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NEW YORK - Every year, CBS Sports holds a press conference on the Tuesday of Championship Week at which reporters can interview the network's executives and NCAA Tournament broadcasters.
This year was my third straight time covering the event. The previous two were held in an anonymous and relatively small conference room in CBS' corporate headquraters. This year's event took place in a plush meeting space at the upscale Parker Meridien hotel.
As much as anything, that was a sign of just how big this year's production is going to be. With CBS and Turner working together to broadcast this year's edition of March Madness, there are more games, broadcasters, analysts, sideline reporters and production workers than ever before. There's even a second studio operation in Atlanta to go with the usual one in New York.
We've all known for a while that Turner's involvement with the event meant the addition of such big names as Marv Albert, Charles Barkley and Craig Sager to go along with CBS' veterans. But it was still something to actually see Albert and Barkley in the room.
As someone who wasn't born yet when CBS bought the NCAA Tournament rights away from NBC in 1982, I must admit I am really looking forward to seeing Albert call college games. I know that many of you are excited to hear Sir Charles' take on March Madness as well.
I got to talk to a lot of the announcers who you'll hear from this month, including Albert, Sager and Jim Nantz. You can listen to all of the interviews in the audio player below.
There's also a long track with the formal presentation part of the morning. It includes remarks from CBS Sports president Sean McManus and Turner president of sales, distribution and sports David Levy, as well as Nantz, Barkley, Ernie Johnson and others.
Here are a few highlights to whet your appetite.
Jim Nantz on adding the Tuesday First Four doubleheader to his workload:
I'm not worried, but getting ready for what was the old first round, that now becomes the second round, those four games in one day, it's a Herculean effort of research if you really want to do the games the right way... I've always had some all-nighters getting ready for just Friday, and that preparation began on Monday.
Now on Monday, I go into practices at noon after calling three games over the weekend, plus being involved in the production and presentation of the Selection Show. Now I've got to do four more teams on Tuesday before I learn eight new teams on Friday. It's an 11-game stretch from Saturday until the following Sunday. I don't know how many people have done that before, but I don't think there have been many.
Marv Albert's memories of broadcasting the NCAA Tournament for NBC:
I had some great moments with Bucky Waters and Al McGuire, doing some major games. But the difference is, at that time, the elite teams would very rarely lose. I did one of the games in 1979 in Raleigh [at N.C. State's Reynolds Coliseum], which was called 'Black Sunday.' Both Duke and North Carolina were knocked off, by St. John's and Penn [respcetively]. That rarely happened.
Now, from the announcing point of view, you kind of root for the Cinderella-type upset, because it makes it more interesting.
[Tthat 1979 Penn team went on to the Final Four, of course, along with DePaul, Magic Johnson's Michigan State and Larry Bird's Indiana State. That was the first year that the Final Four became the kind of really big deal it is now.]
Gus Johnson on Penn State's chances to make the NCAA Tournament:
They reached .500 in the conference [in the regular season]. Usually a team that finishes .500 in the Big Ten has a good chance. If they go into the Big Ten Tournament and win a couple games, I think they're going to get in.
I think the committee is aware of who's on their team. Talor Battle has been a terrific player for four years at Penn State, and they haven't gotten in the NCAA Tournament since 2001.
I think if they keep handling their business, if they get in there and win a game or two [in Indianapolis], that it will be a lock. But I still feel they have a chance, a really legitimate chance, 50-50 I would say, to get in even if they don't win a game.
[Of course, the conversation took place before the Nittany Lions' first-round win over Minnesota, and tonight's big game against Wisconsin. If Penn State wins that, then things could get very interesting.]
Kevin Harlan on the Philadelphia-born Morris twins at Kansas, and their disciplinary problems this season:
I think they have [settled down]. I think they've got a coach [in Bill Self] who is like a perfect parent. He's stern enough to make sure that everything is correct, [but] understanding enough that these are two kids who are, like any kid, going through growing pains.
They are a long way from home, idolized on campus. I think they've got the right coach for those kids. I think their mother saw that and I know the two kids saw that.
So that's just a taste of things. You can hear more from those four below, as well as Greg Gumbel, Craig Sager, Tim Brando, David Aldridge and Seth Davis. There's also a separate interview with Sean McManus that the sports business types among you will like.

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Green and Red are both normal boys in high school hoping to find their bonded partner, bonded-as in soulmate for life. Let's not forget Gold, Silver, Black, N, White, Yellow, and Blue of course! Let's see them survive high school together and maybe, just maybe, find their bonded pairs.
Spoiler alert, as if you didn't know, originalshipping and preciousmetal shipping of course, others may be added later.
Rated M-yaoi.
(Btw, if you haven't read my first fanfic, this is my second one, read 'Just Our Love Story?'- also GreenxRed)
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Black x Red, likely thing to happen in a Red x Green fanfic (wait ive read clingyshipping when theyre was coldcoffee so nvm)
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it's called jealously green you get it when you are in LOVE with someone
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I'm going to drown in my tears of happiness. Finally a fanfic where they are soulmates! (Are atleast I haven't found one like this!)
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I can't wait to read the next chapter, hope it comes out real soon
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In my humble opinion there are two types of people in the world: runners and non-runners.
For the record, even people who do actually run can be non-runners. I am one of those people.
I say "I'm going out for a run" a few times a week. The thing is, I rarely actually go for a run. There was a time in my life when I was super into the idea of being into running. I took running classes, I spent hours logging treadmill and park hours, read Runner's World and watched the New York City Marathon from the sidelines. I am willing to admit now, publicly, that I am not a runner.
I have never experienced the runners high. I have never, no matter how far a jaunt I've been out on, found my rhythm or gotten lost in experience only to realize hours later that I'm basically an Olympian in pilled yoga pants. Mostly I huff, puff, count my steps, and check my watch incessantly.
Running, more than anything else, to me is a chore. I will probably still go for runs from time to time, it is truly the most challenging cardio I do, but I absolutely draw the line at enjoying it.
Are you a runner or a non-runner? Runners how did you learn to love it? Non-runners, what do you do instead?
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Here are a few of my favourite go-to books and apps that I personally use and find to be the most helpful (and hopefully you will too!) You could sit in the garden and read/listen to these and enjoy being in a beautiful yet peaceful part of the countryside.
The Little Book of Mindfulness - Tiddy Rowan | Link
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3/15/11 Midnight Report: Market has a JaPanic Attack
Mar 16th
Posted by Money McBags in Daily report
Holy fucking shit. It is not often Money McBags wakes up to such a far reaching news story (even farther reaching than Ben Bernanke's logic) and a story of such epic proportions (even more epically proportioned than Ice-T's wife) that it dominates the headlines more than a Presidential election, has potentially more dire consequences on the global economy than the subprime meltdown of 2007, and causes the whole world to shut down and run to their computers to understand what is happening. But ladies, gentlemen, Hilda Solis, today was such a day. In fact, Money McBags will wager that years from now you will all remember where you were when you heard the news in the same way you remember where you were when the US invaded Iraq, when OJ sped away in his Ford Bronco, and when the late great Nipsey Russell passed away. That's right, this news threatens to change the world as we know it and that news of course is the release of topless NSFW Brooklyn Decker pictures. Unfucking believable. Now Money McBags doesn't believe in God (because if there were a God, the pictures would have been full frontal, and maybe WWII wouldn't have happened), but every once in a while he has to pause and wonder.
But that wasn't the only ginormous news of the day as the damage to nuclear reactors from the tsunami that blew through Japan like Karinne Stefens blew through the Wu-Tang clan continued to intensify due to aftershocks and a failure of the cooling system which led to the most fear in the streets of Japan since Rodan was hatched and caused the Japanese stock market to drop over 10%. Now look, Money McBags doesn't want to be overly flippant about this as as natural disasters aren't really that funny (except for Lindsay Lohan) so he'll refrain from anymore Godzilla references (though quietly hope someone evacuated all of the lizards from near the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant), he won't suggest that if Japan really wants to cool the reactors, instead of dropping water on them from a helicopter, they should drop Fonzie on them because that is one cool motherfucker, he won't share his research on the supermoon theory that could have caused the tsunami by pointing out that this might have been the supermoon responsible for it, and most of all, he won't make any jokes about bukkake, geishas, or geisha bukkake.
No, this is some serious shit and more than anything, Money McBags hopes the people of Japan are ok, the radiation turns out to be nothing more than fear, and this all gets cleaned up so we can go back to making fun of stupid shit like Angry Birds raising $42MM (which Money McBags thinks now makes them, Elated Fucking Birds) and a mom suing her 4 year old's school for hindering her daughter's chances to get in to an Ivy League school (and Dear Woman Suing The School, Fuck you. Love, Money McBags. Because first of all, as Money McBags can attest, an Ivy league education does not mean you won't find yourself unemployed, getting older, and writing dick jokes for free all day on the internet, and secondly, fuck you). So godspeed to all the people in Japan, even the ones in the library (and to be clear, the only things Money McBags condones in that video are the funbags), hopefully things only get better from here.
But shit, the Japan tsunami news drowned out the increasing tensions in the Middle East as Bahrain is once again making it rain bullets, and this time at the Saudis who sent in troops to defend the government (and we can only hope the reign in Bahrain does not mimic Hussein). Plus Qaddafi is getting closer to squashing the rebellion in Libya as he chased the resistance to the city of Benghazi while rebels try to get countries to approve a no fly zone over Libya (and Money McBags has been trying to get universal no fly zone approved for years). The point is there is so much shit going on in the world that Money McBags can't believe the VIX isn't spiking higher than Rebecca Black's new song on a list of things that cause cerebral hemorrhages. There is more uncertainty than in an episode of the Maury Povich Show and because of that Money McBags is more dumbstruck than Caitlin Upton in a pillow fight because shit, he could wake up tomorrow and learn radiation is heading towards Tokyo or the US, the Middle East has imploded in a sweeping and widespread civil war, or his penis defied natural selection and regrew a spine, so all Money McBags can do right now is tell you he hopes you are hedged and that we all come out of this with only a few more emotional scars.
Oh yeah, with all of this international turmoil, who the fuck could focus on the markets where the Fed released their monthly statement to no dissenting votes since Thomas "T. Ho" Hoenig was put on lay away which leaves the Governors free to engage in more group think than the members of a Sabrina Deep fan bang. The statement was less changed than Charlie Sheen after rehab (and did a fuckload less winning) with the only new interesting bit of language being around inflation and the Fed's belief that the spike in energy and commodity prices is "transitory," which is weird, because even Lloyd Blankfein doesn't think "transitory" means what they think it means. The Fed also said "The economic recovery is on a firmer footing, and overall conditions in the labor market appear to be improving gradually" before adding "now if we could just get that pesky labor force participation rate down even more, the labor market would be buzzing."
In the market, anything with ties to Japan was down including GE, AFL, and George Takei's taint (and Money McBags is not entirely sure what that means). The market basically served up a shit sandwich across the board except for the bastion of all that is good and titriffic, NFLX. NFLX soared almost 7% as it never met a dip in which it shouldn't be bought. Driving NFLX up was an upgrade by Goldman Sachs analyst Ingrid Chung who raised her price target to $300 (so still only one million percent below NFLX's true intrinsic value) on the thesis that video consumption is growing rapidly, NFLX has scale to keep competitors out, and there are almost 2.5 billion people in India and China so if just 198% of them earn enough money for a computer to stream videos, the stock should appreciate. When questioned further, Chung said NFLX is king.
In small cap news, every fucking name Money McBags has recommended in the past few months got assraped as if they were trying out for Scared Straight 3: The Morning After. Again, Money McBags is playing on the low end of the volume scale which means higher volatility in times of global fucking panic so as long as you don't think the world is blowing up (which is more of a non-zero probability than Ann Coulter having a vagina), these are buy opportunities as none of the stories have changed.
Take old friend RICK for example which has dropped under .5 lap dances per share and is thus trading at 9x to 12x the range of Money McBags' eps guess. Shit, do you think fewer people are going to go to strip clubs because of Japan's nuclear meltdown? No really? In a worst case scenario if radiation spreads to the US and people have to stay in inside, don't you think a shitload of people will choose to stay inside Rick's? The stock has been selling off for a while but it is now getting to be way oversold so if you have any faith in the market (and there is no reason you should), this is a name that should continue to perform (barring any stupid acquisitions or misplaced mouths in the champagne room).
Also, one of Money McBags' favorite shorts, ZAGG, released their earnings and the stock sold the fuck off because, well, because they sell an overpriced product in a highly competitive market where their cash fucking cow AAPL is now starting to provide their own alternatives to ZAGG's shitty screen protectors. And that is not even to mention these screen could all be going to scratch proof material in the near future, so um, fuck you very much.
As far as the Q, revenue was up 157% to $29MM, but it was up only 27% sequentially in what should be ZAGG's biggest quarter. Their gross margins declined again, this time about 500bps to 45% so um, discount away. Their cash dropped from ~$5MM to ~$2.3MM as inventories, receivables, and every other balance sheet item spiked once again, so um, great job on the $.16 eps, but you're getting dangerously close to running out of cash since you have less cash on your balance sheet than you burned this quarter.
Anyway, Money McBags has not had a chance to read the transcript, so he can't fully break down ZAGG's quarter and doesn't know if they gave guidance, but they are now trading at ~17x trailing twelve month revenues and their business is going to face more headwinds than Camille Crimson's partner when she gets a cough. Money McBags continues to believe this company is a long-term short as their business just has no reason to exist and they have failed with every other product they have tried to market in their attempts to diversify revenues. Money McBags hopes to have a better breakdown next week when he has had a chance to go through their tranny, but nothing in their earnings release gives him reason to doubt his thesis.
2/20/11 Two Day After Report: Mideasterners Continue to Shout "You Suck Dictators!"
Feb 20th
Posted by Money McBags in Daily report
Stocks ended higher for the third consecutive week as protests throughout the Middle East continue to spread like misinformation during a political campaign or herpes in the Kardashian household. Yemen had its 8th day of protests (and for those of you unfamiliar with Yemen, it has a 65% unemployment rate, a 59% literacy rate, and on average women give birth to 6 children each, so in short, it is the Detroit of the Arab world, only without the Robocop statue), Bahrain made it bah-rain bullets as security forces opened fire on protesters in the capital of Manama, Libya decided to get in to the mix (and how the fuck that Qaddafi guy is still in power is more bizarre to Money McBags than the Huffington Post trying to trademark the letter H, though note to readers, Money McBags is currently in the process of trying to trademark the letters T and A), Algeria and Iran continue to have more rumblings than in Oprah Winfrey's gunt right before second breakfast (though how Iran has time to put down protesters when they are busy restarting their nuclear weapons program, sending ships through the Suez Canal, and continuing to keep the lovely Ayker Lie out of the country is beyond Money McBags), and now even Wisconsin is getting their panties in a bunch over the dictatorial rule of the teachers union in the "you've got to be fucking kidding me" move of the week (though if it is Wisconsin native Heather Graham whose panties are bunching, then please, bunch away, and yes Money McBags knows Wisconsin is in the Midwest and not the Mideast, but as most of you came to the award winning When Genius Prevailed simply looking for pics of Claire Henry, odds are you don't).
But despite the international landscape falling to more entropy than Sylvester Stallone's face (because once shit gets worse, you really can't put it back together), despite commodity prices spiking to all time highs and thus threatening to change the actual definition of the word "commodity," and despite living in a world that puts such little value in fiat currency that people actually supported the making of three Big Momma movies, the market continues to rip because Brian P. Sacks trigger finger says so.
Anyway, there wasn't any US macro news out on Friday except Ben Bernanke got his Fed on at a central bank meeting before this weekend's G20 boondoggle in Paris where the 20 finance ministers and central bankers will hit all the spots in Europe. At the meeting, Benny B tried to place the blame for the current economic unbalance squarely on the shoulders of those evil currency manipulators in the Federal Reserve's Office China. Bernanke said "capital flows are once again posing challenges for international macroeconomic and financial stability," and then added "in fact they are causing almost as many challenges as the inflation I created by quantitatively easing my nuts into the global middle classes' mouths in what I like to call a Central Bank Angry Dragon." Bernanke then said the capital flows, "reflect the two-speed nature of the global recovery as emerging market growth far outstrips growth in advanced economies, but hey, just buy the fucking rip."
And Bernanke continued to drive home this theme by saying countries that have been maintaining undervalued currencies have "contributed to spending that's unbalanced and unsustainable," are fueling a worrisome rise in commodity prices, are penalizing countries that have allowed market forces to determine the level of their money by seeing their competitiveness erode (and yes, Bennie was talking his own book more than the inconceivable Lloyd Blankfein on an Abacus sales call), and need to stop being such asshats.
He then reminded policy makers that they have plenty of tools to fuck with their economies to create fight inflation and bubbles and some of those tools might not lead to a global clusterfuck and if anyone knows what any of those tools might be, to email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
In global macro news, China raised lender reserve rates again by 50 bps as they are in more denial about inflation than Tommy Morrison is about HIV. With Chinese savings rates so high, small moves in the reserve rate do less to slow lending than teaching abstinence in High schools does to slow teenage pregnancy (because note to tightasses, it feels so good) and the government sees the raises simply as a signal to banks to slow lending (though a better signal would probably be to pull them close and give them a titty twister while yelling to SLOW THE FUCK DOWN).
Elsewhere, Spain is giving savings banks 6 more months to raise equity or else they will be forced to go back to their rooms without dinner or even worse, be forced to listen to Spain's own Enrique Iglesias sing Rhythm Devine without a sound engineer. If banks don't raise equity in six months, the government will either increase the now stricter core capital requirements they just put in to place or they will likely just extend the deadline once again, because that is much easier than having to make anyone accountable. Finance Minister Elena Salgado said at a news conference on Friday that stricter capital rules were required because "there is still mistrust among investors about the solvency of the financial entities," to which the investment world answered with a resounding "no fucking shit."
The Spanish government also approved a slightly broader definition than initially debated of what banks could include in their core capital, such as any bonds that are due to be converted into shares by 2014 and anything made out of paper. To be honest Money McBags has no idea what any of this means because the Spanish banking system has to be more full of shit than the American banking system which is so full of shit that it makes a coprophiliac's mouth water, but it was a slow fucking news day so it was either this or 200 words on proper household etiquette.
As for the market, Campbell's Soup cut earnings on weak soup sales as their cock soup with a side of Jussipussi dinner promotional campaign failed to resonate with consumers. It's the second time in three months, they have lowered guidance which is confusing to Money McBags because a dying middle class and a stormy winter (at least according to analysts when trying to justify bad economic data) should be a perfect environment for cheap soup. CEO Douglas Conant, whose name is an anagram for "gonadal counts" if you're keeping score at home (though if you are keeping score at home, don't forget to put down 10 points for this), said "The overall competitive environment remains challenging throughout the food industry, particularly in the U.S." and to combat their shitty performance, they will focus on advertising to strengthen brands while easing up on promotions such as "just take some" Fridays and "buy one and no one gets laid off" Wednesdays. Conant then jumped on his baby unicorn, blew in to his whale tusk, and rode off in to the sunset on his $10MM a year salary for a job well fucking done.
In other earnings news, JWM beat guesses of $1.00 by $.04 as rich people are still fucking rich and the company also announced that they are spending $180MM to buy flash seller Hautelook which is the the most expensive flash sold since Janet Jackson at the Super Bowl. Intuit rose 7% as their Quickbooks online segment continues to grow despite the protests of Wesley Snipes and that caused shareholder to say "tax you very much." And CAT rose after reporting that machinery sales rose 49% in three months driven by North American sales as the Federal Reserve ordered a fuck load of new tractors to scoop up all of the shit they have been spewing. Finally, JDSU fell ~5% fell after a Citi analyst cut the company to "hold" from "buy," while a Miller Tabak analyst did the opposite and raised JDSU's price target to $38 from $35, begging the question, "who the fuck is Miller Tabak?"
In small cap news, Money McBags wanted to break down DTLK's Q which they had previously pre-announced (and yes that was redundant) but finally released as you all know Money McBags has been banging this company on the award winning When Genius Prevailed as if it were Michelle Marsh. While it has been a great trade (and remember, Money McBags pointed it out when it was nearly 50% below today's price in October), DTLK has never been what Money McBags would call a high quality company and they showed why with their slightly confusing and craptacular guidance. Before Money McBags gets to the disappointment, lets just bask in the glow of their Q4 for a second as it was more jizztastic than Monika Pietrasinska.
DTLK had revenue of ~$91MM which was up 32% sequentially and 76% y/y which is hella fucking good and it was driven by product sales hitting $60MM for 91% y/y growth. As DTLK's operating costs are relatively flat ~$16MM and their gross margin was down ~200bps to 22% as they win larger deals, GAAP eps was $.19 and non-GAAP eps was $.24 which was 125% above last year. So everything was more hunky dory than a taint tickle from Marisa Miller, especially as an accounting change which is now standard for all computer hardware resellers caused them to push $8MM of revenue out to Q1 2011 as they now have to recognize revenue at shipment rather than installation. So they would have had a nearly $100MM revenue quarter after basically being between $62MM and $70MM for the other three quarters this year, wow, talk about blowing out a quarter (and Money McBags has a "quarter" Breanne Ashley can blow out).
So great, since DTLK has had over a year of sequential quarterly growth, we can pretty much consider this $.24 GAAP eps a new run rate and then say earnings should be ~$1 for next year and thus this company is as cheap as an Art Schlichter autograph as it is trading at ~7.5x that (which would be for 22% growth, though flat sequentially from Q4). But wait, what's that? They guided to only $77MM to $82MM in revenue for next Q which is down 13% sequentially and includes an extra $8MM due to the accounting change, so on an apples to apples basis (and Money McBags always compares apples because if you don't, you may wind up with this), only ~10% to 18% y/y growth for the Q? Ugh, and yes that sound you just heard was Money McBags punching himself in the balls.
As the CEO explained, the Q4 spike was because they closed some large deals and took advantage of the seasonal end of year budget flush where IT departments need to spend their cash or lose it for the year in a less rewarding version of Brewster's Millions. Now this would all make sense if last year revenue between Q4 and Q1 did not rise sequentially from ~$52MM to ~$62MM, but they did see the seasonality in the two prior years, so Money McBags guesses Q1 2010 looked funky because companies were building back up from zero inventory. The point is, the guidance was way fucking below what Money McBags was expecting as next Q they will be lucky to earn $.04 per share and that isn't going to get anyone excited about buying a basically undifferentiated value added reseller (even if they are in a growing market) unless they like buying things that suck.
So the question is, was Q4 2010 more of an aberration than a Taylor Rain movie without anal or can they get that kind of revenue again? If we grow earnings every Q by 15%, hold gross margins flat at 22% (which may be too positive of an outlook since they are cutting prices to win bigger deals), grow operating costs by 5% (which may be too high as they have been mostly flat in 2010), and tax them at 40%, we get to ~$.42 of GAAP eps for 2010 which is ~$.60 of Non-GAAP eps, so the company is now trading at ~13x that after the 8% sell off on Friday. For a company growing 15% with no real competitive advantage that burned ~$2MM cash from operations in 2010, that actually seems like a pretty fair price, but are those numbers too aggressive?
See, to get to that growth, we have to assume that Q4 2011 will be up ~15% from this Q's ridonkulous number that is so far above any other Q that it seems more nonsensical than trickle down economics (or any economics) or Carrot Top's career. So to own this stock, you need to believe Q2 and Q3 continue their momentum, but Q4 next year can also have the bizarre spike that Q4 did this year.
The CFO even addressed this on the call by saying "I think we had a very large fourth quarter where we had a couple of large deals that we've talked about previously. So I guess that would be the thing that would make it so you couldn't continue an 18% growth rate off of last year's fourth quarter. But other things would be the economy or acquisitions within the industry. But I don't see anything right now out there that would affect it." Hmmmmm, Money McBags is not quite sure what to make of that.
So look, management said a lot of positive shit on the call such as customer buying patterns have improved, their data centers are getting momentum, and the market is strong and demand is strong, but unless they pull a ~$100MM+ revenue quarter out of their asses next Q4, the earnings likely won't be there to justify further stock price appreciation. Shit, what a fucking bitch. Money McBags loved the stock when he thought Q4 wasn't a result of so much seasonality (because Q4 last year wasn't) and when they had $17MM in cash on the balance sheet which was ~1/4 of their market cap (and now they are somehow down to only $9MM of cash, so um, hmmmm), but now he's lost that loving feeling (though he will never lose this loving feeling) because we are basically betting on the unknown here.
After their pre-release last month Money McBags said:
"their backlog was only $47MM and while that is a record for them, it is only ~1/2 of this Q's sales, so they are going to need to close a shitload more deals to keep this kind of revenue run rate. And that is why this company will never be a core holding of Money McBags as they simply rely on big deals every Q and eventually those dry up or one gets pushed in to the next Q or some dumb shit like that because that is how non-subscription based sales work"
"Hopefully we get more detail on the drivers of growth on their call next month (and this is a driver of Money McBags' growth) but the technicals are good and the numbers are good, so enjoy the ride."
So now that we got our update on drivers of growth and the drivers were the classic "we had our positive lumpy Q," feel free to take your winnings here and go home (especially if this is home). The stock is not terribly expensive, so there isn't a ton of downside, but the easy money has been made and it could be worth sitting on the sidelines for a Q since the growth thesis did not play out as we had hoped. But hey, that's why you listen to the fucking Qs.
2/17/11 Midnight Report: Just a Quickie
Feb 18th
Posted by Money McBags in Daily report
Money McBags only has time for a short update tonight, and for that he apologizes, but unfortunately some life shit got in his way today and thus he didn't have time for a full column. If he did, he would have written about more unrest and uprisings in the Middle East than in the Octomom's uterus as the Suez Canal saw worker strikes and Iranian warships while Bahrain's military took control of parts of the capital proving that to complain in Bahrain is mainly met with disdain (and machine guns). That said, Money McBags did learn that Bahrain's capital is called Manama which finally explains wtf this song is about (and now Money McBags knows why he never trusted those fucking muppets, but then again, it's hard to trust anything that can be so happy with a hand up its ass, like Andy Dick).
He would have written about record high cotton prices as cotton hit >$2 per pound in New York which increases the price of Izabel Goulart's thong from priceless to fucking priceless.
He would have written about how consumer prices remained in check in January except for energy prices which no doubt will be falling any day now that Egypt has deposed their prime minister for military rule (and yes that is sarcasm). He would have written about consumers becoming less confident (or equally unconfident) thanks to rising gas prices and logic. He would have written about new claims for unemployment rising to 410k (despite the weather and devious machinations from Waddell and Reed), the Philly Federal Reserve's index reaching its highest level in 7 years (though don't order the extra whiz for that cheesteak or golden shower just yet because the prices paid index jumped 13 points), and the awesomeness of Amazon Eve potentially doing Playboy,
He also would have written about how Thomas "T Ho" Hoenig got his farmland bubble on by saying "current distortions in financial markets are increasing the risk that imbalances in asset markets will catch agriculture — and the U.S. economy more generally — by surprise once again" before adding: "It is nearly impossible to determine how much of the farmland boom may be an unsustainable bubble driven by financial markets and how much results from fundamental changes in demand and supply conditions," and finishing with "The shit is simply too expensive, bitchez."
And he would have written about ShitiGroup CEO Vikram Pandit crying that new regulations may mean tighter credit and less access for borrowers (and umm hey dick bag, isn't that the whole fucking point? To keep you assholes from giving every subprime dickweed a loan that they will never pay back just so you can pool those loans together to "spread the risk" and sell them off to lazy yield investors after giving Moody's a big reacharound to have them rate the loans as AAA subprime? And here's a quiz for investors, what's another name for a AAA subprime loan? Answer: Subprime).
Finally he would have written about NVDA putting up a big Q, NTAP giving sitty guidance, and WTW fattening up investors portfolios after rising >30% on an earnings beat due to their new points plus program (and based on that success, Money McBags will now be adding a points plus part of the award winning When Genius Prevailed which will be points plus tits).
As for small caps, he would have written about this fucking GKNT contuing to run higher, he would have written about NTZ coming back from the dead, and he would have written about EHTH's strange Q where they beat on pulled forward non-core revenue, lowered guidance, and yet still rose ~11%.
And he would have done all of that while mixing in references to the biggest bear ever (what, you were expecting Roubini?), the Poincare Conjecture, and Peta Todd's tits. Alas, it was just not to be today and Money McBags apologizes but he has a fuck ton of archives if you need your daily fix as surely you have missed a column here or there. Money McBags will be traveling for a good deal of the day on Friday but he will be available by email (email@example.com, though please, no more cockshots) and hopes to get a more thorough column out because he's just scratching the surface on inflation, unemployment, and Diane Kruger.
And yes this quickie column just ran over 700 words as even in a pinch Money McBags can still bang out run on sentences, awkward transitions, unneeded linking words, and plenty of Karolina Kurkova.


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July 22, 2016
MongoDB is a critical part of our infrastructure because its dynamic schema allows us to inject patient data and maintains the fidelity at the Hospital yet still allows us to operate on it at runtime in a way that can deliver clinical outcomes
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Legislation is one of the most effective ways for students to voice their concerns to the administration and enact change within the college. Any student within the college can write a resolution, a piece of legislation detailing an initiative with college-wide impact. NSC also produces bills, which amend the internal structure of the council. Legislation is passed with a majority vote amongst NSC members and is then taken to be heard by the Senate of College Councils. Upon approval by the Senate, the Legislative Committee will begin the implementation process.
The Legislative Committee receives feedback internally from the Natural Sciences Council and externally from the College of Natural Sciences and administration. The committee then researches and writes legislation in order to facilitate solutions to any issues that arise. Pieces of legislation that come from the Senate of College Councils are also considered by the committee and are presented to the Natural Sciences Council by the Senate Representative. The Senate Representative then acts as a proxy and votes and voices the opinion of NSC in Senate proceedings.
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Magnum Hunter Acquires Acreage in Williston Basin
Magnum Hunter's wholly owned subsidiary, Williston Hunter ND, LLC, has entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement ("PSA") with a privately-held company ("Seller") for all of the Seller's operated working interest ownership in oil and gas mineral leases and 191 wells on approximately 15,500 gross acres located within four counties of the Williston Basin of North Dakota. Gross production from the properties is approximately 833 BOE per day. Total proved reserves attributable to the acquired properties are estimated at 2.6 million barrels of oil equivalent. Magnum Hunter presently owns an approximate 47% working interest in these oil and gas properties. Upon closing of this transaction, Magnum Hunter will own an approximate 95% working interest in these properties. The effective date of the transaction is April 1, 2011. Magnum Hunter intends to close the purchase transaction on or before August 18, 2011.
Magnum Hunter will pay to the Seller a total purchase price of $57 million, to be paid at closing in the form of $55.0 million in cash and $2.0 million in Magnum Hunter restricted common stock. The number of shares of Magnum Hunter common stock will be determined based on the volume weighted average price of the Company's common stock during the five trading days prior to closing. Magnum Hunter intends to fund the cash portion of this purchase through existing liquidity and borrowings under the Company's senior credit facility. Additionally, the Seller will retain an overriding royalty interest in certain of the properties in various amounts not to exceed 2%. No existing debt of Seller will be assumed by Williston Hunter in connection with the closing of the acquisition.
The PSA between Williston Hunter and the North Dakota based privately-held Seller was negotiated pursuant to a Settlement Agreement between Magnum Hunter and the Seller as a result of certain lawsuits pending in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota (Northwestern Division). The agreed upon settlement between the parties will resolve all outstanding claims. The parties will file stipulations with the District Court for dismissal, with prejudice, of the two pending civil actions upon the PSA's final closing.
Management Comments
Mr. Glenn Dawson, President of Williston Hunter, commented, "We are pleased to announce this final agreement to acquire these Williston Basin properties where we have been a minority owner for years. With this 'bolt on' transaction, we will be establishing an operating base in North Dakota which has been a primary objective as we continue to grow our presence in the Williston Basin. Our game plan in 2011 is to continue our geological and engineering evaluation of these properties so that we will be in a position to prudently develop these assets beginning early next year."
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2014 Pro Days: Jimmie Ward displays speed before foot surgery
Jimmy Ward appeared over the foot injury that sidelined him from working out at the Scouting Combine last month by running a 40-yard dash timed unofficially in 4.47 seconds by multiple scouts at Northern Illinois' pro day on Friday.
The workout was well attended, with Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo and Detroit Lions defensive backs coach Alan Williams among those in attendance. Ward reportedly met with various teams for more than two hours following the workout.
Ward, the top-rated strong safety in this year's class by NFLDraftScout.com who can also play free safety, ran the 40 twice to display his straight-line speed before he soon undergoes surgery to have a screw inserted into his foot.He expects to be cleared to return to the field before the May 8-10 NFL Draft.
Ward had 95 tackles and seven interceptions last season, and is considered to be a versatile back-end defender who boasts speed and good instincts despite being relatively small at 5-feet-11 and 193. He was a finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award as a senior, and has even displayed the ability to drop down to handle slot receivers in man coverage.
Northern Illinois has two other potential draft prospects in defensive tackle Ken Bishop and quarterback Jordan Lynch. Few NFL teams project Lynch, a Heisman Trophy finalist last season, as an NFL quarterback, and although he has maintained his desire to pursue continuing to play offense, he did go through defensive back drills Friday.
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The Three Legged Stool reopened on December 7th 2014 following an extensive quarter-of-a-million pound refurbishment completed by the Pub People Company. The pub has been transformed both inside and outside and also introduced a brand new menu as the fourth pub under the company's Fresh and Local brand. So far proving extremely successful in and around the East Midlands the concept is to deliver a range of quality and value meals all freshly prepared on site using the freshest ingredients sourced, wherever possible, from local suppliers. Other Fresh and Local pubs include the Plug and Feathers in Glapwell, the Dukeries Lodge in Edwinstowe and the Marr Lodge in Doncaster.
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Rooms, services 61 comfortably furnished rooms are offered by Comfort Suites South Point to guests looking for accommodation in South Point. You are also welcome at the hotel for a fine local meal in the restaurant. You may also enjoy refreshing wellness services at the hotel, an indoor pool will also be available to you. The local gym will provide a great opportunity to do sports. If you have a suitable portable device, you can connect to the Internet via a wireless network (WiFi) available at the hotel. If you wish to learn more about the exact scope of services provided by Comfort Suites South Point (including those available for an extra fee) or about the equipment of the rooms, you can find the complete list on the information sheet below.
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The Stated Income San Diego Mortgage is Back!Posted by: | Comments
In the past few years the lending industry has lost many programs that were important tools for helping people buy and refinance homes. One of the most used and abused San Diego mortgage programs and a major cause of the "mortgage meltdown" and housing crisis was the stated income loan. While the major banks main concerns these days these days seem to be trying to pass government stress tests and spending TARP dollars, a few small wholesale lenders have introduced stated income San Diego mortgage programs again. The last time this type of mortgage program was available, 100% financing with stated income could be used for purchase or refinance with unlimited cash out and there was a lot of abuse. This time around there are a few more guidelines to hopefully slow the abuse of the program while letting responsible people use this tool effectively. The applicant must now have at least a 660 FICO score and no mortgage late payments in the last 24 months. The loan can be used to purchase or refinance (with no cash out) an owner occupied residence. The property can be a single family or up to 4 units as long as the buyer plans to live in one of the units (sorry no condos) . This San Diego mortgage can only be used for a loan amount of up to $417,000 and the maximum loan to value is 80%. The borrower must be a w2 employee which makes NO sense at all since it is self employed people that usually have a hard time proving their income but hopefully this will change in the near future. This is a true stated income program with no 4506T required so there will not be any request for IRS transcripts. This program can and will help many people be able to get loans that otherwise would not be able to buy or refinance their homes.
For more information on this or any other San Diego mortgage program give me a call at (619)285-2921 today .
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In a recent survey over half of potential home buyers said that they are still not ready to jump into the Real Estate market due to the fear of losing their jobs.
Fortunately for San Diego first time home buyers there is a program that will help pay for a San Diego mortgage loan in case of job loss, disability or accidental death. In April the California Association of Realtors® launched a mortgage protection plan. The C.A.R. Housing Affordability Fund Mortgage Protection Program for First Time Home Buyers ( a shorter name would have been nice) will give up to $1500 per month, for 6 months to help make your San Diego mortgage loan payments. A qualified co-borrower on the San Diego mortgage loan can also receive a monthly benefit of up to $750 dollars per month for 6 months.
This program is FREE to first time San Diego home buyers and comes in the form of a mortgage insurance policy that is prepaid for one year. by C.A.R. to help make payments on your San Diego mortgage loan.
To qualify for this mortgage protection plan an applicant must:
- Be a first time home buyer that has not owned a property in the past 3 years.
- The escrow must be both opened and closed between April 2, 2009 and December 31, 2009.
- Purchase a primary residence in California.
- Be represented by a California Realtor®.
- Be a W2 employee (not self employed) but can be a sole proprietor, partner or controlling stockholder in the business in which you are employed.
This San Diego mortgage loan protection plan has NO income or home price caps.
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Hometown: Zaanstad
March 28, 2013
I am a lacto-vegetarian since 35 years because I felt pity for the animals. I started eating fish 11 years ago in Greece, but I still prefer a good fresh salad :-)
I chose to stop eating meat when I was 9 years old and I am happy that vegetarian -and healty- food is becoming more and more popular.
Hi I am Sarah, I have been a lacto-vegetarian since 35 years (and still alive ;-) !) but I do eat fish since 11 years. I moved from Athens to Amsterdam in April and I look forward to meeting you Veg*ns.
Failed to find the group, just met Olive and Abhishek by accident and had a small chat, and found Sen's message with his mobile number only in the evening when I got home. Had a good time at the festival anyway. Hope to meet all of you some next time!
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The "Louis" has been totally handcrafted in our studios.
Three Lys flowers are embossed at the center of the bracelet.
As every piece we make, this bracelet has been engraved on each side with our infinity logo.
This bracelet is in sterling silver (92,5%) and weights around 38 grams.
With time, silver tends to tarnish, that is why each Makàrios bracelet is accompanied with its high quality polish cloth.
Orders are processed within two business days, and shipped via DHL or Royal Mail.


text: Film and television executive Pamela Popp had a big date. He was smart, handsome, and charming; they had a lot to talk about, as they both worked in the same industry. Popp dressed carefully: funky patchwork skirt, fitted sweater, and brown stiletto boots. The evening went well—so well that it led to sex. But though she was overcome by passion, the only article of clothing she removed was her panties. "I didn't take a stitch off," recalls Popp, 34. "I asked, 'Wouldn't it be more fun with the boots?' And of course, he thought it was the hottest thing ever." But what may have seemed like a spontaneous suggestion was a deliberate—if erotic—ruse. Popp was intent on hiding a half-inch-wide keloid scar that winds from her breastbone to her pelvis; it's the result of life-saving surgery that she had after a car accident at 19. Though she has had nearly half her life to adjust to the mark, Popp has yet to adjust to the moment when she must reveal it to a new lover. Will he be shocked? Will he pretend it's not there? She dreads each possibility, and refuses to undress in front of a man until she is reasonably sure that his interest will last longer than one evening. While her story is dramatic, Popp is not alone in her attempt to conceal a "flawed" body part from a romantic partner. Many women swagger confidently through business meetings and cocktail parties. But once they shed the armor of Diane von Furstenberg and True Religion they become flustered schoolgirls, ashamed of everything from scars and birthmarks to stretch marks and small breasts. And in an age when many women yearn for the airbrushed perfection of Beyoncé and Jennifer Aniston, it's easy to assume that men do, too. "This sort of angst is very understandable," says Dr. Emanuel Maidenberg, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA Medical School who has treated patients with severe body image problems, known as body dysmorphic disorder. "Women are culturally more disposed to these expectations of perfection when it comes to body image." To compensate, some women keep their clothes on, while others apologize as they come off. At 49, Susan Greenberg*, a high-powered lawyer in Chicago, still makes excuses for her small breasts. "I feel like I have to have a throwaway self-deprecating line," she says. "In response, they'll say something reassuring like, 'The last thing I care about is …' or 'I never was much of a boob guy.'" But she's still not reassured. "It's just cliché upon cliché," she says with a sigh. The only way to get over body insecurities, Maidenberg says, is to stop focusing on them. "Calling attention to something that is small or not visible is self-defeating," he says. And hiding a so-called flaw "may be sustainable—but there is a price to pay: tension and apprehension. In the long run, it's likely to be counter-productive." Increasing body confidence, of course, is easier said than done. Caitlin Randall*, a Los Angeles based writer, despised the two-inch-long, 3⁄4-inchwide birthmark on her right hip. Otherwise lean and sinewy, she saw the brown spot as a glaring flaw on her pale white skin. "When I would have sex, I would go through these ridiculous contortions to make sure it wasn't seen," says Randall, 42. "I would have my arm at my side. If I turned, I might have my hand down there. And I would lie on my right side to go to sleep." When she did finally point it out to boyfriends, no one ever said anything more judgmental than, "How'd you get that?" Even model lookalikes are not immune to body insecurity. Sasha Dillon*, 31, has the kind of spectacular looks that leave men dumbfounded. A dark-skinned black woman who works for a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles, she has beautiful skin and the body of a Playboy centerfold. But she also has stretch marks. "They go from my thighs up to my butt," says Dillon. The result of an adolescent growth spurt, the marks look to her like "long, pale tentacles of flesh" that stand out against her brown skin. She's tried tanning, exfoliating, and moisturizing. "I was the only 13-year-old who kept a vat of cocoa butter with me at all times," she says. When Dillon began dating, she kept up her efforts at camouflage, refusing to walk naked in front of a lover or to have the lights on during sex. But you can't play hide-and-seek forever. "You don't have to love the part of your body you're ashamed of," Maidenberg says. "You just have to stop being ashamed of it. If you stop hiding it, it becomes a non-issue." But what if it is an issue? Barbara Jenkins*, who works in radio promotion in Los Angeles, lost a breast to a mastectomy in 1998. She never expected her boyfriend's pained reaction to the scar and flattened right side of her chest. "He never touched me there again," says Jenkins, now 56. To accommodate his discomfort and hers, she wore a T-shirt when they made love. "He would lift it up on one side," she says. In the end, the relationship didn't last, but Jenkins emerged with a new sense of self. Last year, when precancerous cells were found in her left breast, Jenkins had another mastectomy. Since then she has had reconstructive surgery on both breasts. Today, she is upfront about her cancer. On a recent date with a new man, "I said, 'I've had breast cancer and I have implants so if that bothers you, let me know.' He said, 'Don't worry—I've had cancer too!'" According to Maidenberg, there is no reason that a woman should "prepare" a man to see her body. "Why do it? In the long run it only increases anxiety," he says. Some women conquer their self-consciousness by doing away with the object of their dissatisfaction. Caitlin Randall had her birthmark surgically removed ten years ago. "I was surprised by how easy it was," she says. "But it was painful. There were stitches." For Randall, this wasn't giving in—it was taking charge of her body. "It was an act of coming into my own," she says. "It was liberating." Stretch marks can't be removed, but Sasha Dillon has cast off the cocoa butter and turned on the lights in her bedroom. She's found security in her marriage of a year and a half to a man who, as she puts it, "doesn't make me feel like I have to back out of a room." But when the couple began to think about starting a family, she blurted out her worst fear about pregnancy: what if her stomach becomes riddled with stretch marks like the ones she has now? Her husband looked at her quizzically. "Where do you have stretch marks?" he asked. Article by Your Tango


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Inspired by this year's QtCon in Berlin, I have been working on Linux Deployment Tool for Qt, linuxdeployqt. These are my first steps with Qt and with C++ for that matter, and it is stil very young, but I'd appreciate your testing, comments, and (ideally) code review.
linuxdeployqt takes an application as input and makes it self-contained by copying in the Qt libraries and plugins that the application uses into a bundle. This can optionally be put into an AppImage.
This tool is conceptually based on the Mac Deployment Tool, macdeployqt in the tools applications of the Qt Toolkit, but has been changed to a slightly different logic and other tools needed for Linux.
This is fantastic, thank you for working on this. As soon as I get some time I will test this out on my Qt project and give you some feedback.
Thanks. Since you definitely know about Qt and C++, I'd appreciate if you could have a look at the FIXMEs in the code too - probably not hard for someone who has some experience with it.
I feel like I am getting somewhere, but still not successful.
scarlett@scarlett-neon:~/Downloads/build-skanlite-Desktop_Qt_5_7_0_GCC_64bit-Default/src$ linuxdeployqt skanlite -appimage -verbose=2"/usr/local/bin/usr/bin:/home/scarlett/.rbenv/shims:/home/scarlett/.rbenv/bin:/home/scarlett/kde-5/bin:/home/scarlett/qt5/bin:/home/scarlett/bin:/home/scarlett/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/home/scarlett/src/go/bin:/home/scarlett/.rvm/bin"app-binary: "skanlite"ERROR: FIXME: Here I would like to determine the original rpath of the main executable, but get: QSet("$ORIGIN/lib")Log: Deploying libraries found inside: ("./AppRun", "./lib/libicudata.so.55", "./lib/libicuuc.so.55", "./lib/libicui18n.so.55")Log: "libicui18n.so" already stripped.Log: "libicuuc.so" already stripped.Log: "libicudata.so" already stripped.Log: "libicudata.so" already stripped.Log: "libicuuc.so" already stripped.Log: Creating AppImage for "."Log: "./bin//appimageextract:9: GtkWarning: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: \"adwaita\","Log: " gtk.STOCK_OPEN, gtk.RESPONSE_OK))"Log: "xorriso 0.5.6 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project."Log: "libburn : SORRY : Unsuitable filetype for pseudo-drive"Log: "xorriso : FAILURE : Cannot aquire drive '.'"Log: "xorriso : NOTE : Tolerated problem event of severity 'FAILURE'"Log: "Copying of file objects from ISO image to disk filesystem is: Enabled"Log: "xorriso : FAILURE : No ISO image present. No -dev, -indev, or -outdev selected."Log: "xorriso : NOTE : Tolerated problem event of severity 'FAILURE'"Log: "xorriso : UPDATE : Thank you for being patient for 1 seconds"Log: "Extracted from ISO image: file '/'='/home/scarlett/Desktop/..AppDir'"Log: "xorriso : NOTE : Tolerated problem event of severity 'FAILURE'"Log: "xorriso : NOTE : -return_with SORRY 32 triggered by problem severity FAILURE"Log: "chown: cannot access '/home/scarlett/Desktop/..AppDir': No such file or directory"Log: "chmod: cannot access '/home/scarlett/Desktop/..AppDir': No such file or directory"Log: Created AppImage at "..AppImage"
The most visible problem is.. it is searching for an AppDir on my desktop? The appimage does not actually get created. verbose 3 does show your ldd magic going on. So it is at this ISO part that the failure begins. Any ideas?Scarlett
Let's take this in two steps: First, bundle the app without -appimage and see whether it does its thing properly (be sure to inspect the binary with ldd).
You might be running into https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/issues/2, try setting the ENVs mentioned there prior to running linuxdeployqt (and unset them thereafter).
After you confirm this working, we will work on the AppImage part, ok?
You might also want to try -bundle-non-qt-libs: Also bundle non-core, non-Qt libraries.
The tool has seen some progress in the last days. make sure you have the correct qmake of the Qt instance to be bundled on the $PATH.
You have a typo in your post. Link to AppImageAssistant should be https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases
That section was outdated. AppImageAssistant is not used anymore, but the newer appimagetool. It comes as part of the linuxdeployqt*.AppImage.


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Hireko Golf Announces New Power Play Caiman X2 Drivers
CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA – March 16, 2012 – Hireko Golf today announced the arrival of the new Power Play Caiman X2 Driver. The second generation is even more raw and powerful than before.
The new Caiman X2 Driver still has the geometric shape reminiscent of its namesake – an Amazonian Black Caiman or the most feared beast in all of South America. But this new version has a more refined shape by softening the toe area.
What makes the Caiman X2 Driver outperform the original is what you can't see. The designers eliminated approximately 9 grams of weight from the crown using a new manufacturing technique which allows even a greater amount of weight to be shifted lower and deeper farther within the head for an astonishing combination of power and accuracy.
Aerodynamic, geometric and high MOI, the Caiman X2 driver is also smokin' hot with the lustrous black PVD finish to create the ultimate driving machine.
The new Power Play Caiman X2 Driver can be purchased custom assembled online for $109.95 each at www.hirekogolf.com.


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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the economic reports of the first half of 2007 "should encourage us all".
Speaking at Sunday's cabinet meeting, Olmert added that "all the indices point to one thing: Stability, growth and an improvement in the economic situation based on the Israeli government's policies". (Ronny Sofer)


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|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Sep 22, 1992
|Filing date
|Mar 28, 1990
|Priority date
|Mar 31, 1989
|Fee status
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|Publication number
|Nigel P. Dyer
|Original Assignee
|Dyer Nigel P
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (12), Classifications (6), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This invention concerns exchanges of the kind having a distribution frame and subscriber interface cards. There is a growing need to provide an analogue switch facility between the distribution frame and the interface cards within the exchange or in a multiplexor of the exchange. Such an analogue switching facility is sometimes called an Electronic Cross Connect Frame (ECCF). An ECCF permits "sparing" (the continued provision of service to a subscriber whose interface card has failed by switching the subscriber to a spare interface card) and also alternative service provision e.g. when a subscriber requests a service provided only by a different physical interface circuit which can only be provided immediately by the network operator switching in a different interface card.
Ideally, a network operator would be able immediately to switch any subscriber to any of the different types of interface cards provided within the exchange or its multiplexor. However, such an ECCF would not be cost effective with present or forseeable technology.
For example, for an exchange (or multiplexor) with 900 subscriber lines for which the connections may be of the 2-wire or 4-wire type, then a three stage switching matrix of the kind shown in FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawings would be necessary to provide such complete interconnectivity. Each indicated line may represent a 4-wire connection. The matrix would then be constituted by 144566 four pole switches. Using relays, with their associated circuit boards, edge connectors, drivers etc., the cost would be in excess of $230 per line and the volume would be considerable.
As an alternative approach, if separate non-interconnecting but fully available switches are implemented for modules each of 60 subscriber lines, the number of switches required would be 33880 four pole switches. Again, the cost for a 900 line exchange would be prohibitive.
If the switching matrix was implemented with solid-state cross points, the volume (but not to any great extent, the cost) would be reduced. For example, either gated diodes or high voltage FETs (Field Effect Transistors) may be used instead of relays. Gated Diodes, for three stage switching, would have a path resistance of approximately 100 ohms. High voltage FETs are prohibitively expensive. It is difficult also to provide well matched impedances using such devices (a balance about earth of some 70 ohms).
It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic cross connect frame, for use in an exchange or a multiplexor of an exchange, wherein the foregoing disadvantages are minimised.
According to the present invention, there is provided an electronic cross connect frame, for an exchange or a multiplexor thereof, comprising an analogue access matrix having an integral number n+x of subscriber line interfaces and an integral number n of interface connections to a distribution frame, the matrix being capable of switching, on a one-one basis, up to 2x of the subscriber line interfaces to any of the interface connection to the distribution frame, and control means associated with the matrix for switching a subscriber line interface to an interface connection to the distribution frame and for mapping the paths from the subscriber line interfaces to the interface connections to the distribution frame.
It is preferred that the or each analogue access matrix comprises two switch planes.
For 4-wire inputs, a first pair of wires may be switched in the first switch plane and the other pair of wires may be switched in the second switch plane. In such case, the switch planes may be identical.
For 2-wire inputs, the two planes may also be identical, the second switch plane paralleling the first switch plane. Alternatively, the second switch plane may serve for selective connection of a ring source to a redundant pair of lines for a particular path through the matrix.
Test access relays may tap into a subscriber pair of lines so as not to interrupt the lines. Independant splitting relays are employed to break the connection between the subscriber and the line cards. In this way two stage circuit validation may be achieved.
Where the second switch plane is identical to the first, it may parallel the same for 2-wire lines. In this way, either switch plane could be removed without interrupting services to the subscribers of the particular module using that analogue access matrix.
The invention will be described further, by way of examples, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1, as above described, represents a three stage switching matrix representing a conventional way of providing "sparing" or alternative subscriber service;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an electronic cross connect frame, for use in an exchange or a multiplexor thereof, according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the interconnection between an analogue access matrix and subscriber interfaces of one module of the electronic cross connect frame of FIG. 2; and,
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the structure of an analogue access module shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. It should be noted that FIGS. 3 and 4 are drawn on the opposite hand to FIG. 2, i.e. the distribution frame is shown on the left and the subscriber line interface on the right.
Referring to the drawings, FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a proposed electronic cross connect frame (ECCF). The incoming subscriber lines are assigned to modules 10. Each module 10 comprises an Analogue Access Matrix (AAM) 12, for each module 10 of subscriber interface circuits. In this description, each module consists of n+x e.g. 64 line interface circuits and is used to provide service to up to n e.g. 60 subscribers at any given time, and excess lines x=4 being available for sparing etc. The interfaces may be 2-wire or 4-wire.
The AAM 12 normally provides direct interconnection between a Distribution Frame (not shown) and Interface Circuits in the line modules 10. The AAMs 12 can also provide a limited number of flexibility cross connects, that is the ability to switch to spare line cards should an original line card develop a fault or to offer alternative service to a subscriber on a particular circuit. The AAMs 12 also provide the test access connection to a common test facility 14.
The AAMs 12 are controlled by two independent processors 16, 18 working in a master slave configuration, connected independently to a central exchange/multiplexor processor 20 via duplex communications links 22. Each Processor 16, 18 has independent control links 24 to each AAM 12.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the interconnection between one of the AAM's 12 and Line Cards within a module 10 serving 60 4-wire subscriber interfaces. The AAM 12 consists of 2 identical relay matrices 12a and 12b, arranged in 2 planes, the alpha and beta plane, one plane for each of the two wire pairs that make up a 4-wire subscriber interface.
FIG. 4 shows the structure of an AAM 12a or 12b. Each subscriber pair/quad, from the distribution frame, is connected directly through to a line card (see FIG. 3) resulting in a fixed correspondence between connection positions on the distribution frame and physical card positions within the Line Modules 10.
Relays associated with the cross connect and the connection to the cross connect and indicated diagrammatically by reference numeral 30 may be magnetic latching relays. This ensures that the switching matrix stays latched in the absence of power. Relays associated with the test access function, of the test facility 14, however, would be non-latching, such that in their relaxed state, there are no connections to the common line test facility 14 and all splitting relays (described below) are closed.
The two ECCF processors 16, 18 (FIG. 2), configured in a masterslave configuration are connected independently to the central processor 20 using communications links 22 such as HDLC. Each processor 16 or 18 has an independent connection to each of the AAMs 12. Control to each AAM 12 is via separate duplex serial control links 24, using a fully handshaked and error checked message based protocol such as HDLC.
Each processor 16 and 18 maintains a full record of the ECCF configuration in non-volatile memory. In normal operation, both Master and Slave ECCF processors 16, 18 communicate with the DCCH. The master processor 16 is responsible for determining how a particular interconnection requirement is to be implemented using the cross connect matrix 28, and this is confirmed by the slave processor 18. The master processor 16 then initiates the change to the cross connect as appropriate and updates its configuration map. The other processor 18 is informed that the operation has been completed so that its configuration map can also be updated.
In addition to the `straight through connection` mode described above any 8 subscriber loops and interface circuits within each module 10 can be connected to a flexibility cross point matrix 28. This allows the subscriber pairs access to the excess alternative interface circuits for line sparing and provision of alternative services, i.e. flexibility cross connects.
The arrangement adopted is blocking in that it is not possible to spare any combination of the n subscriber connections to any combination of n line circuits. However, circuit provisioning rules will keep the risk of blocking to a minimum.
There are two ways in which the system can be configured. It can be configured such that change of service or sparing is largely provided using excess line circuits from within the same module with limited provision for sparing, or change of service using interface circuits for another module 10. Alternatively, it can be configured so that the majority os sparing and change of service provision is provided from a common pool of interfaces in a designated module shelf.
If a continuity check fails than the ECCF processor 16 will attempt to set up an alternative pathway through the flexibility cross-point 28. The new path way is then continuity tested. The result of the second test is then used to generate detailed diagnostic information which is passed to the central processor 20.
If the new pathway through the switch is sound then service is provided to the subscriber using a new pathway, and the cross point map is updated to reflect the failure and new matrix configuration.
If it is still not possible to provide service, the central processor 20 is informed so that alternative action can be taken.
The structure has been designed to allow evolution towards a larger number of cross connects, both within a module shelf and between modules. This will become possible when solid state switching technology has evolved to a stage where this can be implemented cost effectively within the cabinet volume.
It is also possible to operate 2 AAMs 12 in parallel to each 60 line module 10. This would permit up to 16 cross connects within a module using the AAMs as proposed. This would also have the advantage that an AAM 12 could be removed without disrupting service to the customers because all the traffic could be handled by the other AAM 12. The tolerance to single point failures would also be improved.
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|Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
|Telecommunication switching systems with a central switching and local sub-switching
|May 11, 1988
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|Dec 16, 1988
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|Alcatel Network Systems, Inc.
|Method and system for connecting an optical network unit with a plurality of user sites
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|May 7, 1996
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|Nov 14, 2000
|Nec Corporation
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|Aug 29, 2001
|May 2, 2006
|Telecommunications rack including shelves with nonredundant backplanes used redundantly
|Aug 7, 2001
|May 9, 2006
|Housing for connection to both broadband and narrowband networks as a shelf in a telecommunications rack
|Sep 14, 2001
|Aug 15, 2006
|Line termination equipment
|Sep 13, 2001
|Aug 29, 2006
|Replaceable printed board assembly (PBA)
|Sep 13, 2001
|Jan 31, 2002
|Czerwiec Richard M.
|Replacable printed board assembly (PBA)
|Sep 14, 2001
|Feb 7, 2002
|Czerwiec Richard M.
|Line termination equipment
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|Telecommunications rack including shelves with nonredundant backplanes used redundantly
|U.S. Classification
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Nov 13, 1992
Owner name: GPT LIMITED, UNITED KINGDOM
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|Apr 30, 1996
|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
|Sep 22, 1996
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
|Dec 3, 1996
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
Effective date: 19960925