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LTE is the next step in the technical evolution of 2G/3G networks. It offers superior user experience with simplified technology for next-generation mobile broadband, and Ericsson's LTE RAN network currently supports download speeds up to 600 Mbps in commercial networks, with the anticipation that 1 Gbps will soon be supported by operators.
Today most operators have 2G and 3G systems deployed and recognize the need to deploy 4G to keep their mobile broadband offerings competitive. Ericsson offers an advanced mixed mode (2G/3G/LTE) solution that offers an efficient means for operators to migrate their networks to LTE. Our solution enables operators to more efficiently support existing 2G and 3G traffic with current resources, thereby clearing spectrum to provide high speed LTE data services.
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Mobile broadband is a reality and as the Internet generation is accustomed to having broadband access wherever they go and not just at home or in the office.
The efficient design of LTE enables it to embrace the huge range of demanding solutions and services for monitoring and surveillance of billions and billions of machines as well as the high bandwidth demanding media related services.
With LTE, the user experience will enhance more capacity demanding applications such as interactive TV, mobile video blogging, advanced games and professional services.
The performance advantage offered by Ericsson LTE provides the operator with the same coverage and capacity with fewer nodes and equipment when compared to the competition. This reduces the operator's capex and opex investment. In addition, Ericsson delivers superior network performance, providing the subscriber with an excellent user experience.
Ericsson is also aggressively developing LTE Advanced to ensure customers have access to the latest LTE capabilities.
In parallel with the LTE radio access, packet core networks are also evolving to the flat EPC architecture. This new architecture is designed to optimize network performance, improve cost efficiency and facilitate the uptake of mass-market IP-based services.
LTE radio network products will have a number of features to help simplify and reduce cost of the building and management of next-generation networks. This is known as Self Organizing Networks (SON) which includes features such as self-configuration and self-optimization thereby minimizing the intervention needed by operations staff.
LTE will be deployed in parallel with simplified, IP-based core and transport networks that are easier to build and maintain.
In summary operators can in a flexible way introduce LTE to match their existing network, spectrum and business objectives for mobile broadband and multimedia services.
Ericsson is the market leader in LTE worldwide.
Ericsson is present today in all high traffic LTE markets including US, Japan, and South Korea, and is ranked first for handling the most global LTE traffic - twice as much mobile traffic as the closest competitor. Ericsson is number one in LTE market share within the world's top 100 cities. More than 220 LTE RAN and Evolved Packet Core networks have been delivered worldwide, of which 170 are live commercially.
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Experience a bit of Napa Valley in Central Illinois. Visit the winery, tasting room and gift shop. Enjoy the panoramic view available for weddings, receptions and meetings.
The Chocolatier is a local candy shop offering a wide range of products they create in store and a variety of your favorite bulk candies.
The McLean County Courthouse, capped by a stately dome, serves as a landmark to identify the historic core of the city. Turn-of-the century buildings, many with interesting historical pasts, flank the courthouse square. A visitor can find museums, banks, a legal and governmental center, residential living, a large artists' community, plus an assortment of specialty retail businesses and supportive services in Downtown Bloomington. There is an abundance of restaurants and a lively night scene. Discover all that downtown Bloomington has to offer by shopping, dining, working and playing in this great historical district!
Featuring food, shopping and entertainment, Eastland Mall is the family friendly center that is sure to please everyone with a wide variety of stores and activities. We know you will find great shopping at stores like Kohls, American Eagle, Macy's, Hollister, Justice, Limited, Rogers & Hollands, Talbot's, Victoria's Secret and more.
The Ropp Jersey Cheese processing facility in north Normal is owned and operated by a family of 6th generation McLean County dairy farmers. The facility produces cheese curds as well as artisan cheddars, colbys and other cheeses. The Ropp family opened this facility to help promote agriculture as a vital industry to American life. For tour information, please call or visit the website.
Crossroads Global Handcrafts is a respected outlet for fairly traded handcrafts and food products from around the world including handmade art objects, utilitarian items, textiles, baskets, carvings, jewelry, ceramics, premium coffees, tea and chocolate.
Visit our enchanting store and each time you visit you will discover a whole new array of gifts and home accessories. We not only specialize in unique gift ware, but we also create custom floral arrangements and can come to your home to help accessorize.
The Shoppes at College Hills is an open-air lifestyle center anchored by Von Maur, Gordman's, Hobby Lobby and Target. The exciting blend of retailers and restaurants includes more than 25 specialty stores like Coldwater Creek, Chico's, J. Jill, Ann Taylor Loft, Jos. A. Bank, Flat Top Grill, Coldstone Creamery and much more. The inviting landscaped outdoor environment creates a shopping experience second to none. Our state of the art water feature adds to the ambiance of the center. Other amenities include street lighting, seating areas, children's play area and outdoor dining.
Museum-quality, historic Shaker reproduction furniture and accessories handcrafted by local artist. Showroom by appointment. Listed as one of the top 200 craftspeople in the United States by Early American Magazine.
Established in 1990 in Uptown Normal, Campustown Supply has become the leader in providing collegiate apparel to students, faculty, family and friends! It has quickly become the perfect stop for the essentials of college life. Campustown Supply carries everything for you die-hard fans out there. Campustown Supply now offers customized apparel which means you can get Greek, names, numbers and much more. We even do local high schools and businesses.
Uptown Normal has undergone a renaissance, with a recent overhaul of the area that included new streets and sidewalks, plus the addition of the Bloomington-Normal Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. Charming restaurants and shops populate Uptown Normal, including Babbitt's Books, which offers hard-to-find rare antique books.
Please come in and browse our unique collection of new and gently used furniture and accessories. Our selection changes daily. Bedrooms, dining tables, chairs, pictures, sofas, lamps, art objects, collectibles and much more!
Heart's Desire Antiques & Accents
We offer a large selection of antiques, beautifully refinished Oak antique furniture, Amish-made furniture, and many other specially made goods.
WildCountry opened its doors over 36 years ago. We are family owned and operated. We take pride in the gear we stock, and the services we offer. At WildCountry, our motto is: "If we don't have it, we'll do everything we can to get it." Stop by and you'll find a great selection from many of our key vendors such as The North Face, Mountain Hardwear,Patagonia, Columbia, Keen, Garmont, Merrell, K2, Volkl, Burton, Woolrich, Aqua Lung and Aeris, just to name a few. Our staff is well versed and factory trained in the gear we promote.
Fairbury's renovated downtown area features eateries, specialty shops, and consignment and antiques stores. There is also a vintage-style gazebo in the central park.
2,400 square ft of crafts, gifts and antiques.
Shockwaves Skateboards started in 1992 as Bloomington-Normal's only skateboard shop. From inception, the goal has always been to provide the finest pro-quality equipment and service. They also stock skateboard clothing, shoes, and other related merchandise. In addition, they only offer the best shoes from companies such as es, DC shoes, and Emerica.
Cruisin' with Lincoln on 66 Visitors Center
Located in the heart of Downtown Bloomington on Historic Route 66, the Cruisin with Lincoln on 66 Visitor Center exhibits cover stories about dining, lodging and travel, which were experienced by both Abraham Lincoln and Route 66 travelers. These are supplemented by local items, books, cards, maps and more!
Your international bookstore with small-town service for used, rare and collectible books.
The Garlic Press strives to provide their customers with the most unique and distinctive products of the highest quality. As the store has grown, so has the variety of products they offer. From the finest imported food products to hand-made clothing, they've created a one-of-a-kind store. The Garlic Press Market Café offers a unique and distinctive menu, which features seasonal, locally grown and organic ingredients.
Frugality NFP is a charitable thrift shop in which most items are 99 cents each and all profits are given to a different local charity every month. Frugality has thousands of items including family clothing, house wares, home decor, books, purses, shoes, and more. We are always replenishing the stock for sale.
Welcome to Solid Gold Jewelers. Their goal is to offer friendly and professional advice about the choice, purchase, and maintenance of your jewelry items.
Cascade Gardens Poultry & Eggs
This is more than the typical greenhouse with beautiful plants and the array of colors amaze you. This is a farm family raising chickens for eggs and meat, offering the "hands-on" experience to see what it is like to "be with the chickens!" In the fall, this is a fun place to go for mums and pumpkins, and they also have fall decorations. Open April-September. Groups are welcome.
The main source for information about McLean County's historic and modern attractions in the Bloomington-Normal area is the "Cruisin' with Lincoln on 66" Visitors Center. Located in Downtown Bloomington, the Visitors Center provides information on all of the wonderful attractions, events, dining and lodging available in McLean County. Their exhibits highlight two types of heritage tourism that is integral to Central Illinois: Historic Route 66 and Abraham Lincoln. The gift shop is filled with local products, memorabilia and more!
Save Money and Make Money at Once 'n Again, a remarkable resale store! Shop an astonishing selection of your favorite brands at amazing prices! Once 'n Again opened in 2001 and has two locations in Pontiac, IL and Fairbury, IL. Once 'n Again sells clothing for the family, purses, shoes, jewelry, books, home décor, furniture and more. Store hours are 10am to 7pm, Monday-Saturday.
Attractions inside the farm include: The Pumpkin Blossom Café and Gift Shoppe, Harvest Brew coffee shop, picnic area and a variety of produce. Activity admission includes access to a jumping pillow, school house education barn, little toddler village, giant mountain slide, climbing straw castle, corny bins, cattle chute jump, rodeo roundup, big digger sandbox, family hayrack rides, train rides for kids, farm animals and live music. A key part of our mission at Rader Family Farms is to educate while we entertain. Field trips and tours are available.
Established in April of 2008, Main Gallery 404 provides downtown location for many local artists to display and sell fine artwork and gifts. The Bloomington-Normal area is rich with talented artists. MG 404 gives these artists the much needed opportunity to make his or her work visible
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Bloomington, Illinois is the only city in the world where beer nuts are made! A video presentation on the making of beer nuts can be viewed in the gift shop, and nuts are available to sample in the Company Store.
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The San Diego Padres and Padres Foundation are committed to inspiring San Diego's youth to Live, Learn Play and Serve and support charitable organizations throughout the San Diego region through our Charity Ticket Program. In 2013, we will continue to partner with Major League Baseball's "Commissioner's Community Initiative" and MLB & MLBPA Players Give Back to donate complimentary tickets to deserving non-profit organizations who serve children within the Padres focus of LIVE (children's health), LEARN (education) and PLAY (recreation) military and first responders who would not have an opportunity to attend a game.
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Rarely does a day go by when at least one member of the Padres family - including front office executives and staff, coaches, players, alumni and the Swinging Friar mascot and Pad Squad - cannot be found reaching out to fans somewhere in the San Diego/Baja region.
The San Diego Padres are committed to reaching out and connecting with our community. Padres executives, alumni, broadcasters and employees make hundreds of appearances each year. We are proud to enhance the events of civic organizations, charitable groups and community events by providing speakers or club representatives who are eager to share the excitement of Padres baseball. Your event or meeting could include front office members, broadcasters, the Pad Squad or even the Swinging Friar.
If you have a major community event that you would like to be considered for a visit, please complete the online request form.
Padres players make hundreds of appearances through club events, charitable initiatives, and through their own marketing relationships. For an updated list of upcoming player appearances open to the public, please call the Player Appearance Hotline at (619) 795-5275 (then select option #6).
The Padres place a high priority on being an active part of the San Diego community. The commitment is demonstrated by ownership, uniformed personnel and the Front Office volunteering for local charities, serving on charitable boards and to participating in company-wide volunteer giving initiatives. The Padres family is involved in making a difference each day with our time, talent and treasure.


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- Since the ongoing nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula, which emerged in October 2002, the United States and other countries have pinned high hopes on Chinese efforts to moderate and reason with North Korea. Yet, as the author points out, it would be unrealistic to raise one's expectations over what China might accomplish vis-à-vis North Korea.


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"I never thought I would be so happy to see a suction cup," iFixit's MJ said in a video on the company's blog. "A screwdriver and a suction cup are all you'll need to replace a broken display." That's a far cry from the 38 steps—and roughly 45 minutes—required to get the display on the iPhone 4S.
iPhone 5 buyers, rejoice! That's the good word from repair site iFixit, which flew to Australia to open up and report back on the iPhone 5 before many a U.S. Apple retail store had opened its doors Sept. 21 and begun selling the smartphone. iFixit has taken Apple to task in the past, scolding it for devices that are unnecessarily difficult to repair. Apple, as a market leader, iFixit has argued, has a moral and environmental responsibility to create products that can be upgraded, repaired and ensured long lives, particularly given their expense to consumers, if not also out of respect for the people who labored (to degrees the world is becoming increasingly familiar with) to create them. Apple seems to have listened and created an iPhone that is its most repairable in some time. The most important change is that with the iPhone 5 Apple has returned to a top-down construction. While 38 steps are required to get to the display assembly of the iPhone 4S—and note, the glass display is the portion of the iPhone 4S most likely to break—on the iPhone 5, it's the first thing to be removed, says iFixit after removing (and here iFixit frowns) some proprietary Apple screws. Ultimately, the iPhone 5 received an iFixit "repairability score" of 7 out of 10, which is the best any Apple product has fared in some time. For a look at other changes Apple made, check out the slide show below.


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Through his amazing defensive and shot-blocking skills, Bill Russell revolutionized college basketball. Playing under Hall of Fame Coach Phil Woolpert, and teaming with fellow Hall of Fame backcourt star K.C. Jones, Russell helped the University of San Francisco capture back-to-back NCAA Championships in 1955 and 1956. Later, Russell helped turn the Boston Celtics into a powerhouse that dominated opponents, both defensively and offensively. During Russell's career, Boston won 11 NBA championships, including 8 consecutive titles from 1959 to 1966. He was named the league's MVP five times and was a 12-time All-Star Game participant. Russell has been named one of NBA Basketball's 50 Greatest Players-1996.
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Treviso held out for a memorable 33-32 victory over the Dragons in their RaboDirect PRO12 match in Newport on Friday.
Treviso held out for a memorable 33-32 victory over the Dragons in their RaboDirect PRO12 match in Newport on Friday.
20-year-old Lewis Robling and Italy international Kristopher Burton exchanged penalties early on but the home side looked the more confident with ball in hand and, after some smart handling from the centres created the space, former Wales winger Aled Brew strolled over in the left-hand corner for the first try.
The hosts could not hold onto their lead for long though as flying winger Tonderei Chavhanga was turned over at the wrong end of the pitch and Alessandro Zanni took full advantage to level the scores at 8-8 for the Italians.
Burton and Robling again exchanged three points as the half wore on and, just as it looked like the sides would go in level at half-time, Brew intercepted a loose pass from centre Alberto Sgarbi to score his second of the match.
As it happened, the teams did head into the interval on level terms though as full-back Luke McLean crossed for Treviso on the final play of the half to make it 18-18.
The Dragons started the second half brightly and were able to take advantage of some weak defence in the opening stages as the player of the Six Nations Dan Lydiate fed Ashley Smith, who straightened before setting up Toby Faletau to score in the corner.
Again the Welshmen were unable to hold onto their seven-point lead though as Burton charged down his opposite number Robling and carried the ball over the line.
The try-scorer couldn't add the conversion but the game was still nicely poised at 25-23 going into the final quarter.
And when openside flanker Lewis Evans was sent to the sin bin for the home side, Treviso began to dominate territory and possession more and more by the minute.
The visitors were unable to convert the territory into a try but Burton gave them the lead with a precious drop-goal.
And that lead became eight points when Sgarbi atoned for the intercept he had thrown in the first half by scoring an intercept try of his own, this time taking advantage of a misplaced pass from replacement Jason Tovey.
The Dragons did pull to within one point again with two minutes remaining as Adam Hughes went over but the Italians held on to record their first away victory since December and leapfrog their hosts in the table in the process.
The scorers:
For Dragons:
Tries: Brew 2, Faletau, Hughes
Con: Hughes 3
Pens: Robling 2
For Treviso:
Tries: Zanni, McLean, Burton, Sgarbi
Cons:Burton 2
Pens: Burton 3
Yellow cards: Evans (Dragons – 66th min); Rizzo (Treviso – 69thmin), Semenzato (Treviso – 75th min)
The teams:
Dragons: 15 Will Harries, 14 Tonderai Chavhanga, 13 Adam Hughes, 12 Ashley Smith, 11 Aled Brew, 10 Lewis Robling, 9 Joe Bedford, 8 Toby Faletau, 7 Lewis Evans, 6 Danny Lydiate, 5 Rob Sidoli, 4 Luke Charteris (capt), 3 Nathan Buck, 2 Sam Parry, 1 Nathan Williams.
Replacements: 16 Steve Jones, 17 Phil Price, 18 Dan Way, 19 Scott Morgan, 20 Tom Brown, 21 Wayne Evans, 22 Jason Tovey, 23 Hallam Amos.
Treviso: 15 Luke McLean, 14 Ludovico Nitoglia, 13 Tommaso Iannone, 12 Alberto Sgarbi, 11 Brendan Williams, 10 Kristopher Burton, 9 Edoardo Gori, 8 Robert Barbieri, 7 Alessandro Zanni, 6 Marco Filippucci, 5 Corniel Van Zyl, 4 Antonio Pavanello (capt), 3 Lorenzo Cittadini, 2 Franco Sbaraglini, 1 Michele Rizzo.
Replacements: 16 Diego Vidal, 17 Matteo Muccignat, 18 Ignacio Fernandez Rouyet, 19 Valerio Bernabò, 20 Francesco Minto, 21 Simon Picone, 22 Fabio Semenzato, 23 Alberto Di Bernardo.
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Tyndale House, with permission from SBL, has added the text of the SBL Greek New Testament to the Scripture Tools for Every Person (STEP) project hosted at http://www.StepBible.com. The SBLGNT is one of many Bible translations and editions used in the project.
The Tyndale STEP program aims to provide reliable Bible software for those in underresourced areas of the world. The software has been developed especially for use by those who have unreliable or limited internet access, so although it is browser based, it can be downloaded and run locally and can be ported across to phone and tablet platforms. The free software is distributed via the Internet, and individuals are allowed to make and give away copies (though not to sell them!).
Thanks to Tyndale House for making this software freely available to students and scholars everywhere, but especially for the availability in ICI countries! A web presentation can be viewed at http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/STEP/STEP1.htm or view further details about the modules and ongoing development at http://www.Tyndale.cam.ac.uk/STEP.


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The Lens of Empowerment Project 2014-15: women's citizenship and identity in Stó:lō territory expressed in video-filmmaking
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This media art project, Lens of Empowerment Project 2014-15: women's citizenship and identity in Stó:lō territory, was offered in 2011-12 when UFV participated in an international partnership with three other universities, including Loughborough University in the UK.
In creating greater awareness of Stó:lō territory, citizenship and identity, the Lens Project 2014-15 will contribute to a larger vision of reconciliation or Xwla ye toteló:met qas ye slilekwel (towards understanding and harmony). The project consists of five courses and will culminate in community-based screenings of student films. A cohort of about 17 students will work with instructors Stephanie Gould (for Introduction to Video Production and Community Arts Practice), Michelle La Flamme (for Introduction to Storytelling) and Wenona Victor (for Indigenous Art: Stories and Protocols) during five courses. Shirley Hardman, Senior Advisor on Indigenous Affairs, will collaborate with instructors and act in an advisory capacity throughout the project. FALL SEMESTER:
VA 160 (Introduction to Video Production) Wednesdays, 1-4:50, Abbotsford D204 IPK 277 (Indigenous Art: Stories and Protocols) Thursdays 10-12:50, CEP A1454
THEA 250 (Introduction to Storytelling) Thursdays, 2:30-5:20, CEP, A1457 Gathering Place
VA 161 (Video Production II), time and location TBA
VA 390 (Community Arts Practice) time and location TBA
*above listed courses are 3 credits each
Students participating in the project will be required to complete all five courses. This project is open to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal men and women.
Interested students are encouraged to contact Vicki Bolan, (604-854-4543 or email@example.com) or Elaine Malloway (604-795-2835 or firstname.lastname@example.com).
Read more about the Lens of Empowerment II project
Information Session (everyone welcome):
Abbotsford campus, Wednesday, April 23, 5:30-8 pm, C1420
Chilliwack, Wednesday, April 30th, 5:30-8 pm, the Gathering Place (A1457)
To meet the criteria for the project, and gain permission to register, students must submit a statement explaining why they would like to participate in UFV's Lens Project. Your statement should answer the question: why do you want to participate in a project focused on women's citizenship and identity in Stó:lō territory? These statements should be half-1 page (200-400 words) in length. "UFV Lens Project Statement" should appear at the top of your page, in the subject line of your e-mail, and/or on your envelope.
Please submit statements clearly marked with your name and contact information c/o Vicki Bolan, (604-854-4543 or firstname.lastname@example.com) or Elaine Malloway (604-795-2835 or firstname.lastname@example.com).
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Privatization's Pretensions
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
December 1, 2010
University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 77, p. 717, 2010
UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 10-31
For decades, policymakers have been privatizing government responsibilities for the customary, and ostensibly exclusive, objective of providing the public with the same goods and services more efficiently. It is becoming increasingly apparent that these policymakers are also doing something different: they are using that purportedly technocratic process to substantively alter the very policies they are supposed to be neutrally administering. And, it is working: these privatization "workarounds" can directly change the content of public education, health, and social welfare programs, the outcome of regulatory enforcement and rulemaking proceedings, and the trajectory of police and national security operations.
Workarounds provide outsourcing agencies with the means of accomplishing distinct policy goals that – but for the pretext of technocratic privatization – would either be legally unattainable or much more difficult to realize. In short, they are executive aggrandizing. They enable Presidents, governors, and mayors to exercise greater unilateral policy discretion – at the expense of legislators, courts, successor administrations, and the people.
Although lively privatization debates abound in the academy and inside the Beltway, both communities have given insufficient attention to this transformative and potentially transgressive practice. This Article, which received the American Constitution Society's 2010 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law Award, tackles workarounds head-on. Specifically, this Article locates the structural process failures in government contracting that enable workarounds; develops an overarching conceptual framework and typology of workarounds; and prescribes a protocol for analytical and regulatory intervention.
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Keywords: Administrative Law, Privatization, Government Outsourcing, Separation of Powers, Executive authority, Constitutional Law, National Security, Bureaucracy, Accountability
Date posted: October 24, 2010 ; Last revised: December 4, 2010
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Debates of May 29th, 2012
House of Commons Hansard #129 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was workers.
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Oral Questions
2:50 p.m.
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Keith Ashfield Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway
Mr. Speaker, this government has made and continues to make massive investments in science. We have invested $30 million to refit laboratories and science vessels, millions of dollars to complete ocean mapping for Canada's UNCLOS submission and $10 million to support emerging commercial fishing in the Arctic. Additionally, in Canada's 2012 budget there is another $30 million to support fishery science.
The Environment
Oral Questions
May 29th, 2012 / 2:50 p.m.
Megan Leslie Halifax, NS
Mr. Speaker, to make matters worse, the Conservatives are eliminating the Centre for Offshore Oil, Gas and Energy Research, so last week, the Conservatives put one million hectares of our Arctic waters up for sale for oil and gas exploration, and this week, they are giving pink slips to the people who give us expert advice on how to deal with oil spills.
Is the minister planning to base something as important as Canada's energy policy on a whim or a hunch, or is he happy just to do whatever his oil lobbyist friends suggest?
The Environment
Oral Questions
2:50 p.m.
Vancouver Island North
John Duncan Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development
Mr. Speaker, we announced over $20 million for the Beaufort regional environmental assessment process. That process is now ongoing to set benchmarks for future activities that may occur in the north, in the Arctic. Yes, indeed, we put out some exploration licences. There was take-up. This is good for the north; this is good for economic activity; this is part of our jobs and economic prosperity agenda.
The Environment
Oral Questions
2:50 p.m.
Anne Minh-Thu Quach Beauharnois—Salaberry, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives' irresponsible cuts go even further than that. They are also scuttling Environment Canada's group for monitoring smokestacks and thereby eliminating our ability to measure industrial emissions. This interferes with our efforts to control pollution and, in addition, jeopardizes the health of the entire population of Canada.
Does the minister understand that slashing the monitoring of polluting emissions does not reduce atmospheric emissions?
Why is the minister taking an axe to the important scientific work done by his department and closing his eyes to industrial pollution?
The Environment
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2:50 p.m.
Peter Kent Minister of the Environment
Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question, but it misrepresents and exaggerates what she is talking about.
Information that is relevant to our government's development of industrial smoke stack emissions regulation is available through a variety of sources, including the provinces and industry itself. Environment Canada will continue to work with other jurisdictions and with other expert bodies to ensure high standards to protect human health and the environment.
The Budget
Oral Questions
2:50 p.m.
Hedy Fry Vancouver Centre, BC
Mr. Speaker, the government's ideological approach to budget cuts harms Canadians. A program that helps low-income Canadians access the Internet at libraries is gone; inspectors who ensure our food is safe to eat, gone; scientists who protect our oceans and environment, gone; the Coast Guard station in Kitsilano and search and rescue centres in St. John's and Quebec City, all gone.
Why is the government intent on making budget cuts that defy common sense and endanger lives?
The Budget
Oral Questions
2:50 p.m.
Parry Sound—Muskoka
Tony Clement President of the Treasury Board and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario
Mr. Speaker, I can assure the hon. member that we have made some moderate decisions that are designed to get the budget back into balance in the medium term. This is part of our long-term jobs and growth strategy that the Minister of Finance ably put forward in budget 2012. That is what we are focused on. We are focused on jobs for Canadians from coast to coast to coast; we are focused on economic growth that can be shared by all Canadians; and we will continue to focus on that because that is the mandate the Canadian people gave to us.
The Budget
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Ralph Goodale Wascana, SK
Mr. Speaker, for some reason, the government is reluctant to fix a glaring problem with registered disability savings plans. To qualify for such a plan, people have to be seriously disabled right now, but those suffering a debilitating disease like MS, for example, which will result in serious disability at some future point but not right now, cannot get a registered disability savings plan. In other words, they cannot save now while they are still able to do so.
For the third time, why will the government not fix this obvious problem?
The Budget
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Jim Flaherty Minister of Finance
Mr. Speaker, the registered disability savings plan was brought in by the government several years ago. I am interested in the member opposite's question. It is unfortunate that he voted against the plan when we brought it before the House of Commons.
There are some provisions in the budget this year, and I hope that the hon. member will look at the budget bill that is before the House now that addresses some of the revisions that the consultation we had in the past year indicated ought to be made to the registered disability savings plan. I hope the member will read it and then vote for the amendments.
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Olivia Chow Trinity—Spadina, ON
Mr. Speaker, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities delivered a groundbreaking report today showing the Conservative government takes a lot more tax dollars out of municipalities, cities and towns than it puts in.
To paraphrase a former city mayor from Toronto, "Where is the money? Show us our money". Municipalities have difficulty fixing their crumbling bridges and have problems dealing with policing costs and building affordable housing.
Will the Conservative government replace the build Canada fund by the fall of 2014 so that municipalities can deal with—
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
The Speaker Andrew Scheer
Order. The hon. Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities.
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Denis Lebel Minister of Transport
Mr. Speaker, never in the history of this country has a government invested as much as this government to support municipalities throughout the country.
We implemented the rebate of the excise tax on gasoline. Not only have we continued to rebate it, but we have now incorporated this in legislation.
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
The Speaker Andrew Scheer
Order. There is far too much cross dialogue going on. The hon. Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities has the floor.
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Denis Lebel Minister of Transport
Mr. Speaker, municipalities in Canada do not have a more committed partner than our Conservative government, with $33 billion through the building Canada fund. This fund will expire in 2014. That is why the new plan we are working on will be ready for 2014.
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2:55 p.m.
Olivia Chow Trinity—Spadina, ON
Mr. Speaker, that is a lot of talk but little comfort to Canadians who are stuck in traffic gridlocks and who have to boil water before they drink it. These are direct results of Conservative government neglect of cities and communities. To make matters worse, the green infrastructure fund has been cut.
The municipalities need to know by the fall of next year whether there will be a permanent program. They need to know whether the gas tax will be indexed so that it will be protected from the ravages of inflation.


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By now Twitter accounts for libraries are old news, I run a Twitter League of Library accounts, and it easily topped over 600 accounts (Note the service is quite unreliable , statistics reported there often lag, so I'm not actively maintaining it, besides adding libraries that request to be added). For more libraries on Twitter lists see Twitter lists by Lindyb for Academic libraries & Public Libraries
While there have being short pieces discussing what libraries are doing with their Twitter accounts (see for example this early piece), as far as I know there is little describing what work-flows are put in place for managing Twitter accounts.
Moreover, due to Twitter's open ecosystem there are hundreds of Twitter related services that have sprung up that enhance the basic Twitter experience, so there are many possible ways to run a Twitter client for your library beyond just going to Twitter.com and answering from there.
Of course, what tools or services you eventually end up using should depend on the circumstances of your library. I'm no social media guru, so I don't pretend to be an expert on this, as usual this is a long rambling post trying to clarify my thoughts.
There are many issues to consider when managing a Twitter account for your library but the way I see it, the answers to the following questions will affect the tools you will use and vice versa.
1. What are you using your twitter account for?
2. Will you be tweets updates from other accounts/services or manually updating every tweet?
3. How does Twitter fit into the library's Social Media stream? Will Twitter updates be pushed to other accounts (e.g. Facebook) ?
4. How do you want to be alerted to and respond to Tweets?
5. How do you track click-through on links tweeted?
6. How do you archive tweets?
1. What are you using your twitter account for?
Clearly, not every library uses Twitter in the same way. For instance an account such as
NLC_Reference which is geared to tweet reference questions received is clearly going to be handled differently from one like grpl which not only pushes library news updates, but is also used as an account to proactively scan for tweets about the library and to respond with them.
And of course, these differ from Twitter accounts used primarily for internal communication.
If for instance, you intend to use your Twitter account to proactively scan for tweets and to answer them, you definitely need to use tools that can pick up such tweets in real time, compared to a twitter account that tweets only reference questions.
2. Will you be tweets updates from other accounts/services or manually updating every tweet?
At the very least, most libraries use Twitter as a broadcasting channel. Typically library news, as well as blog posts are tweeted.
While one can manually tweet these updates, I believe many libraries have chosen to automatically push these updates.
There are many ways to push auto-updates, but the easiest ways involve getting the information you want to push in RSS format, and pushing it through Twitterfeed , a free service that allows you to push RSS streams into your Twitter account at hourly intervals.
RSS is pretty much ubiquitous these days, so one can push all sorts of information into a Twitter account (See also
Using RSS feeds to distribute library news - 6 ways) . RSS feeds of recently added books would just be one example. Another example would be recently deposited thesis in your Dspace repository.
That said, I'm not quite sure if it's such a good idea to use such auto-updaters. Firstly, while such auto-updates are a convenience, there is a danger that this can lead to tweets that have little context.
For example, if you are feeding your Twitter account with a feed from your library blog, typically only the blog post header will be pushed with the link. As such the blog header has to be specially crafted to make sense to the users following your Twitter account.
Some services like Twitterfeed allow you to perpend descriptors like [Blog] which helps.
Also manually crafting a tweet allows you to create more effective tweets, this not only includes tricks such as reducing message length to make it easy to be retweeted (less of a concern with new style retweets), but also allowing you to put all information in the tweet.
Take for example, a blog post announcing change of library hours during the vacation period. If you manually construct a tweet about this, it is likely you will try to squeeze the information into 140 characters. But if the information is coming from say a blog post, chance are the blog header will be only something like "Change in library hours", which will be pushed, and only by clicking the link will the user then see the new opening hours on the blog.
Not the end of the world, but a convenience for users who are receiving tweets only via sms, and have limited access to mobile web.
Another danger of auto-pushing updates is the lack of control. If this is overdone, you can cause a flood of tweets (though some services like Twitterfeed have a throttle switch that smooths out updates ), and gives the users the impression that "there is no one at home" and everything is on autopilot so the user won't be encourage to tweet you questions.
This isn't a problem of course if this is exactly what you want to accomplish.
Do note, there is no reason why you can't combine both, for example using Twitterfeed to tweet blog posts, while manually updating when necessary to show that there is a real human behind the account!
3. How does Twitter fit into the library's Social Media stream? Will Twitter updates be pushed to other accounts (e.g. Facebook) ?
Most libraries today are on multiple web 2.0 accounts. At the very least, most are on Facebook, YouTube & Flickr. Many are also on Delicious, SlideShare etc on top of being on Twitter.
This means that there is quite a bit of social activity/updates that can be pushed out to users.
In fact, there are a bewildering number of ways to push and aggregate updates from and to these accounts.
A simple minded approach would be to push these updates all to Twitter.
While one can of course use the already mentioned Twitterfeed, many of these services can link to Twitter natively already without external services. For example you can link your YouTube account to Twitter, so it automatically tweets when you upload a video.
But for a more general solution you can experiment with lifestreaming services like FriendFeed & Posterous that allow you to aggregate all these accounts together and/or push to Twitter.
You can choose to aggregate various services into FriendFeed and choose to push them into Twitter. See my blog post "Libraries on Friendfeed" for more details.
Of course there is no reason that Twitter has to be the end point of all activity, one can easily push Twitter updates elsewhere as well.
In particular, with facebook being so dominant these days , a facebook centric strategy, where Tweets are being sent to the facebook fan page rather than vice versa might be a good idea.
This needs quite a bit of thinking since there are many possible ways to setup the stream of information and if you do it wrongly, you end up with the same updates appearing multiple times.
5 Good Examples for Managing Your Lifestreaming Data Flow shows how 5 top social media gurus organize the flow of information generated with their social media tools. Below shows one example.
Source: 5 Good Examples for Managing Your Lifestreaming Data Flow
For a library related example see how cmbUMCG does this.
Technically Posterous is not so much a lifestreaming tool as a tool that allows you to post updates through multiple means (email, sms, bookmarklet, IM) to multiple channels at the same time (different blogs, twitter, facebook etc).
4. How are you alerted to Tweets? How do you respond to Tweets?
Chances are though even if you use a method to autopost tweets, you probably also want to use your Twitter account to handle queries and even if you don't encourage this, you probably still need a system in place to be alerted when a tweet is directed to your account whether via reply or direct message (if you follow accounts).
Some options (there are literally hundreds) include
1. Desktop clients - Tweetdeck, Seesmic Desktop etc
2. Web-based clients - Twitter itself, Brizzly, Seemic web, CoTweet, Hootsuite, Postling etc
3. Instant Messenging clients that handle Twitter - Digsby, Pidgin , Trillian , LibraryH3lp
4. Misc - TwInbox (works with Microsoft Outlook), Echofon for Firefox/Twitterfox (Firefox extension), LibAnswers
There are many more of course, but these clients essentially alert you almost instantly whenever you receive a reply or direct message, and allows you to respond.
I have left out the mobile Twitter clients, because I doubt librarians will be answering tweets on mobile phones, not officially anyway. Except perhaps those doing sms reference service with Android phones?
Tweetdeck is probably the most popular Desktop Client with power users, allows you to monitor multiple accounts at the same time. You get near real-time alerts when a reply comes in, or when a search alert is met. The last can be handy if you proactively scan for tweets about the library and to respond with them. Do note that like almost all Twitter clients, it is not capable of searches that pick up tweets based on location, so you can't pick up in real time, for instance a tweet that mentions library that is within 1 km of your location.
Of course, the problem with most of these clients is that library staff will have to learn another new interface to use (and some like Tweetdeck, or Hootsuite (see below) have pretty complicated interfaces), is there anyway to avoid this?
Of course, by default, direct messages are sent to the email account your registered your account with. So if all you want to do is to be alerted of direct mesages you don't need to do anything.
There are services that do the same for replies and alerts (such as Tweetbymail and Tweetymail), where an email will be sent when a reply is directed to your account, but personally I'm not sure how reliable they are. Besides even if you are alerted to a reply sent to your twitter account through email, you still need to be able to reply to it via Twitter.
Perhaps a better solution would be SpringShare's LibAnswers FAQ system which allows you to receive and answer tweets directed to your twitter account.
For those unfamiliar with this, it is a FAQ system designed for libraries. Users who query the faq system, will be matched to the best possible item, if no item is available, the user is invited to submit his question via an electronic form. The librarian will be informed via email or instant messenging, enters the answer in the LibAnswers system (web based) and in addition to emailing the user with the answer can also post the item as a FAQ.
On top of this, LibAnswers also supports Twitter.
When someone tweets to your library account, it shows up in the "unanswered" tab and an email will be sent to an account you choose alerting you that there is an unanswered question, exactly the same as if a question was posed via the LibAnswers system.
The nice thing about this is that the librarian can choose to answer the question exactly as if it's a normal question sent via the electronic form without knowing anything about how Twitter works. When the librarian clicks submit, the user will be tweeted a url to the answer submitted by the librarian.
While this allows answers longer than 140 characters, I personally feel this can be quite frustrating if the user is limited to SMS, and especially if the question is a short one, e.g "Is the library open tomorrow?"
Also note that tweets that are direct messages to the account will not be picked up! So this isn't a complete solution yet.
Another way to avoid learning a new interface would be to use TwInbox
TwInbox is a addon for Microsoft exchange, since many libraries already use Outlook for email, using TwInbox , allows you to reduce the clutter in terms of additional programs and you can happily receive and tweet from your email client, so this is definitely a option.
So you can assign someone who is already manning the email box to handle twitter queries at the same time.
In the same vein, many librarians are fielding queries via Instant Messenging anyway, so one possibility would be to use Digsby, Pidgin , Trillian , LibraryH3lp which can receive and update Twitter as well! The picture belows show how Digsby handles Twitter.
Sadly, Meebo doesn't do this yet, while Textalibrarian allows you to post a question/answer via Twitter only, though they seem to be working on http://www.tweetalibrarian.com/ , not quite sure about OCLC's QuestionPoint whether it supports Twitter yet.
Incidentally, regardless of the client you use to tweet answers, you probably need to have a policy on the expected response time. Is a tweet more like an asynchronous channel (e.g email) or is it synchronous (e.g Instant Messenging) ?
5. How do you track click-through on links tweeted?
You probably want to measure how successful or impactful your twitter account is. Besides looking at number of followers and a slew of other twitter influence stats, you probably need to measure how often your links are being clicked. If the endpoint is a library page, you can probably catch it in the logs at the other end, but a surer way would be to do your own tracking of links on your end.
Probably the easiest way is to use bit.ly or other url shorteners with built-in analytics, so you can see who is clicking on the links you tweet. As I write this, bit.ly is the current industry leader, and you can use it in almost every major twitter client including Tweetdeck. Do remember to register your own bit.ly account and add the API key to the twitter client you are using, so tweets are tracked using that account. Twitterfeed supports it too.
Depending on the method you use to autopush tweets, they may use their own url-shorter.
Things get a bit tricky if you use one way to auto updates and combine it with manual updates/replies, since they may use different url shorteners or ways to track clicks. For instance, you can use Feedburner to push your blog posts (socialize service) , but use Tweetdeck + bit.ly for manual updates, in which case, you will have click-thru statistics in two places.
If you are using lifestreaming tools like Friendfeed which does not track clicks, you can first burn a RSS feed with Feedburner (which tracks clicks) before passing it through Friendfeed.
6. Preservation
Want to keep track of all the tweets you have made? See a nice compliment you want to keep? Want to store all the questions you get via Twitter? If you think it's all there in Twitter and searchable any time you want them, you will be sadly mistaken, since only the most recent tweets is searchable at any times. While there are moves to archive this ( Library of Congress) , and Google provides you with a way to find older archives, the former is open only to researchers and the later isn't fully reliable yet.
Some of the Twitter clients above such as TwInbox and probably Hootsuite etc will store all your tweets but some like Tweetdeck only show the most recent tweets.
Anyway as good librarians we should know the value of archiving right?
I'm still researching this part, and as usual with anything associated with Twitter there are lots of options, see the list here "10 ways to archive your tweets"
Simplest seems to be just plugging in the Twitter RSS feed into Google reader, though I'm not sure if it grabs private messages.
7. Conclusion
As you can see, there are many ways to
a) be updated of a tweet
b) respond to a tweet
c) auto-push tweets
d) archive tweets
I've being experimenting with different methods, one possible method would be to use
Twitterfeed + Tweetdeck + some way to preserve tweets
The advantage is that both of them, allow you to use bit.ly for analytics. Tweetdeck is also probably the most capable Twitter client, allowing you to watch real time alerts. Until recently, it lacked the ability to schedule tweets but in the latest version this was remedied which makes it a almost perfect Twitter desktop client in my view.
That said, Tweetdeck doesn't store all tweets, so some other method to archive tweets will need to be used.
I suppose if you have a full blown social media strategy for your library, a good choice would be something like CoTweet, Hootsuite, Postling which are seriously powerful tools for big corporations that need to have and manage a heavy social media presence.
A more traditional all-round library approach would be to use LibAnswers , or LibraryH3lp which allows you to treat tweets like queries sent by other channels such as email, IM from users
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It has to be this way for him, He has to beat Brady if he's ever going to fully win a championship. It's been the case the last 3 yrs of teams breaking down long standing SB Barriers.......Philly '04, Steelers '05, Indy '06? He's out of excuses now, he has the kicker he needs and the windown is fast closing. This might be his last opportunity at a title. I'd like nothing better next sun night than to watch Manning leading the GW 2 minute drill, #4 standing on the sidelines waiting to come on in. I just admit, watching him trot onto the field is like watching #42 trot in from the bullpen, It feels like you just made a bank deposit, lol. I'd like nothing better than to watch vinatieri bury them and the camera shot on Kraft's luxury box right after. The embarrassed look on his face and the knowledge that a heated fanbase of scorn awaits him this offseason, lol. It would be poetic justice really, he started that dynasty and he could end it......THE GREAT ADAM VINATIERI. He's so much easier to like now that he doesn't play for the Pats, lol.
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manning is going to fall on his face next week sorry to say but pats are going to the SB. manning just flat out sucks in the postseason.
Posted 15 January 2007 - 12:16 AM
i'm gonna be praying that vinetari makes a 55 yard feild goal with 1 second left on the clock to beat the pats by 1. if that happens, i can ie happily although i'm only 15 but its still be a nice time to die lol
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manning is going to fall on his face next week sorry to say but pats are going to the SB. manning just flat out sucks in the postseason.
you got to have confidence the colts r gonna win and 18 gets revenge
Posted 15 January 2007 - 12:53 AM
i'd like to see manning win one
Posted 15 January 2007 - 01:13 AM
He's also playing at home this year against the Pats....the other times were in NE...this could also be just me wanting the Colts to really just beat the pats...cant stand them....i live with 2 patriot fans....they need to lose next week...lets go Coltsss
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i'd like to see manning win one
Same here, just to end all the he can't win the big one talk and the fact it means when it comes down to who is better between him and Marino we can say a Colts QB instead of a Fins one. Manning's been woeful so far in the playoffs though compared to his regular season play.
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According to conventional wisdom, annualized volatility of stock returns is lower over long horizons than over short horizons, due to mean reversion induced by return predictability. In contrast, we find that stocks are substantially more volatile over long horizons from an investor's perspective. This perspective recognizes that parameters are uncertain, even with two centuries of data, and that observable predictors imperfectly deliver the conditional expected return. Mean reversion contributes strongly to reducing long-horizon variance, but it is more than offset by various uncertainties faced by the investor, especially uncertainty about the expected return. The same uncertainties reduce desired stock allocations of long-horizon investors contemplating target-date funds.
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