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Utility Stats: Just How Fractured is the Industry?
Through my consultancy practice and in conferences and forums, there is a steady drumbeat of criticism of the utility industry, citing a miasma of territorial boundaries and the vagaries of fifty state regulatory bodies.
Let's look at just a few statistics, and then let me share a few thoughts on how best to plot your course with utility engagements, whether in the energy efficiency, demand response, or smart grid areas.
First, there are about 3,100 utilities in the US, but in true 80/20 rule fashion, just 213 investor-owned utilities (IOUs, in utility parlance) serve 73% of the national population. These are the utilities that are regulated by state public utility commissions.
Next come the municipal utilities, typically run by cities, but sometimes run by separate governing boards and covering a regional area. There are about 2000 munis, serving about fifteen percent of the US population.
Lastly, there are some 900 co-ops, generally in rural parts of the country, capturing the last 12 percent of the population.
Want to engage with utilities?
Obviously, the biggest chunk of the market is served by IOUs, but if you want to do business there, you must understand regulation, and understand the fundamentals of utility business models. Yes, IOUs have "tense" relationships with their regulators, but you can navigate these waters if you understand where the shoals are.
To some degree, munis have far more flexibility than IOUs, in part by dint of their smaller size, but also because they answer only to a board, so decisions can be made faster. (When you think about it, IOUs answer to shareholders and regulators.) I would also aver that munis tend to more focused on good policy-making. After all, the elected board has to show progress to their constituents, so you tend to see some good action on energy efficiency and smart grid, for example.
Not to dismiss the co-ops, but unless you have an engagement that is specifically tailored to rural, sparsely-populated areas, there isn't much opportunity for you here.
Because I have an IOU background, I tended to have the view that munis are copycats and followers with regard to energy efficiency programs, letting the IOUs do the heavy lifting of program design and development. That view isn't wholly inaccurate, but working with munis has real strategic advantages with regards to flexibility and accessibility. Don't count them out.


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Bourbon was declared "The Official Spirit of America" by an Act of Congress signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
Bourbon only needs to be placed in a new oak container for a few seconds to be called Bourbon. Fresh from the still and unaged Bourbon is called a White Dog. Recently, many of the larger distillers have started packaging this harsh, clear grain spirit for sale.
Sure, Kentucky gets all the press when it comes to Bourbon. And with good reason—nearly 95% of it is produced there. But Bourbon can be made anywhere as long as it's within the United States. Just ask states with budding distilleries like Illinois and New York.
Bourbons have very prominent notes of vanilla, as American White Oak is naturally high in vanillins.
Straight Bourbon must be matured for at least 2 years. If a bottle has no age statement, it's at least 4 years old.
In 1996, more than 90,000 barrels, and one of their production buildings were destroyed in a fire. That's almost 24 million bottles-worth of premium American Whiskey. Rivers of flaming spirit were flowing in and around the distillery.

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I am so excited. My 4 1/2″ strip die came yesterday. I just let it sit for a few hours as I was working on other things. Then I opened it, looked at it, walked around it awhile, and then a wonderful idea just popped into my head. It has a blade right down the middle which means that I can make my favorite pinwheel tessellation with it. It was late last night when I started, but the ideas are spinning in my head.
I cut a 4 1/2 inch strip, and then cut it again into squares. I made stacks of squares all with the right side up.
Then I marked the die so that there is a parallel line exactly one inch on either side of the center blade. I made this line a different color than the blade lines.
Then I laid stacks of 6 squares on the die with the upper right corner touching the line on the right and the lower left corner touching the line on the left. You can reverse this; but if so, the blades of your pinwheel will rotate counterclockwise.
I stitched and pressed. This gives me a wonky rectangle.
The wonky rectangle goes on the 3 1/2″ square die using the registration lines to get them fairly even across the blades. It doesn't matter if they're a little off.
Then I have four squares which make a finished 6 inch block.
Very cute…LOVE the great pictures and explanation.
Okay, I need to know about all those other lines on the 3 1/2″ die. Is there a great tutorial or video somewhere that I can look at to understand that and maximize the possibilities for using my dies?
There is a brief video on youtube that I did and there is also a link on the Accuquilt site video list. However, the video doesn't tell the whole story. In the beginning (when there weren't many strip dies), I drew parallel lines halfway between the blades for cutting strips and then repositioning to cut to a smaller width. Now that there are dies for all those strip widths, the parallel lines are not needed. The angled lines are for 45 and 60 degree diamonds–cut strips and then reposition them and cut into diamonds. The 90 degree lines are used to position sets of long sewn strips for cutting blocks like four-patch and nine-patch or even trip around the world style quilts. It's pretty incredible – after sewing long strips, you can use a strip cutter and in two passes with the GO, you can cut a whole lap quilt of four patch blocks. It's great to keep stacks of them beside the machine for leaders and enders. I'm sure the possibilities are endless, I just haven't thought of them yet. I was so excited about the tessellations. Am still working on the Carolina blue one – other things have distracted me from finishing my piecing this week.
Love it! so cool to be able to do so much with the GO! Did you use chalk to draw the white line?
Hi Alicia, The marker I used for the light colored line is a silver Sharpie. The blades are marked with a black Sharpie, so I used the silver to remind me which is the blade and which is just a placement marker.
Hi, Your videos re great. Could tou please email me back the instructions for the 45 and 60 degree angles on your 2 1/2 " cutter. I noticed that you had also marked out squares. Are these 2 1/2 " as well? Looking forward to your reply.
I don't have any written instructions for the 45 and 60 degree angles. There are also other videos besides mine that talk about cutting diamonds using the strip cutters. You might check the video page at AccuQuilt.com for more videos.


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SO, NU, DR. FREUD?
By Calvin Trillin
The New Yorker, August 15, 1994 P. 80
SHOUTS AND MURMURS about the writer's surprise at learning that Jorge Luis Borges and Sigmund Freud used Yiddish expressions. N.Y. Observer story says Borges was once asked during a visit to the N.Y. Institute for the Humanities what he thought of Freud: "Never liked him. Too schmutzig." [Yiddish: dirty.] Growing up in Kansas City, writer also thought Freud was schmutzig, but didn't realize Borges thought in those terms. Writer views Freudianism like Presbyterianism: for all anybody knows, it could be on the money. Revelation that Freud fudged his data re his seduction theory brings up the Davis Conundrum. The dept. of oenology at the Univ. of Calif, at Davis found that under blind-test circumstances, professional wine connoisseurs are often unable to distinguish red wine from white. The Davis Conundrum: does this undercut all the learned talk about body and vintage, etc.? According to the Times Book Review, the first vol. of "The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi" reveals that Freud once wrote: "Jung is meshuga." [Yiddish: bonkers, off his squash, nutty as a fruitcake, a cuckoo bird.] Could this actually be Sigmund Freud's diagnosis of Carl Jung? What's all this talk about sublimation and Oedipus complexes and penis envy? As Borges might have put it, why did we need all that schmutz!
Published in the print edition of the August 15, 1994, issue.
Calvin Trillin, a staff writer, has contributed to The New Yorker since 1963. His many books include "Jackson, 1964" and "About Alice."
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume VI, Soviet Union
7. Letter From President Carter to Soviet General Secretary Brezhnev1
Dear Mr. General Secretary:
I am very pleased that our initial exchange of letters2 has led us immediately into an examination of the central issues of world peace. Our two great countries share a special responsibility to do what we can, not just to reduce tensions but to create a series of understandings that can lead to a more secure and less dangerous world political climate.
I know and admire your history. As a child, I developed a literary taste by reading your classics. I know also how much, and how very recently, your people have suffered in the course of the last war. I know of your personal role in that war, and of the sacrifices that were imposed on every Soviet family. That is why I believe we are both sincere when we state our dedication to peace, and this gives me hope for the future.
The question is how to translate that dedication into reality. How can we set in motion a process that widens our collaboration as it contains and eventually narrows our competition? That competition—which is real, very expensive, and which neither of us can deny—can at some point become very dangerous, and therefore it should not go on unchecked. To me, this dictates nothing less than an effort, first, to widen where we can our collaborative efforts, especially in regard to nuclear arms limitations; and, second, the exercise of very deliberate self-restraint in regard to those trouble spots in the world which could produce a direct confrontation between us.
I welcome particularly your desire for increased cooperation looking toward an ending of the arms race and the achievement, without delay, of specific disarmament agreements.
It is in the arms control field that I feel we should place greatest emphasis. I will continue to give this my personal attention and can assure you that those who are responsible for these affairs within my administration will give any and all proposals made by you the closest and most positive examination.
Obviously, we must be mutually secure from successful attack, and we must take advantage of our roles as the most powerful nations [Page 22]to initiate substantive reduction in the level of conventional and nuclear armaments. We need not meet deadlines as such, but we do need to make maximum progress without delay.
I agree that in our exchanges and in the conversations which Secretary Vance will have in Moscow at the end of March, we should give priority attention to obtaining a SALT II agreement, perhaps including some substantial force level reductions. It might help us to achieve a successful conclusion to these negotiations if we agree that this is but a first step in a process that may lead to much greater reductions in the size of our respective nuclear arsenals. I wonder in this respect if it might not be helpful to examine the possibility of separating the cruise missile and Backfire issues from SALT II. We could return to those issues immediately in follow-up negotiations. If our objectives are sufficiently ambitious, and particularly if our desire is to achieve real disarmament within minimum forces left which are adequate to assure security to both parties, we may be able to deal more easily later with what appear now to be significant and difficult technical issues.
I hope that our additional personal exchanges and Secretary Vance's talks in Moscow will cover the broadest range of possibilities. I can assure you that the review I am currently conducting of our policies in the arms control field will examine all relevant proposals. As I have discussed with your Ambassador,3 I hope that we may look not only at possible drastic limitations in the total number of nuclear weapons, i.e. a minimum number of missiles that would allow each nation to feel secure from a preemptive strike, but also at restrictions on throw-weight, the possibility of prohibiting all mobile missiles, foregoing any further civil defense preparations, and such additional confidence-building measures as advance notification of all missile test firings and an agreement not to arm satellites or to develop a capability to destroy observation satellites. We also need to explore practical ways to satisfy our mutual need for assuring compliance with our agreements. Such matters as on-site inspection and unrestricted surveillance from space should not become subjects for misinterpretation. They are tools that can be used to make progress and gain public support and understanding for our efforts.
In all these areas, our ultimate aim should be to do more than our technicians tell us may now be advisable. If we keep our sights set on the most ambitious goal, we will be able to achieve a significant change in the level of threat to ourselves and the rest of the world.
It is counterproductive to attempt to negotiate an advantage over one another. We will try to consult without artifice or unnecessary delay, but without pressure or undue haste.
I welcome your willingness to intensify efforts to reach agreement on a comprehensive test ban. I recognize that there are remaining issues with respect to other countries who continue to have test programs and the possible use of peaceful nuclear explosions for mining or construction, but I believe there are satisfactory ways of dealing with these issues. I intend to ask the Congress to ratify the two existing agreements which have been negotiated between our two governments but I consider these only steps toward a common objective of a complete cessation of nuclear tests. In the meantime these unratified agreements will be honored by our government.
In the past, I know that there have been proposals for a demilitarization of the Indian Ocean and that these proposals were not seriously examined. I have asked my colleagues to look closely at the question of the Indian Ocean so that we may be prepared to comment in some detail on the possibilities for an agreement which would advance the cause of world peace. Please let me know specifically what you have in mind. I assume that in such a proposal adequate attention would have to be paid to military activities of both sides in the area. This seems to be a clear case where mutual benefit would require a balanced agreement which leads to a general lessening of military effort in the entire area.
As you know from my public statements, I intend to proceed vigorously in an attempt to reduce the sale or transfer of conventional arms to the third world and hope that you will join in this effort. It seems to me that this is a senseless competition and we, as major suppliers, have a particular responsibility to put limits on such transfers. Obviously other suppliers should be involved in such an effort and we will broaden the discussion to include them.
I also welcome your desire to proceed more vigorously with the Vienna negotiations on reducing armed forces and armaments in central Europe ultimately to minimum acceptable levels.4 We have been quite concerned about what seems to be an excessive increase in your military strength in Eastern Europe. We are currently reviewing our positions on this matter, while at the same time instructing our delegation to pursue the examination of data that has been submitted by both sides.
These are subjects that I hope Mr. Vance can discuss in some detail after we have completed our own review. We will, of course, conduct this particular review in complete consultations with our NATO allies.
I would like to make one remark with reference to the Quadripartite Agreement.5 As you know, we consider that this Agreement applies to all of Berlin and not just to West Berlin. It is very important for us to carry out the letter and the spirit of that Agreement. We will make every effort to avoid sensitive issues but we must insist that this Agreement, which is so central to our ability to develop peaceful relations in Europe, be implemented in full. Recently there seems to have been an increasing inclination to create new tensions and constraints in Berlin, which could cause deterioration in the delicate political balance there. I trust that you will help to alleviate these tensions.
We look forward to cooperation in pursuing further steps in implementation of the understandings reached in Helsinki regarding human rights.6 As I have said to Ambassador Dobrynin, we hope that all aspects of these understandings can be carried out. It is not our intention to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations. We do not wish to create problems with the Soviet Union but it will be necessary for our government to express publicly on occasion the sincere and deep feelings of myself and our people. Our commitment to the furtherance of human rights will not be pursued stridently or in a manner inconsistent with the achievement of reasonable results. We would also, of course, welcome private, confidential exchanges on these delicate areas.
I have noted your response to my earlier comments on the importance of improving trade and economic relations. Your frank expressions in this regard are in a spirit of candor that I admire, but we need to do something practical to bring about the removal of obstacles. For my part I intend to do what I can to achieve mutually beneficial increased trade, but you are aware of some of the Congressional inhibitions with which I must deal.
Let me say a word about our efforts to develop improvements in other areas where disharmony and potential conflicts exist. In the Middle East we are about to begin direct discussion with the parties in the area and it is then my hope to pursue with vigor the process of bringing about a just and lasting settlement. Mr. Vance will welcome the opportunity in his discussions at the end of March to obtain your views on this, including matters of direct interest to our roles as Co-Chairmen of the Geneva Conference.7
In Southern Africa we believe Africans should resolve their problems without outside interference. It is to this end that we have been urging peaceful solutions responsive to majority desires and have restricted taking actions that add to the potential for violence.
We have moved to open a dialogue with the Socialist Republic of Viet-Nam, to establish a basis for normal relations with that country. Elsewhere, we will also be guided by our commitment to true freedom, self-determination and economic progress.
I hope that we can continue these written exchanges in order to clarify our thinking and to engage in the widest possible examination of matters which are of such fundamental importance to our two peoples and to the peace of the world. From these frank communications we can evolve clear and concise bases on which to prepare for our discussions in person, a prospect which I await with great anticipation.
With best personal regards,
Source: Carter Library, National Security Affairs, Staff Material, Office, Outside the System File, Box 69, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR): Brezhnev–Carter Correspondence: 1–2/77. No classification marking.↩
See Documents 1 and 4.↩
See Document 3.↩
See footnote 4, Document 4.↩
Note on U.S. Covert Actions
Soviet Union (Documents 1-315)
January–May 1977 (Documents 1-28)
Brezhnev, Leonid I.Carter, James Earl, Jr. (Jimmy)Dobrynin, AnatoliyVance, Cyrus R.
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This and related genera were revised by Dierl (1978), who illustrated male and female genitalia as far as possible for all species. The group as a whole has venation as in Fig. 4. The moths are usually white, cream, pink or red; sexual dimorphism is slight. The forewings are not falcate and are usually marked with fine fasciae that are darkly punctate on the veins. The component genera are defined on genitalic characters but in most males the saccus is long, well developed, the uncus is not bifid in the majority, and the eighth abdominal sclerites are strongly modified. The valves are usually reduced to small, peglike structures. The females often have weak dorsal accessory lobes to the ovipositor lobes.
Bell (MS) described larvae of the Ocinara group. They resemble mostly those of Gunda in having swellings on segments A2 and A5 and an extensile horn on A8. The horn can be flexed and extruded to terminate in a white apiculus.
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Pupation is usually in a semiovoid, yellow, silken cocoon, with silk outworks, usually attached to the surface of a leaf.
Host-plants noted for the whole group (Dierl; Bell; Roepke (1924)) are species of Ficus, Artocarpus and Streblus (Moraceae).
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The larva of the type species is described as green with a horn on segment A8 (Dierl), feeding on Ficus (Moraceae).
The genus is most diverse in Sundaland, only one species extending into the Indian Subregion. There are two species on Sulawesi, one endemic, one shared with the Philippines.


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Q: Indexer IOException job fail while Indexing nutch crawled data in "Bluemix" solr I'm trying to index the nutch crawled data by Bluemix solr. I used the following command in my command prompt:

bin/nutch index -D solr.server.url="https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/retrieve-and-rank/api/v1/solr_clusters/CLUSTER-ID/solr/admin/collections -D solr.auth=true -D solr.auth.username="USERNAME" -D solr.auth.password="PASS" Crawl/crawldb -linkdb Crawl/linkdb Crawl/segments/2016*

But it fails to finish the indexing. The result is as followed:
Indexer: starting at 2016-06-16 16:31:50
Indexer: deleting gone documents: false
Indexer: URL filtering: false
Indexer: URL normalizing: false
Active IndexWriters :
SolrIndexWriter
        solr.server.type : Type of SolrServer to communicate with (default 'http' however options include 'cloud', 'lb' and 'concurrent')
        solr.server.url : URL of the Solr instance (mandatory)
        solr.zookeeper.url : URL of the Zookeeper URL (mandatory if 'cloud' value for solr.server.type)
        solr.loadbalance.urls : Comma-separated string of Solr server strings to be used (madatory if 'lb' value for solr.server.type)
        solr.mapping.file : name of the mapping file for fields (default solrindex-mapping.xml)
        solr.commit.size : buffer size when sending to Solr (default 1000)
        solr.auth : use authentication (default false)
        solr.auth.username : username for authentication
        solr.auth.password : password for authentication
Indexing 153 documents
Indexing 153 documents
Indexer: java.io.IOException: Job failed!
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.runJob(JobClient.java:836)
        at org.apache.nutch.indexer.IndexingJob.index(IndexingJob.java:145)
        at org.apache.nutch.indexer.IndexingJob.run(IndexingJob.java:222)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70)
        at org.apache.nutch.indexer.IndexingJob.main(IndexingJob.java:231)

I guess it has something to do with the solr.server.url address, maybe the end of it. I changed it in different ways
e.g

"https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/retrieve-and-rank/api/v1/solr_clusters/CLUSTER-ID/solr/example_collection/update".

(since it is used for indexing JSON/CSV/... files by the the Bluemix Solr ).
 But no chance to now.
Anyone knows how can I fix it? And if the problem is as I guessed, anyone knows what exactly should the solr.server.url be ?
By the way, "example_collection" is my collections name, and I'm working with nutch1.11.

A: As far as I know, indexing nutch crawled data in Bluemix R&R, by the index command provided in nutch itself(bin/nutch index...) is not possible.
I realized that for indexing nutch crawled data in Bluemix Retrieve and Rank service one should:

*

*Crawl seeds with nutch e.g

$:bin/crawl -w 5 urls crawl 25

you can check the status of crawling with:

bin/nutch readdb crawl/crawldb/ -stats

*Dumped the crawled dataas files:

$:bin/nutch dump -flatdir -outputDir dumpData/ -segment crawl/segments/

*Post those that are possible e.g xml files to solr Collection on Retrieve and Rank:
Post_url = '"https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/retrieve-and-rank/api/v1/solr_clusters/%s/solr/%s/update"' %(solr_cluster_id, solr_collection_name)
cmd ='''curl -X POST -H %s -u %s %s --data-binary @%s''' %(Cont_type_xml, solr_credentials, Post_url, myfilename)
subprocess.call(cmd,shell=True)

*Convert the rest to json with Bluemix Doc-Conv service:
doc_conv_url = '"https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/document-conversion/api/v1/convert_document?version=2015-12-15"'
cmd ='''curl -X POST -u %s -F config="{\\"conversion_target\\":\\"answer_units\\"}" -F file=@%s %s''' %(doc_conv_credentials, myfilename, doc_conv_url)
process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell= True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

and then save these Json results in a json file.

*Post this json file to the collection:
Post_converted_url = '"https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/retrieve-and-rank/api/v1/solr_clusters/%s/solr/%s/update/json/docs?commit=true&split=/answer_units/id&f=id:/answer_units/id&f=title:/answer_units/title&f=body:/answer_units/content/text"' %(solr_cluster_id, solr_collection_name)
cmd ='''curl -X POST -H %s -u %s %s --data-binary @%s''' %(Cont_type_json, solr_credentials, Post_converted_url, Path_jsonFile)
subprocess.call(cmd,shell=True)

*Send Queries:
pysolr_client = retrieve_and_rank.get_pysolr_client(solr_cluster_id, solr_collection_name)
results = pysolr_client.search(Query_term)
print(results.docs)

Codes are in python.
For beginners: You can use the curl commands directly in you CMD. I hope it helpes others.

A: like this:
nutch index -Dsolr.server.url=http://username:password@localhost:8983/solr/nutch crawl/crawldb/ -linkdb crawl/linkdb/ crawl/segments/20170816191100/ -filter -normalize -deleteGone

it works.

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The Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) was introduced by the Government in April 2011. The PPG, which is an addition to main school funding, is allocated to schools to work with students who have been registered for Free School Meals in the last six years, also students that have been in the care of the local authority and to children of service personnel.
The Government believes that this targeted funding is the best way to help tackle any underlying disadvantages and inadequacies that exist between this group of students and their peers.
The aim is to raise attainment for disadvantaged students by providing a range of learning opportunities that enable these students to reach their full potential regardless of the circumstances that would otherwise impede their progress.
The PPG has a number of wider aims:
To increase mobility
To enable more students from disadvantaged backgrounds to access the best further education
To reduce the attainment gap between the highest and lowest achieving students nationally
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A via ferrate week and at the same time crossing from the Rosengarten group to Schlern via via ferratas with overnight stays in wonderfully situated huts in the spectacular scenery of the Dolomites. Rugged towers and rocks, steep iron ladders and breathtaking views promise a dream week in the heart of the Dolomites.
Everything a true "Ferrarista" needs are sun, mountains and breathtaking iron ways: this is exactly what the via ferrata paradise offers in the north of Lake Garda in the Sarchetal. The center is located in the picturesque town of Arco where climbers meet climbing enthusiasts from all over the world and after the tour, the cappuccino awaits us on the lively square in front of the Gelateria. The Iron ways around Lake Garda area vary considerably and range from deep gorges to open buttresses and fine ridges.


THE REPERTORY, Boston, Massachusetts, February 22, 1881 The front page of this issue features an article "BLACK BEARD -- The Pirate" which is an interesting information as to the current play which was being held, however as one reads on, it is stated that "From this outline it would appear that the represented spectacle by no means illustates (illustrates) the truth of the history... We cannot conclude without remarking, that Black Beard is so monstrous a progeny of distempered fancy, that we imagine it can only be admired by those, whose sickly appetites have been debased, by a perusal of the worst kind of novels and romanees." An advertisement and an editorial of the play are also in this issue.
Page two reports the "Order reestablished in the Mississippi Territory" and "Invasion of Florida". Other news of the day, advertisements along with illustrated ship ads are within the issue.
This is complete in four pages with a slight irregular left spine, a small hole is through the entire issue at a crease line which does cause some text loss, and some lite foxing, otherwise in good condition. See photos for details.


The Project consists of removal of sediment and invasive plants from the manmade lakes within the Indian Lakes Estates subdivision. The sediment will be removed utilitzing a rubber tired backhoe. The sediment will be loaded into trucks and disposed of off-site. Work will take place outside the wetted portion of the lake or when the lake is dry.
Minor alterations in the condition of land and vegetation that does not involve the removal of healthy, mature, scenic trees.


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A person standing between the tips of the crescent and facing into the center of the crescent (red arrow) will be facing almost exactly in "qibla" direction (the Muslim prayer direction). You can verify the qibla direction from Somerset PA using any number of on-line Mecca-direction calculators.
To be precise, the Crescent of Embrace points 1.8° north of Mecca, ± a tenth of a degree. The final construction drawings alter this orientation slightly, so that instead of pointing a little less than two degrees north of Mecca, the actual crescent will point less than three degrees south of Mecca. Such small deviations from Mecca are insignificant by Islamic standards, which developed over a period of more than a thousand years during which far flung Muslims had no accurate way to determine the direction to Mecca.
If you would like to help stop the crescent mosque, please email Alec Rawls (alec@rawls.org) who is helping to coordinate opposition.
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Hello, a native of Saint-Victor, I am the eighth of eleven children. From the age of 16 Ileft home to work in the field of construction. Over the years I realize that I wanted tomanage my own affairs, whether in restaurants, bar and real estate. Then come the idea and the opportunity to acquire a plot of land on which there is a flowing wellproviding a source of water of excellent quality. I therefore join together in Christian Roy and we undertake to obtain permits for water collection and create AquaBeauceunderground spring.
Need for any water delivery contact me, I will be happy to visit you or give you a quote.I can guarantee a fast delivery service and well-structured and with a friendly staff.


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Probability & Statistics Seminar
Thursday 13.02.2020, 2pm, MNO 5A
Guillaume Maillard (Université Paris-Sud), Aggregated hold-out
Abstract: Aggregated hold-out (Agghoo) is a hyperparameter aggregation method which averages learning rules selected by hold-out (i.e cross-validation with 1 split). Theoretical guarantees on Agghoo ensure that one can use it safely: for a convex risk, at worse, Agghoo performs like the hold-out. For the hold-out, oracle inequalities are known for bounded losses, as in binary classification. We show that classical methods can be extended, under appropriate assumptions, to some unbounded risk-minimization problems. In particular, we obtain an oracle inequality in sparse linear regression with Huber loss, without requiring the variable to be bounded or using truncation. To further investigate the effects of aggregation on performance, we conduct some numerical experiments. They show that aggregation brings a significant improvement over the hold-out. Compared to cross-validation, Agghoo appears to perform better when the intrinsic dimension is sufficiently high, and when there are correlations between predictive and noise covariates.
Richard Nickl (University of Cambridge), On Bayesian solutions of some statistical inverse boundary value problems
Abstract: We discuss Bayesian inference in a class of statistical non-linear inverse problems arising with partial differential equations (PDEs): The main mathematical idea behind non-invasive tomography methods is related to the fact that observations of boundary values of the solutions of certain PDEs can in certain cases determine the parameters governing the dynamics of the PDE also in the interior of the domain in question. The parameter to data maps in such settings are typically non-linear, as with the Calderon problem (relevant in electric impedance tomography) or with non-Abelian X-ray transforms (relevant in neutron spin tomography). Real world discrete data in such settings carries statistical noise, and Bayesian inversion methodology has been extremely popular in computational and applied mathematics in the last decade after seminal contributions by Andrew Stuart (2010) and others. In this talk we will discuss recent progress which provides rigorous statistical guarantees for such inversion algorithms in the large sample/small noise limit.
Friday, 31.01.2020, 10:35am, MNO 5A
Xiao Fang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Wasserstein-2 bounds in normal approximations under local dependence with applications to strong embeddings
Abstract: We obtain a general bound for the Wasserstein-2 distance in normal approximation for sums of locally dependent random variables. The proof is based on an asymptotic expansion for expectations of second-order differentiable functions of the sum. We apply the main result to obtain Wasserstein-2 bounds in normal approximation for sums of -dependent random variables, U-statistics and subgraph counts in the Erdös-Rényi random graph. We also discuss an application to strong embeddings.
Alexandre Moesching (University of Bern), Order Constraints in Nonparametric Regression
Abstract: Imposing a nonparametric qualitative constraint in a statistical model has shown its benefit on several occasions, for example in circumstances where a parametric model is hard to justify but a qualitative constraint on the distribution is natural. We consider a stochastic ordering constraints on an unknown family of distributions , with a fixed subset , and discuss nonparametric estimation procedures based on a sample such that, conditional on the the are independent random variables with distribution functions .
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Belfast Castle's main ballroom has beautiful views over Belfast Lough and the city. The Chichester room has direct access to our manicure gardens via the Italian serpentine staircase.
This room is located on the first floor. It has stunning views from the bay window overlooking the city and Belfast Lough. The main body of the room is carpeted and the side annexe can be used as a breakout area or dance floor for social events.
This room is located on the first floor and offers spectacular views over the our infamous cat garden.
This room is located on the first floor and offers spectacular views over the city and our gardens.
This room is at the bottom of Belfast Castle's grand staircase, with a beautiful view overlooking the garden and fountain. The Donegal room can be hired on its own or in conjunction with the other ground floor rooms in our Ground Floor package.
Named after the Deerpark slopes of the Cave Hill. It has a lovely skylight that looks over one of Belfast Castle's many turrets. This room can be hired on its own or comes with the Ground Floor Package.


July 30 is the day that LSB sets aside to remember Robert Barnes. But who is Robert Barnes? He was born in England in 1495, graduated from Cambridge and was named Prior of the Augustinian monastery at the college. By 1525 he had been converted to Lutheran teachings. He preached what is thought to be the first sermon of the English Reformation. He was imprisoned for heresy, but escaped to Antwerp, Belgium. Eventually, he and Martin Luther became friends. He wrote a Latin summary of the Augsburg Confession. When he returned to England, he shared his views with King Henry VIII. In 1529, Barnes was appointed royal chaplain. Though he at first received a positive reception, he eventually became caught up in the changing political and church climate of England. In 1540 he was one of six "heretics" executed. He was burned at the stake. Barnes is perhaps the first Lutheran martyr.


Testimony Law and Legal Definition | USLegal, Inc.
Testimony is a statement made in a legal proceeding or legislative hearing by a witness while under oath. A witness who provides false testimony is guilty of perjury and may be punished by incarceration. Testimony is one type of evidence, as distinguished from writings, videotapes, and other forms of evidence.
Rules of evidence are applicable to testimony. Some witnesses, such as expert witnesses, may be paid for their testimony, but evidence of the professional nature of their services may be introduced for purposes of credibility. Payment for providing false testimony is a crime called subornation of perjury.


Hello and happy Tuesday, we hope you had a great weekend!
First off, the GDPR is coming into effect this week. In light of that, we'd like to let you know a little more information about how Barcinno handles your personal data.
The only information we store about you is your email address and, for statistical purposes, the emails you've opened, which links you've clicked and via which browser.
All your data is stored and hosted by our reliable newsletter tool, Revue.
We don't share your data with anybody else, and will never use it for anything other than sending you our newsletter email once a week.
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Still in the dark about GDPR for your business? Here are some useful articles on what you need to know and steps to take to make sure you're fully compliant come May 25th, but you'd better move fast!
On Thursday, ESADE is hosting a speaker series on Data & Fintech featuring several industry professionals and business leaders. Head here to find out more and sign up.
This week also brings one of the leading digital health events to Catalonia: the HIMSS Europe & Health 2.0 Conference takes place on 27-29 May in Sitges. Find more information and book your ticket here.
Does the arrival of Facebook in Barcelona actually bring high-quality jobs or low-cost labour?
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3. Feel What You Want (Junior's Factory Mix) -- Kristine W.
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It's an easy-to-use application that helps you draw and design the complete layout of your kitchen with fantastic finishes and standpoint. The sun-drenched kitchen of a Charleston guesthouse features cabinets paneled in old-growth cypress wood salvaged during the home's renovation. Our cabinets are available in a wide choice of styles, materials, colours and finishes, with wide or slimline doors and drawers and up to 24 different worktop heights for a comfortable working environment. The key is to create a light environment that is both functional and practical to work in. What isn't modern is a cluttered, dark space that hasn't been well thought out in terms of layout; arrangement and the appliances included and left out. Further to this, at the Bauhaus school, improvements applied to the design of kitchen utensils and appliances themselves. Frosted cabinets are great for a more modern element, while painted cabinets make for a nice but inexpensive touch.
This success is still apparent in the modern era and over the past few years, the European kitchen design industry has seen several new trends emerge that have continuously grown in popularity, and which increasingly show signs of being here to stay!


When you are a westerner locked in a squalid, vermin-ridden jail in Afghanistan, surrounded by the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, the last thing you want to hear is that those organisations have put a $10,000 (£6,000) price on your head — and that the prison barber used to behead people.
But that's what happened to Bill Shaw MBE, a former major who had served in the British Army for 28 years. He knew that the menacing gestures of Taliban prisoners cooped up with him in the overcrowded cells of a Kabul jail — typically a hand drawn across the throat — could mean his murder.
Not long before he had arrived, several Taliban had escaped after bribing the guards. It would be easy for a killer to bribe them to get to Shaw: $10,000 was equivalent to three years' salary.
Shaw was locked up in three Afghan jails, each more horrific than the last. Finally cleared of trumped-up corruption charges, and speaking in London a year after his release, Shaw seems calm, but his wife insists that is misleading.
Shaw's ordeal began last year while in Kabul working for a private company, Group 4 Securicor. Tasked with protecting diplomats, he was in charge of several hundred Afghan staff.
One day, at a checkpoint on a dangerous road, Afghan intelligence officers confiscated two G4S vehicles in a dispute over incomplete registration documents — not an unusual event in a country notorious for bureaucratic incompetence.
Shaw was told it would cost $25,000 (£15,000) to get them back. He took an interpreter to pay what he thought was a legitimate fine through an intermediary. He asked for a receipt, but did not get one.
Afterwards, on behalf of G4S, he lodged a complaint, but when he went to see the authorities he was bundled into a car and taken to prison.
Shaw had become a victim of international politics: Afghan officials, irritated by foreign complaints about widespread corruption, had made a scapegoat of this westerner.
The first prison he endured was unimaginably squalid. The cells and flooded corridors were overcrowded — and not only with humans. Rats scurried across the floor and cockroaches fell from the ceiling. The lavatory was an overflowing hole, where a prisoner had hanged himself.
Used to doing everything by the rules of the British Army, he could scarcely believe the medieval punishment meted out to those who caused trouble: they were handcuffed to courtyard gates as if crucified, their feet only just touching the ground, until they passed out.
One man "crucified" this way was Shaw's Australian cellmate, Rob Langdon, also a former soldier working in private security, who had been sentenced to hang after killing an Afghan guard. Langdon was punished after pouring scalding water over a prisoner in the showers.
As Shaw's family campaigned in Britain for his release, his employer also stuck by him, arranging frequent visits. One Afghan colleague who visited told Shaw he should bribe his way out: "This is the way of our society." It would cost about $15,000 (£9,000). Shaw refused. "To do so would be flying in the face of all I stood for," he says.
But his situation seemed hopeless. His first lawyer did not even speak English. Once he was due to appear in court but the prison authorities forgot to take him.
Some had it even worse. One boy in his cell was given 10 years for standing guard over a poppy field. Others had not even been charged, and were likely to die in prison.
"The more I learnt, the more appalled I was. I had never known so many desperate people," says Shaw.
When he was told that his life was in danger from Taliban inmates, Shaw was moved to a new, high-security prison. Here his possessions were taken from him. Without a watch, he could not even track time. "I began to go quietly bananas. I felt paranoid and began to imagine all kinds of conspiracy scenarios," he says.
And indeed, despite a total lack of evidence, the judge found Shaw guilty of bribing officials. He was sentenced to two years. His humiliation was complete. Back in his cell, worrying about his family, Shaw started to get palpitations. But, with a determined lawyer on his side, he appealed.
Last July, a different judge confirmed the conviction of Shaw's interpreter — who had arranged the payment for the impounded vehicles and been jailed alongside Shaw on the same charges — but ruled that Shaw was innocent due to a lack of evidence. After four months of living in fear for his life, Shaw was free.
Now, seeing him play with his grandchildren, you would imagine he has overcome his ordeal. He has not, says Liz. But he is grateful to have his life back, and Liz is grateful to have him home. "Neither of us will take anything for granted again," she says.
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Sprint's Network Overhaul- Radical Impact on AMT, CCI, and SBAC?
January 18, 2016 Ken Schmidt 4 Comments
The website Re/code posted an unconfirmed article on Friday re: Sprint's Next Generation Network which stated "sources familiar with the initiative said Sprint plans to cut its network costs by relocating its radio equipment from tower space it has leased from Crown Castle and American Tower to spots on government owned properties which costs much less." The article also alleges that Sprint is attempting to reduce its dependency on AT&T and Verizon's high-speed fiber optic cables. Directly after posting this article, shares of American Tower (AMT), Crown Castle (CCI) and SBA Communications (SBAC), were down 3%, 6%, and 8%, respectively, while Sprint dropped 9%.
I wanted to write a clarification in response to this, to provide our readers with a more robust analysis of what's happening behind the curtains. Not only was the article cited above sufficiently bad enough to devalue Sprint, the very fact that it did so was completely unwarranted. It
demonstrates poor inductive reasoning skills to arrive at an erroneous conclusion, stating that Sprint plans on abandoning its existing collocations on American Tower and Crown Castle towers as part of its Next Generation Network buildout. Please note that we don't own stock or perform services for either tower company and we don't work for Sprint (but we do have a small holding in S stock). In fact, we regularly assist landowners in negotiating cell tower leases against each of the Big Three Tower Companies and Big Four Wireless Carriers.
Perhaps it is easier to share some facts that we know/have about Sprint's Next Generation Network, which should enable you to see how these propositions can be improperly evaluated to form a wrong conclusion, such as the one that Re/Code came up with.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT SPRINT'S NEXT GENERATION NETWORK
Sprint has been issuing Requests for Proposals, along with many, many revisions, for its Next Generation Network (NGN) network buildout for almost a year now. Previously, the strategy behind Sprint's Network Vision network plan was to substantially reduce the amount of equipment at each site by consolidating multiple carriers' (Sprint, Nextel, and Clearwire) frequencies into one set of equipment. The NGN has been an attempt to densify Sprint's network using a small number of new macrocell towers, along with a substantial number of mini-macro small cells. Mini-macro cell sites are smaller than traditional cell tower sites, but larger than small cells.
Sprint has entered into an agreement with Mobilitie to fund and deploy these mini-macro sites, like the one shown here, which was submitted to Salem City, MA on November 6, 2015 (and ultimately rejected by the City). Estimates for the number of mini-macro sites to be deployed are between 50,000 and 70,000. Sprint is uses these mini-macro sites to densify its network and to optimize the high frequency spectrum (2.5GHz) acquired from Clearwire, which requires denser deployment of cell sites in order to be effective. When deployed correctly, the higher frequency spectrum is ideal for handling massive amounts of data traffic.
Based upon inquiries to our municipal clients, it appears that Mobilitie is targeting government and utility owned property for these mini-macro cell sites. Other attempts by wireless carriers to deploy small cells on private property have demonstrated that, while the equipment cost for small cells is significantly less than a large macrocell (or tower site), the site acquisition and routing of power and backhaul is comparable to deploying a macrocell. As a result, we have observed a significant increase in the number of requests being made to cities, counties and townships across the country for the lease and use of municipal owned utility structures, or the placement of new structures/ antennas in existing utility rights of way. At this point, we are unaware of any municipalities that have actually completed deployment of mini-macro sites. Mobilitie appears to be testing the market and attempting to enter into franchise agreements and master lease agreements with municipalities prior to buildout.
If Mobilitie and/or Sprint are treated as a utility, in many states they receive the benefit of paying federally regulated pole attachment rates when installing equipment. Furthermore, Mobilitie (and other similar small cell and Distributed Antenna System developers, such as Crown Castle) often attempt to convince local municipalities that they can't be charged traditional lease rates or franchise fees for new poles. The reason is that the federal pole attachment rates are often pennies on the dollar, as compared to what they would be charged otherwise by these same utilities or municipalities. Furthermore, by using existing poles, small cell providers avoid some but not all of the onerous zoning hurdles that often accompany the erection of new towers.
We have a few hundred municipal clients across the United States who we advise daily on the appropriate lease rates they should be charging for macrocell tower leases. Lease rates for macrocell towers, cell sites on rooftops, and water towers on governmental property in urban and suburban areas are typically more than 25% above those on commensurate private property. The only places where lease rates are less than private leases are in large federal agencies with large rural land holdings such as the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, and the National Forest Service. However, with those entities, lease negotiations take years and there are substantial environmental hurdles that have to be met before any lease can approved.
Crown Castle and American Tower have long term tenant leases in place with Sprint. These
from Omar Masry's profile on LinkedIn
leases have on average between 7-8 years remaining before the tenants can terminate. This means that Sprint likely will not (because it cannot) terminate its leases with Crown Castle and American Tower for the next 7-8 years.
Sprint technically still owns the 6,600 towers they sold to Crown Castle in 2007 (via an intermediary, Global Signal). Crown Castle is subleasing those towers from Sprint under a pre-paid capitalized sublease agreement. Those sites are also subject to a master lease agreement with defined lease rates, which are fairly valued, in our opinion.
Sprint has on multiple occasions issued Requests for Proposals (RFP) to any tower companies that identify a list of Sprint sites where the ground lease or the collocation lease for the tower or cell site are costly (As have other wireless carriers like AT&T). Sprint requests in the RFP that those tower companies with an interest in building alternative sites/towers next to the problematic sites propose lease terms for Sprint. Sprint would enter into a Build to Suit agreement with the winning tower company(s) and move their equipment from the costly tower to the newly built tower. Historically, these RFPs have resulted in just a very small percentage (>5%) of relocations. More likely, in our opinion, these RFPs are generated specifically to encourage the negotiation of master lease agreements with the large tower companies, and are not intended to result in the actual relocation of a significant number of macrocell towers.
Sprint wants to use Clearwire spectrum and microwave sites for its backhaul. The 2.5GHz spectrum is effective at transmitting high amounts of data. This would allow Sprint to avoid leasing (to a certain extent) fiber backhaul from AT&T, Verizon, and every other fiber provider that provides dark or lit fiber service to Sprint. It is important to recognize though that eventually the traffic must connect to the landline network, and often this will be done through fiber.
STEEL IN THE AIR'S FORECAST REGARDING SPRINT'S NEXT PLAY
Re/code appears to be inferring, from the limited public information available about the NGN along with information from "an unknown source", that Sprint's plan includes the relocation of existing collocations on Crown Castle and American Tower sites en masse to those built by Mobilitie onto government owned properties. We believe that Re/code and/or their sources came to this conclusion erroneously. While it's true that Mobilitie and Sprint are seeking to develop mini-macros on governmental land and utility structures, they are not going to terminate thousands (or even hundreds) of standing macro cell collocation leases with American Tower and Crown Castle as a result. The mini-macro cells are complementary to the macro cells, and exist underneath and in-between the macrocells, creating what the industry refers to as a Het-Net or heterogeneous network. In a Het-Net, both components are equally critical, since macro cells provide overarching coverage and support a large number of individual users, while the mini-macros are meant to augment and facilitate highly localized data traffic. Consider that it takes 10-30 small cells to replace the coverage of one macrocell. So, to sum up this point, Sprint is not deploying mini-macros in order to terminate its existing macrocell leases; rather, they are deploying them to add capacity to their standing towers. They are certainly targeting governmental properties which are commensurately cheaper in states that have chosen to adhere to federal pole attachment regulations and rates. For those states that haven't, there isn't a significant cost advantage.
Sprint and Mobilitie may choose to use small cells/mini-macros to reduce the number of new collocations on existing American Tower, Crown Castle, and SBAC towers in urban and densely populated suburban areas where mini-macros make fiscal sense. However, in rural areas and sparely populated suburban areas, collocations on existing cell towers are too cost efficient and Sprint has and will continue to collocate on such towers. In other words, Sprint's NGN plan will reduce the number of new inbound collocation leases on macrocell towers, like those owned by Crown Castle and American Tower, but by and far between, this does not justify a wholesale move by Sprint from American Tower and Crown Castle towers to Mobilitie owned and developed macrocell towers on governmental property.
As it pertains to existing collocations on American Tower and Crown Castle towers, Sprint is under master leases with both companies that limit its ability to leave the towers, and it is our strong opinion that Sprint is not that incentivized overall to do so. There will be cases where Sprint (and other carriers) will opportunistically use small cells to reduce their dependence on some of their more expensive leases. However, the cost of relocating from one site to another is substantial ($100,000+), and the burden of getting zoning approval for a new tower near an existing one in most urban and suburban markets is quite cumbersome. Local municipalities push hard against the proliferation of towers, especially when there are standing towers that have enough structural capacity for the intended user of the new tower.
RE/CODE'S FLAWED REASONSING COULD MISLEAD INVESTORS
There will not be a mass migration from AMT and CCI towers due to Sprint terminating its collocation leases. At worst, there may be opportunistic terminations by Sprint on a few hundred towers as Sprint attempts to demonstrate a show of force in their negotiations on upcoming master leases. However, with 20,000 to 30,000 leases on the public tower company towers, Sprint is still beholden to the public tower companies, whether it wants to be or not.
Sprint and Mobilitie will continue to build mini-macros on governmental property or utility rights of way. These sites will be cheaper than those built on private property or on the public tower company's towers. CCI probably has more to lose than AMT or SBAC in this regard due to their substantially bigger interest and investment in small cells. We are seeing specific instances where both CCI and Mobilitie are actively courting our municipal clients in an attempt to gain access to municipal rights of way and structures.
We wonder whether sources from Sprint planted this story with Re/Code or gave them enough information such that Re/Code's author jumped to the wrong conclusions. Sprint's unwillingness to confirm or deny this story is expected. The decrease to the tower company market caps certainly helps Sprint in pending master lease negotiations.
OUR CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Unless Re/code and its sources can provide more documentation regarding the specifics of this plan, this story by Re/code seems to be more harmful than helpful, and demonstrates what poor inductive reasoning can do. While we aren't that optimistic that Sprint's Next Generation Network will reverse Sprint's fortunes, we also don't see that the almost 10% drop in value was warranted from Re/code's unconfirmed reporting. If you were bullish on Sprint before, you should be even more so now.
About the author: Ken Schmidt is the foremost expert in the country on cell tower leases. He is the owner and founder of Steel in the Air, Inc. Steel in the Air assists public and private landowners and structure owners with negotiating cell tower leases.
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Hi Ken,
Just wanted to say well done with your expert analysis on the "grossly misinterpreted" information that re/code put out there. Irresponsible at best!
Anyway, I agree with you all the way. In fact after hearing and reading about what re/code said I put in an order in extended hours to add to both my positions in AMT and CCI. They never got filled as they were limit orders…so I'll see how things open tomorrow and go from there. Incidentally I have both a CCI and AMT tower side by side on my property. So I follow these things pretty closely.
and..Take Care,
emil gallo jr.
I just wanted to thank you for your article on Sprint, And apologize at the same time for the poor Wall Street Media statements that you had to clear up. Their are Short Sellers that are trying to "eviscerate" Sprint, in a term from Japan ( Hari Kari ) .. for a number of reasons. The level of Stock manipulation on the Short Side of Sprint should but looked into by the SEC. In my opinion, as the Negative Media has taken Control of all the News we see on the Net about Sprint. I can Say this because, if you go to any Financial Quote Service you will see a number of Off Takes from your explanation of the Sprint Situation. None of them come to the same conclusion that your fine information explains.. This is not the American Way.. imo.. Or it wasn't that way 30 years ago. Greed has taken over the American Exchanges. And it looks like we will have to live with this Greed as they justify it as free enterprise… again imo.. But thanks again for clearing up this mess… eg jr.
As a follow up- on Sprint's Fiscal 3Q 2015 earnings call, they confirmed that there would not be any near term terminations of tower company collocation leases. They confirmed that they would be using their own spectrum for small cell backhaul along with installation/use of dark fiber.


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Награды Республики Сербской были учреждены в 1993 году и прописаны в Конституции Республики Сербской. Награды — ордена и медали — согласно Конституции, вручаются гражданам или организациям за заслуги перед Республикой Сербской.

Награды по степени важности

Ордена
  Орден Республики Сербской (на ленте и на цепи)
  Орден Неманича
  Орден Звезды Карагеоргия (I, II, III степеней)
  Орден Милоша Обилича
  Орден Негоша (I, II, III степеней)
  Крест Милосердия (Орден Креста милосердия)

Прочие ордена:
  Орден Флага Республики Сербской (I, II степеней)
  Орден Чести (с золотыми и серебряными лучами)
 Орден Святого Петра Зимонича (I и II степеней; награда Дабро-Боснийской митрополии Сербской православной церкви)

Медали
  Медаль Петра Мрконича
  Медаль Майора Милана Тепича
  Медаль Заслуг перед народом
   Медаль «За храбрость» (Медаль Гаврилы Принципа, золотая и серебряная)
  Медаль Воинских заслуг
  Медаль Воинских достоинств

Примечания

Ссылки
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Winter Stations Competition winners announced
DCN-JOC News Services January 10, 2020
WINTER STATIONS DESIGN COMPETITION — The winning designs in the 2020 Winter Stations Design Competition will be joined by an installation from Centennial College entitled The Beach's Percussion Ensemble. The theme for the competition's sixth anniversary is Beyond the Five Senses. The Centennial College installation consists of three structures of varying sizes formed of a series of stacked wooden rectangular prisms laid out in a circular shape around a giant steel drum.
TORONTO — Three winning submissions have been selected for the sixth annual Winter Stations Design Competition which will transform lifeguard stations at Toronto's east beaches into pop-up art starting Feb. 17.
The theme for the competition's sixth anniversary is Beyond the Five Senses. Artists, architects and designers were asked to explore how the senses interact and overlap to provide a picture of the environment and how people interact with it, a release stated.
The winners were selected by this year's Winter Stations design jury from 273 submissions from around the world. Each winning submission celebrates Toronto's winter waterfront landscape and aims to draw people outside to interact with installations, the winter and each other, indicates a release. This year, the winning designs will be joined by an installation from Centennial College.
The competition, founded by RAW Design, Ferris + Associates, and Curio, was conceived as a way of using design to inspire Torontonians to visit the beach in the winter.
"We wanted this year's theme to look beyond the five senses to bring interactive art to the water's edge," said Roland Rom Colthoff, RAW Design and Winter Stations co-founder, in the statement. "Winter Stations has always been about bringing joy, warmth and conversation to the long, cold Canadian winter landscape."
The 2020 Winter Stations winners are:
Mirage, by Cristina Vega and Pablo Losa Fontangordo, has been designed to react to the movements of the sun and the people. Depending on where the visitors are positioned, they will see either a red transparent sun setting or a light and bright rising sun on the horizon. As they walk closer, they will discover the thin structure that makes these two simultaneous realities possible.
Kaleidoscope of the Senses, by Charlie Sutherland of SUHUHA, re-purposes the existing lifeguard chair. An open bell tower structure creates clanking metal sounds in the wind, while a diagonal black chimney draws up the aromas of oils set into the beach sand at its base. A horizontal white extrusion reflects the expansive horizon, framing a view of the water and back to the city. A lateral red beam establishes a tactile bench within the structure, the only point of physical contact with the observer.
Noodle Feed, by iheartblob, goes beyond physical senses and creates a shared augmented reality environment where people can interact in new ways and consider that the world is much more than we perceive. The colourful forms and tangible nature of the noodles are designed to attract attention. An augmented reality app lets visitors leave digital traces of their time at the installation.
WINTER STATIONS DESIGN COMPETITION — Noodle Feed, by iheartblob, is one of the winning submissions of this year's Winter Stations Design Competition. The installation creates a shared augmented reality environment where people can interact in new ways and has an augmented reality app which lets visitors leave digital traces of their time at the installation.
The Beach's Percussion Ensemble, by Centennial College, consists of three structures of varying sizes formed of a series of stacked wooden rectangular prisms laid out in a circular shape around a giant steel drum. Where the prisms overhang, metal bells of varying shapes and sizes will hang. The elements of the lake's environment will release the bells' sound like a wind chime. Visitors can use sticks chained to the structure to play along with the sounds. Graffiti artists will also be invited to tag the structure.
Leading up to the launch of Winter Stations, an installation entitled Loop launches Jan. 15 as part of a partnership between Winter Stations and the Waterfront BIA to continue to bring interactive public art to the waterfront during the winter months.
This is the second installation and will be at York Street Park until Feb. 9. Loop is a cross between a music box, a zoetrope and a railway handcar. The retro-futuristic machine, more than two metres in diameter, creates animated fairy tale loops, states the release, adding it activates when a group of people work a hand lever, revealing a lit-up image cylinder that creates the illusion of motion in the drawings.
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WAR MEMORIAL, THE CROSS
Tewkesbury (District Authority)
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SO8932 THE CROSS 859-1/6/341 War Memorial 27/07/73
War memorial. c1920. Limestone. A tapered octagonal shaft with moulded capital and a cross, on an octagonal plinth cut through by a square base with diagonal buttresses at centres of the sides, carrying 4 pinnacles. All set on a broad 3-step hexagonal base, the lowest step with nosing, on a final hexagonal platform which has been rounded, and protected by 6 stone bollards. The cross carries a central shield of arms, and the base has a series of 6 bronze plates with the names of the fallen inscribed, dated 1914-1919 (sic). A further plate has been added covering the years 1939-1945. The memorial is at the meeting of the town's three main streets, previously occupied by a medieval cross, demolished in 1650, and later by a market hall: Dyde (1798) notes that on the spot "..... there was until recently a Tolsey or Town Hall .... very old and of mean appearance", which was said to be in the way of traffic. The new Town Hall (qv) in High Street replaced this former building in 1788. (Dyde W: History and Antiquities of Tewkesbury: Tewkesbury: 1790-).
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 10 January 2017.
Dyde, W, History and Antiquities of Tewkesbury, (1790)
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/103083
War Memorials Register, accessed 10 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/20979
Rights: Copyright IoE Mr John Brookes. Source Historic England Archive


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Pribilof Island School District or Pribilof School District is a school district headquartered on the grounds of St. Paul School in St. Paul, Alaska. It serves students living on the two inhabited Pribilof Islands, Saint Paul Island and Saint George Island.

Schools
The district operates St. Paul School, which has 73 K-12 students, and a correspondence program, which has eight K-10 students.

Until 2017, the district also operated St. George School. The school was forced to close due after its enrollment fell under the minimum of ten students required to receive state funding. The students on that island are served by the correspondence program.

References

External links

School districts in Alaska
Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska
Education in Unorganized Borough, Alaska
Saint Paul Island (Alaska)


Stage of Life (SOL) Theatre is a non-profit children's theatre organization led by director Jennifer Johnson based at the Third Street Center in Carbondale CO. Summer camp offerings for 2018 include Sleeping Beauty, Sing and 101 Dalmations.
ALL of our camps will be run on the same schedule. We will be starting check-in at 8:45 on the first morning of each camp. Camp starts promptly at 9:00 a.m. every morning, Monday through Friday. Pick up is at 3:00 p.m, and we will have a Sol counselor waiting out front with the children, or we will be inside in Studio 15. Please let us know ahead of time if you will need a late pick up so we can make arrangements. If you would like to discuss extended care options, please give us a call.
We will be doing things a little differently this summer! We will be offering our performance cornerstone camp series - teaching our students the individual skills of the stage. Auditioning, Acting, Singing, and Dancing - all leading up to our summer youth Production of Peter Pan. And then of course, our Back to School Boot Camp to get everyone back on track for fall!!! You can sign up for one or two or all - participation in Peter Pan is not dependent on camp participation.
Please note there is a 3% Handling Fee to pay with credit card. You will be invoiced for your payment after you have submitted your registration.
SPACES ARE NOT RESERVED WITHOUT A TUITION PAYMENT!
Scholarships: Scholarships are available up to 50% of tuition. Scholarship Applications must be submitted at time of registration. Scholarships will be awarded based on financial need and availability of funds. If you are applying for a scholarship, payment of 50% is due to hold your space. Scholarship application can be found HERE.
Performances: We will be doing one performance of the final product of our Sing! Camp on Wednesday evening, July 3rd, at 6:00 p.m. Peter Pan Jr. will culminate in a weekend of performances - Friday and Saturday evenings, and a Sunday matinee on the weekend of August 9th.
Come learn all you need to know about getting ready for auditions! From head shots (included with tuition), to choosing your monologue, to picking the right music piece to highlight your strengths, to surviving dance calls…and most importantly, how to put your very best foot forward and make a positive first impression!
A class for the beginning actor - learn all of the basics of acting, beginning with understanding stage directions, writing down your blocking, and figuring out your script…all the way to getting through butterflies to your first performance!
We're bringing back our most popular camp from last summer! Learn how to select a song to challenge yourself as a performer, and bring it to life in our student directed showcase!
Performance on the final night of camp - July 3rd, 6:00 p.m.
We're excited to offer a dance class that will focus on dancing for the musical theatre stage. No experience necessary, just come ready to celebrate movement and motion and learn how to tell the story of a song through dance!
Our final-week-of-summer-camp to help get you back on track, on schedule, and ready to go for the fall! We'll help you get ready to meet new teachers, new friends, start new schools - or simply get you ready to get back to work!


It's long been a dream of mine to have a poem up at Poetry Daily, and today, that dream came true! My poem "The World's Longest-Running Scientific Experiment, 2010," first published in The Briar Cliff Review, is today's poem. Thanks to the editors at both publications! This poem appears in my second collection, Simple Machines.
It's a poem about imagination, so that I often can't help but read it as a metaphor for poetry–that it's our job as poets to try to give voice to our imaginings as well as Callas did. And when I had Orlen as a teacher, I told him how much I love the line, "ripe plums / Sleeping in their chipped bowl," and he said, "Thank you, thank you, that means a lot to me," in a way that made me believe he really did take my opinion seriously, and then he asked, "What makes it a good line, do you think?" At the time, I think I said that the verb surprised me, and so I learned you could pack a metaphor into your verb, you didn't need to spell it out for people, but also I learned that you could use a line break to set up your surprise. It was a lesson I should have learned in Latin–the first word and last word of the line are places of emphasis and intention, and you could leave your loaded words there. Often, Latin sentences have the important words, the verbs, as the first or last words of the sentence.
Now when I read that line, I think it's the rhythm, too. Here's how I scan it: "Ripe plums" is a spondee, "sleeping" is a trochee, "in their" is pyrrhic, and "chipped bowl" is another spondee. All of these are considered strong feet except "in their," and it's the perfect softness to set up the precise sound and strength of the "chipped bowl" spondee. The way you put your lips together for the p's in "chipped" is broken by the pursed lips you have to make to read "bowl," so it feels really good to read it out loud, too.
There's a great hint of alliteration in the middle, when we get the archetypal opera plot information–"breathless brides," "horned helmets." The longer narrative sentences keep going on their imagination, but also on their music.
YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Write an elegy for an artist you love, as Orlen's lyric is an elegy for Callas. Inhabit that person's art in a way that makes a statement about what work that artist did or has made possible for you. I'm going to write "In the House of Voice of Steve Orlen," maybe.
francine j. harris is my fellow 2015 NEA Literature Fellow in poetry, and around the time that we found out the names of the other fellows, I'd read one poem of hers in Poetry magazine, "enough food and a mom." I can't get the formatting to work right here, so please go to the link and read the poem there.
YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Play with parts of speech. Write a poem where nouns become verbs, verbs become nouns, adjectives become nouns (that's called a "substantive"), etc. Have that role swap become part of the story of the poem.


The second season of Bigg Boss will begin from next month. Natural star Nani is confirmed as the host and the Bigg Boss set is under construction in Annapurna 7 acres studios.
Three contestants have been confirmed so far while the talks for remaining contestants are going in. Hero Tarun, actress Tejaswi Madivada and singer Geetha Madhuri are contestants who are finalised.
There are reports that actress Gajala of 'Student No 1' fame and Raasi might get an opportunity.


As a savvy business owner, you likely have some understanding of what a customer is worth over the life of their relationship with you. Showing a little extra love now can pay off big time down the road — happy customers breed more happy customers. Here are three of the most effective (and ROI-positive) strategies to making your customers smile.
Understand that things will go wrong from time to time, but bending over backward to make it right inspires loyalty. Know what would resolve the customer's issue, and then do a little more to wow them. If complaints aren't common then the money you spend will preserve, and possibly boost, the lifetime value of that customer. Even in cases where you spend more than the customer is worth, you maintain a happy customer that doesn't slam you on social networks or declare loudly to everyone in earshot that they shouldn't bring business to you. Going above and beyond for customers can turn them into advocates for your business — leading to glowing recommendations and more customers. I once had a negative experience with REI, and they went above and beyond to make it up to me. Since then, I've recommended them to everyone I know who's looking for outdoor equipment. Spending money to make customers very happy will yield more customers in the long run, even if you spend more than the unhappy customer is worth in revenue to you.
When speaking with customers, ask them if there's anything you can do for them — and then help them with whatever it is they need. A customer service representative from the online shoe retailer Zappos once helped a customer track down pizza restaurants that were open late at night. They once also found a pair of shoes from a competitor for a gentleman that needed shoes urgently and had them delivered to his hotel. I'm not suggesting you turn your business into a full service concierge, but strange requests are the exception. But they're exceptions that offer you the opportunity to create a stellar reputation that stands out from the pack. Going above and beyond will turn your customers into megaphones for your amazing service.
Don't make the kinds of calls you get from annoying survey organizations, but call and thank them for their business. Make that the subject of your call. Don't put a hard sell on for anything, just be gracious and thankful for their business. Ask them if there's anything they need that you can do for them (see above), but if not, bid them farewell with another emphatic thank you. Leave a voicemail if need be, again emphasizing your gratitude for their business, and leave a phone number (one that reaches an actual human being). The amount of time you spend per call pales in comparison to the immediate business you could generate and the advocacy you will inspire.
Victor Echevarria is the Head of Business Development at TaskRabbit. Follow him on Twitter @etxeba.


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As with all of my projects, my primary goal is to learn more about electronics, CAD, programming, etc.
Better Base - the previous version had a small base as outlined in this post which had to be attached to a surface. In my case, I screwed it down to a board and mounted the arm, controller and controls to that board. It worked but wasn't at all a finished project. For version 2, I am designing a base enclosure and control interface.
Better Base Support Bearing - In the original project, the arm was supported entirely on the lower servo shaft. Remarkably, this design has lasted for 2 years but it is still very flimsy and makes the arm wobble. So, for the upgrade, I will be using a more robust bearing design.
Arduino Controller - The previous design used a programmable servo controller to take inputs and control the arm. It worked pretty well but was limited in the number of inputs and outputs. For version 2 I will be using an Arduino for the controller.
Record and Playback - In addition to manual manipulation of the arm, version 2 will be able to record a series of movements and then play them back.
Demo Mode - Watching the interaction of people with version 1 taught me that if allowed, people (especially kids) will sit and play with the arm for an hour if you let them. For version 2, I will be adding different modes of operation - one of which will be a demo mode that allows folks to play with the arm for about 1 minute and then shuts down so that the next person will have a chance to play with it. I am planning on having a screen on the arm with a countdown timer that displays that the time is up. I call this Armatron mode after one of my favorite childhood toys.
Preset Buttons - I will be adding some buttons that will perform some preset or recorded functions.
Aux Control Port - I'd like to make the control options for the arm expandable. I will be adding an I2C connection port so that alternate controllers can be plugged in to control the arm. Examples may include gesture control, PC control, feedback control via third pary system, etc.
I would like to have this project completed in 4-5 months. I've given myself a deadline of Febuary 28th, 2017.
My goal is to keep my materials cost below $100.
Other costs like laser cutting and engraving are not included in this budget as they change based on vendor and location. I use a very reasonable local vendor who does excellent work.
I tend to recycle used parts when I can so the ultimate cost may be difficult to follow but when this project is complete, I will as usual post a list of parts and sources that I typically use so that others can build the project if they choose.


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Howard Stern Show's "Ronnie The Limo Driver" Hosted The Weekend Nascar Kick Off Party At Tootsie's Cabaret In Miami
"Ronnie the Limo Driver" was the special guest host at the Weekend Nascar Kick Off Party at Tootsie's Cabaret Miami the country's largest adult entertainment complex at 74,000 square feet on three floors.
Ronnie took to the stage, greeted the packed crowd, and expressed his love for fast cars and for the over 300 Tootsie's Girls who were on hand to entertain and strip out of their revealing outfits.
"I love coming to Miami and I always come to Tootsie's," he said. "So many hot girls, great food, and great people in such an awesome club!"
Ronnie and his girlfriend Stefanie were joined by several Nascar drivers and crew, and were happily surprised when former "Howard TV" Producers Mike Gange and Richie Wilson stopped by for a reunion of sorts.
Tootsie's Cabaret has been called an "Adult Wonderland," and is the top spot for pro athletes from all the major sports, recording artists, and show business celebrities.
Tootsie's Cabaret, close to US 95 at the corner of Highway 441 and Miami Gardens Drive, features more than 300 beautiful entertainers, four full liquor bars, a 400-plus square foot main stage, more than 300 hi-def TV screens, three levels of VIP areas, luxury Sky Boxes, and a 15,000 square foot Knockers Sports Bar. There is parking for 1,500 cars.
Tootsie's Cabaret Miami
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Miami Gardens Drive
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