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1.2. DESIGNAs Conditions of Sale and Supply shall apply exclusively; we do not recognise any of the Customer's conditions that contradict or deviate from them unless we have expressly consented to their application in writing. Our Conditions of Sale and Supply shall also apply when we make a delivery, without reservation, in the knowl-edge of contradictory or deviating conditions of the Customer.
1.3. Any individual agreements that deviate from or supplement our Conditions of Sale and Supply are to be set down in writing.
2. Order, Scope of Services, Documentations
2.1. Our offers shall form the basis for our deliveries or services. Proper offers shall be effective for three months, in so far as no contractual agreement to the contrary has been made.
2.2. Offers and estimates for repair and installation works shall always be submitted sub-ject to confirmation.
2.3. With regard to cost estimates, drawings and other documents (hereinafter termed 'Documents') DESIGNA reserves the right to assert its proprietary rights and copyrights. The documents may only be made accessible to third parties once DESIGNA's consent has been obtained and, if the order is not placed, they must be returned as soon as they are requested. Documents belonging to the Customer may be made accessible to any third parties to whom DESIGNA has transferred the order, thus imply-ing permission.
2.4. With regard to standard software, the Customer shall have the non-exclusive right to use it with the agreed performance characteristics in its unaltered form on the approved equipment.
3. Payment Terms
3.1. Payments must be made to DESIGNA's payment point without any additional costs for DESIGNA. Our invoices shall become payable within 10 days from the invoice date, unless agreed otherwise.
3.2. If, after the contract has been concluded, it becomes clear that the claim to payment is jeopardised by insufficient payment capability, in particular inadequate cred-itworthiness on the part of the Customer, DESIGNA shall be entitled to demand immediate security or cash payment, without any deduction, for all goods that have been supplied but not yet paid for, and advance payments for all goods that have yet to be supplied, as well as to withhold goods that have yet to be supplied. If the Cus-tomer does not meet the above obligations by the deadline in question, DESIGNA shall be entitled to refuse to make the delivery and to withdraw from the contract, as well as demand indemnification.
3.3. The Customer can only offset claims with undisputed counterclaims or such as have been established with legal finality. The Customer has no retention right on account of debt claims that do not emanate from the same contractual relationship.
4. Requirement to Declare Defects, Warranties
4.1. The Customer must inspect our consignments as soon as they are received to ascertain that they comply with the contract. DESIGNA must immediately be advised in writing of any shortages and wrong deliveries, as well as apparent defects, with a statement of the objections. DESIGNA must be advised of defects that only become apparent later as soon as their detection becomes possible, in the form described.
4.2. Any claims from the Customer arising out of a defect of the goods are initially re-stricted, at the discretion of DESIGNA, to repairs or the supplying of replacement goods that are free of defects. If subsequent performance fails, or if it is unaccept-able to the Customer, or if we refuse performance seriously and definitively, at its discretion the Customer can reduce the price or withdraw from the contract.
4.3. All claims derived from the defectiveness of the consignment, including any rights to indemnification, become statutebarred after 12 months from delivery, except in the case of deliberate wrongful acts. This also applies to competing similar indemnification claims, arising out of liability other than contractual liability.
4.4. No warranty claims exist for mere slight deviation from the agreed level of fitness of the consignment, or in a situation in which its usability is only slightly impaired. Warranties are also excluded for losses attributable to improper handling or use other than that provided for in the contract. Notably, this applies in instances of faulty construction work, unsuitable building land or losses occurring because of particular external effects that are not provided for in the contract, as well as instances of software errors that are not reproducible. Moreover, if the Customer or third parties make changes or carry out repairs inappropriately, no warranty claims result for the latter and the consequences thus arising.
4.5. If the defect declaration is made wrongfully, DESIGNA is entitled to demand indemnification from the Customer for costs it has incurred through the unjustified defect declaration
5. Deadlines
5.1. Adherence to delivery deadlines presupposes that all the technical questions existing between DESIGNA and the Customer have been settled and the Customer has fulfilled all the duties incumbent upon it such as, in particular, the submission of the required official certifications or authorisations, clearances or plans, and agreed back to a reasonable degree; this does not apply if DESIGNA is responsible for the delay.
5.2. Partial deliveries are permissible. DESIGNA is entitled to make deliveries before the agreed deadline. If DESIGNA is prevented from fulfilling its supply obligation in due time by circumstances that have not become detectable until after the contract has been concluded, notably by force majeure, natural disasters, labour disputes, intervention by the authorities, problems in the supplying of material, traffic disruptions, unforeseeable interruptions in operations, risks caused by conflicts of war or terrorism, unforeseeable, missing or delayed supply by upstream suppliers or by other similar factors, the supply obligation is suspended for the duration of the hindrance and in the scope of its effect.
DESIGNA must immediately inform the Customer in writing that the temporary hin-drance or impossibility of providing the delivery or service has occurred, stating the reasons for this. If the suspension of the performance obligation is not acceptable to the Customer, after the elapsing of a reasonable period to be determined by it, the Customer is entitled to withdraw from the contract. It is not necessary for a deadline to be set in the situations mentioned in legislation (§ 323 Para. 2 and 4, § 326 Para. 5 of the German Civil Code). DESIGNA is not responsible for failure to perform or delayed performance attributable to the above factors. Claiming indemnification or the refunding of expenditure is precluded. In cases of delayed performances for which the Customer is responsible, the agreed delivery periods are extended and the agreed delivery deadlines put back accordingly.
6. Liability
6.1. DESIGNA is liable for the provision of indemnification regardless of the legal grounds for this, only in instances of deliberate wrongful acts or gross negligence on the part of its organs or vicarious agents. The above liability exclusion for ordinary negligence does not apply to the violation of material contractual obligations. In abstract terms, material contractual obligations are such obligations whose fulfilment is mandatory to permit the proper performance of the contract, and on the observance of which a contractual partner can regularly rely. This shall not prejudice the liability for loss emanating from injury to life and limb or health and in accordance with the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz). In a situation of the violation of mate-rial contractual obligations, liability is restricted to typical foreseeable losses. In-demnification claims arising out of contractual liability become statutebarred after one year from delivery, except in the case of deliberate wrongful acts. This also applies to competing similar claims, arising out of liability other than contractual liabil-ity.
6.2. Liability to pay indemnification on account of a warranty taken on by us as well as liability under the German Products Liability Law (Produkthaftungsgesetz) remains unaffected by the above provisions. The same applies to the causing of a loss emanating from the injuring of life and limb or health.
7. Cooperation Obligations of the Customer
7.1. The Customer shall support DESIGNA in the performance of the services to be provided by DESIGNA within the bounds of reasonability. In particular the Customer shall nominate a responsible contact person with representation authority during the contract period for the purpose of fulfilment of this Contract. The Customer shall support DESIGNA in the search for the causes of possible faults and urge the employees to cooperate with DESIGNA.
7.2. The Customer shall ensure through regular data backups that the risk of data loss is minimised. The Customer shall therefore be obliged to carry out data backups at least once per month in order to limit the risk of loss.
7.3. This shall not prejudice further cooperation obligations or responsibilities arising out of the legal nature of a Contract or concrete agreement with DESIGNA.
8. Withdrawal
DESIGNA shall be entitled to withdraw from the Contract and possibly to demand the re-turn of the goods supplied if application is made for the institution of insolvency proceed-ings against the Customer's assets or any other inability to pay should arise.
9. Miscellaneous
9.1. The place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this Agreement shall be the court with jurisdiction over the registered head office of DESIGNA. DESIGNA shall also be entitled to take action at the head office location of the Customer. The agreement on the place of jurisdiction shall apply even when the Customer has no inland place of general jurisdiction.
9.2. The terms and conditions of this agreement shall be governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany.
9.3. The contractual languages shall be German and English.
II. Provisions for the Supply of Goods and Systems
1. Delivery Terms
1.1. Unless agreed otherwise, delivery is deemed to be 'ex works'. The risk is passed to the Customer when the object of the delivery is handed over to the party instructed with its transportation, regardless of who is bearing the costs of transportation. This applies even if we have taken responsibility for other performances such as supply, installation or assembly. Upon request from and at the expense of the Customer, consignments shall be insured by DESIGNA against the usual transportation risks.
1.2. In the event of delivery of equipment with preinstalled software from DESIGNA, the special business terms for software and licences shall additionally apply with respect to the software.
1.3. If shipment, delivery or putting into operation is delayed because of circumstances for which the Customer is responsible, the risk is passed to the Customer on the day on which readiness for dispatch is declared or on the day on which the possibility of the installation's being put into service is declared.
2. Prices and Payment Conditions
2.1. Our prices are taken to be 'ex works' with the addition of VAT at the statutory rate. Packaging, loading and transportation costs as well as any import and customs duties shall be borne by the Customer, unless agreed otherwise.
2.2. If DESIGNA has taken on installation or assembly and if nothing to the contrary has been agreed, in addition to the agreed remuneration, the Customer shall bear all the necessary ancillary costs such as travelling expenses, the cost of transporting the tools and personal luggage, and daily allowances. The same shall apply to the con-sumption of materials for the purpose of carrying out services, e.g. the costs for packaging, loading and transport as well as any import taxes and customs duties, unless otherwise agreed.
2.3. Unless agreed otherwise, the following payment conditions apply:
30 % when the order is placed
40 % when readiness to deliver is declared
20 % after installation has been completed
10 % when acceptance is declared"
3. Deadlines
3.1. The systems are controlled via a configured host computer which forms part of the scope of supply. For trouble-free function of the systems it is absolutely essential that the Customer should send a software data catalogue with the necessary local configuration data according to the DESIGNA specifications to DESIGNA not less than two (2) weeks before the planned delivery date. Should the Customer fail to meet this obligation or meets this obligation too late, DESIGNA shall decide whether the system should be delivered on the basis of a standard configuration for the host com-puter or should not be delivered at all.
3.2. In case of delay DESIGNA is liable in accordance with "I. General Terms". Moreover, we shall be liable in a situation of delayed delivery for every full week to the extent of a flat-rate delay indemnification of 0.5 % per week, up to a maximum of 10 % of the value of the order, for the deliveries and services affected by the delay. Any claims in excess of this are precluded unless the delay is attributable to, at least, gross negligence on the part of DESIGNA, its organs or the staff involved in the fulfil-ment of the order.
4. Installation, Commissioning
Should the system installation be ordered together with the system delivery, then unless otherwise agreed in writing, the following provisions shall apply:
4.1. The Customer must take responsibility for and promptly make available, at its own expense:
4.2. Before the assembly work begins, without being asked, the Customer must make available the necessary information about the position of hidden electricity, gas and water conduits or similar installations, as well as the necessary information about the static situation.
4.3. Before installation or assembly commences, the material and articles that are necessary to start the work must be provided at the installation or assembly site and all the preparatory work must have advanced so far, before the commencement of the installation works, that the installation or assembly can be started in accordance with the agreement and carried out without interruption. Approach routes and the installation or assembly site must have been levelled and cleared.
4.4. If the installation operations, assembly or start-up are delayed by circumstances for which DESIGNA is not responsible, the Customer must bear the costs for waiting times and for additional travels of DESIGNA staff to a reasonable degree.
4.5. Every week, the Customer must immediately certify for DESIGNA the hours the assembly personnel have worked and the completion of the installation, assembly or start-up process.
4.6. Acceptance shall only take place if this has expressly been agreed by contract. This being the case, if DESIGNA requires acceptance of the performance after completion, the Customer must conduct it within two weeks. If this does not happen, acceptance is deemed to have taken place. Acceptance is also deemed to have taken place if use of the object of the performance - if applicable, following the completion of an agreed test phase - has commenced.
5. Spare Parts and Consumables
5.1. Unless otherwise agreed in individual cases, the terms of payment for spare parts and consumable shall be in accordance with clause "I. General Provisions".
5.2. The availability of spare parts depends on the current spare parts catalogues at the time of the order. A claim to delivery is derived only with the confirmed acceptance of a spare parts order by DESIGNA.
5.3. DESIGNA generally delivers new parts to the customer. For certain spare parts, reconditioned parts ("R parts") are available as an alternative at reduced prices and are offered as such. The reduced prices for R parts are only possible due to the continuous return of defective, repairable parts ("D parts") by the customer. If the Customer purchases R parts for replacement of a damaged part, the Customer is obliged to return the defective D part to DESIGNA within 30 days. If, during the inspection of the returned part by DESIGNA, it is discovered that a costeffective reconditioning of the returned part is possible, DESIGNA will buy the D part and credit the Customer's account with the amount according to the latest DESIGNA price list which will be sent to the Customer on request. If the Customer does not return D parts to DESIGNA or the returned D parts for the most part cannot be costeffectively reconditioned, DESIGNA shall have the right to preclude the Customer from the possibility of pur-chasing R parts at any time with effect for the future.
6. Reservation of title
6.1. DESIGNA retains ownership of all the articles supplied up until the fulfilment of all the claims to which it has entitlement, such as exist with respect to the Customer on the basis of the business relationship.
6.2. The Customer is obliged to treat the retention property carefully; in particular, at its own expense it must adequately insure it against fire, water and theft damage at re-placement value. If servicing and inspection are necessary, the Customer must con-duct these promptly at its own expense.
6.3. In the event of attachment or other interventions by third parties, the Customer shall notify DESIGNA in writing without delay and inform the attaching party of DESIGNA's title to the attached goods.
6.4. Any processing or transformation of the retention property by the Customer shall al-ways be undertaken by ourselves. If DESIGNA's ownership lapses through adjunction, it is already agreed hereby that the (co-)ownership of the Customer of the entire object shall be transferred to DESIGNA pro rata in terms of its value (invoice value.
6.5. Mortgaging or transfer of ownership by way of security are not permitted. The Customer can only sell the retention property in the normal course of business and only on condition that it receives payment from its customers or makes the transaction subject to the proviso that ownership shall not pass to the customer until the latter has fulfilled its payment obligations. Any claims arising out of resale or another legal basis relating to the retention property are hereby assigned in full to DESIGNA by the Customer as security. The Customer is authorised to collect the debts assigned to DESIGNA for their account in its own name, but this collection authorisation can be revoked if the Customer conducts itself contrary to the contract
6.6. If the Customer conducts itself contrary to the contract, notably by delaying payment, after setting a reasonable deadline for payment, we are entitled to take back the retention property. Our taking the retention property back constitutes with-drawal from the contract.
6.7. At the Customer's request, we are obliged to release the security to which we are entitled in so far as the value of our security which can be obtained exceeds the claims to be secured by more than 10%; we are free to choose which securities are to be released.
III. Special Business Terms for Service Contracts
1. Scope of Services
The following provisions shall apply to the provision of services and installation work:
1.1. The Customer must take responsibility for and promptly make available, at its own expense:
1.2. Before the service work begins, without being asked, the Customer must make available the necessary information about the position of hidden electricity, gas and wa-ter conduits or similar installations, as well as the necessary information about the static situation.
1.3. Before service commences, the material and articles that are necessary to start the work must be provided at the service site and all the preparatory work must have advanced so far, before the commencement of the service works, that the service can be started in accordance with the agreement and carried out without interruption. Approach routes and the service site must have been levelled and cleared.
1.4. If the services are delayed by circumstances for which DESIGNA is not responsible, the Customer must bear the costs for waiting times and for additional travels of DESIGNA staff to a reasonable degree.
1.5. Every week, the Customer must immediately certify for DESIGNA the hours the assembly personnel have worked and the completion of the service process.
2. Prices and Payment Conditions
2.1. Services shall be charged at the hourly rates shown in the latest DESIGNA price list at the time of ordering, plus value-added tax at the statutory rate.
2.2. If DESIGNA has taken on services and if nothing to the contrary has been agreed, in addition to the agreed remuneration, the Customer shall bear all the necessary ancillary costs such as travelling expenses, the cost of transporting the tools and personal luggage, and secondment allowances. The same shall apply to the consumption of materials for the purpose of carrying out services, e.g. the costs for packaging, loading and transport as well as any import taxes and customs duties, unless otherwise agreed.
2.3. For service contracts with a period of more than one (1) year, DESIGNA shall be entitled to adjust the contract value, i.e. the remuneration payable by the Customer, for the first time after a period of 12 contract months as the contract values are based essentially on the wage costs applicable at the time of conclusion of the service contract. If the basic wage and/or ancillary costs laid down in the collective wage agreement change by more than 5 % by comparison with the basic wage or the last renewal value, DESIGNA shall be entitled to adjust the contract costs according to the following formula:
Kn = ( K / 100 ) x ( PL x Ln / L + PA )
Kn = New contract costs
K = Contract costs at the time of conclusion of the contract
PL = 80 % wage cost share including statutory and )
tariff allowances )
) 100 %
PA = 20 % overheads share )
L = Basic wage including statutory and tariff allowances at the time of conclusion of the contract
Ln = New basic wage including statutory and tariff allowances
The newly adjusted costs shall apply in each case from the calendar year following the exercise of the adjustment request. If the change in the basic wage and/or the tariff ancillary costs is less than 5 %, then this change shall be taken into consideration with the full percentage in the next wage and/or ancillary cost change.
If the calculated contract adjustment amounts to more than 10 % of the last remuneration payable, the Customer shall be entitled to terminate the Contract with a pe-riod of notice of three months to the end of the month.
3. Consumption of Spare Parts as Part of Services
3.1. The availability of spare parts depends on the current spare parts catalogues at the time of the order. A claim to delivery is derived only with the confirmed acceptance of a spare parts order by DESIGNA.
3.2. DESIGNA generally uses new parts for service and repair work. For certain spare parts, reconditioned parts ("R parts") are available as an alternative at reduced prices and are offered as such. The reduced prices for R parts are only possible due to the continuous return of defective, repairable parts ("D parts") by the customer. If the Customer purchases R parts for replacement of a damaged part, the Customer is obliged to return the defective D part to DESIGNA within 30 days. If, during the in-spection of the returned part by DESIGNA, it is discovered that a costeffective reconditioning of the returned part is possible, DESIGNA will buy the D part and credit the Customer's account with the amount according to the latest DESIGNA price list which will be sent to the Customer on request. If the Customer does not return D parts to DESIGNA or the returned D parts for the most part cannot be cost-effectively reconditioned, DESIGNA shall have the right to preclude the Customer from the possibility of purchasing R parts at any time with effect for the future.
4. Liability
Claims for damages shall be limited in their value, insofar as they do not fall under clause I. 6.2., to five times the contract sum due during a contract year in the year of the occurrence of the damages. The Client may demand an extended liability at additional charge at the time of conclusion of the Contract.
IV. General Software Licensing Terms and Conditions
1. Subject of agreement
1.1. DESIGNA hereby under the following terms and conditions and contingent on contractual payment of the agreed remuneration, grants the Customer a time unrestricted, nonexclusive and nontransferable right to utilise the Licence Material as specified in the applicable order confirmation / licensing agreement / maintenance agreement for the specific number of workstations and/or computers and/or terminals as specified in the applicable order confirmation / licensing agreement and maintenance agreement. The provisions of this clause shall apply also and in particular to software provided by DESIGNA preinstalled on hardware supplied by DESIGNA.
1.2. Definitions
Host computer ("server") shall refer to an individual computer to which one or more workstations have access and which controls one or more Terminals and/or Operations Control Computers. A Terminal shall refer to an individual piece of equipment that is controlled by a computer, but is not itself a host computer. Licence Material shall refer to data processing programs and/or licensed data in machine-readable form, including accompanying documentation and/or manuals.
1.3. The utilisation of the Licence Material on an additional number of workstations / computers over and above the number specified in the relevant order shall only be permissible in accordance with an additive licence negotiated in advance.
1.4. The applications correspond to the descriptions contained in the manual; there shall be no obligation to provide application functionality in excess of the aforementioned.
2. Scope of licence
2.1. The Client shall be entitled to utilise transferred applications in accordance with provisions of the system application licence certificate.
2.2. The Customer shall only be entitled simultaneously to utilise Licence Material stored on a computer, workstation or Terminal on the number of Computers/ Terminals/workstations specified in the order confirmation/licence and maintenance agreement.
Insofar as the Licence Material is stored on workstations or computers, such storage in its entirety shall be limited to the number of workstations specified in the order confirmation/licence and maintenance agreement. Before storage on additional workstations/computers, the software shall be completely deleted from other workstations/computers, so that, in total, the number of workstations/computers specified in the order confirmation/licence and maintenance agreement is not exceeded
2.3. In the event that software functionalities requiring a licence are made accessible on the host computer, these shall only be utilisable simultaneously on as many Terminals/workstations as are specified in the order confirmation/licence agreement or maintenance agreement. The scope of licence shall also extend to the required utilisation of documentation and/or manuals forming part of the Licence Material.
2.4. The Customer shall be entitled to create a copy of the machine readable Licence Material for data backup purposes. The reproduction of manuals is hereby expressly prohibited.
3. Protection of the Licence Material
3.1. The Customer undertakes to retain the protective notices, such as copyright notices and other reservations of rights contained in the Licence Material, unchanged and to affix the DESIGNA copyright notice to all copies.
3.2. The Customer undertakes not to make the licence material available to third parties, neither in its original form, nor in the form of complete or partial copies without the express written consent of DESIGNA. This shall also apply in the event of a full or partial sale or closure of the business of the Customer. Third parties shall not refer to employees of the Customer or other persons, insofar as they are located on the premises of the Customer for the utilisation of the Licence Material in accordance with this Agreement on behalf of the aforesaid.
4. Delivery
4.1. The delivery of the licence material shall be made at the discretion of DESIGNA either on the host computer, on the workstation computer or by data transmission.
4.2. DESIGNA shall only carry out installation subject to chargeable service to be commissioned separately.
5. Fees, terms of payment
The licence fees are laid down in the price list valid at the time of conclusion of the Contract. The delivery of future upgrades / updates to higher program versions with new and/or improved functions shall be subject to a separate agreement.
6. Guarantees and Warranties
6.1. DESIGNA warrants that the licence material corresponds to the contractually agreed specifications, free from third-party rights and has no faults which nullify or reduce the serviceability in relation to these specifications. This shall not apply in case of an insignificant reduction in the value or serviceability.
6.2. In the event that errors occur during contractual utilisation of the software, the Customer shall notify DESIGNA thereof in writing without delay in a comprehensible form, indicating the appropriate information for error recognition. The Customer undertakes to provide all reasonable support to DESIGNA during the rectification of errors. A prerequisite for entitlement to error rectification shall be that the error is reproducible and can be illustrated by means of machine produced output.
6.3. DESIGNA shall after receipt of the error notification in the first instance be entitled to remedy the defect. This shall be done by making available a defect-remedied version on the Internet, making available of a data medium containing a defectremedied version or the online transfer of a defectremedied version. This shall be at the discretion of DESIGNA. Should attempts to remedy the defect prove unsuccessful, should DESIGNA refuse to remedy the defect, or should such remedy be unacceptable to the Customer, the Customer may in accordance with applicable law claim an appropriate discount or, if the utilisation restriction in view of the total performance is unacceptable to the Customer, cancel the agreement. Claims for indemnification are limited in accordance with Section 8 hereof. The same shall apply to possible claims for reimbursement of expenses.
6.4. Claims on the part of the Customer on the basis of defective goods shall not apply insofar as the Customer modifies software applications independently or has such modifications carried out by third parties without the permission of DESIGNA. Sentence 1 shall not apply if the Customer proves that the defects still in question have not been caused by application modifications carried out by the Customer or the third party.
6.5. DESIGNA shall not be liable for errors and damage that result from inappropriate or noncontractual utilisation of the licensed products.
7. Conditions of use
Each licensed DESIGNA application has been developed for deployment on specific types of machines and for operation in conjunction with specific other equipment and programs by DESIGNA. The Customer is acquainted with the essential features of the software; these correspond with the requirements of the Customer. Specific conditions of use of the Customer shall be outlined by the aforesaid in advance in writing and shall be confirmed in writing by DESIGNA. Insofar as no separate declaration is made, the relevant statements in this regard in the product information shall apply. In the event that a licensed application is utilised in conditions other than the aforesaid conditions of use, the obligation for warranty shall not apply.
8. Liability
8.1. Claims for damages, insofar as they do not fall under clause I.6.2., shall be limited in value to EUR 25,000.00 or - if this is higher- to 1x the licence fee for the program forming the subject of the claim or which directly caused the damage. The lower value shall apply in each case. The fees applicable at the time of the occurrence of the claims, excluding value-added tax, shall form the basis for the calculation.
8.2. DESIGNA shall be liable for the lost of data and their restoration in accordance with the general liability waiver under these General Terms and Conditions only if such a loss of data could not have been prevented by appropriate data backup measures on the part of the Client (see also clause I.7.).
9. Cancellation, utilisation prohibition
9.1. DESIGNA shall be entitled to cancel the licence without prior notice in particular when the Customer has violated the provisions of Section 2 Scope of licence and Section 3 Protection of the Licence Material.
9.2. With the coming into effect of a cancellation, irrespective of the time and reason thereof, the Customer undertakes to return the original as well as all copies and partial copies of the Licence Material to DESIGNA. In the event of Licence Material being recorded on machinereadable recording media of the Customer, return of the Licence Material shall be substituted with the complete deletion of the recorded material.


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Johann Muller has paid tribute to Nevin Spence © Getty Images
Ulster skipper Johann Muller has expressed his "heartfelt sympathy" to the family of Nevin Spence and has thanked the rugby community for their messages of support.
Spence tragically died on Saturday alongside his brother and father after falling into a slurry pit at a farm in County Down. The rugby community has since rallied around the Spence family and Ulster with various prominent figures paying tribute to the 22-year-old.
Ulster's match with Zebre on Friday has been postponed and grounds around the British & Irish isles will mark Spence's death with a moment of silence this weekend. Muller has paid tribute to Spence and insists that he will never be forgotten.
Muller's statement read: "On behalf of the entire Ulster Rugby squad, I would like to extend my heartfelt sympathy to the Spence family at this time. Nevin's loss will be felt deeply by us all. We are equally saddened by the tragic deaths of his father Noel and his brother Graham. The thoughts of every member of the squad are with Nevin's mother Essie, and his sisters Emma and Laura. We would also like to pass on our condolences to Graham's wife and children. We wish Emma a full and speedy recovery.
"Nevin Spence was a highly skilful and gifted rugby player. He was utterly committed to Ulster and was enormously proud to represent his province. He was determined to be the best that he could be and I have no doubt that he would have gone on to play for Ireland on many occasions. He was the kind of player that inspired others with his attitude in training and sheer will to win in matches.
"His positive outlook on life brought a smile to people's faces. He was kind, polite, generous and courageous, and we were blessed to have him in our team. The one comfort for us as a squad is that we have each other for support. It has been a difficult time for the players and coaches but I believe that through this tragic loss, we will have a new sense of togetherness.
"I and the rest of the Ulster Rugby squad would like to thank the many people who have sent messages of support to the club, not only from within the province, but throughout Ireland, Europe and the world. It is clear from these messages that Nevin was highly regarded by players and fans of many different sports, in many different countries.
"I would like to thank the organising committee of the RaboDirect PRO12 for postponing this weekend's game with Zebre and for allowing us the space and time to begin to come to terms with Nevin's loss.
"In the coming weeks, the Ulster Rugby team will return to the pitch. Over the course of the rest of this year and in future seasons we will experience wins and we will no doubt suffer defeats. Players will move on or retire and new players will come in and represent the Province. But going forward, at Ulster Rugby, one thing will never change. As long as this great club exists, the person and the player, Nevin Spence, will never be forgotten."
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It seems that every-one loves posting polls... so how about another discussion instead. In discussions on things like religion, everyone has an opinion because everyone is their own expert and it is based on a lot of opinion.
How about something that everyone isn't an expert in. Something that relates to computers that may require a little research, that will help us to learn more...
This discussion is on RAID devices. Do your homework.
What is RAID and what is the best type of RAID for an application that you would most likely use and why?
We use RAID 5 for a 500 Gig virtual disk that provides video recording and assesment storage. With this equipment, we needed the ability to replace a bad drive and have it rewritten to retain our video recording data.
RAID 5 utilizes parity and striping over multiple drives and has excellent read performance. For us, it was the ideal config to suit our needs.
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Since it began in 1986, Spatial has developed software components – modular software packages that perform a set of specific and related functions. This class of software is designed to work as a functional component of a larger application, such as CAD, CAM, CAE, Additive Manufacturing (AM), and Building Information Modeling (BIM). The goal of component software is to standardize the interfaces between software utility functions so that they can work together efficiently and cohesively.
In developing its software components, Spatial has always realized, too, that the best engineering software excels at optimizing imported data for data reuse. Spatial understands that design data reuse is much more than just data exchange.


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March 2005 Journal of Geoscience EducationVolume 53, Number 2
Sense of Place and Place-Based Introductory Geoscience Teaching for American Indian and Alaska Native Undergraduates
Steven Semken, Department of Geological Sciences and Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology, Arizona State University
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar05.html#v53p149
Increasing the Significance of Course Evaluations in Large-Enrollment Geoscience Classes
Scott P. Hippensteel, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of NorthCarolina - Charlotte
Walter Martin, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
The goal of this study was to identify student evaluation of teaching (SET) questions that could be biased against large-enrollment geoscience classes. SET questionnaires were collected from twenty geoscience departments; individual questions were examined for potential bias by examining differences in SET responses for classes of differing size and discipline using data from the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at UNC Charlotte.
At UNC Charlotte, lower-level courses receive 6% lower evaluation scores than upper-level courses and overall ratings by students in larger classes were 12% lower than those in classes with fewer than 75 students. Comparisons between instructors teaching different disciplines should be reviewed with discretion. When introductory geography and earth science classes are compared, geography instructors scored 20% higher than earth science instructors (n = 40 sections for geography, n = 38 sections for earth sciences).
Student evaluations should also be viewed in the context of the difficulty of the professor. At UNC Charlotte, evaluations are plotted against the mean grade-point average assigned by the professor. These plots are both summative when considered by the Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) committee, and formative when used by the instructor to sense how difficult and/or effective he or she is relative to other instructors.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar05.html#v53p158
Critical Thinking in Geology and Archaeology: Interpreting Scanning Electron Microscope Images of a Lithic Tool
Kirsten P. Nicolaysen, Department of Geology, Kansas State University
Lauren W. Ritterbush, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Kansas State University
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar05.html#v53p166
Volcanoes in the Classroom: A Simulation of an Eruption Column
Karen S. Harpp, Department of Geology, Colgate University
Alison M. Koleszar, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University
Dennis J. Geist, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Idaho
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar05.html#v53p173
Exploring the Interrelationships of Art and Geology through a Course Module on European Ice Age Cave Art
Denise A. Battles, Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University
Jane Rhoades Hudak, Department of Art, Georgia Southern University
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar05.html#v53p176
Why Some Students Have Trouble with Maps and Other Spatial Representations
Toru Ishikawa, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Kim A. Kastens, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar05.html#v53p184
International Geoscience Educators' Perceptions of Approaches to K-12 Science Education for the 21st Century
Hyonyong Lee, Department of Earth Science Education, College of Education, Kyungpook National University
Rosanne White Fortner, Earth Systems Education, School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State University
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar05.html#v53p198
Using Assessment to Evaluate and Improve Inquiry-Based Geoenvironmental Science Activities: Case Study of a Middle School Watershed E. coli Investigation
Lauren A. Patterson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jon Harbor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University
Geosciences are an integral part of the middle school National Science Education Standards (NSES), and there is increasing interest in activities that combine geoscience content with inquiry skills. Refining and improving these activities is important, and can be based on approaches that are integrated into the activities themselves as a means to assess student learning. Local environmental problems provide excellent opportunities to create interactive, interdisciplinary lessons that meet science standards and motivate students to learn through their interest in relevant local issues.
A well-publicized local environmental issue, E. coli pollution of streams and lakes, was used as the basis for middle school activities designed to enhance student inquiry skills and content knowledge. Several interactive activities were developed and incorporated into local middle school curriculums to increase student understanding of E. coli pollution, and to involve students in using scientific approaches to help solve environmental issues. Analyses of student pretest-posttest results for open-ended and guided tasks, as a form of assessment, provided valuable insight into student learning. Greatest student improvement (> 35%) occurred in understanding the watershed concept and in open-ended interpretation of graphical representations of E. coli data. These assessments were used to guide modifications of the materials to maximize their effectiveness and address common misconceptions.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar05.html#v53p204
Alumni of Geology B.S. Program Express Strong Support for Field Geology and Related Field and Laboratory Experiences
Thomas G. Plymate, Department of Geography, Geology, and Planning, Southwest Missouri State University
Kevin R. Evans, Department of Geography, Geology, and Planning, Southwest Missouri State University
Melida Gutierrez, Department of Geography, Geology, and Planning, Southwest Missouri State University
Erwin J. Mantei, Department of Geography, Geology, and Planning, Southwest Missouri State University
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar05.html#v53p215


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You can now shop on Intrika.com from anywhere in the world
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With respect to items sold on Intrika.com, we charge your credit card before your order has entered the shipping process. For any reason if we are not able to ship you products as per your order, we will intimate you electronically and refund the value of the products not available. Any additional Shipping Fees, if applicable, will not be refunded.
Despite our best efforts, a small number of the items in our catalog may be mispriced. If we discover a mispricing, we will do one of the following:
If the correct price for the item is lower than our stated price, we will charge you the lower amount and ship the item to you.
If the correct price for the tiem is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation.
Please note that this policy applies only to products sold and shipped by Intrika.com.
The prices displayed on this site are quoted in US Dollars with approx. conversion rate in Indian Rupees. The actual amount to be paid by you will be the equivalent amount in the currency of your credit card, as per the conversions done by your bank / credit card provider on the date of billing.
All of Intrika orders are shipped door-to-door from our warehouse in Pathmthanee, Thailand to your provided shipping address. Processing the order normally takes the timeframe as specified in the shipping policy.
Shipping destinations offered by Intrika.com for delivery will be extended and updated from time to time and listed online. We do not ship backorders. We aim to keep every item on our website in stock. If there is an item which you purchase and we later realize this item is not available, we will promptly inform you within 2 working days of your purchase and fully refund your money for the out of stock item.
We can only process one shipping address per order. So, if you would like to order several items and ship to different people, please treat these as separate orders. We cannot ship to Post Office Box addresses and take no responsibility for non delivery of orders in case the delivery address includes P. O. Box details in any part or form.
You can track the package through the Order Tracking facility. If the package status is shown as undeliverable please call Customer Service and quote your tracking number to trace your package.
Duties and Taxes
All of Intrika orders are shipped internationally from our warehouse in Pathumthanee, Thailand to your provided shipping address. Due to the nature of international shipping, occasionally a customer may have to pay additional import duties and taxes which are levied once a shipment reaches your country. The large majority of orders will not have to pay any additional fees. However, we are unable to calculate when and how much these infrequent customs duty charges will be levied. In the case where additional customs charges are assessed, you will be responsible for paying these additional fees. Intrika takes no responsibility for non delivery of orders in case such taxes and duties are not accepted and settled by the recipient at the delivery address and we will not provide any refunds in such cases.
The fit of our clothing depends on the cut, fabric and style of each garment. Some garments are designed to have a looser, relaxed fit and some garments are styled to be more fitted. Please review our sizing guide to select the size best suited to you.
Product properties and wash care
All our products should be professionally dry cleaned only.
We have done our best to display as accurately as possible the colors of the products shown on this Web site. However, because the colors you see will depend on your monitor, we cannot guarantee that your monitor display of any color will be accurate
Disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability
This site is provided by Intrika.com on an as is and as available basis. Intrika.com makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of this site or the information, content, materials, or products included on this site. You expressly agree that your use of this site is at your sole risk. For the avoidance of doubt, the owner of this site does not warrant that the function of this site or which you access through the site, such as hyperlinks, will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected or that the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.
To the full extent permissible by applicable law, Intrika.com disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Intrika.com does not warrant that this site, its servers, or e-mail sent from Intrika.com are free of viruses or other harmful components. Intrika.com will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of this site, including, but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, and consequential damages.
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Femina Lace and its affiliates harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, costs and expenses, including attorneys fees, arising from or related to your use of the site.
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By visiting Intrika.com, you agree that the laws of Thailand, under the jurisdiction of the Courts of Thailand, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Terms & Conditions of Use with respect to any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and intrika.com or Femina Lace or its affiliates.
Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to intrika.com or to products you purchase through Intrika.com shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in Thailand, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate Intrika.com intellectual property rights, Intrika.com may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any court in Thailand or internationally, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted by …arbitrators under the arbitration Rules of the International Chamber of Commerce. The arbitration award shall be binding on the parties and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.
Site policies, modification, and severability
Please review our other policies, such as our pricing policy, posted on this site. These policies also govern your visit to Intrika.com. We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Terms and Conditions of use at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining conditions.
"We as a merchant shall be under no liability whatsoever in respect of any loss or damage arising directly or indirectly out of the decline of authorization for any Transaction, on Account of the Cardholder having exceeded the preset limit mutually agreed by us with our acquiring bank from time to time"
Shipping Rate:
We ship free of cost across worldwide.
The shipping process normally takes seven business days to reach the shipping address once the order is dispatched. Unforeseen circumstances on the logistics provider's end may cause delays however for which we are not liable. You will also be intimated over email once your merchandise is dispatched.
Customs and Import Duties Information:
You may be subject to import duties which are levied once the package reaches your country. Additional charges for customs clearance must be borne by you; we have no control over these charges and cannot predict what they may be.
You should contact your local customs office for further information.
Additionally, when ordering from intrika.com, you are considered the importer of record and must comply with all laws and regulations of the country in which you are receiving the goods.
Privacy statement
Intrika.com, respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines the manner your data is collected and used by us. You are advised to please read the Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing the services provided by Intrika.com you agree to the collection and use of your data by Intrika.com in the manner provided in this Privacy Policy.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you can contact us at +66 29096343 for India Toll Free no 0008001003496 (9.00 am to 4.00 pm) or email us at moc.akirtni@eracremotsuc
The Policy does not apply to the procedures and practices followed by entities that are not managed, owned or controlled by Intrika.com or to the people that are not engaged, employed or managed by Intrika.com
Through this document, we wish to make you feel at ease while using our websites, and not hesitate while sharing important information with us. We would like to make you aware that by using our websites you are agreeing to the collection of certain data.
Do feel free contact us with your questions or concerns about privacy on this website.
Information that may be collected from you?
Intrika.com collects the details provided by you on registration together with information we learn about you from your use of our service and your visits to our website and other websites accessible from them.
Kindly, note that Intrika.com does not collect your Payment Card details (i.e. credit/debit card number, expiration date, CVV etc.). When you make a purchase using your card, you are automatically redirected to the acquiring bank payment gateway website, where all required transaction details are captured on the secured payment page, and encrypted using Industrial Strength Cipher, and are securely transmitted to your card issuer for obtaining an authorization decision. At no time during the purchase process or thereafter does Intrika.com have access to, or store, your complete card account information.
We may collect additional information in connection with your participation in any promotions or contests offered by us and information you provide when giving us feedback or completing profile forms. We also monitor customer traffic patterns and website use, which enables us to improve the service we provide. We will collect only such information as is necessary and relevant to us to provide you with the services available on the website.
While you use our website, we may have automatic access to (receive and collect) certain anonymous information in standard usage logs through our web server, obtained from cookies sent to your browser from web server cookies stored on your hard drive, including but not limited to:
While you are transacting on our website, personally identifiable information collected about you may include:
We may also collect the following information about:
You may terminate your account at any time by writing to us at moc.akirtni@eracremotsuc from the email ID you have used for creating your account login, and mentioning Please close my intrika.com account in the subject line. We will disable access to your account within 2 working days of receiving your mail. However, your information may remain stored in the archive on our servers even after the deletion or termination of your account.
When / how do we collect the information?
We will collect anonymous traffic information from you when you visit our website.
We collect the personally identifiable information from you when you register with us or you transact as a guest. During registration you are required to give us your contact information (such as name, email address, date of birth, gender, billing address, delivery address, pin code, mobile number, occupation, interests etc.) Upon registration users may receive communications from Intrika.com (e.g. newsletters, updates). Even when transacting as a guest we collect identifiable information (such as name, email address, date of birth, gender, billing address, delivery address, pin code, mobile number etc.).
We use this information to contact you about the services you are using on our website and services in which you have expressed interest.
When you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form, in order to be able to fulfill your requested service. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
We are the sole owners of your information collected by us at different points on our Website.
The website contains links to other websites, which could be held under Femina Lace International Co. Ltd, or otherwise. Websites held under us would follow the same privacy policy as Intrika.com. For external links, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites which we do not own, manage or control.
We may at certain times make chat rooms, forums, instant messenger and message boards and other services available to you. Please understand that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. We have no control over its use and you should exercise caution when disclosing your personal information to anyone.
If you use a bulletin board or chat room on this website, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
How is the information used?
We use your contact information to send you:
Note: We send users updates upon registration, and updates regarding your order status. We also send promotional emails to inform you about new arrivals, special offers, etc.
We use your personal information to:
We use anonymous traffic information to:
Who do we share your information with?
We do not share or rent your information with third parties except our agents and alliance partners.
We use the services of our enabling partners such as outside shipping companies, resellers, business associates to fulfill orders, and credit / debit card processing companies to process the payment for goods and services ordered from Intrika.com website. These entities do not retain, store, share or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
If you have any questions about security on our website, you can email us at:moc.akirtni@eracremotsuc
Policy updates
We reserve the right to change or update this policy at any time by placing a prominent notice on our website. Such changes shall be effective immediately upon posting to this website.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, or by means of a notice on our homepage.
You can offer your views, suggestions, if any, by submitting the filled in feedback from online.
Payment Options
You may pay for your purchases on Intrika.com using one of the following options:
In the unlikely event that any merchandise you have ordered from us is not received in good condition, is damaged or defective, or if merchandise delivered is different from what you had expected, you may return the merchandise unused, and in the same condition as you received it, in its original packaging along with original tags, for a exchange, within 14 days from the date on which these goods are delivered.
Once we receive your feedback on the ordered merchandise, the customer care team at Intrika.com will study the need for return or exchange and based on their jurisdiction the exchange or refund (as the case may be) may be processed.
Please note that there are no returns on discounted merchandise, unless it is not received in good condition, is damaged or defective.
We do not offer merchandise exchanges on orders shipped internationally. In the unlikely event that any merchandise you have ordered from us is not received in good condition, is damaged or defective, or if merchandise delivered is different from what you had expected, please reach out to us at email@example.com within 48 hours of receiving the order.
Refunds on international orders include duties, taxes and tariffs when sent(provided we have proof of same), however unfortunately, we cannot refund your original domestic and international shipping charges.
We ship free of cost across worldwide.
The shipping process normally takes seven business days to reach the shipping address once the order is dispatched. Unforeseen circumstances on the logistics provider's end may cause delays however for which we are not liable. You will also be intimated over email once your merchandise is dispatched.
You may be subject to import duties which are levied once the package reaches your country. Additional charges for customs clearance must be borne by you; we have no control over these charges and cannot predict what they may be.
You should contact your local customs office for further information. Additionally, when ordering from intrika.com, you are considered the importer of record and must comply with all laws and regulations of the country in which you are receiving the goods.
In the unlikely event that any merchandise you have ordered from us is not received in good condition, is damaged or defective, or if merchandise delivered is different from what you had expected, you may return the merchandise unused, and in the same condition as you received it, in its original packaging along with original tags, for a exchange, within 14 days from the date on which these goods are delivered.
Once we receive your feedback on the ordered merchandise, the customer care team at Intrika.com will study the need for return or exchange and based on their jurisdiction the exchange or refund (as the case may be) may be processed.
Please note that there are no returns on discounted merchandise, unless it is not received in good condition, is damaged or defective.
We do not offer merchandise exchanges on orders shipped internationally. In the unlikely event that any merchandise you have ordered from us is not received in good condition, is damaged or defective, or if merchandise delivered is different from what you had expected, please reach out to us at moc.akirtni@eracremotsuc within 48 hours of receiving the order.
Refunds on international orders include duties, taxes and tariffs when sent(provided we have proof of same), however unfortunately, we cannot refund your original domestic and international shipping charges.
If you're aiming for the stars, you need an ensemble that spells glamour and sophistication. The elegant bodice, followed by the cinched waistline and luxurious lacy swirls to present an alluringly feminine silhouette. From sketch to finish, our outfits are created keeping versatility in mind, and this fuss-free ensemble is a gift that keeps on giving.
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The iPhone 4S, announced Tuesday, led some tech journalists to recall 2007. That year, Apple founder Steve Jobs told the world that his company's phones would be controlled with "the best pointing device in the world ... our fingers."
Today his company announced that users of the new iPhone 4S will be able to use their voices to control it, too.
Holding down the "home" button on the new iPhone 4S, available in the U.S. starting on October 14, summons a "personal assistant" known as Siri that can understand commands given in English, French, or German. It responds in a conversational style in both text and synthesized speech.
Today's event was the first Apple launch presided over by Tim Cook, who recently became CEO after the company's founder, Steve Jobs, stepped down for medical reasons. Cook opened the presentation in the now familiar style established by Jobs, teasing journalists in attendance by spending time boasting of sales figures and new retail store openings.
Cook wasn't on stage for the biggest news of the day, though, leaving it to Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for worldwide product marketing, to introduce Siri. Cook returned to the stage to round up the day's news, though, declaring himself "so incredibly proud of this company." He didn't make any reference to Steve Jobs.
Demonstrations on stage at the launch event at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California, this morning saw Siri handling questions including, "What is the weather like today?" to which it responded by displaying and speaking a forecast for the owner's current location. When the question was posed more conversationally, as "Do I need a raincoat today?" Siri responded in a similar manner: "It sure looks like rain today."
Siri draws on a number of online sources of information, from weather feeds to local business reviews, as well as the question-and-answer search engine WolframAlpha. Siri is able to find restaurants in response to a query such as "Find me a great Greek restaurant in Palo Alto," and even offers to book a table. Wolfram Alpha allows Siri to handle requests like "How many dollars is 45 euros?" The personal assistant is also able to take charge of a person's phone and do things like set alarms or meeting reminders in response to commands like "wake me up at 6 a.m. tomorrow."
The technology behind Siri originated in a DARPA-funded research project conducted at private research lab SRI International, and was used to launch a startup company and the Siri iPhone app in 2009. Siri was one of Technology Review's 10 technologies to watch in 2009, and Apple bought the company in 2010.
A separate new feature, Dictation, allows users of the new iPhone to use speech recognition to compose text messages or e-mails; this is already possible for users of Google's Android software for phones and tablets.
Uncharacteristically for Apple, which prides itself on obsessively polished devices and software that "just work," both Siri and the Dictation feature were labeled as "beta" products. One potential reason is that like all voice-recognition technology, that licensed by Apple from software company Nuance for both Siri and Dictation may not always be perfectly accurate.
Apart from Siri and Dictation, the new iPhone 4S is outwardly identical to the previous model, the iPhone 4, but has improved components inside, including a more powerful processor and an improved camera.
Norman Winarsky of SRI International worked on the project that spawned Siri and was cofounder of the company that launched its original app. He says the version Apple unveiled is now more powerful. "It's not just connected to various Web services, but also to your calendar and contacts and music and everything on the phone," he says. Putting Siri at the heart of a powerful and popular device represents "a paradigm shift in how people can interact with their device and other services," he adds.
Winarsky says Siri's speech-based interface is not its most impressive feature. "Recognizing speech has become a commodity. It is finding the intent in what you said and matching that with the Web services available that cost hundreds of millions in research." Winarsky and colleagues at SRI made their technology capable of handling ambiguity and variability in statements, enabling Siri to deal with casual commands so that users don't have to use carefully scripted phrasing, he says.


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The Right Kind Of Terror
- In Alerts 2012
- Post 23 July 2012
- Last Updated on 05 June 2013
- By Editor
By David Cromwell and David Edwards
When is an act of terrorism not terrorism? When the victims are officially sanctioned state enemies. This was clear from the political and media response to the assassinations of senior ministers of the Syrian 'regime'.
On 18 July, a bomb attack on the national security headquarters in Damascus killed three top Syrian ministers: Defence Minister Daoud Rajiha, President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law Assef Shawkat and General Hassan Turkomani. Two days later, Syria's national security chief, Hisham Ikhtiari, died from injuries he received in the attack.
Reuters reported U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta saying that the situation in Syria was 'spinning out of control'. For good measure, he added that President Bashar al-Assad's government would be held responsible if it failed to safeguard its alleged chemical weapons sites. The brazen echoes of the propaganda campaign against Iraq a decade ago could be heard reverberating around the world's news media.
UK defence minister Philip Hammond, standing alongside Panetta at a Pentagon news conference, said that the bomb attack demonstrated Syria's growing instability:
'I think what we're seeing is an opposition which is emboldened, clearly an opposition which has access increasingly to weaponry, probably some fragmentation around the edges of the regime as well.'
Neither men described the bombing as a terrorist attack.
On the same day, an Israeli tourist bus in eastern Bulgaria was attacked by a suicide bomber, killing at least seven people. US President Barack Obama had no hesitation in describing the bombing unequivocally as a 'barbaric terrorist attack'.
On the BBC News at Ten, news presenter Huw Edwards delivered the required script about the attack in Syria:
'A bomb attack strikes at the heart of the Assad regime in Damascus.' (BBC News at Ten, headlines, 18 July 2012)
No mention of the dreaded 't-word' here.
The BBC's 'security' correspondent Frank Gardner reported of the 'Assad regime':
'But the government, which blames terrorists funded from abroad, vows to defeat the rebels.'
Here the accusation of terrorism could be safely put in the mouth of the enemy 'regime'. Those five words, 'blames terrorists funded from abroad', hint at dangerous truths that simply cannot be explored on BBC News. Again, the safe option is to attribute the allegation to the Syrian 'regime', thus undermining the claim.
US columnist Glenn Greenwald notes:
'Needless to say, if such an attack — perpetrated by an "Islamist" suicide bomber — were aimed at a Western government or those of their allies in the region, it would immediately be branded Terrorism and vehemently denounced. One need not speculate about that, as it has already happened. It was called the Pentagon part of the "9/11 attack," where a plane was flown into America's military headquarters. More analogous was Nidal Hasan's 2009 assault on the U.S. military base at Fort Hood, which was instantly branded Terrorism by American media outlets, Washington officials, and a majority of Americans.'
Greenwald continues:
'Indeed, even if this kind of attack were directed at Western-supported tyrannies in the region — such as, say, Saudi Arabia or Bahrain — the Terrorism label would be widely applied by mainstream Western outlets. In fact, the alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi Ambassador — not civilians, but just this single official from a repellently oppressive regime — was instantly denounced as Terrorism.'
When 'Terrorists' Become 'Freedom Fighters'
One of our messageboard visitors posted an extract from a New York Times article on the apparently increasingly effective use of improvised explosive devices by the Syrian 'insurgency':
'Joseph Holliday, a former American Army intelligence officer who is now an analyst covering Syria for the Institute of the Study of War, in Washington, said the changes were not in the rate of attacks, but in a rapidly evolving prowess . . .
' . . . The exact means by which anti-Assad fighters have improved their manufacture and use of bombs, and who trained them, is not clear.
'Mr. Holliday said the capability "comes in part from the expertise of Syrian insurgents who learned bomb-making while fighting U.S. troops in eastern Iraq"'.
The poster, Peter, then made the point that:
'while they were "fighting U.S. troops in eastern Iraq", we were told in no uncertain terms that they were evil, terrorist bad guys. Islamo-fascist, Al Qaeda linked, Saddam sympathisers who had to be mercilessly slaughtered.'
Now apparently similar forces in Syria using similar tactics to attack an 'enemy regime' are cast as 'rebels' or 'freedom fighters' helping to foment a 'revolution' as part of the latest stage of the 'Arab Spring'.
Peter concludes of the bomb attack in Damascus:
'the tenor of the coverage clearly has nothing to do with moral or logical consistency, and everything to do with the reported act's utility to Western power.'
By contrast, the violent killings of the Syrian ministers were greeted by 'Socialist, Independent columnist' Owen Jones with:
'Adios, Assad (I hope)'
Jones also tweeted that 'this is a popular uprising, not arriving on the back of Western cruise missiles, tanks and bullets'.
We asked him on Twitter:
'So you disagree with Charles Glass, Patrick Seale, Alastair Crooke et al that the West is supplying arms, training, forces..?'
'John Pilger argues US elites are waging a proxy war on Syria. What do you know that he doesn't know? Any sources?'
Again, the Independent's Owen Jones evaded the questions. We asked Richard 'lenin' Seymour and Jones whether they opposed US-UK involvement in Syria. They both said that they did, but neither had yet managed to evaluate the evidence supplied by analysts like Charles Glass, Patrick Seale, Alastair Crooke, Aisling Byrne and others on US-UK arming of the Syrian conflict.
There were two key responses: first from Jones:
Media Lens: 'Have you condemned Western interference in Syria in the Independent, Owen? Any links?'
Jones: 'I haven't written a Syria column. If you want past articles condemning wars from Kosovo to Libya though.'
and then from Seymour:
Media Lens: 'What about arms? Have you written anything on Glass, Seale, Crooke, Byrne, WashPo [Washington Post] evidence on the US-UK proxy war? Is it imp [important]?'
Lenin: 'It's important, but I don't think we would evaluate that evidence in the same way. I'll prob write something about this later.'
Two more joined the fray: Mehdi Hasan, political director of Huffington Post UK (and, until recently, political editor of New Statesman) and Sunny Hundal, editor of the Liberal Conspiracy website and a Guardian contributor. Their Tweets descended into juvenile bouts of 'humour' mocking Media Lens for its supposed po-faced stance against 'imperialism':
I bet Media Lens are a right laugh down the pub.
@OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal Bet I'm more secretly pro-Iraq-war than you are...
@mehdirhasan @sunny_hundal I'm going to call my first-born Bush. BEAT THAT
@OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal I married a Texan. Beat that!
@mehdirhasan @owenjones84 I was hoping it wouldn't come to this.... but... I'll say it. I'm in love with GW Bush's daughters. *shame*
@sunny_hundal @mehdirhasan I intend to marry one (or both), with Rumsfeld as best man, preferably in the Pentagon control room
@OwenJones84 @sunny_hundal I've been to the Pentagon control room #iwinagain
@mehdirhasan @sunny_hundal Blimey, Mehdi. Maybe MediaLens are right after all. Bet you're on nickname terms with Petraeus
Then, in a farcical nod towards Ronald Reagan making a 'joke' about bombing Russia, Hundal said:
@OwenJones84 @mehdihasan This isn't fair, I wanted to marry Bush's daughters! You two stealing my thunder *prepares to bomb Iran himself*
If anyone wonders just what is wrong with 'mainstream' left journalism, the above performance in response to serious questions about Syria and media coverage provides a clue.
There are plenty of damning facts that need to be highlighted. For example, the New York Times reports that the Obama administration is 'increasing aid to the [Syrian] rebels and redoubling efforts to rally a coalition of like-minded countries to forcibly bring down the [Syrian] government'. US officials have been in talks with officials in Turkey and Israel 'over how to manage a Syrian government collapse.' One senior US government insider said:
'You'll notice in the last couple of months, the opposition has been strengthened. Now we're ready to accelerate that.'
The newspaper also reports that the US government is 'working with Syrian rebels to establish a transition process for the day that Mr. Assad's government falls'; a day that the US is clearly determined to bring about. 'We're looking at the controlled demolition of the Assad regime,' said Andrew J. Tabler, a Syria expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The CIA is 'helping to vet rebel groups... in Turkey... and to establish new ties to fighters who may be the country's leaders one day.'
The pattern of such US 'interventions' is long and bloody, and the age of the 'American Empire' has not yet ended.
Propaganda Rule Number One
It should hardly need to be emphasised that criticising Western state and corporate propaganda about events in Syria should in no way be interpreted as support for Assad. To suggest this, as a few critics have done, is cynical, ignorant and deceitful. Over the years, we have been accused of being pro-Milosevic, pro-Saddam, pro-Gaddafi, pro-Iran, pro-Assad, and even pro-North Korea, when what we have done is expose Western media bias against these official enemies of the West. As a matter of simple common sense it should be obvious that highlighting systemic bias in the corporate media is important, regardless of one's moral evaluation of the targets of that bias.
Glenn Greenwald sums up what matters here:
'I'm certainly not calling into question the heinous violence and oppression of the Syrian regime (though I think Western Manichean reporting on the nature of the fighting and the identity of the rebels has been typically and substantially oversimplified). The point here is that we pretend Terrorism has some sort of objective meaning and that it is the personification of pure evil which all decent people (and Good Western nations) by definition categorically despise, when neither of those claims is remotely true.'
Noam Chomsky often cites a definition of terrorism from a US army manual as: 'the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature. This is done through intimidation, coercion, or instilling fear.' By this definition, the major source of international terrorism is the West, notably the United States with the UK an ever-reliable accomplice.
The point is that Western 'mainstream' media outlets report from a propaganda viewpoint that accords with Western state ideology. Violence perpetrated by enemy actors is 'terrorism'; what 'we' or 'our' allies do is 'counterterrorism' or 'peace-keeping'. This is arguably the first rule of propaganda. But the question we keep asking is: Why are we the good guys?
Despite its publicly-funded obligation to be fair and impartial, BBC News is forever trapped in this ideological mire. Consider the BBC article asking the loaded question, 'Is it time to intervene in Syria?', and answered by 'five leading analysts'. The very question presupposes some kind of ordained right by Nato and its allies 'to intervene'. None of the five 'leading analysts', all linked to Western governments or their major institutions, even question the premise of the question. And in any case who should intervene? According to the BBC, it's that amorphous entity known as 'the international community' which, as Chomsky points out, is 'a technical term referring to Washington and whoever happens to agree with it'. ('Hopes and Prospects', London, 2010, pp. 196-197).
That this 'international community' has shocked and awed its way around the Middle East and beyond - obliterating lives, nations' infrastructures, hopes and dreams - is the kind of rational analysis so often deemed irrelevant by BBC News and the rest of the 'mainstream' media.
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