Ratings aggregator Proof66. com categorizes the Sapphire as a Tier 1 spirit, indicating generally favorable " expert " reviews.

Other Tier 1 cable operators, including Comcast, have announced trials of a similar service in sections of the US Northeast.

The United States Department of State publishes the annual Trafficking in Persons Report, identifying countries as either Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 2 Watch List or Tier 3, depending upon three factors: "( 1 ) The extent to which the country is a country of origin, transit, or destination for severe forms of trafficking ; ( 2 ) The extent to which the government of the country does not comply with the TVPA's minimum standards including, in particular, the extent of the government's trafficking-related corruption ; and ( 3 ) The resources and capabilities of the government to address and eliminate severe forms of trafficking in persons.

As detailed above, some carriers attempted to form a cartel of self-described Tier 1 networks, nominally refusing to peer with any networks outside the oligopoly.

* Tier 1 network

* Example Tier 1 Peering Requirements: AT & T ( AS7018 )

* Example Tier 1 Peering Requirements: MCI ( AS701 / AS702 / AS703 )

* Example Tier 1 Peering Requirements: AOL Transit Data Network ( AS1668 )

Internet service providers ( often Tier 1 networks ) participate in Internet backbone exchange traffic by privately negotiated interconnection agreements, primarily governed by the principle of settlement-free peering.

Fermilab continues to participate in the work in the LHC including serving as a Tier 1 site in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid.

It also owned the Tier 1 ISP UUNET, a major part of the Internet backbone.

Category: Tier 1 networks

Tier 1 or Tier One may refer to:

* Tier 1 capital, core measure of a bank's financial strength

* Tier 1 network, or Tier 1 carrier, an ISP which can connect to the entire Internet without paying transit fees

SAD / SOG teams were key in working with JSOC and tracking high value targets ( HVT ), known as " Tier One Personalities.

The corps recently introduced a tiered system of response, with Tier 1 response teams ready and able to respond to an event within 12 hours, and Tier 2 teams ready and able to respond within 36 hours.

Officers not on Tier 1 or 2 teams are Tier 3 responders, ready and able to respond to an event in 72 hours.

Tier 2 teams are composed of a smaller, more specialized workforce.

Current Tier 2 teams include the Applied Public Health Team ( APHT ), the Mental Health Team ( MHT ), and the Services Access Team ( SAT ).

Officers not already assigned to one of the Tier 1 and Tier 2 teams are Tier 3, and are used to augment these teams in the event of staffing shortages due to availability, or the need to scale up a response.

Also the GAA plays an international Hurling hybrid match with Scotland's national shinty team ( although Ireland do not select players from the best hurling teams in Tier One of the All-Ireland championship for this game ).

It is home to the Corpus Christi IceRays Tier II Jr. A ice hockey team, Corpus Christi Hammerheads indoor football Team, and the Texas A & M University – Corpus Christi Islanders men's and women's NCAA basketball teams.

The ice arena is also the home to the Chicago Steel Tier I Jr. Hockey team and the Robert Morris University Eagles men's and women's college ice hockey teams competing at the ACHA DI level.

The arena is home to the Fresno Monsters Tier II Jr. A & Tier III Jr. A ice hockey teams of the North American Hockey League and Western States Hockey League.

The Fever would drop out of the AF1 however on November 19 as the Tier 2 division, which the Fever were slated to be in, was scrapped by the league due to a lack of teams.

In 1992-93, the tournament was composed of Tier I and II teams.

This two-year experiment sent the top teams from each of the eight sections to the Tier I portion of the tournament and the remaining teams conducted a playoff to determine who would be included in the Tier II tournament.

* Tier 1 networks are closer to the backbone of the Internet.

* Tier 2 networks are resellers of services from tier 1 networks.

Tier upon tier of walls are represented, enclosing a great tower or keep in the centre.

ISPs requiring no upstream and having only customers ( end customers and / or peer ISPs ) are called Tier 1 ISPs.

These schools are consistently rated as Tier 5 schools for excellence.

If two likely causative mutations are detected in patients in Tier 1 or one mutation carriers in Tier 1, then the testing stops.

Due to increased competition in finance related careers, college degrees are now mandatory at most Tier 1 investment banks.

The Brockville Braves are a Tier I Junior " A " ice hockey team from Brockville, Ontario, Canada.

Binghamton University Crew, and Hiawatha Island Boat Club are also located on the river, in the Southern Tier of New York.

They are also placed among Tier 2 National Universities in the United States ( US News & World Report Best Colleges 2011 ).

One of the branches of the city's triune academies of Tier Brieche, Arach-Tinilith is neighbored by the warrior school Melee-Magthere, and Sorcere tower where arcane spellcasters are sent to study.

It is where Arsenic and Old Lace was filmed for TV in 1969 ; there are a number of old Victorian mansions located throughout City Island, mostly on the Sound side, complete with tall pointy spires and gables with gazebos, such as Delmours Point on Tier Street.

The region is bordered to the south by the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania, and together these regions are known as the Twin Tiers.

Buffalo State was ranked 31 in the category Top Public Schools Regional Universities ( North ) by U. S. News & World Report ’ s “ Best Colleges 2012 .” When all public and private institutions are included, Buffalo State is ranked 104 in the Top Regional Universities ( North ) Tier 1.

* Non-cumulative preferred stock — Dividends for this type of preferred stock will not accumulate if they are unpaid ; very common in TRuPS and bank preferred stock, since under BIS rules preferred stock must be non-cumulative if it is to be included in Tier 1 capital.

In many countries, banks are encouraged to issue preferred stock as a source of Tier 1 capital.

Through preferred stock, financial institutions are able to gain leverage while receiving Tier 1 equity credit.

Many Canadian issuers are financial organizations which may count capital raised in the preferred-share market as Tier 1 capital ( provided that the shares issued are perpetual ).

Perpetual cumulative preferred shares are Upper Tier 2 capital.

The economies, geography and population of these two counties are very similar to that of other Northern Tier counties.

The counties and important towns in the Northern Tier are:

He specialised in re-telling legends and popular subjects, and among his Gedichte ( Berlin, 1836 ) are some naïve and humorous little pieces such as Die Historie von Noah, Die Heinzelmännchen, Das grüne Tier and Der Schneiderjunge von Krippstedt, which became popular.

This is a more in-depth technical support level than Tier I and therefore costs more as the techs are more experienced and knowledgeable on a particular product or service.