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Italy Under-20s international Michele Campagnaro is to make his debut for Treviso's RaboDirect PRO12 clash with Connacht on Friday.
Campagnaro comes into the side to replace Tommaso Benvenuti as one of a number of changes made by Franco Smith.
Luke McLean, Giulio Toniolatti and Edoardo Gori also come into the back division, while in the pack there are starts for Robert Barbieri, Ignacio Fernandez-Rouyet and Michele Rizzo.
Connacht head coach Eric Elwood has tweaked his line-up for the trip to Italy
Elwood has made four changes of personnel, with Matt Healy, Ethienne Reynecke, Andrew Browne and Eoin McKeon coming into the starting XV.
There is an additional positional change, with top try-scorer Danie Poolman moving to outside centre to cover for the injured Eoin Griffin.
Treviso: 15 Luke McLean, 14 Ludovico Nitoglia, 13 Michele Campagnaro, 12 Gideon La Grange, 11 Giulio Toniolatti, 10 Alberto Di Bernardo, 9 Edoardo Gori, 8 Robert Barbieri, 7 Alessandro Zanni, 6 Simone Favaro, 5 Valerio Bernabo, 4 Francesco Minto, 3 Ignacio Fernandez-Rouyet, 2 Leonardo Ghiraldini (capt), 1 Michele Rizzo.
Replacements: 16 Giovanni Maistri, 17 Alberto De Marchi, 18 Lorenzo Cittadini, 19 Antonio Pavanello, 20 Manoa Vosawai, 21 Marco Filippucci, 22 Tobias Botes, 23 Luca Morisi.
Connacht: 15 Gavin Duffy (capt), 14 Matt Healy, 13 Danie Poolman, 12 Brian Murphy, 11 Fetu'u Vainikolo, 10 Dan Parks, 9 Kieran Marmion, 8 George Naoupu, 7 Eoin McKeon, 6 Andrew Browne, 5 Mike McCarthy, 4 Michael Swift, 3 Ronan Loughney, 2 Ethienne Reynecke, 1 Brett Wilkinson.
Replacements: 16 Adrian Flavin, 17 Rodney Ah You, 18 JP Cooney, 19 Mick Kearney, 20 John Muldoon, 21 Paul O'Donohoe, 22 Miah Nikora, 23 Tiernan O'Halloran.


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As a young boy living in Michigan, Ron Matthews played hockey atop frozen waters, effortlessly skating and maneuvering before slapping a puck with his stick into the net.
Now, several decades later, he still finds time each day around his Perkins Township home to glide around — albeit in a different, yet equally impressive, way.
Those living in or driving around the Plum Brook Estates probably noticed Ron, 77, rollerblading around the neighborhood.
Everyday Ron laces up his inline skates and coasts around Woodridge Drive's smoothly paved perimeter.
After weaving through side streets, such as Greenfield and Huntfield drives, his entire daily 4.2-mile trek takes about 35 minutes.
"He is something else," said Ron's wife, Myrna Matthews, as she and their King Charles Spaniel dog, Taffy, watched him zip by while standing outside their Woodridge Drive home. "He just loves it."
Ron, however, didn't always rollerblade.
"My daughter and her husband came to Michigan in 1994 and wanted to go rollerblading," Ron said. "So I tried it out and just loved it. That is the way to go."
Ron's even up for racing people on bicycles or outpacing furry creatures.
"I've gone up to 25 mph in Michigan down some big hills," he said. "Deer would come up to me, and I'd skate right alongside them. I also raced a skunk one time from culvert to culvert. I didn't want him to get ahead of me."
Anyone can rollerblade, Ron said, especially those who have ice skated before.
"It's a good cardio workout that doesn't beat up your ankles or legs," he said. "You are just gliding. Rollerblading is like ice skating. The only problem can be stopping."
Ron's rollerblading serves as inspiration for the elder population to get active, considering one out of every five Erie County residents is at least 60 years old — a rate exceeding state and federal levels.
"People underestimate how important it is to be physically active and socially engaged like Ron," Serving Our Seniors executive director Sue Daugherty said. "Those are the two primary things, when research is done on aging, that people 60 and older could do better on, and I think Ron is a great example of that."


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SACRAMENTO—Never mind that nine of 10 Californians have not heard of him. Never mind that his opponent enjoys blanket name recognition throughout the Golden State, more campaign cash and a double-digit lead in the polls.
Chuck Poochigian -- state senator from Fresno, a conservative Republican with a tough record on crime and punishment -- has a blueprint for beating Jerry Brown in the race for California attorney general.
Poochigian plans to cite Brown's progressive past as well as his iconoclastic pronouncements during a 1990s stint on talk radio. He wants to spotlight Brown's record as mayor in crime-rattled Oakland. He will rail against Brown's personal distaste for the death penalty. He hopes to reap campaign dollars from corporations fearful that Brown would push a litigious, anti-business agenda.
"For me, the greatest challenge will be to overcome his high name identification," said Poochigian, 57. "His greatest challenge is to overcome his record. I can move my name ID up. He can't change his record."
So far, Brown is enjoying a splendid campaign season. Though Poochigian got a free ride in the June 6 primary, running unopposed, Brown crushed Los Angeles City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo, 63% to 37%, to earn the Democratic nomination.
Brown, 68, did it by portraying himself as a hard-knuckle, big-city crime fighter -- not the long-gone governor who jousted in the 1970s with the Medfly, put death penalty antagonist Rose Bird on the state Supreme Court, renounced the gubernatorial mansion for a floor mattress, dated singer Linda Ronstadt and acquired the nickname of Gov. Moonbeam.
"If they want to run this campaign by going back to 1974, they're welcome to," said Ace Smith, Brown's political strategist. "But I think their strategy is about 20 years stale."
Though one recent poll put Poochigian down by 25 percentage points in a head-to-head contest with Brown, the Republican's campaign team remains confident that the race will become a tossup by election day.
Poochigian is counting on unified support among the GOP, which embraced the popular Fresno Republican early on. Though an unabashed conservative, he also hopes to win big among California's growing pack of independent voters, now more than 18% of the electorate.
Plus, "Poochigian is the anti-Jerry Brown," said Kevin Spillane, a strategist for the GOP candidate.
Brown was born into the closest thing California has to political royalty, the son of a popular governor, Pat Brown, who served through most of the 1960s. Poochigian was raised on the farm, by parents who never went to college.
He is a native of Lone Star, a no-pretense speck of a place along the railroad tracks southeast of Fresno. His grandparents fled the Armenian genocide, and the family eventually settled amid the grape fields of Fresno County.
His mother still lives on the family's original 20-acre plot. Poochigian's father died two years ago at 90. One brother manages a farm. Poochigian owns farmland around Fresno County, and sent his three children to the same public schools he attended.
Unlike Brown, who seemed fated for elected office, Poochigian came to politics relatively late in life.
At Fresno State he was a buddy of Bill Jones, a budding campus politician who in the 1990s was elected California secretary of state. Poochigian later attended law school and became a business lawyer. He got the political bug in 1978, volunteering for George Deukmejian's successful run for attorney general. Poochigian later was appointed as a gubernatorial aide to the conservative Deukmejian and Gov. Pete Wilson.
Brown won statewide office at 32, becoming secretary of state, and launched the first of three presidential runs before he was 40. Poochigian didn't run for anything until his mid-40s.
He won an Assembly seat in 1994 and moved to the Senate in 1998, earning plaudits as a collegial straight-shooter, a law-and-order conservative capable of the occasional bipartisan compromise.
During his tenure, he has backed tougher penalties for sexual predators, gun-toting felons and identity thieves. He also has opposed legislative efforts to roll back the state's "three strikes" law.


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Following my post yesterday, I had a discussion today about how CEC fits within Windows architectures.
This is the home page for Windows Server System - click on Infrastructure environment to see a diagram of the solutions and architectures including CEC. You can also find business benefit, products and links to trial software from this site. Other elements that you should be aware of are Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) and Windows Server System Reference Architecture (WSSRA). WSSRA has many great documents within that are really helpful including design, management and best practise.
Phew - Clive you've been prolific! :-) We started our blogs the same day and I'm ashamed to say that I have managed but 2 posts so far (1 the intro). Have provided a link to your blog from mine as we have a fair old overlap of common technical interest. Look fwd to meet you in TVP soon... Olly


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"I suppose we need to go through this again so you completely understand my position," Scarpetta says to Captain Poma, who now rests his chin on his hand as if he is having an intimate conversation with her over a glass of wine. "Had she been killed at two or three o'clock that afternoon, then when her body was found at approximately ¬eight-¬thirty the following morning, she would have been dead at least seventeen hours. Her livor mortis, rigor mortis, and algor mortis are inconsistent with that."
She uses a laser pointer to direct attention to the ¬three-¬dimensional muddy construction site projected on the ¬wall-¬size screen. It's as if they are standing in the middle of the scene, staring at Drew Martin's mauled, dead body and the litter and earthmoving equipment around it. The red dot of the laser moves along the left shoulder, the left buttock, the left leg and its bare foot. The right buttock is gone, as is a portion of her right thigh, as if she had been attacked by a shark.
"Her lividity . . ." Scarpetta starts to say.
"Once again I apologize. My English ¬isn't so good as yours. I'm not sure of this word," Captain Poma says.
¬"I've used it before."
"I ¬wasn't sure of it then."
Laughter. Other than the translator, Scarpetta is the only woman present. She and the translator ¬don't find the captain amusing, but the men do. Except Benton, who ¬hasn't smiled once this day.
"Do you know the Italian for this word?" Captain Poma asks Scarpetta.
"How about the language of ancient Rome?" Scarpetta says. "Latin. Since most medical terminology is rooted in Latin." She ¬doesn't say it rudely, but is ¬no-¬nonsense because she's well aware that his English becomes awkward only when it suits him.
His 3-D glasses stare at her, reminding her of Zorro. "Italian, please," he says to her. "I never was so good in Latin."
¬"I'll give you both. In Italian, 'livid' is livido, which means bruised. 'Mortis' is morte, or death. Livor mortis suggests an appearance of bruising that occurs after death." "It's helpful when you speak Italian," he says. "And you do it so well."
She ¬doesn't intend to do it here, although she speaks enough Italian to get by. She prefers English during these professional discussions because nuances are tricky, and the translator intercepts every word anyway. This difficulty with language, along with political pressure, stress, and Captain Poma's relentless and enigmatic antics, add to what already is rather much a disaster that has nothing to do with any of these things. But rather, the killer in this case defies precedents and the usual profiles. He confounds them. Even the science has become a maddening source of ¬debate—¬it seems to defy them, lie to them, forcing Scarpetta to remind herself and everyone else that science never tells untruths. It ¬doesn't make mistakes. It ¬doesn't deliberately lead them astray or taunt them.
This is lost on Captain Poma. Or perhaps he pretends. Perhaps he ¬isn't serious when he refers to Drew's dead body as uncooperative and argumentative, as if he has a relationship with it and they are squab-bling. He asserts that her postmortem changes may say one thing, and her blood alcohol and stomach contents say another, but contrary to what Scarpetta believes, food and drink should always be trusted. He is serious, at least about that.
"What Drew ate and drank is revealing of truth." He repeats what he said in his impassioned opening statement earlier today.


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Do you mean on sale as in being sold or on sale as in a cheaper price? I like how all candy is turned into jelly beans. Love me some jelly beans.
I love Easter because those Cadbury eggs go on sale. Speaking of which, it's time to buy some.
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Posted 27 March 2013 - 22:53
"Even non-believers enjoy a good egg hunt. Kids need to enjoy being kids."
It is in the article where you are picking and choosing from instead of reading the entire thing. In order to have easter eggs, they had to compromise with other shapes. Apperently eggs are too christian for the principal. Seriously, stop trolling and read for a change.
And he isn't the government! derp Hence why it isn't an issue and a strawman on your part. You are welcome to any religious service in your home or church just not on government land or schools
Oh god singles out a religion. According to you, that's offensive. No strawman. Did you even look at the definition before you posted the link? I know die hard republicans who don't throw at logic as much as you.
Posted 27 March 2013 - 23:00
5 pound bag of red only starburst jelly beans!
Cheaper price after Easter... that is if any are left! I shall buy them all!
And you are right back to cherry picking instead of actually acknowledging there is a full story here. Or maybe you forgot to read the part where he made them compromise to have other shapes. And for your second part, you really don't get out much do you? Anti religious groups are campaigning and boycotting stores for saying merry christmas saying it infringes on the rights of the non religious or non christians. The word christmas is offensive. This principal is saying that saying the word easter is offensive to non christians and should be banned. He isn't allowing his teachers to say a word with a small tie to a religion because it makes it offense. Tell me then how using a word that directly references a religous figure is less offensive than the word easter with a very small tie to religion. Remember, you are the one agreeing that the principal did everything 100% right. If the word easter is offensive, how is god not?
"Even non-believers enjoy a good egg hunt. Kids need to enjoy being kids."
And he isn't the government! derp Hence why it isn't an issue and a strawman on your part. You are welcome to any religious service in your home or church just not on government land or schools
Posted 28 March 2013 - 01:33
My thoughts exactly. You encourage religious diversity by allowing expression of all religions, not just the ones you prefer. Will Passover be similarly suppressed?
Posted 28 March 2013 - 02:09
Good. It's high time the separation of church and state be enforced unilaterally.
The religious indoctrination of children into ignorant superstitious nonsense (of ANY kind) is unconscionable in the modern age.
If, once they've grown to adulthood, the more gullible and cowardly want to seek comfort in such cults, so be it.
But children trust adults not to lie to them and any parent (well-meaning though they may be) who tells their child that any god is real is flat out lying to their own child.
Parents do it to make themselves feel better about the lies they were told by their parents. It's a selfish lie perpetuated ad nauseum.
It's time for the human race to grow up.
Posted 28 March 2013 - 02:16
Well, here is the problem. The Easter Bunny and Santa are clearly made up figures but you don't have a problem with those.
That is insanity right there and very unreasonable.
Somehow the Universe was created by itself just randomly from nothing to something with fine tuning.
Who is really ignorant here? Anyone that is really intelligent without bias will tell you that there is just too much intelligence in the creation of the Universe and on this planet including the creation of DNA to be just random. It is what it is, stop trying to be in denial and make up excuses. The obvious is the obvious.
I hate how Atheists play dumb. Yes, it's time to grow up and stop trying to defeat the obvious.
Posted 28 March 2013 - 02:26
Believe what you will but Christians celebrate the death and ressurection of Christ on "Easter". We don't know the exact time of year this happened but it just co-insides with "Easter". The same thing goes for Christmas, we don't know the exact time of year Christ was born but it's celebrated in winter.
Posted 28 March 2013 - 03:46
Why would anyone have a problem - we know they are made up! No insanity or unreasonableness there.
I hate how some religious people play the "I'm not ignorant, but you are card." And as far as growing up, please listen to your own advice.
Posted 28 March 2013 - 03:47
Forcing your opinion onto others so confidently though does prove the irony in your stance; as in there being no room for such ignorance in the evolution of the Human Race.


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A traffic management system reads TT files obtained from mobile services switching centers, and processes information included in the records of the files, and on the basis of the information procedures a hierarchical graphic representation on a map display. The highest level represents the operator's entire service area, and the lowest level a cell. On each level, traffic intensity is displayed with grades of color, i.e., the more traffic the stronger the color. The display is updated automatically as the MSC provides the TT data. The system monitors traffic load in the cells. If the traffic load in any of the cells exceeds a preset level, the system automatically transmits a command to the MSC to change the logic size of the cell or add a TRX unit, if such is available.
1. A call traffic management system for a cellular mobile communication network, in which a Mobile Services Switching Center generates, after each call, a TT record (Toll Ticket) at least containing information whether the call succeeded or failed and a cell identifier indicating which cell the call is associated with, and combines TT records produced over a specific time interval into a TT file, whereby at said intervals a new TT file will be generated for further processing, characterized in that the management system
is connected to the MSC for reading the TT file and for transferring TT file to the management system as soon as the file has been produced, and for giving commands to the switching center,
contains counting means for counting the number of calls made in each cell of the network,
comprises a graphic user interface by means of which a hierarchical representation of the number of calls can be shown in which the highest level depicts the operator's entire mobile communication network, and the lowest level depicts a cell.
2. A management system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the management system comprises means for automatically giving a command concerning the capacity of the cell to the MSC when load in any cell exceeds a preset value.
3. A management system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the counting means distinguish a cell identifier field in every record of the TT file, and calculate for each cell the sum of cell identifiers, and that the sum represents the number of calls carried out in the cell.
4. A management system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the hierarchical graphic representation comprises, as a basis, a geographical map in different scales, and the number of calls in a specific area is shown with grades of color so that as the number of calls in the area increases the color intensifies.
5. A management system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the user may select on the display any level of the group of levels, comprising the entire network, MSC areas, location areas and cells.
6. A management system as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that the means for giving commands concerning the cell capacity comprise
congestion calculation means that calculate, for each cell, the ratio of failed channel requests to all channel requests,
comparison means for comparing said ratio to a preset threshold value,
means for giving the command as the ratio exceeds the threshold value.
7. A management system as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that the command includes a request to increase the cell capacity by changing handover criteria.
8. A management system as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that the command includes a request to add an additional transceiver unit TRX for use in the cell.
9. A management system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that it utilizes information obtained from the TT file for calculating various kinds of statistics.
10. A method for managing call traffic in a mobile communication network comprising one or more mobile services switching centers MSC, base stations and their controllers which communicate with the MSCs, mobile subscribers communicating with the base stations for transmitting and receiving information, the method comprising the steps of
generating, at predetermined intervals, from the MSCs for the operator, a TT file which comprises at least fields that contain at least a number A, number B, route information, charging data, such as begin and end time and pulses of the call, cell ID and a congested calls data,
transferring predetermined fields to the traffic management system for further processing,
summing the cell ID fields of each cell in a database to represent the number of calls in the cell in question during a specific time interval,
displaying the number of calls as a hierarchical representation in which the highest level depicts the operator's entire mobile communication network, and the lowest level depicts a cell.
11. A method as claimed in claim 10, characterized further by giving a command concerning the capacity of the cell automatically to the MSC when the load in any cell exceeds a preset value.
12. A method as claimed in claim 10, characterized in that traffic intensity is represented on a display unit in a graphic form so that a map display shows the operator's entire area of operation.
13. A method as claimed in claim 10, characterized by displaying a hierarchical representation of traffic intensity in a cell, location area or MSC area, or several MSC areas.
14. A method of managing call traffic in a mobile communications network, the method comprising the steps of:
generating at intervals, for an operator, at least one TT (toll ticket) file which includes at least one number, a cell identification, and indicates whether a call has succeeded or failed;
determining a number of calls in a cell; and
displaying a heirarchical representation of the number calls can be shown in which the highest level depicts the operator's entire mobile communication network, and a lower level depicts a cell.
The present invention relates to a traffic management system for a cellular mobile communication network in which a mobile services switching center generates a TT (Toll Ticket) record after every call. The record at least contains information on whether the call succeeded or failed, as well as a cell identifier indicating which cell the call is associated with. TT records generated during a specific time interval are combined into a TT file for further processing.
In the following, the structure of a mobile communication network will be described with a prior art GSM mobile communication network of FIG. 1 as an example. Communication between a Mobile Station (MS) within a cell and the network takes place on the radio path via a Base Transceiver Station (BTS). The base transceiver stations are coupled to a Base Station Controller (BSC), which usually controls several base stations. The location of the MS is known with an accuracy of a so-called Location Area (LA), constituted by a few cells. The mobile station may roam within the location area without updating its location data. Several base station controllers are coupled to a Mobile Services Switching Center (MSC), which carries out the principal switching functions of the mobile communication network. The entirety of cells under control of the MSC is referred to as an MSC area; all calls originating from this area and terminating therein are forwarded via this MSC. In addition, it connects the mobile communication network to external networks and via a so-called gateway MSC to mobile communication networks of other operators.
A mobile communication network also comprises different kinds of databases. A Home Location Register (HLR) permanently stores a subscriber's data regardless of his current location. Subscriber data obtained from the HLR are stored in a Visitor Location Register (VLR) during the subscriber's visit to the VLR area.
In order for the operator to be able to charge the subscriber for calls and services, the traffic management part of the network has a mechanism by means of which a sufficient amount of data will be stored for every service to be charged. The most significant traffic-related charging basis is constituted by calls. In the MSC, a so-called Toll Ticket record is produced for each call as soon as it has ended, containing all the necessary information to calculate the charges for the call. The contents of the record depend on the switching center technique being employed and the operator requirements. The gateway MSC exchanges messages with the HLR in accordance with a MAP/C protocol, and the prior art message exchanging enables including at least the following data in the TT record fields:
(a) at first, identifiers, i.e. the subscriber's IMS number and the identifier of the MSC that generated the record,
(b) secondly, the type of the call, i.e. whether the call is a mobile originating call or a mobile terminating call forwarded by the MSC (this means that the TT record also contains routing information from the switching center to the mobile station),
(c) if the switching center is a gateway MSC, the record contains routing information GMSC-MS,
(d) mobile terminating call re-routing information GMSC-MSC, if the MSC is in another network,
(e) call status, i.e. information on whether the call succeeded or failed. The data of failed calls are only utilized for statistical purposes, and therefore the manufacturer of the switching center does not always include it in the TT information,
(f) date, call begin moment, duration and nature. The last one indicates whether speech, data, a short message etc is in question,
(g) the number of the calling party (in mobile terminating calls) or the number of the called party (in mobile originating calls),
(h) charging, collected by the target operator from the subscriber's operator in cases of roaming,
(i) cell information (Cell ID), indicating the cell of the incoming/outgoing call.
The fields listed above are exemplary only, and the supplier of the switching center may add other fields according to the operator's requirements. The TT records are stored in an I/O apparatus of the MSC as a file which is at predetermined intervals transferred to a charging system for further processing. Typically, the transfer is carried out at intervals of 5 to 15 minutes, which therefore represents the real time delay for the data.
The chart of FIG. 2 illustrates the use of the aforementioned parameters in a TT record. The fields of the record include the numbers of subscribers a and b, date, time of call begin and end, route, cell ID, call charging pulses and an EOS field. The EOS (End of Selection) is a clear code defining the reason why the call did not go through. There may be in use as many as 1000 different codes. Code 0 means that a call succeeded, and a code other than 0 indicates not only a failed call but a reason for it as well.
As the mobile communication network expands and call intensity varies, the network must continuously be modified. Increase in capacity can be provided by adding new TRX units in the cell, and by adding new nodes (MSCs and BSCs) and new cells whereby the transmission routes also change. To carry out the changes, and for operation, maintenance and managing functions the network produces, from several locations, different kind of information; the BSC, for example, collects information from the cells it controls, whereby information on traffic intensity is obtained as a function of time. Information obtained from various sources has to be gathered and processed in a centralized manner. In this respect, a mobile communication network does not differ from other telecommunication networks.
In present-day mobile communication networks, a drawback of traffic management concerns poor real time representativeness. Information on peaks is only available a long time afterwards. Although the information on changes in traffic intensity is available, this is only after a long delay and in an unillustrative numerical form. As a result, traffic capacity in some cells may run out, because dynamic allocation of traffic capacity in real time, or practically in real time, is not possible.
An object of the present invention is a system which makes traffic management easier by providing a visually illustrative representation of traffic intensity and changes therein in practically real time. The system should be possible to couple to an MSC of any manufacturer, without need to change its internal functions.
This object is achieved with a system set forth in claim 1.
The management system is realized so that the TT file which is obtained from the MSCs of the mobile communication network and which contains TT records is read and transferred to be incorporated into a database of the traffic management system. Traffic management software processes information obtained from the records, counts the number of calls carried out in the cells, and produces a hierarchical graphic representation of the information on a map display. The term "hierarchical" here means that the highest level is the entire geographical area, with possibly several MSCs, under control of one operator. The subsequent level may be an area of one MSC, and the subsequent level may be a location area. The lowest level is represented by one cell. Each level shows traffic intensity with grades of color, i.e. the more traffic is present the stronger the color. The display is automatically updated as the MSC provides the TT data.
The management system also contains logic for traffic load monitoring. This logic monitors the traffic load on the network on different levels and in different cells. If the traffic load in an area, within a cell or cells, exceeds a predetermined level, the software automatically transmits a command to the base station controller in question to distribute traffic between the overloaded cell and the neighbouring cells. This can be done by changing the handover criteria by advancing handovers at cell borders from an overloaded cell to a cell with less traffic load, and correspondingly delaying handover to an overloaded cell. The above can be referred to as logically reducing the size of an overloaded cell. If at the base station there is an additional so-called floating TRX unit available, it can be coupled for use in the overloaded cell and accordingly increase the cell capacity.
The calculation results can be stored for statistical purposes. The statistical data may constitute for example congestion statistics, average duration of calls per channel, degree of channel utilization, etc.
In the following, the invention will be described in greater detail with reference to the attached drawings, in which
FIG. 1 illustrates the structure of the prior art GSM mobile communication network,
FIG. 2 illustrates fields of a TT record,
FIG. 3 illustrates coupling of the traffic management system to the mobile communication network,
FIG. 4 illustrates a possible flow chart for command automatics, and
FIG. 5 shows network traffic load on a map display.
FIG. 3 shows a mobile communication network in its entirety to the left of the broken line A. The mobile communication network may have several MSCs, one being illustrated in the figure. At precise intervals all present-day MSCs generate for the operator a TT file which, out of fields of FIG. 2, at least contains all other fields but the EOS field concerning possibly failed channel requests. If the switching center nevertheless generates such a field, but for a reason or another does not include it in the TT record, the field will be directed separately to the traffic management system of the invention as well. If the switching center does not generate such a field at all, relevant measures must be taken in the center to generate the field.
The right-hand side of the interface A shows the traffic management system of the invention. It is supplied with the TT file obtained from the MSC: of the TT fields, at least the number A, number B, route information, charging data, i.e. begin and end time and pulses of the call, cell ID and the congested calls data EOS are utilized. The MSC generates a new TT file at predetermined intervals, a typical sequence being 5 to 15 minutes.
The file received by the traffic management system is transferred to be processed by the system. The system distinguishes the records and processes them. Upon using traffic intensity application, the cell ID fields will be summed to their own database. As the TT record also contains, for each call, the identifier of the cell from which the call was placed, or where it terminates, the sum of records having the same cell ID, calculated from the received TT file, represents the number of calls in this cell. If the MSC generates a new TT record for example every 10 minutes, the aforementioned sum denotes the number of calls in the cell during the past 10 minutes. In this manner, the number of calls can be established quickly for each cell of the network. The traffic intensity within a location area can easily be calculated by summing up the number of calls in the cells (under control of the same BSC) of the location area. Correspondingly, the traffic intensity for the MSC area will be obtained by summing up the number of calls in the location areas. Thus, traffic intensity can be calculated with an accuracy of a cell, location area, MSC area and the area of the entire mobile communication network.
On a display unit, traffic intensity is represented in a graphic form so that the map display shows the operator's entire area of operation, for example Finland. Because it is known where an MSC area, location area and a cell having a specific identifier are located on the map, a hierarchical representation of traffic intensity can easily be produced. On the highest level, traffic intensity can be displayed in the entire network area or by MSC area. By clicking the mouse at a desired MSC area, the resolution of the map display increases and the display shows traffic intensity by location area. By clicking the mouse once more, the map display shows the traffic intensity of the location area by cell, and finally the lowest level displays the intensity in a cell. On each level, it is possible to display alpha-numeric information concerning the level.
Traffic intensity may be displayed with grades of color: on a cell level, a call is denoted by a pixel, for example by a red color. As a result, the higher the number of calls carried out in the cell the redder the cell appears. Correspondingly on the other levels, the grade of the red colour on the geographical area indicates traffic intensity in the area. As the traffic management software always updates the display upon receiving a new TT file from the MSC, a clear picture is provided of changes in traffic intensity.
The results of the processing carried out after reception of previous TT files are stored in a memory, which means that by displaying a desired number of calculation results in succession, the map display very clearly shows the changes in traffic intensity. For example, the map display may show how a specific red area moves along roads according to vehicular intensity. The flow chart of the graphic illustration described above represents a direct sequence of the different functions: the data are read, values required are calculated and shown on the map display. Regardless of the high number of different records, the calculation process is very fast. A person skilled in the art will realize that information obtained from the TT file can, in addition to calculating traffic intensity, be also used for various statistical purposes. These include for example congestion statistics, average duration of calls per channel in a cell, degree of channel utilization, proportion of internal calls in the mobile communication network to all calls, proportion of calls coming in to the mobile communication network and calls originating from the mobile communication network to all calls, etc.
The graphic map display of call traffic intensity is one of the features in the system according to the invention. Another characteristic feature is provided by the possibility to monitor, by means of the logic built in the system, the traffic load in the radio network and to automatically optimize the network capacity with commands generated by the system. If a cell is overloaded, or the upper limit of the capacity approaches, the system automatically transmits a command to the MSC e.g. to lower the handover criteria by changing the logic size of the cell in question and/or to take in use in the cell an additional transceiver unit TRX if such is available.
FIG. 4 shows how to implement the invention in a simple and fast manner. At first, the TT data required are read (block 1). Congestion displace and command automatics are carried out by means of EOS fields indicating failed and succeeded. calls, and cell ID fields. At block 2, congestion percentage E is calculated by the formula:
For each cell, the congestion percentage is calculated every time the system receives a new TT file from the MSC. When the congestion percentage E of a cell exceeds a preset value (block 3), the system automatically transmits a command to the MSC to adjust the logic size of the cell, i.e. to change the handover criteria of the cell (block 6) and to enlarge the neighbouring cells, i.e. to change their handover criteria (block 7), or to add an additional TRX in the cell (block 5). The MSC commands the BSC controlling the cell to carry out the procedures required.
This system that processes large quantities of data can be implemented by using an efficient program code with a PC-based apparatus; thus, a Unix work station, for example, will not be required unlike in prior art traffic management systems of fixed networks. The system can be coupled to an MSC of any manufacturer.
Finally, FIG. 5 shows a graphic map display illustration. The figure shows the highest level of an operator's mobile communication network, the entire Finland. The dark areas indicate very high traffic intensity.
It should be understood that the description above and the figures related thereto are only intended to illustrate the present invention. It will be clear to a person skilled in the art that variations and modifications may be incorporated without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention. The invention has been described in association with one mobile communication network, but it is obvious that in a mobile communication system comprising several MSCs the apparatus may be installed in one of them, and information from the other switching centers and commands to the switching centers can be transmitted by using an appropriate connection, such as an X.25 network.
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"Linsanity" was born in Gotham and the relationship between player, organization and fans was undoubtedly meant to mature in New York City.
Unfortunately, due to greed, backstabbing and miscommunication, the brief, almost nonexistent, Jeremy Lin era is finished in Manhattan.


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The Rogers Royals had a rough first day at the state golf tournament Tuesday, placing eighth among eight teams. The final 18 holes will be held Wednesday morning at Bunker Hills in Coon Rapids. Royal senior Morgan Rask, playing in his fourth state tournament, is tied for 12th place with 38-36...Read More
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The Rogers Royals are tied for third place, seven shots off the lead, at the midpoint of the state Class 3A boys golf tournament at Bunker Hills. The Moorhead Spuds, seeking their first state title, hold the lead with 302, followed by Minnetonka 304, Rogers and Chanhassen 309, Forest Lake 315...Read More
The Rogers Royals, a big factor in state boys golf the last two years, earned another shot at the big prize with their third straight section championship Thursday. The Royals took Section 5AAA with a 299 total at Bunker Hills with four players in the 70's. Mounds View was runner-up wit...Read More
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by Bruce Strand, Sports editor McCabe Buege has been the top-ranked prep golfer in the state all season, a distinction the Rogers senior is justifying and wearing comfortably. "It's a good feeling to be No. 1," said Buege, who shot a sizzling 64 at the St. Cloud tournament Thursday, and has wo...Read More
McCabe Buege of Rogers was the champion and Chase Hahne of Elk River finished fourth in the Tri-State Invitational, the state's biggest regular-season high school golf tournament, in miserable conditions Friday and Saturday at Edinburgh USA. Buege, along with sixth-place Corey Muenzhube...Read More


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NBA players focused on the PR game during lockout
Aug 30, 2011, 12:59 PM EDT
Heading into Wednesday's negotiations, maybe the most frustrating thing about the NBA lockout is that both sides seem more focused on winning the public relations battle than ending the labor strife that threatens the season.
Frankly, the public relations battle can't be won by either the owners or players if regular season games are lost. But that isn't stopping both sides from trying.
That includes the players union talking to players in hopes avoiding the kind of gaffs the players had during the last lockout. Howard Beck broke it down at the New York Times.
"It was a huge emphasis," Derek Fisher, the president of the National Basketball Players Association, said in a telephone interview. "The reality is, we're in a great position, where guys have worked to put themselves in this place where they can potentially earn millions of dollars."
And fans, generally speaking, do not want to hear about the woes of millionaire athletes — or the billionaire owners who pay them.
At Fisher's direction, the union last fall distributed a 56-page lockout handbook to its 400-plus players. … But the key point, perhaps, is this simple reminder: "Please be sensitive about interviews or other media displays of a luxurious lifestyle."
Last time around, Patrick Ewing said that players make a lot of money but they spend a lot of money, too. Kenny Anderson joked that the lockout might force him to sell one of his eight luxury cars. Then there was an All-Star charity game designed to raise money for the players (that money was donated to charity after a backlash). All of that was bad public relations — and that in a pre-Internet era. Today that kind of thing would break twitter.
Here's the thing about the public relations battle — it does nothing to end the lockout. It's just trying to get the goodwill of fans.
As Tim Donahue said well at Eight Points Nine Seconds, the fans dont care, they only want one thing — games. They will back whichever side, whatever proposals they think will get them games faster. And in the end they will be angry with both sides for costing them games.
Not just missing games, but missing games during a recession with record unemployment. Both sides seem to be underestimating the backlash that will come their way. The reaction will be worse than any previous lockout.
- dysraw1 - Aug 30, 2011 at 3:15 PM
The players didnt lock themselves out the owners did.The players shouldnt fear any fallout[execpt the normal haters] Look i know these guys want to take floor & strut their stuff.Its a powerplay from the owners that no man should back down from.
- savocabol1 - Aug 31, 2011 at 8:18 AM
I'll never understand why a league and their players will try to win a PR battle with their lockouts. It doesn't matter what the public thinks, they (the public) aren't the ones signing the contracts and deciding the new CBA. Who cares what sides the fans are on? It won't influence the outcome of the outcome of the lockout one bit.
Fans will still go to the games regardless of when the season starts. Anyone who thinks otherwise is nuts.
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Bethany Wiggin
Bethany Wiggin received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Her interests lie in the intersections between the early modern period and contemporary theoretical concerns, including global and transnational literature, translation and multilingualism, and sex and gender studies. While grounded in the cultural and political landscape of central Europe, her work increasingly charts global trajectories. A member of the core faculty in German, she is also affiliated with the English department.
While on research leave in 2014-2015, she is on campus to direct the new Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities. While on sabbatical, she will give the following talks:
- "Sustainability is Not an English Word," Women in German Conference, October 2014
- "Calicos, Imperial Trade, and the Anthropocene," Nelson Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 2014
- "Utopian Histories for the Anthropocene," University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, November 2014
- "Everywhere a Guest? Environmental Humanities in the Arts and Sciences Curriculum," University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, November 2014
- "Utopia Lost and Found in Penn's Woods," University of Tennessee, Knoxville, December 2014
- "Cultural Transfer and the Novelle in the Age of Incunabula: Anton von Pforr's Buch der Beyspile," Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, Germany, March 2015
- "Pre-Modern World and National Literatures at 1700: The German Case," Princeton University, April 2015
- "Poor Christoph's Almanac: Popular Education in Colonial German Almanacs," University of Muenster, June 2015
Her first book—entitled Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680-1730 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 2011)—explores the new worlds opened to the imagination when reading first became a form of entertainment. This long process first blossomed with the creation of a transnational (French, English, and German) novel in the decades around 1700, a popular genre born of a boom in literary commerce.
Her second book—Germanopolis: Utopia Lost and Found in Penn's Woods, 1683-1763 (College Park, PA: Penn State UP, forthcoming 2015)—investigates competing accounts of colonial Pennsylvania's past and future. The colony's legacy became a contest of pacifists versus imperialists, "sectarians" (Quakers, Mennonites, and seemingly countless others) versus "Churchmen" (Anglicans and Presbyterians, Lutherans and Calvinists), sometimes between English and German, and, more ominously, between "red" and "white," and between slavery's critics and its apologists.
She has recently begun research for a third book whose working title is World Literatures Before Goethe and which explores border-crossing, multlingual narratives from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries.
She is also at work on four edited collections:
- The first, Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures, represents a collaboration with Penn German co-editors Daniel DiMassa, Catriona MacLeod, and Nicholas Theis; and it originates in the conference they organized at Penn in 2011. It is under contract with Northwestern University Press and is slated to appear in 2015.
- The second, Babel of the Atlantic, departs from a conference investigating how authority was negotiated between the "Old" and "New" worlds and organized by Wiggin, co-sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania in December 2012.It is under an advanced contract with Penn State University Press.
- The third is a special issue of The Germanic Review on The Return of World Literature to Goethe which Wiggin will guest edit, 2 / 2015.
- The fourth is a co-edited collection planned with Elio Brancaforte, Jane Newman, and Ann Marie Rasmussen, and in cooperation with the Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature (SGRABL). It is entitled Corpora: Textual and Sexual Bodies in Pre-Modern German Literature and Culture and shall feature essays selected from SGRABL panels sponsored at the SCSC 2013, MLA 2014, and RSA 2014.
Articles slated to appear later in 2014 include: "Slavery in Translation: German Baroque Figurations of African Enslavement in the Americas" in Opening Spaces: Constructions, Visions, and Depictions of Spaces and Boundaries in the Baroque, ed. Karin Friedrich (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2014) and "Sister Marcella, Marie Christine Sauer (d.1752), and the Chronicle of the Sisters at Ephrata" in Mysticism, Reform, and the Formation of Modernity, ed. by Sarah Poor and Nigel Smith (South Bend, Indiana: Notre Dame UP, 2014).
Other recent publications include "World Literature and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Amsterdam, Leipzig, 1701," in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies (May 2013); "Globalization and the Work of Fashion" in the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies; four articles on eighteenth-century German American colonials and their Atlantic world; articles on the emergence of consumer culture in Europe, the invention of fashion, German coffee consumption, and poet Andreas Gryphius.
Recent courses and seminars include graduate seminars on "Early Modern Utopian Writing," "Early Modern Cultural Translation," "Theory and Practice of the Novel," "Foreign Exchanges, Germany and the East," "Writing Amerika," and "Baroque Models of Authority." For first-year graduate students, she also regularly teaches the proseminar "German Literature to the Eighteenth Century."
She is an ardent proponent of Humanities education for all and teaches Sustainability and Utopianism, a seminar that considers what art and literature can do to combat climate change. Wiggin's interview about the course, "Leading the Green," appeared this summer in the Penn Sustainability Review. This innovative course is cross-listed with Environmental Studies; Science, Society, and Technology; English; and Comparative Literature. In fall 2013, she joined Penn's Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee on Academics and SAS's strategic planning committee on Energy, the Environment, and Sustainability. In conjunction with the Penn Humanities Forum topic, "Color," and with topic director Chi-ming Yang, Wiggin is organizing a green symposium, "Hope, Public Art, and Community," for February 2015.
For German majors she regularly directs senior thesis projects and has taught seminars on German Orientalisms, Present Pasts, and "Censored!." She also directs the undergraduate German majors' thesis writing seminar.