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What is an Integrated WLAN?
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LAN (Local Area Network) refers to a communications network in which devices are connected through wired technology in a confined area, often operating within a single building. WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network), is a communications network that does not connect using cables, but, instead, uses radio frequency (RF), or on occasion, infrared (IR) transmission. Integrated WLAN is mostly commonly used with routers or access points that provide for a joining of these two, differently connected, systems. Integrated WLAN may also be used to refer to connections between WLAN and other technologies, such as UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) or TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) or WAN networks.
WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) is a communications network that does not connect using cables.
When LANs began to be used, the computers, computer terminals, and other devices in the network had to be connected via some type of wire, either optical fibers, coaxial cables, or telephone lines, as appropriate. While networking was enormously beneficial for sharing data and devices — cutting costs and increasing productivity — the wired nature of the connections are not always easy. Once the Internet came into the picture, a router with a connection pointed outwards became the hub of the system connecting the LAN to the Internet. Originally, before Integrated WLAN, routers simply connected a group of PCs to the Internet using cables.
Integrated WLAN is often set up through a router that can handle both a cabled connection, as well as wireless connections. These connection can be used by WiFi or IP (Internet Protocol) phones, also known as Voice over IP or VoIP phones, as well as by computers and other wired and wireless devices. Computers with a wireless card installed may be used either through the cabled connection or wirelessly, as the owner chooses and as the reach of the wireless network allows. Other devices that can be used on the network include video game consoles, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer 3) players.
The wireless connections vary, depending on which version or versions of the 802.11 standard are used. The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.11 standards describe the interfaces for WLAN, including integrated WLAN. The most commonly found iterations of the standard in the twenty-first century are 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n. There are dual band routers that take advantage of the two frequencies for 802.11n — 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. At 2.4 GHz, a range of about 230 ft (70 m) can be achieved, while the range for 5 GHz is significantly less. Dual band implementations can either be one-at-a-time or simultaneous.
Mary Elizabeth is passionate about reading, writing, and research, and has a penchant for correcting misinformation on the Internet. In addition to contributing articles to wiseGEEK about art, literature, and music, Mary Elizabeth is a teacher, composer, and author. She has a B.A. from the University of Chicago's writing program and an M.A. from the University of Vermont, and she has written books, study guides, and teacher materials on language and literature, as well as music composition content for Sibelius Software.
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JOHNNIE WALKER TEAMS UP WITH ENTOURAGE STAR FOR NEW SHORT FILM
Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky has announced that it has partnered with Warner Bros and its new film version of the hit US television series Entourage, to debut the short film Johnny for Johnnie, launched as part of the brand's Keep Walking campaign.
Directed by Entourage co-star Kevin Connolly, the short film extends Johnny Drama's plotline, showing how in true Johnny Drama style, when you pursue a passion with over-the-top optimism, persistence and a little bit of "layering" you can achieve victory.
Entourage's Kevin Dillion starring in new Johnnie Walker short film Johnny for Johnny
Commenting on film, Dan Sanborn, Vice President of PR and Entertainment Marketing at Diageo, said: "What makes the Entourage series so universally relatable is that its story revolves around a group of friends and their unrelenting pursuit of their dreams. We all have dreams but it's not always easy to achieve them. In this short film, Johnny Drama – as only Drama can – brings to life his own dream, bringing some fun and levity to his journey and all of the steps along the way. It's a classic Johnny Drama story of perseverance."
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Like the Johnnie Walker's 'Keep Walking' campaign, Entourage is centred around personal progress and the celebration of achievements, both big and small, along the way. From embarrassing failures to epic successes and all the steps and missteps inbetween.
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Life After COVID-19
We all dream of a future where we can still bask peacefully under the sun. For us, and for the generations to come, this simple dream lives on. However, life as we know it, is full of challenges and hurdles we must overcome. Take the coronavirus pandemic as an example—we're being cornered on how to cope up with life after the contagion. Tomorrow is uncertain, and we must not take today for granted. There are crucial facets that COVID-19 has affected. Among the heavily impacted facets of our lives are:
Work and Livelihood
One of the hardest decisions to make is whether to continue working amid COVID-19 threat or not. Remaining employable alone is tough enough. What more if we're forced to work to sustain our families? Thus, home-based jobs can be our new normal after COVID-19. The demand for remote jobs is rising and employers are likely to adopt this setup to cope up with the market as well. Businesses all over the world have now experienced how efficient remote workforces are. Aside from quality work, they pay less for the overhead costs.
To avoid transmission of the deadly virus, travel bans on various parts of the world are still imposed. World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) released a statement saying that 96% of the world's destinations are currently impacted by travel restrictions and other strict lockdown measures. While the contagion continues to spread, keeping a safe distance from the pleasures of traveling is highly ideal. As stated by Bloomberg in a report, Delta Air Lines Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian stated that the estimated recovery period of the airline sector could take two to three years. Because of safety protocols, traveling after COVID-19 may be much harder than it is before.
It's a splendid thing they came up with online banking a few years back. Aside from convenience, it offers a reliable, direct way of transacting, too. However, as agreeable as it sounds, central banks across the globe are absorbing most of the damage COVID-19 has brought to the economy. As reported by The New York Times, central banks have been imposing emergency rate cuts to cushion their economies as coronavirus threatens international growth. Thus, affecting the consumers—like a domino effect.
COVID-19 took its toll on the mental health of many individuals. As communities close due to lockdown measures, they feared how to sustain themselves, relying on the government alone. Since the pandemic affected logistics, importing goods from neighboring cities has become difficult. Leaving millions of individuals unemployed, homeless, and starving, the pandemic continues to show no sign of slowing down soon. Will this be the new normal? All the society can do for now is to keep united and hopeful that a better tomorrow will eventually come.
Living Through and After the Pandemic
Months into strict lockdown, we're already witnessing how this dire situation affects the lives of many. How we work and do our businesses before is not the same as now. With our current state of living, questions arise: shall we reinvent the way we work and live? Let's face it—the normal life that we know of has failed. Back then, despite being pandemic-free, businesses still struggled to thrive in the Philippine market. Our former circumstances impoverished individuals and families. Further, homelessness is rampant. By keeping an eye on what matters the most—which is our people—we can rebuild a stronger society and live a better life after COVID 19.
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Former Eagles Owner Jerry Wolman Dead at 86
By Joel Mathis· 8/7/2013, 8:10 a.m.
Jerry Wolman, the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, died yesterday at his home in Potomac, Maryland, the National Football League team said. He was 86.
Wolman was the youngest owner in the NFL when he owned the Eagles from 1963-69. He bought the team for $5.5 million and sold it for $16.2 million to Leonard Tose after his real estate construction company had failed.
"I had the pleasure of meeting Jerry on multiple occasions when he came back to watch an Eagles game," said Eagles Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Lurie in a statement. "Each time, we enjoyed reminiscing about Eagles football and sharing in the enjoyment of owning such a historic franchise."
Because he failed to deliver a championship during his years at the helm, however, it's expected that "real" Eagles fans will boo at his funeral.
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About History
City of Silver Lake
The City of Silver Lake is a third class municipality located approximately eight miles West of Topeka on US Highway 24. The City operates with a mayor/city council form of government and currently has five full-time employees. The latest census figures show 1,358 residents in the City of Silver Lake.
The City of Silver Lake boasts the following businesses: a library, two banks, a grocery store with deli, two gas stations with convenience items and food, Chinese restaurant, Mexican restaurant, pizza parlor, neighborhood bar, liquor store, barber shop, beauty shops, laundromat, auto repair shop, machine and weld shop, accountant's office, certified financial planner, veterinary clinic, construction company, self-storage facilities, memorabilia store, apartment complexes, and a car wash. We also have several businesses on the fringe of the city: a hardware store, siding and window sales and installation, insurance agency, and chiropractor.
There are currently two churches of worship located in the city--Silver Lake First Baptist Church and the Silver Lake United Methodist Church. The Lakeside Southern Baptist Church is located just outside the city limits to the west of Silver Lake.
Calendar year 2008 brought additional construction to both the grade school and high school. The 2007 enrollment in the elementary school was 384 and high school enrollment was 355.
BRIEF HISTORY: In the spring of 1871 the City of Silver Lake was incorporated. We are proud of other events, described below, that have made Silver Lake what it is today.
Telephones were installed in 1885, but it wasn't until 1907 that a switchboard system was added.
In 1911 a new six room brick school building replaced the original two room structure and the first high school class was organized. In 1928 that building became the grade school
In 1952 the high school burned and a new high school was completed in 1953. New Grade School construction was completed in 1961 and in 1970 and again in the mid 1990's the schools saw additional construction.
The two lane hard-surfaced road through the city was completed in 1928 and was later known as US Highway 40 and still later became US Highway 24.
The original waterworks system, including a 50,000 gallon water tower was completed in 1946. A new 200,000 gallon water tower was constructed in 1996.
A volunteer fire department was established in 1949. In 1964 Shawnee County Rural Fire District #1 was organized and currently has two full-time employees.
In 1959 street signs were added to the city. The Lions Club numbered all homes in 1965.
The Silver Lake Community Center was built in 1969 and the City park shelter house in 1970.
Construction of the sewer and main facility was begun in 1976 and was completed in 1977. Improvements to the lagoon were completed in 2007.
Welcome to the City of Silver Lake. We are proud of our City.


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Een verstuiver is een voorziening om van een vloeistof een nevel te maken. Een verstuiver kan in de volgende toepassingen gevonden worden

 sproeidrogen, een techniek om uit een geconcentreerde oplossing, een vaste stof te verkrijgen.
 common-rail en gewone dieselmotoren, maar ook bij benzine-injectiemotoren, bij het inspuiten van de brandstof.
 bij conventionele benzinemotoren, waar in een carburateur de benzine wordt verneveld.
 bij veel spuitbussen, met of zonder drijfgas.
 bij de landbouw, waar bemestings- en bestrijdingsmiddelen worden verstoven boven de akkers.
 In oliekachels en petroleum- of benzinelampen, om de brandstof te vernevelen.
 In de analytische chemie, bij AES, AAS en ICP-MS
 In de medische praktijk, om bij beademde patiënten verlichtende dampen toe te dienen
 In de praktijk van de grafische kunst, waar met airbrush of fixatiefspuit wordt gewerkt

Er zijn twee mogelijkheden om een vloeistof te verstuiven:
Vloeistof onder hoge druk Als vloeistof onder hoge druk door een kleine opening geperst wordt ontstaat een nevel, vooral als het vloeistofkanaal van binnenuit door een conisch of taps stuk materiaal wordt gevuld. Deze techniek wordt toegepast bij brandstofverstuiving in moderne injectiemotoren, de landbouwmachines, de olie- en benzinelamp en het sproeidrogen. Er wordt wel een gas (lucht) gebruikt om de nevel verder te tranporteren, maar het gas levert geen bijdrage aan de verstuiving. Afhankelijk van de toepassing zijn de gekozen materialen en afmetingen zeer verschillend; In de landbouw en grote (scheeps-) dieselmotoren gaat het om gaten van een halve tot 2 millimeter, terwijl bij de moderne, zuinige commonrail dieselmotoren het vaak gaat om gaatjes in de orde van micrometers en drukken van 150 tot 250 Megapascal. Men streeft naar doseringen van een enkele microliter per keer!  Materiaalkeuze is zeer belangrijk in deze omstandigheden, men neemt vaak z'n toevlucht tot synthetische halfedelsteen, zoals saffier.

Gas onder (hoge) druk Als gas onder hoge druk vloeistof meezuigt door venturi-werking ontstaat een nevel. Dit gebeurt in de conventionele spuitbus met drijfgas, de conventionele benzinemotoren en de meeste analytische toepassingen. Hierbij zijn twee mogelijkheden:
 Gasstroom is concentrisch ten opzichte van de vloeistof,
 Gasstroom staat loodrecht op vloeistofstroom
In beide gevallen kan de vloeistof aangezogen worden, maar vaker kiest men ervoor om de vloeistof met een precisiepomp, bijvoorbeeld een peristaltische pomp, aan te voeren.

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The spread of smartphones and social networking services in recent years has significantly influenced people's purchasing behavior, transforming them as consumers into data-savvy users in the supply chain. Hitachi is working on ways to develop decision-making support for optimizing supply chains using artificial intelligence.
2nd System Department, Distribution System Head Office, Industrial Solutions Division, Industry & Distribution Business Unit, Hitachi, Ltd. Current work and research: Development of new services for retailers.
2nd System Department, Distribution System Head Office, Industrial Solutions Division, Industry & Distribution Business Unit, Hitachi, Ltd. Current work and research: Incubation of new business for retailers.
Total Supply Chain Management Solution Center, Mobility and Manufacturing Systems Division, Industrial Solutions Division, Industry & Distribution Business Unit, Hitachi, Ltd. Current work and research: Development of new business for SCM/logistics. Society memberships: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).
Value Chain Logistics Department, Business Development Division, Business Incubation and Development Division, Social Innovation Business Division, Hitachi, Ltd. Current work and research: Development of new business and solutions for SCM/logistics. Certifications: Certified Logistics Master.
The spread of smartphones and social networking services (SNSs) in recent years has had a significant influence on people's purchasing behavior. The growing diversity of consumer lifestyles and values has led to markets becoming more fine-grained and product lifecycles to become ever shorter. Meanwhile, the desire of people to express themselves and to post the recommendations of friends and acquaintances on SNSs is also transforming people's purchasing behavior, especially in terms of travel and fashion. A change is taking place whereby people are no longer motivated to make purchases by product-focused promotions based on things like features and price, but are looking for purchasing opportunities that focus on additional value, such as personalized, friendly communications or offers that are tailored to their preferences from trusted brands or companies that understand them. More and more often, people are becoming motivated to buy when they are presented with such opportunities.
This change in purchasing behavior has led retailers and manufacturers to take a growing interest in digital marketing, which has the potential to offer effective measures for enhancing customer loyalty through the digital analysis and understanding of various external data, such as the preferences of consumers and their purchasing behaviors on diverse sales channels.
In Japan, meanwhile, there is an estimated 6.21 million tons of edible food that goes to waste (food loss) each year, equivalent to almost double the roughly 3.2 million tons supplied by the United Nations as aid to countries suffering from food shortages(1). It is believed that approximately 55% of these cases of food wastage occur in the distribution stage, with major causes including returns or disposal due to the removal of out-of-date products, expiration of delivery dates, and seasonal re-stocking. The annual value of returned goods is estimated to be approximately 160 billion yen.
An acknowledged factor behind this is that the retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and raw material suppliers along the supply chain hold more inventory than they need as a safety margin to ensure that they can fill all the orders that come in without running out of certain items. As a result of this becoming the common practice, it is likely that a considerable amount of food is disposed of as its use-by date comes due.
For companies under extensive pressure from consumers and society to consider the environmental load in their economic activities, this has made it important to optimize inventory by basing their choices of what products to stock on an accurate understanding of fluctuations in demand. If the consumer needs that serve as the basis for all value chains can be accurately understood using digital marketing as described above, then it will become possible to achieve greater accuracy in product planning and ordering, sales, production planning, and demand forecasting by sharing this data with retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, raw material suppliers, and others (see Figure 1). If logistics data can also be integrated, then it will facilitate the optimization of inventory at production plants and in various sales channels such as distribution centers, which will help reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of logistics, and lead to shorter lead times for delivering products to consumers.
This article describes details of Hitachi's work on decision-making support for optimizing supply chains and the outlook for the future. Targeting the Super Smart Society, in which there is a greater focus on additional value in consumption behavior, this work involves utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to identify the needs of individual consumers and generate demand, then utilizing simulation technology in cyberspace to derive the optimum inventory allocation in the planning stage and the optimal supply allocation in the execution stage.
Figure 1—How Digital Technologies Connect each Step of the Value Chain The digital data held by customers provides a basis for activities along each step of the value chain that enhance the precision of the actions taken.
If digital marketing is to be adopted with a focus on additional value, it is essential that analyses include not only the product data, customer data, and point of sale (POS) and other purchase history data used for analysis in the past, but also external data such as the various forms of data obtained through customer touchpoints, such as their level of interest in sales campaigns, weather and event data, and promotional data. As this significantly increases the amount of data that marketing staff need to collect, it means that a lot of time and expense must be put into performing the analyses and then utilizing the results to devise and test hypotheses. This leaves less time for formulating the promotions themselves or investigating new products or services, which is making it difficult for companies to differentiate themselves from competitors. Another recognized challenge is that expertise in conducting analysis tends to be concentrated in certain experienced marketing staff, such that the interpretation of analysis results depends on experience and intuition.
In response to this challenge of having adequate data, but not being able to utilize it, Hitachi has developed a service that utilizes proven analysis techniques and Hitachi AI Technology/H (AT/H) to support the analysis of huge amount of data and the acquisition of the analysis expertise required for digital marketing. This frees up marketing staff, enabling them to focus on creating new products and services or marketing initiatives. To put this service into actual use, Hitachi has engaged in collaborative creation with leading companies to launch a demonstration project that uses AT/H to support the plan, do, check, act (PDCA) process in digital marketing.
A major feature of this service is that it automatically assigns "product DNA" tags to each product that express features, such as high-quality, value-focused, or health-conscious. These DNA tags are used as hints when collecting and analyzing the product purchase history data of individual customers to make in-depth assessments of preferences and lifestyles, such as identifying other high-value customers who are women in their thirties with a preference for high-quality goods that they trust or for whom cost-performance is an important consideration when shopping, for example. Furthermore, it is also possible through ongoing analyses to rapidly identify when a customer's preferences have changed.
Within the service, this categorization of individual customers is called a preference segment. The service produces a guess and classification of individual personas (customer profiles), such as whether they are discerning consumers with a preference for luxury, health-conscious, or value-focused, etc. Using these personas, it is possible to visualize which products should be pitched to which customers to increase sales. It also becomes possible to steadily improve the accuracy of analysis knowledge by having AT/H provide quantitative assessments of the effectiveness of initiatives, such as promotions based on purchase histories, and thereby to learn the merits and demerits of the analysis knowledge held by AT/H itself and update these accordingly.
Using data analysis and formulating initiatives in the PDCA process for corporate marketing activities, the service can help increase the proportion of high-value customers by applying its ability to analyze data and perform learning to analysis knowledge in quantities that no human could handle (see Figure 2).
Figure 2—Digital Marketing Using AI AI can itself grow through the analysis of huge amount of data and by ongoing learning of analysis knowledge, supporting investigation and decision making by marketing staff, and achieving more advanced system-based automation.
In the past, companies strove to acquire products based on an accurate understanding of fluctuations in demand (demand forecasting), with their planning and development departments conducting various forms of marketing and using these to run promotions, while the departments that supply products had responsibility for setting appropriate inventory levels and minimizing losses in the distribution process.
However, there is a limit to how far accuracy can be improved when using conventional rule-based demand forecasting logic that works by accumulating data on product sales. Accordingly, there is a need to collect data in greater varieties and quantities, going beyond the usual product sales data to include data on consumer purchases as well as shop-floor data on things like sales promotions, shelf space allocations, and cannibalization. Hitachi seeks to use AI for analyzing these huge amounts of data and to build up its analysis expertise.
When calculating sales forecast figures, for example, a task that in the past was done manually on a rule-of-thumb basis using sample data to test hypotheses, Hitachi tried formulating sales forecast models from AI analyses of detailed sales data. By doing so, it succeeded in building a model based on factors that were not embodied by existing concepts from big data that could not be handled manually.
The following describes an example of an approach for calculating the optimal order quantities for each store in a retail chain. This approach optimizes product inventory by formulating a sales forecast model to generate detailed sales projections for each product, using detailed store order data and past records of sales of similar products as inputs, and providing predictions and recommendations on when and how much of each product to order.
This involves first calculating sales projections by identifying multiple product groups that are similar to a new product and initializing the model for predicting sales after the launch of the new product based on the sales figures for the similar product groups. Once the product goes on sale, the actual sales results are incorporated and, from then on, the model is updated and adjustments to predicted sales figures are made on a daily basis. In addition to calculating optimal order quantities from the predicted sales numbers and inventory data, daily order quantities are provided with an index that puts a value on the risk of opportunity loss or overstocking.
The sales forecast model is progressively upgraded by using an AI to perform learning on the difference between predicted and actual sales to prevent a fall in prediction accuracy due to the model losing applicability over time. Prediction accuracy is also enhanced by having the AI perform quantitative assessments to determine which of the sales forecast models is best suited to each product. Moreover, faster decision making, such as adjusting order quantities or discounting products so that they sell out, is achieved by providing prompt notification to the person in charge of ordering of any deviation from the sales forecasts calculated by the AI. This helps to keep inventory and in-store quantities at appropriate levels.
The use of more accurate demand forecast data in warehouse operations improves the accuracy of quantity predictions, and this in turn improves the prediction accuracy for the required staffing levels, something that in the past has tended to rely on the intuition and experience of administrators. It is anticipated that this will help rationalize operations and labor costs by getting staffing levels right.
Hitachi is conducting research into simulation tools to allow the design of supply chains based on demand data and control of how inventory is held on an on-demand basis, and has begun deploying them in-house and as part of its collaborative creation work with customers.
One of these is a multi-site/multi-level parts allocation technique that was developed both to minimize the build-up of inventory through the appropriate management of international parts procurement and to improve the ability to keep up with fluctuations in demand. The technique supports two different stages of operations by setting appropriate safety stock levels in the planning stage to cope with fluctuations in demand, and making optimal supply allocation adjustments in the execution stage when demand fluctuates.
Firstly, in the planning stage, this involves a simulation that incorporates a technique using predicted values for demand increases and decreases in each market to assess the placement of inventory, and determines the optimal allocation of inventory between suppliers, warehouses, and factories using order fill rates and inventory levels as judgment criteria (see Figure 3). Similarly, in the execution stage, it uses a technique for working out optimal supply allocations that compensate for differences between the predictions and the actual demand fluctuations to determine the optimum supply allocation plan considering the trade-offs between order fill rates and transportation costs. This can suggest ways to change the means of transportation and the destination, such as diverting goods intended for shipment by sea to Japan, where demand has fallen, and air-freighting them to Europe, where demand is rising.
In this way, better and faster decision making can be achieved by running simulations beforehand and then incorporating the results into real-world execution plans.
Figure 3—Overview of Multi-site/Multi-level Parts Allocation Technique The technique supports two different stages of operations by setting appropriate safety stock levels in the planning stage to cope with fluctuations in demand, and by making optimal supply allocation adjustments when demand fluctuates in the execution stage.
Initiatives aimed at minimizing waste by improving the efficiency of supply chains, beginning with consumers, are achieved through collaboration, with the mutual trust and sharing of data between the companies and organizations that make up the supply chain. This is not something that can be achieved overnight, so it is important to work through a repeated process of trial and error to determine what constitute the best methods and approaches. However, Hitachi believes that one effective measure for boosting efficiency throughout the supply chain is to leave the people involved free to focus on decision making. This can be accomplished by delegating to AI the task of analyzing the huge amount of data involved in marketing, demand forecasting, and quantity prediction, which require the analysis of the past and the prediction of the future.
While utilizing Lumada, Hitachi's open platform for the Internet of Things (IoT), to connect all the digital data representing the diverse activities that make up a real-world supply chain, Hitachi intends in the future to work toward implementing processes that can rapidly plan and re-plan by replicating the real world in cyberspace and using this to understand various situations and make predictions in place of the real world.
Measures for using data to coordinate supply chains are now reaching the stage of practical application, with AIs being used to forecast demand and the data being utilized in making supply more efficient. Moreover, by having AIs use these forecasts to predict the quantity and timing of work, Hitachi also intends to contribute to people — as people rather than as consumers — such as by formulating shift plans that can cope with more diverse working styles.
A. Tsujibe et al., "Study of Multi-Echelon Parts Allocation Technology in Global Supply Chain Management," Transactions of Manufacturing Systems Division Conference, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (Mar. 2014) in Japanese.


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Messi is criticized for lack of leadership spirit
Lionel Messi left for the dressing room, instead of staying in the field for interviews after Barca lost 0-1 in La Liga on November 21.
Messi declined an interview – a mandatory obligation on the part of the organizers, but that day Barca also had no veterans to replace him. Gerard Pique and Sergi Roberto both injured, leaving the field from the front. Sergio Busquets stayed in Barcelona to recover. The 17-year-old Pedri, therefore, must represent Barca players to talk to the media about the team's defeat against Atletico.
"Barca are a team without a leader, even when the game at the Wanda Metropolitano ends. They lose the game, leave the field with a low bow in boredom. But their mission is not limited to 90 minutes. ? ", AS asked. "Messi, once again, failed to show his captain's role. On October 24, after Barca lost to Real Madrid, 19-year-old rookie defender Sergino Dest was also required to show up to the media. Barca's dressing clearly lacks a leader, although the captain's armband is in the hands of Messi – who demanded to leave in August ".
In the El Calsico match that Marca recalled, both captain Messi and two vice captains Pique, Busquets played. But Dest had to stand up and speak to the media, and answer in English because the 19-year-old American did not speak a single Spanish.
The fans also find it difficult to understand when a young player like Pedri must accept responsibility for the team's defeat to the media. "It's shameful," commented one fan on Twitter. "The fact that Pedri has to respond to the interview says a lot about Messi's captain's role," commented another fan.
In reply to the Atletico defeat, Pedri said: "Recently, we have not been doing well in attack, and the first half injury goal has affected the team. We know things like this. Absolutely possible and the team is still improving. La Liga is very long, we can completely compete for the championship.
The defeat of Atletico caused Barca to drop to 12th La Liga, with only 11 points after 10 rounds. Messi's team is 12 points behind Real Sociedad, but less than two games.
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Team Sky visited our school and asked the children to join in with a flag competition. They provided some A4 flag templates and the children had to colour and/ or decorate them.
Mr Carruthers and Mrs Walbyoff lined up all the entries and after much deliberation chose two lucky winners.
Imogen davies from class 5 and Sienna Bowers from Class 13 will each receive aprize from Team Sky.


Imposter syndrome? Change your thinking.
You know, that feeling that at any moment, someone is going to sneak up behind you, tap you on the shoulder and say "I know you have no idea what you're doing". It's a dreadful feeling that has no place in the mind of any tenacious, intelligent, successful, and thriving person. So why is it?


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Let Queer Characters Be Happy
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When The Last Of Us Part II's new trailer debuted at this year's E3, protagonist Ellie enjoyed a slow dance and kiss with another woman. My queer friends and I confessed to one another that we were assuming the worst. That happy girl will probably die, because while games allow us to be many things—space marines, mages, and tenacious heroes—they rarely allow queer people to be happy.
Queer people struggle, as do our intersectional allies. The news is full of horrible daily reminders to all marginalized people that their lives and comfort exist largely at the whim of the privileged. That means bakeries refusing to make your wedding cake or laws meant to keep you out of restrooms.
That struggle has been fetishized by media and is one of the defining traits for queer characters in media. Video games have included more queer characters in recent years—Dorian in Dragon Age: Inquisition, Ellie in The Last of Us, Veronica Santangelo in Fallout: New Vegas and countless others—but all of their stories are tragic. Their partners and lovers are killed. Their families disown or shun them. They seem to be magnets for catastrophe. Rarely do their stories end in comfort, either from others or the larger world in which they live. We have more gays, trans-people, bisexuals, and others games than ever before. Yet we, comparatively, also have more of their corpses.
BioWare games often include queer characters; the studio took early strides to include gay romance options and trans-people in their works, with games like Jade Empire and Mass Effect offering bisexual romances. Since then, BioWare has expanded to include bisexual mage revolutionaries, queer princesses, and gay soldiers in their games.
These characters are, largely, defined by a pain that their straight counterparts do not share. That pain does not stem from queer marginalization, but rather, fantastical metaphors that serve as an in-world analogy for anti-LGBTQ bigotry. Consider Dragon Age 2's rebellious mage Anders. A runaway from the church's oppressive policy of mage isolation, he seeks to free his comrades and usher in a new age for his people. Anders' struggle comes to a head when he tries to save his ex-lover Karl Thekla from the iron grip of the Templar Order. To Anders' dismay, Karl has been made Tranquil, a condition where his mind is magically lobotomized. Karl asks the player to kill him, and if they do not comply, Anders will do it himself. The narrative demands that Anders follow a road to violent revolution; Karl is a sacrifice on that road. The story illustrates the way the in-game society treats mages, and there is a clear parallel here to queer experiences. Furthermore, it speaks volumes that Anders' struggle, which borrows heavily from real world queer suffering to pack its emotional punch, requires that his gay lover die — perhaps even by Anders' own hand.
Few, if any, of BioWare's queer characters proceed in their storylines without losing their partners; some arrive with these scars at the outset. Mass Effect 3's Steve Cortez has two traits: he is an excellent pilot and he is mourning the death of his partner Robert. He is one of the only explicitly gay romance options in the game, and his story revolves around his grief. Jade Empire's bisexual pirate Sky mourns the death of his wife and child. Dragon Age's bixsexual assassin Leliana gets sent on a potentially violent crash course with her ex-lover Marjolaine. The most contented queer character that BioWare gives us is Dragon Age: Inquisition's transgender Cremisius "Krem" Aclassi, whom the player can interrogate, rudely if they want, asking personal questions such as whether or not Krem's considered the magical equivalent of sex reassignment surgery. Krem's happiness is so rare that it is considered a curiosity.
Tragedy often serves as a backstory for straight characters in role playing games, too. Party members of all backgrounds hide hidden pasts and personal struggles that the player can learn about and solve. But where the mighty Krogan warrior Wrex might rise to lead his species, and the dwarf Varric Thetras ascend to nobility, queer characters' happy endings often end up being as romance options for the player. We are, more often than not, unsaveable unless we are fuckable, and even that is up to the player.
Games that include queer romance sometimes even place the success of that romance in competition with the success of society as a whole. In Life is Strange, teenager Max Caulfield saves her childhood friend Chloe after unlocking the ability to manipulate time. Throughout the rest of the game's episodes, the two women get closer and closer, and the budding seeds of romance bloom between them. But Chloe already has lost one lover before the game even begins. Life Is Strange revolves around the search for Chloe's missing girlfriend Rachel Amber. That search uncovers a string of sexual abuse and murder in the town of Arcadia Bay, with Rachel as one of the victims. After uncovering her body, Chloe gets killed by the culprit. That's two dead gays for the price of one.
Yet, even when Max alters reality to save her friend or bring her happiness, Chloe suffers. In an alternate timeline where Max prevents Chloe's father from dying, Chloe ends up in a car crash and is paraplegic. In this timeline, Chloe begs Max to euthanize her; the story shuts down both disabled and queer people's right to happiness in one fell swoop. In a timeline in which Max prevents Chloe's murder, a massive hurricane barrels down on Arcadia Bay instead. The pair conclude that the storm is an anomaly created in response to Max's time-traveling. The final choice is to either sacrifice the town or to travel back in time and allow Chloe to die.
Narratively, the choice feels empty. Max's personal growth up to this point revolved around a growing understanding of her place in society and learning to accept consequences for her actions. Chloe begs her friend to go back and let her die. If the player chooses this, the ending sequence is detailed and moving. We see Max's horror and pained acceptance that the girl she fell in love with is gone forever. This culminates in a scene at Chloe's funeral. If the player sacrifices Arcadia Bay, a perfunctory cutscene plays during which the pair drives through the wreckage. That scene is scored with music previously used in an earlier episode. It is rushed and not up to par with the other ending.
This juxtaposition makes Life is Strange's ending perplexing and disappointing. The player must choose between queer love and the literal survival of a small town. With the deck stacked like that, the only unselfish action for Max would be to give up her love for the betterment of society. Chloe can't survive. No matter how Max fights and no matter what magic she wields, she also has the misfortune of being a queer protagonist in a video game. Her happiness, as well as her partner's life, were always on the chopping block.
Because I have seen this story so many times, I cannot help but worry that the kiss Ellie shared in The Last of Us Part II's trailer is a kiss of death. The post-apocalyptic genre is teeming with corpses already, and moments of respite are often shattered by loss and tragedy. We've seen it in The Last of Us multiple times already, including with queer characters. The reclusive survivor Bill, guiding Joel and Ellie through his booby-trapped town, stumbles across the corpse of his partner Frank. In the DLC campaign Left Behind, a younger Ellie sneaks into a ruined mall with her friend Riley. The pair dance and kiss before before the Infected horde bite them. Ellie avoids infection—a key plot point in the main game—but Riley, we know, does not survive. She suggests the two of them commit suicide together.
The Last of Us focuses on the frailty of society and individuals, both morally and in the flesh. It makes sense that the characters would endure loss. Joel copes with the death of his daughter and his grief over his inability to protect her; he gravitates to Ellie, who serves as a surrogate child and a bittersweet balm for his prior loss. In the end, he gets what he wants — to serve the Hero Dad role — although it comes at the expense of many lives and lies.
Ellie seems to have found some of what she's lost at the outset of The Last of Us Part II, based on the promotional materials released so far. She has found romance again, although it remains to be seen how that relationship will go. Given the series' tone and track record, and considering the pile of queer corpses in media as a whole, I cannot imagine a scenario where she gets to keep what she has found.
"But this is a post-apocalyptic story," someone might say and they are right. People are going to suffer in that setting regardless of gender or sexuality. That's par for the genre, but it speaks volumes that so many people I know fear Naughty Dog might retread Left Behind, opting for a predictable tragedy we've already seen instead of something unique.
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I want these queer characters to have happy endings, or at least different ones. Hell, I'd settle for kisses that don't portend death. And I still love the stories that I have, imperfect and tragic though they may be. BioWare's cast of heroes provide examples of bravery and humility that I strive to emulate. Life is Strange's tender romance captures a sense of early sexual awakening. The Last of Us' Ellie is a goddamn survivor. All of that is fantastic, but it comes at a price. That price, often, is the agency and happiness of queer characters.
But why do we have to pay that price, and so often? I'm not suggesting that the queers should always get to dance in a field of gumdrops at the end of every game in which they appears, but considering the real world's continued eagerness to trample the marginalized, one of the most radical things art could do right now would be to show us a world in which we are more than our suffering.


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When Disaster Strikes, the World Depends on Public Service Professionals
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Public service is a diverse field.
It encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including criminal justice, emergency management, public administration, social work, and human services. Public service professionals work in government, as well as nonprofits, and sometimes, of course, politics.
But while the application of public service principles takes many forms, the core value that informs it is a commitment to civic values, says Micheal Kemp, PhD, faculty chair within the School of Public Service Leadership at Capella University. "It's a lot about giving back to the community," he says.
People in public service often make "tremendous sacrifices" in order to help others, Kemp says. That's particularly true when disaster strikes and public service employees are called upon to work long hours and endure considerable stress. But being part of the team that gets a community through a crisis can also be incredibly rewarding, Kemp observes.
Following is a look at all the public service professionals who get involved in the early stages of an emergency—in this scenario, a plane crash. Though their specialties range from fire-fighting to aeronautics to child psychology, the people who fill these roles are united by their passion to deliver assistance, justice, and even basic necessities like food and clean water.
"If you want to do something meaningful with your life, this is a field you should consider," Kemp says. "It's extremely fulfilling—in that you know that everything you do is going to have an impact on somebody else."
Learn more about Capella's online public service programs and social work and human services programs.
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Anny-Charlotte Verney is the Only Woman to Compete in Le Mans Ten Times
Elizabeth Blackstock
Growing up in La Sarthe as the granddaughter of one of the founders of Le Mans, racing might seem like a predestined future. For Anny-Charlotte Verney, with an unrivalled ten straight years of competing in the 24 hour race, that certainly proved to be true—even with no immediately family competing in racing.
There isn't much known about her private life or childhood, despite a decently impressive career and holding the record for the woman with the most Le Mans starts. Her name begins appearing in 1972 on entrance lists for rallies, but the scope of her interest in racing is largely unknown.
Her grandfather, Louis Verney, was one of the founders of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and her father was the vice president of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest—but the rest of the Verney family seemed to have little interest in racing. It was only with Anny-Charlotte's entrance in the Citroën MEP cup that the legendary name began to make a comeback.
Her first year of competition is not well-recorded, aside from winning the Rally Jeanne d'Arc as Raymond Touroul's co-driver. The rest of that year is largely unrecorded, but it must have been impressive, because in 1973, Verney was rallying as part of the Aseptogyl team, with whom she won the women's championship title in France and finished ninth overall.
1974 saw the beginning of her endurance career and her incredible decade-long run at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. She continued rallying, kicking off her first attempts at international racing, but the diversification into circuit endurance racing was key for her progress as a driver.
Her first few outings at bigger races like the 1000km of Le Castellet weren't particularly fruitful—but they provided a great training ground for Le Mans. For her Le Mans debut in '74, she finished 13th place overall, the highest female finisher that year. Her best overall finish that year was a third at the 1000km of Paul Ricard.
Which meant that Verney was riding a wave of success into 1975, having proved herself capable of a different discipline of racing. Her finishing position at Le Mans that year improved to 11th behind the wheel of a Porsche Carrera, once again securing the distinction of highest place female driver. A solid run of top tens—including several podiums—was the kind of consistency Verney needed to secure the French Women's Champion.
The following years aren't particularly well-documented. 1976 and '77 were poor years for Le Mans, with Verney and teammate Hubert Streibig suffering multiple fires and clutch failures. But that challenge meant Anny-Charlotte decided to try her hand at Dakar, the 24 Hours of Spa, the 24 Hours of Daytona, and more. Here was a woman unafraid of a little challenge—even if several of those outings resulted in DNFs due to car trouble.
In the 1980s, Verney began to have trouble securing rides. There are multiple instances where she was intended to race at, say, Daytona or Spa with drivers like Desiré Wilson, but none of these deals came to fruition. Before long, Le Mans was turning into her only endurance race of the year. Her final entrance in the event was in 1983, where she didn't finish.
That said, Verney's career wasn't over. She'd tried her hand at single seaters in the Formula Renault European Challenge, she picked up touring cars, and she fell head over heels with rallying all over again.
One of the more interesting partnerships she secured at this time was with Mark Thatcher. Yes, that's British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's son. The two attempted Dakar together, only to get lost in the desert.
Verney's finishes at Dakar were never particularly spectacular. With a highest finish of twentieth, she seemed interested more in the challenge and the experience than in trying to be consistently competitive. That said, she was still often the highest placed female finisher.
Verney retired from motorsport in 1992 at the age of 48, twenty years after her first entrance in a rally. Very little is known about her because she simply isn't a particularly public figure. She went off the radar for years, only recently resurfacing to talk about her experiences at Dakar and Le Mans.
It's interesting that so little has been recorded about Verney. We know little about the scope of her career, but we know much about her accomplishments. She had a total of ten participations in Le Mans, a female record. She also competed in ten Paris-Dakar rallies. She was a three time champion in French endurance racing and in French production car championships (with two production car runner-ups) . She was generally consistently competitive and was often the highest placing female driver in the races she ran.
With so many successes under her belt, it's unfortunate that the world doesn't know more about Anny-Charlotte Verney—but we can only hope that a little digging in the stowed-away archives will shed some more light on a fascinating career.


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KKR aims to raise $280 million in first yen-bond sale: sources
By Hiroko Yoneda
TOKYO (Reuters) - KKR & Co KKR.N is selling its first yen bond, seeking to raise around $280 million in a deal to price on Thursday, bankers close to the deal told Thomson Reuters DealWatch.
The U.S. private equity firm is selling 30 billion yen ($281.58 million) worth of five-, seven- and 20-year debt in securities targeted at Japanese investors, said the bankers. Overseas regulations will be applicable to the securities.
A KKR representative declined to comment. The bankers asked not to be identified because they are not in a position to speak to media.
The firm is likely to keep the bond proceeds in yen and wants to become a regular issuer of debt in the Japanese currency, one banker said. Bankers declined to discuss why the firm is raising money in Japan, but KKR has been expanding its Japanese operations.
Last year it bought two units from Hitachi Ltd 6501.T in deals worth about $3 billion, as the conglomerate tries to streamline operations.
KKR bid for the chip unit of Toshiba Corp 6502.T but lost out to a consortium led by rival Bain Capital.
Mizuho Securities and SMBC Nikko Securities Inc are managing the sale.
KKR has about $5 billion bonds outstanding, none in yen, according to Thomson Reuters data.
($1 = 106.5400 yen)
Reporting by Hiroko Yoneda; Writing by Junko Fujita; Editing by William Mallard and Muralikumar Anantharaman


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Former Turkish citizens who were forced to give up their Turkish citizenship (for example, because they have naturalized in a country that usually does not permit dual citizenship, such as Germany or Austria) can apply for the Blue Card (Mavi Kart), which gives them some citizens' rights back, e.g. the right to live and work in Turkey, the right to possess land or the right to inherit. Excluded from this "Citizenship lite" is the right to vote. While recognizing the existence of dual nationality and permitting Turkish citizens to have other nationalities, the Turkish government requires that those who apply for another nationality inform the relevant Turkish authority (the nearest Turkish embassy or consulate abroad) and provide the original naturalisation certificate, Turkish birth certificate, document attesting to completion of military service (for males), marriage certificate (if applicable) and four photographs link. PRINCETON, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 9, 2016– NRG Yield, Inc. (the Company or NRG Yield) (NYSE: NYLD, NYLD.A) today announced a $150,000,000 At-The-Market (ATM) equity offering program and announced that it and NRG Yield LLC entered into an Equity Distribution Agreement (the Agreement) Barclays Capital Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and RBC Capital Markets, LLC (collectively, the Agents). Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, the Company may offer and sell shares of the Companys Class C common stock, par value $0.01 per share, from time to time through the Agents, as the Companys sales agents for the offer and sale of the shares, up to an aggregate sales price of $150,000,000 https://www.craftaventura.com/?p=3207. Non avendo natura coercitiva, opinione comune che l'incentivo a non venire meno a un gentlemen's agreement risieda nella reciproca convenienza a rispettarlo (per esempio, guadagno per entrambe le parti, oppure limitazione di un danno o di un rischio che senza l'accordo potrebbe essere peggiore per entrambi). Era un gentlemen's agreement ad esempio il patto tra Italia e Regno Unito del 2 gennaio 1937 che precedette gli Accordi di Pasqua. Un gentlemen's agreement (dall'inglese, con il significato letterale di "accordo fra gentiluomini") un patto informale tra due parti, generalmente orale o meno frequentemente scritto. Si basa essenzialmente sul presupposto che entrambe le parti rispetteranno la parola data sul proprio onore in quanto, a differenza di un contratto formale, esso non pu essere difeso giudizialmente. A treaty was framed, and at first rejected by the United States Senate. This was done, but at the last accounts no treaty had been made. The market is taking the view that an agreement between Greece and EU is more likely than not, hence fears of a Greek exit have dissipated somewhat, so we're seeing appetite for riskier markets including peripherals. treaties, treated, dealt, conventional, ctbt, trait, npt, agreement, processed, , tratado, fmct, convention, handled, tried, addressed, sought, ppwt, vertrag, verdrag, treatise, attempted, traits, contract, recueil The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity. A Separation Agreement is easy to go solution. Beware, it has its repercussions too! There might be situations where a separation agreement can be used as a ground for cruelty. And Cruelty is in itself a ground for divorce. A sample template of a separation agreement between husband and wife in India is attached below. To know more about divorce by mutual consent, click the following link iPleaders By now it is clear that the chances of enforceability of a separation agreement are seldom possible. All new students (freshman, transfers, and others) attending regularly scheduled classes or receiving resident credit are required to submit a Certificate of Immunization to Student Health Services. Please find more information and download the form from the Dean of Students website. Students will have a registration hold placed on their account preventing registration for a second semester until this documentation is submitted. To find your registration dates and times, please login to UNG Banner Web and follow these links: This hold prohibits registration, graduation, and enrollment verification (agreement).
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'agreement.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback. Agreements in sentences refer to the subjects agreeing with their verbs, and pronouns agreeing with their antecedents. Reaching an agreement with her former boss, the mistreated worker received a settlement check for dropping her claims. Middle English agrement, borrowed from Anglo-French agreement, agrment, from agreer "to please, consent, agree" + -ment -ment The subject and the main verb within a sentence must agree with each another in person as well (sentence related to agreement). Independent Contractor Agreement May be used by an individual or a business to draft a written agreement that specifies the terms and conditions under which a contractor is being paid to complete a project. Chances are good that if your employee is asking you for a loan, theyre desperate. Maybe theyre faced with unexpected car repairs, medical bills for a family member, or even something like a surprise furnace replacement. Formalize your lending arrangements to protect your business. Establish guidelines for your employee loan program, because chances are that if one employee gets a loan from you, others will ask. Dispute Resolution: Employers are required to adopt a procedure whereby employees may dispute the overpayment and terms of recovery, or seek a delay in the recovery of the overpayment. On another note, be careful of signing or otherwise entering into any agreements before you fully understand the impact of those agreements. It is best to have a legal professional who regularly writes settlement agreements handling your agreement. A lawyer will know what type of language is needed to ensure that the terms of your agreement are properly expressed. A fault divorce can take place if one of the partners has committed adultery, has abandoned his or her partner, or has acted in a cruel and inhumane way both mentally and physically. Chronic drunkenness, drug addiction, and felony conviction are potential grounds too. In the state of Illinois, a spouse can also file for an at-fault divorce if bigamy or impotency have occurred. Every time your attorney files or response to paperwork, you will pay the legal fees for that service here. If youre new to renting, or you need a refreshment on your tenant rights, this brief 101 guide is the perfect read for you. A quick and handy overview of the most essential rights and responsibilities you have as a tenant. Protected and bound by the tenancy agreement The tenancy agreement is both your chain [] If youre a landlord at a boarding house, you will also have other responsibilities. There are obligations you and your landlord have which may not be set down in the agreement but which are given by law and are implied into all tenancy agreements. These terms form part of the contract, even though they haven't been specifically agreed between your landlord and you (view). Licensee agrees that use of the API Monogram on the products shall constitute a representation and warranty by Licensee to API and to the purchasers of the Licensees products that the products conform to the applicable standards, specifications and requirements of API. The API Monogram is an API registered certification mark. Through the API Monogram Program, licensed manufacturers are given the authority to apply the mark to equipment that meets API product specification requirements and has been manufactured within a quality management system that meets API Spec Q1. The API Standard 18LCM defines the requirements of a management system for organizations performing life cycle management of products used in the petroleum and natural gas industry (api monogram program alternative marking of products license agreement). Another key difference between the Paris Agreement and the Kyoto Protocol is their scopes. While the Kyoto Protocol differentiated between Annex-1 and non-Annex-1 countries, this bifurcation is blurred in the Paris Agreement, as all parties will be required to submit emissions reductions plans.[34] While the Paris Agreement still emphasizes the principle of "Common but Differentiated Responsibility and Respective Capabilities"the acknowledgement that different nations have different capacities and duties to climate actionit does not provide a specific division between developed and developing nations.[34] It therefore appears that negotiators will have to continue to deal with this issue in future negotiation rounds, even though the discussion on differentiation may take on a new dynamic.[35] The Paris agreement marks the beginning of a shift towards a low-carbon world– there is much more to do.
The Supreme Court further reiterated the importance of sale agreement between the builder and buyer, as it recently ruled that the period of allotment of a housing unit to a home buyer has to be considered from the date of the builder-buyer agreement and not from the date of registration of the project under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016. The court further ordered the RERA authorities to order payment of compensation from the builder as per the sale agreement, the sanctity of which has been upheld through this order. Under the competition chapter of the EUFVTA, Vietnam and the EU agree to maintain competition laws and ensure relevant authorities apply those laws in a non-discriminatory and transparent manner. In an effort to address anticompetitive conduct and promote procedural fairness, the agreement commits the parties not to undertake agreements that may restrict or distort the scrutiny or competition of a potential merger and acquisition. A new landmark free trade agreement between Vietnam and the European Union entered into force on 1 August 2020. Under the EUVFTA, the EU provides the same thresholds that it applies under the WTOs agreement on Government Procurement (the WTO GPA) and other FTAs, while Vietnam is granted a 15-year transitional period during which it will provide higher thresholds. Each contractual party must be a "competent person" having legal capacity. The parties may be natural persons ("individuals") or juristic persons ("corporations"). An agreement is formed when an "offer" is accepted. The parties must have an intention to be legally bound; and to be valid, the agreement must have both proper "form" and a lawful object. In England (and in jurisdictions using English contract principles), the parties must also exchange "consideration" to create a "mutuality of obligation," as in Simpkins v Pays.[40] If the terms of the contract are uncertain or incomplete, the parties cannot have reached an agreement in the eyes of the law.[58] An agreement to agree does not constitute a contract, and an inability to agree on key issues, which may include such things as price or safety, may cause the entire contract to fail. Owing to the efforts of Tasheel, an online government-backed system, labour processes in the UAE are improving with the passage of time. You can make a transaction, register a complaint and apply for a work permit online via Tasheel. Hi, I have tried to open the link above to open the labor contract but it says the page is not available. Please advise It is a service provided by the Ministry to any establishment wishing to obtain new electronic employment contract and permit that is valid for two years. Hi, I would like to ask and to clarify my situation due to COVID 19 PANDEMIC, i applied and hired last January 14,2020 and i was cancelled my previous company last January 28,2020. The new company applies labour card and shown in my MOHRE account my contract, and labour id, but showing expiry May 21,2020 (agreement). FSU local executive secretary Dianne Marshall said HBF had a substantial share of the health insurance market in Western Australia but it had given no thought to the health and welfare of its employees and their families with this round of enterprise bargaining. The FSU will be recommending workers at HBF reject the proposed agreement when it goes to a vote. Ms Marshall said HBF had approached negotiations over the Enterprise Agreement with a determination to force its workforce into submission. The companys offer of a 1.25% increase in year one and a guaranteed 1.5% increase in year two and three is an insult to these workers, Ms Marshall said (more). The council was a pilot authority for the Big Society programme.[6] All councils have the ability to revoke or modify a planning consent, in regards to the development plan and other material considerations. It can only be done before the development or the change of use given permission for is complete. If youre in need of planning permission for your building in Sutton, youve come to the right place with Freedom Homes. We offer a simple way to apply and be accepted for permitted development, land and planning permission, we have years of experience and will ensure that we do our utmost to guarantee that you receive the planning permission that you need (agreement).
For clear advice on creating and signing non-disclosure agreements, contact our commercial law team. You can also read more in our non-disclosure agreements fact sheet. And, NDAs might conflict with the attorney-client privilege. Language in an NDA might be phrased in a way that leads someone trying to require a lawyer disclose information about the client could point to in order to argue that the client consented to disclosure. For example, most standard form NDAs include a definition of Confidential Information that includes some major exceptions non disclosure agreement and lawyers. After India was granted the waiver on September 6, the United Kingdom said that the NSG's decision would make a "significant contribution" to global energy and climate security.[116] U.S. National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said, "this is a historic achievement that strengthens global non-proliferation principles while assisting India to meet its energy requirements in an environmentally friendly manner. The United States thanks the participating governments in the NSG for their outstanding efforts and cooperation to welcome India into the global non-proliferation community (http://xintanalegends.com/?p=12588). Ownership. The Ownership of Confidential Information protects the discloser. It states that all proprietary rights are retained by the disclosing party and that the disclosure of information does not convey any right or license to use the information other than for the stated purpose. The Notification of Disclosure clause requires a party receiving confidential information to notify the disclosing party in the event of any unauthorized use or disclosure. While drafting a confidentiality (non-disclosure) agreement, it is crucial to ensure interests of both the parties is adequately secured by including the required provisions in a well-defined manner and excluding provisions that are not required non disclosure agreement assignment. Edward Greenspon, co-chair of Publicly Policy Forum, told Global News after the new USMCA agreement had been signed that trade with China is an available and obvious path to achieving this goal. History has shown that ruptures with China are rarely permanent. Only five years after the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, things were back on track, said Prof. Houlden, a former diplomat who was posted twice to Beijing. While the North American Free Trade Agreement and its labour side agreement have not addressed or fixed all of Mexicos labour issues, the agreement established important precedents that Canada has followed with its other trade agreements, ensuring that they address the social needs of workers affected by economic linkages through trade. Canada currently has 11 pending trade negotiations under review including one with India another regime that is hardly sensitive to the issue of labour rights (china free trade agreement with canada). However, Monetary Metals leases are true gold leases and therefore have true gold interest rates. The rates are set by a market auction process. Individuals and institutions set the rate they are willing to accept. Please Note: This article is to inform your thinking, not lead it. Only you can decide the best place for your money, and any decision you make will put your money at risk. Information or data included here may have already been overtaken by events – and must be verified elsewhere – should you choose to act on it. Take note: the platinum market is far less liquid than gold or silver, meaning that there is less supply and demand (agreement). 7. Two sets of PTPTN agreement and its Letter of Offer (printable from the PTPTN website once the online application has been done). If you settle your entire loan amount within 12 months after completing your studies, you will not incur the 1% interest / ujrah. This means you only need to pay back what you borrowed, without any interest! 3. Buy a PIN number at BSN (Bank Simpanan Nasional) for RM5. (The PIN number is necessary for the online application purpose and its only valid for 6 months) Heres a comprehensive guide to help you understand what PTPTN is about, how you can apply for the loan and what are some of the things you need to watch out for.
Some changes have come from the lending side, certainly, and those changes do affect most all buyers. But over the years, the Georgia Association of REALTORS (GAR) has made changes to the Purchase and Sale Agreement and other exhibits we use to buy real estate. At one point, the contract had areas where you had blanks to fill in on each page, and it made it difficult or both they Buyer and the Seller to really understand the terms of the offer here. At Island Health and South Island, the parties tossed out the old contract and chartered a team of 12 administrators and 12 hospitalists to design a formal relational contract. Each individual worked with a counterpart from the other organization to establish connections in key areas. For example, Spencer Cleave, a hospitalist from South Island, and Kim Kerrone, Island Healths vice president for finance, legal, and risk, led a small group focused on rethinking the conventional fee-for-billable-service-hour payment structure agreement. Since IT success is usually measured against service levels, its clear that IT will focus time and money on meeting service levels. But what if IT was motivated and rewarded differently? In a way that places the focus on the people who are your organisation a focus on improving employee experience? What behavioural changes would that drive within IT and what impact would that have on employee experience? XLAs are likely going to feature in outsourcing scenarios, where IT teams most commonly build SLAs, rather than in internal IT scenarios, Barros told Reworked in an interview. Any IT team would love to build solid employee experiences for their technology and infrastructure stakeholders but theyre not exactly building XLAs into the process internally. The best quality interaction and information, however, is gained from a deep dive into our customers experience of our service on our annual or six-monthly surveys (more). The junior debt is referred to as a subordinated debt, and the debt which has a higher claim to any assets is the senior debt. Often, the borrower does not have enough funds to pay all debts, and lower priority debts may receive little or no repayment. For example, if a business has $400,000 in senior debt, $100,000 in subordinated debt, and a total asset value of $420,000, upon liquidation of the company, only the senior debtholder will be paid in full. The remaining $20,000 will be distributed among the subordinated debtholders. Subordinated debts are, therefore, riskier and lenders will require a higher interest rate as compensation. When theres not enough equity to cover whats owed on your second lien, the HELOC lender loses money http://reemachineworks.com/what-does-a-subordination-agreement-mean/. Historically, the LMAs principal focus has been on documentation relating to corporate investment grade and leveraged loans, alongside a full suite of secondary loan trading documentation. However, in recent years, and in response to member demand, the LMA has significantly expanded its coverage, both from a product and geographical perspective, the latter particularly with developing markets in mind. Looking ahead to 2020, the LMAs documentation projects once again reflect the breadth of the LMAs work across EMEA. The LMA is working to produce a security agreement for use across common law jurisdictions in Africa, a facility agreement for a post-production commodity borrowing base facility, various real estate finance ancillary documents and a guide to intercreditor agreements (http://aldistrict10tx.lazyls.com/lma-loan-market-agreement/). In Tennessee, prospective buyers are entitled to receive a condition report outlining any defects to the property. Should the buyer so desire, they may waive their right to the report and instead purchase the property as is. In these cases, the buyer willingly accepts the property with all defects (if any) which are not mentioned in the purchase agreement. ( 66-5-202) Download the Tennessee purchase and sale agreement which legally binds a buyer and seller into a residential real estate transaction. Provided by the Tennessee Association of Realtors, this form is the basic instrument used by most real estate agents when filling out a contract for their clients.
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But, recently, I've returned to reading fiction after a conscious decision to make more time in the day for leisure reading. But, it seems, I can't completely separate reading for fun from my business and a line in the book I'm currently reading started a train of thought that is still incomplete.
There was a time when we used to buy the latest Terry Pratchett book as soon as it was published but we'd fallen a few years behind so I decided to catch up. I'm not a slavish devotee of Pratchett's work. I think the earlier Discworld books are, generally, better because he seems to have come to believe his own publicity that his writing is relevant to modern society. For me, that means some books work too hard to crowbar in contemporary issues. But, a less good Terry Pratchett novel is still a far better read than any of the books from many 'successful' novelists.
You can't have an interest in plant folklore without coming across witches and the many ways they are involved in our approach to poisonous plants. I should say that I don't for one moment believe in the existence of witches, although I have met a few. That's not just a way of insulting some of the women I've encountered, which is how many people use the word these days. I mean that, during my time at Alnwick Garden, I met a number of people who professed themselves to be witches and although I knew they couldn't be I didn't argue with them because what they were was paying customers.
There are many ways that witches enter the stories of poisonous plants. Whether it is their use of hallucinogenics, like Hyoscyamus niger, black henbane, to create the feeling of flying or the various plants that can be used to keep them from entering the house. Most English people know about Ilex aquifolium, holly, and, in Scotland, the same job is performed by Sorbus aucuparia, the rowan or mountain ash. Fewer are aware, these days, that Buxus sempervirens, box, has the same role.
I'm not sure why holly and rowan have that reputation but I do know the background to the power of Buxus. The story goes that witches are compelled to count the leaves of a box bush and so, having one growing close to the door means that a witch will get her attention diverted from entering the house.
Anyone who knows the plant will know that it has a very compact habit and very small leaves. I augment the basic folklore by saying that witches rely on knowledge to give them their power over people. (See, that's the Terry Pratchett connection.) This means that a witch can tell you every detail of every plant; every branch, every stem, every flower, every leaf. Except for the box, where the complexity of its structure and the sheer number of its leaves means that a witch will always lose her place as she tries to catalogue it completely and have to start all over again.
Actually, that wasn't the Terry Pratchett connection I had in mind when I started writing this. I was thinking more about the difference between a wise woman and a witch and the importance of that distinction in modern heart medication. In 1774, when Dr. William Withering began investigating the use of Digitalis plants, foxgloves, to treat dropsy, he was partly interested because of stories that the wise women in a village in Shropshire were using the plant effectively.
That gives me a simple distinction between a 'wise woman' and a 'witch'. If the herbal remedies provided to the rest of the village proved efficacious then she was the wise old woman. If they were either ineffective or actively harmful she very quickly became the old witch.
There are a lot of stories about witches and, I'm sure, I'll return to them in future but I want to finish by thinking about the overlaps between witches and fairies. Especially in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, it is said that witches use the Senecio jacobaea, ragwort, rather than broomsticks, to fly around on. At least, this has been said since the 16th century. Prior to that it was fairies who used ragwort for this purpose.
The overlap between fairies and witches also happens with the holly. Though, as mentioned before, holly, in England, should be planted close to the door to keep witches away, in Ireland, holly is the home of the fairies and should be kept in a quiet part of the garden to avoid disturbing them.
It is only since I started writing this that I've realised that I don't know how it comes that folklore attributed to fairies became ascribed to witches somewhere in the 16th century. It also makes me wonder if this change from supernatural icons that were essentially good to those innately evil in some way reflects a general change in the nature of the British, perhaps, even being part of why we always seem to want to see the worst in situations rather than the best.
I don't know if I'll be able to find an answer but, it seems, more non-fiction reading is required.


When you come to the "Alten Moar", you are walking through a farm and house with a centuries-old history. The close proximity to the Neustift Abbey and the Bishopric of Brixen make for a land steeped in history.
The most important feudal lords owned, naturally, Neustift Abbey. Even before the year 1300, they began to rent land the farmers and their families. One of these was the "Moar in Bsack" farm.
In 1509, the surname Sigmund became linked to the "Moar in Bsack" farm for the first time, and has thus been linked to the Moarhof for over 500 years. Over the generations, the farm has been continuously extended.
Particularly in the last few decades since World War 2, the family has purchased a number of plots of land and woods. This includes the Zirmait Alm mountain pasture, acquired in the 1950s, which has gone on to become a popular destination for both locals and guests.
The "Alten Moar" is, then a historically protected farm in the hands of the Sigmund family. We have now converted it into a meeting point for one and all, locals and guests alike.
Naturally, you can spend the night here in our romantic rooms, and enjoy pleasant dreams of a little of the history of this fascinating area after a hearty dinner and a few glasses of beer and wine. Enquire for more information.
Our aim for the "Alten Moar" project was to preserve a piece of the land and the history of South Tyrol.
In order to achieve this, we, along with our team and numerous creative hand-workers, restored the farm with so much attention to detail. We will be delighted to host you in a piece of (South) Tyrolean history.


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Librarians make the best detectives ★★★★
by Georgina Carr July 16, 2013
The Aurora Teagarden mysteries compose of eight seperate stories all of which occur in the town of Lawrenceton, Georgia, and are solved by the local librarian Aurora Teagarden. Harris wrote these before her sojourn into fantasy crime fiction with the Sookie Stackhouse books, and she really excels at writing standard crime fiction, the writing doesn't feel awkward like it sometimes can in her other work, an although not entirely realistic all the time, it doesn't feel too contrived either. Auroras character has a good balance between firm strengths and realistic weaknesses and as the stories progress she grows as a character demonstrating plenty of gumption, I suspect she also grows as Harris grew into being an author. So how does a librarian get mixed up in solving crimes? By being a font of knowledge of course. In Real Murders, the first of eight novels, Aurora is a member of a true crime fan club where they discuss real life criminals like detectives would, examining evidence. At one of the meetings a murder occurs and Aurora finds the body, being a potential suspect and being a professional know it all (im allowed to say that when I am one) she begins to investigate to help clear herself of suspicion. This was the first book I finished on my Kobo, it got me really excited to read on it, I bought the whole collection in two omnibuses and read about one per day. They are incredibly quick reads but also addictive, I was sad when the last one was finished because I simply wanted more! The only real disappointments I felt we're Harris's need to create drama in Roe's love life mid way through the series (she is known for not allowing her characters to be happy for too long), and that the importance of the crime to the plot varies between stories. As mysteries go these we're light and fluffy while still having some integrity and I often didn't guess the criminal, either through cleverness or being content to float along with the story. If you are looking to read a new series I recommend you give this one a try. I give the series as a whole ★★★★


The Hero Splendor Plus has been one of, if not the, most iconic motorcycles in India. The motorcycle has, over the years, proved its worth by being the reliable motorcycle that it is. However, with Honda no more in the picture, we are quite curious to know how the model sustains in the coming years, especially with the growing competition. Out of the models mentioned here, the Bajaj makes for a good choice if you are on a budget. But if you are looking for a motorcycle apart from the Hero Splendor Plus, we recommend you to look at the TVS Sport, which offers a lot more premiumness and features while just being marginally more expensive than the Bajaj.
Hero has not only made a name for itself but has also become the go-to brand for most commuter buyers. The Bajaj CT 100 comes across as a promising product for someone on a budget in that segment, as it offers all of the above that HF Deluxe does, without spending the additional buck. The TVS Sport, on the other hand, offers a lot more as it brings a dash of style to the segment with its colour combinations and design. The engine on the TVS also feels as refined as the Hero does and offers a lot more mileage as claimed by ARAI. Moreover, with an equally large network and service cost, it comes across as better value for money.
The Bajaj Pulsar 150 still remains a great option if you're looking for an entry-level 150cc motorcycle. The motor offers likeable performance with a hint of brashness which made the Pulsar brand so popular among the youth, and being a Bajaj offering, it has been priced aggressively as well. The styling could have been better and build quality in the long run needs to improve, but it still remains a well-rounded motorcycle.
The Bajaj Pulsar 220F, despite its age, still remains a value for money motorcycle, given the performance and features it has on offer. The motor isn't the most refined one out there, but will plaster a grin on your face with its grunt. All in all, it still remains an aspirational motorcycle for Indian buyers.
The Pulsar NS200 comes across as a well-rounded package that can efficiently take on almost every kind of task required. Be it charging into corners, riding flat out on highways or manage daily chores with ease, the Bajaj Pulsar NS 200 makes a strong case for itself. It offers good grunt, stopping power and well-balanced ergonomics which makes it an all-rounder.


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Nonlyrical Music Search Algorithm
The objective: The engineering goal of this project has two parts: one is to create a program to parse a MIDI file, and the second goal is to have the program run searches between MIDI files, in a "music search."
Today, the prevalent way to search for music is to enter the lyrics or title of a song into a search engine, like Google. However, this can be disadvantageous for music without lyrics (such as western classical music), or if you do not know the lyrics.
Also, musicians frequently steal music from one another, and this often goes unnoticed. This project, however, can defeat musical copyright infringement; it can search a single song against a large database of songs, and find matches.
Methods/Materials
In the beginning, I use the MidiSwing software to record input from a MIDI-compatible keyboard, then it is saved to a file called mqry.mid, which is the file that is used as the search query.
Then I use Terminal to run the search program, which searches mqry.mid against a song bank of MIDI files.
The search results are displayed in the Terminal window. To create this search program, I used Xcode, a programming environment for Mac OSX. I wrote the code in the C++ programming language.
The program was able parse every MIDI file it was given, and was able to find matches between the query file and the song bank.
Conclusions/Discussion
It is possible to create software that can perform a "music search," instead of a lyrics-based music search.
This Mathematical project is a music search based not on the lyrics, but on the song itself.
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Interview: Lisa See
I n In Beijing's Bei Hai Park, a frozen lake yields the body of a young man who turns out to be the American ambassador's son. The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) sends Inspector Liu Hulan to deal with the crime and almost immediately (and inevitably) her efforts are complicated by political considerations.
Off the coast of California on a ship crammed full of illegal immigrants, U.S. Attorney David Stark finds the corpse of the son of the sixth richest man in China. When clues surface to link the young men's deaths, the State Department sends David to China to be part of a joint investigation – paired with Liu Hulan, his former lover. As the investigation moves from Beijing to Los Angeles and back, the murders of suspects and informants on both sides of the Pacific make it clear that whoever is behind the original deaths has a long reach.
Flower Net by Lisa See takes full advantage of the confusing world of modern China to create a thriller where a society in flux features as prominently as murders, triads, and the uneasy rekindling of a romance. Her writing made me feel as though I was getting an insider's tour of Beijing, peeking into doorways of old-style hutong residential compounds and the lives of ordinary citizens or gawking at a glitzy nightclub for the young Chinese elite.
More than that, See delivers insights into contemporary Chinese society: the huge gap between the classes in what is supposed to be a classless society, the undercurrent of resentment and guilt that persists from the Cultural Revolution, the bribery and "back-door ways" employed by those willing to take the risk, and the elaborate courtesies which mask true intentions.
For Western readers, Hulan is a wonderful guide to 1990's China. She is a Red Princess, the daughter of an elite Communist Party official, wealthy enough to live in luxury, if she chose. But she has also spent time in a poor farming village, working and living like a peasant. Furthermore, she has been educated in the United States, and is able to acknowledge China's problems from a Western point of view; but her Chinese sensibilities remain intact, allowing her to navigate through the labyrinth of bureaucracy that is Beijing's MPS.
David is not exactly the bumbling foreigner, but his direct manners prevent him from hearing the subtext behind polite conversations. When Hulan "decodes" for him, we realize that even she can't be sure of the messages being conveyed; layers of meaning like carved screens hide the truth.
The bonus about this thriller is that you learn so much about 1990's China. Since then the country has charged ahead with urbanization and expanded its economic zones even more; the disparities between remote rural communities and the big cities are more pronounced than ever. Nonetheless, knowing about neighbourhood committees, residency permits, the destruction of hutong compounds, and other daily realities provide helpful context for understanding China's current social issues.
If you're like me, you probably thought Snow Flower and the Secret Fan was Lisa See's first book. Nope, the three Red Princess thrillers: Flower Net, The Interior, and Dragon Bones were all written before Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. They're a complete change of genre -- even voice -- and it's hard to believe they're by the same author. Flower Net was a nominee for the Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America for best first fiction. It's a well-plotted story without a single boring character, fast-paced and thoroughly enjoyable -- one of those detective novels you finish reading with a sigh of satisfaction.
What I Learned About Writing from Reading This Book
At this point in my development as a writer, I evoke time and place through descriptive language or by pulling in details to help the reader visualize. Now I understand how dialogue can also add atmosphere to time and place.
There is a scene in Flower Net which made this tactic jump out at me: Hulan is at a travel agency buying a pair of plane tickets to the Sichuanese city of Chengdu. She and David are trying to escape their watchers. The travel agent tries to interest her in a scenic tour of Chengdu, and Hulan declines, saying she just needs to get there on the next flight because her mother is very ill.
The woman regarded Hulan. "You can't be Sichuanese. Your Beijinger accent is too good."
For me, this one line of dialogue synthesizes the travel agent's absolute belief that she is entitled to question, doubt, and report on her fellow citizen. Throughout Flower Net, there is a sense of menace that insinuates every scene. Anyone, from old ladies who run the Neighborhood Committees to officials in the highest tiers of government, could be reporting on your movements. While See's descriptions immediately immerse you in the world of the novel, it is her use of such small comments that reinforces atmosphere -- in this case the uncomfortable feeling of a society acclimatized to surveillance and intimidation.
I know that an author can achieve a lot using dialogue. It can be the hardest-working element of a story. Dialogue is something I find difficult to write. But for a start, I will try and evaluate whether there is opportunity for a piece of dialogue to do double-duty: not only to move the story forward or reveal something about the character, but also to add emotional texture to the time and place of the story.
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