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Q: SMB MultiChannel pinning a few CPU cores and not hitting NIC saturation I have two servers with twin RDMA enabled 25GbE NICs installed. For the time being, during testing, they are direct connected... no switch between them. If I just make a single SFP28 connection between them, I can easily saturate the 25GbE link. However, when I set up the second one, the most I can hit is 35Gbps instead of the desired 50Gbps.
Not wanting to bore you and go into all the configuration details... I've determined that during the single 25GbE connection that SMB Multichannel is auto-magically assigning 4 channels to the connection which is enough to take 4 CPU cores up to about 70% utilization during a long/large file transfer (125GB transfers in about 45 seconds). However, when the two NICs are configured together, each one is only assigned 2 channels... so, still a total of just 4. But, at this point, the CPU cores (not the NICs) are the bottle neck and the 4 assigned cores hit 100% CPU and thus limit throughput to 35Gbps. (For what it's worth, the NVMe storage on both sides is starting to strain ever so slightly... but none of the storage resources are pushing over 60% on anything that I've noticed at this point)
I've not been able to find a way to override the assigned channels for a connection. I would like to set it to 4 per NIC (a total of 8 for the server-to-server connection), but I can't seem to find any commands that support overriding the setting. Running Get-SmbServerConfiguration and Get-SmbClientConfiguration both show that the max connection count per server is set to 32. Running Get-SmbMultichannelConnection | FL will show the individual connection settings... but, there doesn't appear to be a complementary "Set-Smb..." command to change the values.
I'm sure this is simple and I'm just overlooking something painfully obvious... but, scouring the Internet so far has turned up a goose egg. So, any assistance would be most appreciated.

A: OK... So, the answer to my original posted question was burried in a Windows Registry setting.
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters\ConnectionCountPerRdmaNetworkInterface
The key is not normally present in the registry and the default value if not specified is 2, but it can be set from 1 - 16. According to this post from Microsoft.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/performance-tuning/role/file-server/
Per the article, it's more or less a "look but don't touch" kind of setting. But, curiously enough, there's a very similar setting in the same location...
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters\ConnectionCountPerRssNetworkInterface
It too is suggested to not be altered. But, despite that, they have it exposed through PowerShell where it can be both viewed and changed via Get\Set-SmbClientConfiguration. Why they chose to expose one but not the other is a bit of a mystery.
EDIT + Complete Answer:
System Info For Reference:
CPU: AMD EPYC 7313P
OS: Windows Server 2022
NIC: Intel E810-XXVDA2
Drivers: Intel ProSet 27.6.1
Traffic Tests:
Windows File Copy (Transferring +100 random generated 1GB data files) - Ironically, this had the best and most consistent results.
DiskSpd (with the help of Microsoft's Test-Rdma.ps1) - I tweaked the scripts output to show kb, Mb, Gb etc. to be more human readable.
iPerf3 - Settings were fickle and results were generally inconsistent between runs for some reason.
Corrections:
In the original post I mentioned about how the number of connections was 4 before but 2 after putting the second SFP28 connection in service. Well... That was somewhat incorrect in hindsight. What was allowing the 4 vs 2 is that when there was only one I had not yet enabled RDMA on the NIC. Without RMDA, SMB MultiChannel will use RSS and there is a different setting for that... which conveniently enough has a default value of 4 (see the registry entries that I mentioned in my posted answer). So, in so far as it switching from 4 to 2... that was my mistake.
Ultimate Solution:
After trolling through a ton of website, ripping down and re-creating the connections multiple times over, I finally figured out what was going on. I ultimately solved it by changing 2 other settings (and not just the registry entry I was looking for).
For starters, many suggestions from big players in the space (Microsoft, Intel, nVidia, Lenovo, etc.) were all saying to disable standard RX/TX flow control. Well... that was a bad recommendation for my particular use case. Re-enabling flow control helped quite a bit. The suggestion for standard flow control being turned off is to instead use Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) with Data Center Bridging (DCB). But.. for that to work properly your switches will also need to support PFC. While a direct connection between servers has no problems with this, the switch that will be sitting between them once deployed does not support DCB... so, I wanted to proceed without using this feature. Also, PFC is not strictly needed when using iWARP (it helps performance... but isn't a make-or-break requirement). So, from my testing, if you can't use PFC w/ DCB, you should at least fall back to using standard RX/TX flow control... Which is something I should have keyed in on sooner.
Another suggestion from the powers that be was to change the setting for Interrupt Moderation Rate or Interrupt Throttle Rate (ITR). The default for this is "Adaptive", but it was suggested to set it to disable or off. Changing this setting is a balancing act of trading off improved speed and lower latency for higher CPU usage due to responding to more interrupt requests from the NIC. Since I was hitting a wall on CPU, I changed the setting from OFF to LOW.
Anyway... Those were the keys settings I had to change to ultimately solve my particular CPU pinning problem. Hopefully if anyone else stumbles across this post with the same problem this will help nudge them closer to a solution.

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Church aid workers in the Solomon Islands are struggling to care for tens of thousands of people affected by deadly flooding in early April. Mardi Lumsden reports.
Flash floods tore through the Solomon Islands' capital Honiara and the Guadalcanal Province on 4 April after days of torrential rain, strong winds and rough seas, leaving up to 50 000 people homeless and reliant on international aid for food and shelter.
UnitingWorld's Rev Dr Cliff Bird, Regional Coordinator—Pacific Programs, said almost half of the estimated 28 people killed were children.
"Quite a lot of people are still traumatised at the moment, because of the sudden impact of the loss of dearly loved members of the family and of the community," Dr Bird told ABC Radio AM's Brendan Trembath.
"The first step is, you know, basic needs; food, shelter, water, clothes," he told AM.
Dr Bird said that amid a slow response from regional governments, local churches, including UnitingWorld partner church the United Church in Solomon Islands (UCSI), were playing an integral role in responding to the needs of affected communities, particularly the three UCSI congregations in the Honiara Circuit.
"All three congregations continue to cook dinner for three of the evacuation centres within Honiara. Funds for the meals are provided by the government and the congregations cook and serve dinner and hold evening prayers with the families in each of these centres. The total number of people in these three centres is between 800–850," Dr Bird said on 16 April.
A 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the Solomon Islands on 13 April and while there were no reports of significant damage, Greg Grimsich from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told ABC news the quake could distract aid efforts in the worst-hit flood areas.
"There's been a lot of effort put into the humanitarian response for the flood victims, who remain in evacuation centres, and support for them to return to their home areas," he said.
The Solomon Islands National Disaster Management Office says a key concern is controlling the spread of dysentery, malaria, dengue fever and other diseases related to poor sanitation and a lack of fresh water supplies.


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By Jerry Limone
SEATTLE -- Tenzing Communications and Cathay Pacific Airways agreed to roll out Tenzing's in-flight e-mail service on Cathay's entire fleet by the first quarter of 2001.
Cathay Pacific became the first airline to install Tenzing's high-speed data network, enabling business travelers to send and receive e-mails at 30,000 feet.
Air Canada is market-testing Tenzing's e-mail product on a few of its planes, but at a lower speed, as the connection is through the existing telephone on board.
When Tenzing's program fully rolls out, business travelers who are interested in using the e-mail service will pay about $15 per flight plus charges for e-mail attachments, said Allan Pellegrini, chief operating officer for Tenzing.
Also, frequent travelers can opt to pay a flat rate per month, about $22 or $23 said Pellegrini, and receive unlimited use.
The Tenzing system is compatible with PCs, Macs and personal digital assistants.
Delta hopes to return to profitability by summer
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Q: I have 2 Arduino programs that work separately. How can I merge them? Program 1
2 red LEDs & 1 green LED are high for 4 seconds then low for 4 seconds.  Red is then high for 4 seconds then low for 4 seconds then it repeats.
int  LedR = 10;
int  LedG = 11;

void setup() {
// put your setup code here, to run once:
pinMode (LedR, OUTPUT);
pinMode (LedG, OUTPUT);
}

void loop() {
// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
digitalWrite (LedG, HIGH); //Light Greed Led
delay (4000); //delay 4s

digitalWrite(LedG, LOW);//Low Greed Led

delay (4000); //delay 4s

digitalWrite(LedR, HIGH);//Light Red Led

delay (4000); //delay 4s

digitalWrite (LedR, LOW); //Low Greed Led
delay (4000); //delay 4s`

}

Program 2
Servo rotates 20 degrees waits for 4 seconds the returns to 0 degrees waits for 4 seconds then repeats.
#include <Servo.h>

Servo myservo;  // create servo object to control a servo
// twelve servo objects can be created on most boards

int pos = 0;    // variable to store the servo position

void setup() {
myservo.attach(9);  // attaches the servo on pin 9 to the servo object

}

void loop() {

delay(4000);

for (pos = 0; pos <= 20; pos += 1) { // goes from 0 degrees to 180 degrees
// in steps of 1 degree
myservo.write(pos);              // tell servo to go to position in variable 'pos'
delay(15);                       // waits 15ms for the servo to reach the position
}delay(4000);

for (pos = 20; pos >= 0; pos -= 1) { // goes from 180 degrees to 0 degrees
myservo.write(pos);              // tell servo to go to position in variable 'pos'
delay(15);                       // waits 15ms for the servo to reach the position

}
}

Both programs work independently but are impossible to integrate as the Arduino does not allow multiple loops.
I have tried to learn the millis function unsuccessfully.
Is there anyway to get the LEDs to light consecutively at the same time the servo rotates?
Please assist me. This is the code that does not work:
#include <Servo.h>

Servo myservo;  // create servo object to control a servo
// twelve servo objects can be created on most boards

int pos = 0;    // variable to store the servo position
int  LedR = 10;
  int  LedG = 11;

void setup() {
  myservo.attach(9);  // attaches the servo on pin 9 to the servo object
  pinMode (LedR,OUTPUT);
pinMode (LedG,OUTPUT);

}

void loop() {

  digitalWrite (LedG, HIGH); //Light Greed Led
delay (4000); //delay 4s

digitalWrite(LedG, LOW);//Low Greed Led

delay (4000); //delay 4s

digitalWrite(LedR, HIGH);//Light Red Led

delay (4000); //delay 4s

digitalWrite (LedR, LOW); //Low Greed Led

delay (4000); //delay 4s

  delay(4000);

A: Instead of using a delay functions that holds everything up, configure or access a timer peripheral that keeps counting in the background regardless of what the Arduino is doing whose value can be checked whenever you need to.
For example: https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/language/functions/time/millis/
That timer rolls over every 50 days so if you never plan on leaving your thing running that long, you can treat it as timer for absolute time. If you are running longer than 50 days then you have to add some extra if else checks for when the timer wraps around.
Then use two conditional statements for your two other functions in the loop to poll that timer to see whether they should be doing anything on that particular loop iteration. Those functions can record a value from the clock at events of significance and compare it against the current value to see if enough time has elapsed. You can use global variables for this, but static variables (if Arduino allows them) are safer since they are only visible within the function and retain their value between function calls. You also don't have timekeeping global variable floating around for every single function that are accessible to everything.
That way, if the Arduino isn't supposed to be doing anything at that particular time for that particular action, it can go on and do something else instead of twiddling its thumbs waiting around and holding everything after that up. Pretty much never use a delay function that just holds the processor preventing it from doing anything else if you can. Toss that delay() in the trash where it belongs 99% of the time.
Welcome to the world of multi-tasking!


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At MB&F we turn traditional watchmaking of the highest craftsmanship into futuristic, fiercely unconventional timekeeping machines.
Very limited editions developed in collaboration with artists we admire.
Legacy Machines
LEGACY MACHINE N. 1
The main features of Legacy Machine No.1 are the large 14mm "flying" balance wheel, its one-of-a-kind vertical power reserve indicator and the completely independent dual time zones.
Combined with the fine-finished movement and round case – MB&F's first! – LM1 is a sublimation of classical excellence and traditional watchmaking, but remains an authentic three-dimensional MB&F Machine.
LM1's movement bears testimony to the talent of its creators Jean-François Mojon and Kari Voutilainen. Geneva waves, highly polished gold chatons and bridges with impeccably executed bevels following deliberate internal angles showcase the absolutely peerless fine-finishing. LM1 was awarded the Public Prize (voted for by horology fans) and the Best Men's Watch Prize (voted for by the jury) at the 2012 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève.
The Legacy Machine N°1 Final Edition brings the LM1 series to a close, and does so with the signature MB&F flair for the unexpected.
MB&F celebrates the pioneering works of past masters and complications with Legacy Machine No.2.
Suspended high above the dial, the double "flying" balances are in fact the most visible parts of two fully independent regulating systems, each beating at its own rate. The planetary differential sits proud of the surface, supported by a stunning double-arc mirror-polished bridge. The complex differential is the key element in the double regulator system: the rates are averaged out by the mechanism, which drives the blued gold hour and minute hands of the white stretched-lacquer sub dial. To make things just a bit more complicated, the two flying balances and their escapements are identical mirror images, right down to the position of the stud holders pinning their balance springs.
LEGACY MACHINE PERPETUAL
With Legacy Machine Perpetual, MB&F and independent watchmaker Stephen McDonnell have reinvented one of the most complex traditional watchmaking complications: the perpetual calendar.
The result is Legacy Machine Perpetual, featuring a visually stunning in-house movement, developed from the ground up to eliminate the drawbacks of conventional perpetual calendars. The 581-component, fully integrated and purpose-built movement of Legacy Machine Perpetual has been designed for user-friendly and trouble-free use: thanks to an innovative "mechanical processor" (patent pending), no more skipping dates or jamming gears, and the adjuster pushers automatically deactivate when the calendar changes, so no problems there either.
LEGACY MACHINE 101
Like its big brother Legacy Machine No.1 (44mm), LM101 (40mm) is dominated by a suspended "flying" balance wheel, its sedate oscillations drawing the eye ever closer. Two pristine-white subdials are placed underneath: at the top right, hours and minutes are displayed by blued-gold hands, while the 45-hour power reserve indicator is displayed in a smaller, but similar subdial below. In an apparent feat of magic, the domed sapphire crystal protecting the dial appears to be invisible.
Turning over, the display back crystal reveals the exquisitely hand-finished movement. Curved plates and bridges designed by award-winning independent watchmaker Kari Voutilainen pay homage to the style found in high quality historic pocket watches.
LM1 SILBERSTEIN
In 2009, MB&F had called on Silberstein to create its very first piece of 'Performance Art'; the result was the HM2.2 'Black Box', followed by a long list of collaborations with other creators.
For this new Performance Art series, Silberstein has taken our classic Legacy Machine No.1 and imbued it with his unique flair for the unconventional. His use of his signature three bright colours and shapes: red, blue and yellow; triangle, rectangle and circle for the hands and dial markers; and three-dimensionally translated as a cone, cube and sphere for the power reserve, catch the eye as they contrast against the more subdued movement plate below.
HMX & STARFLEET MACHINE - BLACK BADGER EDITION
For the Performance Art collection, James Thompson – aka Black Badger – has reinterpreted not just one but two Machines: HMX, first launched in 2015 for MB&F's 10th Anniversary, and Starfleet Machine, MB&F's first table clock, created with L'Epée 1839.
Black Badger's specialty is working with high-efficiency lume – an exclusive material that comes in solid blocks which he mills by hand or machine into the desired shape. The lume is extremely efficient at storing and releasing light, and its solid form means that it shines brighter for longer. The three available colours – Radar Green, Phantom Blue, and Purple Reign – are eye-catching by day, but it's when the sun goes down that they really come out to party.
LM1 XIA HANG
Welcome to the world of LM1 Xia Hang, a collaboration between MB&F and a Chinese artist featured at the M.A.D.Gallery: Xia Hang.
LM1 Xia Hang retains all of the 19th century pocket watch-inspired features of the original LM1, including the majestically suspended oscillating balance wheel and dual time indications that can be set completely independently, but with a twist: the power reserve is indicated by a miniature, highly-polished aluminium man, designed by talented Chinese sculptor, Xia Hang. The man sits up straight when the movement is fully wound (Mr. Up) and gradually slumps over as the power diminishes (Mr. Down). Xia Hang first created full-size sculptures, which MB&F then scaled down to a height of just 4mm (1/8") and then developed the articulation required.
MOONMACHINE
MoonMachine by Finnish watchmaker Stepan Sarpaneva is the first of the MB&F Performance Art pieces reinterpreted by a watchmaker – and the first to endow a Horological Machine with a new complication.
To create MoonMachine, Stepan reconfigured the HM3 Frog by turning it 90° and adding his iconic moon-face/moon-phase indicator. He also transformed the winding rotor into a scintillating firmament of laser-pierced northern stars, forming constellations visible in the northern sky.
HM4 ONLY WATCH
For the 2011 Only Watch charity auction, under the patronage of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, MB&F created an emotionally charged piece in collaboration with Chinese artist, Huang Hankang.
Based on the radical Horological Machine No.4, the HM4 Only Watch features a miniature flying panda bear piloting the machine: a magical synthesis of the fantasy of children's dreams and cutting-edge haute horlogerie.
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What could possibly bring together the 152-year-old House of Boucheron, that most venerable of France's high-jewellery Houses, and MB&F, the cutting-edge Swiss creative laboratory whose Horological Machines first invaded our planet only a few years ago?
The answer is the JwlryMachine, an astonishing haute-joaillerie version of MB&F's Horological Machine No.3.
The visual illusion of the owl's heart beating typifies the hint of secretiveness that Boucheron's artisans instil into some of their best-loved jewels; as does the fact that the uninitiated will need to search for the time indications on the sides of the cones among the owl's sparkling plumage. The extreme refinement that radiates from the proportions, the choice of stones and the quality of craftsmanship makes this creation "very Boucheron".
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It takes a lot to surprise followers of MB&F, but the HM2.2, with a case created by French watch designer Alain Silberstein, may well do it. Alain Silberstein is widely known for his bold use of colour and pattern – and one might have expected the adventurous MB&F to push that tendency to the limit. But no, the two came up with what they affectionately called the "black box", all Bauhaus purity and restraint. It is crafted like a jewel, but Silberstein says that it reminds him of the miniature box cameras of the 1940s.
In terms of design, the Silberstein case retains the twin porthole dials and powerful profile of the original Horological Machine No.2 with its flying-buttress lugs. But otherwise, it has been entirely rethought and rebuilt. The science-fiction shock of the original has given way to something lighter and more whimsical, with a personality all its own.
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This new training system developed with Julien GONIN is the first bitless training system. The ropes act directly on the nose bone under the effect of lateral movement of the muscles of the horse's arms at work. This action causes the lowering of the neckline and the opening of the chamfer/neck angle.
This new training system developed with Julien GONIN is the first bitless training system. The ropes act directly on the nose bone under the effect of lateral movement of the muscles of the horse's arms at work.
Designed on the basis of an extremely durable leather halter, it is easily placed on the horse's head. The ropes are fixed between the legs of the horse on the carabiner of the girth, pass on a headboard offset towards the back of the neck to increase the action of lowering of the neck and are attached laterally to the strap.
The lanyard carabiner is attached directly to the noseband, which offers the big advantage of not having to remove the lanyard when changing hands.
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Bournemouth barber claims lockdown drove him to smuggle cocaine
A barber who returned to the UK from Brazil with £300,000 worth of cocaine hidden in suitcases has been jailed.
Jhonatan Martins Kirchhoff, 22, from Commercial Road, Bournemouth, told National Crime Agency investigators that he had turned to drug smuggling to earn extra cash and pay off his own drug debts after work dried up because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The dual German/Brazilian national was stopped by Border Force officials on 1 July after he landed at Heathrow Airport from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
A search of one of his suitcases revealed a sticky substance that tested positive for cocaine. When officers searched a second suitcase they found a concealment at the top and bottom of the case where further amounts of cocaine had been stashed.
He initially denied knowledge of the drugs and claimed he'd bought the luggage at Primark.
But he later changed his story and confessed to the NCA that he'd been given the suitcases in Brazil to bring back to Bournemouth, and expected to be paid around $7,000 per case.
Once cut and sold on the streets the cocaine contained within them would have been worth in excess of £300,000.
Kirchhoff appeared at Isleworth Crown Court on 27 August where he faced charges for the importation of controlled drugs. He was sentenced to five years and four months in prison, after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing.
Andy Noyes, NCA Senior Investigating Officer said: "Organised crime networks are more than happy to use the likes of Kirchhoff as a mule to smuggle illegal drugs into the UK. No doubt his connections to Brazil made him an ideal candidate for the job.
"Despite his efforts, through working in partnership with Border Force we've ensured a significant amount of class A drugs have been taken out of circulation and that the group he was working for are disrupted.
"This conviction should also act as a warning to those who think they can make easy money out of drug trafficking. In doing so you are risking your future and a significant jail term."
Minister for Immigration Compliance and the Courts Chris Philp said: "This was fantastic work by Border Force officers, who kept these drugs off the UK's streets and helped bring a smuggler to justice.
"Illegal drugs fuel crime, violence and exploitation which is why our work with partners like the NCA to prevent them reaching our communities is so vital."


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Charles Arnoldi's work can best be summed up as "post-minimal": although he is a master of abstract color-field painting, he builds further, incorporating physical structure into his compositions. His employment of freeform and geometric elements — cut plywood, found sticks, and assembled canvases – shares equal importance with his sophisticated explorations into color relationships. The works, which have been described as "brutal and magically elegant", manage to generate pure joy.
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Adam Neumann (; born April 25, 1979) is an Israeli-American billionaire businessman and investor. In 2010, he co-founded WeWork with Miguel McKelvey, where he served as CEO from 2010 to 2019. In 2019, he co-founded a family office dubbed 166 2nd Financial Services with his wife, Rebekah Neumann, to manage their personal wealth, investing over a billion dollars in real estate and venture startups.

Following mounting pressure from investors based on disclosures made in a public offering filing, Neumann resigned as CEO of WeWork and gave up majority voting control . Forbes estimated his net worth to be around US$1.1 billion .

Biography
Adam Neumann was born in 1979 in Beersheba, Israel. His parents divorced when he was seven, and he lived in 13 different homes by the time he was 22. He suffers from dyslexia and could not read or write until he was in third grade. In his teens, he lived on a kibbutz in southern Israel. He served as an officer in the Israeli Navy. He later attended the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in New York City.

Neumann married Rebekah Neumann in 2008. He lives in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City with his wife and their six children. Neumann's sister, Adi Neumann, is a model and former Miss Teen Israel.

In 2018, Neumann gave a keynote speech at an event held by UJA-Federation of New York where he spoke of observing Shabbat with his family every week and the role Judaism has played in his personal and professional growth.

The Wall Street Journal reported in 2019 that Neumann had aspirations to live forever, become the world's first trillionaire, expand WeWork to the planet Mars, become Israel's prime minister, and become "president of the world". A September 2019 Vanity Fair article reported that Neumann made claims that he convinced Rahm Emanuel to run for the presidency of the United States, used JPMorgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon as his personal banker, convinced Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman to improve the standing of women in Saudi Arabia, and claimed to be working with Jared Kushner on the Trump administration's peace plan for the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Business career
Prior to founding WeWork, Neumann founded a children's clothing company, Krawlers. Neumann and Miguel McKelvey began working together, having met through a mutual friend, on Green Desk in 2008, a shared-workspace business focusing on sustainability, the precursor to WeWork. The pair sold their interest in Green Desk and using the funds along with a $15 million investment from Brooklyn real estate developer Joel Schreiber for a 33% interest in the company, they founded WeWork in 2010. Neumann stated that with WeWork, he intended to replicate the feeling of togetherness and belonging he felt in Israel and that he thought was lacking in the West.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Neumann chartered a Gulfstream G650 for a trip from the United States to Israel during the summer of 2018.  Neumann and his friends spent much of the flight smoking marijuana.  After landing in Israel, the flight crew found a cereal box stuffed with marijuana and reported it to the jet owner.  Fearing a marijuana trafficking incident, the jet's owner ordered it to return to the US.  Neumann and his friends had to book a separate flight back.

On September 22, 2019, there were reports, from outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, that various WeWork directors were planning on asking Neumann to step down as CEO, after "a tumultuous week in which his eccentric behavior and drug use came to light" before a planned IPO. The Wall Street Journal reported that he had taken $700 million out of WeWork before the IPO, among other details, and "undermined his position" at the company. Neumann also directed We Holdings LLC (a company managed by Neumann and McKelvey) to unwind the transaction of $5.9 million in stock that the company paid in exchange for the "We" trademarks. On September 24, 2019, he resigned and Artie Minson and Sebastian Gunningham were named as successors.

In October 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported that Neumann would receive close to $1.7 billion from stakeholder SoftBank for stepping down from WeWork's board and severing most of his ties to the company. Weeks later, minority shareholders filed a lawsuit against Neumann and other WeWork officials for breach of its fiduciary duties. On February 24, 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported that Neumann had received about $130 million of the $185 million in consulting fees agreed to be paid by SoftBank before SoftBank ceased making the remainder of the payments to him. On May 27, 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported the terms of a renegotiated severance package between Neumann and SoftBank, replacing that from October 2019. Among other terms, Neumann received $106 million in cash in addition to the $92.5 million in consulting fees previously received (in contrast to the $130 million figure reported by the WSJ on February 24, 2021, for previously received consulting fees from SoftBank), with about $50 million of that to pay for his legal fees. The renegotiated settlement package also "let him refinance $432 million in debt on favorable terms and allowed an entity Mr. Neumann controls to sell $578 million in WeWork stock." The Wall Street Journal also reported that Neumann received a new WeWork stock award of "roughly $245 million," but "if the price [of WeWork] falls below $10 [per share], Mr. Neumann is ineligible to receive the stock award." The May 2021, securities disclosure filings were made "as WeWork completes a merger with BowX Acquisition, a special-purpose acquisition company."

In January 2021 Neumann retained top defamation lawyer Tom Clare to defend his reputation.

On 5 March 2021, Forbes listed his net worth at US$750 million, having dropped off the Forbes billionaires list in 2020.

As of March 2022, Neumann has shifted focus to property investing in Miami.  In August, it was announced that Andreessen Horowitz had invested in Neumann's new residential real-estate company, Flow. At the time of the announcement, the company said its expected launch was in 2023. Marc Andreessen, one of the founders of Andreessen Horowitz, signaled in a memo that Flow may make efforts to create more equity in the housing market by helping renters eventually own the unit they are renting. Andreessen has long been outspoken about housing market inequity in the U.S. and his belief in the need to build more housing, but the announcement of his investment in Flow came less than two weeks after it was revealed that he strongly opposed a multifamily housing project in his neighborhood.

In May 2022, Neumann was reported as being behind Flowcarbon, a start-up tokenizing carbon credit trading platform that runs on blockchain.

Investments
In 2018, Neumann became a partner of InterCure, an Israeli cannabis company led by Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel and invested in EquityBee, a start-up for tech investors, and Selina, a hospitality company. In early 2020, Neumann invested US$10 million into multimodal shared mobility company GOTO Global, taking a 33% equity stake in the company.

Property
In 2012, Neumann partnered with Ken Horn of Alchemy Properties and Joel Schreiber and purchased for US$68 million the top floors of the Woolworth Building, which they then converted into condominiums.

As CEO, Neumann on multiple occasions purchased buildings and then leased the space back to WeWork. Observers noted this as a potential conflict of interest and one that would not be allowed if WeWork were a public company. During his tenure as CEO of WeWork, Neumann also purchased US$90 million worth of residences, including a  estate in Westchester County, New York, a  condominium near Gramercy Park, two homes in The Hamptons, and a US$21 million mansion in Corte Madera, California.

Neumann has begun purchasing apartment buildings and, as of early 2022, owned some 4,000 apartments worth about US$1 billion, primarily located in the American South.

In popular culture
Neumann is a main focus of the nonfiction book Billion Dollar Loser (2020). In the Apple TV+ series WeCrashed (2022), Neumann is portrayed by Jared Leto.

Generation Hustle
The HBO docuseries Generation Hustle, which profiles American scammers, produced an episode titled "Cult of WeWork" about the Neumanns leadership at WeWork. The characterization of the show as being about scammers caused the Neumanns to pursue legal action against HBO. As a result HBO changed their characterization and removed its true crime listing. According to Deadline Hollywood, this was the only episode in the ten-part series where "the subject matter hasn't been charged or accused of breaking an actual law or, in many cases, served time."

See also
 List of Israelis by net worth
 List of Jewish American businesspeople

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Global security threat analyst says Global Governments are no longer in control.
World New Tomorrow – New York – Do you believe in ghost ? Whatever the answer is, Global security threat analyst Baron Baretzky says that governments and its bureaucracy's are no longer in control of their environment.
He says that there are several factors at play for this and that there could be as much as three hierarchy's in controlling governments and bureaucracy's today.
Intelligence research indicates that orders from above might not be from what we perceive as the above to be. It seems that there are three types of orders prompting governments to act and react. The first is what he called mass consciousness, factors and decisions of government's are often directed by the equation of mass influences. This could range from the media influences boiling directly to the man on the street. This is what he called an exercise controlled measure that certainly enforces to ensure the outcome at any predicted point and time. Egypt is a good example where such risks were at play and proven to be fact rather than fiction.
Baretzky said that the second factor is that of the perception of a governments being in control, whilst security threatening decisions are driven by politicians and the industrial complex as clearly indicated in the present climate of a looming middle eastern war caught in the world of politics. The third factor he said is the one we should be most concerned about.
He called this the threat of the "Third kind" from a higher order that seems to have excessive manipulative powers over governments and driving their Bloodthirst for bureaucracy on global scale. He said that its time for politicians and governments to take a good look at their values and ethics if there is any left. The "Third Kind" seems to be right from a fiction movie but, recently it became evident that this might be as real as you get.
Baretzky said that the threat of a " Third Kind " driving the pyramid scheme could be a threat from many places with many resources. He warned that it's not too late for this to change but if not rooted out the consequences will change our lives on global scale forever long before global warming will change our world and possibly the rest.
Global security threat analyst Baretzky said that we must not confuse this " Third Kind " as being friendly and obsessed with the protection of civilization. He said that its time to wake up before doomsday arrive and wake the sleeping clock.
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Gabriel Forero Sanmiguel, a well-known Colombian journalist who used to work from his home in the city of Barranquilla (Atlantico), Colombia, for many years. He created
the daily news radio program "Forero Sanmiguel Informa"  He also was the Co-founder of the Radio Station "La Voz de la Costa".

Forero introduced a new style of radio in Barranquilla, offering the public the broadcasting of popular instrumental music from all over the
world, limited advertisement and international news. He worked with his wife Enohe de Forero (aka) Martica, several of his children and Fanny Esther Castellar as a broadcaster, who was also his secretary.

The Universidad Autónoma del Caribe recognized Mr Gabriel Forero San Miguel with the Vida y Obra (Life and work) award in 2007.

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As the summer heat and humidity begins to descend upon North Carolina, welcome to the unavoidably delayed Spring 2016 issue of The Mercurian. The issue begins with Karen Rosenbecker's new translation/adaptation of Aristophanes' Wealth. As she describes in her introduction, Wealth, while quite popular with both Jacobean and Victorian audiences, has largely been neglected by modern theatre practitioners and scholars interested in Aristophanes' work. With its emphasis on income inequality Wealth is particularly timely for our current presidential race in which a wealthy businessman with no previous governmental experience has captured the Republican Party's nomination. Rosenbecker's version of Aristophanes' comedy also transposes it to a contemporary New Orleans still grappling with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the 2008 Recession, and the consequences of both in widening the gap between rich and poor in the city.
The issue continues with Amelia Parenteau's translation of Alain Foix's The Last Scene. The play is a poetic and musical exploration of Martin Luther King's influence on Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Philadelphia activist and journalist currently serving a contested sentence of life without parole for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. Foix's play explores the connection between Mumia and MLK through a series of conversations between Mumia and the widowed Coretta Scott King. I first came into contact with Foix's work during the Translation (Re)Convening of The Fence, The Lark and TINT (Theatre in Translation) at the O'Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, CT in January 2015. Both Parenteau and Foix were in attendance and The Last Scene received its first workshop readings there.
The Last Scene is followed by Catherine Styles' fresh and highly theatrical new translation of Jean Racine's classic Phaedra. Racine's alexandrine rhyme scheme is always a challenge for English translation that doesn't share French's natural ability to rhyme. Consequently, Styles employs what she describes as a "relaxed iambic pentameter" creating in the process, to my mind, a successful mode for conveying Racine's unbridled passion and tragic power.
The Mercurian has always welcomed not only translations of plays and performance pieces themselves, but also production histories of theatrical translation. Phaedra is followed by Sara Freeman's article (reprinted from Theatre Historiography.org) "Researching and Directing Guillén de Castro's The Force of Habit", which describes Freeman and her dramaturg Hannah Ferguson's approach to directing this Spanish Golden Age Comedia for a contemporary audience in Kathleen Jeffs' translation. Not only is it a fascinating production history in and of itself, but Freeman's direction of Jeffs' translation also returns us to the early days of The Mercurian when Jeffs' article "The Evolution of Translation Values from Pre-Production through Rehearsal" appeared in Vol. 1, No. 4 (Spring 2008).
The issue concludes with Will Harrington's book review of the collection (A)pollonia: Twenty-First-Century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage. Several collections of contemporary Polish drama have recently been published and we hope to review them in future issues of The Mercurian.
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Uber Says Gig Workers Are Their Own Bosses
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Uber Might Briefly Shut Down In California After Court Rules That Drivers Are Employees
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This story was originally published on August 11th, 2020.
According to some estimates, over 50 million people today may be engaged in some type of gig work. In the side hustle economy, gig work has become a necessity to make ends meet while also providing some flexibility that a typical 9 to 5 wouldn't. But gig workers are facing an identity crisis now, especially those working for popular app-based companies like Uber, Lyft, Postmates, or Doordash. Are they their own self-employed bosses, or are they employees?
On Monday afternoon, a California court gave a firm answer, granting a preliminary injunction that orders Uber and Lyft to immediately reclassify drivers as employees. Though Uber has said it will appeal this order, the decision could have serious consequences for these companies, potentially even leading to a pause in services. Today, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced that Uber services could temporarily be shut down in California if the company's request for a 10-day stay isn't successful, because it would be difficult to "switch our model to full-time employment quickly." He also added that if the ruling held, Uber's services in California could become more limited in the long-term, focused on cities rather than suburbs. Some have interpreted his statements as a kind of threat. Xavier Becerra, the California attorney general, told CNBC, "Any business model that relies on short-changing workers in order to make it probably shouldn't be anywhere, whether California or otherwise."
Just hours before the injunction on Monday, Khosrowshahi published an op-ed in the New York Times arguing that there should actually be three types of workers as far as the law is concerned: people who work for an employer, people who are self-employed, and then something else, something uniquely for gig workers.
This Goldilocks of employment statuses would, according to Khosrowshahi, solve a problem of the current binary, which "forces every worker to choose between being an employee with more benefits but less flexibility, or an independent contractor with more flexibility but almost no safety net." It's Uber's argument for why their workers should stay classified as independent contractors, and not be deemed as employees the way a number of laws have been declaring in recent years. But what does this really mean?
What are independent contractors?
The essence of an independent contractor is that they have control over how their work is conducted. They call the shots — but that means that they're outside the reach of most employment protections and benefits. And there's a lot of those, says Terri Gerstein, Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program. "That's minimum wage, overtime, workers' compensation — which gives you medical care and lost wages if you get sick or injured at work — the right to organize collectively bargain, form a union, anti-discrimination laws, social security, paid sick leave laws, all of them," she explains.
In theory, because independent contractors are their own bosses, they have the means to simply not engage in business under terms they find disagreeable. But of course, it often doesn't work out that way. Workers in various industries have long been miscategorized as independent contractors, because it comes with much fewer obligations from companies — and so it's cheaper.
Are Uber drivers independent contractors?
Uber has long touted that, as a driver, you can be your own boss. And it's true that being an Uber driver means you can technically set your own hours, driving as little or as much as you want. But "being your own boss" also implies that you can set your own rate, pick which passengers and routes you drive, and not be subject to supervision. Generally, though, Uber drivers can't control most of these things. And in cities like New York, drivers can also face a quota system that affects whether they're given the opportunity to log on and drive at all.
Earlier this year, Uber started allowing California drivers to have some control over their fares and passengers — but this was a direct response to a new California law called Assembly Bill 5 that clarifies who exactly counts as an independent contractor. Laws like AB5 use what's called an "ABC test" to determine if someone is an independent contractor. It asks A: if the worker has control and direction over what they do — as Uber's recent changes in California attempt to address. Then it asks B: if the work is distinct from the company's main business. If you're a graphic designer hired by a firm that provides graphic design services, you'd likely be an employee under this test. If you're a graphic designer hired by a rideshare app to retool its logo, there's a stronger case for being an independent contractor. Uber, for its part, has maintained that it's not a transportation company, but a tech platform, which has been met with much skepticism. Lastly, the test asks C: if the worker ordinarily operates an independent business in this line of work, with other clients and contracts. As in, do you have a business driving people around outside of Uber?
Even before AB5, states have been using ABC tests, and court rulings have declared that Uber drivers aren't independent contractors. These rulings are costly for Uber, who was found to owe $649 million in unpaid unemployment taxes in New Jersey last year. A UC Berkeley study estimated that in California, Lyft and Uber should have paid $413 million into the state unemployment fund.
Do gig workers lose flexibility if they're employees?
The crux of Khosrowshahi's argument is that if Uber drivers were employees, they'd lose flexibility. "Uber would only have full-time jobs for a small fraction of our current drivers and only be able to operate in many fewer cities than today," he writes. "Rides would be more expensive, which would significantly reduce the number of rides people could take and, in turn, the number of drivers needed to provide those trips. Uber would not be as widely available to riders, and drivers would lose the flexibility they have today if they became employees." An Uber spokesperson clarified to Refinery29 that becoming an employee would mean not being able to set your own hours, which the company says its drivers overwhelmingly prioritize.
But is the flexibility tradeoff a fact of life? "There is nothing in any employment law that says you can't have an employee and give them flexible hours," says Gerstein. "So I don't know what else to say about that." She says that this line of reasoning has become something of a "trope" with businesses. "[They say] if you become an employee, you give up flexibility — that's because they've built their business model this way."
"When workers are misclassified as independent contractors, it has a lot of serious implications," says Gerstein. That includes all the protections mentioned above, which have been especially crucial during the pandemic. The CARES Act expanded unemployment benefits to cover self-employed workers, but if Uber drivers aren't true independent contractors anyway, they shouldn't have to rely on a temporary emergency expansion to receive their legal benefits. Nor should taxpayers have to fund the entirety of their unemployment, when other employers dutifully pay into an unemployment fund for employees.
Being an independent contractor also dramatically shifts which costs are paid by workers instead of companies. "There are tools that employees have to use in order to do their work," says Gerstein. In some states, like New York, workers are explicitly protected from having to pay for them. "That's treated as an unlawful deduction from wages. Uber has shifted many of the costs of doing business onto their employees. The employees are the ones who buy the cars, who often find the financing and buy them specifically to drive with the company, the workers pay for the gas, the workers pay for the insurance, for repairs."
In the case of one full-time rideshare driver in NYC interviewed by CNBC, the driver could make up to $72,000 a year from rideshare apps. But between inspections, registration fees, insurance, gas, repairs, and maintenance, he was looking at $17,000 in out-of-pocket expenses — not to mention the self-employment taxes he needs to withhold and pay each quarter, in order to be eligible for benefits like social security and Medicare.
Then there's the fact that we're dealing with a public health crisis right now. "If they were employees, they'd be covered by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act," says Gerstein. "And the company would be required — not as an act of charity or goodness — but actually required to provide safety and health equipment." Uber has worked to provide PPE to its drivers, but right now, there's nothing requiring them to do so. Lyft, meanwhile, came under fire this year for allegedly selling PPE to its drivers instead of providing it for free.
Uber suggests a "benefits fund"
In the op-ed, Khosrowshahi suggests that, instead of classifying gig workers as employees, companies should "establish benefits funds which give workers cash that they can use for the benefits they want, like health insurance or paid time off." He claims that a driver in Colorado, "averaging over 35 hours per week would have accrued approximately $1,350 in benefits funds in 2019. That's enough to cover two weeks of paid time off, or the median annual premium payment for subsidized health insurance available through an existing Uber partnership."
Even if this math worked out in certain cases, it doesn't seem to address that drivers may be paying upwards of $17,000 a year in expenses — or the value of the vast legal protections employees enjoy that contractors do not. It also seems to be saying that drivers need to commit a certain number of hours to get something meaningful, like health care, out of the benefits fund.
"It's a way to try to seem reasonable, I guess, but it's not reasonable," Gerstein says. "They've been sued by the Massachusetts AG, sued by the California AG, and several county attorneys in California." In both Pennsylvania and New York, Uber drivers have been determined to be employees for the purposes of unemployment benefits. "The tide is turning, and I think they probably feel like they have to do something."
Khosrowshahi does suggest that new laws should protect independent contractors from discrimination while on the job, and says that all gig work companies should provide "medical and disability coverage for injuries incurred on the job." While this would be a step in the right direction, it would be a half-measure that avoids the wide gamut of protections that being reclassified as an employee would give automatically.
"So many businesses large and small, all over the country, manage to follow these basic safety net laws we have about their obligations toward workers," says Gerstein. "The diner down the street or some mom-and-pop hardware store can manage to have employees and pay unemployment insurance, get workers' comp, pay overtime. And the big companies throw up their hands and clutch their pearls and make dire prognostications and say that they're unable to do it. It makes no sense."
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Aetherial Worlds
Tatyana Tolstaya (Author)
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature
Longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize
In this dazzling collection of stories from one of Russia's most important writers, ordinary realities--and our yearnings to transcend them--lead to miraculous otherworlds. A woman's deceased father appears in her dreams with clues about the afterlife. A man falls in love with a marble statue as his marriage falls apart. A child glimpses heaven through a stained-glass window.
Tolstaya's tales--rendered with the emotional insight of Chekhov, the surreal satire of Gogol, and a unique blend of humor and poetry all her own--transmute the quotidian into aetherial wonders. As these stories explore politics, identity, love, and loss, they cut to the quick of the Russian psyche even as they lay bare human universals. Whether contemplating the intricacies of telegram delivery in Leningrad or the meditative melancholy of holiday aspic, Tolstaya limns the stark elements of existence and our vibrant inner lives in an extraordinary vision of life on earth.
Tatyana Tolstaya lives in Moscow. For twelve years, she was the cohost of The School for Scandal, a popular talk show on Russian television covering culture and politics. She is also the cofounder of a creative writing academy in Moscow. She has written for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Five of her books, including her novel The Slynx, have been translated into English.
Translated by Anya Migdal.
"Marvelously vivid. . . . Tolstaya's vision reveals the world as a complex system of real and unreal realms . . . floodlit by flashes of transcendence." --The New York Times Book Review
"Beautiful. . . . The best of Tolstaya's stories trace [the] intersection of imagination and memory, where the two become something greater by not being merely one or the other." --The New Yorker
"Resplendent. . . . Playful and poetic . . . Memory fuses with wonder, and wonder with worship." --The Wall Street Journal
"Grimly hilarious. . . . Divinely quotable. . . . Everything in this generous writer's hands is vivid and alive." --Joy Williams, Bookforum
"Masterful. . . . A collection of dark, funny folkloric tales." --The Paris Review
"Call off the search for Tatyana Tolstaya's origins among the Russian greats: There's no one like her anywhere, then or now. She is a writer of breathtaking originality, boldness and importance." --Thomas McGuane, author of Cloudbursts
"Tolstaya's writing is so good that it cuts through the surface directly to the universal workings of the human heart." --BookPage
"Praised by Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky as 'the most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose, ' Tolstaya, two decades on, is all that and more in this edgy, brash, slyly surreal, and mordantly funny short story collection. . . . Tolstaya's daring, masterful stories, crisply translated, glint and whirl with extraordinary dimension and force." --Booklist
"These uniformly masterful stories reject any attempt at easy categorization, resulting in a profound, surprising, and rich experience. . . . While the works blend fantasy and fact, often within the same story, what unites them all is Tolstaya's singular and assured voice, capable of beautiful specificity." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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English and Philosophy double major, Shayna Boisvert, will be presenting at the National Popular Cultural Association Convention (NPAC) held in Washington, DC, this spring. Shayna will be presenting alongside professors, independent scholars, graduate students, and perhaps even a few undergraduates. Her presentation pertains to her research on the link between Nietzsche and 21st Century literature.
According to the philosophy of Nietzsche, human existence is, in and of itself, a tragedy. Taking great influence from Greek tragedy, he found an art form that transcended the nihilism of a fundamentally meaningless world. These stories influenced Nietzsche to compose The Birth of Tragedy: writings on the tragic forms that introduce an intellectual duality between the Dionysian and the Apollonian. Nietzsche's thesis in this book is that, at its deepest level, art is tension between opposing forces of the Dionysian and Apollonian. These two elements can be witnessed in art even today, especially in the novel The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Her novel pushed the boundaries of accepted morality, creating a postmodern tragedy heavily reliant on the Greek tradition. The students, especially Henry, form a morbid curiosity about the morals and ways of these ancient Greek traditions; they discover a way of thinking and living that is completely different from that of society. However, when they try to implement this alternate morality, they give in to obsession and betrayal, as they are not able to handle its effects. This morality includes the values of the primal, carnal nature of the Dionysian and that of the ordered dream state of the Apollonian. Drawing from these inter-textual cues throughout Henry's characterization arc of the story, I argue that there are several key parallels between The Secret History and Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy.
1. How did you choose to double major in English Literature and Philosophy?
I have had a passion for reading and writing ever since I was a young child, and that passion followed me to SFU. When I took my first English class at SFU, I knew it was where I should be. English has always just clicked with me and been something I was interested in. As for Philosophy, it was a passion that came from high school. My school required Philosophy and Theology classes to be taken every year, and that's where my interest started. In high school, I was president of the Philosophy Club and helped run H.Y.P.E day: a convention for New England high school students on certain philosophical topics. So when I took Philosophy 205 sophomore year, I realized just how much I missed the field and decided to add a second major. I decided these majors were the career path for me when I realized just how happy I was in my classes. Overall, I just want to be in a career path that makes me as intrigued and happy as these two majors do.
2. Why did you choose Saint Francis?
I chose Saint Francis after I toured the campus. I came from a smaller high school with about 80 students per grade; I loved just how close I was to my teachers and the smaller class sizes. After touring Saint Francis, I realized that was just what I would get here as well—and I wasn't wrong. My professors are always there for me when I need them and have always pushed me to do more and go further than I ever thought I could. Without them, I don't think I would have written my book, done research in Italy, or gone to as many conferences as I have. My friends at larger schools don't necessarily get the help they need or accomplish as much, and I am so thankful that Saint Francis has provided the resources I needed.
3. What activities are you involved in both on and off campus?
I am part of Theta Phi Alpha, and because of that organization I am able to participate in many great on-campus and off-campus opportunities, including volunteer work at The Women's Help Center in Johnstown and many other places. I have also gained leadership experience through many on- and off-campus leadership training sessions. I am a tutor at the Writing Center, where I get the chance to help students with various papers and assignments. Along with that, I work for the Southern Allegheny Museum of Art on campus, which has been a unique experience in and of itself. I am part of two honors societies: Sigma Tau Delta, the National English Honor Society, and Gamma Sigma Alpha, the National Greek Life Honor Society. In addition to this, I have helped with the Anime Anonymous club and the Fire Starters.
4. In addition to presenting at NPAC, what other out-of-classroom work experience have you participated in?
I have done three remote internships over the course of my four years. Two were with different literary agencies, where I worked on reviewing manuscripts for publishing.
I wrote a novel my sophomore year and spent my junior year revising it. The current working title is Fateless. It is 213 pages and is a young adult fantasy piece based in Western Mythology. I started it as part of my Honors Thesis under the advisement of Dr. Roxana Cazan. Currently, I am in the process of seeking publication by querying literary agents. My honors thesis project will detail the publication process of this novel and the current marketing trends of the Young Adult Fiction genre.
5. What would you like to do upon graduation?
I hope to go straight into graduate school to earn my PhD and hopefully pursue a career in Academia as a professor. I currently have twelve published short stories in various literary magazines and would like to continue to write creatively for magazines.


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Posted on 29th May 2020 | By Richard Beddard
First, an admission. The software biz is a bit of a mystery to me. There's a vast ecosystem of enterprise solutions, software that businesses increasingly need to operate, but how do those of us whose technical skills extend little further than Word and Excel decide whether these solutions and the companies that code them are special? They are described using languages we don't speak. They are often buried within each other. And they enable activities we cannot experience and can barely imagine.
With companies like D4T4 it's a big challenge to get to first base: understanding the business. It's important though. As they say, software is eating the World. So far I have investigated three companies that code or sell software: DotDigital, Computacenter and Softcat. They are all doing very well, they say, because businesses have gone beyond using technology to help them be quicker and more efficient. Now businesses regard their data and the insights they can get from it as a cornerstone of competitive advantage. D4T4 says the same thing.
To answer my earlier question, the only way I know to crack an industry open is to keep hurling myself at companies in it.
Little D4T4 is all about big DATA
In one sense, the companies I have studied before are simpler than D4T4. DotDigital codes marketing software (and sells subscriptions). Computacenter and Softcat are hardware and software resellers, essentially sales operations. D4T4 is a kind of mashup. It started life in 1985 as a hardware reseller called IS Solutions, and like other resellers added on software and service elements. Most notably it began to specialise in analysing data particularly for the financial services industry in 2010. Then, in 2015, it became a software company too when it bought Celebrus, a product it had been selling since the early 2000s.
Celebrus captures information about our behaviour as we click around websites and mobile apps. It was a pioneer in building individual profiles of customers from multiple sources and passing information on us to other software systems in real time. A simple example: If we leave a page before we have signed up for something or bought it, it can tell the company's marketing system, which can then fire-off an email suitably tailored to get us back. Knowing what we are doing in websites and apps can alert companies to fraud, and allow them to deliver personalised content instantly on our phones and in our browsers.
Celebrus makes a big play of its tagless system. Conventionally software captures behaviour on websites using tags coded into the webpage, but Celebrus doesn't. Tags take time to set up, and the pages have to be re-coded whenever the requirements of the business change. Celebrus is quicker to put to work, and more flexible. No doubt if this is a big advantage other firms will be emulating it, but Celebrus has refined its system for more than twenty years and the tagless element is patented.
Shortly after IS Solutions acquired Celebrus, it reorganised itself and changed its name to D4T4. Now it is "All about the data", the logo even looks like the word. The company sells its own products, Celebrus and a cloud hosting platform, builds platforms incorporating other software and hardware, and does data analysis. It's both a seller to other resellers, and a reseller for other sellers!
Back to the balance sheet
But I get ahead of myself. I'm looking at D4T4 because it was one of the companies dredged up by my Cash Kings filter, albeit with one criteria switched off: the one that excludes companies that have issued substantial amounts of shares in the last five years.
D4T4's cash reserves should help it see through a recession, but maybe it won't need to draw on them because software and financial services are among the industries less affected by the pandemic. It's profitable, cash generative, and not unreasonably priced according to SharePad. Take a look at the quality metrics:
Source: SharePad
Admittedly the latest figures cast the company in a good light, but the three year averages are good too. We already know pre-tax profit will be 21% lower when the company announces its results for the year to March 2020, because it told us in a trading update in April. But D4T4 offers a plausible explanation for the fall: It is selling more recurring subscriptions. The old way, perpetual licenses, meant the company was paid up front, whereas subscriptions spread the payments out. It has to wait longer for the money, which is depressing profit. Once the company builds up its installed base of subscriptions, profitability should improve and be more dependable. The forecast price earnings ratio, based on lower profits to March 2020, is just under 17, a not unreasonable price if the company checks out.
Plotting D4T4's last twenty balance sheets shows how they have improved. The acquisition of Celebrus in 2015 coincides with the growth of the cash surplus as a percentage of total assets (the green columns):
Data source: SharePad, chart plotted in Google Sheets*
And turning to the other side of the balance sheet, we can see how liabilities have shrunk (the bottom two columns) and retained profit (purple columns) and consequently equity (the top four columns) have grown, also as a percentage of total assets since 2015.
In September 2019, D4T4 was 86% funded by equity. To a large extent therefore, it is in control of its own destiny.
Focusing on the equity (it may help to squint – we're talking mainly about the purple and light and dark green columns) we can actually see how the acquisition of Celebrus was funded. D4T4 acquired Celebrus in January 2015, and the bar for the balance sheet immediately after (31/3/15) shows that the share premium account was significantly larger as a proportion of total assets than six months earlier. This is where accountants record the value of new shares issued by a company, above their nominal value. D4T4 mostly paid for Celebrus with newly issued shares.
Now I need to explain a quirk in the data. Rather confusingly, in 2018 the company reclassified the premium created by the acquisition of Celebrus, creating a new reserve: the merger reserve. The share premium reserve was reduced accordingly. D4T4 also restated the figures for 2017. SharePad standardises data so we can compare companies. Non-standard reserves like the merger reserve are lumped into other reserves – a catch-all classification. The merger reserve accounts for most of the value of other reserves, so this accounting change explains the big changes in relative size of the two green columns, share premium reserve and other reserves. For our purposes they are largely the same thing, and their combined total has gradually diminished as a proportion of total assets, as retained profit has increased.
By looking at all these balance sheets we can tell, through retained profit – the cumulative total of profit that has not been paid out to shareholders, that the company is not only in a better financial position than it was, but it is also performing better.
Was Celebrus worth it?
I think so. Celebrus was loss-making when D4T4 acquired it in 2015 for £8.5m in cash and shares, but D4t4 says it earns high margin sales. In 2015, D4T4 made £0.7m operating profit, and according to SharePad it had previously only once made more than £1m. It made £1.1m in 1999! But in 2019, operating profit was £6.3m, and it hadn't made less than £3m since 2015.
It looks as though D4T4 has found the secret to growth, but three things almost made me bail-out of my research before I was ready to write it up:
The first, that its share count rose to pay for Celebrus, I can forgive. It was five years ago anyway, and the shares were issued to buy the product that probably catalysed the development of the business in its current form.
The second, is the company's dependence on one very large customer/partner. A year ago that customer earned D4T4 nearly £16m of revenue, 62% of the total. A second customer/partner was responsible for 11% of revenue. Investors are generally well advised to steer clear of companies that depend on a few large customers but D4T4's dependence may not be as alarming as the statistics make it look. Almost certainly these customers are resellers (which is why D4T4 also calls them partners), and D4T4 has many more end users (clients).
Some Celebrus end-users. Source: D4T4solutions.com
Still, I would like to know more about D4T4's biggest customer. The risk of losing it may be low, but the impact would be high, which is probably one reason why the company is striving to add new partners and work more closely with clients so it can sell them more products and services directly.
The third reason for caution, is the pace at which the software industry is apparently developing. Artificial intelligence, the joke goes, is eating software. Assessing the future of an industry, when I am only just getting to grips with the present, is beyond me. As you should expect, though, Celebrus doesn't want to get eaten.
Last week D4T4 announced version 9.2, which includes embedded machine learning (an industry first, it says) and natural language processing capabilities. These will better enable enterprises (by which I think it means their software) to understand customers and intervene "in the moment".
Contact Richard Beddard by email: richard@beddard.net or on Twitter: @RichardBeddard
*To download the google sheets into excel, open the google sheets link -> click 'File' -> 'Download' -> 'Microsoft excel'. When you open in excel you may find the formatting of the charts mean they do not display correctly. In order to rectify this, right click on the x-axis -> click 'format axis' -> change axis type to 'Text axis'.
This article is for educational purposes only. It is not a recommendation to buy or sell shares or other investments. Do your own research before buying or selling any investment or seek professional financial advice.
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