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A Definitive Guide to Teacher Checklists
In The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande writes about the importance of list making as a process of working through critical decisions, and list reviewing as a critical element to support aspirations. Marc Andreeson, a checklist user, attained extraordinary success by inventing the web browser. Later he joined the board of eBay and Facebook and co-founded Ning. Andreeson's secret: before going to sleep, he writes down three to five things he plans to accomplish the next day on an index card. " . . . I try like hell to get just those things done. If I do, it was a successful day." When he completes other tasks, he uses the back of the card (which he calls his "anti-to-do list") to record what he has finished. At the end of the day, he tears up the card -- mission accomplished -- and reaches for another.
Like gathering fallen leaves, teachers use checklists to organize their responsibilities by context, urgency, projects, next steps, energy, etc. "[S]uccess," writes Gawande in Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, "requires making a hundred small steps go right -- one after the other, no slip ups, no goofs . . . "
After reading Gawande's checklist for checklists and re-reading Lifehacker's seminal checklist of do's and don'ts, I spent a few hours combing through online education sites to find the best teacher checklists. The section below categorizes my favorites into several sections: Checklists to Give Students, Checklists to Give Parents and General Checklists Useful to Teachers. If you know of others, please provide links in the comment section.
Professional Checklists for Many Occasions
Checklists to Give Students
- Editing Checklist for Self and Peer Editing
- Writing Checklists includes lists for peer conferences, teacher conference, revising, etc.
- How to Read a Poem and How to Read an Image by Jim Burke
- Homework Checklist
- Interactive Presentation Checklist
- Multiple Intelligence Checklist for Students
- Essay Writer's Checklist
- Reader Response Checklist
- Checklist for Speeches or Papers
- Checklists for Writing Posters (elementary)
- How to Critically Evaluate a Web Site (all ages)
- Elements of Literary Style
Checklists to Give Parents
- Elementary Supply List
- Parent-Teacher Conferences and other parent responsibilities
General Checklists Useful to Teachers
- Checklist for Problem-Solving Guide 2 is a "checklist to monitor students' use of the problem-solving process."
- Keeping Kids on Task is a collection of ideas to keep all students on task, especially those with ADD/ADHD.
- Mentor/Mentee Monthly Checklist
- New Teacher's Toolbox lists resources from conferences to survival skills.
- Classroom Arrangement Checklist
- What Do You Do When You're Having A Bad Day At School? comes to us from Twitter king, Larry Ferlazzo.
- Visible Teaching (Thinking) Routines is from Howard Gardner's Project Zero.
- 101 Ways to Bring Technology into the Classroom
- Publishing: for anyone writing an academic ebook
- PBL Checklists
- Qualities of Effective Teachers
- Every Teacher's Checklist for Struggling Readers
- Classroom Environment
- Back-to-School Checklist: Organizing for Success is a resource for first-time teachers who are Planning for Your First Day at School | Getting Ready for Back to School
- Marzano's Instructional Strategies and 9 Essential Strategies
My favorite online list manager, Remember The Milk, integrates with Google Calendar, iPad, iPhone and Android, but I'm going to take David Pierce's suggestion and keep nine must-have lists handy in my Moleskine notebook.
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Outstanding post, Todd. I am a huge fan of Gawande's work, and believe it has immense utility in schools. Thanks for sharing these resources.
This is very useful. I love the graphic too. I will be sharing this!
Thank you for including us in your excellent blog! Taking the time to cull useful resources for teachers is invaluable. Nice job.
Is this the Todd Finley who used to be a member of PPS of Pitt County?
There are so many great resources here! I'm excited to take some time and look through these lists, games and ideas. It's essential for teachers to remember to keep themselves sane! Thanks!


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Now should be the prime time to find fresh peaches for our summer enjoyment. And how do I know? Because I had a birthday this week, and my mother canned peaches all day on the farm in Argyle the day before I was born.
Today's recipe is a simple peach cobbler that is delicious on its own but is even better topped with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
Fresh Peach Cobbler
4 cups fresh peaches, peeled and sliced
2 1/2 cups sugar, divided use
1/2 cup water
1 stick butter
2 1/4 cups self-rising flour
2 1/4 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
Ground cinnamon (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine the peaches, 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water in a saucepan and mix well. Bring to a boil; simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat.
Put butter in a 3-quart baking dish. Place in oven to melt.
Mix remaining 1 1/2 cups sugar, flour and milk, mixing slowly to prevent clumping. (Note: I would use a fork or a whisk to stir.)
Pour mixture over melted butter. Do not stir. Spoon fruit on top, gently pouring in syrup. Sprinkle top with cinnamon, if desired.
Batter will rise to the top during baking. Bake 30 to 45 minutes, until top is lightly browned.
Makes about 10 servings.
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No matter how much….
One of the many things you do with photos once you have taken them is process them. What you see through the camera viewfinder is not what you get. The camera doesn't work the same way as your eyes do and therefore you do need processing software.
As you will all know I use Adobe Lightroom 4.. in fact I couldn't be without it. However, on saying that, I also have Photoshop Elements 10, which I purchased the same time as Lightroom 4. I have , believe it or not, repeatedly told myself that I will learn Photoshop Elements 10 and never got around to it.
Even though I think I have learnt a lot, I suspect there is still much more to learn about Lightroom 4 and I am still on that learning stage as there is a lot more to learn. There are many photographers who share their tips with us novice photographers, not just about processing but about camera settings and how to get the best results from your camera. The two people I do follow and learn from, with regards to photo processing, are Matt Kloskowski of Lightroomkillertips and Serge Ramelli of Photoserge.
Well I decided that as I do have Photoshop Elements 10, it is about to time that I learnt how to process a photo using that particular software and only to use Lightroom 4 to export my final results with a watermark.
So I picked an old jpeg photo which was taken on a FujiFinePix S5700 as my subject matter.
My first attempt was to put it bluntly a major disaster, as you can see.
Well my second attempt wasn't that much better.. I wanted to create a reddish sky..
My god it was going from bad to worse.. time to give up me thinks and stick with Lightroom. So by Saturday mid afternoon that was it I was sticking with Lightroom..
But that is defeatist isn't it? To give up and take the easy way out and not conquer something. So yesterday I decided to knuckle down.. learn about layers, masks and adjustment layers and have another go.
So after many hours of watching videos.. reading the Photoshop Elements 10 Help Guide, watching more videos, I decided to crack on and have another go…
So I altered the brightness and contrast, increased the highlights, shadows and midtones and then added a photo filter and a Gaussian blur.. and I managed to get this result.. which is a vast improvement, I think, on the other two pictures.
But the rocks are not right now… I have got the sky with a reddish tint but the drama I think that sky needs.. but now the rocks.. I said to myself, "Oh well don't give up, go back into PSE10 and have another play around." Which I did and this time I got the rocks to look right.
Now as I said at the beginning, I wasn't going to go into Lightroom4 to make adjustments, but guess what… no matter how much I tried to keep Lightroom out of the processing, apart from watermarking…. I failed. You see in the end I went into Lightroom, did a few tweaks and then converted it to Black and White.
I am sure one day I will get to grips with Photoshop Elements 10, if I keep persevering, which I know I must do… but Lightroom is so, so addictive… once you use it and get to grips with it, you rely on it so much.
So, No Matter How… much I wanted to not use Lightroom… I ended up using it… oh well… these things happen.


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Captain Williams is a NASA astronaut who recently completed the first triathlon in space.
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Can't get enough photos from the Curiosity rover? Dying to know what's happening on the International Space Station? Interested in how NASA astronauts train? These Twitter accounts are for you.
We left out the obvious accounts like @NASA, but we did include some other official agency accounts you may not yet follow. A handful of astronauts also made this list, but if you want a full feed of all the NASA astronauts, follow @NASA_Astronauts, who wins our honorable mention today.
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This list is filled with tweeps who put a human voice on the vast universe beyond our planet Earth. But perhaps most importantly, they all promote the often underappreciated world of science. And some of them add a little humor to the mix as well.
Did we leave any of your favorite space Twitter accounts off this list? Share them with us in the comments below.
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Agony aunt hits Barnstaple
PUBLISHED: 17:55 20 November 2012
Young, old and the process of passing between the two - Virginia Ironside's
entertaining and funny show is at the Queen's Theatre on Thursday (November 22).
AUTHOR, columnist and agony aunt, Virginia Ironside brings her irreverent, honest and humorous one-woman show The Virginia Monologues: Why Growing Old is Great to the Queen's Theatre in Barnstaple tomorrow (Thursday).
Ironside, a former rock chick and music journalist, has turned 60 - her hugely entertaining show mixes observational humour with self-deprecation as she reflects on her transition from young woman to grandmother.
Topics such as unlimited free drugs, fun funerals, grandchildren and sex are covered as well as her own life story – from one-night stands and interviewing the Beatles to her work as an agony aunt.
Directed by Nigel Planer, Virginia Ironside's stand-up show has much for all ages to identify with.
The show starts at 8pm. Tickets are available from the box office on 01271 324242 or visit www.northdevontheatres.org.uk


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The Knights Perform Copland, Reich, Haydn in Central Park
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Exclusive Video: The Knights Perform Debussy
The Knights return to the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park for a performance on Tuesday, July 24, at 7:30 pm. Led by conductor Eric Jacobsen, the chamber orchestra will present a program of Haydn, Copland, Purcell, Reich and a world premiere by Matt Herskowitz.
A jazz strain runs through part of this concert, with Milhaud's La création du monde and the Concerto Grosso by the Montreal-based composer-pianist Matt Hershkowitz. The program also includes lighter summertime fare, including the Haydn Symphony No. 8 and Purcell's Airs and Dances.
WQXR's Midge Woolsey hosts the live broadcast.
Program details:
Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Matt Herskowitz, piano
Steve Reich: Duet
Henry Purcell: Airs and Dances
Matt Herskowitz: Concerto Grosso (world premiere)
Darius Milhaud: La création du monde, Op. 81a
Aaron Copland: Quiet City
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 8, 'Le Soir'
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thank you so much for this. I used to attend the Goldman concerts here as a little girl with my mom and pop so it was like coming home. I'm 90 years old!!!
WOW!! Times have changed and so has WQXR. All for the better. We love it. Bravi tutti!
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Butterfly Affects Suicide Attempt, Bad Sex, Mall Construction
Predicated on intersecting lives and bizarre coincidence, Barbara Albert's impressive second feature, Free Radicals, has a generic resemblance to Robert Altman's Short Cuts and Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia. But this 33-year-old Austrian filmmaker is at once more compassionate and more detached toward her characters.
Free Radicals, which was shown at the last New York Film Festival, is an intelligent, viscerally intellectual exercise in ensemble acting and associative montage, enlivened with some terrific visual and dramatic ideas. Albert opens with a straight-faced illustration of the so-called Butterfly Effectthe notion that the tiniest variable can create drastic meteorological changes. Wings fluttering the atmosphere of the Amazon jungle precipitate a freak storm that brings down an airplane leaving a single passengerManu (Kathrin Resetarits), a young Austrian woman returning from a Brazilian vacationas the miracle survivor. Six years later, Manu is back in her hometown, working supermarket checkout, married, and the mother of a small child; another accident occurs, and this time she's not so lucky.
Free Radicals unfolds over a year and involves perhaps a dozen charactersmainly Manu's friends and relations, and the teenage passengers of the car that collides with hers. There's one obvious connection between these clusters who meet in various combinations: Manu's brother is a high school teacher who explains chaos theory and the wonder of fractal patterns to the less-than-fascinated teens. Other links are more oblique and are often created by natural sound bridges, subtle match cuts, and blatant synchronicity. In the end, everyone is brought together with the gala completion of the shopping mall that's been under construction for most of the film.
Free Radicals
Written and directed by Barbara Albert
July 23 through 29, Anthology
While some characters are markedly more sympathetic than others, all relationships are difficult. The quality of loss, loneliness, and isolation is reminiscent of vintage Ingmar Bergmanwith even more abundant joyless sex. The mood, however, is more rapt than bereft. Albert's avant-garde background can be seen in her taste for decentered compositions, short shots, and busy, poster-like images. There's a recurring holy-card image of a kneeling child bathed in divine light (Albert has said that the movie evokes her own childhood fears). Periodically the camera floats upward to establish a sense of invisible hovering presence.
Manu's young daughter, Yvonne (Deborah Tan Brink), draws comfort from this sense of her disembodied mother; others are made uneasy. "I always have the feeling she can see us," Manu's husband, Andi (Georg Friedrich), tells her best friend, Andrea (Ursula Strauss)they'd been sleeping together even before Manu's demise, but her absence necessarily complicates the affair. In an early, lighthearted riff on reincarnation, Manu jokes that she would like to come back as a cupcake; in the context of the movie, she's closer perhaps to a butterfly. The unresolved ending seems to suggest that Andrea is having her own out-of-body experience.
Albert's characters use Ouija boards, play the lottery, join choral groups, and engage in transactional therapy, but her faith is more a matter of editing. Jumping from one vignette to another, the filmmaker succeeds in establishing a material mysticism from the web of secret connections and chance meetings. That a minor mishap has the same cosmic valence as some huge happenstance gives the movie a cumulative emotional intensity. Everything is connected . . . or will be.
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When George. H.W. Bush left the Oval Office in 1992, rejected after one tumultuous presidential term, his 30-year career in public service came to an abrupt and unexpected end. Despite soaring approval ratings following military victory in the Persian Gulf, his years as president after the war were marked by almost unrelieved decline. A sluggish economy and an earlier decision to raise taxes, despite an explicit campaign oath, led to his defeat. By the end of his term many observers dismissed him as an artifact of an irrelevant Cold War past.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents the first in-depth assessment of the 41st president of the United States, drawing upon new scholarship and unparalleled access to figures in Bush's private and public life. George H.W. Bush, from Emmy Award-winning producer Austin Hoyt (Reagan, Eisenhower, Victory in the Pacific), reveals Bush as a pivotal player during a critical moment in American and world history and in a powerful political dynasty. Bush's personal letters, and interviews with his closest advisors and prominent critics inform the film, which features interviews with First Lady Barbara Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Mikhail Gorbachev, and more.
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As part of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's multimedia election-year project The Presidents, George H.W. Bush joins a series of critically acclaimed 20th century presidential portraits that, for the first time, are available on the Web in their entirety. More than 25 hours of content-rich programming provide historical context for current political candidates and promote civic engagement in the political process. The programs are -- FDR, Truman, LBJ, Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Reagan and the new Bush biography. All seven films will be broadcast on PBS beginning in May 2008, with Bush launching the broadcast series.
George H.W. Bush
George H.W. Bush tells the story of a man born to both economic and political privilege and tutored in modesty, who enlisted in the Navy on his 18th birthday and became a hero in World War II. It recounts Bush's post-war time at Yale University, where he excelled in athletics, and his marriage to Barbara Pierce. It tells of his adventurous days as a Texas oil wildcatter, the tragic loss of a daughter to leukemia, and his entry into Republican politics at a time of roiling change.
"People make the argument that Ronald Reagan created Bush. That's baloney," argues presidential historian Timothy Naftali. "The notion of economic prosperity, of constant economic growth, of peace abroad, all of these ideas that are associated with Reagan's legacy, would have been impossible without George Bush."
In 1962, George Bush was asked to run for chairman of Houston's Harris County Republican Party in an effort to keep the rabidly anti-Communist John Birch Society from gaining control over the party. After he won, to the dismay of traditional Republicans, Bush gave the Birchers jobs in the party. His interest was to expand a party that hardly existed in Texas. The next year he saw another opportunity to expand the party when Democratic president John F. Kennedy proposed civil rights legislation that led segregationists to abandon their party in favor of the Republicans. Bush welcomed them. "I thought it gave our party a bad name," said Bush supporter Marjorie Arsht, "but George didn't see a thing wrong with it."
"Some felt he was compromising his principles by accommodating Birchers and segregationists," says producer Austin Hoyt, "but the result was remarkable. It led to the modern Republican Party." The party Bush created in Houston would vote for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and thereafter for Ronald Reagan. "You could say that George Herbert Walker Bush was in on the creation, with this organization of Harris County Republicans, because that's where it began," says biographer Herbert Parmet. "Think of what that started."
Bush's upward path through the changing landscape of Texas and national politics took him to the U.S. House of Representatives, the United Nations, the Republican National Committee, the Central Intelligence Agency, and -- as an ambassador -- to China, giving him one of the most distinguished resumes in government, and a front row seat for the intrigue of Watergate and the management of the Cold War. Passed over for the vice-presidency by Gerald Ford, Bush would go on to serve Ronald Reagan in that role for two terms, during the heyday of the conservative ascendancy, before eventually assuming the presidency in 1988.
During the next four years, George Bush's term as president would take him from the highest approval rating ever recorded at the time to the most dramatic rejection of a sitting president in more than 80 years.
In his 1988 campaign, Bush made a promise to the American people: "read my lips -- no new taxes." With a recession looming, Bush soon came to believe he would have to renege on his pledge for the good of the nation. Inheriting a savings and loan crisis and a growing deficit from his predecessor, he was severely criticized when he agreed to raise taxes. "This could mean a one term presidency," Bush confided to his diary, "but it's that important for the country."
"How do you weigh, in the scales of history, his performance?" asks historian Richard Norton Smith in the film. "The fact is that in a rather craven way, Bush did what his political advisors said was necessary to win -- but, once he had won, he in effect put his presidency at risk by doing what his conscience and his economic calculations told him was necessary."
With both houses of Congress against him, Bush faced limited opportunities to affect domestic affairs but did take pride in two key pieces of legislation -- the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Clean Air Act. However, his most memorable accomplishments were in foreign policy where he oversaw a period of significant world change.
President Reagan may have initiated the end of the Cold War but it was Bush who brought it to a close without a shot being fired. "Reagan did all of the exciting, glitzy stuff," says former Secretary of State Colin Powell in the film. But it was Bush who shepherded the reunification of East and West Germany and the integration of Germany into NATO.
Despite his Cold War accomplishment, it was victory in the first Gulf War that would send George Bush's approval rating to 89%, at the time the highest ever recorded. In 1991, Bush drew upon the relationships he had built in his many years at the United Nations, in China, at the CIA and as vice president to assemble a coalition of thirty nations to oppose Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. After a ferocious air campaign, coalition troops would spend just 100 hours fighting on the ground, chasing the Iraqi army out of Kuwait in just four days. They would stop at the Iraq border -- Bush would not send troops into Baghdad to topple Hussein's regime. "We were trying to set a pattern for behavior in the post-Cold War world," recalls Brent Scowcroft, then National Security Advisor. "If we said, 'Okay, we've fulfilled the mandate but now we want to go on and do some more,' that's a bad precedent to set for people relying on the United States to do what the UN mandates and not further."
"Some people said, 'Why didn't you guys take care of Saddam when you had a chance? Why didn't you go to Baghdad?'" says Bush advisor James Baker. "Nobody asks me that question anymore."
Bush had amassed all the political capital a president could have, but as the economy continued to sink, and the unemployment rate soared, he was accused of losing touch with the American people and with his party. To his detriment, he underestimated the growth of the Conservative Right, the same group that he had courted as Reagan's heir. They would not re-elect the moderate Republican that Bush, like his father Prescott, had become. Bush ran a weak re-election campaign in 1992, paving the way for Arkansas governor Bill Clinton to become the next president.
"With George H.W. Bush and The Presidents, we want to engage viewers in the civic process. To my mind, that involves not just voting on Election Day, but also taking an active interest in where we've been as a nation and what led our country to the place we now hold on the international stage," says AMERICAN EXPERIENCE executive producer Mark Samels. "In 2008, as we enter a pivotal election, it is interesting to see the many issues the country wrestled with throughout the 20th century -- from war and religion to healthcare and education -- that we are still debating today. The Presidents gives our audience access to presidential history in a vast array of forms -- streaming video on the Web site, downloadable podcasts and vodcasts, and PBS national broadcasts.
"Collectively, this content provides an invaluable historical roadmap -- helping viewers to understand where we have been, so that they may better decide where we are going."
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Romantica: races clear of her rivals under a confident Maxime Guyon
PICTURE: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)Romantica outclasses Aga Khan pair
Report: Sunday, France
Deauville: Darley Prix Jean Romanet (Group 1) 1m2f, 4yo+ fillies & mares
ROMANTICA, racing in the famous Khalid Abdullah colours for master trainer Andre Fabre, held too many guns for the Aga Khan pair Sarkiyla and Dalkala in a race in which the fancied runners came to the fore.
A Group 2 winner over course and distance last year, Romantica took the step up in class in her stride on this occasion under Maxime Guyon as the winning trainer, owner and jockey repeated their success with Announce two years earlier.
Romantica has made the frame in all but one of her nine career starts with her only below-par run coming when ninth on her first try at Group 1 level in last season's Prix Vermeille.
The favourite, who was ridden with confidence by her jockey, suffered a slight scare when York winner Dalkala drifted into her, but she had time to regroup and was pulling clear of Dalkala's stablemate and runner-up Sarkiyla close home.
Abdullah's racing manager Teddy Grimthorpe said: "The ground had dried out fairly nicely and she's got a super stride.
"They went a nice pace and she quickened well. She's a Galileo out of Banks Hill so you have fairly high expectations. Her mother won the Marois here so it how good is it to win a Group 1 here?
"The obvious one for her would be the Prix de l'Opera and the Breeders' Cup could be an option."
The contest was delayed after jockeys at the track came out ten minutes late for the preceding sprint handicap at 2.08, which was won by Sara Lucille.
The gesture was in support of rider Stephane Pasquier, who was given a three-month ban earlier this month for testing positive for a banned substance.
Also on Sunday
Deauville: Darley Prix Kergorlay (Group 2) 1m7f, 3yo+
A LATE burst from Verema prevented British raider Joshua Tree from landing back-to-back victories in the Prix Kergorlay.
The Aga Khan filly, trained by Alain De Royer-Dupre and ridden by Christophe Lemaire, stuck her neck out where it mattered to get the better of the globetrotting Joshua Tree in a thrilling finish.
Seven of the nine runners had claims in the final furlong and just over a length separated the winner and seventh placed Goldtara.
The Verema team are set to discuss the possibility of venturing to Australia for the Melbourne Cup.
"There's no definite plan but Australia is possible," said De Royer-Dupre. "She is capable of accelerating even though there wasn't much pace and is progressing all the time."
Joshua Tree, trained by Marco Botti when winning last year, bounced back to form on his fourth start for Ed Dunlop, who said: "It was a great run under a Group 1 penalty.
"We're going for the Canadian International, which he's won twice and no horse has won three times."


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Container gardening expert Fern Richardson will show you how to grow edible plants on your balcony or patio. Find out which varieties do best in containers and how to get the most vegetables out of your space. There's no need for your edible containers to look utilitarian either. Fern will share some suggestions for artfully combining fruits, vegetables, and herbs so your edible garden will be as pleasing to your eyes as it is to your stomach.


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ADELANTO — The Lancaster JetHawks scored a run in each of the first two innings and never trailed Wednesday to complete a sweep and deal the High Desert Mavericks their fourth straight loss with a 6-4 win.
Tesocar Hernandez and Rio Ruiz each hit a solo home run for Lancaster. JetHawks starter Kyle Westwood retired 12 straight Mavericks (51-58, 17-22 second half) hitters beginning with the second out of the third inning, and he struck out nine to earn the win.
The three straight losses to Lancaster marked the third time in July that High Desert has been swept at home. The Mavs went 3-10 in Adelanto during the month. Now they head to San Bernardino on Thursday to start four-game series with the Inland Empire 66ers.
Lars Huijer (0-2) took the loss for High Desert, as he gave up four runs — three earned — on five hits and three walks in 4 2-3 innings.
Tyler Marlette and Jabari Henry each collected two hits with Marlette driving in two runs for the Mavs. Lonnie Kauppila also had an RBI, and Travis Witherspoon hit his 15th double.
Hernandez homered to left with one out to put Lancaster up 1-0 in the top of the first inning.
High Desert tied it up in the bottom of the first when Marlette's single to right brought in Zach Shank from second.
The JetHawks took the lead again in the top of the second on Jobduan Morales' sacrifice fly.
The Mavs tied it once again in the bottom of the third. Guillermo Pimental doubled with one out, advanced to third on Henry's single and came home on a fielder's choice error.
Lancaster took the lead for good in the top of the fifth. Morales scored the first run with the help of two wild pitches. The second wild pitch from Huijer allowed him to score and also moved Chan Moon to third base, and he scored when Ruiz hit into a double play.
High Desert falls to Lancaster for fourth straight loss
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. has completed an acquisition of PreCision Dermatology Inc., officials said Tuesday.
Valeant, the Quebec-based parent of Bausch & Lomb Inc., announced in February an agreement to acquire PreCision, based in Cumberland, R.I., in a $475 million cash deal, Terms included an agreement for Valeant to pay an additional $25 million if PreCision met certain sales goals.
PreCision Dermatology products include the skin-care drugs Locoid, Hylatopic and Clindagel.
Valeant acquired Bausch & Lomb last year, moving the eye-care company's headquarters from Rochester to Valeant's U.S. base in New Jersey.
Valeant last month launched a hostile bid to take over of the Botox maker Allergan Inc.
Allergan has yet to comment on Valeant's June tender offer of $72 cash plus .83 Valeant shares for each Allergan share. The offer expires Aug. 15 but could be extended, Valeant officials said last month.
In a May 27 investor conference, Allergan executives scoffed at a Valeant proposal to offer $48 share plus .83 Valeant shares as woefully undervaluing the Botox maker.
Calling Valeant a serial acquirer interested mainly in short-term gains, the Allergan officials in May accused the Quebec company of painting an overly rosy picture of Bausch & Lomb's first-quarter market gains and overstating its tax advantages.
Valeant shares (NYSE: VRX) on Tuesday were trading at $121.13, down $2.16 or 1.75 percent from Monday's close.
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Gurmeet engaged to Debina
"It was a surprise for me by Gurmeet. I just couldn"t believe that moment come to my life. I wouldn"t like to reveal much as it"s better if you watch the episode and understand the emotions that we went through," says Debina.
So is the marriage on the cards? "Well definitely but as my parents have gone abroad, we will wait till they come back. After that we will be deciding on the dates of the marriage," she adds further.
Debina has discovered a new Gurmeet during this one month reality show. "After doing the show and staying with him for a month I realised that I knew him only 1% and there was lot more to be discovered. The way he has taken care of me and motivated me has made me think over that he was a different person all together. I am really happy for the surprise he gave me in the show," she quips.
Finally Debina and Gurmeet are ready to become Pati aur Patni but there is still lot of time for 'woh' to come. "We know that starting a family is a big responsibility and at least for 2 to 3 years we can't think about it," concludes the actress.
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Stocks end lower despite better view from Fed
NEW YORK — The stock market is encouraged by the Fed's latest improved assessment of the economy, but not enough to propel the Dow Jones industrial average past 10,000.
Stocks have closed lower after the Fed's economic statement Wednesday. The market initially blipped higher, bringing the Dow within 82 points of crossing 10,000 for the first time since October, but the average ended the day with a loss of 81.
The Fed said the pace of economic activity has "picked up" since its last meeting in August.
According to preliminary calculations, the Dow fell 81 to 9,748. The Standard & Poor's 500 fell 11 to 1,060, while the Nasdaq composite fell 14 to 2,131.
Losing stocks outnumbered winners by about 3-to-2 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.3 billion shares.


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In 2015, the key words of the Mobile World Congress were 5G, IoT, virtualization and LTE-U : PART 2
IoT : The Internet of Things
Connected objects were everywhere and IoT is now becoming the Internet of everything.
Connected cars
Connected cars attracted a lot of attention with connected vehicles on most of equipment manufacturers' and MNOs' booths.
Renault's CEO made a keynote where he presented the timetable for assisted driving. According to Mr. Carlos Ghosn, despite their numerous initiatives and some acquisition rumours, Internet giants are not rivals to car manufacturers but allies, as they consider electric cars and they help car makers to promote electric cars.
Ford had even its own booth presenting the electric vehicles (both passenger and entreprise cars) with dedicated solutions. In the meantime, Vodafone presented a Porsche Panamera model equipped with its new Telematics solution since the Cobra acquisition.
Smart home
Smart is also getting traction in the IoT space. In the "innovation city" hall (space dedicated to the connected objects), through the AT&T offering (Digital life) where the home could control through the smartphone and even through the connected car (equipped with an AT&T SIM card). When approaching the home, the car can trigger the opening of gate by itself for instance (pre-programmed distance).
Several watches and smart objects were also present on the different booths. Only AT&T provides cellular connected wearable on its booth, including the TIMEX and Samsung Gear S.
Alternative technologies
While 5G is already in the tracks, very low throughput network technologies are also under the spotlights. After the recent release of its 100 MEUR fundraising campaign among telecom operators, Sigfox was also on everyone's lips at the MWC. Among the main new shareholders, Telefonica confirmed its strategic investment and its willingness to integrate the technology into its portfolio to address additional verticals and applications.
The GMA (Global M2M Association) also announced a strategic collaboration with Gemalto and Ericsson to provide a Multi-Domestic Service based on a single SIM (using the eUICC technology) helping global enterprises (chiefly from the automotive and consumer electronics segments) capitalize on the growth of connected devices.
Growing market but still key challenges though
During his keynote, if AT&T Wireless CEO predicted that the smart phone will be the remote control of everything in the next few years, he also pointed out the key challenges to address in order to make the IoT market grow significantly:
• Security
• Privacy concerns
• Effortless (ease of use)
Data about devices and their users is generated in real-time, often by default and without the user being aware or having choice (especially for free apps). There is a need for a different approach to giving users transparency, choice and control over their data and privacy.
Generally user has a single choice : accept or not using the service, there should be gradual approach (like sharing some id attributes but not all of them).
Privacy could be a competitive stick for service providers, as users are becoming more aware of privacy.
Facebook in emerging countries
Facebook has launched Facebook zero in partnership with mobile operators (Millicom, Telenor, Airtel): data use is free for a limited period, and after that operators can charge data.
• Airtel: "Operators and Facebook are like the beauty and the beast, but the beast (facebook) is becoming more human nowadays". Airtel was reluctant to introduce Facebook because of VoIP threat. Is looking at it like the "boiling milk".
• Millicom, Telenor: have seen ARPU rise thanks to facebook launching, very promising for them.
• Wikipedia has the same approach of "Wikipedia zero", dealing with operator to provide data access for free.
Financial inclusion
Banks, such as Master Card, provide a global and interoperable solutions. Those systems needs public-private partnerships. Hong Leong Islamic Bank Berhad has launched a solution in Malaysia.
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Will spectrum sharing become mainstream?
Frédéric PUJOL
LTE Lead analyst, IDATE
Radio technologies and their impact
on spectrum management
on spectrum management
In our latest report from our spectrum on-going service, we evaluate the impact of new radio technologies on Spectrum management. It evaluates how these enhancements will help maximize the use of radio spectrum. It focuses on spectrum sharing with analyses on cognitive radio, white spaces, LSA (Licensed Shared Access) and LTE in unlicensed Spectrum.
New radio technologies impact on spectrum management
Source: IDATE
• Cognitive Radio Systems (CRS) represent important technological innovations that facilitate spectrum sharing. Recent progress with cognitive radio technology could also bring benefits here and allow spectrum sharing on a frequency-, location- and time-sharing basis.
• The 'white spaces' concept enables the provision of telecommunication services in underused frequency bands such as the VHF and UHF bands used for TV transmission. It involves cognitive radio techniques and enables opportunistic sharing implementation between a primary user (incumbent) and a secondary one (new users). Developments are under way in the USA, the United Kingdom and in some developing countries in Africa and Asia. In pilots being carried out in Singapore, two methods are being used to determine the presence of existing users within a channel, spectrum sensing and geolocation databases.
• Licensed shared access (LSA) could provide new harmonised spectrum for mobile broadband with predictable QoS guarantees, perhaps removing the political, geographical and time constraints which occur with attempts to clear a new frequency band. LSA is under study in countries with very different positions regarding the 2.3 GHz band.
• Carrier aggregation and supplemental downlink (SDL) are techniques which enable a better use of sparsely-distributed frequency bands. Their combination enables higher data rates and the use of isolated frequency bands such as the L-band in Europe. They do not have any significant impact on spectrum management.
• In November 2013, Qualcomm announced the extension of the use of LTE-Advanced in unlicensed bands. It remains to be seen whether LTE-Advanced operation in unlicensed bands will not generate interference to WiFi users.
• Spectrum sharing is expected to increase in the years to come in order to maximise the use of the scarce resource. Frequency bands used by public users are likely to be open to sharing with commercial users. Spectrum sharing is already a reality today with Collective Use of Spectrum (CUS) in unlicensed frequency bands.
The LTE-only market
Basile CARLE
Senior consultant, LTE
How much potential for LTE-only?
With LTE nationwide coverage a near-reality in some advanced markets such as South Korea, the USA and Japan, the question arises of the relevance of launching LTE-only devices. Indeed, LTE-only devices come with benefits for both operators and consumers, especially in terms of cost, energy consumption and space saved inside the device and available for additional components or larger capacity batteries.
• For the operators, LTE-only devices may even become strategic since it will help them to transition their users more easily to their latest network while releasing new resources to cope with the data traffic explosion. Today, voice is no longer of any importance, but data is. With carrier aggregation, each chunk of spectrum available is valuable. Fewer 2G/3G users means more capacity for mobile broadband networks.
• Few operators have already launched LTE-only devices. Verizon is one of the first to have done so with a digital camera and more recently a tablet. Other operators such as LG U+ in South Korea have also done so with ultrabooks and hybrid laptop/tablets devices.
• Our forecasts for LTE devices indicate that close to one billion will be shipped in 2017.
M2M modules, shipment trends (In millions)
Source: IDATE
• However, some applications are more suitable than others for those kinds of devices. The first LTE-only handsets, for instance, should arrive on the market in 2014-2015 but they will require VoLTE to be supported on the network to have any meaning. Still, as long as LTE is not widely available worldwide with LTE roaming in place (which may take time), using its device abroad may be tricky.
• In the data-centric segment of devices however, the potential is bigger but the question of the competition with other wireless technologies remains. Fixed LTE broadband in remote areas is an application of choice for LTE where fixed broadband technologies are not available. However, many objects or appliances will rather be connected with shorter range technologies than rely on cellular connectivity. Indeed, why connect your fridge to an LTE network with an associated plan when you already have a broadband connection in your household? Likewise, devices such as smartwatches or e-health devices with sensors embedded for measuring self-use will rather be connected to smartphones with some Bluetooth Smart (Bluetooth Low Energy) than directly to a cellular network.
• Even more specifically in the M2M segment, LTE is currently not adapted to traditional low energy / narrowband / cost-conscious applications such as security, metering, fleet management. For these applications, work is being carried out to bring some machine type communication (MTC) in the Release 12 of LTE but compliant devices are not expected in the immediate future. This work will lead to the emergence of some kind of narrowband / low energy LTE.
The market report entitled "The LTE only market" is published as part of IDATE's LTE World market series
In-Flight Connectivity: Satellite vs LTE
Maxime Baudry
Co-Head of Satellite Practice
43% of worldwide commercial aircrafts will be connected for broadband access services in 2017 against only 17.5% at end-2012
Until quite recently, the aviation communications market was limited to operational communications between the cockpit and control tower. It is now expanding to include voice and data communications for passengers around the world, a market that, while still limited, is set to grow in the next few years. The technology has been around for a number of years, but Boeing's CBB service failed to convince airlines back in 2004. As airlines compete fiercely among themselves and with other modes of transport, the benefits of passengers being able to use their cell phones or go online via their laptops or tablets could prove a very strong selling point.
The in-flight connectivity market is rapidly expanding around the world
- The market for broadband access on planes will continue to grow in response to strong demand from air passengers for connectivity.
- Expectations run very high: air passengers are seeking the same quality service and experience they have grown accustomed to with terrestrial connections.
- Applications are still mainly focused on internet browsing and emails, but video consumption increases rapidly
- To meet these expectations, one by one, airlines are equipping their fleets with broadband Internet access. By mid-2013, over a third of domestic flights (38%) in the United States offered an Internet access solution.
- We now see a sharp increase in the number of equipped planes in all geographical regions of the globe, although virtually all of the systems currently in operation are in North America.
Evolution of "connected" aircrafts between 2010 and 2012
Source: IDATE, Market Insight "Inflight conenctivity: Satellite vs LTE", August 2013
The business model remains uncertain
- Revenue-sharing is the most common business model today. A price is agreed between the operator and airline and the revenues then shared, the operator usually taking a larger cut than the airline;
- According to IDATE, the revenues from these services are not sufficient to generate a profit. They essentially cover just the operating costs (purchase of bandwidth, system maintenance and extra fuel consumption due to the weight of the terminal and increased drag on the plane);
- In the future, these services could not be extra-charged
- According to IDATE, there are still doubts regarding a sustainable business model, especially because the still weak adoption rate for paid-services (approximately 7%)
Satellite access solutions should face competition from LTE by 2016
- Two solutions currently exist: an Air-To-Ground (ATG) solution in the United States, which is losing pace due to the lack of adequate spectrum, and the satellite solution (Ku and Ka frequency bands).
- The introduction of Ka-band systems should revolutionize the market, providing access to much faster speeds (from 2 to 12 Mbps per passenger) at much lower prices (bandwidth costs up to 10 times cheaper).
- By 2016, however, satellite will face competition from LTE, a technology currently being tested by manufacturers such as Alcatel-Lucent, ZTE and Huawei for in-flight connectivity on commercial aircraft.
- LTE solutions could reach speeds of 30 Mbps per plane, with much lower CAPEX and OPEX.
IDATE estimates that 43% of aircraft will be connected in 2017
- According to our estimates, at end-2012, more than 2 700 commercial aircraft worldwide offered a broadband Internet service, 80% of these via the Gogo terrestrial solution.
This figure represents just 17% of the total fleet of planes worldwide, which Airbus estimates at 15 500 aircraft. - According to IDATE, the market for broadband Internet access on planes should expand sharply between now and 2017, reaching 8 240 aircraft in 2017 (43% of the total fleet in service worldwide).
- Market is facing a complete hybridization of ATG LTE & Satellite services up to 2020.
IDATE's new insight "In-Flight Connectivity" provides its readers with a synoptic overview of the latest changes in the In-Flight Broadband market. It showcases the market's current services and usages, analyzes the various business models, details the existing satellite solutions and proposes a prospective for 2017, taking in account the emerging Air-To-Ground solutions based on LTE technology.
LTE in Asia-Pacific
Frédéric PUJOL
Head of the radio technologies & spectrum practice, IDATE
APAC is leading the LTE world market with a huge growth expected through 2017
Globally, Asia-Pacific market is second, behind the American, with more than 35 million subscriptions in Q1 2013, when our forecast is more than for 540 million LTE subscriptions at the end of 2017 in Asia-Pacific:
- South Korea alone hit 20 million subscriptions in April 2013.
- Massive TD-LTE network deployments in region
- Future of TD-LTE depends mainly on China and India: a potential market of 800 M TD-LTE subscriptions issued by China Mobile and Bharti Airtel.
LTE market share in Asia-Pacific, 2012-2017
Source: IDATE - LTE Watch (July 2013)
- South Korea: the two leading operators in South Korea, SK Telecom and LG U+, launched LTE in 2011. KT followed in 2012. Given the very rapid deployment of LTE networks with 100% of the population covered in May 2012, the competition between the three operators and the launch of LTE-Advanced in 2013, South Korea will remain one of the most dynamic LTE markets in the world.
- Japan: the Japanese market saw an acceleration of LTE deployments due to SoftBank's strategic move. The operator is operating both a LTE FDD and TD-LTE network and forced NTT DOCOMO to accelerate its LTE deployment.
- India: The first TD-LTE service was launched by Bharti Airtel in April 2012. Delays in spectrum allocation for lower bands limit LTE expansion today. Administrative issues linked to spectrum and availability of TD-LTE devices will be key to the uptake of LTE technology in India. We lowered our forecasts considering that adoption is slower than expected: in September, Bharti Airtel had only 3,000 TD-LTE subscriber.
- China: recent news indicated that the Government might award LTE licenses in end-2013. China Mobile is deploying more than 200,000 TD-LTE base stations and will be able to quickly grow its LTE subscriber base once the Government authorises commercial operation.
- Australia: take-up of LTE is quite fast and the country recently auctioned the 700 MHz band.
This analysis is an excerpt of our World LTE Market Database & Status report - July 2013
Interview with Gilles BRÉGANT, CEO of ANFR
Published in COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES No. 90, 2nd Quarter 2013
The radio spectrum: A shift in paradigms?
Summary of this issue: Demand for the use of the radio spectrum is constantly and rapidly growing, not only as a means of carrying Internet traffic, but also for new or expanding use by the military, public protection and disaster relief, at the same time that more traditional applications such as aeronautical, maritime, and radio astronomy remain. Is spectrum policy entering a trackless wilderness, or can a new direction and a new set of paradigms be expected to emerge? The contributions to this special issue of Communications & Strategies cover a great deal of ground. They serve to provide valuable signposts for spectrum policy going forward.
Interview with Gilles BRÉGANT
CEO of ANFR.
(French national spectrum agency)
Conducted by Frédéric PUJOL,
Head of the radio technologies & spectrum practice, IDATE
C&S: What are ANFR's main priorities in the coming two years as far as Spectrum management is concerned?
Gilles BRÉGANT:
The Agence nationale des Fréquences (ANFR) is the French public Agency in charge of radio spectrum management. It is placed under the jurisdiction of the Minister responsible for Electronic Communications (Mr. Arnaud Montebourg and Ms. Fleur Pellerin since May 2012) but all the Ministries using spectrum are represented at ANFR's board. Besides, ANFR's decisions regarding spectrum allocation are actually taken by the Prime Minister since spectrum, in France, is a state affair.
Spectrum management priorities will be closely linked to the governmental decisions and digital economy needs for the following years and to the international and European agenda.
A. Create the conditions of mobile broadband (4G) success in France
4G allows very high data flow rates and significantly increased user comfort: lightning-fast downloads, and a more fluid navigation become possible on smartphones or tablets. This opens up opportunities for new services in mobility, such as access to audiovisual content. A factor of innovation, growth and job creation, 4G is one of the priorities of the Government. ANFR has been deeply involved for the development of European harmonized conditions for the usage of 4G and is currently mobilized to make a success for the introduction of this new technology.
Since December 2012, the Agency has published a 4G roll out observatory. This tool will be key to monitor 4G infrastructures deployment, carrier by carrier.
However, the 4G challenge will be a tricky one when it comes to spectrum management since the 800 MHz 4G can interfere with DTT. ANFR uses its resources devoted to the protection of TV reception so that the 4G 800 MHz and TNT coexist harmoniously.
The ANFR intervenes at every stage of the deployment:
- it actively participates in the communication towards local elected officials, professionals and the general public on these operations;
- during the phases of deployment, it collects and instructs the claims of viewers through its call center;
- it oversees the resolution of the problem by operators if the interference comes from the 4G 800 MHz. A professional intervenes, most often to insert a filter in the reception of the TNT facility.
The TV reception is therefore guaranteed for each viewer. The full cost of interventions is supported by mobile operators.
B. Prepare the next World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC)
In 2012, we have drawn the immediate consequences of the WRC-12. In 2014, the delegations will develop first arbitrations of WRC-15. In 2013, national positions must be taken.
One of the challenges of this Conference will be the question of the future of the 700 MHz band. In France, it is now assigned to audiovisual. Since the debates on the first digital dividend, five years ago, the terms of the problem have been well known: the use of mobile Internet is expected to grow regularly in the coming years to meet the expectations of very mobile broadband. But this demand for broadband is common to all sectors: the audiovisual sector wants to keep these frequencies to offer new services: generalization of high definition, introduction of ultra high definition or 4K for example. And Government services, such as those of the Ministry of the Interior, also want to access services such as video for safety services.
In this debate, three ideas seem inevitable:
- there is not enough spectrum available under 1 GHz to satisfy fully each need;
- France is not an island, and it will have to act in harmony with its Western European neighbors;
- Europe will have to play an important role.
ANFR, as it manages the entire spectrum and guaranties technical neutrality, is coordinating the preparatory work at the national and international levels. ANFR, which is already contributing to the preparation of the next WRC, is involved in various entities in CEPT and UIT involved in this process and is bringing its technical expertise to the Government so that a decision can be taken in the best conditions.
ANFR is also an active member of the RSPG ad hoc group, which will provide recommendation to European Commission on WRC issues and on the identification of 1200 MHz for wireless broadband.
C. Facilitate the deployment of the 6 new DTT channels
Since December 12, 2012, 25% of the French population can access 6 new HD channels with their DTT HD TV sets. Free to air TV is no longer limited to generalist channels. Every French citizen, and not only the ones with cable, satellite or IPTV subscriptions, will be able to watch specialized channels on areas such as sports, travels, diversity and so on by 2015.
The years to come will see more of the French population covered by the new HD DTT channels.
The Agency, together with the CSA, has the mission to assist viewers in solving their TV reception problems through its call center and its dedicated website, "www.recevoirlatnt.fr", in collaboration with local aerial installers. If necessary, it will grant funding provided by the State to viewers who have lost DTT reception.
What are the expected evolutions as far as new ways of sharing spectrum are concerned? What are their consequences on spectrum management?
First, it is important to recall that spectrum sharing is already a reality with short range devices operating under a general authorization on a non interference and non protection basis. This is the case for Wifi in the 2.45 GHz and 5 GHz bands. This is also the case of all applications using ultra wide band devices which are sharing spectrum thanks to a very low power density. UWB technology was also used in sectors such as automobile and aeronautics.
What about Licensed Shared Access (LSA)?
The objective of an LSA approach is to facilitate the introduction of additional users operating with individual spectrum rights of use in specific bands and on a shared basis with an incumbent user, thus allowing predictable quality of service for all rights holders. These arrangements will need sufficient flexibility in order to account for national particularities, in relation to the administration of spectrum.
LSA could be introduced as a regulatory approach to release spectrum. In addition to conventional planning methods, cognitive radio technologies and their capabilities (geolocation databases, sensing, etc.) could be taken into account as enablers for sharing under the LSA approach.
ANFR engineers are actively participating in European works, at the ECC level for instance, on this issue, which is still in its early stages.
700 MHz band: what are the stakes and constraints?
World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) 2012 decided that for the Region 1 the 694-790 MHz band will be allocated to mobile service co primary with broadcast services, this allocation becoming effective after WRC-15.
The issues at stake in the preparatory works for the WRC-15 are each tied to technical and negotiated matters. The possible refinement of the lower band edge (694 MHz) is one issue up for debate during the preparatory works. The second stake is the identification of a harmonized channelling arrangement, that is to say, the uplink and downlink bands. Finally, technical matters such as sharing studies between mobile and DTT at 694 MHz and the consequence of this on the necessary guard band are also to be clarified through the preparatory works for the WRC-15.
Regarding the choice, and its consequences, between IMT and broadcast, WRC was the starting point. The next steps are European decisions and national arbitrages.
2013 will be the year of public exposure to electromagnetic fields in France (ANSES report, Abeille Bill…): what is the role of ANFR as far as exposition control is concerned?
First, the Agency has no sanitary or health prerogatives, its expertise and missions only rely on technical matters.
The Agency monitors the respect by radiocommunication network operators of the public exposure to electromagnetic fields limits. The legal limits are the ones of a 1999 European Recommendation. Besides, by Law, the Agency has to make an inventory of "atypical" points, that is, the points where the exposure is significantly above the national average (while still below the limits). ANFR also elaborates the protocol used to measure the public exposure to electromagnetic fields. ANFR is also in charge of devices monitoring (phones, smartphones, tablets…). We insure that DAS limits (2 W/kg) are respected. We also check if the necessary information is properly provided to consumers.
2013 will indeed be the year of public exposure to electromagnetic fields. It began with the Bill introduced by MP Ms. Abeille from the Environmentalist Party. This Bill was forwarded to the Parliament Economic Commission for further analysis.
In 2013, we will publish our report on technical experiments which were lead in France to assess the possibility to reduce public exposure to electromagnetic fields due to mobile operators antennae without decreasing coverage and quality of service. Such experiment is a world premiere until now. 2013 will also be the year when ANSES, the French sanitary authorities, publishes its new report on the sanitary effects of such a field.
The Agency is a neutral, technical expert in that area. By participating in public meetings, advising elected officials and also the general public through its website Cartoradio, the Agency participates in turning this potential concern into a serene public debate. Finally, in 2013 we will provide a mobile version of Cartoradio, with the location of all mobile based-stations and the results of more than 26,000 field measures.
The ANFR organizes an international Conference on June 26 and 27 2013 entitled "Spectrum & Innovation": what is it about?
The Conference "Spectrum and Innovation" was instigated by Ms. Fleur Pellerin, delegated Minister in charge of Small businesses, Innovation and Digital Economy. We want the Conference to be a major event in 2013 for the digital economy sector in general and radiofrequencies in particular. The objective is to show to a large audience of professionals from the digital economy how spectrum is key to their sector and how this resource is crucial to economic growth in the coming years.
Different themes will be dealt with: how mobility is shaping our society and stimulating innovation, how radiofrequencies constitute a growth leverage for industry and small businesses, or even the spectrum needs for 2020. To debate on these subjects only experts in their fields have been chosen. The Conference will also be a chance to listen to influential and renowned speakers: Ministers, European and foreign institutions officials, renowned academics and business leaders (BBC, Bouygues Telecom, Cisco, Eutelsat, France Télévisions, Free Mobile, IBM, M6, NRJ Group, Orange, Qualcomm, Renault, SFR, TDF, TF1…).
We expect these two days to shows us what exciting new developments can be in store in the coming years. The Conference will prove how spectrum can foster innovation, growth and job creation.
Gilles BRÉGANT was born in Chambery in September 1963. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (1986) and from Telecom ParisTech (1988). Following an 8-year-career at France Telecom research center, Gilles Brégant was appointed technical adviser to the Minister in charge of Research (1996-1997). He had to coordinate international projects and themes in relation with information technology. He then worked for the department of trade and industry as deputy director in charge of Prospective. He was appointed secretary general of the ministerial task force "Digital Economy" (2001-2005). He was then appointed Technical Director of Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (the French Media Regulator) in 2005. Gilles Brégant is the CEO of ANFR since 2011.
Published in COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES No. 90, 2nd Quarter 2013
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Next Gen Networks : reaching the DAE
Valérie CHAILLOU
Head of Research, Telecoms Business Unit, IDATE
Deployment costs & access market revenue in Europe
The goals set by the European Commission for ultra-fast broadband (UFB) are ambitious. By 2020, they aim to provide all European households with ubiquitous coverage of 30 Mbps and 50% of households with 100 Mbps access.
Cost of NGN deployment for reaching the goals of the DAE
NGN deployments are underway in all countries of the European Union but are progressing at very different rates from one country to the other. Some governments have created national programs that lay down their own goals to try and accelerate deployments, through both private operators and public players. IDATE has published a report in which NGN deployment costs have been modeled according to various scenarios. We will look closely at three of these: the "Base Case" scenario, which considers a gradual evolution of current NGN access; the "Vectoring" scenario, which anticipates improvements in copper-based technologies to reach the speeds laid out by the DAE; and the "FTTH" scenario, in which FTTH/B would be deployed on a massive scale and would provide the most future-proof performance in terms of speed. This last scenario is itself analyzed according to two different options (90% or 100% FTTH coverage), which lead to significantly different costs. The cumulative costs of these scenarios between 2011 and 2020 range from 71 to 230 billion EUR.
Cost comparison of NGN deployment scenarios en Europe
Source: IDATE
Revenues tied to the UFB access market
In parallel, IDATE has also conducted a study to evaluate the value of the UFB access market. This study is based on a thorough analysis of UFB services offered by key players in markets that represent different degrees of UFB maturity. This analysis allows us to identify different types of delivery model that may include one or more goals (maintaining positioning, increasing ARPU, reducing churn, unbundling withdrawal, etc.). The commercial positioning of operators will thus match a given delivery type that will depend on the level of competition, in particular. From there, it is possible to determine what the trends will be in terms of UFB ARPU over the coming years and thus assess one of the two key variables of access revenue. The other variable is the number of UFB subscribers, which should continue to grow relatively steadily through 2020 if we take all technologies into account. According to our estimates, the UFB access market is expected to reach 48 billion EUR by 2020.
Costs vs. revenues: Which scenario should we prioritize?
Despite some very interesting revenue potential (combined revenues exceed the cost of the most expensive scenario by 2020), the FTTH scenario is not really feasible (regardless of the coverage option considered) because cable operators—whose infrastructures offer faster speeds, are less expensive to upgrade and offer very good performance—will continue to play a major role in this market. The Base Case scenario seems to be a more feasible option in that it represents a continuation of what currently exists, namely a combination of technologies and accelerating deployment. However, it also presents risks, particularly the possibility of slow migration of broadband subscribers to UFB. Whichever scenario is implemented, operators will still need to invest significantly in deployment while reserving some investment for generating demand, without which their expected revenues cannot be achieved.
This analysis is an extract from our FTTx market insight which we propose within our ongoing monitoring of the worldwide FTTx market.
LTE World Summit – The 700 Mhz Band
Frédéric PUJOL
Head of the radio technologies & spectrum practice, IDATE
IDATE reveals Latest
World LTE Market research
Sustained growth expected to hit 915 million LTE subscribers worldwide by the end of 2016, and the first billion will be exceeded during 2017.
IDATE, leading analysts and European Internet thinktank, today announced the main trends shaping the world's mobile markets: networks, devices and services. At the LTE World Summit in Amsterdam (June, 24-26) IDATE provides its latest analyses and forecasts for the world LTE market, and insight into the 700 MHz issue.
World LTE Market forecasts
By the end of 2016, IDATE's forecast predicts more than 915 million LTE subscriptions worldwide. Asia-Pacific is expected to represent a sizeable 41.6% of the total, North America 21.6%, Africa/Middle East 7.5%, Eastern Europe 4.9% and Western Europe 15.8%.
LTE is now mainstream with major deployments in every geographical area. The TD-LTE ecosystem is still waiting for a decision from China and can anticipate seeing the first LTE Advanced networks during the second half of this year. The 700 MHz band with the APT band plan has already been allocated in countries such as Australia and Japan with intense regulatory activity expected in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America around this new frequency band.
LTE subscribers worldwide (in thousands): Ranking by country at 2016
Source: IDATE, LTE Watch Service, March 2013
The 700 MHz band: A new harmonised frequency band for LTE?
With IDATE's latest report addressing the 700MHz band issue, this question for future usage of our mobile services must be considered.
The growth of mobile broadband traffic is putting pressure on mobile networks and is driving the need for more spectrum in sub-1 GHz frequency bands for LTE and LTE-Advanced networks. Harmonisation across many geographical areas is crucial as it would enable significant economies of scale for LTE devices and would facilitate international roaming. The first Digital Dividend has already provided new spectrum for the mobile sector. Notably, the 700 MHz band in the USA and the 800 MHz band in Europe are today used for commercial LTE services.
Following the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12), the 700 MHz now appears the most promising option for a harmonised frequency band across Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. IDATE anticipate further discussions at WRC- 15 and technical conditions have to be defined in Europe before then.
First and second Digital Dividends, worldwide
Asia-Pacific taking th lead in digital dividends
The Asia-Pacific region is taking the lead in this field and has already defined the 'APT band plan' which is likely to be adopted in Latin America, Africa, Middle East and Europe. This plan is not compatible with the US plan, which was defined before the 2008 auction and does not allow any compatibility or roaming for future LTE handsets. The 700 MHz band with the APT band plan could become a harmonised frequency band for LTE worldwide.
The 700 MHz band corresponds to the first Digital Dividend in the USA and in Asia-Pacific, whereas it could become the second Digital Dividend in the EMEA region. At WRC-12, African and Middle Eastern countries requested that the 694-790 MHz spectrum be allocated for mobile broadband services.
Europe should not make the same mistake as it did with the 800 MHz band
Many observers insist that Europe should not make the same mistake as it did with the 800 MHz band - where the auctions took place without coordination leading to undesirable early starts in some countries with a limited range of compatible devices. The harmonisation process in Europe should be clear with precise technical parameters and a realistic roadmap taking into account the timetable of existing broadcasting services. 2020 seems to be a realistic target for the launch of LTE services in the 700 MHz band in Europe, but some countries, such as France and perhaps Germany, are already planning to organise auctions as soon as 2015 even though the spectrum will only be available at a later date.
Public safety networks want superior broadband services
Public safety networks, which want to support mobile broadband services, are also starting to use parts of the 700 MHz band in the USA and the UAE have already allocated spectrum for their use earlier this year. Discussions are under way in Europe to address this question.
Innovative auction format in USA
In the USA, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has suggested an innovative auction format, called 'incentive auctions'. The objective is to change the use of UHF band (470-700 MHz) starting with the 600 MHz band and to enable new services on a licensed basis. The process would start with a reorganisation of the UHF band and a re-allocation for licensed mobile services, such as 3G and LTE.
Digiworld by IDATE Related Publications
Just published: Digiworld Yearbook 2013 (May 2013)Innovation searching for the digital gold minesThis latest DigiWorld Yearbook provides you, as always, with reference data and the analyses of IDATE experts of the most vital trends on the markets of telecoms, the Internet and digital media.
The 700 MHz frequency band (June 2013)This insight focus on the adoption of the APAC plan for the 700 MHz plan. Will this frequency band become an harmonised one? Will Europe adopt this plan and benefit from the device ecosystem? Which timescale?
Soon published: DigiWorld Economic Journal: C&S No.90, 2nd quarter 2013(June 2013)The radio spectrum: A shift in paradigms?Edited by J. Scott MARCUS, Gérard POGOREL & Frédéric PUJOL two exclusive interviews : - Gilles BRÉGANT, CEO of ANFR (French national spectrum agency) - Paul E. JACOBS, Qualcomm's Chairman & CEO Read the interview
Africa and Middle East LTE forecasts
Frédéric PUJOL
Head of the radio technologies & spectrum practice, IDATE
70 million LTE subscribers for Africa and Middle East in 2016
As an official partner of LTE MENA 2013, IDATE delivers its latest insights about the LTE Market in Africa and Middle East.
LTE is gaining momentum: by 2016, there will be a total of 916 million LTE subscriptions worldwide. Our forecasts regarding Africa and Middle East are for 68 million LTE subscriptions at the end of 2016.
World LTE market : LTE deployments stepping up
• We expect that, by the end of 2013, a significant portion of LTE devices will support both FDD and TDD duplex modes. TD-LTE deployments in India, China and many other countries in the Asia-Pacific, Latin American, and Middle East regions and, to a lesser extent, Europe will fuel this growth.
• We anticipate that more than 80% of LTE devices will also support 3G and, in most cases, 2G in 2014.
• A limited number of LTE devices will support Mobile WiMAX in order to facilitate smooth transition for operators switching to TD-LTE.
Middle East & Africa : 70 million LTE suscribers by 2016
• The first LTE commercial services were launched in South Africa, Tanzania and Namibia in 2H 2012.
• Saudi Arabia: the three MNOs – Etisalat-Mobily, Zain Saudi Arabia and Saudi Telecom Company (STC) – launched LTE services in 2011. They were slowed down by the lack of compatible smartphones.
• Our forecasts are for 68 million LTE subscriptions at the end of 2016 in the countries of the Middle East and Africa for a revenue of 20 billion Euro.
Africa Middle East LTE Subscribers forecasts (thousand)
Source: IDATE
Frédéric PUJOL
Head of Mobile & Spectrum Practice at IDATE


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- Deirdre Mundy said...
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- Sheila Ruth said...
I don't think that you should disable anonymous comments. That may work fine for some blogs, but I've seen many times when people commented here anonymously for legitimate reasons. (And, after all, if you're anonymous, why can't your readers keep their anonymity?)
Hopefully moderating comments will work for you, although it does mean a little more work. - December 1, 2008 at 11:18 PM
- Editorial Anonymous said...
Yes, that's how I feel, Sheila. And I used to be an anonymous commenter on blogs myself before I had a web "identity".
So we'll try it this way for a while at least. - December 2, 2008 at 9:36 AM
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I'm surprised the word verification didn't do the job.
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- Editorial Anonymous said...
Word verification only keeps automated spam out. There are still (seemingly) plenty of spammers willing to go in one-post-at-a-time and paste their smut into the comments.
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You are right - it's amazing how much manual spam you can get. I run a forum that requires registration, and get at least one new spammer trying to register per day - most from IP address in Asia.
You last line sounded like a blog post I recently had to make about spam:
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Given the shit that's happening right now with the U.S. economy, you would almost half expect Zack de la Rocha and company to make a new album, right? Wrong, for now, I guess, but Rage Against the Machine is still playing gigs every so often. And at the end of July, they headlined the L.A. Rising event in Los Angeles with acts like Muse, Lauryn Hill, and Immortal Technique sharing the bill. And some faithful Rage fan compiled footage from the band's entire set, which is now available in all its political and angsty glory.
You can watch the set and view the set list below.
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People v. Francisco Carranza updated: Jan 31, 2014, 2:32 PM
Source: Office of the District Attorney
Re: People v. Francisco Carranza
Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce E. Dudley announced the arrest of Francisco Javier Carranza on January 30, 2014. Carranza, 44 years old, of Lompoc, California, was arrested by detectives from the Valencia Office of the Fraud Division of the California Department of Insurance. The District Attorney's Office has filed a complaint charging Carranza with four felony counts for violating Insurance Code section 1871.4, commonly referred to as Worker's Compensation Fraud. The potential loss is estimated at $120,000. Carranza was booked into the Santa Barbara County Jail with bail set at $20,000. District Attorney Joyce Dudley commented, "Just recently, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones noted that in the last fiscal year his office received more than 5,000 referrals for suspected Worker's Compensation Insurance Fraud, with losses totaling more than $340 million dollars." Dudley further commented, "The Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office is committed to identifying fraud, investigating it, and prosecuting the offenders. The impact of fraud is felt throughout Santa Barbara County."
In an effort to help identify suspected cases of Worker's Compensation Fraud, the District Attorney has established an anonymous tip line. A citizen can call 24 hours a day and report suspected fraud to the District Attorney at (805) 568-2222.
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