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Igneous Appoints New Board Member
Igneous adds Dean Darwin to further its lead in Unstructured Data Management
Seattle, WA, July 11 2019 – Igneous, Inc., the Seattle-based startup delivering the only Unstructured Data Management (UDM) as-a-Service solution, announced today that it has added Dean Darwin to its Board of Directors. This brings Igneous' board to six members.
"We are so excited to welcome Dean to the Board," said Kiran Bhageshpur, CEO, Igneous. "As we continue to grow our lead in unstructured data management and expand our customer base, Dean's depth of industry knowledge and breadth of experiences make him an invaluable addition."
In addition to his role on the Igneous board, Darwin serves on the Advisory Board for the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington and as the SVP of Prisma Cloud GTM at Palo Alto Networks. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he served as Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing and CMO at F5 Networks. He has also worked at NetApp, RadioFrame Networks, Cisco Systems, and Network General. Darwin holds a B.S. in Workforce Education and Development from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and served the United States Air Force as a network engineer.
"New machine-driven workflows are driving data creation at a faster rate than ever," said Darwin, "but managing files and objects across heterogeneous data center environments and public cloud vendors poses a huge challenge to the people trying to derive value out of this data. Igneous has seen success so far due to its as-a-Service delivery model and unparalleled ability to manage vast volumes of unstructured data, and these advantages will continue to drive customer acquisition and retention."
Igneous customers span a number of industries experiencing unstructured data growth, including life sciences, electronic design automation, media and entertainment, and finance.
About Igneous
Igneous delivers the only Unstructured Data Management (UDM) as-a-Service solution, giving data-centric enterprises visibility, protection, and data mobility at scale. Igneous' API-enabled, cloud-native solution combines all UDM functions so that organizations can tap the value of their unstructured data, while reducing risk and optimizing IT resource utilization. Igneous: The right data, in the right place, at the right time.
For more information, visit www.igneous.io. Follow us on Twitter @IgneousIO and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/igneous.


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Trump: No border wall … no DACA
Michael F. Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)
President Donald Trump made it loud and clear that he has no intention of working with Democrats on their progressive policies regarding the illegal immigration of youth – if he does not receive adequate funding and endorsement for his border wall spanning the United States' southern border with Mexico.
The president's maneuver was intended to set up smooth negotiations when lawmakers reconvene in Washington, D.C., after the New Year – giving Democrats the message that if they want any chance of pushing their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program forward, he must receive the funding he needs for the border wall, which expected in the budget that must pass January 19.
Wall or bust
The warning was issued by Trump when he made a proclamation to Democratic leaders in Congress on Friday that no legislative solution protecting DACA beneficiaries – or Dreamers, illegal aliens who entered the U.S. as children – would be put on the table without the 2,000-mile wall from Southern California's Pacific Cost to southern Texas' Gulf Coast.
"The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc.," Trump tweeted. "We must protect our Country at all cost!"
Dems under the gun
Pro-immigration activists and other left-leaning groups have harshly criticized Democrats in Congress for not demanding their desired legal protections for Dreamers in the year-end government funding bill – even after key leaders, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), made bold promises in recent weeks that she and her leftist colleagues would not leave the nation's capital for the holidays if they did not have a deal for their Dreamers.
"We will not leave here without a DACA fix," Pelosi insisted earlier this month, according to The Hill.
Pelosi and her progressive backing have limited time – if they want to see their Obama-era DACA protections stick around much longer.
"Current protections for DACA recipients end in March – unless Congress comes up with a fix," Townhall reported.
Democracy for America, Credo Mobile, and other leftist groups were quick to send out a statement blasting Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) for not coming up with the Dreamers' protective provision in the spending bill that was reached at year's end.
"For months, Democratic leaders insisted they would use their leverage in year-end spending bill negotiations to protect Dreamers and reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program, but at the end of the day they let us down and refused to even put up a fight," Credo Mobile Political Director Murshed Zaheed declared in the statement, according to The Hill.
Sticking to his guns
After eight years of former President Barack Obama's liberal policies on immigration, Trump's tough-on-immigration plan – to ensure national security along the border that is also geared to protect the economy from excessive illegal immigrant costs – has been a top priority, but he realizes that there has to be some give-and-take in order for it to work.
"Dreamers had been protected from deportation under the Obama administration by a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which Trump rescinded, with a six-month delay, earlier this year," Politico explained. "Trump said publicly that he hoped Congress would use the six months to codify protections for Dreamers into law, promising that 'if they can't, I will revisit this issue!'"
Attorney General Jeff Sessions ended the DACA program earlier this year so that children entering the U.S. illegally are no longer protected from deportation.
Trump stressed months ago that DACA was not going to be dealt with by pen in the Oval Office, but through a legislative process – insisting that all the specifics of a deal in Congress were on the table, but that it would only come to fruition in exchange for his border wall.
"We're working on a plan – subject to getting massive border controls," Trump stipulated in September, according to Townhall. "We're working on a plan for DACA. People want to see that happen. You have 800,000 young people, brought here, no fault of their own. So, we're working on a plan. We'll see how it works out. We're going to get massive border security as part of that. And I think something can happen. We'll see what happens, but something will happen."
However, things did not exactly turn out according to Republicans' and Democrats' expectations.
"Last September, Trump nearly struck a deal with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to protect Dreamers that included beefed-up border security, but not funding for the wall, which the president had promised his supporters," Politico's Louis Nelson recounted. "But that agreement quickly fell through though, with the White House insisting on getting more from Democrats in exchange for a DACA deal."
Trump – who is slated to look over a series of border wall prototypes being built in San Diego, California, early next year – impressed that the massive building project is not a matter of "if," but "when," noting that key Democrats are on board with his plans.
"The wall will come later – we're right now renovating large sections of wall, massive sections, making it brand new," the president added. "We want to get massive border security. And I think that both Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, I think they agree with it. I think we're fairly close, but we have to get past the border security."
Moving forward and looking back
In anticipation of next month's negotiations, key Democrats said they will refuse to sign a bill to keep the government funded if they do not secure a deal to keep Dreamers in the U.S.
At the White House this coming Wednesday, Pelosi and Schumer will meet with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other congressional leaders to iron out the DACA deal to avoid an all-out government shutdown early in the year.
"We're not going to negotiate through the press and look forward to a serious negotiation at Wednesday's meeting when we come back," Pelosi's spokesman Drew Hammill proclaimed in a statement, according to Politico.
Making good on promises?
Even though Trump is going to have to make some concessions to get his border wall and other strict measures to tighten down on illegal immigration, he has managed to stay on course with his campaign promises so far.
"Reforming the nation's immigration system has been a priority of Trump's that dates to the earliest days of his presidential campaign, when he made curtailing illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border a bedrock principle of his candidacy," Nelson noted. "During the GOP primary, he pledged to deport every single undocumented immigrant from the U.S. – a position he drifted away from during the general election."
Trump has been extremely critical of many left-leaning immigration policies that characterized the two terms of the Obama administration.
"Trump has mostly stuck to his hard line on immigration as president, calling specifically for an end to the practice of chain migration, by which one immigrant can sponsor family members to come to the U.S., and the Diversity Visa Lottery – a program that awards visas to screened individuals from nations with lower levels of immigration into the U.S," Nelson continued. "The president has been critical of the Diversity Visa Lottery program since a 29-year-old immigrant from Uzbekistan who arrived in the U.S. via the program killed eight people in October by driving a truck along a crowded bike path in New York City."
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Ebix acquires CentrumDirect Limited; Takes Leadership Position in India's Foreign Exchange and Outward Remittance Markets
Ebix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EBIX), a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial, e-governance and healthcare industries, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire India based CentrumDirect Limited (CDL), the undisputed Leader in India's Foreign exchange and outward remittance markets for approximately $175 million. CDL will be tightly integrated into Ebix's Financial Exchange EbixCash offering in India and abroad, with key CDL business executives becoming an integral part of the combined EbixCash senior leadership.
The agreement while approved by the Centrum Board, is subject to its shareholders and other regulatory/commercial approvals. The customary process for such approvals can take a timeline of 45 to 60 days.
Ebix did not use any investment bankers for the transaction. Ebix intends to fund the entire transaction in cash, using its existing bank line and internal cash reserves, though it retains the option at its sole discretion of paying up to $60 million in Ebix stock priced based on the average share price at closing. In the calendar year 2017, CDL had revenues of $37 million and EBITDA margins of approximately 25%. Ebix believes that the business can continue to grow at the rate of 20% plus annually with operating margins of 30% or more, once fully integrated. Ebix expects the acquisition to be immediately accretive to its earnings and forecasts it to generate $0.25 in increased Diluted EPS.
CDL is an Omni-channel exchange that offers a variety of Foreign exchange and outward money remittance products targeting niche sectors like leisure travel, corporate travel, overseas education related remittances, airport money exchange including duty free shops, tour cost remittances of travel agents, disbursement of crew wages to ships docked on Indian shores, immigration related remittance, retail and wholesale currency markets. CDL is one of the few named players in India with the requisite AD-II and FMCG regulatory licenses to conduct these businesses through a vast network encompassing 165 outlets spread across 55 cities, 200+ franchisee partners, 2,000+ travel agents, 50+ banks and financial institutions, 1000+ SMEs, and 150+large corporate clients.
CDL's Forex Exchange has an approximate 70% market share of India's airport Foreign Exchange business encompassing 24 international airports like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata International airports, while conducting over 1 million transactions per annum. The Company is also in the process of initiating contracts with a number of international airports outside India in countries like Sri Lanka, Singapore, Bangladesh, Maldives and Seychelles to name a few. The CDL Exchange also has a 15% market share in India's fast growing $1.5 Billion education outward remittance business.
Leadership in India's Financial Exchange markets
The CDL Exchange establishes EbixCash as a leader in the outward remittance and Forex markets.
The CDL exchange is highly complementary to EbixCash's Via.com travel exchange offering, because it now allows EbixCash's travel outlets to sell Forex to its clients buying international travel.
The CDL exchange will bring thousands of travel agents, large corporates, SMEs and new outlets to EbixCash's existing travel network offering. EbixCash through its travel portal Via.com is one of South East Asia's leading travel exchanges with over 110,000 distribution outlets and 8000 corporate clients, processing over 24.5 million transactions every year.
CDL's presence in 24 international airports lends itself well to marketing the EbixCash brand to Indian and international consumers at these airports, besides being a very recurring source of business for EbixCash.
The addition of the CDL exchange further expands EbixCash Financial Exchange's footprint from its existing 231,500 physical distribution outlets, with an Omni-channel online digital platform that encompasses leadership in money remittance (domestic & international), travel, pre-paid & gift cards, utility payments etc.
CDL's corporate business is highly synergistic with EbixCash's existing corporate business, as it now provides EbixCash the ability to sell Digital Forex and multicurrency cards etc. to its existing thousands of corporate clients. EbixCash's existing corporate clients are presently provided a variety of offerings including utility payments, corporate gifting, cash management, tele-medicine for employees, travel bookings, and prepaid gift cards etc.
The addition of the CDL Exchange to the EbixCash portfolio further strengthens Ebix's leadership in India's Financial Exchange markets:
EbixCash already has a dominant leadership position in the inward remittance exchange arena in India.
EbixCash is already the largest domestic remittance exchange in India with domestic remittance volume of approximately $100 million per month.
EbixCash is also a recognized leader in prepaid cards, domestic remittances and bill payments, processing approximately 600,000 transactions per day and approximately $2 Billion in annual payment volume.
EbixCash is already recognized as a leader in the Gift card space with brand gift cards across all categories with 100+ Brand copartners like Amazon, Flipkart.com, Croma, Lifestyle, Big Bazaar, Tanishq, BookMyShow.com, Reliance Digital, MakeMyTrip.com, Café Coffee Day, Pizza Hut, Myntra.com, Pantaloon etc.
EbixCash is a leader in the utility payment space serving as a payment exchange for large utility providers like BSES, Tata Power, NDPL, Reliance Energy and Mahanagar Gas etc.
Ebix's recent joint venture initiative with Bombay Stock Exchange positions it as a gateway for insurance carriers to sell insurance to India's vast population through EbixCash's tens of thousands of phygital outlets across the country, besides BS\E's strong network across the country.
Ebix Chairman, President and CEO Robin Raina said, "The acquisition of CDL provides us with new abilities in niche financial exchange sectors while expanding our footprint in India and establishing our EbixCash Financial Exchange as the largest Financial exchange in the country. We have been eager to build a strong footprint in India's airports and shipping ports, as their high levels of customer traffic provide recurring sources of revenue and income for any Financial Exchange. With a long-term presence in 24 international airports, and a few others to be deployed this year, the addition of CDL will substantially extend EbixCash's branding and leadership position in India's Financial exchange markets."
Robin added, "CDL already has a strong financial trajectory in terms of top line and operating margins, though we intend to build upon its success through complementary products and operational synergies. I am particularly pleased that the CDL acquisition will also further strengthen our management resources with the addition of CDL's strong senior leadership team. We intend to integrate this team into our EbixCash senior leadership, with the goal of having everyone at EbixCash focused on maximizing cross-selling of EbixCash products and services."
CDL's CEO & Managing Director, T.C.Guruprasad said, "We are thrilled to join Ebix and contribute to building a world-leading exchange. We believe that the synergies between EbixCash and CDL are at multiple levels and the CDL exchange when complemented with EbixCash's portfolio of finance, insurance & healthcare services, will set the foundations of a very powerful and scalable business opportunity. Also, Ebix's global reach and international partnerships with large financial institutions open International expansion opportunities for our products and services. We genuinely believe that EbixCash is the logical home for CDL and are excited by the possibilities this offers both for our customers and partners."
About Ebix, Inc.
With 50+ offices across 5 continents, Ebix, Inc., (NASDAQ: EBIX) endeavors to provide On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial and healthcare industries. In the Insurance sector, the Company's main focus is to develop and deploy a wide variety of insurance and reinsurance exchanges on an on-demand basis, while also, providing Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") enterprise solutions in the area of CRM, front-end & back-end systems, outsourced administrative and risk compliance, across the world.
With a "Phygital" strategy that combines 231,500 physical distribution outlets in many Southeast Asian Nations ("ASEAN") countries to an Omni-channel online digital platform, the Company's EbixCash Financial exchange portfolio encompasses leadership in areas of domestic & international money remittance, travel, pre-paid & gift cards, utility payments, etc., in an emerging country like India. EbixCash, through its travel portal Via.com, is also one of Southeast Asia's leading travel exchanges with over 110,000 distribution outlets and 8,000 corporate clients processing over 24.5 million transactions every year. For further details, visit www.ebixcash.com
Through its various SaaS-based software platforms, Ebix employs thousands of domain-specific technology professionals to provide products, support and consultancy to thousands of customers on six continents. For more information, visit the Company's website at www.ebix.com
About CentrumDirect Limited (CDL)
CentrumDirect Limited (CDL), a step-down subsidiary of Centrum Capital Limited, is one of the leading Authorized Category II foreign exchange service providers in India. CDL provides a wide spectrum of travel related foreign exchange services ranging from prepaid travel cards, travelers cheques, foreign currency cash, demand drafts, inward and outward remittances for permitted purposes, travel insurance and global calling cards to its retail and institutional customers. CDL has achieved a gross turnover of Rs.10,000 crore serving 3 million happy customers during this fiscal.
CDL through its wide network of 165 outlets including 85 branches and 72 airport counters in 55 cities services leading multinationals, large corporate entities, public sector undertakings, banks, large tour operators and retail clients. CDL has the largest presence in operating foreign exchange counters at international airports in India. CDL is one of the largest sellers of prepaid travel cards in the country offering white label "Centrum Travel Card" issued by leading banks, which international travelers use at overseas ATMs and merchant establishments. CDL also deals in all major destination currencies and is one of the leading aggregators of physical foreign currency notes across India.
The Company has many firsts to its credit, like introducing the first prepaid Forex card called the Centrum Travel card. CDL offers a wide range of travel services such as Currency Notes, Multi Currency Travel Cards, Remittance Services, Travelers Checks and Travel Insurance. It also offers online sale & purchase of foreign exchange through its portal www.centrumforex.com
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Rescuers reach people cut off by Hurricane Sally
A damaged business is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally in Perdido Key, Florida (Angie Wang/AP)
Rescuers on the Gulf Coast used high-water vehicles to reach people cut off by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally, even as a second round of flooding took shape along rivers and creeks swollen by the storm's heavy rains.
Across southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, homeowners and businesses began cleaning up and officials inspected bridges and highways for safety.
The clean-up begins a day after Sally rolled through with 105 mph winds, a surge of seawater and 1 to 2 1/2 feet (0.3 to 0.8 metres) of rain in many places before it began to break up.
Sally's remnants were over South Carolina on Thursday afternoon and were expected to move into the Atlantic within 24 hours.
A rainmaker to the end, what was left of the storm was forecast to dump as much as eight inches (20 centimetres) in isolated areas in the Carolinas and southern Virginia, prompting warnings of widespread flash flooding and "moderate" river flooding.
In hard-hit Pensacola and surrounding Escambia County, where Sally's floodwaters had coursed through downtown streets and lapped at car door handles on Wednesday before receding, authorities went door-to-door to check on residents and warn them they were not out of danger.
"Please, please, we're not out of the woods even if we've got beautiful skies today," said Escambia County emergency manager Eric Gilmore.
Laura Coale, communications director for Escambia County, Florida, said rescue crews were taking a secondary pass through flooded areas on Thursday afternoon to see if anyone who declined to leave earlier would like to evacuate.
Officials' biggest concern was keeping people off the roads so power trucks can work and people can clean debris safely.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis urged Panhandle residents not to let their guard down even though the hurricane had passed.
A man stands on his deck as flood water surrounds his home in Milton, Florida (Annie Blanks/Pensacola News Journal via AP)
"You're going to see the rivers continue to rise," Mr DeSantis said after an aerial tour of the Panhandle.
Crews carried out at least 400 rescues in Escambia County, Florida, by such means as high-water vehicles, boats and water scooters, authorities said.
Rescuers focused their effort on Innerarity Point, a narrow strip of land close to Pensacola that is home to waterfront homes and businesses.
Floodwaters covered the only road out, though authorities said no one was in immediate danger.
The Florida National Guard said it had deployed about 500 soldiers and airmen to help local authorities evacuate 113 people, though it did not say when and where the rescues took place.
In Alabama, on both sides of Mobile Bay, National Guard soldiers from high-water evacuation teams used big trucks to rescue at least 35 people, authorities said.
At least one death, in Alabama, was blamed on the hurricane.
Joe Mirable surveys the damage to his business after Hurricane Sally moved through Perdido Key, Florida (Angie Wang/AP)
More than 427,000 homes and businesses in Florida, Alabama and Georgia were without power as of Thursday afternoon, down from more than a half-million a day earlier.
A section of the main bridge between Pensacola and Pensacola Beach collapsed after it was hit by a barge that broke loose during the storm.
At a downtown marina, at least 30 sailboats, fishing boats and other vessels were found clumped together in a mass of fibreglass hulls and broken docks.
Some boats rested atop sunken ones. The hurricane also drove two large ferry boats into a concrete seawall and left them grounded.
Also on Thursday, the National Hurricane Centre said a new tropical depression formed in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico.
Forecasters said the depression could become a tropical storm as it moves slowly over the western Gulf during the next few days.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Teddy strengthened to an immensely powerful Category 4 storm in the Atlantic on Thursday. The storm currently poses no threat to land.
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I'm currently doing work on a small project concerning Japanese views of America and Europe as expressed in on-location Japanese films, and vice versa. In the process I've become aware of the "language issues" involved.
In the 2007 dorama Manhattan Diaries, which is completely set in NYC and environs, everyone speaks Japanese--people on the streets, in restaurants, everyone you meet. I believe almost the only English spoken is when Kuroki Meisa, as a waitperson, greets a customer briefly outside the restaurant.
They made this film with the Japanese actors speaking Japanese, and all or most of the American actors speaking English back--which was then dubbed in Japanese. In a special feature the main Japanese actors spoke of how difficult and distracting it was to do their lines in Japanese, but have the Americans do their lines back in English. But I guess it makes things much simpler and smoother for Japanese audiences.
In Moyuru Toki, (actually filmed in Australia but) set in Southern California, the Japanese speak Japanese, the "Anglo" Americans speak English, and the Hispanic Americans speak Spanish or sometimes English. Samantha Healy, as the interpreter, translates Spanish and English into Japanese as the situation requires and vice versa. Nagai Ki'ichi occasionally speaks a bit of English as well.
In Doris Doerrie's Enlightenment Guaranteed, the situation is more as I've found it for non-Japanese-speaking foreigners in Japan. The two main German characters do not know Japanese, so they speak simple English when they try to communicate with Japanese people, and they tend to seek out Japanese people who seem as if they might somehow know English. They find only one person, an expatriate from Belgrade (Anica Dobra), who speaks German.
I haven't yet seen Doerrie's latest film partly set in Japan, "The Fisherman and His Wife," to find out how she handles language issues this time.
But in Doerrie's film before Enlightenment Guaranteed, Bin ich schoen, set in Spain, it's like Manhattan Diaries. Everyone encountered in Spain, except for one subtitled character who is almost immediately set upon by thieves and knocked unconscious, speaks German.
In Hazard with Odagiri, the main characters in NYC speak to each other in Japanese, and the secondary American characters speak English, mostly among themselves.
It seems to me that in Tokyo Tower--the film from several years ago, not the recent film and dorama of similar title, that in the part set in Paris at the end the Japanese character speaks French.
I think that in a lot of American films set overseas it's partly like Manhattan Diaries, but usually there are only a limited number of "foreigners" who speak English with the American characters. Other non-English-speaking characters are either peripheral, or get English subtitles when needed.
In Rikoran, set mostly in China, most of the main characters speak Japanese with each other, with occasional subtitled dialogues in Chinese.
Do most Japanese films set overseas have all the characters speaking Japanese, as in Manhattan Diaries? Or has Manhattan Diaries done something new? Or is it just, as it may well be, that I've simply never noticed these language issues before?
Michael McCaskey
Georgetown Univ.


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Microsoft has been trading above $40 for most of the year (at times even reaching near historic highs), but analysts from Citi believe stock price will likely crash to $36 after Microsoft reports earnings later this month.
We rate shares of Microsoft a Sell. We believe shares are being buoyed by excitement around new CEO Nadella and cloud services.
There's a lot of controversy around Microsoft right now, its stock price and how its new CEO Satya Nadella will be able to monetize his vision for the company.
Nadella's plans include giving away the next version of Windows, Windows 10, for a year to consumers, as well as offering free versions for small devices; pushing its enterprise customers to cloud services, some of which are low margin, in the hopes of enticing them to also buy higher margin cloud services; and bringing to market a whole new set of apps and technologies that let people work smarter, faster, and collaboratively on any platform, — not just Windows, but also iOS and Android.
While most analysts believe in the long-term vision, they remain concerned about the mid-term.
Continued decline of the PC market that is not offset by Microsoft's small share of the smartphone market.
Cannibalization of the company's high-margin cash cow businesses, including Windows and Office, replaced by lower-margin cloud-based businesses.
More debt on the books to offset the decrease in cash flow and still meet the promises for stock buy-backs.
and, like all the bears these days, he also warns there could be a bigger hit from the foreign exchange rate, which is plaguing all US multinationals.
MSFT is wrestling with difficult strategic issues where we believe there are no easy answers (Windows challenges and associated consumer monetization, cloud transition / margins while maintaining developer relevance). We expect some of this to be highlighted at BUILD developer conference (Apr 29th) where Windows will be the focus. We believe these strategic quandaries are more likely to results in further multiple contraction.
Pritchard's bearish view is echoed by others like Goldman Sachs, who also rates the stock a sell.
But that view is being countered by more optimistic analysts, l ike Wells Fargo, who think Microsoft has a clear plan, and that stock will leap as the company shows progress in its key new areas, like cloud computing.


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And ps ithrowclams: Groucho Marx, Ginger Rogers, Frank Capra, Lucille Ball all wrote very interesting autobiographies.
What I am upset about (as far as autobiographies go) is that Gene Kelly's autobiography has not been released to the public yet! I have read that his widow is preventing it from being published or it might be the publishing company. I wish there was something we could do to let them know that some of us are very interested in reading it!
Who needs "Love with the Proper Stranger"?
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I have been waiting for five years for this film to be transferred to DVD. If there are any other lovers of this wonderful Natalie Wood/ Steve McQueen film, please go vote for it's TCM Home Video poll. It is worthy! It was nominated for all these Oscars: Academy Awards for Best Writing, Screenplay (1964): (nominated) Academy Awards for Best Art Direction (1963): (nominated) Academy Awards for Best Costume Design (1963): Edith Head (nominated) Academy Awards for Best Actress (1963): Natalie Wood (nominated) Academy Awards for Best Cinematography (1963): (nominated)
affairs and lovers
Allow me to be incredibly naive for a minute. In movies in the thirties or forties, if a woman says a man was her "lover" does that mean what it would mean today? I mean does it mean that they have had sex? The same with saying "we had a love affair," does that mean "affair" like we mean it? Is it possible that "lover" could simply mean a boyfriend or girlfriend in old movie lingo? Does "affair" simply mean they spent a lot of puritanical time together? I only ask because I want to know how literal everything should be taken. Were the writers or these movies trying to explain a rel
Most Romantic Movie Scene of All Time
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Some of the scenes I am thinking about: On the Waterfront: When Terry breaks down the door and yells at her "you love me!" She shouts back "I didn't say I didn't love you! I said I never want to see you again!" And then they kiss. How about any scene where the guy breaks down the door to get to a woman. I don't know what comes to mind? Hum... How about, uh, Gone With The Wind? Or the "This is one night you're not turning me out." I don't need to go on. Clark Gable, yum. I'll think of more and get back to you.
Brando and the musical
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I can answer that. The language of the characters was a tool the writers used to show these low educated men (people who might be thought of as hoodlums or low brow) as trying to showcase their class and intelligence. Unfortunately they didn't have the proper training in the English Language, so their sentences sound odd and contrived. Basically it was just a tool to show that these gamblers were emulating high class gentlemen through manners and speech. It is to give you the feeling they are civilized and have an honor code, despite your preconcieved notions of gamblers.
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Concerts: Bing, Blue Eyes, or the King
Oh I was very happy to read that! I am a huge Bobby Darin fan. I wish I could have seen him in concert!
That is a great story about Burt Reynolds! I wish I would have seen it, it sounds hilarious. Of course, tough guy Burt was also in a musical where he did some singing... The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. The only other tough guy I can think of that did a musical would be Clint Eastwood in Paint You Wagon. Maybe when John Wayne went on Laugh-In in a pink bunny suit he could have sang something and then we would have more about which to talk. "From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put" -- Churchill
I was wondering if anybody knew anything about the public's reaction to passionate tough guy, Marlon Brando, being cast in a musical. I know stereotypes around musicals weren't the same then as now... but you can't tell me that some fans weren't a bit disillusioned to see Terry from On the Waterfront singing in a musical. I'm thrilled that he did, but were there any recriminations for casting Brando in a musical? I know that Sinatra loathed that he was passed over for Brando. (I also read that Kazan wanted Sinatra for the lead in On the Waterfront. Could you imagine!? In 1954, I wouldn't
If you had a chance to go to a concert of one of these singers, who would you choose? Would anyone choose Bing? I can't decide. I mean to hear Frank in the Tommy Dorsey years, or right after when his voice had that smooth, deep, and sad. Not that he didn't always have a beautiful voice, but I think it was best in those early years. But Elvis put on the best show in the world, right? I am sure some of you on here have been to a concert of one of these people. Any pertinant information about the experience?
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I adore Gene Kelly, and am the biggest fan of his that I have ever met in real life, but I wouldn't want to have lunch with him. He was a hard worker and I'm a lazy slob. According to his first wife, he was also a bit of a traditionalist because of his upbringing. I can't imagine what we would talk about (besides his career which would make me look foolish and probably bore him). So I choose my second favorite. Groucho Marx! I read something Woody Allen wrote that claimed he was just like your crazy uncle who was constantly cracking jokes. I have no doubt Groucho would be happy to take ove
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The Apartment and Some Like It Hot are my favorite Billy Wilder movies. I cannot choose between them. You know on the movie Casino Royale (not the upcoming one, the Peter Sellers/David Niven version) Billy Wilder was given screen credit because they used the immortal Joe E. Brown line "Nobody's Perfect" As Woody Allen says "Never steal. And when you do, steal from the best" [paraphrasing]
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melmac4ou replied to hollbergsmith's topic in General Discussions
It Happened One Night was mentioned in the original list. So Capra is represented. Good choice on La Lune. I wish I could have chosen a different movie from Birth of A Nation, but from what I have read... this movie was the representation of Griffith at his height. I've unfortunately seen it twice, and felt sick for the entire length of the movie both times. I choose Spike Lee anyday.
It has Gregory Peck and John Garfield in it. Gregory Peck plays a journalist who, in order to write a difficult piece on anti-semitism, decides to pose as a Jewish person for a period of time. The film is about the problems he and his family encounter in 1950s New York. If you haven't see it, I highly suggest it.
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Sensing a turn to the dark days | The Daily Gazette
Sensing a turn to the dark days
The bet here is that 2020 Saratoga Race Course meet will be off on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Mike MacAdam
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| September 7, 2019
NYRA president and CEO David O'Rourke said they're exploring the idea of Tuesday-Wednesday dark days at Saratoga.
Photographer: Erica Miller
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- For me, one of the themes of the 2019 Saratoga Race Course meet was summed up a long time ago by The Mamas & the Papas:
"Monday, Monday, can't trust that day"
"Monday, Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way"
"Oh Monday mornin' you gave me no warnin' of what was to be"
"Oh Monday, Monday, how could you leave and not take me?"
Until this season, Tuesday was the only dark day of the week at Saratoga, and with Mondays and Tuesdays off from work, I took the only reasonable course of action on the first weekday -- go to the track -- on what was affectionately called Degenerate Monday.
'Capping at Kings Tavern, shorts, flip-flops, past performance sheets and a cold libation at the paddock bar, and it didn't matter how bad the racing card happened to be. If they were loading three-legged rhinos into the starting gate, I was in.
Then Monday left, and didn't take me.
The new reality at Saratoga is that there are two dark days now during five-day racing weeks, and by most accounts, it was beneficial to many without hurting the New York Racing Association's bottom line. On the contrary, Saratoga generated a record $705 million in all-sources betting handle, while losing one full card due to heat index and half of a card when the track was washed out by a rainstorm. New NYRA president and CEO David O'Rourke estimated that they probably lost about $30 million in all-sources handle, between no racing on Saturday, July 20, and the half-card cancellation.
NYRA is committed to two dark days next year, also, since one of the reasons for moving to this format will still be in play, the recently begun construction of an NHL arena to house the New York Islanders on the Belmont Park grounds in Nassau County.
After that, they're not willing to say, but the bet here is that two dark days are here to stay. The question now would become whether the Monday-Tuesday will become Tuesday-Wednesday, at least on a trial basis next year, as many people have speculated.
It's certainly a question O'Rourke had been fielding well before the meet closed on Labor Day, Sept. 2, so I joined the crowd during an interview last Sunday.
He said NYRA will go through the usual post-meet number crunch to evaluate how Saratoga performed in every aspect, including the new 1863 Club, then meet with the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce in early October to raise, among other questions, whether Tuesday-Wednesday off would be a good idea.
He likes the idea of going to Tuesday-Wednesday just to have some experimental comparison, but said there's also value to maintaining consistency.
"We're open to switching the day, it's more a matter of looking for feedback from the business community, if there's a desire to switch it," he said.
In informal conversations, O'Rourke has gotten mixed reviews from the community, which is consistent with what Chamber president Todd Shimkus told the Gazette's Steve Williams this week.
"Nobody's laying down hard numbers, but a lot of the hoteliers are saying they like the Monday-Tuesday, which was surprising," O'Rourke said. "I didn't realize Wednesday was such a big day for the hotels up here.
"And it's been mixed from the restaurants. I think the extra weekend is good for them, but you hear Sunday's light, and then others will say Sunday was always light. So until we really get hard numbers, it's kind of hard to just make up a conclusion."
By "extra weekend," O'Rourke was referring to the early start to the meet, on July 11, which matched the earliest ever for Saratoga, back to 1882, when there were 40 racing days and one dark day per week.
As far as the 1863 Club, the $30 million luxury facility where the At the Rail Pavilion used to stand, O'Rourke said NYRA learned throughout the meet how to better operate it, and he could foresee maybe some offseason events there in the spring.
In what could be good news for those who like to check out the horses in the paddock before races, the white paddock tent that hogs some of the fenceline probably is headed to the endangered species list, since the 1863 Club could readily absorb the group events housed at that tent.
My guess is they'll go to Tuesday-Wednesday dark next season, because O'Rourke is intrigued with testing it, and there doesn't initially appear to be a universal pushback against it from the Saratoga business community.
From a fan's perspective, crowd's have been light on Mondays and Wednesdays in recent years, and a change in dark days could inconvenience some while creating opportunity for others.
Me? I was able to weave a couple workarounds into this season to create stand-ins for Degenerate Monday and bring harmony to the world.
Sometimes it just turns out that way.
Reach Gazette Sportswriter Mike MacAdam at 518-395-3146 or [email protected]. Follow on Twitter @Mike_MacAdam.
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Only paying attention to the Dow Jones Industrial Average could be misleading.
"Tice points to the nation's $70 billion deficit and falling real estate values. "I believe the credit expansion will end in tears," Tice says, noting that many homeowners now have inflated mortgages. And those with adjustable-rate mortgages who are now being hit with rising interest rates face the potential for foreclosures.
If that happens, Tice says, the nation will fall into a deep and prolonged recession.
Sectors he is currently bearish on include technology stocks. Tice says the NASDAQ's recent gains are unjustified and that the earnings growth of technology companies is likely to decline.
Bottom line: Diversify and don't forget the old Wall Street adage that bulls and bears make money but pigs don't.


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New Books from NER Authors: The Fire's Journey
Tavern Books has published the first of four volumes of The Fire's Journey, by Eunice Odio, co-translated by NER contributors Keith Ekiss and Sonia P. Ticas and Mauricio Espinoza. Odio's epic poem is available in English for the first time.
From Marjorie Agosín, author of The Light of Desire: "Bravo for this extraordinary, timely, and fearless translation of Eunice Odio, Costa Rica's most distinguished poet. The Fire's Journey is a singular, highly complex poem of creation, redemption, and personal spirituality. This translation is woven with a rare elegance, and Odio's sacred voice is as compelling in English as it is in the original. A true achievement."
Keith Ekiss is the author of Pima Road Notebook, released in 2010 by New Issues Poetry & Prose. His own poems have been published in Blackbird, Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Ekiss has received the Witter Bynner Poetry Translation Residency from the Santa Fe Art Institute and has been a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford since 2007.
His poem "Landscape with Saguaros" appeared in NER 28.2. "Creation" and "Absence of Love," works by Eunice Odio translated by Ekiss and Ticas, were published as part of NER's translation issue (25.1 & 2).
The Fire's Journey: Part I is available from Tavern Books and other booksellers.
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Bernice Effulgent | By Joy J. Henry
Grandma Bernice bobbed up and down, her freshly dyed hair shielded from the chlorine. She flew down from Wisconsin for my second wedding and hadn't left the hotel pool in days.
"You career women," she said as she water-cized. "You think you invented work."
It was 1982. I was telling her about my new job in downtown Tampa, where I wore a suit with neon piping and did graphic design in front of an IBM PC XT all day.
"After Fred went away I inspected bottles in a milk factory," she said. "This was during the Depression, of course. They dumped half the milk in a big pond out back. Subsidies."
She threw her arms in the air and did a twist. She'd had her first husband, Fred, committed decades ago after he ran into the backyard naked, on his way to work on Huey Long's presidential campaign.
"I visited that damn hospital every single week hoping he could go back to work when he got out. The day he's released he moves in with some woman from the red-light house. Ah well. They didn't have no 'bipolar disorder' in those days."
Ken and I got married in his mother's backyard. He and his buddies were supposed to set up the food for the reception, but they showed up late stoned and drunk out of their minds. I sat in my mother-in-law's living room, already in my dress and near tears. Grandma Bernice tugged the flesh of my ass between her fingers, trying to distract me. "Whale blubber," she said. She went to the backyard and rounded up seven or eight guests to help put out the food.
Through the window, I watched Ken shadowbox with my son, Jonah, under a live oak. They wore matching white suits. A year earlier I'd jumped out of a second floor window, sure Jonah's father was really going to kill me this time. Ken lived next door. Every Saturday morning, he'd watch me cook pancakes on a fire pit in my backyard, because we didn't have money for gas. He'd bring me hot coffee with brandy in it. I made perfect pancakes on that open fire, golden brown.
"Men are the shits," Bernice said, bumping open the kitchen door with her hip. She handed me a glass of beer and caught me watching the two of them. "Hey now," she said. Her hand on my cheek smelled like Avon cold cream and cigarettes. "If Ken's a nice man, you can figure the rest out later. You're a woman. You're an expert at playing the long game." Then I was wed and she led us all in a polka.
Secret Americas features writing about images from the U.S. National Archives.
Image via Flickr – Organized Daily Exercises at the Century Village Retirement Community, National Archives and Records Administration College Park. This photograph was taken by Flip Schulke.
Joy J. Henry is a writer living in California; she will join the MFA program in Fiction at Oregon State University in the Fall of 2013.
Filed Under: NER Digital, Secret Americas Tagged With: Bernice Effulgent, Joy J. Henry
New Books from NER Writers: Truth's Ragged Edge
Philip F. Gura's new book, Truth's Ragged Edge, explores the development of early American fiction. An excerpt appears in the current issue of NER.
From the publisher: "Truth's Ragged Edge is perhaps the first comprehensive study of the early American novel since Richard Chase's 1957 classic, The American Novel and Its Tradition. Gura opens with the first truly homegrown genre of fiction: religious tracts, short parables intended to instruct the Christian reader. He then turns to the city novels of the 1830's, which depicted with mixed feelings the rapid growth and modernization of American society. He concludes with fresh interpretations of the introspective novels that appeared before the Civil War, such as those by Hawthorne and by Melville, from whom Gura takes his title. The grand narrative sweep of the book is balanced by Gura's great insight that the early novel never fully left its origins behind, even as it evolved—it remained a means of theological and philosophical dispute, and reflected the oldest and deepest divisions in American Christianity, politics, and culture."
Philip F. Gura is the author of nine books and currently teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2008, Gura received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Division on American Literature to 1800 of the Modern Language Association. His essay "The Transcendentalist Commotion" appeared in NER 28.7.
Truth's Ragged Edge is available at Powell's and other booksellers.
Filed Under: NER Authors' Books, NER Community Tagged With: Philip F. Gura, Truth's Ragged Edge
New Translations by NER Writers: When We Leave Each Other
Henrik Nordbrandt's When We Leave Each Other has been translated by NER contributor Patrick Phillips. From the publisher: "Although most of his life has been spent abroad in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, Henrik Nordbrandt has simultaneously and undeniably emerged, next to Inger Christensen, as one of Denmark's very best contemporary poets. If it was Paul Celan who first claimed that poetry was 'a message in a bottle, sent out in the—not always greatly hopeful—belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps,' it is nevertheless Nordbrandt's unusually intimate poems that enact this unforgettably, as well as his persistent subjects: the joys and strangeness of travel, the tragicomic absurdity of our attempts to make sense of the world, and above all, the sweetness and ache of human love. Highlighting his entire career, the poems in When We Leave Each Other include a generous selection of recent and never-before-translated work into English that is certain to establish Nordbrandt as an essential contemporary lyric poet for American readers."
Translator Patrick Phillips contributed to New England Review most recently in issues 33.2 and 32.2.
When We Leave Each Other is available at Open Letter Books and other book sellers.
Filed Under: NER Authors' Books, NER Community Tagged With: Henrik Nordbrandt, Open Letter Books, Patrick Phillips


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