The concept of transparency can be considered as one of the most impactful regimes under MiFID II/MiFIR in terms of how the provisions thereunder have been expanded to new market segments, firms and instruments.
Stipulating transparency requirements for trading venues as well as for Systematic Internalisers (SIs) and investment firms trading over the counter (OTC), MiFID II/MiFIR will expand their reach to include equity-like and non-equity instruments.
While national competent authorities (NCAs) may waive some of the pre-trade transparency obligations for trading venues, the European Commission reserves the right to review and adjust these requirements two years after they have come into force. In addition, a volume cap mechanism has been introduced to limit the trading under some of these waivers. In the past, the waivers had entailed "dark pools" of large amounts of trading being conducted anonymously, with regulators arguing that the inconsistent implementation of a waiver regime across venues has harmed price formation and weighed on transparency.
As outlined above, transparency under MiFID II/MiFIR concerns pre-trade transparency requirements and post-trade disclosure that, once implemented, expose the vast majority of trading in financial instruments to publication.
Going back to the so-called Lamfalussy Process, there are four levels of implementation of a financial services regulation. Whilst the implementation procedure has changed slightly since, the four-level framework remains.
Regulated Markets (RMs) and Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) are obliged to continuously publish current bid and offer prices for shares, depositary receipts, ETFs, certificates and other similar financial instruments ("equity and equity-like instruments") advertised through their systems. It also has to be reported what portion of the market would be willing to trade at each of these quotes (equally applicable to actionable indication of interests).
The four types of waivers, the national competent authorities (NCAs) may grant to exempt firms from making public their quotes before the execution of the transaction are the reference price waiver, the negotiated trade waiver, the order management facility waiver and the large-in-scale waiver.
The percentage of trading in a financial instrument carried out on a trading venue under the negotiated trade waiver and the reference price waiver will be limited to 4 per cent of the total volume of trading in that financial instrument on all trading venues across the EU over the previous twelve months.
At the same time, the overall EU trading in a financial instrument under those waivers may not exceed 8 per cent of the total volume of its trading on all venues throughout the EU over the previous twelve months. These caps will be measured against a rolling twelve-month period. ESMA is mandated with publishing and updating this data on a monthly basis; prior to this, it has to collate this data from the respective reports filed by the competent authorities which granted the waivers to firms which have to report to ESMA.
Trading venues are obliged to publish the price, volume and time of the transactions executed in equity and equity-like instruments traded on that trading venue as close to real time as is technically possible.
It is also mandatory for them to provide access, on reasonable commercial terms and on a non-discriminatory basis, to the arrangements made for publishing the above information to investment firms which are obliged to publish those details of their transactions in equity and equity-like instruments themselves.
the code for the trading venue.
NCAs may allow trading venues the deferred publication of a transaction's details depending on its type or size. In particular, they may authorise the deferred publication for transactions that are large in scale compared with the normal market size for that (or a similar) equity or equity-like instrument.
Regulated Markets (RMs), Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) and Organised Trading Facilities (OTFs) are obliged to continuously publish current bid and offer prices for bonds, structured finance products, emission allowances and derivatives ("non-equity instruments") advertised through their systems. It also has to be reported what portion of the market would be willing to trade at each of these quotes.
While equally applicable to actionable indication of interests, these requirements shall be calibrated for different types of trading systems, including order-book, quote-driven, hybrid, periodic auction trading and voice trading systems. The obligation to publish these details does not apply to derivative transactions of non-financial counterparties entered into for hedging purposes.
(c) derivatives which are not subject to the trading obligation specified in Article 28 and other financial instruments for which there is not a liquid market.
Trading venues are obliged to publish the price, volume and time of the transactions executed in non-equity instruments traded on that trading venue as close to real time as is technically possible.
By comparison with the post-trade transparency obligations for equities and equity-like instruments it is also mandatory for them to provide access, on reasonable commercial terms and on a non-discriminatory basis, for the arrangements made for publishing the above information to investment firms which are obliged to publish those details of their transactions in non-equity instruments themselves.
(c) above a size specific to that non-equity instrument which would expose liquidity providers to undue risk, taking into account whether the relevant market participants are retail or wholesale investors.
Trading venues are obliged to publish the information according to the requirements above described for the different instruments separated by pre-trade and post-trade information. In addition, trading venues must publish the information on a reasonable commercial basis and ensure non-discriminatory access while, 15 minutes after publication, such information must be made available free of charge.
Investment firms must publish firm quotes for equity and equity-like instruments traded on a trading venue for which they are SIs and for which there is a liquid market. Absent a liquid market for such instruments, SIs must disclose quotes to their clients upon request. These requirements – as well as the regime on whom they must grant access to their quotes and how to execute orders received – apply where SIs deal up to standard market size. They do not when they deal in sizes above standard market size.
While SIs are free to choose the size at which they quote, the quote must at least represent the equivalent of 10 per cent of the standard market size of an equity or equity-like instrument. For a particular instrument traded on a trading venue, each quote must be firm for sizes up to standard market size for this (type of) instrument with its price mandatorily reflecting the prevailing market conditions.
The equity and equity-like instruments must be grouped in classes reflecting the arithmetic average value of the orders executed in the market for that financial instrument. The "standard market size" for each (type of) instrument must represent the arithmetic average value of the orders executed in the market for the financial instruments included in each class.
The "market" for each equity and equity-like instrument means all orders executed in the European Union for the respective instrument without those classified as large in scale compared to the standard market size. The grouping must be conducted annually by the NCA of the most liquid market for each instrument based on the average trade turnover in the market for this (type of) instrument. The national competent authority (NCA) must publish this information and send it to ESMA which, in turn, will publish it via its website. ESMA is also mandated with developing the technical standards for the above standardisations.
SIs must continuously publish their quotes "in a manner which is easily accessible to other market participants on a reasonable commercial basis" and update them regularly at any time while being allowed to withdraw them under exceptional market conditions. Where an investment firm reaches or exceeds the thresholds defined for systematic internalisation criteria, they must notify their NCA, who will notify ESMA which will establish a list of all SIs in the European Union.
SIs are generally obliged to execute the orders they receive from their clients for equity-like instruments for which they are SIs at the quoted prices at the time they receive the order. They may execute orders at a better price if the price falls within a public range close to market conditions. The above is not binding in case they deal with professional clients in transactions where the execution in several securities is part of one transaction or where conditions agreed upon with professional clients deviate from current market prices.
An SI that receives an order higher than its quotation but still below what is standard market size is free to execute the part of the order which goes beyond the quoted size at the quoted price. If an SI receives an order of a size between different sizes it has quoted, it may execute the order at one of the quoted prices. Both of the aforementioned cases are subject to the exceptions according to the previous paragraph.
SIs may grant access to their quotes at their discretion given that the respective decision is in line with their commercial policy and given this policy is objective and non-discriminatory.
Such a policy may contain exclusion criteria related to client credit status or counterparty risk as well as criteria governing the final settlement of the transaction. Additional such provisions may limit the number of transactions from the same client which an SI may enter into at the published conditions, or the total number of transactions from different clients at the same time should the total significantly exceed the standard.
A delegated act by the European Commission will detail the quote accessibility criteria, the publication channel (through a Regulated Market (RM), an Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) or proprietary solutions) as well as the criteria for the aforementioned exceptions.
Investment firms must publish firm quotes for non-equity instruments traded on a trading venue for which they are SIs and for which there is a liquid market upon client request and where they agree to provide a quote.
c) derivatives not subjected to the trading obligation under MiFIR and other financial instruments for which there is no liquid market.
SIs must update their quotes at any time and may withdraw them only under exceptional market conditions. Quotes shown upon client request have to be made available to other clients as well. They have the discretion not to publish quotes or to enter into a transaction (similarly to the provisions for equity and equity-like instruments). The NCAs and ESMA are mandated with monitoring the application of these provisions.
Investment firms which conclude transactions in equity and equity-like instruments traded on a trading venue, must publish the volume and price of those transactions and the time at which they were concluded, irrespective of whether traded on own account or on behalf of clients. This information has to be published via an APA as close to real time as is technically possible while the deferral regime is the same as described for trading venues.
Investment firms which conclude transactions in non-equity instruments traded on a trading venue, must publish the volume and price of those transactions and the time at which they were concluded, irrespective of whether traded on own account or on behalf of clients. This information has to be published – for each individual transaction once – through a single APA, as close to real time as is technically possible.
an indicator that the transaction was subject to specific conditions.
In order to avoid ambiguity over the question which party to a transaction is obliged to report and to prevent potential regulatory arbitrage, ESMA has imposed the publishing responsibility on the seller.
According to ESMA, in case one party to the transaction is an SI in the instrument traded, the obligation to publish via an APA will always be with the SI, even if the SI is the buyer. In the rare cases where both parties to a trade are SIs in the given instrument, the seller principle applies.
While the deferral regime is formally equal to that for equity instruments, NCAs may ask for certain items even during the deferral period.
NCAs may refer to trading venues, APAs and Consolidated Tape Providers to collect the information necessary to implement the transparency regime and for the supervision of the determination of investment firms' SI status.


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How the world watched the Olympics online
Much has been made of NBC's Olympic numbers, which had the rights for online video in the US, and what that means for Silverlight. I thought the app was solid, the video quality was good, and all in all it was a win for Microsoft and RIAs.
By Ryan Stewart for The Universal Desktop | August 26, 2008 -- 16:33 GMT (09:33 PDT) | Topic: China
Much has been made of NBC's Olympic numbers, which had the rights for online video in the US, and what that means for Silverlight. I thought the app was solid, the video quality was good, and all in all it was a win for Microsoft and RIAs. In that vein, I'm pretty impressed with how Adobe did across the rest of the world. The BBC in the UK and CCTV in China were both big Flash users. There were a number of other countries using Flash as well (and a couple using Silverlight). I think the numbers show that there's worldwide interest in rich media and strong adoption of Flash.
In fact, the majority of online video for the Olympics was delivered in Flash. There's a great blog post up by John O'Donovan, the Chief Technical Architect at the BBC about their Olympic numbers. For Beijing they streamed nearly 40 million videos with up to 5.5 million Olympic videos watched each day at an average of around 3 million. In total there were 6.5 million hours of video delivered using Flash by the BBC. What those numbers don't include are streams from the BBC iPlayer or the mobile platforms. It's all Flash in the browser. Compare that to 72 million videos in the states, and it shows that in a country much smaller than the US, online the Olympics was a hit.
More importantly, the numbers out of China are fantastic. In the first 10 days CCTV's website streamed Olympic coverage to 100 million people according to the New York Times (registration required). CCTV used an innovative system which combined Flash Media Server with their own P2P technology which made it easy for anyone in China to watch the Olympics regardless of bandwidth. So in China we'll have 2,900 hours of Olympic content backed up and ready to watch with Flash Video.
What's also interesting to see is how the BBC got more comfortable over the course of the Olympics with their video content. By the end of the Olympics they were actually putting the live video stream on the front page of the BBC News homepage as the lead story. That's pretty impressive and I think it's a very good sign that rich media is creeping even more deeply into a role as a primary way to consume content.
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Brexit: The Leavocrats
Documentary. Gus O'Donnell examines the massive challenge being faced by the Civil Service in making Brexit happen.
Gus O'Donnell, the former head of the British Civil Service, returns to Whitehall to find out how his ex-colleagues are gearing up to take on what's been described as the Service's greatest challenge since the Second World War - making Brexit happen.
Amongst others, he talks to the former head of the Government's Legal Service, Sir Paul Jenkins, who says it will be an enormous legal and administrative challenge and will take up to ten years to complete. And the former EU Commissioner Jonathan Hill tells Gus he thinks the Government needs to come up with a broad-based strategic plan before triggering Article 50.
He also talks to banks and retailers about how our often maligned bureaucrats will play a key role in shaping the future of UK PLC.
Producer: Will Yates
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
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The Coase Theorem is both one of the simplest and most profound ideas in economics. Coase's insight was first expressed in print as a theorem by George Stigler, following the publication of the famous article "The Problem of Social Cost" by Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase (1960). Stigler stated it thus: "with zero transactions costs, private and social costs will be equal". In this paper the Coase Theorem is approached through the medium of a sports league. While Coase's article dates from 1960, a colleague at Chicago University published a discussion of the market for baseball players in 1956 which almost completely anticipates the more famous paper (Rottenberg (1956)).
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Varouj Aivazian & Jeffrey Callen, 2003. "The Core, Transaction Costs, and the Coase Theorem," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 14(4), pages 287-299, December.
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Sami Dakhlia & Paul Pecorino, 2006. "Rent-seeking with scarce talent: A model of preemptive hiring," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 129(3), pages 475-486, December.
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Stefan Szymanski & Tommaso M. Valletti, 2005. "Promotion and Relegation in Sporting Contests," Rivista di Politica Economica, SIPI Spa, vol. 95(3), pages 3-39, May-June.
Eckard, E Woodrow, 2001. "Free Agency, Competitive Balance, and Diminishing Returns to Pennant Contention," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 39(3), pages 430-443, July.
Brad R. Humphreys, 2002. "Alternative Measures of Competitive Balance in Sports Leagues," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 3(2), pages 133-148, May.
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Carlisle is a borough in and the county seat of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. Carlisle is located within the Cumberland Valley, a highly productive agricultural region. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 18,682; the estimated population as of 2014 was 18,916. Including suburbs in the neighboring townships, 37,695 live in the Carlisle urban cluster. Carlisle is a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to the east. Carlisle is the slightly smaller principal city of the Harrisburg−Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Cumberland, Dauphin, and Perry counties in South Central Pennsylvania. In 2010, Forbes rated Carlisle and Harrisburg the second-best place to raise a family.
Carlisle is located slightly northeast of the center of Cumberland County at 40°12′9″N 77°11′42″W (40.202553, −77.195016) at an elevation of 479 feet (146 m). The borough lies in the Cumberland Valley, a section of the Great Appalachian Valley, to the south of Conodoguinet Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River. Letort Spring Run, a tributary of Conodoguinet Creek, runs north through the eastern part of the borough.
As of the census of 2000, there were 17,970 people, 7,426 households, and 4,010 families residing in the borough. The population density was 3,308.9 people per square mile (1,277.8/km²). There were 8,032 housing units at an average density of 1,479.0 per square mile (571.1/km²). The racial makeup of the borough was 88.93% White, 6.92% African American, 0.14% Native American, 1.60% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.71% from other races, and 1.69% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.96% of the population.
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MPs called on the government to make British Sign Language part of the national curriculum – and praised Rachel Shenton for using it in her Oscars acceptance speech.
On Monday the House of Commons broadcast a debate with simultaneous British Sign Language interpretation for the first time ever.
MPs were debating a petition calling for British Sign Language to be part of the national curriculum, with many saying it should become a GCSE subject in its own right.
The debate happened just hours after actor and writer Rachel Shenton used British Sign Language in her Oscars acceptance speech.
She wrote and starred in The Silent Child, which won Best Live Action Short Film. The film tells the story of a 4-year-old deaf girl who lives her life in silence until a social worker teaches her how to communicate using British Sign Language.
The petition being debated by MPs was started by TV and radio presenter Wayne Barrow, whose parents are profoundly deaf.
It calls for British Sign Language (BSL) to be part of the national curriculum to give deaf children a "better chance at a more integrated future". As of Tuesday morning, it had been signed by just over 32,000 people.
That is short of the 100,000 signatures usually required to be considered for debate. But the petitions committee allowed it because the number of BSL users in the UK is relatively small.
Labour MP Liz Twist, leading the debate, congratulated the team behind The Silent Child and said Shenton's decision to sign her speech was "another step forward".
"Making BSL a national curriculum subject is about more than just exams," Twist said. "It is about the whole young person and ensuring that they are able to play a full part in school activities, get on with their peers and have a full life in school and out of school."
She said a pilot GCSE in BSL had been trialled and was ready to go, but the Department for Education was "refusing to give it the go-ahead".
Tory MP Peter Aldous said it was wrong that deaf children were being denied the opportunity to achieve the most widely recognised qualification in their first language.
"If BSL is part of the national curriculum and there is a GCSE in sign language, a whole new world will be opened up for thousands of deaf and hard-of-hearing young children and adults around the UK," he said.
Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick, who said he wears two hearing aids, said that BSL appeared to have a lower status than other languages because it had no GCSE.
"Parliament is saying to the thousands on thousands of youngsters for whom British Sign Language is a primary method of communication with each other and the world that Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Greek, and Portuguese are more important than their language," he said.
But education minister Nick Gibb said there were no plans to change the national curriculum or make BSL a specific GCSE subject.
"While we believe that BSL is an important and worthwhile area of study, we do not have plans to change the national curriculum for schools to make teaching BSL mandatory for maintained schools — particularly as two-thirds of secondary schools now have academy status and are not obliged to follow any part of the national curriculum, whether we revise it or not," he said.
Wayne Barrow, who was watching the debate in Westminster Hall, told BuzzFeed News he was "quite frustrated" with the minister's comments.
"Each MP explained only positive reasons as to why BSL should be on the curriculum, and highlighted the importance of using this as a language within schools," Barrow said.
"However, it felt like the minister had already made his mind up on his response prior to even entering the debate, as it seemed as if he barely even responded to the points and questions made by the MPs.
"It was such a shame; however, I do think with Rachel Shenton and Maisie [Sly] at the Oscars, paired with this debate, the awareness of Sign Language is certainly on the rise.
"I made a comment at the end of the debate to the minister, saying 'You haven't seen the last of us yet', because we are going to continue to fight for a worthy cause, and I hope one day BSL will be included in the curriculum."


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2016. guide to apa referencing acknowledgements this guide is based on the 6th edition of the publication manual of the american psychological association.
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Royalynne - Name Meaning, What does Royalynne mean?
Royalynne as a girls' name has its root in Old French, and Royalynne means "regal". Royalynne is a version of Royale (Old French).
Royalynne is pronounced similarly to Raelynne, Raylynn and Rolyne. Other recommended sound-alike names are Coralyne (see Coral), Doralynn, Emmalynne, Geralynne, Jocelynne, Jonalynn, Josalynn, Joslynne, Joyanne, Karalynne (see Caroline), Kaylynne, Raelynn▲, Raleine, Rayleine (see Raina), Raylene, Rayline, Roanne, Robynne, Roelene, Roeline, Rolene, Roline, Rollene, Rolline, Romayne, Rosalinde, Rosaline, Rosalinn, Rosalyn▲, Rosalynd, Rosalynda, Rosalyne, Rosalynn, Rosanne▼, Roselynde (see Rosalind), Roselynn, Roslynn, Roslynne, Roxanne▼, Royanna, Rozaline, Rozalyn, Rozalyne, Rozalynn, Rozalynne, Rozanne, Rozlynn and Ryanne. These names tend to be more commonly used than Royalynne.


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Experience, Insight, and Discovery: MediaKind's principles for success
April 7, 2022 | 5 min read
Analytics, channel partner, Channel Partner Program, Data
By Narayanan Rajan, VP Global Channel Partner Sales, MediaKind
Predicting which choices lead to success is difficult. There's nothing controversial about that. But here's something that is. Experts are notoriously bad forecasters. That's not my hot take. It's borne out of evidence and is occasionally true of even exceptional individuals. Let me present three examples.
Bill Gates once said that Microsoft would never make a 32-bit operating system. Just three years later, that prediction was in the bin.
Arguably the smartest person in modern history, Albert Einstein, once said that nuclear energy would never become a usable source of power. That was in 1932.
T.A.M Craven, the former chairman of the FCC, once predicted that satellite communications would never be a player in the radio, TV, and entertainment industry. A few years later, commercial satellites were launched and completely transformed the marketplace.
The traits of the 'Super Forecaster'
Essentially, this is a long-winded attempt to illustrate that expertise, no matter how much we respect the individual's talents, is not a guarantee of forecasting accuracy. Human beings are not good at weighing different factors statistically and measuring likely outcomes in grades of probability. When you ask most people to talk about how they view the probability of an outcome, responses are usually 'never,' 'always', or 'sometimes.' But often, there are many more shades of grey. In fact, it is a unique type of person who is comfortable with those shades of grey and can sidestep the cognitive biases of singular expertise. Those with this unique quality are proven to be statistically better at forecasting outcomes than recognized experts.
There's a book that I often refer to by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner called 'Super Forecasting: The art and science of prediction." And within it, they try to explain the role of the 'Super Forecaster' and how to identify them. The pair conducted a study that looked at more than 3900 forecasters, none of whom had any specific expertise in the 500 areas they were trying to investigate. But these were also knowledgeable people with above-average intelligence. They found that of these 3,900 people, 2% fell into the category of 'Super Forecasters.'
So, what makes them different? Here are a few individual traits that embody Tetlock and Gardner's 'Super Forecaster':
• Humble – because they realize the reality of the world is complex
• Not deterministic – they don't believe in things like fate and destiny
• Actively open-minded – everything is a hypothesis to be tested
• Numerate, knowledgeable, and intellectually curious
• Pragmatic – they are not wedded to any ideas or an agenda
• Super analytical – capable of stepping back and considering other points of view
However, you don't need to be a super forecaster to embody this way of thinking. When facts change, we all need to change our perspective on the potential outcomes. It's important to step back and ask, "what are the things influencing my mode of thinking? And are they necessarily based on the reality of what's in front of me?"
We talk a lot about data-driven decisions as an industry. And, of course, understanding data is one of the foundations upon which a super forecaster, or even a decent forecaster, is born. But we should also think about how data is approached. Data, in isolation, is not sufficient for good forecasting. History and context also inform how potential futures may unfold. Without that, no one can ask the right questions.
It's also essential to make sure we've got a reflex in terms of evaluating data and the questions that come from that data. For instance, what do the numbers tell me? Explain the deviations? What are my blind spots? Due to my expertise or previous experience, do I hold biases that I'm not evaluating the right way? Am I ignoring opportunities and threats? And what actions can I take?
MediaKind's experience, insight, and willingness to discover
At MediaKind, we use three principles every day. We use our experience, insight, and thirst for discovery to help guide, motivate and inspire future technology.
Experience: The history of MediaKind has been driven by amalgamating some of the most impactful and innovative smaller global media companies into one single entity, ranging from the earliest digital video compression to the latest, cutting-edge, multi-screen television platforms and network technologies. These shared experiences have enabled us to drive award-winning innovations, establish a pioneering industry heritage, and build strong foundations, powered by deep innovation and forward-thinking experts from the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
We have a global, multi-cultural view of the media world imprinted within our DNA. Having equipped organizations with end-to-end technology throughout our history, we have the agility and knowledge to understand how to deal with adversity and enable businesses to become faster, smarter, and more efficient. We are proud of this heritage; it allows us to absorb and be receptive to new ideas and mold them into a single purpose.
Insight: I head up our Channel Partner Program, an ecosystem of over 100 different organizations, many of whom have come to our partner community through our acquisitions. It's a testament to our Channel Partner Program and the strength of our organization that they continue to be with us after so many years.
Our partners' voices really matter to us. They provide unique and valuable guidance to our business that helps us collectively assess and reassess how we realize our growth goals and vision. After all, they have the local and regional knowledge and close partnerships with the key broadcasters, telcos, and service providers. By embracing these different points of view and strategic insights from our channel partners, we can provide better support and faster operations – ultimately so that we can deliver the necessary value-add to their clients through our end-to-end portfolio.
Willingness to discover: The final element is our willingness to continue to push boundaries and discover breakthrough technologies that directly benefit the industry. One of the biggest recent examples for me has been MediaKind's research into the use of Machine Learning for upscaling, specifically adapted to work in real-world video environments.
This work has directly impacted how new UHD services have been implemented, and we have seen this by working closely alongside content owners on a range of content, ranging from movies to sports. The results are difficult to distinguish from native UHD conversion, underlining why this technique provides a substantially better experience than traditional methods. My MediaKind colleague and renowned media technology expert Tony Jones explains more in this blog.
This willingness to push boundaries highlights why MediaKind has continued to complement its rich legacy in the video space by having one of the industry's largest R&D and innovation budgets. And we continue to bolster it with new and exciting talents. This enables us to continually discover new methods and techniques that drive direct value and shape the success and innovation we deliver to our customers and partners. We may not all be super forecasters at MediaKind. However, we certainly understand that the ability to question the norm, drive innovation in new areas, and be open-minded in the midst of a dynamic market are the best ways to help our community be successful.


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Hated by prohibitionists and loved by its consumers and advocates, marijuana is considered taboo despite that it's one of the least harmful drugs you can find.
Death by caffeine or Tylenol is more likely than death by marijuana, as the herb has never claimed a single life. Nevertheless, it remains a target of politicians and "ordinary" people who think, misguidedly might I add, that it represents society's worst problems.
There was plenty of fear to go around when Colorado legalized cannabis, with wild claims ranging from "it'll bring in more crime!" to "children will start using it!", none of which has happened. Instead, it's helped the state in countless ways that make legalization look viable.
The following are 25 facts about legalization in Colorado for those looking to visit or those interested in how it's helped the state thrive.
We'll start with some basic facts.
This is a given. Not only is it illegal to consume cannabis in Colorado if you're under 21; it's illegal to provide or even use it with someone under the age limit.
That should be plenty, even for those who consume a lot.
That's significantly less than residents can buy, so if you plan to consume a lot, I'd recommend visiting someone who lives in the state.
This will probably change in the future, but visitors should keep it in mind. Grab some cash from an ATM if you plan to purchase anything.
If they're at least 21 and no money is involved, you can share up to an ounce of cannabis with a friend. Remember, sharing is caring!
This means the local neighborhood dealer in Colorado is still breaking the law. You will be too if you attempt to sell it, so if you purchase some and decide you don't want it, find a legal way to dispose of it. Trying to sell it back to someone could land you in hot water.
If you want to obey the law, you'll have to wait to smoke or eat your product openly at your favorite Colorado nature trail. This too could change one day, but for now, the law is sensible in plenty of other ways. Let's be happy.
Anyone caught driving under the influence will be met with harsh penalties.
This is one example of the treatment of marijuana being similar to alcohol, which is good. Rather than keep it illegal, Colorado chose to legalize with similar DUI penalties to those used for alcohol. It's a step in the right direction.
Again, harsh penalties come into play. It's just not worth it. Don't do it!
This point isn't intended to spread fear or ignorance, but awareness. Colorado edibles could be stronger for several reasons, one of which is that it's easier to make a good, strong, high-quality product in a legal state with more oversight and responsibility on the part of the makers.
This also greatly reduces the chance of undesirable ingredients appearing in the product.
It's considered private use, just like lighting up in your home. You can also light up on a friend's porch or balcony if they're okay with it. As we learned, however, consumption in public – which includes in the street, on the sidewalk, and in a public park – is illegal.
Thus, if they haven't already, they could set less strict laws for lighting up at your favorite nature spot.
That is, only if the establishment approves and you're either vaporizing or staying in a smoke-friendly room. When deciding if you should light up in any public place, it's best to be aware of specifications within the law.
Refer to this law if you wonder whether you're allowed to light up in a public location like a bar.
This is also akin to how we treat alcohol and represents a step in the right direction. In the future, I'm sure we can expect even more sensible laws regarding cannabis and driving.
Many resorts are located on public or government land where consuming it is prohibited, and each resort could have its own (potentially harsh) rules.
The connection between these approaches is sensible and resembles what legalization advocates have been asking for.
The test for cannabis-related DUI, which is done at a local police station, requires neither a breathalyzer nor a urine test.
It would be the end of the great state of Colorado as we know it!
This is basically a soft admission that his initial cries of doom and gloom were inaccurate.
But where's all that money going?
Way to go, Colorado! Keep rebuilding your state and educating your youth.
There's no direct connection between legalization and the dip in crime, but it's still notable.
That number will only rise. Like many of the other things on this list, these new jobs make it clear legalization is improving Colorado. The only question left is why other states haven't followed its lead.
Why Don't Other States Legalize?
The answer to this question is complex, but it comes down to the fact that not everyone thinks cannabis is a good thing. We have overwhelming evidence to suggest it is, but Reefer Madness-era propaganda still has its hold on society.
Some people prefer their opinion over fact. In their eyes, opinion is fact if you believe it hard enough. This is one of many things preventing legalization, and another is the presence of corporate interests with politicians in their pockets who profit when people think this way.
For now, legalization will be slow and steady. After enough positive steps, however, the masses will finally "get it" and urge governments worldwide to enact more sensible policies. We'll protest until they comply, which they eventually will.
Fortunately, legalization in Colorado (and other places) shows that the government is at least a little willing to listen to the public.
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5G Technology Workshop during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
IEEE Future Networking Workshop for 5G and Beyond Testbed and Trials
Testbed Workshop VTC
Edge Cloud Workshop
Workshop on Tactical and First Responder Networks
2019 Workshop Tactical and First Responder Networks
System Optimization for the 5G Era Workshop
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IEEE Future Networks Standards Forum September 2019
2020 Future Technology Workshop at MWC
IEEE 5G and Beyond Testbed Workshop
IEEE 5G and Beyond Testbed Workshop in Conjunction with IEEE VTC 2017, Toronto
Organized by IEEE 5G Initiative Testbed Working Group
Click here for the full recording of the event.
Slides and video presentations are available below.
Speaker Affiliation Talk Title
Ashutosh Dutta IEEE Volunteer Welcome Address PDF, 1.5M View
Abhimanyu Gosain Northeastern University College of Engineering Keynote: Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research: Exploring Characteristics of Future Research Testbeds PDF, 1M View
Abhay Karandikar Indian Institute of Technology Towards Frugal 5G: A Case Study of Palghar Test-bed in India PDF, 2.6M View
Mischa Dohler King's College London 5GUK --- World's First 5G National Trial PDF, 2.7M View
Ari Pouttu Oulu University Oulu 5G Test Network (5GTN) - 5G is Coming - What is missing? PDF, 3.2M View
Sofie Pollin KU Leuven 5G Creativity: Flexible Radios in Flexible Networking Configurations PDF, 6.5M View
Wuxiong Zhang Shanghai Institute of Fog Computing Parallel Channel Sounder for MIMO Communications PDF, 3.8M View
Christoph Thuemmler Edinburgh Napier University Relevant 5G Application Scenarios in the Health Domain PDF, 1.4M View
Sarah Yost National Instruments Building Complex Systems with COTS Software Defined Radios PDF, 2.2M View
Ivan Seskar Rutgers University ORBIT 5G PILOT Testbed PDF, 4.0M View
Tracy Van Brakle ONF ONAP Open Wireless Lab PDF, 1M View
Ilie-Daniel Gheorghe-Pop FOKUS 5G Ready Testbeds: Enabling Early Prototyping and Experimentation PDF, 2.7M View
Christian Esteve Rothenberg University of Campinas Towards a comprehensive, sustainable wiki catalogue of testbeds and open source toolkit PDF, 2M View
Konstantinos Alexandris EURECOM Open5G testbed: Live Cloud RAN deployment in SophiaCampus PDF, 2.7M View
Ivo Maljevic Telus Riding the Waves: TELUS mmWave Trials View
Ashok Sunder Rajan Intel 4G, 5G Workloads and Capacity Implications PDF, 0.5M View
Amitava Ghosh Nokia Bell Labs 5G Experimental System @ high mmWave Band (70 Ghz) PDF, 3M View
John Kaewell InterDigital 5G Testbed Key Attributes PDF, 1.7M View
Xavier Fernando Ryerson Communications Lab Optical Techniques for 5G Wireless Networks PDF, 1.5M View
Prakash Suthar Cisco Cisco 5G Ready Platform(s) PDF, 1.4M View
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Following the successful IEEE 5G Roadmap Workshop at ICC, the IEEE 5G and Beyond Initiative will be holding a Testbed Workshop focusing on experimental testbeds on 5G and Beyond. This workshop will take place, as part of the 2017 VTC, on Sunday September, 24th 2017 in Toronto. The objective of this workshop is to bring together developers, practitioners, technical experts and researchers to share experiences and advance the state of the art in all aspects of 5G systems prototyping, evaluation and testing. The workshop also aims to solicit contributions and promote discussion on the novel methodological studies and experimental paradigms for future 5G testbeds and co-development and co-deployment of experimental platforms. Of particular interest are ideas on extending publicly available testbeds with 5G related technologies as they become available and how they can be used to address common technological and scientific problems that are related to advanced wireless systems.
The workshop will cover a spectrum of distinguished speakers from all over the world who will share their experiences about building testbed and experimental results. They will also highlight how these testbeds can be used by IEEE 5G Community.
5G testbed implementation and deployment including real-world lessons learned
Large scale experiment design and deployment
Testbed design for repeatability and reproducibility
Tools and services for testbed users and operators (including prototyping)
Experiments on federated testbeds
Experimentation with future wireless platforms including: Full duplex, Massive and distributed MIMO, cmWave and mmWave, D2D, V2V, V2I
Experimentation with integrated Cloud/MEC/Fog computing
Integrated Fronthaul/Backhaul with multi-tenancy and federation
Support for infrastructure slicing and isolation
Role of common and open source software tools
Network Slicing
Ivan Seskar
Tracy Van Brakle
Ashutosh Dutta
Eileen Healy
Thomas Magedanz
Chrysa Papagianni
Harold Tepper
Konstantinos Alexandris received his Diploma and M.Sc. degrees in Electronic and Computer Engineering with distinction from the Technical University of Crete, Greece, in 2012 and 2014, respectively. He worked at the Telecommunications Circuit Laboratory (TCL) of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, as a Research Assistant. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Communication Systems Department at EURECOM, France. His research interests lie in the areas of software-defined networking, wireless cellular networks, wireless communications and software-defined radio testbeds. In parallel with his research, he is currently working on Eurecom's experimental software radio platform, OpenAirInterface (OAI). He has received fellowship awards for his undergraduate studies and he was the recipient of the 2012-2013 best Diploma Thesis Award on Advanced Wireless Systems, presented by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society (AESS) joint Greece Chapter. At the end of 2015, he was awarded as exemplary reviewer for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
Talk title: "Open5G testbed: Live Cloud RAN deployment in SophiaCampus"
Mischa Dohler is full Professor in Wireless Communications at King's College London, driving cross-disciplinary research and innovation in technology, sciences and arts. He is the Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research, co-founder of the pioneering smart city company Worldsensing, Fellow of the IEEE, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and a Distinguished Member of Harvard Square Leaders Excellence.
He is a frequent keynote, panel and tutorial speaker, and has received numerous awards. He has pioneered several research fields, contributed to numerous wireless broadband, IoT/M2M and cyber security standards, holds a dozen patents, organized and chaired numerous conferences, was the Editor-in-Chief of two journals, has more than 200 highly-cited publications, and authored several books.
He acts as policy, technology and entrepreneurship adviser, examples being Richard Branson's Carbon War Room, former Minister David Willetts' 8 Great Technology Fund, UK Regulator Ofcom, UK Ministries, No 10, EPSRC ICT Strategy Advisory Team, European Commission, Tech London Advocate, ISO Smart City working group, and various start-ups.
He is also an entrepreneur; composer & pianist with 5 albums on iTunes and an artist-verified Spotify account; as well as fluent in 6 languages. He has talked twice at TEDx. He had coverage by national and international TV & radio, and his contributions have featured on the BBC, the Wall Street Journal and many others.
Talk title: "5GUK --- World's First 5G National Trial"
Ashutosh Dutta is currently Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T's Chief Security Office in Middletown, New Jersey. His career, spanning more than 30 years, includes Director of Technology Security at AT&T, CTO of Wireless at a Cybersecurity company NIKSUN, Inc., Senior Scientist in Telcordia Research, Director of Central Research Facility at Columbia University, adjunct faculty at NJIT, and Computer Engineer with TATA Motors. He has more than 90 conference and journal publications, three book chapters, and 30 issued patents. Ashutosh is co-author of the book, titled, "Mobility Protocols and Handover Optimization: Design, Evaluation and Application," published by IEEE and John & Wiley that was recently translated into Chinese language. An active IEEE and ACM volunteer, Ashutosh served as the chair for IEEE Princeton / Central Jersey Section, Industry Relation Chair for Region 1 and MGA, Pre-University Coordinator for IEEE MGA and vice chair of Education Society Chapter of PCJS. He co-founded the IEEE STEM conference (ISEC) and helped to implement EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) projects in several high schools. Ashutosh currently serves as the Director of Industry Outreach for IEEE Communications Society and was the founding co-chair for IEEE 5G initiative. He was recipient of the prestigious 2009 IEEE MGA Leadership award and 2010 IEEE-USA professional leadership award. Ashutosh serves as IEEE Communications Society's Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2018. Ashutosh obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering from NIT Rourkela, India, MS in Computer Science from NJIT, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Henning Schulzrinne. Ashutosh is a senior member of IEEE and ACM.
Xavier Fernando is a Professor and Director of Ryerson Communications Lab. He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and delivered over 40 invited lectures worldwide. He has (co-)authored over 150 research articles and holds three patents (one pending). He has monographed a widely selling book on Radio over Fiber systems, which is translated in Mandarin. He is also a co-author of IEEE COMSOC WEBOK. He was a member in the IEEE COMSOC Education Board Working Group on Wireless Communications, 2010-2012. He was the General Chair for IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) 2014.
He and his students have won several awards and prizes including; the First prize at the Humanitarian Initiatives Workshop of CCECE 2014; Second Prize at the 2014 IHTC Conference in Montreal; Best Paper Award at the International Conference of Smart Grid Engineering (SEGE 2014), UOIT, Canada, 2014; IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Prize in 2010, Sarnoff Symposium prize in 2009, Opto-Canada best poster prize in 2003 and CCECE best paper prize in 2001.
Xavier Fernando earned his PhD from the University of Calgary, Alberta in 2001 in affiliation with TRLabs. His PhD work won the best Canadian paper award and a US patent. He joined Ryerson University in 2001, received early tenure and established Ryerson Communications Lab.
Talk title: "5G Ready Testbeds: Enabling Early Prototyping and Experimentation"
Amitabha (Amitava) Ghosh is a Nokia Fellow and Head, Small Cell Research at Nokia Bell Labs. He joined Motorola in 1990 after receiving his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Since joining Motorola he worked on multiple wireless technologies starting from IS-95, cdma-2000, 1xEV-DV/1XTREME, 1xEV-DO, UMTS, HSPA, 802.16e/WiMAX and 3GPP LTE. Dr. Ghosh has 60 issued patents, has written multiple book chapters and has authored numerous external and internal technical papers. He is currently working on 3GPP LTE-Advanced and 5G technologies. His research interests are in the area of digital communications, signal processing and wireless communications. He is a Fellow of IEEE, recipient of 2016 IEEE Stephen O. Rice and 2017 Neal Shephard prize and co-author of the book titled "Essentials of LTE and LTE-A".
Talk title: "5G Experimental System @ high mmWave band (70 GHz)"
Talk title: "Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research: Exploring Characteristics of Future Research Testbeds"
John Kaewell has over 30 years of wireless technology development, engineering management and team building experience. Led the development of integrated circuits and software for multiple generations of wireless products. Skilled system architect and problem solver with expertise in communications, computer networking, IC design, virtualization and software development. Played key role in multiple business development activities worldwide.
John graduated from Drexel University with a BS and MS degree in Electrical Engineering and completed the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Executive Development Program.
Abhay Karandikar is currently Dean (Faculty Affairs) and Institute Chair Professor in the department of electrical engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. He was the Head of the Department from January 2012 to January 2015. He is also the coordinator of Tata Teleservices IIT Bombay Center for Excellence in Telecom (TICET) and National Center of Excellence in Technology for Internal Security. He spearheaded a national effort in setting up Telecom Standards Development Society of India (TSDSI), India's standards body for telecom with participation of all stakeholders. Prof Karandikar is the founding member and Chairman of TSDSI. Prof Karandikar has also contributed to important policy initiatives at national level including Five Year Plan, TV White Space, Electronics System Design and Manufacturing. He has advised several industries and is on the advisory board/board of directors of some. He has several patents issued and pending, contributions to IEEE, 3GPP standards, contributed chapters in books and large number of papers in international journals and conferences to his credit. Dr. Karandikar was awarded with IEEE SA's Standards Medallion in December 2016 in New Jersey. His team also won Mozilla Open Innovation challenge prize for Gram Solution for rural broadband in March 2017. He is a two time recipient of award for excellence in teaching at IIT Bombay- in 2006 and 2011. He is co-author of papers which won the Best paper awards in ACM MobiHoc 2009, Workshop on Indoor and Outdoor Small Cells WiOpt2014 and finalist for the best paper award in IEEE LCN 2012 and IEEE NCC 2014 conferences.
Talk title: "Towards Frugal 5G: A Case Study of Palghar Test-bed in India"
Dr. Ivo Maljevic is a senior member of TELUS' technology strategy team, where he focuses on defining a long-term vision for the RAN evolution, radio performance characterization and modeling, radio spectrum and standardization. In terms of broader industry involvement, in the past he has participated in the Canadian Evaluation Group for the IMT-Advanced proposal, and was also actively involved in NGMN's and ATIS 5G initiatives. He also participates in 3GPP RAN sessions. Additionally, Ivo is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto. Prior to TELUS, he was with Soma Networks, and before that, he worked at Motorola Canada.
Dr. Maljevic received the B.S. degree from the University of Podgorica in 1991, the M.S. degree from the University of Belgrade in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 2004, all in electrical engineering. His areas of expertise include NR/LTE/WiMAX/CDMA wireless systems, software defined radio, signal processing, and digital communications theory.
Talk title: "Riding the Waves: TELUS mmWave Trials"
Sofie Pollin obtained her PhD degree at KU Leuven with honors in 2006. From 2006-2008 she continued her research on wireless communication, energy-efficient networks, cross-layer design, coexistence and cognitive radio at UC Berkeley. In November 2008 she returned to imec to become a principal scientist in the green radio team. Since 2012, she is tenure track assistant professor at the electrical engineering department at KU Leuven. Her research centers around Networked Systems that require networks that are ever more dense, heterogeneous, battery powered and spectrum constrained. Prof. Pollin is BAEF and Marie Curie fellow, and IEEE senior member.
Talk title: "5G Creativity: Flexible Radios in Flexible Networking Configurations"
Prof. Ari Pouttu was born in Kokkola, Finland in 1966. He has scientific and engineering experience as a researcher, project manager and research manager in fields such as synchronization, interference suppression, coding, and modulation designs in spread spectrum and multicarrier systems. The projects under his command have resulted waveforms and system designs for military radio communication, radar systems, embedded device networks, future wireless radio communications including cellular systems, cognitive networks and navigation applications. He has also been involved with architecture design for Finnish Software Radio including adaptive antennas and related algorithms.
He has published more than 50 conference or journal papers in the field of wireless communications and he holds two patents. He was the Director of Centre for Wireless Communications in the University of Oulu from 2006 to 2012. Currently he is heading as a professor a research group targeting dependable wireless solutions including solutions for 5G.
Talk title: "Oulu 5G Test Network (5GTN) - 5G is Coming - What is missing?"
Ashok Sunder Rajan is a Sr. Research Scientist at Intel Labs leading research on operational scalability and performance efficiency of telecom network infrastructure. Ashok has had a major influence in driving NFV, IoT and Intel's presence at ETSI, OMA, ATIS, 3GPP. Ashok career kick-started with a successful startup in Industrial Robotics and Automation. Before Intel Ashok lead technology service strategy for Gemalto, working with Tier 1 operators in North America. Ashok holds a MS in Wireless Communications and an MBA.
Talk title: "4G, 5G Workloads and Capacity Implications"
Christian Esteve Rothenberg is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering (FEEC) at University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, where he received his Ph.D. (2010) and currently leads the Information & Networking Technologies Research & Innovation Group (INTRIG). His research activities span all layers of distributed systems and network architectures and are often carried in collaboration with academia and industry (e.g., Ericsson, Samsung, CPqD) around the world, leading to multiple open source networking projects (e.g., RouteFlow, libfluid, ofsoftswitch13, Mininet-WiFi) in the areas of SDN and NFV among other scientific results. Christian has two international patents and over 70 publications in scientific journals and top-tier networking conferences including SIGCOMM and INFOCOM.
Christian worked as Senior Research Scientist in the areas of IP systems and networking at CPqD R&D Center (2010-2013), and holds the Telecommunication Engineering degree from the Technical University of Madrid (ETSIT - UPM), Spain, and the M.Sc. (Dipl. Ing.) degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Darmstadt University of Technology (TUD), Germany, 2006.
Talk title: "Towards a comprehensive, sustainable wiki catalogue of testbeds and open source toolkit"
Ivan Seskar is Associate Director at WINLAB, Rutgers University responsible for experimental systems and prototyping projects. He is currently PI for NSF GENI Wireless project which resulted in campus deployments of LTE/WiMAX base stations at several US universities, and for the NSF CloudLab deployment at Rutgers. He has also been co-PI and project manager for all three phases of the NSF-supported ORBIT mid-scale testbed project at WINLAB, successfully leading technology development and operations since the testbed was released as a community resource in 2005 and for which the team received the 2008 NSF Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation. Ivan is a co-chair of the IEEE 5G Tested Working Group, Senior Member of the IEEE, member of ACM and co-founder and CTO of Upside Wireless Inc.
Christoph Thuemmler, M.D, PhD is a Physician specialised in General Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine and a Professor of eHealth at Edinburgh Napier University in Edinburgh, UK. He has a special interest in virtualisation of care and as such in mobile networks, especially in 5G. Christoph has been working with large industry and the European Commission in various advisory roles. He has contributed to the design of the 5G Action Plan and has been leading the 5G Health vertical of the European 5G PPP. As contributor to the IEEE 5G Roadmap he is working towards early domain specific 5G testbed implementations in the health domain. Christoph is the co-editor of a recent Springer editorial on "Health 4.0" referring to the process of the 4th industrial revolution in the health domain.
Talk title: "Relevant 5G Application Scenarios in the Health Domain"
Sarah Yost is a product marketing manager on the software defined radio (SDR) team at NI. She manages NI's mmWave hardware products. In addition to product management, Sarah works with NI's advanced wireless research team promoting and studying 5G. She has a deep knowledge of USRPs from her time spent on the Ettus Research R&D team. Sarah's background is in microwave and millimeter wave technology, specifically for wireless communications.
Sarah has a BS in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University.
Talk title: "Building Complex Systems with COTS Software Defined Radios"
Wuxiong Zhang (Ph.D.) is an associate professor at Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received the Ph. D. degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013, and he was with a short-term academic exchange to Heriot-watt University in 2011. He has presided / participated in tens of important research project, including projects funded by the national natural science foundation of China, the national science and technology major projects, projects funded by the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission. His research interest lies in 5G mobile communication technologies, vehicular networks and heterogeneous networks. He was awarded by China Communications Society in 2015 for his contribution in Energy Efficient Communication and Networking (rank No. 5).
Talk title: "Parallel Channel Sounder for MIMO Communications"
Eileen Healy is the CEO of Healy & Co, a leading-edge engineering services company. Working with U.S. telecom network operators, her company supports the implementation of capacity delivery, network migration and business planning services. She is also Co-Chair of IEEE Software Defined Networks (SDN), a worldwide initiative addressing the main Softwarization aspects of SDN, NFV and 5G. Previously, she founded and sold TeleCompetition Inc., a market research and data analytics company that passed data specific strategic insights into market adoption of a host of mobile services products. With a career focused on the network operator perspective, Eileen has held senior positions with both broadband and mobility service providers including Pacific Bell Mobile Services and AT&T. In addition, she has worked extensively with a number of different governmental organizations, such as the ITU, EU, ETSI and LA-RICS on policy, public safety and spectrum allocations. Eileen has honed a collaborative leadership style while facilitating key group contributions to strategic technology development. She holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz acts as Director of the "Software-based Networks (NGNI)" Business Unit at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS in Berlin, Germany, and is responsible for the 5G Berlin and Industrial IOT Testbeds. In addition, he is full university professor with his own department for Next Generation Networks (called Architekturen der Vermittlungsknoten – AV – in German) at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Faculty (IV) of the Technical University (TU) Berlin, Germany educating Master and PhD students. For more than 28 years Prof. Magedanz is performing applied research and development in the field of converging fixed and mobile telecommunications, the Internet and information and communication technologies for major operators and vendors around the globe. In this context he has created various famous software toolkits and open technology and application testbeds in the context of 4G, Smart Cities, M2M/OT, SDN/NFV, and since 2015 also 5G and Edge Computing. He also acts as strategic advisor for several tier one operators and major international equipment manufacturers. Last but not least he is visiting professor at several leading universities around the globe.
Harold Tepper is a Senior Program Director with the IEEE Future Directions organization. In this capacity, he drives a major IEEE-wide Initiative on 5G. Previously he managed the Internet of Things, Smart Cities, Humanitarian Technology Challenge and Smart Grid Initiatives from incubation to launch. Before moving to the IEEE, he was employed by and consulted to telecommunication industry leaders including AT&T, Cisco, Siemens, Verizon, Avaya, Lucent, NTT, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Nortel and Toshiba. Mr. Tepper holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, a Master of Business Administration and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).


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Todsen v Morse: A win for democratic expression
Aerial view of Qualicum Beach. The proposed development is located at the edge of the 200-acre forest depicted at bottom right. Photo credit: Shawn /Flickr, 2007, CC BY-SA 2.0.
In Todsen v. Morse, 2022 BCSC 1341, the British Columbia Supreme Court has affirmed that the Protection of Public Participation Act (PPPA) affords robust protection for citizens advocating for environmental conservation. Passed unanimously by the B.C. Legislature in 2019, this case was the first time the PPPA had been invoked in this context.
The decision arose out of an application by the defendants to dismiss 24 defamation claims made against them by the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in May 2021.
After a four-day oral hearing, the Honourable Justice Brongers granted the application. He held that the statements complained of were either not defamatory, lacked "substantial merit" or could be validly defended as truth or as fair comment. The decision is an important contribution to a growing body of PPPA caselaw that explains the role the PPPA plays in protecting democratic expression in British Columbia.
The case concerned public statements made by the Qualicum Nature Preservation Society (QNPS) and the QNPS's president, Mr. Ezra Morse, opposing development within the Estate Residential Area in Qualicum Beach, B.C. The project proposed by the plaintiffs required an Official Community Plan (OCP) amendment and zoning upgrade to enable a higher density of housing in what is otherwise designated as "Estate Residential" land use under the OCP.
The Qualicum Nature Preservation Society and its president Ezra Morse (photo) are sued for statements they made in relation to a proposed development project in Qualicum Beach, B.C. Photo credit: Ezra Morse.
The Court held that the PPPA "provides for a specific pre-trial procedure designed to summarily dispose of certain kinds of civil claims that could silence political debate on issues of public interest. Such claims are colloquially known as "Strategic lawsuits against public participation", or "SLAPPs".
Justice Brongers granted the application to dismiss the lawsuit, concluding that "the Todsen's claim [was] in the nature of a type of SLAPP proceeding that the Act prohibits".
Tollefson Law were counsel for the defendant Ezra Morse and are regularly consulted by clients and other law firms in SLAPP cases.
Commentary on his decision can be found in The Narwhal, The Tyee, and The Vancouver Sun.
An overview of SLAPP law in Canada can be found here: link.


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Jos van der Vleuten (Mierlo-Hout, 7 februari 1943 - Dominicaanse Republiek, 5 december 2011) was een Nederlandse beroepsrenner van 1965 tot 1973.

Van der Vleuten reed vooral in dienst van anderen en was de meesterknecht van Jan Janssen. Daarnaast was hij ook vaak mee met lange ontsnappingen. Hoewel hij geen sprinter was en meestal de sprint aantrok voor anderen, won hij toch het puntenklassement in de Ronde van Spanje van 1966, overigens zonder een etappe te winnen.

In 1967 werd hij na het wereldkampioenschap in Heerlen betrapt op het gebruik van doping. Hij werd vijfde in deze wedstrijd, maar zijn naam werd uit de uitslag geschrapt.

Van der Vleuten overleed op 68-jarige leeftijd in de Dominicaanse Republiek, waar hij een vakantiehuis had, aan de gevolgen van een hersenbloeding.

Belangrijke overwinningen
 Ronde van Spanje
 - 1967: 14e etappe
 - 1970: 1e deel 19e etappe
 - 1972: 7e etappe

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Van der Vleuten stond bekend om zijn rol als "waterdrager" in de koers. In wielerjargon betekent dat dat hij hand-en-spandiensten verrichtte voor een kopman. In zeer hete etappes moest er echter ook letterlijk water gedragen worden. Supporters reikten volle emmers aan, en de waterdrager zorgde er dan voor dat die ook bij de kopman terechtkwamen. Hij presteerde het in de Tour eens om een eind door te fietsen met een lege emmer op zijn hoofd.

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Lindsay Thomas, whose stage credits include the Broadway, national tour, and Canadian productions of the hit musical Hairspray, died Wednesday, February 3 of cancer. She was 31.
Thomas worked frequently at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where she played Ado Annie in Oklahoma! Her other Stratford credits included My One and Only, The Music Man, Fuente Ovejuna, Oliver! and Don Juan.
She also played Francine in the original Toronto production of Jersey Boys, and appeared in Anne of Green Gables, Somewhere in the World, Grease, Aladdin, The Boy Friend, City of Angels, and The Crucible.
She is survived by her partner, actor Gareth Potter, her parents, Marilyn and Derek Thomas, and her brother, Gareth Thomas.


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Gilbert is an award-winning writer/director/trainer residing in Singapore. His writing accolades include the top prize in the Singapore Screenplay Awards in 2001 and the merit award at the MDA Scriptwriting Competition in 2002. He is also the producer, writer, and director of the digital movie S11 (2006). S11 is the official selection at the Shanghai International Film Festival 2006 and also won the audience choice award at the Toronto-Singapore film festival. His second movie, Love Matters (2009), which he co-directed with Jack Neo, was a box office success in Malaysia and Singapore. In 2016, he co-directed 4Love, which tells the story of love; from strangers to marriage and then life together as an elderly couple. His movie 23:59 (2011), which he wrote and directed, was a critical success and popular with the Singapore audience. Its sequel, 23:59 The Haunting Hour was released in 2018.
23 59 The Haunting Hour
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