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Bell Acquires Manitoba Telecom for $3.9 Billion; Cell Phone Rates Expected to Rise
Phillip Dampier May 2, 2016 Bell (Canada), Canada, Competition, Consumer News, Data Caps, MTS (Manitoba), Public Policy & Gov't, Wireless Broadband Comments Off on Bell Acquires Manitoba Telecom for $3.9 Billion; Cell Phone Rates Expected to Rise
BCE, Inc., the parent company of Bell Canada, has acquired Manitoba Telecom Services, Inc. (MTS), in a deal worth $3.9 billion, further enlarging Canada's largest telecommunications company.
"Under the terms of this transaction, MTS will achieve much more than it could have as an independent company," Manitoba Telecom president and CEO Jay Forbes said in a conference call with analysts. "BCE's commitment to invest $1 billion over five years into Manitoba's telecommunications infrastructure will also contribute greatly to the prosperity of our province and the quality of our customer experience."
Many MTS customers and consumer advocates disagree with Forbes' assessment, noting the deal will further consolidate Canada's wireless marketplace by eliminating the province's largest wireless carrier – MTS. The wireless business has nearly 500,000 customers – by far the largest provider in the region. Under the deal, BCE will sell off about one-third of MTS' customers and retail storefronts to competitor Telus in a separate transaction.
Manitoba and neighboring residents in Saskatchewan pay some of the lowest prices for telecom services in Canada. MTS offers unlimited, flat rate Internet plans for both its broadband and wireless customers — plans likely to disappear or become more expensive after Bell takes over. The result, according to one Canadian telecom expert, will be higher rates.
"With MTS out of the way — and Bell and Telus sharing the same wireless network — prices are bound to increase to levels more commonly found in the rest of the country," lawyer Michael Geist wrote on his blog.
The deal is also likely to deliver a death-blow to a government commitment assuring Canadians of at least four competing choices for wireless service. If Bell's buyout is approved by regulators, Manitoba will be served by just three competitors — all charging substantially more than MTS.
…but soon we'll be with Bell.
"Compare Bell's wireless pricing for consumers in Manitoba and Ontario," offered Geist. "The cost of an unlimited nationwide calling share plan in Manitoba is $50. The same plan in Ontario is $65. The difference in data costs are even larger: Bell offers 6GB for $20 in Manitoba. The same $20 will get you just 500MB in Ontario. In fact, 5GB costs $50 in Ontario, more than double the cost in Manitoba for less data. The other carriers such as Rogers and Telus also offer lower pricing in Manitoba. The reason is obvious: the presence of a fourth carrier creates more competition and lower pricing."
That Manitoba Telecom would be up for sale at all came as a result of its controversial privatization in 2006 under a previous Conservative provincial government. The decision to privatize came despite a commitment from then-Premier Gary Filmon that Manitoba Telecom should remain a provincially-owned telecom company. Critics point to one possible reason for the flip-flop. Shortly after leaving politics, Filmon was appointed to the board of directors of the privatized company and was given $1.4 million in director fees and compensation over ten years, along with company shares with hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Economist Toby Sanger compared costs and returns of Manitoba Telecom and SaskTel, Saskatchewan's publicly-owned telecommunications company. After two decades, the cost of a basic landline with SaskTel is $8 less per month than MTS, and SaskTel paid $497 million in corporate income taxes to the citizens of Saskatchewan – SaskTel's shareholders – over the past five years, compared to $1.2 million paid by MTS over the same time period. In 2014, the CEO of SaskTel earned $499,492 compared to $7.8 million paid to the CEO of MTS for managing a very similar sized operation.
The acquisition will be reviewed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the Competition Bureau and Industry Canada, and could be approved later this year or early 2017.
Canada's Choice: Privatized MTS Enriches Itself, Publicly Owned SaskTel Enriches Customers
Phillip Dampier June 15, 2015 Canada, Community Networks, Consumer News, History, MTS (Manitoba), Public Policy & Gov't, Rural Broadband, SaskTel, Wireless Broadband Comments Off on Canada's Choice: Privatized MTS Enriches Itself, Publicly Owned SaskTel Enriches Customers
Truth or Consequences: Does privatizing a government-owned telephone company encourage innovation and efficiency or serve to enrich a handful of executives and shareholders at the cost of customer service? Two essentially equal telephone companies serving the Canadian prairie provinces offer some useful insights.
The provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan are remarkably similar in their landscape and their sparse populations — 1.29 million in Manitoba and 1.13 million in Saskatchewan. Today, most are concentrated in or near a few large cities with many small agricultural towns scattered across great distances.
At the dawn of the 1900s, the "Sunny way" of Prime Minister Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier and his Liberal party was to push open the western frontiers and lay new railways across Canada. Part of the zeal for expansion came from a sense of growth and optimism, but there were also pervasive fears that without significant settlements in central Canada, the Americans could end up annexing huge swaths of empty Canadian agricultural lands for its own interests.
To prevent this and enhance its own national identity, Canada threw its doors open to immigration, especially to hard-working Americans from the midwest who were inundated with government-sponsored advertisements about a new life and opportunities that waited in the Canadian prairies.
The campaign worked. Between 1901 and 1906, the population of Saskatchewan surged from 91,279 to 257,763, 86.8% settled in rural farming areas. By 1911, the population almost doubled again to 492,432 with over 80% located away from the cities of Regina and Saskatoon. Next door in Manitoba, many new residents preferred areas south of Winnipeg, closer to the American border.
Serving this population boom depended heavily on Canadian railroads, which delivered settlers and laborers, medicine, farming equipment, and the latest news from Ottawa. The trains returned east with part of the harvest and various meats.
It was no surprise Canada's telecommunications infrastructure (along with more than a few new towns) would grow up along its railway lines.
With Bell Canada preoccupied with its larger client base in Ontario and Quebec, both the governments of Manitoba and Saskatchewan established provincial, publicly owned, phone companies to take control of their telecommunications future. In 1908, the Manitoba Telephone System (MTS) was born, made up mostly of former Bell customers. In 1909, SaskTel was established as a publicly owned operation as well, again comprising former Bell customers in the province. Both MTS and SaskTel quickly bought out all the remaining private telephone companies still operating in their midst.
The Winnipeg Free Press notes both MTS and SaskTel successfully served their respective customers for nearly 90 years. In 1997, Manitoba's Progressive Conservative premier Gary Filmon broke his pledge to keep hands off MTS and privatized the company, claiming it would be more innovative in private hands.
That move would not be repeated in Saskatchewan, where every political party in office usually treated SaskTel as sacrosanct to the province's economic development. Even the conservative Saskatchewan Party, which held power in the province from 1982-1991, never got around to privatizing the phone company, and a pledge to privatize crown corporations in the near future was just one of several issues that led to the party's downfall in the election of 1991.
For the last 18 years, Canadians have been able to see which province made the wisest choice. The newspaper concluded after nearly two decades, there is strong evidence MTS' main priorities are to satisfy shareholders and commercial business customers, while rewarding their executives with handsome pay packages.
"Meanwhile, SaskTel appears to focus on customer service and satisfaction, being a good employer and on providing returns to their public shareholder: the people of Saskatchewan," the Winnipeg Free Press concluded.
Evidence of SaskTel's service ethic could be found last week when SaskTel was acknowledged as western Canada's most dependable wireless carrier, according to a new study by market researcher J.D. Power.
"SaskTel ranks highest in overall network quality and performs particularly well in call quality, messaging quality and data quality," J.D. Power said in its report.
SaskTel has never been reserved about its own accomplishments, particularly its success delivering innovative new services to sparsely populated regions across Saskatchewan:
SaskTel was the first telecommunications company in Canada to complete its rural individual line service program, eliminating all party lines in 1990;
SaskTel was at the forefront of Internet provision as the first in Canada to remove the long distance charges on dial-up Internet and the first in North America to offer high-speed service on phone lines through DSL technology;
SaskTel was among the first commercial users of fiber-optics in the world, today offering customers competitive cable television, broadband, and phone service.
MTS has not turned out to be the innovator it was promised to be as a private company. While SaskTel was becoming a world leader in converged fiber optic networks, supplying voice, data and video across a strand of fiber, MTS was raising rates on landline customers.
Today, a basic landline in Saskatchewan costs around $8 a month — 27% less than the cheapest MTS home phone service. Everything at MTS usually costs more, which has turned out very well for shareholders and executives. While MTS earns roughly double the profit of SaskTel, almost all goes to major shareholders and top executives. SaskTel has returned $497 million over the last five years to the provincial government as well as customers through an annual dividend payment. Over in Manitoba, MTS has proved to be innovative in avoiding its tax bill — only paying corporate taxes once in 10 years — and that was just $1.2 million in 2010. Creative accounting at MTS has allowed the profitable company to pay "a big fat zero in federal and provincial corporate income taxes," according to the newspaper, and MTS does not expect to owe a penny in income taxes until 2020 at the earliest.
So where do MTS profits go? Last year, MTS former CEO Pierre Blouin received $7.8 million in compensation, well above his five-year average of $4.8 million. Blouin's salary was more than 10 times higher than what SaskTel's CEO receives annually.
The newspaper adds MTS directors are paid more than 10 times what SaskTel's directors are paid. But even more disturbing, the man who made the Money Party possible for MTS — former premier Gary Filmon — had a cozy, well-compensated home waiting for him on the MTS board after he lost his re-election bid. He has used his time at MTS to feather his own nest with more than $1.4 million in director fees and compensation over 10 years, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of shares.
"None of this is meant to suggest SaskTel is an ideal company, but it appears abundantly clear this publicly owned and operated company provides better service at lower costs to its customers than the privatized MTS, and it also provides much larger benefits to the people of the province from its profits," writes economist Toby Sanger. "Despite all this, the Saskatchewan government may be laying the groundwork for privatization of SaskTel. If this is what we can expect from the privatizations of other public utilities — higher fees for the public, lower-quality service, much higher compensation for CEOs and executives, higher corporate profits but much lower returns for the provinces — we can see why Bay Street [Canada's Wall Street] is so excited about the privatization of Hydro One — and why the people of Ontario should be very worried."
Canada's Fiber Future: A Pipe Dream for Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and B.C.
Phillip Dampier October 11, 2011 Bell (Canada), Bell Aliant, Broadband "Shortage", Broadband Speed, Canada, Competition, Data Caps, Editorial & Site News, MTS (Manitoba), Public Policy & Gov't, Rogers, Rural Broadband, SaskTel, Shaw, Telus, Vidéotron 4 Comments
Fiber optic cable spool
For the most populated provinces in Canada, questions about when fiber-to-the-home service will become a reality are easy to answer: Never, indefinitely.
Some of Canada's largest telecommunications providers have their minds made up — fiber isn't for consumers, it's for their backbone and business networks. For citizens of Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, and Vancouver coping with bandwidth shortages, providers have a much better answer: pay more, use less Internet.
Fiber broadband projects in Canada are hard to find, because providers refuse to invest in broadband upgrades to deliver the kinds of speeds and capacity Canadians increasingly demand. Instead, companies like Bell, Shaw, and Rogers continue to hand out pithy upload speeds, throttled downloads, and often stingy usage caps. Much of the country still relies on basic DSL service from Bell or Telus, and the most-promoted broadband expansion project in the country — Bell's Fibe, is phoney baloney because it relies on existing copper telephone wires to deliver the last mile of service to customers.
Much like in the United States, the move to replace outdated copper phone lines and coaxial cable in favor of near-limitless capacity fiber remains stalled in most areas. The reasons are simple: lack of competition to drive providers to invest in upgrades and the unwillingness to spend $1000 per home to install fiber when a 100GB usage cap and slower speeds will suffice.
The Toronto Globe & Mail reports that while 30-50 percent of homes in South Korea and Japan have fiber broadband, only 18 percent of Americans and less than 2 percent of Canadians have access to the networks that routinely deliver 100Mbps affordable broadband without rationed broadband usage plans.
In fact, the biggest fiber projects underway in Canada are being built in unexpected places that run contrary to the conventional wisdom that suggest fiber installs only make sense in large, population-dense, urban areas.
Manitoba's MTS plans to spend $125-million over the next five years to launch its fiber to the home service, FiON. By the end of 2015, MTS expects to deploy fiber to about 120,000 homes in close to 20 Manitoba communities. In Saskatchewan, SaskTel is investing $199 million in its network in 2011 and approximately $670 million in a seven-year Next Generation Broadband Access Program (2011 – 2017). This program will deploy Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) and upgrade the broadband network in the nine largest urban centers in the province – Saskatoon, Regina, Moose Jaw, Weyburn, Estevan, Swift Current, Yorkton, North Battleford and Prince Albert.
"Saskatchewan continues to be a growing and dynamic place," Minister responsible for SaskTel Bill Boyd said. "The deployment of FTTP will create the bandwidth capacity to allow SaskTel to deploy exciting new next generation technologies to better serve the people of Saskatchewan."
But the largest fiber project of all will serve the unlikely provinces of Atlantic Canada, among the most economically challenged in the country. Bell Aliant is targeting its FibreOP fiber to the home network to over 600,000 homes by the end of next year. On that network, Bell Aliant plans to sell speeds up to 170/30Mbps to start.
In comparison, residents in larger provinces are making due with 3-10Mbps DSL service from Bell or Telus, or expensive usage-limited, speed-throttled cable broadband service from companies like Rogers, Shaw, and Videotron.
Bell Canada is trying to convince its customers it has the fiber optic network they want. Its Fibe Internet service sure sounds like fiber, but the product fails truth-in-advertising because it isn't an all-fiber-network at all. It's similar to AT&T's U-verse — relying on fiber to the neighborhood, using existing copper phone wires to finish the job. Technically, that isn't much different from today's cable systems, which also use fiber to reach into individual neighborhoods. Traditional coaxial cable handles the signal for the rest of the journey into subscriber homes.
A half-fiber network can do better than none at all. In Ontario, Bell sells Fibe Internet packages at speeds up to 25Mbps, but even those speeds cannot compare to what true fiber networks can deliver.
Globe & Mail readers seemed to understand today's broadband realities in the barely competitive broadband market. One reader's take:
"The problem in Canada (and elsewhere) preventing wide scale deployment of FTTH isn't the technology, nor the cost. It's a lack of political vision and will, coupled with incumbent service providers doing whatever they can to hold on to a dysfunctional model that serves their interests at the expense of consumers."
"The problem with incumbents is they only think in 2-3 year terms. If they can't make their money back in that period of time, they're not interested. Thinking 20, heck even 10 years ahead is not in their vocabulary."
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Bill Denham: Their service is a joke. It's out more then it's in. The price is not worth it. Total crap service....
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Special Report — Who's Who of Broadband for America: Telecom Industry Connections Exposed
Be Sure to Read Part One: Astroturf Overload — Broadband for America = One Giant Industry Front Group for an important introduction to what this super-sized industry front group is all about. Members of Broadband for America Red: A company or group actively engaging in anti-consumer lobbying, opposes Net Neutrality, supports Internet Overcharging, belongs to […]
Special Report — Astroturf Overload – Broadband for America = One Giant Industry Front Group
Astroturf: One of the underhanded tactics increasingly being used by telecom companies is "Astroturf lobbying" – creating front groups that try to mimic true grassroots, but that are all about corporate money, not citizen power. Astroturf lobbying is hardly a new approach. Senator Lloyd Bentsen is credited with coining the term in the 1980s to […]
"The Verizon FiOS of Hong Kong": Fiber to the Home 100Mbps Service $35/Month
Hong Kong remains bullish on broadband. Despite the economic downturn, City Telecom continues to invest millions in constructing one of Hong Kong's largest fiber optic broadband networks, providing fiber to the home connections to residents. City Telecom's HK Broadband service relies on an all-fiber optic network, and has been dubbed "the Verizon FiOS of Hong […]
BendBroadband Introduces New Faster Speeds, But Offensive Usage Caps the Skunk at the Broadband Party
BendBroadband, a small provider serving central Oregon, breathlessly announced the imminent launch of new higher speed broadband service for its customers after completing an upgrade to DOCSIS 3. Along with the launch announcement came a new logo of a sprinting dog the company attaches its new tagline to: "We're the local dog. We better be […]
Shaw Steamrolling Through British Columbia in "Sell To Us Or Die" Strategy
Stop the Cap! reader Rick has been educating me about some of the new-found aggression by Shaw Communications, one of western Canada's largest telecommunications companies, in expanding its business reach across Canada. Woe to those who get in the way. Novus Entertainment is already familiar with this story. As Stop the Cap! reported previously, Shaw […]
CRTC Embarrassed By FCC Net Neutrality Actions?
The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission, the Canadian equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, may be forced to consider American broadband policy before defining Net Neutrality and its role in Canadian broadband, according to an article published today in The Globe & Mail. [FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's] proposal – to codify and enforce some […]
HissyFitWatch: Shaw & Rogers Non-Compete Agreement Tossed, Allowing Shaw Acquisition of Mountain Cablevision
In March 2000, two cable magnates sat down for the cable industry equivalent of My Dinner With Andre. Fine wine, beautiful table linens, an exquisite meal, and a Monopoly board with pieces swapped back and forth representing hundreds of thousands of Canadian consumers. Ted Rogers and Jim Shaw drew a line on the western Ontario […]
Doubletake: Company With 5GB Limit in Acceptable Use Policy Promises "Near-Unlimited Bandwidth Capacity" to West Virginia
Just like FairPoint Communications, the Towering Inferno of phone companies haunting New England, Frontier Communications is making a whole lot of promises to state regulators and consumers, if they'll only support the deal to transfer ownership of phone service from Verizon to them. This time, Frontier is issuing a self-serving press release touting their investment […]
Sit Down For This: Astroturfing Friends Sold on Pro-Internet Overcharging Report
I see it took all of five minutes for George Ou and his friends at Digital Society to be swayed by the tunnel vision myopia of last week's latest effort to justify Internet Overcharging schemes. Until recently, I've always rationalized my distain for smaller usage caps by ignoring the fact that I'm being subsidized by […]
Hotel Guests Rebel Against Internet Overcharging: Consumers Won't Pay More No Matter Where They Are
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Should Paul Walker's Death Serve as a Warning?
Paul Walker died in a fiery car crash. The driver, Roger Rodas, was a car designer and former race car driver. Both left behind children, Paul Walker a 15 year old, and the driver a 5 year old. Rumors are that they died while drag racing on a curvy road, but traffic cameras indicate they might have been alone. In any case, high speeds were involved.
As many of you know, Paul Walker starred in many of the Fast and Furious movies that show outrageous car chases, racing, and high speed driving. Do these movies encourage people, including Paul Walker himself, to take to dangerous driving themselves?
It's the old question, do movies, TV shows and video games encourage others to try the same type of stunt, or at the very least, make high speed driving look safer than it is? I always hated the movies where a cop car would flip through the air several times and the people remove themselves dazed but unharmed. In real life, such situations are tragic. Most people do not realize that the only thing holding their car to the ground is four spots around six inches square. That's right, the bottom of your tires. At high speeds, you get lift, which reduces the gravitational grip your car has on the road. If you add to that centripetal and centrifugal force and very little keeps your car under control.
They plan to continue the fast and furious series of films, along with all the other high speed movies.
I pray for the families and friends of Paul Walker and Roger Rodas that their grief may be borne and that it will not impact their lives more drastically than it must.
The car after the accident. The fireball could be seen for miles around.
Both Walker and Rodas were seemingly skilled under 'controlled circumstances', i.e. movie sets and race tracks. It's too bad they were under the impression that their skill translated to the real world.
People with responsibilities in the real world should know better. I pity their wives and children, but don't expect me to mourn immature people who get themselves killed prematurely.


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Q: keep save text data in texbox of a web part how can i keep save data in a text box even after i reload the page. i have made a text box and save button. when we click save button it save data in the list. but the data in the text box should not be deleted even after reloading the page, just like as sticky note. how can i perform this functionality?
error: and an error in this code is, that the data i am saving in list also appearing under the text box in the web part.
JS:
$("#btnSubmit").click(function(){
    alert("The paragraph was clicked.");
    var new_task = $('#StickyText').val();
    $('#list').append('
'+new_task+'
');
    AddData()
});
function myFunction() {
    alert("I am an alert box!");

}
function AddData() {
    var listName = "StickyNotes";
    var newItemTitle = $("#StickyText").val();
    var url = "https://instantdk.sharepoint.com/teamsite";
    addListItem(url, listName , newItemTitle)
}

// CREATE Operation
// listName: The name of the list you want to get items from
// weburl: The url of the web that the list is in.
// newItemTitle: New Item title.
// success: The function to execute if the call is sucesfull
// failure: The function to execute if the call fails
function addListItem(url, listname, metadataName) {
    var itemType = GetItemTypeForListName(listname);
    var taskProperties = {
        '__metadata': { 'type': itemType },
        'Title': metadataName
    };

    createListItem(_spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl, listname, taskProperties)
    .done(function (data) {
        console.log('Task has been created successfully');
    })
    .fail(function (error) {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(error));
    });
}
function createListItem(webUrl, listName, itemProperties) {
    return getFormDigest(webUrl).then(function (data) {

        return $.ajax({
            url: webUrl + "/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('" + listName + "')/items",
            type: "POST",
            processData: false,
            contentType: "application/json;odata=verbose",
            data: JSON.stringify(itemProperties),
            headers: {
                "Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",
                "X-RequestDigest": data.d.GetContextWebInformation.FormDigestValue
            }
        });
    });
}

function getFormDigest(webUrl) {
    return $.ajax({
        url: webUrl + "/_api/contextinfo",
        method: "POST",
        headers: { "Accept": "application/json; odata=verbose" }
    });
}
// Get List Item Type metadata
function GetItemTypeForListName(name) {
    return "SP.Data." + name.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + name.split(" ").join("").slice(1) + "ListItem";
}

HTML:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://instantdk.sharepoint.com/SiteAssets/sticky_note.css">

 Sticky Notes

<textarea rows="7" cols="50" id="StickyText" >

</textarea>

<input id="btnSubmit" type="button" value="Save"  />

A: two methods. either use hidden field.
or Jquery way:
to save:
  $( "#StickyText" ).focusout(function() {
     var stickTextToSave = $('#StickyText').val();
     localStorage.setItem("saveText", stickTextToSave);
  })

to load on page load:
  $(document).ready(function() {
     $( "#StickyText" ).val(localStorage.getItem("saveText"));
  });

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The Google Pixel 2 XL is Google's best smartphone yet, offering impressive performance and one of the best smartphone cameras we've ever seen.
Like many smartphones, the Google Pixel 2 XL has ditched the headphone jack. The display is less impressive than the original XL model, and the device is pretty expensive.
If you're after a phone with some premium power and no bloatware, the Pixel 2 XL may be right up your alley - particularly if you enjoy photography.
The Google Pixel 2 XL is the larger and more premium model in Google's second generation of smartphones. While Google has owned the Android operating system for quite some time, their foray into smartphone development with the Pixel line is only a somewhat recent development. The Pixel phones received all-around excellent reviews, and the Google Pixel 2 XL improves upon its predecessors with updated technology and a similar, fluid operating system that remains one of the best Android experiences we've seen to date.
The Google Pixel 2 XL is a truly premium device, and one of the most impressive aspects of the device is its camera. We feel that it's safe to say that you won't find a better smartphone camera with current releases, so if excellent photographs are your primary concern, the Google Pixel 2 XL is a clear winner.
Another refreshing aspect of Google's latest flagship is the operating system. While companies like Samsung and LG make impressive smartphones that have performed admirably, they tend to bog the system down with bloatware that is viewed as largely unnecessary by many users. With the Pixel 2 XL operating system, you'll enjoy fluid, no-nonsense performance that makes operating your new phone a breeze.
Add to these benefits a battery that lasts all day, a gorgeous design, and some seriously impressive power, and you've got a recipe for one of the top flagships of 2017.
There are a few drawbacks to the phone that are worth mentioning.
Perhaps most glaring among the issues is the fact that the Google Pixel 2 XL screen actually feels like a bit of a downgrade when compared to the original Google Pixel XL. Users have reported muted and unsaturated colors, grainy images on web pages, and a slight blue tint to images. Considering how long people spend looking at their phone, it's a pretty major fault with an otherwise excellent device.
Although it's become expected that flagships are ditching the headphone jack, it's still an unfortunate omission in our opinion. The phone is also pretty expensive, which makes it less accessible to the average smartphone user.
We feel comfortable recommending the Google Pixel 2 XL as a viable alternative to other android flagships such as those from Samsung or LG. While the issues with the display are a major issue, the top-notch performance, excellent camera, and one of the best operating systems we've seen make it a clear contender for one of the best options on the market.


I've recently become rather addicted to nail polish. I've been sharing my manicures on Facebook and I've mainly been boring or annoying most people. Judging by some of the comments, some of my friends seem to think that I am not busy or that I have too much time on my hands because I'm manicuring my nails two or three times a week.
I've tried to explain that it it really doesn't take that long. And I've resisted the urge to scream that it's a hobby … what's wrong with spending a few hours a week on my hobby?
So, all in all, the people I am friends with on Facebook really aren't interested in what I have on my nails. So I've set up this blog, as well as started new Pinterest and Twitter accounts, all to feed and fuel my nails obsession. And through them I hope to find more like-minded people.
I've only really been doing my nails for the past two months. But in that time, I've already amassed a large collection of polish (119, not including top and base coats) and stamping plates (more than 75), along with various nail art tools and decorations.
This is what is on my nails today: W7 Black Cherry (yesterday's manicure), layered with Revlon Scandalous.


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Earwurms – Interview
Despite the absolute disaster 2020 has presented to the live music scene, Amsterdam has seen a renaissance of live show ideas and emerging new bands. The scene keeps growing and the new cool kids are not giving up on their music dreams just yet.
The other day I came across a band called Earwurms. Formed by Paloma Jet Plantenga, on bass and vocals, Carmen Jasmijn Mellema, on guitar and vocals, and Inez Reintjes, on drums and vocals, these born and raised Amsterdammers, with an American background and Spanish names, started their band in 2016 when its members were still in high school.
I thrive off of their DIY sound and uncommon no no-sense style combined with their powerful thoughts on a society that has long been devoted to a different, yet common, male background. Their sound is still undefined, with a lot of DIY and underground influences. They have huge potential and I can't wait to see how they evolve.
Earwurms first rehearsal
Heatwave: How did you all meet?
Earwurms: We met in high school. Inez and Carmen met when they where 12. Then Paloma in the fourth year of high school (16-years-old). We gravitated towards each other because we had a shared an interest in art (we had drawing class together) and music, particularly from the 60s and 70s. We started playing together because Inez and Paloma had music class at school and the three of us decided with two other girls to create a humoristic heavy metal band called, 'de dode rebellen' – Dutch for dead rebels,
We were angry about the talent show, which didn't have a lot of variety in the kinds of performances. For instance, no girls really played instruments and the only bands at school were whiny boys with guitars, just being boring… No offence.
We felt like we could add something. We never really played with the five of us. Instead the three of us started to practice the only song we knew, The Ramones 'Blitzkrieg Bop', in Inez's dads workspace where there was a drum-kit. Carmen and Paloma played their guitars, because we didn't have a bass yet.
For ear protection we used old headphones, scarves and construction worker ear protection. Alongside that, we practiced during every lunch break at school in the music room. We had to fight for a space because a lot of other kids wanted to play, so we always ended up running to claim "het hok."
We had an interest in music, but we didn't really pursue it before we started playing together. So when we decided to start a band we suddenly had to play instruments we didn't really know yet. So, we basically learned how to play together.
The next talent show at our school was our first performance, where we played 'The KKK Took My Baby Away.' It was a show filled with technical difficulties and scared faces from the audience. We actually only started playing gigs when we left high school. We all had a gap year and the most happened in 2019.
Heatwave: Who composes the music, is this a joint effort? What is your songwriting process?
Earwurms: It is a collaboration between the three of us, but we all have our own ways of adding to a song. Usually Paloma or Carmen have a riff of some sorts and work on that together. The three of us then jam on that riff and a song starts to appear.
Then there are a lot of conversations about the makeup of the song, which usually has to do with the lyrics. The lyrics are written mainly by Paloma, which usually start as poems. Then we just play the song over and over again, to find out what sounds good and feels natural to play.
In the end we add some weird stuff for fun, humour and a better show.
Heatwave: Have you released some tracks? Any plans on releasing a full EP soon?
Earwurms: We have one song on Spotify, 'Sex in het Maisveld', and we are planning to release a new track that was made in quarantine. We are now saving our money from gigs to be able to record semi-professionally for an EP. But because of coronavirus, we haven't had a lot of income and practice opportunities. We do have a lot of ideas for the EP, but the recordings we have are just not good enough, since they were done very DIY.
Heatwave: What is behind the artwork on your first release Corn?
Earwurms: The single cover for 'Sex in het Maisveld', (Dutch for sex in the cornfield), is us PhotoShopped in front of a very nice cornfield. The photo is from our music video. We wanted to make a video clip for the song and had the idea to buy as much canned corn as possible from the money we earned from our first paid gigs. It turned out that we could buy 80 cans of corn, and so we did.
We really enjoy putting images with our music. We all study something related to art, and are very visually oriented because of that. So, creating images with our music is very important to us. We have a lot of amazing and creative friends, who always manage to capture lovely images of our performances. We try to make our promotion, videos and merch as original and as personal as possible.
Heatwave: What is the scene like in the Netherlands? Is there any support to your music?
Earwurms: In general, we have had a lot of nice people supporting us and helping us get gigs, great people that dance with us while we play every time. We have found that many bands within the underground Amsterdam music scene are very supportive and active. The anarchist initiatives have also been helpful.
We have also come across ongoing prejudice because of our gender, and we have felt like outsiders. We didn't feel like we belonged in any of the genres created by other, mostly male, bands. We feel like we are judged harsher than our fellow male musicians.
There is a network of boys and men that really help each other out and getting opportunities is a lot harder when you don't fit in.
This harsher judgement is something internalised and is just a small example of the way women are treated differently, as a whole.
For instance, within ourselves we have noticed an inferiority complex, which causes us to be insecure about our abilities. This is enforced by the different standards held for women. When a boy makes a mistake it's fun and edgy, but when a girl does it, it is a mistake and she is seen as less.
We have noticed this way of thinking within ourselves, we also judge other women unfairly, for we often assume men know what they are doing. We noticed this thinking pattern and have made an effort into changing this by starting conversations about it and placing ourselves in other people's shoes. We hope others will also do this or at least try to understand.
Little things others say to us in the context of playing that often sounds degrading:
People always assume we are the singers when we say we are in the band. They are surprised when we say that we actually play instruments.
When strangers see us play instead of saying anything about our music after a gig the comments are mainly focussed on our appearance (pretty, cute, etc.) and us being girls.
We try to incorporate humour, but we have noticed that even when we try to be serious we are not treated as such.
People often laugh at us for not knowing stuff. This is our experience, so this could also be the case for guys if we talk about toxic masculinity, etc.
Also an important aspect of the music scene in Amsterdam is the dsopm, which is the precourse for the conservatory of Amsterdam. This is a place where a lot of bands are formed. There is an obvious division between bands that come from dsopm and bands that are more DIY.
Within the scenes, everybody knows each other. The different groups have different intentions and standards with music. Where most of the dsopm usually have a a lot of connections through their parents and their school, and go through a more commercial route to fame. The more 'underground' or DIY groups have to (and want to) use different ways of spreading their music. There are also differences within the music.
We noticed that we can identify more with female bands, because they are more like us and talk about issues we can relate to, so they really inspire us. That's why we hope to see more female bands in Amsterdam, so more girls and women can be inspired.
Right now the female to male representation is very unbalanced. It's also pretty white, there isn't a lot of ethnic diversity. So there is a lot to be thankful for, but we still have goals of changing the music industry to make it that much more interesting and diverse.
A few bands that Earwurms recommend from the scene are:
Lange niezel: poetic punk band
Rumble in the barn: a rockabilly band party experience
Noys: postpunk situation
Luka schuurman: cinema in music form
Bernince aloyse: heartfelt singersong writter grunge band
Klittens: indie grungy cats
Mezus chistus: art rap
The estate: broken up, but alive in our hearts
Earwurms just posted a new music video called, 'Little Boys.' Another quarantine creation, it tackles the idea of "little boys who don't know of responsibility and how girls will take back the power. "
Show your support and have a look at the links below.
LITTLE BOYS
SEX IN HET MAISVELD
On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4ocBQG8qAPaTy3OJM3EaMp?si=bGaNjNJYSGWL8DQfiVjJfQ
Instagram: @the_earwurms
Facebook: the earwurms
– Neus Ruiz
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1. Any modifications to these terms will be effective immediately upon posting on zebraconnections.co.uk. Please print a copy for your records. These Terms and Conditions form the sole basis of the contract between the Supplier and the Client. You agree to review these terms and conditions periodically to be aware of any modifications or changes.
2. The service will be provided for a minimum term of THREE months.
3. Should either party wish to cease the service notice must be given in writing not less than ONE MONTH prior to the next billing date.
4. Zebra Connections will provide personnel to answer incoming telephone calls in the name of the client's company as detailed on the booking form unless instructed otherwise.
5. A message will be taken whenever a caller wishes and that message will be logged on Zebra Connections's messaging system.
6. All messages will be relayed as soon as is practicable after receipt.
7. The client may have messages relayed in written form by way of either Email or SMS.
8. Where requested, Zebra Connections will use its discretion to assess whether a message is urgent or important and relay the same via SMS to a designated mobile telephone, or via Email.
9. It is the sole responsibility of the client to effect the successful diversion of all calls from its normal telephone to the number provided for the purpose of this service by Zebra Connections. The client will need to organise this with BT or their telephone service provider if not BT.
10. Zebra Connections cannot be responsible for ensuring this divert facility is active although it is essential for the provision of Zebra Connections's telephone answering service. Zebra Connections is unable to refund any payments should this facility not work for any reason.
11. a) Zebra Connections personnel will only answer incoming calls between the hours of 08:00 and 18:00 Monday to Friday. Outside of these hours and all day on Bank Holidays calls will be answered by a voicemail system. If a client elects to have a personal voicebox where callers can leave a message Zebra Connections will transpose any such messages on behalf of the client and include them in the log of all messages provided on the next working day unless agreed to the contrary.
12. Call Patching – the prices quoted assume a call duration of not more than 20 minutes to UK land lines and 10 minutes to mobiles. Zebra Connections reserve the right to either withdraw this service or levy a reasonable surcharge should the client take calls that last longer than this. Zebra Connections cannot be responsible for the reliability of calls patched through to mobile phones in particular. Zebra Connections will attempt to patch callers through to up to TWO numbers and no more before taking a normal message from the caller.
13. The prices quoted assume a typical call duration of no more than two minutes. At its sole discretion Zebra Connections may charge clients a surcharge or request the client to transfer to a by the minute pricing tariff if calls habitually take longer than two minutes.
14. In return for the standard charge Zebra Connections will endeavour to log the following information each time a call is taken: 1) The name of the caller 2) their company name 3) their telephone number, plus 4) a message.
15. Zebra Connections are happy to take extended messages and the processing of other data at the request of the client conditional on a surcharge or billing by the minute. If it is felt necessary to make such a charge we will not do so without first agreeing a specific rate with the client.
16. Zebra Connections will store all messages for three months at no charge to the client.
17. After three months there will be a monthly "Archiving Charge" for those clients wanting us to store their messages beyond this period.
18. Should any client who has paid the monthly "Archiving Charge" require a copy of a message after three months a "Search Fee" will be charged on each occasion.
19. If a client chooses not to pay the monthly "Archiving Charge" Zebra Connections will be unable to provide copies of any messages that were taken more than three months earlier.
20. Calls will only be recorded for specific purposes deemed lawful under General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) "GDPR" .
21. It is the responsibility of the client to ensure compliance with PCI DSS rules.
22. If a client requests that a single line be used for taking calls for more than one company or outlet then Zebra Connections accepts no liability for errors that may result from any confusion that could be avoided by the use of separate lines.
23. If the client requires complex call handling services then the client agrees to allow a reasonable length of time for Zebra Connections to become familiar with the requirements of the client.
24. All sums payable under this agreement unless otherwise stated are exclusive of VAT and other duties or taxes.
25. Any VAT in respect of the payments shall be payable in addition to such sums.
26. The only methods of payment that can be accepted are VISA and MasterCard Credit or Debit Cards, and any Debit Cards or Direct Debit Mandate where applicable.
27. Payment must be made monthly in advance with any additional charges being billed monthly in arrears.
28. A month's tariff may also be taken at the outset by way of a fully refundable deposit that will be repaid on the termination of the service providing no sums are outstanding.
29. A once only non-refundable set up fee per service may be taken at the outset.
30. All subsequent payments will be due upon receipt and we will process your payment using the same credit or debit card used to open the account unless you instruct us to the contrary. Thereafter we may invite you to pay by way of Direct Debit mandate. We do not accept cheques as a method of payment.
31. A Reprogramming Charge may be levied if the client requires non-standard hours of operation or re-routing of any Telephone Number.
32. Zebra Connections reserves the right to suspend its service if any sums become overdue, or if it has reasonable grounds to believe that any aspect of the service is being used for illegal or fraudulent purposes, or for any other reasons at its absolute discretion.
33. Messages or minutes included under a monthly tariff cannot be carried over from one billing period to the next billing period.
to the business or affairs of the other.
35. The Supplier and the Client shall comply with all elements of Data Protection Legislation currently in force in England and Wales.
36. The Client is the Data Controller and the Supplier is the Data Processor within the meaning of the Data Protection Legislation.
37. The Supplier processes data in order to comply with the contract in place with the Client. The data obtained by the Supplier in the performance of the contract shall not be used by the Supplier for any other purpose.
38. Processing is carried out for the duration of the contract or as required by law.
39. The nature of processing is as defined by the contract between the Supplier and the Client.
40. The subject matter of the processing is the services performed under the contract in place between the Supplier and the Client.
41. The type and nature of personal data processed by the Supplier is as determined and controlled by the Client.
a. Customers of the Client, patients of the Client, prospects of the Client, clients of the Client, associates of the Client, suppliers to the Client and other natural persons who use the communication facilities provided by the Supplier to the Client.
b. The officers, employees, agents, advisors and sub-contractors of the Client, the customers of the Client, patients of the Client, prospects of the Client, clients of the Client, associates of the Client, and suppliers to the Client.
43. The Supplier shall ensure that all necessary consents and notices are in place to enable lawful transfer of any relevant personal data to the Client for the duration and purposes of the contract.
44. The Supplier shall process data only on the written instructions of the Client unless required otherwise by law.
45. The Supplier shall ensure that they have in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data. The Supplier is committed to Information Technology best practice.
46. The Supplier shall ensure that personnel who have access to and/or process personal data are obliged to keep that personal data confidential.
d. The Supplier complies with reasonable instructions notified in advance by the Client with respect to processing of personal data.
48. The Supplier shall comply with reasonable instructions notified in advance by the Client with respect to processing of personal data.
49. The Supplier shall assist the Client, at the Client's expense, in responding to any request from a data subject and in ensuring compliance with the Client's obligations under the Data Protection Legislation with respect to security, breach notifications, impact assessments and consultations with government authorities and regulators.
50. The Supplier shall notify the Client without undue delay if the Supplier becomes aware of a personal data breach.
51. The Supplier shall delete or return personal data and copies thereof to the Client on termination of the Contract unless required by Data Protection Legislation and/or other law to store the personal data.
52. The Supplier shall maintain complete and accurate records and information as required by law.
53. The Client agrees to the Supplier using a sub-processor on the same terms when operational needs require it.
54. The Supplier shall not be liable to the Client for loss of profit or of any contract or for any consequential loss that may be suffered by the Client.
55. The Supplier shall not be liable to the Client for any sums in one month that exceed the total figure paid by the Client to the Supplier in the previous month.
56. This agreement and all rights under it may be assigned or transferred by the Supplier but not by the Client.
57. This agreement shall be subject to and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England.
58. All rights granted to either of the parties shall be cumulative and no exercise by either of the parties of any right under this agreement shall restrict or prejudice the exercise of any other right granted by this agreement or otherwise available to it.
59. The failure by either party to enforce at any time or for any period any one or more of the terms or conditions of this agreement shall not be a waiver of them or of the right at any time subsequently to enforce all terms and conditions of this agreement.
60. During the Term the Supplier shall be an independent contractor and not the servant of the Client.
parties whether during the Term or afterwards touching or concerning this agreement or its construction or effect or the rights, duties or liabilities of the parties under or by virtue of it or otherwise or any other matter in any way connected with or arising out of the subject matter of this agreement shall be referred to a single arbitrator to be agreed upon by the parties or in default of agreement to be nominated by the President for the time being of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in accordance with the Arbitration Acts 1950 to 1997 or any statutory modification or re-enactment of it for the time being in force.


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Treating chemical wastewater
1 July 2000, source World Water
The EnViro-cell process allows the electrochemical oxidation and reduction of dissolved substances in industrial wastewater solutions, as Dr Mueller explains.
The central component of classic packed bed electrolysis is one or more packed bed (granulated graphite) electrodes with a high efficiency surface area.
These make it possible to economically treat even extremely low concentration solutions, such as wastewater containing small amounts of heavy metals.
The basic packed bed electrolysis unit can be configured to meet the demands of four large applications areas:
Recovery of precious metals	such as gold and silver;
Removal of metal ions (copper, lead, tin, mercury, cadmium) from wastewater;
Anodic oxidation of cyanide, nitrites and similar substances without the use of environmentally hazardous chemical additives;
Renewal of process solutions in galvanic rinsing and related applications.
Classic packed bed units are capable of meeting or surpassing all of today's mandated wastewater emission levels for heavy metals.
Packed bed units are available for a wide range of metal concentrations ranging from 10ppb to 250000ppb and can be used individually or in series as concentrations demand.
Operating costs are so low that total expense estimates for a packed bed installation need only reflect investment expenditures.
The modular cell concept allows easy maintenance - individual modules can be placed off-line without disrupting overall operation.
In the chemical industry for many processes copper in ionic form is used as a catalyst. This is the case in the following productions:
Production of copper-phthalo cyanine;
Oxychlorination of acetylene, ethylene, benzene, toluene, xylene;
Dimerisation of acetylene (chloroprene production);
Production of acrylic acid derivatives;
Production of polyamides (copper and cyanide).
For the purification of wastewater produced during the manufacture of vinyl chloride, a continuously operating electrolysis plant consisting of packed bed cells is used. The plant comprises two stages of packed bed cells, each of them consisting of four cells, type EP4/50.
After the two stages, the copper concentration of 6mg/l is reduced to <0.5mg/l. By cathodic reduction the copper ions are reduced to metallic copper on the surface of the graphite granules. Thus the packed bed of graphite granules is loaded with copper.
While the plant is continuously operating, the metal loaded graphite is sucked out of the cells, regenerated and refilled into the cells. Each stage is equipped with a rectifier supplying the cells with direct current.
The main advantages of this electrolysis process are:
Waste-free process;
No addition of chemicals;
No increase in the salt content;
Low energy consumption.
All EnViro-cell modular cell types and standard system solutions are characterised by high environmental compatibility, using only electrochemical technologies and no potentially hazardous chemicals for treating industrial wastewater.
The systems produce wastewater concentrations of heavy metals and other substances which meet or surpass all mandated environmental levels.
The technology also allows the recovery and recycling of precious and other economically valuable metals without high-volume production of industrial sludge which must be expensively processed before disposal.
The systems amortise quickly and are highly cost-efficient. EnViro-cell offers its system in a variety of sizes, ranging from compact units to large-scale industrial processors.
Customised, client-specific designs and treatment solutions are also available from engineers, who are also involved in wide-ranging R&D programs involving international companies in the chemical, electro-plating and related industries.
These include feasibility studies in which EnViro-cell technology is integrated in extended processing systems using other disposal and recovery systems.
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Barcelona save €10m on Dembele injury
by SoccerNet Editor
Barcelona will be taking some positives from Ousmane Dembele's injury as his time on the sidelines will save the club €10m.
One of the variables agreed as part of his big-money move was that if he played 50 games for the Catalans this season, an additional €10 million euros would be paid to Borussia Dortmund, MARCA reveals.
With the injury suffered at Getafe, the winger could miss up to four months of action, guaranteeing his appearances will fall some way short of the agreed number.
Dembele will be operated on in Finland on Tuesday as he looks to start on his long road to recovery. Before the game against Getafe, Ousmane Dembele was spotted checking on his left hamstring during Barcelona's warm-up.
The France international's facial gestures made clear that he felt something during the stretching exercises and this may have led to his thigh injury. The 'El Golazo de GOL' TV show released a video which shows Dembele's grimace while touching the upper part of his leg in the Coliseum.
This was the French forward's first muscular injury in his career and after the game Ernesto Valverde noted that an experienced player might have recognised these small problems and not risked playing because of it.
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A borneói verébsólyom (Microhierax latifrons) a madarak osztályának a sólyomalakúak (Falconiformes) rendjébe és a  sólyomfélék (Falconidae) családjába tartozó faj.

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Testhossza 14–17 centiméter, szárnyfesztávolsága 28–31 centiméter, testtömege 35–65 gramm.

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Főleg rovarokkal táplálkozik.

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Some families do not fit neatly in the template for a traditional family tree.
Our family is one that is made up of so many root systems merging, in some cases, and veering off, in other cases.
Plus, I was raised in a German & Italian family- both of which have heavy branches, and the baldguy is completely Italian, so his tree, though more traditional in structure, has many branches and shoots.
Mine is further chopped up by adoption (mine), loss and remarriage and a big step family (my Oma remarried after my Mom's dad died during WW2, she had three kids and married a man with five kids…It's like the German Brady Bunch).
This is definitely not a First Grade level project, not in any form. Like most projects in Elementary school, I think this is more of a test of the parent's skills instead of the child's, but that's just my opinion.
They should hand out Q&A sheets and planning sheets to build up to this sort of thing. If the powers that be did that, they would be teaching (by doing, of course!) organizational and planning skills the whole way through. Instead we learned that we will never find the 40% off any one item coupon from Michaels when we are actually going to Michaels (though they show up everywhere in the house when we are broke or just don't need supplies)… We learned that Crayola Squeezable 3D Paint absorbs into the paper covering on science project tri-fold boards, but it will wait until 11:30pm on a Sunday to do this little disappearing act so the whole tree/garden looks like a madwoman did it.
That madwoman would be me.
Anyway, I wound up doing all of the traditional branches, with photographs. I, of course, have an extra branch from my biological relatives. I wound up connecting all like information, all "sources" by color. My biological "sources" are purple. My adoptive family is pink. Baldguy's family is green. All of this leads up to Alex, at the very top… For his picture I chose one of him taking a photograph. I outlined it in purple, pink, and green and put "flash lines" of puffy paint around it so it's like he is taking a snapshot of his entire family.
I could have used at least 3 of these poster trifold things to at least make this look less mashed and more organized. Then again, I'm a diagram nut. I adore flowcharts… I swoon over Venn diagrams… But you knew that already.
Off to peel some of this paint and xyron adhesive from my skin. It's like a pseudo exfoliation treatment for Mamas!


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