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LTE trends
Frederic PUJOL
Radio Technologies & Spectrum Practice Manager - IDATE
IDATE announces 2.3 billion LTE subscriptions worldwide by the end of 2018, generating revenue of close to €700 billion
IDATE forecasts than more than 500 million LTE subscriptions worldwide, representing 7% of total SIM cards (Q4 2014):
- Top three countries for LTE subscriptions: USA, Japan, South Korea at end of 2013 and June 2014.
- China jumps into fourth place mid-2014, expected to rank second at end 2014.
- USA represented 45% of the total in 2013 and will account for 38% end 2014.
Total LTE revenues are expected to more than double in 2014. They tripled in 2013:
- IDATE expects 160 billion EUR in 2014, 11% of total mobile revenues.
Country leaders have now reached (or almost reached) nationwide LTE population coverage: Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and USA.
By the end of 2018 we forecast, overall, there will be more than two billion LTE subscriptions worldwide (2.3 billion) or 29% of total SIM cards.
In terms of technology, 2014 is the year of:
- LTE-LTE-Advanced features deployment, especially carrier aggregation (LTE-A launched in June 2013 by SK Telecom);
- VoLTE services introduction;
- First LTE broadcast deployment.
LTE subscription forecasts, 2014-2018 (million)
Top 10 LTE markets by subscriber numbers (million, estimates in italics), mid-2014
LTE coverage (% of the population, mid-2014)
Source: IDATE, in World LTE market, December 2014
IDATE publishes a range of reports on the core issues surrounding mobile market technologies and services around the globe:
- VoLTE
- World Mobile Spectrum
- New Frequency Band Spectrum
- World LTE market
- Wearables
- Mobile Advertising
Ultra-fast broadband 14.6 million FTTH/B subscribers in the EU at end 2014
Valérie CHAILLOU Head of Research, Telecoms Business Unit, IDATE
Accelerated growth in FTTH/B coverage from incumbents and enhancement in competition from new entrants, even in mature markets
In 2014, the dynamism of European markets (EU-35) was impressive: the number of subscribers reported the highest growth since end 2010 (nearly 55% increase). In terms of coverage, the increase reached 43%. This dynamism is led by countries such as Spain, where players have clearly played an important role and finally overpassed their initial objectives. There were nearly 14.6 million FTTH/B subscribers and more than 59 million homes passed in the EU-35 at end 2014.
In Spain, the incumbent Telefonica has decided to accelerate its rollouts aiming at covering 10 million households at end year, compared to less than 4 million at end 2013. This impressive growth and associated commercial strategy had a concrete impact on the Spanish market where, during the year, there were nearly 800,000 new FTTH subscribers.
Another noteworthy country is Romania where the leading players have decided to change their strategy and finally deploy FTTH/B when they were firstly focused on FTTx/LAN architecture in previous years. Therefore, the number of subscribers has considerably increased taking into account a total churn from end users. Those countries are followed by France, Turkey and the Netherlands (where, respectively, 25%, 24% and 39% of FTTH/B subscribers are new 2014 subscribers).
Elsewhere, Sweden still devotes to be highlighted: the latest trend in the country is to focus more and more on the single-dwelling units market which was not the first target of players involved in FTTH/B. The demand is steadily increasing since 2013 and, even if more complex and costly to deploy, FTTH to single-dwelling units is becoming a commodity. This is even truer for local fibre network players, involved in local scale rollouts, which have devoted half of their investments in targeting single-dwelling units in 2014. The Swedish incumbent was also very active in 2014, with more than 300,000 new Homes Passed yoy and an increase of around 31% in terms of FTTH/B Broadband subscribers. Then, the competitive landscape is also moving thanks to the involvement of smaller players that have strong ambition and get involved by acquiring local fibre networks previously owned by municipalities. Such trend should help Sweden keep a leading position on the European FTTH/B market.
On other markets, FTTH/B subscriptions also increased significantly. A part from Spain, the most performing country in 2014, we can mention the Netherlands where the number of FTTH/B subscribers has increased by 65%. France, Portugal, Turkey and Switzerland have also shown steady growth, in line with the trend we had already noted in 2013, with between 32 and 79% growth rate in the subscribers basis.
In terms of players involved in FTTH/B projects, alternative carriers are still leading the way, representing a 45% of the total homes passed in EU35 at end 2014 (67% considering EU39, which shows the important role of those players in Russia and Ukraine!). Among them, we can note this year the interesting role of recently entered players in countries considered as mature such as in Sweden and the Netherlands. Most of those players are backed with investment funds that help them strengthen their FTTH/B strategies.
The number of local authorities launching FTTH/B rollout projects on their territory has decreased a little bit in 2014 but they still represent only 9% of homes passed in EU35. Few new projects have been concretely launched by local authorities noted during 2014. There are some interesting rollouts in France, still in the context of the national program for superfast broadband, but most of them are still in the very beginning of the process. They represent some 600,000 homes passed end 2014.
Then, of course, incumbents are important players in all European countries. They represent 46% of HP in EU35 at end 2014, +3% compared to 2013. Several incumbents have considerably accelerated their rollouts in 2014. As in 2013, the most dynamic is Telefonica in Spain, but with a much more impressive growth: from 1.7 new Homes Passed in 2013, Telefonica reached more than 6 million new Homes Passed in 2014. Then come Orange in France (+897,000 HP), TeliaSonera in Sweden (+416,000 HP), KPN/Reggefiber in the Netherlands (+312,000 HP) and Turk Telekom in Turkey (+300,000 HP). It is also very interested to note the quite recent involvement of Bezeq in Israel, which decided to upgrade its infrastructure to FTTB: more than 1 million homes are now passed with FTTB but no services are available yet on the network. The operator is still focused on providing VDSL2 based services to end users for the moment, but it is betting on the need for higher speed rates in the near future and it is preparing itself to be able to provide required solutions very rapidly.
Number of FTTH/B subscribers per country in Europe (countries with more than 200 K subscribers)
Source: IDATE for FTTH Council Europe
Number of FTTH/B homes passed per country in Europe (countries with more than a million homes passed)
Source: IDATE for FTTH Council Europe
When enlarging the analysis to EU39, Russia and Ukraine are still very specific markets. Their respective demographic characteristics are so different from other countries that the comparison is not always very relevant. However, both markets are quite dynamic, with respectively +50 and +15% in terms of subscribers basis.
Regarding the technology deployed, Ethernet is still players' first choice across the EU-39, and represented 66% of all FTTH/B rollouts at end 2014.
As concerns network architecture, most new deployments concerned FTTH which now represent 41% of homes passed at end 2014 (vs 34% one year ago). However, FTTB is still the favourite configuration as it allows them to avoid the issues that come with installing fibre on private property, and especially MDUs – i.e. having to negotiate with each property owner.
1 The term EU-35 refers to the EU-28 countries –Cyprus + Andorra, Iceland, Israel, Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland and Turkey.
The EU-39 refers to the EU-35 + the four CIS Countries: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia.
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Netflix: the N in GAFA-N?
Jean-Dominique Seval Deputy CEOs of IDATE |
Gilles FONTAINE Deputy CEOs of IDATE |
A point of view published in Les Echos 12th of february 2015
There is quite a crowd of candidates jostling to become our entertainment operators, our personalised content access platform. Heading the ranks is the famous GAFA foursome, i.e. Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. Each of these four giants has managed to grow its business by leveraging their initial disruptive innovation, which quickly expanded into other arenas: a search engine that became the world's biggest ad broker, a genius hardware manufacturer that invented the app store, a social networking site now poised to become a viral content distribution platform, and an online bookshop that has become a global one-stop-shop for every product imaginable. A power that is measured in superlative figures: billions of users, record-breaking revenue, the biggest cash flows and the highest market caps… Not to mention the advantages of being a ubiquitous global brand: the ability to create local versions of online products quickly across the planet, and an apparently unquenchable thirst for diversification that today includes robots, online banking, virtual reality, cloud computing services and, so, content.
The virtuous circle of Netflix
Can Netflix carve itself a place alongside these giants? Its success lies is keeping the promise of unlimited video, with a strong emphasis on TV series. A simple and efficient product that seduced American viewers with its ultra competitive price, compared to what cable companies charge. And it now appears poised to be embraced by Europeans as well, even the younger ones who are used to getting their videos for free via streaming, but seem to be willing to pay €8 a month to access the service.
But the power of the model also lies in a service that is built around the Web's most popular content: video, which already accounts for close to 60% of open Internet traffic in France. Added to this is Netflix's ability to invest massively in the most sought-after creative content today: TV series. Avoiding the distribution costs of a commercial intermediary, which account for close to 50% of HBO's business model, Netflix can finance the production of original TV series. Starting out as just one content distributor among many, the firm from Los Gatos, in the heart of Silicon Valley, soon became a true master of the genre. A genre that may well become the emblem of the early part of this century, in the same way that theatre, the novel or cinema were for previous centuries – with the potential to lay claim to the moniker of major art form, attracting the finest writers, the best actors and huge production budgets. Much as stories serialised in the written press were once amalgamated into popular novels, television series are now being binge watched, and no longer viewed by a single episode a week. In the hands of the teams at Netflix, the series is becoming a precious weapon, at once capable of securing customer loyalty with popular series like House of Cards, of opening up new markets as with the brand new series, Marco Polo, which is aimed squarely at the Asian market, and negotiating their local bona fides, as they have in France with their commitment to produce a series like Marseille locally.
An all-in-one subscription for content?
Netflix being propelled to the rank of Internet giant also rests on the supposition that the success of the all inclusive subscription to TV programmes can be expanded to include other content, in the near future. We already have unlimited subscriptions to music (Spotify and Deezer), print media (Relay.Com), video games (OnLive) and books (Oyster and Amazon, of course). But we should also note that the lines are shifting, as Pascal Nègre, President and CEO of Universal Music France, recently touted these services as the ultimate means of saving the revenue of one of the first industries in the firing line of the digital revolution. Meanwhile publishers are still debating the wisdom of applying the model to books, with most coming out against it.
As veteran specialists struggle to introduce viable subscription plans, an outside player, armed with a cross-media universal subscription model could emerge. Netflix could be the promoter in chief, buoyed up by the success of its video-centric model. It could carry that model over to other content, and overtake not just traditional players, but even Amazon, Apple and Google which, although already well entrenched in this market, have thus far failed to demonstrate any great skill. This would mark a true disruption. By dominating the universal content subscription, in the same way that Amazon has become an all-in-one store, Netflix would become our main provider of paid access to all content. A veritable earthquake that would completely shake up the way culture industries' value chains are organised. It would also undoubtedly pave the way for a whole series of changes: cross-cutting recommendations covering all manner of content, accessing an article in the press the way we currently access songs, paying authors according to the size of their readership…
Netflix stepping into this closed circle of giants would confirm one of the Internet's key maxims: winner takes all. In a globalised market, a single player dominates each segment. But the GAFA foursome have not yet lost the content battle, nor are they ready to lay down their arms.
Jean-Dominique Séval and Gilles Fontaine, Deputy CEOs of IDATE
Video getting personal: The Network PVR (nPVR) technology: a new generation of digital recorders
Jacques Bajon
Head of "Video Distribution" Practice
IDATE has released its White Paper on personalised video consumption, explored through the development of network based programme recording made possible by network PVR (nPVR) technology.
For Jacques Bajon, Head of IDATE's Video Distribution Practice and author of this report, "consumers are taking control and shifting gradually from passive viewers to active participants in their consumption of TV services. Recording programmes is a major example of this shift. Network based recording and storage functions thanks to nPVR systems is a solution that makes it possible to strengthen the synergies between linear and on-demand TV services, paving the way for a win-win model for consumers, rights holders and network operators".
The cloudification of TV
The network PVR (nPVR) is an evolution of PVR which moves the storage of programme recordings to operators' servers.. It is thus part of a wider process of deployment of platforms in the area of video distribution into "the cloud", i.e. the moving of distribution features from the home television to remote servers. This "cloud" approach to managing video content is being progressively adopted due to the flexibility given to the editors of TV services, network operators and consumers.
Distributors around the world that have implemented this solution are many, especially in Europe, seeking to capitalise on the positive externalities for all of the parties involved:
• The user benefits from an improvement of the recording feature, now available on all viewing devices. In addition, a new population is becoming eligible for the facilities of digital recording, without bearing the cost of expensive equipment.
• Rights holders rely on networking solutions to better monitor the use of their content outside linear programming, create a new link with television viewers/users and thus better monetise that content. Influential in terms of programmes, TV channels can then promote the relationship between linear and non-linear offers and find new revenue leverage based on cumulative audiences. This evolution applies more and more in a secure environment that does not necessarily question the rights holders' remuneration systems.
• The network operator sees in the deployment of nPVR the possibility of an optimisation of the costs of digital recording solutions in comparison with hard drives deployed in homes. These gains could allow operators to invest in the ergonomics and functionalities of the services, which are now the heart of the added value of video content distribution.
With the consumer gaining flexibility in video use, rights holders transforming the threat of delinearisation into an opportunity for better exploitation of their content and operators able to better manage those services operationally, there is the possibility of creating a virtuous circle, made possible through nPVR solutions.
Map of nPVR deployments in Europe
Source: IDATE
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Wearables and Consumer Electronics: 123 million wearables will be sold in 2018
Samuel Ropert, Project Leader of this report
Forecasts up to 2018: markets spurred by innovation and connected devices
Coinciding with CES 2015, IDATE is publishing its latest reports on the wearables and consumer electronics (CE) sectors – providing readers with the latest news on market developments by type of product and by region.
In 2018, 123 million wearables will be sold, representing a 70% CAGR over the estimated over 20 million in 2014.
• Smart watches will lead the wearables market from 2015, thanks to a more mature market overall and the release of the Apple Watch in early 2015.
• The wristband sales units should decrease from 2017 onwards as their main features will probably have been embedded into smart watches and these should be cheaper thanks to economies of scale.
• Sales of connected glasses should be marginal in volume as many doubts have arisen around the real involvement of developers providing innovative applications. Moreover, the price is very discouraging for the mass market for now as it reaches 1,500 USD.
Ongoing rise in CE device sales up to 2018
CE device sales will grow from 2.4 billion units in 2014 to 3.6 billion in 2018 or by an average 8.6% a year: This includes the sale of televisions, cable, satellite, terrestrial and IP STBs, computers, smartphones, tablets, home and handheld consoles, DMAs, Blu-ray players and DVRs.
Growth will be carried by portable media device and digital media box sales
• Portable media devices (smartphones, tablets, handheld consoles):
- Will be the most dynamic CE segment: +12.3% annual growth, on average, from 2014 to 2018.
- Smartphones and tablets becoming more and more popular.
• Digital media Boxes (home consoles, DMA, DVR, Blu-ray players): The growth in sales will be solid and steady up to 2018: an average +9.8% per year.
• TV segment (+1.4% a year, on average) will show signs of recovery: Between 2006 and 2012, households outfitted themselves with smart–LED–HD1080p televisions. The slump in sales that began in 2012 is expected to last until 2015. The arrival of value-added smart TVs, along with a drop in the price of UHD and OLED sets, should help pull TV sales out of their funk starting in 2016.
• Computer and STB segments will enter a period of structural decline
- STB sales (+1.2% a year, on average) will increase slightly between 2014 and 2017, before dropping due to an acceleration of the cord-cutting phenomenon in developed countries, and to the cloudification of devices.
- Computers (-4.2% a year, on average): as tablets continue to become more popular, computer sales will start to shrink in 2015. Little by little, the tablet is becoming the personal computing device of choice, and edging out the classic computer.
Le Digiworld Summit 2014 in drawings
The 2014 digiworld summit "drawn from life" by Aurélie Bordenave, alias Léely. Discover all the strong moments. (texts are in french or in english)
Global introduction
Plenary: Business models, Rethinking the telcos business models in the 5G era
Keynote : Smart Glasses
Business models: Rethinking the telcos business models in the 5G era
Disruptive innovations: one step towards 5G
Smart City & Mobile living
Seminar "TV everywhere"
Seminar : "Business models: M2M & Internet of Things - Smarter objects, smarter processes"
Business models: Narrowing the gap between explosive usage and limited ad revenues
Europe on the rebound ?
TV & facing Mobility
>> Retrouvez tous les dessins d'Aurélie Bordenave durant le Digiworld Summit 2014 sur Flickr.
>> Découvrez le travail d'Aurélie Bordenave alias Léely sur son site.
Digiworld Summit 2014 : the speakers'interviews – in french
Le digiworld summit 2014 a réuni autour des questions de la mobilité près de 1 200 participants et 140 speakers du monde numérique. Les vidéos des moments forts de ces deux journées.
- L'interview de Laurent Solly, DG de Facebook France
- L'interview d'Eric Scherer, en charge de la prospective à France Télévisions"Social TV, l'internaute en ligne de lire "
- L'interview de Julien Villedieu, président du Syndicat national des jeux vidéos : "Le jeu vidéo en mobilité"
- L'interview de Carlos Moreno, "La ville nous parle"
- L'interview de Kévin Cloarec "Comment les objets connectés révolutionnent-ils notre quotidien"
Les vidéos sont signées Vincent Touati fondateur du site Convergence Numérique.
Retrouvez ici la playlist des vidéos de convergence Numérique pour le Digiword Summit 2014.
Books, music, video games and video : Household spending will start to climb in 2015
Alexandre JOLIN
Consultant de l'IDATE
The study on how the online shift is affecting content industries analyse four main segments: books, recorded music, vide0 games and video products. Presentation.
For each sector, it provides readers with detailed market figures, analyses the move to the internet, its impact on industry structure and revenue sharing, and delivers market forecasts up to 2018, both global and for seven key national markets.
Alexandre Jolin, the Project manager for the report remarks that, "the global content market topped €140 billion in 2014, or only just over 1% more than in 2012, which marked a record low since the onset of electronic distribution channels". Keeping in mind that 37% of content industries' revenue come from these online distribution channels, or double the amount in 2010, albeit with huge disparities between the segments: 13% for books versus 67% for video games.
Content dematerialisation produces certain common effects to these different segments, despite the characteristics of books, recorded music, video games and video:
• a rise in subscriptions, at the expense of per-unit sales
• lower prices, which, combined with piracy, has an impact on household spending
• simplification of the value chain, with technical costs and intermediaries having less of an influence, which benefits consumers as well as those involved in creating, publishing and producing content
• piracy has a significant effect, although it seems to be stabilising thanks to new unlimited offerings, at least in developed markets
• a trend towards concentration upstream (production/editing) and downstream (distribution)
The various segments of the content industry are expected to follow different trajectories in the next five years:
• Publishing, which has only just started the process of dematerialisation, is likely to see revenues stagnate.
• Music, video and video games are likely to continue to grow or return to growth.
• The overall dematerialisation rate will reach 63% in 2018.
IDATE has identified the following key factors in digital content market development:
• a tighter link between purchase of a physical copy and a dematerialised copy
• the rise of the 'service' function, which allows personalised content recommendations
• innovative pricing models, individualised for each type of content (yield management)
Household spending expected to be back on the up
Falling in recent years, household spending on cultural products and services should start to increase from 2014, reaching 84.20 EUR per year worldwide in 2018. We nevertheless expect to see huge regional disparities, as North American households will continue to be by far the heaviest spenders on cultural goods and services, totalling an average €375 per household in 2018.
Household expenditure on cultural goods and services, worldwide, by content type, 2014–2018 (EUR,%)
Source: IDATE, Content Economics, September 2014
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FTTx Monetization : The UFB market is forecast to reach 181 billion EUR in 2018
Valérie CHAILLOU Head of Research, Telecoms Business Unit, IDATE
IDATE has released its report to provide UFB market estimates for 2013 and up to 2018 and addresses the following key questions:
• What are the levels of current UFB ARPUs and how could there evolve in the 5 coming years?
• How to justify possible differences from one country to another?
• What are some of the most likely development scenarios for the ultra-fast broadband market?
• What are the main criteria to take into consideration?
Valérie Chaillou, the Project manager for the report remarks that "the tremendous cost of new gen access networks makes monetizing them a crucial issue. Ultrafast-boradband (UFB) access providers' supply-side strategies are aimed at ensuring enough customers who will upgrade to a UFB service in order to generate substantial income."
The UFB market stood at 120 billion EUR in 2014, and is forecast to grow by 76% over the next five years to reach 181 billion EUR in 2018. In 2013, the global UFB market stood at an estimated 103 billion EUR, and is forecast to exceed 181 billion EUR in 2018. This includes all ultra-fast broadband systems, i.e. FTTH/B, FTTN + VDSL and FTTLA + DOCSIS 3.0. In terms of customer numbers in the different regions, FTTH/B alone accounted for 41% of the market in 2013, or 42.2 billion EUR.
Based on the current status of each of the markets being examined in this report – i.e. the United States, Japan, Germany, Spain, France, the UK and Switzerland – and how the players' positioning is likely to shift with respect to the two scenarios listed above, IDATE has established an estimate for ultra-fast broadband ARPU at the end of 2013 and at the end of 2018.
We have distinguished two main categories of ultra-fast broadband plan: first-time plans and upgrade plans. An ISP may attach one or several objectives to its product line strategy. These can include increasing ARPU, limiting customer loss (churn), maintaining its competitive edge, reacting to increased competition in the broadband market, etc.
Sketching out two extreme scenarios allows us to assess the development trends for UFB ARPU, based in particular on how operators are positioning themselves with respect to increasingly powerful content providers who know it is entirely in their interest for ultra-fast networks to become widely available. So ISPs are either a) refocusing their energies on their network business and offering value-added services (VAS) tied to system management (data storage, security, authentication, etc.) – under a scenario we call "FTTx as smart pipe" – or b) becoming involved in the direct supply of services and applications such as TV and video to end users, with an approach built around "tiering and premium services".
Mobile Communication: Wrap up from DigiWorld Summit 2014
by Yves Gassot, CEO, IDATE & Didier Pouillot, Director of the Telecom Strategy Business Unit, IDATE
The 2014 DigiWorld Summit sessions devoted to telecoms gave off a certain serene, so as not to say optimistic vibe. Was it because of the huge numbers that each one trotted out, whether talking about mobile customer growth (over 9 billion users by the end of the decade), the exploding Internet of Things (80 billion connected things in 2020, according to IDATE), mobile traffic growth (triple that of wireline traffic) or the speeds expected from Advanced LTE (up to 100 times faster than 3G)...
5G needs to put Europe back on the map
So the watchwords for all of the speakers at this year's Summit were erasing the past decade which, for a great many telcos, has been synonymous with shrinking revenue and margins in Europe's five biggest markets (EU-5) since 2008, as underscored by Didier Pouillot, Head of IDATE's Telecom Strategies Business Unit. Synonymous too with spending well below their counterparts in the US, and lagging behind in 4G rollouts, even though real progress has been made in terms of coverage. So the gauntlet has been thrown down: Europe needs to be back on the map, and amongst the world's telecom hardware and service leaders by the time the 5G era rolls around, i.e. by around 2020, even if the South Koreans in 2018 and the Japanese in 2020 will be keen to show off their chops at the Winter and Summer Olympics, respectively.
From a technical standpoint, the race to superfast mobile appears to be well out of the gate. Frédéric Pujol, Head of IDATE's Wireless Business Unit, listed the assets of LTE, which has now become a global standard, and how LTE Advanced will move things even further along with frequency aggregation, HetNets (Heterogeneous Networks) that will make it easier to manage small cells, optimised multicast protocols (especially important knowing that video is expected to account for more than 50% of traffic), eMBMS, etc. Although far from being standardised, 5G will take datarates higher still, delivering speeds in the Gigabit/s. But, as several speakers pointed out, the future will also mean multi-network access, taking into consideration the particular constraints surrounding the deployment of the Internet of Things, for instance, as not all objects are connected via cellular networks – but rather via NFC or low frequency radio networks, like the ones deployed by Sigfox.
What alternative wireless technologies can do… while waiting for 5G
There was a lot of talk about Wi-Fi in Montpellier. There was Silano Lo, CEO of Ruckus Wireless, one of Silicon Valley's top equipment suppliers. She spoke in particular about the progress made by new generations of Wi-Fi, which will be fully integrated into telcos' infrastructure, so subscribers will no longer have to login and enter a password. She also reminded us that Wi-Fi was a central part of
Comcast and other American cable companies' strategies, both as way to secure customer loyalty and enter the wireless market. These strategies are also found in Europe, with companies like Liberty Global and BT, with Wi-Fi enabling wireline telcos to operate as MVNOs, combining homespots and hotspots, while minimising the amount of traffic being relayed over cellular infrastructure.
Speakers on the various panels offered nuanced answers to the question of whether high-speed and ultra high-speed mobile access will come to replace wireline access. All came together to emphasise that, in emerging economies, mobile broadband will be the main channel for Internet growth, even if Christophe Wilhelm, Senior VP Strategy & Innovation for Thales Alenia Space, did stress that satellite-based – both geostationary and in medium and low-earth orbit (MEO/LEO) – and unconventional solutions such as balloons and even drones, will also have a role to play.
The superfast revolution will require a stronger core
For Michel Combes, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, the debate is no longer about whether fixed or mobile systems will emerge triumphant: convergent infrastructures and ultra high-speed mobile will no longer be able to avoid public and private small cell architectures, pulling optical fibre closer and closer to user premises. For Mr Combes, the revolution is not confined to superfast access but, more fundamentally, will go by way of concepts such as SDN (Software Defined Network) and virtualisation with NFV (Network Function Virtualisation), which will give network operators access to control and command functionalities that ensure the networks' reliability and security. If the smartphone has become the measuring stick of innovation for consumers, and the cloud revolution has begun, the network revolution that connects one to the other, is still to come.
Telcos on the offensive: working to change regulation and business models
Naturally, telecom carriers also talked about how to get back on their feet. Following through on what Michel Combes had to say, Telefónica's Global Head of Public Strategies and Regulatory affairs, Carlos Lopez-Blanco, and Deputy CEO of Orange, Pierre Louette, want to see Europe deliver a strategic action plan in the very near future. More specifically, Carlos Lopez-Blanco shared his wishlist for the new Commission:
• more relaxed regulation that leaves greater leeway for commercial negotiations;
• increased harmonisation in the application of the regulatory framework, and emergence of a European regulator;
• a level playing field that puts an end to the asymmetry in the regulation imposed on telcos and the laissez-faire attitude towards the dominant positions enjoyed by OTT companies.
This last demand goes beyond sector-specific regulation, however. By the same token, how the ongoing consolidation in Europe plays out is largely in the hands of anti-trust authorities. But the representatives of Telefónica and Orange did not simply express their frustration with regulatory constraints. They also sketched the future of their business models, emphasising the promise they see in the development of 4G and mobile data traffic, in the cloud and M2M, along with the potential offered by partnerships with content providers and verticals, while not excluding the possibility of offering exclusive products and their own OTT services. This was an opportunity for them to make clear that their support of an open Internet must not relegate them to the status of dumb pipe.
To go further…
Our videos :
> Pierre Louette, Deputy CEO d'Orange
> Frédéric Pujol, directeur de la Business unit Wireless de l'IDATE
> Michel de Rosen's présentation (Eutelsat )
The presentations :
> Didier Pouillot, Director of the Telecom Strategy Business Unit, IDATE, « rethinking the telcos business model »
> Jaehyun YEO, Senior Researcher, KISDI, "Future Networks: Challenges & Opportunities"
> Ambroise Popper, VP/GM M2M BU, Sequans Communications, "Closing Keynote "
> Carlos LOPEZ, Telefónica, "Rethinking the Telcos business models in the age of 5G "
> Soline Olszanski, VP Strategy & Innovation, Hub One, "4G Critical and Professional"
Our study :
> World Network Optimisation Technologies
> World LTE Market
> World FTTx Markets


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The rise in sea levels may be accelerating
An important meeting will take place from January 20-23, 2015 at the United Nations (UN) HQ in New York.
Despite conservation efforts, China's wetland has shrunk in the past decade, which calls for national action
Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, identifies the key requirement for achieving a global green economy and calls for strong political leadership for a successful agreement on climate change in Paris.
DOREEN NAWA, Lusaka: SHE grew up knowing that the rains start on October 24, the day Zambia got independence from colonial rule, or a week later.
19 January 2015 – Knowledge of agricultural genetic resources needs to grow more quickly because of the critical role they have to play in feeding the world as climate change advances faster than expected, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Following the contours of the mountain saves the birds precious energy, and also improves their chances of catching an updraft.
Over the past 500 years, approximately 500 land-based animal species have gone the way of the dodo, becoming extinct as a result of human activity. In the ocean, where scientists count only 15 or so such losses, the numbers currently aren't nearly as dire.
This is obvious, but still important: humans are not a marine species. Even as we have colonized most of our planet's terrestrial landscapes, we have not yet colonized the oceans.
ZARAGOZA, Jan 15 2015 (IPS) - Although African countries have been lauded for their efforts towards ensuring that people have access to safe drinking water in keeping with Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), they have nonetheless come under scrutiny for failure to prioritise water in their deve ...
Jan 15 (Reuters) - - Climate change and high rates of extinctions of animals and plants are pushing the Earth into a danger zone for humanity, a scientific report card about mankind's impact on nature said on Thursday.
Winter is the dark season and colder than cold in the Arctic north. But climate warming is giving scientists the chance to find out what goes on in the Arctic ocean during the Polar night.
When we consider the state of wildlife on the planet, the general consensus is that humanity hasn't had the best track record with species extinctions.
The recent leaking of a new draft management plan for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA) has prompted vigorous debate over the merits of tourism development in protected areas.
15 January 2015 | On a daily basis, logging trucks rumble up an offshoot of Brazil's Highway 364, laden with muddy trunks illegally harvested from the Zoró Indigenous Territory, at the southern edge of the Amazon Rainforest, along the border between the Brazilian states of Rondônia and Mato Grosso.
The rate at which the global oceans have risen in the past two decades is more significant than previously recognised, say US-based scientists.
When it comes to determining the size of giant squid and other large sea animals, humans have a tendency to exaggerate, a new study suggests.
North America's smallest and rarest wolves will finally have the full protection of the Endangered Species Act. Well, almost.
Researchers in Queensland have found that where baby corals choose to settle is influenced by ocean temperature and the presence of their symbiotic algae in the water.
The most significant current threat to western dry forests is from insect outbreaks and droughts, not wildfires, research shows
The state of the world's seas is often painted as verging on catastrophe. But although some challenges are very real, others have been vastly overstated, researchers claim in a review paper.
BINDO GOL, Pakistan, Jan 15 2015 (IPS) - Khaliq-ul-Zaman, a farmer from the remote Bindo Gol valley in northern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has long lived under the shadow of disaster.
After years working on sustainability projects with BP and Shell, Jonathon Porritt says he came to the conclusion it was 'impossible' for today's oil and gas companies to adapt to the need to exit fossil fuels
More than a thousand global development aid and philantropic organisations around the world launched a campaign today (15 January) named action/2015, which is likely to be one of the largest ever launched.
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Russia's forests may lose their power to help curb global warming without stronger domestic protection and a place in a new global climate change deal, scientists have warned.
Cutting down or burning native forests and starting intensive agriculture -- that is, industrial-scale farming, designed to produce high yields of crops and/or animals -- can accelerate erosion dramatically, reports a newly-published study from researchers at the University of Vermont.
Satellite images show that while the scale of deforestation is small, it is bleeding into protected areas
People love the monarch butterfly, with its beautiful orange and black wings and its endlessly intriguing migratory journey. But some may be loving it to death.
Politicians are "cowardly" in their repeated ignorance of scientific evidence that may be unpopular with the public, Sir Paul Nurse has said.
Scientists say they have made a forensic breakthrough in the fight against wildlife crime
The EU has given governments more power to decide whether to plant genetically modified (GM) crops, which are highly restricted in Europe.
An analysis of 727 studies reveals that there have been more instances of rapid, catastrophic animal die-offs over the past 75 years.
Weeds would have a tough time competing against crops such as corn, grains and beans if farmers were to alter their sowing patterns, experts say.
China's booming aquaculture industry is increasingly dependent on fishmeal made from wild-caught fish, a practice that depletes wild fish stocks.
A charcoal-rich product called biochar could boost agricultural yields and control pollution. Scientists are putting the trendy substance to the test.
Numbers should be used to engage stakeholders, not benchmark nations' progress
Women hold up half the sky, so goes the Chinese saying. Yet in the developing countries of Asia, they do not get half the credit for it.
Deforestation in the Brazil Amazon continues to pace well ahead of last year's rate, shows data released today by Imazon.
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Jan 13 2015 (IPS) - The Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis, on a quest to become the world's first sustainable island state, has taken a giant leap in its programme to cut energy costs.
NTUNGAMO DISTRICT, Uganda, Jan 13 2015 (IPS) - A report published last month by the Montpellier Panel – an eminent group of agriculture, ecology and trade experts from Africa and Europe – says about 65 percent of Africa's arable land is too damaged to sustain viable food production.
Across Australia - and the world - the future of large old trees is bleak and yet large trees support many species such as birds and small mammals, says Mr Darren Le Roux, a PhD student at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED) and The Australian National University.
A new project attempts to find solutions to allergies and other immune defence disorders using methods from medicine and urban design.
What's New: The latest research on little auks, sometimes called "penguins of the north," reveals a surprising response to a rapidly warming Arctic: The birds make up for food lost to the effects of climate change by catching prey that were stunned by the cold water running off melting glaciers— ...
Global warming threatens coral reefs around the world. Matthias Hammer, director of Biosphere Expeditions, talks to DW about involving local communities in reef conservation in the Maldives.
Building new roads and widening existing ones in India's 619 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries may be barred, with the government accepting most of the recommendations of a panel report.
(Reuters) - Rare wolves in the American Southwest will be allowed more room to roam but some could be marked for death if they prey too heavily on elk and deer prized by hunters, under a rule issued by federal officials on Monday.
Dar es Salaam — A surge in illegal logging is devastating native forests in coastal Tanzania's Rufiji district, despite efforts by authorities to curb forest losses, officials said.
The third session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-3) will be held in Bonn, Germany, from 12 to 17 January 2015.
New Zealand and Brazil are separated by more than 7,500 miles. The two countries seem to have little in common, apart from long white beaches and lush rainforests. But for decades both have struggled with similar developmental challenges, and that struggle has made Wellington and Rio de Janeiro ...
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Privacy campaigners have developed an app that scans your computer for surveillance spyware.
Women, Action & the Media -- one of the groups behind the #FBrape campaign that prompted a policy change from Facebook -- is working with Twitter to improve the social-media service's response to online harassment.
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Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums as family-appropriate excursions. Censorship is a provided system which caters to lazy parenting, which is publicly-funded and socially accepted.
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Art is a lie that tells the truth.
– Pablo Picasso
Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.
– Dejan Stojanovic
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
– Jean Cocteau
Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
– William Shakespeare
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
– Bryant McGill
Dying is also an art and just like any other art it must be learned.
– Alireza Salehi Nejad
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
– William Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxvii
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
– C. S. Lewis
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
– Billie Joe
I do preach the idea of individualism as in not adapting any kind of style or model other than that one of your own. I always found it strange in art history when studying about the different guilds and movements. It sounded too contrived and having to follow devised parameters to create art. I personally am not a team player in that manner. The art should be labeled by the artist's name only.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
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Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
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Life is a work of art, and Death is the masterpiece
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Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious."
My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me.
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.
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O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
– Marcel Proust
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
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Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
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According to Frank Costanza, the Festivus celebration includes three major components:Link (thanks, Andria!)The Festivus Pole
The tradition begins with a bare aluminum pole, which Frank praises for its "very high strength-to-weight ratio." During Festivus, an unadorned aluminum pole is displayed, apparently in opposition to the commercialization of highly decorated Christmas trees, and because the holiday's creator, Frank Costanza, "find[s] tinsel distracting." Local customs vary and you may be able to decorate your pole with non-threatening plain decorations, or ordinary green garland.The Airing of Grievances
At the Festivus dinner, each participant tells friends and family all of the instances where they disappointed him or her that year.The Feats of Strength
The head of the family tests his or her strength against one participant of the head's choosing. Festivus is not considered over until the head of the family has been pinned to the ground. A participant is allowed to decline to attempt to pin the head of the family only if they have something better to do instead.


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Love Liza
Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson turns to gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law.
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Rotten: Despite Hoffman's best efforts, Wilson remains a silent, lumpish cipher; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before.
- Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, Friday, February 7, 2003
Rotten: Largely this sad story is handled with a morbidity and monotony that go nowhere -- certainly not toward understanding.
- Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle, Friday, March 7, 2003
Rotten: A showcase for an actor's actor rather than as a drama that engages our hearts.
- Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer, Thursday, February 27, 2003
Audience Reviews
One man's strange and unlikely odyssey following the suicide of his wife. Philip Seymour Hoffman is simply amazing in the lead role. A beautiful visual style and wonderful off-kilter storytelling elevate this film above the usual cliched, formulaic hollywood tear-jerkers. What we are left with is a very real portrait of depression, coping with loss, and how close one may come to "closure".
- jefffyke, Wednesday, August 25, 2010
As illustrious as Philip Seymour Hoffman's career has become, Love Liza perhaps offers a hidden gem in his laudable career. In it he plays a distraught widower, whose wife killed herself for seemingly unknown reasons. This propels him on a strange journey involving gasoline and remote controlled airplanes. It's an undeniably indie film, unconventional in many respects, and effective on an emotional level. Its narrative arc, however, leaves something to be desired. Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance is certainly the most notable aspect of the film, making it worth watching for its shear depth and power alone. He embodies the manic personality perfectly, sometimes deliriously upbeat, other times helplessly distraught and confused. This is what the film gets right, a loss such as what Hoffman's character experienced is not easily gotten over, and does not offer happy endings or easy answers. Life can be confusing, inexplicable, and harsh, Love Liza captures this with a mature sense surpassing many similarly themed films. The problem with Love Liza, however, is that its script, smart in its characterizations, doesn't pay off in a narrative sense. The relationship between Hoffman and his wife is never fully explored, with no sense of resolution to be had, which can work, but only if we can more aptly identify with the dynamics at work. The film offers interesting characters, but raises more questions than it answers, leaving the film in a bit of a meandering spot. An overall effective drama, notable for its strong central performance. 3.5/5 Stars
- fb704730572, Saturday, September 14, 2013
Powerfully depressing movie about a man's life beginning to fall apart after his wife's suicide. Very poignant, very awkward. I think people (or at least I) can connect very strongly with PSH's acting, because he plays such a normal dude reacting to emotional situations. I recommend this for the emotion and the acting, but maybe not if you really can't do depressing movies, because this one is up there.
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Hemp hearing could produce fireworks Wednesday as House version will remove regulatory framework
The House Agriculture Committee will take up a scaled-back version of an industrial hemp bill on Wednesday morning that removes nearly all of the language aimed at regulating and testing the crops.
The committee substitute is being pushed by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom McKee, D-Cynthiana. And it will set up a legislative skirmish between the chairman and supporters of the Senate version that includes Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, who will testify on the legislation Wednesday.
The committee substitute to Senate Bill 50 will call for the University of Kentucky's Agricultural Experiment Station to conduct an economic impact study to find out how much of a market there will be for the crop. That's on top of a similar study UK has begun at the direction of the Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission, of which McKee is a member.
McKee's version also calls for using $100,000 from the Kentucky Industrial Hemp Program Fund — the entire operating budget of the Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission — to pay for the new study.
The substitute proposal, which McKee provided to Pure Politics, already isn't sitting well with the main proponent of the bill, Agriculture Commissioner James Comer.
"It's a study on top of a study, which is really ridiculous," Comer said in a statement through his chief of staff. "It's an unfunded mandate for more study by another government agency."
Comer and McKee spoke by phone about it shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Comer is expected to testify at the 8 a.m. hearing along with the original bill's sponsor, Sen. Paul Hornback, R-Shelbyville, and Democratic Sen. Robin Webb of Grayson.
This sets up a political showdown of sorts between Comer and McKee — and by extension House leaders who have been skeptical of Senate's version of the hemp bill. House members on Comer's side can block the committee substitute. It would need at least 15 votes on the 28-member committee to be adopted. Along political lines alone, there are 13 Republicans.
McKee said the intent is not to water down efforts to legalize industrial hemp. He noted that the proposed committee substitute calls on the federal government to legalize the crop. But he said an existing statute — passed in 2001 — is all Kentucky needs in the event that the federal government gives the go-ahead to grow the crop. That statute, KRS 260.865, consists of one sentence:
Kentucky shall adopt the federal rules and regulations that are currently enacted regarding industrial hemp and any subsequent changes thereto.
McKee said the rest of the framework for monitoring hemp growers can be enacted through administrative regulations. The Senate version would have put into law that how hemp growers would be licensed and their fields checked by agriculture officials and police to make sure marijuana, another form of cannabis, wasn't being grown.
"Our committee is supportive of industrial hemp," McKee told Pure Politics Tuesday night. "We just want to make sure some questions are answered."
McKee also prepared a memo for committee members that outlines the tenets of the bill. Also among them:
- Once the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration allows hemp growing permits, the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station would be required to get a permit to grow hemp on "demonstration fields" of at least five acres.
- Requires the economic study to be submitted to the Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture by Nov. 29, 2013 and a final report by Jan. 7, 2014.
- "Encourages the president, Congress and Kentucky's congressional delegation to amend the federal Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp at a standard of 0.3 percent THC content."
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On Friday, March 20, 2015, Voorhees will present its annual choir coffee house in the VHS cafeteria. The event will begin at 7:00pm (doors to open at 6:30) (the concert usually lasts about 50 minutes) and the cost is $5.00 per ticket. Included in the cost of your ticket is unlimited appetizers and desserts, coffee and tea. This year our coffee will be from Small World Coffee in Princeton, NJ. This year's coffee house theme is based on the TV Show "The Singoff", which is a TV competition for a cappella groups. (more…)
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March 2 – Math Day 1 (Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II)
March 3 – Math Day 2 (Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II)
March 4 – English Day 1 (English Language Arts 9, 10, 11)
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March 6 - English Day 3 (English Language Arts 9, 10, 11)
The North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District will now be open on Friday, April 10, 2015 to make-up for the school closure on February 17. April 10th will a full day of school. Any future school closures will be made up during Spring Recess, with the next day being Thursday, April 9 and working backwards as needed. The 2014-2015 calendar has been updated to reflect this change - click here.
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The North Hunterdon-Voorhees Special Services Coordinators' Articulation Group is sponsoring two upcoming seminars. The first seminar will be held on April 15 and continued on April 29, which will cover how to understand and deal with children who may have mental health challenges. The second will cover dyslexia. More information is below and the flyers for each seminar posted at the bottom. (more…)
Free practice and timed SAT or ACT for sophomores and juniors as well as All-inclusive college prep workshop for parents
The Voorhees High School Booster Club is proud to sponsor a College Workshop by the following local experts: College, Career & Life; Destination Recruit; Premier College Funding; and Silver Oak Learning Centers.
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8:30 a.m. (sign-in) to 12:45 p.m. (more…)
Please click PARCC Questions Answered to review updated (1/29/15) questions and answers from the NJ Department of Education.
New Jersey School Boards Association has also released a list of frequently asked questions regarding PARCC - PARCC FAQs from NJSBA
Voorhees High School's Mock Trial Team won the county championship on January 22! Congratulations to the team and its advisor, Ms. Kathy Manz. The team moves on to the regional competition which will be held on February 5. Good luck Voorhees!
Voorhees Cheerleading Booster Club presents an outstanding Night of Comedy.
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Please click here to view the Principal's Newsletter for December 2014-January 2015
The Voorhees High School Education Foundation (VHSEF) is kicking off its 3rd Annual Founding Partners Campaign. Please click here to read the campaign letter. Click here for the donation form. To date, the VHSEF has raised $49,500 and made multiple donations to the high school. Details are in the campaign letter. To learn more about the VHSEF, please visit www.vhsef.org.
2010 Voorhees Graduate, Rose Bochner, has started a new theatre company with co-founder Dan Hasse called Shakespeare in the Square in New York City. Below is more information on the company and its upcoming performance of Romeo and Juliet:
SHAKESPEARE IN THE SQUARE is the city's newest group of young professionals bringing a fresh perspective to classical theatre. The founders, Dan Hasse and Rose Bochner, recent gradates of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, created the company as freshmen, performing in Washington Square Park over the last four years. This winter they are continuing to lead this new generation of Shakespeareans to Off-Broadway, while still maintaining the outdoor-NYU program. (more…)
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The VHSEF is pleased to announce its donation of $9,095 towards the purchase of Theater Drapes for the auditorium stage. This donation was approved/accepted by the Board of Education at their meeting on November 19th. "I am so appreciative of the money to replace the damaged old drapery. It has needed to be done for quite some time now, and will greatly improve the look of all events that occur in the theater," said Nancy Lomas-Reynolds, Director of the VHS Drama Club. (more…)
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PARCC for Parents (Includes link to sample test items.)
What is PARCC? (6:39 minute video)
NJDOE Video – New Jersey's Common Core – Higher Standards/Brighter Future (6:35 minute video)
Dear Voorhees Parents/Guardians,
Over the last year, there has been a surge nationwide in the use of vaporizers and e-cigarettes by teenagers. There are many health concerns and risks associated with this new trend. These products can be used to ingest tobacco, marijuana (THC) and other chemicals and will be treated as drug paraphernalia if a student is caught with these devices on school property. This message is to inform you of the school policies related to the use or possession of vaporizers and e-cigarettes in school. (more…)
Come join us on Monday nights in the new cafe for a fantastic hour of fitness and fun! Bring your sneaks & your energy and for $5 you'll get an incredible Zumba work-out with certified instructor Yong! Zumba runs from 7-8pm every Monday. Proceeds benefit the Voorhees Field Hockey Booster Club/Team.
On Saturday, September 22nd, the Voorhees High School Marching Band competed at the Hunterdon Central Band Competition. The Viking Band performed their 2014 field show, The Pyramids of Egypt, and came in first place out of the five Group IIA bands (bands with up to 55 members) that were competing that evening. In addition to coming in first, the Viking Band also won awards for Best Visual, Best Music, Best Overall Effect, and Best Color Guard in their group. Their next competition will be at Somerville High School on October 11th. Congratulations to the band and good luck in future performances!
Dear Parents, Guardians, Students, Staff and Community Members:
On behalf of the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District Board of Education, welcome to the 2014-2015 school year. We are looking forward to a great year for our students, staff, parents/guardians, and communities. We are proud to report that both North Hunterdon and Voorhees High Schools were listed this year among America's Most Challenging High Schools in The Washington Post. In addition, (more…)
Dear Parents and Students of Voorhees High School,
I hope that you are having a relaxing and rewarding summer. It has been a busy summer at Voorhees as we are putting the finishing touches on our preparation for the new school year. Enjoy the remaining weeks and we look forward to seeing you.
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March 2 - Math Day 1 (Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II) March 3 - Math Day 2 (Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II) March 4 - English Day 1 (English 9, 10, 11) March 5 - English Day 2 (English 9, 10, 11) March 6 - English Day 3 (English 9, 10, 11)
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The Voorhees High School Education Foundation (VHSEF) is a non-profit, all volunteer organization founded in 2012, providing grants, scholarships and recognition for faculty, students and staff of Voorhees High School.
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hi everyone was wondering your feelings on ph testing after primary and also after secondary. I recently was at a brewery and saw brewmaster testing ph to rule out infection. I think this is exactly what i need to do because anytime i get the slightest off taste i scream infection even when others are telling me its fine. SO i called my lhbs and they have strips. When should I test and what are the ranges im looking for in the different stagges of fermentation and serving? thank you thank you
Let's say you will discover possible infection after primary, what you can do about it? But pH strips are useful while mashing.
thats tru but i would like to follow the level step by step , do you test ph? what level is normail for your average ale?
I am a noob but here is what I know about pH testing 1. Test the pH of your brew water before you start brewing - Depending on the beer style it may vary a little but it should be close to 5.2 2. Test the pH of the fresh beer (just after you add water to the complete wort) - I do this just before I pitch the yeast into the primary fermenter As for testing the pH to see if there is an infection this is a new one for me. I hope that someone with knowledge of this can comment. I would like to know the answer to what can be done if you find an infection