A Quick Reminder About Fairness Opinions
While we've written on this topic in the past, given the high volume of transaction (M&A, investment, etc) activity over the past few years, we thought it might be relevant to throw out a few reminders on some of the key issues related to fairness opinions.
When a company contemplates a major transaction, key decision makers have a lot to consider. One thing that shouldn't cloud their judgement is the question of whether they will be held personally responsible if the transaction turns out poorly. In the US, courts give a lot of deference to the judgement of managers and board members, under a doctrine referred to as the business judgement rule. However, if a plaintiff objecting to a decision by the board can show that the board breached either the duty of care or the duty of loyalty, then courts will grant no deference to the board's judgement and will review both the procedure and substance of their decision under the strictest standards. One of the most common ways that a board can demonstrate that it is fulfilling both the duty of care and duty of loyalty is to obtain a fairness opinion.
A fairness opinion is an opinion as to whether the consideration paid or received in a transaction is fair from a financial point of view to the party paying or receiving the consideration. When faced with a particularly important decision, such as whether to approve an acquisition involving the company, a board of directors often will hire independent experts to evaluate the contemplated transaction. A fairness opinion should be just one of many factors that the board considers in deciding whether to approve a transaction. However, it can be very helpful from both strategic and legal perspectives, as it will provide an independent assessment of the company's value in addition to demonstrating that directors fulfilled both the duty of care and duty of loyalty.
Duty of Care and Duty of Loyalty
Duty of care refers to a director's responsibility to act in an informed manner in making a business decision and requires that the director must review all information reasonably available. Duty of loyalty refers to a director's responsibility to act for the benefit of the corporation and all shareholders. Engaging independent experts before making a decision helps directors demonstrate that both standards were seriously considered, and the decision was consistent with the contemporaneous judgement of a neutral expert.
Not Only for Public Companies
While many assume fairness opinions are important only in transactions involving publicly traded companies, they can be just as important for private companies. On the one hand, a public company has a broader shareholder base, making it more difficult for directors to gauge shareholder sentiment and potentially more likely that some shareholders will be unhappy enough to bring suit because of a board's decision. On the other hand, the economic interests of all shareholders of a public company usually are aligned. By contrast, the economic interests of shareholders of a private company can differ substantially if there are different classes of stock. In particular, the interests of common shareholders can be very different from those of preferred shareholders. Because preferred shareholders are likely to have more seats on the board of directors, directors need to be very careful to avoid actual or perceived conflicts of interests.
Potential Conflicts of Interest
One clear example of a conflict of interest that would call into question a director's duty of loyalty is if the director is involved with companies on both sides of a transaction. More subtle conflicts can also raise suspicions about a board's motivation, though, making it especially important to obtain a fairness opinion. For example, if a company is contemplating a sale for a value only a little above the liquidation preference of the preferred stock, preferred shareholders will be made whole (and may even receive a healthy return depending on dividend and participation rights), while common shareholders may receive very little consideration in the transaction. To the extent that a director's financial interest isn't aligned with all the financial interest of other shareholders, the duty of loyalty can come into question.
Fairness opinions provide both useful perspective and legal protection for boards that are weighing important financial decisions. They can inform deliberation about a potential merger, acquisition, or sale, but also frequently are obtained when a company is considering the redemption of securities or a restructuring. If a transaction goes poorly, it can be very difficult for a board to demonstrate that its decision making was well informed and unbiased. Obtaining a fairness opinion is a very strong argument that the board sought out the opinion of experts, considered the transaction from the perspective of all shareholders, and exercised appropriate judgement based on the best available information at the time.
How can we help?
A good fairness opinion follows strong procedural guidelines and also scrutinizes the economic substance of the proposed transaction. The professionals at Teknos understand valuation techniques and the special requirements of technology companies. We utilize a variety of different valuation approaches, examining everything from historical trading in the company's stock (if the company is public) to current acquisition premiums being paid to the discounted value of projected earnings.
In addition to providing the traditional opinion letter which forms the core of a fairness opinion, Teknos completes an extensive written analysis and explains that to the Board of Directors or Special Committee, both before execution of the transaction documents and again just prior to the closing. We have performed fairness evaluations in connection with purchases, sales, inside financings and other transactions and opinions by our team members have been included in SEC filings.
Teknos would be pleased to provide a proposal for a fairness opinion in connection with a transaction. We can complete our work rapidly, if necessary, and our fees are reasonable, varying with the size and complexity of the proposed transaction. For more information please contact us: _EMAIL_.
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Cobalt electrodeposits have been produced in chloride solutions. Depending on the electrolysis parameters applied, two different structures for the electrodeposits, namely α and β cobalt were observed. Their characterization included hydrogen content measurement, the relative volume fraction of the α and β phases determined by X-ray diffraction, X-ray diffraction line profile analysis and microstructural investigation by optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The influence of structure on mechanical properties was examined. The results showed that the ductility properties of the cobalt electrodeposits were highly sensitive to the structure. A higher β phase content that was measured in some deposits did not improve the ductility due to the existence of trapped hydrogen which always exists in such deposits. However, annealing treatments seem to be a promising route to optimize the ductility of cobalt electrodeposits.

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Picking your teeth with DNA!
Problem(s): Where is DNA found in living organisms? What is DNA made of? What are nucleotides? What are the four nitrogenous bases found in DNA? Which bases pair together in a DNA molecule?
Materials: 30 Toothpicks, 4 different colored markers, construction paper, Glue.
1. You will be given 30 toothpicks. Using the four markers, completely color each toothpick any of colors you want. Make sure to color the toothpick one solid color and try use all the colors.
2. Take the piece of construction paper and cut it in half.
3. Draw the phosphate and sugar backbone on each piece of paper, as your teacher has written on the board. There will need to be 15 phosphate and 15 sugar units on each paper. Take your time!
4. Now on one of pieces of paper attach a tooth pick, with glue, to each sugar group.
5. Did you guess what the color on toothpick was for yet? Each color represents a different nitrogenous base. Look at the board, find out which bases you have made.
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1. Where is DNA found in a cell?
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Saw Binnya
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Saw Binnya
Viceroy of Martaban (Mottama)
Reign 1510s–1541
Successor Saw Lagun Ein
Died May 1541
Martaban (Mottama)
Spouse Tala Kamu of Pegu
House Hanthawaddy
Religion Theravada Buddhism
In this Burmese name, Saw is an honorific.
Saw Binnya (Burmese: စောဗညား, Burmese pronunciation: [sɔ́ bəɲá]; died 1541) was viceroy of Martaban (Mottama) from c. 1510s to 1539, and the self-proclaimed king of the rump Hanthawaddy Kingdom from 1539 to 1541. First appointed viceroy of Martaban, one of the three provinces of the Mon-speaking kingdom, by King Binnya Ran II, Saw Binnya ruled the province like a sovereign during the reign of King Takayutpi, his brother-in-law. Under his leadership, the port of Martaban became an international entrepôt, and grew tremendously wealthy. He was able to build up a formidable military of his own, replete with Portuguese mercenaries and arms. But his refusal to contribute to Takayutpi's war effort against Toungoo Dynasty greatly facilitated Toungoo's conquest of Pegu in 1538–1539, and ultimately resulted in the downfall of his own fiefdom in 1541. He was subsequently executed.
Ruler of Martaban[edit]
Saw Binnya was appointed viceroy of the province of Martaban, one of the three provinces of Hanthawaddy, by King Binnya Ran II, c. 1510s. (He was already viceroy in 1519 when he signed a commercial treaty with the Portuguese,[1] who spelled his name as "Chau Bainha".[2] He was probably of high Hanthawaddy royalty, since only the most senior princes were appointed viceroy.) When Takayutpi became king in 1526, by the tradition of having blood ties with the sovereign, Saw Binnya took Takayutpi's eldest younger sister Princess Tala Kamu as his chief queen.[3] Despite the initial gesture, he did not respect the 15-year-old king, who proved to be utterly disinterested in governing and spent his time in "frivolous amusements with bad companions".[4]
In the following years, Saw Binnya scarcely acknowledged his overlord at Pegu, and ruled "the 32 districts of Martaban" (roughly, present-day Mon State and southern Kayin State) like a sovereign. His deputy Binnya U, governor of Moulmein (Mawlamyaing), was also married to a sister of Takayutpi but nonetheless was more loyal to him than the high king.[5] Saw Binnya conducted his own trade and foreign relations. Under his leadership, Martaban became an entrepôt, and according to the accounts of Portuguese explorers, grew tremendously wealthy. Using the trade wealth, he was able to assemble a formidable military which by 1540 employed expensive Portuguese mercenaries, their firearms and warships.[6]
He essentially declared independence from Pegu in 1534 by refusing to contribute to Takayutpi's war effort against Toungoo Dynasty as vassals were obligated to do. Takayutpi, not an able king, could not organize any retaliatory action against Toungoo or Martaban. In the following years, Saw Binnya was content to look on as Toungoo forces raided deeper and deeper into Lower Burma. He did not anticipate any immediate danger to his own realm as Toungoo without any foreign weapons repeatedly failed to take the Hanthawaddy capital Pegu (Bago), which was defended by foreign mercenaries. When Toungoo finally took Pegu in late 1538, Takayutpi so distrusted Saw Binnya that he chose to retreat to Prome Kingdom, another state, rather than to Martaban.[7]
War with Toungoo[edit]
Takayutpi died in early 1539 in exile, and Saw Binnya at once proclaimed himself king.[7] He did not seem concerned by the arrival of the kingdom of Toungoo at his doorstep. In 1540, he received an ultimatum from King Tabinshwehti of Toungoo to submit in exchange for amnesty but he was unimpressed. He reckoned that Toungoo had gained Pegu only through a ruse against an incompetent ruler like Takayutpi, and that when Pegu's defenses were led by capable leaders, Toungoo could not take Pegu for four years. He believed that his Portuguese-backed military under his leadership could withstand any attack Toungoo could muster. He had already heavily fortified the city with high walls that could withstand even Portuguese cannon; deployed seven Portuguese warships to guard the harbor; and enlisted foreign mercenaries led by Paulo de Seixas to lead the defenses. He rejected the ultimatum.[7][2]
Saw Binnya's confidence was not completely unfounded. In fact, the Toungoo command after the conquest of Pegu deliberated an attack on Martaban that would have begun in November 1539 but decided against it, citing the city's strong defenses.[8] Instead, Toungoo prepared for war against Martaban throughout 1539 and 1540. By November 1540, Tabinshwehti had assembled a 13,000-strong force including 700 Portuguese troops who brought their muskets and cannon. In the meantime, Saw Binnya's defensive plans were frustrated by the governor of Moulmein's decision to stay out of the fight. (Binnya U also received Tabinshwehti's ultimatum. He did not submit to the Toungoo king but responded that he would stay out of the fight.) Abandoned by his vassals, Saw Binnya was now in a similar situation as the predicament he himself put Takayutpi in just a few years earlier.[2][9]
In November 1540, Toungoo forces invaded, and quickly surrounded the city. Martaban's well-prepared defenses kept the besiegers at bay for months. However, mass starvation eventually set inside the city. Saw Binnya finally offered to surrender provided that he be allowed to remain viceroy in exchange for an annual tribute of 30,000 viss (48,987.9 kg) of silver bullion and other valuable presents. Tabinshwehti rejected the offer, demanding an unconditional surrender instead. Saw Binnya then asked for safe-conduct out of the city for himself and his entire family, together with his treasures. It too was rejected by the Burmese king. In desperation, Saw Binnya appealed to the Portuguese viceroy at Goa for assistance, offering to become a vassal of Goa, in addition to an outright gift of half the amount of his treasury.[10] The Portuguese were interested. A Portuguese captain listed the treasure as consisting of two shiploads of gold and silver, and 26 chests of precious stones. In addition, gold to be looted from the city's pagodas would fill 4 ships. But the Portuguese also feared the vengeance of Tabinshwehti, the new power in Lower Burma, and "wavered between greed and prudence".[10] At the same time, Saw Binnya offered a large bribe to João Caeiro, the leader of Portuguese mercenaries fighting for Toungoo, to help him and his family escape. Caeiro seriously considered the overly generous offer but ultimately declined the offer as his deputies found out the proposal and threatened to report the matter to Tabinshwehti.[11]
In May 1541, after a seven-month siege, Toungoo naval forces led by Adm. Smim Payu broke through the seven Portuguese ships at the harbor, and the city's defenses were breached. Inside the city, Saw Binnya, described as athletic and brave, led his forces atop a war elephant against the invaders. He is said to have fought off several one-on-one combats on elephant-back. He was finally defeated in combat by Commander Nanda Kyawthu, and was arrested. The viceroy remained chivalrous to the end. He congratulated Nanda Kyawthu for his victory, and gave the Toungoo commander presents from his treasury. Tabinshwehti congratulated Saw Binnya for his bravery and chivalry[12] but did not forgive him. The Toungoo king ordered the execution of the viceroy, his family and all the "gallant defenders" of the city. The mass execution had the desired effect: The remaining vassals of Martaban down to the Siamese border duly submitted to Toungoo.[7]
 1. ^ Phayre 1967: 96
 2. ^ a b c Harvey 1925: 155
 3. ^ Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 196
 4. ^ Phayre 1967: 94
 5. ^ Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 179
 6. ^ Phayre 1967: 96–97
 7. ^ a b c d Htin Aung 1967:


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Correlates of muscle strength in diabetes
Balducci S, Sacchetti M, Orlando G, Salvi L, Pugliese L, Salerno G, D'Errico V, Iacobini C, Conti FG, Zanuso S, Nicolucci A, Pugliese G; Study on the Assessment of Determinants of Muscle and Bone Strength Abnormalities in Diabetes SAMBA Investigators.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Apart from late motor nerve dysfunction, factors affecting muscle strength in diabetes are largely unknown. This study was aimed at assessing muscle strength correlates in diabetic subjects encompassing a wide range of peripheral nerve function and various degrees of micro and macrovascular complications.
METHODS AND RESULTS: Four-hundred consecutive patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes (aged 46.4 ± 13.9 and 65.8 ± 10.3 years, respectively) from the Study on the Assessment of Determinants of Muscle and Bone Strength Abnormalities in Diabetes (SAMBA) were examined for upper and lower body muscle isometric maximal voluntary contraction by dynamometry. Univariate and multivariate regression analyses were applied to identify strength correlates. Isometric force at both the upper and lower limbs was significantly lower in subjects with than in those without any complication. At univariate analysis, it was strongly associated with age, diabetes duration, physical activity (PA) level, cardio-respiratory fitness, anthropometric parameters, surrogate measures of complications, and parameters of sensory and autonomic, but not motor (except amplitude) neuropathy. Multivariate analysis revealed that upper and lower body strength correlated independently with male gender and, inversely, with age, autonomic neuropathy score (or individual autonomic function abnormalities), and vibration perception threshold, but not sensory-motor neuropathy score. Diabetes duration and PA level were excluded from the model.
CONCLUSIONS: Both upper and lower body muscle strength correlate with measures of diabetic complications and particularly with parameters of sensory and especially autonomic nerve function, independently of diabetes duration and PA level, thus suggesting the involvement of mechanisms other than manifest motor nerve impairment. Trial Registration number and date: NCT01600924; 05.06.2012.


DefaultMatrixFormatProvider Class
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DefaultMatrixFormatProvider Class
Gets the default matrix representation, where each row is separated by a new line, and columns are separated by spaces.
Inheritance Hierarchy
SystemObject
 Accord.MathMatrixFormatProviderBase
 Accord.MathDefaultMatrixFormatProvider
Namespace: Accord.Math
Assembly: Accord.Math (in Accord.Math.dll) Version: 3.8.0
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public sealed class DefaultMatrixFormatProvider : MatrixFormatProviderBase
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The DefaultMatrixFormatProvider type exposes the following members.
Constructors
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Public methodDefaultMatrixFormatProvider
Initializes a new instance of the DefaultMatrixFormatProvider class.
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Properties
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Public propertyStatic memberCurrentCulture
Gets the IMatrixFormatProvider which uses the CultureInfo used by the current thread.
Public propertyFormatColDelimiter
A string containing the column delimiter for a matrix to be used in formatting.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyFormatColEnd
A string denoting the end of a matrix column to be used in formatting.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyFormatColStart
A string denoting the start of a matrix column to be used in formatting.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyFormatMatrixEnd
A string denoting the end of the matrix to be used in formatting.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyFormatMatrixStart
A string denoting the start of the matrix to be used in formatting.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyFormatRowDelimiter
A string containing the row delimiter for a matrix to be used in formatting.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyFormatRowEnd
A string denoting the end of a matrix row to be used in formatting.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyFormatRowStart
A string denoting the start of a matrix row to be used in formatting.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyInnerProvider
Gets the culture specific formatting information to be used during parsing or formatting.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyStatic memberInvariantCulture
Gets the IMatrixFormatProvider which uses the invariant system culture.
Public propertyParseColDelimiter
A string containing the column delimiter for a matrix to be used in parsing.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyParseColEnd
A string denoting the end of a matrix column to be used in parsing.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyParseColStart
A string denoting the start of a matrix column to be used in parsing.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyParseMatrixEnd
A string denoting the end of the matrix to be used in parsing.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyParseMatrixStart
A string denoting the start of the matrix to be used in parsing.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyParseRowDelimiter
A string containing the row delimiter for a matrix to be used in parsing.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyParseRowEnd
A string denoting the end of a matrix row to be used in parsing.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public propertyParseRowStart
A string denoting the start of a matrix row to be used in parsing.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
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Methods
 NameDescription
Public methodEquals
Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodGetFormat
Returns an object that provides formatting services for the specified type. Currently, only IMatrixFormatProvider is supported.
(Inherited from MatrixFormatProviderBase.)
Public methodGetHashCode
Serves as the default hash function.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodGetType
Gets the Type of the current instance.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodToString
Returns a string that represents the current object.
(Inherited from Object.)
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Extension Methods
 NameDescription
Public Extension MethodHasMethod
Checks whether an object implements a method with the given name.
(Defined by ExtensionMethods.)
Public Extension MethodIsEqual
Compares two objects for equality, performing an elementwise comparison if the elements are vectors or matrices.
(Defined by Matrix.)
Public Extension MethodTo(Type)Overloaded.
Converts an object into another type, irrespective of whether the conversion can be done at compile time or not. This can be used to convert generic types to numeric types during runtime.
(Defined by ExtensionMethods.)
Public Extension MethodToTOverloaded.
Converts an object into another type, irrespective of whether the conversion can be done at compile time or not. This can be used to convert generic types to numeric types during runtime.
(Defined by ExtensionMethods.)
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This class can be used to convert to and from C# matrices and their string representation. Please see the example for details.
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Converting from a multidimensional matrix to a string representation:
// Declare a number array
double[,] x =
{
 { 1, 2, 3, 4 },
 { 5, 6, 7, 8 },
};
// Convert the aforementioned array to a string representation:
string str = x.ToString(DefaultMatrixFormatProvider.CurrentCulture);
// the final result will be equivalent to
@"1, 2, 3, 4
 5, 6, 7, 8";
Converting from strings to actual matrices:
// Declare an input string
string str = @"1, 2, 3, 4
 "5, 6, 7, 8";
// Convert the string representation to an actual number array:
double[,] matrix = Matrix.Parse(str, DefaultMatrixFormatProvider.InvariantCulture);
// matrix will now contain the actual multidimensional
// matrix representation of the given string.
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Water-based coated burger wrappers are an innovative green packaging solution made by applying a water-based coating material to a virgin paper substrate through a special process. This coating is designed to replace traditional polyethylene (PE) lamination or other petroleum-based plastic coatings, giving the paper excellent oil and water resistance, making it suitable for packaging fast food products with high fat content such as burgers, sandwiches and fried chicken.
- Environmentally friendly:
- Water-based coating technology abandons harmful solvents and uses water as the dispersing medium, which contains no or very little volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and reduces pollution to the environment.
- Enhanced degradability and recyclability, water-based coated paper is easier to handle and recycle at the end of its life cycle compared to traditional plastic packaging.
- Superior oil and water resistance, can effectively prevent oil and grease in food from penetrating into the wrapping paper, keep the package clean, and also protect the freshness and taste of food.
- Good heat stability, not easy to deform or decompose harmful substances when heated in microwave oven or in contact with hot food.
- Excellent quality:
- High surface smoothness, good texture, excellent printing effect, suitable for brand customized design.
- Stable structure, suitable strength, can ensure the integrity of the packaging and convenient for consumers to hold and eat.
Water-based coated burger wrappers are widely used in the catering industry, especially in fast food service:
- Fast food packaging: It is used to package various greasy foods such as burgers, sandwiches, hot dogs, fried chicken wings, etc. It prevents grease from seeping out and maintains food quality and aesthetics.
- Microwave heating food packaging: due to its heat resistance, it is also suitable for the packaging of ready-to-heat and ready-to-eat products, which can be directly put into the microwave oven without affecting food safety.
- Brand Image Enhancement: Due to its good printing suitability, many brands will choose to print personalized patterns and messages to reflect the brand image and convey the concept of green environmental protection.


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Dynamic Adaptation of Individual Perception-Action Control Plans in a Heterogeneous Team of Intelligent Mobile Agents
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The objective of this project was to explore the development of new type of physical agents, called autonomous observers. An autonomous observer is a mobile robot equipped with cameras that can perform vision tasks in response to high level inputs given by human users. To perform such tasks, multiple observers may team to reach the same results quicker or to attain goals that no agent could achieve alone. For example, finding andor tracking a fast target reliably in a complex environment may not be possible with a single observer. Autonomous observers allow users to perform remote observation tasks without worrying about the details of camera motions. Instead, these motions are automatically computed and executed. Our research has addressed three major topics model building, target seeking, and target tracking. This sequence of three topics is implicitly based on the following hypothetical scenario autonomous observers are dropped into an unknown environment, of which they first have to build a model then they have to find a smart target hiding among view obstructing obstacles finally, they have to monitor this target and track its motions. For each topic, we have developed and implemented new algorithms. We have experimented with our software both in simulation and with an autonomous observer prototype that we have designed and built.
- Target Direction, Range and Position Finding


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How to View the Order of Someone's Instagram Followers
How to View the Order of Someone's Instagram Followers
Instagram is a popular social media platform that allows users to connect with friends, family, and even celebrities. One of the most intriguing aspects of Instagram is the ability to see who someone is following. While Instagram does not provide a feature to view the exact order of someone's following, there are a few methods you can try to get a glimpse into their follower list.
Method 1: Manual Scrolling
If you are curious about the order of someone's following on Instagram, you can try manually scrolling through their follower list. This method requires patience and time, as you will need to scroll through each follower one by one. Keep in mind that this method may not provide an accurate order, as Instagram's algorithm may change the order of the follower list based on various factors.
Method 2: Third-Party Apps
Method 3: Analyzing Activity
While you may not be able to see the exact order of someone's following, you can analyze their activity on Instagram to get an idea of their interactions. Look for patterns in their likes, comments, and tagged photos to see who they are most engaged with. This method can provide valuable insights into their social circle and the people they interact with the most.
Method 1: Using Instagram's Native Features
How to View the Order of Someone's Instagram Followers
If you want to see the order of someone's following on Instagram, you can use the platform's native features. Although Instagram does not provide a specific feature to view the exact order, you can still get an idea by following these steps:
Step Description
1 Open the Instagram app on your mobile device.
2 Go to the profile of the person whose following order you want to see.
3 Tap on the "Following" button.
4 Scroll through the list of accounts they follow.
5 Pay attention to the accounts that appear at the top of the list.
6 Based on the order of appearance, you can make an assumption about the general order of their following.
Method 2: Third-Party Apps and Websites
If you want to see the order of someone's following on Instagram, you can also use third-party apps and websites. These tools provide additional features and insights that Instagram's native features may not offer.
1. Third-Party Apps
There are several third-party apps available that claim to provide information about the order of someone's following on Instagram. These apps usually require you to log in with your Instagram account and grant them access to your data. Once you have authorized the app, it will analyze the user's following list and display the order in which they follow people.
2. Websites
How to View the Order of Someone's Instagram Followers
In addition to apps, there are also websites that claim to offer insights into the order of someone's following on Instagram. These websites usually work in a similar way to the third-party apps mentioned above. They require you to log in with your Instagram account and analyze the user's following list to display the order.
See also Instagram Only Showing Old Posts Is There a Bug in the Feed
Remember, using third-party apps and websites to see the order of someone's following on Instagram is not officially supported by Instagram. Proceed with caution and be aware of the potential risks involved.
Method 3: Manual Tracking and Observations
If you want to see the order of someone's following on Instagram without using any third-party apps or websites, you can do it manually by tracking and observing their activity. Although this method requires more effort and time, it can be effective if you are determined to find out the order.
Step 1: Observe the Activity Feed
Start by closely monitoring the person's activity feed on Instagram. Whenever they like or comment on a post, their activity will appear in the feed. Take note of the accounts they interact with frequently, as these are likely to be their close friends or people they follow closely.
Step 2: Pay Attention to Stories
Instagram Stories can provide valuable insights into someone's following order. Watch their Stories regularly and pay attention to the order in which their close friends or favorite accounts appear. This can give you an idea of who they interact with the most.
Step 3: Analyze Their Followers
Take a closer look at the person's followers list. Look for any patterns or connections between the accounts they follow. If you notice that they follow a group of accounts in a specific order, it could indicate a certain hierarchy or preference.
Additionally, pay attention to any recent follows or unfollows. If you notice that they have recently followed or unfollowed someone, it could indicate a change in their following order.
See also 5 Best Fixes for Swipe To Reply Not Working in Instagram Messages
Step 4: Compare with Mutual Friends
How to View the Order of Someone's Instagram Followers
If you have mutual friends with the person you are trying to track, compare your following order with theirs. Look for any similarities or differences in the order of accounts you both follow. This can provide further clues about the person's following order.
Remember, manual tracking and observations may not always provide definitive results, as Instagram's algorithm can also influence the order of someone's following. However, by carefully analyzing their activity and followers, you can gain valuable insights into their following order.
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We're not just talking about NaCl.
A configuration management system. Salt is capable of maintaining remote nodes in defined states. For example, it can ensure that specific packages are installed and that specific services are running.
A distributed remote execution system used to execute commands and query data on remote nodes. Salt can query and execute commands either on individual nodes or by using an arbitrary selection criteria.
It was developed in order to bring the best solutions found in the world of remote execution together and make them better, faster, and more malleable. Salt accomplishes this through its ability to handle large loads of information, and not just dozens but hundreds and even thousands of individual servers quickly through a simple and manageable interface.
Providing versatility between massive scale deployments and smaller systems may seem daunting, but Salt is very simple to set up and maintain, regardless of the size of the project. The architecture of Salt is designed to work with any number of servers, from a handful of local network systems to international deployments across different data centers. The topology is a simple server/client model with the needed functionality built into a single set of daemons. While the default configuration will work with little to no modification, Salt can be fine tuned to meet specific needs.
The core functions of Salt:
enable commands to remote systems to be called in parallel rather than serially
use a secure and encrypted protocol
use the smallest and fastest network payloads possible
provide a simple programming interface
Salt also introduces more granular controls to the realm of remote execution, allowing systems to be targeted not just by hostname, but also by system properties.
Salt takes advantage of a number of technologies and techniques. The networking layer is built with the excellent ZeroMQ networking library, so the Salt daemon includes a viable and transparent AMQ broker. Salt uses public keys for authentication with the master daemon, then uses faster AES encryption for payload communication; authentication and encryption are integral to Salt. Salt takes advantage of communication via msgpack, enabling fast and light network traffic.
In order to allow for simple expansion, Salt execution routines can be written as plain Python modules. The data collected from Salt executions can be sent back to the master server, or to any arbitrary program. Salt can be called from a simple Python API, or from the command line, so that Salt can be used to execute one-off commands as well as operate as an integral part of a larger application.
The result is a system that can execute commands at high speed on target server groups ranging from one to very many servers. Salt is very fast, easy to set up, amazingly malleable and provides a single remote execution architecture that can manage the diverse requirements of any number of servers. The Salt infrastructure brings together the best of the remote execution world, amplifies its capabilities and expands its range, resulting in a system that is as versatile as it is practical, suitable for any network.
Salt is developed under the Apache 2.0 license, and can be used for open and proprietary projects. Please submit your expansions back to the Salt project so that we can all benefit together as Salt grows. Please feel free to sprinkle Salt around your systems and let the deliciousness come forth.


5 Asteroids Named After Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
5 Asteroids Named After Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech
This year's Mabo Day, June 3, was a special day for Indigenous astronomy. That was when the International Astronomical Union officially accepted five new asteroid names that honour a selection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, elders and academics whose work has been particularly influential.
The move follows similar commemorations in 2019, the International Year of Indigenous Languages, when a plethora of stars, exoplanets, planetary features and asteroids were given Indigenous names. They included six stars that received names from the Wardaman (NT), Booring (Vic) and Kamilaroi/Euahlayi (NSW) communities, as well as a star and planet named Bubup ("child") and Yanyan ("boy") – names derived from the Boon Wurrung language of Melbourne.
IAU Name ExoWorlds: Australia.
Asteroids (sometimes also called minor planets are large rocks in the Solar system, ranging from 10 metres to more than 100 kilometres in diameter. Most are found in a region called the asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and are only visible with a powerful telescope.
Here are the five asteroids that have been newly named in recognition of influential Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
7546 Meriam
Formally known as 1979 MB4, this is a 2km-wide asteroid of the Flora family in the asteroid belt's inner region. It is 2.3 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, and takes 3.5 years to complete one orbit.
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Meriam dancers performing the Maier (Shooting Star) Dance for the Werner Herzog film Fireball.
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The Meriam are an Indigenous Australian group of people in the islands of the eastern Torres Strait, who are united by a common culture and language: Meriam Mir, Australia's only Papuan language.
Meriam people developed and maintain complex systems of astronomical knowledge centred around Tagai, a great warrior who is central to their Creation and identity. Meriam star knowledge has featured in academic papers, educational curricula, planetarium displays, a forthcoming commemorative coin, and the upcoming Werner Herzog film Fireball.
7733 Segarpassi
Formally known as 1979 MH4, this is a 1.9km-wide asteroid in the main asteroid belt. It is 2.4 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, and its orbit takes 3.7 years.
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text: Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine primary care medicine narratology and the study of doctor-patient relationships narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize absorb interpret and be moved by the stories of illness. By placing events in temporal order with beginnings middles and ends and by establishing connections among things using metaphor and figural language narrative medicine helps doctors to recognize patients and diseases convey knowledge accompany patients through the ordeals of illness--and according to Rita Charon can ultimately lead to more humane ethical and effective health care. Trained in medicine and in literary studies Rita Charon is a pioneer of and authority on the emerging field of narrative medicine. In this important and long-awaited book she provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the conceptual principles underlying narrative medicine as well as a practical guide for implementing narrative methods in health care. A true milestone in the field it will interest general readers and experts in medicine and humanities and literary theory.


31 Appropriate Sympathy Gift Ideas
What is an Appropriate Sympathy Gift?
When a loved one experiences a tragedy or loss, we often wish we could do something to ease their pain. Unfortunately, choosing appropriate sympathy gifts to help them through the grieving process can be challenging, especially because each person deals with grief and sadness in their own way. The most important thing to remember is that anything you do to show love and sympathy will be appreciated.
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Sympathy Gift Etiquette
Your main goal when choosing appropriate sympathy gifts is to show love and support. However, your message may be better received when you follow the rules of sympathy gift etiquette:
 - Whether or not there is an official service to attend, it is still encouraged to send a gift or card to express your sympathy.
 - The best time to send gifts is during the first two weeks, but if more time has passed, a simple note or card is still acceptable.
 - Charitable donations are often appreciated, particularly if the family has ties or sentimental feelings toward a specific charity. As a general rule, look for the phrase "in lieu of flowers" on any announcements or in the obituaries and follow the instructions given. Sympathy etiquette suggests that you still write a note or card expressing condolences and letting them know you made a donation.
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Use the guide below to find ideas for appropriate sympathy messages and gifts that follow the rules of sympathy etiquette.
1. Classic Sympathy Gift
When you aren't sure what to get someone in need of comfort, these classic ideas are always well received.
 1. Gift basket
 2. Teddy bears/stuffed animal
 3. Balloons
 4. Letters/card
 5. Throw blanket/heated blanket
 6. Acts of Service
 7. Flowers
2. Personalized Sympathy Gift
Another great way to express genuine sympathy is by choosing or creating a gift with a personal touch.
 1. Personalized throw blanket
 2. Sympathy ornament
 3. DIY compassion care package
 4. Photo album with family/friend pictures
 5. Book or jar with memories of the deceased, written by friends and family
 6. Charitable donation
 7. Gift card for home cleaning or other services
3. Decadent Sympathy Gift
 1. Memorial jewelry (necklaces, bracelets, rings, etc.)
 2. Memorial tumbler mug
 3. Memorial flower planter box
 4. Angel wind chime
 5. Memorial garden stone
 6. Plant a tree in their name
 7. Keepsake box
4. Sympathy Food Gifts
In situations of extreme sadness or stress, it is often the simple things that bring the most comfort. Bringing over a meal or special treat is the perfect way to cheer someone up and show you care.
 1. Gourmet soup
 2. Candy
 3. Tea or Hot Chocolate (something warm to drink)
 4. Cookies (Spoonful of Comfort has several great cookie options you can have sent right to their home!)
 5. Ice cream
 6. Fruit or Fruit basket (fresh or dried)
 7. Assorted nuts
 8. Tin of popcorn
 9. Bottle of wine
 10. Favorite soda
Frequently Asked Sympathy Gift Questions:
How do you sympathize with someone who has lost a loved one?
In addition to cards and gifts, the best way to show your sympathy is by providing service. What can you do to take away some stress during this time? Maybe you can provide a meal, mow the lawn, shovel snow, help with cleaning, or take care of kids.
Is it appropriate to give money in a sympathy card?
Yes, in fact, it is often one of the best ways you can support a loved one. The deceased may have been the one bringing in the majority of the household income, or the survivor may be faced with high funeral costs. Put the money in a card with a kind message and simply mention there is a gift inside so the recipient doesn't wait too long to open it.
Is it appropriate to send flowers to a funeral?
There are circumstances where flowers would not be an appropriate gift. In some cultures and religions, sending flowers to show sympathy during mourning may not be part of their tradition. For example, traditionally Jewish people do not have a culture of sending flowers to the funeral. The same applies to Hindus. If you know the family has no such concerns, then flowers are a great gift for a funeral.
Are group sympathy gifts appropriate?
Sending sympathy gifts as a group works well when the person or family you are supporting is affiliated with your group and is not a particular close friend. For example, multiple coworkers can pitch in for a group gift and each sign the same card.
One of the most helpful ways to provide comfort during difficult times is by making sure your loved ones are well fed. During the grieving process, it is not uncommon for people to let their nutrition slide or to skip meals altogether. Send your loved ones a delicious meal from Spoonful of Comfort, which includes delivery of soup, cookies, and rolls, as well as a personalized note card and a ladle for serving. Check out our Sympathy Soup Gift Baskets today, and get more inspiration for appropriate sympathy gifts on the Spoonful of Comfort blog.
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Using Machine Learning to Ensure the Capacity Safety of Individual Microservices
Using Machine Learning to Ensure the Capacity Safety of Individual Microservices
Reliability engineering teams at Uber build the tools, libraries, and infrastructure that enable engineers to operate our thousands of microservices reliably at scale. At its essence, reliability engineering boils down to actively preventing outages that affect the mean time between failures (MTBF).
As Uber's global mobility platform grows, our global scale and complex network of microservice call patterns have made capacity requirements for individual services difficult to predict. When we're unable to predict service-level capacity requirements, capacity-related outages can occur. Given the real-time nature of our operations, capacity-related outages (affecting microservices at the feature level as opposed to directly impacting user experiences) constitute a large chunk of Uber's overall outages.
To help prevent these outages, our reliability engineers abide by a concept called capacity safety, in other words, the ability to support historical peaks or a 90-day forecast of concurrent riders-on-trip from a single data center without causing significant CPU, memory, and general resource starvation. On the Maps Reliability Engineering team, we built in-house machine learning tooling that forecasts core service metricsrequests per second, latency, and CPU usageto provide an idea of how these metrics will change throughout the course of a week or month. Using these forecasts, teams can perform accurate capacity safety tests that capture the nuances of each microservice.
In this article, we define capacity safety at Uber and discuss how we leveraged machine learning to design our capacity safety forecasting tooling with a special emphasis on calculating a quality of reliability score, a measurement that allows load testing suites to programmatically decide whether to rely on the forecast or not.
Capacity safety at Uber
As part of our capacity safety measures, each microservice must be correctly provisioned such that it doesn't experience downtime in every data center concurrently. Under-provisioning can lead to capacity shortage, while over-provisioning can cause network-related challenges (such as higher than required connections) to downstream or upstream services.
Historically, our reliability engineering teams conducted platform-wide drills to ensure the capacity safety of core trip-flow services. Engineers monitor core metrics when the designated amount of simulated trips hit the platform. Besides monitoring microservices close to the platform's entry point, teams are also interested in understanding how the initial load and subsequent call patterns affect the performance of downstream microservices.
While this platform-wide approach solves the broader issue of capacity safety, it introduces numerous challenges, including the need to ensure both fidelity and a seamless developer experience. Fidelity is the notion that all critical services are tested in the same manner as they would be by natural traffic. Top-level microservices are tested thoroughly, but deep back-end microservices like mapping systems and payments services do not receive similar coverage. Additionally, in order to provide a controlled testing environment, platform-wide stress tests lock down the entire deployment system. As expected, this has a negative impact on the developer experience since it stalls ongoing builds and deployments.
To solve these issues, reliability engineers came up with a localized, automated, service-specific capacity safety test built on top of existing tooling that can be independently executed. This approach is more difficult, as the intricacies, patterns, and usage of each service must be taken into account. Moreover, in order to pass this test, we built in-house tooling to forecast core service metrics, thereby providing us with a better idea of whether or not our services will meet capacity safety requirements.
Designing a machine learning-supported architecture
Figure 1: The system architecture and design of the Maps Reliability Engineering forecasting system incorporates both data collection and storage and data forecasting, facilitating greater microservice reliability.
At a high level, each service in production at Uber is instrumented to emit metrics, some of which are resource and capacity-related. These metrics are stored in M3 and can be queried via API. Our prediction system uses a service queries configuration file to determine which services require forecasting. Internal developers interested in using the system can onboard their service by specifying their service name, a core metric (for example, requests per second), and an hourly/daily interval for forecasting.
Like any machine learning task, forecasts require a significant amount of training data to be reasonably accurate. There must be enough data capturing the trend and seasonal patterns of a time series in order to make accurate predictions. Our service utilizes a collector that performs range queries on M3 and stores the data in an abstracted storage layer.
When a service is up for forecasting, its corresponding training data is retrieved from the storage layer. The data then goes through multiple levels of preprocessing so that anomalous events are removed. In the forecasting step, various statistical techniques are used to derive accurate predictions. Finally, the prediction is validated to determine how well the model performed on the training data.
The prediction system can be configured to run at periodic intervals throughout a given block of time. This enables the system to adapt to service-level changes and events dynamically. For example, if a service started experiencing an unusually high amount of requests, the system would take into account this new pattern and change the forecast accordingly.
After each collection and forecasting period, the results are stored in the storage layer. If the forecast changes because of aforementioned events, the stale forecasts are overwritten with the newer forecasts using priority queuing. Finally, service owners interested in using the forecasts for testing purposes can query the data through the API.
Data acquisition
The data we use, such as information on CPU and memory usage, comes from reliable sources, such as server logs, event logs, and data center reports, giving us a robust training set for forecasting. Given that the forecasting horizon directly correlates with the size of the training dataset, we decided not to limit the amount of data points collected. However, the default retention policy of M3 prevents us from obtaining enough data for forecasting. In most situations, time series data diminishes in value the older it gets, so more often than not, it is economical to drop older data. However, this "stale" data plays an important role in the prediction system as it enables the models to forecast further and further into the future. After all, the models can only capture long-term trends and seasonal patterns with datasets that cover those historical trends and seasons.
Figure 2: The forecasting horizon is roughly 25 percent of the training dataset size. Therefore, if there are more points included in the training dataset, more points can be forecasted.
Because each range query to M3 only returns a limited amount of time series data points, we make successive queries to retrieve the entire dataset to accommodate our large fleet of servers, as depicted in Figure 2, above. However, since time series were periodically collected, we often noticed invalid data points at the beginning and end of each interval. This occurred due to an M3 design decision that pre-aggregates time series data as it comes in, then stores the output for future queries. When the collection interval is misaligned with the aggregation interval, there are no valid data points for the interval edges. To solve this problem, we introduced a buffer period at the beginning and end of each collection interval that is removed when stitching together data from consecutive collections. This feature enabled us to overwrite invalid data points while keeping the system compatible with M3's aggregation policy.
The next step involved persisting the collected data to build a training dataset over time. Uber's M3 team realized the increasing demand for longer retention and began to offer users an option to configure retention and aggregation policies for individual time series data.
Initially, we stored the time series data locally to facilitate rapid prototyping. We chose BoltDB, an open source embedded key-value store. BoltDB was a good choice for prototyping, but it was not sufficient for production, as the time series data could not be shared across multiple instances of the prediction system. Further, because the data was embedded, data was erased each time a new deployment occurred. As a result, we switched to DOSA, an open source storage solution we built on top of Apache Cassandra. DOSA was suitable for our needs as we were mostly conducting range queries based on timestamps, and did not need to perform complex relational queries. DOSA also solved our issues with BoltDB by providing a consistent view between instances and persisting across deployments.
Along with being persistent, we needed to keep the prediction system highly available, since it might encounter various kinds of failures during acquisition. To ensure fault tolerance, we run many instances of the prediction system across multiple data centers to guarantee at least one instance is running at any given time. In this scenario, data consistency is also an issue when concurrent collections occur. Since M3 pre-aggregates time series data, instances always query the same data, so no extra work needs to be done to maintain data consistency.
Data preprocessing
Before our system forecasts time series data, the historical dataset is preprocessed to remove outliers, anomalies, and other irregular variations that might affect our predictions. In particular, time series data retrieved from any service may contain time intervals where data center failovers occurred. Our current platform-wide capacity safety process requires data center failovers to occur. However, these time intervals must be removed from the dataset when systems in the "failed" data center show anomalous behavior.
The first step in preprocessing our time series data is identifying and removing time intervals that correspond to data center failovers. These intervals are easy to detect visually, as the traffic from one data center approaches zero while the traffic in another data center approaches twice its original load. However, automatically detecting data center failovers is a non-trivial task.
Figure 3: In this hypothetical scenario, the traffic in data center DC 2 during a failover gradually approaches zero, while DC 1 ingests the traffic that used to be in DC 2. After a couple of hours, both datacenters


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1: In the beginning there was an endless nothingness, it was an endless white, but there was a red orb floating through the nothingness and it called itself "Bloody Smiles"
2: The orb known as Bloody Smiles archived conscious thought and continued to wander through the blank nothing all around it.
3: It then thought about creating something to entertain it, so with all its power and intelligence it created our universe and man along with it.
4: Bloody Smiles developed a very short temper, to prevent itself from destroying what it had created, it created Calm Frowns to calm itself when it got extremely angry.
5: Man angered Smiles by worshiping it, it did not like being worshiped by ants. So it caused man to suffer greatly and as long as man continued to worship it, it would continue to rain down misfortune on man.


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to maintenance schedules recommended by equipment manufacturers to optimize performance and energy efficiency.
- What are the potential energy savings from transitioning to digital record-keeping?
- The exact savings depend on the size of the practice, but transitioning to digital record-keeping can significantly reduce paper and printing costs while saving energy associated with printing and mailing.
Remember that energy savings are a continuous effort, and veterinary practices can benefit from ongoing assessment and improvement of energy-efficient practices.


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Definition of anglesite
n. - A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals. 2
The word "anglesite" uses 9 letters: A E E G I L N S T.
All words formed from anglesite by changing one letter
Browse words starting with anglesite by next letter

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Magnolia grandiflora 'Little Gem' ~ 500cm standard tree
Little Gem is a dwarf variety of Magnolia grandiflora. Less vigorous growing than grandiflora, if you have a space that is too small for Magnolia grandiflora then do consider this. Little Gem's leaves are smaller and flowers more regularly If you are after a shorter stem than a standard tree, than this is what you need. This is often used by our customers to screen unwanted view above a fence, but, the specimen has to be planted in raised beds, and not at ground level.
DFG rating: 10/10
RHS pruning group: 8
Leaves: Evergreen, broad and ovate.
Flowers: Cup-like white and fragrant.
Soil Ph: Lightly Acidic.


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News media as corporate governance watchdogs
This source preferred by Donald Nordberg
Authors: Nordberg, D.
Start date: 10 September 2013
How do news organizations shape development of regulative measures in corporate governance? The press is often called the Fourth Estate, an acknowledgement of the quasi-regulatory role it plays in investigating and bringing to public attention malfeasance and misdemeanours in public and business life. Recurrent corporate governance problems have raised questions about how well the news media perform this watchdog role, less well understood is how the role they play in framing the debate itself. News organizations respond to the terms in which a debate is cast, but on retelling some aspects of the story can be amplified and others suppressed. So, this project asks, to what extent is our understanding of what corporate practice is legitimate influenced by the terms in which the debate is cast and projected in the press? How has this framing shaped the way we discuss corporate governance and then turn it into policy and practice? This developmental paper sketches a project to undertake such an analysis on a comparative basis, looking at field-configuring events in the US, UK and Germany to track how the vocabulary of corporate governance has developed in the press, and how it does or does not differ from other conceptions of what good governance entails.


What is the X in X-mas?
hype, a
Slang definitions & phrases for hype, a
hype, a
noun phrase
 1. A high-pressure advocacy or urging; a publicity or public relations invention: The nostalgia for the Fifties is not entirely a media hype/ This is gonna sound like a hype (mid-1960s+)
 2. A person or thing promoted by hype (mid-1960s+)
 3. A swindle; con, scam (1962+)
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Early-Career Coordinated Distributed Experiments: Empowerment Through Collaboration
Pastor, AdaHernández-del-Amo, ElenaGiménez-Grau, PauFillol, MireiaPereda, OlatzFlores, LoreaSanpera-Calbet, IsisBravo, Andrea G. Martín, Eduardo J.Poblador, SílviaArroita, M.Rasines-Ladero, RubénRuiz, Celiadel Campo, RubénAbril, MeritxellReyes, MartaCasas-Ruiz, Joan PereFernández, Diegode Castro-Català, NúriaTornero, IrenePalacin-Lizarbe, CarlosArce, María IsabelMora-Gómez, J.Gómez-Gener, LluísMonroy, SilviaFreixa, AnnaLupon, Anna González-Farreras, Alexia MaríaEstévez, EdurneRodríguez-Lozano, PabloSolagaistua, LibeRodríguez-Castillo, TamaraAristi, IbónMartínez, AingeruCatalán, Núria. Frontiers in Education 5 : 13 (2020) DIGITAL CSIC
Coordinated distributed experiments (CDEs) enable the study of large-scale ecological patterns in geographically dispersed areas, while simultaneously providing broad academic and personal benefits for the participants. However, the effective involvement of early-career researchers (ECRs) presents major challenges. Here, we analyze the benefits and challenges of the first CDE exclusively led and conducted by ECRs (i.e. ECR-CDE), which sets a baseline for similar CDEs, and we provide recommendations for successful CDE execution. ECR-CDEs achieve most of the outcomes identified in conventional CDEs as well as extensive benefits for the young cohort of researchers, including: (i) receiving scientific credit, (ii) peer-training in new concepts and methods, (iii) developing leadership and communication skills, (iv) promoting a peer network among ECRs, and (v) building on individual engagement and independence. We also discuss the challenges of ECR-CDEs, which are mainly derived from the lack of independence and instability of the participants, and we suggest mechanisms to address them, such as resource re-allocation and communication strategies. We conclude that ECR-CDEs can be a relevant tool to empower ECRs across disciplines by fostering their training, networking and personal well-being.


Zabbix Documentation 2.4
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drule.get
Description
integer/array drule.get(object parameters)
The method allows to retrieve discovery rules according to the given parameters.
Parameters
(object) Parameters defining the desired output.
The method supports the following parameters.
Parameter Type Description
dhostids string/array Return only discovery rules that created the given discovered hosts.
druleids string/array Return only discovery rules with the given IDs.
dserviceids string/array Return only discovery rules that created the given discovered services.
selectDChecks query Return discovery checks used by the discovery rule in the dchecks property.
Supports count.
selectDHosts query Return the discovered hosts that the discovery rule created in the dhosts property.
Supports count.
limitSelects integer Limits the number of records returned by subselects.
Applies to the following subselects:
selectDChecks - results will be sorted by dcheckid;
selectDHosts - results will be sorted by dhostsid.
sortfield string/array Sort the result by the given properties.
Possible values are: druleid and name.
countOutput flag These parameters being common for all get methods are described in detail in the reference commentary.
editable boolean
excludeSearch flag
filter object
limit integer
output query
preservekeys flag
search object
searchByAny boolean
searchWildcardsEnabled boolean
sortorder string/array
startSearch flag
Return values
(integer/array) Returns either:
 - an array of objects;
 - the count of retrieved objects, if the countOutput parameter has been used.
Examples
Retrieve all discovery rules
Retrieve all configured discovery rules and the discovery checks they use.
Request:
{
 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
 "method": "drule.get",
 "params": {
 "output": "extend",
 "selectDChecks": "extend"
 },
 "auth": "038e1d7b1735c6a5436ee9eae095879e",
 "id": 1
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Response:
{
 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
 "result": [
 {
 "druleid": "2",
 "proxy_hostid": "0",
 "name": "Local network",
 "iprange": "192.168.3.1-255",
 "delay": "5",
 "nextcheck": "_PHONE_",
 "status": "0",
 "dchecks": [
 {
 "dcheckid": "7",
 "druleid": "2",
 "type": "3",
 "key_": "",
 "snmp_community": "",
 "ports": "21",
 "snmpv3_securityname": "",
 "snmpv3_securitylevel": "0",
 "snmpv3_authpassphrase": "",
 "snmpv3_privpassphrase": "",
 "uniq": "0",
 "snmpv3_authprotocol": "0",
 "snmpv3_privprotocol": "0"
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 {
 "dcheckid": "8",
 "druleid": "2",
 "type": "4",
 "key_": "",
 "snmp_community": "",
 "ports": "80",
 "snmpv3_securityname": "",
 "snmpv3_securitylevel": "0",
 "snmpv3_authpassphrase": "",
 "snmpv3_privpassphrase": "",
 "uniq": "0",
 "snmpv3_authprotocol": "0",
 "snmpv3_privprotocol": "0"
 }
 ]
 },
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 "druleid": "6",
 "proxy_hostid": "0",
 "name": "Zabbix agent discovery",
 "iprange": "192.168.1.1-255",
 "delay": "3600",
 "nextcheck": "0",
 "status": "0",
 "dchecks": [
 {
 "dcheckid": "10",
 "druleid": "6",
 "type": "9",
 "key_": "system.uname",
 "snmp_community": "",
 "ports": "10050",
 "snmpv3_securityname": "",
 "snmpv3_securitylevel": "0",
 "snmpv3_authpassphrase": "",
 "snmpv3_privpassphrase": "",
 "uniq": "0",
 "snmpv3_authprotocol": "0",
 "snmpv3_privprotocol": "0"
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 }
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 "id": 1
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See also
Source
CDRule::get() in frontends/php/include/classes/api/services/CDRule.php.


Search Perfect: hitting it off with SearchKey 1.0b1
Most of the time, I put files in logical places. But sometimes what seemed logical at the time is far from logical later, and I do have a few folders which are like basements, where I tuck all sorts of unrelated things away.
Searching for content can be tricky. It works best when you can think of words or a phrase which occurs hardly anywhere else but in the document for which you're looking. It becomes almost impossible when you can't remember much about that document, and start guessing the words that it contains.
I have been developing SearchKey, a little tool which uses extended attributes to greatly improve search. That app is now in its first beta-release, and available here: searchkey10b1
and from Downloads above.
Why use extended attributes, though? What advantages do they have?
SearchKey edits a group of five extended attributes which have been carefully chosen because they are preserved across different versions of macOS, on most file systems including HFS+ and APFS, and are used by Spotlight when it compiles the metadata indexes which it uses.
One simple way to use SearchKey to enhance your searches is to label documents twice.
SearchKey has two modes: batch and single-file. To mark up a folder of documents for a specific project, first go through the whole folder in batch mode, setting common labels, then tweak them for individual key files using single-file mode. This is surprisingly quick to do. The aim is to provide a general marker for each file which belongs to that project, something you can set in the Headline and Keywords, perhaps, then add more specific labels to those files which you will need to locate again.
You might, for example, use the Headline to contain the project name, and add a couple of Keywords to every file, then for the final contract and other key documents you can add extra Keywords such as "final contract", "specification", "milestones", etc.
You can then access the content of those extended attributes in your searches. This is rather clumsy in the normal Spotlight search feature from the 🔍 icon in the menubar, as you have to refer to those attributes by name. To search for files containing the keyword contract, for example, you type in
This is easier and much more powerful in the Finder's Find feature, but needs a little preparation.
Open a new window in the Finder, and select the Find command in the File menu. This changes the window from a normal Finder view to a Find window, in which the lowest row in the top part of the window contains search criteria, by default set to Kind is Any.
Open the popup menu containing the first part of that, Kind, and at the foot of that menu you will see the option Other… Choose that option to open the search attributes, and in that list tick the checkboxes next to Headline, Descriptions, Keywords, and Copyright. This adds them to that popup menu.
Now, you can perform Finder searches using the contents of those four extended attributes. Oddly, there doesn't appear to be any way to add Creator to the search attributes used here, but the other four extended attributes are fully supported. You can, though, search the Creator text which you saved using SearchKey in Spotlight, using a search criterion such as
Design the content of the extended attributes you add to files carefully, and you can ensure amazingly accurate search results.
This version of SearchKey is now feature-complete. If this beta-release proves reliable across El Capitan to High Sierra, and there are no issues outstanding, I intend adding a Help book and taking it to the first full release.
I am now looking at packaging its functions into a Service, to make it more accessible. I hope that it helps you find what you are looking for.


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Diversity and Equity
In IAS, we see diversity work as both individual and institutional actions taken to counteract relations of power and difference, relations historically characterized by the social exclusion, marginalization, and oppression of one group and the unearned privilege and overvaluation of another.
We see diversity as fluid in that the status and representation of groups shifts over time and context. In our current moment, this includes, but is not limited to, race, sex, gender identity, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, visa/documentation status, religion, and military status.
Our definition extends anti-bias frameworks and recognizes that identities are intersectional, complex, and multiply determined. We seek to redistribute opportunities and resources to foster equity and social justice.
As we operationalize, enact, and assess this plan, we are guided by the following critical questions: Who does diversity exclude? Does our diversity work foster a shared sense of responsibility in our commitment to advancing social justice? Do we promote inclusive, diverse participation in knowledge production both in and out of the classroom? And does our diversity work contribute to a community engaged university?
To further these beliefs and commitments, IAS faculty approved a school-wide revision of our Diversity Plan (IASDP 2.0) in 2021.
IAS Diversity Committee
- Jed Murr, Associate Dean for Diversity and Equity
- Maryam Griffin (Chair for Fall 2023)
- Raissa DeSmet (Chair for Winter & Spring 2024)
- Ching-In Chen
- Silvia Ferreira
- Stephanie Lê
- Monique Taylor
Associate Dean for Diversity & Equity
The Associate Dean of Diversity and Equity works closely with the IAS Dean, the other IAS Associate Deans, and school leadership on processes that develop, assess and promote initiatives around the principles of diversity, equity and social justice within the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (IAS).
The primary objective of the position is to enhance the capacity of IAS to recognize and challenge unequal relations of power and privilege in order to foster a more inclusive educational environment that enables students, staff, and faculty members to learn, teach and work together across positionalities and towards more equitable practices in scholarship, pedagogy, student success, service, and community engagement.


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The Art of Persuasion: Changing the Mind On OCD
(1-Day or 1/2-Day)
How do you move someone toward anxious uncertainty when their heart, mind and soul are committed to finding comfort? Participants will learn a persuasive strategy—built out of whole cloth within the first session—that will frame the entire treatment protocol. Persuading OCD clients to adopt a new frame of reference is the therapist's primary task. Those who succumb to the spell of obsessive-compulsive disorder conjure up a potion of avoidance and resistance as their only means to keep uncertainty and distress from boiling over. Two objectives direct their decisions: only take actions that have a highly predictable, positive outcome, and stay comfortable. Altering perception--not adding technique--helps them change directions, because belief always trumps exposure practice. Then repetition of action in the face of doubt and distress is required to solidify therapeutic gains.
You will learn how to persuade clients to voluntarily seek out and embrace uncertainty and anxiety as their ticket out of suffering. You'll then learn techniques that generate positive motivation to develop mastery over their symptoms. These self-help oriented skills can be applied to the treatment of washers and cleaners, checkers, repeaters, hoarders, orderers, cognitive-ritualizers and pure obsessionals.
(other topics can be designed for your needs)
For further information, contact:
Reid Wilson, Ph.D.
421 Bennett Orchard Trail
Chapel Hill, NC 27516


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The following articles, written in 1997 and 2000, are a tribute to Demetria Martinez and her life craft. Martinez book, Mother Tongue, documented the reasons at the foundation of the Sanctuary Movement, founded in Tucson.
They Hang Poets Don't They
"Silencing the Mother Tongue"
By Brenda Norrell
When Demetria Martinez was on trial, charged with administering illegal assistance to El Salvadoran women at the United States border, her poetry was used against her in court. The trauma silenced the voice of the writer.
Acquitted on first amendment grounds, Martinez later attended a poetry reading which unleashed a new voice within. It was El Salvadoran refugee Jose Luis, fleeing torture in his homeland. The book became the award-winning "Mother Tongue."
When ten women were hanged in Iran for refusing to recant their belief in the Baha'i Faith, to deny their belief in the oneness of God, religion and humanity, Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards hoped to silence their voices. Instead, the noose that brought an end to their lives, served to magnify the voices of these poets, writers, singers and professionals.
Olya Roohizadegan, author of "Olya's Story," shared prison cells with the women hanged in 1983. Mona Mahmudnizhad, a lover of writing and singing, was only 17 years old. Her crime was teaching Baha'i childrens classes.
Speaking during July to gatherings at the Hopi Cultural Center, Navajo Nation and in Albuquerque, Roohizadegan recalled the torture of Baha'is in prison and the severance of human rights for Baha'is in Iran.
She brought the voices and dreams of ten women, college students, mothers and grandmothers, voices the government of Iran believed would never be heard. These are the voices of young Mona and women in their twenties, Shirin, Mitra, Roya and Mashid. In a country where it is forbidden for women to allow men to hear their footsteps, they believed in the equality of men and women. They were charged with the additional crime of not being married.
"In prison, the most important thing in the world was to be free," said Roohizadegan, who escaped overland to Pakistan. Now living in England, she remains under a death sentence in Iran.
"The ten women passed the test of their faith and they are free. But I am not free until the truth is known."
Nigeria hoped to silence another voice when it hanged poet Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow human rights activists in 1995. Saro-Wiwa campaigned against pollution and exploitation by multinational oil companies in his homeland.
Favoring humor and satire, Saro-Wiwa said, "The satirist holds up a distorting mirror before the people who get scared when they see their reflection. There are many scared people in Nigeria."
Fear and torture are the enemies of truth and freedom. Martinez wrote about the disappeared, the vanished, and El Salvadorans whose tongues were cut out and limbs severed. Martinez named and honored the disappeared. It left her with a personal understanding of post traumatic stress syndrome. She persevered, however, and the voices grew stronger within.
"You just hear the voices and you go with it," Martinez said at the Las Cruces Book Festival.
When Roohizadegan spoke, the voices of ten hanged women transcended the distant, cold and dirty prison cell and the hangman in Iran.
Saro-Wiwa's voice called out from Nigeria and joined the voices of fighters for freedom and justice everywhere, "They hang poets don't they?"
In the year 2000, Demetria Martinez and Jose Matus were among those speaking out at a border summit in Tucson.
"The immigration policies are racist in themselves," said Jose Matus, Pascua Yaqui documenting abuses for Coalicion de Derechos Humanos (human rights)organization.
"Immigration policies are made to keep out the poor people. And who are the poor people? The people of color."
Yaqui and other Indian nations whose families and Aboriginal lands are divided by the internationalborder, gathered for the summit, "From Border to Border: Building a Human Rights Movement," Dec. 8-10.Demetria Martinez, poet, award-winning author and
member of Derechos Humanos, said the summit turnout of more than 600 people was a welcome surprise.
"Something is in the air. People want change and they are willing to work for it. They are becoming fluent in the vocabulary of globalization."
Martinez said young people, including those protesting the World Trade Organization in Seattle, are aware of the globalization, the effect that huge corporations
and corporate dollars have on the economies of the world.
Martinez' work of fiction, "Mother Tongue," reveals the underground railroad which brought refugees to the United States fleeing torture from the Americas. While
a reporter for the Albuquerque Journal, Martinez was arrested and acquitted on federal charges of aiding El Salvadoran women crossing the U.S. border.
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