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Mossey to wait for Aintree
Sunday 2 March 2014
Mossey Joe, a leading fancy for the CGA Foxhunter Chase, will miss the Cheltenham Festival and wait for Aintree.
Connections of the classy hunter chaser feel Friday week's race comes a little too soon for the Enda Bolger-trained 11-year-old.
Owner Barry Connell, who paid £160,000 for Mossey Joe at Brightwell Sales in January, said: "He probably just needs another week or two and, as you know, he's changed stables recently.
"We'll have him there for all the spring festivals. He'll probably go to Aintree, either for the Foxhunters or the Grand National, and then on to Punchestown.
"We just needed an extra week or two and we kind of ran out of road a little bit."
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Cubas national bureau of statistics, Oficina Nacional de Estadisticas (ONE), says that the islands mobile subscriber base exceeded the one million milestone in 2010 to end the year with a total of 1.003 million cellular users, Reuters reports. The number of subscribers grew by 61% year-on-year compared to 621,200 at 31 December 2009. According to ONE, mobile services covered 78% of the Cuban population at the end of 2010, up marginally from 77.5% twelve months earlier and 71% in 2005.
Meanwhile, the number of fixed lines in service totalled 1.163 million at 31 December 2010 (compared to 1.119 million a year earlier), of which residential users accounted for 838,713. At the same date, 98.7% of lines had been digitised, up from 97.1% at the end of 2009 and 89.8% in 2005. The report said there were 64 computers and 159 internet users per 1,000 residents in 2010, though most had access only to a government controlled intranet through computer clubs and workplaces, since internet access requires government permission.
According to TeleGeographys GlobalComms Database, Cubas sole telecoms operator is Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba (ETECSA). The company is wholly owned by the Cuban government via six state-run entities: Telefonica Antillana (51%), Rafin (27%), Banco Financiero Internacional (6.2%), Universal Trade & Management Corporation (11.1%), Banco Internacional de Comercio (0.9%) and Negocios en Telecomunicaciones (3.8%). Local financial services company Rafin bought its stake in January 2011 from Telecom Italia (TI) for USD706 million.
Source: TeleGeography
Ethiopia's monopoly mobile network, Ethio Telecom says that it has registered a remarkable increase in the number of mobile subscribers over the past weeks, and has now exceeded 10 million subscribers.
The total customer base, including fixed line and internet subscribers now reaches 11.3 million.For comparison, according to figures from the Mobile World the state owned monopoly had an estimated 3.85 million subscribers at the end of June 2010.
The company has also announced plans to revamp its tariffs and prepay card durations. The company said that the lower value voucher cards are being introduced to fulfill the expectations expressed by the network's customers while higher value voucher cards are introduced specially for data services.
France Telecom has a two-year contract to manage the network, which expires at the end of 2012.
Source: Cellular News
After months of delays, Lebanons telecoms minister, Nicolas Sehnawi, has confirmed that international internet capacity via the India-Middle East-Western Europe (IMEWE) submarine cable is now available to ISPs. Habib Torbey, the head of the Lebanese Telecom Association and president of GlobalCom Data Services, representing the countrys private ISPs, confirmed to local newspaper The Daily Star yesterday that the long-awaited new capacity was now available, adding that the development will really change the internet landscape in Lebanon.
A statement from the communications ministry added that Sehnawi would present a draft bill to the Cabinet in the coming three weeks that would formally dictate a reduction of internet access prices in the country. Lebanons landing station for the IMEWE fibre-optic system had been scheduled to enter operation in December 2010 but was postponed mainly due to disputes involving the cables owning consortium, the telecoms ministry and the national incumbent telco OGERO. With the international undersea connection now lit, ISPs will soon be able to offer retail and wholesale users faster speeds, whilst planned 3G mobile data services will also utilise the IMEWE cable.
ISPs are waiting for the promised data pricing bill with interest as, unlike government-owned cellcos Alfa and MTC Touch, ISPs currently pay around USD3,000 for a line which reportedly costs the government USD100 to supply, Torbey stated. Meanwhile, upgrades to another cable system, Cadmos, will also boost the countrys available bandwidth, helping to raise speeds and lower prices.
Canada's Rogers Communications has announced the commercial launch of Canada's first LTE network, covering the Ottawa region. Rogers also announced that network rollout to Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal will occur this autumn, and that LTE-enabled smartphones from Samsung and HTC will be available later this year.
The company added that it will expand LTE coverage to a further 21 markets by the end of 2012. Rogers and Ericsson have been conducting technical trials of LTE in Ottawa and Montreal since last autumn.At launch the Rogers LTE network will be capable of maximum theoretical download speeds of up to 75 Mbps on the Rogers LTE Network. Typical download speeds can range from 12 Mbps to 25 Mbps. As device selection evolves, maximum theoretical download speeds will increase to up to 150 Mbps.
"Ottawa is proud to play a significant role in Canada's first LTE network, from the trials through to the launch today. This new technology is a significant step forward towards increasing the accessibility and enjoyment of high speed applications while enhancing the productivity and reliability of mobile communications for Ottawans" said Steve Desroches, Deputy Mayor of Ottawa.
Belarusian national operator Beltelecom plans to raise the capacity of its internet gateway to Russia by 20Gbps by the end of the year and has announced a tender to provide the service, according to local online news service Tut. The winner of the bid will be charged with expanding the gateway by 10Gbps in August, adding the rest of the capacity in the third and fourth quarters of the year. The current capacity of Beltelecoms internet gateway totals 120Gbps, of which the link to Russia comprises 90Gbps.
Wireless broadband subscriptions in OECD countries exceeded half a billion by the end of 2010, an increase of more than 10 percent on June 2010, according to data from the OECD. Fixed broadband subscriptions reached 300 million, but growth slowed to 6 percent year-on-year. This reflects higher broadband penetration and market saturation in some countries. The Netherlands and Switzerland lead with 38.1 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, followed by Denmark with 37.7 and Norway with 34.6.
Fibre subscriptions continue to grow and account for 12.3 percent of all fixed broadband connections, while DSL is still the most widely used technology with 57.6 percent, followed by cable with 29.4 percent. Leading countries in fibre are Japan with 58 percent, Korea with 55 percent, Slovak Republic with 29 percent and Sweden with 26 percent. Korea is the leading country for wireless broadband subscriptions, with 89.8 per 100 inhabitants, followed by Finland with 84.8, Sweden with 82.9 and Norway with 79.9. This compares to an OECD average of 41.6 and a total of under 512 million.
The factors in the sector's continuing health include long contract durations of mobile operators, the popularity of bundled offers of television, mobile and fixed telephony, and the fact that communication services are perceived as non-discretionary spending items. Households looking to cut spending seem to be economising in other areas. The prevalence of bundled services has also played a role in this shift by reinforcing customer loyalty and reducing churn. Bundled services may benefit consumers by offering lower prices and gains such as unified billing, integrated services or customer assistance. The complexity of some bundled offers makes them hard to interpret and poses additional issues for consumers trying to compare prices and make informed decisions. In addition, bundling may make it harder for users to switch providers or drop a service.
Source: TelecomPaper
A meeting of Government Ministers from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has agreed to work on cutting mobile roaming rates between their countries.
The GCC Ministers decided to adhere to the Ministerial resolution made at a meeting three years ago, which stated that the GCC countries will move the implementation of proposals from a working group for a 30% cut in roaming rates.
In a statement, the GCC Telecommunications Regulatory Authorities said that they will inform the operators immediately after the meeting to implement the resolution. The GCC is a political and economic union of the Arab states constituting the Arabian Peninsula, namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.
Eight percent of U.S. adults owned a tablet device in May, up from the 5 percent that reported having one in November 2010, according to research by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.Meanwhile, ownership of e-reader devices stood at around 12 percent, the research center said. Adoption of such devices continues to grow at a faster rate than tablets, having doubled from 6 percent market penetration in November of last year. In addition, hree percent of survey respondents reported owning both an e-reader and a tablet.
In terms of overall penetration, however, e-readers and tablets continue to lag behind devices such as cellphones and laptops. Of the 2,277 respondents Pew surveyed for the research, 83 percent reported owning the former, and 56 percent the latter. MP3 player ownership stood at around 44 percent, meanwhile.
Source: TelecomPaper
Brazils national telecoms regulator Anatel says the country was home to 26.3 million 3G mobile devices (including modems) at the end of May, up 73% on the same time a year ago. Of the total, some 19.8 million 3G devices were W-CDMA handsets, while the remaining 6.5 million were 3G modems, it said. By the start of June 3G devices accounted for more than 12% of total mobile connections in the country, it added. 3G networks currently provide coverage in 1,523 cities and municipalities across the country, representing 75.4% of the population. In a separate release, the regulator reports that the total number of fixed broadband connections reached 15.8 million at end-May, up 29% year-on-year.
According to the latest data published by Irelands telecoms regulator ComReg, the Republic was home to more than 1.624 million fixed and mobile broadband connections at the end of March 2011, up 10.4% year-on-year and 2.1% quarter-on-quarter. Stripping out mobile broadband connections of 591,368, the regulator reported a little over 1.033 million fixed broadband connections, up 5.3% y-o-y, with much of the growth being driven by cable modem-based users.
In the year to 31 March 2011 the total number of cable subscriptions rose 33.7% to 218,519, while xDSL users increased by 0.8% to 729,890. Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) connections declined by 11.6% to 75,529 in the twelve months under review, although ComReg noted a small 1.7% rise in such connections between 31 December and the end of the first quarter. Other broadband access reached 9,197, up 12% y-o-y, although conversely the total dipped 1.2% between 4Q10 and 1Q11. Meanwhile, mobile broadband continues to expand, growing 20.7% year-on-year and 3.4% quarter-on-quarter according to the watchdogs findings. Mobile broadband now represents 36.4% of all high speed subscriptions, behind DSL lines (44.9%). Dial-up lines continue to fall: narrowband subscriptions totalled 40,604 at end-March, equivalent to just 2.4% of all internet subscriptions.
Venezuelan mobile operator Digitel is in the process of deploying a new 200km section of fibre-optic infrastructure to expand the total length of its backbone network to 1,000km, reports BNamericas. The transmission network, linking the capital Caracas with the cities of Valencia, Barquisimeto and Maracaibo, is expected to be expanded to 3,000km in a second deployment phase.
CEO of Jordan Telecom, Nayla Khawam, has announced plans to invest JOD50 million (USD70.3 million) in developing faster 3G and internet services. The statement was delivered in the wake of a pledge last week from rival telco Umniah Telecommunications and Technology Company to launch its own 3G network in 2012.
According to TeleGeographys GlobalComms Database 3G services were launched by Jordan Telecom in March 2010 and within twelve months it had 300,000 customers using the service. Jordans only other 3G provider, Zain Jordan, claimed 41,000 3G users at the same date.
USA based Verizon Wireless is reported to be planning to scrap its unlimited mobile data tariffs next month for new subscribers and will move towards a range of tariffs with different allocations per customer. Although details are still being finalised, the majority of rumours agree that Verizon will charge US$30 a month for 2GB of mobile data - which puts it $5 per month higher than AT&T's equivalent tariffs.
"As we have stated previously, Verizon Wireless is making some minor changes to data plans including those for new smartphone customers," Ken Muche, a Verizon spokesman told media. "We will move to a more usage-based model in July. More details to come."
Rival networks, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA offer unlimited mobile data plans for US$80 per month. Some analysts expect that the move to tiered pricing for mobile data traffic will drive the heavier users towards Wi-Fi hotspots, and release more capacity on the mobile networks for occasional and low-intensity useage.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has approved a plan to change the Internet's Domain Name System. The Icann board approved a plan to dramatically increase the number of internet domain name endings, dubbed generic top-level domains (gTLDs), from the current 22, which includes domains such as .com, .org and .net.
The decision is in line with the rights of groups to create new Top Level Domains in any language or script. New gTLDs are expected to change the way people find information on the internet and how businesses plan and structure their online presence. Internet address names will be able to end with almost any word in any language, enabling organizations worldwide to market their brand, products, community or cause in new ways. The first applications for new gTLDs will be accepted from 12 January 2012 to 12 April 2012.
Switzerland based Swisscom says that it is rolling out the HSPA+ technology in six Swiss cities, which will enable mobile data communication speeds of up to a theoretical peak rate of 42 Mbps. All NATEL data premium customers will be able to take advantage of this surfing speed.
Swisscom already unveiled this upgrade at the WEF in Davos. The high-speed network is already available in Berne and Zurich, with Basel, Geneva, Lausanne and Lugano set to follow suit from the end of August 2011. The high speeds can be used with the Huawei E372 USB stick, which is now available from Swisscom in combination with the NATEL data premium subscription.
In a new report, Fitch Ratings says that although overall mobile service revenue growth in Europe remains under pressure (-1.4% in the 12 months to March 2011), there are significant regional differences.
In northern Europe, mobile service revenue growth turned positive in 2010 and the 12 months to March 2011, led by a strong performance in the UK and Germany. In these two countries, revenue growth from non-voice services has more than offset voice revenue declines.
In southern Europe, the trend in service revenue declines is getting worse at -5.4% in the 12 months to March 2011. The economic weakness in southern Europe is dampening demand for mobile data services and exacerbating the decline in voice revenue from regulatory and competitive pressures.
Fitch expects voice revenue in southern Europe will remain under pressure, as effective voice pricing, especially in Spain, is higher than in northern Europe. Downward pressure is expected to continue as mobile termination rates, which are higher in southern Europe, are forced down towards northern European levels by regulation. Over the medium term, mobile data might not provide as large a boost to mobile revenue growth as some operators expect. There is a risk that mobile data might be partly used as a substitute for voice and SMS services. Fitch believes that the risk will increase over time as voice over IP becomes more of a threat with technology improvements and instant messaging and social networks could start to replace SMS more widely, not just in the youth segment.
As part of its National Development Plan for Telecommunications (PDNT), the Costa Rican government has unveiled its new National Broadband Strategy. The plans main aim is to improve the nations economy by rolling out broadband to more remote areas of the country and fostering innovation in information technologies. Plans also included raising awareness of the social and economic importance of internet expansion. The first step, to be completed by November this year, is to identify the areas of the country in greatest need of development before work can begin on improving the networking infrastructure.
According to TeleGeographys GlobalComms Database, Costa Rica had 332,000 broadband subscribers at the end of March 2011, representing a household penetration of 24.8%, slightly lower than neighbouring Panamas 30.1%, but far ahead of Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, with 4.9%, 3.0% and 7.7% respectively.
China is reported to be considering allowing a potential fourth entrant into the country's state-controlled telecoms market, and that the new investor would be predominantly from the private sector.
Although all three telecom's networks have listed subsidiaries, the bulk of their shares are owned by the government, who also shook up the industry a couple of years ago by shuffling around their mobile assets to create three separate networks.
Citing unnamed sourced, the Securities Daily reported that the details are still being worked out - and might still involve one of the state-controlled companies being involved in the new venture.
"Inititally there was only one telecommunications company and then it was divided into several firms. Private capital has already invested in this industry for a long time, and it should be further encouraged," Liu Chunru, the deputy secretary-general of the Electronic Science and Technology Committee at MIIT, told the reporter.
"I know of this plan advising on the development of the telecommunications industry and the opening up of the market. It is beneficial to have a diversified telecommunications market, and although this is just a pilot scheme, at least the MIIT is taking a stand" , Zhu Hongbo, vice president of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications said.
France Telecoms Armenian mobile unit Orange Armenia has extended its GSM mobile network coverage on the countrys north and south national roads, extending from the capital Yerevan to the national border. The latest network expansion is designed to provide better coverage along all main roads for tourists travelling across the country in the summer season. The cellco says that as a result of the upgrade, the northern road enjoys 99% coverage, and the figure is a slightly lower 94% in the south. Orange Armenia intends to continue its network rollout with a focus now on connecting remote regional areas. Its outdoor GSM coverage currently stands at 95% of the population.
In a related story, Orange rival ArmenTel (Beeline) says it has extended its 3G mobile network footprint to the cities of Vayk, Dilijan, Ijevan and Martuni, as well as Aramus, Balahovit, Garni, Dzoraghbyur and Nor Hachn. Further, the cellco has deployed additional 3G base stations in Yerevan, Gyumri and Kapan to improve capacity and coverage, and in the next month is looking to roll out 3G services in parts of Agarak, Ashotsk, Berd, Yeghegnadzor, Qajaran, Maralik, Meghri, Noyemberyan, Sisian, Sanahin, Stepanavan, Talin, Tashir and Chambarak.
Afghanistan based mobile network, Roshan says that it has become the first mobile operator in Afghanistan to surpass five million active customers, up from 30,000 customers at the end of 2003 when the company first launched its services.
Roshan's network now reaches over 230 cities and towns across all 34 provinces in Afghanistan, covering over 60 percent of the population.
"Reaching this milestone demonstrates how far we have come towards reaching our goal of connecting people and bringing Afghanistan into the 21st century. In 2003, when we started operations, less than 100,000 people had access to a phone. Afghanistan was truly landlocked. Since then, Roshan has been proud to play a leading role in using mobile phone technology as a critical tool in driving socio-economic development of the country," said Karim Khoja, chief executive officer.
Khoja added, "Our vision is to ensure that within the next five years, every Afghan has access to a mobile phone and to serve as a catalyst for change, supporting Afghans as we build a brighter tomorrow for the country." Roshan's customer base has increased by more than 30 percent in the last year, with the addition of more than one million active customers since October 2010. Afghanistan remains among the fastest growing mobile phone markets in the world, with some 15 million total customers, representing a mobile penetration rate of 35%.
The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), part of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), is a major shareholder of Roshan and promotes private initiatives in building economically sound enterprises in the developing world. It is also owned in part by Monaco Telecom International (MTI) and TeliaSonera.
Orange Armenia says that it has extended its network coverage on North and South national roads of the country, from Yerevan to the border of the country, aiming at ensuring coverage along the roads for Armenians and tourists travelling accross the country, whose number will be multiplied during summer months.
As a result of large-scaled works, the road to the Northern border of Armenia is presently covered by 99% and the one to South is covered by 94%. The company will continue extending its network; the works will mainly concern remote regional habitations.
When obtaining the license on network exploitation Orange committed to ensure outdoor GSM coverage on 85% of national roads connecting Yerevan to Georgia and Iran within a three-year timeframe. Today Orange network covers more than 95% of Armenian population.
West and Central Africa represents one of the fastest-growing mobile communications market in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the past few years, the region has witnessed a dramatic increase in mobile subscriptions due mainly to the surge in mobile subscriptions in Nigeria. The low levels of mobile broadband penetration in the region indicate that there is room for growth.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan finds that the mobile communications markets in Nigeria, Cameroon and the Ivory Coast earned combined revenues of $8.6 billion in 2009 and estimates this to reach $12.6 billion in 2016. From approximately 92.6 million in 2009, mobile subscribers are expected to grow to 172.4 million in 2015.
"The West and Central African region is one of the most dynamic with more than 3 mobile operators in each country and massive infrastructure development," notes Frost & Sullivan's ICT Industry Analyst Mervin Miemoukanda. "The intense competition amongst mobile operators has boosted market development in terms of offerings and technology deployed."
Unlike in other regions, most operators in Central and West Africa have rolled out fibre optic backbone, thereby bypassing the incumbent fixed line operators' expensive transmission networks.
Although the mobile broadband penetration rate is less than 1 per cent in the three countries, they have experienced a considerable uptake of broadband services due to the increasing adoption of social media and decrease in tariffs. In Nigeria, mobile broadband has surpassed fixed broadband subscriptions over the past 2 years and this trend is expected to be witnessed in Cameroon and the Ivory Coast in the next 3 years.
However, challenges remain. High taxes on telecom services and compulsory subscriber registration threaten to dampen market expansion. The high cost and limited availability of bandwidth also threaten to rein in market prospects.
"A number of factors currently hamper the growth of this region," explains Miemoukanda. "These include low disposable income, lack of infrastructure in rural areas and the shortage of bandwidth in most countries in the region, especially in Cameroon and the Ivory Coast."
To sustain profit margins, mobile operators should improve the quality of services through continuous infrastructure investment such as network capacity upgrade and deployments of new technologies.
"They should also focus on developing innovative solutions, such as cyber cafés for broadband services that target the mass market," concludes Miemoukanda. "Focusing on enterprise solutions and developing sound distribution channels for mobile money services will also help maintain growth momentum."
"The West and Central African region is one of the most dynamic with more than 3 mobile operators in each country and massive infrastructure development," notes Frost & Sullivan's ICT Industry Analyst Mervin Miemoukanda. "The intense competition amongst mobile operators has boosted market development in terms of offerings and technology deployed."
Unlike in other regions, most operators in Central and West Africa have rolled out fibre optic backbone, thereby bypassing the incumbent fixed line operators' expensive transmission networks.
Although the mobile broadband penetration rate is less than 1 per cent in the three countries, they have experienced a considerable uptake of broadband services due to the increasing adoption of social media and decrease in tariffs. In Nigeria, mobile broadband has surpassed fixed broadband subscriptions over the past 2 years and this trend is expected to be witnessed in Cameroon and the Ivory Coast in the next 3 years.
However, challenges remain. High taxes on telecom services and compulsory subscriber registration threaten to dampen market expansion. The high cost and limited availability of bandwidth also threaten to rein in market prospects.
"A number of factors currently hamper the growth of this region," explains Miemoukanda. "These include low disposable income, lack of infrastructure in rural areas and the shortage of bandwidth in most countries in the region, especially in Cameroon and the Ivory Coast."
To sustain profit margins, mobile operators should improve the quality of services through continuous infrastructure investment such as network capacity upgrade and deployments of new technologies.
"They should also focus on developing innovative solutions, such as cyber cafés for broadband services that target the mass market," concludes Miemoukanda. "Focusing on enterprise solutions and developing sound distribution channels for mobile money services will also help maintain growth momentum."
Indias Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is expected to make a final decision in around a month on whether or not it will cancel the licences of a number of operators that it is claimed failed to meet eligibility criteria. According to the Business Standard, DoT secretary R Chandrasekhar said of the current timeline for reaching a decision on the matter: We have received clarification from the Corporate Affairs Ministry on [a] date of reckoning for compliance of various conditions, whether it be change in memorandum of association or equity-based
But before taking a final decision, we have to take legal opinion as well. The whole process should take a month or so. Having issued notices to a number of operators regarding two specific issues failure to reach rollout obligations and ineligibility for acquiring a licence the regulator has said that it has received responses from all companies with regard to the latter issue.
As previously reported by CommsUpdate, Indias previous telecoms minister Andimuthu Raja is facing charges regarding the issuing of 122 licences in 2008 without auctioning Indias scarce wireless spectrum, which it has been claimed caused a presumptive loss of more than INR1.76 trillion (USD38.7 billion). In January 2011 Indias Supreme Court issued notices to both the Central Government and eleven private telecoms operators regarding a petition which sought to cancel those 2G spectrum licences it claims were handed to companies either ineligible for such concessions or those that failed to fulfil rollout obligations, after the issue was raised by an independent body, the Centre for Public Interest Litigation. The eleven companies named in the case were: Loop Telecom, Etisalat DB (Swan Telecom), Vodafone Essar, STel, Unitech Wireless (Uninor), Videocon Telecommunications, Idea Cellular (including Spice), Allianz Infratech, Tata Teleservices, Sistema Shyam Teleservices and Dishnet Wireless (a unit of Aircel).
Mexican regulator Comision Federal de Telecomunicaciones (Cofetel) has reduced the interconnection rate charged by Telmex to rival operators to MXN 3.951 from MXN 11.55. Cofetel has also changed the legal nature of long distance service that Telmex provides to other competitors in rural areas with no investment from other fixed telephony competitors.
Cofetel has also cut the interconnection rate for this service by 94 percent to 4.53 peso cents per minute, from 75 peso cents. America Movil believes that such decisions are "arbitrary", "clearly unexplainable and deprive [its subsidiary Telmex] of its corresponding rights and assets. Telmex plans to carry out all the relevant legal defense actions. Additionally, related to the fixed-mobile interconnection rates that have been reduced, Telmex will apply the interconnection rates as established by Cofetel, until the legal proceedings of mobile service companies are not definitely resolved.
According to the Hurriyet Daily News, the Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) has fined Turkcell, Turkeys largest cellco by subscribers, TRY91.94 million (USD58.36 million) for breaching competition rules regarding distribution. Hurriyet notes that Turkcell defended itself on 31 May as part of the competition boards investigation into its activities.
During the hearing, Turkcells chief legal affairs officer Umit Akin reportedly protested that, given its dominant position within the market, Turkcell is now obliged to run its activities in a tough competitive environment, adding: We do not mention this as an objection, but we say this because others are claiming the opposite. According to TeleGeographys GlobalComms Database, Turkcell reported 33.1 million subscribers at end-March 2011, equivalent to a 53.6% market share. The firms rivals in the Turkish wireless sector are Vodafone Turkey and Avea.
Lebanons Ministry of Telecommunications announced yesterday that the countrys number of cellular subscribers has jumped by around 30% to three million since the end of 2009, driven by network capacity expansion, reduced rates and the introduction of new packages by the markets two state-owned cellcos. TeleGeographys GlobalComms Database says that Lebanon had 2.93 million wireless subscribers at 31 March 2011, with 54% of users served by MTC Touch Lebanon, managed by Zain Group, and the other 46% using Alfa, under the management of Orascom Telecom. The total was up 26% on end-2009s figure of 2.38 million, while cellular penetration is approaching 75%.
In its announcement, reported by local newspaper The Daily Star, the ministry also stated the intention to further reduce cellular tariffs by between 25% and 50% depending on the existing package, although it did not confirm whether the changes would include both pre- and post-paid tariffs. The last major reduction in prices two years ago led to an upswing in the user take-up rate, largely in the pre-paid segment.
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According to Arceps latest market observatory, the number of high speed and ultra-high speed fixed broadband connections in France reached 21.8 million at 31 March 2011, up 8% or 460,000 net new lines, compared to the same period a year ago. Of the total, 20.25 million lines were xDSL connections, up from 18.91 million a year earlier, while other broadband subscriptions (cable, wireless and satellite) increased to 1.01 million at the end of the first quarter.
Moreover, the number of ultra-high speed broadband connections stood at 520,000, representing net growth of about 183,000 over the corresponding year-earlier quarter, including 140,000 FTTH and FTTB connections (up 20,000 since the start of this year). The regulator notes that at end-March 2011, approximately 1.135 million homes were within potential reach of a FTTH connection, up about 36% compared to 31 March 2010. More than 21% of these homes were located in buildings where residents are offered a choice of service providers.
Lebanon's interim Telecoms Minister, Charbel Nahhas has confirmed that the country's two mobile networks will launch their 3G services by the middle of this summer.
"No one can stop us from launching the 3G, and not even a new government, because we have already signed the contracts needed for that purpose," Nahhas told The Daily Star.There are concerns that legal action from an ISP, Cedarcom could delay the launch as it is claiming that the government doesn't have the authority to issue the 3G licenses.
The company also says that the regulatory regime is blocking it from selling landline DSL based services, which it consideres to be unfair and unjust competition. Nahhas said the overhaul of the IT infrastructure would pave the way for private firms to compete by providing the best Internet services at competitive prices. But he added that there are some aspects of risk incurred by the telecommunications sector and cited Lebanon's experience in this respect.
Afghanistan based mobile network, Roshan has expanded its mobile money service, M-Paisa to payments for tickets with the Kam Air airline.
Customers who purchase tickets through M-paisa will also receive 10% off the airline purchase price.
"As part of our commitment to bringing innovative services to Afghanistan, we are pleased to be partnering with Kam Air, to bring the convenience and safety of mobile purchases to our customers. This partnership expands our growing merchant network throughout the country, providing more ways for Roshan customers to make purchases, using their M-Paisa wallet," said Karim Khoja, Chief Executive Officer, Roshan. Kam Air is also a strategic partner in Roshan's VIP program, the first of its kind in Afghanistan.
Upon payment through M-Paisa, customers will receive an SMS with a reference number, which will serve as their ticket. In April 2011, M-Paisa received Afghanistan's first Electronic Money Institute (EMI) license from the Da Afghanistan Bank.
Indian mobile network operator Sistema Shyam TeleServices (SSTL), which offers services under the MTS India banner, has announced that it has extended coverage of its CDMA 1xEV-DO-based mobile broadband service MBlaze to the Uttar Pradesh (East) and Uttar Pradesh (West) circles.
The operator said it had set aside around INR250 million (USD5.5 million) for the rollout of the service across the two regions, where it said customers would be able to sign up for the new offers at one of its 5,000 retail outlets or 50 flagship stores. Arvind Kumar, SSTLs chief operating officer for the UP East and UP West circles, said of the development: We are excited to launch our high speed mobile broadband service in UP East and UP West. Customers in these circles would now be able to enjoy the unmatched MBlaze experience coupled with attractive tariffs and innovative offerings.
Going forward, we also plan to launch our voice and data post-paid services by June 2011 across the two circles. The company also noted that with this latest expansion of its mobile broadband footprint it now offered MBlaze in more than 150 towns across India, with more than 600,000 customers having signed up for the service since it was first introduced in October 2009 in Delhi.
Angolas vice minister for telecommunications, Aristides Safeca, has said that almost two million people in the country are accessing the internet on their mobile phones, reports AllAfrica. Safeca, speaking on the sidelines of the Angolan Forum on Telecommunications and Information Technologies, said that many of the mobile internet users representing nearly 20% of the approximately ten million cellular phone customers in Angola had eschewed available fixed line network services, and that the government is working towards improving the quality of service for fixed internet users.
Since its launch back in December 2008, North Korea's koryolink has been focusing on maximizing the size of its subscriber base. It's majority shareholder, Orascom Telecom said that in Q1 2011, koryolink has successfully reached and crossed the half million subscriber mark closing the quarter with an ending base of over 535,000 subscribers.
Throughout the first quarter, koryolink continued to focus its efforts on two main areas; boosting subscriber growth and maximizing foreign currency revenues. The company said that this was done using a three-pronged approach which involved offering innovative products and services to the market, maintaining a strong sales presence across major cities and expanding network coverage to cover a larger percentage of the Korean population.
In February 2011, koryolink introduced an innovative offering targeting all Korean customers called the "Euro Packs". The "Euro Packs" are basically recharge cards that subscribers can buy in Euros and in return, such scratch cards offer them free voice & VAS in the off-peak period. The main objective behind launching such an offering was to boost koryolink's Euro revenue. The "Euro Packs" sales trend has seen a steady increase since launch which proves the right compatibility and wide acceptance of the offering in the Korean market. In January 2011, and for the first time in the DPRK, koryolink offered MMS to its subscribers. This represented the latest addition to koryolink's VAS portfolio. The service was received positively from subscribers and continues to exhibit a healthy growth rate to date.
In its efforts to better serve existing subscribers and reach out to potential customers, koryolink has maintained a wide distribution network consisting of 18 shops inside the capital Pyongyang and 8 shops covering eight main cities in the DPRK through an agreement with KPTC. Through such distribution network koryolink provides a variety of services such as selling new lines, selling airtime, providing information to subscribers, etc. Koryolink's network currently consists of 341 base stations covering the capital Pyongyang, 14 main cities as well as 72 smaller cities. The network coverage also extends over 22 highways. As of the end of Q1 2011, koryolink's network covers 13.6% of the DPRK's territory and 92% of its population.
Pakistan's Telecommunication Authority (PTA) says that it has ordered the blocking of 3.5 million SIM cards that had not been re-registered by their users with the mobile networks.
To cope with the order, the operators are being allowed to block accounts in batches of up to 875,000 SIM cards per week until they have blocked all the accounts that had not complied with an order to re-verify their ownership details with the networks.
Although identity is needed to buy a SIM card, the regulator ordered a re-verification process for all accounts after it said too many had wrong details or information that was out of date.The blocked SIM cards will however be able to make a call to a single number, 789 to verify the users details with the mobile networks and get their service restored.The 789 system is an automated real time verification system where a customer has to verify his details through NADRA's database by answering mandatory secret questions i.e. mother's name and place of birth so as to re-activate the SIM.
Users have one week from being blocked to re-verify their details, after which the SIM card will be completely disabled.
In North America, Netflix is now 29.7 percent of peak downstream traffic and has become the largest source of internet traffic overall, according to a study by broadband equipment provider Sandvine. Currently, real-time entertainment applications consume 49.2 percent of peak aggregate traffic, up from 29.5 percent in 2009, a 60 percent increase.
Sandvine forecasts that the real-time entertainment category will represent 55-60 percent of peak aggregate traffic by the end of this year. In Latin America, social networking (overwhelmingly Facebook) is a bigger source of traffic than YouTube, representing almost 14 percent of network traffic. Real-time entertainment represents 27.5 percent of peak aggregate traffic, still the largest contributor of traffic in that region. In Europe, real-time entertainment continues a steady climb, rising to 33.2 percent of peak aggregate traffic, up from 31.9 percent last fall. BitTorrent is the largest single component of both upstream (59.7 percent) and downstream (21.6 percent) internet traffic during peak periods. In the UK, BBC's iPlayer is 6.6 percent of peak downstream traffic, reflecting the demand for localised content in many markets.
Overall, individual subscribers in Europe consume twice the amount of data as North Americans.
Russian mobile network operator, MegaFon has reported that its customer base shrank slightly during the first three months of this year to 57.12 million - a drop of 0.3% compared to the end of last year.However, consolidated revenue for the first quarter of 2011 grew by 18% to RUR 55.2 billion (US$1.97 billion), although net income for the first quarter of 2011 decreased by 1.9% to RUR 10.1 billion (US$360 million).
The company said that the drop in net profit was because the revenue growth was offset by the increase in depreciation expense related to the substantial increase in fixed assets put into use at the end of 2010.
The island nation of Mauritius has revealed it will cut telephone interconnection charges in the country by 33%, effective 1 July 2011. The government hopes the move will increase telecoms uptake in both fixed and mobile users.
The states statement confirmed that the edict will cut tariffs on calls made from a fixed line number to a mobile network, and from a mobile number to another mobile on a different network. Mauritius is home to around 1.3 million people and has more than 1.2 million SIM cards registered. However, the government believes there is still more room for growth.
According to data published by the Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), overall teledensity in the mountain Kingdom reached 41.5% in March 2011, up from 27.7% a year earlier, driven by a 13% increase in mobile users to 10.37 million (including 9.49 million GSM and 871,447 CDMA subscribers). However, a lack of competition has been blamed for a fall in fixed teledensity which stood at 2.95% at the same date, down from 2.98% in March 2010.
A spokesperson for national fixed line incumbent Nepal Telecom (NT), Surendra Prasad Thike, said that tough competition from GSM service providers was one of the major reasons for the decreasing fixed penetration rate. However, he also pointed out that the number of fixed lines had not actually decreased only the penetration rate.
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It also includes "traits" which are similar to the starting bonuses from previous heroes games. Towards the end of the single player campaigns you end up unlocking 5 of these passive bonuses - which can basically make the difference between some of the more challenging maps being beatable and fun vs. impossible with the highest difficulty selected.
The free items mentioned are levellable artifacts - many of them are given to you in cutscenes in the campaigns. You just don't actually get them unless you play entirely online and logged in - even in single player. This means if you don't play always on then you're being denied plot based rewards and the game sort of rubs it in your face by showing you the items you WOULD have gotten and then saying "but you didn't since you're not using Conflux."
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Help! Latex Paint peeling off the walls!
You can pretty much see the problem in the photo below. I used Betonel VIP 100% acrylic latex paint on my bathroom wall. Two days later, it peels right off if I pull it with my fingers (but it would be very difficult and tedious to remove it from the entire walls this way). The surface underneath is completely unaffected, and not peeling off. The bathroom was recently renovated. But I don't know what thin, milky garbage the contractors used to prime the walls. Only that they "spot primed" and didn't clean anything, cos that was quicker. I don't know what type of paint was originally used underneath the primer; possibly it was oil.
Basically... what do I do now?! What's the cheapest way to fix this? I don't know how to remove 4 walls of weak paint. I am thinking of using Zinnser Bullseye 1-2-3 primer this time, then have another go with the same Betonel paint. Is it necessary to completely remove the old paint if I use this primer?
I would guess the pink is oil and you( or someone) put the blue latex on top with no prep work. All of the blue must be removed and the pink primed with a bonding primer. Cover stain is a good one or you can use the 123 after a light sanding of the pink.
Betonel VIP 100% acrylic latex paint
never heard of that:no:
That's probably a good guess (though it's not pink, it's various shades of white underneath the turquoise latex). The old paint was likely oil, and your typical lazy contractors did no prep work on the walls, before "spot priming" (throwing a bit of thin primer here and there in spots). It is very unlikely they used an oil-based primer. Thing is, I do not know how to remove the blue (turquoise) latex paint. I tried metal and plastic scrapers, blow dryer, and the only way it comes off is if I roll it under my fingers, bit by bit, then stretch and peel off the rubbery paint layer in small sections. But that is very tiring, and I have 4 walls to do!
The tecnician at Zinsser said priming over a peelable layer of latex is not giong to work no matter which of their products I try, and that I should let the blue latex paint cure for 5 more days, and see whether it bonds. Does this sound like another gigantic waste of my time or a reasonable idea? Frankly, I'm not sure what else to do, as I do not have many tools at my disposal (ie. no power sander). BTW, Betonel is very likely a Quebec only brand.
You definitely need to remove all the existing coating (blue) from the wall. There are several ways to do this scrape, sand or chemically strip. There are a number of good quality citrus water based strippers on the market. The key is patience because they take time to work, actually softening the paint you want to strip so you can scrape it from the surface. Most likely the paint on the wall underneath the blue is oil based but there is a test you can do to determine for sure. Take some denatured alcohol saturate a white, clean rag and wipe the surface. If it softens the coating then it's latex if it doesn't then it's oil.
After you have removed all the blue paint, wipe down the surface to be painted with denatured alcohol and let dry for at least 30 minutes. Lightly sand the surface if it is glossy, wipe off sanding dust with a clean, damp rag and let dry. Then apply an adhesion promoting primer. Let primer dry according to label directions then apply your paint, again following label directions.
All surfaces you paint need to be clean, dull and dry. It does not matter what surface you paint it has to be clean, dull and dry.
Also keep in mind that excessive humidity can cause paint not to cure properly and therefore will have very poor adhesion to the surface. If the room is humid try turning on the exhaust fan or simply placing a box fan on low in the room will help "dry" the air.
Last thing... Look at the back of the blue paint that you can peel off the wall. If it is a milky white color then the previous coating is failing. If is feels gritty or sandy then the walls were not cleaned prior to painting the blue paint. Remember a new coat of paint is only as good as whats underneath it so if the coating you are painting over is peeling gues what? The new coat of paint will do the same. There is no miracle paint that can "lock down" a crappy paint job...
I hope this helps...
Phil "the paint guy"
Thanks, Phil. Removing the paint is proving to be easier said than done. I've tried sanding, that just rubs the paint right into the wall, making it harder to come off. I've tried scraping with metal and plastic scrapers and razors; it will not come off like that, as it does not flake off. I will look into citrus paint removers, but I don't have much hope of something like that working. The paint does, as I've said, roll off under the fingers and can be pulled off in bits. But it would take a year and a half for me to remove it like that.
Is there no merit to what the Zinsser agent told me - that this is a "problem" I created myself, by not waiting long enough for the paint to cure? And that it could resolve itself by waiting 5 more days? (it could stop peeling once it fully cures) She said their own primer products can be expected to do the same thing, if you don't wait a week for it to fully cure.
You can see the back of the paint in the photo below. Although the wall underneath the blue paint feels dry, with no white paint flaking or pulling off, there is obviously white primer on the back of the paint piece. It feels dry and sandy. Although the wall was supposedly primed by the contractors, it was certainly not cleaned with TSP or water to remove the plaster dust (then again, there is only the section in the photo were the gyproc was replaced).
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use a hair dyer and peel. Don't sand.
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angle grinder with a wire wheel. lol
have you tried a sheetrock mudding knife to scrape?
If I can not manage a reasonable way to get this paint off the wall, and I don't have much hope that I will, then I will wait the 5 days advised by Zinsser, to see if the latex paint will finally cure and adhere without being easily scraped off with a finger. If that's the case, I will spackle the area I did manage to scrape off with my hands, then repaint it with the same latex, then let that spot cure for one week, then prime all 4 walls with Zinsser CoverStain (oil based primer), let that cure for one week, then paint it with another coat of the blue latex, and let that cure for one week before even thinking of turning on the bath or shower!
If you can't peel it off, then at least at that spot it's not peeling. Look for bubbles or any other sign of weakness and go for those areas.
If it were me- Id get everything I could resaonably get ( and i probably have a few more tricks than you..) , then prime the whole mess with Gardz which would give a vapor barrier / sort of fresh start ( Cover stain would do the same, I prefer Gardz)
Skim with taping compound to smooth, sand reprime ( gardz again- double up on that bad boy) then finish with a really good paint. You know something like Aura Eggshell for all my troubles.
The problem is I can peel the paint off... anywhere, at any spot, on any wall at any time. I just can't peel it off with a scraper, but it all comes off if pulled by my fingers. There is no bubbling problems anywhere. The entire surface of the 4 walls is the "weak area", as none of the paint appears to have adhered well to the walls. It seems that either oil paint was originally used and then a bit of weak latex primer over top of that here and there, or the walls were not cleaned prior to painting, and dust from small drywall repair was not removed. Or I simply did not wait a full week for the latex paint to cure. It is a small bathroom after all, and we're in mid-summer. Though I have not turned the water on, the humidity in the room can't be that low, and that can't help with the curing process.
Gardz may be great, but it's water based primer. The agent from Bentonel (the manufacturer of my paint) advised me to use an oil based primer - which is why I mentioned CoverStain. Reason being it is very likely the original paint underneath the latex and primer was oil paint. Also, I spoke with the agent from Zinsser today, and we discussed Gardz, Bullseye 123 and PeelStop primers. She recommended I go with Bullseye (though I can't say why....).
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I have a few more questions for you. Was all the Sheetrock replace And is the paint peeling only on the new Sheetrock? Did the contractors texture the sheetrock prior to your painting this surface. How long did you wait before painting over the top of the contractors spot priming? Temperature and humidy during your Application of paint? When did you finish painting?
It looks like the contractors textured the wall and that is what is on the backside of the paint you peel off the wall. Texture is typically dry overnight and safe for primer the next day. If you painted over this texture without a primer and you put on heavy coats to get this dark color to hide and cover and knowing this paint is 100% acrylic in a deep or neutral base you definitely could have issues with adhesion. If this is the case scrape off what you can and let this paint cure. Curing takes about 3 weeks but then it should shrink down and stick to the Sheetrock. Then you can sand and feather the edges where the paint peeled down to the Sheetrock, prime the bare areas Then paint over the primer.
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If it is peeling then you must find the way to get it off. Use a variety of tools and see what works. Sometimes the amount of flex, or the sharpness of a particular scraper might make all the difference. Hot water sprayed on to make rubbery- same idea as the heat gun, etc. Find its week spot and exploit.
I just saw the scraper that you showed. that is the wrong type for this- you want a straight flex 3 or 4 " scraper. that's what Id try anyway.
Some "Experts" are more expert than others. I wont argue the coverstain, I know it will work. I also know alot about Gardz because i have used it in many situations. But i don't need to prove that here.
I do say that the 123 is not the choice for here.
If your paint is very rubbery- it is not the right paint. When you get to recoat time, consider a better product.
No, just a relatively small section of drywall near the tub was replaced, around the area in the first photo where I removed the blue latex paint. However, the paint peels everywhere, if I scrape it with my fingernails. This is why I am more inclined to believe the original paint was quite possibly oil paint. I'm not sure what "texture" refers to, but from what I saw, they just added very thin milky primer to various spots around the bathroom. Maybe they might have spread some plaster here or there, and not primed over it. But I did not see them with any product other than plaster or primer.
They did no prep or anything to the walls, other than spot priming (and possibly spot plastering) . Heck, they resented even priming the walls after their reno work was done! Before painting over top of the spot-primed walls, i waited about 5 days or so. It,s been 2-3 days since I painted with blue latex. The last few days have not been terribly hot, so temp and humidity was about average for this time of year, which is of course somewhat higher than winter. I have not turned any water on in the bathroom since well before the renovation work. Still, I am planning to leave a box fan running day-night and the room's ceiling exhaust fan, to help speed up any curing-bonding that might take place.
Wait, did you say curing takes about 3 weeks??:eek: But... but... the lady from Zinsser said I should wait 5 days! And that's already a long time to go without a bathroom! If I have to wait 3 weeks for the latex to cure, then 3 weeks for the primer to cure, then 3 weeks for the latex recoat, I'll be finished this project..... approximately never. I can't hold it in that long! :(
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This is the time of year when many pastors sit in their offices muttering, "It happened again."The Rev. Rick Lance knows all about that. He has long been one of the true believers who battle the waves of "Happy Holidays" messages that define one of their faith's holiest seasons as the civic tsunami between Halloween and the inevitable wrapping-paper wreckage on Christmas morning.The problem is that whining doesn't work. Thus, Lance has grown tired of preaching his all-to-familiar annual … [Read more...]
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We see the headlines every two or three years during the holidays.A pastor preaches on the true meaning of Christmas, warning about sins of selfishness and materialism. Then, in a moment of candor, disaster strikes.This time the dateline was Santa Fe Springs, Calif. Local newspapers, followed by national wire services, reported that Father Ruben Rocha of St. Pius X Catholic School did something shocking during a Mass for students in kindergarten through third grade. He told the children that … [Read more...]
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The bureaucrats charged with turning Russia into a godless utopia had a December dilemma and a big part of their problem was St. Nicholas. The early Communists needed to purge Christmas of its Savior, sacraments and beloved symbols, including this patron saint of widows and children. What they needed was a faith-free icon for a safe, secular New Year's season. Digging into pre-Christian Slavic legends they found their superman -- Father Frost."It's so ironic," said the Rev. James Parker III of … [Read more...]


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The3Doodler is a hand-held 3D printer! The company is now taking orders. Last summer it was a "crowd-funded" Kickstarter project, and we invested in it. Our reward for sponsoring this clever invention was to receive our very own pre-production device in January. It is kind of a cross between a hot-glue gun and a 3D printer.
Unlike a glue-gun that melts a stick of rubbery plastic to glue things together, the 3Doodler can melt a 3mm filament of ABS (a kind of plastic that many things are made of) and extrudes it into a softened web-like thread that can draw up off of the paper in the open air and into almost any shape you can imagine. While it is intended to be used for making plastic objects by drawing 3-dimensional doodles, we use it primarily to fix plastic objects that have broken or to hack plastic things by adding features to them. But more about that in a later blog post.
Now we would like to tell you how the team of MacGyvrBot and Skip have found a way to make this great product even better!
We used Tinkercad to hack-up a model for a Handle and Trigger mechanism, and then we published the design on Thingiverse so that anyone with access to a 3D printer can download the .stl files and make a Phaser Handle for 3Doodler of their own.
or you can just click these links to download the 3 files
This kind of sharing is called **open-source hardware design** and the practice allows people to build on each other's ideas. You can also use Tinkercad to copy this design and modify it with your own ideas. Progress is faster this way, so open-source design is the best way to get the most out of 3D printing.
This Phaser Handle makes the 3Doodler look cool (like the Star Trek weapon), but it also makes doodling more comfortable (especially for people with small hands). The makers of the 3Doodler obviously have plans for making a handle, because they provided a handy mounting bracket with threaded holes for M3 screws. But we couldn't wait!
The handle alone is beneficial, but using the trigger with the handle keeps the hand more relaxed during extended doodling.
The Phaser Handle is attached to the 3Doodler with a pair of M3 x 10mm screws (any head design). The trigger attaches to the handle with a pair of small flat head screws (such as 6-32 x 3/8 inch or M3 x 6mm) serving as hinge pins. The screws are available at Lowes and Home Depot.
The handle is hollow to allow access to a mounting screw (rather than having an infill of plastic in a sparse honeycomb pattern). If your printer drops a few threads while bridging across the top of the handle, just let it finish the job. Chances are it will recover before the top layer is reached. If it fails, you may have to adjust your slicer settings (such as slowing the speed for bridges) and try again.
In our next blog post, we will show you how to use the 3Doodler itself to update the Phaser Handle. The exercise will be a good demonstration of using the 3Doodler to hack an existing product.
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Art Pope must be tickled to death.
Last month he lead a campaign to defeat five Republican legislators – saying they were really pawns of Democratic House Speaker Jim Black – because three years ago they voted for a coalition that elected Republican Richard Morgan and Democrat Black Co-Speakers of the House.
Of course, the Republicans Pope targeted vehemently denied they were anyone's pawns. But Black's attacks on Pope certainly make it look like Pope had a point.
Black says Pope "eliminated a great statesman" when he defeated Representative Richard Morgan (News and Observer, 5/4/06). If Morgan has any plans of running for office again as a Republican that endorsement was the last thing he needed.
Black also "painted Pope's activities as wealth trumping bipartisanship." He said: "You're not going to see any more of that from the Republican side because Uncle Art is going to get you."
Pope sent his own not too subtle message back. He said "there are no plans to fund an independent campaign focused on Black…but no final decision has been made."
The fight in the Republican primaries this year wasn't about bipartisanship. It was about who was going to lead Republicans in the House. In the end, by defeating Morgan, Republican voters in his district expressed their disapproval of his continuing alliance with Black.
What Black doesn't seem to understand is that by attacking Pope he isn't helping Morgan. He's helping Pope. But, then, what Black may really have in mind is passing legislation to stop Pope from launching a new campaign – to talk about Democrat legislators' stands on issues this fall.
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Re: 'Double' FindRoot
> I've got another serious problem
> I'm trying to find a numerical solution to a set of three equations:
> 1)
> FindRoot[
> {fa[0.1,x1]==fa[x2,x3],
> fb[0.1,x1]==fb[x2,x3],
> fc[0.1,x1]==fc[x2,x3]},
> {x1,0.1},{x2,0.1},{x3,0.9}]
> Worst of all: fa, fb, and fc are defined as:
> (this is a simplified example !)
> 2)
> fa=Function[{y1,y2},
> fr=FindRoot[
> {a1 x + b1 y + c1 z == p1[y1,y2],
> a2 x + b2 y + c2 z == p2[y1,y2],
> a3 x + b3 y + c3 z == p3[y1,y2]},
> {x,0.1},{y,0.1},{z,0.1}];
> x + y + z /. fr
> ]
> Just typing 'fa[1,2]' produces NO error.
> But as soon as I start program 1) Mathematica says that it's expecting a
> 'list of length 3'
> Again: If I calculate 'fa' all by itself it returns a number for all
> combinations of y1 and y2
> So what causes this error ?? Or isn't Mathematica able to do more than
> one FindRoot at the same time ????
> Michaela
Yes, Mathematica can do more than one FindRoot at the same time.
Try giving two starting values for x1, x2, and x3, so that the outer
FindRoot doesn't need to compute symbolic derivatives. The attempt
to compute symbolic derivatives of fa[x2, x3], etc., isn't going to
work here. My guess is that the error is coming when these functions
are called with symbolic arguments, but I'd need to see the rest of
the example in order to be sure of that.
Dave Withoff
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On her own ground: Madam CJ Walker
I once read that African-American history suffers under two whams—wham one is that "you never did anything" and wham two is "even if you did something, it's not worth writing about". Of course, I reject that and I'm of the opinion that the whams of others are only material considerations if you allow them to be. I am an adherent to the seven principles of the Nguzo Saba and the principle Kujichagulia (self determination) has applicability here. Once one is operating from a position of self reference and self definition that creates a reality that is projected outwardly and ultimately, that's where you deal from. Once you're dealing from that position, it's what you think that matters and someone else's whams become immaterial. If we want our history addressed, we should write it and teach it ourselves.
This title of this post is actually the title of a book written by Madam C.J. Walker's great great granddaughter, A'lelia Bundles. It's been on my reading list for some time and I just now got around to reading it. It's an amazing story about a remarkable African American entrepreneur- Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C. J. Walker, the first American woman millionaire.
There are so many observations that can be made from having read this very well written book. The story covers business, history and politics all at the same time and is a fascinating read. Actually, the period (early 1900's) when she built the business is a fascinating period of African-American history as well with several notable historical figures on the scene along with her—Booker T. Washington, WEB Dubois, Ida Wells Barnett, Marcus Garvey and others. She dealt with them all at one point or the other.
Since there are a few observations I'd like to make on both the business and the politics of the time and to keep the length of these posts readable, I've decided to break my comments up in at least two posts. This one will deal with her business acumen and some things I've personally drawn from that. The second post will address the politics of her day and how it directly links to some prominent features of contemporary politics relating to African-Americans today.
This woman's story is impressive and to be honest, it's the story of marketing genius. As explained in the book, black women at the turn of the century had huge challenges with their hair, not the least of it being it falling out leaving them bald which explains why so many black women were pictured or depicted with kerchiefs around their heads. Their hair fell out due to lack of care, scalp disease and an apparent dearth of products to address these issues. Walker had a few people who preceded her into the business and she was a sales agent for Annie Tumbo Malone who owed a company named Poro. Walker ultimately developed her own products to grow and restore hair and started her own company much to Ms. Malone's chagrin. The women would turn out to be fierce competitors and the book describes their back and forth attempts to one-up one another with Walker ultimately getting the better of Malone.
The racial codes of the day prevented product distribution via normal outlets like drug stores, so Walker was forced to go around this issue by building a direct sales distribution network which required her to build a sales force of several thousand agents to sell her products. This meant that she spent a significant amount of time on the road recruiting agents and making product demonstrations. Since only menial occupations were available to black women, Walker actually wound up freeing many black women of these laborious occupations while raising their wage levels at the same time. She saw as her primary mission the uplift of black women and black people in general and like Robert Sengstacke Abbott, hers was not just a business alone but a movement. As she lifted these women, she created a supportive and loyal sales force.
Walker actually manufactured the product and located her factory in Indianapolis Indiana due to its proximity to nationwide shipping lanes. She made two key hires to run that facility—attorney and general manager, F.B. Ransom and factory forelady, Alice Kelly. These two ran the manufacturing and distribution operations which, in turn, allowed her to be on the road selling and recruiting sales agents. It was a classic "inside/outside" arrangement that's still practiced today. Walker had a knack for picking the right people to put in place to do things. Basically, she knew how to hire and how to instill loyalty; basic management principles that challenge most entrepreneurs to this very day. She also knew how to address another challenge—structuring a business for growth beyond her own efforts. Many entrepreneurs never get past this stage as the moment you hire someone you need a system for doing things rather than what's "in your head". To manage the sales and distribution channels while matching up the product manufacture with demand meant that she had to have a very strong system in place across the board in the key areas of any business—marketing, operations and finance.
Back in those days, anyone looking to do something big found that all roads ran through Tuskegee Alabama and Booker T. Washington. Washington ran Tuskegee University and in those days was the "recognized" black leader, but was facing a few rivals who were trying to pull him off that perch owing to his policies of accommodating rampant racism. In addition to running Tuskegee, Washington had also formed an organization known as the Negro Business League which was similar to a chamber of commerce for black businesses of the day and anyone who was someone was a member. Walker jockeyed mightily for position with Washington mainly to get his blessing and to position herself to open a cosmetology school at Tuskegee. She surmised that if she were to be able to pull this off, she'd be able to build her sales and one-up her rivals. She also sought to become a board member of Tuskegee when a white member resigned. Washington was initially non committal to her overtures but eventually warmed up and they reached a happy medium with Washington providing public recognition of her accomplishments at Negro Business League conventions and Walker making donations to Tuskegee. Thus, at some level the pay to play rule seemed to be in place in those days as well although Walker made sure she got what she wanted before sending money.
She was a extraordinary networker and her approach to targeting any new black market was to identify the movers and shakers in a given black community and work them as an efficient way to recruit her sales people as well as to garner sales. From what I've read of her, three words come to mind—aggressive, focused and persistent—three qualities that any businessperson has to have if they hope to succeed at what they do.
Her marketing prowess was also supported by a genuine community outreach and a concern for other African-Americans, so she was involved in a number of activities of a civic nature for the betterment and uplift of the African-American community. This was something that was truly her mission and I find that particularly impressive about her as I'm of the belief that any business really must be part of the fabric of any community in which it operates and help solve problems. This is particularly so with African-American businesses.
She was not without challenges. She had two other competitors besides Ms. Malone. She had to put down a near revolt among her sales people when she decided to distribute one product through a drug store hence cutting into their sales. She had to deal with people trying to do knockoffs or cheap imitations of her product and pass them off under the Walker brand name and her activism wound up getting her placed on a list of "black subversives". Her crimes? Protesting against lynching, being associated with Marcus Garvey and other so called "black malcontents" and wanting to attend the Paris Peace talks at the end of WWI to request that Germany's African colonies be returned to black rule.
I just found me a new heroine and her story is certainly worthy of review as a case study on business as she set the pace for folks like Estee Lauder and anyone in business or planning one would benefit from her story. But her story is more that than a story about a business. It's a story about leadership and heart and, as such, should be on the reading list for all of our children; both girls and boys.


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'Diagnosed with acute lymphatic leukemia in June 2005, Kaitlyn was recently granted her one true wish, courtesy of the Make-A-Wish- Foundation of Western New York. That is, to have her family's basement redone as an homage to the Sabres.'
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