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To: Snowshoe who wrote (152055)	12/11/2019 10:51:32 AM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By Arran Yuan Respond to of 217714

Game on ... Let’s see a competing company going w/ Ericsson-only or Ericsson+Nokia, or Nokia-only Or Huawei-only bloomberg.com Huawei Wins Telefonica Deal to Help Build German 5G Network Stefan Nicola December 11, 2019, 4:16 PM GMT+8 A Huawei Technologies Co. logo sits on display inside an electronic goods store in Berlin. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/BloombergDeal subject to firms getting certified by German authorities China’s Huawei Technologies Co. just got a seal of approval from one of Germany’s biggest telecom companies. Telefonica SA’s German unit, which operates the country’s second-largest wireless network, picked Huawei and Finland’s Nokia Oyj to take an equal role supplying its fifth-generation mobile phone network upgrade, the company said in a statement Wednesday. The deal is subject to the firms getting certified by German authorities, it said. The announcement is a boon to Huawei after Deutsche Telekom AG said last week it has stopped ordering new 5G equipment because of political uncertainty over Chinese suppliers. Huawei has repeatedly denied allegations its equipment could be used for espionage. There’s one caveat, though. The German government is currently drawing up security guidelines for the country’s 5G network expansion, in a move that’s expected to require certification of equipment, including antennas. Hawks in the intelligence community would like to tighten the rules in a way that would block Huawei. Chancellor Angela Merkel has said in the past she doesn’t want to bar the Chinese firm as long as it abides by certain security standards. It isn’t yet clear what requirements will ultimately be put in place, so it may be too early for Huawei to declare victory in Germany. Less SensitiveThe deal with both firms to supply the less-sensitive radio access network “will be subject to the successful safety certification of the technology and the companies,” Telefonica Deutschland Holding AG said in the statement. The company “is taking into account the ongoing political process of establishing these security guidelines without delaying the start of the 5G expansion.” Telefonica Deutschland hasn’t yet selected a supplier to upgrade the more-sensitive core network -- the ‘brain’ that houses control functions -- and won’t do so until next year, Chief Executive Officer Markus Haas said on a call with reporters. The company’s shares fell 2.1% at 11:24 a.m. in Frankfurt. Its strategy update, presented to investors in London this morning, indicated it would cut its 2019 dividend to 17 euro cents a share from 27 euro cents. Telefonica Deutschland is targeting sales growth of at least 5% through 2022 and is seeking to improve its profit margin during that period. The company is confident it can win more customers in rural areas and add fixed-line clients as well as corporate customers that install 5G in their factories, Haas said on the call. (Updates with CEO comment in seventh paragraph, updates shares.)

To: Snowshoe who wrote (152055)	12/11/2019 11:26:27 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Recommended By philv Snowshoe Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217714

No warning for liquid to gas eruptions. That's why there have just been lots of deaths at White island. In Auckland we'd get rumblings as magma floats upwards with not much gas. That sort of eruption is fun to watch from half a kilometre away. Taupo is a monster column of pumice squashed into liquid. The mechanism of eruption is pressure relief from the top when the column of CO2 water hydrocarbons turns from liquid phase to gas. Unlike short period volcanoes and geysers like old faithful and white island, the 2000 year period volcanoes erupt when fully loaded from subduction and then the downward pressure is relieved by low groundwater and lake level and when moon and sun align for super low tide. Superheated water will boil squirting upward and send dirt into the air the dirt will splash down pushing water out of the lake. Meanwhile more liquid will turn to gas because the pressure has reduced sending more dirt up. That process continues and keeps accelerating, then hydrocarbons reach ignition temperature meaning in air there's also explosion which sends 1000 cubic kilometres into the sky. The warning would be minutes rather than days. Maybe an hour of initial geysering. When pressure is off a superheated liquid they turn to gas really fast. A 200 kilometre deep column of hot stuff and as big around as Taupo is a lot of exploding pumice to fire into the sky. Mqurice

To: Snowshoe who wrote (152055)	12/11/2019 9:03:20 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 217714

Would it really happen without warning? Don't these things usually steam and rumble for a while before going off? Well then again ... there is always the That's normal crowd.. :) Don't worry be happy... LOL

To: Snowshoe who wrote (152055)	12/13/2019 12:40:33 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217714

Re imperatives => solutions bloomberg.com China to Expand World’s Largest Water Diversion ProjectChina plans to expand the world’s largest water-diversion project, aiming to double the amount of water it can transfer from the flood-prone south to its dry northern cities, government officials said Thursday. The first phase has transferred a total of 30 billion cubic meters of water to northern China in the past five years since it was completed, benefiting 120 million people in 40 cities and helping boost local economies and employment, Jiang Xuguang, vice minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, told a press conferencein Beijing. World’s Largest Water Diversion Plan Won’t Slake China’s Thirst The second phase of the South-to-North Water Diversion project will cover both the eastern and middle routes. The eastern route will raise annual delivery capacity from 8.77 billion cubic meters to 16.5 billion cubic meters, and will supply water to Shandong and Anhui provinces and increase supplies in Tianjin, Beijing and Hebei, said Shi Chunxian, head of the ministry’s planning department. A new 1,785 kilometer-long water channel will be built with 25 pump stations. For the middle route, several reservoirs will be built to store water to ensure there is continuous supply and connect the Han and Yangtze rivers, Shi said. Shi played down the ecological impact on the Yangtze River of the expansion of the project and said China transfers less than 2% of the river’s flow. The ministry didn’t give any costs for the second-phase expansion or when the construction would be completed, and said the western route of the project is still being studied. The western section, which would divert water from three tributaries of the Yangtze River to help replenish the Yellow River, is the most controversial part of the project. — With assistance by Shuping Niu