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Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography
By Alexandra Ripp
Inspiration for She Stoops to Conquer
At age 17, Goldsmith was traveling in the Irish countryside, and when night came asked a passerby to recommend an inn. The passerby, who happened to be the town's joker, directed Goldsmith to the home of a squire. The squire played along with the prank, and only when Goldsmith left special instructions for his breakfast did his host reveal that the house was not an inn, but a private home.
Oliver Goldsmith was a paradoxical man: on the one hand, a perennial outcast who suffered misfortune throughout most of his life, on the other a sublime writer whose works would withstand the test of time. Born in Ireland between 1728-1731 (his exact birth year is unknown) into the large family of a country rector, young Oliver was an unlikely future celebrity. He was notably homely, with a protruding mouth, short chin, and deep scars from the smallpox that afflicted him at age seven. His peers taunted his appearance, and his teachers dismissed him as unintelligent. Although he received a B.A. from Trinity College in 1749, he was not an outstanding student. After graduation, he was denied the taking of holy orders, ran out of money studying both law and medicine, served brief jail time, and journeyed aimlessly on foot through Europe with almost no money. When Goldsmith arrived in London in 1757, things only got worse. Thanks to his poor appearance, poverty, and unsophisticated speech, he was often jobless and hungry. Goldsmith's first thirty or so years of life completely belie the fame that he would later achieve.
Only when Goldsmith entered the literary world in 1757 did his life finally take a positive turn. He found low quality, poorly paid work, editing for the Monthly Review and proofreading for a printer. But after penning a successful translation and a series of articles between 1758 and 1759, Goldsmith quickly gained recognition, employment, and friendship with some of the foremost literary minds of his day. He produced, with equal skill, renowned novels, poetry, dramas, criticism, essays, biographies, and histories.
Yet in genteel London high society, Goldsmith remained as scorned and ridiculed as he had been as a boy. A stammering, clumsy prankster, Goldsmith often willingly humiliated himself in public, and refused to change his rural manners or Irish brogue. However, his ability to remain independent in all respects allowed him to create art free of social restraints. His openness, imagination, self-mockery, and scorn for affectation were noteworthy in the European intellectual sphere at this time.
With the production of She Stoops to Conquer in 1773, Oliver Goldsmith found himself at the peak of his fame—yet deeply depressed and in debt. By 1774, he was dead. Sadly, his own generation did not fully recognize Goldsmith's talents, and it was not until the mid-twentieth century that he began to receive the full scholarly and biographical analysis that he deserves.

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NOGALES, Ariz. – Two Mexican men made their initial appearance in Santa Cruz County court Wednesday on state felony drug and weapons charges following their arrest for allegedly possessing nearly 2,500 pounds of marijuana and three firearms in a Rio Rico stash house.
Jose Luis Dominguez de la Rosa, 46, of Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico, and Paul Chavez-Portillo, 25, of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, were taken into custody Wednesday by members of the Santa Cruz County High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Investigation Task Force, which is led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). They are charged in a criminal complaint with felony possession of marijuana for sale and felony weapons misconduct.
Task force investigators became aware of the stash house after the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office received a telephone tip Tuesday that a residence in Rio Rico was being used as a staging point for smuggled drugs. Task force members initiated surveillance on the house and observed Dominguez de la Rosa and Chavez-Portillo walking out the back door. When investigators attempted to question them, the pair took off running, but the men were quickly apprehended.
After obtaining a state search warrant, task force members entered the house and found 2,499 pounds of marijuana stacked in bales, a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol, 9 mm submachine gun, .22-caliber rifle and 57 rounds of ammunition.
The case, which remains under investigation, is being prosecuted by the Santa Cruz County Attorney's Office.
The Santa Cruz County HIDTA Investigation Task Force is an HSI-led, multi-agency investigative and interdiction task force in Nogales that combats organized crime in Santa Cruz County. The task force targets drug trafficking organizations and providers, local distributors, stash houses and drug transportation cells. The task force is comprised of full-time members from HSI, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), U.S. Border Patrol, Arizona Department of Public Safety, Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office, Santa Cruz County Attorney's Office and the Nogales Police Department.
A criminal complaint is simply the method by which a person is charged with criminal activity and raises no inference of guilt. An individual is presumed innocent until competent evidence is presented to a jury that establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.


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Played via a Smartphone with Bluetooth results in the exact same lousy sound quality. I tried this in order to determine if perhaps the problem was with my PC hardware (i.e. the headphone jack, etc..). My belief is that the problem lies within the ISA33B Bluetooth pairing device.
Not 100% on-board that it is my speakers that are damaged as they worked optimally for several days (both of them), then, simply stopped working. The volume level was appropriate for my retail store operation, not too loud, so I don't think it was sound level that could have caused my problem.
Your response suggests that I check "cables connecting to speaker" are not damaged, however, there are no cables as this is a Bluetooth setup. The only cable to each of the two speakers would be the AC power cable and they are certainly not damaged or compromised in any way.
I'm still thinking that the problem is with the iLive Bluetooth module (the device that connects via cable to the headset jack on the PC). I don't believe it is the cable that connects that device to the PC as a different cable was used with the Smartphone (obviously).
You stated "As you took it apart, this has likely voided the warranty" - to be clear, I've taken nothing apart. I've simply put speakers up on shelves, Bluetooth connected them to the base unit, now have a problem.
I believe you are correct when you say that none of the three components (Bluetooth device and two speakers) are sold separately, so therefore I am going to be out of luck with this setup. I'll now search for something new and more reliable.
Thanks for trying to help.


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NXTComm, June 18-21, Chicago will see ITU-T members, and guests stage an interoperability showcase for fibre to the premises (FTTP) related standards.
ITU, together with Telcordia, have collaborated to organize a multi-company interoperability demonstration featuring gigabit passive optical network (G-PON) equipment built according to the ITU-T G.984 Recommendation. PON technology is used in the local loop environment to cost effectively connect residential and Small and medium enterprises (SME) end users premises in an all-fibre network.
The G-PON Pavilion features live demonstrations of G-PON equipment interoperability; with interoperability being a critical enabler to reducing G-PON equipment costs. Triple-play interoperability demonstrations are provided by the following device and equipment manufactures: Alphion, Cambridge Industries Group, Hitachi, Huawei, iamba Networks, LS Cable, PMC-Sierra, Tellabs, Terawave Communications, TXP Corporation, XAVi Technologies, ZTE Corporation. Corning is providing the optical distribution network components over which the 2488 Mbps/1244 Mbps (downstream/upstream) G-PON systems will be operating.
With PONs, signals are carried by lasers and sent to their destination without the need for active electronics in the outside plant of the telecommunications network. Carriers can realize significant savings with fiber sharing in the local loop, equipment sharing in the Central Office and by eliminating the dependence on expensive active network elements.
ITU-T Recommendations in the G.984 series detail gigabit PONs (G-PON), the latest generation of PON technology. Increasing capacity to gigabit levels should more than satisfy foreseeable customer demands, offering video applications, high-speed Internet access, multimedia and other high-bandwidth capabilities. G-PON maintains the same optical distribution network, wavelength plan and full-service network design principles of broadband PONs (B-PON) defined in ITU-T Rec G.983. As well as allowing for increased network capacity, the new standard offers more efficient IP and Ethernet handling.
ITU and the IEEE will hold a workshop on carrier-class Ethernet, 31 May - 1 June.Much work has been done in both organisations to progress Ethernet, developed as an enterprise technology, into a carrier service. The event will focus on opportunities for further collaboration.
Long-recognized as the ubiquitous LAN technology, Ethernet is now seeing increased attention as a carrier-grade service. In part this is due to the convenience of being able to simply provide end-to-end service, but also carriers can realize savings both in terms of capital and operational expenditure.
Ethernet services are becoming popular because they allow carriers to offer considerably improved flexibility to customers through a much simpler and lower cost interface. Ethernet allows users to specify exactly how much bandwidth they want between the 10Mbit/s and 1Gbit/s range currently offered. Further, Ethernet provides reduced operation complexity and improved scalability for carriers. And as operators look to NGN and the use of the Internet Protocol (IP), Ethernet is seen as the best fit, especially given the rise of such services as IP VPNs, VLANs and dedicated Internet access.
The event will start with an overview of the standards work from ITU-T and IEEE and will then drill down into detail with sessions focusing on: Ethernet based and Ethernet capable access networks; Ethernet network transport; Ethernet Bridging architecture; Ethernet OAM and management; Ethernet QoS, timing and synchronization. A closing session will bring together reports from all of the session chairs in order to identify the direction of future work.
Following up on advice from ITU-T Study Group 2 (see previous story), the Director of TSB has assigned E.164 country code 888 to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for the purpose of facilitating the provision of an international system of naming and addressing for terminals involved in disaster relief activities in an area of a country that has been cut off from the national telecommunications system of that country.
This separate, alternate naming and addressing system will continue in operation until such time as normal telecommunications can be restored and the disaster location is once more part of the national telecommunications infrastructure. The use of any numbering resource will therefore be relatively short lived and the resource may be re-used at a later date for another location.
Subsequent digits of the codes (for example, identification codes under the E.164 code) will be allocated and administered by OCHA.
The numbering resources are assigned solely for the use of UN emergency responders and not for other purposes.
The commercial aspects of the use of the numbering resource will be negotiated between OCHA and the appropriate operators and service providers.
In addition, the Mobile Network Code (MNC) 88 under the E.212 shared Mobile Country Code 901 has been assigned to OCHA for the same purposes.
Study Group 11 meeting in Geneva, end April has consented three important documents charting protocols for quality of service (QoS) in NGN. The protocols will ensure interoperability between network elements and systems as well as giving service providers the ability to specify rules for specific communication types.
The announcement marks a significant step forward for ITU-T�s NGN work. Protocol development is seen as the final stage of standards development following identification of the requirements, architecture, services etc. The Recommendations are a crucial part of the NGN standards package and a concrete realization of the functional architecture defined in ITU-T Rec. Y.2111 - Resource and admission control functions in Next Generation Networks.
The protocols agreed at the April meeting will guarantee that when a service request is made QoS needs are transmitted, ensuring that each network element provisions the correct level of bandwith and resources to ensure the class of QoS for that particular application. So � for example � more bandwidth can be allocated and guaranteed for IPTV than for voice.
The three ITU-T Recommendations include the specification of the physical entities involved in resource control signalling, the interfaces across which signalling takes place, and the mapping between these entities and interfaces and the corresponding functional entities and reference points in ITU-T Rec. Y.2111. An Appendix provides a further mapping between the interfaces and the protocol specifications which realize those interfaces.
The Recommendations refer to signalling used in different geographical parts of the world: ITU-T Recommendation H.248/Megaco used in for example Japan, COPS used for example in China and Diameter which is used in North America.
Another three protocols in the field of resource control were consented by Study Group 11 earlier in the year.
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New York City -- Kronos Inc. said Monday that Family Dollar is using its suite of workforce management solutions to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve productivity of more than 55,000 Family Dollar employees across 7,000 stores.
According to Kronos, Family Dollar's objective was to address a variety of internal and external issues including rising labor costs; the upcoming healthcare coverage changes mandated by the healthcare reform; and accelerating performance expectations. Family Dollar chose the integrated time and attendance and forecasting and scheduling solutions from Kronos to address those challenges.
Additionally, Kronos helps Family Dollar maintain compliance with federal, state, and other labor laws and regulations.
"Workforce management is at the core of our long-term success," said Michael Newman, divisional VP store operations, Family Dollar.


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