As I write this, I'm jam-packed in between all 6 of my siblings, way too many pillows, never enough snacks, and stacks of suit bags in our family's van as we head to NITOC. The national tournament for Stoa begins Monday, NCFCA kicks off in 18 days, and NSDA kicks off in 28.
If you're like me, you're nervous. Nervous that the hundreds of hours that you've dedicated this year will culminate in a 3-3 record and a failure to break. Nervous that the speech you've spent countless late nights honing to near-perfection won't resonate and you'll leave it in quarterfinals. Nervous that your effort will amount to nothing.
Sure, I have goals that I want to achieve. And yes, if I don't meet those goals, I'll of course be pretty ticked. But the worth of my work is not measured in whether I'm in quarters or semis at one big high school debate tournament.
I've known people in the top ten nationally who made it to NITOC and didn't even break. I've known people who've only ever broke twice make it to NITOC and advance deep into outrounds. Nationals is ONE tournament but we treat it as though it's the test to determine our worth as speakers and debaters.
This mindset wrecks so many good competitors as they overthink their preparation and are devastated if they don't perform as well as they expected at the national tournament.
We can't treat our failures like they're nothing.
Own them. If we've failed, chances are that we could've worked harder, we could've gotten more feedback, we could've worked smarter, or we could've practiced more. If we ignore the ramifications of failing to achieve our goals, we're spitting on all of our previous work and saying that we didn't really care about the results at Nationals. If you set achievable goals and missed the mark, grieve. You could've done better and you didn't.
It's hard to own failure. However, if you fail to own your failure, you'll never strive to succeed. Does success matter to you? If so, act like it. Rejoice in your success and grieve in your failings.
Now, what I'm saying here can very easily be construed to mean something I never meant. Let me clarify. I don't want your failure to destroy you.
Let's take a step back here for a second.
Yes, you've poured dozens of hours into this activity. Yes, you've devoted your heart and soul. But 10 years from now? Chances are, no one besides you will remember what place you got at nationals, or regionals, or some big qualifying tournament.
Your results won't be relevant.
Your results don't carry a legacy. But you can. 10 years from now? Your results may be forgotten, but your friendships can still be there. Your NITOC placement may be delegated to the dustbins of forensic history, but the skills you've learned from this activity will have blossomed and grown into an invaluable asset. Your trophies will be in a box in your garage, but your character, your strength, work ethic, perseverance, and humility will still be the defining aspects of your life.
Remember, we don't debate to win. We debate to grow.
Awards are meaningful only as a representation of growth and achievement. If we start treating THEM as our goal rather than as a mere reminder of what truly matters, then this ancient skill of Rhetoric has become nothing more than a vessel for us to inflate our egos.
So, own your failure. Grieve. But keep it in perspective. There are 120 debaters at Nats. Only one wins. Don't destroy yourself when you inevitably place lower than you wanted. Nationals can be a roll of the dice sometimes. Don't let it determine your worth.


In the formula above, we have added weighting coefficients, parameterized our sigma values, used a more generalized distance function, and enforced a normalization condition on our data. These variants and more will be found in the literature, and the simple Optical Character Recognition (OCR) example that was presented is intended to convey the basic concept.
The diagram above depicts the classification algorithm for a classifying two-dimensional data with three classes or categories. The categories have 2, 2, and 3 pattern units each. However, we can have any number of pattern units. We add new pattern units and even new categories at any time without needing to retrain the network. This is a one of the advantages of Probabilistic Neural Networks. The downside is that as the network gets more complex, the speed and accuracy decrease. As a practical matter, we might also want to adjust sigma to make our patterns narrower as the number of patterns grows.


The news media appears to have started the countdown to November 1, 2016, when FirstNet plans to announce the Partnership winner. I am not so sure a final decision will be forthcoming on November 1, 2016. FirstNet has stated that its goal is to announce in early November, but several times members of the FirstNet C-level have said that there may, in fact, be circumstances that might delay the announcement.
Further, it is not clear, at least to me, that when FirstNet does announce the chosen Partner all of the t's will have been crossed and i's dotted. This is a complex system, and while the network will be built out on greenfield spectrum (band 14), chances are pretty good that the Partner will either be or have a nationwide operator and a number of rural broadband operators lined up as its partners. So while the network might be considered to be brand new, I have to assume that large portions will be additions to existing wireless broadband networks. Separate and apart from a commercial network's existing LTE network there will be sharing of facilities where possible and practical, perhaps the same antennas, fiber, emergency power, and other aspects of a commercial network that lend themselves to being shared without impinging on the requirement for full Public Safety priority.
In addition to FirstNet's announcement naming the winning bidder, there are many rapidly moving pieces to this evolving network. Many of these could directly impact the time it takes the FirstNet Partner to complete the basic network. Plans change as computer-generated coverage maps are sent to the field. A site may be deemed not acceptable, antenna placement less than ideal, or a tower already exceeds its rated wind loading. When this happens, FirstNet and the Partner will have to work out how to resolve the issues, how to keep the momentum going, and how to keep the project on track both from the Partner's and Public Safety community's perspective.
If each and every cell site change requires a change order to the contract or has to be approved "up the chain," the network might never be built. There needs to be a reasonable way to move past the change orders and other things that could potentially delay the construction of the network. Hopefully, because LTE has been deployed by all of the major and most of the smaller U.S. wireless network operators, they have already dealt with the issues that plagued them when they started building out LTE. Things such as not being able to launch your own LTE network in a major city because city planners need to spend weeks and even months evaluating changing out antennas on towers or delays such as ordering a fiber circuit from your company or another and being told it will take three months to be installed.
A great deal of work remains to be done by many different people and groups. I suspect that while I am at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference next week in San Diego there will be a number of sessions on FirstNet and about FirstNet. I also expect since there is little time between IACP and the November FirstNet Partner announcement date there will be many rumors flying around and lots of folks trying to coax those who work for and with FirstNet to spill the beans. However, there will be no definitive answers and rumors will continue until the announcement and FirstNet and the chosen Partner can begin working together in earnest.
We have all been through a long wait for this network, not only since FirstNet was formed in 2012 but years before that. After 9/11, Katerina, and Sandy, the public was made aware of the interoperability issues Public Safety has been facing for more than thirty years. The good news is that not only will FirstNet's network help solve some of these problems but the Public Safety community has found ways to provide better interoperability on county, region, and even statewide systems. With the advent of FirstNet's broadband capabilities, let's not stop working to move our Land Mobile Radio systems toward more and better interoperability.
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Луко Захариев Цончев е български литературен критик и историк.

Биография
Роден е на 24 ноември 1945 година в софийското село Каменица. Завършва българска филология в Софийския държавен университет.

След завършване на висшето си образование работи в Радио София, издателство "Народна младеж", вестник "Пулс", вестник "АБВ". Главен редактор е на вестник "Македония". Основател и стопанин на издателска къща "Стрелец".

Умира през 2005 година.

Библиография
 "Литературни бдения. Статии, портрети, размисли". София: Народна младеж, 1975, 224 с.
 "В търсене на националното" (1984)
 "Ранни срещи" (1985)
 "Български видения" (1988)

Източници

Външни препратки
 Статии на Луко Захариев в сп. "Литературна мисъл"
 От и за Луко Захариев в Своден каталог НАБИС - национален каталог на академичните библиотеки в България

Български литературни критици
Български книгоиздатели
Български журналисти
Възпитаници на Софийския университет
Хора от област София

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Le congrès de Rastatt (orthographié Rastadt lors de la réunion) est une réunion diplomatique entre la jeune République française, la Prusse, le Saint-Empire et un certain nombre de princes allemands qui se tient de  à . C'est l'une des très rares rencontres diplomatiques de l'Histoire où des ambassadeurs trouvent la mort.

Buts et antécédents

Ce congrès dont la réunion eut lieu à Rastatt avait pour but de régler les désaccords concernant l'occupation de certaines régions d'Allemagne par la France, en particulier la rive gauche du Rhin, à la suite de la signature du traité de Campo-Formio.

Le Directoire remit des instructions à ses agents diplomatiques, celles-ci attestaient son vœu à continuer sa politique de domination. On pouvait y lire : « Le traité de Campo-Formio n'est qu'un préliminaire ; il sera dépassé ; l'Empire sera bien forcé d'accepter de nouvelles modifications. »

De façon formelle l'Autriche mais aussi la Prusse avaient consenti mais confidentiellement à la présence de la France sur la rive gauche du Rhin. Mais il fallait obtenir l'approbation des différents membres du Saint-Empire. Il était prévu de dédommager les princes détenteurs de territoires par la sécularisation des principautés ecclésiastiques, le règlement de la guerre de Trente Ans servit de modèle.

Déroulement du congrès

L'ouverture du congrès eut lieu le , sans réunion préliminaire pour le préparer. Napoléon Bonaparte ne fit qu'un bref passage à Rastatt. Les personnes chargées de représenter la France furent :
 Antoine Bonnier d'Alco, ancien conseiller à la cour des aides de Montpellier, ancien député à l'Assemblée législative, puis à la Convention où il vota la mort du roi lors du procès de Louis XVI. Il avait déjà participé aux négociations de Lille entre la France et l'Angleterre ;
 Jean-Baptiste Treilhard qui fut remplacé par Jean Antoine Debry, ayant également voté la mort de Louis XVI, rapporteur des annexions de Mulhouse et de Genève ;
 et Claude Roberjot, qui avait abandonné son statut de prêtre, député suppléant à la Convention où il remplaça Jean-Louis Carra, il devint ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye.

Ces plénipotentiaires étaient vêtus selon la mode révolutionnaire de France ce qui dut offusquer les diplomates étrangers qui portaient encore perruques et culottes. Le futur chancelier d'Autriche Metternich, alors jeune diplomate, les a dépeints « comme calfeutrés dans leurs appartements et plus sauvages que des ours blancs ». Le plus surprenant furent les tractations auxquelles eurent recours les Français. Un des diplomates étrangers notait : « Le congrès ressemble à une Bourse du commerce. »  Le cabinet de Claude Roberjot était recouvert de cartes d'Allemagne ; tout était noté aux personnes qui venaient lui rendre visite, il dit : ce pays, cet évêché, cette abbaye, nous les donnons à un tel, cet autre à tel autre, et ainsi de suite.

Malgré tout la Prusse se montra modérée et l'Autriche aimable ce qui permit une première ébauche sur la limite du Rhin et les indemnités à accorder.

Les changements dans le succès des armes, victoires françaises, puis défaites de Jourdan en Allemagne (fin 1798) entraînent une prolongation du congrès, jusqu'à ce que l'Autriche rompe les négociations en . De leur côté, les ambassadeurs français continuaient de profiter de leur immunité diplomatique pour espionner les mouvements de troupes de leurs adversaires. Cette activité découverte, le , l'archiduc Charles ordonne aux Français de retourner en France.

L'attentat contre les ambassadeurs français

Le 17, le colonel  commande à son régiment, les hussards de Szeckler d'ouvrir tout le courrier des diplomates français. Metternich quitte le congrès le 22 avril, avec tous les autres ambassadeurs, à l'exception des Français, dont le colonel Barbaczy refusa d'assurer la protection. Toutefois Talleyrand commanda à ses ministres de poursuivre leur espionnage.

Le 28, Barbaczy ordonna aux ambassadeurs français de partir dans les 24 heures. Les représentants français demandent alors une escorte, qui leur est refusée. Ils partent de nuit, mais il leur est interdit dans un premier temps de sortir de la ville. Une fois dans la campagne, ils sont attaqués par des hussards autrichiens : Roberjot et Bonnier d'Alco sont assassinés ; Debry et  échappent par chance à l'attentat.

Leurs papiers sont apportés à l'archiduc Charles à Vienne, puis retournés à Strasbourg.

Dès le 29, Bonnier et Roberjot sont enterrés à Rastatt et le colonel Barbaczy promet de rechercher et d'arrêter les assassins. L'archiduc Charles institua le  une commission d'enquête qui s'établit à Villingen dans la Forêt-Noire sous la présidence du comte von Spock. Son enquête dura environ six mois ; son rapport secret fut envoyé à Vienne, où il s'est perdu.

Le colonel Barbaczy fut arrêté avec quelques soldats, puis remis en liberté peu après et promu major général. Les Prussiens accusèrent l'Autriche d'avoir ordonné le meurtre des deux représentants français. Une action pénale pour homicide et vol fut vite enterrée.

Soupçonné d'être à l'origine de l'assassinat, le général Johann Heinrich von Schmitt, chef d'état-major de l'archiduc Charles, donne sa démission en septembre 1800.

Le congrès ne reprit pas à cause de la formation de la Deuxième Coalition.

Il apparaît que l'attentat a été ordonné par les Autrichiens, afin d'obtenir les papiers des ambassadeurs. Les hussards seraient allés plus loin que leurs ordres. Pour d'autres, l'assassinat aurait été commandité par des émigrés français, ou encore par le parti de la guerre en France .

Article connexe
Immunité diplomatique

Bibliographie

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Capitaine Oscar Criste, Rasttat. L'assassinat des ministres français le 28 avril 1799, d'après des documents inédits des archives impériales et royales de Vienne, traduit de l'allemand par un officier supérieur, Librairie militaire R. Chapelot et Compagnie, Paris, 1900, 445 p.
 Joseph Auguste Souchon, « Rastatt - L'assassinat des ministres français le 28 avril 1799 », extrait du tome 32 du Bulletin de la Société académique de Laon, impr. Journal de l'Aisne, 1907.
Paul Huot, Les plénipotentiaires de Rasttat, d'après l'ouvrage allemand Der Rasstater Gesandtenmord de Von Karl Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Librairie internationale, Paris, 1869
Alexis Belloc, La télégraphie historique, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, Firmin Didot, Paris, 1894, p110-121 article sur le Directoire et l'attentat de Rasttat

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1799
Événement de la Révolution française
Traité signé par la Première République française
Traité signé par le Saint-Empire romain germanique


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