LOCAL GOVERNMENT Local Government Cable Fair Competition: Require Public Cable Service Providers to Conduct Cost-Benefit Analysis and Hold a Public Hearing Prior to Entering the Cable Service Market; Provide for Cost Accounting and Allocation and Prohibit Cross- Subsidization; Impose Fairness Requirements on Public Providers Regarding Franchise Agreements, Conditions of Access to Public Property, and Price or Rate Charged for the Cable Services; Provide for Applicability of Open Meetings Laws; Subject Local Governments Acting as Cable Service Providers to Antitrust Liability

The Act requires public providers of cable television services to conduct a three-year cost-benefit analysis and hold at least one public hearing before they can deliver cable service in an area. Public providers must prepare and maintain proper records of the full cost accounting of providing their service in the same manner required from a private provider. A public provider may use capital from its general funds to finance its service, provided it allocates these funds in the calculation of its capital cost; it may not cross-subsidize its cable operation by using other funds and resources available to it without proper cost allocation. A public provider must add the fees that it charges private providers into its total costs. A public provider, acting by itself or through a franchising authority under its control, shall not grant itself terms more favorable than those imposed on any private provider within the same jurisdiction, including local regulations or transfer, modification or franchise renewal terms. A public provider shall offer its cable service at a price equal to or greater than the price of comparable competing private providers or equal to or greater than its total costs, unless state or federal law requires such service to be subsidized. All meetings and records of public cable service providers are subject to Georgia public records and public meetings laws. Public providers of cable services are not immune from antitrust liability

CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS Limited Liability Companies: Provide for Default Rule Maintaining Continuous Existence of Limited Liability Companies; Provide that Except as Established Otherwise in the Articles of Organization or Written Operating Agreement of a Limited Liability Company, a Member of a Limited Liability Company with Respect to Which the Event of Dissociation Occurs is not Entitled to Receive any Payment by Reason of Such Event and Will Become an Assignee as to Such Limited Liability Company Interest

The Act amends the existing Georgia Limited Liability Company Act to provide that in the event of dissociation, a member of a limited liability company becomes an assignee to the interest of such limited liability company (LLC). A person can cease to be a member of an LLC in the following circumstances: by operation of law; by reason of his or her death or incapacity; if he or she is removed in accordance with the articles of organization or a written operating agreement of the LLC; by the majority vote assignment; when he or she assigns his or her interest in the company for the benefit of the company or of the creditors; or when he or she is adjudicated bankrupt or in the process of being adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent. An LLC can be dissolved under the provisions of the articles of organization by a written operating agreement, by the decision of its members, or by operation of law. The Act provides for default winding up of the dissolved LLC by persons entitled to receive a majority of the subsequent distributions or their assignees or legatees in absence of the company\u27s managing members

LOCAL GOVERNMENT Local Government Cable Fair Competition: Require Public Cable Service Providers to Conduct Cost-Benefit Analysis and Hold a Public Hearing Prior to Entering the Cable Service Market; Provide for Cost Accounting and Allocation and Prohibit Cross- Subsidization; Impose Fairness Requirements on Public Providers Regarding Franchise Agreements, Conditions of Access to Public Property, and Price or Rate Charged for the Cable Services; Provide for Applicability of Open Meetings Laws; Subject Local Governments Acting as Cable Service Providers to Antitrust Liability

The Act requires public providers of cable television services to conduct a three-year cost-benefit analysis and hold at least one public hearing before they can deliver cable service in an area. Public providers must prepare and maintain proper records of the full cost accounting of providing their service in the same manner required from a private provider. A public provider may use capital from its general funds to finance its service, provided it allocates these funds in the calculation of its capital cost; it may not cross-subsidize its cable operation by using other funds and resources available to it without proper cost allocation. A public provider must add the fees that it charges private providers into its total costs. A public provider, acting by itself or through a franchising authority under its control, shall not grant itself terms more favorable than those imposed on any private provider within the same jurisdiction, including local regulations or transfer, modification or franchise renewal terms. A public provider shall offer its cable service at a price equal to or greater than the price of comparable competing private providers or equal to or greater than its total costs, unless state or federal law requires such service to be subsidized. All meetings and records of public cable service providers are subject to Georgia public records and public meetings laws. Public providers of cable services are not immune from antitrust liability

CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS Limited Liability Companies: Provide for Default Rule Maintaining Continuous Existence of Limited Liability Companies; Provide that Except as Established Otherwise in the Articles of Organization or Written Operating Agreement of a Limited Liability Company, a Member of a Limited Liability Company with Respect to Which the Event of Dissociation Occurs is not Entitled to Receive any Payment by Reason of Such Event and Will Become an Assignee as to Such Limited Liability Company Interest

The Act amends the existing Georgia Limited Liability Company Act to provide that in the event of dissociation, a member of a limited liability company becomes an assignee to the interest of such limited liability company (LLC). A person can cease to be a member of an LLC in the following circumstances: by operation of law; by reason of his or her death or incapacity; if he or she is removed in accordance with the articles of organization or a written operating agreement of the LLC; by the majority vote assignment; when he or she assigns his or her interest in the company for the benefit of the company or of the creditors; or when he or she is adjudicated bankrupt or in the process of being adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent. An LLC can be dissolved under the provisions of the articles of organization by a written operating agreement, by the decision of its members, or by operation of law. The Act provides for default winding up of the dissolved LLC by persons entitled to receive a majority of the subsequent distributions or their assignees or legatees in absence of the company\u27s managing members

Relation Discovery from Web Data for Competency Management

This paper describes a technique for automatically discovering associations between people and expertise from an analysis of very large data sources (including web pages, blogs and emails), using a family of algorithms that perform accurate named-entity recognition, assign different weights to terms according to an analysis of document structure, and access distances between terms in a document. My contribution is to add a social networking approach called BuddyFinder which relies on associations within a large enterprise-wide "buddy list" to help delimit the search space and also to provide a form of 'social triangulation' whereby the system can discover documents from your colleagues that contain pertinent information about you. This work has been influential in the information retrieval community generally, as it is the basis of a landmark system that achieved overall first place in every category in the Enterprise Search Track of TREC2006

A Proposed Solar Zoning Ordinance

Sunlight travels through space unobstructed for 93,000,000 miles. Only during the last few hundred feet before it touches earth is it impeded by obstructions other than clouds, which cause shading. Since access to sunlight is critical to every solar energy system, the legal problems that may result from the obstruction of sunlight are great

The roots of "Western European societal evolution". A concept of Europe by Jenő Szűcs

Jenő Szűcs wrote his essay entitled Sketch on the three regions of Europe in the early 1980s in Hungary. During these years, a historically well-argued opinion emphasising a substantial difference between Central European and Eastern European societies was warmly received in various circles of the political opposition. In a wider European perspective Szűcs used the old “liberty topos” which claims that the history of Europe is no other than the fulfillment of liberty. In his Sketch, Szűcs does not only concentrate on questions concerning the Middle Ages in Western Europe. Yet it is this stream of thought which brought a new perspective to explaining European history. His picture of the Middle Ages represents well that there is a way to integrate all typical Western motifs of post-war self-definition into a single theory. Mainly, the “liberty motif”, as a sign of “Europeanism” – in the interpretation of Bibó’s concept, Anglo-saxon Marxists and Weber’s social theory –, developed from medieval concepts of state and society and from an analysis of economic and social structures. Szűcs’s historical aspect was a typical intellectual product of the 1980s: this was the time when a few Central European historians started to outline non-Marxist aspects of social theory and categories of modernisation theories, but concealing them with Marxist terminology

GPs are from Mars, Administrators are from Venus: The Role of Misaligned Occupational Dispositions in Inhibiting Mandated Role Change

Research on mandated occupational role change focuses on jurisdictional conflict to explain change failure. Our study of the English National Health Service highlights the role of occupational dispositions in shaping how mandated role change is implemented by members of multiple occupational groups. We find that tension stemming from misaligned dispositions may emerge as members of different occupations interact during their role change implementation efforts. Depending on dispositional responses to tension, change may fail as members of the different occupations avoid interactions. This suggests that effective role change can be elusive even in the initial absence of conflicting occupational interests

Cosmological Multi-Black Hole Solutions

We present simple, analytic solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equation, which describe an arbitrary number of charged black holes in a spacetime with positive cosmological constant $\Lambda$. In the limit $\Lambda=0$, these solutions reduce to the well known Majumdar-Papapetrou (MP) solutions. Like the MP solutions, each black hole in a $\Lambda >0$ solution has charge $Q$ equal to its mass $M$, up to a possible overall sign. Unlike the $\Lambda = 0$ limit, however, solutions with $\Lambda >0$ are highly dynamical. The black holes move with respect to one another, following natural trajectories in the background deSitter spacetime. Black holes moving apart eventually go out of causal contact. Black holes on approaching trajectories ultimately merge. To our knowledge, these solutions give the first analytic description of coalescing black holes. Likewise, the thermodynamics of the $\Lambda >0$ solutions is quite interesting. Taken individually, a $|Q|=M$ black hole is in thermal equilibrium with the background deSitter Hawking radiation. With more than one black hole, because the solutions are not static, no global equilibrium temperature can be defined. In appropriate limits, however, when the black holes are either close together or far apart, approximate equilibrium states are established.Comment: 15 pages (phyzzx), UMHEP-380 (minor referencing error corrected