were vulnerable and fixed one and the warning for one of the DLM 1.x 's from Secunia disappeared. However, when Secunia scans now, I see ONE warning for Adobe Get Plus DLM 1.x and cannot seem to straighten it out.
I did try the solution suggested by Secunia to try to fix the other DLM 1.x, but I could not find the NOS or other stuff any more in my computer.
I have rescanned my computer several times. Same result.
Could it be the solution is really solved, but for some reason Secunia is saying it's vulnerable. I have no idea what to do now. I went to Adobe. They suggested downloading GetPlus, and the manager and Firefox said "no." I then tried looking for support of some kind on the Adobe website and got nothing.
Any suggestions would be MOST appreciated. Thanks.
Could you please confirm that you are using CSI (and not PSI) as stated .
PSI is for Personal Use.
That's what Anthony is getting at. He will advise whthere you should now unistall CSI and install PSI - (I'm a user not a teccy).
It will also help him and other technical guys here if you tell him what your operating system is eg XP/Vista and other info such as below.
Don't worry though! I'm sure someone will help you.
Last edited on 26th Apr, 2010 21:24 Also, desert_gold, someone else had a similar problem, recently.
2) email directly for help at csc@secunia.com or contact their customer representative .
thanks Anthony for this and on the other one.


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Volume 16, Issues 7–8, Page 297–298 | Christine Warwar, Michael S. Silverstein
Cover Image: Issue 7-8, Materials Today.
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) have the ability to return from an imposed deformed shape to their original shape when prompted by an external trigger such as temperature, pH, moisture, light, or magnetic field. Thermally activated SMPs usually contain two elements: a reversible transition which acts as a molecular switch and is responsible for maintaining the imposed deformed shape and a restoration mechanism which is responsible for restoring the original shape. The reversible transition could be a glass transition temperature or a melting point (Tm). The restoration mechanism could be physical or chemical crosslinking or could be a phase whose transition temperature is higher than the reversible transition temperature. Compared to fully dense SMPs, porous SMPs can achieve higher temporary deformations and exhibit higher deformations when they recover their permanent shape.
PolyHIPEs are crosslinked polymers with emulsion-templated porous structures that are synthesized within the continuous, external phase of high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs) [1] and [2]. In HIPEs, which are usually highly viscous, the dispersed, internal phase constitutes more than 74% of the volume. Mayonnaise, for example, is an oil-in-water HIPE. The HIPEs for polyHIPE synthesis are usually formed by the slow dropwise addition of the internal phase to the external phase under constant stirring. The HIPE is usually stabilized using an amphiphilic surfactant which is only soluble in the continuous, external phase. Pickering HIPEs are HIPEs that are stabilized using amphiphilic nanoparticles (NPs) which preferentially migrate to the oil-water interface, replacing the surfactant. The NPs used to stabilize Pickering HIPEs can also serve as crosslinking centers, replacing the crosslinking comonomer [3]. Typically, polyHIPEs are based upon the polymerization at elevated temperatures of hydrophobic monomers and crosslinking comonomers within the continuous phase of water-in-oil (w/o) HIPEs. A free radical polymerization (FRP) initiator is either added to the organic phase, for organic-phase initiation, or is added to the aqueous phase, for interfacial initiation. Both the structure and properties of polyHIPEs from Pickering HIPEs have been shown to be strongly dependent upon the locus of initiation [4] and [5]. Evacuating the internal phase through the multiple holes that develop in the polymer walls during polymerization leaves voids in place of the internal phase droplets and produces polymers with highly interconnected porous structures.
Recent work has shown that porous SMP polyHIPEs based on acrylates and methacrylates that bear long, crystallizable, aliphatic side-chains can be synthesized within NP-stabilized w/o Pickering HIPEs (where the NPs also serve as crosslinking centers) using organic-phase initiation [6]. PolyHIPEs based on stearyl acrylate (A18, Tm ∼ 33 °C) with crystallizable C18H37 side-chains were synthesized by heating the external phase to above the Tm before adding the internal phase in a dropwise fashion. The A18-based polyHIPEs exhibited SMP properties of interest, maintaining the new shape imposed by a compressive strain of 70% and then exhibiting recoveries of around 90% for multiple cycles. The next stage in the investigation involved: (a) synthesizing polyHIPEs based on behenyl acrylate (A22, Tm ∼ 45 °C) with crystallizable C22H45 side-chains within almost identical NP-stabilized w/o Pickering HIPEs (where the NPs also serve as crosslinking centers); (b) synthesizing both A18- and A22-based polyHIPEs using interfacial initiation. The resulting porous structures of the A18- and A22-based polyHIPEs synthesized using interfacial initiation were quite unusual.
This month's cover shows a high-resolution scanning electron microscope image of spherical polymer protuberances (∼ 40 μm in diameter) with a thread-like "ball of string" texture. The spherical protuberances seem to have been exuded from the polyHIPE walls into the internal phase droplets. This exact structure was only found for A22-based polyHIPEs synthesized within NP-stabilized w/o Pickering HIPEs (where the NPs also serve as crosslinking centers) using interfacial initiation. In A18-based polyHIPEs synthesized using interfacial initiation, spherical polymer protuberances (∼ 40 μm in diameter) with smooth surfaces seem to have been exuded from the walls into the internal phase droplets. No such protuberances were found for A18- and A22-based polyHIPEs synthesized using organic-phase initiation. No such protuberances were found for similar polyHIPEs synthesized using interfacial initiation of acrylates whose Tm was below room temperature. Interestingly, no such protuberances were found for the A18- and A22-based polyHIPEs that were synthesized using interfacial initiation from an internal phase that was heated before its addition to the heated external phase.
The formation of these spherical protuberances seems to depend upon the presence of crystallizable side-chains with a Tm above room temperature, the use of interfacial initiation, and the addition of a room temperature internal phase to a heated external phase. These factors combine to create a situation in which the HIPE begins to destabilize before the polymerization and crosslinking have "set" the wall structure. The crystallization of the monomer surrounding the room temperature internal phase droplet seems to prevent interfacial initiation and delay polymerization and crosslinking. In addition, this crystallization seems to encompass the stabilizing NPs, reducing, if not eliminating, their mobility, and allowing a fluid instability to develop at the oil-water interface. The delay in the polymerization that "sets" the wall structure and the generation of a fluid instability do not occur when a monomer with a Tm below room temperature is used or when a heated internal phase is used. Since the monomer does not crystallize in these cases, the initiator and the stabilizing NPs can perform their respective functions. The delay in the polymerization that "sets" the wall structure does not occur when organic-phase initiation is used since the initiation occurs throughout the wall and is not restricted to the interface. The tendency towards phase inversion/phase separation of a system in which the continuous phase is only around 15% of the HIPE, the high interfacial tension, and the high interfacial curvature result in the exudation of spherical protuberances from the continuous external phase into the droplets of the dispersed internal phase. When polymerization finally does occur, the partially destabilized HIPE structure becomes "set" and the spherical polymer protuberances are the result.
[1] M.S. Silverstein, et al., Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology - Online,
Wiley, 2010 , http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/0471440264.pst571.
[2] M.S. Silverstein, Progress in Polymer Science, in press (2013). DOI:10.1016/j.prog-
polymsci.2013.07.003.
[3] I. Gurevitch, et al. Macromolecules 45 (2012) 6450.
[4] S. Livshin, et al. Macromolecules 41 (2008) 3930.
[5] T. Gitli, et al. Soft Matter 4 (2008) 2475.
[6] I. Gurevitch, et al. Soft Matter 8 (2012) 10378.
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A month before her graduation from UNCW, Staff Sgt. Shona Anne Schneider was in the delivery room completing a final exam while waiting to deliver her third child.
Juggling family, work and school was something she mastered while pursuing her bachelor's degree in criminology. Her hard work paid off on June 2 when she graduated with honors at the 22nd annual Commanding General's Graduation Ceremony at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
Schneider, who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2007, was selected as the "Graduate Spotlight" for the UNCW Onslow Extension Site. She was honored for her perseverance and dedication.
"It's humbling to receive this recognition," said Schneider, a radio chief in the U.S. Marine Corps. "The Onslow staff was a tremendous support system. I'm thankful for the opportunity the military provided me to finish my degree while I was on active duty. I'm ready to start my master's program."
Schneider plans to apply to the conflict management and resolution master's program at UNCW.
Camp Lejeune holds a graduation ceremony each year to recognize students who have completed degree requirements from the colleges and universities affiliated with Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station New River.
Ronald Costello, associate vice chancellor for distance education, conferred the degrees on behalf of UNCW. A dozen of the 124 UNCW Onslow Extension graduates attended the ceremony.
"I would like to say how proud we are of all of you," Ann Marie Beall, director of the Onslow Extension Site, told the graduates. "We were proud to call you UNCW students and to assist you in your journey. We are even prouder to call you UNCW graduates, and we know you will continue to do great things."
In the future, the university will do even more to enhance outreach services to the military and others who attend classes at the Onslow Extension Site, said UNCW Provost Marilyn Sheerer, who attended the luncheon and ceremony.
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The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama collaborated with Welsh National Opera in a significant Opera Gala on 25 November to celebrate their association in creating the David Seligman International Opera School. Conducted by Carlo Rizzi and with the wonderful Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Opera Course students including Huw Ynyr Evans, Xi Jiang, Oscar
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Bodyguard Jock Bosh has one job: keep Fiona Madden safe. Safe from the men who've been hunting her. Safe from the bastard responsible for ruining her life. And with the attraction sizzling white-hot between them, that means keeping Fiona safe from him too.
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Fuck, she was beautiful. And not just because she'd made his brain leak out his dick, but because she was Fiona. She was smart and strong, and so damn brave. He was the weak one, the selfish one, because he couldn't push her away, even though he didn't deserve her.
"Can I touch you?" he asked, trying to soften his voice as much as he could. He didn't know what she was comfortable with, if his touch was welcome.
She bit her lip, and uncertainty crossed over her features for a moment. That was enough to cool his sense of urgency, to once again make sure she had the control, that he let her set the pace. "I…yeah, I think I want that. I just…" She winced, like whatever she'd meant to say had hurt her.
Jock gripped her biceps. "I'm gonna roll you to your back, okay? Then I'm gonna touch you, and if there's something you don't like, you gotta tell me."
She blinked at him and then nodded. He rolled her, careful not to settle his weight on top of her in a way that made her feel trapped or caged. It was his turn to explore now, but this wasn't for fun; this was a fact-finding mission. He planned to study her, listening for every gasp, every inhale, because he wanted to know what made her feel good, what turned her on, what would make her forget all the ways she'd been touched opposite of that.
She lay on her back, staring up at him a little fearfully as he stretched out beside her on his side. He wasn't quite sure how to do this… He'd never been slow, or gentle. He paid enough attention to his partners in bed to get them off because it was better for him when they did. That was it. Self-serving. This, with Fiona…this had to be selfless.
"Please, Jock," she whispered, and her eyes moistened. "Just…please."
Her hands were straight at her sides, and so he picked up the one closest to him, sliding his lips from her wrist to her fingers and pressing kisses on each fingernail. She relaxed beneath him before he even got to her ring finger, and a small smile curved her lips. Her legs shifted again, and he could see the damp spot on the fabric between her legs. Fuck, he wanted that. Then he chastised himself. He would only take it if she offered. This wasn't about him.
He lifted her T-shirt to below her breasts, careful not to touch them yet. Her hands fluttered at her sides, but she didn't stop him as he lowered his head. He pressed a kiss above her belly button and squeezed her hip, running the backs of his fingers down her ribs. She sucked in a breath and the skin shuddered beneath his mouth. He smiled and kissed her more, adding his tongue.
Her legs were moving constantly now, and he lifted his head to find her mouth open, breaths coming fast. Her hands gripped her shirt where it rested below her breasts, and with a sharp inhale, she lifted slightly and pulled it over her head.
He'd known she had full breasts, but fuck, seeing them in front of him was like nothing else. "Fiona," he said as he touched the bottom swell of her breast. "Fuck, you're gorgeous, sweetheart."
She shivered beneath his touch, and the tension left her body. The trust she was placing in him…he was not worthy. He leaned down, nuzzling between her breasts just as her hand came up and slipped into the hair on the back of his head. She was okay with him at her chest, touching her breasts. Great, because he hoped to spend a lot of time there.
"Oh," she said softly. "Jock."
He closed his lips around the nipple and sucked. She jerked beneath him, her hand tightening in his hair. He closed his teeth around her, not biting, but letting her feel their edge, and she moaned a high-pitched whine. He pulled off and moved to the next breast, laving attention on that one until she was a trembling mess beneath him, her breasts wet from his mouth, her body a beautiful all-over flush.
He ran his finger along the waistband of her underwear. "Can I take these off?"
She blinked at him, and her gaze shifted to where he still wore his jeans, although they were hanging off his hips. "Can you—can you be naked too?"
He grinned. "'Course." He shucked off his jeans and returned to his place at her side. "Now?"
He drew the underwear down her legs and laid them beside her on the bed. A patch of curly blond hair stood out on her pale skin, right above her clit. But the rest of her…she was bare. Bare and glistening with her arousal. Jesus fucking Christ, he could smell how turned on she was, he could see how it had begun to coat the crease of her thighs.
"Babe," he said, and stopped roaming with his fingers and cupped her possessively. "Would you let me put my mouth on you?"
Her eyes popped open, big and round. Her mouth dropped down but she didn't speak.
He smiled at her. "Babe, my mouth. My tongue. Between your thighs. I'm dying to taste you."
She gripped the bed tightly, and she looked on the verge of flight. "I feel very exposed, vulnerable," she said, and her honesty flayed him alive.
"I get that, babe. But this is still your show. You're in control. I'll stop, I'll go slow, I'll go fast, anything you want. You might feel vulnerable and exposed, but you got all the power."
She shivered, and her legs convulsed on his shoulders. Then she smiled and brushed her hand along his temple. "I just know I like how it feels when you touch me. And I want this."
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What does compliance mean in the education technology industry? Learn more with Justin Beals and Sam Oberholtzer as they discuss the ins and outs of FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) and why compliance in education matters.
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Justin Beals: Hey there, Sam. It's great to see you for episode nine today. It's been a little while. We took a short break, I think. If you can't tell, I moved during the break. I have a slightly different background. It's a wild time. We're not post-pandemic, but inviting each other into our homes via these remote calls. Did you...
Sam Oberholzer: Thank you for having me.
Justin Beals: Of course. [00:00:30] I am a southerner. We're going to offer you some tea. We're going to make sure you're settled in. I assume that I think you had a nice break, playing in some snow, and also a lot of work has gotten done recent at Strike Graph. It's been super exciting as we wrapped up our Q1, along with all of our other business partners.
Sam Oberholzer: Absolutely, and it's April Fools, April 1st.
Justin Beals: Oh, my goodness. It is.
Sam Oberholzer: So this is a nice little fun video cast that we're going [00:01:00] to have today.
Justin Beals: Yeah. I'm extra gullible, so I find that with April Fools jokes, I'm like, "Really?" Then I have to go research it. So you can't leave me hanging too long on the hook if have one for me today.
Sam Oberholzer: Let, me tell you, one time a friend did an April fools. I forgot what it was, but I remember being really high anxiety because she let it go for two days. She forgot to say, "April Fools," in a text. I thought she severely hurt herself. I'm like, "What is happening right [00:01:30] now?"
Justin Beals: All right.
Sam Oberholzer: So I won't let you hanging for too long.
Justin Beals: Thanks, Sam. Yeah. Well this particular podcast, we're going to be chatting a little bit about education technology as an industry because next week, you and I are going to be at one of my favorite conferences, ASU+GSV. I get asked all the time, what that stands for. It's Arizona State University and Global Silicon Ventures. Essentially, it's a really interesting ed tech conference where a lot of [00:02:00] early stage startups in the ed tech space are meeting with investors in the Silicon Valley vein and working through some of the innovations that are happening there. I think it's going to be real exciting. It's your first time visiting, but I've gone a fair bit. So this is actually/...
Finally, we're into an area that I have a ton of expertise in education technology. For those that don't know, I spent about 15 years developing innovative education technology solutions and it's a lot of fun, [00:02:30] but it's really exciting to work on a project like Strike Graph that has impact in a ton of industries. So you're new to ed tech privacy type concerns. So you're my foible for this particular event. You're going to ask me all the tough questions. I'm going to try to read some expertise.
Sam Oberholzer: Absolutely.
Justin Beals: All right, good. Yeah. Excellent.
Sam Oberholzer: Cannot wait to drill you.
Justin Beals: Good. So let's start off with each industry has had some type of [00:03:00] forward momentum into privacy or security, a little bit banking and finance might be like PCIDSS, but education has had one that they've had for a really long time, which like HIPAA, came in the form of a law and it's called FERPA, F-E-R-P-A. It stands for the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. I can't memorize all these, so I'm going to be checking my notes as we go through today.
Justin Beals: [00:03:30] So let's talk about FERPA, first of all, was put into place in 1974. So it's been around for a really long time, and we're going to talk about how it is old and languishes and probably doesn't come up to par with some of the types of technologies that we have today and types of solutions. So on the spectrum of working standards, this one is a tough one. I'm not sure how operable it is, but since, as a [inaudible 00:03:59] place, education [00:04:00] technology has been so steeped in it, it's probably a good place for us to start for our ed tech companies that we'll be meeting with next week and just to understand FERPA more deeply. As a CTO, my idea for FERPA, the way I interpret it is you got to keep student data private, essentially...
Sam Oberholzer: Yes.
Justin Beals: ... at the end of the day. [Netnet 00:04:23] was... That felt like the beginning, end, and middle of the story sometimes, but [00:04:30] it's also one of the things to understand about FERPA, you and I talk all the time about what are liability standards and what are revenue standards. FERPA is a liability standard. So you don't get a certificate for it. There's no assessment methodology. You claim compliance, but an independent assessment of that compliance is really almost impossible to get because it's very loose as we're going to describe some of the details around it. So an organization [00:05:00] that is concerned, earned about FERPA is concerned about a liability lawsuit, and you can actually file with the Department of Education, a FERPA complaint. Just like the SEC might go after a publicly traded company for some type of issue, that's where FERPA comes into play.
Sam Oberholzer: Absolutely. I think it's also important for our listeners, viewers to also know, or anyone that's in the ed tech space or any SaaS company that might have some [00:05:30] student data or PII, a lot of these privacy laws are just important to understand why it's liability, because it's really trying to protect the rights and the control of students, in this case, over their own data. So a lot of the times, we see that these privacy laws, especially they're coming up more and more because everyone's starting to realize just how crucial it is to protect people's [00:06:00] data, especially children, or users under 18. So that's really what comes down to why these privacy acts are actually coming into place more and more everywhere, globally.
Justin Beals: Exactly. Yeah. I've seen these privacy issues crop up for businesses in some really terrifying ways in education technology, in particular. One story I like to tell is there was a [00:06:30] great startup around 2008 to 2010 called In Bloom. They were trying to aggregate a large data set of student performance to identify best practices in education. They had built multi-state contracts to ingest that data. But the whole thing fell apart, even before they could get the product release, when parents at these states, rightfully so, became concerned about the privacy of that data. There [00:07:00] was no good way for this organization to talk to how they were going to keep it secure. So the market of standards around privacy had not really caught up with the opportunity that a solution could bring. So it is dangerous. It can really hurt you. However, it's not going to be that you have an RFP sitting out there and them waiting on your FERPA certificate to come through. That's not the type of issue you're going to see.
One [00:07:30] thing that I learned about FERPA today that I don't think a lot of people know, especially in the education technology product space, is who it actually applies to. So it doesn't actually, according to the law, apply to an ed tech solution. So let's say you're a learning management system. That's not what FERPA says. FERPA says it applies to any public or private school, elementary, secondary, or post-secondary, and any state or local education [00:08:00] agency. So that's any education agency that is receiving funds under a program with the US Department of Education. So when you are shopping your ed tech solution around and a school wants to adopt it, but they ask if you're FERPA compliant, it's not that you're directly liable. The US Department of Education is not going to come knocking on a learning management system's door and say, "We're going to fine you." They're going to fine the [00:08:30] school and that's why the school is terrified about it.
Sam Oberholzer: Absolutely. This is where the high risk comes into to play. But we're also seeing even some of our customers have questions around this, that the states or the schools or whatever we're talking about, they're actually pushing down their requirements to our customers that are SaaS [00:09:00] products that might be processing student data. So I would love to hear a little bit into play from your perspective, how we can minimize that risk or minimize the pressure from these school that are hiring vendors, like some of our customers are.
Justin Beals: Yeah. Honestly, I think the problem for the schools here is that they imagine by asking, "Are you FERPA compliant," that they bring you into some form of liability. I think I would advise schools [00:09:30] that that's just not the case. I mean, anyone can... Lawsuits are written if you decide you want to. Nothing holds that back. But you, as a school, that is held under this FERPA law needs to really decide what your third party risk management program will look like. I don't recommend FERPA as a requirement because it's so loose, as we're going to see, that it's [00:10:00] just not a good ask.
If you're a buyer at a school asking, "Are you FERPA compliant," is not a great way to manage the risk that a new third party vendor is introducing into your school for liability against FERPA. Yeah. So I think we're going to start talking about a couple of standards that we recommend ed tech companies vendors go after and buyers start asking for, for sure. Let's talk a little bit about [00:10:30] the information that's protected so that you can know which of these standards are really going to be applicable. It really comes down to student education records. So this is any personally identifiable information. True or false, Sam, email? That's PII, right?
Sam Oberholzer: Yeah. Two or more.
Justin Beals: Two or more.
Sam Oberholzer: [crosstalk 00:10:50] identified to them. Yep. That is the rule of thumb, I tell everybody. Some people don't think location is considered it, but...
Justin Beals: [00:11:00] Well...
Sam Oberholzer: ... we see that it's expanding more and more with these privacy laws.
Justin Beals: I live in a very small town now. I think if someone said Justin plus small town, there'd only be a couple of us so you're probably going to find me out. So I think you're exactly right. It's two pieces of data and sometimes only one, especially if you're dealing with a social security number, which is oftentimes how students are tracked with ID values. I mean, the other thing to note is that I don't think we say this enough, is that [00:11:30] any generated value. Let's say you have a database and you create a key ID for each student, that now is personally identifiable information, right? It is identifying a student. Now, granted, you may hold that only in your database, but it's still PII. You still need to protect it. Is that correct, Sam?
Sam Oberholzer: It depends. It really depends on their security controls and what they're doing. If they're masking, I mean, we can get a little bit more into detail with that, but it really is dependent on [00:12:00] what their, I'm just going to call them protocols are around protecting this data. So this is a good segue into why we recommend other standard for organizations that process student data on behalf of these schools.
Justin Beals: Yeah. Okay. One of the things FERPA did well for 1974, kudos to these guys, they actually defined what types of disclosure of personally [00:12:30] identifiable information is allowed. So we're actually going to do the list here so that we know who a school can share this PII information with. So school officials, the school to which a student is transferring, so if you're transferring schools, you can ship the records, specific officials for audit or evaluation purposes. So I think that you could identify evaluation purposes [00:13:00] is somewhere where you start bringing in SaaS platforms and you're putting that data on there and that's where you're starting to share it, any parties in connection with financial aid, to a student. That's critical, especially in higher ed for sharing that data. If you have a research organization that's conducting a study on behalf of the school, then that's okay.
But note that a good research institution will be doing their own privacy review of the research that they're doing and the impact on people. [00:13:30] That's called an IRB, a review board, and it's important to get your IRB sign off on any research that you're doing at, especially, a research institution. Any accrediting organization. So this is especially true for higher ed. If you are a university and you're going through accreditation, you may have to sell [inaudible 00:13:51] share student information in the accreditation process. Any officials in need of health or safety emergencies, [00:14:00] state and local authorities within a juvenile justice system pursuant to specific state law is allowed, and then to comply with a judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena. Note that nowhere in here, and of course this was written in 1974, is any SaaS provider that you want to work with. So this is where I think it not being a permitted disclosure, but the school actually disclosing the data, they need a real [00:14:30] good perspective on why that is still being held in private spaces.
Sam Oberholzer: Exactly.
Justin Beals: Because you're deeply liable for if a breach happens at a third party vendor for FERPA, you at the school, again, not the vendor. Now, you could sue for a breach of contract to that vendor, but you better make sure that your contract says something like, "Hey, we expect you to hold this data private." I would also [00:15:00] recommend if you're a buyer, "We expect you to stay compliant with this particular standard." So that's where I think the standards come into play, right, Sam?
Sam Oberholzer: Yeah. As I was thinking through this too, and just from what I know from this, I actually do think that's very crazy that even when you're performing your own research or when you're talking or looking at the law of FERPA, you'll see that when they talk about third parties, [00:15:30] they really are saying, "This is what they should do, but nothing's required." Literally, the only thing that is required is a contract and then they'll state, "Okay. Best practice is that both parties," so the school that has direct access to the student data and then that third party that they might partner with or contract for, they state, "Best practice to share the transparency of their data security or what they use and disclose how [00:16:00] they use the data."
But none of this is actually a requirement. That is fascinating to me because if we think about in health tech, how they came up with high tech for HIPAA in the US, how they require that actual [inaudible 00:16:22] proves their security and privacy controls. It's actually fascinating that in this case, in education, [00:16:30] mainly dealing with younger, under age, under 18, it's just fascinating that they're not requiring, but yet it's labeled as best practice guidance for those vendors.
Justin Beals: Yeah, absolutely. I've seen all kinds of bizarre questions asked of me as a CTO in like, "Are you FERPA compliant?" One of the ones that I find really interesting is, "Well, you're FERPA compliant if your data is encrypted," but the problem is encryption is transitory always, [00:17:00] right? Because you don't keep it in the gobbldy gook encryption and try and read it with your eyes. You have to decrypt it at some point. At that point, the information is exposed. So it's just that I think that there has been... Well let's face it, usually, the buyers are not experts deeply in technology and security, let alone security as a broader practice, and they're doing their best [00:17:30] to respond to what they think are the best practices of their marketplace. However, the best practices are not well-defined because they were defined quite some time ago.
Justin Beals: Yeah. So we've done good. We have a fair number of education technology customers, and some that started with us when we founded the company more than two years ago. I think what's interesting that I have learned is that some of the security standards that we do commonly see across [00:18:00] business are actually starting to be the security standards being asked for by buyers in education spaces. So I know of at least two or three statewide contracts where the state government chief information security officer has provided an edict for all buyers of technology in the state government for [SOC2 00:18:25] or [ISO27001 00:18:27] certification before purchasing. That's becoming more [00:18:30] commonplace.
Sam Oberholzer: I agree. Even when I'm just thinking about our ad tech customers that they've been showing us and sharing with us, their security questionnaires, and they are seriously a straight up rip from your baseline security program, SOC2 program that includes a list of all questions around what's their security controls. [00:19:00] So that's the most applicable to those companies that are critical vendors to these schools that would have to abide by FERPA.
Justin Beals: W we made a leap here that you and I are very comfortable with, but I think it's very confusing when I started. As you helped me learn about it early on, we went from talking about privacy to talking about security. Sam, what is the relationship between the two things?
Sam Oberholzer: Absolutely. [00:19:30] So starting off, privacy relies on security because security is really, how are you protecting the data? How are you protecting with actual controls in place by both indirect? So think about your HR, your employees, they're indirectly impacting systems, as well as your actual system controls. So that's what security is. It's actually protecting [00:20:00] the data. Privacy is protecting the rights of the users to access their data. So that's why privacy relies on security because you can't possibly have your actual data, so PII, secure, unless you have controls surrounding that. If everything was open, then nothing's private because anybody can access it. Yeah.
Justin Beals: Yeah. So another way I might put it is [00:20:30] privacy extends security. If you don't have a security posture, you can't keep things private, but there is a little more added to privacy in that there are individual rights. So there's got to be some controls or processes inside an organization to allow those individual rights to be voiced. I mean, I think about GDPR here as a privacy standard where I can say, "Hey, I want my record deleted."
Justin Beals: Good.
Sam Oberholzer: You have that right.
Justin Beals: [00:21:00] Yeah. So I have started to think of SOC2 as a standard and ISO27001 as general security standards, broadly applicable to businesses, a wide swath of them. I think that's why we've seen [CISOs 00:21:19] say, "Here's a general auditable or certifiable security practice that we are just starting to expect." You think that's why we've seen ed tech buyers [00:21:30] start to ask for those?
Sam Oberholzer: Yeah, absolutely, and because they're really, if we're just putting the ed tech companies in one bucket, and if they're really just looking to sell to schools, it's actually quite interesting the relationship, because if there are no laws or if there's no push to prove security, then it's almost like I can see [00:22:00] that starting to happen because we're seeing that happen to every industry. So being a little bit more proactive and being able to prove it, you can just think of SOC2 or ISO just as your, well ISO International, so it's way more strict, but SOC2 as you're foundational, because it's going to be translated to everything, every privacy law, every single other security standard you want to go for. I think that's what's just so [00:22:30] important and why we're seeing more ed tech just be interested in what they actually have in place.
Justin Beals: Yeah. I think that if I were advising an ed tech company today, I would ask them one question, "Are you US-centric?" Because there's a lot of ed tech organizations that are like, "Hey, we're built to sell to US curriculums." They may even say like, "We're just focusing on half a dozen states," in their initial rollout. Then SOC2 is a great standard. [00:23:00] I think if you were going more broadly, Europe, Asia-Pac, I would probably focus on ISO27001. Then both of those, in a really nice way, SOC2 and ISO27001 have some carve outs for a privacy certification as well, right?
Justin Beals: Yeah. I know in SOC2, it's like there's a minimum required security portion of the standard, but then there's availability, processing [00:23:30] integrity...
Sam Oberholzer: Confidentiality.
Justin Beals: Confidentiality, thank you, and then privacy, right?
Sam Oberholzer: Yep.
Justin Beals: Yes. Good. So if I were an ed tech company, maybe I'm not getting privacy right away, but I'm definitely thinking I'm going to get SOC2 and then hot on the heels, probably privacy, right?
Sam Oberholzer: Yeah, absolutely. Because privacy is a little bit more strange because you're not just thinking about potentially your customers as an organization, [00:24:00] you're potentially thinking about their reach. So it is extending more of that thought process beyond just dealing with your direct customers. So that's why anytime you think that or anytime or any organization has the potential of collecting PII for the requirement of their services, or even if they just don't know, then they should think about the pathway to proving [00:24:30] privacy.
Justin Beals: Yeah, absolutely. Then on the ISO side, ISO27001 and brand new and on the Strike Graph product, ISO27701, just to make it difficult, is a privacy specific standard that has an assessment methodology, so you can be certified against it. That covers GDPR quite well, I think, as well, right?
Sam Oberholzer: 100% of an overlap of GDPR. [00:25:00] For those of you that don't know GDPR, it is a global privacy law, but mainly within Europe, but you're going to start seeing that's the highest, strictest privacy standard in the world. So if you are GDPR compliant, then you're going to be good everywhere else. Everything else, it's already covered, which is nice.
Justin Beals: Awesome. Yeah. Well, this has been a [00:25:30] lot of fun for me. I finally get to use a muscle that I had for a while on the education side. I'm super excited to see you in San Diego for ASU+GSV. I know we'll both be on site. We have a booth there. So those that [inaudible 00:25:46] to sit through these conversations that we have are welcome to come see us in person, right?
Sam Oberholzer: Absolutely. I'm super excited because of the fact that, again, since ed tech or just education in general, [00:26:00] I don't... I see the movement going towards proving their due diligence, trying to align with a standard like SOC2, so I'm really excited to educate the educators.
Justin Beals: Yeah. We've seen other markets deal with this, like a tidal wave, right?
Justin Beals: One day, it's okay, you're getting contracts. You don't have to prove it. The next day, everyone is asking for it and being ahead of the curve means that you box [00:26:30] out the competition in a sales motion. There is nothing better in your RFP response for school adoption than saying, "We're SOC2 certified." That ensures some control over privacy, especially when your competitors haven't done it yet. So I think for those organizations that want to grow quickly, I think there's an opportunity here to lean in ahead of the movement of the marketplace instead of feeling like you have to respond to it. Yeah.
Sam Oberholzer: I agree. I [00:27:00] know we preach this often just because security and privacy is always at the top of our minds, but it truly is foundational and I truly believe that the industry's going to move pretty quickly. Honestly, probably within the next five years. So why not get started now and prove that, again, just to reiterate the trust that you're trying to build with your customers and their customers, which is the students and parents, but [00:27:30] yeah, I see it going in that direction and might as well be proactive.
Justin Beals: All right, Sam, another great conversation. I'm excited to see you in San Diego. Have a great weekend.
Sam Oberholzer: Have a great weekend. I'm so excited to see you in person. It's going to be... It's finally going to be a compliance party now.
Justin Beals: That's right. That's right. All right. Bye-bye, Sam.
Sam Oberholzer: See ya.
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M-degrees of quadrangle-free planar graphs
Oleg V. Borodin, Alexandr V. Kostoehka, Naeem N. Sheikh, Gexin Yu
The M-degree of an edge xy in a graph is the maximum of the degrees of x and y. The M-degree of a graph G is the minimum over M-degrees of its edges. In order to get upper bounds on the game chromatic number, He et al showed that every planar graph 6 without leaves and 4-cycles has M-degree at most 8 and gave an example of such a graph with M-degree 3. This yields upper bounds on the game chromatic number of C4-free planar graphs. We determine the maximum possible M-degrees for planar, projective-planar and toroidal graphs without leaves and 4-cycles. In particular, for planar and projective-planar graphs this maximum is 7.
Journal of Graph Theory
https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.20346
Game coloring
Planar graphs
10.1002/jgt.20346
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Borodin, O. V., Kostoehka, A. V., Sheikh, N. N., & Yu, G. (2009). M-degrees of quadrangle-free planar graphs. Journal of Graph Theory, 60(1), 80-85. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.20346
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In: Journal of Graph Theory, Vol. 60, No. 1, 01.2009, p. 80-85.
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8 May 18 A new report by the Gangmasters & Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) highlights the prevalence of modern slavery in the UK construction industry.
It also flags up the dangers of exploitation that are inherent within the industry's labour model.
The report is entitled The nature and scale of labour exploitation across all sectors within the United Kingdom. As well as construction it looks at maritime, manufacturing, retail and other sectors. Typically, victims are forced to work for little or no pay until they have paid of debts. They are usually immigrants, but not always.
The GLAA paints Irish traveller families in a particularly bad light. Its report says: "There are believed to be gangmasters operating in the UK who are involved in the movement of workers internationally, particularly within Europe, providing labourers wherever there is demand. The UK construction sector employs approximately three million people and is a high risk industry for labour exploitation.
"The often convoluted supply chains in the industry make identifying potential exploitation and ending illegal practices challenging. Intelligence reports the involvement of Irish traveller families in the exploitation of workers in this industry, particularly in groundwork, paving and driveways.
"Labourers commonly live in caravans on their land, paying up to £600 per month in rent to live in conditions described as inhumane, unsafe and overcrowded. Workers controlled by Irish traveller families are reported to be ordered to clean, look after children and complete chores in addition to their main labour. In a number of cases workers can receive as little as £5-10 per day, whilst others are not paid at all or are only paid in part.
The report looks beyond slavery to other forms of worker exploitation. It says: "There is reported to be widespread use of self-employment as the preferred contracting arrangement in this sector, with a direct link to exploitation. Self-employed workers are cheaper to hire, are not entitled to holiday pay or statutory sick pay, and must provide their own PPE. Despite being registered as self-employed, many workers will have in fact worked exclusively for one company for many years. Furthermore, the manner in which workers are directed to undertake work is unlikely to meet the criteria to be correctly defined as self-employed. Migrant workers in particular may not understand that they are being deceived regarding their employment rights and status.
In October 2017, the GLAA released a construction protocol, establishing a voluntary information sharing agreement regarding how the GLAA will work with parties involved in the supply and use of labour into the UK construction sector. The intention is for there to be a joint approach to maintaining an ethical supply chain where workers are protected against exploitation and abuse.
Stakeholders are to notify the GLAA of any cases of alleged exploitation within their own operation or supply chain and the GLAA will hold quarterly meetings with stakeholders to ensure there is an open dialogue with regards to trends, issues and concerns.
Home Office minister Victoria Atkins said: "The barbaric nature of modern slavery means it destroys the lives of its victims, which is why we introduced the world-leading Modern Slavery Act 2015 and increased the Gangmasters & Labour Abuse Authority funding by £2.6m a year to help tackle modern slavery and wider labour exploitation.
Unite assistant general secretary Gail Cartmail said: "This important and authoritative report from the GLAA hits the nail on the head when it comes to identifying how and why exploitation occurs in the construction industry.
"The report is entirely right to identify that not only does false self-employment deny workers basic employment rights but by barring them from receiving holiday and sick pay, these workers are automatically being exploited and further abuses are likely.
"The report is also right to highlight that the extended and convoluted supply chains, makes identifying who a worker's real employer is very difficult, while the use of exploitative payment methods such as umbrella companies makes these matters even more confusing.
"This report needs to be carefully studied by the industry and by government as the current status quo is clearly not acceptable. Employers must reform working practices to ensure that the unscrupulous cannot exploit workers and the government should be forcing employers to take such appropriate action.
"Unite is committed to tackling exploitation in any form whenever it is identified. We will be stepping up our activities in the coming months and naming and shaming companies that are allowing exploitation on their sites. The conspiracy of silence must end."
7 hours Van Elle, the publicly quoted geotechnical contractor, has warned shareholders that its annual profits will be below expectations because of clients stalling on project start dates.
7 hours Crossrail's new leadership team has produced a new plan to get the delayed project finished and start rail operations under central London sometime between October 2020 and March 2021.
7 hours Osborne has been awarded a £40m contract for the reconstruction of a 1960s office building in the West End of London.
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Contributing
============

Want to contribute back to Sentry? This page describes the general development flow,
our philosophy, the test suite, and issue tracking.

Documentation
-------------

If you're looking to help document Sentry, you can get set up with Sphinx, our documentation tool,
but first you will want to make sure you have a few things on your local system:

* python-dev (if you're on OS X, you already have this)
* pip
* virtualenvwrapper

Once you've got all that, the rest is simple:

::

    # If you have a fork, you'll want to clone it instead
    git clone git://github.com/getsentry/sentry.git

    # Create a python virtualenv
    mkvirtualenv sentry

    # Make the magic happen
    make dev-docs

Running ``make dev-docs`` will install the basic requirements to get Sphinx running.

Building Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Inside the ``docs`` directory, you can run ``make`` to build the documentation.
See ``make help`` for available options and the `Sphinx Documentation <http://sphinx-doc.org/contents.html>`_ for more information.

Localization
------------

If you're just looking to help translate Sentry, apply for membership via `Transifex <https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/sentry/>`_.

Developing Against HEAD
-----------------------

We try to make it easy to get up and running in a development environment using a git checkout
of Sentry. You'll want to make sure you have a few things on your local system first:

* python-dev (if you're on OS X, you already have this)
* pip
* virtualenv (ideally virtualenvwrapper)
* node.js (for npm and building css/javascript)
* (Optional) Redis
* (Optional) Potgresql

Once you've got all that, the rest is simple:

::

    # If you have a fork, you'll want to clone it instead
    git clone git://github.com/getsentry/sentry.git

    # Create a python virtualenv
    mkvirtualenv sentry

    # Make the magic happen
    make

Running ``make`` will do several things, including:

* Setting up any submodules (including Bootstrap)
* Installing Python requirements
* Installing NPM requirements

.. note::
    You will want to store your virtualenv out of the ``sentry`` directory you cloned above,
    otherwise ``make`` will fail.

Create a default Sentry configation just as if this were a production instance:

::

    sentry init

You'll likely want to make some changes to the default configuration (we recommend developing against Postgres, for example). Once done, migrate your database using the following command:

::

	sentry upgrade

.. note:: The ``upgrade`` shortcut is simply a combination of South's migrate, and Django's syncdb commands.

Coding Standards
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Sentry follows the guidelines laid out in `pep8 <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>`_  with a little bit
of flexibility on things like line length. We always give way for the `Zen of Python <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/>`_. We also use strict mode for JavaScript, enforced by jshint.

You can run all linters with ``make lint``, or respectively ``lint-python`` or ``lint-js``.

Running the Test Suite
----------------------

The test suite consists of multiple parts, testing both the Python and JavaScript components in Sentry. If you've setup your environment correctly, you can run the entire suite with the following command:

::

    make test

If you only need to run the Python tests, you can do so with ``make test-python``, as well as ``test-js`` for the JavaScript tests.

You'll notice that the test suite is structured based on where the code lives, and strongly encourages using the mock library to drive more accurate individual tests.

.. note:: We use py.test for the Python test suite, and a combination of phantomjs and jasmine for the JavaScript tests.

Static Media
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Sentry uses a library that compiles it's static media assets (LESS and JS files) automatically. If you're developing using
runserver you'll see changes happen not only in the original files, but also the minified or processed versions of the file.

If you've made changes and need to compile them by hand for any reason, you can do so by running:

::

    sentry compilestatic

The minified and processed files should be committed alongside the unprocessed changes.

Developing with Django
----------------------

Because Sentry is just Django, you can use all of the standard Django functionality. The only difference is you'll be accessing commands that would normally go through manage.py using the ``sentry`` CLI helper instead.

For example, you probably don't want to use ``sentry start`` for development, as it doesn't support anything like
automatic reloading on code changes. For that you'd want to use the standard builtin ``runserver`` command:

::

	sentry runserver

Contributing Back Code
----------------------

All patches should be sent as a pull request on GitHub, include tests, and documentation where needed. If you're fixing a bug or making a large change the patch **must** include test coverage.

Uncertain about how to write tests? Take a look at some existing tests that are similar to the code you're changing, and go from there.

You can see a list of open pull requests (pending changes) by visiting https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/pulls


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Video Games & E-Sports: 2022 Valuation Multiples
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Valuations for video games and e-sports companies largely fell back to pre-pandemic levels with a median revenue multiple of 3.4x in Q4 2021.
reports : Tech, Trends and Valuation
Video games have been around for at least three decades and have become as prevalent as any other form of entertainment across almost any demographic. The sector has amassed billions of fans, not just among players but viewers as well, with the largest E-Sport events reaching viewership numbers in the millions.
Different research firms estimate the global gaming market size between $200bn and $230bn in 2021, and the sector is expected to grow to nearly $550bn by 2028. While the E-Sports sectors is still in its infancy, gaining just over $1.25bn in revenues last year, it is growing at a fast pace and is expected to more than double within the next four years.
This data shows just how mature the sector has become since its early days of targeting only a niche, tech-savvy audience. The modern video game industry has branched out into many sub-sectors and reached a global audience irrespective of age and lifestyle, but this growth inevitably brought many changes and trends to the space.
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Mobile gaming, for example, allowed for an expansion of the video game industry outside of home-based gaming consoles, opening up the sector to more casual users. Within this shift, new product categories such as hyper-casual, free-to-play mobile games came to prominence—this industry is estimated to be worth upwards of $3bn and is the fastest growing sub-sector in gaming.
In the meantime, research and development in VR and AR technologies are pushing the boundaries of engagement and realism targeting both veteran gamers looking for an enhanced experience and capturing new audiences who enjoy a more "tangible" gameplay, integrated with real-life actions and scenarios. Hit mobile AR game Pokemon Go is perhaps the best example of this, grossing close to $1bn per year in revenue.
Finally, social media platforms and the video game industry became inextricably connected as a dual user-base of gamers and viewers use them to connect and share content. Streaming platform Twitch was acquired by Amazon for $970m back in 2014, boasting a primarily gaming-focused audience.
Watching players compete in video games as a form of entertainment sparked the rise of E-Sports, where professional gamers take part in tournaments with bigger and bigger prize pools, with viewership numbers that are comparable and often higher than many traditional sport leagues. Global brands such as Intel, RedBull, Pepsico and the US Air Force are pouring millions in sponsorship contracts with the biggest esports teams, some of which are now valued hundreds of millions of dollars and boast celebrity investors, eying public-market debut and unicorn valuations.
The Global X Video Games & Esports ETF (HERO), managed by Mirae Asset Financial Group, "seeks to invest in companies that develop or publish video games, facilitate the streaming and distribution of video gaming or esports content, own and operate within competitive esports leagues, or produce hardware used in video games and esports, including augmented and virtual reality."
The 30 companies in the fund are all listed on public stock exchanges, and so their financial metrics may differ from younger start-ups introducing innovative technologies, typically considered a high-risk-high-reward investment. However, analysing their revenue and EBITDA multiples allows us to establish a benchmark that can be useful to infer the valuation of a private company.
Video Games & E-Sports Valuation Multiples
There is no arguing that the COVID-19 pandemic has boosted viewership and revenues in the esports and gaming sectors, with traditional sport events coming to a halt as well as lockdowns all over the world many players and viewers could still enjoy video games tournaments remotely.
As a result, Revenue multiples jumped from 3.4x in Q1 2020 to 5.9x in Q4 2020, later falling back to pre-pandemic levels. In Q4 2021 the median EV/Revenue multiple for Video Games and E-Sports companies was 3.4x.
Source: YCharts
Multiples performance within the fund's companies is very uneven, with 75% of the companies currently under the 6x mark, while the top 25% can be valued as much as 40x their revenue.
Source: YCharts In the chart above, the lines indicate the range of EV/Revenue multiples in our cohorts, while the boxes highlight the Interquartile Range (IQR), which is where the median 50% of the cohort ranks based on their valuation multiple.
EV/EBITDA multiples followed a similar trajectory, growing from 13.4x to 22x throughout 2020, falling back more rapidly than their Revenue counterparts through 2021. The median EBITDA multiple for Video Games and E-Sports companies in Q4 2021 was 10.5x, 25% below pre-pandemic levels.
"Monetizing esports is still a work in progress." reports VentureBeat, highlighting how while the sector has the momentum to surpass traditional sports in viewership, revenue and market size, it's still looking for the most viable business model to do so.
While top-performing video games companies reached over 100x multiples throughout 2020, variance has since decreased drastically even for profitable businesses, ranging from 1.5x to 65x in Q4 2021, with the median half of the sample recording multiples between 7x and 21x.
Source: YCharts In the chart above, the lines indicate the range of EV/EBITDA multiples in our cohorts, while the boxes highlight the Interquartile Range (IQR), which is where the median 50% of the cohort ranks based on their valuation multiple.
Nothing on this page is intended to be or should be construed or taken as accountancy, investment, tax or any other kind of advice. We recommend individuals and companies seek professional advice on their circumstances and matters.
FinTech: 2023 Valuation Multiples
In Q4 2022, FinTech companies in the SEG Index recorded a median EV/Revenue multiple of 5.4x, less than half compared to pre-pandemic levels.
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B2B SaaS: 2023 Valuation Multiples
Revenue multiples for B2B SaaS companies declined rapidly throughout 2022, with median multiples for Q4 below pre-pandemic levels, at 5.8x.
PropTech: 2022 Valuation Multiples
Based on M&A transactions over the last 5 years, Hampleton Partners found that the median Revenue multiple for PropTech companies was 3.7x.
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Darnell Clark is a lecturer and the graduate school sports performance practicum coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. From 2004-2022 he served as the Director of Strength and Conditioning at Charlotte Country Day School (CCDS) in Charlotte, NC. In this role, Clark and his staff directed performance training for 70 middle school, junior varsity, and varsity teams (24 sports). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University and a Master's degree in Physical Education from Arizona State University. Clark is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist® with Distinction (CSCS,*D®) and a Registered Strength and Conditioning Coach with Distinction (RSCC*D). He has shared his research and experiences by presenting on multiple topics domestically and internationally. In 2014, Clark was the recipient of the NSCA's High School Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year Award, and under his direction, CCDS earned the NSCA's Strength of America Award for ten consecutive years. He has coached 10 NSCA High School Strength and Conditioning All-Americans and over 250 college-bound student-athletes. From 2013 – 2016, he served as the NSCA's North Carolina State Director; from 2016 – 2019, he served as the NSCA Southeast Regional Coordinator; and from 2019-2022 served on the NSCA board of directors. Currently, Clark is pursuing his Doctorate in Kinesiology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where his research focus is coach education and pedagogy.


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Why we love being a workers' co-op
We are a workers' co-op, which means that the workers own and manage the organisation as equals. We don't have outside shareholders or a boss - we as members of the co-op decide together what's best for us and the groups we support.
We love working in this way – here are some reasons why:
Taking control over our work place
Everyone who works for Seeds for Change is also a member of the co-op. Together we make all the decisions that affect us and the organisation, including our long-term strategy, working conditions and what to do with any surplus.
Non-hierarchical working
Our co-op is non-hierarchical, which means that we have no top-down management. We each take responsibility for our own work, as well as offering each other support, for example through reviews and giving each other regular feedback.
We make our decisions by consensus, which means finding decisions that we all agree with. This gives us all a very real sense of ownership and understanding of the business. We learn from one another all the time, and are able to make strong, well-founded decisions upheld by all members.
We believe in equal pay, rather than valuing some skills or experience more highly than others. By offering a flat rate of pay, we encourage an equal sense of ownership and worth in all members.
Being a co-op means we can put our strong shared ethics at the core of everything we do, rather than making a profit.
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Not only can we create meaningful workplaces and integrate our ethics into co-op decisions, co-ops also provide us with an opportunity to learn the skills in taking collective responsibility to build a better world.
Co-operation for us doesn't stop with how we relate to our work mates. We are proud to be part of the growing co-operative movement and we hope our example will inspire others to pursue a co-operative way of working.
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Home| RDIF and Siemens invest in the development of Russian railway transport
RDIF and Siemens invest in the development of Russian railway transport
Munich, February 15, 2019 – The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia's sovereign wealth fund, Siemens Mobility, a division of the German company Siemens AG which produces railway equipment and trains, representing the German Initiative for High Speed Transportation in Russia, together with the Economic Partnership Ural High-Speed Rail have agreed on a joint project to construct the Ural High-Speed Rail. The agreement was signed today on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
The total investment in the project will exceed 300 billion rubles. The funds will be used to construct a new double-track high-speed railway between the cities of Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg. The 220km long rail link would allow trains to travel at speeds of 300 km/h.
The project will be implemented within the framework of a concession agreement and will also include the construction of related infrastructure. This will include four railway stations (Balandino and Koltsovo airports, Snezhinsk and Sysert), 10 intermediate stations and station complexes, four traction substations, a depot for high-speed rolling stock and a control building for the rail link.
Construction of the railway line will begin in 2021 with commissioning scheduled for 2025.
Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), noted:
"RDIF is one of Russia's largest investors in the equity capital of infrastructure projects being recently implemented. Infrastructure investments account for more than 40% of the Fund's portfolio, and we plan to continue to invest in this sector. The project to build a high-speed railway linking Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk, each with a population of more than one million, is of strategic importance not only for these regions, but also for the whole country. It will help create the third largest urban area in Russia with a population of four million people."
Sergey Brevnov, CEO of the Economic Partnership Ural High-Speed Rail, said:
"The formation of a consortium of partners is one of the key priorities in the preparation of the project to construct a high-speed railway between Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg. Partnership with the Russia's sovereign wealth fund and one of the world's technological leaders is a significant strengthening of the status and capabilities of the project. Considering the approving resolution of Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on the appeal of the governors of Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions Boris Dubrovsky and Yevgeny Kuyvashev, we expect the project to be included in the Comprehensive Plan for the Modernization and Development of Mainline Infrastructure until 2024, as well as the completion of negotiations on concession terms and conditions, signing the concession agreement and launching the design".
Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) is Russia's sovereign wealth fund established in 2011 to make equity co-investments, primarily in Russia, alongside reputable international financial and strategic investors. RDIF acts as a catalyst for direct investment in the Russian economy. RDIF's management company is based in Moscow. Currently, RDIF has experience of the successful joint implementation of more than 70 projects with foreign partners totaling more than 1.4 trillion rubles and covering 95% of the regions of the Russian Federation. RDIF portfolio companies employ more than 700,000 people, and generate revenues which equate to more than 5% of Russia's GDP. RDIF established joint strategic partnerships with leading international co-investors from more than 15 countries that total more than 40 billion dollars. Further information can be found at www.rdif.ru
Special purpose company – Economic Partnership "Ural High-Speed Rail" (EP "UHSR") was established in March 2016. The main goal of the activity of the EP «UHSR» is the preparation of the Ural HSR Chelyabinsk – Ekaterinburg Project for implementation based on the principles of a public-private partnership, search and raising of funds for the implementation of the Project, entry into a concession agreement by way of a private initiative and further execution thereof.
As part of the Project preparation the EP «UHSR» is responsible for the formulation of a strategic, marketing, technical, economic and legal environment for the implementation of the Project, for the development of the documentation involving thereof, and for ensuring the events of interest necessary and sufficient for the implementation of the Project, including raising of funds and handling of the formalities related to mutual relations between the public partner and the private investor.
The amount of EP "UHSR" joint capital is 320 mln rubles. At the present time EP "UHSR" consists of six participants: Chelyabinsk region, Development Corporation of Middle Ural (established by Sverdlovsk region), RWM Capital Investment Group, Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant, Russian Copper Company and Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works.
For additional information contact:
Arseniy Palagin
Russian Direct Investment Fund
Tel: +7 495 644 34 14, ext. 2395
E-mail: arseniy.palagin@rdif.ru
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Q: retrieving data from a link list of File and comparing the obtain image with the existing image i am trying to obtain File from the link list of File and then compare the obtained image with the existing image on imageView but it is giving null pointer exception enter code here
files.stream().map((file) -> file.toPath().toString()).forEachOrdered((string) -> {
try {
    Image source =new Image(new FileInputStream(string));
    if(source==image){
        stringFilePath=string;
    }
} catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
    Logger.getLogger(SecondFrameController.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}

i also tried it with for loop but the problem still exist
  for(File file:files)
            {
                 String string= file.toPath().toString();
                        try {
                            Image source =new Image(new FileInputStream(string));
                             if(source==image){
                                   stringFilePath=string;
                             }
                        } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
                            Logger.getLogger(SecondFrameController.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
                        }
            }

A: In your case the == operator would never return true, as it is used to identify instance, not to compare images.
See this answer for more on == on objects: http://stackoverflow.com/a/19966154/2284641
Try using a method of the class Image, that could be used to compare it with another Image instance.

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