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|Oct 16, 1984
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|Jun 18, 1982
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|Jun 18, 1982
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|Sanjay K. Bose
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|General Electric Company
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|Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (127), Classifications (11), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present application is directed toward data communications methods and, more particularly, to a novel method for random-access radio-frequency data communications between a central controller and each of a plurality of remote sites.
The problems of providing command and control communications, in a system having a multiplicity of remote sites controlled by a central controller, has been widely investigated. Such a system, for example as utilized as part of a power generation, storage and distribution network, must provide communications for facilitating such system operations as: automatic meter reading, automatic load control, load management, system fault condition control, system reconfiguration and the like. As greater use of system command and control functions is provided, a greater volume of information must be exchanged between the central system controllers and each of a plurality of remote system locations at which system monitoring sensors and system actuators are located. It is therefore highly desirable to provide a communications system having very high information-carrying capability, so that more complex control operations for ever more complex systems can be handled. Because of the known difficulties in providing wire communications between the various remote and central sites, a radio-frequency data communications system of great information-carrying capacity is desirable. Specifically, a radio-frequency communication system allowing random access by each of the plurality of remote sites of the at least one central controller and allowing the central controller to access any one of the plurality of remote sites, is highly desirable.
In accordance with the invention, a method for random-access data communication from and to a central controller, to and from at least one of a plurality of remote stations, includes the steps of: providing at least one radio frequency channel having the bandwidth thereof allocated into at least a message channel and an acknowledgment channel, with the message channel fractional bandwidth being greater than the acknowledgment channel fractional bandwidth; transmitting packets of data between the central controller and at least one remote station on the message channel; and acknowledging receipt of data packets at the central controller by a signal sent on the acknowledgment channel to the at least one remote station. The data packets transmitted from a remote station to the central controller can be: a mini-packet, indicating unchanged status; a request packet, requesting message channel use for a subsequent status packet; or a status packet, advising the central controller of a change in status at the originating remote station. Receipt of a request or status packet causes the central controller to shift systems operation from a normal state to an alert state. If the central controller does not receive an unchanged-status mini-packet from a particular remote station within a certain time interval, the central controller shifts the system to a third state and requests a status report from that remote station.
The method also contemplates the division of the at least one channel bandwidth into message, acknowledgment and request channels, wherein system operation in normal, alert/emergency, polling and link-monitoring modes can be carried out, as in the system wherein the bandwidth is segmented only into main and acknowledgment channels, but at a lesser data rate.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a novel method for random access radio frequency data communication between central controller and a plurality of remote locations.
This and other objects of the present invention will become apparent upon consideration of the following detailed description, when read in conjunction with the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a general radio-frequency communications system to which the method of the present invention is applicable;
FIG. 2 is a frequency diagram illustrating the partitioning of a single communications channel, in accordance with one method of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a frequency diagram illustrating the partitioning of a single communications channel, in accordance with another method of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a state diagram useful in understanding operation of the method of the present invention; and
FIGS. 5 and 6 are graphical illustrations of channel usage in accordance with the principles of the present invention.
Referring initially to FIG. 1, the method of the present invention will be described for use with a radio-frequency data communication system 10, utilizing a central controller 11 serving a plurality N of remote control points RCP 12. Each RCP has, in addition to a controlled element (actuator) and/or a data source (sensor), radio-frequency (RF) communications equipment (such as a transceiver and the like, one or more antennas and ancilliary equipment) for bidirectional communications via a common wideband RF channel with RF communications equipment at central controller 11. Digital data is communicated between central controller 11 and RCPs 12 by suitable modulation of the RF carrier, within a single, assigned channel of given bandwidth. In addition, each of the remote RCPs 12a-12n has, in manner known to the art, a slave data processor equipped to handle both the communications protocol chosen and all local command and control functions. The slave processor at each RCP 12 informs central controller 11 of its status and is in turn advised by central controller 11 as to what action, if any, is to be taken. A slave processor can initiate two types of messages for radio communication to the central processor: a low priority message, indicating that the remote location condition is unchanged from a last-reported condition; and a high priority message, indicating a change of status at that remote location. Central controller 11 can initiate three types of messages: a low priority message, polling a remote location slave processor to report (typically due to a lack of recent report from that remote slave processor); a first high priority message, initiated by the central controller and commanding a centrally-requested change; and a second high priority message, controlling the remote RCP to effect a change in response to a change-of-status report from that slave processor.
Referring now to FIG. 2, the single, wideband RF data communications channel 20 may be provided with a total RF bandwidth B. Within bandwidth B are assigned three separate channels: a message channel 20a, occupying a fraction a of the total bandwidth, for a fractional message bandwidth of aB; an acknowledgment channel 20b occupying a fraction b of the total bandwidth, or a fractional bandwidth of bB; and a request channel 20c occupying a fraction c of the total bandwidth, for a fractional bandwidth of cB, where a, b and c are all less than 1 and a+b+c=1. Because the data transmission rate is proportional to the available fractional bandwidth, it will be seen that request data must be sent at a slower speed than acknowledgment data, which must be sent at a slower speed than message data.
Because request channel 20c has the lowest fractional bandwidth and can accommodate only relatively low-speed data transmission rates, request channel 20c is utilized only for transmissions from a remote unit 12 to central controller 11. A typical request channel 20c transmission may contain remote location identification, priority information and check bits. Receipt of a request channel message at central controller 11 is automatically considered as requesting permission for that remote unit to engage in a message transaction with the central controller. Upon receipt of a request message at the central controller, an acknowledgment is sent via acknowledgment channel 20b to the requesting remote unit; if a request acknowledgment is not transmitted to the remote unit within a specified time-out period, the remote unit waits a random delay period and retransmits the request on request channel 20c. Thus, request channel 20c is utilized for remote-originated request messages to the central controller, and is typically not utilized for transmissions from central controller 11 to a remote unit 12.
The acknowledgment channel 20b is utilized for carrying transmissions of acknowledgment nature from central controller 11 to a remote unit 12. One type of acknowledgement message is the acknowledgment of the receipt of a remote unit request message received on the remote channel. In addition, the acknowledgment channel is utilized for acknowledgment of correctly-received data transmissions from the remote units.
The message channel 20a is utilized for high-speed data exchange between the remote units and the central controller. The data messages transmitted over the message channel may be data-requests or remote-actuation data transmissions from central controller 11 to at least one of the remote units 12, or may be data transmissions from a remote unit 12 to the central controller, responsive either to a central controller request or a transmission from the remote unit, after having requested access to the central controller (by a request on request channel 20c and acknowledgment thereof on acknowledgment channel 20b). Each remote-unit-originated message is, as previously stated, acknowledged on acknowledgment channel 20b, by central controller 11.
A system thus configured and utilizing bandwidth B for message, acknowledgment and request data transmission channels 20a-20c, can be configured to operate in four modes: a normal mode, an alert/emergency mode, a polling mode and a link-monitoring mode. In the normal mode, the remote units 12 transmit small packets of d bits each, at random on message channel 20a, without first transmitting a request on request channel 20c and, therefore, without receiving a central controller acknowledgment channel 20b transmission. Remote-originated normal-mode transmissions carry identification and parity check bits and are primarily utilized to confirm that the status of the particular remote unit transmitting a normal mode data packet has remained unchanged since the last status report from that remote unit. The normal mode is a low-priority mode and can be preempted by either the central controller (when polling or link-monitoring modes are to be entered) or by another remote unit (when the alert/emergency mode is entered). Further, since the normal mode confirms an unchanged operational state, central controller 11 normally does not send an acknowledgment message on acknowledgment channel 20b. Accordingly, in the normal mode, only message channel 20a is active, with the acknowledgement and request channels 20b and 20c being idle. Further, in the normal mode, message transmission is primarily from remote units to the central controller, although the central controller may utilize the message channel to send low-speed, low-priority data to one or more of the remote units, if required.
The system enters the alert/emergency mode when at least one of the remote units 12 initiates an alert/emergency state by transmitting an alert/emergency request on request channel 20c. This request contains the remote location identification, priority information and parity check bits, all in a single transmission. When received at central controller 11, dependent upon the existing mode and priority information, the system proceeds as follows: if the system is in the normal mode, it enters the alert/emergency mode, wherein the message channel is reserved for data transmission between the particular remote unit 12 signaling the alert/emergency and the central controller; this exchange of transmissions continues until ended by central controller 11 with an acknowledgment signal on acknowledgement channel 20b, thereby returning the system to the normal mode. If the system is already in the alert/emergency mode with on-going transmissions between another remote unit and the central controller, the on-going transmissions are interrupted by the present alert/emergency request only if the present request has a higher priority than the request causing the on-going transmissions. If the transmissions already in progress have a higher priority, the new transmissions start only when the previous transmissions end, with the system remaining in the alert/emergency mode until all pending transactions are completed. If the system is in the polling or the link-monitoring mode, that mode is interrupted only if the priority of the alert/emergency transaction is higher than the priority of the polling or link-monitoring transmissions. If the alert/emergency request priority is lower than the polling or link-monitoring priority, the alert/emergency request is processed only after completion of the higher-priority work.
In the polling mode, the central controller polls at least one of remote units 12 in the message channel 20a, after first sending a transmission on the acknowledgment channel 20b to stop normal mode activity. Replys from the polled remote unit occur on the message channel, and may be followed by further message transactions between the central controller and that remote unit or other remote units. When the central controller has obtained the necessary data or has completed the necessary transactions, the central controller causes the system to exit from the polling mode by sending an appropriate message on the acknowledgment channel.
Link-monitoring mode operates somewhat similarly to the polling mode, and is utilized for checking the quality of the RF link between central controller and one or more remote stations, rather than for actually exchanging information. The link-monitoring mode is entered when the system controller sends a predetermined signal on the acknowledgment channel 20b, causing a requested remote station 12 to send a predetermined bit pattern on the message channel 20a. If the central controller correctly receives the predetermined pattern, insuring correct operation of the message and acknowledgment channels with respect to that remote unit. It should be noted that the request channel can be tested in the same manner, if deemed absolutely necessary, but is not ordinarily done, as testing of the request channel prevents other remote units from using the request channel to transmit their alert/emergency request if they should enter the alert/emergency state.
Referring now to FIG. 3, it is presently preferred to utilize the system with the total RF bandwidth (B') of channel 25 being divided into only two channels: a main channel 25a having a fraction a' of the available bandwidth, or a fractional bandwidth of a'B'; and an acknowledgment channel 25b having the remaining portion b' of the available bandwidth, or a fractional bandwidth of b'B'. By deletion of the request channel, the required total bandwidth B' is less than the bandwidth B required for the same data rate in a system using a message-acknowledgment-request channel structure 20. Similarly, if the original bandwidth B is available, each of the main channel 25a and acknowledgment channel 25b can be expanded to a greater absolute bandwidth, thereby permitting transmission of data at a greater speed. It should be understood that the high-speed main channel 25a utilizes the majority of the system bandwidth, for facilitating message transmission between the remote units and the central controller, while the lower-speed acknowledgement channel 25b is utilized for acknowledging correctly received messages of all types. In this embodiment, the messages sent from remote units 12 to central controller 11 are divided into data packets. The data packet contains, in addition to its message data content, synchronization bits, a header message, and sufficient parity check bits for facilitating "essentially perfect" error detection. Error correction would not be normally utilized with transmissions between the central controller and one or more remote units.
The slave processor in the remote units are formatted to transmit three types of data packets to the central controller: mini-packets, transmitted to indicate unchanged status at the slave processor of a transmitting remote unit and having arrival times generated either randomly or in accordance with some predetermined pattern (and also serving to monitor the condition of the communication links between the remote units and the central controller); status packets transmitted to indicate a status change at the corresponding remote unit and thereby request assistance from the central controller; and request packets which precede status packets and act as a request for main channel transmission space to transmit the soon-to-follow status packet. Advantageously, a request packet is an appropriately formatted version of a mini-packet. The three types of packets are utilized to place the system in one of three states.
Referring now to FIGS. 4, 5 and 6, the message-acknowledgment system states I, II and III are entered, processed and exited in accordance with the state diagram shown. If all remote units 12 do not require attention from the central controller, the system is assumed to be in state I. In state I, as shown by loop 30, each remote unit sends out unchanged/status mini-packets at random, or preassigned periodic intervals, to central controller 11. The mini-packets, each containing d bits, include data bits identifying the transmitting remote location and parity check bits for error detection. Central control 11 does not acknowledge receipt of the state I mini-packets, but does perform an error detection routine upon these mini-packets to monitor RF link quality.
When a remote unit detects a status change (by use of its local sensors), communication with the central controller may be required. The particular remote unit 12 first transmits a request packet 31 (FIG. 5) indicating a change of status to central controller 11. If the changed-status mini-packet 31 is properly received at central controller 11, the central controller responds with an acknowledgment message 33 over the acknowledgment channel and dedicates the main channel to a message transaction between the requesting remote unit and the central controller. Thus, upon properly receiving changed-status information from one or more remote locations the system enters state II, as indicated by state line 32. Upon entering state II and dedicating the main channel to changed-state data transmission, that remote unit issuing the changed-status mini-packet 31 receives the central controller acknowledgment packet 33 on the acknowledgment channel and begins to transact its changed-state information with the central processor. The requesting remote unit thus initially utilizes the main channel to send a status packet 35 (having D bits of information, where D is greater than d). Upon correct reception of packet 35 at the central controller, the controller responds with its own transmission of a D bit packet 37 containing instructions for the remote unit (after an appropriate processing delay 39 in central controller 11). Upon correct reception at the involved remote unit, receipt of the instructions is acknowledged by transmission of an ACK message packet 41 on the acknowledgment channel. Upon receiving the remote unit acknowledgment message 41, the central controller utilizes the acknowledgement channel to transmit a reset message packet 43 to all remote units and thereby return the system, as shown by state-change line 45 (FIG. 4), to the normal state I. In the event that central controller 11 does not respond to a request packet 31 within a prespecified time-out period, the remote unit reschedules its changed-status request message 31 and again attempts to establish communication with the central controller; the system remains in state I until the central controller is actually made aware of the status-change request message packet 31. Similarly, if request packet 31 is correctly received at the central controller and the subsequent status packet 35 is not correctly received, central controller 11 issues a message packet 45 requesting a data retransmission of the status packet from the involved remote unit. The retransmission request packet 48 may be transmitted on either the acknowledgment channel (as shown) or the main channel, while the system remains in state II. Similarly, if the remote unit does not correctly receive the central controller's instructions, the slave processor in the remote unit may ask for a central controller retransmission, as shown by message packet 50 on the acknowledgment channel (although the main channel could also be used). If the central controller does not receive an acknowledgment message packet 41 from the remote unit within a predetermined time-out period, the central controller may, while remaining in state II, automatically retransmit the instructions to the involved remote unit and again wait for an acknowledgment signal. If the central controller still does not receive an acknowledgment, or if there is reason to doubt the integrity of the RF link to a particular remote unit, the central controller may use the acknowledgment channel to request the remote unit to report its status over the main channel, and simultaneously request all other remote units to remain quiet until the indicated remote unit has actually transmitted its status message and the central controller has acknowledged receipt thereof. In the latter case, the system operates along state-change line 52 (FIG. 4) and enters state III. If the requested remote unit does not respond, the central controller may conclude that the RF link is not operational and may request human intervention. Similarly, the system may go to state III if the central controller, on its own initiative, must commence some control action by communication to one or more of the remote units. The acknowledgment channel is utilized to transmit a broadcast packet 54 (FIG. 6) causing communications from all of the remote units to cease. Once state III has been entered, the central controller uses the main channel to communicate necessary commands to one or more remote units, as at 56. Central controller 11 sends a message 58 to all remote units when unreported remote status requests, or other state III transactions, have been completed and the system exits from state III, along line 60 (FIG. 4), to state I. If required, a sequential polling of all remote units can also be initiated by entering state III. It should be understood that if a remote unit has a status packet to send at a time when the system is not in state I, that remote unit reschedules the request packet and again attempts transmission after a random delay. Additional attempts-after-random-delays may be required, until the system returns to state I and is ready for the receipt of a status packet at the central controller.
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Oh. I agree that he's a child killer. And I don't shed any tears for him either.
But these people who murder abortion doctors are giving us a bad name.
Did you see all the pro-life spokespeople condemning this act? Do you think they're lying? I don't.
I simply say that "murder of abortionists can not be stopped by laws against the murder of abortionists"
And, I ask, "Why can't I be 'pro-choice' on the subject of shooting abortionists?"
I would never do it, and I would never encourage anyone else to do it.
But, it is between the shooter and the shooters God, isn't it?
Hey, if my argument doesnt work here, it doesnt work for the pregnant mother, either, does it?????

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Despite being comprised of two separate islands that are 19 miles apart from one another, Trinidad and Tobago's weather patterns remain largely the same.
The chart below details the average monthly highs and lows. The average annual low is 73 degrees Fahrenheit, and the high is 87. Temperatures dip down to about 71 in January and February, but reach upwards of 88 in April, May, August and September.
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Set your alarm clock early, and get up with the sun, because early morning hours are the best time of day to be out exploring the outdoor wonders of the islands. This is when temperatures are at one of their lowest points of the day, but the fear of nighfalls approach won't prevent you from stepping out of your comfort zone. Early afternoon sees temperatures up to 10 degrees higher than early morning, so know what clothing to pack and be prepared with protective eye ware, hats, and sun block.
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Report summaryGas will meet 70% of all the additional energy demand in Mexico over the next two decades. As a result gas demand will double by 2035. Power generation will continue to be the main gas consumer throughout the forecast. Most of the new capacity will come from private investment. Cheap imported gas will underpin Mexico's industrial development. New infrastructure will allow Mexico to import almost 7 bcfd (72bcm) of gas from the US by 2035
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Germany celebrates completion of the widening of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal (aka Kiel Canal) allowing dreadnought warships to navigate directly between the Baltic and North Seas. German Stern view of a German Nassau-class battleship near the canal. Camera pans across the water showing several other large ships and buildings in background. German Naval officers celebrate the completion of the wider canal. Ice forming on the bow of a German warship as it plows through the North sea in Winter. Sheets of ice covering the sides of other warships. German warships forming lines as they practice battle maneuvers. The Crown Prince William and Prince Joachim of Germany along with other young men and women.
Life of German Field Marshal and President Paul Von Hindenburg in Germany. Officers and civilians at the Tannenberg Memorial. They hold Nazi flags at a rally commemorating Germany's defeat of Russian invasion in August 1914 during World War I. Paul Von Hindenburg walks on a path. Officers lined up on either side. Hindenburg greets Adolf Hitler at the Tannenberg Memorial.
A map of Europe with German cross superimposed on it. Shows various newspaper headlines about World War I. First one indicating the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914; next "Germany Declares War - All Europe in Arms"; next "Germany Invades France"; then "French Resist at Marne"; then "Lusitania Sunk", followed by "U.S. Declares War." The latter is seen after an image of a newspaper printing press running at high speed. A worker at the printing plant stands beside the printing press and reads the newspaper. Various headlines about America entering into World War I, including "U.S. At War" and "U.S. Troops Land in France." Scene shows several posters to promote Liberty Bonds; one reads, "Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds." U.S. Navy ships being constructed during World War 1 at a shipyard. Ships at piers as men work on them. A U.S. vessel underway at sea. A United States destroyer underway at sea.
Mix of actual footage and scenes with actors. Professor in laboratory extolling virtues of international research and researchers, in science and medicine. Voice-over with German accent speaks about inferior peoples and the scenes darken. Images of Nazi, Fascist, Japanese leaders and their followers including Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, Pierre Laval, Oswald Moseley, Fritz Kuhn, Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Rudolf Hess (or Heß), Julius Streicher, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and Benito Mussolini. Footage from World War I era shows rubble of bombardent in French cities and towns, and French citizen refugees leaving homes with hand pulled wagon carts. Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm descends steps and reviews cheering German Army forces in 1914. French poster calls for military mobilization. Mobilized French soldiers march in France as citizens cheer them off to war. Explosions of shells on World War 1 battlefield. French "taxicab army" of French military vehicle line leaving Paris. Battles of Verdun and Chemin des Dames showing French artillery and French soldiers. David Lloyd George confers with Clemenceau. Close ups of General Foch and then of General Joffre. Armament factory in France manufacturing arms in World War 1. British battle scenes at Passchendale and Ypres. Scenes of U.S. battles at Chateau Thierry, the Argonne. U.S. Marines battling at Balleau Wood and Cantigny. Lloyd George greets citizens in England. Close up of British General Haig. American General John J Pershing greets French Generals in World War I. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is shown. World War II era events: Adolf Hitler addressing a crowd. Brownshirt SA soldiers and other German Army soldiers march and goosestep. Remilitarized Germany invades Poland and France. Hermann Goering reviews marching troops. Close up side view of Hitler giving Nazi salute to cheering troops. German artillery and railroad guns fired and tanks advance. French civilian women and children refugees flee in carts as Luftwaffe aircraft strafes their path.
1914: Kaiser William II inspects his troops in Berlin, Germany. He shakes hands with military officers and greets other officials. The Kaiser's cousin and heir apparent to the Austrian thrown, Archduke Franz Ferdinand trains Teutonic soldiers. The troops on horses march. Officer greets ladies and children in horse carriages. The Kaiser and the Archduke hunt together. The two standing in a forest with their kill.
Berlin,Germany. Views of the Siegessaeule with Victory statue atop in Tiergarten Park. The Berliner Stadtschloss, also called the City Palace, Berlin. The Berliner Dom or Berlin Cathedral. Person laying flowers at a 1914 World War I memorial. A man making a telephone call and women working at a telephone switchboard. Police in an open car blow trumpet style horn to get through traffic. Guardsmen control huge crowd as some dignitaries make their way into a building. Newspaper edition in a press, newsstand with many papers and magazines, people getting in and out of a tram. Cafe beside river Spree. Bridge over river Spree. People dancing in a large park. Brief moments of on-location background sound during some scenes.


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Que Featuring August Alsina "Diamonds"
August Alsina has had no problem filling in his recent role as hook man regardless of the artist. After doing the same for Houston's Kirko Bangz, Alsina justaposes Que's warbly auto-tune in "Diamonds." On this Jazz Feezy-produced cut, Alsina and Que focuses on a topic they know quite well: The come-up and the folks who're trying to get down because of it. The slower tempo cut is slated to make an appearance in Que's upcoming Can U Digg It?
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The iShares S&P 500 (NYSEArca: IVV) was the best-selling ETF in October after manager BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) slashed the fund's fees in response to increased competition from low-cost rivals.
IVV saw inflows of more than $2 billion last month while competitor SPDR S&P 500 (NYSEArca: SPY) posted outflows of $7.2 billion, the largest withdrawal for any U.S.-listed ETF, the Financial Times reports.
Vanguard S&P 500 (NYSEArca: VOO) saw inflows of $227 million in October.
Last month, BlackRock lowered IVV's expense ratio to 0.07% from 0.09% as the largest ETF provider introduced the new iShares Core Series designed for buy-and-hold investors. [BlackRock Cuts ETF Fees]
SPY is the biggest ETF by assets with over $100 billion and charges a net expense ratio of 0.0945%, according to manager State Street (NYSE: STT). Vanguard's VOO levies a fee of 0.05%.
"BlackRock has seen a positive reaction to its decision last month to cut fees on some of its US-listed iShares ETFs, while Vanguard's move to cut costs for investors by switching the index provider on some of its largest ETFs has been met with less enthusiasm," the Financial Times reports.
Emerging markets showdown
In particular, the newspaper notes the decision to eventually drop the MSCI (NYSE: MSCI) index at Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets (NYSEArca: VWO) in favor of a FTSE benchmark seems to have had an immediate negative impact on the ETF.
"Inflows into VWO completely stalled last month. It gathered a paltry $1 million in net new inflows in October, a substantial decline compared with the first nine months of the year when it was gathering more than $1.2 billion on average each month," the FT said. "VWO's previous success in attracting inflows was one of the key factors behind Vanguard's success in winning the title of fastest growing US ETF provider in 2010 and 2011 ahead of its larger rival iShares."
Meanwhile, iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (NYSEArca: EEM) gathered $1.3 billion in October.
EEM has an expense ratio of 0.67% compared with 0.20% for VWO.
The recent buying and selling patterns in the two emerging market ETFs could reflect the fact that many institutional investors are benchmarked to MSCI indices.
BlackRock recently launched the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets (NYSEArca: IEMG) which features an expense ratio of 0.18%. [Emerging Market ETF Battle: Vanguard vs. iShares]
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15042 Silver Fir Drive, Holland 49424
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Brand new custom built Ranch home on the large pond in beautiful Timberline Acres Subdivision. This lovely home features huge open concept main living area, 4 bedroom, 3 1/2 baths, huge family room. Expansive views of the pond from all the main living areas and master bedroom. Master bath features dual vanities and a huge tile shower with conventional and rain shower heads, off the dining area is a huge partially covered deck over looking the pond. This home was quality built by the Ottawa Area Intermediate School System's building trades program.
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A number of writers have captured the tenor and flavor of life in contemporary Southern California: Joan Didion, T.C. Boyle, Michael Connelly. Add to them Hector Tobar. Some critics say he's written the definitive book about Los Angeles.
NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates visited with Tobar recently, to talk about the landscape and people who inspired him.
UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER: This train's final destination is...
KAREN GRISBY BATES: Hector Tobar has just jumped off a sleek commuter train at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. Across the platform, an older passenger train is just pulling out - the past and the present passing each other.
Tobar has a pleasant face, with sparkling brown eyes that widen with pleasure when he talks about Los Angeles history. He's doing that now, as we enter a Metro lobby with murals of L.A.'s evolution.
HECTOR TOBAR: So the first Spanish settlers who arrived in Los Angeles crossed the L.A. River at the point where it meets the Arroyo Seco, and they come to this spot of land. They find an Indian village of what will later be known as the Gabrelino Indians. And so we're standing, really, in the oldest corner of Los Angeles. This is the tip of our Manhattan Island. This is our Plymouth Rock.
GRISBY BATES: This, Tobar says, is a city that was built by successive waves of immigrants, which is why he was taken aback when Proposition 187 passed in 1994. The voter initiative, often seen as anti-Latino, denied services to undocumented immigrants. Tobar says 187 showed a mean-spirited side of the state he loves.
TOBAR: And to me, that was really shocking to live in that California because I had grown up in a California that was a really optimistic place. And it was really accepting of outsiders. It was a place founded by outsiders; almost everybody here is from someplace else.
GRISBY BATES: One eighty-seven was overturned a few years later on constitutional grounds, but it became a catalyst for Tobar. Born here of immigrant Guatemalan parents, he wanted to explore the dilemma of undocumented immigrants in fictional form. So he created Araceli Ramirez, the heroine of his novel "The Barbarian Nurseries." She's undocumented, which allowed Tobar to explore the debate about who belongs in California, and who doesn't.
Araceli is a live-in housekeeper; Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Yet, he says, they have a lot in common.
TOBAR: She became my alter ego. She's an intellectual in the body of someone who doesn't look like an intellectual, in the position of someone who doesn't look like an intellectual. I'm Guatemalan, my family is Guatemalan, and in the Los Angeles of today, Guatemalan is, for many people, synonymous with servant.
GRISBY BATES: "The Barbarian Nurseries" has been described as a novel that will redefine Los Angeles; that shows how class affects nearly every aspect of life here. In it, we see the city and its suburbs through Araceli's astute eyes. She works for Maureen and Scott Torres-Thompson, an affluent Orange County couple whose upper middle-class life implodes when California's economy crashes. The economic meltdown sloshes over into the Torres-Thompsons' marriage, as this excerpt shows.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (Reading) Their fighting was part of a natural rhythm, a kind of release. They could fight and a day or two later, Araceli would see Scott rubbing his wife's back, or Maureen clasping his hand as they watched their children play in the backyard.
GRISBY BATES: But this time, there was no reconciliation. And after Scott and Maureen storm off in opposite directions, Araceli is inadvertently left with the care of their two young boys, Brandon and Keenan. The housekeeper decides the children should be delivered to their grandfather for safekeeping. She has a 30-year-old picture, with his South Los Angeles address, on the back.
So, Tobar says, Araceli gets on a train that takes the three of them to Union Station. It's a place she visited when she first slipped into the U.S.
TOBAR: It's one of the first places that she sees in Los Angeles, and this is a little bit what she expects Los Angeles to be like.
GRISBY BATES: The station's great waiting room, with its coffered ceilings, Moorish chandeliers and shining floors, was an elegant welcome to Araceli's new city. But as Tobar points out, his heroine soon discovered this isn't all there is to L.A.
TOBAR: And later she'll, of course, be disappointed because one only has to travel a mile or so from here to be in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Western United States - which is where she eventually will also take Brandon and Keenan, in search of their grandfather.
GRISBY BATES: With the boys' parents still AWOL, Araceli shepherds them onto a bus that takes them a few miles away from Union Station. Hector Tobar stands on 35th Street, the same one that's in his book. Down the block, the big factories on the edge of the Garment District loom over small, ragged houses. In the distance, downtown skyscrapers shimmer.
TOBAR: These were rooming houses, apartments that were built in the 1920s and '30s, when this was a place where people from Italy, people from the Ottoman Empire, people from Missouri came to live.
GRISBY BATES: And now, it houses the newest wave of immigrants. Like many of their European predecessors, many are undocumented, and they're making a living however they can.
GRISBY BATES: Tobar spies a lady walking toward us, tooting her horn as she pushes a loaded shopping cart.
TOBAR: It's something like from in Latin America, even in the richest neighborhood. There's a person who comes in, for example, and sharpens the scissors; or a person who comes to sell bread. Each will have his own little announcement of his or her presence. So this lady here looks to be selling something.
WOMAN: Tamales.
TOBAR: Tamales. (Foreign language spoken)
GRISBY BATES: They're a dollar apiece, blisteringly spicy, and as common here as ordering a Big Mac would be across town.
With the publication of "The Barbarian Nurseries," Hector Tobar has made people like the tamale vendor, and like Araceli Ramirez, visible.
Now, having courteously thanked the vendor for her spicy lunch, he waves goodbye and starts back to his workplace near the gleaming towers.
GRISBY BATES: Karen Grigsby Bates, NPR News.
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Naved sustained a groin injury while playing for Sussex earlier in the English season and there were fears surgery might be required.
But the 28-year-old has made encouraging progress in his recovery and Pakistan had planned to give him a fitness Test on Thursday morning before the start of the tourists' four-day warm-up match against England 'A'at Canterbury.
However, that try-out has been delayed until the weekend at the earliest.
And with Naved not expected to be hitting top pace in the nets until Monday or Tuesday, just days before the start of the first Test on July 13, Woolmer said there was no point jeopardising Naved's fitness for the four-Test series just so he could feature at Lord's.
"He is improving on a daily basis and we were going to give him a fitness test tomorrow. But we have put him back a little bit because we feel he is getting better," Woolmer said Wednesday.
"He won't be available for the first Test match but certainly he could be available after that," the former England batsman added.
"We were going to see how fit he really was and put him through it. But we have just knocked that back two or three days because the groin is getting better and we don't want to rush it too much.
"Maybe we will give him a few days and he will be even better."
Pakistan are already without injured quick Shoaib Akhtar and they had hoped Rana would lead their attack in the absence of the 'Rawalpindi Express'.
Naved had already demonstrated a liking for English conditions this season, taking 34 wickets at an average of 15 in five first-class matches.
Pakistan opened their Test preparations with a comfortable eight-wicket victory over Leicestershire, but are now set to face sterner opposition against a team led by Robert Key and including other England Test players from the past six months in Matthew Hoggard, Ian Bell and Alastair Cook.
"It's good we have this sort of competitive game before the first Test," added Woolmer, who will be on familiar ground this week having starred at Canterbury as a player for Kent in the 1970s and 1980s.
"When England came to us we had two A sides against them and that is the sort of competitive level you want."


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According to the Casino City website, the DOJ's reaction was widely anticipated as the most likely course of events, and the motion to dismiss duly arrived on their doorstep on 27th October.
Casino City stated: "The motion to dismiss argues that if the activities of Casino City are legal then there is no imminent threat of prosecution, and that in this situation the case should be dismissed. It further argues that if the activities are illegal then First Amendment protection of commercial free speech does not apply, and in this situation the case should also be dismissed."
Casino City President, Michael Corfman, desribed the arguments set forth in the motion as 'circular'.The full text of the motion is available online in the legal documents section of the Casino City First Amendment website at http://Online.CasinoCity.com/firstamendment/.


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FILM; In 'Bull's-Eye!' the Aim Is Laughter
By JOHN CULHANE; John Culhane is a roving editor for Reader's Digest.
Published: January 14, 1990
SYON HOUSE, Middlesex, England— This stately home was refuge for the children of Charles I during the London plague year of 1646; the house from which Lady Jane Grey set out by river for her nine days' reign as Queen of England before her beheading; the starting point for the dramatic ride to London by Henry Percy and Guy Fawkes the night before Fawkes's Gunpowder Plot was revealed - and now the house where Michael Winner directed Michael Caine and Roger Moore in scenes from Mr. Winner's next film, a caper comedy called ''Bull's-Eye!''
''STAR!'' Mr. Winner bellows at Mr. Caine, who is being interviewed on a chaise longue as cool blue as his eyes in a ''withdrawing room'' next to the great hall where Mr. Winner reigns. The withdrawing room is a much smaller chamber with a marble fireplace and marble pillars that was originally designed for ladies to get away from the rough jokes, laughter and politics of their menfolk. It now serves as a recess from the tensions on the set.
''Star,'' repeats Michael Caine with a twinkle in his eyes. ''We're called 'star' on this picture.''
Mr. Caine coolly enters the great hall of this historic house, where Mr. Winner has assembled several hundred extras for a modern-day dinner party for ''Bull's-Eye!'' Those playing male guests are, like Mr. Caine, in black tie; those playing female guests are, like the female stars Sally Kirkland and Mr. Moore's daughter, Deborah Barrymore, in beautiful gowns down to the marble floor; the servants are in livery; the string quartet wears knee breeches and powdered wigs. Mr. Winner has only three days to film in Syon House, and he is moving through the scenes as if he were General Montgomery acting out a charade of General Patton pushing the American Third Army toward Bastogne. Those who get in his way find themselves acting the part of the unfortunate enemy.
Mr. Winner is a stimulating egotist who alternately bullies the extras and ''less accomplished actors'' and encourages the stars.
''I think with less accomplished actors you often have to play tricks,'' he says unapologetically. ''You may actually want to upset them to make them look upset on the screen so they carry that forward.
''Stars such as Mr. Caine and Mr. Moore, on the other hand, are professionals who just go in and do it. They don't want to discuss what they were doing as their character 20 years earlier, as some people do. They just want to know what is needed to make an affect in that particular second they're doing, or 5 seconds, or 20 seconds.''
''Let's do the 'six native men' bit,'' says Mr. Winner to Mr. Caine, who has now taken his place at a table covered with a fine white linen cloth and occupied by a number of character actors.
In ''Bull's-Eye!'' Mr. Caine and Mr. Moore play two characters apiece. Mr. Caine is Sidney Lipton, a small-time crook with a prison record, thanks to the double-dealing of his former partner in confidence schemes, Gerald Bradley Scott. Mr. Moore, as Scott, is a charming, debonair con man with a penchant for turning police informer at a moment's notice - which is how Sidney wound up in jail. Released from prison, he tries half-heartedly to go straight this time. But Willie (Sally Kirkland), a free spirit in the 1960's, is trying to reverse two decades of bad luck by inventing a million-pound heist. Willie has created roles in the caper for two of her former lovers - Sidney and Gerald. One of them fathered her daughter, Flo, played by Mr. Moore's real-life daughter, Deborah Barrymore. But which one?
To make the caper work, Caine/Sidney must pose as Dr. Daniel Hicklar and Moore/Scott as Sir John Bavistock, two scientists who have found a way to make a fortune by claiming that they have discovered a way to create nuclear fusion energy. It is as Dr. Hicklar that Mr. Caine is attending the party in Syon House.
''Ready?'' says Mr. Winner, watching Mr. Caine's eyes. When he sees them seemingly seeing the scene he imagines, he says quickly, ''Action.''
In a calm, confident voice too low to be heard much beyond the table, Mr. Caine says something about ''six native men.''
''O.K.,'' says Mr. Winner. ''All right, now, we'll do the next scene. Ready? Action.''
So goes Mr. Winner, forward in stages, a bit at a time, always leaving room for sudden inspiration.
''I'm very adaptable,'' says Mr. Winner afterward. ''Michael Caine and Roger Moore and I will add lines and business on the set. 'Bull's-Eye!' started with a Leslie Bricusse script, but there have now been dozens of writers - Ed Naha, who wrote 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,' has contributed. There have been eight scripts.''
Mr. Winner doesn't worry about too many cooks spoiling his stew. ''A team effort,'' he is fond of saying, ''is a lot of people doing what I say.''
The day before, to get a lot of people to do what he says, he had screamed at a group of hapless extras playing London policemen: ''You're just standing there! DOING NOTHING! Why should I pay you for doing nothing? I want you to run. You understand run!'' he spelled it for them: ''R-U-N? RUN?''


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Movie day
Print advertisment created by Saatchi & Saatchi, France for Orange, within the category: Electronics, Technology.
Orange Movie Day on tuesday buy one movie and get one free.
Creative Director: Fabrice Boutin
Art Director: Elodie Le Bourvellec
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At first glance I thought it has something to do with Y. Not very interesting though.
Looks like a magnum choc ice ad.. I wonder... Why are they different flavours? do you get another ticket for a different movie? or is it literally a snack that sits between two people where one likes white choc and one likes reg choc? Is it a Y? If so why? Too many unanswered questions! Maybe would be good to have a single choc ice with a bite out of either side? perhaps maybe shoulda coulda woulda. WARNING WARNING MALFUNCTION
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A Seoul-based human rights organization just confirmed long-standing accusations that Poland uses forced labor from North Korean.
More than 2,500 workers from the hermit kingdom are "exported" to countries, including Mongolia and Poland, and forced to work under inhumane working conditions.
While an estimated 1,800 North Koreans toil in Mongolia's construction sector or in sewing factories, around 800 others are working in Polish shipbuilding and construction sectors, the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights reported.
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"The North's purpose is to earn hard currency to avert economic hardship under heavy U.N. sanctions and $200 (million) to $300 million is presumed to be sent to North Korea annually," the group stated, according to South Korean Yonhap News Agency.
And it's not just these two countries. As per Marzuki Darusman, U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights situation in North Korea, the young dictator milks more than 50,000 North Koreans working in China and Russia for foreign currency.
In addition, a report in The Guardian last year, North Korean workers building World Cup facilities in Qatar receive as little as 10 percent of their salaries when they go home and some don't even get that amount.
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Large, flat and slightly incut edges, almost ledges... big and beefy, nearly pinches. These holds work well for a 5.8+ on vertical terrain, slightly overhanging... 5.10+. On a 45 degree bouldering wall you'll see these holds on V5/6 and harder.
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Hi everybody.
I have a .net app that I use for to connect the mt4 and get data and others functions.
When my pc sleep or suspend and after sometime resume again, the mt4 auto update the data in charts. Including a small sound play.
The problem is that my app not detect it. I do it detect when my pc sleep and resume and update the quotes send a command to mt4 but the mt4 not connect and update immediately, have a little gap or time 5 or 10 seconds or more to download all quotes and play the sound warning that all is ok. So I put in my app also a timer delay for only update after 20 seconds. But this is not a pretty solution.
Ok, I make in my script a function that compare minute by minute in mt4 but sometimes not have any buyers or sellers in the next minute and my script undertanding that need send a update command to my app.
Anybody have a good idea for detecting when the mt4 are right to send the update command to my app after pc resumed?
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In the "oops-my-bad" moment of the week, Deron Williams openly pined for the good ol' days when he played in Utah under the Hall of Fame coach he has widely been blamed for running off to a simpler life on the farm.
Williams's comments expressing his love for Jerry Sloan's playbook while explaining his season-long slump set off the first bit of controversy in Brooklyn, where the Nets have been riding the momentum of one of the most successful re-brandings in recent memory – from sad-sack afterthought by the swamp to a symbol of urban chic and hip-hop-infused cool in a pristine new arena.
By publicly griping about his frustrations, Williams put Nets Coach Avery Johnson on alert that he needs more of the flex cuts and motion that helped him reach all-star status with the Jazz. But Williams also brought more attention to his fall from a player who once seriously challenged Chris Paul for the title of game's best point guard to a franchise cornerstone with a $100 million contract who seems dependent upon a system.
With Johnson forced to utilize an isolation-attack to establish Brook Lopez and newcomer Joe Johnson, Williams is experiencing an identity crisis this season – and he is not alone.
Due to circumstances that were mostly out of his control, Pau Gasol is a player without much purpose in Los Angeles, where the Lakers exist mostly as a vehicle for Kobe Bryant to move up the all-time scorers' list this season and Coach Mike D'Antoni appears unwilling to accommodate an aging but still efficient, all-star level talent.
Gasol returned to the Lakers after missing the previous eight games with knee tendinitis, but his role for the Lakers appears undefined. Phil Jackson took advantage of having two gifted players in the low block and allowed Andrew Bynum and Gasol to help the Lakers win back-to-back championships. Mike Brown made the duo even more of a focal point last season, but D'Antoni's system usually relies on one interior presence and asks power forwards to stretch the defense from the perimeter.
Gasol recently met with D'Antoni to hammer out their differences, since he is certainly capable of hitting the occasional jumper and is skilled from several spots on the floor. He rarely gets inside touches the few times he's on the court with Dwight Howard. D'Antoni has often benched Gasol in the fourth quarter of close games, which has contributed to Gasol averaging career lows in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage.
Bryant has already asked Gasol to put on his "big boy pants" but Gasol might eventually put on some different colored shorts altogether if Steve Nash is unable to work miracles when he returns from a fractured tibia.
Meanwhile, the individual pieces in Boston don't appear to be struggling – Rajon Rondo leads the league in assists and Paul Pierce recently had a 40-point game – but collectively, the Celtics are out of whack.
No Celtics are openly pleading for the return of Ray Allen, but the departure of the NBA's all-time leader in three-pointers has contributed to the team sputtering out of the gates. Allen's role was marginalized in his last year in Boston, but there was no denying how the pieces fit when he was wearing the No. 20 on Causeway Street.
After coming within one game of the NBA Finals, the Celtics appeared to recover from Allen's loss with the additions of Courtney Lee and Jason Terry. But the spacing that Allen provided for Pierce and Rondo to slash and for Kevin Garnett to operate in the paint has affected the offense.
Boston is scoring at a higher clip than previous seasons, but the chemistry is off – especially on the defensive end, which had never been a problem since Garnett arrived in the summer of 2007. Avery Bradley's absence with a shoulder injury hasn't helped, but the Celtics play small but don't run, don't have a physical inside presence and routinely get killed on the glass.
They have surrendered 100 points 11 times this season, going 3-8 in those games. Pierce said the team is still searching for its identity and Celtics Coach Doc Rivers recently said, "Right now, we're not a good team."
As Paul became the third-youngest player to reach the 5,000-assist mark last week, the man drafted one spot ahead of him in 2005 is having a rough adjustment in his second NBA home. Injuries have possibly contributed to Williams seeing his scoring and shooting numbers plummet since the Jazz traded him to the Nets in February 2011 – shortly after Sloan's stunning retirement after 27 years as a coach.
Williams isn't getting to the basket as much as he did in Utah, where his shooting percentage never dipped below 45 percent from 2006 to 2010. He has shot below 40 percent throughout his time in the Eastern Conference. His struggles last season could be attributed to a glaring lack of talent surrounding him. This season, he has more help and still can't shoot.
Brooklyn now has to overcome its first crisis since professional sports returned to the borough. And the rest of the league is waiting to see how the Nets, Lakers and Celtics respond to their problems.


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Graffiti isn't something you usually associate with our senior citizens, but that has all changed for Senior Citizen's Week.
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Senior Citizen's week was launched at the Port Macquarie rooms of the CWA yesterday with a choral performance by the Hastings Sing Australia group and a learn-to-knit workshop for local high school students. And it wouldn't have been a CWA hosted event without scones served with jam and cream.
Port Macquarie Hastings Council is supporting three key events for the week including mobility scooter safety workshops, an intergenerational quiz night at Port Macquarie library and Granny Graffiti.
Granny Graffiti is the practice of knitting around inanimate objects with the aim of beautifying otherwise drab public spaces. To aid the project, a number of local groups have been employed to teach students to knit and pass on a craft that has received a recent resurgence of interest.
Launching the project, Port Macquarie Hastings Administrator Neil Porter said, "graffiti is usually something we lock people up for. But we are making special allowances this week."
During an event that also highlighted the voluntary efforts of Hastings Senior Citizen of the Year, "quiet achiever" Kevin Waldron, Mr Porter stated the council was proud to support the pop-up art installations which can be seen around the Port Macquarie CBD, Laurieton library and Wauchope.
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