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Chlorine Bleach Plants Needlessly Endanger 63 Million Americans
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U.S. Industrial Facilities Reported Fewer Toxic Releases in 2014
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data for 2014 is now available. The good news: total toxic releases by reporting facilities decreased by nearly six percent from 2013 levels. Howe...
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'Constitution-Minded' Republicans to Introduce Budget Authoritarianism
Jan 4, 2011 by Gary Therkildsen*
When the new Republican-controlled House gavels in tomorrow, legislative business will begin with a reading of the Constitution, a stunt brought about by what the Washington Post dubbed "the tea party-ization of Congress." More importantly, the House will also adopt new rules to determine how the legislative body operates over the next two years. One of the rules changes, though, flies in the face of the GOP's championing of governmental transparency and fairness.
Congress Once Again Punts on FY 2011 Budget
Dec 23, 2010 by Sam Rosen-Amy
Surprising almost no one, on Tuesday Congress passed a short-term continuing resolution (CR), funding government for another few months and delaying passing a budget for the 2011 fiscal year. Over the past week or two, it became obvious that Democrats did not have enough votes to pass a year-long budget of some kind, either as a CR or as an omnibus.
Federal Employees: Doing More with Less...Already
Dec 21, 2010 by Craig Jennings
President Obama has proposed freezing salaries of most federal employees for the next two years as part of his effort to address the federal budget deficit. Projected to save some $5 billion over the next two years, the freeze would shave 0.22 percent off the $2.3 trillion in deficit spending over that time, making it a largely token measure.
Congress Debates Multitude of Options for FY 2011 Budget and Food Safety
It's been a while since we've checked in with the FY2011 budget, what with all the hullabaloo over deficit reports and the Bush tax cuts. But with the current continuing resolution (CR) set to expire on Saturday, Dec 18, and Congress planning to adjourn at the same time, we're coming down to the wire. Almost three months after the start of the 2011 fiscal year, Congress is finally making some progress with passing a budget, but is faced with three options: an omnibus bill combining all twelve spending bills into one big bill, a full-year CR, or a short-term CR.
International Comparison Ranks U.S. Well on Budget Transparency
Oct 19, 2010 by Gavin Baker
A new international comparison of budget transparency ranks the U.S. among the world's leaders, but highlights some areas for improvement.
Congress Votes Through Continuing Resolution, Stalls on OMB Nomination, and Leaves for the Election
Sep 30, 2010 by Sam Rosen-Amy
It can't get much closer than this. In the early hours of the last day of fiscal year 2010, and the last legislative day before it adjourned for the midterm elections, Congress passed a basic continuing resolution, temporarily funding the government through December 3. That gives lawmakers from November 15, when they're scheduled to return, though December 3 to pass the entire FY 2011 budget. If they fail, which is entirely likely considering it only gives them three weeks to work, Congress will have to pass another continuing resolution.
Biennial Budgeting on the Horizon?
If the Senate confirms Jack Lew, President Obama's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Lew is likely to revisit the idea of biennial budgeting. The allure of biennial budgeting at the federal level is that it theoretically frees up more time for both Congress and federal agencies to work on issues outside of the budget. But would a move to biennial budgeting actually change the budget process for the better?
Friday Appropriations Update: Continuing Resolution Vote Must Happen Next Week
It's been an exciting few weeks on the Hill, with President Obama's OMB director nominee sitting before two Senate hearings before being blocked by a Democrat, House Republicans released their Pledge to America, and an effort to extendthe Bush tax cuts failed to move in the Senate. With all this excitement, I guess congressional appropriators couldn't find much time to work on their appropriations bills. In fact, the House Appropriations Committee made exactly zero progress on the fiscal year 2011 budget, meaning we're still waiting on the full committee to vote on ten appropriations bills. The Senate hasn't been much better, with its appropriations committee only approving two bills, and no floor votes. Which, as recent congressional witness Stephen Colbert might say, brings us to today's word: continuing resolution.
GOP 'Pledge' Is Simply a Way of Shutting Down a Large Part of Government
Sep 23, 2010 by Gary Bass*
As Yogi Berra's redundant saying goes, "It's déjà vu all over again." Back in 1994, congressional Republicans unveiled what they called the "Contract with America." The Contract was chock-full of policy proposals intended to shrink the size of government, kneecap agencies' ability to protect the public, and decrease the burden on taxpayers, especially the rich.
Putting a Better Face on Economic Stimulus
Sep 13, 2010 by Craig Jennings
The latest economic data on the Recovery Act from the Congressional Budget Office indicate that, by at least two important metrics -- gross domestic product (GDP) and unemployment -- it is in fact working (see here, here, here, and here for more). Yet, only 33 percent of Americans think the Recovery Act "helped the jobs situation."
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The Inter-American Development Bank ("IDB" or "IADB"), rated Aaa/AAA (Moody's/S&P), today priced a new USD 3.0 billion 5-year global bond. The transaction pays a semi-annual coupon of 1.750% and matures on 14 March 2025. It priced with a spread of 8.3 basis points over the 1.750% UST due 31 December 2024, which represents a yield of 1.762% s.a.
IDB launches inaugural Colombian Domestic Bond
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IDB issues new Climate Action Sustainable Development Bond with Okasan Securities
Washington, D.C. - The Inter-American Development Bank ("IDB" or "IADB"), rated Aaa/AAA, issued two new MXN deals, 3.5y and 7y respectively under the sustainable development goal (SDG) 13, which promotes climate action. Okasan securities is the distributor of the bond with J.P. Morgan being the sole arranger.
IDB launches coalition to promote cross-cutting skills in the 21st century
Today, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), together with 22 partners from the public and private sector, announced the launch of a 21st century skills coalition that will support the implementation of a new generation of education and training policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. This coalition will provide more than US$34.7 million in funding to support projects that will promote these skills among children and youth in the region.
IDB launches inaugural GBP Sustainable Development Bond ("SDB")
Proceeds from GBP275 million transaction will finance IDB projects aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals Washington, D.C. – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or IADB), rated Aaa/AAA (Moody's/S&P), priced a new GBP275 million 7-year fixed rate l Sustainable Development Bond ("SDB").
Reducing trade costs could boost exports to Korea
Exports from Latin America and the Caribbean to Korea could grow by about US$10 billion, or 43%, if a set of reforms to reduce trade costs are implemented and bilateral cooperation reach new levels, according to a study by the Inter-American Development Bank. The report, Stepping Up Cooperation, Policy Options for Latin America and Korea, was presented during the 5th Korea-LAC Business Summit, held in Seoul, Korea, on October 7th and 8th.
IDB launches inaugural Sustainable Development Bond ("SDB")
Proceeds from CAD600 million transaction will finance IDB projects aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. Washington, D.C. – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or IADB), rated Aaa/AAA (Moody's/S&P), priced a new CAD600 million 5-year fixed rate l Sustainable Development Bond ("SDB").
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CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Feb. 12, 2014) - Freehold Royalties Ltd. (Freehold) (TSX:FRU) announces that its Board of Directors has declared a dividend of Cdn. $0.14 per common share to be paid on March 17, 2014 to shareholders of record on February 28, 2014. Including the March 17, 2014 payment, the twelve-month trailing cash dividends total Cdn. $1.68 per common share.
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Freehold's primary focus is on acquiring and managing oil and gas royalties. The majority of production comes from royalty interests (mineral title and gross overriding royalties). Freehold's common shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada under the symbol FRU.
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Have you ever gotten off a rollercoaster and felt like the entire world was spinning around you but you couldn't stop it? Fortunately for many people, this only happens after running around in circles or going really fast on an amusement ride.
If you've never been on a rollercoaster but feel like you have experienced this problem quite regularly, you may be dealing with a diagnosis called 'vertigo'.
After you realize that experiencing these spells of dizziness aren't going to go away on their own, then you can take the next step in understanding the condition.
Other symptoms can be read about in this article.
There are a few different causes of vertigo or dizziness, but they all stem down to one problematic area: your inner ear. Because your inner ear is what sends signals to your brain about remaining balanced, anything that can cause pain or harm to your ear can cause you to become unbalanced.
One of the causes is calcium buildup in the canal of your inner ear. When they break up and become loose in your inner ear, this can cause spells of dizziness.
Any infection that can cause your inner ear to become inflamed can also result in dizziness since this puts pressure on your nerves.
Meniere's Disease is a disorder that can cause episodes of vertigo or dizziness. It can even be the cause of the ringing in your ears. This disorder can be caused from the buildup of fluid and changing pressure inside your ear.
Because dizziness can result in injuries and other tragic scenarios, seeing a doctor immediately can help you find a solution to your problem. Losing your balance or becoming dizzy in an unsafe area can have fatal results, so it is important to speak with a professional immediately.
Medicines can be given to some patients, especially those who experience nausea. If inflammation is the cause, steroids or antibiotics can be given to reduce inflammation and get rid of the infection. In patients who have Meniere's Disease, a simple water pill or diuretic can be prescribed to help reduce fluid buildup in the inner ear.
There are many different kinds of treatments for many different kinds of patients. Some patients may even require some surgery, depending on the problem. In few cases, the underlying cause can be something as serious as a tumor, but a doctor can examine you to find out the cause of your dizziness spells.
If you're experiencing dizziness or any other symptoms associated with vertigo, contact West Palm Beach ENT specialist at the office of Dr. Light today. As an ear, nose, and throat specialist, Dr. Light has experience diagnosing and treating patients who deal with dizziness. We want to ensure you receive the best treatment and know all of your options before continuing further, so please call us today at 561-737-8584 to see what we can do for you.


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Dunfermline MSP Bill Walker has welcomed confirmation that a major upgrade project is underway to deliver a £25 million overhaul of one of Longannet Power Station's four generating units. More than 50 individual contracts have been awarded, and up to 650 workers will be onsite over a four month period.
The work is being carried out on Unit 3, which alone is capable of generating up to 600MW of electricity – approximately 10% of Scotland's average peak electricity demand. Major boiler parts will be fully replaced, including pipe work and the Generator Transformer, while the valves, pumps and motors will be overhauled.
That the Parliament congratulates Stephens of Dunfermline on winning Scottish Baker of the Year 2013; understands that this family-owned craft bakery is famous locally for its steak bridies and morning rolls and that both products earned recognition in the competition, with morning rolls winning best in category; understands that 15,000 customers from Stranraer to Shetland voted for their favourite bakery products, which were then judged by a panel of independent experts including the artisan baker, Robert Ross, and various retired master bakers; notes that Stephens was also runner-up in in 2012, which was the competition's first year; considers that Stephens is important to the local economy, with 165 staff, 14 shops and 59 franchise stores, and congratulates Stephens on its 140th anniversary in May, which coincided with this endorsement from the industry.
Dunfermline MSP Bill Walker has pledged his support for the 54,000 people living with epilepsy in Scotland.
Speaking during National Epilepsy Week (19-25 May), Mr Walker said: "Epilepsy is still the most common, serious neurological condition in the world but it impacts each person's life in a unique and individual way.
MSP for Dunfermline, Bill Walker, has welcomed the announcement that Dr Scott McLean will become NHS Fife's new Executive Director of Nursing.
Dr McLean, currently Director of Nursing and Governance at Barts Health NHS Trust in London, takes up the position this summer following the early retirement of current Board Nurse Director, Anne Buchanan.
Dunfermline MSP Bill Walker has added his name to a pledge to ensure sustained and long-term investment in the future of youth work.
Thirty-two MSPs signed the pledge during a YouthLink Scotland reception in Holyrood, held in honour of the outstanding winners from the National Youth Worker of the Year Awards 2013.
Dunfermline MSP Bill Walker has welcomed the appointment of Allan Burns as NHS Fife's new Chairman. Mr Burns, who holds a CBE for services to Scottish industry, took over this month from Professor Jim McGoldrick.


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The 2013 Indian Supreme Court decision on section 377: beyond the law
Jordan Osserman *
While many LGBTQ activists across the globe expressed mourning, rage and sympathy with the Indian queers who lost the Supreme Court battle against Section 377 (the British colonial-era law widely understood to criminalize same-sex intercourse), some used the opportunity to express their criticisms of the anti-377 campaign. These critics – largely speaking from within Indian queer circles – alleged that the 377 organizers failed to adequately consider the impact of their activism on the most marginal queers in India: lower class/caste hijras, kothis, poor MSM to mention few. In the most biting version of the critique, the 377 campaign was portrayed as an elite middle class movement, fueled by foreign-funded NGOs, against a largely symbolic, immaterial enemy. Rather than fight 377, campaigners should have invested their energies on a number of other issues allegedly more important to marginal queer people.
No doubt the form of this critique, if not its specific content, will sound familiar to anyone with experience in leftist circles. At the end of the day, the critics of the anti-377 campaign share with many on the left a sense of frustration with the scope and style of activism that dominates contemporary rights-based campaigns. While I sympathize with this sentiment, I am often unimpressed by the rigor of their critiques. Oftentimes, these critics seem to effortless tally up a host of "problematic" aspects of a campaign – nearly always revolving around the implicit erasure of a marginalized social group – and use them as evidence of the sins of the organizers. This leftist deconstruction of an activist campaign feels motivated by a knee-jerk rejection of power. Any movement that achieves some measure of public influence, and therefore engages with the power imbalances that structure our world, is "not radical enough."
Of course one must support the necessary scrutiny of any social movement. However, contrary to this rejectionist impulse on the left, I believe a more thorough analysis of rights-based activism is needed. What is the specific context in which an activist campaign has arisen? What are its structural limitations? What broader accomplishments are possible within the purview of a seemingly narrow, but winnable, demand?
The campaign against 377 is instructive here. While it is not possible to quantify the number of LGBTQ people who suffered as a direct result of Section 377, the campaign's horizon was broader than its demand to remove the penal code. The fight against 377 made legible the Indian LGBT community and the previously unrecognized violence committed against them. As Akshay Khanna observed (http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/right-to-sexuality), the campaign facilitated collective consciousness-raising against LGBT oppression, bringing together otherwise disparate groups—such as hijras, kothis, middle class gays and lesbians — under a common banner. The effect was that, while other homophobic laws still remained on the books after the original "reading down" of the law by the Delhi High Court in July 2009 (Naz Foundation v. Govt of NCT of Delhi), LGBT Indians and their supporters were empowered to invoke the historic Naz judgment in their advocacy against homophobia, both in their daily lives and in larger struggles. And indeed they did: activists frequently used the decision as leverage against homophobic oppression or from defending their right to hold pride marches across the country or to protesting against a TV channel for its notorious "expose" on "gay culture in Hyderabad. The News Broadcasters Standards Association injunction against TV9 has directly invoked the Naz judgment to justify its condemnation of the inflammatory news broadcast.
Could a campaign against another law – one which the critics find more relevant to LGBT oppression- have achieved the same or better results? Perhaps. The making of a political decision, such as the one to focus on 377, involves a myriad of factors, from strategic legal considerations to geopolitical considerations and, indeed, the power imbalances amongst the different concerned parties. Naisargi Dave's recent book chronicles how some of these factors played out in the 377 campaign, demonstrating the always-unsatisfactory struggle to balance the "ideal of social justice and the reality of practical legal choices."
A couple important points in defense of the decision to fight 377, however, are worth noting. Firstly, many of the legal arguments against 377, and the broader public campaign, put the issue of violence against the most marginalized sexual minorities at their center. Secondly, article 377 of the Indian penal Code is a colonial vestige and plain example of cultural imperialism; a campaign against it combats the ever-popular nationalist belief that homophobic laws prevent foreign cultural invasion. Relatedly, 377 remains on the books in many other ex-colonies, where it is also used to justify homophobic violence. The Indian campaign served as inspiration, and a chance for solidarity-building, amongst postcolonial LGBT activists worldwide. Not surprisingly, numerous postcolonial activists across the globe expressed their disappointment in the Supreme Court judgment, viewing it as a setback for a worldwide cause.
We must also recall here the expansiveness, inclusiveness and moving eloquence of the Delhi High Court decision, and the road it paved for future instances of legal redress. As many have noted, the judgment didn't simply read down a bad law. The Naz judgment affirmed fundamental rights of dignity, equality, and the expression of sexuality; offered an innovative conception of "constitutional morality" against majoritarian oppression; and connected the Indian judiciary to progressive human rights case law worldwide. As Khanna writes, "The Delhi High Court judgment generated the conditions for developing a far more nuanced and radical legal landscape for the rights of all minority communities, whether based on religion, ethnicity, caste, or gender and sexuality." Against an alarming trend in the West wherein LGBT rights are protected at the expense or exclusion of other minority communities, the Naz decision offered a blueprint for a progressive legal alternative.
Another common criticism was levied against the petitioners' embrace of the right to privacy. Sexual freedoms that hinge on the "right to privacy," it is argued, apply only to those middle class people who possess private space within which to express their sexuality, implicitly excluding lower caste/class sexual minorities. This argument ignores the innovative way in which the petitioners defined the constitutional right to privacy, as both "zonal" and "decisional." Whereas this criticism of privacy applies to the former "zonal" definition, the latter "decisional" definition is significantly more expansive, associated with freedom of choice and personal autonomy regardless of private property ownership. Indeed, the Naz judgment's own words regarding what it understands as the right to privacy directly contradict the critics' claims: "The [right to] privacy recognises that we all have a right to a sphere of private intimacy and autonomy which allows us to establish and nurture human relationships without interference from the outside community. The way in which one gives expression to one's sexuality is at the core of this area of private intimacy. If, in expressing one's sexuality, one acts consensually and without harming the other, invasion of that precinct will be a breach of privacy." While there may be classist deployments of privacy in popular discourse, as far as the case law is concerned, the inclusiveness is crystal clear.
Despite these admirable accomplishments, it must be acknowledged, as the critics remind us, that the oppression and exploitation of the most marginalized of any community often remains unscathed following successful rights-based campaigns. Rather than condemn the organizers of these campaigns, however, we must confront the unsurpassable limit of sexuality and identity based activism, no matter how inclusive or broadly conceived. While gender and sexuality are key vectors of violence, the unequal distribution of wealth among queers (and society at large) enables some to live in relative safety and comfort over others, no matter the social/legal climate around queerness. The major problems facing socio-economically marginalized queer people cannot be solved by a queer movement alone. These problems –¬¬ which include lack of adequate shelter, food, healthcare and leisure time; exposure to police violence; severely restricted opportunities for education and employment ¬¬– cut across various groups (though they manifest in different ways) and demand a different kind of solidarity and struggle. This kind of struggle requires radically transforming the internal organization of socio¬economic life. Though I am speaking here about "class," I deploy the category not as an "identity marker" equivalent to race or gender, but as the fundamental structuring principle of social reproduction. Each of us has a particular social identity, but all of us rely upon the prevailing economic order for our survival. (I refer here to Nancy Fraser's excellent response to Judith Butler on role of cultural struggles within capitalism, or as Fraser puts it, the difference between misrecognition and mal-distribution. Criticism against the 377 campaign for failing to adequately address this concern is thus misplaced. For, such a struggle is not one that rights-¬based movements, circumscribed as they are within the logic of liberalism, are equipped to wage.
Political intervention of any kind necessarily involves undesirable concessions and exclusions. One does not change a violent system without implicating oneself in its violence. It is important to make known the limitations and erasures involved in activism and organizing. However, it is equally vital to recognize when a political struggle, however flawed, deserves one's (critical) support.
* Jordan Osserman is an anthropologist from University College London.
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A Baby Blessing is a precious way to welcome a new child into the family and world. This celebration can be non-denominational, spiritual but not religious, or non-religious. There is tremendous joy when family and friends gather for a special celebration in support of the parents and child. The ceremony could include meaningful rituals that are inclusive of all the guests.
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"The story I am about to reveal to you is a Canadian story, about a Canadian family. I hope that the information that is presented will help you understand how one family survived the horrors of the uprooting, dispossession, incarceration, imprisonment and enslavement by a democratic government in Canada."
-excerpt from speaker Keiko Mary Kitagawa, from a lecture given September 28th, 2017 for the Vancouver Historical Society
Over 3,000 Japanese Canadian women, children and tuberculosis patients were unjustly detained here under traumatic and deplorable conditions between March 1942 - March 1943. A public facility since 1929, the Livestock Building gained national historic significance as a federally authorized wartime marshalling site. The incarceration, confiscation of property, and forced dispersal from the coast of 22,000 innocent Japanese Canadians from 1942 to 1949 was officially acknowledged as unjust by Canada in 1988.
In commemoration of all Japanese Canadians interned.
Gaman (Endurance) Giri (Duty) Ganbare (Perseverance)
We have currently selected information from the Hastings Park 1942 website and interspersed the data with excerpts from Keiko Mary Kitagawa's transcription from her 2017 lecture for the Vancouver Historical Society. Please send us a story or comment via the "submit your story" section of this page and let us know your connection or recent discovery of this site.
"In early 1942, after Canada declared War on Japan, the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) grounds at Hastings Park in east Vancouver were used to temporarily house Japanese Canadians who were being uprooted from the BC Coast. Over 8000 were detained in the exhibition buildings and stables at Hastings Park before being sent to internment sites in the BC interior or to work camps across the country. Officially called the Hastings Park Manning Pool, the large grounds were also used to collect and store impounded vehicles, and set up a hospital and an office of the BC Security Commission.
For many Japanese Canadians, this was a terrible, fearful experience. They were forcibly removed from their homes, lost all of their belongings and many families were separated. The conditions at Hastings Park were extremely primitive and unsanitary. The primary memory for many people was the horrible smell, followed by the noise, the boredom and the terrible food."Hastings Park 1942 | Internment at Hastings Park website
Canadians of Japanese Descent since the 1870s
At the time of the uprooting in early 1942, of the 23,303 persons of Japanese origin in Canada, 75.5% are Canadian citizens (60.2% Canadian-born and 14.6% naturalized citizens).
"Our family history in Canada began in 1896 when my maternal grandfather Kumanosuke Okano came to Canada as a young man 121 years ago. My grandmother, Riyo Kimura Okano followed in 1903 as a picture bride. In order to become fishers, they were naturalized and became a British subject. Their successes in the fishing industry enabled them to own five boats. In order to keep their growing family safe after one child drowned, they sold the boats and bought 200 acres of of prime land in 1920 on Salt Spring Island. They became successful farmers growing tomatoes in six large greenhouses, varieties of berries and vegetables. Their two-storey house was filled with the latest appliances and beautiful oak furniture. They were retired by 1941, leaving the labour to their two adult sons and several sponsored immigrants from Japan." (Keiko Mary Kitagawa, 2017)
1941: Pearl Harbour and the War Measures Act
On December 7 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and Canada declares war on Japan. Under the War Measures Act, Order in Council P.C. 9591, all Japanese nationals and those naturalized after 1922 are required to register with the Registrar of Enemy Aliens. December 8 1,200 fishing boats are impounded and put under the control of the Japanese Fishing Vessel Disposal Committee. Japanese language newspapers and schools closed. Insurance policies are cancelled. December 16 P.C. 9760 is passed requiring mandatory registration of all persons of Japanese origin, regardless of citizenship.
"At school the next day, my 13 year old sister was accused by her teachers of starting the war. All the students turned toward her as the teacher pointed an accusing finger at her. On the way home she was bombarded by rocks thrown by boys who chased her until she disappeared into the forest. She was bloodied but not wanting to worry her parents; she washed the blood out of her hair and body in the chicken house and went into the house. We were not allowed to go to school or church after that." (Keiko Mary Kitagawa, 2017).
1942 TIMELINE: All persons of "the Japanese race" ordered to leave the area 100 miles inland from the BC West Coast
"On March 17th 1942, we watched the RCMP pickup truck speed into our yard. The officer came to arrest my father. My mother, knowing that such a day might arrive had his clothing packed in a large bag. […] We were terrified that our gentle, hardworking, loving father was being taken away to be shot. My mother stood still, watching this unbelievable scene, holding tighly to my one and a half year old brother. […] There was no time to grieve. My mother had many tasks to perform: look after the five thousand chickens, gather the eggs, prepare them to go to market, tend to her children's needs and look after the crops." (Keiko Mary Kitagawa, 2017)
January 16 An area 100 miles inland from the west coast is designated as a "protected area".
February 7 All male "enemy aliens" between the ages of 18-45 are forced to leave the protected coastal area before April 1. Most are sent to work on road camps in the Rockies. Some are sent to Angler.
February 24 P.C. 1486 empowers the Minister of Justice to control the movements of all persons of Japanese origin in the protected area.
February 26 Minister of Justice orders all persons of "the Japanese race" to leave the coast. Cars, cameras and radios confiscated. Dusk-to-dawn curfew is imposed.
March 1 Hastings Park buildings were formally leased to the government
March 4 B.C. Security Commission is established to plan, supervise and direct the expulsion of Japanese Canadians. Through P.C. 1665, property and belongings are entrusted to the Custodian of Enemy Alien Property as a "protective measure only".
March 14 Official announcement notifying that 2500 people would soon be transported
March 16 First arrivals at Vancouver's Hastings Park from outlying areas on the coast. All Japanese Canadian mail is censored from this date.
"The ship, Princess Mary took us to Vancouver as the darkness of night descended upon us. We were taken to Hastings Park and registered. To our horror we were instructed to go into the animal barn which was vacated by animals not long before our arrival. The pungent smell of urine and feces assaulted our nostrils. A sea of metal bunk beds greeted our unbelievable eyes. Three thousand women and children were being housed there. The men and boys twelve years and older were housed in the forum. My grandfather who was in a state of shock even before we left the Island was separated from my grandmother who was in the barn with us.
On each bunk was a large bag filled with straw which became our mattress and two army blankets. The bunks were so tightly packed together that in order to find some privacy among strangers, blankets and sheets were strung along the railings. Some families had to live in the animal stalls where maggots were crawling out from between the boards. Our toilets, while we were there were the troughs with running water that once carried away animal wastes. Lime was spread around the trough to deaden the smell but it made it worse. Poor unpalatable food was served to us on tin plates in the poultry section of the barn. Hundreds of people got diarrhea and food poisoning." (Keiko Mary Kitagawa, 2017)
March 25 Population at Hastings Park is 1,593. B.C. Security Commission initiates a program of assigning men to road camps and women and children to ghost town detention camps. June 29 P.C. 5523 – The Director of Soldier Settlement is given authority to purchase or lease farms owned by Japanese Canadians. He subsequently buys 572 farms without consulting the owners.
September 1 Population at Hastings Park is 3866 people
September 30 Hastings Park Assembly Centre officially closed
October Hastings Park hospital remains open with 105 people
October 31 According to the BC Security Commission report, by the end of October, 21,079 people were uprooted from the BC Coast.
• Road camp projects 986
• Sugar Beets, Alberta 2,585
• Manitoba 1,053
• Ontario (males) 350
• Slocan Valley (Slocan City, Bay Farm, Popoff, Lemon Creek) 4,764
• Tashme 2,624
• New Denver/Roseberry 1,701
• Greenwood 1,203
• Kaslo 965
• Sandon 920
• Self-Supporting Projects 1,164
• Independent and Industrial Projects 431
• Special Permits 1,337
• Repatriated to Japan 42
• Evacuated voluntarily (before March 1942) 579
• Internment camps 699
• In detention, Vancouver 57
• Hastings Park, Hospital 105
By the end of 1942, approximately 12,029 persons have been uprooted to detention camps in the interior of British Columbia, 945 men are in labour camps, 3,991 are placed as labourers on sugar beet farms in the Prairie provinces, 1,161 are in voluntary self-supporting sites outside the 'protected area', 1,359 are given special work permits, 699 are interned in prisoner-of-war camps in Ontario, 42 are repatriated to Japan, 111 are in detention in Vancouver and 105 are in hospital in Hastings Park, approximately 2,000 were living outside the 'protected area' and allowed to remain in place but required to register and give up prohibited items, and subject to restriction of activities. There were 94 who were partners in mixed marriages, with 100 offspring, who were allowed to remain on the coast.
105 people remained in Hastings Park hospital until its official closure on March 31, 1943. The patients and medical staff left Vancouver by train and travelled to New Denver to site of the new Sanatorium – it was an overnight journey due to a rock slide on the tracks.
From Hastings Park, Keiko Mary Kitagawa's family moved many times.
Places That Matter
On December 1st, 2012, VHF's Places That Matter plaque for the Livestock Building was commemorated during a ceremony which also unveiled new 1989 Parks Canada Japanese Canadian Internment plaques at the Momiji Garden Wall, at Hastings Park. Please see the facebook photo album here.
In 2015, four commemorative plaques were unveiled at sites around Hastings Park. A Hastings Park Committee has existed since 2010. In 2017, the 75th Anniversary of the Internment, Japanese Problem, a piece created for the Livestock Building and currently showing at the Nikkei National Museum and Archives (in Burnaby, BC) as part of Hastings Park 1942.
Keiko Mary Kitagawa, September 28th, 2017 lecture for the Vancouver Historical Society. 75 Years after Internment.
Hastings Park 1942 | Internment at Hastings Park website
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Haruno Tokawa. Dan Tokawa's memories of his aunt who passed away from tuberculosis in 1942 at the Livestock Building.
Plaque unveiling December 1st, 2012.
Livestock Building. Photo credit VHF volunteer Cassandra Sclauzero.
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Candy Bars – gluten-free and vegan, but noone will ever know!
As I stated in an earlier post, Wynne, our Produce Manager at the Cordata Co-op, really wanted me to make candy bars for a demo, and today she got her wish (just in time for Valentine's Day).
I found a recipe for "Three Amigos" candy bars on about.com – think Three Musketeers, except way better and more truffle-like. This recipe looked super easy, and I was not disappointed!
I only used two ingredients: chocolate chips and a container of Suzanne's RiceMellow Créme. It took about 10 minutes (including melting the chocolate chips on the stove) to prepare the inside of the bars, and then you have to wait for it to set (at least 4 hours or overnight). Then I just melted some more chocolate chips, dipped the bars in them, refrigerated them for about 10 minutes and voilá, I had super delicious candy bars that tasted like I'd slaved all day in the kitchen! People couldn't believe how simple they were to make and I gave out a ton of recipes to customers today – I have a feeling there are going to be some sugared-up households in Bellingham this weekend!
I used the new SunSpire Chocolate Dream Chocolate Chips, and with Suzanne's "marshmallow" creme these candy bars are vegan (no dairy or eggs), nut-free, and gluten-free (there is soy in both the chips and the creme). I used two forks to dip them into the melted chocolate – I made about 100 little cubes instead of cutting the filling into 10 bars (for sample purposes) – and found that it worked well to cover the bar/square in chocolate in the bowl and then gently push away the excess chocolate before moving them to my parchment lined baking sheet. It's a little cumbersome at first if you aren't very experienced with dipping things in chocolate, but they'll taste just as good even if they're not pretty.
If you can't find vegan marshmallow cream where you live, you can substitute regular marshmallow cream (and they still make Marshmallow Fluff!). You could probably even throw plain marshmallows into the melted chocolate to get a similar result (you may want to add a T or two of water to the mixture).
I highly recommend that you whip up a batch this weekend. In no time at all you will be everyone's best friend!
Prepare an 8×8 pan by lining it with aluminum foil. Spray the foil with non-stick cooking spray.
Put half of the chocolate chips in a double-boiler with simmering water and melt (you can use a heat-proof bowl on top of a small saucepan if you don't have a double-boiler). You can also place the chips in a microwave safe bowl and melt them in 45 second bursts (stir in between).
Once the chips are melted, add the container of RiceMellow Créme and stir until the mixture is smooth. Pour it into the prepared pan and smooth it to an even layer. Refrigerate until chilled thoroughly, at least 4 hours or overnight.
Once the nougat is completely set and firm, melt the rest of the chocolate chips using the same method as in step 1. Let cool slightly before starting step 6 (about 5 minutes).
While the chocolate is cooling, remove the candy nougat from the fridge and pull up on the foil to remove it from the pan. Place on a cutting board, and using a sharp knife, cut the candy in half, then cut each half into 5 bars. Line a baking sheet with foil or parchment paper.
Using two forks or dipping tools, submerge one bar at a time into the melted chocolate. Remove the bar from the chocolate, allowing excess chocolate to drip back down in the bowl (I found it worked well to lightly scrape the bottom of the bar on the side of the bowl to remove the excess). Place the bar on the baking sheet.
Place the bars in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes to set the chocolate. Once set, the bars can be served immediately.
This entry was posted in Demos, Recipe and tagged chocolate, Dairy Free, Demo, dessert, Egg Free, Gluten Free, Recipe, snack, Vegan by Melissa Elkins. Bookmark the permalink.
These are cute and lovely candy bars! I would love to try and make it. This is going to be really delicious.


There aren't too many tutorials on how to make an astronaut suit costume on the Internet, but no worries! Here's a list of the best and most creative videos we've found on YouTube to help you save your money and have lots of fun spending time with your kids.
To say more, everyone is always super-impressed with DIY costumes because they are so unique. Also, your kids will be excited about all the attention they get from neighbors with these! So, let's get straight to it – ready for blastoff?
No.1 Making an astronaut costume at home is fun!
Complete gear includes: space helmet, rocket-fuel jetpack, suit.
In this video, Katie from Caredotcom is going to tell you how to make an easy DIY space suit costume at home using just day-to-day supplies. Check it out!
In this video, you will find a super-creative approach to constructing a homemade astronaut suit which looks just amazing! Why? Because it's a costume of a spaceman while he blasts off!
Though it may look a bit complicated to make this costume yourself the final result and happiness of your children will let you know it was totally worth it! Plus, DIY costumes allow you to adjust the size perfect for your kids so that you won't have any fitting in problems!
In case you find some of these options difficult, but you're still up to do the costume yourself, feel free to use any helpful ideas that inspire you!
Make sure to check our DIY astronaut helmet selection ideas to crown your spaceman gear!


Floriday.co.uk - Spider-Man Ride to Go HD in 2012! - Florida Holidays, Disney, Universal, SeaWorld - The best of Orlando!
Universal Studios Orlando has announced plans to digitally refresh the Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man motion-simulator ride for 2012.
The motion-simulator ride will keep the same storyline but get a complete digital makeover with 13 re-animated 3-D scenes.
Testing has already begun on the Electro and Hydro scenes, with the ride expected to go down for only a few weeks just before the 2012 relaunch.
Watch this space for the latest updates on everything Florida!


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Call for Papers: Intercultural Competence and Foreign Language Learning in Higher Education
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Call for Papers: 2nd Conference on Intercultural Competence and Foreign Language Learning in Higher Education: Present and Future
Conference Date: 3 July 2020
Location: Department of Modern Languages and Cultures and Language Centre, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter
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Intercultural competence (IC) can be defined very broadly as a wide range of cognitive, affective, and behavioural skills that lead to effective and appropriate communication and interaction with people of other cultures. Following the success of the 2019 Intercultural Competence Conference at the University of Cambridge under the AULC Special Interest Group on interculturality, the University of Exeter is hosting a one-day symposium to bring together researchers, professionals and practitioners working in the area of intercultural competence in the teaching and learning of foreign languages in Higher Education.
According to Byram et al. (2001: 5) intercultural competence is the 'ability to interact with 'others', to accept other perspectives and perceptions of the world, to mediate between different perspectives, to be conscious of difference'. While intercultural competence is essential in our increasingly global and connected world, language learners are in an ideal position to engage with cultural diversity since they experience and reflect on how, through language, communities engage in different social practices grounded in their own values and beliefs and make sense of and construct the world they live in. Languaging (Phipps and Gonzalez, 2004) is a social process inextricably interwoven with the mechanisms to make sense, through language use, of 'the supercomplex variety of human experience' (Bennett, 2000). This process also allows the foreign language learner to better understand their own culture and identity. Although the centrality of the development of intercultural competence in language learning makes Modern Language programmes and Language Centres pivotal sites of intercultural expertise there is now a need to articulate more clearly and explicitly its richness and value, the contribution it can make to the Internationalisation and Global Citizenship agenda in HE, and its future direction.
The themes of this conference are intentionally broad so as to encourage the sharing of expertise and ideas. We welcome presentations of both research-based papers and practical case studies in the following areas:
Innovative approaches to the teaching of intercultural competence in language teaching, including the Year Abroad, with specific focus on syllabus design, developing resources, marking criteria and testing, as well as extra-curricular activities;
Intercultural competence and the decolonisation of the language syllabus;
Key roles of Modern Languages Departments and Foreign Language Centres in the Internationalisation and Global Citizenship agenda in HE;
Intercultural competence training of language teachers within a non-essentialist approach to culture.
Intercultural competence training outside the classroom, to staff across the University, and to the private/public sector.
The conference is hosted by the University of Exeter. It is organised by a cross-universities team (University of Exeter, Durham University, University of Cambridge) and supported by UCML (University Council of Modern Languages) and AULC (Association of University Language Communities in the UK and Ireland).
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The Baltimore Ravens and free-agent wide receiver John Brown have agreed to a contract, ending his tenure with the Arizona Cardinals after four seasons, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported Tuesday.
Sirius XM's Adam Caplan reported it's a one-year deal worth $5 million, with an additional $1.5 million in incentives which would raise the value to $6.5 million.
Brown, who turns 28 next month, recorded 21 receptions for 299 yards and three touchdowns in 2017. He set career lows in both categories and saw his numbers take a massive nosedive for a second straight season.
The 2014 third round pick peaked in 2015, recording 1,003 yards on 65 receptions. Larry Fitzgerald's continued agelessness and the emergence of David Johnson as a pass catcher played a large part in Brown being phased out of the offense.
Brown also missed six games due to injury in 2017.
"It's life," Brown told the Cardinals' official website in December. "That's what I've got to deal with. I can't put anything on it, so I just deal with it how it comes."
The Ravens could certainly use help at the wide receiver spot. No player had more than Mike Wallace's 748 receiving yards in 2017, and he was the only wideout with more than 500 yards. Acquiring Jeremy Maclin proved to be a major bust, as he made just 40 receptions in 12 games, and Joe Flacco threw for his fewest yards per game since his rookie season.
Brown isn't likely to emerge as a No. 1 target, but he could be an improvement at the second or third receiver spot if he can get into camp fully healthy.


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Jobs4America: 4,000 New Call Center Jobs Per Month Enabled by Broadband
Wednesday, August 03, 2011 Service Providers
Widespread broadband deployment makes it economically feasible to bring back many call center jobs from foreign countries, according to Jobs4America – a coalition of call center operators that aims to create 100,000 new broadband-enabled, call center jobs in the United States over the next two years. The group estimates that an average of 4,000 call center jobs are already being created each month in the U.S. By their count, over 18,000 new call center jobs were created in the U.S. during Q2.
Already more than 5 million Americans work in contact centers. Currently 17 percent of all call center positions (in-house and outsourced) are home based and 80 percent of U.S. companies plan to use at home agents in the next
few years, according to figures cited from Frost & Sullivan.
On Thursday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski presided at an event in Jeffersonville, Indiana where 175 new call center jobs were being created. He also announced 100 new call center jobs in Newark, New Jersey, 300 new jobs in Holland, Michigan, and 4,000 new jobs in St Lucie, Florida where unemployment is 12.5 percent.
Chairman Genachowski said, "This initiative involves meaningful job creation that will have a meaningful
impact across America. Bringing broadband to your town and home in the 21st century is like bringing in
electricity in the 20th – connecting you and your community to the larger economy and opening up new worlds
of commerce and opportunity."http://www.jobs4america.net/http://www.fcc.gov
Deutsche Telekom Reports Decline in Revenue & Profitability
Citing a persistently tough economic environment, especially for its T-Mobile USA operation, Deutsche Telekom reported Q2 revenue of EUR 14.5 billion, a decline of 6.8 percent year-on-year. Revenue for continuing operations, excluding T-Mobile USA, fell by 3.3 percent. On a like-for-like basis (i.e., excluding T-Mobile UK), the drop in revenue back in the first quarter amounted to 3.7 percent. Adjusted EBITDA for the Group as a whole fell by 6.5 percent to EUR 4.7 billion. The decrease in continuing operations was 2.6 percent.
Adjusted net profit was positive, increasing by 16.8 percent in the second quarter of 2011 compared with the same period last year to EUR 951 million. Negative special factors came to almost EUR 0.3 billion more than in the same period last year, particularly as a consequence of the costs of staff reorganization, resulting in an unadjusted decrease of 26.7 percent to EUR 348 million. The Group recorded an 18.7-percent increase in free cash flow to EUR 1.8 billion.
"Although these figures are not a cause for celebration, they still give us reason to be confident that we will achieve our targets in a persistently difficult environment," said René Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom. "We are now also seeing light at the end of the tunnel in Southeastern Europe."
During Q2, the number of broadband lines overtook the number of conventional telephone lines for the first time.
There were 295,000 line losses, an all-time low during the quarter.
Deutsche Telekom's broadband market share held steady at around 46 percent.
The number of users connected to the Internet-based TV service Entertain increased by 34 percent to 1.3 million within a year.
Mobile Internet revenue increased by over 30 percent year-on-year to EUR 409 million, due in large part to the growth in the use of smartphones.
Smartphones now account for more than 60 percent of all devices sold, a year-on-year increase of 30 percent.
Revenue in the Germany segment fell by 3.4 percent to EUR 6 billion compared to the second quarter of 2010.
Service revenues in mobile communications declined by 3.4 percent to EUR 1.7 billion, most due to the impact of the regulatory decision to drastically cut termination charges.
Total revenue fell by 5.5 percent to EUR 3.8 billion compared with the same quarter in 2010. The decrease in the first quarter, adjusted to take into account the deconsolidation of T-Mobile UK, had still amounted to 8 percent. The situation is similar for adjusted EBITDA, which fell by 8 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, while the decrease in the first quarter of this year had still stood at 13 percent.
The best performers were Croatia, with an adjusted EBITDA margin of 45.4 percent, and the Magyar Telekom Group, with a margin of 43.9 percent, adjusted for the influence of the special tax in Hungary. A margin of 38.9 percent was achieved for mobile business in Poland, where the T-Mobile brand was launched in the second quarter in a nationwide campaign.
The economic situation in Greece and Romania remains difficult and continues to put noticeable strain on the business of the OTE Group, where revenue and earnings have fallen significantly.
Systems Solutions
Revenue increased by 1.5 percent to EUR 2.3 billion. External revenue growth stood at 1.7 percent while there was a disproportionately significant increase of 3.1 percent in international revenues. The corporate customer segment recorded a 14.7 percent decrease in adjusted EBITDA to EUR 0.2 billion, due primarily to the aforementioned start-up costs.
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T-Mobile USA Sees Net Customer Loss, Higher Data ARPU
T-Mobile USA reported a net loss of 50,000 mobile subscribers in Q2 along with slightly higher ARPU for data services, leading to service revenues of $4.6 billion, consistent with service revenues in the first quarter of 2011.
"The United States remains a difficult market for Deutsche Telekom, but we see improvements compared to the first quarter of 2011. T-Mobile USA will continue its strategy with the extended HSPA+ 42 coverage and continued data growth," said René Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom.
T-Mobile USA served 33.6 million customers at the end of the second quarter of 2011, generally consistent with the first quarter of 2011 and the second quarter of 2010.
Net customer losses of 50,000 compared to net losses of 99,000 in the first quarter of 2011 and 93,000 in the second quarter of 2010.
The improvement in net contract customer losses was driven primarily by the introduction of new unlimited rate plans in the second quarter and faster growth in our connected device business.
Connected device customers totaled 2.3 million at June 30, 2011.
Prepaid net customer additions, including MVNO customers, were 231,000 in the second quarter of 2011, down 18% compared to 283,000 in the first quarter of 2011 and up substantially from the 199,000 net losses in the second quarter of 2010.
Blended churn, below), reflecting both contract and prepaid customers, decreased to 3.3% in the second quarter of 2011 from 3.4% in both the first quarter of 2011 and the second quarter of 2010.
The year-on-year increase in contract churn was primarily driven by competitive pressures in the US wireless industry which have continued to negatively impact T-Mobile USA's contract customer base.
Prepaid churn decreased in the second quarter of 2011 to 6.6%, from 6.7% in the first quarter of 2011 and 7.6% in the second quarter of 2010.
The sequential decrease in prepaid churn was driven by a shift in the customer base towards traditional prepaid products, which was partially offset by higher MVNO churn.
Year-on-year, prepaid churn decreased due to lower traditional prepaid product churn resulting from the success of T-Mobile USA's recently introduced prepaid monthly unlimited plans.
Blended ARPU was $46 in the second quarter of 2011, consistent with the first quarter of 2011, but lower than $47 in the second quarter of 2010 driven by a shift in the customer base towards prepaid plans.
Contract ARPU was $53 in the second quarter of 2011, up from $52 in the first quarter of 2011 and each of the previous four quarters.
Prepaid ARPU was $18 in the second quarter of 2011, consistent with both the first quarter of 2011 and second quarter of 2010.
Data service revenues were $1.4 billion in the second quarter of 2011, up 17% from the second quarter of 2010.
Data service revenues in the second quarter of 2011 represented 30% of blended ARPU, or $13.60 per customer, up from 29% of blended ARPU, or $13.10 per customer in the first quarter of 2011, and 25% of blended ARPU, or $11.60 per customer in the second quarter of 2010.
9.8 million customers were using smartphones enabled for the T-Mobile USA 3G/4G network. This represents a net increase of 50% or nearly 3.3 million customers using smartphones from the second quarter of 2010.
3G/4G smartphone customers now account for 29% of total customers, up from 27% in the first quarter of 2011 and 19% in the second quarter of 2010.
http://www.tmobile.com
University of Illinois UC2B Project Picks ADTRAN
Wednesday, August 03, 2011 Last Mille
The University of Illinois and the cities of Champaign and Urbana have selected ADTRAN for the Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband (UC2B) Broadband Stimulus project, which will bring FTTP services to local K-12 schools, low-income and underserved communities, business customers and Community Anchor Institutions. This is the first phase of the project and is planned to extend services to more than 10,000 residents in the area. ADTRAN will supply its Total Access 5000.
UC2Bis made possible by a $22.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The state of Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) provided a $3.5 million grant and local public and private organizations added an additional $3.4 million to fund the project.
http://www.adtran.com
Level 3 and Global Crossing Stockholders Approve Merger
Shareholders in both Level 3 and Global Crossing have voted to approve Level 3's proposed acquisition of Global Crossing. The companies expected the deal to close before the end of the year.
http://www.level3.com
http://www.globalcrossing.com
In April 2011, Level 3 Communications will acquire Global Crossing in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.0 billion.
Sierra Wireless Sees Q2 Drop from Clearwire, Barnes & Noble
Wednesday, August 03, 2011 Financial
Sierra Wireless reported Q2 revenue of $139.9 million, a decrease of 12% compared to $159.1 million in the second quarter of 2010, and a decrease of 3% compared to $144.3 million in the first quarter of 2011. On a GAAP basis, gross margin was $39.1 million, or 28.0% of revenue, in the second quarter of 2011 compared to $46.2 million, or 29.0% of revenue, in the second quarter of 2010.
The company said its year-over-year revenue decrease was principally driven by the loss of revenue from Barnes & Noble and Clearwire, which together accounted for nearly $25 million in revenue in the second quarter of 2010.
Mobile Computing revenue in Q2 was $66.0 million, down 13% compared to $75.5 million in the second quarter of 2010.
Machine-to-Machine ("M2M") revenue was $73.9 million, down 12% compared to $83.6 million in the second quarter of 2010. Excluding sales to Barnes & Noble, the company's core M2M business increased 14% in the second quarter of 2011 on a year-over-year basis.
"Notwithstanding a slower than expected start to 2011, Sierra Wireless remains well positioned in our two target markets. In Mobile Computing, we are launching several new 4G LTE products with key operators and PC OEMs. In M2M, we continue to build on our global leadership position and successfully drive value chain expansion," said Jason Cohenour, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Our growth drivers remain intact and despite some product launch delays, we expect significant sequential revenue and earnings growth in the second half of 2011."
Looking ahead, the company expects growth to be driven by the launch of new 4G AirCard products, as well as continued steady year-over-year growth in its core M2M product lines.
http://www.sierrawireless.com
Telecom Fiji Deploys Aviat for All-IP Microwave Trunking
Wednesday, August 03, 2011 Mobile
Telecom Fiji Limited (TFL), the island nation's sole provider of local and national telephony services, is deploying Aviat Networks' WTM 6000 all-IP trunking microwave radios to link the main islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. Aviat Networks will design radio paths and install the high-capacity network for TFL, replacing an aging PDH radio network.
The network must overcome two very demanding paths of approximately 80km of mountainous terrain and the ocean between the islands. In addition, the replacement solution offer the capability to eventually be migrated to an all-IP architecture.
The WTM 6000 complements the Aviat Networks' Eclipse Packet Node radios already in TFL's network. Both will be managed by Aviat Networks' ProVision element management system.
http://www.aviatnetworks.com
LightSquared Signs PowerNet Global for Wholesale LTE
LightSquared announced another customer for its forthcoming, wholesale LTE service: PowerNet Global, which provides voice, data, SIP, and managed solutions to commercial and residential customers nationwide. PowerNet is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Under this multiyear agreement, PowerNet Global will become a wholesale customer on LightSquared's 4G-LTE network and will develop its own branded voice and high-speed mobile data services for its business and residential customers. This partnership represents a major step towards making the latest generation of mobile services available to PowerNet Global's growing customer base throughout the United States.
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SK Telecom Sees Q2 Revenue Rise 5.7%, Income up 2.0%
SK Telecom reported Q2 2011 revenue of KRW 4.041 trillion, operating income of KRW 659.7 billion and net income of KRW 465.4 billion (IFRS consolidated). On a year-on-year basis, revenue, operating income and net income increased by 5.7%, 2.0% and 3.7%, respectively.
The company was serving 7.5 million smartphone subscribers as of the end of June and expects to exceed its 10 million smartphone subscriber target by year-end.
SK Telecom was serving 26.3 million subscribers as of the end of Q2, up by 280,000 for the quarter.
SK Telecom's Chief Financial Officer Ahn Seung-Yun said, "As a mobile operator, SK Telecom will maintain its leadership position in the wireless data market by offering differentiated LTE network quality. Meanwhile, SK Telecom aims to create a flexible environment for business development by spinning off its platform business and nurturing it as the company's strong growth engine."http://www.sktel.com
Verizon's SF Application Innovation Center Opens Next Week
Verizon will open an Application Innovation Center in San Francisco next Wednesday.
The Verizon Application Innovation Center is a place for developers, network engineers, entrepreneurs and others to work together on innovative applications that take advantage of Verizon Wireless' leading 3G and 4G LTE mobile networks.
The San Francisco facility is connected to Verizon's LTE Innovation Center, located in Waltham, Mass., to optimize synergies between development activities at each location. The new space includes several collaboration labs and private development labs, and it offers access to Verizon Wireless equipment; services; and Verizon Wireless experts in application development, software development, network APIs, network performance and business development. http://www.verizon.com
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Australia's NBN Goes Live in Melbourne
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard MP officially switched on the National Broadband Network at a ceremony in a suburb of Melbourne, marking the third NBN site on the mainland.
The fibre network in Brunswick covers approximately 2,689 premises and the first 14 homes are now connected. The trial phase is due to run until late September, after which residents in the Brunswick fibre coverage area are expected to be able to order broadband services over the NBN from retail service providers.
NBNCo noted that work in Brunswick began in October 2010 with construction partner Telstra accessing its existing underground infrastructure in order to help minimise the impact of the rollout on the local community.
"The launch today of the NBN in Brunswick and new construction activity we've announced are the latest steps towards delivery of a crucial piece of nation-building infrastructure. The National Broadband Network has the potential to deliver genuine competition in telecommunications and benefit Australian homes, businesses, schools and hospitals for decades to come," stated NBN Co Chairman Harrison Young.
In addition, NBNCo released details on the first communities in five states and territories that will become the first in the country to receive NBN Co's high-speed fixed wireless service, which promises 4G speeds of up to 12 Mbps. The fixed wireless component of the NBN rollout is expected to be completed by 2015 and aims to pass approximately half a million homes and business, four percent of the nation's total addressable premises. The rollout will require the use of around 2300 masts, including existing ones where possible. The fixed wireless service differs from mobile wireless networks in that it is designed to serve a precisely designated number of homes and businesses, each with a wireless receiver affixed to their premise.
The first to receive NBN wireless service will be homes, businesses and institutions in the less densely populated rural and regional communities that surround Geraldton (WA), Toowoomba (Qld), Tamworth (NSW), Ballarat (Vic) and Darwin (NT).
The network is designed to deliver wholesale access speeds of up to 12Mbps*. NBN Co anticipates higher speeds becoming available as technology advances and the network is upgraded. http://www.nbnco.com.au/
In May 2011, NBN Co awarded a 10-year contract to Ericsson to design, build and operate a 4G fixed-wireless network. The deal is valued at up to AUS $1.1 billion.
HSPA Ecosystem Now Well Entrenched
The latest survey by the GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) finds 3,227 HSPA user devices have been announced in the market, 25% higher than a year ago. The number of manufacturers increased by 29 to 264 in the same period. Two-thirds of user devices support peak downlink speeds of 7.2 Mbps or more, compared to just over 50% a year ago.
The survey also finds that HSPA+ networks are mainstream and being deployed by 1 in 3 HSPA operators. A total of 35 device manufacturers have introduced 182 HSPA+ products, representing 264% year on year growth (in July 2010 GSA confirmed 50 HSPA+ devices had been launched by 11 manufacturers). The HSPA Devices survey confirms that 97 devices support 21 Mbps peak downlink, 13 support 28 Mbps, 71 support 42 Mbps (DC-HSPA+), and 1 product supports 84 Mbps. GSA recently announced a 70% increase over 3 months in the number of 42 Mbps DC-HSPA+ networks which had entered commercial service, plus at least 26 more DC-HSPA+ networks in deployment or planned.
HSPA DEVICES SURVEY – KEY FACTS:
1,340 phones including smartphones
568 USB modems
498 Notebooks, netbooks
404 Wireless routers/gateways, mobile hotspots
292 PC data cards (PCMCIA cards, ExpressCards, embedded modules)
48 Personal Media Players, UMPCs
24 Femtocells
12 E-book readers
33 Mobile tablets
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UrTurn - Get Paid for Using Facebook!
UrTurn offers reward points to users based on their activities on social networks like facebook. These reward points have cash value and can be redeemed for prizes like iPhone or sold for cash on the UrTurn marketplace.
Activities includes, as expected, adding UrTurn application to your facebook account, inviting friends to use it. You will also get paid for daily activities like uploading photos, adding new friends, updating status on facebook.
Also check list of prizes you can redeem UrTurn points for!
As of now UrTurn is only available for facebook. They will be soon coming on MySpace as a widget. They have no donut for orkut users as of now, but considering recent support for third-party applications on orkut, they will soon arrive their too.
Then, you can make real money from UrTurn points, you're required to trade your points at UrTurn points marketplace.
Users are able to make real deal at UrTurn Points Marketplace like offers to sell and offers to buy. The current price per point is $0.005 - $0.015, depending on traders. For a reasonable price, an offer can be easily attracted by other traders in a very short period (1 - 2 days).
How to gain more point? Let we see a point-activity chart is shown below….
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Q: How can I get the stop position in mplayer when I quit? If I have a script that plays a file using mplayer and I stop the playback half way through, is there a way to store the playback position where it stopped?

A: Try this
its quick and dirty but gives me the seconds of the played song after mplayer exited
mplayer your.mp3 | tr [:cntrl:] '\n' | bbe -e "s/\x0a\x5b\x4a//" | tail -n 4 | head -n 1 | cut -d ':' -f 2 | cut -d '(' -f 1

A: It should be noted that this does almost the same thing as 0800peter's answer but without the need to install bbe. Essentially, this is a rewrite of that answer with a friendly interface. This answer also accounts for the event that mplayer is prematurely terminated (as in with pkill mplayer).
#!/bin/bash

# desc: Runs mplayer to play input file and returns seconds of playback when stopped
# input:
#   arg1: path to audio file
#   arg2: pass either [seconds|timestamp]; default timestamp
# output: returns the timestamp or total seconds elapsed when playback stopped
#   (ie. when mplayer terminated)
playAudioFile() {
    audioFile="$1"

    # if you need to modify mplayer switches, do so on the next line
    stopPos=$(mplayer "$audioFile" 2> /dev/null | tr [:cntrl:] '\n' | grep -P "A: +\d+\.\d\b" | tail -n1)

    # decide what to display
    if [ "$2" == "seconds" ]; then
        retval=$(awk '{print $2}' <<< "$stopPos")
    else
        retval=$(awk '{print $3}'  <<< "$stopPos" | tr -d '()')
    fi

    echo "$retval"
}

#example usage
path="$1"
stopPosition=$(playAudioFile "$path")
echo "$stopPosition"

My script, as it is, accepts the path to an audio file and when mplayer terminates (normally or abnormally), a timestamp or seconds elapsed is returned. If you opt to receive a timestamp, note that the timestamp will not have a placeholder for any unit with a value zero. In other words, 00:00:07.3 would be returned as 07.3 and 00:10:01.2 would be returned as 10:01.2

What if I want to send mplayer to the background?
If you want to be able to start mplayer and send it to the background and still be able to query for this information, you might want to take a look at a bash script I wrote for tracking playback status information. That script incorporates two functions called getElapsedTimestamp and getElapsedSeconds, both of which return the playback time even if mplayer has already terminated. To use these functions, the media file must be started with my playMediaFile function. This function can be called like this to start mplayer and send to background ...
playMediaFile "path/to/your/file" &

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Biografia
Auden Starr è entrata nel mondo dell'industria pornografica nel 2002 e fino al 2006, salvo alcune eccezioni, ha girato esclusivamente con altre ragazze. Ha, inoltre, iniziato dal 2013 la sua carriera da regista pornografica ed ha diretto oltre 250 scene. Nel 2009, insieme a Belladonna e Kimberly Kane, ha ottenuto l'AVN Awards per la miglior scena lesbo a tre. Ha diversi tatuaggi: una mano a 4 dita sulla scapola destra con carattere giapponesi, uno scorpione sulla parte superiore della coscia sinistra e un carattere giapponese alla destra dell'ombelico.

Nel 2018 è stata inserita nella Hall of Fame degli AVN Awards.

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Agreement on Chinese debt relief for Angola in prospect
The Chinese Foreign Ministry says an agreement on relieving the pressure on Angola of its debt to China should be ready to sign soon.
A spokesman for the ministry, Wang Wenbin, told a press conference that representatives of Chinese financial institutions and the Angolan authorities had reached basic accord on a debt restructuring plan.
The state-owned Export-Import Bank of China had helped Angola apply to the International Monetary Fund for emergency financial assistance, and was ready to help Angola avail of a scheme by the G-20 group of countries for lightening the burden of debt borne by African states, Mr Wang said.
In June the Portuguese news agency, Lusa, reported that Angola owed China US$28.6 billion at the end of last year.


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How Voter Suppression Efforts Are Threatening Our Democracy
by Marta Steele
Congressional Briefing April 21, 2016: "How Voter Suppression Efforts Are Threatening Our Democracy"
"It is democracy time!" were words that led into this historic congressional briefing, "How Voter Suppression Efforts Are Threatening Our Democracy." Sponsors were the National Election Defense Coalition and Transformative Justice Coalition. The moderator of the distinguished panel and members of the Congressional Black Caucus was Barbara Arnwine, former Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and presently co-sponsor of the Transformative Justice Coalition. What does the dismal handling of the primaries and caucuses held so far bode for the U.S. Congress?
Arnwine listed members of the Caucus who were present: Reps. John Conyers (former Chair of the House Judiciary Committee), Sheila Jackson Lee, Terry Sewell, Marc Veasey, Maxine Waters, Elijah Cummings, Hank Johnson, and others. 2016 marks the fifth year of intensive voter suppression. Long lines have marred proceedings in so many of the primaries and caucuses. Too
many provisional ballots have been filled out because voter names have been mistakenly or purposely removed from lists.
New York should not be high on your list of places to vote. There is no early voting, and registration for primaries, specifying partisan affiliations, this year was required in September proceeding last November. For some reason partisan affiliations were somehow often flipped and independents were not allowed to vote in this closed primary anyway. Brooklyn represented the nadir location: 125,000 names had been removed, 65,000 names added. Some gullible people were even told to vote on their iPhones.
Arnwine exhorted Congress to act; people must debate and repeal voter suppression; democracy must become more inclusive. Victims were "people who wanted to vote," she reiterated three times, herself the author of the Map of Shame, which depicts voter repression legislation state by state. (http://www.aflcio.org/Multimedia/Infographics/Map-of-Shame-Vote-Suppression-Legislation-by-State).
The scheduled moderator, Roland S. Martin, award-winning TV1News!Now anchor, was unable to stay after proudly announcing that Mississippi's state flag, which contains an image of the Confederate flag, was pulled down today. He introduced the first speaker, the distinguished head of the North Carolina NAACP, Rev. William Barber, founder of Moral Mondays, "protests [in North Carolina spanning] many wide ranging issues under the blanket claim of unfair treatment, discrimination, and adverse effects of government legislation on the citizens [there]."
"This is a season where the doves were crying," said Barber. "Voting Rights attacks are blasphemy!" The right to vote was obtained through blood and self-sacrifice. The Voting Rights Act was expanded five times before being gutted in 2013 by the Supreme Court in the Shelby County v Holder decision--a "constitutional and moral travesty." As a result, the worst attacks on voting rights have occurred since the nineteenth century. The South was freed to pass all the suppressive legislation and measures it wanted to: Texas jumped in the next day, with North Carolina passing the "worst, meanest" legislation soon after. 1.3 million qualified citizens could be kept from voting in November. One state university was cut in half by redistricting, so that the power of student votes, usually liberal, was diluted. Meanwhile Texas, which excels in other areas benefiting we the people, now ranks last in the country in the area of voting rights, Rep. Veasey later added. 25 percent of African Americans there were likely not to have the required voter ID and would be forced to vote provisionally. A bipartisan panel of judges proved that these impediments evidenced purposeful discrimination.
"If you have the South, you have the nation," said Barber.
James Crow, Esquire, is back on the scene, in lawyer's attire. Forty North Carolina cities had been subject to Section 5 preclearance and had required it many times. Election 2016 will be the first unprotected general election since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. All progress made since then was eradicated "in one fell swoop." Unconstitutional legislation is being passed by unconstitutional legislatures.
In North Carolina, same-day registration was eliminated, the early voting period was shortened, voting the straight party ticket was no longer permitted, as was registration by high school students preparing to vote. Fifty thousand pages documented all of the new repression.
And legislators in the Tar Heel State acknowledged happily that retrogression was now legal.
"The South must rise again but in a new way," said Barber. Moral Mondays must now encompass all seven days of the week.
He quoted FDR: "The ultimate rulers of the United States are . . . the people of this country."
The Bipartisan Voting Rights Amendment Act, along with the Voters' Rights Advancement Act and others, has been written, aimed at states that discriminate, obviously many Southern states but also others, given recent primary events in Wisconsin, and most lately three counties in New York City that had been previously subject to preclearance, as was Arizona, another locus of primary disasters.
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