...
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|Short grain rice/Medium grain rice
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|6 Cup (96 tbs)
|For the topping
|Century eggs
|1 Medium, cooked, then quartered
|Shredded chicken
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) (Left over chicken used)
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1. Rinse the rice thoroughly until the water is clear. When that is done, cover with water and let soak for about 30 minutes. After 30 minutes the rice would be ready to cook.
2. Take a pot, add the soaked and rinsed rice, turn the heat to high. After it starts to boil, turn the heat to a medium low and let it simmer covered for about 60 minutes. Stir occasionally just to make sure that the rice does not stick to the bottom. Once done, ladle into a serving bowl.
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Another variation to the topping is that you can add a soft poached egg or a soft boiled egg or even a fried egg, which can be put in the bottom of the bowl and ladle the congee on top. Then add the desired toppings. Cooked seafood or cooked pork can also be added as a topping.
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NEW DELHI: Former Union Minister and senior BJP leader Vijay Goel on Saturday disclosed that Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil had assured him that an all-party meeting would be convened shortly to discuss the situation arising out of the latest orders of the Supreme Court on the issue of sealing.
Leading a delegation of traders and other affected people here in the Capital to Mr. Patil on Saturday, Mr. Goel said the Home Minister had also told the delegation that the Union Urban Development Ministry would soon come out with the new Master Plan for Delhi-2021 and also approach the Supreme Court for further relief to traders.
Mr. Goel said Mr. Patil assured him that all issues pertaining to the sealing and demolitions would be discussed at the all-party meeting that is likely to be convened early next month. The Group of Ministers (GoM) is also scheduled to meet on October 5.
Mr. Goel also complained during his meeting with the Union Home Minister that the Urban Development Ministry was dragging its feet on the issue of notifying the new Master Plan for Delhi-2021.
He said no time should be lost now as the traders were faced with a new phase of uncertainty and a feeling was developing that the authorities were indulging in drama instead of pleading their case.
He said there was no relief for shops located on the 2,200-odd roads as the Court had put a question mark over their existence and asked them to file affidavits saying that they would accept the final outcome of the case. These lakhs of shopkeepers would continue to live under the fear of losing their livelihood and source of employment.
Mr. Goel urged the Union Government to take up the matter with the Supreme Court afresh and also with the Monitoring Committee appointed by the Court so that relief is provided to this large section of affected traders.
At the same time he lashed out at Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for stating that big relief had been provided to the people of Delhi. He said it was unfortunate that Ms. Dikshit had been making unwarranted statements that were not conducive to the present situation.
"The Chief Minister should not have stated that if relief was provided to all the traders Delhi would turn into a slum. The traders and the people of Delhi have lost faith in the Sheila Dikshit Government and feel that given the present situation, their future is not safe in the hands of the Delhi Government," he said.


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Beautiful! Will touch every woman's heart! Dunn does it again, as only his voice can! "Romeo and Juliet" Thank you, Ronnie Dunn!!! What a great Valentine's surprise!
Ronnie Dunn: Exclusive New Music for Valentine's Day
We're so excited that Ronnie Dunn is coming out with new music! Peace Love and Country Music will be available April 8th, but if you're like us, you can't wait until then.
Country Outfitter is proud to offer exclusive early access to Ronnie Dunn's new ballad, just in time for Valentine's Day. We love to know the stories behind the songs and Ronnie was kind enough to share a few words about this one.
"All relationships experience ups and downs," Dunn says. "The things that happen in those heated moments along love's back roads are just that, the "heat of the moment". How we manage those exchanges determine a lot."
Love's back road. We've all been there, maybe more times that we care to remember.
"Whether it's over or not, our poor sleep deprived hero, after a long lonely night of driving the back roads brooding a love spat has come back with a new appreciation of their love."
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It's gonna happen every now and then
Can't just come apart and let it end
Can't give it up Throw us away
Baby there's a will there's got to be a way
Listen now to Romeo and Juliet, and then share the love — you know you have friends who need to hear this today!
Peace Love and Country Music will be available for pre-order soon, and a few of the songs (not this one!) are up on iTunes now. Click here to order.
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Thank you Ronnie Dunn! Best Valentine's gift ever. As usual, such an amazing voice!
Finally another NEW C.D. from a true Country Artist.
"Romeo & Juliet"… The Lyrics Are Love ! A Masterpiece Of A Love Song !!!!…I Love Ronnie Dunn !
love it,love this mans voice
Thanks so much. Such a huge fan of the Ronnie Dunn sound. The perfect love song from Ronnie. His voice cuts through the heart and soul. These lyrics a true testament to the love so many including Ronnie feel for our loved ones.
Mr. Dunn..Thanks so much. This songs pretty much sums up many many years of my relationship. Love isnt perfect, but it is still love…and its worth fighting for. Will be sure to share this with my lovely bride tonight. You are the man.
So Sweet RD!!! That voice is the undoing of this girl!
Beautiful…simply Beautiful! What a wonderful Valentine gift. Delivered as only Ronnie Dunn can! Thank You!
Ronnie you never cease to amaze me…great song…this ElDorado school mate of yours loves how you write and sing from the heart…love love love this song…by the way…YOU NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE ME could be the start of a good song…there may already be one…got to google it…lol
Ruby…ElDorado High. Whew, that was several lifetimes ago
I'm glad to hear that you like the song. More to come. Stay with me
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CONGRATULATIONS on all of your hit records: COST OF LIVIN': COUNTRY THIS; KISS YOU THERE; GROWN DAMN MAN, and more! Your first album is fantastic, and I'm looking forward to your second one, PEACE, LOVE AND COUNTRY MUSIC.
I'm on TWITTER as @JoJohnson17 – and whenever I have time I TWEET info on you and
post photos! #TEAMDUNN is a terrific idea.
Caught your shows at WINSTAR, OK and BILLY BOB's, FT. WORTH, STOCKYARDS, and I was amazed at what a fantastic performer you are…telling stories in between songs! You're a legend! I'm under FB: Jo Johnson, but, I too have fake pages!
If there is anything I can do for you, please let me know, but you're on top and I always vote for you on TASTE OF COUNTRY, and request my DJ friends to play your songs
and GACtv to air your videos.
Take care.
God bless,
Jo Johnson
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I love this song Ronnie what stores are selling them?
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Bouncing Ball
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About "Bouncing Ball"
Lyrics for honeyhoney - "Bouncing Ball"
The streets were all empty
Like a bad Western movie
And we're stuck calling it home.
Drinkin' to blackout
Days pass and fade out
It's how you know you should go
You sold me on leavin'
And for no reason
You told me, \"Let's paint this town red.\"
Speedin' past cop cars
Fake guns and fake scars
Forgot Bonnie and Clyde
Wound up dead
And I can see you're the bouncing ball,
And I found love with no sense at all.
So we took a road trip
From Boston to Memphis
To see what we'd find
Jesus on billboards
And triple-X book stores
Are what stuck in my mind
Forgot feeling shameless
Go straight to Vegas
And try to seem cool
Now I like my sinnin',
But husks of old women
Were all that I could afford.
I can see you're the bouncing ball
And I found love with no sense at all.
Keep me from crashin',
From burning and smashin'
My way through.
If I had a savior
Not old books and paper
Maybe I wouldn't need you.
Oh, and I can see you're the bouncing ball
And I found love with no sense at all.


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MONROE, N.C. -- The Union County District Attorney's Office says 39 cases have been dismissed due to incomplete investigation information by officers from the Monroe Police Department-- information necessary for the DA's office to prosecute cases.
The Monroe Police Department was notified of the news on Tuesday by Union County District Attorney Trey Robison.
Monroe City Manager John D'Agostino said the inaction of officers to not complete the necessary paperwork needed for the district attorney to prosecute cases was inexcusable .
In a release to media on Thursday, D'Agostino acknowledged there may have been extenuating circumstances in some cases, and said interim Monroe Police Chief Bryan Gilliard had already implemented changes in both the structure and computer case tracking system that will allow officers to better monitor cases.
We are going to work very closely with the District Attorney s Office in a way that will result in a better delivery of justice because that is what Monroe tax-payers deserve, D Agostino said, After speaking with Mr. Robison, it appears this negligence of duties is not a new issue and with a new city manager and new interim police chief, I assured him it will be rectified.
An internal investigation is underway within the Monroe Police Department to determine which officers are responsible for the dismissed cases. Appropriate disciplinary action will be taken, Chief Gilliard promised.
DARobison says the majority of the cases dismissed involved some type of financial fraud, or were drug related. He also noted that none of the dismissed cases resulted in the release of any suspects from police custody.
The Union County District Attorney's Office released this statement:
All felony charges in North Carolina require a true bill of indictment from the grand jury before the case may be prosecuted. In order for felony cases to be sent to the grand jury for indictment, the charging officer must have turned over a copy of his/her case file to the District Attorney s Office to be reviewed by an Assistant District Attorney. If that Assistant District Attorney deems that there is probable cause for the defendant to be prosecuted, he/she will draft an indictment and submit it to the grand jury. The grand jury evaluates the indictment and determines whether probable cause exists to prosecute the case in superior court. Without the case file, there can be no true bill of indictment and no felony prosecution.
The Union County District Attorney s Office recently dismissed a group of cases that were lacking the necessary paperwork to proceed with prosecution.
The cases that were dismissed were indentified during a routine audit of unindicted felony charges. Each of the cases was missing some or all of the paperwork necessary to seek an indictment. No defendant was released from jail as a result of the dismissals. As legal jeopardy has not attached to any of the dismissed cases, the possibility exists that they can be indicted and prosecuted in the future, depending on the case and the circumstances.
There were no considerations at work here other than the interests of justice and due process of law, Robison said.


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DADE CITY, Fla. — Lucille Mary Chamberland Parker, 83, formerly of Brandon and Sudbury, Vt., died Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, at Bayfront Medical Center, in Dade City, Fla.
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If you're going to ride on somebody's shoulders through a line of press photographers, you might consider if you're wearing a dress and no panties. I can't say for certain, but it sure looks like daring pop diva Rita Ora did just that at a party at Milan fashion week last night, with her dress riding up and an upskirt view of her lady nest. The photos got blown out a bit being up so close, but I can't help but feeling we're seeing Ora patch. I'm starring it just in case, for the sake of the children, naturally.
Rita has a history of showing off up her hem line, so this is not a total surprise. But let's just still call it a wonderful gift to oglers. I've happened to have seen Rita in person before. She's a real eye-grabber. And that was even when she wasn't showing off her lady nest. Enjoy.


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Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major ("Les Adieux"), Op. 81a: I. Das Lebewohl (Les Adieux). Adagio - Allegro
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Samuel Beers and Elizabeth Wilson
Samuel Beers and Elizabeth Wilson were married Dec. 31, 2013, in the Simon Reading Room at the Indianapolis Central Library. Jennifer Winkhart conducted the 8 p.m. ceremony.
The couple live in Indianapolis.
The bride is the daughter of Luann and Charles Wilson of Columbus. She is employed by University Hospital in Indianapolis.
The groom is the son of Lana and Phil Beers. He is employed by the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Indianapolis.


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