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By Michael E. Ruane
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Friday, February 12, 2010; 10:49 PM
The roads, down to one lane in some areas because of unplowed snow, were jammed. The Metro, having endured a mid-morning commuting catastrophe, was plagued by an evening ride home that crawled at a snail's pace.
Federal workers returned to work Friday -- and many likely wished they hadn't.
Following the morning derailment of a Red Line train just outside the Farragut North station, downtown continued its meltdown. Delays were reported on the Orange and Blue lines. The homebound trip was in places bumper-to-bumper madness.
Motorist Katherine Lewis sat for an hour in the 1700 block of S Street NW around 6 p.m. Ahead of her, she said by phone, a Metro bus was stuck in the snow. A police car blocked her access to the southbound lanes of 18th Street NW. She and a dozen other motorists headed in her direction were going nowhere.
"We can't get out," she said. "Send help."
Fifteenth Street NW was jammed downtown with motorists backed up trying to get out of their parking garages.
The Metro was running after the mid-morning Red Line derailment, but passengers reported packed trains.
Traffic cameras of Interstate 95 southbound in Springfield showed lanes jammed with headlights of motorists stalled after a morning trip that AAA described as "the commute from hell."
The Beltway east of the American Legion Bridge was an almost unbroken line of headlights and taillights -- motorists seeking refuge in opposite directions.
Kim Frum, a spokeswoman for the Maryland State Highway Administration, said things were slow on major Maryland highways around Washington but traffic seemed to be moving.
She noted that federal government workers were allowed to come to work late Friday morning. "Everybody now is going home at the regular time," she said. "It looks like a pretty regular rush hour."
Try telling that to the people stuck in their cars and on Metro.
At 7 p.m. 15th Street NW was a nightmare of bumper-to-bumper northbound traffic, as cars inched through the slushy street amid a din of honking horns. Motorists said R and S streets NW were blocked with police tape for unknown reasons. One commuter reported moving only six blocks in 20 minutes.
"Many residents whose cars have been snowed in have now shoveled them out and taken to the streets," said a spokeswoman for D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty said, quoting the Transportation Department. That traffic was added to "regular downtown after work traffic mixed with Friday night traffic from dinner, theater and entertainment goers.'
"This is ridiculous," said Kim Simmons, 24, who was visiting from Richmond, as she sat in the jam on 15th Street.
Cabdriver Gabe Gebremedhin, in a car behind her, said he had never seen traffic this bad.
"This is horrible," he said. "And it's throughout the city." He said he had been in traffic so long he was running out of gas.
"I drove a cab for 18 years," he said. "This is the worst."
Don Merion, 47, a Florida resident trying to get to Seventh and P streets, said he had been inching along 15th Street for half an hour.
"What is the city doing?" he said. "They're not cleaning up the snow. I was out in Virginia . . . The roads are clean. The roads are clear. There's no traffic. I hit the D.C. border and I stop. It's been like this ever since I crossed the 14th Street bridge. . . . There's not even any police out here. I don't see a single cop out on the street. Where are they?"
Daouda Sambene, 35, of Gaithersburg, was trying to get home, with little luck. "It's just horrible," he said as he sat in the traffic. "I have never seen this before. It's unbelievable."
Elsewhere in the city, commuters tweeted warnings. K Street was said to be excruciatingly slow.
"Downtown is like the ninth circle [of hell] right now," wrote one person. "Glad I don't drive."
Another cautioned: "Dupont Circle traffic nightmare. Don't even think about driving or riding anywhere near there right now."
From Georgetown came: "Circulator Bus is not circulating. Georgetown is completely gridlocked."
"Dear Mayor Fenty," wrote another, "have you been outside tonight?"
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During your childhood, when your parents forced you to eat a raw carrot, you might have developed an aversion towards it. But, starting your day with some vegetable juice is a great way to allow your body to function well.
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Carrot contains certain healing properties. It contains Vitamin A, C, B1, B6, K, E, D. It also contains certain phytonutrients known as lycopene, lutein, xanthophyll and zeaxanthin. All of them contain healing properties.
When it comes to minerals it contains sodium, phosphorous, magnesium, calcium, potassium and biotin. As your body needs potassium, choose carrot as its source.
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Mainly, the carotene (an antioxidant) present in carrots heals your system. If you can drink just a glass of its juice every day, you can prevent many diseases.
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Blurred (Party) Lines Are Ruining Canadian Politics
In the fight against Quebec separatists, its often insisted that Canadian politicians need to "speak with one voice." And that might be true. Everywhere else, however, politics would improve immensely if we could choose between two clear ones. Canada is long overdue for a fundamental re-calibration of provincial politics. Perhaps at the next Manning Centre Conference, all of Canada's supposedly "right-of-centre" politicians can get together and agree to forge a new provincial political brand (say, the "Conservative Party") that's present in all provinces. And then maybe all the left-wing people can meet at, I don't know, David Suzuki's next garden party or something.


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Vincent Bollore told Reuters that he is ready to invest EUR30 million ($40 million) to buy a 30 percent stake in Pininfarina S.p.A. Bollore is CEO of Bollore S.A. – an EUR6 billion investment, industrial, logistic and media group.
Bollore is perhaps the most likely bidder for Italy's struggling automotive design and engineering specialist. Pininfarina attested that Bollore has sent a non-binding letter of intent to Banca Leonardo, an Italian merchant bank that wants a buyer for a 76.1 percent stake of Pininfarina owned by creditor banks.
Bollore said it will not exceed a 30 percent stake in Pininfarina. Italian stock market regulations require an investor to buy all the shares in a listed company when its stake exceeds 30 percent.
Pininfarina is listed on the Milan stock exchange. Spurred by rumors of a bid, Pininfarina shares have jumped from a low of EUR1.63 on July 26, 2010 to EUR7.77 in recent trading.
Rival bidder Magna International Inc. has dropped out of the race and Beijing Automotive, which reportedly was eyeing a Pininfarina bid, claims that it is not interested.
Four years ago, Bollore and Pininfarina formed a 50:50 partnership to build electric vehicles and planned to invest EUR150 million to make a four-seat car that Pininfarina would design and that would feature Bollore's lithium ion batteries. [via autonews - sub. required]


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Though it sounds funny, have you ever wondered why you tilt your head towards the right when you try to kiss your beloved? Why don't you lean towards the left?
Well, now researchers found an answer to this question. They say that a lot of cognitive science and neuroscience is behind this simple natural action of most of us.
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Well, when you tilt towards the right, your partner also naturally does the same to reach your lips. We all have a tendency to match the action of the loved one during a kiss, says this study. Here are more facts.
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Most of the human beings have a tendency to move towards the right. Even in the womb, the foetus seems to turn the head towards the right. Even in adulthood, most of us use right hand and right leg to initiate any action.
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As a part of the study, researchers requested several couples to kiss in private. Surprisingly, almost all couples started the kiss by tilting the head towards the right! Both the one who initiated the kiss and the recipient seemed to do so without thinking twice!
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Do U want 2 see Prince's latest party trick? Do U want 2 see how much talent a 42-year-old can pack into some tight purple trousers? How about how many hits he can fit into one show? The queue of people wrapped around the block to see Prince's Hit'N'Run tour kick off obviously want to.
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The man is clearly brilliant. Wincing, stacked on platform heels, the purple one sprays 'Let's Go Crazy' with neon guitar graffiti. He pours syrupy soul all over 'Nothing Compares 2 U' and gives 'Diamonds And Pearls' a glossy R&B shine. The ghost of The Artist hangs in the room, though, and when saxophonist Najee adds his jazzy Blue Note hue to 'Purple Rain', we hold on tightly to the New Power Generation and pray we aren't pulled into some Kenny G-ish new age.
Such first-night kinks wouldn't stand out so much if Prince didn't bring attention to them. "Welcome to rehearsal", he quips angrily, after a fluffed guitar change. Maybe his problem is that there is just too much good stuff. And maybe it's a well-meaning effort to satisfy every desire that causes him to cut off would-be climaxes like 'Little Red Corvette' and 'When Doves Cry' before they really get going. Oh well, watching him slither across the floor and dive headfirst into the knee-deep groove of 'Kiss' makes such complaints as serious as candy floss.
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History in the making: William and Kate are married
LONDON (AP) — Newlyweds Prince William and Kate Middleton sealed their wedding with a pair of kisses on a balcony at Buckingham Palace, delighting thousands of spectators.
There was a roar of approval from the crowd as William and his bride exchanged a peck on the lips Friday. It was quickly followed by another, then a flyby of vintage and modern Royal Air Force planes.
The couple will now attend a lunch reception for 650 guests, followed by an evening party for 300 friends and family.
The newlyweds have been given the titles Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Buckingham Palace said William is now His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge, and that Miss Catherine Middleton is now Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge.
There's more: The palace statement said William was also named the Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus. Middleton took those titles when she said "I will," becoming Countess of Strathearn and Baroness Carrickfergus.
Strathearn ties William and Middleton to Scotland, where the pair met and fell in love. Baron Carrickfergus is a little-used title which refers to one of the oldest towns in Northern Ireland.
All three titles were bestowed by William's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, to mark the prince's marriage and were announced early Friday via Twitter, by email and on the royal wedding's official website.
Because Middleton was not born royalty, she will not officially become Princess Catherine — although the public may choose to call her that, or even "Princess Kate," in defiance of protocol.
Royal watchers called the bestowal of the title Duke of Cambridge a personal mark of esteem from the queen. It refers to the history-steeped university town that is a symbol of British prestige. The dukedom's history stretches back to Medieval times and has for 300 years been associated with royalty.
Jennie Bond, one of the U.K.'s foremost experts on the monarchy — and a royal wedding consultant for The Associated Press — said there was a hint that William was going to get the title.
"The queen went to visit Cambridge the day before yesterday so a lot of people thought that was how it was going to be," she said.
Bond called the title "a personal gift from the queen, a mark of her esteem for her grandson."
Barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses and dukes are all orders of British nobility, in ascending order of prestige. The titles can be created and become extinct, for example when a duke or earl ascends to the throne or when he dies without leaving legitimate heirs.
In 1706, George Augustus — who subsequently became King George II — was made the Duke of Cambridge. The dukedom ceased when he ascended to the throne in 1727, but was recreated in 1801.
Although a venerable title, it does not necessarily have terribly pleasant history.
The second Duke of Cambridge, Prince Adolphus Frederick, was the seventh son of King George III. Defying the Royal Marriage Act, he married his mistress, Sarah Louisa Fairbrother, an actress and a commoner, in 1847.
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Here's an old Return of Kings post that I've been mulling over for far too long. Entitled "Why I Quit Going To Your Church," here are some excerpts:
1. Your music is saccharine
Christians assume that a distorted guitar is the definition of rock music. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Rock music is as much a philosophy as it is a sound. I heard time again growing up, "The only problem with secular music is the lyrics." This is nonsense because in every genre, music and lyrics are innately connected. Imagine "Something in the way" by Nirvana with Jesus lyrics. It just doesn't work.
But of course churches soften the "guitar and drums" element, and you'll never hear a guitar solo that has any integrity. Perhaps there was some merit to early Christian rock (perhaps), but songwriters now simplify the chords so that churches can play it. So you'll never find an A7 #9 in a church with "contemporary rock". Because, you know, those extra two notes in the chord are just too hard to pull off. You might even have to have an extra volunteer guitar player, and the mild dissonance could make people uncomfortable with their edgy new form of worship.
"But worship is about lyrics, not music!" cries the Christian who glossed over everything I just said. Your lyrics are also sacharine. If you look at Bob Dylan's "Slow Train Coming" (1979), you'll find that at least there were a variety of topics on display. Not every song was a praise song. Some were simply doctrinal teaching songs, like the old hymns. Today, your lyrics are so hollow that many musicians are rewriting (and ruining) old hymns on their Christian rock praise albums.
2. Your sermons sound like a high school assembly
It seemed like every sermon was either about getting through hard times or being obedient to God. Most pastors I ran into knew fuck-all about the Bible and basic doctrine, which I guess is a product of giving a seminary degree to anyone with "a call from God."
3. Your buildings are ugly
I was in Charlotte, North Carolina. There is this massive evangelical church called Calvary. I mean, this is the kind of thing you see on TV, and not at 3am either. I went in one day to look around. They had this beautiful old organ several stories high, and they tacked two ugly screens on it so the people could read the lyrics. It completely upset the whole aesthetic of the room, but it was necessary since Jesus condemns the use of hymnals. After all, you wouldn't want to miss out on the latest, most innovative praise chorus, would you?
The Catholic Church is actually having a substantial number of converts from protestantism. The Eastern Orthodox are being jump-started back to life with converts, and the break-off Anglo-protestant groups are finding evangelical converts demanding Anglo-Catholic worship. Why is this? There are a variety of reasons, but part of it is because people enjoy looking at pretty things and listening to pretty music. Even the Catholic Church is finding its own people are tired of bluegrass masses and dadaist architecture. For all its lies and manipulation, consumerism is right that what you are surrounded by affects the way you feel about that place and about yourself.
While the whole thing is worth reading, the general complaint, whether the author realizes it or not, is that protestant/evangelical sects are just terrible because they fundamentally must rebel against tradition. There are two major orthodox churches: The Greek catholic church and the Roman catholic church. Most protestant and evangelical sects trace their roots to rebellion against the Roman catholic church (the Mormons and JWs being the most obvious exceptions). As such, this generates an unresolvable tension within most of these denominations because they have the impossible task of getting their believers to reject some traditions but not all of them.
Fundamentally, it is impossible maintain a democratized religion, for it becomes necessary to pick and choose which traditions to keep, which traditions to discard, and which traditions to modify and in what ways to modify them. Once tradition becomes a buffet table, so to speak, it is simply a matter of time until virtually all traditions are discarded or corrupted.
As such, it should make sense that protestant and evangelical denominations generally suffer from the problems listed above because these denominations have no basis of tradition (other than a hatred of tradition), and cannot therefore reasonably object to alterations to traditional practices. If you reject, say, papal authority, then on what grounds could you not reject a council of churches? If you reject the doctrine of transubstantiation, then on what grounds could you criticize those who would do away with observing The Memorial altogether? Or altering its observed frequency? If you are willing to toss away one tradition, or one aspect of a tradition simply because you don't understand it or it doesn't jive with your personal understanding of God's word, then how can you criticize those who would do likewise for similar reasons?
Unfortunately, discarding tradition usually to cultural depravity, which should help to explain why protestant/evangelical music, liturgy, and aesthetics are generally devoid of beauty and craftsmanship. There is no solid foundation to build upon, which is why so many denominations end up chasing trends instead of adding to a tradition that is built to withstand the tests of time. Worse still, given that the trends are set by "the world," the aesthetics that come to play are both shallow and complex. Since the rebellious denominations are often populated by simpletons and clever sillies, the result of chasing trends is often works that are shallow but lacking complexity.
Deep down, evangelicals and protestants yearn for the depth, which is why they try so hard to make their services meaningful. They dress their liturgies in bright colors and ridiculous props because they want there to be a depth of meaning to their teaching. Depth, though, is a function of maturity and time, and there is no substitute for either. The clown show that is evangelical preaching is a mask to hide the immaturity and emptiness of their theology.
The rock show that is passed off for evangelical worship is simply a stimulant, meant to help listeners simulate the emotion of feeling depth where none actually exists. It is akin to a toddler watching Sesame Street. The bright colors and loud noises are meant to draw attention to the most rudimentary of lessons while distracting one from noticing that very little is actually happening. Praise can certainly help one see the mystery of God, but it takes a lot of time and tradition to build an edifice that enables just that. It should be telling that the longest-standing traditions do not need smoke and mirrors to open the minds of men.
Sadly, most evangelicals and a healthy number of low-church protestants* seem completely unaware that they are striving to solve a problem that the catholic churches solved many centuries ago. They denigrate the orthodoxy for its reliance on the traditions of man but fail to realize that they are trying to instill their own traditions and thus maintain their own faith for posterity. Because their primary tradition is denigrating tradition, they will always be doomed to failure and depravity.
* High church protestants, like Lutherans, Anglicans, and Presbyterians, are more generally aware that they are essentially Roman Catholic knockoffs. In spite of this, their rebellion against the orthodoxy of the church has led them, for the most part, to embrace ungodly traditions, such as the ordination of female clerics.


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The invention described herein may be manufactured and used by or for the Government of the United States of America for governmental purposes without the payment of any royalties thereon or therefor.
(1) Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method for determining the placement of elements in a thinned array. More specifically, the present invention relates to the application of genetic algorithm techniques in a method for near-optimal element placement in a discrete sparse array lattice.
(2) Description of the Prior Art
Thinned beamforming arrays are often designed to reduce the fabrication costs, the array size, and/or the real-time data processing requirements associated with large array systems. Thinned arrays address these limitations by using fewer discrete elements than the total number of elements permitted by the physical dimensions of the array substrate. With proper thinning of the array, an optimal directional response (minimal mainlobe width and minimal peak sidelobe level) can be obtained. However, improper thinning of the array elements will lead to poor performance with increased mainlobe widths and often severe and unpredictable peak sidelobe levels.
Several methods have been developed for determining the placement of the array elements to obtain an optimal directional response. The most direct approach, known as spatial tapering, places elements such that nearest-neighbor spacing between elements is inversely proportional to a chosen ideal continuous window function. For arrays without discrete lattice constraints, this approach often yields a directional response close to that of the underlying continuously weighted array in the vicinity of the main response direction, but often gives rise to severe and unpredictable sidelobes at the angular extremes of the receptive field. Furthermore, placement in a discrete lattice is problematic because the inter-element spacing is only an approximation of the desired spacing with elements in the center region too far apart. Additionally, this approach is poorly suited to the approximation of a uniformly weighted line array because it would yield repetitive inter-element spacings greater than half the wavelength, producing grating lobes in the array response pattern.
In contrast to the deterministic spatial tapering method is the use of random perturbations from equal spaced elements or "random arrays." It is known that randomized element locations may be used to destroy the periodicity inherent in the array factor in an equally spaced line array. Furthermore, large perturbations can make it possible to operate the array over the design frequency, decrease beamwidth, and eliminate grating lobes.
The technique of generating random arrays involves probabilistic methods. In this approach, the location of each element is a random variable drawn from a probability density function which is proportional to a desired excitation function. While the exact response characteristics of the resulting array are unpredictable, the amplitude characteristics of sidelobes can be described statistically. Unfortunately, this technique does not apply directly to fixed lattice grids. Furthermore, repetitive generation of multiple array configurations constitutes a random search, with no tendency for successive improvement. Therefore, random array generation requires the evaluation of a large number of possible arrays to identify one with an optimal response. Thus, random array generation is not an efficient technique because of the large number of possible arrays which must be evaluated.
Thus, what is needed is a method for determining element placement in a thinned array which provides an optimal element placement pattern for a fixed lattice thinned array.
Accordingly, it is a general purpose and object of the present invention to provide a method for determining an optimal element placement for a fixed lattice thinned array.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for determining an optimal element placement for a thinned array which does not constitute a random search.
A further object of the present invention is the provision of a method for generating an optimal element placement pattern for a thinned array which does not require computation of substantially all placement patterns to identify an optimal placement pattern.
These and other objects made apparent hereinafter are accomplished with the present invention by providing a method, performed with the aide of a programmed controlled computer, for generating a thinned array having an optimal directional response. The method generates an initial population of possible element occupancy patterns and determines a fitness value for each of the element occupancy patterns in the initial population. Successive populations are generated by manipulating the element occupancy patterns using reproduction, crossover, mutation, elitism, and equality operators. The array response of each occupancy pattern in the successive population is evaluated to determine a fitness value for each. The process of generating and evaluating successive populations is repeated for a specified number of generations, until the maximum population fitness does not significantly increase between generations, or until population diversity decreases.
A more complete understanding of the invention and many of the attendant advantages thereto will be readily appreciated as the same becomes better understood by reference to the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings wherein like reference numerals and symbols designate identical or corresponding parts throughout the several views and wherein:
FIGS. 1A and 1B show illustrations of an element placement problem for a thinned array;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a method for generating a thinned array having an optimal directional response in accordance with the present invention; and
FIG. 3 illustrates the operation of the reproduction, crossover, mutation, elitism, and equality operators used by the present invention.
A thinned array problem can be defined as the placement of elements in an array lattice to obtain an array with an optimal response. The elements can comprise any conventional sensor for the desired application such as a hydrophone, a pressure sensor, an optical sensor, or the like. Referring to FIG. 1A, there is shown an illustration of a sample thinned array problem of placing 31 elements in a linear lattice of 63 possible locations.
In FIG. 1A, the elements comprise hydrophones and the solution to the thinned array problem seeks a thinned array with an optimal directional response (that is, an array having a beam pattern with a minimal mainlobe width and a minimal peak sidelobe level). The lattice of FIG. 1A is a regular array lattice of λ/2 spacing, where λ is the propagating wavelength. The 63 discrete lattice positions are identified as locations 0 through 62. Locations with solid circles (locations 0, 3, 30, 31, 32, 61, and 62) represent lattice positions occupied by elements.
Using a conventional random generation technique, element placement within the array is selected at random, the directional response of the array is evaluated, and the process is repeated until a satisfactory directional response is obtained. For the relatively simple array problem illustrated in FIG. 1A the number of possible 31 element arrays which can be built is large enough (over 9�1017 possible patterns for uniformly weighted elements) to discourage this technique. Additionally, evaluating the directional response of an array is computationally complex and requires a relatively long period of time to complete. Furthermore, each of the possible arrays is independent of the others, and the element placement in successive arrays is unaffected by the directional response of previous arrays. Thus, to ensure that an optimal array is obtained requires an exhaustive search of all possible patterns.
To reduce the number of possible 31 element arrays which can be built, several simplifying constraints are often incorporated. FIG. 1B illustrates the thinned array problem of FIG. 1A with the following simplifying constraints: (1) the elements are uniformly weighted; (2) the center and two end lattice positions, locations 0, 31, and 62, are always occupied; and (3) the array is bilaterally symmetric (the array pattern of one side of the array mirrors the other). Within these constraints, the problem can be recast as the derivation of an element occupancy pattern x, representing the placement of elements in one side of the array, exclusive of the end position, that provides an optimal directional response. These constraints do not significantly reduce the computation time to evaluate the directional response of the array nor do they improve the efficiency of the random array technique. However, they do reduce the number of possible solutions to 145,422,675 which makes evaluation of all possible array patterns computationally feasible. Thus, it is readily apparent that, unless the array is relatively simple, exhaustive enumeration is not practical and, at times, is not even possible because of the large number of trials required to ensure a satisfactory directional response has been obtained.
In the present invention, conventional techniques such as the random generation process are replaced with an optimization method that employs genetic algorithm techniques. The present invention provides an efficient and practical process for determining the placement of elements within an array to yield an array having a near-optimal directional response and can be applied to thinned array problems having an extremely large number of possible arrays. Additionally, the inventive method frequently arrives at a near-optimal solution in less time and with fewer computations than current techniques.
The present invention segments the array generation (element placement) process into two domains. A genetic operator domain manipulates existing element placement patterns to construct new element placement patterns. An element placement pattern (EPP) defines the placement and weighting (shading) of elements (e.g., hydrophones, pressure sensors, optical sensors) within the array. The genetic operators construct new EPPs using fitness proportionate selection and recombinant crossover mechanisms. In the problem domain, the fitness of each EPP is determined based on the directional response characteristics of the array it encodes. Determination of the fitness is the only interface between the two domains; this confers a generality to the genetic operators that permits application to wide range of thinned array problems.
Referring now to FIG. 2, there is shown a block diagram of a method for generating a thinned array having an optimal directional response in accordance with the present invention. In step 10, build initial population, an initial population containing a plurality of arrays, each having different element placement, is built. Evaluate fitness step 20 analyzes the directional response characteristics of each array. Using this directional response, step 20 employs a "fitness" function 30 to generate a fitness value for each array. The fitness value provides a measure for comparing the directional response of the array with the response of other arrays.
In generate new population step 40, the current population is manipulated by genetic operators to create a new population of arrays. Step 50 uses fitness function 30 to evaluate the fitness of each array in the new population. Steps 40 and 50 are repeated until step 60 determines that one or more arrays or the population meets a predetermined threshold.
In FIG. 2, step 20 (and 50) along with fitness function 30 comprises the problem domain, while step 40 comprises the genetic operator domain. Step 40 uses several genetic operators to manipulate the candidate thinned array problem solutions. In contrast to conventional techniques which operate upon a single solution at a time, the genetic operators employed in the present invention are a series of operators which act upon the population (set of arrays) simultaneously. Step 40 manipulates the element placement within an array using reproduction, crossover, mutation, elitism, and equality operators.
The operation of the reproduction, crossover, mutation, elitism, and equality operators used by step 40 is illustrated in FIG. 3. A population 100, comprising four EPPs each having three uniformly weighted elements within a linear lattice of six locations contains the EPPs to be manipulated by the operators. In the EPPs shown, a full lattice location (a location containing an element) is shown as a solid square. Population 100 is the initial or current population. Populations 102, 104, 106, and 108 are intermediate populations, each generated using one of the operators, and population 110 is a successor population. A full iteration of the entire sequence of genetic operations is known as a generation.
The reproduction operator selects EPPs from population 100 for retention with probability proportional to their relative fitness values. EPPs can be reproduced more than once. Preferably, the operation ends when a reproduction population 102 contains the same number of EPPs as the initial population. Because fit individuals, that is, EPPs with higher fitness values, are more likely to reproduce more often than unfit individuals, the reproduction population will tend to have a greater aggregate fitness. Arrows 112 indicate parentage of the EPPs in population 102, that is, the EPPs from population 100 selected by the reproduction operator for retention.
The crossover operator pairs EPPs at random and exchanges contents about randomly selected crossover points, depicted by dotted lines 114 and 116. That is, the two EPPs in rows 3 and 4 of population 102 exchanged contents of the last three lattice locations to generate the EPPs in rows 3 and 4 of crossover population 104. The crossover operator can also operate to exchange contents of a series of lattice locations chosen out of the middle of the EPP. That is, exchange contents of lattice locations 2, 3, and 4 in one EPP with locations 2, 3, and 4 in a second EPP. The crossover operator permits the best parts of two individual EPPs to recombine and produce an EPP with a greater fitness.
The mutation operator toggles the lattice locations of each EPP ("empty" to "full", or "full" to "empty") with low probability. This operator continuously introduces new variability into the population of solutions and partially counteracts the tendency of the reproduction operator to reduce diversity. Typically, the mutation operator acts with a probability below 0.01. In FIG. 3, elements 118 in the patterns of population 104 were selected for mutation to generate population 106.
Elitism replaces a randomly selected EPP with the most fit EPP of the previous population. In FIG. 3, the elitism operator (indicated by arrow 120) replaces an EPP in population 108 with the most fit EPP from the initial population 100. This prevents the destruction of the most successful solution until it is replaced by a better one. Therefore, the maximum fitness of the population at each generation will not decrease.
The equality operator restricts the search to only those EPPs which contain a desired number of elements, d. This operator ensures that the EPPs generated by the previous genetic operators do not contain more elements than permitted by the design constraints (fabrication costs, array size, real-time data processing requirements). This operator acts only upon those EPPs which do not have a total number of elements equal to d. Optionally, the equality operator can act to ensure that the patterns contain no more than d and no less than d' elements.
When more than d elements are present, the equality operator randomly selects a number of elements equal to the difference of total number of elements and the desired number of elements d and removes those elements from the array (toggles these locations in the EPP to "empty". For the example shown in FIG. 3 (where d=3), the EPP in row 2 of population 108 contains five elements; therefore, the equality operator randomly selects two full locations (122 and 124) and toggles these locations to empty. Similarly, when the EPP contains fewer than the desired number of elements, the equality operator fills randomly selected empty locations with elements until the EPP contains the desired number of elements. For example, in FIG. 3 location 126 is filled with an element to bring the EPP in row 3 of population 108 up to the desired number of elements.
Referring again to FIG. 2, in step 10 the initial population of arrays is built. Each array in the initial population is built having a different placement of elements within the array. The initial population can be built by constructing P different arrays, where P is the number of arrays in the initial population. Optionally, the initial population can be "constructed" by building a single full array, that is, an array having an element in every lattice location, and processing signals from a selected subset of the elements. The use of a single full array allows one to model every possible thinned array having the same number of lattice locations as the full array. Similarly, the arrays can be built by modeling the arrays using a processing means such as a general purpose computer, digital signal processor, or the like.
Preferably, the arrays are built using a processing means to model the arrays. To enable the method to be practiced on or with the aide of a computer or similar processing means, EPPs can be used to describe the placement and weighting of each element in the array. The representation of element placement patterns can be encoded by creating an occupancy pattern x of N binary values representing the placement of elements within of the array. For uniformly weighted elements, N is the number of lattice locations in the array, and "0" denotes an empty location and "1" denotes placement of an element.
For arrays with non-uniformly weighted elements (shading), the occupancy pattern x can be implemented by incorporating multiple bits to code the weight of each array element. For example, allowing four bits to encode up to sixteen different weighting values for each element in an linear array of 20 lattice locations requires an occupancy pattern of eighty binary values. With such an implementation, the optimal placement and shading of elements are determined simultaneously.
The initial population can be comprised solely of arrays generated by random placement of elements or it can be comprised of a combination of random placement along with arrays having element placement estimating traditional solutions such as uniform, logarithmic, arithmetic, or geometric spacing.
In steps 20 and 50, each array in the current (or initial) population is evaluated and fitness value for each array is generated. The arrays are evaluated by measuring the directional response of the array. Based on the directional response a fitness value is generated according to fitness function 30 described below.
The directional response of each thinned array is evaluated by measuring the angular response of the array for a number of different angles ψ, where ψ is the angle from broadside. Preferably the angles are equally spaced in sin ψ and run from 0� to 90�. The angular response of the array can be measured using any conventional technique. From the angular response, the mainlobe width can be estimated by interpolation. The peak sidelobe level is taken to be the greatest value beyond both the 6 dB down point and the first inflection of the response curve.
Because the objective of producing a minimum width mainlobe may conflict with minimizing the peak sidelobe level, a commensurability relationship between mainlobe width and sidelobe level may be needed. This relationship can also be used as fitness function 30 to determine the fitness value of the occupancy pattern. The fitness function can be defined as ##EQU1## where ml is the 6 dB mainlobe width in degrees and sl is the maximum sidelobe level in dB down from the main response of the corresponding full array. The exponent of 2 and the 40 dB denominator of the sidelobe term balances the relative importance of the two array performance parameters and can be modified for different design objectives. The minimum function, min �!, limits the optimization of the array with respect to sl at the expense of ml. In addition to balancing mainlobe width and sidelobe level, the fitness function can include terms to balance other design parameters including fabrication constraints.
Step 60 analyzes the arrays and the entire population to determine if another generation will be produced or if the process is complete. Step 60 uses a predetermined threshold such as a specified number of generations, change in maximum population fitness, population diversity, or the like to determine whether another generation will be produced. Using the maximum population fitness for a threshold, step 60 will end the process if the maximum fitness does not significantly increase over a specified number of generations. For example, if the maximum fitness increases less than 1% over five generations, step 60 will end the process. Similarly, using population diversity as a threshold, step 60 ends the process if the population diversity decreases such that mutation is the sole mechanism for placement patterns. Population diversity can be determined using a hamming distance or similar clustering dendogram technique.
When step 60 ends the process using a predetermined threshold as discussed above, the most fit array in the population can be selected for the thinned array or the process can be initiated with a new initial population of randomly generated arrays.
The operation of the method of FIG. 2 will be described with reference to the fitness function and genetic operators described above with a constant population of 100 arrays and a mutation probability of 0.005. In step 10, the initial population of 100 arrays is generated by constructing arrays by random placement of elements within the array. Step 20 then determines the angular response of each of the 100 arrays in the initial population and generates a relative fitness value for each array according to the fitness function defined in equation (1).
In step 40, the reproduction operator generates a successor population by selecting arrays for retention from the initial (current) population. The reproduction operator continues to select the arrays with a probability proportional to their relative fitness until a reproduction population contains 100 arrays. The crossover operator generates new element placements in the arrays by randomly pairing arrays within the reproduction population and exchanging portions of the element placement patterns. The mutation operator toggles each element placement pattern location with a low probability. The elitism and equality operators are then applied to generate the successor population for evaluation by step 50.
Step 50 evaluates the angular response of each array in the population and then generates a fitness value for each array. Step 60 then determines whether another generation (new population) will be produced. If step 60 determines that another generation will be produced, the successor population becomes the current population and step 40 is initiated to generate a successor population from the current population.
The method provides a novel approach for generating a near-optimal element placement pattern for a thinned array that offers several significant advantages over prior art systems. The method provides an optimal response without having to evaluate a large number of possible solutions. The method enables the determination of an optimal element pattern when the number of possible solutions is too large to allow for a reasonably certain determination using conventional random array generation techniques. The method can be used to generate an optimal array having any type of element such as hydrophones, pressure sensors, optical sensors, or electromagnetic sensors. Furthermore, given a full array but constrained by limited processing capabilities, the present method can be used to determine which subset of elements to process for various signal frequencies. Thus, allowing a single array to be used for many different applications.
It will be understood that various changes in the details, materials, steps and arrangement of parts, which have been herein described and illustrated in order to explain the nature of the invention, may be made by those skilled in the art within the principle and scope of the invention as expressed in the appended claims.
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Unanswered: Oracle SQL Error: ORA-02291: integrity constraint
I am creating tables in Oracle database SQL developer, I am in the middle of populating the tables with data then selecting it. I have the following CREATE statement for the itemOrdered table
CREATE TABLE ItemOrdered(OrderID varchar2(9) REFERENCES Ords(OrderID), BeltID varchar2(9) REFERENCES BeltID(BeltID), Quantity varchar(4) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY(OrderID, BeltID))
INSERT INTO ItemOrdered VALUES(401565981,234489212,'2')
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SQL Error: ORA-02291: integrity constraint (Home.SYS_C004411) violated - parent key not found
02291. 00000 - "integrity constraint (%s.%s) violated - parent key not found"
I understand that the values have to correspond to the parent tables OrdsID and BeltID. I have also supplied a link of what I have currently done so far.
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And what is it you do not understand about "violated - parent key not found"?
You think maybe the corresponding Ords(OrderID) does not exist?
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Just beware, that although both ORDERID and BELTID are declared as VARCHAR2(9), INSERT statement puts there NUMBERs. It would be proper to INSERT strings there ('401565981','234489212'). Although the implicit conversion may work correctly, I would not depend on it.


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My reviewrating: 3 of 5 stars
I loved this book a lot at first. I got the audiobook from the library to make a long journey bearable. This audiobook is loooooong. Fifteen discs unabridged so be prepared for a journey.
Like I said, the book was great at first. I was enraptured, not wanting to get to my final destination. The story goes back and forth between the present set in a fundamentalist polygamous sect in fictional Mesadale, Utah, to the origins of the Mormon church and the story of Brigham Young real-life 19th wife. The author weaves in research of a college student at BYU to connect the two.
As with all books that are set in two different eras, I eventually grew weary of one part of the plot and just wanted to finish up the other. I didn't feel like the author totally tied up the story well enough at the end to make the long journey back and forth between the two worth the wait.
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Our beautiful game
With just over 24 hours to go before Northern Ireland's Euro 2016 opener with Poland, two Belfast Telegraph writers try to explain what it is about 22 men chasing a ball around a pitch that turns normally sane people completely and utterly bonkers.
Football? Bloody hell! Sir Alex Ferguson, the greatest football manager of them all, perfectly summed up the incredible, emotional roller coaster ride of the Beautiful Game, moments after watching his Manchester United team famously snatch victory from the jaws of defeat with two last gasp goals to win the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in Barcelona on May 26, 1999.
I was there and the date, Fergie's incredulous words and the images of those sensational last few seconds of that game 17 years ago are permanently time-stamped on my brain. Yet ask me to remember a birthday or anniversary, important to my nearest and dearest, or even where I left down my house keys five minutes ago, and I am stumped. And I am not unique.
Football people the world over can recite winning cup finalists going back years, goalscorers, goal times and ball by ball accounts of matches, great and small, from the mists of time. We remember other events - weddings, funerals, family and current affairs - by who won the league or the local derby that year. Babies and family pets are named after football heroes, thereby ensuring the kids, if not the cats and dogs, are indoctrinated at the earliest opportunity.
And, as for superstitions, football supporters are afflicted by the maddest of all. We have lucky socks, lucky scarves, bogey teams and grounds and long suffering pals who are either brought to games as their presence was deemed to have ensured a win last time out, or banished for the opposite reason and branded scuds.
I once had a lucky bar stool at the Mechanics Institute Club in Lurgan until my so-called friends, supporters of other clubs, and clearly in equal belief, or fear, of its powers, hid the charmed chair away one day - and Man United subsequently lost, reinforcing the superstition. It is a vicious, illogical circle.
Only last month, I stood sheepishly, hoping no one of my acquaintance would see me, outside the doors of The Crown bar on Great Victoria Street, awaiting Saturday morning opening time. On my shoulders rested the responsibility of securing the same snug for the same set of mates, travelling down by train, to re-enact our ritual of two years previous on our way to that afternoon's Irish Cup Final between Glenavon and Linfield. And we won, just as we did two years earlier, so try telling us our tried and tested match day idiosyncrasies are irrational.
By now you get the picture. Football can send otherwise sensible, upstanding, responsible adults completely bonkers.
Inexplicable obsession, skewed priorities, a kind of madness, call it what you will. Football is in the DNA of those of us in its thrall. It is like an opiate and we are hooked, so much so that the opening game of the European Championship last night arrived like an antidote to the biennial cold turkey of summers without our football fix between seasons and tournaments.
And this time, we have a Northern Ireland team to support at a major finals for the first time in 30 years, sparing us having to pick another team to follow for the duration.
Football supporters, you see, need to have skin in the game; an interest, be it on a betting slip, or merely a desire to see a disliked team, player or manager lose. Reason does not enter into it.
And once aligned to club and country, we do not deviate. To support a football team is to enter into a lifetime pact, brilliantly summed up by the author Nick Hornby in "the best book about football every written", Fever Pitch, his rite of passage experience of following Arsenal Were we to fall out with our romantic partners, Hornby contended, no matter how painful the parting, chances are that in six months, six years or however long, we will find love again with a new partner. But if we fall out of love with our football teams, the chances of taking up with another are nil.
My whole life has revolved around football. I had no chance of leading another.
An earliest boyhood memory is of being taken by a next door neighbour, Ronnie McMurray, a Dromore Amateurs stalwart, to watch him play for them in the Sixties. The smell of wintergreen, the thud of the old leather and laced 'caser' being booted, the shouts of the players and the sheer excitement of seeing the ball hit the net at either end was utterly intoxicating.
I resolved there and then to be a footballer but lack of pace (and ability) put paid to that notion of ever progressing beyond Boys Brigade and junior level.
But if I couldn't indulge one fascination, another quickly suggested itself in an admittedly inauspicious way, being ignominiously sacked from a paper round after complaints of late deliveries as I tarried while reading the Back Pages.
The late, great sports editor of this paper, Malcolm Brodie, wove these wonderful tales of football triumphs and calamities, all the way from the Maracana in Brazil to my own Mourneview Park and I knew I wanted some of that. Malcolm was our go-between to the greats of Manchester United and the earnest scufflers of the Irish League in the days before mass media and wall-to-wall television coverage.
I devoured every word and it was a dream come true when he took me on to his staff; writing my first report for the late, lamented Ireland's Saturday Night was like scoring a winner at Wembley, although Malcolm sometimes despaired, calling me a supporter with a notebook.
I took that as a compliment for it is my belief that to write for football people, you need to share their passion and understand the mindset; loyalties that transcend the ups and downs of following a football team.
Our allegiances tend to be generational and geographically influenced though I arrived at mine by a slightly circuitous route.
Like many of my generation, I grew up idolising George Best in the green shirt of Northern Ireland at Windsor Park and can still recall being distraught the day he was sent off against Scotland for throwing muck at a referee. How lucky was I, through my job on this paper, to get to know George in later life, a lovely guy I revere to this day.
Manchester United are my English team, because of George but the true love of my football life is Glenavon FC. Born into a traditional Linfield supporting town of Dromore, I was taken by my Blueman dad and his pals to Windsor from I was no height and loved it. We even had a picture of the 1962 Linfield seven-trophy winning team on our wall at home.
Then at the age of 10, a workplace relocation took us the fledging new city of Craigavon. I could walk to games at Mourneview Park all on my own and away from parental influence, albeit for 90 minutes on a Saturday afternoon, I threw in my lot with the Lurgan Blues, for better, for worse, mostly the latter.
Over the last 40 odd-years, Glenavon have taken me from trophy-winning heights to the depths of despair and back. But even in the worst of times, we stick with them. Even when things aren't going well on the pitch, Mourneview, like grounds all around the country, is a meeting place for mates and, unlike Old Trafford, where you can be on first name terms with the players, manager and chairman. It's been like that since my earliest days when we literally lived among legends. Wilbur Cush, the Roy Keane of his day for Glenavon, Leeds and Northern Ireland was our milkman; record goalscorer Jimmy Jones lived around the corner and on Sunday nights we'd see him and his twinkle-toed winger pal, Jackie Denver of Glenavon and Belfast Celtic fame, setting out on their weekly constitutional along the Waringstown Road.
One day our star striker, Dennis Guy, turned up in our street to fix a junction box in his day job as a telephone engineer. Kids from all over the estate were drawn like a magnet as word spread and he ended up in a kickabout with us. How could you not stay spellbound by childhood memories like that?
Football? Bloody hell! It all depends how you say it. With all the exhilaration of Fergie that night in the Nou Camp, or with the dismay of those who cannot see a month of football at the Euros far enough.
I'll leave the latter to check their pulses; I've got a game to watch.
- Jim Gracey is the Belfast Telegraph's group sports editor
'You learn to cherish memories ... it could be a long wait until the next'
Ah, 1982. Probably the most memorable year of my life, for several reasons. For a start, it was The Final Year Of Having No Responsibilities. Mortgage? Couldn't even spell the word. Gainful employment? Well, we can kick that particular can down the street for another year. And bills were for birds.
The music was great too; Total Eclipse Of The Heart, Billie Jean, Sexual Healing, Heat of the Moment, Africa, Don't Stop Believing... Come On Eileen.
What a soundtrack to a year that I'd start "on the broo" and end as a trainee journalist, filing unpublished practice reports on the DeLorean closure, the Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings, the Falklands War, the legalisation of homosexuality in Northern Ireland, the first election contested by Sinn Fein and the Droppin Well atrocity.
Nobody asked us to write about that other rather newsworthy item of 1982... the World Cup in Spain, and, especially, the "Arconada... ARMSTRONG!" moment.
Okay, I'm going to make a confession at this point; I didn't actually see the ball hit the back of the Spanish net.
Thousands of replays later might convince me that I had but, no, just as Big Billy was sending over what I believed was a nothing cross I turned away to my mates, muttering something like: "See? That tube couldn't cross the roARRRRRRRRR..."
There was just loud, incoherent cacophony of noise after that. Drink spilling everywhere, people hugging and wanting to be hugged, brains melting.
I didn't get to see the TV replay either but, through that surreal, euphoric fog, it emerged that Gerry was the one who had found the onion bag after yer man Arcadia-or-something-like-that had spilled Big Billy's now devastatingly clever cross.
Here's another confession: we'd have been content with just scoring against Spain, never mind the ultimate result.
And when Mal Donaghy got sent off courtesy of the greatest injustice in history; well, we'd always have that goal to cling onto. Remarkably, Bingy's heroes thought the same. And, as we staggered out of Ballymena's Countryman Inn in the vain hope that somewhere else was still serving at that time of the night, the collective agreement was: It doesn't get any better than this.
We were right, too. There would be another World Cup tournament in Mexico four years later but it was like one of those movie sequels that so often fails to capture the original's magic.
Mind you, if we'd have known another 30 years would pass, we might have appreciated our boys' efforts out there a little more.
That's the thing about being a Norn Iron fan; you never know.
I first fell in love with Our Wee Country (©Barry Hunter, Nuremberg, 1996; Germany 1, Northern Ireland 1) when they were at one of their lowest ebbs.
Ironically, it was Valentine's Day, 1973... and we'd just been humbled 1-0 by Cyprus in in Nicosia.
"Cyprus... are they even a country?" wailed my incandescent, inconsolable father, who banged on so much about how useless "Bestie and the rest of them" were that I started following them, that very day, just to annoy him.
I later learned, of course, that such disappointments are de rigueur (an appropriate phrase considering where Big Kyle and the boys are today) for GAWA members.
My late dad didn't live to see the Cyprus debacle eclipsed by unmentionable events in Luxembourg three years ago.
(I can only imagine Joe Laverty saying: "Luxembourg... are they not a radio station..?")
In hindsight, that dark September evening in the principality marked a turning point for Michael O'Neill's men — albeit that they couldn't sink any lower and that the only way, surely, was up.
Nobody though, not even the most irrepressible optimist, could have imagined that, less than a couple of years later, virtually the same bunch of players would be topping their qualifying group and ending three decades in the wilderness.
As a Northern Ireland fan, you quickly learn to cherish the memories, live each good moment to the full. You know there could be a long wait until the next one. Goals like that one of Gerry's and so many of Healy's always stick out, of course, but it's funny how some other, more random, moments break out of the memory bank.
Like the Bestie goal that never was. No, not THAT one against Gordon Banks; I'm thinking more of the brilliant one he 'scored' against Scotland at Hampden in May, 1969, probably because it's the first Northern Ireland 'goal' I can remember. (I was six at the time).
I later found out what the referee said to Bestie after he disallowed it: "look, sonny, no player in the world could have controlled that cross without using his hand..."
Oh, how foolish must Mr David W Smith (for t'was he) have felt when, later on telly, he saw Bestie 'kill' the ball, legitimately, with his top of his right thigh before rifling a screamer past the helpless Jim Herriot.
Bestie told me about it himself, the last time we spoke. At a dinner in the Europa a few months before he died.
In turn, I told him about how I became a Northern Ireland supporter — and Bestie told me to remind my unforgiving father that the world's greatest footballer wasn't playing the day we were humbled by the Cypriots.
- John Laverty is the BelfastTelegraph's executive editor
'I can't quite explain my love of football ... it's just in the DNA'
The moment I fell in love with football was when I was about three in the playground at my school in Donegal.
The boys needed a goalkeeper and they happened to pick me. I remember catching the ball and, for me, that was the day I caught the love of the game. My mum or dad weren't sporty, so it was my uncle Mark who harnessed my enthusiasm for football. He would regularly play with me in the garden when we moved back to Belfast when I was about five.
At primary school, my mum had to fight with the principal in order for me to play.
I made my debut for Northern Ireland's women's team at the age of 15. We weren't particularly good and it was a difficult time to be involved — particularly as a centre half.
The best moment ever, though, was when we beat Slovakia 3-1 in November 2005 in a World Cup qualifier at Ballymena Showgrounds.
It was Northern Ireland women's first-ever competitive victory.
What is it about football? I can't explain it. It's just part of my DNA. I've never known my life without football.
- Sara Booth is the IFA's women's domestic football manager
Belfast Telegraph


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With the popularity of e-Books rising, many people would like to know more about the different e-Readers available on the market. On Thursday, May 26 at 7:00 pm, Pat Kennedy-Grant, Readers' Services Coordinator at Bernardsville Library, will offer an introduction to the Kindle, the Nook and the Sony e-Reader in the library's Community Room. "There is a huge variety of electronic books available now," said Ms. Kennedy-Grant, "and while this won't be a hands-on class, participants will get a good idea of the strong points and differences among these three devices."
There is no charge to attend the program, but advance sign-up is requested. Register online at www.bernardsvillelibrary.org and follow the link under Adult Programs, or call the library at 908-766-0118 to sign up.
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A driver crashed into a Subway restaurant wall in Clairemont Saturday morning, authorities said.
The crash was reported about 10:15 a.m. at the shop on Clairemont Drive near Clairemont Mesa Boulevard, a San Diego fire dispatcher said.
No one was injured, and further details were not available.
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Rehab Rehab Rehab
How Do I Get To Hollywood?
Rehab, Rehab, Rehab - Don't Get Me Started!
Britney has joined a long line of celebs that are in, have been in or are scheduled to be in rehab. It's not only the new "get out of jail" card when you drive drunk or beat someone up (physically, emotionally or racially), if you've been acting crazy (and they don't ask you to do a reality show) and you just need some time away, sign up for rehab. I don't care if you're addicted to booze, pills, sex or your blackberry whatever it is, if you want to keep your celebrity status, you'll go to rehab. There's an old joke that says, "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" and the response is, "Practice, practice, practice!" Now the joke is sadder and goes how do I get to Hollywood? Rehab, rehab, rehab - Don't Get Me Started!
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I guess what makes me so crazy is that I would like to go to rehab too but unfortunately, I have to actually deal with my own life. Sure there are people who aren't famous who have been to rehab and I'm not discounting what it can do for those in need but today's celebrities are using it like the "sanitariums of the 1940s and 1950s, the "spas" of the 1970s and the fat farms of the 1980s. I've no doubt that these celebrities have a lot of pressure on them but let's face it, they also have people to do everything but wipe their butts for them so you would think that they would have plenty of time to just go into therapy like a normal person.
Now I'm not talking about celebs like Mel Gibson and Isaiah Washington who go to rehab to get away from their comments or actions. Here's my thought on the ones who go to rehab for acting just a little crazy, you'll notice that most of these celebs are post climax of their career. Like good sex, after a really great climax all you want to do is sleep and the last thing you want to do is think of is how to have another climax. Well rehab does it for you. See while your career is floundering, it still gives you an opportunity to be in the press without really doing anything. It's sort of like treading water. Eventually you have to swim, drown or have a Mai Tai. In the case of celebrities they've chosen the Mai Tai. They don't want to go away from the public eye but they have no idea what to do next to keep their career going so they choose to just sit this dance out (in the middle of the dance floor). Let's face it they can't all be Madonna who continually gets it right reinventing herself enough for her and her public to keep her busy and interesting.
Notice too that the ones going to rehab are not the smartest or well read. Come on, what do you think the last book was that Britney read? And do you think for a minute her lips weren't moving as she was reading the words on the page? And I'm sure it was a pop up book or at least had a lot of pictures. The smartest thing any of these people have done is to get a smart manager and/or press agent.
What makes it all worse is that the press has created an unquenchable thirst of celebrity tragedy for the public. A thirst that much like an alcoholic, though you know you'll never get enough you keep drinking in hopes that you will get enough or pass out (preferably not in your own vomit). Before you actually had to get off your ass and go to the coliseum to see the lion eat the man. Now you can drink a soda, eat some chips and watch the debauchery unfold on your television or computer. (All while you're in your underwear with your hands down your pants.) No more the need to climb stairs, be out in the elements or sit on concrete for hours on end (unless you're auditioning for American Idol). The press does all that for you. They take all the work out of it for us. That's why we think we no longer have to practice, practice, practice to get ahead. How how do I get to Hollywood? Rehab, rehab, rehab - Don't Get Me Started!
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In Varying Tones, Mayor and Miller Assail Pataki's Budget
By MICHAEL COOPER
Published: January 25, 2005
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg came here on Monday and, in the most mild-mannered of tones, complained about nearly all the major initiatives in the budget that Gov. George E. Pataki proposed last week.
Mr. Bloomberg said he was ''deeply depressed'' that Mr. Pataki's budget did not provide enough money for the city's subways and buses. The mayor said the governor's plan to cut Medicaid costs would hurt the city's public and private hospitals. And he said his ''greatest disappointment'' was the governor's failure to comply with a court order requiring the state to spend significantly more on the city's schools.
Indeed, the mayor found little good to say about the governor's budget. He even said that the governor was trying to cut the wrong tax this year, explaining that it would be better to cut the sales tax on clothing than to speed the elimination of an income tax surcharge on New Yorkers earning more than $150,000, as the governor wants to do. But the mayor made his many criticisms, at a joint legislative hearing, in a businesslike, impersonal manner. And after Mr. Bloomberg finished dissecting the governor's budget, he told reporters that he would still support Mr. Pataki if he sought a fourth term in 2006.
''I think on balance, he's been good for the city,'' Mr. Bloomberg said of the governor. ''Just because I don't agree with him on everything -- this is the beginning of a process. The governor has to worry about 18 million people, and I have to worry about eight million people, but I have always been a fan of Governor Pataki's.''
The mayor was met with some skepticism here, both from upstate lawmakers who wondered how he could afford to send $400 property tax rebate checks to homeowners if his city needed money so much, and by protesters in the audience questioning his proposal to spend public funds on a new Manhattan stadium for the New York Jets.
And, in a sign that Mr. Bloomberg's relationship with Mr. Pataki, a fellow Republican, is likely to play a role in the upcoming mayoral election, the mayor was followed at the hearing by City Council Speaker Gifford Miller, a Democrat who hopes to unseat him in November. Mr. Miller made many of the same criticisms that the mayor did, but he used a decidedly un-Bloombergian style, saying, for example, that the governor had ''cheated'' city schoolchildren by not spending enough on schools.
''I'm tired of hearing the mayor talk about the governor's good intentions and how the governor is trying to do the right thing when it's obvious that the governor isn't trying to do the right thing for New York City,'' Mr. Miller said.
Michael Marr, a spokesman for the state's Division of the Budget, said the governor's proposed budget would give the city more than $900 million in fiscal relief -- a figure that city officials dispute, saying it is really much lower. ''We look forward to working with Mayor Bloomberg to ensure that we meet the needs of the city as we enact a fiscally responsible budget that helps keep the city and state strong,'' Mr. Marr said.
Several Democrats running for mayor have already begun to challenge the mayor's relationship with Mr. Pataki, noting that the governor has blocked or tried to block much of the help Mr. Bloomberg has sought. Mr. Pataki rebuffed the mayor's call for a new commuter tax, unsuccessfully tried to veto a $2.7 billion aid and tax package that the Legislature approved for the city and went to court in an unsuccessful effort to block a state takeover of the city's remaining debt from the 1970's.
Mr. Bloomberg said he should be judged by results. ''My style is to try to work with people, and not to be nasty,'' he said. ''It wasn't easy and it wasn't pretty sometimes, but anyone who criticizes our relationship with Albany should step back and look at the results.''
And his willingness to criticize so many of the governor's proposals openly was a far cry from his first year in office, when he made many of his strongest criticisms in written testimony that he submitted -- but did not read -- to the Legislature.
Photos: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, left, and Council Speaker Gifford Miller. (Photographs by Ruby Washington/The New York Times)