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Reciprocal Operating Arrangements
(This information was compiled from a previous revision of Industry Canada document RIC-3)
Canada has concluded agreements or arrangements with the following countries for reciprocal operating privileges:
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Malta, Mexico, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Poland, Saint Lucia, Senegal, Slovenia, Spain, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America*, and Venezuela.
Canadians should contact the responsible administrations well in advance in order to obtain the necessary documentation.
* Canadian citizens holding a Canadian licence may operate in the territory of the United States without having to obtain a permit. For more information click here.
Canadians who wish to operate radio apparatus in countries that participate in the CEPT Recommendation T/R 61-01 or that recognize the International Amateur Radio Permit (IARP) can obtain permits from the Radio Amateurs of Canada, Inc. prior to leaving for those countries.
If you want to know more about CEPT and IARP permits for Canadian amateurs, please see the following pages.
Countries Permitting Third Party Traffic
Q - I will be visiting a country which does not have a third party radio traffic agreement with Canada, but I will have internet communications with Canada. Can I ask a Canadian radio amateur to relay a message for me by radio?
A - Yes, you can. The Canadian radio amateur becomes the originating station for the radio traffic and can send it in the normal fashion and in accordance with the regulations. The Canadian amateur has the right to refuse traffic if he/she is not satisfied that message is suitable for transmission by amateur radio or is not satisfied with the identity of the requester.
To facilitate acceptance of your request, and possibly a return message, it is recommended that you identify yourself and your location fully when requesting a relay by radio.
Canada has concluded agreements or arrangements with the following countries to permit the transmission by Canadian amateurs of international communications on behalf of third parties:
Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Israel, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Forbidden Countries List
The forbidden countries list has been dropped by Industry Canada. (see RIC-3 - Information on the Amateur Radio Service)
Operating privileges in Canada for foreign amateurs
US amateurs visiting Canada can operate their stations in Canada, using their US call sign with a Canadian call area suffix, under the Canada-US Reciprocal Agreement. Amateurs from CEPT member countries holding CEPT T/R 61-01 licences or permits can operate temporarily in Canada. Foreign amateurs holding IARP permits can also operate temporarily in Canada. Amateurs of some other countries can apply for temporary authorization to operate in Canada (see list above). Amateurs who are licensed by other administrations participating in the CEPT or IARP programs must apply for the appropriate permit in accordance with the provisions stipulated by their home administrations.
However, amateurs who establish residence in Canada should apply for a Canadian certificate with Canadian call sign, and must first pass the Canadian certificate examinations for Basic Qualification plus other Qualifications required for the privileges desired. Citizenship of Canada is not required.
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After high school, Michelle attended Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU) in Marshall, MN. She graduated in May 2013 with a major in Elementary Education and a Pre-Primary endorsement. Michelle was on the SMSU Dance Team during her four years in college and was named Captain her senior year. The SMSU Dance Team performed at football games, basketball games, and many other school events. Currently, Michelle is a Kindergarten teacher at Christina Huddleston Elementary.
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Unfazed by mounting criticism over time and cost overruns in building six Scorpene submarines for the Navy under the beleaguered Project 75, Defence shipyard Mazagaon Dock Limited (MDL) would rather have the Navy go in for bigger Scorpenes under the proposed Project 75-I.
"The decision [to choose the type of submarine] is left to the powers-that-be in Delhi, based on their requirements and needs. I cannot really comment on that. But as a shipbuilder, I think we would be tremendously leveraging our skills and expertise attained over a period of four to five years [of building the Scorpenes] if we carry on with a similar kind of submarine. It will certainly make us happy," Vice-Admiral (retd.) H.S. Malhi, Chairman and Managing Director of MDL told The Hindu at a recent interaction in Mumbai.
"The money shelled out for transfer of technology [ToT] for the Scorpenes currently under construction would be well worth it if you have similar submarines, the Scorpene Plus. Then you are leveraging the technology over many more submarines," Mr. Malhi added.
With depleting submarine force levels staring it in the face, the Navy had, last year, sought information on bigger conventional submarines with improved attack and stealth features, besides endurance. A request for proposal (RFP) in this regard is awaited. While two of the P75-I submarines thus contracted would be built at the collaborators' yard, the remaining four would be split between two Indian shipyards.
Mr. Malhi said there was no official communication on the MDL being handpicked by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) to build three of these. He, however, maintained that the yard "should be the natural choice, having made six [Scorpenes]." (Reportedly, another PSU, Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL), Visakhapatnam, would get to build one).
It was to MDL's credit, Mr. Malhi said, that it reconfigured all German equipment and stations set up for the construction of HDW submarines in the 1980s and early 1990s to suit the French Scorpenes. So, if the Navy chose a submarine type other than Scorpene, the yard would have to reconfigure the stations all over again as different submarine types used different grades of steel and welding technology. This would also engender teething issues such as difficulty in absorbing technology.
"Since material and technology for different submarine types are different, the skill sets required to build them are varied, too. In terms of pressure hull fabrication, MDL is rated very high and our collaborators sometimes say, not entirely in jest, that they wouldn't mind sourcing pressure hull for the submarines they are going to manufacture for Brazil from us," said Mr. Malhi.
On the Scorpenes under construction, he said, procurement of material posed a problem in the initial stages. "As we started procuring, we realised the sanctioned amount for material won't be enough to buy the entire lot. So we approached the government with revised figures and got the go-ahead in turn."
The revised timeline envisages commissioning of the first Scorpene in 2015 following which a submarine would be delivered every nine months. "September 2018 is when the last boat would be due for delivery. The first may take a longer time than originally planned, but when the entire project is completed, the delay would be no more than nine months," he said.
"The structural and regular outfitting [laying of pipe and cabling] of the first Scorpene has begun and the second is soon to follow suit. Now we are absolutely on track to meet the new contractual provisions. The teething issues are way behind us. Supply of material and armament is steady and the steel comes from France, but ironically, DCNS, the company originally manufacturing Scorpenes, buys it from ArcelorMittal."
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Thomas M. Arminio is a first generation farmer living in rural New York. He completed the North American Biodynamic Apprenticeship Program (NBADP) in 2015 and, starting in 2016, plans to work as a crop extension volunteer in Tanzania.
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By Melissa Greer, DO (Apr. 22): In medical school I learned very little about the role of nutrition in health. Much of what I did learn in conventional nutrition teachings I have found has little actual meaning in wellness. No one ever spoke in medical school about the role of the farmer in health or illness. As a medical student I was taught of the helping role of the physical therapist, the nurse, the masseuse, the diabetes educator...but no mention was made of the local farmer. Yet the role of the farmer is an extraordinarily influential one on local community health. Farmers have the potential to be our frontline of wellbeing. Read more.
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The Rams' leading receiver hurt his shoulder against Arizona on Oct. 4 but returned to practice this week after recovering quicker than expected from a right shoulder injury. He said there was a small chance he'd be able to play, but St. Louis opted to keep him out with a bye week coming up.
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SAN ANTONIO - Nearly half of the world s Catholics live in Latin America. Some speculate the church will embrace this growing population and give the world its first Hispanic pope.
There s a sense this is the time a pope will come from this whole growing area of the church, said local Catholic leader Father David Garcia.
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Social collaboration tools hold the power to deliver increased value to your customers while promoting employee engagement. So, how can CIOs make the most out of collaboration and solidify the alignment between business and IT? This new edition of CIO Decisions e-zine explores how social collaboration is changing both IT and the enterprise as a whole. And, with the right approach to values, processes, strategies and thinking, IT leaders can leverage social collaboration to better serve business needs.
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GE brings social collaboration to life with Colab
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7 districts split $25M in Gates education grants
Wednesday - 12/5/2012, 2:52pm EST
By KATHY MATHESON
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Seven school districts committed to working with charter schools to improve student achievement will split about $25 million in grants from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, officials announced Wednesday.
The funding is designed to deepen the collaborations among educators in Philadelphia; Boston; Denver; New Orleans; New York; Hartford, Conn.; and Spring Branch, Texas.
"These cities are particularly committed to advancing college-ready strategies in both district and charter schools," said Vicki Phillips, education director for the foundation's College Ready program in the U.S. "What we're most excited about is the common ground that's getting established."
Charter schools, which are publicly funded but operate independently of school districts, have been a lightning rod in the debate over education reform. Supporters say they provide innovative and sometimes safer alternatives to traditional neighborhood schools. Opponents contend they drain resources from school districts without providing a better education.
The seven grant recipients are among 16 communities that entered into compacts designed to reduce tension between districts and charters. By signing the agreements, which entail sharing resources and best practices, districts received $100,000 and qualified for further funding.
Over the next few years, Hartford will get nearly $5 million and Denver about $4 million. The other districts will receive between $2.2 million and $3.7 million each.
Funds will go toward projects including universal enrollment systems, leadership training for aspiring principals and joint professional development for charter and district teachers.
Chris Gibbons, the CEO of Strive Prep Charter Network in Denver, said the compacts are formal recognitions "that resources of the public sector are available to all students ... (and that) the responsibility to educate all students well is the shared responsibility of an entire city."
In Philadelphia, the compact includes collaboration with private and Catholic schools. Lori Shorr, the city's chief education officer, said Philadelphia needs all types of high-achieving schools to reduce poverty, enhance public safety and attract economic development.
She also acknowledged that managing charter growth has been a contentious issue in the financially struggling district, where about 30 percent of the 207,000 students attend charters.
Shorr said some tension stems from "early animosities" about charters that have hardened and led to misunderstandings and misperceptions. The important thing, she said, is to "put adult foolishness aside" and focus on what's best for students.
Spring Branch, a district that includes part of Houston and its suburbs, is slated to receive nearly $2.2 million. Superintendent Duncan Klussmann said a new partnership with two charter school operators is designed to spur innovation and a cultural change in the district, which is striving to double the number of students who obtain a degree or certificate in higher education.
"To do that, we have to have strong partnerships and collaboration," Klussmann said.
Follow Kathy Matheson at http://www.twitter.com/kmatheson
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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Killing 'Em Softly – Twitter's Siege Drives the Tweetbot Alpha Private
Siege, n. — The act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible…
Twitter is laying waste to developers, but it isn't doing so in an overt way. Instead of killing developers – or, at least, their apps – outright, the social network has placed a cap on the number of users that each application can have, the developer's resources, if you will. We may not feel the full effects of this change for some time to come, but at least one symptom has cropped up today.
Tapbots, an application development duo that makes the popular Tweetbot suite of Twitter clients, has removed the public alpha of its Mac application. In a blog post explaining the change, developer Paul Haddad says that the alpha was closed to limit the number of tokens (see: users) allocated to people that may not purchase the full version of the software. "We wish we could continue on but we didn't make the rules," Haddad says in his post. "We just have to live with them."
Haddad is referring to the changes that Twitter made to its API on August 16. The social network introduced a limit on how many users any particular application can claim, and has actively discouraged the creation of third-party Twitter clients. (Or, as Twitter may prefer for them to be called, "apps that fall into the upper-right quadrant.") When we first covered Twitter's API changes, Haddad was telling a different story.
"In the short term, nothing. From an API standpoint the changes required for v1.1 are trivial," Haddad said. "Long term, we shouldn't be in any risk of running out of spots under Twitter's cap anytime soon."
For his part, Haddad says in his post that Tapbots tried working with Twitter over the last few days to come to some form of understanding. "We've been working with Twitter over the last few days to try to work around this limit for the duration of the beta," he says, "but have been unable to come up with a solution that was acceptable to them." Which is what Twitter told developers to do, a handy way to keep gripes that may easily go public behind closed doors, lest Twitter change its mind and cut access anyway.
That's the beauty of Twitter's plan: There isn't a single thing a developer can do to evade these rules. Twitter owns the pipes, and it owns the data inside the pipes, and if you want to get to that data you're damned well going to use the pipe that they've selected for you. And, this way, Twitter can say that it has attempted to compromise with developers by allowing them to keep 100,000 users (or more, depending on where they were at when the cap was introduced).
As Sarah wrote about earlier, these "tokens" can become a genuine problem for a number of developers. I myself have authorized applications to use Twitter that I don't ever remember using, and I'm not alone.
Unfortunately, I count against the maximum number of users that each of those applications can support. If Slices wants to expand beyond a certain point, it can't. Neither can Twitterific, Tweetbot, or any of the other clients I've experimented with over the years. That isn't a big deal in the scheme of things – I am but one token, after all – but the thing about singular items is that they tend to add up.
Switch gears from the siege metaphor for a moment. Think, instead, of a developer as an astronaut. Without fresh air – new users – the astronaut is likely to decay in space (or, at the very least, abandon his mission). Twitter hasn't cut access to the oxygen tank off yet, but it's squeezing ever harder.
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