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There's a cute little newcomer to doll shelves for 2014 at Toys "R" Us dressed in her ruffled blue gingham frock with its pink trim along with brown and blue cowboy boots -- the BanDai Dorothy from Legends of Oz.
This pretty Dorothy, described as being "a positive force," comes with two long auburn braids, big blue eyes, and a cardboard Toto inspired by the Wizard of Oz. The BanDai doll's Japanese animé influence is seen in her large eyes and unsmiling mouth.
The BanDai Legend of Oz Dorothy is a distant cousin of the Barbie doll. Back in the 1980s, Mattel entered a licensing agreement with Takara in Japan, the company that now makes the Jenny and Licca family of dolls. When Mattel and Takara parted ways, Mattel entered into another agreement Japan's BanDai Co. Ltd. in 1986. Using the first two letters of each company's name, they named their company Ma-Ba. The MaBa Barbie dolls, which looked a lot like Takara Barbie/Jenny dolls, were found only in Japan.
So take a look at the BanDai Dorothy at Toys "R" Us and see if you can spot a little bit of her ties to both Mattel Barbie and Takara Jenny.
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Oct. 15, 2011
IOWA CITY, Iowa - This ain't your father's Northwestern University football program Kirk Ferentz said in so many words Tuesday afternoon when he sat down for his weekly chat with the local, regional and national media. It's also not the college football program Ferentz, the head coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes, enjoyed so much success against during the 1980s and 90s as an assistant coach at Iowa under Hall of Fame head coach Hayden Fry.
"They have done a very nice job certainly and I think if you look back at their program, going back to the mid 90s when they really got that thing established," Ferentz said. "They did a good job under Gary Barnett, Randy Walker, and I think Pat has put his mark on the program. Pat Fitzgerald has done a great job with the team and continues to move them forward."
As focused as Ferentz is on the Wildcats, winners of the last three games in the series but only nine of 32 games played in Kinnick, and Dan Persa, their elusive quarterback, his focus remains on his team, the Iowa Hawkeyes, a squad that - like most across the country -- is still developing, learning, growing.
"Most teams are developmental. Not all of them but most of them. Alabama, probably not. Oklahoma, probably not. But most teams are to some degree doing that," he said.
"So it's like anything else, it's a race against time, how quickly can you move on if you don't have a lot of experienced players, how can you get that experience and get guys to react in a good way when situations pop up. It's an ongoing process and, as you know, there's a lot of variables that take place during the course of the season. That's the deal."
"So it's like anything else, it's a race against time, how quickly can you move on if you don't have a lot of experienced players, how can you get that experience and get guys to react in a good way when situations pop up. It's an ongoing process and, as you know, there's a lot of variables that take place during the course of the season. That's the deal."
Learning and growing... it happens best on the playing field and on Saturday night that field is inside Kinnick. The Hawkeyes play four of their next five games at home. Saturday is "ANF Day" at Kinnick. The UI will team with the Iowa Farm Bureau to celebrate America's farmers. It's also the second annual Black and Gold Spirit Game, an effort that asks fans to "stripe" the stadium by wearing GOLD if they are seated in an even-numbered section of Kinnick or BLACK if they are in an odd-number section of the stadium.
"It's going to be a big challenge for our football team," Ferentz said. "We are excited to be back in Kinnick again where our fans continue to be absolutely fantastic. It should be a great environment, too."
Iowa's next game is against Indiana next Saturday at 11 a.m., Iowa time, in historic Kinnick Stadium. It will be televised live by BTN.
If you won't be among the fans in attendance Iowa City - the game is sold out -- here's the list of options to help you follow along at home or wherever your travels might take you...but first, click HERE for the one-stop shopping option.
Iowa (3-2, 0-1) vs. Northwestern (2-3, 0-2)
Saturday, Oct. 15 (6 p.m. Iowa time)
The game will be televised liv to a national audience by BTN. Eric Collins, Chris Martin and Dionne Miller will call the action. If you need help finding the game, you can use the Big Ten Network's "GameFinder" feature available HERE.
Hawkeye Radio Network
Today's game - and all games of the 2011 Iowa Hawkeyes - will be broadcast live on the Hawkeye Radio Network with Gary Dolphin, Ed Podolak and Rob Brooks calling the action. The pre-game show begins at 9 a.m. Iowa time. For the list of Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates, click HERE.
The radio broadcast is also available exclusively online inside Hawkeye All-Access, the multi-media portal of hawkeyesports.com, the official world wide web site of the Iowa Hawkeyes. Subscribers to Hawkeye All-Access can also watch live and exclusive coverage of Kirk Ferentz's post-game media conference. To subscribe to Hawkeye All-Access, click HERE. You can also review the offerings inside Hawkeye All-Access there. Also, Hawkeye All-Access is now part of the Big Ten Digital Network. You can learn more about the offerings inside that space - content comes from all 12 Big Ten Conference institutions and the Big Ten Network - click HERE.
The broadcast is also available on channel 93 on satellite radio system Sirius. For more information, click HERE.
Official Game Day Blog
Fans of the Hawkeyes are also invited to register to participate in the very popular Official Iowa Football Game Day Blog. Fans who register in advance of the game are eligible to win a pair of tickets to the Hawkeyes' game against Michigan and become a finalist for a pair of tickets to the first Heroes Game - Iowa vs. Nebraska - in late November in Lincoln, Neb. To learn more about the blog and to register to participate, click HERE
Need the most up-to-date game statistics and play-by-play? No one is faster and more accurate the GameTracker service inside hawkeyesports.com. To access GameTracker, click HERE, then just click on the GameTracker link to the right of the Hawkeyes' 2011 schedule.

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Much as we'd like to throw tomatoes at the people who are stressing us out, we also like that whole having-a-job-and-earning-a-paycheck thing. Instead of taking our aggressions out on our coworkers by hurling fruit, we're taking out our aggressions on these Caomaru Veggies Stress Balls ($40). Personally, we like the bell pepper's grumpy face the best. We know how you feel, bell pepper!
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Kim Kardashian doesn't want to be selfish about keeping her post-baby body slim-down to herself. So she's kindly sharing her weight loss success with new selfies, reported Us Weekly on Jan. 5.
In particular, Kim wants to make it known that her 50-pound weight loss is helping her get "right for the new year," as she wrote on the caption for one photo highlighting her bust and booty.
Another shot featured her taut tummy, following up on a previous selfie labeled "No Filters," reported UK OMG on Jan. 5. But those photos don't mean that Kim is done with her Atkins low-carb, high fat, high protein diet.
Kim told E News, "I still have about 10 pounds to go."
Her Atkins diet, about which she tweeted "I luv it," is supplemented by her workouts, which she's keeping up in 2014, reported E News on Jan. 3.
So just what exactly is involved in that derriere-defining, tummy-toning Atkins diet? Colette Heimowitz, vice president of nutrition at Atkins, told E News that it includes between "1,800 to 2,000 calories per day."
For Kim, a typical day on the high fat, high protein, low carb Atkins diet resembles this:
- Breakfast: 2 egg omelet with cheese and spinach
- Snack No. 1: Hummus with veggies (cucumber, red pepper, broccoli)
- Lunch: Grilled salmon, asparagus, side salad with creamy dressing
- Snack No. 2: Turkey & Cheese Roll-ups or Greek Yogurt with slivered almonds & blueberries
- Dinner: Chicken breast, broccoli, side salad with olive oil dressing
Despite its reputation as featuring protein-only, the Atkins diet requires dieters to consume 12 to 15 net carbs (total carbs minus fiber) that need to come in the form of vegetables, according to Colette.
It also emphasizes healthy fats such as "olive oil, avocado, seeds/nuts and their oils and butters." The combination of protein and fat facilitates fat-burning through ketone production. Learn more by clicking here for an interview with Colette about the newly revised Atkins diet.
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42 year-old pharmacy owner Zhong Maojin didn't have the cash on hand. But he did have a hand ...
Friends, countrymen -- welcome to the Third World.
And even the Yangcheng Lake Hairy Crab Association finds itself powerless to stop it.
The ersatz iTemple spotted in Kunming is merely the tip of the iceberg.
"The positive effect of counterfeits is most pronounced for the high-fashion products (such as women's high-leg boots) and for the high-end shoes of the brands that were not yet well-known at the time of the entry by counterfeiters."
Oh, those crazy Chuppies! What can we sell to them?
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Lately once the microwave has been running for more than 5-10 seconds, a very loud humming noise starts happening. When I remove the top vent panel, the humming stops, but I cannot for the life of me determine where the noise is coming from and what is causing it.
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Are you leaving the country this summer? If so, be prepared for a fantastic experience. Depending on where you travel, you may encounter different languages, sights, food, and people. Even if you're just crossing a border, you'll find varying cultures and customs. And, with few exceptions, every other country you visit will require you to use its money.
One of the best ways to get ready for a trip to another country is to read about that country. Even a novel will help put you in the mood and mindset of your destination.
|Money makes the world go around, but it takes a lot of different money to go around the world.
Know the currency exchange rate
Most likely, you'll not be able to use U.S. currency in another country. There are some Caribbean countries that do accept our money, but this is the exception rather than the rule. Therefore, you'll need to exchange your money for that country's currency. This is relatively simple to do, but how you do it will determine how much it will cost you.
Familiarize yourself with the country's exchange rates, especially if you'll be traveling through more than one country. You'll be dealing with totally different currency and numbers. For example, on a recent day that US$100 in France was equal to about 684 Francs, it was equal to 202,190 Lire in Italy.
Find out what the current official exchange rate is for the currency you'll need at this currency exchange site. This web site also provides a calculator and listing of specific currency in various amounts such as $1, $10, $20, etc. Printing it to carry as a handy guide will help you determine your actual cost in that country.
You'll be able to exchange money in several places in the country, but the exchange rate will vary. Credit unions (and banks) and public arrival sites (airport, train and bus stations) usually offer some of the best exchange rates, but their business hours are not always convenient. Hotels, restaurants, and other retailers have better hours, but their exchange rates are generally not as good.
|American Express Traveler's Checks offer the additional advantage of no currency exchange fee at any of their foreign offices, many of which are in larger cities.
In some circumstances, it's wise to buy some foreign currency before leaving the U.S. For example, if you're arrival time is late night or very early morning, having currency in your pocket for cab fare could save you from a long line at the airport or train station exchange window when you're less than fresh from traveling. Call larger banks in your area to "shop" the exchange rates and transaction fees for buying foreign currency.
Traveler's checks offer protection
Many travelers like the protection and convenience of traveler's checks. Traveler's checks are accepted forms of payment around the world and can be exchanged for currency.
Available for purchase at your credit union for a nominal fee, they're insured for replacement should they become lost or stolen while traveling. Follow the rules to record checks as you spend them and keep the register separate from checks. You'll be pleased that you did in the unlikely event that you lose your checks and need replacements.
Traveler's checks are also quite spendable at home if you have money leftover at the end of trip. Just don't let them sit in a drawer after your return. Cash them and put the money in savings to earn interest.
Go plastic!
Traveling to Western Europe, Canada, or other modern nations? ATMs are readily available to withdraw national currency using your ATM card ... and at the best conversion rate. The American Society of Travel Agents says you'll save five to eight percent on conversion rates by using an ATM to withdraw currency. That's $5 to $8 per $100, or the cost of some souvenirs.
But, watch for ATM withdrawal surcharge fees. An option is to withdraw larger sums less frequently than smaller sums more often. Also, if you plan to use your debit card, withdrawals can only be made from your checking account--savings account withdrawals are not usually an option.
|Here's a list of links to all sorts of useful information for travelers to foreign lands.
Don't worry about language. ATMs will prompt you to choose a language, either by displaying country flags or printed country names. For example, in Western Europe English is represented by the Union Jack flag of Great Britain.
To check ATM availability in advance, visit the site for your ATM card, MasterCard or Visa.
Once again, depending on where you're traveling, most businesses accept major credit cards such as MasterCard, Visa, and American Express. Credit card conversion rates are usually favorable, but they are subject to change daily, and it will show up on your monthly statement.
Safety first
Practice the same safety rules there as you would here, and you should be fine. Wear a money belt or stomach pack to keep your money, passport, credit card, and tickets safe. If you carry money in your pocket, wrap a rubber band around it to thwart pickpockets. (The rubber band causes friction, which makes it more difficult to remove from your pocket.)
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Milwaukee Cop Gets Only 2 Years for Serial Butt Probing of Black Men
The end of 2013 brought a measure of closure to a long-running Milwaukee police scandal, though some say the officer — and his cohorts — who repeatedly and illegally shoved his fingers up black male suspects' anal cavities got off with a light sentence considering the flagrant nature of his abuses.
The ringleader was identified as officer Michael Vagnini, a white man who routinely targeted black males as young as fifteen for sadistic — and blatantly illegal — anal searches.
One victim said that another officer put a gun to his head while Vagnini administered a choke hold, touched his scrotum and fingered his anus. Another man was probed so violently that he bled.
Wisconsin law clearly prohibits police officers from administering cavity searches. Only medical professionals may do so, and only when authorized by a warrant.
But lack of a warrant or a medical degree did not stop Vagnini from sticking his fingers inside a 15-year-old boy's anus and touching his genitals during a traffic stop in December of 2011.
The Journal Sentinel documented at least a dozen similar instances of Vagnini performing invasive, illegal searches on black men. According to his reports, some of the victims were indeed carrying drugs, though they contend that the officer lied about the details and even planted drugs inside their bodies.
One man, Keon Canada, was searched by Milwaukee police on four separate occasions. They searched his buttcheeks and opened the front of his pants. No drugs were found during any of the searches.
Vagnini rarely used gloves when he probed their anuses, the victims contend. He also stole personal items and laughed when asked to present a warrant.
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn gradually became aware of what Vagnini was doing but had to wait "a couple of years," for a proper investigation to take place. Eventually, Vagnini was charged with 25 counts of assault and sexual assault against at least a dozen victims.
For his crimes, Vagnini will serve a little over two years in jail. Read more...
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Traindriver May 5, 2014 at 8:38 PM
At least in New Mexico they take you to the hospital for the probe, kind of like a date.
But your honor we are just 4 cops with a fecal fettish.we were looking for Mr Hankey the christmas poop.
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Aug. 13, 2008
Off to Shanghai!
Last night was a great emotional boost! We beat New Zealand, 4-0, and with Japan crushing Norway, 5-1, we advanced in first place from our group.
The game started in dramatic style as Heather O'Reilly scored with a 30-yard blast in the first minute of the game. The early goal definitely relaxed us, and we put together our best game thus far. After finding out the Norway-Japan score, we were pretty excited to be heading to Shanghai for the quarterfinals.
This morning we boarded a small plane for a two-hour flight. We travel with 60 pieces of team gear, so most of our luggage gets shipped the night before. Our police escort and support personnel make getting around super efficient; they literally shut down the airport and freeways when we travel!
Our next opponent will be Canada. UCLA's Kara Lang is a striker for the Canucks and has had a big role in helping her team advance. Although losing to Sweden yesterday, Canada's earlier results against Argentina and China have helped them move on to the quarters. It will be great to see Kara, and I am sure amid all the preparation Lauren, Kara, and I will find some Bruin time!


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Sailfin and Glassfish
By prasads on Sep 29, 2007
There have been some questions on the mailing aliases on what Sailfin is and how its related to GlassFish ! Let me make an attempt to explain that.
GlassFish is a Java EE 5 based application server with high availability and scalability aimed at the enterprise customer.Its a project on java.net , the main project therein being the application server. There are several sub-projects under the Glassfish project which use GlassFish as the runtime.
Saifin is a subproject under GlassFish. It adds the SIP Servlet Container based on JSR 289 to GlassFish. In addition to the SIP Servlet Container , Sailfin also aims to provide High Availability of the SIP Servet Container and a loadbalancer for both SIP and HTTP traffic . Given the functionality , the Sailfin codebase requires GlassFish as its underlying runtime. The WebContainer from GlassFish and the SIP Servlet Container becomes the converged container that is typical of the SIP Application Servers based on JSR289
Sailfin Application Server is built by overlaying Sailfin codebase on top of Glassfish Application Server v2.1. This becomes the open-source SIP Application Server on java.net ( the only one on open source ? )
There are two terms from the previous statement that I would like to clarify :
Why do we overlay Sailfin ?
The Sailfin codebase is loosely couple with Glassfish, in the sense that there are no code-changes made in Glassfish code base which are related to functionality provided by Sailfin. Theoretically a user should be able to add Sailfin functionality to any Glassfish Application Server .
Why Glassfish 2.1 and not Glassfish v2 ?
GlassFish v2.1 would be have some SPIs that would allow extension of the deployment and administration functionality. Sailfin makes use of these SPIs to overlay the Sailfin code on top of GlassFish. Hence in order to use Sailfin we need a version of Glassfish that exposes these SPIs and that is Glassfish v2.1 !
Here is a schematic that explains it :
How is Sailfin distributed ?
Sailfin is distributed as a single bundle with the underlying GlassFish included. The bundle comes with the same jar based installer as GlassFish. Update: The underlying GlassFish comes with all the fetaures as a normal GlassFish v2.


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Surfing is not just for dudes. A beloved Wrightsville Beach surfing tradition returns Aug. 17 and 18 to the south end of the island. The Wrightsville Beach Wahine Classic provides a forum for all levels of female surfers. Amateurs and professionals, long boards and short boards – all are represented and celebrated. Check out www.wrightsvillebeachwahineclassic.com for updates, registration and heat schedules; www.surftwinfin.com will post the schedule and heat formats. Details: (910) 465-9638.
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Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
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Her world upended by the death of a beloved artist uncle who was the only person who understood her, fourteen-year-old June is mailed a teapot by her uncle's grieving friend, with whom June forges a poignant relationship.
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Ruth Reichl's deliciously crafted non-fiction memoir, Tender at the Bone, is the story of a life determined, enhanced, and defined in equal measure by a passion for food, unforgettable people, and the love of tales well told.
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It's pathetic you can't give him credit, and he never ever said once he takes credit but gave credit to others. Never.The seals are tools, it takes the chief, the commander, the general to lead the mission. Just like there is a coach in sports and generals in war, that's Obama, and yes he does get credit as it was a priority he set from day one. Patriotic American that he is, he got this back on track and made correct decisions.
Now you racist anti America losers blame him for something that involved deaths of Americans in service, he has no fault in whatsoever,and is being investigated as to exactly what happened. The father of the ambassador tells you to stop it, if you don't you are no better than a terrorist yourself.
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A case could be made Bush got OBL in Tora Bora. You must admit Obama not allowing photos to be published and claiming the body buried at sea was that of OBL is very strange. OBL was a sick man requiring kidney dialysis to survive, was there any medical equipment found in the Pakistan compound? This is a lot like Obama birth certificate, just show us the long form and picture of OBL and put both these issues to rest.
lithiumniobate:You are another of these clowns who come up with this "hate" crap,Just because we have different views and opinions.You call Obama a patriotic American??From his past and his birthrite your thinking is a bit fuzzy."I am a patriotc American".My ancestors go back to the Revolutionary War.The only reason they got the Obama administation to get Binladen was purely politics.In reality Obama was the fall guy.His adminisration is being blamed for these deaths not him personally.
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Bin Laden died in 2001 according to many many people. Our Psy-Ops people kept the phony story of him going in order to get us involved in Afghanistan. Top CIA people have come forth along with the lady Bhutto who was murdered in Pakistan while running for office and said he was dead. She was probably killed because she knew too much. I'll bet you never read the story told by a man that lived next door to the house they raided. He said ONE copter landed and crashed and burned on take off. If so, then how did they get the body? Too many fairy tales told by government about almost everything. Things are suppressed forever. All the info on Lincoln's death were supposed to be released 100 years afterward. They are still holding some of it back. Why?
And how is our country better off with obama's killing of osama? Four people in Libya sure aren't!
"And how is our country better off with obama's killing of osama?"
That is truly an example of right wing politics gone mad. What is the matter with you people?
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OBL and the other terrorist leaders were planning another big attack. As what's left of them are now. Someone thinks OBL should have been left alone, and therefore the attack in Libya would not have happened? Nothing else would happen? Really? Is the anti Obama thinking so skewed as to think such nonsense? Maybe Hitler should have been left alone too? Attack on Pearl harbor, oh that's fine, don't bother going after anyone? Crazy thinking.
Sentiment: Buy
As commander Obama does and should get a lot of credit for OBL, although humble man that he is he never ever said once 'I take credit" You like it or not, have a tantrum like a child or not, that is the case.
Sentiment: Buy
please don't give us your racist crap. People like you voted for him just because of his skin color how racist is that?
No, because he is a smarter man than McCain, and me being a Vet McCain was to busy to be present to vote for many of Vetern benefits. Why should he has his tax free military pension plus over 3k per month for the last fourty years.
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Baseball Falls To Harvard 8-7
April 23, 2003
BOSTON, Mass. - Junior second baseman Cullan Maumus (New Orleans, La.) went four for five with a run batted in, a run scored and a stolen base, but it was not enough as the University of Massachusetts baseball team was defeated by Harvard 8-7 in the semifinals of the Beanpot Baseball Classic at Fenway Park. The Minutemen fall to 14-12 on the season with the loss, while Harvard improves to 13-17 with the win.
UMass led 6-4 heading into the ninth inning, when the Crimson rallied for four runs to take an 8-6 lead. Catcher Schuyler Mann and outfielder Lance Salsgiver both had RBI singles in the inning, while third baseman Josh Klimkiewicz added a sacrifice fly. The Minutemen came back to score a run in the bottom of the ninth on an RBI double by junior third baseman Matt Reynolds (South Boston, Mass.), then loaded the bases with only one out. But Harvard closer Barry Wahlberg was able to get a strikeout and a line drive to end the threat.
The Minutemen had built their lead with five runs in the bottom of the fourth. Maumus had an RBI single in the inning, while senior catcher Tom Ellerbrook (Northampton, Mass.) and junior shortstop Mike Athas (Holyoke, Mass.) added RBI groundouts. UMass scored one more run in the fifth, when senior outfielder Matt Boulanger (Westfield, Mass.) doubled and scored on an RBI single by freshman outfielder Frank Curreri (Weymouth, Mass.).
Righthander Morgan Brown earned the win for Harvard, allowing one run on three hits in two innings of relief. Sophomore lefthanded pitcher Scott Ratliff (Helendale, Calif.) took the loss for UMass, allowing four runs on four hits in 1/3 inning of work.
The Minutemen return to action tomorrow, April 24, when they will play in the Beanpot consolation game at Fenway Park at 2:00 p.m. UMass will face the loser of the Boston College-Northeastern game.
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I guess it's better than Wayne Morgan having to go work at Mediacom.
National Champions!
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I humbly apologize. I should have known better. I shall have to think of a better analogy...
How's this?
The man has all the personality and charisma of a chunk of concrete.
I have a good friend that works with concrete. He would also find this disrespectful to concrete, and he would be correct.
Kansas Must Be Destroyed
Sic Semper Jayhawks
...i can't win...
Has he stated he is firmly entrenched at the SEC Network>
"The greatest risk in life is not taking one"
not surprised...he's the perfect hire for cleaning the restrooms
Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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not surprised...he's the perfect hire for cleaning the restrooms
Well, he went from dropping turds while he was here to covering them up while at Auburn, maybe he can master cleaning them up now.
One thing's for certain - SEC Network analysts will be able to perfectly line up their headsets on the goal line.
"That's what I do. I drink, and I know things." - Tyrion Lannister
"Success is just failure that hasn't happened yet." - life advice from Latrell Spreewell
Originally Posted by ImJustKCClone
Heh...I figured I would be corrected by a CCE for the concrete analogy.
AgE, but sorta close ;)
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Love AgE students...they make great employees. Not afraid of working hard, not afraid to troubleshoot equipment issues instead of wanting to call technicians all the time. :) I've had quite a few work for me over the years.
Originally Posted by abe2010
time for some ESPN-SEC commemorative coins!
That is what Gene will be paid with.
Let Prohm's Posse Ride: Hallice, Brady, Stu, Lard, Naz, Deonte, Monte, Matt, Simeon, Jordan, and Babb.
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Is Gene firmly entrenched at ESPN or is he looking for a bigger job at Fox Sports 1 or Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel
With his charm, probably he wants to replace Michael on ABC in the morning.
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April 15, 2014 – Dr. Terry Brewer, president and founder of Brewer Science, was selected by the University of North Texas (UNT) Alumni Selection Committee to be the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award, one of the university's most prestigious awards. He was presented with the award at a special ceremony on April 11, 2014, at UNT. The award recognizes alumni for distinguished professional achievement that has merited the honor and praise of peers and colleagues as well as for significant contributions alumni have made to society and in service to their fellow man.
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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 172902, 8 pages
Total Least Squares Method for Robust Source Localization in Sensor Networks Using TDOA Measurements
1College of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
2Networking Protocols Department, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore 138632
3School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798
Received 31 March 2011; Accepted 15 June 2011
Copyright © 2011 Yang Weng et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The TDOA-based source localization problem in sensor networks is considered with sensor node location uncertainty. A total least squares (TLSs) algorithm is developed by a linear closed-form solution for this problem, and the uncertainty of the sensor location is formulated as a perturbation. The sensitivity of the TLS solution is also analyzed. Simulation results show its improved performance against the classic least squares approaches.
1. Introduction
Driven by many practical applications such as environment monitoring, traffic management in intelligent transportation, healthcare for the older and disabled, cyber-physical system (CPS) has emerged as a new advanced system to link the virtual cyber world with the real physical world [1, 2]. Sensor network is crucial to enable CPS by efficient monitoring and understanding the physical world. The main purpose of a sensor network is to monitor an area, including detecting, identifying, localizing, and tracking one or more objects of interest. These networks may be used by the military in surveillance, reconnaissance, and combat scenarios or around the perimeter of a manufacturing plant for intrusion detection. The problem of source localization involves the estimation of the position of a stationary transmitter from multiple noisy sensor measurements, which can be time-of-arrival (TOA), time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA), or angle-of-arrival (AOA) measurements or a combination of them [3–5].
Source localization methods using TDOA measurements locate the source at the intersection of a set of hyperboloids. Finding this intersection is a highly nonlinear problem [6, 7]. Over the years, many iterative numerical algorithms have been proposed for the problem, including the maximum likelihood estimation methods [8, 9] and the constrained optimization methods [10, 11]. In these approaches, linear approximation and iterative numerical techniques have to be used to deal with the nonlinearity of the hyperbolic equations. However, it is difficult to select a good initial guess to avoid a local minimum for them; therefore the convergence to the optimal solution cannot be guaranteed. The closed-form solution methods are widely used since no initial solution guesses are required and have no divergence problem compared with the iterative techniques [12–16]. For real-time application in WSNs, the iterative procedure for iterative algorithm is time consuming while the closed-form method is computational efficient.
The aforementioned approaches need the precise location of sensors. In practice, the receiver locations may not be known exactly. For example, in sensor network applications, the receivers can be with airplanes or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) whose positions and velocities may not be precisely known. Hence, the inaccuracy in receiver locations needs to be taken into account in practical applications which is challenging and difficult as the estimation performance of source location can be very sensitive to the accurate knowledge of the receiver positions and a slight error in a receiver's location can lead to a big error in the source location estimate. In [17], a closed-form solution is proposed that takes the receiver error into account to reduce the estimation error. The proposed solution is computationally efficient and does not have the divergence problem as in the iterative techniques. In [18], the maximum likelihood formulation of source localization problem is given and an efficient convex relaxation for this nonconvex optimization problem is proposed. A formulation for robust source localization in the presence of sensor location errors is also proposed. Both the above methods assume that the measurement noise is Gaussian and characterize the uncertainty by stochastic approach with the perturbation being white and Gaussian.
However, such white and Gaussian assumptions are unrealistic in many practical applications [19–21]. Usually, if the Gaussian assumption are not met, the maximum-likelihood-based results under Gaussian assumption may lead to poor estimation performance, which means that the estimation performance is sensitive to the exact knowledge of the parameters of the system (see, e.g., [22]). These facts motivate us to further research on robust source localization method without any distribution assumption for measurements noise and sensor location error.
In this paper, we will develop a total least squares (TLSs) algorithm for location estimation of a stationary source. TLS is a least squares data modeling technique in which observational errors on both dependent and independent variables are taken into account. The uncertainty of the sensor location is formulated as a perturbation on the given sensor location. The sensitivity of the TLS solution will also be analyzed to show the superiority of our proposed algorithm. Compared with the existing methods which need the Gaussian assumption for both measurements noise and sensor location error, the TLS approach does not depend on any assumed distribution of the noise and errors. Simulation results support the above analysis and show good performance of the proposed method.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, a linear closed-form solution is given for source localization problem using TDOA measurements. The total least squares method for source localization with sensor location uncertainty is given in Section 3, and the corresponding sensitivity analysis is derived in Section 4. Simulation results are presented in Section 5 to show the improved performance of the proposed method against the classic least squares approaches. Concluding remarks are made in Section 6.
2. A Linear Closed-Form Solution
Assume that sensor is located at point . Denote the unknown source location by . Let be the signal propagation speed and the number of sensor nodes distributed in the network. A reference node, denoted as , exists in the field. We define the distance from the source to sensor as . The TDOA that we derive from the data, , for each sensor node relative to the reference sensor is Denote the distance difference of arrival (DDOA) data for the ith sensor as We have Group all the known terms together and denote Rearranging and substituting give which is a linear model for unknown parameters , and. Stacking the sensor measurements, we have the linear system in matrix form where When the location of sensor nodes can be precisely known and the TDOA measurements are noise-free, linear system (6) is compatible. The solution is unique while the data matrix is of full rank.
In [16], a noise is considered at the right side of (6): The least squares (LSs) problem seeks to where denote the vector space spanned by the column vector of matrix . Once a minimizing is found, then any satisfying is called an LS solution and the corresponding LS correction. The unique LS solution can be obtained while the data matrix is of full rank:
The ordinary LS problem amounts to perturbing the observation vector by a minimum amount . The underlying assumption is that errors only occur in the vector and that the matrix is exactly known. However, the TDOA measurements always have noise, that is, is perturbed by a noise. Hence, both sides of (5) have perturbation according to term . Besides, in practice, the receiver locations may not be known exactly. As a result, the inaccuracy in receiver locations needs to be taken into account in practical environments. Therefore, considering only the perturbation at the right side of (6) is not enough. We should consider the perturbations at both sides.
3. Total Least Squares Solution
The definition of the total least squares method is motivated by the asymmetry of the least squares method that is corrected while A is not. Provided that both and are given data, it is reasonable to treat them symmetrically. One important application of TLS problem is parameter estimation in errors-in-variables models, that is, considering the measurements in [23, 24]. We assume that the measurement in and by where , , and , is compatible. The total least squares (TLSs) problem seeks to where denotes the Frobenius norm of matrix , that is, Once a minimizing is found, then any satisfying is called a TLS solution and the corresponding TLS correction [25].
When is of full rank, the closed-form expression of the basic TLS solution can be obtained as the following: where is the smallest singular value of . It can be proved that the TLS solution estimates the true parameter consistently, that is, Xtls converges to the solution of as the number of measurements tends to infinity, where denotes the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse of matrix . This property of TLS estimates does not depend on any assumed distribution of the errors. Note that the LS estimates are inconsistent in this case.
In the following, the algorithm computation complexity is analyzed by considering the number of floating-point operations (FLOPS). The calculation of FLOPS is briefly described as follows: additions and multiplications count as one FLOP each. Adding matrices of sizes requires FLOPS. Multiplying matrices of sizes and requires FLOPS. Matrix inverse of size requires FLOPS. Singular value decomposition of matrix with size requires FLOPS. The computation overhead of three closed-form algorithms is investigated, that is, least squares (LSs) method in [16], two-stage weighted least squares (WLSs) method in [17] and the proposed TLS method. For -deployed nodes and dimension of source location parameter, the numbers of FLOPS in the LS, WLS, and the proposed TLS algorithms are , , and , respectively. It is to show that LS method is the most computationally efficient, whereas WLS method is two-stage least square and TLS method has singular value decomposition for matrix. It is clear that they all have comparable computation complexity since or for source localization problem.
4. Sensitivity Properties of the Solution
In this section, we will first examine how perturbations in and affect the solution . In this analysis the condition number of the matrix plays a significant role. The following definition generalizes the condition number of a square nonsingular matrix [26].
Definition 1. Let have rank . The condition number of is
where are the singular values of by decreasing order.
Matrices with small condition numbers are said to be well conditioned while the ones with large condition numbers are said to be ill-conditioned. Analyzing the effect of perturbation on the solution of linear system , we introduce the following lemma [27].
Lemma 1. If and , then
Theorem 1. Denote as the LS solution of unperturbed system , and is the LS solution of perturbed system with , . One further assumes that , , . Then, one has
Proof. Noting that and are full rank and since , we have Therefore, . Dividing by at both sides, we have
From the theorem we can see that, only when the perturbations are sufficiently small, the LS solution is a good estimator of the true solution of .
Additionally, we will show when the TLS solution has better performance than the LS solution for the perturbed model . Denote the singular value decomposition (SVD) of by where denote the singular value decomposition (SVD) of by where and denote the SVD of by where
The accuracy of TLS and LS solutions related to the perturbation effects on singular values and associated singular subspaces [23]. Several papers have analyzed the bounds on the perturbation effects related to singular subspaces [28–30]. The most interesting results for sensitivity analysis of TLS solution are given in [30].
Definition 2. Denote two subspaces as and . For any unitary invariant norm, the distance between two subspaces is defined as the sine of the largest canonical angle where and are the projection operators [29, 30].
Theorem 2. Let the SVD of , be given by (20), . Add perturbations to , and let SVD of be given by (22). If , then
Theorem 2 is a special case of the generalized -theorem in [30].
Recall the perturbed system ; LS projects and into the singular subspaces while the TLS projects and into the singular subspaces Furthermore, the real source location , since . Therefore, it is important to analyze the distance between , and . Assumeing that and have full rank, we can obtain the following corollary according to Theorem 2.
Corollary 1. One has
The interlacing theorem (see [31]) implies that Therefore, From Corollary 1 we can see that the upper bound of the distance between and is smaller than the upper bound of distance between and . This implies that the TLS solution is expected to be closer to its corresponding unperturbed subspace. Hence, the TLS solution is expected to be more accurate than the LS solution.
5. Simulations
5.1. Simulation Setup
In this section, simulations are carried out to show the effectiveness of the proposed method. Two scenarios are investigated for their effects on localization performance, including Gaussian distribution and truncated Gaussian distribution for measurement noise and sensor node location error. In our simulation, unless otherwise specified, sensors are randomly deployed in a area with uniform distribution. An example is shown in Figure 1, where 30 nodes are uniformly distributed. The source is denoted as a triangle with red and the reference node is denoted as a square in blue. The exact location of the reference node can be known.
In order to show the improved performance of our proposed method with the existing closed-form method, we investigate LS method in [16] and WLS method in [17]. Root mean square error (RMSE) is used as the criterion for localization performance. The following simulations are performed with 500 Monte Carlo trials. In all figures, the red solid line with square, black dash line with circle, and blue dotted dash line with triangle represent the results of TLS, WLS, and LS solutions, respectively.
5.2. Gaussian Case
In this case, we consider the Gaussian distribution for both measurement noise and sensor node location error. The effect on estimation performance for different measurement noise variance value is investigated. Measurement noise variance is changed in the range 10–100. The variance of perturbation is set to be a constant number 25. The localization performance variation with noise variance is depicted in Figure 2. As noise variance increases, localization performance degrades in all LS, WLS, and TLS algorithms. The TLS algorithm outperforms the LS and WLS algorithms.
In the second simulation, the effect on estimation performance with different variance of perturbation is investigated. The variance of perturbation is set to be varied from 10 to 100 and sensors are deployed uniformly. The measurement noise variance is set to be 50. The localization performance variation with variance of perturbation is depicted in Figure 3. The TLS algorithm outperforms the LS and WLS significantly with high-level variance of perturbation.
The estimation performance of three algorithms is also investigated with different numbers of deployed nodes. Figure 4 shows the RMSEs versus the number of nodes. Fifty nodes are uniformly generated in the field. Localization starts by using five randomly selected nodes for each algorithm, followed by adding more nodes of five in a group until all fifty nodes are used. The number of FLOPS is considered to evaluate the algorithm computational complexity with variation of the number of nodes. Results are given in Figure 5 with 2-dimensional source location parameter and 5–50 nodes. It can be seen that LS required the fewest FLOPS while TLS required the most FLOPS with SVD of matrix. Although the estimation performance is improved with more nodes for all algorithms, the computation overhead is also increased. is to show that LS method is the most computationally efficient, whereas WLS method is two-stage least square method and TLS method has singular value decomposition for matrix.
5.3. Truncated Gaussian Case
Since the white and Gaussian assumptions are unrealistic in many applications, we consider the truncated Gaussian distribution for both measurement noise and sensor node location error in this case. Let be a random variable with zero mean Gaussian distribution truncated in the interval ; its probability density function (pdf) is given by where is a normalizing constant, is the variance, and is the factor to extend the interval that the random variable lies at.
Compared with the Gaussian case, similar results can be obtained and are shown in Figures 6, 7, and 8. The estimation performance for the WLS algorithm distinctly degrades significantly. This is because the weight matrix for this WLS method is calculated according to the Gaussian assumption for the measurements noise and sensor node location error. The proposed TLS algorithm still maintains good estimation performance.
6. Conclusions
In this paper, the TDOA model for source localization in sensor networks has been considered. The total least squares (TLSs) algorithm has been developed for location estimation of a stationary source with sensor location uncertainty in which the uncertainty of the sensor location has been formulated as a perturbation. The sensitivity of the TLS solution has also been analyzed to show the advantages of our proposed algorithm. Compared with the existing methods which need the Gaussian assumption for both measurements noise and sensor location error, the TLS approach does not depend on any assumed distribution of the noise and errors. Simulation results show the superior performance of the proposed method.
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TC TO JOHN STUART MILL ; 30 September 1839; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18390930-TC-JSM-01; CL 11: 195
Chelsea, Monday Night [30 September 1839]
My dear Mill,
If that place were freely offered to me, with the duty, we will say, of teaching some reasonable useful thing which a man in the year 1839 could name Moral Philosophy, with expressed or implied liberty to do it as he conscienciously, having regard to all the circumstances of the thing, best could; in that case, I should require four-and-twenty hours, I think, to deliberate earnestly with myself whether I ought to accept it or not. Perhaps I might accept it; perhaps too I might repent accepting it: it would not be very easy for me to decide. But the contingency of the whole matter, the necessity of making application, solicitation &c &c form an altogether conclusive weight in the negative scale; and I decide at once that I will not become a candidate in that sense.
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Sterling's is a splendid Article; in spite of its enormous extravagance some will like it; many are sure to talk of it and on the whole to be instructed by it. No man in England has been better reviewed than I,—if also no one worse.2
When are you coming to see me again?
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THOMAS BRATHWAIT de Ambleside in Com. Westmorlandić Armiger, venerandć Antiquitatis cultor maximus, ut istud Musćum in unoquoque genere Cimeliorum absolutissimum redderet, Ei trecenta ac amplius Numismata antiqua (quorum 6 ex auro, 66 ex argento, cćtera ex ćre) moriens legavit.
NB. Dignissimo huic Viro D. Braithwait ut Numismata hćc Universitati legaret, primum persuasit; dein[de], ut ad nos mitterentur curavit Nobilis, et Eruditissimus Vir D.D. Daniel Fleming Eques Auratus, de Rydal-Hall in Comitatu Westmorić, olim č Collegio Reginć Oxoń. Commensalis, pro summo in Literas reconditiores Amore, et singulari in hanc Universitatem Benevolentia.
Thomas Braithwait Esq., of Ambleside in Westmorland, who was a great antiquary, gave this museum at his death more than 300 ancient coins, six of which are of gold, sixty-six of silver and the rest of bronze, in order to make the Museum unrivalled in one of the areas of its collection.
N.B. The person who first persuaded the noble Mr Braithwait to leave his coins to the Museum, and who then saw to their delivery, was the great and learned Sir Daniel Fleming, from Rydal Hall in Westmorland. He was formerly a commoner of Queen's College, Oxford, and he did these things out of a deep love for scholarship and singular generosity to this University.
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Year:MDCLXXXIV (1684); Page Number: 9 (verso)
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