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Mobile digest '2000. Technologies and communications.
By Murtazin Eldar
With these digest we begin a new chapter concerning mobile communications ovelties. We'll observe not only new technologies but also news from operators about taxes changing, etc. We hope this digest will be a full guide for our readers through the world of mobile communications.
Market novelties
The world's going crazy about "intellectual phones" or smartphones. October was rich to present many of them. Neopoint company presented 2 new devices:Neopoint 2000 and Neopoint 2600, they are a logical successors of previously presented Neopoint 1000 and Neopoint 1600. Battery work time is increased, weight decreased and some features are improved as well. There are QWERTY keyboards for them and you can also use all the features of PDAs.
Many manufacturers want to fill smartphones with the features of Palm Pilots. It's so because Palm OS takes about 75% of PDA OSes market (thanks to Palm and Handspring). So it wasn't a surprise when these brands decided to have some profit from mobile market and both announced a device to turn your PDA into a smartphone. Palm united with RealVision company from Hong Kong that developed an additional module for GSM communications. This device plug into a serial port of Palm V and phone furniture connects with module. Handspring wants to fully use the expansion slot. Interesting that the price of both devices turned out to be the same and you should also note that there's a solution for turning your Visor into a mobile phone.
There's another suggestion about this additional device from Palm. It's known that largest sales of these PDAs are situated in USA and Canada and Europe is less attractive. So company decided to present not just PDA but a set of PDA and device with GSM phone features. Europe's market is more dynamic so to say and this additional GSM device will be able to increase sale profits.
Many use Palm as a small computer for untraditional purposes. New MobileAria company announced a device for voice dialing inside a car. There were no technical features given but as we can see its just a Palm connected to a voice recognition device. This addition is main in this solution. The price is high enough, because Palm V cost much itself.
Ericsson and Sanyo chose another way. The first declined Microsoft's OS and developed its own (OS Symbian) and the second licensed it.
Last week on a Internet World Fall 2000 Expo in New York Ericsson demonstrated "intellectual" Smartphone R380. It combines an organiser and GSM mobile with WAP support. The size is about that of a usual mobile phone. Shippings to Europe have already began and to USA it'd be shipped in the fourth quarter. Ericsson decided to push it to USA markets though it takes only 15% of it. Ericsson representative explained that due to GSM domination in the world (60% of markets).
You can find this device in Moscow already and in two weeks you;d be able to read a review. The price is about $600-650.
And Sanyo began to present it's new Mobile Communicator smartphone in Japan. It supports Bluetooth, USB and uses Symbian EPOC as OS.
Mobile market competitions are great enough and real working models are in big demand. But main stream of development is aimed at combining PDAs and mobiles. 3G standards will make such combinations compulsory and the base for such breakthrough is being created already now. Spectrum Signal Processing Inc., that develops signal processing systems, annoucned a patent for its new Solano Communications chip. It was made to solve a problem of traffic limitations due to slow signal processing in telecommunications, i.e. cellular base stations. this solution is important for future 3G cellular stations when huge volumes of data would be processed in realtime mode. Such solutions based on Solano Communications chip can be used in packet voice messages transmission gateways, etc.
Qualcomm Inc. announced a highspeed transmissions solution for 1x Evolution (1xEV) standard - MSM5500 Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipset and software for it. This solution is able to transmit data up to 2.4 Mbit/sec, it's compatible with cdma2000 1x and IS-95 CDMA standards. New chipset will allow to develop new devices for highspeed Internet access. 1xEV standard is a successor of High Data Rate (HDR) technology and uses 1,25 MHz frequency. The cost of 1 Mbit transmission is the lowest among all wireless transmissions technologies. It supports Bluetooth and gpsOne locator system, SnapTrack and Qtunes multimedia (MP3) and Compact Media Extension. First models will be available in the second quarter of '2000, mass production will begin in the 3rd quarter.
Mainstream of cellular phones development is the mamimum integration with data storage devices and expansion of their features. Nikkei Mechanical reports that on CEATEC Japan 2000 Sony presented a mobile with Memory Stick memory with an MP3-player feature. Incoming signal transmits to headphones and user can switch between music and talk with a small remote control. It can also be used as a voice recorder.
Such devices are not a surprise (i.e. Samsung SGH-M100) but here's no 32 MBytes card changing. And Siemens SL45 has such a possibility and we hope it'd be in production already in the first half of '2000 unlike Ericsson T36s because Ericsson cancelled this device production. Quote rates fell by 24% after the announce of 3rd quarter results. It was also announced that customer products dept working with mobiles gave 594 million loss for the first three quaters. So this cancelling was a needed measure taken to prevent future losses. Now Ericsson will only develop one Bluetooth model - R520.
This month was rich with announces of subscriber location systems. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. on CEATEC Japan 2000 presented a miniature (28 mm x 18 mm x 6 m, 7 gramm weght) GPS module developed for use in mobiles. Subscriber location time depends on environment temperature. (40 secs with room temperature, 15 with high, and 60 with low). Block containing all parts of the device (GPS-transmitter, logical BIC and a memory module) takes 14 cub.cm. and weighs 23 gramms. Read New Services chapter about other positioning technologies.
Exotic devices for controlling digital cameras via a mobile were presented on World PC Expo 2000 by Olympus Optical Co. I-mode features users would be able to shoot/receive photos over Internet from a camera to a phone. But a server and an HDD are also needed for these operations. All format conversions will take place on a server and the transmission will be held over LAN or ISDN networks and also over cellular ones. Such solutions will find their niche in distance monitoring systems and etc..
ANd here's a device interesting and surprising from all points of view. Media Computing Lab of japanese NTT DoCoMo company developed a strange mobile phone that doesn't have a speaker. Incoming ring is being converted into vibrations that reach your ear via your own hand. So the phone is just a small bracelet on your wrist. We'll see where all this will come to.
Tomy Co, japanese games and digital cameras developing company, is going to put out a new Me:3 solution that costs only $37. The resolution will be not so big - 120x120 and not a lot of other features as well, but this device would be able to connect to mobiles. But not to all of them - only to those able to "understand" it. And the first of such devices would be C310T from Toshiba. Observing all this we can say it will be a new "toy" for japanese market.
In China CDMA-GSM compatible SIM cards were presented. They are called GemXplore World and were created by GemPlus company, and phones themselves were developed and produced by state Zhongxing Telecom Equipment Co. (ZTE) company. The working condotions of a phone were demonstarated by a call to Qualcomm's chief Dr. Irwin Jacobs. Qualcomm is an owner of CDMA technology and it brings some big profit now.
If this technology will spread over the world, the border between different standards will almost vanish. The main minus of CDMA is impossibility to change the phone and leave the same number by yourself. These opearions are held in cellular operator's service center.
Siemens presented two new usual mobile phones - Siemens C30 and Siemens M30. Siemens A35 was also presented to fill the niche of cheap base models.
Sony decided to produce a successor of good-selling Sony CMD-Z5. It will be called Sony CMD-J5.
LG presented an LG600 model of a double-folding mobile phone.
Thuraya presented two new GSM phones with satellite transmission support. These models feature periodical two geostationary orbit satellites communications (up to 250000 phones support) that allow to use up to 13750 channels and expands phone capabilities giving an opportunity to communicate over GSM networks. These systems are to be used by people that use their mobiles everywhere. The price is 800-900 euro and the first tax for connection to the network will be 36 euro, monthly payment - 15 euro. Fax feature will cost 5.5 euro/month and the same for data transmissions. SMS will cost 0.25 euro, free time - 6 secs. The minute of talking will cost from 0.6 to 2 euro. The system will begin working in the beginning of '2001. Now only two such phones are presented.
On European market Motorola presented its new Motorola V8088 and Timeport 7689 as V50 and Timeport 250. Timeport 250 has absolutely new features for such phones:
Hi-Res display with blue luminescent light
New GUI with drop-down menus
4 new melodies, user melodies, SMS melody transfer
Alarm clock (only when the phone is on)
300 numbers phonebook
Calendar, notebook, sound notifications
On-screen SMS sender name (!)
Possio company presented a new GSM fax on the russian market that allows to talk during fax operations. This device is unique now, and here's the review of Possio PM70 that is more simple than PM80.
Nokia company decided to give her customers a possibility to create their own Nokia 5100 phone designs and opened Nokia Custom Phones site for these purposes. You'll be able to get to this site via http://www.nokiausa.com. There will be lots of clipart to ease the design process. When the design is ready, client leaves it on the server and in 2-3 weeks receives his own unique phone. Before this time such services were only possible while choosing cars, when you could choose a color and other features.
As we already noted there were many announces concerning GPS systems. Phone.com and SnapTrack were the first to present their devices.
Phone.com company, a developer of mobile internet solutions, made an alliance with SnapTrack Inc., a subdept of Qualcomm, to create a technology for subscribers positioning based on Mobile Location Server (MLS) technology. MLS platform and SnapSmart from SnapTrack present a solution that has unique features and works when other GPS systems don't. Using Location Indoors option from SnapTrack you can locate somebody within 3-20 m radius.
After them Nokia presented its mPosition for cellular operators that will allow them to create new positioning services for their clients. They would be able to receive info about traffic, weather, to book seats in cinemas, etc. This solution can be realized in any cellular system. More info will follow.
Nokia also presented mCatch positioning solution for mobile internet systems. The development is being held with Radiolinija, a finnish cellular operator, that presented RX (Received Signal Strength) algorithms.
Nokia mCatch open standards and GMLC (Gateway Mobile Location Centre) interface. It allows to create subscriber positioning services for any GSM systems, using Cell ID technologies, RX signal strength determination, Timing Advance. Being a part of mPosition, mCatch supports other standards and can be improved for 3G networks.
Radiolinija will become the first operator to use mCatch. Tests will begin in Jan'2001.
Nortel Networks announced its alliance with Cambridge Positioning Systems (CPS) for creation a subscriber positioning technology based on 3G UMTS standard. CPS will develop this system using Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA) standard, that is a successor of Enhanced Observed Time Difference (E-OTD) standard. Nortel Networks will integrate CPS's products into e-mobility Location Center. This will allow client to receive info about nearest operator services on any of mobile devices.
The question of security systems is in important connection with GPS systems. An austrian company that develops antitheft alarms presented on Security'2000 expo in Assen its new product: with the help of SMS client would be able to stop his stolen car by cutting off gas injection and also block the doors for the police to catch the criminal.
A new telemetric system was also made by finnish developers. They presented a solution for transferring telemetric info from car's wheels over cellular channels.
This development allowed Nokian Renkaat automobile company, Nokia Corporation and american Flextronics International to get together for creation of new systems in the future.
Airpressure and temperature sensors are mounted into wheels and connected to microdevices for transferring data to the mobile phone. The system uses Bluetooth protocol.
But you should note that such telemetric devices are already being used in marine aviation. Info about pressure inside airplane chassis is used to determine braking line altitude above the landing site on the ship.
In this product info from wheels will tell the driver if there are some problems with them. Finnish developers are also going to add other features such as antitheft system and etc.
The system will be out for masses in the next year.
Another auto+mobile service was presented in Stockholm. It allows to pay for the parking via your phone. Now you won't have to search through your pockets for coins, just make a call and drive in.
This Park and ring program is in test "mode" now. After this it will be installed on 105 thousands of Stockholm parkings.
When driving in, user dials a number and additional 5 digits corresponding to the number of parking place. The bill will be sent along the one for mobile phone and this simplifies payings. In the future this system will tell drivers how much they spent for parking. The work of the system is provided by Telia cellular operator and negotiations with others are being held now also.
But if you forget ot make a call while leaving the parking you'd be still billed as if you are inside it. And some people also say that this system doesn't give any economy of time and money.
But it simplified labour of parking workers. They now have WAP devices and can get to know in seconds if the driver paid for his place. In some dangerous situation they are able to tell the driver about it. But this Park and Ring system isn't the only presented to Stockholm mobile phone users. There's also an "aquaintance" service to help people know each other in the place where they leave.
In November mobilePosition company that developed the above system, is going to present mobile phone users new services - houseFinder and brandFinder. The first will help to buy houses, and the second - goods.
As mobilePosition says mobile phones must be easy to use, informative and nice to look at. They create services that don't use GPRS technology. Another bikePosition started in November'1999. It helps bike owners to find the nearest gas station. yachtPosition service also started at that time. It provides information about weather, ports, gas staions nearest to the place where call was made from. it has about 30000 of users now, and bikePosition - about 5000. These servoces cost additional 50 cents/minute.
Another interesting novelty was presented by Materna telecommunication company in Berlin on the YOU youngsters expo. With Condomi AG company it developed a new condom selling machine. To buy one user must choose corresponding option on wap.anyway.com site and in some seconds the machine will throw out needed condoms. The payment is processed automatically via the phone.
It's known that one of the mobile communication problems is absence of transaction security standards. So VeriSign Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced the expansion of strategic partnership. This concerns the use of VeriSign's ID and digital signature systems and also some others in Motorola's mobiles. Both companies decided to unite their marketing efforts as well.
Another pair of companies decided to work together. SmartTrust, a subdept of Sonera, finnish cellular operator, and Eurogiro Network A/S. They decided to develop a system of safe mobile transactions in 30 countries of the world. Along with SmartTrust, Compaq also takes part in this project. Eurogiro processes transactions in a number of +european countries using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) software. As experts say, safe mobile transactions will become the base for mobile commerce. SmartTrust and Compaq are going to present the software already in November of this year.
And the last boost of manufacturers activity concerns increasing data storage capabilities of mobile devices. It also includes paper printing features. The first here is Hewlett-Packard with its HP WIRE (Web Information Relay) service. It allows to redirect information requested from a WAP device to a nearby printer or fax connected to network. HP's software situated on a web-server will send information to a printer/fax address marked by phone user. So clients will be able to get a high-quality picture instead of small one on the phone screen. Nowadays this service is being tested in Singapore.
Texas Instruments and TROY XCD became partners to develop wireless printing features for mobile phones. Users with the help of compulsory software and Bluetooth modules provided by these companies will be able to print their documents sending them via Bluetooth protocol to any nearby Bluetooth compatible printer.
As the general chief of TROY company says, the base of the project is the intellectual mobile market progress. Phones nowadays much more resemble PDAs with communication features then usual phones. And printing capability will become a needed feature for sure.
In the beginning TROY's wireless printing software will be provided along with GSM solutions from Texas Instruments. Such solutions will allow to add more functions to phones and also to decrease time needed for putting a new product out on markets. Another side of this partnership is TROY's software marketing among mobile phones manufacturers that use Bluetooth standards.
Bluetooth-chipsets from Texas Instruments are created using 0.18 micron technology and are provided with all needed software for Bluetooth devices. Such a solution provides high productivity and high integration level without using flash memory. The technology itself is supported by over 2000 companies that take part in Bluetooth Special Interest Group, including all brands. So TROY's software may become rather popular among manufacturers and developers.
Bluetooth gains more and more popularity. It's a close range wireless communication technology developed by Bluetooth Special Interest Group consortium that includes such brands like Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia and Toshiba. Bluetooth is an open standard for transferring voice and data between mobile and desktop devices. Already there are lots of devices supporting this technology and in the future this quantity will only grow.
Mobile Bluetooth becomes more and more popular. In Japan TU-KA Phone Group presented another Bluetooth device - an MP3-player mounted into headphones. When there's an incoming call on your mobile phone, it would be transmitted to headphones via Bluetooth protocol. Another device presented by this company is more usual - a set of headphones and a mic connected to the phone via the same Bluetooth.
Ceatec Japan 2000 showed that japanese manufacturers liked Bluetooth very much. Sony's prototypes were the most interesting of all presented. It announced a variant of Memory Sticks - Application Sticks that being inserted into a mobile can convert it to FM/TV tuner or even into a digital camera or a GPS device. Of course all these products use Bluetooth protocol. Another interesting novelty was presented by Sanyo - BT-2000 with a feature of connecting Kyocera's digital camera. Shots taken can be transmitted via Bluetooth to a printer or another mobile phone.
TU-KA Phone Group presented a prototype of Bluetooth MP3-player - SolidAudio. When the user is listening to the music he's able to hear an incoming call request and answer it without touching his mobile. Player supports MP3 and TwinVQ. Price information follows.
TDK Corp. on the same expo demonstrated two small halfwave antennas (7 mm x 7 mm) designrd for use in Bluetooth devices. CANPB0715 has 5dBi amplifying coefficient and CANPB0715 - 3dBi. These products will be out for sale in March'2001. the majority of all other antennas are quarterwave and are attached to the side of a mobile, so they can be used only in large devices such as notebooks with case grounding. And for mobile phones new halfwave antennas are needed.
Bluetooth modules continue to shrink in size. Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronic Industries Ltd. developed a Bluetooth module that is only 1/3 size of the original. Such "resizing" was made after resituating all passive parts and some other components to a ceramic underlayer. This company is the first to present such an antenna though the technology had been already announced by Murata Manufacturing Co. There are no specifications present, but it's known that due to internal form-factor an improvement of +1.5dBi was gained. this module will be put out for sale on November. The price is 50000 yenas.
USA also doesn't want to be the last. Texas Instruments together with TROY Group company announced a technology for sending documents to nearby printers via Bluetooth protocol.
And at last the main event on Bluetooth phones market. GN Netcom company was the first to announce a commercial fully certified product - GN 9000 Digital compact phone.
Inside this decice is a chipset made by Digianswer company that was presented on PCIA GlobalXChange expo in September'2000 in Chicago.
The first shippings of GN 9000 will begin in November'2000. The price will be $299. The base station for this phone will cost $499. GN Netcom has already opened "order season" for these device.
The prices seem to be rather high but the manufacturer say that they'll go down after Bluetooth devices will become more popular.
Mobile brands market standings and positions
In the beginning of October Ericsson said its opinion about the future of mobile communications. As their representatives say they have already begun to develop 4G networks that are 50 more times capable than 3G networks. It's said that the phone will become a universal system able to determine if the owner is situated behind the garage door or i.e. is in the shop. And 100 Mbit/sec of capability is really serious. But if you remember when 3G systems were worked at for the first time - in 1991 - you'll think that only in 10 years we'll see 4G networks. But they say they'll improve 3G standards in some 5 years.
And in 2 years Ericsson predicts great increasing of mobile services clients - from 600 million to 1 milliard, and by '2003 there will be more mobile internet users than "fixed".
But quotes of Ericsson fell down by 24% in October, and it had to make some announcements. One planned model of a mobile phone was cancelled due to tries to restore profits. And maybe this business will be excluded into a separate dept due to large losses. And all this because of strategic mistakes and some high-end components lacking.
So though Ericsson is the 3rd in the world among mobile brands, his lesser competitors will outrun it in this year. Maybe separation of mobile business into a subdept will help and maybe Ericsson will allow third party manufacturers to produce its devices.
Then another announcement. Ericsson's president Kurt Hellstrom said that for the first time in history overproduction of mobiles is at hand. All symptoms were noticed already in the 3rd quarter and will continue to appear in the 4th. In USA supply is more than demand now and it'll continue in Europe.
Anticrisis measures are standard - to lower the price of phones by 20%, but this will give any results only in 4th quarter. And this is one of the reasons why Ericsson predicts decreasing sale volumes in its customer subdept.
And the leader of brands - Nokia, said that it isn't afraid of competitors' low prices, becuase new models of mobiles are already at hand. But what they are - 6210 and 3310 or others, this we don't know.
Motorola analitics repeat Ericsson's words. They say that sale volumes of mobile phones will continuously decrease. Motorola's sales in '2001 will be $525-575 million instead of $600-650 as was planned.
At once after these declarations quotes of mobile phone manufacturers went down. Those of Motorola - by 16.4%, after the announcement that the profits would be lower than planned. Now they are lower by 23% already. Other manufacturers felt the same symptoms: Siemens - down by 5.44%, Philips - 5.21%, Alcatel - 9.34%, Ericsson - 6.16%.
And Nokia's results are impressive instead. After 3rd quarter profits were 1.34 milliard euros (before tax payments) and that is 42% more than in the last year, and predicted profits were only 1.15 milliard euros. Sale volumes increased by 50% comparing the last year and made up 7.58 milliard euros. Sales of the main mobile phones dept increased by 59% and made up 5.46 milliard euros. And "pure" profit per quote increased by 36% and made up 0.19 euro.
Nokia's executive director Jorma Ollila noted that sales would continue to grow and would make up 25-35%. He also agreed with predictions about quantity of mobile phones to be sold in the world in '2000 - 400 million. So the number of mobile services clients will grow up to 700 million people in the world. And in '2002 all 1 milliard of mobiles will be sold.
As we can see different companies give different opinions about the future of mobile market due to their own different positions on it.
Nokia's profits seem to be well earned, because this company always produces new mobile models and equipment for cellular networks. During UMTS'2000 in Barcelona Nokia presented its new NetAct Configurator for managing cellular networks. It's a part of Nokia NetAct Framework that has more than 20 interfaces and consists of three modules: NetAct Radio Access Configurator, NetAct Traffic Control Configurator and NetAct Packet Core Configurator. NetAct Configurator can work together with NetAct Planner - a set of network planning instruments.
Nokia also presented a line of 3G base stations. They are based on previously produced Nokia UltraSite WCDMA Base Station and include three products for WCDMA networks: Nokia UltraSite WCDMA Base Station Optima, Nokia UltraSite WCDMA Base Station Optima Compact (the most compact system of WCDMA-communications with built-in power module), Nokia UltraSite WCDMA Base Station Optima Supreme (this one has almost unlimited capability). All these stations will appear for sale only in the second half of '2001.
And the last from Nokia: SGSN (Serving GPRS Support Node). This new system has 1Gbit capability and high suscriber capacity as well. These features allow to process IP-phones and multimedia traffic in realtime mode. It's also capable of working with new billing systems and providing taxations of new mobile services. First shipments of Nokia 3G SGSN will begin in the first half of '2001.
Ericsson presented a new WAP gateway for mobile commerce (m-commerce), also allowing users to get access to their corporate network resources via a mobile terminal. New gateway is designed to support different mobile communication and information applications on all levels of e-commerce, and is also compatible with many presnt and future mobile systems.
Third party manufacturers were active at getting CDMA licenses from Qualcomm. I.e. Philips Semiconductors and Qualcomm Inc. signed a license agreement to expand previous between Qualcomm VLSI Technology, that was bought by Philips.
As stated in this agreement, Philips gets rights for the full set of CDMA technologies. This set includes (not mention CDMA patent) 3G CDMA licenses and they unite such standards as Multi-Carrier (cdma2000) and Direct Spread (W-CDMA). Philips also gets rights for future CDMA development for use in mobile phones and other devices with internet access feature.
Siemens in it's turn got a license for Java technologies from Sun Microsystems. According to this agreement Siemens will be able to use Java 2 Platform Micro Edition and this will allow users to download games and other "interactive" services from internet servers. Analitics say that nowadays mobiles doesn't have capabilities to use Java, but as these technologies will appear only in the first half of '2001, we'll see who was right.
And the last news. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd invested $10 million into building of a new factory in Indonesia. It will specialise in assembling mobiles for asian markets. As the director of Samsung Electronics Indonesia Lee Kang Hyun says, the company approved this project after successive sales in this region.
Nowadays Samsung controls about 10% of electronics market in this region.
And in the end something to think about. Acer Communications & Multimedia announced its intensions of increasing mobile phones production by 50% comparing with September when about 500000 devices were sold. Now the company receives many requests from its clients. This increase seems to violate Motorola's pessimistic predictions about the future of mobile market. Commercial Times of Taiwan noted that other companies, including Motorola may begin to make subcontracts with Acer to lower production expences.
Monthly scandals continue...
Now some intrigues to change the subject. Chiefs of some cellular operators presented an ultimatum to GSM Assosiation during 44th assembly that took place on Thursday in Montreux, Sweden. As they think, GSMA pays less attention to 3G mobile communication than needed. And if it doesn't prepare all compulsory standartisation documents by the next year it may lose faith of cellular operators.
Neil Montefiore) - CEO of Singapore's Mobil One (M1) said that GSMA must unite all operators and restructure itself to continue existance, because now it doesn't have a single executive core in key fields of mobile communications.
A number of initiatives concerning WAP and UMTS have already passed with GSMA taking part in them, though it presents about 70% of mobile phone users throughout the world.
Though GSM roaming is one of GSMA's advancements, nothing is known about it's part in GPRS roaming, and M1 is going to sign an agreement concerning it in some weeks.
GSMA is the coordination structure for GSM operators and it presents more than 400 of them, as well as satellite communication operators and 3G networks. It also presents regulative and administrative structures, brand manufacturers and suppliers of GSM industry.
3G communication licenses
It's not a surprise that 3G networks will soon become a part of our life. It's proved by cellular operators interests and interest of manufacturers as well.
Belguim government for example, is going ot begin an auction of 3G licenses. It thinks to get about $1.5 milliard profit from it. The pawn-cost of each of the 4 licenses is 75 million euros ($62 million), and every pretender must present proof of his successful finance business. The exact date will be published after all conditions will be approved by the parliament.
And in Spain 3G license holders want to begin a case in the court with the government, because they think that increase from 5 million euros to 150 million euros of tax collection is too big for companies to endure.
3G license distribution in Spain was based on the competition between companies, and only the most productive and successful of them got them. Therefore licenses gave less profit to government than in Germany and Great Britain - $430 million (520 million euros). "The government raised tax collections because german and british auctions showed continuous grow of radiospectre's market price", said spanish minister of technologies.
Xfera, Telefonica, Airtel and Amena - those having licenses, must cover 23 cities with cells by the August of '2001. And due to high taxes it may become impossible.
German operators also try to restore losses concerning UMTS licenses. Mobilcom's executive director prepares for a case in court with german government about returning 16.5 milliard marks or $9 million. The company had to spend such sum to get an UMTS license. ANd experts say that he may win the case.
Another big telecommunication company Viag Interkom is going to begin similar case. Two months ago T-Mobile, a subdept of Deutsche Telekom, Mannesmann Mobilfunk, E-Plus, Viag Interkom, Mobilcom and spanish-finnish 3G consortium had to spend 100 milliard marks on the auction to get a license.
In Poland there are also unpleased operators: Polkomtel, Centertel and Polska Telefonia Cysrowa (PTC) declared a boycott against UMTS license tender that will begin on the 10th of November, if the government doesn't process a number of conditions. The main objection is the demand to operators to open their GSM networks for new companies after reaching 30% cover of the country. They wants this border to be increased up to 50%. As Polkomtel's representative said, each of the companies invested $1.5 milliard into GSM development. And by tender's conditions new companies will be able to use GSM networks investing only $50-60 million, and that violates the law in Polkomtel's opinion. More of this, companies wrote about 40 letters to the government with demands such as to decrease quantity of licenses from 5 to 4 and exclude "empty check" thatevery company must include into a license request. The government can invest about 750 million euros in case of some violation in requests. In addition companies don't want a personal government negotiator to be given to each of the candidates.
This some risk in such actions, because Poland's government announced the list of 19 pretenders including spanish Telefonica, finnish Sonera and Hutchison Whampoa from Hong Kong.
And in the same time government left it's positions lowering license price by 100 million euros. It also has already said about possibilities of decreasing license quantity to 4. According to Poland's laws the government must give out the licenses before the end of this year or the case will be put aside until '2002.
Italian government officially announced the end of a "UMTS license auction". The profit made up $11.95 milliard.
Two blocks of additional frequency spectres reserved for mobile market newbies were sold to Andala and Ipse for $683 million each. 5 main licenses were bought by Telecom Italia Mobile, Omnitel Pronto Italia (Vodafone), Ipse (30% owned by Telefonica), Wind (France Telecom and electroenergetic Enel group) and Andala (Hong Kong's Hutchison).
Auction wsa finished after Blu consortium left it during 11th round. Though the majority voted for the consortium to continue taking part in the auction, blocking packets owners voted against it. The government blocked Blu's $4.7 deposit and the company wants to begin a case in the court to return at least $42 million as compensation.
The sums paid by auctioners are positioned this way:
Omnitel - $2.03 milliard.
Ipse - $2.02 milliard.
Wind - $2.01 milliard, without additional spectre
Andala - $2.01 milliard, without additional spectre
Telecom Italia Mobile - $2 milliard.
Israel still had no such auctions and vice versa, Telecommunication Ministry of Israel declared a tender for giving 3G license. It'd become 4th license in the country with three operators already present: Pelephone (1,4 million subscribers), owned by Motorola and Bezeq Israel Telecom; Cellcom (1,65 million subscribers), owned by BellSouth, brasilian Safra Brothers and Discount Investment Corp; and Partner Communications (600000 subscribers), under label of Orange company. New operator is said to supply 3G networks services. Israel's government thinks thatprices for mobile services are rather high now and therefore there's a place for competition between operators. But three "old" operators thinks that four companies for 6 million people would be too much, and 3G services can be supplied by already present operators. I.e. closest plans of all three operators include mobile WAP internet services.
And Singapore's government declared its intensions of giving out 3G licenses during the auction that will take place in February'2001. The rules will be published in December. Analitics say that due to small size of this country and small population (4 million) transnational companies won't want to take oart in it, but however due to well spread infrastructure of Singapore it may become a good polygon for 3G networks tests.
Japanese operator J-Phone announced about its intensions of creating a 3G service in December'2001. The company hopes to make a number of roaming contracts with WCDMA-network operators in various countries of the world, using its partnership with Vodafone and British Telecom.
J-Phone is going to present mobile internet services called J-Sky that will compete with i-mode from NTT DoCoMo. And the least is going to create 3G services already in May'2001, half a year earlier. J-Phone East's CEO Kyouichiro Kouri declared that 2G and 3G networks will coexist for some years using improved infrastructure of new generation. By his opinion, company needs roaming contracts with various countries in the world. And by this moment J-Phone doesn't have international roaming due to PDC standard incompatibility with other standards. Speaking about 3G networks, oth J-Phone and DoCoMo will use WCDMA and the third operator - au, will use cdma2000.
J-Phone has about 9 million clients, one third of them subscribed for J-Sky service. The main owner of this company is Japan Telecom (54%), 20% is owned by British Telecom and 26% by Vodafone.
The president of USA Bill Clinton declared an order to the government, Federal Communication Commission (FCC) and private telecommunication companies to increase rates of 3G networks development. This order states that USA is outrun by many countries in the questions of telecommunications, especially by Japan and Finland where mobile market is very well grown and positioned. Clinton gave rights fo federal structures to prepare blocks of frequencies for 3G networks developing. FCC stated that works concerning frequency exploration and testing have already began. It's known that three main spectres for 3G communications were determined during World Radiocommunication Conference that was held this year.
First wireless cdma2000 1XRTT (1X) network, developed by 3Com and Samsung Electronics, was launched into commercial use. On the 1st of October this 3G network was presented by SK Telecom company.
3G cdma2000 1X allows its clients to receive mobile internet access with speeds about 144Kbit/sec. This network supports simultaneous audio, video and text services, new packet commutation technology and double increase of channel capacity.
3G cdma2000 1X will be presented by SK Telecom in Seoul region and then in some other regions by the end of the year. With time this network will cover the majority of South Korea.
3Com/Samsung 3G cdma2000 1X corresponds to IS-2000 standards developed by Telecommunications Industry Association, TIA.
In cdma2000 1X Base station Controller (BSC) connects directly to PSDN node via A10/A11 interface. PDSN functions as a network commutator. For user autentification and traffic control PDSN use autentification, audition and administration (AAA) RADIUS server, and after this it transfers data to gateway router/home agent (GRHA).
Samsung proveides the network with radioaccess equipment: base send/receive systems and base station controllers. 3Com Carrier Networks dept provides equipment for central data transmission network, including PDSN, Home Agent (HA), RADIUS servers and network managing system. Both compaies' machines communicate with each other via standartized IOS Version 4 interfaces according to TIA/EIA/IS-2001, TIA IS-2000, TIA/EIA/TSB115 (PN-4286) and TIA/EIA/IS-835 (PN-4732).
Nokia company made a 3 year contract about 3G solutions shipping with swedish Orange company that belongs to France Telecom. First stage of this contract provides base network elements shippings and also shippings of 3G Mobile Switching Centres (3G MSC) for creation of IP base network.
In USA Motorola Inc. made a contract with Alltel about 3G network creation. It's the first such contract in USA. It's financial sides are unknown. Motorola will provide equipment and software for CDMA 2000 1x standard, including SC 4812 base stations for creation mobile communication network in New Orleans and Baton Rouge cities of Louisiana. New network will provides speeds up to 144 Kbit/sec. The start is set to the 3rd quarter of '2001. Tests will begin this year.
On UMTS'2000 forum Lucent Technologies and KPN company announced technical tests of UMTS standards and applications for mobile internet access developed by both companies. The results will be presented to UMTS Forum and GSM Association, working together with ETSI.
Standards to be tested are described in ETSI's Release99. W-CDMA will be used as a base platform. Lucent have been developing it for three years already.
Other companies continue to license 3G networks. Qualcomm Inc. announced additions to the present license agreement with Fujitsu Limited, that was only about using cdmaOne standard. Now Fujitsu has a possibility to use Qualcomm's patents for developing, production and sales of corresponding equipment for WCDMA, cdma2000, TD-SCDMA. Fujitsu is one of the leaders in the field of mobile internet solutions.
Sharp's CDMA (cdma2000, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA and 1xEV (HDR)) license was also expanded. Before this time it was covering only cdmaOne standard.
Kyocera Wireless Corp. ,an american subdept of japanese Kyocera Corp., and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced their intensions to develop CDMA 3G networks together. Kyocera mobiles and Lucent wireless communication infrastructure will be used in this project. The first stage will consist of tests of cdma2000 3G-1X. And in future solutions based on cdma200 1X-Evolution, W-CDMA and GPS will be developed as well.
MobileOne (Singapore) specialists conducted research that showed that 70% more base stations will be needed to set up a 3G network services. But UMTS/3G president of Lucent Technologies doesn't approve this opinion, he says that nowadays infrastructure can be successfully remodernized for 3G network to work.
Parthus company together with Psion, an electronic organisers brand, developed a mobile Internet platform called InfoStream. It's designed for HPC/PPCs, 3G mobile phones, automobile computers, etc.
The platform is based on Psion's ARM processor core. Psion had also made a license agreement with Parthus about using InfoStream platform in its 3G mobile HPC/PPCs and future Motorola's mobiles with Internet feature.
InfoStream is designed to work under EPOC from Symbian OS, but it also supports Pocket PC, Palm and Linux OS. Besides its architechture is optimized for different communications technologies, including GPRS (General Packet Radio Service).
As Parthus says, InfoStream combines high productivity and consumes little power. It includes LCD monitor controller with 16-bit color support, PC, CF and smart cards, SROM and Flash memory, it also has a USB controller. Nothing is still known about shippings and prices.
NEC Corporation announced its intention to invest $38.7 millions into 3 year scientific researches concerning 3G mobile technologies. This research will take place in australian center of science and technology that belongs to the company. NEC is one of the W-CDMA communication leaders of the world and is goingto be the first world 3G mobile technology supplier.
Other companies also try to find its niche on the field of 3G communications. Infineon Technologies began tests of its new M-GOLD processor that supports UMTS and GSM standards. As Infineon says, this processor is the first to be able to work in both 2G/3G systems. Some test models will be sent to mobile phones manufacturers in a month or two. This processor is one of the main mobile phone elements, doing 90% of all the job. Japanese UMTS networks are expected to start working in '2001 in Japan and in '2002 in Europe.
Nortel Networks (NYSE/TSE: NT) has announced new 3G mobile IP-network platforms based on IP-services and commutation platforms. 3G Core IP Network solution is designed to integrate data, audio, video streams transmissions thoughout one network. It will allow operators to install packet commutation technologies in the beginning of UMTS network creation, therefore lowering TDM (Time Division Multiplex) investments and improving potential of MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) standard. This solution will also allow operators to provide personalised services for each client.
3G Core IP Network in based on four platforms - Passport 15000 multiservice commutator, Shasta 5000 broad service node (BSN), Succession solution and Alteon web-content commutators. This system is expected to appear on the markets in the 4th quarter of '2001.
Nortel's representative predicted asian manufacturers to be leaders in 3G phones production. "Mobile phones production leaders such as Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola will lose their positions on the future 3G market," said Nortel's internet sector manager Lloyd Carney. "Instead of nowadays leaders Samsung, Sanyo and Panasonic will be ahead". The GSMA president also approves this opinion, he says that 2G phones manufacturers prepare good "soil" for future 3G companies.
Datamonitor's recent reports show that 270 million europeans will get access to mobile internet services by '2005. And 69% of mobile phones holders will use WAP for internet access.
The grow of mobile service suscribers in Europe is provided by 3G technologies "arrival" that allow to work with multimedia applications. The number of phone holders will continue to grow in the future as well as price competitions between cellular operators that will expand the number of their clients providing mobile services to other social categories.
By the way, text is still the most popular form of information. All '2005 mobile devices will have wireless data access features. About 144 million WAP mobiles are expected to be sold every year by '2005.
Mobile World agency published mobile communications distribution rating of countries. Sweden if the 4th for the first time - 65% of population use mobiles. Finland is the 1st as always - 72%. Iceland is the second - 70%, and Norway is the 3rd - 67%. Japan and USA have 40% and 50% correspondingly.
An interesting situation has formed in Netherlands. According to KPN's opinion street payphones are becoming unprofitable with the spread of mobiles. So 3400 of them were dismantled last year and many will be dismantled in the future as well. But some of them will be still left to avoid Universal Service Order violation, prescribing to have at least 1 payphone for 5000 citizens. Now there are 19200 payphones in Netherlands and 3250 will be dismantled next year.
Another interesting announcement was made by european telecommunication experts. They said that mobile internet will become popular only if mobile phones manufacturers and operators will simplify the process of using their products. Peter Erskine, the main executive director of British Telecommunications mobile dept, confessed that he doesn't know how to store a number in his own mobile phone. Therefore he says that 3G mobile phone developers must aim at creation of simple solutions easy to use even by unexperienced users. He also said that today's WAP devices are rather roughly made and this is the main obstacle on the way of their distribution. Others agreed with the opinion that all future devices must have user friendly interface andthat it's one of the main tasks for developers.
Much is discussed about the ecology and technology so to say. And recently Australian Mobile Telecommunications Assoiation started old mobiles utilization campaign. And there are about 10 millions of them. Thisd project is aimed at environment preservation and these old devices containing toxic organics and metals can greatly pollute soil after being thrown away as garbage. The collected old mobiles will be recycled and their metals will be used again. I.e. cadmium will be used in stainless stell production and gold will be used in electronics again. About 700 shops ahve already agreed to take part in this campaign, and organisers think to attract another 3000 of partners.
The mobile phone safety theme that attracted so much attention of our readers found its continuation in researches of English and Australian scientific groups that say mobile phones to be rather unsafe.
English scientists observed human organism during 30 minute talk over a mobile and noticed that in 6 minutes skin temperature near the phone raised by 2,3 degress and the airflow directed to nose from the phone side had changed as well.
But it's a good news that using hands-free sets can lower the possibility of such problems. In the end scientists came to a result that the consequences of using mobiles are still unknown.
Australian group points to a case of a man with a nervous disease whose reason couldn't be understood even after thorough brain scanning. The researchers found out that the man had a noticable difference between reactions in two brain parts and also had continuous headaches after using the mobile.
The chief of scientific group Peter Hocking said that these one-sided aches make mobile phone a source of health problems.
And some laws for the end. In Suffolk district, N.Y. a law was signed forbidding to use a mobile without hands-free set during automobile rides. This law was presented last month and will start to act from the 1st of January'2001. All violators will be fined $150. And such laws will also be signed in Chicago where fine will make up $25 for the first time and up to $100 for the next. But there's a question of controlling this law, actually it seems not so possible.


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Watch this entire presentation: Gender Diversity in the Who-niverse: Paving the Way for a Lady Doctor with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (36:58)
For her 5th Doctor Who lecture to the CPP community, Dr. Rosanne Welch discusses how society – and the show's writing staff – prepared the audience for a major change in this 50-year franchise – the creation of the first Lady Doctor!
Have to give Steven for laying the groundwork finally and, as I said, if you look at his writing, when Matt changed he gave us "Not a girl. Still not ginger." — a little ginger joke there. Which is fine. he made everyone think they were going to pick — oh my gosh I never forgot his name — Ron Weasley — yes — Rupert Grint, thank you so much. There was discussion that Rupert Grint would become a new Doctor, so a little joke there, the ginger is referencing that. So he knows what's happening in culture. What people are saying about his program, right? So he laid that in. he also laid in in "The Doctor's Wife" which is a marvelous episode — written by Neil Gaiman, wh you might know form American Gods and the other very cool novels. So they invited Nei Gaiman to come in and write an episode and they found old, dead, Timelords trapped in these little boxes and this is what he said about this guy, right? "He didn't feel himself unless he had the tattoo. Or herself, a couple of times. Ooooo, she was a bad girl." So Timelord who switched their gender It is possible. So Steven is writing or Executive Producing the writing in all these episodes. So he's laying the groundwork for all this to happen.
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Rosanne Welch PhD teaches the History of Screenwriting and One-Hour Drama for the Stephens College MFA in Screenwriting.
Writing/producing credits include Beverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences, ABCNEWS: Nightline and Touched by an Angel. In 2016 she published the book Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop; co-edited Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia; and placed "Transmitting Culture Transnationally Via the Characterization of Parents in Police Procedurals" in the New Review of Film and Television Studies. Essays appear in Torchwood Declassified: Investigating Mainstream Cult Television and Doctor Who and Race: An Anthology. Welch serves as Book Reviews editor for Journal of Screenwriting and on the Editorial Advisory Board for Written By magazine, the magazine of the Writers Guild.
Watch Dr. Welch's talk "The Importance of Having a Female Voice in the Room" at the 2016 TEDxCPP.
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I think the first time I broke out tacos on my little family, was back in 2009-ish. They were a hit and have remained a menu staple since. Granted, they change from one time to the next, but they are always devoured with relish (not pickle relish, that would be gross 😝).
We are doing a lowish carb menu for a few weeks, because it's fun to change things up from time to time and step outside the norm. Right?! Right. One huge reason I enjoy tacos, is that you can create them however your tastebuds or dietary needs require, and you are still going to have a very happy tummy. Not to mention, you can feed a flock o younguns, no matter the ages, with tacos – with minimal ingredients and minimal funding. Tacos AND tummy are wallet friendly!
1 large or 2 small chicken Breast, or 1 lb ground turkey, or ground chicken or ground beef or roast beef. Or no meat if you so choose.
Add them lemon essential oil to anything diced.
Add the lemon JUICE to the tomatoes.
Now you just simply layer the ingredients into bowls. I start with rice, then meat, then beans, a layer of guacamole, then lettuce, and finish off with the pico di gao (🍅 onion and cilantro mixture), cheese, sour cream. A drizzle of that melty cheese and jalapeno as an accent.
You can serve this in shells, with chips, in a wrap or a bowl with a fork. Its up to you.
Any kind of Vitality Essential oil you desire. A few combos that work well are; lavender, lemon, lime, or orange, peppermint, or cinnamon. You can add chocolate to either the cookie part or the filling.
*Before you begin, you will want to draw circles on your parchment paper. Try to keep them in straight rows. Larger than a quarter size will take 15-18 minutes to bake and smaller will take 5-10 minutes.
1.Sift together the confectioners sugar and almond flour 3 times, discarding any pieces that are too large to pass through, and set aside.
And now we commence the creation of the wonderful Filling….
My dears, I could eat this with a spoon…. Okay, correction, I DO eat this with a spoon. 😬 its so delicious!!
7. In a small sauce pan, place your 2 egg yolks. Give them a small whisking, and then add your sugar and whisk again. Add your milk, and whisk again. Turn your burner to medium low, and heat and stir this mixture until it reaches custard consistency. (It will coat the back of a metal spoon). Now you will add your butter. Heat until melted, then transfer to your refrigerator.
9. Place your cookies into the oven and set your timer for 5 minutes. Now, remember when I said that larger ones take longer and smaller ones take shorter times? Keep this in mind. If your cookies are barely the size of a penny, 5 -7 minutes will be plenty. If you went larger and your are more the size of, say, a small jar ring, you will need closer to 18. Rule of thumb, I give mine a little checkypoo at 5 minutes. I find one close to the edge and using a butter knife, I gently attempt to lift one from it's bottom. If the little fella lifts right up, I know they are done, if he doesn't, they they aren't. The bottoms may be ever so lightly golden. Simple as that.
10. Once you have pulled your delicacies from your oven, let them cool on the parchment paper.
11. Once both your cookies, as well as your filling have cooled sufficiently, you can begin assembly. Try to choose two cookies that match up nicely and make them a couple, married together in perfection with whatever love, I mean filling, you desire. (The buttercream from the lemon cake recipe works well.
I must confess. I adore MAKING sweet things, making them, I can take or leave the actual eating of them. I am super picky when it comes to the sweets.
You can definitely keep these plain, but we LOVE essential oils, and we didn't hesitate to flavor these up with various Vitality Essential oils. I personally enjoyed the citrus flavors, but kids preffer peppermint and spearmint flavors, or chocolate. 😊 Now… years ago, you could find these topped with whipped cream and fruit, now, you can find them in darling hersey kiss shapes in various flavors and colors, someti,especially even dusted with toasted coconut or powdered chocolate. Any way you find or make these, they are a light, delicious and FAT FREE treat.
This recipe is less about Essential Oils specifically, and more about "creative cooking" with gazillions of Essential Oil options at your fingertips.
1. Place the flour and salt in the food processor and pulse a few times.
2. Dump your butter into the flour mixture and pulse until well blended. (It should look like cornmeal, and when gently pinched between thumb and forefinger, it should clump.) See above picture.
3. Pulse your product and stream in the water. In approximately 10 pulses, you will have a nice combined dough.
4. Dust your surface withflour and dump your dough out onto the flour. Begin rolling like so….
6. When you have rolled and folded to perfection, you will do one final roll and fold and then place your dough inside a Ziploc bag, seal out all the air and refrigerate it for 1 hour to 7 days.
7. This is where imagination is the only thing restraining you. To use your dough, chop off a portion and roll it out. Be sure to paint the edges and top with melted butter before baking, beyond that, you are looking at a world of options.
No mater how you dress it, ALWAYS…. ALWAYS preheat oven to 450*, ALWAYS brush exposed areas with melted butter, and ALWAYS bake until puffy, approximately 10-15 minutes.
* I don't stress much over the actual "look" of this prior to baking. It puffs and browns so beautifully that it actually looks best when it's allowed to have a more rustic, casual final presentation. My kids and hubby all "ooo", and "aaahhhh" over literally anything this is prepared with. My oldest daughter hates Raspberry jam, but that didn't stop her from devouring a Raspberry pocket last night. 😉 My hubby isn't a huge pizza fan, but he enjoys this lighter fare with gusto. Any leftovers, and edge trimmings, simply folded gently into a stack and chill and use later. Below are some of our favorites and I will add a few suggestions that we tried and enjoyed.
Bake small squares and stack on a plate with essential oil flavored whipped cream and fresh berries. ~ make mini minced meat pies with a complimenting essential oil added to the meat ~ any type of pie filling or jam, we like lime, orange, or lemon stirred into the jam or icing. Eggs as a filling or topping with veggies and cheeses is absolutely a delightful breakfast. I add basil, oregano, or black pepper essential oils frequently to our eggs. It's a punch of flavor without the texture of the various herbs. You can even use this to dodge a heavy bread craving, for all the flavor without the weight, simply brush with butter, and then sprinkle with a bit of garlic, salt, and basil and oregano essential oil mixed together.
Clockwise, eggs, bacon and goat cheese open Puff. Eggs and cheese with bacon pocket. Nutella stacker. Pizza!
Nutella pockets for the girls, Raspberry pocket with white icing for the boy and a personal pizza for me!
I am always skeeming of new ways to va-va-voom old favorites. This is just one of like a bazillion ideas, rolling around in my noggin. 😛 You can have plain wings, breaded wings, rolled wings, tossed wings, hot wings, sweet wings, you name it wings.
I like this recipe because it APPEARS elegant..ish and elludes to complicated, but its actually simple and I always have these ingredients on hand. You definitely don't want grandma's white napkins for this meal. I mean, technically, you COULD… but why would you WANT too… am I right?! This dish is a tastebud's dream, a little sweet, a bit of twang, some crunch and just a hint of heat if you so desire.
There is no added sugar, you can go gluten free and even salt free, I am totally not judging. Actually, truth be told, I had about 5 minutes where I tried to imagine this even MEAT free. :-0 Roasted veggies with this sauce poured over them!? Heck yeah!! If you try it, let me know!
2 tbsp high heat oil of choice ( I use half coconut oil and half bacon grease.
A large ziploc bag or a medium brown paper bag.
Preheat your oven to 450*. Place the oil onto the cookie sheet and slide it into the oven.
Place the cornstarch, salt and pepper into the bag, give it a quick shake to mix, toss your chicken into the bag, close the bag and give it a shake shake shake. Carefully place the wings onto the hot cookie sheet with the melty oil. For lightly done wings, set your timer for 30 minutes, flip them at 15 minutes. For medium doneness, set your timer for 40 minutes and flip at 20 minutes. For very done, set your timer for 45 minutes and flip at 25 minutes, you may want an extra 5 minutes but that 5 can make a gigantic difference, so keep that in mind. We like VERY done wings.
Step 3. Place you pan onto a burner, pour in the water, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, and raspberry preserves, set the heat to high and give the contents of the pan a quick whisk. You want to whisk this about once a minute for the first five minutes. This will need to come to a rolling boil and continue that full boil for at minimum 5 minutes, mine takes more like 15. You are looking for that quick change it will make, from purely liquid to just slightly thickened. When you have reached perfection, remove the pan from the heat and whisk in the butter and the Ginger Vitality Essential Oil. This will need to set for about 3 minutes, in which time, it will thicken a bit more.
We enjoyed our wings with fresh veggies and the man of the house and I enjoyed roasted whole onions with a bit of the balsamic raspberry sauce drizzled lovingly over them and just a kiss of parmesan to pull the flavors together.
Ok ya'll…. admittedly, this is a lengthy recipe, but if you enjoy fresh foods, or gyros, or just food in general (aka me) 😛 you are gonna love this!
Yes, it takes awhile, but I promise its not difficult nor labor intensive. My oldest daughter does the chicken part and the kneading part and some of the rolling, so, if a 9 year old can handle that, then even you, my dear, can do this.
Ready? Ready. Here we go!!
Place in this exact order into your crockpot and set on low. This will need approximately 6 hours… use your oven or instapot if you have one, I'm not choosey, if I HAD an instapot, I would totally use it.
This will take about an hour…. start to finish. It takes me about 30 minutes but I have a helper and we tag team, and maybe we make these about once a week. :-D. Don't judge, they are delish!!!
Use your mixer or a bowl and spoon or your hands, I use my stand mixer. It just makes life easier. But you do you. Place all the dry ingredients together. Give it a stir to combine it, then add you oil/ghee, and your yogurt. Now listen up! This is important… add your water slooooooowly…. if you dump it in all at once, you will have, well, wallpaper paste and we don't want that. Mix and drizzle mix and drizzle, this is why I love my mixer, it mixes and I drizzle and we reach perfection with no ugly mishaps.
**when your dough has rested 15 minutes, you wil roll and mash and push it a few times until it willing molds into a gorgeous ball. Slice this ball in half and then both of those balls in half and so on. Like this.
Take each of these and give them a gentle angel kiss of flour and set them to the side. Take a bit of flour and dust your surface, then roll out your first flat bread.
You want it to be about the size of a dinner plate….ish. and thin…ish, this dough is very forgiving, if you mess up, just ball it and try again.
Now… heat your pan, you will need your largest frying pan. I use my cast iron one, I THINK its a 10 inch, but who knows, I used to use my electric griddle before it decided to leave me. 😐 Anywho, now to cooking these beauties. I work them like this. Roll one, plop it in the pan, roll the next one, flip the first one, remove the cooked one, plop in the next one… this is why letting a kiddo roll for me makes it go faster. They cook SUPER fast. Like.. under a minute.
So. Turn on your burner, place your pan on it, set the heat to medium, roll your first ball, pour a bit of water, about a tbsp, into your pan, you want STEAM!! If it doesnt sizzle its not ready. Plop your rolled bread in before the steam dissipates and wate for the bubbles.
We are in the home stretch people!!
Okay. The bread is done, the sauce is mixed, the chicken is cooked, its time to get this dish on the table!
Fun tip. I shred my chicken in my mixer with the beater hook. Seriously, just plop it in and turn it on and 5 seconds later, you have perfectly shredded chicken. I kid you not.
And now to assemble and devour!!!
See that perfect, gorgeously shredded chicken!!
This Lemon cake … or cupcakes if you so desire ;-), is so delightfully lemony! Although cakes from scratch can seem difficult, they aren't hard at all! This one was easy enough for my 9 year old to assemble with only a few directions from me. The hardest part was the waiting for it to bake and cool.
This recipe has 3 separate parts and it is important to do each step in order. If you follow along carefully, you will be enjoying your perfect slice of Lemony Lemon Cake before you know it!
Combine sugar, cornstarch and water in a small saucepan. Stir constantly, over medium heat, until mixture has thickened. (About 3-4 min) Boil, stirring, for 1 extra minute. Beat egg yolks in a small dish. Turn off your heat and carefully take half of the hot mixture and add it to the eggs, stir together quickly to combine. Slowly add this mixture to the remainder left in your pan. Turn the heat to medium and stir to combine. The curd will thicken quickly and turn to a beautiful lemon yellow. (1-2 min) Remove from the heat and stir in the butter, lemon juice and Lemon Vitality Essential Oil. Place to the side to cool.
Now on to the cake!!
** cake flour : for every 1 cup of flour, remove 2 TBSP of flour and replace with 2 TBSP of cornstarch. For this recipe, measure out 2 1/2 cups of flour, remove 5 TBSP and replace with 5 TBSP cornstarch. Whisk to blend.
Grease and flour your cake pans.
Mix flour, baking powder, salt, and zest of 2 lemons.
In a separate bowl, beat the butter until light and smooth. Add the sugar and mix on medium for 4-5 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time. Beat well.
Back to the bowl of butter and sugar. Add the flour and milk mixtures alternately, begin with flour and end with flour. Add your essential oil. Beat well but not too long.
Pour batter evenly into your 2 pans, or cupcake liners.
Sift the sugar into your bowl, slowly cut in the butter, beating steadily. When all of the butter has been incorporated, do the same with the cream cheese.
Add the Lemon Essential oil and beat the heck out of the stuff for about 3 minutes. At this point, you will assess your icing. It should be smooth and semi stiff, not hard. If it is harder than will icing nicely, add 1 TBSP milk, beat and reassess. I rarely have to use both TBSP of milk, but I live in the humid south, so if you live in a dry area, you may need more.
NOW WE ASSEMBLE THE GOODNESS!!!
If you are doing cupcakes, simply use a large round tip and pipe lemon curd into the middles of those babies and cap them off with some swirls of icing.
If you are doing the layer cake, you will slice each cake in half, horizontally with a long skinny knife, or unscented wax. Place 1 of the 4 pieces of cake onto your serving plate. Top with a third of the lemon curd and smooth out evenly. Place the second layer on top and repeat, then repeat again. The final, and top layer, gets not curd. Skim a crumb coat onto the entire cake and pop into your freezer for 15 minutes. The way you do your final icing is entirely up to you. I took a third of the icing and did a bright cheery yellow to compliment the beautiful white of the icing.. swirl it, pipe it, dollop it, whatever makes your heart sing.
And now we eat cake.


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Saints sunken by 'flat' half and play call Payton wants back
By BRETT MARTEL - Dec. 13, 2020 09:56 PM EST
New Orleans Saints' Taysom Hill (7) is sacked by Philadelphia Eagles' Javon Hargrave (93) during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
When the Saints needed 2 yards on fourth down to extend a fourth-quarter drive and potentially take the lead, coach Sean Payton went for broke.
Quarterback Taysom Hill rolled right looking downfield, far beyond the short yardage New Orleans needed. He was caught from behind by Eagles defensive end Josh Sweat, ending what until then had looked like a promising possession across midfield.
"It was more of an aggressive call by me. A shot play," Payton said. "And it's one of those where I'll want that back relative to the timing in the game. We had the momentum."
After that, the Saints' momentum was gone. Soon after, so was their winning streak, which ended at nine games. Also gone was their hold on the top spot in the NFC.
It was a stunning result considering how well New Orleans had played since October, and how much the Eagles had struggled in losing their four previous games.
But that failed fourth down was merely one of many regrets the Saints had on Sunday. Payton said the Saints "were flat" in a first half in which they fell into a 17-0 hole that they couldn't quite overcome in a 24-21 loss.
His players agreed.
"We should have played better in the first half. And I've got to take some blame for that as a quarterback," said Hill, who fell to 3-1 as a fill-in starter for the injured Drew Brees. "This one does sting a little bit because we knew what was at stake and we worked really hard to put ourselves in a situation to be in the driver's seat where we could control our own destiny."
The anemic first half for the Saints' offense included an interception on a pass that bounced off of running back Alvin Kamara's hands and a missed 45-yard field goal by Wil Lutz
The loss dropped the Saints (10-3) behind Green Bay (10-3) by virtue of the fact that the Packers won their head-to-head meeting in Week 3, which also happened to be the last time the Saints lost before their trip to Philadelphia in Week 14.
Now New Orleans must finish one game better than Green Bay during both clubs' final three games to earn a first-round playoff bye – now given only to the top seed in each conference under the NFL's new 14-team playoff format.
"The biggest thing is we didn't execute early, so it's hard to generate energy. It's hard to generate momentum when you're not playing well and that leads to looking flat," Saints safety Malcolm Jenkins said. "For us, it's just homing in on the details. Make sure everybody does their job, not trying to do too much and then make the plays that come to you without forcing. We got to that later, but obviously, a little bit too late.
"Obviously frustrating, but for us, our goals are very much still alive," Jenkins added. "It's really about making sure that we make the corrections and show up better next week."
They'll likely need to be considerably better. They host defending Super Bowl champion and current AFC contender Kansas City next Sunday.
Containing Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes and Co. will be a struggle for the Saints if they look as uncharacteristically porous and undisciplined on defense as they did against Eagles rookie Jalen Hurts and Philadelphia's running game.
The Saints had not allowed a 100-yard rusher in 55 games when they arrived in Philadelphia. Then the Eagles had two. Hurts rushed for 102 yards. Running back Miles Sanders rushed for 126 yards, highlighted by his 82-yard touchdown run when the Saints were trying to keep their deficit at 10 with less than two minutes to go in the half.
"We didn't play disciplined enough football that first half," Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan said.
"Next week, we have to tighten up. That first half we let some big runs go, something that we haven't seen the last couple years," Jordan added. "We dug a hole for ourselves and that can't happen."
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TORC is working to get more mountain bike trails on the ground. Find out about their projects here and lend them a hand!
TORC signed an MOU in 11/06 and several work days have already taken place. Trails will be built as the construction advances through the subdivision. This is the first private/public agreement to build trail in the Triangle to our knowledge. 15-20 miles of trail to be built ulitimately, with the possibilty for xc trails for all skill levels as well as pump track type trail and jumps along right of way to engage the freeride contingent. Trail coordinator is Stewart Bryan. [email protected]
White Deer Park - Garner
TORC signed an MOU with the Town of Garner for TORC to design and build mtb trails at the future White Deer Park, and to officially take over the maintenance of the Garner Recreation Park trails. Trail construction at White Deer cannot be started until the town begins their construction later this year, most likely in September. No trail coordinator at this time.
North Wake Landfill
TORC representatives were invited to join the North Wake Landfill Closure committee and attended their December 2006 meeting. As stakeholders in the master plan TORC is expected to help identify participation, possible sources of funding for the mtb trails, and to help in the planning and scheduling of the construction after the closure of the landfill. This park is currently unfunded, and it is not decided if the property will ultimately be built and managed by the city, the county or both jointly. Estimated closure is sometime in early 2008, but this can change based on the amount of waste generated by the city. No trail coordinator at this time.
Forest Ridge Park
Forest Ridge Park master plan was approved by the Raleigh City Council this past summer. Up to 20 miles of singletrack are allowed in this plan. The concept plan had to pass final review of the Army Corp of Engineers, as well as the NC Division of Water Quality. Once approvals are in place the city will contract with planners to produce the working plan for the park. Funding is partially in place, and the city will look for grants, and participation from the stakeholders such as TORC to try and secure additional funding through grants, etc. The mtb trails will be built in the intial phase of construction, which is probably 1.5-2 years from starting. Bill Camp is trail coordinator for this project.


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Trump Embraces One Of Russia's Favorite Propaganda Tactics — Whataboutism
Danielle Kurtzleben
An employee at a Moscow gift shop polishes traditional Russian wooden nesting dolls depicting Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images)
President Trump has developed a consistent tactic when he's criticized: say that someone else is worse.
This week, when the Congressional Budget Office estimated that Republicans' health care plan would leave 24 million additional people uninsured in 2026, Trump's first move wasn't a direct response. Instead, he took to Twitter to blast the Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as Obamacare), criticizing how much was spent on promoting it and asking people to tweet their own criticisms.
Prior to that, when the floodlights were on communications between then-Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions and the Russian ambassador, Trump's tweets were all about Democrats' contact with the Russians:
Famously, he even did a reverse version of this — defending not the U.S., but Russia — when he told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly about his "respect" for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as former Hillary Clinton State Department and campaign adviser Jake Sullivan noted in Foreign Policy in February.
When O'Reilly countered that "Putin is a killer," Trump responded, "There are a lot of killers. You got a lot of killers. What, you think our country is so innocent?"
This particular brand of changing the subject is called "whataboutism" — a simple rhetorical tactic heavily used by the Soviet Union and, later, Russia. And its use in Russia helps illustrate how it could be such a useful tool now, in America. As Russian political experts told NPR, it's an attractive tactic for populists in particular, allowing them to be vague but appear straight-talking at the same time.
A schoolyard taunt, brought to a global level
The idea behind whataboutism is simple: Party A accuses Party B of doing something bad. Party B responds by changing the subject and pointing out one of Party A's faults — "Yeah? Well what about that bad thing you did?" (Hence the name.)
It's not exactly a complicated tactic — any grade-schooler can master the "yeah-well-you-suck-too-so-there" defense. But it came to be associated with the USSR because of the Soviet Union's heavy reliance upon whataboutism throughout the Cold War and afterward, as Russia.
Whataboutism — particularly directed toward the U.S. — was so pervasive in the USSR that it became a joke among Soviets, often in a subversive genre called "Armenian Radio" jokes, explains one Russia analyst.
"Armenian Radio would be asked, 'How much does a Soviet engineer get paid?' and they'd be like, 'I don't know, but you [in America] lynch Negroes,'" said Vadim Nikitin, a Russia analyst and freelance writer. Eventually, that punchline came to be synonymous with the whole phenomenon of whataboutism, Nikitin said.
But whataboutism extends beyond rhetoric, said Dmitry Dubrovsky, a professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
"It's not only a narrative practice; it's real policy," he said. "For example, the Russians installed a special institute to cover the violation of human rights in the United States."
Dubrovsky is referring to a branch of the organization called the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation, which is widely considered pro-Kremlin. In fact, IDC shuttered its New York office in 2015 because it said it had achieved its goals, Buzzfeed reported: "The human-rights situation has improved in the United States," IDC Director Andranik Migranyan told Gazeta.ru.
One big reason whataboutism is so attractive: it's a simple way to shrug off criticism or even responsibility for any wrongdoings.
"You're saying that in the negotiations we have, that no one is perfect, and no one can claim to be, and as such, what this does is let you off the hook," Nikitin said.
So when Trump denigrated Obamacare amid heavy criticism of the GOP's health care plan, he seemed to be saying that whatever the GOP plan's flaws, at least it isn't the worst they could do (the worst, in his eyes, being Obamacare). Instead of giving a reasoned defense, he went for blunt offense, which is a hallmark of whataboutism.
Trump and Putin's common weapon
Whataboutism has been common in Putin's Russia. The Atlantic cited one such example in 2014, noting that when the Kremlin faced criticisms of its treatment of protesters, government officials responded, "What about the United Kingdom? Breaking the law during public gatherings there could lead to a fine of 5,800 pounds sterling there or even prison."
One reason that Trump and Putin might both find whataboutism useful, said one expert in Russian politics, is that they have common political impulses.
"[Putin and Trump] are both populist leaders. They always try to be as uncertain as possible. And for a populist that's important," Dubrovsky said. "Whataboutism is a very substantial part of populism rhetoric."
The idea, Dubrovsky posited, is that a populist leader wants to keep his masses of supporters on his side. Getting too specific on a policy or a position risks creating rifts within that base of support. Pointing to a common enemy, on the other hand, is a great way to unify a group.
In addition, there can be an implicit toughness to whataboutism, in that it openly acknowledges that nobody is perfect.
"I think what the Russian discourse is [is] that it's, in fact, very difficult to cleave perfectly to [a set of morals]," Nikitin said. "And anyone that claims to the contrary can be unmasked as, in fact, being just as flawed as anyone else is."
Whataboutism flattens moral nuances into a black-and-white worldview. But in this worldview, it's very difficult to be the good guy; idealism is the ultimate naïveté, and anyone who dares to criticize another can be "unmasked" as a hypocrite. This creates a useful moral equivalency, as Nikitin added: if nobody is perfect, there's license to do all sorts of imperfect things.
The idea, he said, is that "you've got to be practical and kind of bloody-minded and get your hands dirty. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying."
That closely mirrors what Trump told O'Reilly: "What, and we're so innocent?"
It might come off as brash truth-telling, but it's nevertheless a defense of a world leader who has been accused of killing his critics.
At least one Russian foresaw the Trump-Putin rhetorical parallels, even in the early days of the administration. In late January, Russian journalist Alexey Kovalev warned American journalists that Trump might take on some Putinesque media tactics:
"The thing is that when you think it's your mission to make him [Putin] admit a lie, or an inconsistency in his previous statements [because he tends to make U-turns in his statements on policies], when you try to point out those inconsistencies or catch him red-handed lying, there's no point because he'll evade your question, he knows that he can just drown you in meaningless factoids or false moral equivalencies or by using what is called 'whataboutism.'"
Kovalev was right on many counts: Trump has indeed proved to be inconsistent, make political "U-turns," repeatedly state falsehoods, and, of course, engage in whataboutism. And while Kovalev (and perhaps others) may have foreseen it, it's no less striking that while Putin's Russia is causing the Trump administration so much trouble, Trump nevertheless often sounds an awful lot like Putin.
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New Zealand agency Hello is helping with the launch of a new digital billboard campaign in the heart of city construction.
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Q: Laravel validation on array with two fields exists on a database row I have a input array with each item contain 2 fields:
"items" :[
    {
        "product_id" : 23232,
        "product_offer_id" : 3434
    },
    {
        "product_id" : 4545,
        "product_offer_id" : 67676
    }

]

I want to verify if the product_offer_id and product_id exists in products table. Current rules:
$rules = [
    'items' => 'required',
    'items.*.product_id' => 'required|exists:products,id',
    'items.*.product_offer_id' => 'required|exists:product_offers,id',
    'items.*.quantity' => 'required|numeric',
];

Without array I did it like this:
$product_id = \Input::get('product_id');

$rules = [
    'product_id' => 'required|exists:products,id',
    'product_offer_id' => [
        'required',
        \Illuminate\Validation\Rule::exists('product_offers','id')
        ->where(function ($query) use ($product_id) {
            $query->where('product_id', $product_id);
        })
     ]
];

A: You will need to run your input array which contains your items against the rules that you have written using the Laravel class Validator.
Validator::make($yourInputArray, $rules)->validate();

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Here is a step by step guide on how to set a beautiful Valentine's Day table setting.
I get comments/emails about my table settings that they are beautiful but seem too difficult to reproduce like the Valentine's Day table setting I shared with you yesterday. I want to show you today that they really are very simple to recreate in your home.
Flowers add such impact to the space. Sometimes the simpler the better is the way to go but instead of adding a bunch of flowers to a vase, stretch it out by adding them to the tabletop in an organic way.
Let me show you how I achieved this Valentine's Day table setting.
First start out with a table runner. I actually wanted to set down one of my lace shawls but I couldn't find it anywhere. It doesn't need to be an actual runner. It can be some scrap linen fabric, a shawl or a light blanket. Make sure the fabric is kinda crumpled and wrinkly to add texture.
Candles are the easiest way to add a touch of color to the table and something to break up the flowers that you'll be laying down.
Add a dozen votive candles sporadically down the middle. I used these rose gold votive candle holders.
I never go crazy on my place settings since I have this beautiful china and I've added four place settings (a dinner plate and salad plate and one fork since I set it for dessert only). There are no placemats or chargers as I tend not to use them. I like the wood from my table to be exposed and for the emphasis to be on the centrepiece.
If you have a large table and would like to add placemats or chargers, that is fine as well. I felt for this table setting it didn't need it.
My everyday plates are cream and would do just as well.
Of course, we need flowers. I used two dozen long stemmed roses for my table setting.
My tip is to only buy roses at grocery stores or small convenience floral shops. There's no need to spend a bunch of money at a fancy florist.
I went to two different stores and got three different types of roses (the other dozen is in a container on the cabinet). The different variation of pink and texture adds more dimension and difference to the table.
Add them to a vase before you're ready to place them on the table with minimal water. You don't want the water touching the leaves or they'll get soggy and fall off.
Start off by placing three roses at the ends but making sure the ends are pointing towards the centre of the table.
Notice I have two yellow pink roses on either side and one pink rose in the middle.
Do the same with the other end.
Scatter a few in the middle making sure the ends are tucked in and not sticking out.
So here is what one dozen looks like scattered organically along the runner.
I'll add one dozen more to it but making sure to leave 4 for the place settings.
Next you'll add glassware to the right of the place setting. I'm serving sparking pink lemonade and having dessert so I added the pie on a pedestal to the table as well.
That is everything on the table and it looks beautiful with minimal work.
I love adding flowers to different containers other than vases.
The pink books I painted and you can find out how in this post.
Tomorrow I'm going to share with you the treat bags I made and next week I'm going to share with you the painted books.
I've added gold touches to them after this post!
The cabinet is decorated with French yogurt jar candles and the scrap fabric garland I made along with another beautiful dozen roses in a mercury glass container.


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Honourable senators, you will not be too surprised to hear me speak about a bill concerning marine mammals and especially our famous seals. Indeed, I rise today to speak to Bill C-555, An Act respecting the Marine Mammal Regulations (seal fishery observation licence).
Unlike the hunts that occur in Europe, Canada's seal hunt is not a sport hunt. It is a commercial hunt, a subsistence hunt. Are licences issued so that people can observe what happens in slaughterhouses? Slaughterhouses have nothing to gain from opening their doors and they are not willing to do so. No other country but Canada has made its hunt so accessible to observers.
However, in reality, only the disreputable Paul Watson, who is an advocate for veganism, which means that he opposes any consumption of animals and consumes strictly vegetables, has had his licence application denied. I remind senators that Paul Watson's boat was stopped by the Canadian Coast Guard for failing to comply with the Marine Mammal Regulations and for putting others at risk.
Also, this bill does not address the problem of helicopter observation. Under existing rules, observers' helicopters cannot descend lower than 500 feet — about 150 metres — above a fishing boat or a sealing vessel unless they need to land.
After all, we know that observers who belong to such organizations as HSUS, IFAW and PETA, which are known to strongly oppose the hunt, want to undermine the interests of sealers and also tarnish Canada's image abroad.