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网上葡京网： News Analysis: U.S.-Iran tensions likely to linger, say experts
Source: Xinhua| 2020-01-14 16:22:34|Editor: ZX
本文地址：http://833.144050.com/english/2020-01/14/c_138704029.htm
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by Matthew Rusling
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Long-standing U.S.-Iran tensions may continue after the tit-for-tat fight between Washington and Tehran in recent weeks, experts have said in recent interviews.
The U.S. government said Friday that it has imposed fresh sanctions on Iran, days after Tehran's missile attacks on U.S. military bases in Iraq.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday in a White House statement that the measures are aimed at denying Iran revenue that "may be used to fund and support its nuclear program, missile development, terrorism and terrorist proxy networks, and malign regional influence."
Tensions between Tehran and Washington have reached new heights since the United States killed top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani near Baghdad's airport on Jan. 3.
"Multiple armed organizations in the Middle East worked with General Soleimani and declared after his killing that they will attack U.S. forces or facilities," Clay Ramsay, a researcher at the center for international and security studies at the University of Maryland, told Xinhua.
"If these attacks come, the U.S. leadership will have to decide whether to retaliate against Iran or only against the specific attacker," Ramsay said.
Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told Xinhua that the risk is that "there will be a wave of attacks and counter-attacks that never end. Each side will cite the other country's aggression to justify its own actions."
Trump's words on Twitter signaled that the U.S. has no intention of defusing the "maximum pressure" on Iran. On Sunday Trump expressed his support on Twitter for protests in Iran, after Tehran admitted that its armed forces had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane, killing all 176 people on board.
Michael O'Hanlon, also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told Xinhua that while Iran "won't want a war," it may ramp up attacks on military facilities or oil-related infrastructure.
However, confrontation does not have to be a foregone conclusion, Ramsay believes, adding that numerous steps could be taken to reverse the spiral of escalation.
"There are lots of possible steps that could be taken quietly on each side. The U.S. could pick spots to relax its controls on the use of dollars by the Iranian Central Bank, allowing the real purchase and delivery of medical and humanitarian goods," Ramsay said.
"The United States could also allow some oil transactions to take place. Iran could hold off on the steps it announced a few days ago about moving away from the nuclear deal and it could privately discuss these with the International Atomic Energy Agency," he added.
It is "not clear what Trump's long term strategy is with Iran," West said.
"Although Trump says he wants to avoid Middle Eastern entanglements, he already has sent additional troops to that region and may have to send more to protect American interests," West said.
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Football Edged by Middlebury in Thriller, 35-31
Middlebury (4-0) 0 28 0 7 35
Amherst (3-1) 3 7 7 14 31
Pa: Ollie Eberth - 148
Ru: Hasani Figueroa - 109
Rec: James O'Regan - 151
Pa: Jared Lebowitz - 205
Ru: Peter Scibilia - 66
Rec: Frank Cosolito - 58
Time of Poss.
AMHERST, Mass. – Hasani Figueroa '18 rushed for 109 yards and a touchdown and James O'Regan '20 hauled in seven catches for 151 yards and a TD to help the Mammoths outscore the visiting Panthers 21-7 in the second half, however a 28 point second quarter by the visitors proved to be the difference maker as the Amherst College football team was edged by Middlebury College, 35-31 Saturday afternoon at Pratt Field at Lehrman Stadium.
With the setback, Amherst moves to 3-1 on the season, while Middlebury improves to 4-0 overall. Amherst returns to action on Saturday, Oct. 14 when they travel to Colby College (0-4) for a 1 p.m. matchup.
Staunch defensive performances highlighted the first four possessions of the contest, as neither side was able to gain more than 24 yards in their first two offensive drives.
Breaking through with 1:28 remaining in the first quarter, O'Regan hauled in catches of 13 and 20 yards to help the Mammoths drive 53 yards downfield and set up a field goal. Tasked with a 21 yard attempt, John Rak '19 drilled the kick through the uprights to give Amherst an early 3-0 lead.
Middlebury responded on their next possession, as Jared Lebowitz found Maxim Bochman in the end zone and Carter Massengill converted on the PAT to cap off a 17 play, 81 yard drive and give the Panthers a 7-3 edge.
Continuing to hold momentum in the second quarter, the Panthers registered three unanswered scores to set the score at 28-3 with 3:58 remaining before halftime. Pinning the Mammoths inside their own 26 yard line twice on their next three possessions, Middlebury capitalized on the opportunity as Kevin Hopsicker and Wesley Becton logged pick sixes at the 8:48 and 4:21 marks, respectively, to give the Panthers a 21-3 lead.
The Middlebury offense earned a short field after an Amherst fumble at their own 15 yard line following an 11 yard kickoff return. Lebowitz made the most of the situation as he lofted a 27 yard pass to Frank Cosolito in the end zone to give the Panthers a 25 point cushion.
Amherst began clawing back into the game on their next possession, as a 30 yard return by Avery Saffold '20 proved to be the start of a shift in momentum. Needing just four plays to find the end zone, Jack Hickey '19 closed out the scoring drive as he cut to the right side and dragged two Panthers over the goal line to record the 34 yard TD rush and set the score at 28-10 entering intermission.
Added seven more points to the board on their first drive of the third quarter, the Mammoths cut their deficit to 28-17 following a pitch to Figueroa and an 82 yard TD run down the left sideline with 12:31 on the clock in the stanza.
Extending their lead 37 seconds into the fourth quarter, Middlebury made it a 35-17 game following a seven play, 66 yard drive. Lining up at the Amherst 31, Lebowitz dropped a pass into the arms of Conrado Banky in the top right corner of the end zone.
The Mammoths struck on their next possession to bring the home team within 11 points, as Ollie Eberth '20 finished 5-for-5 on the seven play, 55 yard scoring drive. Bo Berluti '19 caught a 27 yard pass on a third-and-12 opportunity to set Amherst up at the Middlebury four yard line, before Eberth connected with Harry Boeschenstein '20 in the back of the end zone to make it 35-24 with 11:22 to play.
Taking the snap at his own 18 yard line, Eberth found a wide open O'Reagan on the right sideline for an 81 yard touchdown pass as the Mammoths pulled within four, 35-31, with 7:51 remaining in the fourth quarter.
The Amherst defense forced a quick 58 second three-and-out to give the Mammoths offense another chance, however Middlebury responded in kind and then ran out the last 4:56 behind three first downs to hold on to the 35-31 victory.
Eberth finished 7-for-12 for 148 yards with two touchdowns and an interception, while Reece Foy went 7-for-14 for 54 yards and two interceptions.
Figueroa led the Mammoths running game with 109 yards on 10 carries and TD, while Hickey added a TD and 80 yards on 12 carries. O'Regan posted a game-high 151 yards through the air, while Berluti hauled in five passes for 42 yards.
Rak, John Callahan '19, Jack Barrett '19 and Andrew Sommer '19 each notched six tackles to lead the Mammoths defense. Sommer added a pass breakup, while Saffold chipped in two breakups and Nate Tyrell '19 added another.
Lebowitz went 22-for-39 with 205 yards and three touchdowns, while Peter Scibilia led Middlebury's rushing game with 18 attempts for 67 yards.
Cosolito and Banky each eclipsed the 50 yard mark, with Cosolito making six catches for 58 yards and Banky gaining 52 yards on five catches.
With eight tackles, including six solo, and an interception, Kevin Hopsicker led the Panthers defense, while Aaron Slodowitz notched seven tackles. Kevin Maxwell and Fred DiTommaso each recorded a sack for Middlebury, while Jonathan Hobart forced a fumble.
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Almost 200 Chicago high school students from over 30 schools participated in the challenge, which encourages students to volunteer on campaigns for aldermanic candidates, said Meghan Goldenstein, elections and action program director for Mikva Challenge.
The experience of campaigning can really empower young people by giving them the opportunity and experience to be an integral part of the election process, Goldenstein said.
“If you campaign, you can actually have a greater impact than just voting because you can get more than one vote for a candidate,”she said.
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If an alderman is not living up to his or her word, then young people should volunteer for challengers and “try to fight back and increase the level of communication and work ethic in the ward,” the 17-year-old said.
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Synopsis: The Human Brent arrives on the Planet of the Apes in search of Taylor and his crew.
Reaction: Not as great as the original movie and considerably bleak in its outlook, but there are still several elements from this movie that have become classic in the Sci Fi genre.
Personal Rating: 6/10
"Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout."
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Pierre Boulle => Inspired by Novel "La plan�te des singes"
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David Watson => Cornelius
Don Pedro Colley => Negro
James Franciscus => Brent
James Gregory => Ursus
Jeff Corey => Caspay
Kim Hunter => Zira
Linda Harrison => Nova
Lou Wagner => Lucius
Maurice Evans => Dr. Zaius
Natalie Trundy => Albina
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The only film in the original series of five that does not star Roddy McDowall. Despite this, McDowall is often pictured on video and DVD packaging for this film. Roddy McDowall was unable to appear in this film because he was committed to another project. He can, however, be spotted briefly in the opening prologue, even though another actor plays the role later in the film.
Burt Reynolds was considered the lead role of John Brent.
Orson Welles was offered the role of General Ursus which he turned down.
This was the first appearance of Natalie Trundy in the "Apes" series. She is the only person to play both a human and an ape in the series.
James Franciscus was cast as Brent due to his resemblance to Charlton Heston.
An alternate ending was written where Taylor, Brent and Nova escape the underground prior to the bomb's detonation (it wasn't written as a doomsday bomb yet). They return to Ape City and, along with Zira and Cornelius, release the humans from the cages and a new order is begun. The script ends hundreds of years later with the Lawgiver teaching a group of ape and human children sitting in harmony together. The "Lawgiver Scene" was resurrected as the framing structure for Battle for the Planet of the Apes. The final shot of the script shows a mutated gorilla emerging from the underground and fatally shooting a flying dove.
Charlton Heston claims in the documentary Behind the Planet of the Apes that he personally suggested the ending, saying, "Why don't I just set off this bomb and destroy the world. That's the end of the sequels."
Originally, there was going to be a scene featuring a half-human/half-ape child. However, the producers were afraid that not only would the scene be too confusing, but that they would also lose their "G" rating.
As of January 2008 the total domestic gross for Beneath the Planet of the Apes is estimated at $18,999,718. Because of its modest budget of just $3 million, percentage-wise "Beneath," despite wide agreement that it's one of the worst of the series, has remained the most profitable of all the "Apes" films, including the 2001 remake.
According to the book Planet of the Apes Revisited, Don Pedro Colley's character is named "Ono Goro" in the screenplay. Colley was bemused to discover that he was credited as "Negro" in the end titles.
Charlton Heston was reluctant to reprise the role of George Taylor for this movie. He eventually agreed on condition that his scenes had to be shot within a two week period. He also insisted that Taylor had to be killed. He agreed to a compromise in which he'd disappear in the beginning of the film and reappear to die at the end.
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Buraja
Education: In 1997 achieved a Bachelor’s Degree in Acting and started the Direction Studies at Lithuanian Academy of Music. In 2003 achieved a Master’s Degree in Theatre and TV Direction at Lithuanian Academy of Music.
Work activities: Since 2001. She created seven documentaries and one feature films.
„MAMA“/ “MAMA”
2001, documentary, 16 min., Beta SP, colour, mono.
Sleepwalkers Students Film Festival, Estonia, 2000 - Diploma to the Best Documentary Film;
Fasts Fest Weekend International Student Festival, Ukraine, 2000 - Special Certificate;
Visions of Life Film Festival, Norway 2000 - Special Certificate;
Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany, 2001 - Special Mention of the Jury for a contribution showing a particular artistic development;
Dubrovnik Documentary Film Festival, Croatia, 2001 - Prize in the Filmschool competition;
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, 2002 - Grand Prix (Digital Competition);
“VAPNA”/”VAPNA”
“DIENORAŠTIS/ THE DIARY”
2003m., documentary, 20 min., Beta SP, color, mono.
Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, Lab competition - Grand Prix;
Cinematexas film festival, Texas, USA – Screenplay Award;
International Documentary Film Festival, Competition Program of "Iron Wolf", Amsterdam, Netherlands;
COURTisane short film festival, Belgium;
The Norvegian Short Film Festival, International Documentary program;
Labuskie Lato Filmowe, Lagow, Poland;
Riga International Film Forum "Arsenals", Latvia;
Festival Internacional de filmets, de Badalona, Spain;
Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - Grand Prix;
Media City International festival of experimental film and video art, Canada;
PDX Festival, USA;
INPUT Conference, San Francisko;
“SESERYS DVYNĖS”/ “SISTERS AND TWINS”
2004, feature, 56 min., DVcam, colour.
“KRETOS SALA”/ “THE ISLAND OF CRETE”
2007, documentary, 24 min., DVcam, colour.
Cinema du Reel, Paris, France;
The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Leipzig, Germany;
“IŠPAŽINTIS”/ “THE CONFESSION”
Kinoshock film festival, Anapa, Russia, 2009 - special jury award “For the creative courage while working with the theme and for the presentation of the unpresentable”;
55-th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, official selection, competition;
“AKIMIRKOS”/ “INSTANTS”
2009, documentary, 30 min, DVcam, colour.
“LIZA, NAMO!”/ “LIZA, GO HOME!”
2012, documentary, 27 min., HD, colour.
Premiere:
World premiere – 55th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Short Documentary Competition;
National premiere – 10th European Film Forum Scanorama;
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New Analysis Confirms Economic Benefits of Proposed Paid Sick Leave Ordinance in Austin
Home/Austin City Council, Paid Sick Days/New Analysis Confirms Economic Benefits of Proposed Paid Sick Leave Ordinance in Austin
Communities and businesses in Austin could see over $8 million in annual net savings should Austin implement the paid sick leave ordinance sponsored by Council Member Casar and co-sponsored by Mayor Pro Tem Tovo, Council Member Ann Kitchen, and Council Member Delia Garza, according to a new analysis from Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). Council members and local businesses should be reassured of the benefits of paid sick days for all workers in Austin.
The proposed paid sick leave ordinance for Austin workers could provide over $8 million in annual net savings to the community and businesses, which includes the following:
When weighing the benefits for employers against costs, Austin businesses are expected to save $4.5 million (net) annually.
Additionally, the community is expected to save about $3.8 million annually on health care expenses as a result of expanded access to paid sick days.
There are also a number of benefits to workers, businesses, and the community not captured by the cost-benefit calculation, including reduced workplace injuries, increased use of preventive care services, more timely treatment of illnesses, and improved employment and income stability.
Over 40 cities, counties, and states across the country have passed laws that protect their workers with paid sick days. In 2017, IWPR found that an estimated 37% of the Austin workforce lacks paid sick time. Over 211,000 private sector workers would be able to earn paid sick days if the ordinance proposed by Council Member Casar becomes law.
The data overwhelmingly support the need for this new policy. The real “cost” that we can see for the community would be the cost of doing nothing.
Austin City Council will take up the ordinance for a vote on Thursday, and Work Strong Austin along with community members will be there to have a rally and to testify. Find more info on that here.
Laura Rosen
Austin City Council, Paid Sick Days
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1991, Park Circus/MGM, 118 min, USA, Dir: Jonathan Demme
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Displaced Haitians could be home within 12 to 24 months
Kit Miyamoto
Many of 1.3 million Haitians living in crowded displacement camps could be back in safe homes within 12 months to 24 months, says earthquake structural engineer and post-disaster expert Dr. Kit Miyamoto.
Working with the Pan American Development Foundation, in cooperation with the Haitian Ministry of Public Works (MTPTC) and the UN's Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Miyamoto and a MTPTC team of 250 specially trained structural engineers are wrapping up the most comprehensive inspection of 400,000 homes in the capital.
Despite the widespread damage caused by the quake, approximately 20 percent of dwellings are unsafe and should be demolished - while 50 percent are safe for occupancy and some 30 percent are in need of repairs.
"In most cases, these homes can be repaired in less than three days for $1,000 to $1500 each," says Miyamoto, who spoke at an Organization of American States meeting on Oct. 27. "The math adds up. That means 800,000 people could leave the camps and go to repaired homes."
Miyamoto says the speed by which the people can leave the camps depends on money to repair the homes. "The Haitian engineers and MTPTC are doing a very effective job," Miyamoto says. "Their work ethic is admirable."
Amy Coughenour, deputy executive director of PADF, adds: "The emphasis now needs to be on rebuilding neighborhoods, returning families to their homes and restoring livelihoods. It is critical that we and other groups receive the financial support to carry out this important mission."
Miyamoto, who was driven by PADF into Port-au-Prince a week after the devastating earthquake, has worked in more than 20 post disaster countries, including China, Indonesia and Turkey. He and his firm have remained in Haiti since January. www.ImUnitedforHaiti.org
PADF, with a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development, contracted Miyamoto International to train Haitian structural engineers under the MTPTC management to inspect buildings and "tag" them using international standards: A red tag indicates heavy damage and is unsafe; yellow tag indicates some damages; green tag means it is safe for occupancy.
In addition to PADF's 100 engineers, Miyamoto has trained an additional 500 for the MTPTC. These MTPTC engineers have inspected 320,000 buildings in the earthquake affected area.
Together, MTPTC, PADF and Miyamoto are now training masons and contractors to repair 2,000 yellow-tagged homes.
During the inspection process, the engineers identified 12 types of crack patterns - which are spray painted on the wall. When contractors arrive to a yellow-tagged home, they are able to match the inspection with government-authorized repairs.
"Our job is to be professors," says Miyamoto of the program to train Haitian masons. "The masons ask questions all the time. Their masons are quite good. We just need to refine their techniques. It doesn't take much to bring them up to international standards."
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ITU Adopted Huawei's Video MOS Proposal
Huawei announced that "During the recent ITU-T SG12 Q13/12 and Q14/12 interim meetings held in Berlin Germany:
Huawei’s proposed video MOS Umbrella WID project (G.vidmos) was adopted. The project will provide video MOS evaluation guidelines to the industry with consideration of different classification of related factors.
Concurrently, the modification of ITU-T Rec. P.800.1 "Mean Opinion Score (MOS) terminology" with the inclusion of video MOS standardized definitions, suggested by Huawei delegates, was agreed in the meeting.
During the meeting, Huawei made a proposal to differentiate the PC and Mobile scenarios based on extensive market analysis. It was also proposed to proceed with H. 265 and 4K resolution video MOS evaluation as soon as possible as one of the next phases of work priorities for video MOS.
Meanwhile, as one of the active participants among video MOS companies, Huawei submitted the audio, video, and audiovisual MOS evaluation models to ITU-T SG12 P.NATS project. This model can be used for the evaluation of real time encryption/non-encryption-based media stream OTT"
See "Huawei’s Proposed Video MOS Work Item Gains Approval by ITU-T" - here.
Labels: Huawei, streaming video
Sweden: ISPs Cannot Be Forced to Block Pirate Bay
THE LOCAL SE reports that "In a landmark decision, a Swedish court on Friday ruled that the country's internet service providers cannot be forced to block controversial Swedish file-sharing site Pirate Bay. After considering the case for almost a month, the District Court of Stockholm ruled that copyright holders could not make Swedish ISP Bredbandsbolaget block Pirate Bay"
Related post - "How will Pirate Bay Avoid Blocking?" - here.
"The court found that Bredbandsbolaget's operations do not amount to participation in the copyright infringement offences carried out by some of its 'pirate' subscribers.
The action was brought by Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, Nordisk Film and the Swedish Film Industry, who teamed up in a lawsuit last year designed to force Bredbandsbolaget to block the site. They claimed that, unless it blocks Pirate Bay, Bredbandsbolaget should be held responsible for the copyright infringements of its customers".
See "Swedish court: 'We cannot ban Pirate Bay'" - here.
Labels: BitTorrent, blocking traffic, Bredbandsbolaget, Pirate Bay, Sweden
US Patent for Distributed DPI Granted to Ericsson
A new US patent was granted to Francisco Cortes Gomez of Ericsson, for "DISTRIBUTED TRAFFIC INSPECTION IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK" (here)
Distributed Traffic Inspection in a Telecommunications Network Technical Field
The present invention relates to methods for traffic inspection in a telecommunications network and to corresponding devices. Background
In telecommunications networks, inspection of a payload section of data packets may be used for enabling smarter network decisions, e.g., with respect to controlling data traffic. For example, the inspection may be used as a basis for providing differentiated treatment of traffic based on potentially complex characteristics of the data traffic itself. This differentiated treatment may involve acting on the data traffic itself, e.g., by discarding data packets, modifying data packets, throttling transmission rates, or the like. Further, the differentiated treatment may involve taking actions related to the data traffic, e.g., charging or replication of the data traffic for law enforcement purposes or monitoring. Such inspection of payload may be implemented as Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). DPI functionalities may for example be integrated in nodes conveying user plane traffic, e.g., in a gateway or transport node.
However, DPI may require significant amounts of processing resources. Accordingly, implementation of DPI in a node conveying user plane traffic may result in performance degradation of functionalities needed for conveying the user plane traffic. Such performance degradation may be up to several orders of magnitude.
In addition, the processing load caused by DPI may depend strongly not only on the complexity of implemented inspection algorithms, but also on the nature of inspected data traffic. For example, a high proportion of data traffic which is "easy to classify" may lead to relatively low processing load, while a high proportion of data traffic which is "hard to classify" may lead to a processing load which is significantly higher, e.g., up to several orders of magnitude, even if the absolute amount of conveyed data traffic remains unchanged. Although a statistical distribution of data traffic between „easy to classify" and „hard to classify" may be assumed as a general rule, this may alleviate high load variance within relatively short periods of time, but typically does not alleviate impacts from new traffic patterns or addition of complex services. For instance, the dissemination of a new virus/worm requiring complex detection rules, or the success of a new peer-to-peer product may significantly increase DPI load on a rather short time scale.
DPI may also be implemented in specialized nodes. Such nodes may be optimized for DPI and offer sufficiently high processing resources. However, as additional devices such specialized nodes typically require high-capacity network ports for transfer of the user plane data traffic. This applies to the specialized node itself, but also to other nodes connected to the specialized node. Such high-capacity network ports may contribute significantly to the overall cost of a node. Further, such specialized nodes are typically designed to offer processing resources which are sufficient to perform also very complex inspection and classification algorithms at high speed, which may result in significant costs for a given throughput of user plane data. In scenarios where the user plane data traffic has a high proportion of "easy to classify" data the expensive hardware of the specialized node would be utilized inefficiently. Moreover, such a specialized node may constitute an additional potential point of failure and add complexity to any high-availability transport network design.
Accordingly, there is a need for techniques which allow for efficiently inspecting traffic in a telecommunications network. Summary
According to an embodiment of the invention, a method of inspecting data traffic in a telecommunications network is provided. According to the method, a node of the telecommunications network receives data packets of a flow. The node also forwards the received data packets of the flow to a downstream node of the telecommunications network. Further, the node takes a decision whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the node. The node indicates a result of this decision to the downstream node.
According to a further embodiment of the invention, a method of inspecting data traffic in a telecommunications network is provided. According to the method, a node of the telecommunications network receives data packets of a flow from an upstream node of the telecommunications network. Further, the node receives an indication of a result of a decision by the upstream node whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the upstream node. On the basis of the indicated result of said decision by the upstream node, the node takes a decision whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the node. According to a further embodiment of the invention, a node for a telecommunications network is provided. The node comprises at least one first interface for receiving data packets of a flow, at least one second interface for forwarding the received data packets to a downstream node of the telecommunications network, and a processor. The processor is configured to take a decision whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the node and to indicate, e.g., via the second interface, a result of the decision to the downstream node.
According to a further embodiment of the invention, a node for a telecommunications network is provided. The node comprises at least one interface for receiving data packets of a flow from an upstream node of the telecommunications network and a processor configured to receive, e.g., via the interface, an indication of a result of a decision by the upstream node whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the upstream node of the telecommunications network. Further, the processor is configured to take, on the basis of the indicated result of said decision by the upstream node, a decision whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the node. According to a further embodiment of the invention, a system for inspecting data traffic in a telecommunications network is provided. The system comprises a first node and a second node.
The first node is configured to receive data packets of a flow, forward the data packets of the flow to the second node, take a first decision whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the first node, and indicate a result of the first decision to the second node. The second node is configured to receive the data packets of the flow from the first node and, on the basis of the result of the first decision indicated by the first node, take a second decision whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the second node. According to a further embodiment of the invention, a computer program product is provided, e.g., in the form of a computer readable storage medium, the computer program product comprises computer readable program code that, when executed by a processor of a node of a mobile telecommunications network, causes the node to operate in accordance with any of the above methods.
Labels: DPI, Ericsson, patent
BICS Implemented BroadForward Diameter Signaling Controller; Replaces Oracle?
BICS announced it has launched a "Next Generation signaling solution delivered and implemented by leading network solutions provider Infradata .. Infradata has implemented the BroadForward BFX Interface Gateway, a Next Generation Diameter Signaling Controller (DSC) with fully integrated Diameter Edge Agent (DEA) and interworking function across BICS' entire global IPX (IP Exchange) network".
It seems that BroadForward BICS deployment replaces the ACME (Oracle) solution used by BICS since December 2012 (here).
Broadforward GUI Based Configuration
"With the migration to BFX, Infradata has equipped BICS with a state-of-the-art Diameter Signaling Solution to cost-effectively enable innovative IPX services, as well as the ability to faster onboard new customers, generate detailed traffic insight and seamless interworking between Diameter, SS7 and RADIUS networks along with integration with IT systems"
See "Infradata Implements Next Generation Diameter Signaling Solution at BICS" - here.
Labels: BICS, BroadForward, Diameter Router, Oracle
GSA: 270 5G Networks by 2025, Driven by Capacity for Video and Ultralow Latency
A new report (here) from GSA predicts "over 270 5G networks will be deployed by 2025 and points to two significant trends that are driving the wireless industry to develop 5G network technology. These are:
the explosive growth in demand for wireless broadband services, which require faster and higher capacity networks to deliver video
other content-rich services and the predicted massive growth of Internet of Things (IoT) applications – some of which will require ultralow latency and need highly reliable IP connectivity".
See also "GSA's 5G Consensus Insights" - here.
"The report, from the GSA Executive Committee of Ericsson, Huawei and Qualcomm, is the first of its kind and will be updated twice a year.
See "GSA predicts over 270 5G networks by 2025 in the first Executive Committee report 'The Road to 5G'" - here.
Labels: 5G, GSA
ALU to Offer Vedicis' Smart Data as a Managed Service
Vedicis and Alcatel-Lucent’s managed services business announce an "industry-unique service and business model to put clients and subscribers at the heart of service providers’ decision making process .. Smart Data as a Service is a Managed Information Service that complements or replaces the traditional CAPEX model based on hardware, software, storage and analytics by providing a simple access to information for network, marketing, contact centre stakeholders, based on virtualized software and service platforms.
The main value proposition of Smart Data as a Service consists of:
Drive customer centric transformation: Adopt and extend a client 360 degrees view to all customers
One Service Multiple facets: Leveraging consistent and critical set of data
Subscribers, usage, devices, location, net technology, etc
Capacity planning, network operations, profiling and marketing, revenue assurance, legal compliance, etc.
Speed, time to deliver value: operational in weeks, removing technology, skills and geography barriers
Pay for what you focus on: Get what you need, avoid upfront investment, maximize return on investment
Real-time: Cut data collection, processing and editing time to seconds
See "Smart Data As A service with Alcatel-Lucent Managed Services" - here.
Labels: Alcatel-Lucent, DPI, Vedicis
Sandvine Receives (Another) $4M Order
No confusion here - it is the 2nd time in 3 days that Sandvine announces that it has "..received a software license expansion order for more than $4 million".
This time "covering its deployments in the mobile properties of a major multi-national operator group in the Caribbean and Latin America region. The order reflects growth in the customers’ deployments of Sandvine’s Network Analytics, Traffic Management and Usage Management solutions".
See "Sandvine Receives $4 Million Software Expansion Order From Mobile Properties Of Major Operator Group" - here.
Labels: DPI Market, Sandvine
Citrix De-invests ByteMobile; Blaming Encryption
Citrix acquired Bytemobile in July 2012 (here) for $435M (see "Citrix Expects $15M Bytemobile Revenues in 4Q12" - here) the then leading vendor of video optimization for mobile networks.
Expectation did not met, and during this year Citrix made several announcements about "Exploring Alternatives" for the product line (see "Citrix: Bytemobile Business Declined by 50%" - here).
So the final decision has been made. Closing.
Patrick Lopez, Founder and CEO,{Core Analysis} reports that "Citrix has decided to "de-invest" in the ByteMobile product line that was initially reported for sale. Citrix provided this week an update in an investor's call, on the results of its strategic review that was announced in September.
Executives commented:
"The underlying premises for the acquisition of ByteMobile have now vanished.We acquired the company for its ability to optimize video traffic,but today a significant amount of the video traffic is encrypted and can no longer be optimized. [...] We will transition some of the capabilities in the NetScaler product but for the most part phasing that product line out."The company mentioned that ByteMobile revenue for 2015 were expected around $50m and breaking even. XenServer will also be discontinued (unsurprisingly looking at VMWare and KVM's relative success)".
Related post from September 2014: "Flash Networks (40%) and Citrix (30%) Lead the Mobile Optimization Market" - here.
See "Citrix shuts down ByteMobile" - here.
Labels: Bytemobile, citrix
Mellanox Launches Programmable Adapter (Offloads DPI)
Mellanox Technologies announced the "ConnectX®-4 Lx Programmable adapter to enable public and private clouds, Web 2.0 infrastructures, telecommunications, and high-performance computing infrastructures to achieve the highest performance and maximum flexibility.
The ConnectX-4 Lx Programmable adapter provides users with the maximum flexibility to offload CPU utilization by migrating portions of their data processing logic to an on-board Xilinx FPGA [10/40Gb/s FPGA as ‘bump-on-the-wire’], while taking advantage of Mellanox network controller’s hardware-based application accelerations, unmatched scalability and efficiency.
The ConnectX-4 Lx Programmable adapter can be used to accelerate a wide range of network applications, including Security, Deep Packet Inspection, Compression/Decompression, High-Frequency Trading and many more. Thus, it optimizes and achieves the highest performance in modern data centers, private and public clouds, Web 2.0 infrastructure, telecommunications and high-performance computing".
See "Mellanox Announces ConnectX-4 Lx Programmable Adapter with Onboard Xilinx FPGA Acceleration" - here.
Labels: DPI, Mellanox
Sandvine Receives $4M Order
Policy Traffic Switch 32000
Sandvine announced that it has "..received an expansion order for more than $4 million. The order expands the implementation of Sandvine’s solutions for a major fixed line Communications Service Provider in North America that has been a customer since 2005 .. The customer is using Sandvine’s products to provide business intelligence for capacity planning, customer experience measurement, and other strategic initiatives.
The purchase relates to Sandvine’s Policy Traffic Switch (PTS) 32000 [see "Sandvine Adds a 200Gbps/2RU Appliance w/100GE Interfaces" - here] hardware. Approximately $1 million of the order value is expected to be recognized as revenue in the company’s fourth quarter, with the remainder to be recognized in FY 2016".
See "Sandvine Receives $4 Million Order For Market-Leading 100 GE PTS 32000 Platform" - here.
Labels: 100G, DPI Market, Sandvine
Openwave: 3 Tier1 Operators Deployed SDM Solution (Verizon?)
Openwave Mobility announced that "three Tier-1 operators have deployed its Subscriber Data Management (SDM) solutions:
Openwave Mobility maintains the largest SDM/UDR (User Data Repository) deployment in the world with over 130 million subscribers at a Tier-1 operator in North America
[At the end of Q3, 2015, Verizon had 137.553M and AT&T had 126.406 wireless subscribers - here. Openwave could not comment due to NDA with the cusotmer].
The SDM solutions are also being deployed with a Tier-1 operator in Japan
One of the largest group operators based in Europe.
SDM is being utilized by these operators to address critical use cases such as UDR and identity management solutions. Some of these operators are now looking to deploy IoT devices.
In addition, Openwave Mobility has deployed its Smart User Repository (SUR) with several operators. SUR seeks to provide centralized management of all subscriber data. This allows operators to reduce service innovation cycles by exploiting common subscriber information"
See "Three Tier-1 Global Operators Deploy Openwave Mobility’s Subscriber Data Management Solutions" - here.
Labels: Openwave Mobility, SDM
Akamai Expands HTTP/2 Deployment
Akamai Technologies announced that it is now "..actively working with more than 150 customers to deliver HTTP/2-enabled websites and is expanding its HTTP/2 program to all customers using qualifying products to deliver TLS encrypted web content.
HTTP/2 represents the first major update to the HTTP network protocol in nearly 20 years. Although websites have dramatically evolved during this time, HTTP, the underlying protocol of the Web, has not. Through features and capabilities such as multiplexing and concurrency, header compression, server push, support for the latest cipher suites, and an overall reduction in development complexity, HTTP/2 is intended to significantly improve the performance and security/privacy of today’s Web.
More than 70 percent of requests on Akamai’s CDN currently come from HTTP/2 compliant browsers; however, some older browser versions will continue to be used for the foreseeable future. Therefore, Akamai’s implementation of HTTP/2 has been designed to use real-time network and end-user intelligence to dynamically apply the appropriate performance optimizations to ensure the best performance for each user. In addition, we believe Akamai is well positioned to offer the tools and intelligence required to take full advantage of the move to HTTP/2. For example, easy‑to‑use, self-service and highly granular configurability allows customers to control the deployment of HTTP/2, while built-in monitoring and reporting helps measure the impact"
HTTP/2 attempts to solve many of the shortcomings and inflexibilities of HTTP/1.1. Its many benefits include:
Multiplexing and concurrency: Several requests can be sent in rapid succession on the same TCP connection, and responses can be received out of order - eliminating the need for multiple connections between the client and the server
Stream dependencies: the client can indicate to the server which of the resources are more important than the others
Header compression: HTTP header size is drastically reduced
Server push: The server can send resources the client has not yet requested
See "Akamai Helps Drive Adoption Of Faster And More Secure Web Protocol" - here.
Labels: Akamai, CDN, Optimization, TCP/IP
RAD, Sandvine and CenturyLink Showcase Application–aware Networking Solutions
RAD, in collaboration with Sandvine and CenturyLink, announced that they are "conducting a joint Proof of Concept (PoC) demonstration .. The three companies will showcase application–aware service level agreement networking solutions, designed for communications service providers (CSPs) .. The PoC will demonstrate powerful three core capabilities, including assured connectivity for Carrier Ethernet and IP, as well as application-aware visibility and policy control
RAD and Sandvine will demonstrate how their award-winning Service Assured Access and Cloud Services Policy Controller solutions are integrated in an application-aware networking architecture designed to help service providers, like CenturyLink, deliver highly reliable and intelligent business services.
RAD's Service Assured Access
In particular, RAD’s programmable MiNID provides powerful SLA assurances, application aware networking, and packet capture capabilities in a very convenient “plug wherever you need” SFP sleeve form factor that is ideal for introducing innovative service offerings into existing networks without the need for forklift upgrades.
See "RAD, Sandvine and CenturyLink Will Conduct Application-Aware Networking with SLA Assurance Joint Proof of Concept at GEN 15 Conference" - here.
Labels: Application Aware Networking, CenturyLink, DPI, RAD, Sandvine
Guavus Launches New Customer Experience Analytics Apps
Guavus announced the "..launch of a new suite of applications to enable the next generation of contextual customer experience analytics that fully illustrate the customer journey across networks and services.
The new application suite enables Service Providers to correlate and fuse petabytes of streaming and operational data with customer data in real-time transforming the Customer Experience Management (CEM) and Marketing functions towards real-time, contextual customer care and proactive business processes.
The Customer Experience Analytics suite leverages the same data framework as Guavus’ Service Reflex application, which provides insights into service operations, thus providing customers with a complete end-to-end view of the operating environment.
The next-generation Guavus Customer Experience suite is built around two core analytics applications that leverage a common framework for maximum reusability and extensibility:
Care Reflex: provides customer care agents with unprecedented and granular near real-time insights to determine the precise impactful events affecting the quality of experience at critical points in the customer journey by subscriber. As a result, problems are identified and resolved faster and subscribers receive personalized service that improves customer satisfaction and reduces churn.
Marketing Reflex: enables operators to gain a greater understanding of subscribers’ interests to strengthen their competitive position against digital providers and find new revenue opportunities to overcome flat ARPU.
See "Guavus Introduces a New Customer Experience Analytics Suite Powered by Fast Data Operational Intelligence" - here.
Labels: CEM, Guavus, Network Intelligence
Procera Launches Virtual Experience Probe
Procera Networks announced the release of its ".. game-changing Virtual Experience Probe, eVolution.
Engineered to deliver intelligence to real-time analytics systems, eVolution is an all-virtual data enablement solution that empowers fixed, cable, mobile and WiFi operators to enhance the subscriber experience, by providing contextual intelligence they can act upon immediately.
Rather than simply providing raw byte counts that are delivered by traditional probing systems, eVolution provides a broader subscriber view that enables an operator to take advantage of the intelligence in real-time with discount or turbo offers or for customer care problem resolution .. eVolution is available for purchase now.
The eVolution data probe runs in VMware or KVM virtualization environments on COTS hardware, and is the world’s first fully scalable real-time big data source for network intelligence based on native DPI technology. eVolution is differentiated by:
Infrastructure and Vendor agnostic data acquisition
Real-time virtualized software with highly optimized performance on COTS hardware
Deployment flexibility for a broad ecosystem of customers: carriers, enterprises, system integrators, OEMs, channel partners, and third party big data providers
Flexible data and KPI formats for use by big data repositories
Best cost per subscriber value designed to augment or displace cumbersome and expensive passive probing solutions
eVolution’s base solution enables traditional DPI visibility through Traffic Perspectives, with additional Perspectives available to provide a comprehensive view into Subscriber, Routing, Device, Score, RAN, and Content data. These Perspectives are used to enhance the subscriber-focused data feed even further and give a holistic view of the subscriber experience.
See "Procera Networks Launches eVolutionTM Virtual Experience Probe for Broadband Operators" - here.
Labels: DPI, Network Intelligence, NFV, Procera, Subscriber Intelligence
DNA [Finland] to Roll-Out Comtel's New Mobile Data Purchase SaaS Solution
Comptel Corporation unveiled a "disruptive solution that both simplifies how consumers purchase mobile data, and gives operators the power to maximise mobile data revenues .. The company’s new FWD solution consists of a native application (app), which lets users buy mobile data packets directly from their Android smartphones whenever they want. Rather than purchasing an inflexible plan based on megabytes or gigabytes, consumers can select a simple, time-based data option, ranging from as short as a minute to as long as a month, and enjoy full use of the Internet
.. FWD is Comptel’s first SaaS solution and was developed within NXT, the company’s very own start-up incubator.
For example, as soon as a consumer opens up Twitter, or any other app requiring an Internet connection, on her mobile device, she gets a list of available mobile data offers. The consumer selects her desired option, and FWD connects her to the Internet within seconds. Now, she can browse her Twitter feed and explore the Internet without boundaries. She can also check her mobile connection status and extend it at any time.
FWD includes a versatile tool, empowering operators to create, sell and market mobile data offers in real time – without needing to modify their network at all. The tool embeds insightful and actionable analytics, so operators can understand their customers like never before. They may price mobile data dynamically, for example, during peak usage times or “happy hours,” enabling them to better monetise mobile data and to efficiently utilise their existing network infrastructure.
DNA, the leading provider of prepaid mobile subscriptions in Finland, is expected to roll out the service soon to prepaid customers in Finland, making Finnish consumers among the first in the world to enjoy FWD"
See "Comptel Unveils FWD to Help Mobile Operators Win the Race for the Next Two Billion Internet Users" - here.
Labels: Comptel, DNA
Amdocs on Network Optimization Competition
During Amdocs' Q4 2015 earning call, a question was asked about the network optimization market, to which the company has entered using several acquisitions - Celcite (2014, $129M, here) and Actix (2013, $120M, here)
[related post - "Amdocs CEO: 'Network Optimization Business is Slow'" - here]
[Q] Tom Roderick [pictured], Stifel Nicolaus, Analyst
.. Eli. Curious for your additional thoughts on the competitive landscape and the network optimization business. You mentioned, I think, obviously you guys have been the disruptor in that market. I know Cisco has made some moves competitively. Some of the other NEPs have, as well. What are they doing, what are the traditional network equipment providers doing to protect their position, whether it's through pricing or bundling or things of that nature and how, what are they doing as a response to your disruption in the market?
[A] Eli Gelman [pictured], President & CEO. Amdocs:
To be honest, the first thing they do is they try to use a lot of fear against us, because we are the new guys in this area. They will try to slow this thing as much as they can. They will not announce it necessarily, but we see from everywhere. It's not like a specific company I can tell you all the guys that are producing a lot of boxes are trying actively to slow down this trend. I don't think they can do it. Even if they slow it down, it would not take, let's say, five years to come to full fruition. Maybe it will take seven years. You can not slow this down.
And I'll tell you more than that. Carriers cannot afford not to do it, because otherwise, the big guys will do it themselves. Level 3 will do it. Amazon would do it. They will build their own networks. And if the carriers are not careful, both, by the way, MSOs, the Comcasts and the Charter of the world, and the AT&T and Verizon of the world, if they would not do it, other people will do it for them or to them. So they have to do it.
The providers will try to slow it as much as possible. They say that they are investing in it and all of that. I don't think so. And every time that they see that they are a buying company, we've seen in several cases like this, they kill the company. In other words, they buy companies that have some momentum in this area and especially to kill them and not to build them. And we have a very different opinion. We have a different opinion that we have infrastructure and new components and new theory and new approach to this entire thing. And we'll see. We'll have the best man win.
See "Edited Transcript of DOX earnings conference call or presentation 10-Nov-15 10:00pm GMT" - here.
Labels: Amazon, amdocs, Cisco, Level3, Optimization
Telecom Italia Deployed Qwilt to Improve OTT Streaming Video QoE
Qwilt announced that "Telecom Italia has deployed Qwilt's award-winning open caching solution to boost network capacity and improve quality of over-the-top (OTT) streaming video for its more than 30 million customers. Telecom Italia implemented Qwilt's solution to provide enhanced quality of experience (QoE) for its subscribers using online video and live streaming services from OTT content providers in Italy.
.. The operator deployed the Qwilt open cache solution over a year ago to create a scalable architecture for its network and has experienced improved performance that meets the needs of its customers.
Qwilt's solution is delivered as a fully managed service to speed deployment and streamline ongoing operation. The broader operator organization -- including network planning, engineering and operations teams -- benefits from comprehensive media analytics, which offer insights into growth trends, content sources and consumer preferences.
By relying on open caching for online video delivery at the network edge, operators can substantially reduce network capital and operational costs -- a typical open cache deployment yields a return on investment (ROI) in less than 12 months.
The open caching deployment at Telecom Italia was supported by local systems integrator Proxy.
See "Telecom Italia Deploys Qwilt to Optimize Over-the-Top Video Content for Improved Customer Quality of Experience" - here.
Labels: Optimization, Qwilt, Telecom Italia
C&W [Caribbean] Deploys Tektronix' Geoanalytics Platform
Tektronix Communications announced that "Cable & Wireless Communications will deploy its TrueCall® platform to reduce operating expenses and improve network and subscriber services.
TrueCall will be deployed for CWC networks operated under the LIME/Flow brand in the company’s Caribbean coverage area, and under the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) brand in the Bahamas.
With TrueCall, CWC can decrease its operating costs in a variety of ways, including:
Remote analysis of network performance in order to minimize travel and drive-test costs and increase efficiencies
Deep, rapid analysis and troubleshooting of subscriber and device performance
Planning and optimization of network capacity
Analysis and optimization of roaming-device performance on its network, translating directly into revenue benefits
Network planning based on historical event insight, identifying trends to better plan for expansions and services"
See "Cable & Wireless Communications to Deploy TrueCall® Geoanalytics Platform to Decrease OpEx, Improve Subscriber Experience" - here.
Labels: Tektronix Communications
Vodafone: 75% Growth in Mobile Traffic During H1 2015
Vodafone published its H1 results (here), with some interesting stats its services:
30m 4G customers (+10m in H1) in 19 markets
H1 mobile data traffic up 75%
record 400 petabytes of mobile data carried in Q2.
See "Vodafone Group Plc Half year results" - here.
Labels: LTE, Vodafone
EdgeConneX Shows 12-20% Improvement in Quality of Experience
EdgeConneX announced a "Conviva white paper that validates the EdgeConneX business model. The white paper quantifies significant improvements in Quality of Experience metrics for end-users of Internet content and the content creators themselves.
Conviva, the leader in Over the Top (OTT) video experience optimization for the world’s top media companies, measured the video data streams of multiple publishers that distributed EdgeConneX-enabled streams for a leading Internet Service Provider (ISP) in San Diego, CA. These measurements were compared against a peer network that did not utilize an edge localization strategy with EdgeConneX.
Conviva found that EdgeConneX-enabled streams produced a 12 to 20% improvement in re-buffering rates, which is a measurement of the percentage of the time a video is loading versus playing on an end-user’s device. Re-buffering rates are a clear indicator of the quality of a video. These rates are directly related to lengthier customer engagement times, greater customer satisfaction, and as a result, lower customer turnover and abandonment.
See "White Paper Confirms EdgeConneX Delivers Superior Video Experience" - here.
Labels: EdgeConneX, Optimization, OTT, QoE
Comcast Expands Usage Based Billing (Don't Worry - it's 300 GB)
Karl Bode reports to DSLReports that "Comcast continues to ignore customer backlash, and continues to dramatically expand the company's broadband usage caps and overage fees. A close look at Comcast's usage cap "trial" FAQ indicates that the company plans to quietly expand caps into Little Rock, Arkansas; Houma, LaPlace and Shreveport, Louisiana; Chattanooga, Greenville, Johnson City/Gray, Tennessee; and Galax, Virginia starting December 1.
In all of these markets users now face a 300 GB monthly usage cap, with $10 per 50 GB overage fees.
..A copy of the notice being sent to users informs them that they shouldn't worry about the caps, because the "median usage for XFINITY Internet customers is 40 GB of data in a month" and "it appears this new 300 GB data plan will not impact you."
See "Comcast Dramatically Expanding Usage Cap Areas December 1"- here.
Labels: Comcast, Usage Based Billing
GSA's 5G Consensus Insights
Some slides from a presentation given in Hong Kong at the Global Mobile Broadband Forum on November 4, 2015
source:GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association www.gsacom.com)
See "5G: CONSENSUS INSIGHTS FROM GSA EXECUTIVE MEMBERS" - here.
Astellia - $1M Contract with Econet Wireless [Zimbabwe]
Astellia announced "..the signature of a €1 million contract with Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe’s number one operator. Under the agreement, Econet will deploy Astellia’s vendor-independent solution on its 2G and 3G networks and will also get expert support from Astellia’s consulting team.
The Astellia solution allows Econet to closely monitor network performance, as the company takes concrete steps in its pledge to improve the quality of both its broadband and voice services"
Econetr's market information (Aug 31st, 2015):
"Astellia’s comprehensive monitoring solution features Packet Service Monitoring. This advanced module is designed to evaluate the quality of experience perceived from an end-user perspective for data services such as MMS, emails, video streaming and Internet. It will enable Econet’s optimization team to detect and investigate problems such as slow web browsing due for instance to congestion, inefficient transaction procedures or faulty handsets.
See "Econet Wireless calls upon Astellia's expertise to accelerate mobile broadband adoption" - here.
Labels: Astellia, Econet Wireless
Virgin Media [Ireland] Partners with Webroot for Free, Opt-in Parental Control
Virgin Media Ireland announced that it is "launching a new way to help parents protect their children from age inappropriate material on the web - Virgin Media Parental Controls.
Free to all Virgin Media broadband customers, this new opt-in service is a first in Ireland and offers a one click solution to automatically restrict access to websites containing age inappropriate content. When parents activate the Parental Controls service, Virgin Media will automatically restrict access to websites under categories including - Adult and Pornography, Hate & Racism & Violence. Once activated, the restriction will become effective across all devices connected to the Virgin Media network in the home.
Virgin Media has partnered with Webroot, a market leader in intelligent cybersecurity for endpoints and collective threat intelligence, to deliver granular URL classification data for Virgin Media Parental Controls through integration with the Webroot BrightCloud Web Classification Service.
The classification data from Webroot enables Virgin Media Parental Controls to establish granular policies that selectively allow, block, or isolate websites based on 10 categories, which include Adult and Pornography, Nudity, Abused Drugs, Marijuana, Hate & Racism, Violence, Hacking, Weapons, Questionable and Gross.
See "Virgin Media launches new one click ‘Parental Controls’" - here.
Labels: Parental Control, Virgin Media, Webroot
Major Wireshark Release Announced
Riverbed Technology "sponsor of Wireshark® – the world’s most popular open source network and protocol analysis tool ongoing development project" announced "a major Wireshark release that’s been nearly two years in the making .. Wireshark 2.0 now uses a new application framework to deliver a significantly better user experience on all platforms, particularly Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
Key Wireshark 2.0 New Features:
Language support: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish
Configurable conversation types
VoIP player improvements
New wireless toolbar
Intelligent scrollbar
Faster column display
Filterable expert items
More conversation filter options
SSL dissector improvements
Streamlined menu items
IO graph, TCP stream graphs, throughput graph, window scaling graph improvements
IPv6 statistics and address compression
First column shows Related Packets and Conversation Spans
Windows stick around for easy comparison of graphs and statistics between captures
Background dissection makes sorting and other features faster
Streamlined menu items consolidate different capture and interface dialogs
See "Riverbed Announces Wireshark 2.0" - here.
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Telefonica [Argentina] Selected Gigamon for Visibility and Optimization
Gigamon announced that "Telefonica Argentina, a subsidiary of the Telefonica Group, has selected Gigamon’s visibility solutions to help optimize its subscriber service offerings.
Telefonica Argentina is utilizing a number of Gigamon solutions and technologies including several GigaSMART® applications for traffic intelligence: Adaptive Packet Filtering, Application Session Filtering and Header Stripping as well as Gigamon’s patented Flow Mapping.
By combining Gigamon´s Aggregation Solution, GigaVUE-TA1, and the GigaVUE-HD8 Fabric Node with the GigaSMART applications implemented as part of a Visibility Fabric™ architecture
Telefonica Argentina gained visibility into more than 32 x 10Gbps IP/MPLS links. The GigaSMART feature set significantly reduced the traffic that needed to be processed by the tools, resulting in a 10:1 cost savings ratio for Telefonica. With Gigamon’s solution in place, Telefonica Argentina can streamline the introduction of new technologies such as VoLTE, IMS and CDN to its network and reduce operational and performance impact.
Alberto Bernal, Telecom Network Planning Engineer, Telefonica Argentina said: “Gigamon has also helped us gain greater visibility across our entire network and identify and address issues as soon as they arise. In fact, during the deployment process, Gigamon helped us to troubleshoot a DNS Cache Server Farm performance issue, resolve it remotely avoiding a possible service outage. It really helped us to streamline the performance of the DNS system”.
See "Telefonica Selects Gigamon to Gain Network Visibility and Optimize Customer Offerings" - here.
Labels: Gigamon, Network Intelligence, Telefonica
Exinda Enhances Wan Optimization w/DPI, Diagnostics, Shaping, Acceleration
Exinda announced the release of their "WAN Application Performance Solution ExOS 7.4. With improved diagnostics, shaping and acceleration techniques, this new release will help network administrators guarantee business critical applications perform as promised for all users across the extended enterprise.
.. ExOS 7.4 also enhances Exinda’s application classification engine with new and enhanced application signatures and improved Layer 7 application identification for reporting and policy creation of all traffic in your network. These enhancements include:
New and updated VoIP
real-time and conferencing applications
better control of recreational traffic with enriched BitTorrent detection.
the new Google protocol QUIC
Kevin Suitor [pictured], VP of Product Management, Exinda said. “.. this is the first release in a series of releases that will focus on improving acceleration and control of each of the key Microsoft protocols with a goal of creating an Office 365 Solution Pack in 2016.”
See "Exinda Delivers Superior Application Performance in the Branch Office" - here.
Labels: Exinda, Wan Optimization
FB CEO: We Support Net Neutrality (w/ Zero Rating)
Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg expressed his views on the Net Neutrality debate in India (see "India Planned Net Neutrality Laws" - here and "Google India: "strong protest" Against Including Zero Rating in Net Neutrality" - here). Facebook is promoting its intewrnet.org initiative to allow affordable access to developing countries around the world (see "Update to Internet.org Free Basic Services - here).
Press Trust of India reports that ".. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg [pictured] on Wednesday said his company is committed to net neutrality but supported zero-rating plans which have been criticised by many as violative of the principles of free Internet
When asked if Facebook supports net neutrality, Zuckerberg said: "Absolutely. Net neutrality is important principle. We do a lot to support both in terms of regulation and in our own work building an open platform that any developer can build something for regardless of who they are if they follow the basic rules .. Internet.org and Facebook are 100 per cent supportive of net neutrality, we lobby for it across the world, we build an open platform with no filtering but at the same time we also need to make sure that we continue to push for access," Zuckerberg said
He said providing free Internet to everyone in the world is expensive and telecom operators spend billions each year bringing Internet to users. "What we are really trying to do is to use Free Basics (previously known as Internet.org) so that any developer who can give low bandwidth services for free can be zero-rated
On zero-rating plans of telecom firms like Bharti Airtel [see "Airtel: The Internet, with Our Airtel Zero, is Neutral" - here], Zuckerberg said: "But to those who advocate against zero- rating I say look at a student who wants free access to the Internet for her studies
See "Zuckerberg affirms net neutrality but backs zero-rating plans" - here.
Labels: 1-800, Facebook, India, Net Neutrality
Analysys Mason's Recommendations to CSPs & Vendors for the $9.2B SDP Market
A new report by Glen Ragoonanan [pictured], Principal Analyst. and Gorkem Yigit, Analyst, Analysys Mason finds that:
The service delivery platforms (SDP) market will grow from USD5.7 billion in 2014 to USD9.2 billion in 2019, at a 10% CAGR, thanks to the shift from spending on infrastructure to spending on SDP for existing and new digital services
The main growth drivers are increased video consumption and the growing number of connected smart devices (customers often have more than one)
The availability and affordability of virtualised SDP solutions will drive spending despite lower price points than traditional SDP systems.
Analysys Mason's Recommendations for CSPs:
CSPs need to develop new ‘personalised’ (customisable) digital services using an integrated SDP approach
CSPs should invest in SDPs that optimise and monetise video services and in scalable SDM systems for IoT
CSPs should virtualise SDP network functions to improve scale and reduce costs
And for vendors:
Suppliers should incorporate NFV and SaaS into their CSP SDP solutions to enable faster and more cost-effective delivery of new digital economy services
Next-generation unified communications (voice, messaging and video) service delivery should be the foundation of TAS offerings
Growth in video and IoT devices will drive the need for scalable CMD and SDM platforms, increase the number of policy management use cases and investments, and drive supplier ecosystem growth or M&A
See "Service delivery platforms: worldwide forecasts 2015–2019" - here.
Labels: Analysys Mason, SDP
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3×30 Webinar: Look Up
4 Mar 2015 by admin
To introduce Ci’s new webinar series 3×30 our CEO and Founder, Kierstin De West, was joined by Headspace’s Co-Founder Rich Pierson to discuss ‘Look Up’ – the shift in consumer’s relationship with technology and our desire to connect to what is authentic, real and meaningful in our lives.
Missed out? Watch the recording below.
Click here to download the supporting editorial about Look Up.
3×30 is a 30 minute webinar series covering key trends in the cultural shift to sustainability, and what this means for brands. There will be 3 each season.
Would like to join us for the next one? Please send us an email, and we’ll put you on the list.
The Purpose Economy: Our Desire for Conscious Consumption and How Brands Can Respond
26 May 2014 by admin
Consumer behaviour has shifted towards a desire for more conscious consumption People are looking for products and services that go beyond transactions, and have purpose. In fact, according to the SHIFT Report, 73% of consumers say that a higher purpose in life is meaningful to them.
This Purpose Economy, as spotlighted in Aaron Hurst’s latest book, “The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World,” is about more than just profits; it’s also about creating meaningful impact in service of people and the planet.
Brands will have to innovate and adjust their practices in order to meet this desire. The thought leaders and innovators -including start-ups and accomplished business veterans – have begun to do so.
“Thingful” acts as a search engine for the Internet of Things. The search engine acts to enable people to discuss why and how they are using their devices and data. “Because, the ‘who’, ‘why’ and ‘where’ are ultimately far more important in The Public Internet of Things than the ‘what’.” Thingful’s objective of a search engine with community context, looks to make data more meaningful to people.
In the business to business sector, Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group, no stranger to creating services that authentically connect with consumers, has recently created “The B Team.” The B Team is a not-for-profit initiative formed by a global group of leaders to create a future where the purpose of business is to be a driving force for social, environmental and economic benefit.
Another great example that is fuelling the Purpose Economy is “imperative.com,” a service that “works with leaders to boost their ability to bring purpose to their teams, their community and themselves.” The platform offers three core drivers that determine what one needs to be fulfilled in their work.
With mega moguls and businesses making strides to strengthen the Purpose Economy, there is no doubt that consumers will soon be able to make meaningful choices in every aspect of their lives.
Feeling Connected: the Motivation Behind Consumers Connecting Attitudes to Actions
In today’s ever sustainability-minded society, people are increasingly evaluating the choices they make and how these choices reflect their growing desire for a conscious, connected, thriving life. However, there is undeniably, an attitude-action disconnect.
The SHIFT Report data illustrates this gap, where though consumers want to make sustainable choices, they don’t often follow through, and do so in categories where the barriers to conscious consumption: price, time, knowledge and pressure are lower.
The top three categories people say they have already made sustainable and socially responsible choices are Food (56%), Home Cleaning (53%), and Paper Products (52%).
KIND Healthy Snacks
Green Works All-Purpose Cleaner
Seventh Generation Paper Towels
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Engaging Tomorrow’s Consumer” project found that 72% of consumers surveyed around the world said they are willing to buy green products, but only 17% actually do so.
With WEF’s most recent collaboration with Effie Worldwide in establishing the Positive Change Effie Award, the two have taken a large step in bridging consumers attitude action gap. The award looks to influence marketers to engage in the cultural shift towards motivating change for the better.
The marketing that helps consumers connect attitude to action, and that will ultimately make change, taps into what motivates consumers to make sustainable and socially responsible lifestyle choices and purchase decisions.
When looking at drivers for being socially responsible, The SHIFT Report found that the one of the top motivations, at 60% of the general population, was being personally impacted or feeling personally connected to the issues. Authentic connection matters. It is something that consumers seek – for 81% of people feeling connected to family, friends and community is a top sustainability issue – and it drives behaviour changeTapping into this motivation is perhaps one of the most effective ways that a brand can authentically connect to its consumers and influence purchase decisions.
A great example of a brand who did it right was the highly praised “Smoking Kid” PSA from Thailand.
Thai PSA – Smoking kid
The advert was highly effective in helping people change their habits, garnering a 40% increase in calls to Thailand’s Quit Smoking Hotline.
For marketers to motivate behavioural change in people, and close the attitude action disconnect, they must understand what motivates consumers to actually make better lifestyle, brand and purchase choices and create a brand experience that taps into that. Feeling personally connected to the issues motivates 60% of Americans to ultimately take actions that connect to their attitudes.
Peoples’ Growing Desire for Authentic Connection: Offline and in the Real World
6 May 2014 by admin
The onslaught of digital communities and virtual connections in our lives has left people more connected and disconnected than any other time in history. After a decade of gorging ourselves on friending, liking, tweeting status updates, instagramming meals and snapchatting conversations – sometimes in lieu of connecting with our friends and family offline – what we are craving today is authentic human connection. The SHIFT Report shows that 81% of people listed feeling connected to family, friends and community as a top sustainability issue.
A new wave of messaging is tapping into the growing cultural and consumer desire to be more present and conscious of their lives by literally “looking up.” In Gary Turk’s recent short spoken word film, Turk asks people to spend less time connecting virtually, and more time connecting in the real world.
This film, which has now generated 15,722,683 views on YouTube, addresses the increasing trend in society of social media overload.
Turk voices a common concern that through our increased need to fetter ourselves to an online “community,” we have actually begun to feel more lonely, less attached and disillusioned by our addiction to our mobile devices.
Recently, brands have joined the movement as well. UNICEF’s Tap Project challenges people to put their phones aside for a moment in exchange for a clean water donation. The campaign stems from the fact that our generation can no longer go for even a few minutes without checking our cell phones, drawing parallels with the larger issue of being unable to go without safe drinking water.
Coca Cola’s fictional Social Media Guard ties in the brand’s messaging of “sharing moments,” and musingly advertises a human-sized, Coke-red dog collar.
Coca-Cola Social Media Guard
Whether or not these campaigns will truly cure our addiction to mobile phones and social media remains to be seen, but the message is in line with what people are craving today: authentic and real connection with the people in their lives, i.e. Looking Up.
The Mindful Consumer
Three years ago, Ci looked at how people who meditated differed from those who did not. We found that those who did, were more empathetic than others and far more likely to be agents of social change.
In 2014, this cultural shift toward mindfulness and the search for spiritual over material contentment has really come into its own with people looking to be to be more aware and conscious of their lifestyle habits.
From literal mindfulness – Headspace and Luminosity – to more holistic, trends such as Arianna Huffington’s third metric of success, “well-being,” we are starting to see people looking to be more aware and redefine this New Variable of conscious consumer choices.
Brands are quickly realizing this top priority care issue and looking to make changes in their products and services. Particularly quick to adapt to this has been the airline industry.
Mindful living is no longer strictly earth bound. In response to nearly a decade of increased anxieties during flights and throughout the flying process, the airline industry sees an opportunity to usher in a new golden age, one that is more mindful of its passengers and of their overall needs of a more conscious, connected lifestyle.
LUVO for DELTA AIRLINES
Luvo helps passengers “Be good to themselves,” on board Delta Air Lines which has introduced a new line of healthy menu items from Luvo now available in the economy cabin on Delta’s transcontinental flights between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
SPIKE AEROSPACE’S “NO WINDOW POLICY”
The latest idea for a supersonic business jet from Spike Aerospace involves replacing cabin portholes with windowless display screens showing a fake view in order to create a mood of elevated relaxation.
TAKE 10 for VIRGIN ATLANTIC
Headspace Take10 for the air are animated meditation videos available on all Virgin Atlantic flights that aid passengers on how to get some sleep, how to deal with boredom, exercises for kids, stress on arrival, & stress on a plane.
With two leading airlines having already adapted this mentality (Virgin Atlantic & Delta Airlines), other brands are already behind the curve.
Though price still remains the leading differentiator for consumers when choosing flights, anxious passengers are ready to shell out a few extra dollars for a more pleasant flight.
Is the Girl Effect Real?
(This article originally appeared on Sustainable Brands)
I live as the sole injection of estrogen in a house full of testosterone with my husband and two young boys, aged nine and six. But suddenly I am swimming in estrogen. Coming off the back of two different client projects both of which involved global brands targeting women — one in beauty and the other in food — I’m awash in gender comparison data on what people care about today and how this aligns — or doesn’t — with their brand interactions, lifestyle choices and purchase decisions.
I’ve just digested John Gerzema’s latest book, The Athena Doctrine: How Women and Men Who Think Like Them Will Rule the Future* and Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, both of which are garnering sales and conversation. There’s a growing buzz about the attitude, engagement and positive impact of women in the marketplace and in society at large. But is the girl effect real?
The answer is yes. My consultancy’s research tool The SHIFT Report™ has recently launched a report called The New Variables™that reveals a significant difference in how women and men rate CSR and sustainable life issues. Women are driving The New Variables that are defining success and driving lifestyle choices, purchase decisions and brand relationships — integrity, authenticity, community, connection, consciousness, social responsibility or, as The Athena Doctrine describes, the characteristics and traits that are typically identified as feminine.
After surveying 64,000 people in thirteen countries and in-depth interviews worldwide, Gerzema and his award winning co-author Michael D’Antonio conclude: The world would be a better place if men thought more like women. This fantastic book, at which I was privileged to get a sneak pre-launch peek, outlines the case for “How feminine values can solve our toughest problems and build a more prosperous future.”
According to The Athena Doctrine. “This marks a global trend away from the winner-takes-all, masculine approach to getting things done … men and women alike are recognizing significant value in traits commonly associated with women, such as nurturing, cooperation, communication, and sharing.”
Why are women driving The New Variables? As The Athena Doctrine shows, “Femininity is the operating system of 21st century prosperity.” Athena might even argue that women are defining The New Variables.
The New Variables report launches at an appropriate time — in the middle of growing chatter about the opportunities and implications of the women, business and positive impact trifecta.
The SHIFT Report reveals that over the past five years, across both the general population and demographic groups, there is year-to-year consistency in the hierarchy of what’s important to people today: sustainable life and CSR issues. Those issues that fall into the Personal, Social and/or Spiritual Sustainability Pillars are consistently the most important to people and those that are exclusive to the Environmental Sustainability fall at the bottom of the hierarchy.
For example, for 89% of respondents, “feeling connected to my friends, family and community” is an important sustainability issue, according to The SHIFT Report’s 2012-2013 study of 5,000 general population adults aged 18+ across the US and Canada; “Fair Trade: how the workers who make the products and services I use are treated fairly” is an important sustainability issue for 72%. Global warming is an important sustainability issue for 50%.
However women are significantly more likely than men to rate all sustainability and CSR issues as important.
Across all pillars women are more attitudinally engaged then men according to The SHIFT Report. 93% of women say that a Balanced Life is important versus 85% of men. 90% of women indicate that Feeling Connected to my Friends, Family and Community is important versus 79% of men. One of the biggest differences is the importance of Nurturing Personal Relationships versus Material Possessions; 84% of women state this is important versus 69% of men.
Attitude is one thing, and action is something quite different. The goal for marketers and the brand experiences they create is to align the two. Women are already more likely to align attitudes about what’s important with action then men are. The attitude-action gap is smaller, and more likely to close, with women.
There is indeed a girl effect
In addition to higher attitudinal engagement, women are more behaviorally engaged with sustainable life and CSR issues, according to The SHIFT Report. Women are significantly more likely to connect attitudes with action when it comes to making sustainable and socially responsible lifestyle choices and purchase decisions. Across all consumption categories from food to automotive to financial investments and more, women are on average 12% more likely than men to have already made sustainable and socially responsible lifestyle choices and purchase decisions.
It appears that not only is the girl effect real in lifestyle choices and purchase decisions, the qualities that are driving the girl effect are increasingly important in personal, social and business success.
Why is this happening now? What does this mean from a business and brand perspective and will certain categories benefit more than others?
Darcy Winslow, founder of sustainability consultancy DSW Collective, has some knowledge of this. Darcy tenured twenty-plus years at Nike where her roles included leading Nike’s Global Women’s Fitness Business and as senior advisor to the Nike Foundation, which seeks to empower disadvantaged girls, ages 10 to 19 years, through poverty alleviation and creating economic livelihood opportunities.
“It’s so far beyond the tipping point, that you can’t ignore it — the role that women are playing” in driving these New Variables, says Winslow. “What business or sector wouldn’t benefit from that and from a greater sense of well-being? Look at professional sports. Look at the military.”
So do women lean in and embrace what has been described by Sandberg as how men typically behave in business to their benefit, or do they embrace their feminine characteristics as a tool for success? There’s no one-size-fits-all, but I’d hazard a guess: It’s a balance of the two.
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The Happiness, Sustainability and Brand Equation: 3 Rules for Results
24 Apr 2013 by admin
By Kierstin De West (This blog originally appeared on Sustainable Brands)
The topic of happiness is exploding, with growing conversations locally and globally on happiness as a goal, a brand-positioning opportunity, and a metric of success in marketing, political and cultural arenas over the past two years. Brand and marketing leaders are obviously paying attention as there’s been a steady increase in brands’ positioning around, and promises to deliver, happiness to their consumers and the culture in which their business operates.
“Happiness” is an important and potentially game-changing opportunity in which brand and marketing leadership can — and should — engage, strategize and execute, but there are several key steps to ensure any human and financial marketing resources invested show a return.
Instead of brand and marketing executives jumping on the happiness bandwagon due to its current popularity, we need to understand what customer experiences and concerns lead to happiness while looking at quantified metrics that reveal where this insight authentically aligns with the brand and brand experience. The movement around happiness is not a trend and shouldn’t be viewed as such. It is instead an indicator of the cultural shift to sustainability andThe New Variables™ that characterize this shift. The New Variables guiding people’s lifestyle choices, brand relationships and purchase decisions are: authenticity, integrity, community, connection, consciousness and social responsibility.
What do happier people care about?
The people who are happier with their lives overall care most about sustainability and CSR issues than those who do not, according to The SHIFT Report’s 2012-2013 survey of 4,000 Americans and 1,000 Canadians. The quantitative data in this free report — a preview of The Brand Happiness Index™ — reveals that those who are the happiest are significantly more likely to feel that sustainability and CSR issues — across all of Consumers’ Four Pillars of Sustainability™ (personal, social, environmental, spiritual) — are more important than those who are not very happy. This includes CSR issues such as community connection and engagement, climate change and having a higher purpose in life. This quantitative research mirrors SHIFT’s cultural and qualitative research.
Can some brands enable happiness more than others?
While brands from Coca Cola and Jet Blue to Domino’s Pizza and Best Buy are packaging and promising happiness, some brands will be more successful in enabling happiness than others. The SHIFT research reveals that brands that stand for more meaningful values and connect with what consumers care about today are more likely to have happy consumers than brands who package and promise happiness when it’s not a cornerstone of their brand DNA. These brands are less likely to enable happiness in their consumers.
For example, the Report finds that 32% of regular Seventh Generation consumers are very happy versus 20% of regular Tide consumers. 31% of weekly Whole Foods customers are very happy versus 21% of weekly Safeway customers.
An initial response to this finding is that the Whole Foods/Seventh Generation customer is likely a wealthier customer, and therefore more happy. However, while higher incomes do equate to higher levels of overall happiness, this plateaus at $75,000, according to research by Economist Angus Deaton and psychologist Daniel Kahneman.
The SHIFT Report shows that across income groups and not just for those with higher household incomes, brands that stand for more meaningful values are more likely to have happy consumers.
What are the implications of the happiness chatter for brands today?
A dozen or so years ago, I was at the Account Planning Conference in Miami where I attended a great workshop run by On Your Feet, in which one workshop volunteer sat on the “Hot Seat” and assumed the personality of a brand nominated by the group, while others tossed both silly and strategic questions their way. I took the Hot Seat as Levi’s, during a time when the brand was knee-jerk responding to the latest trend without any confident, central consistency of what it stood for. With every question, I answered something along the lines of “I don’t know. Whatever you think is cool.” At this point, Levi’s was going through a tough time— sales were tanking, factories were closing and lay-offs were happeningthey had not authentically connected with what their customers cared about. Shortly after came Flat Eric— a character created for Levi’s commericials by advertising agency BBH — with a cool, relevant, confident and consistent brand experience that led the way, and didn’t knee-jerk respond. Flat Eric became a cultural phenomenon and things improved for Levi’s.
Regardless of subject area, a knee-jerk response by a brand is never a good thing if you’re looking for authentic consumer (and other key stakeholder) engagement and trust, and the market and shareholder value that requires these two elements. In the current consumer, cultural and marketplace landscape of The New VariablesTM, these elements are even more important. Doing a “happiness” campaign in a silo because it’s trending well — without looking at what people care about today, what is important to those that are happy versus not, and how this authentically aligns with your brand experience — won’t deliver results. Without this strategic analysis, as simple as it is, companies lower their chance of brands delivering a return on their “happiness” marketing investment.
How to use consumer happiness to drive results
Here are three rules for looking through the lens of happiness to engage your customers, grow your audience and drive market share and results in the cultural shift to sustainability and CSR:
Rule 1) Big Picture:
Take a big-picture understanding of happiness and what kind of experiences, issues, cares and concerns lead to happiness
Rule 2) Look at Your Audience
Drill into and understand what makes your audience happy, where the lines and significant differences are between them and the general population. Do the same thing for micro-targeted consumer groups in your overall audience.
Rule 3) Alignment
Determine where the alignment points are between what your brand authentically stands for, the overall brand experience pipeline and the cares, concerns, experiences and sustainable life issues that lead to happiness. Your products may taste, feel and cost the same as your competition but enabling happiness can be a competitive advantage, if it’s done right.
Happy consumers that will engage with, buy and evangelize your brand are the result of not just understanding happiness, but authentically linking your brand to your CSR initiatives to gain competitive advantage and market share.
Two Words: Alignment and Authenticity
My new column for Greenbiz which will feature exclusive SHIFT Report data, launched this week with cool infographics on political affiliation and sustainability. Here is the article:
I was recently at lunch with two friends, one of whom brought her husband. After the couple departed, I found myself apologizing to my other friend for the husband’s rude behavior, the mildest part of which included leering gestures at the waitress and comments that don’t need to be repeated.
“Don’t worry about it,” he responded. “I always try to focus on the points of alignment with someone. There’s always something. And once I found them, it was an interesting conversation where we were both engaged.”
Alignment is crucial.
As businesses seek to define and tell their sustainability story in the landscape of shifting consumer values — which they must do in order to be culturally relevant — there has been significant focus on environmental issues where there is less likely to be alignment and which aren’t necessarily the most important to some people.
Sustainability (a word so overused, misused and abused that I’ve started calling it the S-Word) is about the issues that lie underneath it. These are a collection of issues that include but go beyond green and include personal, social and spiritual sustainability issues.
This was uncovered both qualitatively and quantitatively in our market intelligence tool, The SHIFT Report. These sustainability issues are important to mainstream consumers in varying degrees. However, across most consumers groups — from either a brand consumption, activity, demographic, lifestyle or political point of view — green issues are not necessarily the most important ones. They are significantly surpassed in importance by social and personal sustainability issues: community connection, fair trade and employee treatment. These are areas consumers feel personally affected by or connected to, and represent two key motivations for caring about brands and companies.
People aren’t waking up across the globe declaring, “I want a green life.” Rather, they are waking up saying that they want a connected, conscious, thriving and sustainable life (though they don’t necessarily use those words). Brands and their storytellers need to understand this in order to define and tell their stories and engage consumers in conversations. As one respondent put it during one of our focus groups, “How can we take care of the environment if we can’t even take care of ourselves?”
Environmental sustainability is crucial, but it’s not the only piece of the puzzle. Green needs to be looked at in the context of other sustainability issues, not in a silo. Green may turn out to be the best color of a brand’s sustainability message, but it might not be.
Unless brand manager focus on the issues that define a brand and determine which issues authentically align with their initiatives and audience, they risk making misleading claims, not connecting with their audience and potentially alienating others. When brand managers targeting a diverse global or national audience look primarily at environmental issues without interconnection and context to broader sustainability issues, the result can be a brand experience that doesn’t bring disparate and diverse audiences together, but keeps them apart. Looking at green in a silo doesn’t reflect a big-picture understanding of the cultural shift to sustainability, in which people are redefining the criteria by which they make lifestyle choices, purchases and brand decisions, It misses the forest for the trees, and in doing so can also reinforce sustainability myths, such as that those on the political left are more engaged with sustainability than those on the political right.
Indeed, looking at political parties in the U.S. and Canada and how voters connect with sustainability issues is a good way to assess brand alignment within a mass and diverse mainstream audience. For Republican and Democrat voters (or, in Canada, Conservative, Liberal, NDP and Green Party voters), alignment is not necessarily around environmental issues, it’s around all the other issues: schools, housing security, health care and general well-being. This bigger-picture, interconnected approach doesn’t minimize the importance of environmental sustainability. But it delivers on its importance in a different way.
Let’s take look at two social sustainability issues where there is alignment across a diverse audience: community connection and supporting locally based business, which are themselves interconnected. With the support of local business and local economies, the environment becomes the beneficiary (such as lower greenhouse gas emissions) rather than the direct strategy. Environmental sustainability issues are supported, but they are a direct result of focusing on key areas of alignment across a diverse audience: buying local and supporting locally based business.
Thus, brands — political or otherwise — that speak to a diverse audience have two key words to keep in mind when telling their story in a culture of shifting consumer values: authenticity and alignment. What can they authentically talk about given their initiatives around sustainability? And where do these internal sustainability truths align with their diverse audience?
Determining the sweet spot that aligns these truths will uncover opportunities that deliver on business priorities to drive positive change and business success.
Read the original post here: http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2011/04/14/two-words-alignment-and-authenticity#ixzz1K6sBgldd
Impact of Political Affiliation on Connection with Sustainability Issues and Motivation
Inspired by The Visual Miscellaneum’s Left vs. Right Political Spectrum, we thought we’d take a dive into The SHIFT Report and see the impact of political affiliation on connection with sustainability issues and motivation. It is interesting to look at the issues where the parties diverge (environmental), where the more right wing views push ahead (spiritual) and where they are quite close together (social + personal).
The SHIFT Report: Impact of Political Affiliation (USA) on Connection with Sustainability Issues and Motivation (n=5000 general population) <br /><a href=”#”><img alt=”The SHIFT Report: Impact of Political Affiliation (USA) on Connection with Sustainability Issues and Motivation (n=5000 general population) ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Th/TheSHIFTReportImpactofPoliticalAffiliation/USDashboard/1_rss.png” height=”100%” /></a>
The SHIFT Report: Impact of Political Affiliation (Canada) on Connection with Sustainability Issues and Motivation (n=5000 general population) <br /><a href=”#”><img alt=”The SHIFT Report: Impact of Political Affiliation (Canada) on Connection with Sustainability Issues and Motivation (n=5000 general population) ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Th/TheSHIFTReportImpactofPoliticalAffiliation/CanadaDashboard/1_rss.png” height=”100%” /></a>
Are People Who Meditate the Top Social Change Agents?
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A few weeks ago, the New York Times Article “How Meditation May Change the Brain” by Sindya Banhoo in the “Well Blog” garnered 590 comments and was number six on the list of most emailed articles that week. I became curious about people who meditate every day versus those who do not and wondered:
Are they more likely to be the agents of social change? Are they more empathetic towards brands that make an effort to be socially responsible?
How did people who meditate every day measure up against the general population in terms of:
How important key sustainability issues are to them.
Sustainability attitudes- action disconnect
Are meditators more or less likely to feel the brands they engage with are socially responsible?
Are daily meditators more or less likely to be motivated by altruism to care about these sustainability issues?
Are they more or less motivated by fear and how do they compare to those who never engage in meditation or prayer?
Does the increased empathy that comes with meditation (as some of the research noted in the article suggests) carry over to their brand relationships?
Diving into the database (n=5000, general population) from The SHIFT Report‘s annual quantitative study and SPI segmentation update, I looked at people who engage in meditation or prayer every day across a few areas of the study: sustainability issues, motivation, sustainable consumption categories and perception of brands as socially responsible. Here are the results:
Overall, those who meditate are more likely to rate the sustainability issues as important, There’s no surprise that this would ring true for some of the issues that fall into the spiritual sustainability pillar. Those issues that fall into the environmental sustainability only show the least difference.
Q: Please rate the importance of the following issues associated with sustainability as they relate to you
The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Connection With Sustainability Issues (n=5,000 general population) <br /><a href=”#”><img alt=”The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Connection With Sustainability Issues (n=5,000 general population) ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Ci/CiTheSHIFTReport-ImpactofMeditation-March4/Sust_IssuesDB/1_rss.png” height=”100%” /></a>
Are those who meditate daily actually living their values with lifestyle choices and purchase decisions that deliver on social change?
The attitude-action disconnect is an unavoidable truth for everyone. Hey, we can’t all be like the folks in Portlandia. It turns out that those who meditate every day are more likely to be making sustainable lifestyle choices and purchase decisions than those who don’t, showing that they are more likely to be turning their sustainability attitudes into actions. Note to Social Innovators and NGOs – Start a ‘get meditating’ campaign (and go beyond green).
Q: Which of the following areas of your life have you already made sustainable lifestyle choices and purchase decisions?
The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Turning Sustainability Attitudes into Action (n=5000 general population) <br /><a href=”#”><img alt=”The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Turning Sustainability Attitudes into Action (n=5000 general population) ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Ci/CiTheSHIFTReport-ImpactofMeditation-March4/ConsumptionDB/1_rss.png” height=”100%” /></a>
If people who meditate are more empathetic, according to the research published by Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging cited in Banhoo’s article does that empathy extend to brands?
Those who meditate or engage in prayer every day are more likely to want to know about the socially responsible behavior of brands whose products and services they buy: 73% versus 67% of the General North American population.
Here I selected a few brands from the study to look at. The first chart is clustered together a bit loosely, but with three groupings in mind and some overlap between them: competitors, those that spent consumer marketing $ on telling their sustainability story (authentic or otherwise), those that have sustainability ‘equity’ but didn’t spend significant consumer marketing $ telling their sustainability story.
The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Perception of Brands as Socially Responsible (n=5000 general population) <br /><a href=”#”><img alt=”The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Perception of Brands as Socially Responsible (n=5000 general population) ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Ci/CiTheSHIFTReport-ImpactofMeditation-March4/BrandEmpathyDBClustered/1_rss.png” height=”100%” /></a>
Here we’ve sorted the brand list in a different way, ordered by perception as socially responsible. Those that North Americans (general population) feel are the most socially responsible sit at the top.
The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Perception of Brands as Socially Responsible (n=5000 general population) <br /><a href=”#”><img alt=”The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Perception of Brands as Socially Responsible (n=5000 general population) ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Ci/CiTheSHIFTReport-ImpactofMeditation-March4/BrandEmpathyDBSorted/1_rss.png” height=”100%” /></a>
Me or We? Are meditators altruistic or are they equally motivated to care about sustainability issues by self-serving generosity as the average person?
Overall those who meditate are more motivated overall to make socially responsible lifestyle choices and purchase decisions and we can see that engaging in meditation or prayer leads to deeper motivation when looking at the differences between those who don’t ever, the general population and those who everyday.
Q: Please rate how motivating each of the following are in your interest to make socially responsible lifestyle choices and purchase decisions.
The SHIFT Report: Meditation’s Impact on Motivation Behind Sustainability Engagement: Lifestyle Choices/ Purchase Decisions (n=5000 general population) <br /><a href=”#”><img alt=”The SHIFT Report: Meditation’s Impact on Motivation Behind Sustainability Engagement: Lifestyle Choices/ Purchase Decisions (n=5000 general population) ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Ci/CiTheSHIFTReport-ImpactofMeditation-March4/MotivationDB/1_rss.png” height=”100%” /></a>
(Full disclosure: I meditate daily. )
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Japan Gold (TSXV: JG) announced this week that it acquired five new gold projects in the Southern and Middle Kyushu Epithermal Gold Provinces located on the Japanese island of Kyushu.
In a press release, the Vancouver-based miner said the projects, which collectively comprise 21,058 hectares, cover prospective ground along strike of, or adjacent to, significant current and past producing gold mines including the Hishikari, Kushikino, Yamagano, Okuchi and Bajo mines.The Southern Kyushu Epithermal Gold Province has yielded over 11 million ounces of gold from low-sulphidation epithermal deposits while the Middle Kyushu Epithermal Gold Province has yielded some 1.7 million ounces of gold from epithermal gold mines.
According to Japan Gold, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry notified the acceptance of the new applications giving priority to the company over these areas and authorization to commence surface exploration. “With the addition of these new projects, the company’s portfolio now includes 24 separate gold projects within the major epithermal gold provinces of Japan,” the miner’s media statement reads.The year 2019 has seen the Canadian company making public a series of acquisitions, which prompted a 5.88% rise in the price of its shares in the past eight months.
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A man from Mexico with gunshot wounds was arrested Thursday, by U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Border Patrol Tactical Unit and the Carrizo Springs Station, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported Friday.
According to the agency, Del Rio Sector Foreign Operations Branch received notification from the government of Mexico that Mexican law enforcement had exchanged gunfire with several individuals near Guerrero, Coahuila, Mexico.
The government of Mexico stated that at least one subject may have fled by crossing the Rio Grande River into the United States, the agency said in a release.
Agents from the tactical unit, the Carrizo Springs and Eagle Pass South stations, and Laredo Sector responded.
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Review: John Zorn’s Cobra – 30th Anniversary (11/29/14)
By Sarah V. | December 2, 2014 - 1:58 am | Concert review
On Saturday night I headed to Brooklyn with some friends to catch John Zorn’s 30th anniversary performance of Cobra at Roulette. Cobra premiered at Roulette in 1984, so it was certainly the perfect place for the anniversary concert. (It’s one of my favorite NYC venues, I’m always happy when something I want to see is happening there.) Zorn put together an all-star cast of his usual suspects including a lot of my favorite downtown musicians: Cyro Baptista on percussion; Sylvie Courvoisier on piano; Trevor Dunn on upright bass; Mark Feldman on violin; Erik Friedlander on cello; George Lewis on trombone; Eyal Maoz and Marc Ribot on electric guitars; John Medeski on organ; Ikue Mori on electronics; William Winant on percussion; and Kenny Wollesen on drums.
The night kicked off with a Q&A which was supposed to be Anthony Coleman asking John Zorn questions about Cobra. It deteriorated quickly into a bit of a tirade when Zorn saw someone in the audience taking a picture with their cell phone. He went on at some length about how there should be no record made of this concert in any way – no recordings, no photos, etc. I hesitated to even write this blog, but I guess us writers still have that whole ‘free speech’ thing going for us. Since there was such a strict ban on photography I am forced to give you only this artist’s representation of the concert:
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By Sarah V. | March 22, 2014 - 2:54 pm | Concert review
(If you missed the first half of this review, you can find it by clicking here!)
After stretching our legs during the 15-minute intermission, I settled back in my seat for the next ten bands. Well, I say “my” seat, but technically I was sitting in someone else’s seat, because my friend M. tipped me off to a no-show empty seat, front row dead center. Yeah, I’ll take advantage of that, thank you! It was a very nice change of pace seeing everything except the keyboards, instead of nothing but the keyboards.
The first band in the second set that really wowed me was the trio of Loren Sklamberg (vocals, accordion), Frank London (trumpet) and Uri Caine (piano). Out of all the bands we heard that night, this one had the most klezmer at its heart. (This seems relevant as the Book of Beriah concert was part of the Newish Jewish Music Festival.) Frank London gave us a bit of an explanation before the beginning of the piece, saying the name of the piece, “Kelim,” which is “part of the kabbalistic-mystic concept of how the world was created” inspired them to use this particular text, which I think he said was Yiddish. Even without being able to understand the lyrics, I thought the piece was hauntingly beautiful with a very Old World feel. Really loved London’s trumpet on this piece.
Next up was Abraxas, a band that regular readers of my blog will be familiar with. Shanir Blumenkranz is the bandleader and gimbri player, accompanied by Kenny Grohowski on drums, and two electric guitar players: Aram Bajakian and Eyal Maoz. While the band was setting up and getting plugged in, some joker in the audience yelled out “What IS that thing?” This prompted John Zorn to grab the mic and retort, “A gimbri, you fool!” which got a laugh out of the audience. I especially liked the intro to their piece which had some really cool atmospheric guitar work over a melodic bass line (well, gimbri line).
(Abraxas. Photo courtesy of Mark Kirschbaum.)
After Abraxas, we got to hear Mephisto – which (as Zorn explained) is usually called “Mephista,” but apparently the substitution of a male drummer (Jim Black) made them decide to alter the (more…)
Tagged abraxas, aram bajakian, book of beriah, brad jones, ches smith, craig santiago, erik friedlander, eyal maoz, frank london, gyan riley, ikue mori, jamie saft, john zorn, kenny grohowski, loren sklamberg, marc ribot, mark feldman, masada, matt lebofsky, mephista, Secret Chiefs 3, shanir blumenkranz, sylvie courvoisier, timba harris, Trey Spruance, uri caine
Concert(s) review: Ode to the Nonas: Bonebridge and Abraxas in Milan
By Sarah V. | February 23, 2014 - 6:18 pm | Concert review
Today we have a guest blog from Ariëla Flusser – long-time reader, first-time contributor! She’s a Belgian currently living in London, and enjoys traveling around Europe to see her favorite downtown NYC musicians. Incidentally, traveling internationally for live music qualifies you almost instantly for the diagnosis of “concert manic!” – Sarah V.
Each year from October to March, Teatro Manzoni in Milan stages a series of concerts of contemporary jazz, avant-garde and world music from around the globe: Aperitivo in Concerto, rhythms of our times. The concerts have a very unique set-up. They take place in a beautiful red velvet theatre from 1873 at 11AM on a Sunday and attract a curious mix of open-minded no-nonsense people of all ages and backgrounds, artists, music lovers, students, families with children, and tourists. The eclectic crowd joins in to be surprised, sometimes challenged, but above all to enjoy fabulous live music. And most ‘Aperitivo’ concerts I’ve seen over the years were out of this world.
I often wondered what makes these concerts so special. Is it the untimely hour? You already have to want to be there, to get up and dressed and in the mood at 11 on a Sunday morning. The musicians also have to switch to another gear from evening to (early) morning playing. Is it the stately theatre with its plush chairs, programme books and stewards showing you your place? Such a setting in a way ‘forces’ you to be quiet and focus on the music. Is it the down-to-earth audience? Some of the continental avant-garde/jazz venues can be so snobbish, attracting a ‘’tu m’as vu’ crowd who come ‘to see and to be seen’ rather than to hear. The Manzoni magic is probably a mix of all these elements and much more.
This year’s 29th edition hosted the David Murray Quartet featuring Macy Gray, the reunited Jazz Passengers, the controversial writer-poet Amiri Baraka with his word music project (and one of his last public performances before he passed away in January) and jazz flutist Nicole Mitchell, amongst others. I made my way to Milan for Erik Friedlander’s Bonebridge and Abraxas playing John Zorn.
Cellist Erik Friedlander is one of my favourite artists and always an absolute pleasure to hear live. He manages to give the best of himself in all circumstances, be it a 1000-seat hall, a small attic room, in open air on top of the Dolomites or a venue with a sound system breakdown and a chatty audience. Bonebridge is Erik Friedlander’s latest band with Doug Wamble on slide guitar, Michael Sarin on drums and Trevor Dunn on bass. I did not manage to go to any of last year’s European concerts, so I was double excited to finally see the band live in my favourite venue. Bonebridge were promoting their new album Nighthawks, due to be released in May.
Erik Friedlander, cello.
Photograph by Roberto Cifarelli (click here for the full gallery)
Erik Friedlander opened the concert by thanking everybody for turning up so early and set the tone for a warm interaction between the band and the audience. The band played tracks from both Bonebridge and Nighthawks and took the audience on an interesting journey through (more…)
Tagged abraxas, aram bajakian, bonebridge, doug wamble, erik friedlander, eyal maoz, kenny grohowski, michael sarin, shanir blumenkranz, trevor dunn
Concert review: Winter Jazzfest Marathon (Jan. 10-11, 2014)
By Sarah V. | January 14, 2014 - 2:38 am | Concert review
This weekend I attended both days of the Winter Jazzfest marathon in Greenwich Village. It’s a festival that has a unique appeal to those of us who are particularly manic about concerts; it’s basically an all-you-can-eat buffet of live music held in a bunch of venues in Greenwich Village. For one relatively low price you can run around and hear as many bands as you can stuff in your ears in the time allotted. Most sets were 45 minutes with a few double-length sets here and there. (I took it relatively easy and caught eleven ensembles plus the “round robin” duo improvisation set.)
This year was the tenth anniversary of Winter Jazzfest and featured a huge amount of bands (more than ninety). It was, of course, impossible to see them all, and there were some tough decisions to be made. We’d been warned by friends about previous years having long lines and big crowds at some venues, so we simplified our schedule a bit and tried to do multiple sets in the same venues as much as we could (without sacrificing the bands we most wanted to see). I spent most of my time in the NYU Law venue and the Judson Memorial Church, which was a pretty cool-looking room:
(That’s Ches Smith on the left and Shahzad Ismaily on the right, during Ceramic Dog’s late-night Saturday set.)
The funny thing was that after I simplified things and tried to make my schedule less ambitious, I somehow ended up seeing (more…)
Tagged abraxas, ceramic dog, ches smith, ches smith trio, craig taborn, eyal maoz, eyebone, jim black, kenny grohowski, marc ribot, mark feldman, mary halvorson, mat maneri, mostly other people do the killing, nels cline, shahzad ismaily, shanir blumenkranz, sylvie courvoisier, teddy klausner, tyshawn sorey, winter jazzfest, yoshie fruchter
Concert(s) review: John Zorn & friends improvising at the Stone
By Sarah V. | December 29, 2013 - 3:58 am | Concert review
It’s become somewhat of a tradition for John Zorn to hold a series of improv concerts at the end of the year with a whole passel of downtown NYC musicians taking part. The concerts raise money for the Stone, the experimental music venue in Alphabet City. (That’s a neighborhood in New York, for those who aren’t familiar.) My office closes down between Christmas and New Years Day, so for the last few years I’ve made an effort to come down for some of the improv concerts. This year they did a five-night run and I made it to four of them, making it the fourth year I went to four sets of year-end improv at the Stone. Very symmetrical of me!
The fun of these concerts is the surprise element: you really never know what you’re going to get. The basic formula is for John Zorn plus maybe eight or nine other musicians to show up, and they all hang out in the basement and periodically send up small groups of musicians (usually 2-5) to play a fully improvised piece. Then for a finale they all get on stage together and perform. (This last piece can be a bit bizarre depending on the makeup of the group – you might have more pianists than pianos, more drummers than drum kits, more guitarists than amps, or simply too many people to fit on stage – but the name of the game is improvisation, so they always make it work!)
One of the more interesting aspects of these shows is that Zorn will throw together musicians from all kinds of genres and just see what happens – classical, jazz, rock, avant garde, they just get put on stage and they have to come up with something on the spot. It’s always fun to see what works and what doesn’t – and more importantly, which musicians are up to the challenge. Often you will see people performing who had not only never played together before, but had never even met. It doesn’t always work, but the surprising moments of brilliance are worth it.
I took a bunch of surreptitious flashless photos, as usual, so I thought I’d try out a little photo gallery thingy with my favorite pics from this week’s concerts:
(I’m going to ask your forgiveness in advance if I miss or screw up any names here, there were so many different musicians and this was the first time I’d seen a lot of them…)
The first of the four concerts this year was on (more…)
Tagged annie gosfield, anthony coleman, billy martin, brian marsella, briggan krauss, ches smith, chris cochrane, chris otto, chris speed, chuck bettis, dave scanlon, david watson, don mckenzie, doug wieselman, eyal maoz, frank london, george spanos, ikue mori, jeremiah cymerman, john zorn, jon madof, lukas ligeti, mark feldman, marty ehrlich, matt wilson, michael nicolas, nonoko yoshida, ron anderson, shanir blumenkranz, steve swell, sylvie courvoisier, tim keiper, ty citerman, uri caine, uri gurvich
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My self-curated guitar festival with Aram Bajakian, Nels Cline, Marc Ribot and Stephen Ulrich
Recent concert highlights: Erik Friedlander, Trevor Dunn’s PROOFReaders, Marc Ribot, Sean Rowe, and Zion80
A pair of musical surprises: Jolie Holland at Bar LunÀtico & Dresden Dolls at Rough Trade
Early April Concert Highlights: Doug Wieselman; Jolie Holland; Nels Cline Singers w/Jeff Parker
Last week’s concerts: Mat Maneri, Lucien Ban, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Banquet of the Spirits, Marc Ribot, Emeline Michel, and last but not least, Sex Mob
abraxas amanda palmer aram bajakian Banquet of the Spirits brian marsella ceramic dog ches smith concert review cyro baptista doug wieselman erik friedlander eyal maoz frank london greg cohen gyan riley ikue mori jamie saft joe henry joey baron john medeski john zorn jolie holland jon madof kenny grohowski kenny wollesen klezwoods marc ribot mark feldman masada mike patton nels cline sean rowe Secret Chiefs 3 shahzad ismaily shanir blumenkranz sofia rei sylvie courvoisier tim keiper trevor dunn uri caine uri gurvich walter sickert and the army of broken toys yoshie fruchter zion80 zorn@60
NYC suggested concerts
Music blogs and sites we like
Brian Carpenter & the Confessions
DJ Ranja’s blog
Downtown Music Gallery
Jazz Toilet blog
Jeremiah Cymerman
Jeremy’s Tom Waits blog
John Zorn & Tzadik forum
Julia Olivarez
Le Zornographe
Marc Ribot’s tour dates
Moritz Bichler’s photos
Peter Gannushkin’s photos
Stefan’s Joe Henry blog
Tom Waits forum
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ISUZU NEWS MAY
IAL Headquarters Grand Opening looms
Isuzu Australia Limited (IAL) is looking forward to the Grand Opening of their state-of-the-art new headquarters in Truganina on 30 May. Attending the event will be several dignitaries, including Mr Masanori Katayama, Isuzu Motors Limited (Japan) President and Representative Director.
Pumped up: Isuzu Engines visit Agfest
As the name suggests, Tasmania’s Agfest is a celebration of all things agricultural. Isuzu Engines visited in early May with an exciting array of off-highway engines as well as some agricultural and irrigation solutions for Australian farmers.
Isuzu Engines returned to Agfest in Carrick, Tasmania, held between 3-5 May 2018.
This year’s event celebrated 36 years of agricultural know-how and the organisers weren’t short of a crowd, revelling in a record patronage of 65,794 visitors over the three-day event, up 3,007 on last year’s attendance.
Bringing its product direct to the customer, Isuzu Engines once more showcased their reliable selection of off-highway power units.
IAL’s Engine Sales Manager, Rod Best, said a set of favourable conditions combined to create a successful and memorable Agfest 2018.
“In terms of enquiries, irrigation was the focus for a lot of our visitors this year – particularly power units ranging from 25-70 horsepower,” he said.
“There’s a genuine thirst for knowledge at these events and it’s an excellent opportunity to meet with customers working across a variety of applications.”
Agfest signals the beginning of a busy schedule for the Engines team, with their next stop being the Irrigation Australia conference and exhibition in Sydney next month.
“Agfest is a great event and gives us a great opportunity to showcase our off-highway power units,” Mr Best said.
“When it comes to irrigation or agricultural applications, it’s important that we make sure people have the right product for the right application.
“We’re aiming to empower our customers by supplying the power unit solution that is most suited to their specific needs.”
The Power Units on display at Agfest were:
3CB1 Radiator Cooled
3CE1 Radiator Cooled
4LE1 Radiator Cooled
6BG1QW Radiator Cooled
4BG1 Radiator Cooled
4JG1 Radiator Cooled
For further information see engines.isuzu.com.au
New Zone Manager for WA & SA kicking goals
In 2017 Isuzu Australia Limited (IAL) announced the appointment of Craig White to the position of Dealer Sales Manager for Western Australia (WA), South Australia (SA) and the Northern Territory (NT). Mr White has brought with him a raft of valuable experience and overseen significant growth.
Before starting at IAL, he worked for three years at Mitsubishi Australia Ltd as Area Sales Manager for Western Australia. Prior to that Mr White was the Key Account Manager for Michelin Australia in WA where he dealt exclusively with trucks.
Mr White expanded on what he wanted to bring to the role personally and his strategic view of Isuzu’s role in the transport market in WA, SA and the NT.
“Firstly, I’d like to say how excited I am to be working for Isuzu as they push toward their 30th consecutive year as Australia’s number one selling truck brand,” Mr White said “especially with the exciting products and programs that are in place for 2018 and beyond.
“Results are obviously key to any organisation and I want to help drive those by formalising processes that previously might have been a bit ad-hoc.”
IAL National Sales Manager, Les Spaltman, said he was excited about the skill-set and energy that Craig White was bringing to the Isuzu team as well as some very robust results.
“We’re thrilled to have Craig on board with Isuzu. He brings not only a lot of valuable insights and experience to the position but some strong ideas and energy,” Mr Spaltman said.
“Craig has been driving very strong dealer results. Deliveries are up 16 per cent in WA and 21 per cent in SA compared to this time last year, which is terrific news on Isuzu’s quest to hit 30 years of consecutive market leadership.”
Isuzu’s electrifying stand at MegaTrans
As the major sponsor of MegaTrans 2018 – a three-day supply chain and logistics event held from 10-12 May at the Melbour... Read more »
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Birmingham Bounce 2017
A weekend of lindy hop and authentic jazz workshops and dancing
Scott and Jenny
Birmingham Bounce 20/05/2016 Bounce 17 Teachers, Teaching Team
Latest News – Scott Cupit and Jenny Thomas will be joining the Birmingham Bounce to bring their unique blend of energy and love of swing dancing to Birmingham!
Scott Cupit
While travelling in America with his brother, Scott stumbled upon Swing dancing. He was instantly drawn to the energy of the dance, the music and the people. Scott made a New Year’s resolution to learn how to swing dance.
Soon after, he began teaching classes and things took off from there. Along with his business partner Claudia, he started Swing Patrol, often called the world’s largest swing dancing school. Scott’s love for swing dancing was contagious—his classes grew from 23 people on the first night to over 200 people after eight weeks.
Seventeen years later Swing Patrol run weekly classes in Melbourne, Sydney, Tasmania, Berlin and London. Scott moved to London in 2009 to open Swing Patrol London which now has over 900 students a week through its many venues and weekly social dances.
In 2009 Scott gained an amazing amount of media attention with his interactive and swinging hour on the “empty Plinth” in Trafalgar Square. Voted one of the top ten hours of the whole project by the Evening Standard Scott bought 100 of his London dancers to be involved and the footage is spectacular. The story gained global attention with articles popping up in Texas, all over Australia, Germany and Britain. Even the Fiji Times ran a story.
Scott still teaches weekly as well as running the business. He is often invited to teach abroad and at local scenes around the UK. After 17 years he still thinks he has the best job in the world.
Jenny Thomas
Jenny began Lindy Hopping 24 years ago in Anthony Van Laast’s show “Souls in Motion” where she joined Ryan Francois’ dance company Zoots and Spangles.
During those years Jenny has travelled the world teaching Master Classes, sharing her extensive knowledge of dance technique and exposing countless people to her love and passion for the dance and continues to do so. To many in the swing dance community she is thought of as one of the “Teachers Teachers”.
Performing on some of the most prestigious stages in the world – The London Palladium, Royal Opera House, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, The West End & Broadway. Including Soloist and Assistant Choreographer for the Original cast of The Broadway Musical SWING , The Tony Awards, Macy’s Day Parade and The Blockbuster Movie The Polar Express with Tom Hanks.
Jenny has even performed at Her Majesty The Queen’s residence Buckingham Palace with the boys from TAP DOGS which led to a collaboration with Paul Robinson, Dougie Mills and Joanna Goodwin creating The Tap Team, which gave regular classes at London’s Pineapple Studios and toured England giving masterclasses.
During the last 10 years she has also coached, choreographed and performed on the top Prime Time TV shows of today…
Strictly Come Dancing, Strictly Christmas Special, The Peoples Strictly for Comic Relief, Strictly Dance Fever, So You Think You Can Dance and USA’s Dancing With The Stars and Jazz/Tap coach on ITV’s Dancing On Ice.
This past year Jenny made history by bringing Swing Dance to The Houses of Parliament with Strictly star Robin Windsor. Launching UK’s Dance Manifesto 2015 for the All Party Parliamentary Dance Group
Registrations for The Bounce will open Summer ’16 – to be the first to know all our latest news sign up to our newsletter below and follow us on Facebook!
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The World Eater
Ouroboros represents the never-ending cycle of Rebirth and its Nordic equivalent is known as Jörmungandr (pronounced [jœrmuŋɡandr]), mostly known as Jormungand, the World Serpent that grew so large, it was able to surround the Earth and grasp its own tail. Legend has it that the world would end if it ever let go of its tail so our game is all about this massive space snake that is seeking out it's tail while devouring planets that stand in its way.
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