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The article focuses on the qualifications to become a practicing appraiser including the complete education, passed examinations, and gained experiences to earn certifications and licenses. Topics discussed include the importance of background checks on appraiser, the appraisal management, and the third party vendor relationships management.

The article offers Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) news briefs as of January 2015. The ARRL requested the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about continuing the issuance of paper licensees upon request of Amateur Radio licensees. The Mobile Amateur Radio Operation Policy has been revised by the ARRL Executive Committee (EC) in the "Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century" (MAP-21) report. ARRL member Brian Short received the 2014 Philip J. McGan Silver Antenna Award.

The article reports on the suggestion on the need to accelerate and improve federal oil and gas pipeline permitting processes to keep pace with the rapidly expanding production in the U.S. It notes the white paper released by the United Transportation Advisors LLC which indicates that regulatory delays were forcing producers to use efficient shipping modes. The paper further emphasizes inefficiencies into the system that disrupts market and stifles investment.

The article highlights several changes made by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in pilot and instructor certificates in 2009. Accordingly, pilots are being encouraged to replace their existing paper pilot certificates with the plastic version before March 31, 2010 because paper certificates will become invalid beyond that date. Meanwhile, FAA are allowed to issue a Private Pilot Certificates to a person who holds a current foreign pilot license issued by the contracting state to the Convention on International Civil Aviation (ICAO).

The author sharews his experiences including the working as the paper route on the west side of Montgomery. The article mentions about the trip back to Montgomery of author, and to my old route, got me thinking not only about that boy; paper route that introduced him to the journalism as the white bureaucrat informed him point-blank that he would never be given a license.

The article reports that according to research firm RISI's PPI Pulp & Paper Week pricing survey, the domestic pricing for mixed paper, old corrugated containers (OCC), and sorted office paper (SOP) has been decreased in the U.S. It presents views of a fiber broker on slower growth in China's economy. It mentions that the Chinese government was very slow to issue the 2016 import licenses to U.S. mills.

The article reports on a revision issued by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to its previous Regulatory Issue Summary (SIR) on observance of license output limits at power reactors. The revision expresses the agency's endorsement of the Nuclear Energy Institute's position statement in June 2008. Also mentioned is an enforcement guidance issued by the NRC to inspectors in 1980.

The article focuses on the discrepancies in license renewal proceedings identified in a report issued by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Office of the Inspector General on May 2, 2008. Findings include cases of word-for-word repetition of applicant-provided text in NRC staff documents. Items included in the memo from Inspector General Hubert T. Bell are noted.

The article reports on rejection of the application of International Paper Co. to reconfigure its Pensacola linerboard mill in Florida by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The permit would have authorized a reconfiguration of the mill's wastewater treatment and disposal system. Secretary of Florida DEP Mike Sole notes that the company did not provide reasonable assurance that the proposed discharge from the mill would not cause adverse impacts to the biological community.

NOREXECO ASA said Norway's Finance Ministry awarded it a license to operate a regulated market exchange for paper forestry financial derivatives by the end of the year. The license enables NOREXECO to establish the world's first pulp exchange, providing derivatives linked to a physical market that's worth $50 billion to $60 billion, according to NOREXECO Chief Executive Officer Stein Ole Larsen. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on the move of Evergreen Packaging Group Inc. to renew its National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for its liquid paperboard packaging mill in Canton, North Carolina. It states that the application includes a Division of Water Quality (DWQ) fact sheet that cites a 2006 consultant's report indicating the mill is ranked No. 1 in the world in pollutant removal. It mentions that the mill uses about 25 million gallons of water daily to produce about 1,600 tons per day.

The article offers the author's insights on the use of citizens band (CB) radio. Topics discussed include the granting of one of the earliest CB licenses to radio engineer John M. Mulligan, the issuance of the license to Citizens Radio Corp. founder Alfred J. Gross who worked on various radio communications systems throughout the World War II, and the cause of the toilet paper shortage.

Focuses on the proposal to develop the national identification card of the U.S. Improvement of the national standard drivers license; View of the businessmen on the proposal; Authentication of the licenses.

The article reports on the proposal by the U.S. Justice Department to the Federal Communications Commission to ban single ownership of daily papers and television (TV) stations in the same city. It argues that the proposal would encourage more independent news coverage and eliminate pressures on editors and reporters in single-ownership situations. It announces that the department has moved to contest license renewals of stations that are owned by companies that have papers in other state.

The article discusses the working paper "Battles Among Licensed Occupations: Analyzing Government Regulations on Labor Market Outcomes for Dentists and Hygienists," by Morris Kleiner and Kyoung Won Park on occupational competition between dentists and hygienists through licensing. In states allowing dental hygienists to own their practices, hygienist employment is higher and dentists' employment is lower. States requiring supervision of dental hygienists also have a reduction in dental services.

The article focuses on the Creative Commons licenses as common-sense alternatives to copyright laws. The author discusses the facts and information as well common misunderstandings with regards to copyright. Creative Commons is a nonprofit group that offer six types of intellectual-property licenses such as some rights reserved, public domain, non-commercial, attribution, no derivative works, and share alike. One must visit the Creative Commons Web site at www.creativecommons.org to gain license. Finally, every work whether audio, video, image, text, or interactive must have a Creative Commons logo.

The article reports on the publication by the British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) and the British Veterinary Association (BVA) of a joint policy position statement on canine breeding services. The BSAVA and the BVA are calling on government to license all premises offering canine breeding services. The key recommendations for government that are included in the joint policy position statement are mentioned.

The article focuses on a proposed amendment to the Sales Finance Agency Act in Illinois, U.S. It is reported that the purpose of the proposed amendments is to modernize and update the administrative rules and regulations that govern sales finance agencies. It is further reported that the changes has been proposed in response to questions raised by licensees and concerns identified in examinations and during the licensing process.

The article reports that Raytheon Aircraft Co. has received the FAA Type Certification for it Hawker 4000 business jet.

The article features Dennison Manufacturing as it finds its niche in the electrostatic copying machine market as of February 1967. It notes that the Framingham, Massachusetts paper product manufacturer, after 120 years of staid corporate existence, decided in 1964 to venture into the office copier market based on electrostatic technology it had licensed from Radio Corp. of America. It points out that the small firm has done well in a field where giants like Eastman Kodak and 3M failed.

The article discusses a court case where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed an action of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against WOKO, Albany, New York. FCC refused to renew WOKO's license because Sam Pickard failed to report to the commission that he held a 24% interest in WOKO. Justice Wilber K. Milbur of the appellate court ruled that the FCC cannot use its licensing power to punish an broadcaster and that it acted arbitrarily after ignoring WOKO's 15 years of public service.

The article presents questions and answers related to automobiles including whether paper licenses still valid in Great Britain, whether it is alright to buy pre-registered car and buying Audi car.

The article offers suggestions on harvesting of birch bark (wiigwaas). Topics discussed include information on the suitable season for wiigwaas harvesting, requirement of the Miscellaneous Forest Product permit for harvesting from tribal gathering, importance of thickness of wiigwaas, and the Paper Birch report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on the environmental aspect of the wiigwaas. INSETS: The State of Wiigwaas: Paper Birch report;Treaty night hunt update.

This article focuses on the BBC's license-fee funding mechanism which will be safe through 2017 but the pubcaster's board of governors will cease to exist in its current form, in proposals recommended by Culture secretary Tessa Jowell. Announcing a 118-page green paper on the review of the BBC's Royal Charter in a long-awaited statement to the House of Commons, Jowell said that the future of the BBC should be such that its political independence and editorial freedom were guaranteed. The green paper also called on the BBC to implement a feature film investment strategy and warned that the BBC should stay out of bidding wars for expensive U.S. films and series, acquiring product only when it served a clear public-service purpose.

The rise of data-intensive applications has resulted in an increasing demand for high-density and low-power on-chip embedded memories. Gain-cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) is a logic-compatible alternative to conventional static random access memory (SRAM) which offers higher density, lower leakage power, and two-ported operation. However, in order to maintain the stored data, GC-eDRAM requires periodic refresh cycles, which are determined according to the worst-case data retention time (DRT) across process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variations. Even though several DRT characterization methodologies have been reported in literature, they often require unfeasible run-times for accurate DRT evaluation, or they result in highly pessimistic design margins due to their inaccuracy. In this work, we propose an current-based DRT (IDRT) characterization methodology that enables accurate DRT evaluation across process variations without the need for a large number of costly electronic design automation (EDA) software licenses. The presented approach is compared with other DRT characterization methodologies for both accuracy and run-time across several gain-cell structures at different process technologies, providing less than a 4% DRT error and over $100\times $ shorter run-time compared to a conventional DRT evaluation methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The regulation of small unmanned aerial systems, in the United States, currently consists of a narrowly defined exemption for hobbyists and a general ban, without special authorization, for all commercial and most other activities. Recent challenges to the FAA's authority to regulate small UAS have raised interesting legal questions. This paper examines the basis for such regulation and proposes a way forward analogous to the use of free balloons and ultralight vehicles. It is proposed that small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) not require registration, pilot certification or licensing. Instead, a regime for limiting harm from their operations through design requirements (to qualify for the registration/certification/licensing exemption) and a code of conduct is proposed. This regime, which would apply to all prospective uses of this class of craft (hobbyist, educational, scientific, commercial, etc.), is presented and evaluated through the consideration of several case studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An interview with Blue Team Director Marco Mensink and Red Team Director Bernard de Galembert of the Conference of European Paper Industries' (CEPI) Two Team Project. They discussed the establishment of the CEPI 2050 Roadmap titled "Unfold the Future." They explained several challenges encountered such as ownership of ideas, intellectual property rights, and licensing. They also talked about the effect of friendly competition in the project.

The article focuses on the Licensees questions that are answered by the Texas state board rules. It describes various topics such as the incentive status in which no provision is stated and Texas certificate can be cancelled secondly, firm licensing in which firm should hold a firm license and the work paper should be provided with client's records. Also mentions some respondents which are suspended due to disapprovement with the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) requirements.

Supremex Becomes The Exclusive Canadian Manufacturer of Conformer Products - Supremex Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents information on the business model which is being followed by InfoSoft International of Boston and Veritas Software Corp. of Santa Clara, California. These companies sell the easy way. They license other software and hardware producers the right to reproduce and resell their code. Veritas Software creates and licenses software that has been characterized as "an airbag for computer crashes," primarily for computers running the Unix operating system. Unix systems account for about 17 percent of worldwide computer shipments. But one of the problems with Unix is the length of time required to recover from a system crash.

The article focuses on notice of adopted amendment by the Illinois Department of Revenue regarding tobacco products tax act of 1995. Topics discussed include stamping distributors, purchasing tax stamps and affixing tax stamps to packages of little cigars; license actions such as revocations, cancellations and suspensions; and also mentions about penalties, interest and procedures.

The article focuses on proposed amendments to the Illinois Vehicle Code regarding the issuance of licenses. Topics include extending the duration of a seasonal restricted CDL, allowing disclosure of license photos to public defenders, and requiring translation of non-English application documents, aiming to enhance understanding and reduce fraud.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including the article urging the U.S. Federal Communication Commission to continue providing printed copy licenses, Navajo code talker in the December 2014 issue, and a reader's distaste for made-up phonetics.

The article reports on the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) approval received by regional chassis pools operator Consolidated Chassis Management LLC to provide management services and to license its pool management software. FMC Chairman Mario Cordero hopes that the amendment will improve chassis availability leading to greater efficiencies. Cordero notes the efforts of FMC in assisting congestion solutions development.

The article presents the discussion on proposed rulemaking from the Structural Engineer Association of Illinois (SEAOI). Topics include SEAOI was helpful for ironing out any technical/formatting issues to make those suggestions fit correctly into the proposed; and license is on inactive status is not required to comply with the Continuing Education requirement.

Presents an update on issues related to the wildlife in Tennessee as of February 2005. Availability of wild turkey and black bear license plates; Schedule of duck season; Removal by the International Paper Co. of its timber property from the cooperative public hunting program of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

In this article we study integral-input-to-state stability (iISS) of nonlinear switched systems with jumps. We demonstrate by examples that iISS is not always preserved under slow enough dwell time switching, and then we present sufficient conditions for iISS to be preserved under slow switching. These conditions involve, besides a sufficiently large dwell time, some additional properties of comparison functions characterizing iISS of the individual modes. When the sufficient conditions that guarantee iISS are only partially satisfied, we are then able to conclude weaker variants of iISS, also introduced in this work. As an illustration, we show that switched systems with bilinear zero-input-stable modes are always iISS under sufficiently large dwell time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article present an update on copyright reform in the U.S. as of July 2016. It mentions the completion of phase one of the comprehensive review of the copyright law by the House Judiciary Committee, the release of an in-depth study on music licensing and the music industry by the Copyright Office and some proposed legislation including the Fair Play Fair Pay Act of 2015, the Allocation for Music Producers Act and the Songwriter Equity Act of 2015.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Toy Telegraph Keys" in the March 2015 issue, one about the renewal of licenses and another on the operation of QRP PSK31 transceiver.

The article reports that the Amateur Radio applicants and licenses will no longer be issued paper license documents by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as it shifts to its electronic Universal Licensing System (ULS) record.

This article focuses on various political developments in the U.S. The New Jersey Senate, not unmindful of the future, has voted unanimously to issue free peddlers' licenses to veterans of the present war. R. E. Monroe of Ohio Stale College, chairman of a ration-board panel at Columbus, has informed the OPA that he will disregard its requirement that a member of a labor union be included in every panel. He has written to columnists and radio commentators for support. Workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle, Washington are passing around a slip of paper, with a slot at one end, bearing the message, "The 'Our Hero' Committee is collecting donations to buy Eddie Rickenbacker another seagull. Please drop your contribution in this slot."

The article focuses on digital first sale of books by libraries in the U.S. It states that libraries cannot practice first sale doctrine with electronic books (e-books) as they are licensed and not sold. It mentions that the U.S. the Copyright Office doesn't support digital first sale. According to the author the U.S. government should grant rights to libraries to lend and preserve electronic materials.

The article provides information on the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) certification received by TAPPI. Larry Montague, TAPPI president, states that the certification indicates that they have meet the criteria established by ANSI as a developer of industry standards. The certification allows TAPPI to submit selected standards to ANSI to become American national standards and can take better advantage of its certified standards program in joining developing international standards.