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Poland Prize is a new initiative of the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology and the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, designed to attract foreign startups to Poland. In the coming months, a team of AdVentures specialists and experts from Grupa Azoty will be looking for foreign startups with the greatest potential to support the development of the Polish economy.
"The world's most important hubs, such as the Silicon Valley or Tel Aviv, attract business talents from around the globe. The startup migration benefits the economies of these countries. A culturally diverse environment fuels new ideas and brings together different points of view and approaches to problem solving or doing business," says Grzegorz Kądzielawski, Vice President of Grupa Azoty S.A. "This encourages innovation, and only innovation can help us, Grupa Azoty, and the Polish economy as a whole, to successfully compete on the global market," he adds.
"A distinguishing feature of Poland Prize by AdVentures is that it offers cooperation with big business, so the accelerated startups stand a realistic chance of quickly implementing their technologies. Together with Grupa Azoty, we will be looking for startups in the following sectors: chemicals, biotechnology, electro-mobility (including hydrogen-based solutions), new materials (nanotechnologies), and space technologies (satellite)," explains Greg Banas, President of AdVentures. "We are interested in startups from anywhere in the world. Our scouting activities will be focused on Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Kazakhstan and Israel," he adds.
"We will not be cheaper than China or India. To develop economy, we need to arm ourselves with innovations in each area. Many of our neighbouring countries are already doing that. We want Poland to be a startup leader in Central and Eastern Europe. We want the best technologies to come to us, and we want to show that we are an innovation-friendly country," explains Grupa Azoty Vice President.
The startup journey will begin in September. For a month, two teams will visit the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. They will also come to the Balkans, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The countries they will visit have different economies, different startup systems and thus different potentials. In Belarus, for example, there are many companies developing artificial intelligence technologies, while Kazakhstan focuses on robotics and mining processes. A very promising direction is also Romania, where startups specialize in cyber security. Israel, on the other hand, is one of the world's technological leaders, and Israeli startups view Poland as a large market and a gateway to the European Union.
In each country, the teams will meet with startup communities, accelerators, VC funds and scientists. The accelerator is expected to return home with "trophies". AdVentures intends to invite 20 outstanding startups to Poland. It plans to target ready-for-implementation technologies. It will be looking for Industry 4.0 products, i.e. products for automation and robotics in production lines, as well as biotechnology, heat and power, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, agriculture, space technologies, and electro-mobility.
'We will be looking for potential unicorns – companies that will be shortly valued at USD 1bn,' says Greg Banas of AdVentures. Prospects of winning a very large customer and a capital injection are to encourage the most promising startups to expand their operations in Poland. Funds for adjusting to the new environment, adapting the solution to a particular customer's needs, and for growing the business. 'The Polish Agency for Enterprise Development has provided us with PLN 5m for this purpose. However, this money is just the beginning. To integrate the foreign teams even better, we have started cooperation with the Polish heavyweight, that is Grupa Azoty, which is keenly interested in implementing innovations in its business,' adds Banas.
Thus, in early August an agreement was signed between AdVentures and Grupa Azoty. Grupa Azoty experts will help AdVentures pick up the most promising startups, and when they arrive in Poland, they will be taken care of during the acceleration process and given support in order to plan and effectively complete the implementation within the Group.
'During our journey, we will be focusing on what might prove useful for Grupa Azoty,' says Greg Banas. 'It is a huge organisation with a well-developed innovation department and ideas from each of the industries we are interested in can be useful. He gives space technologies as an example. The level of field fertilization can be monitored using satellite images. Electromobility, one of the key elements of the Sustainable Development Strategy, is another promising area. 'Grupa Azoty produces large quantities of pure hydrogen during fertilizer production. Until now, hydrogen had to be disposed of in an environmentally-safe manner. We will focus on developing technologies to use it in the production of hydrogen cells, which may help construct a Polish hydrogen battery,' explains Banas. 'By joining forces with Grupa Azoty, foreign startups can win their first reliable and solvent customer. In exchange, this leading Polish company will be given tools to become more competitive in an increasingly globalised world.
Participation in the Poland Prize programme complements Grupa Azoty's ongoing projects, including the Idea4Azoty programme. Conceived and launched by Grupa Azoty in November 2017, the Idea4Azoty accelerator is the first such programme on the Polish market offering support for innovative projects at any stage of development. Projects submitted so far span a range of topics, from environmental protection and waste management, through biotechnology, IT and chemistry, to power and materials engineering. Only a few months after the launch of its innovation accelerator programme Idea4Azoty, Grupa Azoty selected ten solutions with high implementation potential from among several dozen R&D projects submitted. A letter of intent was signed between Grupa Azoty and ScienceBioTech of Wrocław, one of the programme entrants, to develop and implement a technology for producing modular plates to be used in osteotomies. This brand-new solution is expected to replace the currently used techniques for stabilising fractured bones.
The Idea4Azoty programme was developed with Polish companies in mind, and Poland Prize is dedicated to foreign startups and is designed to attract them to Poland and provide them with appropriate conditions to join the Polish ecosystem.
The Poland Prize pilot programme is carried out as part of 'Start in Poland', a government programme supporting the development of startups, which aims to promote Poland as a country of first choice in Central Europe, where startups can be established and developed. The Poland Prize programme will not only benefit startups, but will also contribute to the growth of various sectors of the Polish economy, especially with regard to innovation and new technologies.
Since 2010, AdVentures has been engaged in providing support for the development of startups and spin-offs, market research, risk assessment, and preparation of financial forecasts. It prepares and assists in the organisation of incubation and acceleration programmes (using public funds, such as e-Pioneer or Scale Up, funds from municipal and provincial authorities, as well as funds from individuals). It supports VC funds and corporations in scouting for startups and carrying out implementation work. Startups are offered services involving searchi for investors, preparation of offers (pitch, investment memorandum, one pager, valuation) and planning KPIs and processes. For more information, go to www.ad-ventures.pl
The Grupa Azoty Group is the undisputed leader of the fertilizer and chemical market in Poland and one of its key players in Europe. It is the second largest EU-based manufacturer of nitrogen and compound fertilizers, and its other products, including melamine, caprolactam, polyamide, oxo alcohols and titanium white, enjoy an equally strong standing in the chemical sector, with a wide range of applications in various industries. In May 2017, the Group unveiled its updated strategy until 2020. The key development areas cover completion of the Group's consolidation, reinforcing its leadership in agricultural solutions on the European market, strengthening the second operating pillar through expansion of the non-fertilizer business, as well as generating and implementing innovations to accelerate growth in the chemical sector. The Grupa Azoty Group is the integrator of Poland's chemical industry. By consolidating the plants in Tarnów, Puławy, Police and Kędzierzyn-Koźle, it has ensured that the key chemical companies have remained in Polish hands, while creating a number of cost synergies. By 2017, the consolidation of strategic procurement, production, maintenance, logistics and IT generated savings estimated at no less than PLN 710m. The integration has brought multiple benefits to the Polish economy, the Group as a whole, and its individual plants. For more information, go to www.grupaazoty.com


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What can you tell us about Mavrias' best position and his key strengths?
Chris Paraskevas: Charis Mavrias is probably closer to an inside forward than a traditional winger, from what I've seen of him. I say that because rather than hit the by-line at pace, he's a player who seems to enjoy cutting inside and dictating the pace of the game by utilizing his greatest strength, which I think is his passing. The young man really knows how to thread the needle and is an intelligent footballer. His other biggest strength is his touch and close control, both of which are excellent - the ball really seems to stick to his feet, even when he moves at pace, of which he has plenty.
Are there any weaknesses to his game?
CP: Honestly, I probably haven't seen enough of him to point out any recurring weaknesses, other than the fact that his goal-scoring record at club level isn't the greatest. From what I've seen of him he does have a habit of missing some rather guilt-edged chances at times, which is a part of his game he'll definitely need to work on, seeing as how wide players in modern football especially are expected to score goals as much as they are to provide them.
Despite being just 19-years old he seems to have a fair bit of experience in league and European competition for Panathinaikos. Can you see him competing for a first team place at Sunderland?
CP: Will he compete at Sunderland for a first-team place? Being a Newcastle fan (did I say that out loud?), I've seen enough of Sunderland to be able to tell you that over the past couple of seasons they really haven't got things right in terms of players out wide (even Adam Johnson struggled for the most part of last year). In that respect, Mavrias starts with the advantage of playing in a position where Sunderland need something a little different. Mavrias isn't your typical winger, as I've said before, and is also a hard worker, which Di Canio will love. But the acquisition of Giaccherini logically sees him fall further down the pecking order. For me, he'll really need to hit the ground running in pre-season and adapt quickly to the pace of the English game - otherwise I can see him being loaned out in January if things don't work out...
And in the future, just how good can become?
CP: The boy has loads of talent, of that there's no doubt. He reminds me of a certain other young Greek prospect, Sotiris Ninis, though the latter made the mistake of staying in Greece for far too long before he moved abroad. English football has been kind to Greek footballers over the past decade or two (Dabizas, Stelios, Zagorakis, Kyrgiakos) and the facilities and environment are all there for Mavrias' development - to see a Greek player head to England at his tender age is very exciting and I think Sunderland fans should be excited as well.
Is this view of him shared amongst the Greek football supporting community?
CP: Mavrias is part of a very exciting crop of Greek youngsters who made the U-19 European Championship final last season and performed admirably at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey (though he missed out on the latter through injury). All of those players, including Mavrias - who has broken into the first-team at one of Greece's biggest clubs - are regarded to have a very bright future in the game.
How have these expectations impacted on the way his impending transfer is perceived amongst the Greek public and media? Are Sunderland viewed as a good club for him?
CP: Honestly, I get the sense that everyone sees this move as a win-win situation, for Panathinaikos, player and Sunderland. Panathinaikos are in a perilous financial state and really need the cash from his move in order to fund a rebuilding of their own squad. Having seen the detrimental effect staying in Greece had on Ninis' career, most people - player included - appear keen to see a young Greek in the English Premier League, rather than rotting away in the Greek Super League. Panathinaikos are also wise to cashing in on a player while his market value is highest (after all, there's no telling what 12 months will do). Sunderland, for their part, aren't forking out a ridiculous amount of money and this is a low-risk move on their part.
Thanks to Chris for taking the time give a generally glowing report of Charis Mavrias. For all things Greek football, head to http://www.footballhellas.com HERE. Follow their Twitter page @FootballHellas HERE and head over to Chris' personal Twitter account (don't let his black and white leanings put you off!) @Cparaskevas HERE.

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The drones are part of the Gremlin program, which seeks to deploy and retrieve small unmanned aerial vehicles launched from US Air Force C-130 aircraft that are capable of flying 300 nautical miles and carrying 60 pounds of electronic equipment.
Current state-of-the-art manned-unmanned aerial capabilities allow pilots to launch swarms of mini-drones, but they are not able to recover them, according to a December 17 Scout Warrior report. In the future, defense contractors think the Gremlins will even launch out of the larger weaponized MQ-Reaper drone.
"We see the potential for using this technology on our own Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper to offer our customers new mission capabilities," David Alexander, an executive at General Atomics, told the defense publication.
When the Pentagon announced the Gremlin program in 2016, the question of the type of missions the small drones would fly was left vague and open-ended. DARPA said they would "be deployed with a mixture of mission payloads capable of generating a variety of effects in a distributed and coordinated manner."
Analysts have suggested the Gremlins could be used for jamming radars, allowing manned aircraft to operate at safer distances from hostile targets; testing high-risk air defense systems; weapons delivery; or intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions.
DARPA hopes for each Gremlin to survive about 20 missions, according to a March announcement.
"Named for the imaginary, mischievous imps that became the good luck charms of many British pilots during World War II, the program envisions launching groups of [unmanned aerial systems] from multiple types of military aircraft — including bombers, transport, fighters, and small, unmanned fixed-wing platforms — while out of range of adversary defenses," DARPA stated in March.


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CLEVELAND – Another massage therapist has filed a civil lawsuit against Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson, raising the number of women who have accused him of sexual misconduct to 23.
Attorney Tony Buzbee, who is representing all the women, filed the latest lawsuit Tuesday in Texas and said in a text to the AP that there could be more legal action forthcoming against Watson.
"I will be filing a 24th case soon," he said.
Buzbee did not provide any details about the latest case.
The previous 22 lawsuits were filed in 2021, and two of those cases recently received national attention when two of the women were interviewed for a segment on HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel."
Both women provided graphic details of their encounters with Watson, who was traded from Houston to Cleveland in March. The Browns sent five draft picks — including three first-rounders — to the Texans and then signed the three-time Pro Bowler to a fully guaranteed five-year, $230 million contract despite his legal entanglement and the cases still pending.
Watson has denied any wrongdoing, and his lawyer, Rusty Hardin, reiterated the 26-year-old's innocence while commenting on lawsuit No. 23.
"Deshaun Watson vehemently denies the allegations, just as he has since she first discussed them with members of our firm in March of last year," Hardin said in an email to AP. "She repeated the allegations on social media in August and he denied them then. The only thing new about her contentions is the embellishment making them more extreme than prior versions. Deshaun's denial remains the same."
Watson is also facing a possible suspension from the NFL, which is independently investigating his behavior to see if he violated the league's substance-abuse policy.
League investigators recently met with Watson in Houston. It's not know if the league has completed its inquiry.
Watson, who has been giving depositions in the lawsuits over the past month, is scheduled to be back on the field Wednesday as the Browns continue their offseason team activities.
Watson has not spoken to the media since his introductory news conference on March 25. At that time, Watson said he has "never assaulted or disrespected or harassed any woman in my life."


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GM encouraged by global recovery, but no intent of 'short-term pop' for stock
General Motors Co Chief Executive Mary Barra said on Monday global vehicle demand was recovering from declines caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but added she would not take any short-term actions to boost GM's stock at the expense of its long-term strategy.
"We are encouraged about the recovery we are seeing in most of our markets," Barra said at an RBC conference, citing strong US industry demand in August and a continued rebound in China.
Labor officials last week said that US consumer prices rose solidly in August, with the cost of used vehicles accelerating by the most in 51 years as Americans likely shunned public transportation because of fears of contracting Covid-19.
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GM also is not looking for "a short-term pop" as it relates to its corporate structure, Barra added, when asked about a possible spinoff of the automaker's electric vehicle assets.
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"As I've said many times, we will always do what's in the best interest of our shareholders over the long term, not necessarily for a short-term pop," she said.
Some analysts and GM shareholders have pushed GM to consider a spinoff of all or some of its EV assets into a separate company that would be valued at headier levels like Tesla Inc and other newly public EV automakers.
During a July earnings conference call, Barra said nothing was off the table when it came to maximizing the value of its EV assets and there was no impediment to a possible spinoff.
On Monday, Barra did not promise a spinoff, but talked up GM's EV technology. "We want to avoid any scenario where those competencies are compromised or there is a distraction from speed to market," she said.
Also Read : General Motors shares hit six-month high on Nikola electric truck deal
Last week, GM said it would join forces with electric vehicle startup Nikola Corp to build electric pickup trucks and hydrogen fuel cell commercial trucks.
Nikola subsequently came under attack from a short seller that accused the startup of being a "fraud." Nikola called the short seller's report a "hit job" and threatened legal action.
Barra on Monday referred questions about the matter to Nikola, but said the deal made sense for GM by validating its technology and giving it scale to cut costs.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The fired U.S. ambassador to Ukraine sounded an alarm Friday about the denigration of American diplomacy and the hollowing out of the State Department under President Donald Trump as she recounted how she became an early casualty of the behind-the-scenes negotiations that led to the impeachment inquiry.
In often steely, defiant tones, Marie Yovanovitch told House investigators that the failure of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other senior officials to publicly defend her and other career diplomats from political attacks by Trump and his supporters has contributed to severe demoralization in the State Department.
"I remain disappointed that the department's leadership and others have declined to acknowledge that the attacks against me and others are dangerously wrong," Yovanovitch told Congress. "This is about far more than me or a couple of individuals. As Foreign Service professionals are being denigrated and undermined, the institution is also being degraded."
Her testimony, which also included a defense of the role of American diplomats, put a public face on deep dissatisfaction in the department under Trump. His administration has slashed the department's budget, left many important posts open for extended periods and often disdained the work of the foreign service.
The Ukraine affair has only added to the problems, she said.
"The attacks are leading to a crisis in the State Department as the policy process is visibly unravelling, leadership vacancies go unfilled, and senior and midlevel officers ponder an uncertain future and head for the doors," Yovanovitch said. "The crisis has moved from the impact on individuals to an impact on the institution. The State Department is being hollowed out from within at a competitive and complex time on the world stage."
Trump has dismissed the accounts of the former ambassador and the other senior diplomats who raised concerns about his apparent effort to force the government of Ukraine to conduct investigations that would help his reelection — and that not following through meant risking the loss of badly needed U.S. military aid. Trump and his supporters have derided these diplomats "Never Trumpers," or part of the "deep state."
Pompeo has shrugged off their complaints, denying reports that morale has cratered at the agency. He made no mention of the Ukraine affair in a speech in Texas on Friday, except to make a joke about "quid pro quo," the Latin phrase that has come to prominence in the inquiry.
Some believe that Pompeo's silence has damaged his department and the credibility of American diplomacy.
"We have a secretary of state who presided over this mess, he enabled it, he refused to stand up for individuals who had had enough and came forward," said Aaron David Miller, a retired career foreign service officer who served under seven secretaries of state and is now with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "He is further damaged in the eyes of his own department, in the eyes of Washington and in capitals abroad."
Yovanovitch, an immigrant and 33-year veteran of the Foreign Service, testified that she felt intimidated and was stunned when she was abruptly recalled from her post in Kyiv despite being told that she had done nothing wrong and had an exemplary record.
Trump has spoken negatively of Yovanovitch in the past, telling Ukraine's president in a July 25 phone call that Yovanovitch was "bad news." Democrats allege her ouster was part of a Trump scheme to open up an alternate diplomatic channel with Ukraine run by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to advance his own personal interests.
As Yovanovitch was testifying Friday, Trump launched a new Twitter attack on her, blaming her for crises in countries where she had previously served. "Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad," Trump said. "She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him."
Trump's attempt to interrupt her testimony came as Yovanovitch was lauding her colleagues, many of whom serve in extreme and dangerous situations. She recalled the Iranian hostage crisis, the unexplained injuries to American diplomats in Cuba and the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three others in the 2011 attack in Benghazi that drew outrage from Republicans.
The Benghazi reference was notable because GOP lawmakers, including then-Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., conducted well-publicized inquiries into the attack, accusing the Obama administration and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of negligence and attempting to cover up the circumstances around it.
"We are people who repeatedly uproot our lives, who risk — and sometimes give — our lives for this country," Yovanovitch said.
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It is argued by a friend before the gig that Interpol are a band living off a reputation. Following their fourth album they stand accused of living off their début, the fantastic Turn On The Bright Lights, and releasing full-lengths of ever decreasing quality, as well as failing to replicate the haunting atmosphere they achieve on record onstage.
If Interpol are indeed a band fading out then Surfer Blood are one ready to effloresce. Unfortunately whilst this years début 'Astro Coast' is chock full of hook-laden reverb-soaked gems that ebb with confidence and assurance they fall flat on the Nottingham leg of their largest tour to date, failing to command the stage despite an obvious enthusiasm. On record 'Swim' is a spiky indie-pop injection that wouldn't sound out of place on one of The Shins' or Weezer's stronger albums but it feels more than a little weak in such a cavernous venue.
Poor sound levels don't help, and neither do they help the headliners. Already a band driven by low-end Interpol are hindered by sound levels that are massively out-of-balance and leave any moments of subtlety drowned out by an uncomfortably loud bass sound that is as thudding yet ultimately dull as a souped up P-reg Ford Fiesta's speakers playing Oxide and Neutrino at the maximum possible volume.
When the band launch into 'Slow Hands', 'PDA' and other similarly fast-tempo tracks the effect isn't as detrimental and at times the endless throb adds to their thousand-yard stare assault, but in more mid-tempo moments, chiefly those lifted from 2010's self-titled full-length, it makes for painful listening. Add this to a crowd that seems way above capacity and a, typically, frosty stage demeanour that gives the feeling of a band resting a little too much on their laurels, especially when playing the filler from their eponymous full-length, and it is hard not to feel disappointed with the New Yorkers' first Nottingham show in several years.
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C'est pas facile d'être une fille | It's not easy being a girl
"C'est pas facile d'être une fille" series #1by Bach
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Estelle Bachelard, alias Bach, earns her living as a video game illustrator. She first published her own work in 2012 as part of the collective piece Je me souviendrai. Many fans already follow her Facebook postings. With humour, an eagle eye for the foibles of her circle and a healthy dose of self-mockery, she regularly produces comic strips drawn from her daily life.
- With its simple yet stylized graphics and strikingly smart humour, this is the perfect addition to your personal library. An overwhelming talent makes this new author a strong candidate for a lot of buzz and a straight shot at Quebec's graphic novel Hall of Fame. - La Tribune Link to review
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publication date: 03/31/2014
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The many faces of the female faithful at the hajj
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, required of able-bodied Muslims once in their life, brings the Islamic world together across its many languages, ethnicities and individual beliefs — something seen across the many faces of its female faithful.
Arabs, Africans, Asians, Europeans and those from the Americas all followed what tradition holds is the path of the Prophet Muhammad up Jabal al-Rahma, or the Mountain of Mercy. There, the Quran says the prophet delivered his final sermon calling for equality, unity and women's rights.
Women also walked along the path believed to be followed by Abraham's wife, Hagar, when she found the Zamzam water spring to save her son.
Wanting to follow those examples, a 25-year-old Ghanaian woman who gave her name only as Fatma over concerns about her personal safety carried her infant son Hisou slung over her back, walking long distances in a show of piety.
"I walked from Medina to Mecca to Arafat and I will continue to Muzdalifa then to Mina, carrying my son on my back because this is my faith to do it the right way," she said.
During the hajj, women wear the hijab, a scarf to cover their hair in deference to God. Some decide to return home and continue covering their hair in respect. But for others, their faith isn't tied to the scarf.
"I am not convinced that hijab is a must and sign of faith," said 36-year-old Lebanese woman Dalia, who gave only her first name out of concern of her views affecting her career. "I have been treating people in a way I believe is ethical and human. I will continue to do so after the hajj."
Although gender inequality persists today in parts of the Muslim world, women played a prominent part in the founding of Islam, with the Prophet Muhammad's wife, Khadijah, becoming its first convert. And today, the women who took part in this year's hajj say they found a peace and fulfillment for taking part in the pilgrimage.
"The hajj to me is a combination of childhood dreams coming true and it has taught me unity and diversity," said 29-year-old South African Fathima Akoo.
Here is a selection of images by Associated Press photographer Nariman El-Mofty showing the diversity among the women who took part in this year's hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. –Nariman El-Mofty


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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 100, Issue 1, March 2006, Pages 101–115
چکیده انگلیسی
Product perishability is a major concern of certain industrial sectors, especially the agro-food industry. This paper investigates the effect of product perishability and retailers' stockout policy on system total cost, net profit, service level, and average inventory level in a two-echelon inventory–distribution system, and develops an approximate inventory model to these system performance measures. A simulation experiment shows that by incorporating a fixed lifetime and a retailer lost sale policy to an existing model, in most situations, perishability results in negative effects on all performance measures. However, with simple modifications to an existing model to incorporate fixed lifetime perishability and retailers' lost sales policy, a significant improvement in the system total cost and system net profit can be achieved.
مقدمه انگلیسی
The agro-food industry is one of the main industrial sectors in Thailand. Compared with other industrial products, agro-food products are distinguished by their biological nature, bulk, and perishability. Perishability of either raw materials or finished products is a major problem in this industry. Due to this limited product lifetime, an ineffective inventory management at each stage in the supply chain from production to consumers can lead to high system costs including ordering costs, shortage costs, inventory handling costs, and outdating costs. Moreover, the quality of products (freshness) may be unacceptable, thus reducing customer satisfaction. Liu and Shi (1999) classifies perishability and deteriorating inventory models into two major categories, namely decay models and finite lifetime models. Decay models deal with inventory that shrinks continuously and proportionally with time, while finite lifetime models assume a limited lifetime for each item. Furthermore, the finite lifetime can be generally classified into two subcategories, namely common or fixed finite lifetime and random finite lifetime. Items with common finite lifetimes, usually referred in the literature as perishable items (Liu and Lian, 1999), perish at the same age if not used by demand. Fresh produce, cans of fruit, foodstuffs, and drugs are examples of the items having fixed finite lifetimes. The random finite lifetimes, on the other hand, are treated as random variables with certain probability distributions, such as exponential and Erlang. Items with random lifetimes, thus, spoil at different ages. Past research on the Fixed-Life Perishable Problem (FLPP), such as Fries (1975), Nandakumar and Morton (1993), Lian and Liu (2001), Chiu (1995), and Williams and Patuwo (1999), mainly address single stage inventory systems. Fujiwara et al. (1997) discuss a multi-echelon inventory system with perishable items, assuming separate lifetime for each stage. Yet, in reality, the product lifetime is recognized once it has been produced. This paper, therefore, attempts to address an approach that can handle the integrated fixed product lifetime. Based on our observations in Thailand, the periodic review inventory policy, due to its simplicity, is appropriate and widely practiced in the agro-food inventory system. To our limited knowledge, no similar periodic inventory model for a single, fixed life perishable product in the two-echelon inventory–distribution system, as addressed in this paper, exists in the literature. Our two-echelon inventory system consists of one central warehouse and a number of non-identical retail outlets. Our assumptions are as follows. The demand at each retail outlet is static and normally distributed. Products are supplied by outside suppliers to the central warehouse, with zero product age, immediately before leaving the suppliers. Transportation lead-time from the outside suppliers to the central warehouse, and from the central warehouse to each retail outlet, are assumed constant with different positive values. Stockout at the central warehouse is considered as backorders, based on the first-come-first-served allocation policy, while the unsatisfied demand at retailers is considered lost due to the observed nature of the agro-food industry. Due to its complicated nature, the exact form of an optimal replenishment policy for the multi-echelon inventory system still cannot be found; or else the computation becomes very difficult. Glasserman and Tayur (1995) suggest that the general scheme for compromising between the complexity of the model and the reality of the application is: to solve a tractable approximation of the real system to obtain a candidate policy; to evaluate the performance of the policy in a simulated model of the real system; and to improve the policy through an experiment using the simulation model. In this study, this concept is applied to develop a simple, reasonable approximation to the cost function of this problem, based on the modification of an existing model by Matta and Sinha (1995). The purpose of this study is thus, twofold. The first objective is to investigate the effect of product perishability and stockout policy at retailers on system total cost, system net profit, service level, and average inventory level. The knowledge and understandings of such effects can lead us to derive an approximate model, as our second objective is to illustrate a simple model, modifying Matta and Sinha's (1995) model, to incorporate perishability and a different stockout policy in order to improve its performances. This paper is organized as follows. Firstly in Section 2, we provide a literature review of the periodic review policy for the two-echelon inventory–distribution system and define the problem, the policy, and the model to be addressed here with key notation. Then in Section 3, a complete derivation to modify the approximate model of Matta and Sinha's (1995) to deal with perishability and retailers' lost sales is presented. In Section 4, with details of the applied simulation model, the performance of Matta and Sinha's (1995) policy, when perishability exists, specifically in terms of the designated performance measures, is analyzed to give motivation and justification for our modification. The proposed model is also evaluated for its effectiveness and the results are also discussed in Section 4. Finally, we provide conclusions and further research in Section 5.
نتیجه گیری انگلیسی
In this paper, a periodic review inventory–distribution model was investigated and proposed to deal with the case of a fixed-life perishable product and lost sales at retail outlets. Matta and Sinha's (1995) model was applied and evaluated using a simulation experiment for certain key performance measures under many different scenarios of system parameters. The results show that perishability and stockout policy that are different from the assumptions of Matta and Sinha (1995) cause significant effect to the performance of the inventory system. In most situations, the product perishability results in negative effects on all major performance measures, including a lower service level in terms of fill rate, a higher system total cost, and a lower system net profit. As a result of such significant effects of the perishability and stockout policy, an improved model was proposed to deal with our specific problem. In this paper, a simple method to modify the Matta and Sinha (1995) model was presented to address perishability and retailers' lost sales, resulting in an approximate total cost function to be minimized. The performances of the proposed model, based on system total cost, system net profit, and service level were subsequently evaluated by simulation. The experimental outcomes show a significant improvement in the proposed model over the original model. Although, in some cases, it could result in a higher shortage cost, other positive effects, leading to lower total cost, negate this disadvantage. The main benefits or marginal profits to be gained from the proposed model are evident when applied to products which are in high demand and have a short life span, such as fresh produce, fruit juice and most foodstuffs (usually those products with a lead-time of only one period). Possible further research includes the lead-time distribution at both central warehouse and retail outlets and other realistic characteristics of the system. By relaxing some assumptions, the exact solution approach may be developed to improve the accuracy of this approximate model. The model can also be extended to the multi-echelon case, as well as being used in the supply chain environment.


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Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc. is a U.S. $1 billion global provider of manufacturing equipment and services. The company's employees rely on up-to-date messaging technology to conduct business with partners and customers around the world. Barry-Wehmiller wanted to upgrade to Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 e-mail messaging and collaboration software. However, in light of tough global economic conditions and a corporate culture that promotes a "Lean" organization, the IT department re-evaluated the cost of deploying an on-premises solution. Instead, Barry-Wehmiller chose Microsoft Online Services to deliver all the scalability, security, and functionality the company needs for desktop and mobile e-mail. The hosted communications and collaboration solution saved Barry-Wehmiller $200,000 in hardware and infrastructure costs, as well as another $100,000 on an archiving solution.
The Barry-Wehmiller Machinery Company began in 1885 in St. Louis, Missouri, when Thomas J. Barry opened a machine shop to provide conveying and transportation equipment to area malt houses. Today, Barry-Wehmiller Companies is a leader in four areas of expertise—packaging automation equipment, corrugating and sheeting equipment, paper converting equipment, and IT and engineering consulting. It operates nine divisions around the world, including Accraply (labeling machinery), HayssenSandiacre (packaging systems), PneumaticScaleAngelus (bottle fillers, cappers, and can seamers), FleetwoodGoldcoWyard (conveyor systems, bottle washers, and pasteurizers), Thiele Technologies (packaging systems), MarquipWardUnited (corrugated equipment), and Paper Converting Machine Company (paper converting equipment). Other Barry-Wehmiller units offer IT, engineering, and design consulting services.
Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc. has conducted a series of strategic acquisitions over the past two decades, which, in combination with its organic growth initiatives, has proven to be a highly successful business strategy. "Over the last 20 years, we have made 45 acquisitions, bringing every company onboard and helping them to achieve success through our people-centric business culture," says Craig Hergenroether, Chief Information Officer at Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc. "As a result, we have grown consistently at a rate of 20 percent per year."
A big challenge for the 110-member IT department supporting this global business is providing technology and services that support its corporate culture. The company adheres firmly to a management style that fosters leadership and encourages employees to apply and develop their talents in support of a common corporate vision. As part of its "Lean Enterprise" initiatives, Barry-Wehmiller aims to deliver reliable, user-friendly, and up-to-date IT applications and services to its employees to maximize their productivity and fulfillment, at minimal expense.
"From an IT standpoint, we believe that the only computer equipment we need is what is necessary for a person to do his or her job," says Hergenroether. "We've never seen the value of maintaining our own data centers. Today's economic downturn caused us to take a good, hard look at where we are on the path of getting down to maintaining just the right level of servers that we need."
"The notion of moving servers outside is also appealing because of our culture, which embraces employee fulfillment," adds Mike Kelly, Application Development Director at Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc. "Our IT department is a case in point: We have very low staff turnover. Consequently, staff members have had time to develop valuable business acumen, and we would rather have them apply that knowledge to working with our divisions and delivering IT services with direct business value than changing tapes and managing servers."
Recently, the IT department was asked to consolidate servers at its St. Louis and Green Bay, Wisconsin, data centers. It was also planning to migrate from Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007 messaging and collaboration software so employees could have the latest communication tools to stay productive. The company maintained more than 4,500 mailboxes and many shared public folders, which put pressure on the company's existing storage area network solution. Some employees were frustrated by limits imposed on their e-mail storage. Additionally, the company had no e-mail archiving solution. These problems were exacerbated by the growing number of mailboxes required to support new employees following a recent series of acquisitions. Barry-Wehmiller needed to find a search-enabled e-mail archive solution.
"While we are a privately held company, our board of directors asks us to abide by the best practices in e-mail management that are required of publicly held companies," says Hergenroether. "Our ability to archive and search e-mails is commensurate with those best practices."
Taking these directives within the context of the company's Lean initiatives and people-centric corporate culture, Hergenroether began thinking about alternatives to building an on-premises solution. "E-mail has become a commodity IT service that's mission critical to our global operations, from conducting everyday business to bringing new companies into the fold," says Hergenroether. "A high percentage of our workforce relies on mobile access to their mail. We wanted to upgrade our messaging platform, but we didn't want to add more servers and IT maintenance to the mix. We decided to look at more cost-effective options that wouldn't sacrifice functionality, reliability, or security, but would save us time and money."
Barry-Wehmiller Companies found its solution in the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite. The suite offers hosted communication and collaboration services that include Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint® Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and Microsoft Office Communications Online. However, it was Exchange Online that piqued the company's interest.
With Microsoft Online Services, Barry-Wehmiller can take advantage of a Microsoft Exchange–based e-mail solution that provides employees access to e-mail, calendars, and contacts from any Internet-connected personal computer, laptop, or mobile device for a low monthly subscription fee. Because Microsoft hosts and manages the servers, Barry-Wehmiller does not have to invest in hardware or the administrative support required to run solutions in-house and enjoys 99.9 percent uptime guaranteed by financially-backed service level agreements. The solution also works seamlessly with the company's fleet of Windows Mobile® phones.
"We looked at other hosted offerings, but we preferred the assurance of a secure, reliable messaging solution from Microsoft that's compatible with the e-mail used by our partners and customers," says Hergenroether. "And as a Lean organization, the fewer vendors we have in the mix, the more streamlined and cost effective our operations."
The IT department also wanted to continue with its strategies for providing interoperable collaboration and communications solutions for Barry-Wehmiller employees. The company used Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for its intranet and Microsoft Office Standard and Professional Plus 2007 for its desktop productivity software. "We already had Microsoft technologies in place that help employees work together, and e-mail tends to be a central factor in those communications," says Kelly. "It made no sense to throw a different messaging solution into this infrastructure."
Another factor in the company's decision to use Microsoft Online Services was the benefit of accessing the rich Microsoft partner network to help the company prepare for its first foray into a hosted services scenario. Barry-Wehmiller turned to Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Horizons Consulting. "Horizons is an outstanding partner, and we felt like we had direct access into Microsoft itself," says Hergenroether.
Horizons provided a full, on-site analysis of the steps required for Barry-Wehmiller to migrate its entire Exchange Server 2003 messaging infrastructure to Exchange Online. This included inventorying every fax machine and copier that used e-mail, as well as ensuring that relationships with third parties, such as the company's travel agency that makes online bookings for company executives, would work within the hosted environment. Horizon suggested that Barry-Wehmiller take advantage of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Deskless Worker Suite, which includes Exchange Online Deskless Worker, a streamlined version of Exchange Online at less cost per seat. Initially, these seats will be used to migrate some of the shared folders from its existing Exchange Server 2003 environment, but the company envisions later using them to communicate about health plans and other corporate communications to employees on the factory floor.
"Horizons helped us document and develop the migration process and create a communication plan for our user community," says Hergenroether. "Because we are starting with a pilot project in the IT department, we also needed to take into account issues around working in a mixed online and on-premises messaging environment."
The company signed up for 4,000 Exchange Online seats and 500 Exchange Online Deskless Worker seats in July 2009. For the pilot project, the IT department migrated 19 IT staff members to Exchange Online, conducting the migration during a workday and keeping employee disruption to a minimum. "It was simply a matter of timing," says Hergenroether. "We sent a message to the individual saying, 'Don't use your mailbox for the next 20 minutes,' and then we migrated their mailboxes to the online environment. It took longer to synchronize back to their laptops and mobile devices, but during that time they simply used Office Outlook® Web Access from their desktop computer to continue with their business communications."
The positive experience during the pilot means the company has now developed a game plan to move ahead with the rest of the rollout, first at its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, and then for the rest of its globally dispersed employees.
Microsoft Online Services helped Barry-Wehmiller Companies move forward with its strategic business goals and Lean IT initiatives—upgrade to Exchange Server 2007, free up space in its data centers, and implement a storage and e-mail archiving solution—all for a low, per-user subscription fee. The solution supports the corporate culture at Barry-Wehmiller by providing the latest enterprise-level messaging tools that its people need to be productive, fulfilled employees. At the same time, it helps the company move ahead with its Lean initiatives by offering business-class service level agreements and 99.9 percent uptime at reduced costs. With Online Services, Barry-Wehmiller has the opportunity to boost business agility through a suite of easily deployed, always updated, scalable communication and collaboration technologies.
Reducing Costs to Build a Lean Enterprise
By choosing a Microsoft Online Services delivery model, Barry-Wehmiller is saving money on a number of fronts. With Exchange Online, the company doesn't have to contend with large capital expenditures for upgrading to the latest Microsoft messaging solution. "We are saving approximately $200,000 over the next four years by not deploying an on-premises messaging solution," says Hergenroether. "And we can avoid future unknown costs of archiving, data protection, and managing the growth of mailbox sizes. With Exchange Online, we have flexible, pooled storage options where we assign anywhere from 256 megabytes to 25 gigabytes of storage to individual users' mailboxes. This means we don't have to pay $100,000 for an archiving solution, and we can defer planned storage expansion costs of approximately $150,000."
The company is also saving thousands of dollars by not having to purchase new servers or pay for other infrastructure costs, which also contributes to reducing the hardware in its St. Louis and Green Bay data centers. "With Microsoft Online Services, we can make progress toward our goal to downsize the amount of hardware we must manage internally," says Kelly. "Certainly, in the IT department we are relieving a lot of people of mundane server maintenance and getting better value out of their expertise working with our divisions rather than paying for our IT staff to manage the server part of our messaging infrastructure; all that gets passed over to Microsoft."
Empowering Employees to Drive Productivity
Barry-Wehmiller can use Online Services to boost its corporate culture of empowering employees. "With Microsoft Online Services, we can cut our data center costs and gain rock-solid disaster recovery, security, and server management services. Now we can focus on our people and not our technology," says Hergenroether.
And by taking advantage of the less expensive option of Exchange Online Deskless Worker, the company can assign mailboxes to factory floor associates, where it was cost prohibitive to do so previously. "There were certain users who would not have been granted a license for Exchange before, but today, we can give them access to e-mail, amounting to about $50,000 in annual licensing savings," says Kelly. "That means floor associates can keep up with corporate notices regarding their health plans or other Human Resources communications. Anytime we can deploy a tool to our employees that adds to the quality of their work experience we see it as a good thing."
The company's philosophy of providing tools that are always available to all people at all times is easier to bring to life with a reliable hosted e-mail service. Because Microsoft is now responsible for server maintenance, the company is also expecting that employees' productivity will no longer be affected by mail service interruptions. "E-mail is mission critical for us, and we are no longer going to see downtime associated with upgrading our server hardware or software because Microsoft takes care of that," says Hergenroether. "As for disaster recovery or unplanned downtime, we have been working toward consolidating our two data centers, but what Microsoft can offer goes way beyond our capabilities in-house."
Building Business Agility for Long-Term Growth
Because the IT department no longer has to worry about maintaining expertise on Exchange Server 2007 administration, the company can more easily execute the corporate acquisitions that are key to its expansion.
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Derry manager Brian McIver was unhappy with some of the refereeing decisions as his side exited the Ulster Football Championship at the hands of Donegal.
The Oak Leaf County led at half-time and ran Jim McGuinness' men to within a goal, 1-11 to 0-11, but McIver was not pleased with the performance of referee Joe McQuillan.
A failure to award a free to Derry's Gareth McKinless, which was followed by a Donegal score, and a late black card for James Kielt were among the incidents that annoyed the Derry boss.
Asked about the referee's performance after the game, McIver told RTÉ Sport: "Let's put it like this, I would like some of [the decisions] explained to me from the GAA authorities but that's not likely to happen.
"At the minute I better do nothing about it because it wouldn't be a good idea for me to go near anybody."
He added: "We knew coming in here today we were facing the 2012 All-Ireland champions, a good side and we knew we were going to have to play really, really well. To be fair, I thought over a great percentage of the game we did that.
"Just that crucial ten minutes after half-time, we didn't turn up for the second half, Donegal got the crucial scores that proved the difference."
"At the minute I better do nothing about it because it wouldn't be a good idea for me to go near anybody"
On the other side of the fence, McGuinness felt that his decision to switch Michael Murphy to full-forward paid dividends and looked forward to a semi-final meeting with either Fermanagh or Antrim on 22 June.
"Derry obviously have a certain style of play, possession football, and we felt we had to deal with that in the first half," said the 2012 All-Ireland-winning manager.
"In the second half we put Michael to the edge of the square and it worked well. We got the runners off it and got a couple of scores off the back of it so we're delighted with that.
"The most important thing is we're in the Ulster semi-final and that's what our focus was coming into the game and we'll focus on that now for the next number of weeks."


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Published in The Weekend Independent Magazine on 8 April 2011
On 18 February 2011, the United Nations published its assessment of the implementation the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord of 1997. If this important report hasn't landed in your in-tray, or you feel daunted by its length of 19 pages – read on to read less.
Firstly though, some background. The Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord was signed on 2 December 1997 by the Government of Bangladesh and an indigenous political party, Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti. The Accord officially ended a 25 year low-intensity guerrilla war, fought by indigenous peoples (comprising 11 ethnic groups) against the government for "the erosion of their autonomy, the denial of constitutional recognition and their "political, social and economic marginalisation." The rights of indigenous people were left unprotected when Bangladesh drafted its first constitution in 1972 – both regional autonomy for indigenous people and special constitutional safeguards for them were rejected. During the prolonged conflict, human rights violations were committed against indigenous people. According to the UN report, the violations were "mainly perpetrated by Bangladesh security forces," and included "unlawful killings, detention without trial, torture, rape, destruction of houses and property and forcible occupation of ancestral lands."
The 1997 Peace Accord is intended to "establish a regional system of self-government and the preservation of the area as a 'tribally inhabited region.'" However, as the UN's Special Rapporteur Lars-Anders Baer states in his report, "Thirteen years have passed since the signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, yet many of its provisions remain unimplemented, or only partially implemented."
According to the report, after signing the accord, The Awami League took "some initiatives" to "implement a few of the provisions." When the BNP came to power in 2001, it was "more inclined to solve the problems in the region by military means." Lars further adds, "During this time [2001 until 2006], human rights violations against indigenous peoples in the region were frequently reported." During the state of emergency from 2007 to 2008, "a few positive steps were taken, including holding a number of meetings… related to the implementation of the Accord."
Hopes for peace in the region were rekindled when the Awami League returned to power in 2008, as its election manifesto stated that the 1997 Accord would be fully implemented. "This pledge," states Lars, "has been repeated in various national and international forums."
However Lars believes that, "The reason for non-implementation of the Accord reaches beyond the political party now running the government. The region remains heavily militarised and there have been continued and consistent allegations that the army is interfering in civilian affairs in the region."
The Accord stipulates that the region, which remains one of the most heavily militarised areas in the world, should implement a phased withdrawal of temporary military camps. This is regarded as "as crucial for re-establishing normalcy," because "the majority of human rights violations committed against indigenous peoples in the region [are] attributed to the extensive presence of security forces." According to the report, verifying troop numbers is difficult, but military officials have stated that a third of the army is deployed in the region — which comprises just a tenth of Bangladesh's territory. "This is an excessive amount, by any standard, especially in a country not participating in a war… and has no prevailing insurgency situation," states Lars.
The report also highlights that the current government has failed to provide a list of dismantled camps and that some of these camps were, "re-established or replaced by other armed forces." No time limit for the withdrawal of military camps has ever been announced.
Another major provision of the Accord which remains unimplemented concerns land rights. This issue, states Lars, is "widely recognised as the most critical." Indigenous people are still losing their ancestral lands at an "alarming rate, as a consequence of forceful eviction from and expropriation of their lands through development projects and occupation by the military."
As per the Accord, a Land Commission was established to settle land disputes, and the first chairperson was appointed in 1999. However the UN's report found that, "the Commission remained inactive until July 2009, when its current Chairperson was appointed."
The Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs was formed one year after the Accord was signed. Its function was to handle major administrative and developmental matters and to establish a separate ministry for regional affairs. An indigenous member of Parliament was appointed as Minister, and an Advisory Committee was formed. However the gains were short-lived, "In the successive governments since that time, the direct responsibility of the Ministry has been kept under the control of the Prime Minister and almost all officers in the Ministry are non-indigenous persons." Furthermore, indigenous ministers for Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs have "not been assigned the rank of full cabinet minister" and there have been incidents when "the Ministry does not seem to be working in the interest of the indigenous population."
The report also recommends that all the Accord's agreed subjects and functions are transferred to the Hill District Councils with immediate effect. And all necessary steps must be taken to ensure the full functioning of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council, which would include advising the government on relevant legislation.
The UN makes two very important recommendations: firstly, that Bangladesh's constitution be amended to provide long withheld rights for indigenous people. The second is for the government to create a timeline that details the implementation of all remaining provisions within the remainder of its term.
The report somberly concludes that, "The lack of substantial progress is leading to an increasing sense of frustration and disillusionment among the indigenous peoples in the region." Moreover, "the continuing failure to adequately implement all the provisions… is likely to enhance the prospects of renewed political instability and ethnic conflict in the region."
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Company employees were told repeatedly to keep the gate closed when they were coming and going through the backyard because the dogs were outside. They left the gate open when my niece was gone and her dogs got out and one was killed on the expressway. Can we sue the owner in small claims court?
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You can sue that worker and also the company (if it is an LLC or corporation) or the owner (if it is not) for the employee carelessly or negligently causing the pet's death. But in a case like this, you cannot recover money for the emotional loss--only for the actual monetary value (i.e. cost) of the pet, unfortunately.
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