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|Nov 9, 1999
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|May 29, 1998
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|Oct 7, 1996
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|Steven V. Czarnecki, James A. Johnson, Carl Gerst
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|Lockheed Martin Corporation
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This application is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/731,193, filed Oct. 7, 1996 U.S. Pat. No. 5,874,918.
This invention relates to a system for locating the position of a transmitter by Doppler triangulation.
Conventional techniques for estimating the location of a transmitter, such as direction finding triangulation, make use of line of bearing measurements, while the relative position of the transmitter and the platform from which the estimation is made changes. By knowing the geographic coordinates of the platform, the geographic coordinates of the transmitter can be estimated. In order to obtain an accurate measurement of the location of a transmitter from line of bearing measurements, there needs to be substantial relative cross range motion between the platform and the transmitter and this cross range motion requires time for the motion to be carried out. For many practical applications, the prior art techniques of locating the transmitter do not provide a solution to the problem with adequate performance. Particularly in some military applications, the speed and accuracy of the prior art systems are not satisfactory. The present invention provides a system which significantly improves the speed and accuracy of determining the solution of the transmitter location.
In the Doppler triangulation system of the invention, no direct measurements of the line of bearing of the transmitter is made. Instead, the frequency of the transmitted signal received by a platform moving relative to the transmitter is measured at specific instants of time as the platform moves through a measurement path.
The location of a transmitter is determined by making use of the change in frequencies received by the platform caused by Doppler effect. The frequency of the signal received by an antenna moving relative to a transmitter can be represented in vector notation as follows: ##EQU2## in which f is the detected frequency, f0 is the transmitter frequency being detected, C is the rate of travel of the signal in the transmitting median, i.e., the speed of light in the case of a radio signal, V is the velocity of the antenna, r is the range vector from the transmitter to the antenna. The expression of Equation (1) can be written in scaler form as follows: ##EQU3## wherein V is the scaler velocity of the antenna and θ is the angle between the range vector and the direction of travel of the antenna. If a constant drift in the transmitter frequency is assumed, then the expression for the measured frequency becomes: ##EQU4## in which fd is the drift rate and t is the elapsed time.
In accordance with the invention, the frequency detected by the antenna is repeatedly measured as the platform carries the antenna through a measurement path to provide a series of frequency measurements distributed at measurement points along the measurement path. An inertial navigation system continuously tracks the position and attitude of the platform and from this information, the position, velocity and bore site of the antenna is tracked through the measurement path.
The average direction of the boresight of the antenna during the flight through the measurement path is determined and two trial locations at widely separated positions are selected on the side of the platform corresponding to the average boresight direction. A third trial location will be a previously estimated position for the transmitter if one is available. A non-linear least squares convergence based on Equation (1) or Equation (3) is attempted starting from each trial location. For each location to which convergence is achieved, a cost function, based on Equation (1) or Equation (3), is evaluated. The location with the lowest cost function is selected as the estimated location for the transmitter.
When the transmitted signal is a radar signal, the signal will be in the form of clusters of pulses, each pulse having a waveform at the frequency to be measured. The frequency of the transmitted signal is detected by cross correlating the pulses in each cluster to determine the elapsed time and the elapsed phase module 2π between each pair of cross correlated pulses. The frequency is then determined from the elapsed time and phase determinations.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the system of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a flow chart of the computer program used in the system of FIG. 1 to acquire data and compute the estimated location of a transmitter;
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the operation of the system of the invention;
FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustrating the data acquisition portion of the computer program in more detail; and
FIG. 5 is a flow chart illustrating the transmitter location portion of the computer program in more detail.
As shown in FIG. 1, the system of the invention comprises a platform 11, such as an aircraft, on which an antenna 13 is mounted. The platform holds a RF receiver 15, such as a radar receiver, for receiving a transmitted signal and converting the received signal to an IF signal, an A-to-D converter 17 which converts the IF signal to digital values representing amplitudes and phases of successive samples of the IF signal, a computer 19 for computing the position in accordance with the position determining algorithm of the invention, and an inertial navigation system 21 which continuously tracks the location and attitude of the platform 11. The specific embodiment of the invention represented in FIG. 1 is designed to receive and operate on radar signals varying from 0.5 gigahertz to 20 gigahertz. The receiver 15 includes a frequency converter making use of a local oscillator to reduce the detected frequency of the received signal to about 160 megahertz. The receiver also applies a digital signal to the computer representing the local oscillator frequency of the receiver. The digital values representing the phase samples of the pulses may be provided by a phase analog-to-digital converter as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,405,895.
The flow chart shown in FIG. 2 illustrates the process carried out by the computer to locate the transmitter from the received data. As shown in FIG. 2, the first step of the algorithm is to gather and preprocess the input data as the platform travels on a measurement path as shown in FIG. 3. As the platform, or, more precisely, the antenna mounted on the platform, travels through a measurement path from point A to point B, radar pulses in clusters will be received from a transmitter. Each cluster will correspond to a different measurement point on the measurement path with the measurement points distributed over the measurement path from point A to point B. The measured points do not need to be uniformly distributed along the measurement path. The computer will receive digital values representing the amplitudes and phases of the pulses in the received clusters. From these digital values, the computer determines a representative frequency for each measurement point corresponding to a cluster and assigns a navigation tag to each cluster. The navigation tag comprises data obtained from the inertial navigation system and will be the position of the antenna at each measurement point and the boresight direction of the antenna at each measurement point.
Following the step of gathering and preprocessing the data, a check is made to determine whether or not sufficient data is present to make an accurate determination of the transmitter position. This check includes confirming, that the number of clusters being processed exceeds a selected minimum, that the clusters were received over a time span that exceeds a selected minimum, and that the spacing between the clusters did not exceed a selected maximum. If the data quantity is insufficient as determined in this step, execution of the position determining algorithm is postponed until more clusters are obtained.
Following the step of checking the data quantity, the Z coordinate in the XYZ coordinate system is corrected for refractivity. After the refractivity correction, the process carries out the algorithm of locating the transmitter using the model of Equation (1) or (3). In the initialization portion of the location determining algorithm, two trial locations are arbitrarily selected as shown in FIG. 3, one at 45 degrees from the mid point of the vector between points A and B in the forward direction and the second trial location 45 degrees from the mid point of the direction vector in the aft direction. These points are placed along the left or right side of the flight path based on the average antenna boresight direction during the data collection. As pointed about above, a third trial location corresponds to a previously estimated transmitter location if one is available. A non-linear least squares convergence is attempted from each trial location using the model of Equation (1) or Equation (3). After convergence, the best solution is chosen by evaluating a cost function for each solution. The cost function is also based on the model of Equation (1) or Equation (3). Following the cost function evaluation, the location of the XY coordinates of the transmitter with the lowest cost function is reported and displayed.
As shown in the flow chart of FIG. 4, in the preferred embodiment of the invention, the gather and preprocess data step involves acquiring a series of clusters of pulses detected by the antenna over a measurement interval during which the platform is moving through the measurement path. Each cluster comprises a series of coherent pulses received over a short time interval of a few milliseconds up to 100 milliseconds. The fact that the pulses are coherent means that each pulse starts at the same point in the carrier waveform cycle. Stated mathematically, coherency means that ##EQU5## in which Tn is the elapsed time between the pulse samples and N is an integer. Navigation data provided by the inertial navigation system on the platform indicates the location of the platform and the attitude of the platform at the time the cluster is received or, more specifically, at a time reference assigned specifically to the cluster. From this location, the location, velocity and boresight of the antenna is determined at the time of each measurement point corresponding to a cluster of pulses.
The A-to-D converter provides the computer with a series of amplitude and phase waveform samples of the received IF signal during each pulse of each cluster. To obtain a frequency measurement for a cluster, the waveform of each pulse of the cluster is cross-correlated with the succeeding pulse in the cluster. The frequency to be measured is the carrier frequency of the pulse waveform, which is much higher than the pulse repetition frequency in the cluster. The cross-correlation function yields a set of cross-correlation values for different time displacements between the pulses and these sets of values will have a maximum at the time displacement ΔT equal to the actual time interval between successive pulses. More specifically, when the first pulse is cross-correlated with the second pulse, a value ΔT will be determined corresponding to the time interval between the start of the first pulse and the start of the second pulse. An indication of the elapsed phase or phase difference between the start of the first pulse and the start of the second pulse can be determined from the correlation function:
C12 (ΔT)=eiΔΦ A2 (4)
in which C12 (ΔT) is the magnitude of the correlation function for the time displacement Δt between the two pulses and ΔΦ represents the elapsed phase or phase difference between the two pulses. From Equation (4), an indication of the elapsed phase ΔΦ can be determined in modulo 2π. If the elapsed phase were known completely, the frequency could be determined directly from the equation: ##EQU6## In view of the fact that ΔΦ can be determined in modulo 2π from Equation (4), can be represented ΔΦ as follows: ##EQU7## in which represents the modulo 2π value of ΔΦ and n is an unknown integer. Accordingly, the frequency of the waveform of the pulses of the cluster can be represented as: ##EQU8## Thus, the formula for frequency has an ambiguity of 1/ΔT. In accordance with the invention, some of the ambiguity is resolved by using successive pairs of the pulses in the cluster to create a series of ambiguous expressions for the frequency as follows: ##EQU9## In Equation (7), the 1 through k represent the modulo phase values determined from the cross correlation of each successive pair of pulses in the cluster, ΔT1 through ΔTk are the time intervals between each successive pair of pulses in the cluster and n1 through nk are the corresponding unknown integers for each successive pair of pulses. Only some of the values n1 through nk will satisfy Equation (7) and, accordingly, the ambiguity is reduced to a subset of n1 -nk. To eliminate the remaining ambiguity, the slope of the phase change of each pulse is measured making use of the phase samples of the pulse waveform to provide a coarse estimate of the frequency. If the coarse estimate of the frequency is insufficiently accurate to resolve the remaining ambiguity, then one of the frequency solutions is arbitrarily selected as the frequency for the cluster and a corresponding frequency is selected for each of the clusters so that if one of the ambiguous frequencies is selected, the same corresponding ambiguous frequency will be selected for every cluster. The selected frequencies are then used in the transmitter location algorithm to determine the location of the transmitter. The algorithm will determine the correct location for the transmitter as long as all the frequencies correspond to the same ambiguity because the measurement of transmitter location comes from the value of Δf, the Doppler change in frequency due to motion of the platform, and this value will be the same for each corresponding set of the ambiguous frequencies. In fact, every ambiguous frequency represents an actual spectral component of the transmitted waveform.
The above system of determining the frequency lends itself to radar signal transmissions because the signal is transmitted in clusters of coherent pulses. The system can also be applied to a continuous signal transmission by acquiring clusters of coherent pulse samples of the transmitted waveform and cross correlating the pulse samples.
The frequency determined by the above-mentioned process for each of the clusters will be an intermediate frequency represented by the difference between the transmitter carrier frequency and the local oscillator frequency plus a Doppler shift frequency component.
The intermediate frequency measurements are corrected for variations in the local oscillator frequency caused by the local oscillator acceleration as indicated by the inertial guidance system. As a result of this correction, each frequency measurement will correspond to that which would be detected with a local oscillator that is insensitive to acceleration.
In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the frequency measurements used in the transmitter location algorithm are corrected intermediate frequencies, wherein the equation models (1) and (3) on which the algorithm is based express the frequency detected by the antenna. Since after correction for acceleration, the intermediate frequency measurements have a constant offset from the frequencies detected by the antenna, the corrected intermediate frequency measurements can be used directly in the algorithm because the constant local oscillator offset cancels out.
FIG. 5 illustrates a flow chart of the algorithm for determining the transmitter location from frequency measurements determined at the measurement points distributed along the measurement path as described above. The algorithm uses the signal model of Equation (3) which is repeated below: ##EQU10## In Equation (3), the unknowns are the coordinates X and Y of the transmitter, f0, and fd and can be expressed as a vector x:
x.tbd.{X,Yf0,fd } (8)
Accordingly, the frequency measurements may be expressed as a function of x as follows: ##EQU11## The algorithm performs a nonlinear least squares estimate of x starting from two or three trial locations. As shown in FIG. 3, one of the trial positions will be displaced 45 degrees from the gross direction of the motion of the platform at a selected range and a second trial position will be displaced 135� from the gross direction of motion of the platform. The average antenna boresight direction is used to determine if the trial locations should be placed to the left or right side of the flight path. The boresight used in this selection is the average boresight of the antenna as determined by the inertial navigation system for each of the measurement points. If the previous location of the transmitter determined by the system is available, this previous position will be used as a third trial position for the transmitter. The least squares algorithm is represented as:
xn+1 =xn +Δx (12)
in which xn represents the estimated values of the unknowns, X, Y, f0 and fd, Δx are the set of corrections added to the estimated unknowns x, and xn+1 are the estimated values of the unknowns after a set of corrections have been added. The initial values of the unknowns x1 are the X and Y coordinates of the trial locations, f0 is set initially to be the mean frequency measurement measured at the measurement points and fd is initially set to zero. Δx, representing a correction in the value of X, Y f0 and fd to be added to the initial values in accordance with Equation (10), is determined in accordance with the following expression:
Δx=(HT R-1 H)-1 HT R-1 z (11)
in which H is a matrix of partial derivatives expressed as follows: ##EQU12##
The partial derivatives of Equation 12 are: ##EQU13## Each column of the matrix H is made up of a vector of one of the partial derivatives comprising evaluations of the partial derivative at each of the measurement points based on the predicted values of the unknowns x. In expression (11), z is a vector representing the difference between the measured frequency values and a set of predicted frequency measurements for currently estimated by the latest iteration of the least squares calculation. The vector z can be expressed as follows:
z=fm -f(x) (14)
In Equation (14), fm is a vector representing the frequency measurements at the measurement points distributed along the measurement path and f(x) is a vector of the predicted frequency measurements at each of the measurement points. The predicted frequency measurements are determined from Equation (3) using the X and Y coordinates, fo, and fd from the latest calculation of x. The matrix R in Expression (11) is a covariance matrix of the estimated error in the frequency measurements and in this application consists of a diagonal matrix in which the values are the frequency measurement variances. The frequency measurement errors at the different measurement points are assumed to be uncorrelated. After x1 has been corrected to be x2 in accordance with Equation (12), the process is repeated with the new Δx until the expression (13) converges, at which point a location will have been estimated for the transmitter.
For each estimated location to which convergence is achieved as described above, a cost function is evaluated. The cost function evaluated is expressed as follows:
S=zT R-1 z (15)
The estimated locations are sorted by cost and the location with the lowest cost function is selected as the best solution.
An ambiguity check is then performed and if no ambiguity is found, the estimated location with the lowest cost function is reported and displayed. If more than one valid solution has been obtained in the least squares estimation, and if the valid solutions have nearly equal cost. and are not colocated, this means that the best solution determined by the cost evaluation is ambiguous and it is reported and displayed, but the ambiguity is indicated.
Thus, as described above, the system quickly determines the X and Y coordinates of the transmitter after the platform is moved through the measurement path.
The specific embodiment described above detects the position of a radio transmitter from a moving platform, presumably an air craft. The radio transmitter typically would be a radar transmitter, but the system can be used with equal facility to determine the position of the transmitter of radio signals used in communication. In addition, the system can be adapted to detect the position of a sonar transmitter or a sound signal when making the signal receiver a transducer for converting the transmitted sound wave into an electric signal.
These and other modifications can be made to the specific embodiment of the invention as described above without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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Multi-faceted "Dakar" winner: Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk
Wolfsburg (17 January 2011). On Sunday after 13 brutal "Dakar" stages for man and machine Nasser Al-Attiyah let himself be transported triumphantly across the ramp on the roof of the Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 by co-driver Timo Gottschalk and celebrated by thousands of enthusiastic fans in Buenos Aires as winner of the motorsport marathon. This closing scene of the 2011 "Dakar", which went with emotional force around the world as powerful images, symbolises two totally different sportsmen, who achieved something exceptional: Their first Dakar Rally win.
Both were instrumental on the near 9,600 kilometre long acid test through Argentina and Chile - through the sweltering heat of the Sierras Pampeanas and Atacama Desert, among the peaks of the mighty Andes and from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back - in fulfilling their respective youthful dreams of winning the "Dakar". At 15-years of age Nasser Al-Attiyah from Qatar promised his father he would win the legendary desert classic once. Now, after the long-awaited victory is reality, the 40-year old will be honoured as his nation's top sportsman with a huge welcome celebration in XXL style.
"As I drove the first few metres with Nasser I thought he doesn't know where the limit is and would permanently exceed it," remembers navigator Timo Gottschalk of his first drive together in the Volkswagen Race Touareg during a test in Hungary at the beginning of June, 2009. "After a while I really noticed that he was well aware of how to assess the risks involved, that he has incredible car control and his driving style is not always maximum attack." For Al-Attiyah, with whom the conscientious man from Neuruppin forms a duo since the Rallye dos Sertхes in 2009, the exceptional quality of the partnership was obvious from the first minute. "From the very beginning with Timo it felt as if we had already driven together for years," says the personable Arab. "Timo is like a brother for me. I can depend on him completely." Who is the boss in the car? "Very obviously Nasser," says Timo Gottschalk. "But I give the orders."
Life style with 1,001 hp: Motorsport multi-talent Nasser Al-Attiyah
Winning the Dakar Rally means realising a long-cherished goal in life for Nasser Al-Attiyah. The Qatari had kept one of two central spaces free in his cabinet for the exceptionally large "Dakar" trophy. The Olympic gold medal for clay pigeon shooting should fill the other, for which Al-Attiyah trains every day for this non-motorsport activity - relaxation and preparation for the "Dakar" in one. However, the expert in conquering sand dunes at the wheel of an automobile does not have much time at home in the desert Emirate: Al-Attiyah is driven by speed and is travels permanently around the world at racing speed. In addition to his events for the Volkswagen factor team in the Dakar Rally and the preparation rallies the horse lover regularly contests rounds of the World Rally Championship and sprint rallies in the FIA Middle East Championship. With success: Al-Attiyah can claim a total of six titles to date in classic rally championships. In June 2010 at the 24-hour race around the Nurburgring-Nordschleife he celebrated class victory in the Volkswagen Scirocco GT24-CNG for cars with alternative drives. What makes the "Dakar" victory so special for Al-Attiyah? "The 'Dakar' is, after all, the 'Dakar'. It is the toughest test in motorsport and my absolute favourite rally," says Al-Attiyah. "There is no better arena than this one to prove what you are capable of." During the 33rd running of the marathon this meant controlled attack at the right moment for Al-Attiyah. "This year Nasser drove cleverly and forward-thinking like never before," praises co-driver Timo Gottschalk. "He even accepted losing time on stony sections so as not to risk damaging tyres. Instead he attacked where he felt very comfortable: In the dunes. This was one of the keys to victory."
Meticulous worker with both feet on the ground: Timo Gottschalk
"Timo knows to calm me down in the cockpit when necessary. He is a calm and relaxed thoroughly honest guy," according to Nasser Al-Attiyah, who already thinks about the future together. "Now we are 'Dakar' winners and everybody will want to beat us. So, you have to be even better prepared and even more professional. If this is still even possible to improve when compared to now, then Timo is the right man for the job." Timo Gottschalk is in fact a meticulous operator for success. Like every co-driver in the Volkswagen "Dakar" team he navigates during the day at race pace. In the evening and occasionally into the early hours of the morning preparation of the road book for the following day is on the agenda. "An incredibly tiring job, during which you ask yourself at least once a day why you actually do it," says the 36-year old. "But when you reach the big goal you know why you subject yourself to the whole thing. It's an incredibly great feeling to be 'Dakar' winner."
Timo Gottschalk, who, in addition to his job as Volkswagen co-driver, also works as vehicle technology engineer and runs a car and motorcycle workshop in his hometown of Rheinsberg, is not in danger of 'taking off' in view of the success. He has both feet securely anchored on the ground. The down-to-earth guy has found happiness with his girlfriend Ine. Gottschalk lives together with her and her children in their house in Rheinsberg. "I have found my perfect personal environment, which gives me a lot of energy and support and is the perfect contrast to the hectic motorsport business."
Perfect harmony outside the cockpit, constructive inside: The closely-knit team Al-Attiyah/Gottschalk only clashed with one another on a couple of occasions during the 2011 Dakar Rally when quick decisions were required. "We do get loud sometimes if we have different opinions," says Al-Attiyah. "But only for a few seconds, since we convert this energy into sporting motivation. There are no serious quarrels between us."
What was the Arab doing on the roof of the Race Touareg 3 at the finish line? "I would have loved to have flown up to heaven and then straight to Qatar where the people celebrate our victory in the streets. I would have loved to have been a part of it." And if the physics could be overcome: Timo Gottschalk knows the way.
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Is anyone else experiencing near daily crashes of Firefox on their current release? It is getting so bad for me I have started using Haiku to express my discontent on the bug reports...
My 3 for today:
Firefox still keeps on crashing
This makes me feel a heavy sadness
Might start using Chrome soon
Firefox crashes twice today NOOOOO
This makes me angry like Incredible Hulk
Mozilla fix or Hulk smash
Three times today so far
Mozilla once made me smile and laugh
Now it kicks my ass
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May 21, 2012 at 9:14 UTC
No problems here. Tried disabling any and all plugins?
May 21, 2012 at 9:15 UTC
No problems here.
May 21, 2012 at 9:17 UTC
Nope seems perfectly fine at home (I use waterfox at work)
Firefox rules :D
How much RAM is it using out of interest?
May 21, 2012 at 9:22 UTC
@ vdub 4GB
All extensions worked fine in 11 but yes I have tried disabling them..
Have 12 installed at home with the same extensions and have no problems, only commented on here really because someone mentioned in a crash report that it wigged out on Spiceworks.com..he was a lot more articulate than someone the other comments on the crashes.
May 21, 2012 at 9:29 UTC
Running v12 about everywhere, no crashes so far.
Just wait, v13 will be out soon!!! :-)
May 21, 2012 at 9:34 UTC
I've been running v12 since it became available and have yet to have it crash. I have assorted plug ins, 10 active, 4 disabled due to compatibility. I'm running Win7 and have over 200 applications installed. I do a lot of testing/tinkering so I hose the OS or applications on a regular basis, sometimes breaking things on purpose to try to recreate user problems. Of all the software I have installed Firefox v12 has been rock solid.
On a side note Win7 is much less prone to breaking than previous versions of Windows even when you try to kill it.
May 21, 2012 at 9:36 UTC
Lots of problems here - all plugin related though.
May 21, 2012 at 9:44 UTC
It could be malicious javascript or a corrupted profile.
Backup bookmarks, saved passwords, etc, then delete both Firefox profile folders and rerun Firefox to create new ones. That should fix pretty much anything that isn't hardware related.
May 22, 2012 at 7:24 UTC
Whenever I'm having trouble with the fox, i just reset my profile. Usually speeds things up considerably.
Newest version has profile reset built in.
Jun 26, 2012 at 1:36 UTC
This was happening to me on Firefox 12 and 13. I disabled my Shockwave Flash plug-in and the problems went away.
Jun 27, 2012 at 2:53 UTC
The problems seem to have gone away with the update to 13, not had a crash yet at all...
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Arctic is very happy go lucky. But she can be dumb sometimes. She doesn't always pay atention and somethimes is ignorant (not on purpose though)
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She is a grey and white husky/Wolf mix. She has a white muzzel and cheeks. The top of her head is grey. She also has white gloves, stomach and tail bottom so the rest of her body is grey. She has Ultra Mrine (purple) eyes.
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The North Wind found her lost in the Arctic Tundra. Even though she was lost it was hard for them to find out that she was lost since she was playfully running around in the snow like nothing was wrong. It wasnt long untill they asked her where her parents where and she got sad and told them that her parents went to go get food but never came back. The north wind pitied her and took her in.
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- She doesent go on missions with them, she stays home and video calls them.
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Of note, the advisory – written in Chinese languge – informed the Chinese tourists that they should not spend more than B3,000 per person per tour.
The campaign was carried out by more than 50 members of the Thai-Chinese Tourism Alliance Association Phuket office and the Thai Chinese speaking Tour Guide Club, and led by Ronnakris Cheinsangaroon and Nonphuri Phattarakunakornsakul, who each serve as the Secretary at the respective associations.
The list, handed out as the tour buses and vans arrived on the island and passed through the Phuket Checkpoint at Tha Chatchai, gave example prices of tours in Phuket, Krabi and Phang Nga.
Examples included:
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Mr Ronnakris explained that the suggested tour prices listed were set by the Ministry of Tourism. "This allows tours to be no more than 600 yuan, or B3,000 per person per tour group of 16 people or more," he said.
"The need to make these leaflets available to tourists came after the government learned that many tour groups were cheating on tour packages and fares, and also to eliminate 'zero-dollar' tours," Mr Ronnakris noted.
The brochure also aims to change negative perspectives about our tourism industry among Chinese, he said.
"We want Chinese tourists to know what tours cost when they visit Thailand, and especially Phuket. They deserve a fair fare, just like everyone else," Mr Ronnakris added.
"There have been so many illegal guides selling overpriced tour packages to our tourists. We want to preserve the good tourism image of Phuket, and the Kingdom, so we set up this list of standard prices which is available to the public and freely handed out to tourists."


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Get wet first when showering, and then turn the shower off. Clean body all over, and turn the shower back on to rinse and remove soap. I use a lot less water this way.
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My husband taught me this trick when we first married and traveled some in a camper. When you're limited to 5 gallons of water for everything you learn very quickly how to stretch it!
We also do this in our home, & I may get a bit cold at times, but you'd be amazed if you saw our water bill!
* Another idea if you if you live in a camper or REALLY need to conserve water: You can put a large plastic storage tote in the bottom of your shower or tub & stand inside the plastic storage tote while you shower. Then when you're done you can use the water to flush your toilet with. Just scoop up the water in a plastic dish pan or small bucket. And if you turn off the shower while lathering, you will save so much water you'll just barely fill up the storage tote. We did this when we first moved in & our shower drain needed repair.
These days many people are using biodegradable shampoo & soap & they have their shower water run into a gray-water holding tank & then use this water for their garden. Talk about REALLY conserving water, now THAT'S the way to do it! ...I can't believe how much it cost to water a yard & garden, Thank God I live in Seattle where the rain is plentiful!
If you have about 15-20 dollars you can buy one of those nice shower heads that have various settings one of which is to turn it off while lathering. Works awesome!
This also works for hand-washing. If you change your habits, the savings start to add up.
Some similar tricks I learned while growing up:
Don't run water while brushing your teeth! I have been amazed at how many people do this, without any reason to. Also, for men, if you run the water while shaving, try filling the sink up with water instead.
My mother put bricks in our toilet tank. It reduces the water by the volume of the brick. As long as the toilet still flushes clean, the only difference is water savings. Most toilet systems now have an adjustable float, so you can control the amount of water in the tank that way. If the toilet doesn't flush clean, readjust for a little more water until it does.
I wash clothes in cold water. I adjust the hot water tank to heat only to the degree that if I turn the hot on to shower, I don't have to turn on the cold! No heating water to cool it down.
Great ideas! We put a bucket in to save water while shower is getting to warm. That cold water start is too hard on some systems. Anyway, we use it for watering plants, toilet flush, water for the cats (they love the BIG water bowl).
I catch rain water to water my flowers I have on our patio in pots & flower beds near the patio also water for the birds. I made a place for the birds to drink water with a plastic hanging basket & a cake pan, hang the basket in patio then, set a cake pan in it, the other critters can't get to it.
In my family, we do baths like the Japanese. We get some hot water with a little soap in it to pour over ourselves, then rub down till we lather up. Then we pour a little more hot water over ourselves to rinse off. Usually this will take one to two 20-ounce cups for the soaping, and three to four for rinsing. Obviously, more is needed if we're shaving or washing our hair, but not THAT much more. Then we traipse into the other bathroom, where we've been running a hot bath. One at a time, we do this pour-bath, then soak for fifteen or twenty minutes to take the ache out of our bones while the next person's taking their own pour-bath. We don't re-draw another bath, though -- just add maybe another little bit of hot water if the water has cooled down too much. This works because we're already clean when we get into the bath. It's fine for four or even five people, if they're related and therefore don't mind sharing "cooties."
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Anurag Basu is one of the most talented directors in Bollywood. However, very few people know that the writer-turned-director had a humble beginning. He began his journey from the small screen. Anurag started his career as an assistant director on the sets of the popular TV show 'Tara'. He had even directed Balaji Telefilms hit show 'Koshish: Ek Asha' before venturing into films.
His last outing 'Barfi' was highly appreciated by the critics and audience alike. His upcoming detective film 'Jagga Jasoos' starring Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif is slated to release on 3rd June next year.
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Brisbane: Martin Love's campaign to play for Queensland in Friday's Sheffield Shield cricket final against Victoria gained momentum on Tuesday when he passed his first fitness test.Just 12 days after surgery on his broken left thumb, Love batted without any obvious problems and declared himself a likely starter for Queensland. He has only to convince selectors he can field without any problems to complete an unexpected return from an injury, which was supposed to end his season.Victoria also had good news on Tuesday when wicket-keeper Darren Berry was declared a certain starter for the Gabba match after surviving a 40-minute fitness examination.Berry missed Victoria's final preliminary match against Western Australia last weekend with a strained shoulder. Love also faced a testing workout against a variety of bowlers and he was delighted when he left the nets."It's a lot better than I thought it would be and I've got to see how it pulls up tomorrow morning," Love said. "If it's okay and it doesn't swell, then I think I would be in."My batting isn't a problem and it's just a matter now of coping with fielding."Copyright AFP 2001
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Author | Rohan Dua | Saturday, Jul 11,2009 9:14 AM
A week after the presentation of the Railway Budget 2009, travel portals offering train bookings are delighted with the response from visitors. The announcement of reduction in the number of days for advance booking and the extra fare charges is bringing more traffic to online travel companies.
In her Budget speech Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee had said that the period of advance booking under the Tatkal Scheme had been reduced from the current five days to two days. Among the other highlights of the Railway Budget were: auto-vending machines to be installed at large and medium stations; an arrangement with the Department of Post for issuance of tickets is also on the anvil.
Welcoming the move, Druv Shringi, CEO, Yatra.com, said, "The fact that railway tickets will be available at thousands of vending machines and post offices, in addition to online travel portals is fantastic. Though the competition now will be more, but this also means far wider distribution, which will help weed out touts and unscrupulous agents. This is a good example of consumerism winning in India. We had launched the train booking service in February 2009 and the numbers will only grow."
Adding to this joy, the Railway Budget announced that Tatkal tickets would be made available destination-wise instead of from end to end stations, thereby reducing the financial burden on passengers. Tour operators, too, are upbeat about the new Railway proposals that aim to interlink the major tourist destinations in the country.
Often, travellers have complained about the difficulty in checking their reservation status. The new Budget allows for the provision of SMS updates to inform passengers about their train status as well as reservation status.
Travel websites like Makemytrip.com are already offering innovative personalised alerts and reminders to its consumers. Sachin Bhatia, Co-founder, Makemytrip.com, said "Not only has e-ticketing been made easy for the customers, they are more user-friendly too. We provide them personalised alerts on Tatkal reservations for a particular train, when availability becomes low, as well as the PNR status of a waitlisted ticket.
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I was hired by a very well known producer who loved and used 2 of the tracks that I wrote and composed on the 3 track EP he was working on :-)
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both. I like the digital accuracy and analog warmth on the modern sounds.
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I love creating music, so there is nothing better to do what you love.
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What do you want your music to sound like? what are your visions to your music? who are the inspiring artists?
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Please be very honest with your opinions and comments on the progress... that will help me understand better and we will get to the right direction.
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I crew up in East Europe. Studied classical percussion and in the same time played in heavy metal band. Then studied music mixing and mastering now been producing music for 10+ years
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never afraid to try something new.
Which artist would you like to work with and why?
no preference..
Can you share one music production tip?
song is never perfect without a great groove, find the groove!
What type of music do you usually work on?
Electronic, Dance, Pop, Folk, Rock,
What's your strongest skill?
finishing a song
What do you bring to a song?
new ideas, groove
What's your typical work process?
My usual work in stages: Writing, composing ideas. Recording and playing to find out what works best, generate perefect arrangement Mixing and sound design mastering
Tell us about your studio setup.
Mostly in the box with 3 UAD apollo 8 (all plugins) Ronald Drums, countless midi controllers...
What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
Michael Jackson, BT, Lady Gaga, Vangelis, Hans Zimmer, Enigma, Bjork, Iron Maiden, Trapt, Rihanna etc...
Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
Produce tracks from start to finish.


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Johannesburg, July 2, 2014 -- The digital revolution is just beginning, and companies that fail to prepare for future customer expectations will be left behind, delegates heard at this week's Interactive Intelligence Contact Centre in the Cloud Executive Forum.
Interactive Intelligence's manager, Sales Operations for Africa, Deon Scheepers, said the "nexus of forces" including social media, mobile, big data and cloud was only now gaining momentum in Africa. But Africa is catching up with the world, and when it does, customer expectations will drive significant change in how contact centres interact and deliver service. "Globally, customers are expecting more and they are expecting it faster," he noted.
Scheepers highlighted Interactive Intelligence's latest annual surveys, which poll contact centre professionals and customers globally.
"Effective follow-up is now the most valued aspect of customer service interaction globally, while in South Africa, a knowledgeable agent is still top priority," he said. Globally, the top customer frustration when dealing with contact centres is being transferred multiple times, followed by not being able to understand the agent. And globally, customers said they were highly likely to share both positive and negative customer experiences with friends and family via social media.
In order to capture and react to any customer pronouncements, every organisation needs to have a single and holistic view of all customer interactions. What this means for contact centres is that they need to have access to all customer-relevant information and offer multi-channel interactions in order to meet customer expectations," said Scheepers.
Delegates heard that cloud-based contact centres using a single integrated platform allow enterprises to consolidate data, ensure reliability and scalability, and support multi-channel engagement and a single view of the customer, all of which enhances customer service.
Gareth Mellon, senior industry analyst for ICT at Frost & Sullivan, said the decreasing cost of bandwidth and storage, and increasing personal use of cloud services is driving cloud uptake by enterprises and contact centres. The key reasons for contact centres to adopt cloud now, he said, were capital budget constraints, cost savings, access to the latest technologies and the need for flexible site and agent provisioning.
Chris Majer, Interactive Intelligence's cloud practice manager for EMEA, added: "Cloud really can be described as the perfect storm."
He said the old concerns about security and cost were falling away as cloud proved itself in the contact centre space, and that Interactive Intelligence was seeing a significant swing to cloud among its own clients, in line with global trends. "Cloud now makes up 70% of our annual orders globally, and made up 85% of our EMEA orders this year," he revealed.
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The works of Antoni Gaudi - The famous Spanish architect created some stunning buildings in Barcelona, including his best known work, the Sagrada Familia (which has yet to be finished). Seven of his monuments are classed as UNESCO World Heritage sites, including Parque Guell, Casa Vicens, Casa Batllo and the crypt in Colonia Guell.
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To prevent the wine from spoiling, neutral grape spirit was added. On the long sea voyages, the wines would be exposed to excessive heat and constant movement which transformed the flavour and character of the wine.
As the wine producers of Madeira found out when an unsold shipment of wine returned to the islands after a round trip. Today, Madeira is noted for its unique winemaking process which involves heating the wine up to temperatures as high as 60C for an extended period of time and deliberately exposing the wine to levels of oxidation.
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We are reaching Manuel Antonio in Dec after spending 4 days in Arenal and 4 days in Monteverde where we are doing activities such as ziplining, horseback riding, night hikes, and guided hikes. Itinerary posted here: tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g291982-i813-k5503… We are two familes with three kids (5, 6 and 8 yrs), and will be renting a car for the entire trip.
What are the kid-friendly things to do in Manuel Antonio? The first day we could do a guided hike in the MA National Park and spend the rest of the day at the beach. We could even spend a second day at the beach, but is there anything else to do? We have ruled out kayaking (tough on kids), snorkeling (not all that great) and a tour to the mangrove (I was told that the kids will ge bored).
I must admit that the reason I looked at Manuel Antonio was because of the beaches. After adventure tours in Arenal and Monteverde, we wanted to spend the last 3-4 days realxing on the beach, and apparently MA beaches are far more beautiful and safer than the Guanacaste beaches so we chose MA. But we are willing to substitute MA with a beach town if it's going to be safe for the kids and has an all-inclusive resort. Since we have a rental car, we can fly out either from San Jose (preferred) or Liberia.
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Northpoint Centre of Learning, Lintas, is organising a residential workshop on Implementing Growth Strategies. The workshop, to be held between May 6 and 8, 2004 will be conducted by Hrishi Bhattacharyya. Bhattacharyya, till recently, was Sr Vice President, Unilever Corporate Headquarters, Europe.
The workshop would be an open enrolment programme, designed for senior level executives who are responsible for, or who are about to take over the formulation and implementation of growth strategies. This would include Marketing Managers, Innovation Managers, Business Strategy Heads and Senior Finance, Logistics and HR Managers, working in cross-functional growth strategy teams.
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Using as CS1000 Suc.7.5 in a haspitality environment, we are trying to find the best way to privide voice service via existing coax to 300 widely spread guest villas on the property. The goal is to
1.) escape paying the LEC for the copper cable now providing connectivity to the CS 1000 by using the CATV coax already in place providing net access and CATV.
2.) Preserve the existing hospitality functionality, including room status system, automated wake up, voicemail/message waiting light, and 0 to the attendant.
Think there is one box that will act as wifi router and provide an analog voice port for voice sets. If someone has done this, I'll buy you a dozen jelly donuts if you will tell me what box we need to buy to accomplish it. Many thanks,
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May 16, 2012 at 3:18 UTC
Communication Group is an IT service provider.
Sorry gonna go out on a limb here and say... this doesn't exist. Can I still get the box of jelly donuts?
May 16, 2012 at 3:43 UTC
Man now I have to stop at Dunkin on the way home. I really want some of those jelly donuts.
All kidding aside. If there was such a thing you would need several boxes, one near the PBX to encode the voice onto the catv signal and then one at each villa to strip the voice back out. I guess I would have to ask you two questions back.
1) Do you currently have an analog line(s) pulled to each of the villas, but they go somewhere else?
2) Do you provide internet access to the villas some how?
[Edit] Some google searching turned up the technology but not on the scale you are talking about. http:/
May 16, 2012 at 6:57 UTC
Yes, there is a single analog line terminating on analog sets at each villa. These each have an extension off the CS1000 switch. There is also coaxial cable providing net access and CATV to each villa. We want to avoid installing VoIP phones and keep the analog sets if possible. But the most important goal is to eliminate $15,000 /month in circuit costs paid to the serving LEC by ceasing to use those copper pairs to get voice service into the villas.
May 16, 2012 at 7:33 UTC
If you could push ethernet across your cable tv wiring plant (like cox, comcast, or cablevision does) then all you would need is an ATA (SIP to analog) converter at each villa. I'm not saying this linksys device is the device for the job, but it does give an example of what could be used once you get ethernet to the building.
May 17, 2012 at 12:52 UTC
Basically you want to take out the copper between each Villa and leave only the coax, leave the analog headsets, and provide telephony and net access over the coax, right?
Do you have a Cable Modem/Router at each villa? If so, like George said, an ATA adapter at each villa is the easiest way to accomplish that. Grandstream and Linksys make cost effective models. Our experience has been that they have a low problem rate.
All this donut talk is making me hungry.
May 17, 2012 at 10:56 UTC
We are a distributor for a US manufacturer that builds both Ethernet/IP over coax solutions and VoIP Gateways and Routers amongst many other things. I would like to get a good overview on distances and rates required with a little more details about each of the services being offered and then perhaps we can offer you a complete solution over some jelly donuts.
If you want PM me or e-mail me directly - email@example.com and I can schedule a conference call with the company that can provide such solution.
May 17, 2012 at 4:27 UTC
@Mike Excellent I was hoping a Spiceworks Partner would pick this up. This project will be big, it is important to get the right subject matter experts involved from the very beginning.
May 18, 2012 at 8:26 UTC
@Mike Excellent I was hoping a Spiceworks Partner would pick this up. This project will be big, it is important to get the right subject matter experts involved from the very beginning.
Yes :) We have a manufacturer partner that works with such devices to meet Leslie's requirements. They are very experienced, I just want him to speak with them directly so they can go back and forth on requirements. Still waiting on Leslie to e-mail me though.
May 23, 2012 at 1:56 UTC
years ago I worked for a cable company and they deployed similar over a coax network. The clients end used cable modem by aaris with telephone & ethernet ports, not sure about the wifi though.
May 23, 2012 at 3:04 UTC
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My company OnSIP does extensive SIP phone reviews, but we decided to review an ATA upon customer request— The Grandstream GXW4024. You'll see some configuration details in there as well in case they help. You can ignore the author's snarky remarks about using an ATA :) We do have a few customers who use them.
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