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Jerrell said he decided to start the club because of the great amount of interest that he has seen in ultimate frisbee and how he wishes he would have had the opportunity to participate in a sport like this when he was in high school.
"There were a lot of kids interested in it and asked me about it. I thought if there is interest and if kids will enjoy it, let's do it," said Jerrell.
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The team's first scrimmage against New Albany which will be held at home on April 26 at 6 p.m.
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fools and cream
I'd told myself I was going to take a break from writing about food, but that decision seems to be in conflict with my determination to write about linguisticky things that come up in my day-to-day doings...and it seems like all I do is eat.
Better Half is mad for (AmE=crazy about) gooseberries, a fruit I'd never experienced in the US, though I did know that the kiwi (fruit; BrE) used to be called the Chinese gooseberry. Anyhow, this is the label on the punnet (BrE*) that he bought this week.
I said to him, "Sweetie, you don't have to buy things just because it says on the label that they're perfect for you."
Better Half was not amused. It is a trial to live with me, I must admit.
Gooseberry fool is a traditional British treat, which involves gooseberries (duh), sugar and lots and lots of cream. BH made some when his nan (=grandma) visited Friday, but in an attempt to make it less calorific, replaced some of the cream with yog(h)urt. (Myself, I think that yog(h)urt has its place, but that any excuse to eat cream should not be taken lightly.) Fools can be made with other fruits as well, but gooseberry fool is the king of fools.
Now, I have to give two links for recipes, suitable to each continent's measures and ingredients. For the American version, click here, for a British version, click here. Some recipes include custard in the fool, but that's newfangled tomfoolery.
If it's just about berries, sugar and cream, why do you need different recipes? Well, because cream just isn't the same in the two places. In the US, there are three (basic) types of cream: light cream, heavy cream and whipping cream, which I always thought was a con, because it doesn't seem to be terribly different from heavy cream. In the UK, on the other hand, there are single cream, double cream, whipping cream and clotted cream. Clotted cream has been subjected to heat and is very butter-like, and perfect for spreading on scones with a bit of strawberry jam. As for the first two, one might believe that these are easily translated. Single cream = light cream and double cream = heavy cream. Right?
...as I discovered when I first made my chocolate mousse recipe here. It called for heavy cream, so I bought some double cream. Some double cream is label(l)ed "suitable for spooning"--when you scoop a dollop onto your cake, it'll keep its shape. I made my mousse with non-spooning double cream, but it was still much heavier (48% butterfat) than a heavy cream (36-40%). The mousse was perfectly edible, but it was more like eating a truffle than a mousse. No one could finish their portion, except for BH's sister's better half, The Gardener. The man has the sweetest tooth (full of cavities) and the kind of metabolism that I mention in my prayers. Not only did he finish his own, he finished everyone else's plus the "safety serving" I'd held back in the fridge.
Single cream and light cream have around 18% butterfat. Whipping cream has 30-40%. So, if you have a US recipe that calls for heavy cream, use whipping cream if you're in the UK. North America also has half-and-half, which has 10-12% fat. I've seen it claimed that single cream and half-and-half are the same thing, but really you have to add a little milk to single cream to make it like half-and-half.
Cream is a more serious business in the UK because it is so central a part of pudding (AmE = dessert). Cream is poured over most puddings/desserts, including a cake, true puddings ("sweet dessert, usually containing flour or a cereal product, that has been boiled, steamed, or baked." --American Heritage Dictionary), apple crumble (AmE = apple crisp), or even fresh fruit salad (which, even though I am a great fan of cream, I find a little disgusting). For some desserts/puddings, one is offered warm, pourable custard as an alternative to cream. The only puddings/desserts that I can think of that one doesn't always get cream, custard or ice cream with are those that are already made of cream, custard or ice cream, like fools or trifle--a concoction of sponge cake, (BrE) jelly (AmE=gelatin, usually called by the brand name Jell-o), custard, sherry, cream, and jam. In the US, one might get whipped cream or ice cream with cake, pie or crumble/crisp, but not poured cream.
Another oddity in the gooseberry label: it says "ENGLISH MID SUMMER GOOSEBERRIES", but the county of origin (almost legible in the photo) is Perthshire--in Scotland. I fear for Waitrose (supermarket) if the Scottish nationalists pick up on this slight. (I could say something about the space in mid summer, but hyphenation will have to wait for another post.)
* A note on punnet. Historically, this word refers to a shallow basket for collecting fruit, but these days it's the (often plastic) container that soft fruits are sold in. In AmE, we tend to say a pint of strawberries, referring to the amount, rather than the container, whereas hereabouts one buys a punnet of strawberries. When I refer to the container itself, I'd probably say a pint box. If it were a bushel of strawberries, I'd probably call the container a crate, especially if it were wooden.
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I think I'm terrible unBritish cos I hate cream. It's vile stuff, except for clotted which I tolerate on scones. I really dislike pouring cream on any kind of pudding - cake, fruit, anything. Ick.
We went to a tapas bar on Friday and had a chocolate pudding there which was served with alcohol-laced chantilly, which prompted a discussion about whether chantilly ought to be always alcohol-laced.
A former colleague wrote off-blog to comment that she remembered being surprised at being served cheesecake with cream poured over it in London. This is very common. If one orders the cheesecake at Pizza Express, for example, the server asks "Cream, ice cream or mascarpone?" Do you want a little cheese with your cheesecake?
Chantilly (a kind of sweetened/flavo(u)red whipped cream) is a word I've never experienced in the US, although you can find it in US cookbooks. I probably never heard it there just because we don't eat so much cream.
What is very popular in the US and not so much here are flavo(u)red creamers (i.e. mostly non-dairy concoctions) for coffee. I attribute this at least in part to the fact that most British supermarkets just don't have the shelf space to dedicate to the range of unnecessary stuff that warehouse-like US supermarkets can fit in. The ironically named Marion Nestle is an interesting read on the politics of the supermarket shelf.
That's one of the items that struck me as incredibly interesting when I first started spending a lot of time in Britain -- all those types of cream!
I may have missed it in your post -- I blame the jetlag -- but don't the British refer to "soured cream", while we Americans call it "sour cream"?
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You see soured cream more often in the UK than in the US, but it's at least as common to call it sour cream. In fact, there are 31,000 google.co.uk hits for soured cream and 237,000 for sour cream. Recipes on BBC.com use either/or. Sour cream but not soured cream is in the New Oxford Dictionary of English.
Essentially, it's like hashed brown potatoes, iced cream and more recently iced tea/coffee, which all started out with participial (i.e. verb-derived) adjectives at the front, but later lost (or are losing, in the case of ice(d) tea/coffee) their 'd's on both sides of the Atlantic.
Elly 18 August, 2006 20:56
I consider the lack of gooseberries in the US one of the great advantages of living in this country! I also don't miss blackcurrants. For the longest time I avoided blueberries because I thought they looked like giant blackcurrants or sloes (another abomination).
The subject of blueberries has made me wonder though. Growing up - I was born in 1975 - I thought of a muffin as a giant cupcake with a light texture and a strong vanilla flavour - i.e., an American muffin. When I came to the US I was reintroduced to the English muffin, which I had almost forgotten about and might not have remembered was actually called a muffin... How come two such different baked goods both came to be called the same thing?
RWMG 22 May, 2007 01:01
I've often wondered when reading US books, do Americans always have cream in their coffee rather than milk? Or is this cream different from what would be called cream in the UK? Is it just the top of the milk?
I think it's rather old-fashioned to have real cream in one's coffee (which would be the light cream), and I also think that people use the term cream rather loosely when it comes to coffee. Very often, they'll be having creamer in their coffee--i.e. that artificial stuff made from palm oil. (Much more popular in the US than the UK. Nowadays, creamers with flavo(u)rs, like vanilla or hazelnut, are particularly popular. I say 'eurgh'.)
Americans also have half-and-half in their coffee--which is cream mixed with milk. (And, of course, Americans like me just drink their coffee with milk.) But some may loosely refer to that as coffee with cream.
TasmanSea 22 May, 2007 02:22
I always feel slightly (and clearly completely irrationally) aggrieved in the US when I get given a slice of cake or something and it is all naked with no whipped cream. But then again, I will also be offered cream with my coffee and that sounds unpleasant, although perhaps I have been misunderstanding what the substance I am being offered is exactly. I must admit I hadn't realized the range of varieties of "cream" in the US or the UK until I read this post. I do like the US milk naming system that just labels every variety with the fat percentage- very clear!
I also have to be careful not to request "white" coffee, meaning coffee with milk (in contrast to black coffee, which I think does make sense in the US).
I also feel like the coffee here has less caffeine, but have yet to find out if that is the case or if I am just manufacturing an excuse for being grumpy.
Joel A. Shaver 22 May, 2007 11:25
In my parents' house, growing up, if we put anything in our coffee (or tea!) it was cream or sometimes half-and-half, never milk. I think this behavio(u)r leads to the confusion a lot of Americans experience when they hear reference to a 'cream tea,' which does not mean 'tea with cream in (it),' which would never happen in the UK (right?).
A free tip: don't serve Yorkshire pudding for pudding!
M 22 May, 2007 12:30
I wish I'd read this blog before we went to the US last Jan. We found the whole Supermarket experience so confusing. Especially the cream. It took me a good 20 minutes to find the type of cream I wanted to make a cabonara sauce and that was WITH the help of a sales assistant.
When I used to order spaghetti carbonara at an Italian restaurant in Johannesburg, the (Italian) owner would ask me "the English way or the Italian way?" The English way has cream, the Italian way doesn't. More evidence that English are obsessed with cream (even if they don't put it in their coffee).
I've had it both ways in the US. My Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook recipe is cream-less and I love it. Unfortunately, I never get to make it any more because of Better Half's disappointingly strict vegetarianism.
My carbonara recipe is a Jamie Oliver cheat's version, so obviously a British one. Must try the italian version - will save me 20 mins at the store next time I'm in the US!
For what it's worth, I'm an American and I refer to a basket of berries as a punnet. It was a fairly common word in New England dialect of my 1960's childhood.
Replying rather late to say, I can easily get gooseberries (both green and reddish, if there's a difference) at our local farmer's markets here in Chicago.
I don't know if farmer's markets are different here and elsewhere; I'm told in New York they're usually indoor sort of mall things, but here it's a parking lot that one morning per week has farmers drive in from the surrounding agricultural areas (some as far as middle-Michigan -- a 6-hour drive!) to set up individual canopies and tables, with their produce set out in baskets and boxes (and punnets, sometimes) with hand-written prices on in marker.
In some places in the U.S., one is offered "regular coffee," which contains milk. (I don't think they have the temerity to add sugar.) It took me a while to learn to answer, "No, black please."
NFAH 07 October, 2010 00:09
Half and half for coffee is one of the things I miss most now that I live in the UK (and I was quite fond of the fat free Land 'O' Lakes sort, which is really some sort of thickened skim milk). Putting skim milk directly in coffee doesn't even change its consistency much and certainly doesn't change its color much. I miss the mouth-feel of the American sort of dairy thickened coffee milk stuff (and not the "non-dairy creamer" sort).
And here I thought "punnet" was a clever -- and, now that I think about it, self-referential -- neologism for a small pun.
I'm British and I rarely use cream on desserts except in the soft fruit season. When I occasionally make a hot pudding I have it with custard (from custard powder), or maybe ice cream or plain yoghurt. I can never see the point of pouring cream over an already creamy dessert, as you're often invited to do in restaurants.
vp 21 December, 2011 14:55
Ugh. Custard from powder is _nasty_!
Johnny E 24 September, 2012 18:00
@Joel Yorkshire pudding for pudding isn't bad, actually. They're essentially made of pancake batter anyway, so put some fruit and whipped cream in a cold one and it's a bit like a large profiterole.
I have a vague feeling that it might once have been traditional to serve leftover Yorkshires for dessert, but I may have imagined this / my father lied in order to get rid of leftovers.
Mindo14 20 October, 2012 06:41
In the midwest USA regular coffee does not mean with milk or cream or anythin in it, it just means that it is not de-caf
Kate Bunting 13 October, 2014 14:53
No, you didn't imagine it, Johnny E. I remember my Yorkshire-born Mum saying that Yorkshire pudding could also be served as a dessert, though she never did so.
PS I'm the Kate who posted above. I don't find custard-powder custard nasty, having been brought up on it, but I don't love it as much as some Brits do.
I can confirm the last post and even offer another course. It was not uncommon in Yorkshire (in the 60's) to have a Yorkshire pudding as a starter with gravy (onion of course) followed by YP with the meat course and finish any left over 'pud' with treacle. LUVERLY!
I am going to be making a cake this weekend, but the recipe I am following is American and I live in the (currently) sunny UK and was about to get double cream for heavy cream. You saved my cake so thank you 😊.
I bought something labeled fresh cream and just assumed it was single cream. Hope I'm right

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The military side ran out comfortable winners over Oxford University.
The Army team will be hoping to take the Inter Services title from current holders, the RAF (Picture: Alligin Photography).
The Army's Inter Services preparations are picking up steam after a 22-10 victory over Oxford University in Aldershot.
The team battled through the blistering cold to blow the university side away with four tries, despite gifting Oxford an early lead.
The win keeps the Army players on a roll as they head into more preparation games against Cambridge University and the French Army next month.
The men in red will be hoping their defensive work will be better in time for the Championships as the away side's opening try was a gift from the defenders. A misplaced clearance kick fell perfectly for the Oxford attackers and Tom Stileman barged over for an unconverted score.
The Army were not behind for long though. It was a determined attack that forced Oxford back and Miteli Vulikijapani slammed the ball down for an unconverted try.
The Army start their Inter Services season against the RAF (Picture: Alligin Photography).
Two minutes later, the Army doubled their score. Frank Boginisoko made a powerful run from deep but was stopped by a good Oxford tackle.
Despite that, the home team worked the ball across to the other side of the pitch and it was Bainivalumailedanoni who went over for the try.
At half-time, the Army had a 10-5 lead and they furthered their advantage in the second half. It was Jo Visei who scored the converted try, despite Oxford appeals for a knock-on after a few fumbles.
The game turned into a battle with both sides putting in heavy tackles, but the Army finished the game off with their fourth try. Ross Parkins wrestled his way over the line for an unconverted try and the home side did not look back.
Oxford did a consolation as Seb Haddock skated in at the corner, but the Army ran out 22-10 winners.
After the game, Army captain Jamie Miller discussed how the competition for places is fierce within the squad.
Army captain Jamie Miller said: "The amount we have managed to bond over two days is pretty impressive. Give us a few months and I think we will be a side to be reckoned with.
"There's always huge competition to play for this Army shirt."
For Miller, it was a great performance against Oxford and a result the team can be proud of.
"Hugely pleased with the performance if I'm honest. It's the first game of the campaign. We've not been together very long, literally two days, so I thought we showed a huge amount of potential.
"The work rate is there and the effort is there so the rest of it will come in time."


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Hospital cordoned off after man stabbed and has 'unknown substance' thrown at him
Officers in hazmat suits were called after the victim was rushed to hospital after being attacked at home
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Paramedics were called to the incident outside Aintree Hospital (Image: PA)
A man was stabbed and had an unknown substance thrown at him during a "targeted assault".
The victim, who was in his 20s, was attacked at his home on Sunday January 12 and was rushed to Aintree Hospital, in Liverpool.
The hospital was cordoned off by police, close to A&E, with officers in hazmat suits called to the scene, reports The ECHO.
Witnesses reported a huge police presence outside the hospital, following the attack on Inglis Road in Walton at around 6.30pm.
Merseyside Police confirmed that the hospital was taped off while "medical assessments were made".
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A spokesman said: "The victim was taken to Aintree Hospital for assessment of his injuries and to establish the nature of the substance.
"Medical staff have now confirmed that the substance does not present any wider risk to others. It is initially assessed as being a household substance, which has caused the victim a minor facial injury."
Shocked hospital patients were stood outside of the hospital and observed the police cordon, tent and specialist officers.
At nearby Inglis Road, where the "serious assault" happened, officers were going door-to-door to speak to neighbours.
Police confirmed the man was not seriously hurt, but are appealing for witnesses.
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The spokesman said: "Detectives are investigating following an assault in Walton this evening, Sunday 12 January.
"At around 6.30pm, emergency services were called to Inglis Road to reports of a man in his 20s being reportedly stabbed and having an unknown substance thrown in his face.
"A cordon is in place at the scene of the assault as detectives conduct house-to-house, forensic and CCTV enquiries.
"A cordon was also in place at the hospital while their own medical assessment was made. This has now been removed and we thank members of the public for their patience and understanding."
Police and emergency personnel outside Aintree University Hospital in Fazakerley, Liverpool as a corden was put in place after a man was reportedly stabbed and had a substance thrown in his face (Image: Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
Chief Inspector Mark Everard said: "These are the early stages of our investigation into what appears to be a targeted attack.
"If you were in or near to Inglis Road at around 6.30pm and saw or heard anything, come forward right away and we will take positive action.
"This is clearly a serious assault and our focus is now on establishing the exact circumstances to bring those responsible to justice."
Anyone with information can contact @MerPolCC, 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 with reference number 702.


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import { createStore, applyMiddleware } from 'redux';
import rootReducer from '../reducers';
import thunk from 'redux-thunk';

import api from '../middleware/api';

export default function configureStore(initialState) {
  const store = createStore(
    rootReducer,
    applyMiddleware(thunk, api)
  )

  if (module.hot) {
    // Enable Webpack hot module replacement for reducers
    module.hot.accept('../reducers', () => {
      const nextRootReducer = require('../reducers').default;
      store.replaceReducer(nextRootReducer);
    });
  }

  return store;
}

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Storytime; signed and dated 'C. Haigh Wood 93' (lower left); oil on canvas; 30 x 38 cm
'Buffalo Hunt on the Southwestern Prairies', oil on canvas painting by John Mix Stanley
The Siren, oil on canvas, Leeds Art Gallery
Porto Venere, Spezia, Italy, oil on canvas painting by William Stanley Haseltine, 1878, Dayton Art Institute
'Scene in Yosemite Valley', oil on canvas painting by Albert Bierstadt, c. 1864-74, Dayton Art Institute
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The Immaculate Conception, oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, c. 1670-80, Dayton Art Institute
'Minnehaha Falls' — by Albert Bierstadt; oil on canvas painting; 19th century. Painting of the Minnehaha Falls, located in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
The Andes of Ecuador — oil on canvas painting by Frederic Edwin Church, 1855, Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Sunny Autumn Day, oil on canvas painting by George Inness, 1892, Cleveland Museum of Art
Myan Ruins, Yucatan, oil on canvas painting by Robert Scott Duncanson, 1848, Dayton Art Institute
Deutsch: Kastelruth im Jahr 1911 in einem Ölgemälde des Eduard Burgauner, ca. 38 x 55 cm Kastelruth, oil painting on canvas by Eduard Burgauner AD 1911, ca. 38 x 55 cm
Still life of roses and fruit. Signed and dated 'G. Jeannin. 1911.' (lower left); oil on canvas; 50 x 61 cm
Death of Captain James Cook, oil on canvas by George Carter, 1783, Bernice P. Bishop Museum
The Blizzard, oil on canvas painting by Cornelius Krieghoff, 1857, National Gallery of Canada
Circe Mulling Wine, oil on canvas painting by Gioacchino Assereto, c. 1630, Dayton Art Institute
Moonlight, oil on canvas painting by George Inness, 1893, De Young Museum
An Italianate Landscape with Ruins and an Artist Sketching, oil on canvas painting by Bartholomeus Breenbergh, c. 1643, Dayton Art Institute
Correspondence by Theodore Robinson, oil on canvas, 18 by 22 inches (45.7 by 55.9 cm), 1895
Seascape View of Palma de Mallorca. Oil on canvas, 89 x 133.5 cm, Inv. CTB.1996.53 Museo Carmen Thyssen Native name Museo Carmen Thyssen Location Málaga, Spain Coordinates 36° 43′ 17″ N, 4° 25′ 22″ W Established
View of the Sierra de Guadarrama from El Plantío. Oil on canvas, 48.7 x 78 cm, Inv. CTB.1999.21 Museo Carmen Thyssen Native name Museo Carmen Thyssen Location Málaga, Spain Coordinates 36° 43′ 17″ N, 4° 25′ 22″ W
Battle of Clontarf, oil on canvas painting by Hugh Frazer, 1826, Isaacs Art Center
Self-Portrait (1917), Oil on canvas, 32 x 23 1/2 in. The National Museum of Women in the Arts
Landscape, oil on canvas painting by Georges Michel, c. 1840, Dayton Art Institute
Dance at the Palace. Oil on canvas, 55 x 110 cm, Inv. CTB.1995.159 Museo Carmen Thyssen Native name Museo Carmen Thyssen Location Málaga, Spain Coordinates 36° 43′ 17″ N, 4° 25′ 22″ W Established 2011 Website
Francisco Iturrino The Bath (Seville) Oil on canvas, 200 x 174 cm, Inv. CTB.1996.50 Museo Carmen Thyssen Native name Museo Carmen Thyssen Location Málaga, Spain Coordinates 36° 43′ 17″ N, 4° 25′ 22″ W Establishe
Henley Regatta. Signed, inscribed and dated 'Fried Stahl/Henley 99' (lower centre); oil on canvas; 74 x 72 cm
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The Sycamore upper elementary class is based primarily on inquiry, research and discovery, and writing. Our curriculum includes writing for both quantity and quality. Writing for quantity affords students opportunity, diversity, habit development, and the nurturing of a "renaissance" mind. Writing for quality allows students to fully explore deeply developed ideas as well as develop expertise on a particular subject. A curriculum based on research, using primary and secondary sources, and writing is so appropriate for this age because children who can investigate, think about, and write about the world can begin to make sense of that world and grow into very effective adults who can find their unique place in it.
Nick received his Bachelor's degree from IU Bloomington in 2013, majoring in Environmental Management, and both his Lower Elementary and Upper Elementary Certifications from the Midwest Montessori Teacher Training Center in Evanston, IL. He has worked as an environmental educator in Northern Indiana, teaching children of all ages, and served for four years as the Lead Upper Elementary Teacher at a Montessori charter school in Northwest Indiana. Nick brings to the classroom a love of hiking, experiential science, and educating students about the outdoors. He enjoys sports as well as biking, camping, and spending time with family and friends.
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Q: Solve $z^4+16=0$ where $z$ is a complex number The following exercise is related to complex numbers so $z$ is a complex number.
Can you please check whether I solved correctly the exercise.
$$z^4+16=0$$
$$z^4=16i^2$$
$$z^2=4i$$
I transformed the complex number $4i$ into the trigonometric form, and got:$$4(\cos(\pi +\pi k)+i\sin (\pi+\pi k))$$. So the result is:$$z=2\left[\cos{\left({\pi +\pi k \over 2}\right)}+i\sin\left ({\pi+\pi k\over 2}\right)\right]$$.
The only problem is that in my workbook the result is:
$$z=2\left[\cos{\left({\pi +2\pi k \over 4}\right)}+i\sin\left ({\pi+2\pi k\over 4}\right)\right]$$
I hope you'll help me find the mistake. Thank you that you are reflecting over my exercise !

A: An alternate solution is to factor this way:
$$x^4+16 = (x^2+4)^2 - 8x^2 = (x^2+4+2\sqrt 2 x)(x^2+4-2\sqrt2 x)$$
And solve $x^2+2\sqrt2 x +4=0$ and $x^2-2\sqrt2 x +4=0$. This will give you the exact solutions:
$$x=\pm \sqrt 2 \pm i\sqrt 2$$

A: $$z^4=-16$$
How $-1=e^{i(\pi+2k\pi)}$:
$$z^4=16 \exp\left(i(\pi+2k\pi)\right)$$
$$z=2 \exp\left(\frac{i(\pi+2k\pi)}{4}\right)$$

A: $$z^4+16=0<=>$$
$$z^4=-16<=>$$
$$z^4=|-16|e^{arg(-16)i}<=>$$
$$z^4=16e^{(\pi +2\pi k)i}<=>$$
(with k is the element of Z)
$$z=\left(16e^{(\pi +2\pi k)i}\right)^{\frac{1}{4}}<=>$$
$$z=2e^{\left(\frac{1}{4}\pi +\frac{1}{2}\pi k\right)i}$$
(with k goes from 0 to 3 -> k=0-3)

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Creating a robust guest services program for your San Diego sport event venue requires buy in and support from the very top levels of the organization and is executed by the front- of- house staff on the ground. Creating an effective guest services program for a sports complex or event venue is done by clearly defining the service promise and then specifying the individual contributions each team member is responsible for to deliver on that promise. As discussed in the previous post, the Statement of Common Purposes is a powerful tool for defining expectations across the organization and to the clients. The next step to developing an exceptional guest services program in a sports event venue is to define the desired personal characteristics the organization seeks in its employees and emphasize them.
Guest Services is dynamic because it is based on human interaction. It is impossible to write a guest services handbook that will address every situation staff is likely to encounter during an event.
Therefore, rather than training staff on what to do, we train staff on how to think.
Once hired, we reinforce staff with the belief that they were hired because they possessed the personal characteristics our sport event venue values and because of this, we fully trust them to represent the company on all fronts. The valued personal traits should be explicitly defined and discussed as part of the training material throughout the on- boarding process and continuing education. The dynamic between employee and employer in an athletic complex is a relationship that must be based on trust. As such, it is important to address the expectations the organization has of the staff AND express what the staff can expect from management. Do not assume we all share the same understanding of these characteristics and be sure to articulate why these traits are valuable and how possessing them benefit the venue. Finally, use scenarios and real life examples as part of the training material that challenge staff to use these personal characteristics as the internal resource for solving the service challenge presented to them.
Some of the best training opportunities for front- of- house staff in an event venue come on the job. Guest service managers should value the pre- event briefing as a training opportunity as well as a time to reinforce expected behaviors. During the event, visiting with staff on post and talking through scenarios in context is a great learning opportunity and rapport building environment. The post- event debrief is another great training opportunity as managers can celebrate successes with the guest services team, acknowledge/ reinforce desired behavior with a reward system and openly discuss guest services challenges and opportunities that arose during the event. Plan and prepare for these training opportunities in advance of the event to maximize time and effectiveness. Preparation is critical as you may be fighting distraction and fatigue around the event shift.
When mistakes are made… and there will be missteps in every event… use them as a learning opportunity for the individual. These learning opportunities can also be shared with the team, provided nobody is embarrassed or singled out. If the mistake was well- intentioned and consistent with training and policy, support the process and course correct on the decision. Also remember, that guest services in an event environment is a series of interactions. When something goes wrong, encourage the idea of service recovery with the staff and consider each "issue" an opportunity to improve the event experience for that guest.
Staff in front- of- house positions must feel supported by the sports complex's management team. Staff must be trained on the specific scenarios that trigger escalation. As much as staff is empowered to make decisions, they must recognize the things that merit higher level approval or that could result in serious consequence. As such, staff should feel comfortable seeking support and feedback for any situation they come across, regardless of whether it hits a trigger point or not. Staff who do not feel supported will become gun- shy when making decisions and toxic in attitude.
Building a solid guest services program is more critical than ever. Event attendees have options in Southern California when consuming events or training at sports complexes. Patrons are more selective and have greater expectations of the live event experience. Front- of- House staff play the most critical role in delivering on the organizations' service promise. Events and venues that fail to deliver on a service promise will receive critical feedback that is immediate and visible. This puts greater pressure on staff to exceed customer expectations to avoid personal embarrassment and potential financial consequence to the organization.
We would love to hear your feedback. Contact us and let us know your thoughts. We are also happy to share templates and draft policy documents if that helps you get started on creating your guest services program.
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Southeast Texas businessman convicted of sex trafficking a minor, related charges
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A Southeast Texas businessman was convicted in federal court Tuesday of sex trafficking of a minor female and other related charges.
This investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Brownsville (Texas) Police Department and the Texas Rangers, with assistance from the FBI.
David Wills, 67, the founder and part-owner of Global Blue Technologies in Taft, Texas, was convicted Oct. 8 of one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, seven counts of sex trafficking, seven counts of coercion/enticement, one count of attempted coercion/enticement and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice.
The jury heard that from 2012 to 2015, the aquaculture company owner conspired with Maria Losoya and trafficked a young girl beginning when she was only 10 years of age. Losoya and Wills used their cell phones to arrange meetings at several different locations where Wills would sexually assault the victim. These included multiple Wills' residences as well as Losoya's in Brownsville and hotels and motels in the greater Corpus Christi area.
The jury heard testimony that Wills promised to pay for the victim's college tuition if Losoya allowed him to sexually assault the young girl. Wills also reimbursed Losoya for gifts to the victim and expenditures she would otherwise not have been able to afford. These included an iPad, Bose headphones, a flat-screen TV, Apple laptop, trampoline, swimming pool and a school trip to Washington D.C.
Wills sexually assaulted the minor female multiple times until she reported it in April 2015.
Losoya pleaded guilty in 2017 and testified at Wills' trial.
The jury also heard from the forensic interviewer who first interviewed the victim about the sexual assaults, the nurse who first examined her, several state and federal law enforcement officers and an expert witness who testified about Wills' and Losoya's cell site information. An eyewitness also described seeing the victim at a Portland hotel where Wills and Losoya met in March 2014.
In addition, the jury heard from Wills' former personal assistant who testified he asked her to hand over a personal computer on the day of the victim's outcry. He later admitted it was destroyed to prevent law enforcement from seizing and reviewing it.
Wills, who had a total of 12 attorneys representing him at trial, attempted to convince the jury that Losoya only wanted more money and tried to refute cell site location data as well as the nurse's testimony. They also criticized the victim's previous statements. Wills took the stand and admitted having an affair with Losoya, but denied any sexual involvement with the victim.
The jury heard from multiple defense witnesses attesting to the defendant's character and successes, while attempting to contradict testimony Losoya and the victim gave.
Wills was taken into custody, having previously been released on bond, following the verdict where he will remain pending sentencing, which will be set at a later date. Wills faces up to life in prison. There is no parole in the federal prison system.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Zahra Fenelon, Rick Bennett and Stephanie Bauman are prosecuting the case.


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Dropcam co-founder Greg Duffy reportedly joins Apple in undisclosed role
By Malcolm Owen | 3 years ago
The co-founder and former CEO of the network-connected security camera producer Dropcam, Greg Duffy, has reportedly been hired by Apple for an undisclosed position, with added speculation he could be heading up an unannounced project within the company
The hiring of Duffy has been confirmed to The Information by an Apple spokeswoman, though not what his role will be. Due to his high profile and background, people close to Duffy think he is "likely to be leading a special project," but stopping short of suggesting what it could be.
Duffy is best known for his work at Dropcam, which was acquired by Google for $555 million in 2014. The home monitoring camera firm was incorporated into Nest, another connected home company owned by Google, with technology incorporated into Nest's existing system, and employees moved to Palo Alto, California.
The culture within Nest proved to be an issue for Duffy, leaving it for an Entrepreneur in Residence role within Google in 2015 before departing Google itself later that year. It is thought the intensive micromanagement of staff by former Apple executive Tony Fadell promoted an "atmosphere of fear," according to former Nest employees, forcing some to leave rather than deal with Fadell's "constant barrage of shouting."
It is thought Duffy was affected by the management style, and reportedly called Nest co-founder Fadell a "tyrant bureaucrat."
While his role at Apple is unknown, as is the supposed project, Duffy's background with helping create Dropcam as well as experience at Nest could lend itself to other connected home projects, including Apple's HomeKit framework.
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Was there anything special about the Dropcam technology/ecosystem?
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Great you agree with what I said and what I expressed to Mr. Pipes. You absolutely right many if not most of the traditions practiced in Islam are not in the Koran. My claim isn't bogus you in fact confirmed it what Mr. Pipes said cannot be found in the Koran. For the most part they are cultural additions justified by questionable documentation, such as I recall the Prophet said such and such. Bukhari's hadith being the most respected but not the only one..
So all of these things that you have raised are part of many cultural traditions. I do not accept cultural traditions as part of the founding religion nor would I say any Muslim is bound by them. If you are going to make allegations ... then you have to say, "Why isn't Obama left handed." Are his children Muslims? According to tradition you were born Muslim. It is nonsense and should not be presented as fact. Glad you agree.


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Q: You need your eyes testing My question is about the regional acceptability of sentences such as the following:

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*You need your eyes testing.

*I need my hair cutting.

*I want my car washing.

The second example is given in the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (p. 1231), without any mention of geographic restrictions. This type of construction is also discussed on Language Log.
It is clear that for many Britons these kinds of sentences are perfectly normal, though in the cases I've encountered, the speakers have been from northern England.
At the same time, it is just as clear that the construction is unacceptable to most North Americans, myself included. We would instead say: "You need your eyes tested," or possibly "Your eyes need testing." In fact, I was surprised at first that people anywhere could say this kind of thing.
My main question is what the degree of acceptability is of this construction in:

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*the spoken English of southern England; and

*formal written British English.

I ask the latter question because one would expect that a construction occurring with any frequency in British writing would be at least somewhat familiar to educated North Americans, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. Examples taken from well-edited, older prose by a variety of British writers would best answer this part of the question.
Though this is not central to my question, I would also be curious to hear views on this construction from English-speakers in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, or on spoken Scottish usage. I do not want or need confirmation from North Americans that it is unacceptable to them, or from Northerners that it occurs in their speech.

A: I can't speak to your main questions, but as an English-speaker from the Republic of Ireland, I can say that whilst I'm aware of the construction, I would find it unacceptable in speech, and doubly so in writing.
I believe I first encountered the construction in Thud! by Terry Pratchett. Whilst the quote doesn't meet your criteria for examples of the phrase in literature, I find it amusing enough that I couldn't resist including it anyway:

Brushing aside cobwebs with one hand and holding up a lantern with the
  other, Sybil led the way past boxes of MEN'S BOOTS, VARIOUS; RISIBLE
  PUPPETS, STRING & GLOVE; MODEL THEATER AND SCENERY. Maybe that was
  the reason for their wealth: they had bought things that were built to
  last, and now they seldom had to buy anything at all. Except food, of
  course, and even then Vimes would not have been surprised to see boxes
  labeled APPLE CORES, VARIOUS, or LEFTOVERS, NEED EATING UP.*
**That was a phrase of Sybil's that got to him. She'd announce at lunch, "we must have
  the pork tonight, it needs eating up." Vimes never had an actual
  problem with this, because he'd been raised to eat what was put in
  front of him, and do it quickly, too, before someone else snatched it
  away. He was just puzzled at the suggestion that he was there to do
  the food a favour.

I'm not sure if these characters are styled after people from any particular region of England; perhaps someone more familiar with the various dialects would be able to help you with that.

A: Native speaker here, Australian English for my childhood, then (Southern) British English all my adult life.
All three sound wrong to me.  Clearly understood, but would definitely mark the speaker's dialect as Other.  Certainly they are not formally correct, but probably are perfectly acceptable in various dialects.
I can imagine my (Welsh) MIL exclaiming "You want your hair cutting!".  I wouldn't swear to it, but I suspect this formation is acceptable in Welsh English.  (It's not infrequent to find phrasing commonalities between Welsh and Northern dialects, to be fair).

A: Not british or native English speaker then But I travelled a lot and learnt English at school and in South Africa.
At school, these 3 sentences would be marked wrong, and the teacher would correct it with the use of 'ed' instead of 'ing'
You need your eyes tested.
I need my hair cut.
I want my car washed.
The same thing apply in South Africa I believe.
However, I always noted many 'mistakes', such as the use of 'there is' when it really should be 'there are', and I am impressed by how malleable the English language is.
So I wouldn't be surprise to hear that, as long as everybody understand, I guess that it's fine, for English Speakers.
Same rules doesn't apply in French, don't try it!

A: Those sentences are OK.
To develop the question: these 3 are OK:
You need your eyes testing.
You need your eyes tested.
Your eyes need testing.
The following one is found in some regional dialects but is not widely accepted:
?Your eyes need tested.
I live in southern England, and my English follows southern rather than northern forms where there's a difference.


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Miles v. Pub. Serv. Commn
United Railways v. West
The present value of the property used was fixed by the commission at $75,000,000, and this amount was…
People's Counsel v. Heintz
Havre de Grace Perryville Bridge Co. v. Public Serv. Comm'n, 132 Md. 16, 27, 103 A. 319 (1918). In Miles v.…
Full title:CLARENCE W. MILES v . PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF MARYLAND, ET AL
Court:Court of Appeals of Maryland
Copy Citations
151 Md. 337 (Md. 1926)
135 A. 579
Court of Appeals of Maryland
In Miles v. Public Service Commission, 151 Md. 337, it was pointed out that the Commission has the power to: "* * * require safe and adequate service to the public and to fix such rates as, on the one hand, will be reasonable to the user of the utility and commensurate with the service rendered, and, on the other hand will produce a fair and reasonable return upon the property * * *.
Summary of this case from Balto. Trans. Co. v. Pub. Ser. Comm
Decided July 8th, 1926.
Public Service Company — Valuation of Property — As Basis for Rates — Easements.
In making a valuation of the property of the United Railways and Electric Company of Baltimore, for the purpose of fixing a rate base, it is improper to value its easements in the streets and highways with reference to the use to which its franchise permits them to be put, since the result of so doing would be to make the rate, which controls the amount of the earnings, depend on a value which is determined by the earnings. pp. 342-346
Such value as is attributable to the property of a public service corporation by reason of its earnings should not be included in forming a base upon which a reasonable and fair return should be secured. p. 343
The fact that the taxing authorities have determined upon a certain valuation of the easements of a street railway company as a basis for the payment of taxes, is not controlling upon the Public Service Commission in fixing a valuation for rate making purposes. pp. 342, 347
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City (FRANK, J.).
Bill by Clarence W. Miles to review an order of the Public Service Commission of Maryland determining the value of the properties of the United Railways Electric Company of Baltimore. From a decree confirming such order, the plaintiff appeals. Remanded without affirmance or reversal.
The cause was argued before BOND, C.J., PATTISON, URNER, ADKINS, OFFUTT, DIGGES, PARKE, and WALSH, JJ.
Clarence W. Miles and Thomas J. Tingley, with whom was Jackson R. Collins on the brief, for the appellant.
Thomas H. Robinson, with whom was John Hubner Rice, on the brief, for the Public Service Commission, appellee.
Edwin G. Baetjer and Joseph C. France, for the United Railways Electric Company, appellee.
DIGGES, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
By order passed on the 30th day of December, 1912, the Public Service Commission of Maryland, under the authority contained in section 30 of the Public Service Commission Act, now codified as section 385 of article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws, 1924, instituted proceedings to determine the value of the properties of the United Railways Electric Company of Baltimore, a corporation. For this purpose the Public Service Commission began hearings in May, 1925, which hearings, and the proceedings incident thereto, including argument of counsel for the respective parties, culminated in an opinion and order of the commission dated March 9, 1926. By this order the commission determined that the fair value for rate making purposes of the property of the railways company, as of December 31st, 1923, was $77,000,000. Included in this valuation was the item of easements, at the sum of $7,000,000. Objection was made by the appellant to the allowance of this item, and from the order of the Public Service Commission an appeal was taken to the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, the basis of this appeal being the contention by the appellant that these easements in the streets and highways of Baltimore City were not property which should be included in a valuation of the railways company's property in forming a rate-making base, and that the inclusion of the value of the easements in the rate base was unreasonable and unlawful. Upon a hearing of the case in the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, the chancellor passed a decree confirming the order of the Public Service Commission passed on the 9th day of March, 1926, and held that said order was neither unlawful nor unreasonable. The case is now here to be considered on appeal from that decree.
The authority, power, duties and functions of the Public Service Commission are set forth in article 23 of the Code of 1924, section 346 to 418 inclusive, having been originally enacted by chapter 180 of the Acts of 1910.
It can be generally stated that the purpose of the Legislature in enacting the Public Service Commission statute was to provide for the creation of a commission with the power and duty of supervision and control over the corporations and individuals engaged in the operation of public utilities within the state. The commission has the power and authority to require safe and adequate service to the public and to fix such rates as, on the one hand, will be reasonable to the user of the utility and commensurate with the service rendered, and, on the other hand, will produce a fair and reasonable return upon the property or capital invested in the public service enterprise. Section 30 of the original act, now section 385 of article 23 of the Code, provides: "The Commission shall, whenever it may deem it desirable to do so, investigate and ascertain the fair value of property of any corporation subject to the provisions of this sub-title and used by it for the convenience of the public." It is evident that the most important purpose in ascertaining the fair value of a public service corporation's property is to enable the commission to determine the rate to be allowed, in order that the public may receive adequate and safe service at a reasonable price, and at the same time, that the rate be not fixed so low as to constitute a confiscation of its property under the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, but will produce a reasonable and proper return upon the capital invested.
The present case presents the single question of whether the Public Service Commission, in ascertaining the fair value of the property of the railways company for rate-making purposes, should include, as property of the railways company, easements in the streets and highways of Baltimore City at their fair and just value. The appellant contends that the value of these easements is so dependent upon the earnings of the corporation, and the earnings being dependent upon the rate fixed by the Commission, that therefore it is illegal and unreasonable to include the value of these easements in the sum upon which the corporation is entitled to a fair and reasonable return.
The case of Consolidated Gas Co. v. Baltimore City, 101 Md. 541, definitely settles that the easement which a public service corporation, such as the Consolidated Gas Company or the United Railways Electric Company, has in the streets of Baltimore City, is property, that it is an interest or estate in land; but it does not determine that the value of this easement or interest in land, for taxation purposes, is to be determined by its value as land, but must be determined by its use in conjunction with the franchise of the corporation, that is to say, the corporation's right to conduct the business in which it is engaged. In other words, this Court, in effect, said: "Ascertain to what extent the use of this easement in the conduct of the corporation's business is responsible for its earnings, and then base the valuation for taxation purposes upon the earnings thus ascertained." In the above cited case this Court said: "The distinction is clear between the franchise, as such, and the property acquired for the use of the franchise. The naked, unused, slumbering franchise is property, but it is property concerning the assessment of which in that condition for purposes of taxation the statutes do not make provision, otherwise than by including it as an element which enhances the value of the shares of the capital stock. But when the franchise is brought into activity and is availed of to accomplish the ends it was designed to effect, the property acquired under it becomes amenable to the tax laws apart from the tax on the stock, and its value as an easement, if an easement it be, may be largely augmented by the use to which the franchise enables that property or easement to be put."
The Court then quotes with approval the language used in People v. Tax Commissioners, 174 N.Y. 441, as follows: "They (tangible chattels in public highways) have no assessment value worthy of notice except through the actual and constant use made of them as incidental to the special franchise. The value of either resides in the union of both and can be practically ascertained only by treating them as a unit. Unless assessed together, both can not be adequately assessed. * * * We regard the tangible property as an inseparable part of the special franchises mentioned in the statute, constituting with them a new entity which as a going concern can neither be assessed nor sold to advantage except as one thing, single and entire." This Court then continues: "We cite this to show, if precedent be needed to support such a self-evident proposition, that the use to which a franchise permits an easement to be put is an essential element to be considered in placing a valuation on that easement for purposes of taxation."
In the case of Appeal Tax Court v. Union R. Co., 50 Md. 274, the railroad company asked that the assessments of the road-bed in the tunnels be stricken from the property valued to it; the court below granted the relief asked, and the Appeal Tax Court appealed. The specific contention was made in the argument in this Court, as to the tracks located in the tunnel and on the streets, that the railroad company did not own the property, that is, the road-bed, and ought not to be assessed for it as though it was seised of it; it had only the right to make use of the streets and the soil beneath the streets, and to receive the tolls authorized by its charter. In disposing of that contention it was said: "We do not concur in the position of the appellee, that it should only be assessed with the superstructures on the bed of the road, irrespective of the road-bed itself, or any right or interest therein, because the road occupies a tunnel under a public street, or runs along the highways of the city. The appellee has an easement in the way occupied by its road, and whether that easement be under or over the public street, it is an element of value to the road, and as such should be included in the valuation of the road itself. But few of the railroad companies of the country have anything more than a mere easement in the ways occupied by their roads, and we are not aware that it has ever been held that because the company did not own the freehold estate in the bed of the road, that nothing but the mere superstructures thereon could be assessed to the company. The rule would seem to be clearly otherwise, and that an easement enjoyed in the bed of a public street may be assessed and taxed as real estate."
While it is true that the authorities just cited determine that the right of the appellee here in the streets of Baltimore City is an easement subject to taxation, and that the use to which a franchise permits an easement to be put is an essential element to be considered in placing a valuation on that easement for the purpose of taxation, it does not determine that these easements should be valued in the same manner for the purpose of fixing a rate base upon which the public service corporation is entitled to a fair and reasonable return. Neither is it true that because this character of property is designated as an easement or interest in land, and as such is entitled to be accorded some value, it should be given the same value for fixing a rate base as that given it for taxation purposes. On the contrary, there is a controlling reason why the two valuations should not be identical. In the valuation for rate making purposes, property of the public service corporation, the value of which depends upon the earnings of the corporation, should not be included, for the reason that the earnings upon which the value of the property depends are largely controlled and determined by the rate which is allowed to be charged for the service rendered.
Under the statute it is incumbent upon the commission to ascertain the value of the property in order that such a rate may be fixed as will result in a reasonable return upon the property of the utility corporation used for the convenience of the public. If such value as results from earnings be allowed in the rate base, it is impossible to escape the following reasoning: The value of the property, as ascertained by the commission, would determine the rate which the commission authorized the corporation to charge for its service. The rate authorized controls the amount of earnings. The earnings in turn determine and fix the value of the property. Therefore the rate determines the value, and we have a conclusion that the value determines the rate, and the rate determines the value; and if the value of the property depends upon the rate, which in turn depends upon the value of the property, the rate would depend upon itself, resulting in an apparent absurdity. It is therefore clear that such value as is attributable to the property of a public service corporation by reason of its earnings should not be included in forming a base upon which a reasonable and fair return should be secured. There is nothing in the case of Consolidated Gas Co. v. Baltimore, supra, inconsistent with this conclusion. In that case the Court was considering whether or not these easements were taxable, and what elements should be taken into consideration in determining their value for that purpose; and the effect of that decision must be confined to the subject then under discussion.
It is strongly contended by the appellee (railways company) that the sum of $7,000,000 at which these easements were valued by the commission was arrived at on a strictly land value basis. It may be that the railways company's officials did arrive at their valuation by assessing these easements as interest in land, but it is obvious that the commission did no such thing. In the commission's opinion, which is made a part of their order in this case, they set out at length and in detail the railways company's basis for arriving at the easement value, which was an appraisement of the easement as interest in land. They expressly reject the method of valuation contended for by the railways company, and then state: "The commission feels that a method, fair alike to the people and the company, is to be found in the plan adopted by the commission in 1913 in valuing the easements of the gas company. In that case it fixed as the easement value, the value at which the easements were taxed." It will thus be seen that the commission did not value these easements upon an interest in land basis, but adopted the valuation of the assessment for tax purposes. This valuation for tax purposes, in compliance with the plain mandate of this Court, must take into consideration in valuing the easement the use to which the franchise permits the easement to be put; and the value of this use, and therefore the easment itself, must necessarily depend upon the earnings of the company as a whole.
We are of the opinion that it is logically unsound to include in the rate base a factor the value of which varies or changes with the rate. It is to be borne in mind that the intent and purpose of the Public Service Commission Law was to create a commission entrusted with the power and authority, and obligated with the duty, of regulating the public service corporations of the state, so that the users of the utility would be insured of safe and adequate service at a reasonable price, and the public utility company be allowed to charge such rates as will produce a fair and reasonable return on the investment employed in the public service; or, as was said by the Supreme Court in San Diego Land Town Co. v. National City, 174 U.S. 739: "What the company is entitled to demand in order that it may have just compensation is a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public." It is such a valuation which section 385 of article 23 of the Code of 1924 authorizes the Public Service Commission to make; the language being: "The commission shall, whenever it may deem it desirable to do so, investigate and ascertain the fair value of property of any corporation subject to the provisions of this sub-title and used by it for the convenience of the public. * * * Such valuation shall show the value of the property of every such corporation as a whole and the value of its property in each of the several counties and municipalities within the State of Maryland."
The very purpose of authorizing the commission to ascertain the value of the property of the various public service corporations is to enable it to fix the rates which the corporation is permitted to charge the public for the service rendered. This valuation by the commission is not for the purpose of assessing the property for taxation; that function belonging to other officials of the state and municipal government. Neither is it for the purpose of fixing the value for condemnation purposes. If the commission ascertained the value of the property of the corporation for rate making purposes, it could not be successfully contended that the taxing authorities of the state would be bound to accept that valuation for taxing purposes. Neither would a jury in condemnation proceedings be bound by such valuation of the commission. It follows, therefore, with equal force that because the taxing authorities have determined upon a certain valuation of these easements as a basis for the payment of taxes, this base would not be controlling upon the commission.
We are of the opinion, therefore, that the duty of the commission imposed by the statute is to fix the fair value of the property of the corporation used for the convenience of the public, and that, in fixing the value of the easements for the purpose of a rate base, they are confined to such sum as fairly represents their value as an interest in land, and cannot add to that any value which might be affected by the rate which the corporation may be allowed to charge, or such value as is dependent upon the use to which the franchise of the corporation permits the easement to be put.
It is contended by the appellees that the language employed by this Court in Havre de Grace Bridge Co. v. Public Service Commission, 132 Md., at page 26, is in conflict with the view just expressed, but we do not so interpret that decision. By the language employed the Court meant that it would be absurd to hold that the Public Service Commission had authority to fix a different valuation for different purposes; but that when the commission ascertained the fair value of the property of the corporation, that ascertainment was conclusive for every purpose for which the commission could make a valuation. It could not be properly interpreted to mean that if the commission ascertained the value for rate making purposes, this valuation was conclusive and binding upon all other public officials of the state whose duty it might be to make a valuation for a totally different purpose.
It is undoubtedly true that the sale or exchange value of the easement and the franchise is almost invariably determined by the union of both, or by both in combination. Value, for such a purpose, is usually based upon the capitalized earnings realized from the exercise or use of the easement and franchise in combination. The easement is an interest in land, but it is only when this interest in land is used in combination with all of the other elements which go to make up an operated street railway system that the easements have anything more than a real estate value. It is apparent that the unused easement may have a large potential value, but, until put into use in combination with other rights or property, it can have no other different or additional value than it possesses as real estate or an interest therein. It is the use to which the easement, in combination with the franchise, is put, that gives it value for exchange or sale purposes, in condemnation proceedings, and for the purpose of taxation. But it is clear that this potential value, which must in large measure depend upon the earnings as determined by the rate, should not be included in the rate base, for the reason hereinbefore stated, and as expressed by the learned chancellor below: "The greater the earnings, the larger the value of the easement; the greater the value of the easement, the larger the fair return that must be allowed upon said value."
From what we have said it will be seen that we are in accord with the chancellor in his statement: "The objection to valuing an easement in a rate base in terms of earnings is self-evident." He further states: "The valuation of $7,000,000 made by the commission which is now the subject of attack, was reached without reference to the earning capacity of the easement so valued."
With this finding we are unable to agree. An examination of the opinion and order of the commission, which fixed the value of these easements at $7,000,000, shows that it did not arrive at this amount by an assessment of them as an interest in land, but on the contrary, adopted as their basis the assessment for tax purposes which had theretofore been put upon those portions of the railways company's tracks which were not subject to the park tax. The easements in the New and Old Annexes which were not subject to the park tax were valued for tax purposes by an agreement between the railways company and the Appeal Tax Court of Baltimore, as a result of the opinions of this Court in the tax cases, which unequivocally determined that these easements were an interest in real estate; and further, with equal definiteness, determined that the use to which the franchise permitted the easement to be put was an essential element to be considered in placing a valuation on that easement for the purpose of taxation.
It is, therefore, clear that if by this agreement the value per mile of these easements, for taxation purposes, was fixed in conformity with the decisions of this Court in the tax cases, there is reflected in such tax valuation such value as is attributable to the easement because of the purpose to which the franchise permitted the easement to be put. The conclusion is inescapable that the element of earnings was considered in fixing the tax assessment at $12,500 a mile in the New Annex and $17,692 a mile in the Old Annex; and as the commission in this case used these tax values as the sole basis and controlling item in fixing the value of the easements at $7,000,000, as a part of the rate base, it follows that the commission's valuation of $7,000,000 was not and could not have been reached without reference to the earning capacity of the easements so valued.
From what has been said, it follows that in our opinion:
(1) These easements are an interest in real estate, and whatever value they have as an interest in real estate the company is entitled to have included by the commission in making up the rate base.
(2) But any value attributable to these easements which is dependent upon the earnings of the company should not be included in the rate base.
(3) The commission having based their valuation upon the assessment made for tax purposes, and the tax assessment necessarily including value resulting from earnings, the method by which the commission arrived at the valuation of $7,000,000 was not in accordance with law. But because the record does not enable us to determine whether that valuation would be unreasonable if made according to the lawful method, the case will be remanded, without affirmance or reversal, in order that the valuation may be made in conformity with the method expressed by this opinion.
Case remanded, without affirmance or reversal of the decree, for further proceedings in accordance with the opinion of this Court, the costs to be paid by the appellee.
ADKINS and PARKE, JJ., dissent.
In Miles v. Public Service Commission, 1926, 151 Md. 337, 135 A. 579, 49 A.L.R. 1470, this court made no such point, and in Potomac Edison Co. v. Public Service Commission, 1933, 165 Md. 462, 169 A. 480, in an opinion by Judge Parke, it expressly held such a valuation appealable.
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