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Last year, the selling figures of Alain Afflelou, famous brand name in the optical sector, have shown a light increase of 3%. For the second year, we have seen the same tendencies, to know: * An increase in eyewear sales * An increase in the number of selling points Due to this weak increase in sales and an increase in cost, Afflelou group has chosen to focus on the improvement of the actual sales channel. As the result, Afflelou will reduce or even stop temporary the opening of new

black and white, La Haine is the story of three friends in their early twenties coming from immigrant families and living in a poor multi-ethnic housing project in the ghetto of Paris, which French people refer to as the “banlieue.” Vinz is an angry Jewish adolescent who believes he is a gangster, Hubert is a thoughtful, Afro-French boxer who deals hashish and wants to leave the ghetto, but unlike his friends, does not provoke the police. Said is a Maghrebin who plays the role of mediator between

CISSP Study Booklet on Cryptography This simple study booklet is based directly on the ISC2 CBKdocument. This guide does not replace in any way the outstanding value of the CISSP Seminar and the fact that you must have been involved into the security field for at least a few years if you intend to take the CISSP exam. This booklet simply intends to make your life easier and to provide you with a centralized resource for this particular domain of expertise. This guide was created by Clement Dupuis

Roy Wagner The Invention of Culture Revised and Expanded Edition The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 1975, 1981 by Roy Wagner All rights reserved. Published 1975 Revised and expanded edition 1981 Printed in the United States of America 93 92 765 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Wagner, Roy. The invention of culture. Includes bibliographical references

Commentary of Auggie Wren's Christmas Story Paul Auster is an American writer born in 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, who started to become renowned from the 1980's with novels such as City of Glass (1985) which is one of the novels that compose The New York Trilogy or Leviathan which got him rewarded with the Mecidis Prize. Auggie Wren's Christmas Story is a short story Paul Auster first wrote for the New York Times Op-Ed page on Christmas Day, 1990. It will be later on edited as a book and adapted

In human language, a phoneme is the smallest structural unit that distinguishes meaning. Phonemes are not the physical segments themselves, but, in theoretical terms, cognitive abstractions or categorizations of them. An example of a phoneme is the /t/ sound in the words tip, stand, water, and cat. (In transcription, phonemes are placed between slashes, as here.) These instances of /t/ are considered to be the same sound despite the fact that in each word they are pronounced somewhat differently

INTRODUCTION Nowadays, the globalization which is the trend in which the companies evolve means the process of opening the market to each others. This globalization is integrated by major firms through international strategies which represent the condition of survival and development of companies. In such a context, theses strategies lead people to work with colleagues whose origins are different from their own. Intercultural management within a team has become the daily issue of companies with

with the Amoeba Distributed Operating System Andrew S. Tanenbaum Robbert van Renesse1 Hans van Staveren Gregory J. Sharp Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1081 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Internet: ast@cs.vu.nl, cogito@cs.vu.nl, sater@cs.vu.nl, gregor@cs.vu.nl Sape J. Mullender 2 Jack Jansen Guido van Rossum Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica Kruislaan 413 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands Internet: sape@cwi.nl, jack@cwi.nl, guido@cwi.nl The Amoeba

Before discussing the difference between Islamic and Conventional insurance it is better to first understand the concept of insurance and the objection of Shariah Scholars at it. WHAT IS INSURANCE Insurance provides the means for people to transfer the burden of uncertainty (of financial loss) to the insurer, for an agreed financial consideration called the “premium”. In exchange, the insurer promises to provide financial compensation to the insured should a specified loss occur. It is an effective

What is Sovereignty?* Alain de Benoist The concept of sovereignty is one of the most complex in political science, with many definitions, some totally contradictory.1 Usually, sovereignty is defined in one of two ways. The first definition applies to supreme public power, which has the right and, in theory, the capacity to impose its authority in the last instance. The second definition refers to the holder of legitimate power, who is recognized to have authority. When national sovereignty is