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- Everyone -
You all know what NASA is and does. "FIRST" is an acronym that
stands for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and
FIRST is also a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to
generate an interest in science and engineering among today's youth.
Currently, our primary means of accomplishing this goal is through
our annual robot competitions, which began in 1992. NASA, who needs
many more engineers and scientists than our schools currently
produce, is one of the primary sponsors of the high school event -
the FIRST Robotics Competition.
We are sending you this information because we think you will find it
VERY interesting...It's long, I know, but we wanted to give you a
good idea of what's involved.
FIRST Robotics Competition Information
The FIRST Robotics Competition is a national
engineering contest that immerses high school students in the
exciting world of engineering. Teaming up with engineers from
businesses and universities, students get a hands-on, inside look at
the engineering profession. In six intense weeks, students and
engineers work together to brainstorm, design, construct and test
their "champion robot". With only six weeks, all jobs are critical
path. The teams then compete in a spirited, no-holds-barred
tournament complete with referees, cheerleaders and time clocks.
The partnerships developed between schools,
businesses, and universities provide an exchange of resources and
talent, highlighting mutual needs, building cooperation, and exposing
students to new career choices. The result is a fun, exciting and
stimulating environment in which all participants discover the
important connection between classroom lessons and real world
Each year, the competition is different, so returning
teams always have a new challenge to look forward to. However, the
details are kept secret until the unveiling at the Kick-Off
workshop. This provides a high level of excitement as everyone sees
the new challenge for the first time and ideas immediately begin
forming in people's minds.
To give you a flavor of the FIRST Robotics
Competition, we have pictures from the 1997 competition available
online (www.usfirst.org). If you have a lot of time, you can
download a cool video showing the excitement of the 1995 FIRST
Robotics Competition at EPCOT '95. You can also browse web pages
setup by some of the teams that have participated in past FIRST
Robotics Competitions.
Preparation for the 2001 competition is now under
way. Dates and locations for the 2001 FIRST Robotics can be found on
the website mentioned above.
The deadline for registration for the 2001 FIRST
Robotics Competition is December 8, 2000. If you have questions
about the Competition, please contact FIRST via mail, email, phone,
or fax (www.usfirst.org), or you can contact me at
fboyer@.... My phone number is 650-604-0992.
If you know you want to participate in the 2001 FIRST
Robotics Competition, you can register online.
Scholarship Opportunities for FIRST Team Participants
NASA is able to provide 100 teams nationally a $6,000
team scholarship, to assist with registration and the costs of the
Kick-Off. You can access this information at
A FIRST team may range in size from a small
group of a few engineers and high school students to a small army of
engineers, students, faculty and parents. The secret of building a
successful team is not to assemble the largest team possible, but
rather to assemble a team that can work well together. To do this,
the team must recognize and capitalize on the unique abilities of
each member of the team.
To understand what is needed to build a FIRST
team, it is important to realize that the FIRST project is more than
the not-so-simple task of designing and building a robot from a
standard set of raw materials. It involves such diverse aspects as
financing the project, coordinating logistics, arranging
press coverage for your team, and documenting the impact your team
has made in your community.
Other than having high school students as the
robot drivers and on field players, there are no other rules that
specify who else has to be on a team. Typically, a FIRST team will
include some combination of the following categories
of people:
High School Students - All students have
different talents and enjoy different activities, and the FIRST
project is a forum for these individual talents to shine. Though the
goal of FIRST is to motivate students to pursue careers in science
and engineering, the participating students need not be primarily
interested in these fields. There is room on the team for every type
of student. By their participation, many become attracted to
engineering and others leave with an appreciation for and an
understanding of the engineering profession.
For example, a student that likes writing can
be assigned as the team's publicist to handle press relations, a
student with vocational training can help build the robot, a student
strong in math may calculate the required geometry for the robot, a
student that enjoys computers can develop a web page
for the team, and a student interested in art can design the
logo and robot aesthetics. In short, every ability can be applied to
the project.
Teachers - Faculty involvement is critical
for the project. The faculty serves not merely as supervisors, but
also as coaches for specific components of the project. Also, their
involvement is crucial to generate enthusiasm and support for the
project from within the school system.
Industry Engineers and Technicians - For
many teams, this group is the nucleus of the project team. The
following people are needed in this group: an electrician, a
machinist, and at least two engineers, one of who should have
experience in product development. Included in this category of
industry participants are government employees from technical
research centers operated by the U.S. government.
University Faculty and Students - A number
of FIRST teams have included university participants. There are many
ways for university students and faculty to participate in FIRST.
Some schools have used FIRST as an undergraduate capstone design
project, others have participated as a student professional society
activity, and others have used FIRST in their graduate curriculum.
Others - This group includes interested
parents, community members, retired teachers/engineers, and non-
engineering industry representatives. Typically, this group
coordinates any or all parts of the project beyond the design and
construction of the robot. Having one industry team member from the
public affairs office or the company's executive office is a
way to help secure the resources, exposure, and recognition that is
critical to the project's success.
Though the distribution of these five
components varies from team to team, there are generally four types
of teams that participate in FIRST: an industry-high school
partnership, a university-high school partnership, an industry-
university-high school partnership, and a coalition team. While the
first three team types are self-explanatory and involve a single high
school, industry and/or university, the coalition team involves
multiple companies, universities and/or high schools competing as a
single team. For example, one company may elect to sponsor a team
that represents each high school in a school system, and, as a
result, have four high schools represented on a single team. As
another example, a group of small companies may join together to
collectively sponsor and staff a single team.
During the project, the students witness the
leadership needed to run organizations, and many students will be put
in positions where they must lead critical elements of the project.
The critical criterion for the team is their ability to work with
each other to complete the many individual tasks needed to create a
competitive robot. As such, the size of the team, beyond a minimum
core of four able adults and a group of interested students, does not
matter. What does matter is assembling a group that can respect each
other's opinions, form consensus, and work together.
Perhaps the best perspective to think about
your team is to view your FIRST team as your own personal company.
You certainly want to have a successful business, so you want to
involve the best people on your team. You will need to "hire"
effective managers for your company: people that can follow
a chain of command, be delegated responsibilities, and deliver the
required products. These managers must direct the work of motivated
and energetic employees (that may be students, faculty, parents, or
industry participants). Like the real world, you will need to work
hard to recruit talented people to join your company.
You must convince others to accept the same
realization that you made when you committed to the FIRST project:
yes, this will take time, but there are few opportunities that can
give a better return on the investment. To recruit these people,
videos of previous FIRST competitions can be an important
resource. Let them watch the videos on their own and afterwards
approach them to join your team.
Few programs give a larger bang for the buck
than FIRST. Like your personal decision to invest your time in FIRST
because you receive a valuable return on your investment, the
financial costs associated with FIRST must be evaluated in a similar
fashion. The financial cost must be evaluated
relative to the return on the investment.
In addition to the $5000 entrance fee for
each competition, there are other items that must be funded by each
FIRST team. These include travel for team members to attend the Kick-
Off Workshop, building materials, administrative costs, shipping,
uniforms, and team travel to the competition. Though there are
exceptions, the minimum budget needed for a FIRST team is
approximately $15,000. This budget covers expenses, and does not
include the financial value of the engineers and faculty volunteers
that participate in the project.
Comparisons illustrate the return on
investment in the FIRST project. Costs of $3,000 a person for one-
week professional training courses are not uncommon in industry. Past
industry participants in FIRST have vouched that they have learned
more through the FIRST project than in any professional training
course. Also, Baxter Healthcare Corporation and Procter & Gamble have
sanctioned the FIRST competition as product management and prototype
development activities for their engineers.
The financial models used by FIRST teams vary
as much as the make-up of the teams themselves. In all cases though,
cost sharing is a common attribute of each team's finances. Under
cost-sharing model, all components of the team contribute to the
project budget. For example, the corporation may
fund the entrance fee, construction costs, and travel costs for their
employees. In this case, the high school would be responsible for the
travel costs of the students and minor administration costs. As a
source of funding, many of the high schools solicit donations from
local businesses and initiate fund raising projects to pay travel
expenses for members to attend the competitions.
Any needed fundraising should take place
during the period before the competition. The six weeks of the
construction phase pass by too quickly to devote any of that time to
fundraising. This time is also a good time for the support and public
relations components of your team to work together and practice some
of the skills they will need during the competition.
Though the competition does not begin until
the first week of January, it is never too soon to prepare for the
competition. Since the competition game changes each year, there is
no way to build your robot ahead of time, but there are many other
things you can do to practice for the competition.
This pre-season time is the right time to organize
your team and identify key people to lead the engineering,
management, and operation sections of your team. Activities such as
creativity exercises, studying previous competition game videos, and
working with some of the actual kit components are
worthwhile team projects to gain valuable
experience and promote teamwork.
Sparking Creativity - There are many types
of creativity exercises to introduce high school students to
engineering problem solving. Weekly pizza-powered mini-tutorials on
engineering concepts, electronics, and the design process are a
popular way to introduce students to fundamental concepts needed to
design and build the robot. The tutorials also act as an icebreaker
activity to help the team members begin to know, trust, and value
each other.
Learning By Doing - A good understanding of
the range of possibilities that can be created from the standard kit
of parts can be gathered by reviewing videos of past competitions and
classifying your observations. For example, each year the robots must
move, pick up or move another object, and
probably lift that object. Using these three functions, you can break
up your team into groups to review old competitions and study how
these tasks were accomplished. By requiring the groups to classify
methods for each task (propulsion, grabbing objects, and lifting)
they can visually dissect the video
images to see the engineering involved in the project.
Once you have classified the types of
mechanisms that can be used for each of these three movements, your
team can then try to build some of these components using material
purchased from a hardware store. Though you do not know for certain
that battery powered hand drills will be supplied as part of the kit,
assuming so would be a safe bet. To understand how the rotational
motion of a hand drill can be efficiently converted to transitional
motion, the team could design and build a hand drill powered
propulsion system.
Similarly, another part of your team could
design and build a device to grab an object, while yet another group
designs and builds a device to lift up an object. Small, high speed,
low torque DC motors could be purchased to investigate the gear
reductions necessary for your prototype devices. Through these
projects, the team should begin to see the difficulty in constructing
physical systems that operate as intended. Materials such as plywood
and sheet insulation are useful to work with as a prototype material.
Safety Education - Learning about and
practicing safety procedures for power tools must be included during
these activities. All members of the team should know proper safety
procedures, and each team must take responsibility for their own
actions and the actions of those on their team. Each
member should be comfortable calling a time-out whenever a safety
violation is observed, and all members of the team should be briefed
on the observed violation.
In addition to learning about design and
construction techniques that will be needed for the competition,
these activities serve as a test of the team's operation. By
conducting these pre-event building activities, your team can
evaluate your logistical plans regarding meeting locations, shop and
availability, procedures for purchasing parts, and team
organization. Identifying problems to correct will be time well spent
during the months before the competition begins.
The competition begins in early January at
the Kick-Off Workshop when the game for the year is unveiled, and the
kit of parts distributed. The Kick-Off Workshop is shrouded in
secrecy to ensure that the game is revealed to all teams at the same
time. With Dean Kamen (the founder of FIRST) and Woodie Flowers
(FIRST's technology guru) standing before representatives of every
team, a signal is given, the stage curtains surrounding the playing
field are lifted, and the game is revealed to all participants.
Six weeks later, you have to ship your
completed robot to a regional competition or, if you are not
participating in a regional competition, to the national competition
at EPCOT. Six weeks is a tight time frame to go from problem
statement to final product, and a clear plan of action is needed.
The most important aspect of your design is
that it must be able to play the game. You can only inspire the high
school students if you design and build a robot that can gather
objects, take them somewhere, and score points. The design need not
be elegant, the construction need not be production quality, and the
operation need not be the smoothest, but, in the end, your robot must
work. Having a robot that is unable to play the game severely limits
your ability to inspire the high school students on your team.
Local Kick-Off - Since only a handful of
participants are allowed to attend the Kick-Off Workshop, your team
will need to have its own "local Kick-Off" as soon as
possible to
unveil the game to the rest of the team members. Your local Kick-Off
should be as dramatic as possible to allow all the
team members to share the excitement and
anticipation of the actual Kick-Off Workshop. After revealing the
game, you should pass out copies of the relevant sections of the game
rules and divide your team into sub-groups.
Throughout this intense six-week construction
project, your team must also document the impact the project is
making on the community. This documentation is sent to FIRST during
the sixth week of the project and is evaluated for the premier award
associated with the Competition. Also during this time, logistics for
attending the regional and national competitions must be finalized.
Once you have some working components of the
robot completed, the press should be invited to see your team in
action. In general, the interest of the press parallels the
construction of the robot: there is little for them to see during the
design phase, the prototypes don't photograph especially well,
completed subsystems are parts that they can understand, and the
completed robot makes a huge impression on people.
You will have at least a week to relax before
the actual competition, and you will need it to recover from the past
six weeks and to prepare for the next few weeks. To put it mildly,
the competitions themselves are intense. So
much time has been devoted to the project, and everyone wants to do
Above all, take in the grandeur of the
competition, see the enthusiasm in thousands of high school
faces, and take pride in the fact that your personal commitment to
others made this possible.
Welcome to the 2001 FIRST Robotics Competition
Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can answer any questions
for you.
Flora Boyer
Robotics Education Project
NASA Ames Research Project
Moffett Field, CA 94035
650-604-0992 Phone
650-604-4036 Fax
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A former probation officer has blamed the Department of Corrections for not doing enough to address the high incarceration rate of Māori in prison.
An urgent hearing at the Waitangi Tribunal started Monday in Wellington to investigate Tom Hemopo's claim that the Crown has breached the Treaty of Waitangi by failing to reduce Māori reoffending rates.
Mr Hemopo, who was a probation officer for more than 20 years, made the submission on behalf of Ngāti Maniapoto, Rongomaiwahine and Ngāti Kahungunu and pointed out that although Māori make up about 15% of the population they make up more than 50% of the prison muster (51% for men, 57% for women).
He also told the Tribunal that the recidivism rate for Māori is higher than other ethnicities with 64% of them being reconvicted within two years of being released from prison.
Current programmes targeting Māori were just "window dressing" he said and although there were dozens of Corrections programmes aimed at trying to address the issue, Mr Hemopo said there was no proof that they were actually working.
"Well it's hard to believe it because our reoffending rates have actually gone higher. And if they were effective then surely the reoffending rates would have come down," he said.
Māori lawyer Moana Jackson was quick to back Mr Hemopo up.
"Well it appears the Crown is trying to create the impression that it has done a lot and there certainly had been lots of programmes and initiatives within Corrections, but the issue is are they affective? Do they work? Do they address the fundamental issues of why so many Māori are in prison? And clearly they don't," Mr Jackson said.
Dr Rawiri Waretini-Karena is the Programme Manager of Te Whiuwhiu o Te Hau at Waikato Institute of Technology (WINTEC) in Hamilton.
He told Te Karere that the high Māori imprisonment rate stems from colonisation.
"The evidence that I'm providing looks at Māori experiences with historical intergenerational trauma and it's links to colonisation. And what I'm submitting is that these experiences also contribute to Māori crime and prison statistics," Dr Waretini-Karena said.
The Crown argued with Mr Hemopo that there were a number of measures that were put in place including partnerships with iwi.
Crown lawyer Aaron Perkins said a 'Māori Services Team' was established within Corrections in 2012 a year after Mr Hemopo had retired, but Mr Hemopo said that none of the initiatives included Ngāti Kahungunu or Ngāti Maniapoto.
Mr Perkins tried to impress upon Mr Hemopo that Corrections had 'wholeheartedly' been trying its best to bring down Māori incarceration rates, but Mr Hemopo wouldn't budge and said, "If the programmes were effective they have to reduce reoffending rates and they haven't been reduced."
Te Karere asked Tom Hemopo why he brought the case to the tribunal and replied with this Māori proverb, "Ki a au nei ka hoki ki te whakatauki: He aha te mea nui o te ao? Māku e kī atu, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata." (I revert to the proverb: What is the most important thing in the world? And I will tell you, it is people.")
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Has your parent company had "The Talk" with you? You know that sometimes awkward talk about Lean Manufacturing principles. Awkward because parent companies themselves have tainted and wasteful pasts and probably isn't really practicing safe Lean even today.
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3. Have "The Talk" serious about implementation relinquished enough control for rank and file to operate only to have a disease flares up and stall progress.
Lean Manufacturing is simply a continuous improvement activity that seeks to remove all waste from the process. Lean solutions are common sense practices that should be woven into the moral fabric of your organization. Most larger organizations talk and train on this relentlessly. However culture change is difficult when it's not organic.
Like most things corporate or governmental it (The Lean Talk) has to be named packaged and delivered in a sterile regimented and cookie cutter fashion normally delivered from an outsider. Implementation is oftentimes overly complicated with little room for variation. Without ability for each product to choose its own path or solution the parent oftentimes sets up an arranged solution. Continue reading


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I was playing around with particle behavior algorithms using XNA and came up with an app that's fun to play with, so I thought I'd share it. Getting code ready to post on my blog forces me to simplify it and clean it up, kind of like having to clean the house before having guests come over. I'm planning to extend this program into a game, but it's entertaining to play around with as it is. Everyone I've shown it to says it looks like a view through a microscope, so I'm calling it "Microbes." Or, if you make all the discs the same size and change the colors a bit, it looks like a bowl of Cheerios floating in milk. Microbes requires 2.0 shader support from your graphics hardware.
Red microbes are attracted to green microbes and vice-versa, but red microbes repel other red microbes and green microbes repel other green microbes. (My apologies to any readers who are red/green colorblind…) The particles exert force on each other that diminishes with distance. The net result is an apparently endless dance as particles swirl around, forming chains or small groups, then diverging — they never quite settle into a stable state. The white microbe is under your control. Use the left controller stick or arrow keys to move it. Pressing "A" causes your microbe to repel all others; "B" causes it to attract all others. With no button pressed, it doesn't exert any force on the other microbes.
Like the Mandelbrot Set or my Feedback program, Microbes is an example of complex behavior emerging from simple rules. You don't need a lot of A.I. code or a full art department to make interesting effects and games, if you're willing to just explore and allow yourself to be surprised by what emerges from the code, rather than starting with a fixed vision of what you want the game to be before writing any code. I had no idea what I was doing when I started fooling around with these particles…now I have an idea for a unique and (hopefully) fun game.
I use a simple but expensive n-squared algorithm to update all the discs. If you add too many more objects (search for "numDiscs"), it bogs down. With some added code complexity (e.g., spatial partitioning), it could be made more efficient, but for a just-for-fun program I prefer to keep the code simple.
One effective way to reduce aliasing effects is to use the alpha channel to blur / fade out the edges of the objects you render. This gives you a low-frequency edge instead of high-frequency, so you get edges that look much smoother without having to turn on Direct3D's multisampling anti-aliasing. The pixel shader in the Microbes code has an option to turn off this blur effect, so you can see how much of a difference it makes:
This is easiest to do when you're programmatically generating your content (as with my simple discs), but even authored 2D models can use this technique. It's harder with true 3D apps though.
By the way, I'm out of town for the holidays and don't have access to an Xbox 360 (only my laptop PC), so I can't verify whether any of my XNA apps work on the 360 yet (I've heard specifically that Feedback has a problem). I'll post updates if needed when I get a chance to try them on the 360 and work through any issues.
Let me close by giving a shout-out to a microbe with a truly awesome name, Wigglesworthia glossinidia, named for Sir Vincent Brian Wigglesworth.


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During a recent week, we celebrated the first full moon after the vernal equinox, better known as the full moon before Easter, as well as a lunar eclipse that was visible over most of North America. It was fitting and special during such an exciting week, that I had the opportunity to meet Astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon!
Twenty-three graduates of my alma mater, Purdue University, have gone on to become astronauts, including the late Neil Armstrong, who was the first man to walk on the moon in 1969 and Cernan, the last. Several of the astronauts were back on
campus with me to discuss their thoughts on the future of space exploration and scientific research. Given the recent political upheavals in Russia, I found it very interesting that the leader in space exploration is dependent on Russia to reach the space station. If the two sections of the space station were separated, the Russian section could sustain life, the US section could no
It was truly an "aha moment" to realize the risks these men and their families have endured. It is also amazing to think of all the technological advances our society enjoys because of space research – velcro, cell phones, freeze-dried ice cream (a favorite souvenir from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum), dust busters, and memory foam to name a few.
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Google representatives have repeatedly said that the content hidden from users under the tabs and links gets less important and can be ignored by the ranking algorithms. According to Gary Illyes, after the mobile-first index is launched, the current situation should change.
During the discussion regarding the upcoming launch into the Twitter Illyes was asked the following question:
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It is still a secret whether it will influence the desktop content or not.
Facebook decided to do the revision of the rules of advertising and to limit the use of targeting towards the "ethnic community". From now on companies will not be able to use this option in the ads on the topic of employment, credit services, as well as the sale or rental.
About two weeks ago the possibility of targeting by ethnicity on Facebook was actively critisized. In particular, it was noted that in this way the social network violates the users' civil rights.
Therefore, Facebook decided to ban this option in the above areas. Bisedes, the company will also make changes in the advertising policy. Under the new rules, the brand companies will not be able to post "discriminatory advertisements."
Changes will take effect by the end of this year. Targeting option to ethnic communities will be moved from the demographic to behavioral category.
When the new system is fully launched, advertisers will receive a warning concerning the violation of service policy when buying the ads.
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Later, Facebook will publish some recommendations on how to advertise housing, employment and credit services under the new rules.
Twitter has decided not to stop the Vine service since it has received a lot of applications on its purchase. The Company expects to conclude an appropriate transaction in the near future. This information was reported by TechCrunch citing its sources.
At the moment, Twitter has reduced the number of potential buyers to only five. The interested companies are still not revealed, except the Japanese company named Line.
One source also stated that several entities consider buying the service for less than $10 billion.
It is assumed that Twitter will be able to benefit from the Vine service, even with the new owner by means of synchronization between applications. Earlier it was reported that Twitter plans to close Vine mobile application in the upcoming months.
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Cyber Monday exhibited a similar trend, though less pronounced – with email marketing driving 22.1% of orders, free search 20.7%, and paid search 16.6%. (Source: Custora)
Google accounted for nearly 40% of all U.S. digital ad spending last year. Facebook's share was about 8%. (eMarketer)


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Most of the women are willing to spend huge amounts of money trying to hide or get rid of bags under the eyes, but not the Koreans. They resort to cosmetic procedures to get a baggy lower eyelids.
The folds of skin on the lower eyelid or bags under the eyes tell others that people had not enough sleep, or have used an excessive amount of water or alcohol. In any case, no one drooping eyelids add attraction. But contrary to popular belief, the Korean fashion trend to adjust the lower eyelid is gaining popularity.
Koreans have come up with a way to create the illusion of a joyful face. There are a few ways to achieve the appearance of the coveted bags.
The first, and perhaps the most popular way is plastic surgery, during which the surgeon inserts the implant under the skin or enters fillers.
For Korean women who want to follow fashion, but are afraid of the consequences of plastics, there is less radical procedure, which consists in gluing small strips of solid color under the skin of the lower eyelid.


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In the last 90 days, 4 listings have been listed, which means spaces might be leasing quickly. You'll want to be prepared to tour spaces as quick as possible. There aren't many listings below 2,000 square feet available, so finding a space for a small business might be tough.
The standard measurement for office space in this area is around sqft. Most properties in this area are around 2 floors. Most buildings in this region were built in 2004 and are Class B.
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Now Share Like Nice Kids
By Carlo Longino, Mon Aug 06 00:00:00 GMT 2001
Network infrastructure sharing provides a quicker way to 3G buildout and profits.
Burdened by mammoth outlays for 3G licenses, European carriers have been searching for ways to cut corners on their infrastructure costs. Although unfortunately they don't sell base stations and antenna masts at Wal-Mart, mobile operators have come upon a strategy: network sharing.
Co-location of network hardware is a common practice in today's wireless networks; carriers turn to companies like Crown Castle, American Tower, NTL, or SpectraSite to find suitable locations for their base stations, often on the same tower or building as their competitors'. But network sharing goes a few steps further - sharing the actual physical elements of the network - to offer build-out savings of up to 40 percent.
Sounds complicated, right?
There's no question co-location will be used in 3G networks. But whereas in the build-out of 2G networks, there were large real estate acquisition costs associated with building towers, the bulk of the costs is in the expensive radio network required for the advance services.
A shared network comes in several flavors. The first and simplest is for operators to divide up their shared geographic areas and individually build compatible networks in "their" territories, then allow each other's customers to roam on the networks. This offers a simple way to reduce the amount of infrastructure required to cover large areas; it does however, put a carrier's customers on its competitor's network where quality may not be an easily addressable issue.
Carriers can take the sharing idea a step further and address some of these concerns by maintaining individual core networks, but sharing base stations and radio controllers, although this method requires special multiple-carrier base stations.
But the common "shared network" idea goes the whole way - operators sharing one common network that's then attached to their individual billing and customer management systems.
Ouch say the vendors
It's this scenario that should be the most appealing to operators - and at first glance, the least appealing to equipment vendors.
Operators have nothing to lose and everything to gain by building shared networks. They cannot hope to offer the current levels of geographic coverage without doing so. What looks most likely to happen is that operators will build and operate their own metropolitan-area networks, then collaborate on networks to cover rural areas.
Either way, sharing the costs of building and operating these initial networks offers the quickest and most financially viable path to 3G profits.
What worries the network equipment vendors is the idea that instead of selling equipment for three networks, they'll only be selling equipment for one. But there are a number of possibilities for these vendors to more than make up for the initial savings carriers will incur. And they've already learned from second-generation networks that lower cost network deployments drive increased coverage.
First and foremost is the simple truth that these companies (ie Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens, et al) need 3G to be a success. Proof of this lies in the immense loans they're providing their customers to buy their equipment. Never before have these companies had so much - their very future - riding on such a huge technological change. So anything that helps to cement 3G's future should be looked on favorably, as should anything that offers vendors a better guarantee on payment for those huge self-financed loans.
Shared networks are a short-term strategy to get these networks and services up and running with somewhat reduced investments. But the long-term outlook remains as it has: each operator running their own network with their own equipment.
Also, government regulations may play into vendors' hands. For instance, although German authorities have said they'll allow network sharing, they've said each operator must maintain their own network management transmissions, receptions, and control signals. This will require different technology from standard networks, offering vendors an in.
Another interesting twist for vendors is the possibility that they could build and run 3G networks. As mentioned above, operators have significant concerns about sharing networks with their competitors, especially in the geographic split model. But leasing space on the networks from a third party offers a solution: it's in the host's best interest to keep its customers happy, and it does so by keeping the playing field at a suitably equal - and high - level.
Vendors or other third parties need to be mindful of the risks inherent in building and running these networks and the massive costs associated with it (which gives a company like Crown Castle or SpectraSite an early advantage due to their existing portfolios of real estate and towers). They must have guaranteed customers before they set out to build the networks, lest they be left with huge surplus equipment inventories and dead networks.
Leave it to the government
But of course leave to European Union Competition Commissioner Mario Monti and his continent-wide band of cronies to scuttle carriers' sharing plans. Telecoms regulators in several countries have ruled on network sharing - some positively (the United Kingdom, Germany) and some not so positively (such as the Netherlands, which ruled out any cooperation) - but none of the countries' (nor the EU's) competition regulators have entered the fray...yet.
It's certainly clear that parts of the operators' networks must remain separate and distinct, particularly those containing customer information and other sensitive data. Furthermore, operators will not be swapping or sharing the spectrum they paid so dearly for, so the need for regulatory bodies to interfere appears minimal.
Regulators are concerned that sharing these networks would lead to and encourage collusion among the operators, a scenario that does not seem very likely. These are the same operators that are cannibalizing each other's customers with lower and lower pricing, not to mention fighting off virtual operators.
The competitive equation will play out in much the same way it has with earlier networks. Assume that quality of service won't be a factor as the network is shared, but operators will compete on the same factors they do today - quantifiable criteria like pricing, and more abstract ones like brand image and handset choice. But in the end, the competition will really come down to one thing: services.
Mobile carriers, just like any other company, focus on growth. Investors demand it, executives strive for it, and employees must deliver it. Not too many successful CEOs have thought, "Gee, we really sell enough product. Why bother for more?" And mobile carriers are fighting for the same customers. The argument that the pie is big enough to share doesn't cut it for these guys. who are all vying for the biggest slice.
Their pricing models work a lot like gas stations on opposite corners: their prices are always roughly the same, and move in unison. One guy cuts it by 2 cents a gallon, the other has to follow. So services is where the differentiation - and advanced pricing - comes in to play.
Refer back to the gas station example. One gas station offers a free car wash when you fill up - that's something worth a few cents a gallon. The other comes back with full service and a look under the hood from a mechanic when you stop in. Each is forced to innovate (albeit in a nice old economy way) to compete for customers.
And the same rings true for operators. Differentiation must occur in some way for them to win customers. Collusion in a saturated market with incredibly heightened investor expectation just won't be possible. And if there's to be any movement forward at all in the 3G world, network sharing may offer the best hopes.
Carlo Longino is a freelance writer based in Austin, Texas. His previous experience includes work for The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, and Hoover's Online.


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A UK, Canadian & Italian study has provided what researchers believe is the first ever observational evidence that our universe could be a vast and very complex hologram.
Theoretical physicists & astrophysicists, investigating irregularities in the cosmic microwave background (the 'afterglow' of the Big Bang), have found there is substantial evidence supporting a holographic explanation of the universe
Kostas Skenderis a Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton in an interview with PhysOrg, said:
"Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions (and your perception of time) in fact emanates from a flat two-dimensional field. The idea is similar to that of ordinary holograms where a three-dimensional image is encoded in a two-dimensional surface, such as in the hologram on a credit card. However, this time, the entire universe is encoded."
Although not an example with holographic properties, it could be thought of as rather like watching a 3-D film in a cinema. We see the pictures as having height, width and crucially, depth—when in fact it all originates from a flat 2-D screen. The difference, in our 3-D universe, is that we are able to touch objects and the 'projection' is 'real' from our perspective.
In recent decades, advances in telescopes and sensing equipment have allowed scientists to detect a vast amount of data hidden in the 'white noise' or microwaves (partly responsible for the random black and white dots you see on an un-tuned TV) left over from the moment the universe was created. Using this information, the team were able to make complex comparisons between networks of features in the data and quantum field theory. They found that some of the simplest quantum field theories could explain nearly all cosmological observations of the early universe.
Professor Skenderis said:
"Holography is a huge leap forward in the way we think about the structure and creation of the universe. Einstein's theory of general relativity explains almost everything large scale in the universe very well, but starts to unravel when examining its origins and mechanisms at quantum level. Scientists have been working for decades to combine Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum theory. Some believe the concept of a holographic universe has the potential to reconcile the two. I hope our research takes us another step towards this."
The scientists now hope their study will open the door to further our understanding of the early universe and explain how space and time emerged.
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Source: PhysOrg


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Annuals in Bloom: Plant spring and summer blooming annuals such as geraniums, gerbera daisies, marigolds, petunias, carnations, cosmos, lobelia, alyssum, million bells, verbena and periwinkle.
Citrus: This is a great month to plant citrus.
Blooming Perennials: Plant spring blooming perennials such as African daisies (osteospermum), Buddleia davidii (butterfly bush), gallardia, guara, delphinium, and lavender.
Frost Sensitive Plants: Great time to select and enjoy plants such as bougainvillea, lantana, and hibiscus.
Pruning: Prune frost damage from plants once new growth appears.
Leaves Dropping: It is normal for evergreen trees and shrubs to drop older yellow foliage in preparation for new spring growth.
Irrigation: Established trees and shrubs may need weekly irrigation by the end of the month. Water thoroughly and deeply.
Plants in Pots: May need daily watering as temperatures warm up.
Yellow Leaves: Iron chlorosis may be detected on plants such as citrus, roses, and gardenias. Foliage will appear yellow with bright green veins. Treat affected plants with chelated iron
Garden Insects: Keep an eye out for aphids and spider mites. Try washing them off with a heavy blast of water.
Grow your own food from our healthy selection:
*Apples, Peaches and Plums
*Lemons, Oranges, Grapefruit, Tangerines, Limes and Kumquats
*Table Grapes – red and white seedless
*Figs – Mission, Black Jack and Brown Turkey
*Artichokes, Eggplant, Cucumbers, Squash, Peppers, Cantaloupe and Strawberries
*Tomatoes – Heirloom, Grafted and Traditional
*Herbs – Basil, Oregano, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme and more.
*Plant okra, asparagus, beans, cherry tomatoes, sunflowers, amaranth, cucumber, eggplant, melons, Lima beans, black-eyed peas, cane sorghum, chilies, chiltepines, cotton, gourds, indigo, panic grass, teosinte, tobacco, tomatillos, muskmelon
*Still not too late to plant pumpkins, cantaloupes, squash
* Plant summer bulbs – caladium, anna, dahlia, glads, iris
*Warm-to-hot-season greens such as amaranth, purslane, lambsquarters, Malabar spinach, and Yakima Savoy lettuce can be sown now and grown through summer — all will appreciate afternoon shade from a tall trellis, native mesquite tree, or sunflowers to the west.


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