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By Daisy Badger | Published on Saturday 27 August 2011
I walked into the show a bit of a doubting Thomas – a very intense character named Sarah Woodings had greeted us in the foyer. I left the theatre thinking if only the cast had enjoyed it more. The central narrative was perhaps an obvious story, but their storytelling was innovative and entertaining. Their recreation of photos is particularly effective, which is a testament to the cast’s characterisation. However, the cast breaking character to tell us what photos meant to them simply felt forced. The lighting was also distracting, and the performances would benefit from a constant light source on them so they are visible. This showed all the signs of a first show with tensions running high.
theSpaces On North Bridge, 15 – 27 Aug, 2.40pm (3.25pm), £4.00 – £5.00, fpp264.
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[db]Russia Torn Between East And West in Auto Connectivity
The majority of Russian first responders were connected to fleet telematic solutions in the past ten years thus reducing response time by up to 50% from the pre-connectivity era.
Then in 2016 the emergency response system ERA-GLONASS, a local eCall twin, had cut this time again. Now the government aims another 20% improvement through the V2X potential. Connected and driverless vehicles will automatically get warned about an emergency vehicle coming from behind and move out of its way.
Its probable that Western readers have never heard about the Eurasian Digital Road. Even the local authorities rarely use the official name for their V2X initiative. Unlike driverless tech programs where every advantage is released with hype, the local connectivity system has so far been developed quietly.
The regulators had a go at producing some buzz in this area after release of the updated version of the new mobility road map Avtonet in 2018. Some of their claims were quite bold, like making V2X a part of Russian citizens’ daily life as of 2025, as cited by the news agency Russia Today. Perhaps too bold, because the National Technological Initiative, the coordinator of the V2X program, slipped into the shadows when approached for a concrete comment by this correspondent, explaining they “were not ready”.
Yet, some interesting details emerged in the conversations with developers Huawei and Fort Telecom. For instance, Russia may choose a technology neutral approach in the epic battle between DSRC and C-V2X standards. “In our view, using them together is the optimal approach,” says Vladimir Makarenko, Fort Telecom’s business development director. “From the technical point of view, a two-in-one solution might solve the problem of unification between different zones.”
This is said at the same time as China is deploying C-V2X in Shanghai highways and the European Union is speeding towards accepting DSRC as the region-wide standard. The choice is hard because Russia borders with China in the east and EU in the west, keeping tight relations with both. The technology neutral approach seems a convenient option.
Still Huawei, which stands behind China’s program, is insisting on Russia choosing C-V2X because it “is optimal for Russia just like for the whole world” according to Igor Akulinin, Huawei’s chief business consultant in Russia. “С-V2X contains both mobile connectivity, LTE and later 5G, and connections via PC5.”
The Russian strategy as described in the road map states that both DSRC and C-V2X will be tried in permanent pilot zones on federal motorways in 2019-2025. Makarenko says that the pilots are currently running mostly on DSRC but upon release of numerous C-V2X chips “we will witness active shift to that side. In our company we are developing RSUs and OBUs supporting both standards.”
When the pilots are done, deployment will start with installation of 31K road-side units (RSU) along federal motorways, then in bigger interjections and traffic lights, with consequent legislative requirement to install on-board units (OBU) in all new vehicles. The scheme described by Makarenko leaves rural areas and minor streets to use existing cellular networks for connectivity of vehicles.
The networks in question are still in the early phase of transition from GSM mobile networks (2G/3G) to LTE with 65% of base stations still belonging to GSM, down 8% from the previous year. The vast majority of existing telematic, remote security, automatic toll collection and emergency response systems are designed to use GSM standard. Accelerated transition to 4G and then to 5G networks would be a sensible financial burden for mobile operators and end users, believes Maxim Savvatin, analyst at iKS-Consulting: “We still haven’t reached 100% GSM coverage.”
One of the opportunities is to start with the more affordable LTE-V2X infrastructure together with GSM/LTE cellular networks. “To clear the way for an emergency vehicle you don’t need 5G,” he says. “The whole set of latency and bandwidth requirements can satisfy those needs with existing GSM and 4G mobile networks. Thus, full V2X system is unlikely to be widely deployed in 2025. It is simply not demanded by the market.” The transition of mobile networks from 4G to 5G is expected to start in 2020-2022 and the technology will reach commercially attractive phase in 2023-2025.
As to autonomous transport, which requires more advanced networks whether DSRC or 5G, it is not expected to play a significant role before the late 2020s. “5G is very distant horizons,” Savvatin believes. “In transportation [in the near future] it will be limited to certain small zones of the big motorways.”
However, the government might put non-economic reasons first and execute the nation-wide V2X program in spite of possible resistance from business, as it happened when ERA-GLONASS and electronic toll collection systems were introduced. Savvatin says: “Deployment of such digital technologies usually happens fast because the government is making considerable investments into digitalization and regional authorities compete for winning the largest share of these budgets.”I will only weigh in here separate from the myriad of clips and cuts of
others statements.
There are a couple of problems with this discussion. First, it is,
blatantly, sexist in nature. Attempts at justification have been given, but
the fact remains that BSA has set a policy that allows women to hold ALL
positions in scouting. Certain nationally chartered partners are allowed to
set their own policies. But BSA is not discriminatory in this fashion. It
is well past time for us, as leaders, to support the policy of BSA and our
own chartering institutions. It is not likely that BSA will change this
policy back ever; further arguing "I don't think women can/should do this
job" is pointless, in many respects.
Second, as to the ability of a woman to teach young men HOW to be men.
Statements that boys only learn how to be men from men are pointless. I
could recite a litany of things that I, as a man, know how to do, because of
my mom, not my dad. Additionally, I am reminded often of manly
responsibilities in my family often---by my wife. An individual's
recognition of himself is not complete without the view of others. Can men
truly teach themselves how to be themselves? The same is true of both
sexes. Women have just as much