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BENTON, KENTUCKY -- We purchased our manufactured home in June 2003. The house was set up in September 2003. Since that time we have encountered numerous problems. We have a sagging, leaking roof, shower stall doors that have fallen out and hit us in the head and shoulder. Carpet that has been installed incorrectly (after having to be replaced), contractors sent by the company harassing and badgering, then refusing to do the work they were hired to do. Windows and doors that do not fit correctly (one window not even attached), fireplace flue installed incorrectly which now leaks, sagging ceiling panels. This company has breached the warranty. We were told this was the best warranty around. Check the web site and see the bragging. We are not the only people with this problem. We have numerous complaints on this company and the retailer, Coachman Homes in Missouri. PSC has done and inspection and Fleetwood hired their own inspector and these problems were found with these inspections. We have spent $5,000 on an attorney that has been useless. The retailer now wishes us to vacate for two weeks (AT OUR EXPENSE of $9,000.00) so they can replace the straps and anchors, level the home correctly, place the electric line for the AC in the protective conduit, on and on. This to correct problems that should have never occirred or done right to begin with. We delayed moving in for a month so some of these issues could be dealt with. The refrigerator did not work and was finally replaced witha two year old refrigerator full of roaches. So another expense has been an exterminator. My wife has MS and has had two relapses since this all started. This has gotten to be an impossible situation and we have been dealing with this for nineteen months.
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Posted By Bill Hogan On July 25, 2013 @ 12:27 pm In Washington Watch | Comments Disabled
I'm fortunate to have one of most adorable dogs in the world – Cara, our 7-year-old wire fox terrier – watching over our house (nearly always from inside) pretty much 24/7. She is diabolically effective in scaring Darrell, our cheerful and ever-reliable postal carrier, away from the house within moments after he's left mail at our front door.
Earlier this year, I had to break the news to Cara that the U.S. Postal Service was proposing to do away with Saturday delivery. (Thank goodness that threat hasn't come to pass.) Now – and I'm still grappling with this one – I'm going to have to tell her that the days of having mail delivered right to our door may be numbered.Related: Saturday Mail Service: Myths and Realities
For some time now, the Postal Service has been gradually moving toward what it calls "centralized delivery," where residents pick up their own mail from clusters of mail boxes strategically placed in their neighborhoods.
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The postmaster general's office estimates that delivering mail directly to a customer's door costs an average $353 a year, compared with just $224 for curbside or roadside delivery, or $160 for delivery to cluster-box units – CBUs, in Postal Service parlance – and other centralized locations.
The National Letter Carriers Union, which opposes the elimination of Saturday mail delivery, is also against the elimination of to-your-door delivery, saying that it would, among other things, make it difficult for older and disabled people to get their mail.
"It's madness," the NLCU's Jim Sauber told CNN. "The idea that somebody is going to walk down to their mailbox in Buffalo, New York, in the winter snow to get their mail is just crazy."
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"The Postal Service has generally resisted mass conversions to cluster boxes, especially for existing customers, because it knows they will anger customers," Hutkins observed in his blog, Save the Post Office.
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Awwwww, poor guy
It is so flippin cold out today. I hate winter. Its minus 14 and the wind is making it feel like minus 26 and we're having major snowsqualls. When I took Pipper out for a pee his poor little feet got so cold he was holding them up above his head. I have never seen a dog hold their feet up so high. He sure didn't waste any time peeing. Next time we go out I will carry him to the backyard instead of letting him walk there.
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where about are you???? Im in Richmond hill no snow squalls yet!! Poor guy. I am hating this cold alert that we are getting..................
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Poor Pipper needs booties.
That's why I like having them pad trained as well as trained to go outside. My first Maltese Heidi, hated to get her feet wet. She would stand in the garage with this look on her face that seemed to say "you want me to go out in that? I don't think so". |
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OHHHHH so that explains the snow sqaualls........................ my condolences to you P.S. Please if you dont mind I dont want to seem greedy, you can keep the snow squalls come over to Richmond hill no snow just freezing cold. Um Did you want me to send the cold back to you???? cus I really am not using it right now!!! |
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I Understand the cold pa--is Freezing.
Yogi wont go out in the cold--The pee pee Pads--well thats a story in its self. After eating most of the pads for so long-even after i bought the frame,This is what works--dont laugh---i have to cut bath towels white one into a 18-24 to fit the frame--and he does use them. They Unrave on all ends,cut and trim. I hope to find someone that will sew some for me.Little guy,Keep those Paw Paws Warm. Nickee In Pa* |
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Nah, I wouldn't switch to pee pads. Pipper learned so fast to go outside when he was a puppy and he is so good at making sure I know he needs out, I wouldn't do anything to confuse him. I will just carry him to his pee spot instead of letting him walk when its this cold.
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First pan-European Agile gathering will be organised at XP2011 conference in Madrid. But, before the gathering each country should self-organize and prepare their statement of what they want from Europe. All agilists from Europe are invited to join local Agile communities in your country to prepare for the ALE gathering in Madrid. You can find more information about emerging local communities here.
In Slovenia we have already started a discussion about this topic on our local LinkedIn group Skram.si.
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Muller joins Thiel College from Pittsburgh-based Education Management Corporation (EDMC), where she served as vice president for corporate communications and public relations. Previously, she led communications at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania as chief communications officer, and as assistant to three university presidents.
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Is there a Good build out yet Also Mirror Image is a must. Crit mass unfortunately due to the very short nature of the fight's (95% of them) is basically useless. Also fracture isn't as situational reversal, safe passage, or calamity. I would rate these as mandatory Teleport for snare break's and using it for damage or damage reduction (only if it prevents 1 shots use safe passage) Mirror image for anything deciding to use stun effects Illusionist because the previous 2 are mandatory Storm armor until people start stacking lighting resist gear. The reset depends on your approach to pvp. |
F magic missile. Awful spell. All the primaries are awful. It's the same thing we had when we started wading through inferno -- you realize all Wiz primaries blow.
I'm honestly curious to play with anyone advocating MMseeker, I have tried and tried to make it work and it straight blows no matter how i use it. I wanna see YOU (anyone reading this who supports using MM) in action with it, assuming its not just theorycrafting blablabla and you actually did go and have success with it Right now I should have my profile configured like it is for PVP on PTR (which actually isnt working for me atm)
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What do you guys think about RoF + CB? ...I got some kills with it but i did 85% of my pvp on the first night of the ptr when e'rybody was a nub.
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wave of force...its ur turn to shine
wave of force is not bad, but i ended up cutting it from my selection in favor of more passive buffs. i think the direct trade i did was WOF for Sparkflint
In the end I find myself just wanting every ounce of power I can muster out of my passive TS attacks, since im spending all my time avoiding things and not direct attacking
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F magic missile. Awful spell. All the primaries are awful. It's the same thing we had when we started wading through inferno -- you realize all Wiz primaries blow. Seeker Missile is amazing. I don't know why people don't use it as often, and instead go with spamming Blizzard instead. All you need to do is carry Storm Armor for the passive damage, Lightning Hydra is an option as well (but I really only keep it for DHs and WDs). Other than that, it's Mirror Image and Wormhole Teleport for repositioning needs, and either Crystal Shell or Stretch Time. If it's Stretch Time, usually I'll just keep running away from everyone I see, pop a bubble and hurl Seekers around walls and trees while hiding out of sight. Someone gets too close, I Mirror Image and Teleport as far away as I can, kite a bit with Seeker until I'm at a safe distance. It works the majority of the time for me (maybe because of my massive EHP). Those who chase me, including Strafe DHs, eventually die to Storm Armor. Meanwhile, I try to break every disable on me thanks to Illusionist. Edit: I'll make a quick video at some point soon.
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@alesso, yeah i find mm usefull too, have to stutter step with it. specially good vs melee and toons where u need to burts more damage while kiting, but i must admit its worthless vs dh. ill add you in ptr and see.... ur 400k dps worries me though, at least till they fix the elite bonuses when i can stack ehp and dps at once.
So I was debating whether to go 1hdr + Stormshield for eHP or High DPS Skorn with +Vit. I went with a 1440 dps Skorn with 300int/170vit for 22mil and will stack eHP in other areas. My question would be, is the DPS important or the eHP or a balance of both?
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You need both of course. Enough not to get 1-3 shot.
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Great video here. Peter Schiff (Ron Paul's economic adviser back in 2008) went to Occupy Wall Street and spoke to some of the protesters. I'm pretty sure it was for several hours but the video below is about 18 minutes long. For any Ron Paul fans who don't know who Peter Schiff is, I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority will find him to be worthwhile. He has a show on www.schiffradio.com from 10AM-noon Monday through Friday where he goes into detail on the conversations you see in the video.
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Cassel was injured the first time he dropped back to pass, dragged down from behind by Brandon Mebane after the pocket collapsed. Cassel called timeout, then limped down the tunnel toward the locker room with a left leg injury and didn't return.
Signed to a a six-year, $63 million contract in the offseason, Cassel had a so-so first preseason game against Houston, then spent last week's game against Minnesota running for his life because of numerous offensive line breakdowns.
He was supposed to play into the third quarter against the Seahawks and show what he can do with more of the playbook available.
X-rays on Cassel's leg were negative, but it's not clear if he will even be available for next week's preseason finale against St. Louis.
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Agreed, it'd be like a Call of Duty: Real Life. No way they'd release it though, it could give away information about squad tactics.
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Next Generation Network (NGN) Services A White Paper 1.0 Introduction Intense competition is expected in the information networking arena over the next 5-10 years. As the competition increases, it will be essential for companies to position themselves appropriately to take advantage of their core competencies and to prepare for the emerging telecommunications environment. In this competitive environment, mergers, alliances, and the onslaught of new entrants into the market have service providers struggling to find innovative ways to retain and/or attract the most lucrative subscribers. Today's service providers are striving to differentiate themselves within this expanding competitive landscape by searching for ways to brand and bundle new services, achieve operational cost reductions, and strategically position themselves in relation to their competition. As Figure 1 illustrates, the top 15% of today's residential subscribers in the US are said to account for about 95% of carrier profits! Thus, many service providers are looking to Next Generation Network (NGN) services as a means to attract and/or retain the most lucrative customers. 15% 95% 85% 5% % of Customers % of Profits Figure 1: Carrier Profits from Residential Customers in US While this paper is not intended to describe NGNs in detail, it may be helpful to provide a brief, high-level definition of what an NGN is to help set the stage for the remainder of the paper. For J. C. Crimi Telcordia Technologies / Next Generation Networks Next Generation Network (NGN) Services 2 A Telcordia Technologies White Paper this paper, an NGN can be thought of as a packet-based network where the packet switching and transport elements (e.g., routers, switches, and gateways) are logically and physically separated from the service/call control intelligence. This control intelligence is used to support all types of services over the packet-based transport network, including everything from basic voice telephony services to data, video, multimedia, advanced broadband, and management applications, which can be thought of as just another type of service that NGNs support. From a user's perspective, today's networks have come a long way in fulfilling their purpose of enabling people and their machines to communicate at a distance. However, a key critical success factor (among many) is focused telecommunications industry attention on NGN service concepts and how these concepts can be realized in an NGN environment, from the edges to the core of the network. This focus is lacking today, with most of the attention on specific NGN technology issues. For example, what type of access will be supported (e.g., Hybrid Fiber Coax [HFC], Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop [ADSL], wireless, others)? How will the backbone transport network be designed (e.g., based on Internet Protocol [IP], Asynchronous Transfer Mode [ATM], others)? How will operations and management be handled in this new environment? Although these are all critical questions, we believe the most important issues to be addressed relate to NGN services and how they can be realized in an NGN environment. Common industry understanding of an NGN services vision will help crystallize the requirements for each of the technology issues, as well as identify areas where industry cooperation is needed. This White Paper addresses three critical questions: • Why are NGNs important for service providers? • What are the important trends, characteristics, and services in an NGN environment? • What attributes should a Next Generation Service Architecture possess? 2.0 NGN Value Proposition for Service Providers The Internet community is already well on its way to handling all of our emerging and new service needs. Their solution is simple…with advanced CPE such as PCs, smart phones, set-top boxes, etc., much of the "intelligence" should be pushed out to the edges of the network. Services will execute at the end systems. Enterprise, computing, and software companies (and an increasing number of college and high school computer science students) will develop the applications and download them over the Internet to our smart CPE. All we need from the public network carriers is reliable, high-bandwidth transport. So why should traditional telecommunications carriers care about NGN services? Why don't they just throw in the towel, forget about providing network-based NGN services, and focus on their wholesale "pipe" business? Let us count the reasons: 1. Public network carriers may survive with this strategy (if they're lucky), but they certainly won't prosper. The "pipe" business is increasingly becoming a commodity business. Network providers are being forced to compete by price for ever-shrinking profit margins. In the mean time, competitors are offering more sophisticated services to skim off the incumbents' high-margin customers. If the public network carriers want to prosper in the new millennium, they must find ways to add value to their transport services. NGNs that J. C. Crimi Telcordia Technologies / Next Generation Networks Next Generation Network (NGN) Services 3 A Telcordia Technologies White Paper support new advanced services will allow them to retain key customers and expand their addressable markets into new areas. 2. One size doesn't fit all. There is no doubt that services for certain customers will migrate out to the edges of the network. Public network providers cannot prevent this trend. However, that doesn't mean they should hide their heads in the sand and admit defeat. The new information services business is going to be a multi-billion dollar industry. There's plenty to go around. After all, even though many people have answering machines sitting on their nightstands, the public network carriers are making quite a profit with their network-based voice messaging service offerings! The reality is that some customers will want CPE-based services, but others will prefer network-based services. 3. Network-based services make sense. For small numbers of simple services that do not require interworking between one another, the CPE-based approach is adequate. However, as the number, sophistication, and degree of interworking between services increases, network-based approaches hold a number of important advantages. For example, network-based approaches provide more efficiency and scalability than CPE- based approaches. With CPE-based approaches, the CPE will need to become more sophisticated (and therefore, more expensive) to keep up with the demands of more advanced applications. Network-based solutions allow for shared resources and economies of scale to meet these demands. Secondly, it is more difficult to support service and user mobility with CPE-based approaches. If users want to access their services from a different location, they will need to bring their CPE with them or download software at the new location, wasting time and network resources. With network-based services, users can authenticate themselves from wherever they are and gain access to their complete suite of services. Finally, customer care, billing, configuration management, provisioning, and other management concerns are more easily handled with network-based solutions. History has shown that most end users quickly tire of loading applications themselves, keeping their software and hardware up to date, and troubleshooting when problems arise. Some like to "tinker", and see this as a hobby, but most would prefer to get on with more meaningful activities by "outsourcing" these tedious duties to someone else. 4. The network is the computer. Sun Microsystems and IBM have been saying it for quite a while, and even Microsoft is starting to admit it with a number of their recent press announcements and acquisitions. In a recent interview, Scott McNealy, the CEO of Sun Microsystems, described why he believes the traditional telecommunications carriers are the most logical providers of this new network. He stated, "(The telephone companies) have done dialtone or video tone or wireless tone or whatever for a long time. They've done it very well and, in fact, have provided tone far more reliably and predictably and credibly than we have in the computer industry with our current models of computing. I just see moving naturally back to the service provider to provide Web-site tone, application tone, video tone, mail tone, you-name-it tone to all of us in a much better way." What gives Mr. McNealy such faith in the telephone companies? "Reliability. Ubiquity. They know how to bill millions of people for billions of small transactions. They have a field service organization, the man in the van. They have the infrastructure. So it's a natural. It's just unnatural for individuals to have 50 million lines of software on their desktop with volume managers and file managers and backup systems and antiviral J. C. Crimi Telcordia Technologies / Next Generation Networks Next Generation Network (NGN) Services 4 A Telcordia Technologies White Paper utilities from Norton and a 4,000-feature word processor. I mean, there is just something totally, absolutely, completely unnatural about a PC. It's about as natural as building and flying your own airplane or having a nuclear power plant in your basement." NGNs will allow carriers' networks to cost effectively support a new suite of sophisticated services by building on core competencies related to traditional transport services. In addition, a unified and consistent NGN approach will help reduce costs by eliminating the inefficiencies of current service-specific, proprietary, and non-reusable solutions. NGN approaches will also reduce the time to market and life-cycle costs of offering new services. Finally, NGNs will enable carriers to deploy advanced services, allowing them to remain competitive as well as expand their capabilities to enter new markets. The bottom line is that, in addition to their wholesale transport businesses, public network carriers should (and must) pursue Next Generation Service Architectures to offer value-added services. As Figure 2 states, this will be their new strategic differentiator. Telephony World Internet World "Bell Heads" "Net Heads" Centralized Intelligence Driven Intelligence to CPE The New Strategic Differentiator! Next Generation Service Architecture with Distributed Intelligence Figure 2: Convergence of Telephony World and Internet World 3.0 Next Generation Services "Making predictions is risky, especially when it involves the future." - N. Bohr 3.1 What Do We Know? – NGN Service Characteristics Although it is difficult to predict what the next killer applications will be, we can infer the types of service characteristics and capabilities that will be important in the NGN environment by examining current service-related industry trends. It is certainly true that we are moving from Time Division Multiplex (TDM)-based, circuit switched networks to packet-, cell-, and frame- based networks. However, these changes in the transport networks are merely enablers for the dramatic changes we will see at the service level. J. C. Crimi Telcordia Technologies / Next Generation Networks Next Generation Network (NGN) Services 5 A Telcordia Technologies White Paper The major thrust of traditional network service providers has been to offer the mass market basic transport of information between end users, with various value-added capabilities. These services tended to involve narrowband voice calls, with a single point-to-point connection per call. However, this view of services is rapidly changing as the world's economies are becoming increasingly reliant on information as a basic resource. While existing services will remain part of service providers' offerings, customers' expectations will migrate towards more advanced broadband multimedia and information intensive services. End users will interact with the network via sophisticated CPE, and be able to select from a wide range of Quality-of-Service (QoS) and bandwidth. In the future, network intelligence will not just relate to the creative routing of connections based on simple database look-ups, but may take on a much broader meaning (e.g., multimedia session management, coordination of multi- technology connections, intelligent management/operations, advanced security, true user agents, user-installable scripts/applets, on-line directory services, and proxy agents). The current evolution of telecommunication services points to a world where service providers will have the flexibility to focus on micro-marketing (as opposed to mass-marketing). Decisions about their service offerings may have as much to do with packaging (e.g., pricing, bundling, marketing, and convenience), as they will with the actual services offered. As multiple carriers, service providers, equipment vendors, and other business entities all become involved in providing services to end users, federated network and business systems will become increasingly important. The primary goal will be to enable users to get the information content they want, in any media/format, over any facilities, anytime, anywhere, and in any volume. Based on the above- mentioned trends, the following is a summary of several service characteristics likely to be important in an NGN environment: • Ubiquitous, real-time, multi-media communications - The only hope for dramatically increased fidelity, akin to communicating in person, is high-speed access and transport for any medium, anytime, anywhere, and in any volume. • More "personal intelligence" distributed throughout the network - This includes applications that can access users' personal profiles (e.g., subscription information and personal preferences), learn from their behavior patterns, and perform specific functions on behalf of them (e.g., "intelligent agents" that notify them of specific events or that search for, sort, and filter specific content). • More "network intelligence" distributed throughout the network - This includes applications that know about, allow access to, and control network services, content, and resources. It can also perform specific functions on behalf of a service or network provider (e.g., "management agents" that monitor network resources, collect usage data, provide troubleshooting, or broker new services/content from other providers). • More simplicity for users - This shields users from the complexity of information gathering, processing, customization, and transportation. It allows them to more easily access and use network services/content, including user interfaces that allows for natural interactions between users and the network. It involves providing context-sensitive options/help/information, transparently managing interactions among multiple services, J. C. Crimi Telcordia Technologies / Next Generation Networks Next Generation Network (NGN) Services 6 A Telcordia Technologies White Paper providing different menus for novices vs. experienced users, and providing a unified environment for all forms of communication. • Personal service customization and management - This involves the users' ability to manage their personal profiles, self-provision network services, monitor usage and billing information, customize their user interfaces and the presentation and behavior of their applications, and create and provision new applications. • Intelligent information management - This helps users manage information overload by giving them the ability to search for, sort, and filter content, manage messages or data of any medium, and manage personal information (e.g., calendar, contact list, etc.). 3.2 What Don't We Know? – Specific NGN Services Although we have a feel for the types of service characteristics that will be important in an NGN environment, no one really knows what the "killer applications" will be. Fortunately, the Next Generation Service Architecture will enable a number of key features that can be particularly beneficial to a wide array of potential services. A variety of services, some already available, others still at the conceptual stage, have been linked to NGN initiatives and considered likely candidates for NGN implementations. While some of these services can be offered on existing platforms, others benefit from the advanced control, management, and signaling capabilities of NGNs. Although emerging and new services are likely to be the strongest drivers for NGNs, most of the initial NGNs profits may actually result from the bundling of traditional services. Thus, bundled traditional services will pay for the network, whereas emerging services will fuel the growth. Most traditional services relate to basic access/transport/routing/switching services, basic connectivity/resource and session control services, and various value-added services. NGNs will likely enable a much broader array of service types, including: • Specialized resource services (e.g., provision and management of transcoders, multimedia multipoint conferencing bridges, media conversion units, voice recognition units, etc.) • Processing and storage services (e.g., provision and management of information storage units for messaging, file servers, terminal servers, OS platforms, etc.) • Middleware services (e.g., naming, brokering, security, licensing, transactions, etc.) • Application-specific services (e.g., business applications, e-Commerce applications, supply-chain management applications, interactive video games, etc.) • Content provision services that provide or broker information content (e.g., electronic training, information push services, etc.) • Interworking services for interactions with other types of applications, services, networks, protocols, or formats (e.g., EDI translation) • Management services to maintain, operate, and manage communications/computing networks and services. Figure 3 and the following text give a brief description of several services that we currently believe will be important drivers in the NGN environment (e.g., in terms of how pervasive they will be, how much profit margins they are likely to generate, how much they will benefit from an J. C. Crimi Telcordia Technologies / Next Generation Networks Next Generation Network (NGN) Services 7 A Telcordia Technologies White Paper NGN type of environment, and/or how "glamorous" they are). We intentionally included a broad range of services (e.g., from basic voice telephony to more futuristic services such as Distributed Virtual Reality) to emphasize that the Next Generation Service Architecture will support a wide variety of services. Virtual Data Voice Multimedia Private Services Telephony Services Networks Public Unified Electronic Information Commerce Network Messaging Brokering Computing Interactive Distributed Home Call Center Gaming Manager Virtual Services Reality Figure 3: Example NGN Service Drivers • Voice Telephony – NGNs will likely need to support various existing voice telephony services (e.g., Call Waiting, Call Forwarding, 3-Way Calling, various AIN features, various Centrex features, and various CLASS features). Note, however, that NGNs are not trying to duplicate each and every traditional voice telephony service currently offered. Rather, they will likely attempt to support only a small percentage of these traditional services, with an initial focus on the most marketable voice telephony features and the features required from a regulatory perspective. • Data (Connectivity) Services – Allows for the real-time establishment of connectivity between endpoints, along with various value-added features (e.g., bandwidth-on-demand, connection reliability/resilient Switched Virtual Connections [SVCs], and bandwidth management/call admission control). • Multimedia Services – Allows multiple parties to interact using voice, video, and/or data. This allows customers to converse with each other while displaying visual information. It also allows for collaborative computing and groupware. • Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) – Voice VPNs improve the interlocation networking capabilities of businesses by allowing large, geographically dispersed organizations to combine their existing private networks with portions of the PSTN, thus providing subscribers with uniform dialing capabilities. Data VPNs provide added security and networking features that allow customers to use a shared IP network as a VPN. J. C. Crimi Telcordia Technologies / Next Generation Networks Next Generation Network (NGN) Services 8 A Telcordia Technologies White Paper • Public Network Computing (PNC) – Provides public network-based computing services for businesses and consumers. For example, the public network provider could provide generic processing and storage capabilities (e.g., to host a web page, store/maintain/backup data files, or run a computing application). The public network provider would charge users for the raw processing and storage used, but would have no knowledge of the specific content/application. Alternatively, the public network provider could provide specific business applications (e.g., Enterprise Resource Planning [ERP], time reporting, vouchers, etc.) or consumer applications (e.g., TaxCut, kitchen remodeling program, etc.), with all or part of the processing/storage happening in the network. The public network provider could charge based on an hourly, daily, weekly, etc. licensing fee for the service (e.g., rent-an-app). • Unified Messaging – Supports the delivery of voice mail, email, fax mail, and pages through common interfaces. Through such interfaces, users will access, as well as be notified of, various message types (voice mail, email, fax mail, etc.), independent of the means of access (i.e., wireline or mobile phone, computer, or wireless data device). • Information Brokering – Involves advertising, finding, and providing information to match consumers with providers. For example, consumers could receive information based on pre-specified criteria or based on personal preferences and behavior patterns. • E-Commerce – Allows consumers to purchase goods and services electronically over the network. This could include processing the transactions, verifying payment information, providing security, and possibly trading (i.e., matching buyers and sellers who negotiate "trades" for goods or services). Home banking and home shopping fall into this category of services. This also includes business-to-business applications (e.g., supply-chain management and knowledge management applications). • Call Center Services – A subscriber could place a call to a call center agent by clicking on a Web page. The call could be routed to an appropriate agent, who could be located anywhere, even at home (i.e., virtual call centers). Voice calls and e-mail messages could be queued uniformly for the agents. Agents would have electronic access to customer, catalog, stock, and ordering information, which could be transmitted back and forth between the customer and the agent. • Interactive gaming – Offers consumers a way to meet online and establish interactive gaming sessions (e.g., video games). • Distributed Virtual Reality – Refers to technologically generated representations of real- world events, people, places, experiences, etc., in which the participants in and providers of the virtual experience are physically distributed. These services require sophisticated coordination of multiple, diverse resources. • Home Manager – With the advent of in-home networking and intelligent appliances, these services could monitor and control home security systems, energy systems, home entertainment systems, and other home appliances. Imagine you're watching television and the doorbell rings – no problem – you just use the TV's remote to get a view of your front entrance to see who's there. Or imagine monitoring your house while you're away on a trip, or your in-house nanny watching your children while you're at work. J. C. Crimi Telcordia Technologies / Next Generation Networks Next Generation Network (NGN) Services 9 A Telcordia Technologies White Paper 4.0 Next Generation Service Architecture Many existing applications were developed in a "stovepipe" fashion, hard-coded for a specific type of transport. For carriers wishing to support a limited set of applications over a limited number of transport mechanisms, this strategy is adequate. This "stovepipe" approach might even provide better performance, reliability, etc. since the platform is tailored for each specific application/transport combination. However, as the number of applications and types of transport increases, the "stovepipe" approach can become quite inefficient. For example, looking across a larger sample of applications over a larger number of transport types, there are more similarities than differences in the types of support required (e.g., billing, security, setting up connections, signaling protocols, etc.). Thus, as the number of supported applications increases, it becomes quite inefficient to provide specialized mechanisms for session control, connectivity control, middleware, signaling, interworking, etc. As Figure 4 illustrates, one of the primary goals of NGNs is to provide a common, unified, and flexible control environment that can support multiple types of services and management applications over multiple types of transport. This section describes three critical characteristics of this Next Generation control environment. E- Voice Voice Data UM VPN Com ... TDM IP ATM IP TDM FR Voice Data UM E- Com VPN Mgmt Apps ... Next Generation Control TDM IP ATM FR SONET WDM ... Figure 4: Next Generation Control 4.1 Architectural Layering The concept of architectural layering is central to NGN environments. First and foremost, NGNs cleanly separate service/session control from the underlying transport elements. This allows carriers to choose (for their particular situations) the "best-in-breed" transport elements independent from the "best-in-breed" control software. As Figure 5 shows, NGN control can then be decomposed into feature control, service/session control, and connectivity control. The J. C. Crimi Telcordia Technologies / Next Generation Networks Next Generation Network (NGN) Services 10 A Telcordia Technologies White Paper clean separation between access, service, and communications session control within the Service Layer allows each type of session to be treated independently from the others. Thus, multiple service sessions can be started from a single access session. Likewise, communications sessions can be treated separately from the overall service session they are part of (i.e., thereby allowing for separated call and connectivity control). Most importantly, these separations allow for services to be developed independently from underlying transport and connectivity considerations. Thus, service developers will no longer need to know anything about the type of transport used for the services they are developing. Common Processing Service API "The Gold" Feature Layer Standard Protocols "Money Layer" • Feature Control Interworking • TCAP • ISUP • SGCP/MGCP • Q.931 • UNI 4.0 Service Layer • Access, Service, & Communications • GSM "Workhorse Layer" Session Control • H.323 • SIP • DMS-CC • etc. Connectivity Layer • Connectivity Control "Commodity Layer" Generic Interface Figure 5: Architecture Layering/Open Service Interfaces 4.2 Open Services Interface/API Figure 5 also shows another essential attribute of the Next Generation Service Architecture (i.e., its reliance on open architecture and interfaces). In particular, an open development environment based on an Application Programming Interface (API) will enable service providers, third party application developers, and potentially end users to create and introduce applications quickly and seamlessly. This will speed the introduction of new services by giving service providers more control over the service introduction process and allow for the reuse of existing application components. It will also open the opportunities for creating and delivering services to a broader audience. Our ability to offer new and creative services will only be limited by our imaginations. 4.3 Distributed Network Intelligence In an NGN services environment, the scope of marketable services can be greatly extended to include a much richer variety of services and associated network intelligence. The NGN Distributed Processing Environment (DPE) will uncouple this network intelligence from physical network elements. Thus, network intelligence can be distributed to the most suitable locations in the network or, if appropriate, to the CPE. For example, network intelligence could reside on J. C. Crimi Telcordia Technologies / Next Generation Networks Next Generation Network (NGN) Services 11 A Telcordia Technologies White Paper general purpose servers running the components needed for a particular service, on servers that perform specific functions (e.g., Service Control Points [SCPs], Intelligent Peripherals, and Services Nodes in an AIN environment), or on edge devices close to the consumer. Functional capabilities will no longer be coupled with the physical network elements. 5.0 Conclusions From a user's perspective, today's networks have come a long way in fulfilling their purpose of enabling people and their machines to communicate at a distance. However, a key critical success factor (among many) is focused telecommunications industry attention on NGN service concepts and how these concepts can be realized in an NGN environment, from the edges to the core of the network. This focus is lacking today, with most of the attention on specific NGN technology issues. However, we believe the most important issues to be addressed relate to NGN services and how they can be realized in an NGN environment. Common industry understanding of a Next Generation Service Architecture will help crystallize the requirements for each of the other NGN technology issues, as well as identify areas where industry cooperation is needed. This White Paper addressed three critical questions related to NGN services: • Why are NGNs important for service providers? - Public network carriers should (and must) pursue NGNs to offer value-added services. This will be their new strategic differentiator! • What are the most important trends, characteristics, and specific services in an NGN environment? – Although it is difficult to predict what the next killer applications will be, this paper lists service characteristics and capabilities that will be important in the NGN environment based on service-related industry trends. It also describes a number of services we currently believe will be important drivers in the NGN environment. • What attributes should a Next Generation Service Architecture possess? - One of the primary goals of NGNs is to provide a common, unified, and flexible service architecture that can support multiple types of services and management applications over multiple types of transport. This paper described three critical attributes of this Next Generation Service Architecture (i.e., architectural layering, an open services interface/API, and distributed network intelligence). About the Author: Joseph C. Crimi is a Principal Systems Engineer at Telcordia, with 15 years of experience in the Telecommunications Industry. He has extensive knowledge/experience on NGNs, strategic planning, and network architecture design/evolution, with an emphasis on network control and signaling. Joe holds an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University. For more information on Telcordia Technologies, Inc., see www.telcordia.com J. C. Crimi Telcordia Technologies / Next Generation Networks


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Miami Mayor Regalado vetoes "double dipping" for retirees in 4 top city posts
Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado penned his first veto in almost four years Friday, rejecting a commission decision to allow retired employees tapped for four of the city's highest-paying posts to collect a paycheck and a pension at the same time — if they return to work after retiring.
In a one-paragraph statement, Regalado said Thursday's 3-2 commission vote was "flawed and unfair" to the city's rank-and-file employees.
"It sets bad public policy in its narrow application," the mayor wrote.
Commissioners on Thursday voted to allow city employees who retire and come back to collect a paycheck and their pension at the same time, if they land one of four high-paying constitutional positions: city manager, auditor general, city clerk and city attorney.
Commission Chairman Marc Sarnoff, who proffered the bill, and Commissioners Michelle Spence-Jones and Wifredo "Willy" Gort, voted in favor. Commissioners Francis Suarez and Frank Carollo voted against.
Some critics speculated the bill was crafted for a pair of outgoing senior assistant city attorneys who are set to retire at the same time as City Attorney Julie Bru at the end of September. Under the new law, if either Assistant City Attorney Maria Chiaro or Warren Bittner got Bru's job, their yearly compensation would exceed $350,000.
Sarnoff denied the bill was crafted for any one individual. He said it was necessary because the city needs experienced personnel in the four positions at issue.Several residents and the city's fire and police unions spoke out against the change.
Regalado, who had 10 days to issue the veto, said he's against the new law because the same benefit is not offered to the city's rank-and-file. He also said it runs counter to a policy he agrees with, set by City Manager Johnny Martinez.
"The manager's philosophy is that once an employee is retired, they can't come back and work for the city," the mayor said.
The four constitutional officers are hired by the commission, not the manager.
To override Regalado's veto, the commission must take it up within 10 days or at its next scheduled meeting. A four-fifths vote is needed to override the mayor's decision.
The new pension law wasn't what Regalado was expected to veto.
The mayor had said earlier that he would veto any redistricting plan that breaks up the city's Upper Eastside. Commissioners did just that Thursday, voting to move a large chunk of Sarnoff's district — everything north of Northeast 61st Street — into Spence-Jones's district.
Several homeowner associations in the Upper Eastside had argued they didn't care what district they were in as long as the neighborhood remained in one piece.
But a 4-1 vote, with only Carollo voting no and enough votes to override a veto, put a dent in Regalado's plan. The mayor said he's still considering a veto, and he will decide before the June 3 deadline.
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