What is it called (Preferably single word) for phenomenon that is taking place when three parties are involved such that first two persons (Group of people, party or Departments, etc) are at not good terms with each other. And so first party involves you (or your department) as the third person to talk (Converse, correspond) to the second party and vice versa. The question is about what kind of phenomenon is happening between all the three parties and not what the third party party is doing individualistically. The point of this is to highlight to the management the amount of work that the third party (its department or members of its group) have to undertake is a overburdening our department (third party). Example: ________ is causing excessive work burnout, disgruntlement, disengagement in our department (within third party) since the XYZ department (first party) is reluctant to correspond with ABC department (Second party) and vice versa. And we (third party) have to pay the price.
Two parties are trying to resolve some dispute that involves interest of both. Sometimes it's hard for them to reach an agreement on a fair basis. This is typically when another party who has no interest involved and no bias towards either party comes into play in order to settle the dispute between the two conflicting parties. The term "third party" seems being used quite often. I would also call it a "middle-standing" party or we could say this party is neutral.  These terms seem NOT formal enough to me though. I'd like to see if anybody can come up with a better one.
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I have since been unable to log back in to the tablet using my Google Account details. I provided the correct login details, however it says they are incorrect. Could this be connected to the fact I have no internet connection?  I have no internet connection as the device is WiFi only, and the WiFi is currently turned off. I cannot turn it on, as I am locked out.  How can I log back into my tablet without wiping the user data? Can any linear transformation be represented by a matrix? Use $\cal L$ to denote a linear transformation on some vector space. We know any matrix $\bf{A}$ can be viewed as a linear transformation by defining $\cal L:= \cal L(\bf{v})= Av$ where $\bf{v}$ is a vector. I am curious is any linear transformation can be represented by a matrix? If so, why? If not, can anyone help provide a counterexample?  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I agree with  on this to some degree, employees shouldn't be treated any different.  But... on meta, employees are different. They have the power to dole out official responses, and thus we should be able to differentiate between an employee and a normal user. Currently, only some employees have a diamond on MSO (see , ). This makes it confusing, especially when you see official-sounding posts like .  Now, giving diamonds to all employees on meta may not be the best solution to this. I don't think all employees want their precious inboxes spammed with all the suspensions that are doled out on meta, and other mod stuff. They won't really need the diamond powers either (though it wouldn't hurt).  So, I propose this:  Similar to how moderators have "Moderator" clearly on their profile    display "employee" on an employee's profile, along with the diamond if they have one. At least on meta.    It would imho be even better to display it on their usercards in some form, but that has already been shot down.  It would be even even better if non-MSO mods had greyed out diamonds, similar to , but that's just me wanting more shiny stuff ;-) Is there an easy way to calculate the residue at one of the poles of a rational expression of the form $\frac{1}{1+z^n}$?  I end up having to add a bunch of polar-form complex numbers in the denominator which I have no idea how to do except to convert them to rectangular coordinates, which becomes really messy.  I feel like there ought to be simple pattern/rule for such a canonical expression. "The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened" How do I opt-out of the Social Security system? Show that an operation being commutative is a structural property Examples of patterns that eventually fail Often, when I try to describe mathematics to the layman, I find myself struggling to convince them of the importance and consequence of "proof". I receive responses like: "surely if Collatz is true up to $20×2^{58}$, then it must always be true?"; and "the sequence of number of edges on a complete graph starts $0,1,3,6,10$, so the next term must be 15 etc."  Granted, this second statement is less logically unsound than the first since it's not difficult to see the reason why the sequence must continue as such; nevertheless, the statement was made on a premise that boils down to "interesting patterns must always continue".  I try to counter this logic by creating a ridiculous argument like "the numbers $1,2,3,4,5$ are less than $100$, so surely all numbers are", but this usually fails to be convincing.  So, are there any examples of non-trivial patterns that appear to be true for a large number of small cases, but then fail for some larger case? A good answer to this question should:   be one which could be explained to the layman without having to subject them to a 24 lecture course of background material, and have as a minimal counterexample a case which cannot (feasibly) be checked without the use of a computer.   I believe conditions 1. and 2. make my question specific enough to have in some sense a "right" (or at least a "not wrong") answer; but I'd be happy to clarify if this is not the case. I suppose I'm expecting an answer to come from number theory, but can see that areas like graph theory, combinatorics more generally and set theory could potentially offer suitable answers. Using WFS-T in OpenLayers? How can I use WFS-T in openlayers-2?  I'm using  in server side. 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What are some techniques that I can use to 'paint with light' in my photography once I have found some locations?