Badshah on being questioned by police in fake followers case: Ive categorically denied all the al… – Hindustan Times

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Music producer and rapper Badshah has issued a statement after he was questioned by the police in the fake followers scam. Badshah said he did his part by aiding the investigation and was never part of the scam.

Following the summons, I have spoken to the Mumbai Police. I have aided the officials in their investigation by cooperating and carrying out the due diligence on my part. Ive categorically denied all the allegations levelled against me and made it clear that I was never involved in such practices, nor do I condone them, he said.

The investigation procedure is being executed in accordance with the law and I have complete faith in the authorities, who are handling this matter. Id like to thank all those who have conveyed their concern to me. It means a lot to me, he added.

Badshah reached the office of the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) around 12.30 pm on Friday. He stepped out of the CIU office around 9.45 at night, an official told PTI.

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The CIU started probing the racket after Bollywood singer Bhumi Trivedi found that somebody had created her fake profile on social media and complained to the police. During the probe, the police unearthed the racket which creates fake social media profiles and sells fake followers and likes to celebrities and `influencers.

The police have recorded statements of nearly 20 people in the case. Senior police officials had said earlier that this was a serious issue as fake profiles are also used to spread fake news or misinformation.

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Recruitment notice in our name to fill 5285 vacancies is fake: Ministry of Railways – Hindustan Times

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The Ministry of Railways has tweeted from its official twitter handle that a recruitment notification circulated online claiming to offer over 5,000 vacancies in Indian Railways is a fake. The Ministry of Railways has urged the public to beware of this fake recruitment notice circulated in its name by an organization named Avestran Infotech.

The Ministry on Sunday issued a clarification regarding the fake recruitment notice, where it has said, railways have not authorized any private agency as yet to do the recruitment of staff on its behalf as alleged by the above-named agency.

Candidates should always go to the official website of Indian Railways to verify the genuineness of any notification issued by them.

The recruitment of various categories of Group C and Group D posts on Indian Railways is presently catered to by 21 Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) and 16 Railway Recruitment Cell (RRC) only and not by any other agency. Vacancies on Indian Railways are filled up by giving wide publicity through Centralized Employment Notifications (CENs).

On-line applications are called for from eligible candidates all over the country. CEN is published through Employment News/Rozgar Samachar and an indicative notice is given in National Daily and Local Newspapers. The CEN is also displayed on the official websites of RRBs/RRCs. The website address of all RRBs/RRCs is mentioned in the CEN, reads the PIB notice.

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Fall Guys and Cyberpunk 2077? Joke exchange on Twitter, but The Witcher intrudes! – Asap Land

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Recently available on PlayStation 4 and PC, Fall Guys has had an incredible launch, with over a million and a half players active in conjunction with Day One.

Also due to the presence of the colorful title in the line up of free PS4 games with PS Plus in August, the production Mediatonic can currently count on a warm welcome from the public. And while the players challenge each other in crazy mini-games in an attempt to be crowned the only winners, the development team seems willing to walk the road of the collaborations.

In this sense, a fun and ironic (?) Exchange of jokes involved the official Twitter accounts of Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is Cyberpunk 2077. As you can indeed verify at the bottom of this news, MediaTonic has kindly tried to persuade CD Projekt RED the opportunity for collaboration. To quell everything, however, the official Twitter account of The Witcher, with the famous IP of the Polish team ready to submit an offer "more exciting"than that of the world of Night City. To make the whole thing even more surreal, contributed the intervention of the Nordic division of Bandai Namco, rather amused by the whole thing!

The tones seem decidedly playful, but never say: in the comments, the Twitter community has already indulged in asking for special Cyberpunk 2077 themed skins.

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Gamedec Revels in Player Choice, but It’ll Be Hard to Pull Off What It Promises – The Escapist

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Theres generally an expectation when it comes to RPGs that no matter how expansive its story, well-written its characters, or original its premise, youre eventually going to battle it out with rooms full of enemies and loot their corpses. So, when you first hear about an isometric cyberpunk RPG like Gamedec, you expect something along the lines of the Shadowrun games developed by Harebrained Schemes: explore a technological dystopia, uncover some conspiracies, and spend a lot of time turning living things into dead things.

Gamedec manages to completely avoid that formula. It doesnt even have a combat system to speak of. Gameplay consists of inspecting, hacking, interrogating, smooth-talking, making deals, and staring out a window contemplating the tech-saturated landscape. Most of this plays out through a series of dialogue boxes. It does still have a skill tree and character progression, but its focused on areas of expertise like technology, crime, charisma, and medicine, all of which give you different advantages and disadvantages along the way.

The focus of Gamedec is on choice, which was made clear in the Kickstarter trailer that ends with the statement: There are no wrong answers, only false assumptions. You are the sum of your choices.

My first choice in the game ended up accidentally putting a woman in a coma, which certainly feels like a wrong answer, but it served as a good introduction to a game centered around the idea that your choices have consequences.

You play as a Gamedec, which is short for Game Detective, and your job is to find clients and solve crimes in the cyberpunk world of 22nd century New Warsaw. These crimes take place inside virtual worlds, which some of the inhabitants seem to consider just as real as reality or realium, as the game has a tendency of calling it.

There was only one case available in the build I played: A rich CEOs kid is stuck in one of these worlds, theres an unknown girl stuck alongside him, and a friend of his that managed to get out is tight-lipped about whats going on. Your job: figure out where the son went, get him out of there, and try to make enough money in the meantime to stay afloat.

Gamedec makes use of a deduction system, which you use to reach conclusions based on the information youve uncovered in order to advance the story. It prevents you from exploring multiple possibilities at once, which is a bit odd, though it seems like the intent is to force players to make choices that have lasting consequences. But if thats the reason for the system, it doesnt really work, since every path I took eventually led me in the right direction to uncovering the culprit.

But despite all that, there are plenty of ways to completely, utterly screw up the investigation. The first time around, I was more cautious than I should have been and complied with a criminals demands, leading to a less-than-happy ending for everyone involved. Theres also a choice to force the CEO to deal with the issue himself in hopes of improving his fractured relationship with his son a choice that sounds nice in theory, but it doesnt end well.

There are additionally a good number of choices in Gamedec that can have consequences further down the line befriending a brash, rage-filled esports star, for instance, led to his rescuing me from a sticky situation by crashing a vehicle through a wall. On one run-through, I also made the less-than-cautious decision to let a sentient AI loose upon the world, which actually ended up helping me out later down the line.

Theres a choice that lets you go completely in the wrong direction and start searching the wrong virtual world for the boy, though unfortunately that other virtual world hasnt actually been programmed in yet.

The one virtual world I was able to visit was a bit disappointing in its aesthetic. The world is a seedy, wrong-side-of-town-type environment. While it does fit the cyberpunk theme, the only detail to even suggest that youre visiting a virtual world is the player who glitched the game so as to play as a unicorn.

The difference between the virtual and the real does play a big role in the plot, however. As you dig deeper into the case at hand, you discover a pretty clever reason as to what caused the boy to get stuck in the first place, and you have to rack your brain to come up with a way to free him.

In the end, it felt satisfying to return the kid to his dad in one piece and only a little brain-damaged. Yes, that damage was completely my fault. I didnt admit that to my client when debriefing him though.

My main concern for Gamedec is this: Can the writers actually keep this up? Actions having major consequences over the course of one mission is one thing, but itll be hard to write a longer narrative that keeps track of everything thats happened over the course of the game. I suspect thats part of the reason the second virtual world wasnt programmed in the more choices a player has, the more possibilities a writer has to consider.

But if Anshar Studios manages to make player choice matter to this degree throughout the entire game, it will have accomplished something astonishing.

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Cyberpunk 2077 and cosplay: 400 hours of work for this replica of V’s jacket – Asap Land

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The passion for cosplay prompted the Valentine Costumes artist to dedicate over 400 hours of work to the reinterpretation of the "Samurai jacket" worn by the protagonist of Cyberpunk 2077, the netrunner V.

From the pages of his official Instagram profile, the costume designer shows the fruits of his exceptional work done in recent months after being chosen for the finals of the contest. Cyberpunk 2077 cosplay organized by CD Projekt.

V's jacket made by Valentine Costumes recreates every single detail of the garment worn by lone executioner of Night City, including the detail of thebright inside of the collar through the use of multicolored LED strips which, according to its author, should not generate too much heat and annoy the wearer of this jacket. At the bottom of the news you will find all the shots and videos shared by the CP2077 fan.

While waiting to find out what you think about it, we remind you that CD Projekt RED has unveiled the second Night City Wire of Cyberpunk 2077, setting the date for August 10 and confirming the presence of numerous gameplay scenes dedicated to the RPG branching of missions and the variety of weapons available to the hero of the blockbuster in the open world.

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Explained: What is SpaceXs SN5 Starship prototype that completed its first test flight? – The Indian Express

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By: Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: August 7, 2020 8:08:15 am Starship is launched on Tuesday in south Texas. (SpaceX via AP)

On Tuesday (August 4), just two days after SpaceXs Crew Dragon capsule landed in the Gulf of Mexico, a prototype of the companys uncrewed Mars ship, a stainless steel test vehicle called SN5, and which is a part of the Starship spacecraft, successfully flew to an altitude of over 500 feet for a little less than 60 seconds. The test flight was carried out at Boca Chica in Southern Texas, SpaceXs commercial launch site designed for orbital missions.

What is Starship?

Designed by SpaceX, Starship is a spacecraft and super-heavy booster rocket meant to act as a reusable transportation system for crew and cargo to the Earths orbit, Moon and Mars. SpaceX has described Starship as the worlds most powerful launch vehicle with an ability to carry over 100 metric tonnes to the Earths orbit.

What is the idea behind developing this spacecraft?

Starship has been under development since 2012 and is a part of Space Xs central mission to make interplanetary travel accessible and affordable and to become the first private company to do so. Therefore, the company is working on building a fleet of reusable launch vehicles, capable of carrying humans to Mars and other destinations in the solar system.

Reusability is at the heart of making interplanetary travel accessible, SpaceX believes, since a majority of the launch cost is attributed to the expense of building a rocket which is ultimately designed to burn up during re-entry. Following the commercial model, a rapidly reusable space launch vehicle could reduce the cost of traveling to space by a hundredfold, SpaceX mentions on its website.

Once functional, the Starship spacecraft will enter Mars atmosphere at a speed of 7.5 km per second and will be designed to withstand multiple entries. While no human being has set foot on Mars yet, the planet continues to intrigue scientists and researchers because of the possibility that life existed there once. SpaceX is planning its first cargo mission to the red planet by 2022 and by 2024, the company wants to fly four ships including two cargo and two crewed ones to Mars.

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Late last month, a series of unmanned missions to Mars were launched by the US, China and the first one for the middle-eastern world called Hope.

So what all can Starship do?

Starship can deliver satellites further and at lower marginal costs than SpaceXs Falcon vehicles and it can ferry both cargo and crew to the International Space Station (ISS). Once developed, Starship is also expected to help carry large amounts of cargo to the Moon, for human spaceflight development and research. Beyond the Moon, the spacecraft is being designed for carrying crew and cargo for interplanetary missions as well.

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Brexit LIVE: David Frost urged to WITHHOLD UK repayments ‘Sovereignty above all else!’ – Daily Express

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Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, said it was vital Mr Frost continues to champion UK sovereignty in the talks, as the issue was fundamental to many Brexit voters.

The Brexiteer highlights this in a recent Express.co.uk comment piece, where he points out most people who voted to leave the EU did so to return sovereignty to the UK.

The Tory MP said a poll conducted by Lord Ashcroft on the day of the 2016 EU referendum found nearly half of leave voters said the biggest single reason for wanting to leave the EU was the principle that decisions about the UK should be taken in the UK.

The survey found only a third said the main reason was to regain control over immigration and its own borders.

When discussing the current trade talks, Sir Iain wrote: Importantly, David Frost, Boriss chief negotiator made it clear he agreed when he wrote that in the negotiations, the UK places sovereignty above all else.

It is in that context that the issue of how these outstanding payments to the EU impinge on the UKs sovereignty which matter now.

The Brexiteer urges Mr Frost to walk away from the talks if the UKs sovereignty risks being impinged.

He said: The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner.

A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.

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9.33am update:Brexit Britain could form NEW superpower alliance with Australia, Canada and New Zealand

Brexit Britain could form a federation with Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to create a superpower" after fully cutting ties with the EU, a historian has claimed.

Historian Andrew Roberts described the federation of nations whose majority of people speak English could be a free trade zone with the free movement of people.

The idea is based on the concept of the "CANZUK Union", this being the acronym for Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

The union could have a mutual defence organisation and combined military capabilities, the historian claimed.

According to Mr Roberts, the "CANZUK" union would be the fourth-largest economy in the world.

9am update:FTSE-100 shares rose on hopes of Brexit deal

London-listed shares rose on Monday, due in part to renewed hopes of a Brexit trade deal with the EU.

The FTSE-100 was up 0.8 percent, with the mid-cap FTSE-250 also up 0.7 percent - a seven-week high.

Traders are hopeful of a Brexit trade deal after Britain's top minister overseeing negotiations said on Friday he was confident of an agreement with the EU.

Stocks also rose in response to optimism around a post-pandemic economic rebound in China.

8.07am update:Ireland must take a long hard look at Brussels membership

Ireland has been tipped to follow the UK's lead and quit the European Union by a former Irish diplomat who called for "a long hard look" at whether the country's membership of the bloc was worth it.

Ray Bassett pulls no punches in his new book, 'Ireland and the EU Post Brexit', suggesting the benefits bestowed on Dublin by Brussels are drying up, with "difficult choices" on the horizon.

In his book, he writes: "We need a long hard look at our EU membership and pose the question, is it worth the price?"

"The billionaire businessman, George Soros, an ardent europhile, has accepted the inevitable and predicted that unless the EU reforms it will perish.

"The pipe dreams of Emmanuel Macron and his proposals for even a more centralised EU are vanishing against the cold reality of the desire for the citizenry of EU Member States for national sovereignty.

"The disastrous showing of the establishment centre-right and centre-left parties in the 2019 European Parliament elections demonstrated this in a very direct way."

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Brexit: Boris Johnsons promise of lucrative trade deals in trouble, study warns – The Independent

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Boris Johnsons promise of lucrative post-Brexit trade deals as the UK takes back control of its rules is on course to fail, a study warns today.

Three years have been wasted failing to agree what Britain wants from its negotiations, the Institute for Government finds handing the advantage to countries on the other side of table.

It means the controversy over the US demand to sell its chlorinated chicken which has stalled a deal with Washington will be repeated, its report concludes.

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The think tank criticises the unforced error of launching into complex trade talks before ministers have decided what they want their post-Brexit regulations to be.

Three years ago, we warned that the government had not set up the necessary structures for effective decision making on key trade policy issues, said Maddy Thimont Jack, a senior researcher.

The government did not heed that warning then, but it now needs to move urgently to put them in place. Otherwise it will find itself losing control of trade and regulatory policy to better-prepared partners.

The criticism comes as trade talks with the EU remain deadlocked because the government cannot agree its future state aid rules and needs to satisfy Brussels fears of undercutting.

Hopes of a deal with the US this year have been abandoned and even a revamped deal with Japan has run into trouble, in a row over access for UK agricultural products.

Notoriously, Brexit-backing Conservatives claimed it would be easy to strike numerous lucrative deals with other countries, once the UK was free to negotiate alone.

A referendum is held on Britain's membership of the European Union. Fifty-two per cent of the country votes in favour of leaving

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David Cameron resigns on the morning of the result after leading the campaign for Britain to remain in the EU

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Theresa May becomes leader of the Conservative party and prime minister, winning the leadership contest unopposed after Andrea Leadsom drops out

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The High Court rules that parliament must vote on triggering Article 50, which would begin the Brexit process

The prime minister triggers Article 50 after parliament endorses the result of the referendum

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Seeking a mandate for her Brexit plan, May goes to the country

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After a disastrous campaign, Theresa May loses her majority in the commons and turns to the DUP for support. Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party makes gains after being predicted to lose heavily

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David Davis and Michel Barnier, chief negotiators for the UK and EU respectively, hold a press conference on the first day of Brexit negotiations. Soon after the beginning of negotiations, it becomes clear that the issue of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic will prove a major sticking point

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The government suffers a defeat in parliament over the EU withdrawal agreement, guaranteeing that MPs are given a 'meaningful vote' on the deal

Following a summit at Chequers where the prime minister claimed to have gained cabinet support for her deal, Boris Johnson resigns as foreign secretary along with David Davis, the Brexit secretary

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The draft withdrawal agreement settles Britain's divorce bill, secures the rights of EU citizens living in the UK and vice versa and includes a political declaration commiting both parties to frictionless trade in goods and cooperation on security matters. The deal also includes the backstop, which is anathema to many brexiteers and Dominic Raab and Esther McVey resign from the cabinet in protest

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After several failed attempts to pass her withdrawal agreement through the commons, Theresa May resigns

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Boris Johnson is elected leader of the Conservative party in a landslide victory. He later heads to Buckingham Palace where the Queen invites him to form a government

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Boris Johnson prorogues parliament for five weeks in the lead up to the UK's agreed departure date of 31 October.

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The High Court rules that Johnson's prorogation of parliament is 'unlawful' after a legal challenge brought by businesswoman Gina Miller

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Following a summit in Merseyside, Johnson agrees a compromise to the backstop with Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar - making the withdrawal agreement more palatable to Brexiteers

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As parliament passes the Letwin amendment requiring the prime minister to request a further delay to Brexit, protesters take to the streets in the final show of force for a Final Say referendum

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The Conservatives win the December election in a landslide, granting Boris Johnson a large majority to pass through his brexit deal and pursue his domestic agenda

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The withdrawal agreement passes through the commons with a majority of 124

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Members of the European parliament overwhelmingly back the ratification of Britain's departure, clearing the way for Brexit two days later on 31 January. Following the vote, members join hands and sing Auld Lang Syne

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A referendum is held on Britain's membership of the European Union. Fifty-two per cent of the country votes in favour of leaving

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David Cameron resigns on the morning of the result after leading the campaign for Britain to remain in the EU

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Theresa May becomes leader of the Conservative party and prime minister, winning the leadership contest unopposed after Andrea Leadsom drops out

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The High Court rules that parliament must vote on triggering Article 50, which would begin the Brexit process

The prime minister triggers Article 50 after parliament endorses the result of the referendum

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Seeking a mandate for her Brexit plan, May goes to the country

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After a disastrous campaign, Theresa May loses her majority in the commons and turns to the DUP for support. Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party makes gains after being predicted to lose heavily

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David Davis and Michel Barnier, chief negotiators for the UK and EU respectively, hold a press conference on the first day of Brexit negotiations. Soon after the beginning of negotiations, it becomes clear that the issue of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic will prove a major sticking point

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The government suffers a defeat in parliament over the EU withdrawal agreement, guaranteeing that MPs are given a 'meaningful vote' on the deal

Following a summit at Chequers where the prime minister claimed to have gained cabinet support for her deal, Boris Johnson resigns as foreign secretary along with David Davis, the Brexit secretary

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The draft withdrawal agreement settles Britain's divorce bill, secures the rights of EU citizens living in the UK and vice versa and includes a political declaration commiting both parties to frictionless trade in goods and cooperation on security matters. The deal also includes the backstop, which is anathema to many brexiteers and Dominic Raab and Esther McVey resign from the cabinet in protest

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After several failed attempts to pass her withdrawal agreement through the commons, Theresa May resigns

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Boris Johnson is elected leader of the Conservative party in a landslide victory. He later heads to Buckingham Palace where the Queen invites him to form a government

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Boris Johnson prorogues parliament for five weeks in the lead up to the UK's agreed departure date of 31 October.

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The High Court rules that Johnson's prorogation of parliament is 'unlawful' after a legal challenge brought by businesswoman Gina Miller

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Following a summit in Merseyside, Johnson agrees a compromise to the backstop with Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar - making the withdrawal agreement more palatable to Brexiteers

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As parliament passes the Letwin amendment requiring the prime minister to request a further delay to Brexit, protesters take to the streets in the final show of force for a Final Say referendum

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The Conservatives win the December election in a landslide, granting Boris Johnson a large majority to pass through his brexit deal and pursue his domestic agenda

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The withdrawal agreement passes through the commons with a majority of 124

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Members of the European parliament overwhelmingly back the ratification of Britain's departure, clearing the way for Brexit two days later on 31 January. Following the vote, members join hands and sing Auld Lang Syne

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, Mr Johnson said before the 2016 referendum. I think there is a huge opportunity. Do free trade deals, believe in ourselves.

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In fact, a deal with the US, even if it can be struck, would add only 0.2 per cent to GDP in the long run, the Treasury has estimated and a continued deal with Tokyo only 0.07 per cent.

The IfG study, Trade and Regulation after Brexit, says it will be impossible to marry the desire for a clutch of new agreements and for regulatory autonomy because a weakened UK will be told to change its standards in return.

It warns ministers that the UK:

* Could easily fall victim to other nations threatening to collapse the talks if they do not get what they want.

* Will be vulnerable to challenge at the World Trade Organisation, if its currently dysfunctional dispute system becomes operational again.

* Has failed to agree its stance on key regulatory issues, which risks it being pushed into making concessions it shouldnt.

* Risks damaging the union, unless it can reach agreement with the other UK nations, which are responsible for implementing trade deals and could choose not to

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Michel Barnier’s ‘major’ concession on state aid a big win for UK – EU backing down – Daily Express

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Mr Barnier indicated this week the EU may drop its demands over state aid which, professor Alex De Ruyter from Birmingham Universitys Centre for Brexit Studies, stated is a major boost for the UK. The EU has called for the UK to agree to a level playing field on state aid but this week Mr Barnier indicated the demand could be dropped for an independent dispute settling mechanism. Speaking toExpress.co.uk, Mr De Ruyter stated an independent dispute settling mechanism would be the obvious way to settle state aid rules.

He said: This is what the UK has been pushing for all along and it would represent a major move.

To be honest, an independent dispute resolution mechanism is the obvious way to resolve disputes relating to any trade agreement.

This is widely done internationally.

The issue of state aid has remained one of the areas of divergence between the two sides during Brexit talks.

State aid determines the level of support from public authorities for organisations.

The EU wants the UK to agree to a certain set of regulations and rules in order stop Britain undercutting Brussels and becoming a more attractive destination for companies.

This week, Mr Barnier told EU diplomats an independent mechanism could be created in order to settle the issue.

Such is the importance of the issue, some diplomats stated if the UK agreed to the proposition, a deal could soon be agreed.

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The diplomat said: There must be a solid framework with independent oversight.

If they agree to settle on broad rules for granting state aid and to have this independent institution, then we have a deal.

The rules surrounding fisheries and the role of the European Court of Justice in British judicial matters also remain undecided.

Similar to the issue of state aid, UK officials have declared any ECJ role in UK judicial matters would keep Britain tied into regulations and rules set by Brussels post-Brexit.

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In terms of fisheries, the UK is adamant Britain must no longer be under the Common Fisheries Policy.

Under the policy, all coastal areas are placed within the EUs exclusive economic zone.

However, due to the UKs large and rich coastal waters, some have stated the policy allows Europe fishermen to exploit Britains waters.

UK officials want to move away from the policy and set up an agreement similar to Norways fisheries deal with the EU.

Under the agreement, the EU and Norway hold annual negotiations on fishing quotas and access.

Despite the concession from the EU on state aid, Mr Barnier has called for preparations to be made for a no deal Brexit.

Prof De Ruyter concluded: There is scope for both sides to come to a reasonable agreement, but that doesnt mean they will!

At the moment, it is still very unclear what the eventual outcome will be, although I would stress that a no deal scenario would be more costly for the UK than the EU."

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U.S. Department of Education reaffirms commitment to protecting the religious liberty of students, religious organizations – The Highland County Press

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U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced Friday guidance to protect the religious liberty of individuals and institutions participating in Department of Education programs. This action is part of ongoing efforts by the Department to advance religious liberty protections and delivers on President Donald J. Trumps Executive Order 13798, Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty.

This administration will continue to protect the religious liberty and First Amendment rights of every student, teacher and educational institution across the country, Secretary DeVos said. Too many misinterpret the separation of church and state as an invitation for government to separate people from their faith.

In reality, the First Amendment doesnt exist to protect us from religion. It exists to protect religion from government. Todays guidance reaffirms our commitment to protecting our first liberty and ensuring that discriminatory restrictions on access to federal grant funding are no longer tolerated.

This guidance follows recent Supreme Court victories for religious liberty, asEspinozav. Montana Department of Revenueand Trinity Lutheran v. Comercurtailed religious discrimination and thus strengthened protections for religious organizations.

The guidance was drafted pursuant to a directive from the Office of Management and Budget requiring each agency to publish policies detailing how they will administer federal grants in compliance with Executive Order 13798, as well as the Attorney Generals Oct. 6, 2017, Memorandum on Religious Liberty, and the Office of Management and Budgets Jan. 16, 2020, Memorandum.

Notably, the guidance announces a new process by which individuals and organizations can inform the Department of a burden or potential burden on their religious exercise under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to adequately protect their religious liberties while participating in Department programs.

The new guidance also, consistent with First Amendment principles and Department regulations, does the following:

Affirms that religious organizations are equally eligible to participate in ED-administered programs as their secular counterparts.

Affirms that financial award decisions are made based on merit, not based on an organizations religion, religious belief or the lack thereof.

States that religious organizations receiving federal financial assistance under a Department program must comply with program-specific legislation and regulations, but clarifies that these organizations may continue to carry out their missions and maintain their religious character. However, direct federal financial assistance may not be used for religious worship, religious instruction or proselytization.

Reminds states that they may not use discriminatory Blaine Amendments to deny faith-based organizations contracts or grants, as this violates Department regulations against discrimination on the basis of an organizations religious character or affiliation.

Affirms that students and/or borrowers seeking to participate in Department loan programs and beneficiaries seeking to participate in Department social service programs will not be penalized or singled out for disadvantages on the basis of religion.

Clarifies the role of the Departments Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives (CFOI) as a Department office that collaborates with faith and community leaders to maximize participation of religious organizations in Department programs while eliminating barriers in the grantmaking or regulatory process to safeguard religious liberty.

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Constitutional Connections: Five takeaways from the Supreme Court’s 2019-2020 term – Concord Monitor

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Last month, the Supreme Court wrapped up its 2019-20 term with a flurry of significant rulings.

The court confirmed that Congress and state attorneys general may subpoena third parties for evidence when legitimately investigating a sitting president; held that the executive branch must engage in reasoned decision-making when rescinding administrative protections for a vulnerable population (i.e., beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program); and defined the scope of the presidents power to remove officials from high office.

The court also clarified that federal anti-discrimination employment protections extend to LGBTQ workers; held that states may punish members of the electoral college who do not vote for the candidate they pledged to support; determined that much of eastern Oklahoma falls within a Creek Nation Indian reservation; emphasized that the First Amendment right to freely exercise ones religious beliefs contains broad anti-discrimination guarantees; and reaffirmed that states may not undermine abortion rights by enacting laws that purport to protect womens health but in fact are designed to close clinics where abortions are performed.

Each of these rulings deserves its own column. But lets start with five clear lessons that may be drawn from the courts historic term.

1) This is Chief Judge John Robertss court. When Sandra Day OConnor retired, Anthony Kennedy replaced her as the swing justice i.e., the justice most likely to swing back and forth between the courts conservative and liberal wings. Now that Kennedy has retired, Roberts has replaced him as the courts swing justice. Roberts authored or joined the majority opinion an astounding 97% (59 out of 61) of the time this term.

The only written decisions in which Roberts was not a member of the majority were Ramos v. Louisiana, which held that states must require unanimous jury verdicts as a matter of federal due process, and McGirt v. Oklahoma, which held that, for purposes of the federal Major Crimes Act, much of eastern Oklahoma is an Indian reservation where only federal authorities (and not state authorities) may prosecute tribe members for certain major crimes.

2) Roberts, although deeply conservative, is an institutionalist. When Roberts reaches the merits of a dispute, he is likely to side with the courts conservatives. But Roberts is far more likely than the other conservative justices to use procedural and prudential doctrines to enforce rule-of-law values and avoid having the court take center stage in litigation with strong partisan overtones.

Consider, for example, Robertss opinions in the 2020 case involving the Trump administrations cancellation of DACA (Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California) and the 2019 case involving the Trump administrations efforts to add a citizenship question to the census (Department of Commerce v. New York). In both, Roberts joined the courts four liberal justices to hold that the administration had violated fundamental administrative law principles by failing to provide reasoned explanations for their actions. Neither opinion held that the administration was pursuing an unlawful end; both held that the means used to adopt the policy change were unlawful.

Or, consider Robertss opinion in June Medical Services v. Russo. Roberts wrote that, while he disagrees with the analytical approach used in a 2016 court decision rendering unconstitutional a Louisiana statute limiting access to abortion, the court ordinarily should follow its prior rulings. Therefore, Roberts invoked the doctrine of stare decisis, Latin for to stand by whats been decided, and joined the courts four liberal justices to strike down the law.

Or, finally, consider Robertss opinions for the court in Trump v. Vance and Trump v. Mazars. These cases considered, respectively, the power of state attorneys general and Congress to subpoena third parties for the financial records of a sitting president. In both cases, Roberts rejected President Donald Trumps sweeping claims of presidential immunity. Yet, Roberts remanded these cases back to the lower courts for reconsideration in light of the special concerns that arise when an attorney general or Congress investigates the president. The likely result is that the records will be made public, if ever, only after the November election.

3) Religious rights are expanding. Churches, religious organizations, and religious individuals have invoked the First Amendments free exercise clause to bring two types of cases in recent years. In the first, they have argued that it is a violation of their right to freely exercise their religious beliefs if they are excluded on grounds of separation of church and state when government makes benefits available to a similar class of organizations or persons. In the second, they have argued for exemptions from required compliance with certain anti-discrimination laws on the ground that these laws intrude on their free-exercise rights. And they have succeeded in both types of cases.

Consider this terms decisions in Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue and Our Lady of Guadalupe v. Morrissey-Berru. In Espinoza, the court held that a provision of Montana law barring aid to religious schools could not constitutionally bar tuition assistance to parents who send their children to religious schools when such assistance is made available to other parents. In Our Lady of Guadalupe, the court held that, because churches must have the unlimited ability to fire those who serve as their ministers, Catholic school teachers whose teaching assignments included religion could not challenge their dismissals under either the Americans with Disabilities Act or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

Consequently, churches and the religious stand on largely equal footing with all others when it comes to receiving public benefits. But they are exempt from certain generally applicable laws when applying those laws could interfere with the free exercise of their religion.

4) Lower courts should not lightly intervene in election disputes to protect the right to vote. In April, a federal judge in Wisconsin issued an injunction extending the deadline for the casting and counting of absentee ballots to one week beyond election day. The judge premised the injunction on the fact that Wisconsin election officials were overwhelmed by requests for absentee ballots from voters who did not wish to risk exposure to the coronavirus in personally casting their ballots. But the Supreme Court, in Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, dissolved the injunction in a 5-4 ruling. The court majority applied a prudential principle that courts should not change election rules as election day approaches.

The court also acted similarly in election disputes that reached it from Alabama, Texas, and Florida. The message to lower courts seems clear: Do not lightly involve yourselves in election disputes on the ground that state officials are failing to sufficiently protect voting rights.

5) If Justice Ginsburg is replaced by another Trump appointee, the court will have a dependable, deeply conservative majority. The court recently announced that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is 87, has been treated for a recurrence of cancer. If Justice Ginsburg leaves the court and President Trump succeeds in appointing a replacement, the court will almost certainly lack a swing justice to periodically join with the liberal justices to forge a majority.

President Trump has delivered on his promise to appoint deeply conservative justices. Although Justice Neil Gorsuch joined with the liberal justices in two high-profile cases this term (Bostock v. Clayton County, which extended federal anti-discrimination protections to LGBTQ workers, and the aforementioned McGirt, which held that much of eastern Oklahoma is a Creek Nation reservation), he and Justice Brett Kavanaugh (Trumps other appointee) have thus far reliably voted with arch-conservatives Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

Yet another Trump appointee like Gorsuch or Kavanaugh would leave the court with a fifth deeply conservative vote even if Chief Justice Roberts were to continue to sometimes vote with the Courts three remaining liberal justices.

More on these developments in future columns.

(John Greabe teaches constitutional law and directs the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership & Public Service at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law. The opinions he expresses in his Constitutional Connections columns are entirely his own.)

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If You Had Bought EDAP TMS’ (NASDAQ:EDAP) Shares Five Years Ago You Would Be Down 12% – Yahoo Finance

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EDAP TMS S.A. (NASDAQ:EDAP) shareholders will doubtless be very grateful to see the share price up 40% in the last quarter. But over the last half decade, the stock has not performed well. In fact, the share price is down 12%, which falls well short of the return you could get by buying an index fund.

See our latest analysis for EDAP TMS

EDAP TMS isn't currently profitable, so most analysts would look to revenue growth to get an idea of how fast the underlying business is growing. Shareholders of unprofitable companies usually expect strong revenue growth. That's because it's hard to be confident a company will be sustainable if revenue growth is negligible, and it never makes a profit.

In the last half decade, EDAP TMS saw its revenue increase by 9.0% per year. That's a pretty good rate for a long time period. We doubt many shareholders are ok with the fact the share price has fallen 2.3% each year for half a decade. Those who bought back then clearly believed in stronger growth - and maybe even profits. There is always a big risk of losing money yourself when you buy shares in a company that loses money.

You can see how earnings and revenue have changed over time in the image below (click on the chart to see the exact values).

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Take a more thorough look at EDAP TMS' financial health with this free report on its balance sheet.

EDAP TMS shareholders are up 2.3% for the year. But that return falls short of the market. But at least that's still a gain! Over five years the TSR has been a reduction of 2.3% per year, over five years. So this might be a sign the business has turned its fortunes around. I find it very interesting to look at share price over the long term as a proxy for business performance. But to truly gain insight, we need to consider other information, too. To that end, you should be aware of the 2 warning signs we've spotted with EDAP TMS .

We will like EDAP TMS better if we see some big insider buys. While we wait, check out this free list of growing companies with considerable, recent, insider buying.

Please note, the market returns quoted in this article reflect the market weighted average returns of stocks that currently trade on US exchanges.

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The Online game that is the charisma for people and what people should try in the Coronavirus statewide – iDigitalTrends

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There are lots of things which are invented by people, and they are beyond belief. People love to fabricate new ideas that will comfort others and give enjoyment and satisfaction. The Internet is one of the best inventions. When someone gets the chance to do an online job, he would be the happiest person. In this time, people are using the online sector so much. Online gaming is a pleasurable thing for anyone. When a person plays online games, he enjoys it more than offline games. Beating the opponent gives satisfaction to the player. And if someone gets money for winning the online game, what can be better than this? the sandz casino is one of the famous online casinos in Korea. Woori casino can be played online by any mobile phone or computer.

How can you play these online games?

For playing online games, people only need a pc or a mobile phone and a good internet connection. By downloading the exact software for playing, anyone can play games smoothly. Online casino game is a trendy thing in modern time. People play online casino games on mobile or pc. Anyone can earn money if players can beat their opponents. It is one of the biggest entertainments. Online casino games are prevalent in almost every country. People gamble in online casino games, which are very demanding. It is fascinating because anyone can play online casino games anytime and anywhere.

There are lots of slots, and many games are available. If someone plays online games, he can save his time and enjoy it more. Online casinos are mainly quartered into two categories constructed on the software; web-based and download-only casinos. There is a country which is the best in this sector, and that country is Korea. Korea is a known country for both online and offline casino games. They have some proper rules for the players. They are so strict about their practices. People do believe in Korean online casino sites because of their protection quality. They keep everything guarded.

Is the online casino site is safe?

Some questions in peoples minds playing in the Korean online casino site is safe or not? The answer is yes because they have robust security. When players win, they have a process of giving money so that players feel safe playing in their site. When anyone earns money, he shows his passport and foreign registration certificate after revealing that he can collect his money.

Many online casinos dont recommend bonuses to their customers. Without paying customers cash casino gave customers a chance to play slot. The Wild Casino is a famous casino in Korea that offers the fastest payment. There are no reasons to worry about money. Some casinos claim more significant payback percentages. There are lots of casino games like blackjack, roulette, baccarat, poker. Blackjack is the most straightforward game that anyone can easily win.

In this game dealer is the only opponent player. There are some online casino games. These are free. They are BINGO BLITZ, Vegas Live Slots and, so on. There are some tricks, by applying these players can win easily. Players have to keep their eye out smaller jackpots, by ignoring the long ones and going for the short odd. In online or offline casino games, if anyone wins lots of matches, he will be pumped to leave, and he can be detained. Some people have a question like casinos do cheat or not? The simple answer is no because they need more players, running a big business, and do not cheat.

Types of casino games

There are some land-based casinos in Korea, but there are some casinos that are not convenient to the public of that country. These casinos are purposive to entertain outsiders. The Korean government earns enormous profits from these casinos. But in the future, these casinos may open for local citizens too. They can enjoy in those casinos. There are 23 casinos in Korea. There is only one casino called Kangwon Land Casino and Hotel, founded in a remote area roughly 55 miles from Pyeongchang. Korean settlers are allowed to gamble here. In Korea, gambling isnt legal. There are different rules for local players and outsiders. Local players are not approved for gaming. But outsiders can do this. In online casino games, casinos also lose money. But somehow they manage it again. There is a limitation of betting in the online casino game. But some games have restrictions, and some sets havent limitations. There is no time limitation of playing the online casino game. Anyone can play whenever he wants. People win a lot in online gaming, and its obvious.

In this worlds worst situation, people are loving and playing online casino games very much, and Korean online casino sites are giving the best service. People should play and enjoy themselves.

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Francis Carden of Pega: RPA Doesn’t Automatically Mean You’re Adding Intelligence to Your Automation Efforts – Small Business Trends

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Robotics Process Automation.

RPA.

Its something that companies are expected to spend over $2.4 billion on by 2022, up from $689 in 2018 according to Gartner.

But what exactly is it? And where does it fit in when it comes to helping companies with their digital transformation efforts?

These are big questions I was able to ask during a recent LinkedIn Live conversation I had with Francis Carden, Vice President of Digital Automation and Robotics for Pega a leading customer engagement and process automation platform provider.

Below is an edited transcript from a portion of our conversation. Click on the embedded SoundCloud player to hear the full conversation.

Small Business Trends:What exactly is RPA?

Francis Carden: RPA stands for robotic process automation, and about a million things underneath it, dependent upon who you speak to. To me, it primarily started life as automating applications that run typically on Windows machines on desktops, and sometimes you could automate them a hundred percent and move those desktops to a VM, and they all run by themselves in a locked cupboard, right, properly governed and secured, hopefully. And then Attended RPA was basically, you put it on the desktop and it would automate alongside a human, so you could improve the humans performance by 20 to 40 to 50%. But if you get to a hundred percent, you dont need the human, so you would move it to the server room and [inaudible 00:00:39].

But, predominantly, to me, what it started out as, its morphed into some very different things, not necessarily rightly. But RPA was predominantly automating someone elses user interface, the keyboard, the mouse, the screen, because it doesnt change a process, it just automates the as-is process. And then, of course, it got, Throw some AI at it. That suddenly makes it uniquely different. Or, Throw some API integration in it.

But then, to me, those things arent really RPA. If youre automating a UI, youre basically saying, the old processes are fine. No, theyre not, right? You just keeping them alive for longer. Youre adding to debt, right? I think one of the analysts calls it a tax on legacy. Its so true.

And so, for the years Ive told very successful, large implementations of RPA, I never turned around to anybody and said, Oh, its transformation, or Its going to change your life. Its going to change the way you do business. No, its an operational improvement benefit.

Youve got intelligent automation, which is a myriad of technologies, which includes RPA, and RPA typically should be used as a bridge to transform your business. Because any business thats not transforming and just band-aiding stuff together with RPA is not going to be competitive a year or two or three from now, right? Because theyre peers are truly transforming their businesses and dont need RPA or very little of it. And thats got to be ultimately the goal. Nobody really wants screen scraping, right?

Small Business Trends:Talk about intelligent automation.

Francis Carden: I like to take a step back and think about work, right? Work that a human does at the desktop, thats really what were focused on because were not talking about necessarily APIs and the other stuff thats done. We can talk about that later because its of this, but predominantly RPA or the work that gets done by a human, theres a start point. It might be a mortgage loan application. It might be a call because theyre complaining that their network keeps coming down, or their mobile phone keeps breaking, whatever it might be. A call comes in, and then ultimately theres an outcome. And then if all you do is automate the existing way you solve that outcome, all the underlying debt stays around this. Its not a digital process.

Intelligent automation says lets rethink how we want that outcome to occur. We want it to happen faster. We want it to reach out to the customer before they call us. All of those things start to really evolve if you think about it intelligently. Automating a process is not about automating the as is, but automating almost the want to be. Where would you like as a business, that process? If you was to start a new company today, you dont go out and buy 6,000 legacy systems and use RPA to turn yourself into a digital business. You typically build, or you buy some technologies, and you build a digital business. And so you are intelligently automated from the ground up. And RPA is basically trying to not intelligently automate you from the top down.

And so its a matter of using the right technologies, and whats put people off in the past from being able to digitally transform a process, is some things are just hard to do. And so, technically, you might get such a roadblock, you might as well just use RPA. But what we believe is you can automate much of the process using intelligent automation, whether thats low-code or whether thats design thinking to reengineer a process or case management, and then use RPA to plug the gaps that wouldve prevented you getting further along the digital transformation story. And then think about replacing those RPA bots. Weve got customers that build bots only if theres an end of life strategy for them, right? I mean, thats very forward thinking and very creative and very right, right?

Small Business Trends:RPAs, theyre great for, like you said, automating routine kind of mundane tasks. And if the processes that are making up those routine automated, I mean, those routine tasks are bad processes, like you said, it just speeds up the failure and makes the failure more consistent in achieving, as long as you run those processes. But when it comes to actual transformation, thats in intelligence. Thats where, I guess, the umbrella of DPAs come in.

Francis Carden: We both lived in this world for a long time. To automate a process properly, i.e., to rethink it, reimagine it, everybody thinks thats a big ticket item. Its going to take many, many years. BPM [phonetic 00:05:43] was known as its going to take forever, right? Its like ERP. I mean, thats the worst one, but everybody thought that [inaudible 00:05:49]. Ill implement an ERP system in six months, so we digitize the process in three.

But whats changed, DPA, intelligent automation, is that there are new technologies that do not require you to rebuild a process from scratch in years. You can do them in weeks. Weve got customers rebuilding processes properly in days and weeks. And that may or may not include RPA. Often, it does not, but its there if you need it. But if you think about an RPA vendor thats raised all this money, they have to push RPA. Thats their license revenue.

Now, what theyve done is theyve said, Well, lets add some intelligence to RPA. Lets add OCR and some AI around document readings, and lets add some API integration. Its like, Well, thats then not RPA. Thats the stuff weve always had, maybe done better than before. Give everybody that. But I do not believe a digital transformation platform should be built on screen scraping. No enterprise, no CTO Ive ever met says, Yeah, yeah. Were going to go and buy a screen scraping platform [inaudible 00:07:04] an RPA platform to digitally transform my business. It doesnt happen.

And so low-code, to me, is the movement, and underpinning low-code is that citizen developers and IT can collaborate together to look at a process and say, How can we improve this process dramatically? Right? Almost throwing away the existing and just say, Well, imagine that we were allowed to dream, and this is what my perfect process would look like. And then a few buttons later youve actually said, Well, we can start to do that in these days and weeks, instead of these years. And thats what were seeing. Its almost a competition. Its almost now cheaper to build a new process than it is to use RPA to plug the old one because if you take into account the cost of bot maintenance, if you take into account the cost of maintaining those legacy systems and the infrastructure required to do it, and IT and QA and everything else, but if you take a step back and say, well, again, to my point earlier, you lose a new digital business. Dont buy those legacy systems, but you managed to build a digital business, so that they say never the twain shall meet, but that twains meeting now, right?

You are literally seeing companies And we saw it through COVID as well. We saw lots of RPA vendors going out there building some bots, which kudos to everybody who contributed to helping through this pandemic. But we also saw a massive number of companies with Pega building applications from scratch in days, like loan applications in days. Instead of our band-aiding an existing loan application with RPA, we were actually building brand new loan applications where banks could put those online so that people could apply for loan. The loan be processed. And when you talk about building an application in a week or two, people dont believe you, but its true now. Thats DPA or intelligent automation.

Small Business Trends: So do you see companies looking to do digital transformation starting with RPA thinking they are doing intelligent automation?

Francis Carden: So, intelligent automation, you can start with it and use RPA, or you could use RPA and come back to it later. But every one of our clients, whether theyre with successful with RPA or not, needs intelligent automation. And thats the depth and breadth of DPA, or as Gartner calling it hyper-automation. I think HFS called it intelligent process or measure, whatever the acronym, its about doing it right now. And the time is now when weve got to automate these processes correctly. And that is the conundrum. The word automate implies automating something as is. Why does the word automate count to building something new, kind of is an oxymoron. Youre not automating it, right?

And I think of computerization as the automation of the way things were done manually, and RPA is just automating computerization. Its still the way things were built to do, what used to be done manually. Digital transformation or intelligent automation is about automating the way to do it properly. Now you can. You couldnt do it that way 10 years ago. The technology was too hard, right? Big projects. Now you can build things in days and weeks and months that used to take years, and its transforming the game for the entire industry in every sector.

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Software Will Determine the Future of Industrial Automation – Electronic Design

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In the last 20 years, CPUs and networks improved by a factor of 10,000X. According to Moores Law, in the next 20 years, they will improve by another factor of 10,000X. During the 40-year design lifecycle of todays industrial automation (IA) architectures, computers will be a mind-boggling 100,000,000X more powerful. Its hard to overstate the implications.

Using such power will determine which companies, industries, and even economies win or lose. For todays designers of tomorrows long-lifetime systems, enabling intelligent software is the only significant factor.

In fact, this is already happening. In industry after industry, software is becoming the most valuable part of every system. IA has been an exception to this rule. Nonetheless, like autonomous cars and intelligent medical systems, IA can use sensor fusion, fast distributed reactions, and artificial intelligence (AI) to replace rigid or manual processes with smart autonomy.

Developing architectures seek to solve the problems of the last 20 years, such as reconfiguring workcells, small lot sizes, flexible automation, and vendor interoperability. These will be far more easily solved with flexible software than rigid specifications. The future belongs to software.

The Harsh Truth

Todays discrete automation systems use a simple hardware-focused architecture. A programmable logic controller (PLC) connects devices over a fieldbus. The PLC controls the devices and manages upstream connections to higher-level software such as human-machine interfaces (HMIs) and historians. Factory-floor software reads sensors, executes logic, and drives actuators, thereby implementing a repetitive operation in a workcell. The factory consists of a series of these workcells, each with a few dozen devices.

Workcells arent so much programmed as they are configured. Manufacturing engineers or technicians use a palette of devices to implement a function in the cell. The goal of this design is to make it easy to assemble workcells of devices with little software effort. Unfortunately, the goal of minimizing software in plants precludes using advanced computing and intelligent systems. As eloquently put by one industry leader:

One of the harsh truths about manufacturing software is that it is not developed by software engineers or computer science majors. We would not regularly ask an electrical engineer to design a mechanical system, or a chemical engineer to design an electrical system, but we often ask mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineers to design and develop software systems.Brand, Dennis L. (2012-11-13T22:58:59). Plant IT: Integrating Information Technology into Automated Manufacturing. Momentum Press.

Brandls harsh truth simply cant continue. Superior custom software will take its place above reliability, performance, and interoperability as the key to competition. That means industrial companies will need to write their own code with competitive, professional software teams. You cant win a software war with someone elses software.

How can we enable this future? First, we need to understand the available industrial architectural frameworks. Then, we can put them together to enable software-driven IA.

What are OPC UA and DDS?

The top industrial architectural frameworks are the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA, managed by the OPC Foundation), and the Data Distribution Service (DDS, managed by the Object Management Group). Both have widespread adoption in industrial systems, although not in the same use cases (Fig. 1). DDS finds traction in applications in medical systems, transportation, autonomous vehicles, defense, power control, robotics, and oil and gas. OPC UA is also used in many of these industries, but not in the applications. Rather, OPC UA is mostly employed in discrete automation and manufacturing. In practice, theres almost no overlap in use cases.

1. OPC UA integrates software supplied from external sources, like devices with embedded software, HMIs, and historians. It focuses on vendor interoperability by specifying standard interfaces as companion specifications. Theres no facility for custom-written software, so most systems have little to no end-user software. By contrast, DDS provides a common data modelthe key requirement for writing distributed software. It therefore supports teams of programmers building large distributed systems with extensive custom functionality. Unlike OPC UA, there are few sources of supplier software.

DDS supports publish subscribe, as does the new specification for OPC UA PubSub. But OPC UA does notand will neverdo what DDS does. DDS is fundamentally a software-development architecture; OPC UA is not. Thus, the question isnt about choosing DDS or OPC UA. The question is understanding what they do and deciding which one is needed for your design, or if you need both.

That of course leaves the question: Why are they so different?

DDS evolved as a software-development framework for control systems. The first DDS applications were feedback-control systems for intelligent distributed robotics communicating over Ethernet. They used extensive custom software written by computer scientists. Almost all DDS applications integrate an AI component or very smart algorithms. DDS directly targets software teams building intelligent distributed machines.

By contrast, OPC UA grew up in the plant environment where, as Brandl points out, software engineers are rare. Its prime goal was to help PLC-centric workcell designs select different vendor hardware without writing software. The workcells endlessly repeat an operation, but theyre not truly smart. OPC UA seeks to minimize, rather than enable, software development.

We must differentiate integrating existing software components from writing new software. OPC UA supports software integration of modules like HMIs and historians. However, it offers no facility for composing intelligent software modules. Its not a software-development architecture for distributed applications.

What Does OPC UA PubSub Do?

OPC UA PubSub is a simple way to send information from a publisher to many subscribers. A publisher collects a DataSet at regular intervals and writes it to its subscribers. A DataSet is pulled out of the OPC UA information model, essentially a list of key-value pairs. On the other end, the Subscriber unpacks it and pushes it into the UA information model. Theres also support for simple structured data types.

Most users plan to use OPC UA PubSub with the UDP transport. It has some simple options. It can chunk data thats too big to fit into a network packet (usually only about 1.5 kB). It can resend every message a fixed number of times in hopes of better reliability. But it doesnt guarantee reliability by detecting and retransmitting lost messages. And, it rigidly locks execution; every subscriber must get the same data in the same format. OPC UA PubSub also supports other non-real-time messaging middleware options, MQTT and AMQP.

Fundamentally, OPC UA PubSub offers a simple mechanism to connect variables on a set of tightly coupled devices. Every device gets the same data at the same rates at the same time. With the right companion specifications, it can ensure device interoperability. UA PubSub is very new; there are few deployed applications.

What Does DDS Do?

Unlike OPC UA, DDS supports modular software-defined systems with a simple concept: a shared global data space. This simply means that all data appears as if it lives right inside every device and algorithm in local memory. It is, of course, an illusion; all data cant be everywhere. DDS works by keeping track of which application needs what data, knowing when it needs that data, and then delivering it. So, the data actually required by any application is present in local memory on time. Applications talk only to the local data space, not to each other.

This is the essence of data centricity: Instant local access to all data by every device and every algorithm, at every level, in the same way, at any time. Its best to think of it as a distributed shared memory, similar to a distributed control system (DCS) sandbox RAM, implemented virtually.

Each DDS module specifies the schema (types) it can exchange in memory. DDS controls the flow into and out from this structured memory with QoS parameters that specify rate of flow of data, latencies, and reliability. There are no servers or objects or special locations. Since DDS applications interact only with the shared distributed memory, theyre independent of how other applications are written, where they live, or when they execute. Its a simple, naturally parallel software architecture across the entire system.

DDS implements a long list of features to support software-driven distributed control, including:

Some Key Differences

OPC UA PubSub provides none of the data-centric features that are the core of DDS. Lets look deeper.

Interoperability

OPC UA enables device interoperability through device models and companion specs for hundreds of situations. OPC UA devices crowd tradeshows, pinned to the wall as evidence of interoperability. The consistent message: Factory engineers and technicians can combine devices into workcells with OPC UA without writing code.

In contrast, no devices today come with DDS pre-installed. Thats because DDS doesnt integrate devices per se. Instead, DDS integrates software modules. To add devices to a system, DDS users model devices as software.

Instead of specifications for every permutation, DDS integrates everything through a system data model. It maps device functions from a vendors native API to the system data model. DDS vendors offer very sophisticated bridging and data routing technologies. Thus, the popular layered databus architecture allows systems to grow by connecting data models between layers (Fig. 2). This also means that a DDS system can connect to devices despite different interfaces, to web technologies, and even to OPC UA.

2. Autonomous vehicles are revolutionizing the automotive industry. With a data-centric approach, DDS handles both on-vehicle and control-room use cases. Data routing provides a consistent data model throughout the system, thus building a reliable, large-scale infrastructure. To adopt software drive, the IA industry needs a similar system approach.

Coupling

Coupling is a measure of interdependencies between software and system components. Coupling can be obvious, like coupling clients to servers. It can also be subtle, such as when software modules must start in a particular order or execute at the same rate.

The DDS data-centric design makes it seem like all data is local, so the application isnt coupled to any other application. DDS controls interactions with the data through 21 different QoS policies, including deadlines, latency budgets, update frequencies, history, liveliness detection, reliability, durability, ownership, ordering, and filtering. It also converts types that evolve, as long as they are still close enough to be compatible.

DDS runs on hundreds of platforms and over dozens of networks transparently. Theres no dependence on language, operating system, chip architecture, or type of network used. Thus, data-centric applications work in parallel and share data transparently without interference. Coupling is only by design.

By contrast, OPC UA applications talk directly to each other. For instance, in PubSub, every subscriber gets exactly the same data from the publisher at the same rate. Each subscriber gets all of the dataflow, so the whole system also relies on having similar connecting network properties and processor speeds/loads everywhere. All subscribers must have the same understanding of the data being sent; therefore, versions must exactly match. Each added participant adds a dependency, directly coupling the system.

Fundamentally, decoupling helps applications and devices work independently. With a few subscribers in a workcell, coupling may not matter. Coupling can be good, for instance, for synchronous feedback control with minimal delay. In larger systems, coupling is bad; loosely coupled systems are easier to scale, test, build with distributed teams, deploy, understand, and maintain. Each source of coupling is a real problem, and combining many sources is debilitating. Good software architecture should avoid coupling unless absolutely required to affect the application.

Discovery

DDS automatically discovers named topics across the system regardless of where the application lives. Applications dont have to do anything or have any knowledge to find the data they need.

OPC UA doesnt support discovery in this sense. Subscribers query a server to get a configuration that includes the publisher of the data they require. They can also introspect a publisher to see what it can publish. Both are active queries; OPC UA doesnt perform system-wide automatic discovery.

Security

OPC UA and DDS use fundamentally different approaches to security. OPC UA secures the underlying transports. The various pubsub middleware options and client-server require different security implementations (and often, certificates). Its possible to set up connections between OPC UA clients and services securely, but theres no generic way to indicate which data is allowed to flow to which client.

DDS also can secure the underlying transports, but the primary approach instead provides overall dataflow security regardless of transport. DDS is fundamentally a flow-control technology. So, with a signed permissions document that describes allowed read and write access, DDS can secure and control the dataflow itself (Fig. 3). This requires no code; security can be added after the entire system is running.

3. Most security schemes secure the system edge, host, or network. These are important, but they dont match the application. DDS security adds the ability to control the dataflow itself, creating a system-wide layer that depends on the application rather than implementation like network, operating system, or device location. It also allows for directional security (e.g., read but not write).

Scaling

DDS supports domains that separate systems, partitions within a system, and transparent routing between subsystems and networks. With transparent routing, the data sources can be very far away. DDS systems can grow to hundreds of thousands of applications. Top to bottom, across subnets, or with any pattern (pubsub, request-reply, or queuing), DDS offers a unified data model, a single security model, and consistent access to data.

Since there are few deployments, scalability for OPC UA PubSub has yet to be demonstrated. However, OPC UA PubSub over UDP isnt designed for more than a few devices on a single network. With MQTT or AMQP, a publisher can talk to a cloud server, but not to other OPC UA PubSub subscribers. OPC UA client-server is designed to roll up workcells into a larger factory. So, OPC UA doesnt offer unified system data access in the same way as that of DDS.

Filtering

OPC UA subscribers can select a DataSet with a filter, but only to ensure reception of the correct data. They can also limit access to a single publisher.

DDS has extensive filtering. QoS matching enables subscribers to receive information only from capable sources. The time-based filter decouples the speed of producers from that of the users of information. Content filtering analyzes the content and delivers only data that fits the specification. Together, these filters ensure delivery of the right data to the right place at the right time with minimal wasted bandwidth.

Use of TSN

TSN, or Time Synchronous Networking (IEEE 802.1), is a developing set of standards that build on the existing Ethernet design to deliver data in bounded time, aka isochronous networking.

With TSN, OPC UA PubSub can deliver better real-time performance. TSN can be reliable, so the lack of reliability in OPC UA over UDP isnt as critical. However, since TSN is a flavor of Ethernet and requires central configuration, its limited to smaller, single-subnet systems.

DDS was initially developed for real-time control over a network. QoS settings can optimize use of the underlying network, supporting everything from slow, lossy networks like satellite links to isochronous transports like backplane buses and switched fabrics. On capable hardware, it offers predictable and fault-tolerant one-to-many delivery with bounded latencies.

Combining DDS with TSN allows more distributed determinism. A DDS over TSN system can combine high-level data access with true real-time performance. The OMG has an active standard in progress for DDS over TSN scheduled for release in Q4 2020.

When Should We Combine Capabilities?

OPC UAs main use case is to help manufacturing engineers build workcells without writing software. Its used in manufacturing things, but not as software inside the things being manufactured. In stark contrast, DDS users are software engineers building applications that go into things; DDS is only used to operate things. Thus, UA is about making things. DDS is about making things work.

Theres overlap coming in terms of things that make things, aka smart manufacturing systems. These will soon need sophisticated system software and custom programming.

The OMG recently passed a standard for an OPC UA/DDS gateway (Fig. 4). At its most basic level, this gateway takes the OPC UA information model and makes it available within the DDS global data space. The primary use case is to convert OPC UA-enabled devices to DDS devices. OPC UA devices can simply join the DDS network.

4. The DDS-OPCUA gateway standard connects an OPC UA system to the DDS global data space (A). Conceptually, it makes the OPC UA system data seem available to DDS software applications. The primary use case for the gateway is to enable devices that support OPC UA to participate in a DDS domain (B). Note that this allows intelligent software applications to access any OPC UA device. Together, these standards can provide attractive software development and easily integrated devices (C). It lets AI work at every system level.

In a large intelligent system, the DDS-based software environment can thus coordinate and work with the OPC UA devices. This allows for both sophisticated software and interoperable devices.

Note that this design offers many opportunities to leverage AI and intelligent software. At high levels, DDS interfaces to cloud-based intelligence. Future generations of this design can also implement AIs or smart algorithms for device interoperability

The Smart Machine Future

Historians will look back on our time and wonder how we got by without smart machines. The transition will not be smoothproduct lines, companies, and entire national economies are at stake. Brandls harsh truth may be the most dangerous paragraph in automation. That truth will not survive the smart machine era.

So, software excellence must join the manufacturing technology mix. In the next 20 years, manufacturing system performance will not improve by a factor of 10,000. Interoperability will not become 10,000X more valuable. But software will become 10,000X more important. Thats the inevitable result of exponential computing growth. Any architecture that doesn't target using compute power as its primary goal is already obsolete.

Does industrial automation need to adopt software development? Will future manufacturing systems compete primarily on unique user code? The software future says yes.

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