I am on the team that develops the Savvius Insight Appliance. During the development of Insight 1.0, I helped to define the value proposition, and the use cases for Insight, from there I helped to make choices about the hardware, the analysis, and the reporting. For the reporting we went with Splunk, and I designed the dashboards. For Insight 1.0 we decided to put a Splunk Forwarder on the appliance, but left it up to the user to provide their own Splunk Server.
We recently released Insight 2.0, which mainly added the ELK stack for long term reporting. This is great because with ELK on the Insight appliance, there is a full blown reporting solution built right in. In fact, the default mode for Insight 2.0 is to start capturing network traffic on the inline bridge ports, do the network flow and application analysis, output the analysis to CSV, feed the analysis through Logstash and into Elasticsearch, and make the analysis available through the Kibana dashboards, which if I do say so myself, look pretty nice. Going with the dark theme, was definitely the right choice.
Our analysis is mostly flow based, with DPI allowing for application (layer 7) analysis. This provides metrics on applications above HTTP, like Salesforce, Google, CNN, Amazon, etc… This allows for a distinction between applications that are critical, and those that are not, and even those that are not allowed.
We also generate expert events on network behavior that may be the cause of network security and performance issues. All of this analysis is written to CSV files at a 1-minute interval. The interval can be changed by the user, but 1-minute is a reasonable default, providing the right balance of performance, history, and granularity for most network monitoring use cases.
But I digress. What I really want to talk about at the moment is our data, and what continues to amaze me about how it can be visualized in Kibana. The first step to this is knowing the data. During Insight 2.0, I thought I knew what data was going into CSV, and being picked up by Logstash pretty well. And I did know it well enough to put together a fairly rich set of dashboards. But in Insight 2.0 I was limited to the built-in visualizations, which limited my thinking about the data.
Since 2.0, I have been looking at Kibana plugins, which have really opened my eyes about different ways to visualize our data. And the great thing about these plugins, and really the reason I am writing this, is that they can be installed directly into an Insight 2.0 appliance, and used to create new and exciting dashboards and visualizations. And if you have Insight 1.0, the hardware for Insight 2.0 did not change, so you can easily upgrade to Insight 2.0 by going to the web config page. If your Insight has access to the Internet, it will inform you that an upgrade is available, and provide a button to push. If your Insight is not on the internet, there are easy instructions on the Insight portal to download the latest version, and upgrade the device.
Back to the Kibana plugins. There are two kinds of plugins that I have been experimenting with on Insight. One type, is an application plugin that has its own UI. Examples of these are Sense, Timelion, and Graph. These plugins cannot be used to create visualizations in a dashboard, but can be used to ask interesting multi-dimensional questions about your data, visualize the result in ways that look amazing, and may also give you some major insight about the behavior or your network. The other type of plugin adds visualizations that can be mapped to your data and added to dashboards. Some of these include Timeline, Sankey, and HTML. I even wrote my own, from instructions of course, that puts a real-time clock into my dashboard. I look forward to writing more of these type of plugins.
Now I am going to talk a little about the plugins I have played with, and the data I used in them. I recommend that you make the most of your Insight device and add these plugins as well. But before you add any of these plugins, you have to enable PERSIST, so that when you reboot, they will still be there. To enable persist, just open the /boot/grub/menu.lst file, and add the word PERSIST to the end of the kernel line, and reboot the device. Also, a word of caution. Installing Kibana plugins does require that you SSH into your Insight device, and run some commands, so you have to know at least some basics about things like Putty and Linux.
A list of both types of plugins I mentioned can be found on github: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/wiki/Known-Plugins. There are lots of others out there as well, and I suspect we will be seeing many more in the near future. So far my favorite visualization plugin is Swimlane. Swimlane was easy to install and apply to our network analysis on Savvius Insight. Below is a screenshot of the Swimlane visualization applied to application best response times.
Looks nice, right? And clearly Dropbox has the worst response time. But how did I create this visualization and map the application response times to it? Well, first I have to know what data is available. To understand that, I can go to the Kibana Discover tab and explore the data. The Savvius data is separated into different types that are prefixed with sv_. For application data, there is a type called sv_expert_apps. If you type 'type:sv_expert_apps' into the filter field, you will only see events of this type. You can then open one and see the available fields. For my Swimlanes visual, I just need the Name and Response Time fields. The available response time fields are Best Response Time, Worst Response Time, and Average Response Time. Since we have filtered the events, let's go ahead and save it as a search. To do this, select the Save Search icon in the upper right and give it a name. Mine is called Expert Apps.
Now that we understand the data a bit and have saved a search, let's head over to the Kibana Visualization tab. I have a couple of monitors, so I usually leave a browser open to the Discover tab showing my data fields, and open a separate browser window on another monitor to create or edit a visualization. If you have already installed Swimlane, you should see it as a visualization choice in the Visualizations tab.
Select Swimlane, choose "From a saved search" from the "Select a Search Source" window, and select "Expert Apps" from the list of searches, if that is what you called your search for "type:sv_expert_apps". In the visualization editor, select the Aggregation in the metrics section, which can be any one of the options provided in the pulldown menu. Having said that, Count does not make much sense.
In the Field pulldown, select any of the Response Time fields. And actually, it can be any of the number fields that are in the sv_expert_apps events.
In the buckets section, select Terms from the Aggregation pulldown menu, and Name.raw from the Field pulldown menu. You can also change the number of entries to display and whether they are displayed in Ascending or Descending order. Descending usually makes the most sense.
We are almost there. In the Time field section, use the defaults, which should be Sub Aggregation: Date Histogram, Field: @timestamp, and Interval: Auto.
In any of the sections, you can add a Custom Label and use the Advanced JSON Input to perform further calculations on the displayed data.
Finally, click the Green Arrow at the top. You should see the Swimlane visualization showing some number of application response times over time. Some visualizations have Options. In the Swimlane visualization, you can change the thresholds, or the color that will be displayed at different value ranges.
Now save that visualization, and either add it to an existing dashboard, or create a new one for it. I created a new dashboard, and added separate visualizations for Best, Worst, and Average Response Times. If you want to make your new dashboard easily accessible from the other dashboards, edit the Dashboards panel, and add it right in.


spring break = time to read!
We've been on spring break this week (snowy Grand Canyon!), and I've loved having extra time to read. I started with 📕 Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life by Amanda Stern, then enjoyed 📗 Past Tense, the latest Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. Now I'm finishing up 📘 My Living Will: A Father's Story of Loss & Hope by John Trautwein of The Will To Live Foundation. I'll write up reviews of the memoirs Little Panic and My Living Will and post them soon.


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Q: VS 2012 intellisense - function may not be initialized I'm just playing around a little bit with decltype and noticed the intellisense in VS 2012 is giving me a error. This is the first time I have encountered this and the code still compiled.
#include <iostream>

int func(int param)
{
    std::cout << "IM BEING CALLED: " << param << std::endl;
    return 0;
}

int main()
{
    auto& y = func;
    auto z = func;

    decltype((func))& x = func;
    decltype((func)) k = func; // function 'k' may not be initialized but compiles

    func(9);
    x(10);
    y(11);
    z(12);
    k(13);
    std::cout << std::endl;

    std::cout << "Address of func: " << func << std::endl;
    std::cout << "Address of x: " << x << std::endl;
    std::cout << "Address of y: " << y << std::endl;
    std::cout << "Address of z: " << z << std::endl;
    std::cout << "Address of k: " << k << std::endl;

    std::cin.get();
    return 0;
}

This is not a major problem nor interesting for most people but I was just wondering if anyone knows the reason behind the error?

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I was just wondering if anyone knows the reason behind the error

It's just a parsing bug. Nothing more, nothing less.

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I strongly prefer @if, @else, and @else-if. It would be clear and obvious for most authors, and SASS could easily adapt.
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AyaNeo Next is set to take on Valve's Steam Deck
By Kemal Pasha On Jan 6, 2022
Details have been revealed for the AyaNeo Next, which appears to be a premium competitor to Valve's Steam Deck.
The AyaNeo and the Steam Deck share some apparent similarities. Both are portable PCs using a central screen encompassed by joysticks, d-pads, and buttons. Both devices can also be plugged into peripherals and be used as PCs in the same way as desktops.
However, as reported by PCGamer, the AyaNeo Next appears to be a considerable step up in hardware from the Steam Deck and comes with a step up in price.
Currently, the AyaNeo Next is being sold for roughly £1000, compared to the Steam Deck's £569 at its highest price point. The Steam Deck at that price comes with 512GB of NVMe SSD storage, while the Next boasts a 2TB NVMe SSD. The Next is also running a Zen3 Ryzen 5800U processor and has 16GB of RAM.
The AyaNeo Next has an estimated delivery of the end of February, shortly after the Steam Deck, which is planned to begin shipping next month.
Last month ProtonDB announced that the Steam Deck is now compatible with 80 per cent of Steam's top 100 games. The team tests Valve's Proton compatibility layer against Steam's library of games. So far, only 10 per cent of the top 100 are entirely unplayable, while others function to various levels of success. Currently, Destiny 2 and New World are unplayable, but these are online games and may have developer blocks against Proton, but this is unconfirmed.
In other news, SEGA has promised to avoid NFTs if there is a push back from the community. CEO Haruki Satomi said, "We will consider this further if this leads to our mission 'Constantly Creating, Forever Captivating', but if it is perceived as simple money-making, I would like to make a decision not to proceed."
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Are you sure this is unintentional?
There are members who were close to 5000 like susu, but they became inactive. This was a few years back, had they stayed they may very well be past keke.
okay.....this is just too depressing.
you actually had more posts than me at one point probably. I didnt start posting until about 3 years ago, at least not to any great extent. on top of this, my original user was 0048 and some time in the last 3 years I was on loki-sama for a few months.
You definitely have not been as active primary, I don't even think your part of any RPs or game forums. Those get you the most post count honestly.
actually, the Inuyasha RP that has over 240 pages i've been on since the beginning, i'm on the inuyasha rp 20 now, and was on the black rock shooter rp and the original assassain rp. not a big fan of games.
that RP was around 11 months 14 hours and 1 minute before I started posting a lot, which was around the time I made my Elf RP with Sofy.
The Rank for now is only tied to forums, we may decide to change that in the future though.


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By Chris Miller
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An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.
You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything—from missiles to microwaves—runs on chips, including cars, smartphones, the stock market, even the electric grid. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower, but America's edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by players in Taiwan, Korea, and Europe taking over manufacturing. Now, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more on chips than any other product, is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is America's military superiority and economic prosperity.
Economic historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical role in modern life and how the U.S. became dominant in chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems. America's victory in the Cold War and its global military dominance stems from its ability to harness computing power more effectively than any other power. But here, too, China is catching up, with its chip-building ambitions and military modernization going hand in hand. America has let key components of the chip-building process slip out of its grasp, contributing not only to a worldwide chip shortage but also a new Cold War with a superpower adversary that is desperate to bridge the gap.
Illuminating, timely, and fascinating, Chip War shows that, to make sense of the current state of politics, economics, and technology, we must first understand the vital role played by chips.
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L'Institut de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IBMC) est un institut de recherche spécialisé en biologie moléculaire et cellulaire. Fondé en 1973, il est situé sur le campus central de Strasbourg. C'est une unité mixte de recherche de l'université de Strasbourg et du CNRS. Jules Hoffmann, prix Nobel de physiologie ou de médecine en a été directeur de 1994 à 2005.

Présentation générale
L'Institut de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire a été fondé en 1973 par le biochimiste Jean-Pierre Ebel et le virologue Léon Hirth dans le but de réunir au sein d'un même laboratoire des scientifiques de disciplines complémentaires, biologie moléculaire et cellulaire, chimistes, biochimistes et structuralistes. En 1994, l'IBMC devient un Institut fédératif du CNRS, puis une Fédération de Recherche du CNRS (FRC 1589). Cette FRC a été renouvelée plusieurs fois, en 1998, en 2001, en 2006 et en 2009. Le regroupement au sein de l'IBMC de trois unités propres du CNRS, que sont : l'UPR 9002 (Architecture et réactivité des ARN), l'UPR 3572 (Immunologie et chimie thérapeutique) et l'UPR 9022 (Réponse immunitaire chez les insectes) a pour but d'apporter un soutien matériel aux recherches de ses trois laboratoires. Le but principal de ce regroupement est avant tout d'améliorer l'interaction entre les différents scientifiques des trois unités de recherche pour ainsi permettre l'émergence de nouveaux programmes de recherche communs.

Champs de recherches

Insectarium pour l'Infectiologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (I2MC)

Dans le cadre du Plan campus (pour la construction du bâtiment) et des équipements d'excellence, l'institut a été lauréat pour son projet de création d'un insectarium. Il s'agira d'une « plateforme expérimentale de type animalerie de haute technologie pour étudier en toute sécurité les maladies dont la transmission est assurée par les moustiques (Dengue, Chikungunya, Paludisme etc.) ». Les locaux vétustes de l'ancienne animalerie seront détruits dans le but de construire un bâtiment de haut niveau de biosécurité.

Directeurs

 Jean-Luc Imler, depuis 2018. Professeur de biologie cellulaire, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS et Responsable de l'UPR 9022 « Modèles Insectes d'Immunité Innée (M3i) ».

 Sylviane Muller, entre  et 2017. Directrice de Recherche au CNRS, Professeur à l'USIAS (Institut d'Études Avancées de l'Université de Strasbourg) et Directrice de l'UPR 3572, « Immunopathologie et Chimie Thérapeutique ».
Eric Westhof, entre 2006 et 2016. Membre de l'Académie des sciences.
Jules Hoffmann, 1994 à 2005. Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine en 2011 et membre de l'Académie française.

Accès
L'institut est situé le long de l'allée Gaspard Monge, sur le Campus central desservi par les lignes de bus de la CTS 30 et L1 et par les lignes C, E et F du Tramway de Strasbourg.

Par le bus : Lignes 30 et L1 via Cité Administrative, Palerme et Rome

Par le Tramway : Lignes C, E et F via Université, Observatoire et Esplanade.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Jules Hoffmann
 Campus central de Strasbourg
 Université de Strasbourg
 Jean-Luc Imler

Liens externes

  Université de Strasbourg, rapports des unités de recherche : évaluation de l'IBMC sur le site de l'AERES.

Université de Strasbourg
Unité de recherche du CNRS
Organisme fondé en 1973
Recherche à Strasbourg
Centre ou institut de recherche en biologie moléculaire
Campus central de Strasbourg

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The Latinx Community v. Local News: We've Been Here Before
Nita Gozales (left) and Polly Baca (right)
When she was a child growing up in a 1940s' Greeley that still posted "No dogs or Mexicans" signs, Polly Baca remembers that the local paper had a habit of referring to Latinos in one of two primary ways: When they did something the larger community considered laudatory, they were "Spanish." When the larger community judgement was negative, they were "Mexican." Or "illegal aliens" or "wetbacks."
"What they were doing was dividing the community," Baca recalls, pitting it against itself for a place in a social hierarchy where white was always right.
The harm went deep.
"As a little girl I was ashamed. It made you feel ashamed of your community," she says. "We were called dirty Mexicans. My mother responded by keeping us so clean it was terrible. The neighbors said you could eat off her floors."
Baca, who is a COLab board member, tells me this story as we are preparing for a conversation Friday* that I hope you will join. It is the continuation of a decades-long conversation, but one fed now by the momentum of the anti-racist movements sparked by the police killing of George Floyd last May.
News Voices Colorado, the Colorado Media Project and COLab are convening "Latinx Voices: The Past as Prologue" to tackle the struggle and resistance by the community against a history of local news coverage that has dehumanized people, oversimplifying their lives to the point of caricature. The sinner. The saint. Nothing in between.
To read a newspaper, to listen to or watch a broadcast and discover the community you know and love depicted in unrecognizable ways — or missing entirely — is not just disorienting or disheartening. It is dangerous. It erodes trust in media and in one another. A chasm in our industry persists between the expressed commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and the sustained work needed to make that happen. The explanations for that chasm do not change the outcome: The community pays the price. Always. Not just the marginalized, who grow more isolated, but the mainstream, which grows more ignorant.
We want to acknowledge this harm. We want to illuminate the many ways in which communities have resisted mainstream narratives — from boycotts to alternative and bilingual media. We want to talk about what has changed and what still must change between local media and communities of color.
Just last week, former 9News reporter Lori Lizarraga published a piece in Westword in which she reported she was the third on-air Latina the station had let go over the last year. She reported on pushback to her request to change the language around undocumented people. She reported that one of her former colleagues, a fellow Latina, "could not cover immigration unless she disclosed her own immigration status on TV first." There was more. All of it dispiriting.
The outcry prompted a group of Latina elected officials and, separately, representatives of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, to meet with station management. 9News, a COLab partner, has responded by saying that 44% of its hires on the content team since the start of 2020 have been people of color, that it is committed to the work of diversity, equity and inclusion, and that more training is coming up.
Lizarraga wrote something in her piece that was very much in keeping with the spirit of our upcoming conversation:
"Making decisions about communities of color without communities of color in the room is negligent. Making those decisions about our community while actively ignoring our input is the definition of oppression."
Three days after her column appeared, the union representing journalists at The Denver Post (also a COLab partner) issued a remarkable letter — one that the hedge fund owners refused to print in the Post. The letter spelled out specific goals and actions to build and support a more diverse staff in a newsroom committed to "telling the stories of people who are excluded or underrepresented in the pages of The Denver Post, and to giving those stories the resources and prominence they deserve."
Our community conversation has been long planned, but both Lizarraga's column and the Newspaper Guild letter reinforce the urgency. Both are part of a history of calls to action and Friday's conversation will open with that context in a discussion I'll moderate with Baca and fellow giant of Colorado's Latino community, Nita Gonzales.
Both Baca and Gonzales tell me that media coverage of communities of color has improved. Amid the Chicano Movement protests, walkouts and clashes with police, no reporter ever bothered to look beneath the surface, to ask why people were protesting, Gonzales says. But during last year's protests, reporters were asking those questions and acknowledging systemic racism and the change "shocked" her, she says.
But that change, Gonzales emphasized, was the result of "generations of struggle. It didn't happen in a vacuum. … Have we made gains, yeah, we have. Are we done? Hell, no, we are not."
Join us Friday.* Let's talk. Let's listen. And then let's act.
My thanks,
*Spanish translation available
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Dear reader, My faith is rattled lately. This is not so much a crisis of the spirit (although, like many of us, I've had my


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Home Entertainment Louis Gaines: The hero of Lee Daniels' The Butler
Louis Gaines: The hero of Lee Daniels' The Butler
Director Lee Daniels pays tribute to African Americans in his latest film The Butler.
The film presents the evolution and struggle of the black woman and man as seen through the eyes of a butler, Cecil Gaines (played by Forrest Whitaker).
Not only is this film about a butler's brutal journey to make a life by overcoming intense hardship, but also his internal struggle to join the fight for civil rights alongside his son Louis Gaines (played by David Oyelowo) who is the hero of this film.
Louis Gaines is portrayed in The Butler by David Oyelowo
While Cecil Gaines is a butler who is serving eight presidents, he is unable to protect his son Louis who is a freedom fighter.
Louis Gaines is being beaten up in Alabama and Tennessee where he has been incarcerated at least 16 times. An understated motion picture makes this true story work. Violence is brief and in flashes.
However, director Lee Daniels juxtaposed the violence with scenes of family life.
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Home News & Analysis Deals Sun Capital triumphs in ShopKo battle
Sun Capital triumphs in ShopKo battle
After roughly six months of negotiations with Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison, ShopKo has agreed to be acquired by Sun Capital Partners in an $877m deal.
Ken MacFadyen
Give ShopKo Stores some credit for being patient. Minneapolis buyout shop Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison agreed to acquire the discount retailer back in April, but after four subsequent amendments to the deal, all boosting the offer price, the Green Bay, Wisconsin-based company came to an agreement with a rival private equity group, the Boca Raton, Florida-based Sun Capital Partners. The deal, representing a roughly 20 percent premium over Goldner Hawn's April agreement, values the company at roughly $29 a share, or $877 million (€733 million).
ShopKo sold to Sun Capital Partners
Goldner Hawn will receive a $13.5 million break up fee for its efforts.
After its six-month dance with Goldner Hawn, ShopKo appears ready to move on. The company cited for its decision, Sun Capital's financial resources, its retailing background and the firm's "experience in successfully completing transactions of this type". The deal is expected to close in either December of this year or in January 2006.
Sun Capital will be using its new Sun Capital Partners IV fund for the transaction. The firm raised the vehicle this summer, closing on $1.5 billion in short order. Part of the enthusiasm for the fund came from Sun's past experience in the retail sector, where it has made bets on the likes of Best Buy cast-off Musicland Group and former Target subsidiary Mervyn's (teaming with Cerberus Capital Management and Lubert-Adler/Klaff Partners).
Since raising the new fund, Sun Capital has been proactive in putting the capital to work. In the last month alone the firm acquired Honeywell International's Indalex Aluminum Solutions unit, entered into exclusive negotiations for Sara Lee Corp.'s intimate apparel business, bought packaging outfit Exopack Holding and just today announced the acquisition of restaurant operator Garden Fresh. The firm also executed a realisation earlier this month, selling recycler Alsco Metals Corp. to strategic buyer Aleris International for $150 million.
To finance the ShopKo deal, Wachovia has been tapped to lead the debt syndicate.
The investment, similar to other retail buyouts, will have significant exposure to real estate, and like Sun's deal for Mervyn's, it is partnering with Lubert-Adler Partners, as well as Developers Diversified Realty and Elliot Management.
Morgan, Lewis & Brockius served as counsel to Sun, while Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and Godrey & Kahn acted as legal advisors to the special committee and the board of directors, respectively. Merrill Lynch was the financial advisor to the special committee.
ShopKo operates stores throughout the Midwest, Mountain and Pacific Northwest regions of the US. The company, with annual sales in excess of $3 billion, runs 137 ShopKo branded stores and 218 outlets operating under the Pamida name. ShopKo has struggled recently, as its same-store sales are down roughly six percent this year.


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Some cases will and should be tried. In reality, however, those situations are rare. Statistically, nearly 95 percent of all cases filed settle at some point in the litigation process. Plunkett Cooney views ADR as an important consideration in the risk analysis process. If, when and how ADR can be used in that process are questions the firm's ADR attorneys can help answer.
ADR involves mediation, arbitration or hybrid versions of both, as well as mini trials and direct party-to-party negotiations. The strong litigation background of Plunkett Cooney's attorneys, coupled with their advance training in the various methods of ADR, make them particularly qualified to understand and fashion alternative methods of dispute resolution tailored to each client's needs.
The process includes selecting an ADR method, reviewing and selecting qualified mediators or arbitrators to resolve disputes, and determining the appropriate timing to bring the ADR action, which is often critical to successfully resolving the matter. In addition to assisting clients with their ADR matters, Plunkett Cooney attorneys serve as mediators and arbitrators.


About a year ago, SystemRescueCd used the stable and an LTS-Kernel. So you could choose between a really proven and a stable kernel. Nowadays we have two proven (LTS) kernels, but not one from the stable tree.
Please consider going back to 1 LTS and 1 stable Kernel. On the other hand I would be happy to hear the reasons for your decision.


Discussion in 'eCommerce' started by rxbs, Apr 15, 2018.
My model for my new eCommerce Store is online-based only, there's no physical Store. Like Kogan.
Do we list the product for example an Apple Product at a lower price and buy it from the Supplier or Manufacturer (Apple Directly) and use their details so they get the product and it's shipped to them? Is there regulations on how much we can list the price for? + shipping + maybe a small Admin Fee?
So we list a retail price and a sale price?


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IAM Robotics named a new CEO in August 2018 and closed a $20M Series A that November. Kiva's robots and inventory management system were disruptive technologies in 2011-12 and it was on its peak when Amazon acquired the firm for $775m. Business Description – IAM Robotics is focused on disrupting the logistics and supply chain space with their autonomous mobile picking robots. Amazon rebranded it as Amazon Robotics and strategically withdrew Kiva robots from general … I have Mr. Tom Galluzzo, who is the founder and CEO of IAM Robotics. Red Pepper was acquired by PeopleSoft in 1996. Patent filings have kept that technology in Amazon's court in the U.S. 1. ... IAM Robotics. A host of new robotics startups and established players are delivering the goods. Robotics continues to attract more and more attention within the world of venture capital and private finance, with over $4 billion invested in robotics companies in 2018 alone. 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The company claims to have built the world's first Mobile, Autonomous Piece Picking Robot. In the IAM Robotics booth, a mobile six-axis robot used machine vision to identify products on a shelf and effectively complete order picking into a tote. Tom, thank you so much for joining me today. IAM Robotics raised $3 million in angel funding. The surge in demand for smartphones and the growing utilization of connected devices are driving the mobile medical apps market demand.Vancouver, British Columbia, Dec. 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Global Mobile Medical Apps Market is estimated to be worth USD 17.61 Billion by 2027, according to the latest evaluation by Emergen Research. IAM Robotics was founded by engineers from the world's largest robotics research facility at Carnegie Mellon University with the goal of tackling the material handling industry's most technically difficult challenge: a fully autonomous solution that finds, picks and transports materials to address a growing labor shortage in warehouse operations. Founded in Waltham, Mass. Suppliers need reliable, cost-effective, plug-and-play solutions. That acquisition validated the business opportunity for both roboticists like Galluzzo and the venture capitalists that were funding them. Reed, who joined IAM Robotics to build sales and marketing functions, will […] He has helped numerous companies, including Fra.me (acquired by Nutanix), Say Media (acquired by The Maven), Vantage Robotics LLC, Tenefit (previously Kaazing Corporation) and Foreknow, and currently advises SQN Venture Partners on IP matters. Most of his experience is centered on bringing innovative products to market. IAM Robotics works in the Industrial Control and Factory Automation industry, specialising in Autonomous Order Fulfillment, Material Handling Applications, Mobile Picking Robots. IAM Robotics will have a dozen positions open at any given time for next 12 to 18 months. ... IAM says. Botsync Singapore Private Botsync is an NTU robotics spin-off robotics startup focusing on autonomous mobile robots for inspection and logistics automation. Kiva's robots and inventory management system were disruptive technologies in 2011-12 and it was on its peak when Amazon acquired the firm for $775m. IAM Robotics announces that founder, Tom Galluzzo, will become the company's Chief Technology Officer and names current Vice President, Joel Reed, as the new Chief Executive Officer.. Reed, who joined IAM Robotics to build sales and marketing functions, will lead the company into a new phase of growth as the logistics market turns to robots that can both pick and transport inventory … acquired? But some companies are standing out more than others in innovation that will advance the entire robotics industry. That is why Amazon is ahead of 10-15 months The following year, the company's first commercial robot went live at Rochester Drug Cooperative, where I watched it work flawlessly over a 3-hour period one evening in the summer of 2017. Uplift launched in 2015 as a subsidiary of Clayco, a Chicago construction giant. IAM Robotics. × Why this startup is Defunct? × Why this startup is Acquired? He began his career as a technology consultant at Ernst & Young (now Cap Gemini) but ultimately was drawn to an entrepreneurial track. In 1898, at an electrical exhibition in the recently completed Madison Square Garden, he made a demonstration of the world's first radio-controlled vessel. Around that time, Kiva was acquired by Amazon. The IAM Robotics solution combines a 3D SKU Scanner (Flash), Mobile Picking Robot (Swift), and Software Interface (SwiftLink) that integrates with your Warehouse Management System. At the same time, U.S. unemployment was running at 4% or under for the first few months of 2019, dipping to 3.6% in April. "We got some good attention that year," Galluzzo recalled. IAM Robotics (USA) – $20M Venture Round ... North Carolina-based PrecisionHawk acquired Uplift Data Partners, a Chicago-based provider of drone-based inspection services for the construction and facilities management industry, for an undisclosed amount. Tom Galluzzo, Founder & CEO of IAM Robotics, joins us to explain how vital robotics is in supply chain– especially as ecommerce continues increasing. Latest Robotics - Material Handling 24/7 IAM Robotics and Rochester Drug Cooperative make the cover of Modern Materials Handling, which features autonomous material handling at work (October 2017). The company was incorporated in 2012 and is located in Sewickley, United States. Headquarters – 343 Eicher Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15237, United States. Sewickley, Pa.-based IAM's system included a station for training robots by cataloging products with the vision system. Amazon has acquired a tech firm named Canvas Technology Inc. to improve operations at its warehouses. Robotics is a branch of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science that deals with the design, construction, operation, and application of robots, as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing. Prior to this role, Joel worked at IAM Robotics first as Vice President, before transitioning to CEO. Robotics for distribution centers (DCs), such as autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and collaborative picking arms, are growing at a rapid rate, with well over a dozen robotics vendors aiming at the needs of DC operators. 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Home Scores Bracket Rankings Standings Stats Women's Final Four History Video
Andrew Cyr | NCAA.com | April 3, 2018
Watch Ogunbowale beat the buzzer to deliver the Irish a title
Arike Ogunbowale heroics
There was little Arike Ogunbowale could have done to top her game-winning shot Friday night that ended UConn's perfect season in the Final Four semifinals.
But, like she and Notre Dame have done all season, she found a way. Even better, she found a way to top it. In the national championship game.
RELATED: Recapping Notre Dame's title win | Bracket
Inbounding the ball with three seconds remaining in a 58-58 game against Mississippi State, Ogunbowale hoisted an off-balanced 3-pointer in the corner in from of the Irish's bench to give Notre Dame the lasting lead with 0.1 seconds left in regulation. The shot landed Notre Dame its second title in school history and first since 2001.
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— NCAA Women's BKB (@ncaawbb) April 2, 2018
Ogunbowale finished with 18 points while her only 3 on the day came on that final shot. She was named the Final Four's most oustanding player after scored a combined 45 points in two games in Columbus.
Her first game-winner of the Final Four weekend came in overtime on Friday that ended UConn's 36-0 season. You can watch that shot below:
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Aldo Giannotti, the winner of the first edition of the Pomilio Blumm Prize, on air last May on Sky Arte HD, talks about the social function of art, also describing the distinctive features of what he calls "the perfect artwork". «Our work – Giannotti says – is to analyze the present days: to think about what surrounds us, to create new points of view never imagined before, to lay the basis for a different way to relate each other, with different eyes».
In order to create new perspectives, art must necessarily make itself understood. And this is not a banal purpose according to Giannotti. «Too often – he says – art has been a form of separation: on the contrary, the perfect artwork it the one that speaks to everybody». Only the ways of understanding, that depend on personal skills, are different. The accessibility of the artwork remains, in a way, universal: «If the artwork creates a sort of "staircase" where everyone can enter his knowledge and his own feelings, then art speaks to one and all, from ground zero to the complexity that the artist wanted to put in his artwork».
And exactly this vocation towards a global language is the one of Aldo Giannotti – whose eclectic work include installations, video, photography and performance – exalted in his artworks for the Pomilio Blumm Prize. In the words of the Prize jury, chaired by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giannotti was able to "identify a welding point between apparently distant worlds and include the media space and time in the art space, combining all the themes of the competition: identity, relationship between humans and technology and the idea of public space".


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Professor Emerita Colleen Cutschall to speak at Brandon Univ…
Professor Emerita Colleen Cutschall to speak at Brandon University
Colleen Cutschall's work Clouds of Secrecy.
Colleen Cutschall will speak at Brandon University's Glen P. Sutherland Gallery of Art on Monday.
Colleen Cutschall, Professor Emeritus at Brandon University and the founder of its Department of Visual and Aboriginal Arts, will give a free public talk at BU on Monday, Oct. 3. The free talk begins at 7:30 p.m., in the Glen P. Sutherland Gallery of Art.
Cutschall will be the Department of Visual and Aboriginal Art's inaugural visiting guest speaker. A senior Oglala-Sicangu Lakota artist, Cutschall is originally from Pine Ridge, S.D. She now lives in Eden, Man., and has spent more than 20 years in southwestern Manitoba as an artist, art historian, educator and curator.
Her early work in painting and installations focused on Lakota creating mythology and themes of sacred time and space. Continuing with apocalyptic scenes from some of her earlier work, Cutschall's most recent drawings have focused on the environmental effects of aerosol spraying.


The plot is a "Trial by Media", in the real sense of the word, with the protagonist Suresh Gopi himself scripting the story of Vengenace, and executing it ruthlessly. Noted Director B Unnikrishnan handled the Script and Screenplay of this Crime Thriller. Tabu acted in Malayalam, after Kalapani, with Suresh Gopi, portraying a daughter-like character to the elderly Nedumudi Venu. The film was shot in and around Ernakulam city, with the scenic Marine drive providing an ideal backdrop to a song. The movie revolves around media's involvement in the investigation following the death of a former Chief Justice.
Shekhara Menon in his retired life met a yound lady Jasmine who is a Computer Engineer by profession. He had fatherly affection with her. But he was murdered soon. She saw the murderer but in a very blurred vision since the contact lens was lost. Police Asst. Commissioner came to investigate this. He had not believed her fully. In the meantime Jasmine had to witness another murder, that was of R.V.Thampuran. Vijay came to her life as friend but later they became lovers. Very soon Jasmine came to know that Vijay was the murderer and he had plan to murder 2 more. The reason also he explained to her. Police Asst. Commissioner , Anand, then suspected Vijay, but inspite of the expertise of the Police Officer, Vijay completed his mission by killing 2 more. Because those four jointly murdered Vijay's father, years back.


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Public employees endorse school millage increase
By Todd Gill · Sunday, Sep 6, 2009
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Local 965, announced its endorsement of the proposed millage to build a new Fayetteville High School yesterday calling for "an investment in our children's future."
"It is important to our members that we build here and build now for the future of our children and our community; we must not miss this opportunity to do the right thing at the right time" said Larry West, a member of the executive committee.
The Fayetteville School District is seeking a 4.9-mill property tax increase for the construction of the new school.
Last year, the group endorsed building the new high school at the current location because of its close proximity to the University of Arkansas. "It serves students well to be near the University and its resources," said Vice President Betty Martin. "In addition, it is convenient for our faculty and staff who have children attending high school, as well as for nontraditional students and single parents enrolled at the University."
Martin believes that if the millage is not passed on Sept. 15, the old debate about the location of the school would be re-opened and would "shift the discussion from achieving lasting excellence to finding the cheapest temporary solution."
AFSCME Local 965 was chartered in 1962. Its membership includes employees of the University of Arkansas and the City of Fayetteville.
Early voting for the millage election begins this Tuesday, September 8.
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A carrying case complete with strap is supplied as standard.
factory fitted (or other) to suit customer requirements.
The number in the unit columns indicate the range of the instrument and the resolution by the amount of significant figures. (-) denotes that the model does not read out in these units as the range won't allow it.
Models TX1 - TX9 can read differential pressure with dual ports and also positive & negative gauge pressure. Single port option available.
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These types of cakes are becoming very popular for this here Crafty Welsh Grandma, this is the third one I've made in the last six or seven months.
This one is for my Nephew, commissioned for him by his parents. He was 18 last weekend but is not having his celebration with his family until this weekend.
His Mam always insists on purchasing the resources required for the cakes that she asks me for, but this time, she has vastly over bought stuff! I think maybe I'll suggest that she leaves the purchasing to me from now on. She has a lot of waste - but the cake looks amazing! The cake stand in this image was not used on the day.
Plus another one due next month!
Chocolate buttercream to stick all this chocolatey-ness onto.
Then trimmed off with a white grosgrain with a blue 'Happy Birthday' on it, which matches the wonderful blue glitter topper!


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Portland paves way for The Brook Retirement Community
Nick Grifhorst
ngrifhorst@sentinel-standard.com
PORTLAND — Following a long journey, The Brook Retirement Communities finally had its opportunity to present plans in front of the Portland city council.
The vote to remove a 10-acre plot of land on the Rindlehaven site for rezoning was approved 4-0 by the council.
The property will now be rezoned from traditional design Planned Unit Development to R-3, allowing for The Brook Retirement Communities to move forward with plans.
The vote came following a recommendation from the city's planning commission.
Following a presentation from Kimberlee Pappas, marketing communications specialist for The Brook, the council heard public comment.
Much of it was in support, including comments from Kathy Parsons, who appreciates the opportunity to have options in the community for her future. Parsons is also a business owner and says competition is good for the area.
"Towns, just like businesses that do not move forward, die slow deaths," Parsons said.
A resident in the neighborhood of the development raised a concern about Rowe Avenue already being in bad shape and what heavy equipment would do to that road.
Tutt Gorman, Portland city manager, said Rowe Avenue is already high on the priority list for the city regardless of this project.
Patrice Webber spoke several times during public comment. She is the owner of Portland Assisted Living and Memory Center.
She was concerned about the traffic that will be created in the area and would like a light to be placed the intersection.
Several members from the council assured Webber that experts have advised them that traffic will not be a danger to citizens and that adding a traffic light may cause issues with back ups coming off I-196.
The Brook will be a 42 unit facility, 22 of which will be assisted living. The company expects the community to create 12-15 full time jobs in the area.
— Contact reporter Nick Grifhorst at ngrifhorst@sentinel-standard.com. Follow him on Twitter @NotNicklas.


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Christopher Dougherty EC220 - Introduction to econometrics (chapter 8) Slideshow: asymptotic and finite-sample distributions of the iv estimator Original citation: Dougherty, C. (2012) EC220 - Introduction to econometrics (chapter 8). [Teaching Resource] © 2012 The Author This version available at: Available in LSE Learning Resources Online: May 2012 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. This license allows the user to remix, tweak, and build upon the work even for commercial purposes, as long as the user credits the author and licenses their new creations under the identical terms.
2 ASYMPTOTIC AND FINITE-SAMPLE DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE IV ESTIMATOR
The asymptotic variance of the IV estimator is given by the expression shown. It is the expression for the variance of the OLS estimator, multiplied by the square of the reciprocal of the correlation between X and Z. 1
What does this mean? We have seen that the distribution of the IV estimator degenerates to a spike. So how can it have an asymptotic variance? 2
The contradiction has been caused by compressing several ideas together. We will have to unpick them, taking several small steps. 3
The application of a central limit theorem (CLT) underlies the assertion. To use a CLT, we must first show that a variable has a nondegenerate limiting distribution. The CLT will then show that, under appropriate conditions, this limiting distribution is normal. 4
We cannot apply a CLT to b2IV directly, because it does not have a nondegenerate limiting distribution. The expression for the variance may be rewritten as shown. MSD(X) is the mean square deviation of X. 5
By a law of large numbers, the MSD tends to the population variance of X and so has a well-defined limit. 6
The variance of b2IV is inversely proportional to n, and so tends to zero. This is the reason that the distribution of b2IV collapses to a spike. 7
We can deal with the diminishing-variance problem by considering √n b2IV instead of b2IV. This has the variance shown, which is stable. However, √n b2IV still does not have a limiting distribution because its mean increases with n. 8
10 ASYMPTOTIC AND FINITE-SAMPLE DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE IV ESTIMATOR
So instead, consider √n (b2IV – b2). Since b2IV tends to b2 as the sample size becomes large, this does have a limiting distribution with zero mean and stable variance. 9
Under conditions that are usually satisfied in regressions using cross-sectional data, it can then be shown that we can apply a central limit theorem and demonstrate that √n (b2IV – b2) has the limiting normal distribution shown. 10
The arrow with a d over it means 'has limiting distribution'. 11
Having established this, we can now start working backwards and say that, for sufficiently large samples, as an approximation, (b2IV – b2) has the distribution shown. (~ means 'is distributed as'.) 12
We can then say that, as an approximation, for sufficiently large samples, b2IV is distributed as shown, and use this assertion as justification for performing the usual tests. This is what was intended by equation (8.50). 13
Of course, we need to be more precise about what we mean by a 'sufficiently large' sample, and 'as an approximation'. 14
We cannot do this mathematically. This was why we resorted to asymptotic analysis in the first place. 15
Instead, the usual procedure is to set up a Monte Carlo experiment using a model appropriate to the context. The answers will depend on the nature of the model, the correlation between X and u, and the correlation between X and Z. 16
Suppose that we have the model shown and the observations on Z, V, and u are drawn independently from a normal distribution with mean zero and unit variance. We will think of Z and V as variables and of u as a disturbance term in the model. l1 and l2 are constants. 17
By construction, X is not independent of u and so Assumption B.7 is violated when we fit the regression of Y on X. OLS will yield inconsistent estimates and the standard errors and other diagnostics will be invalid. 18
Z is correlated with X, but independent of u, and so can serve as an instrument. (V is included as a component of X in order to provide some variation in X not connected with either the instrument or the disturbance term.) 19
We will set b1 = 10, b2 = 5, l1 = 0.5, and l2 = 2.0. 20
The diagram shows the distributions of the OLS and IV estimators of b2 for n = 25 and n = 100, for 10 million samples in both cases. Given the information above, it is easy to verify that plim b2OLS = Of course, plim b2IV = 5.00 21
The IV estimator has a greater variance than the OLS estimator and for n = 25 one might prefer the latter. It is biased, but the smaller variance could make it superior, using some criterion such as the mean square error. For n = 100, the IV estimator looks better. 22
This diagram adds the distribution for n = 3,200. Both estimators are tending to the predicted limits (the IV estimator more slowly than the OLS, because it has a larger variance). Here the IV estimator is definitely superior. 23
This diagram shows the distribution of √n (b2IV – b2) for n = 25, 100, and 3,200. It also shows, as the dashed red line, the limiting normal distribution predicted by the central limit theorem. 24
It can be seen that the distribution for n = 3,200 is very close to the limiting normal distribution and so inference would be safe with samples of this magnitude. 25
However, the distributions for n = 25 and n = 100 are distinctly non-normal. The distribution for n = 25 has fat tails. This means that if you performed a t test, the probability of suffering a Type I error will be much higher than the nominal significance level of the test 26
The distribution for n = 100 is better, in that the right tail is close to that of the normal distribution, but the left tail is much too fat and, as for n = 25, would give rise to excess instances of Type I error. 27
The distortion for small sample sizes is partly attributable to the low correlation between X and Z, 0.22. 28
Unfortunately, low correlations ('weak instruments') are common in IV estimation. It is difficult to find an instrument that is correlated with X but not the disturbance term. Indeed, it is often difficult to find any credible instrument at all. 29
31 Copyright Christopher Dougherty 2011.
These slideshows may be downloaded by anyone, anywhere for personal use. Subject to respect for copyright and, where appropriate, attribution, they may be used as a resource for teaching an econometrics course. There is no need to refer to the author. The content of this slideshow comes from Section 8.5 of C. Dougherty, Introduction to Econometrics, fourth edition 2011, Oxford University Press. Additional (free) resources for both students and instructors may be downloaded from the OUP Online Resource Centre Individuals studying econometrics on their own and who feel that they might benefit from participation in a formal course should consider the London School of Economics summer school course EC212 Introduction to Econometrics or the University of London International Programmes distance learning course 20 Elements of Econometrics
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1 Although they are biased in finite samples if Part (2) of Assumption C.7 is violated, OLS estimators are consistent if Part (1) is valid. We will demonstrate.
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ADAPTIVE EXPECTATIONS 1 The dynamics in the partial adjustment model are attributable to inertia, the drag of the past. Another, completely opposite, source.
EXPECTED VALUE RULES 1. This sequence states the rules for manipulating expected values. First, the additive rule. The expected value of the sum of two.
ADAPTIVE EXPECTATIONS: FRIEDMAN'S PERMANENT INCOME HYPOTHESIS
1 SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS MODELS Most of the issues relating to the fitting of simultaneous equations models with time series data are similar to those.
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