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The Software Colonoscopy
Original posting on RT Blog 29/11/2010
Recently, a large, well-known company in the computer software industry approached a small technology company to gauge its level of interest in being acquired at a nice multiple. The management team and investors quickly reached a decision to accept the large company's offer and due diligence ensued.
…and that is when things quickly went awry.
If you haven't gone through an M&A exercise, there are a number of standard due diligence processes that you need to step through. For example, on the federal level if the transaction is larger than $63.4M, then the transaction is subject to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Anti-Trust Act which the FTC enforces to help ensure competition remains in any one industry. Passing the HSR test is relatively easy if you're a smaller company but if two large competitors want to "merge", it gets more complicated and difficult to get past HSR.
There are many other standard process "hoops" you must jump through during the M&A process but I want to focus this blog on one that is relatively new. This process isn't mandated by any government regulator but if you're not prepared for it well in advance, it has the potential to derail the entire transaction at the worst possible moment.
The process I want to talk about is the "source code scan". The source code scan has now become "de rigeur" in any M&A or PE transaction – and with any of my investments. Why? Simple. If there is embedded open source or third party software that is not appropriately licensed, then that company – and its acquirer – could be subject to substantial IP issues, reengineering efforts, lawsuits, legal fees, penalties and royalties.
Here is an excerpt from Palamida, a company that provides code scanning software/services, that sums it up nicely:
"…access to diverse code resources, combined with pressure to deliver product to market rapidly and cost-effectively, has given rise to the blending of homegrown, commercial and particularly, the widespread use of open source software. While using these multiple resources for code can and does speed a company's development, time to market, and overall innovation, it makes identification and monitoring of unknown and potentially vulnerable software components difficult and the assessment of intellectual property and vulnerability risks more challenging than ever."
So, with that as a backdrop, here is what happened to the company I introduced at the beginning of this blog.
As part of the acquirer's due diligence, it used an independent third party to run a source code scan. Not surprising, there were open source elements that had been embedded in to the main code line of the company's products.
However, what was surprising was that several of those open source elements, unbeknownst to engineering and the rest of management, were subject to certain terms that stated if the original code was modified, all modifications were required to be donated back to the open source provider for public use. Therefore, the company's proprietary IP was instantly clouded. No one in the company's current engineering organization had any idea this code – with its attendant licensing requirements – had been embedded into the software. And, removing and replacing it was determined to be non-trivial.
The deal was put on hold for this and other reasons. And, now that the company is aware of this issue it must determine how it will bring the company into compliance and how feasible it is (how much it will cost) to remove the code in a future release.
Like a colonoscopy that is recommended for anyone over 50, I would strongly encourage any company that creates and/or uses software in its products to perform a complete source code software scan on a regular basis. And, that scan should generate a report delivered to executive management and the board that verifies it is appropriately licensed for any/all code assembled into its products. A silent killer may be lurking.


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verold needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 484 designs submitted by 114 freelance designers.
We are developing a general purpose distributed computing platform to support massively multi-user 3D virtual worlds and augmented realities. We are also developing the software tools and web services that will enable the navigation, production, manipulation and management of the 3D geometry and 3D/multimedia contents of virtual worlds and augmented realities.
About the root of the brand name:
The word \"Verold\" is a proto-germanic compound from which the modern english word, \"world\" is derived. It consists of the masculine \"ver\", root of words like \"virile\", \"virtue\", \"veracity\" and \"virtual\" and of \"old\" meaning \"age\" or \"time\".
We thought it fitting that since we are creating virtual and augmented worlds we revived a word containing the root of both. In so doing we wish to inflect in the name the idea that a world is constituted by people, is something fundamentally shared, social, human. Here, we understand as media theorist, Marshal McLuhan did that the essential message of new media is not its content, not the familiar things it simulates, but the changes in patterns of relations between human beings and their world that it introduces.
(a) mass-market users of 3D games, augmented reality and virtual worlds via mobile, web and other channels
(b) vertical market producers of 3D games, augmented reality experiences and virtual worlds
Our content creation solutions will make it faster, quicker, easier, and cheaper for professionals as well as untrained users to create 3D and multimedia assets, and enable fundamentally new paradigms for human/computer interaction and human/human, communication, tele-collaboration and personal self-expression.
We would like to see an icon with a name next to it. Ideally, the icon should be something that could eventually stand, by itself, in place of the name.
It might be good to have a subline or embedded logo expression additionally to incorporate our set of products in the overall design: CAD, Games, Worlds, Earth, Commerce.
We would like both an iconic symbol as well as textual logo for \"verold\" - Either as "Verold" "verold" or capitalized. The iconic symbol could somehow be incorporated into the word - but we are open to ALL alternative ideas. The word should be horizontal, the overall logo simple and stylish but not overdone.
Some ideas to consider are overlaying reality with information, virtual objects, networks, mobile, world, community, platform.
Some ideas to consider are overlaying reality with information, virtual objects, networks, mobile, world, community, platform.
Whoever sees the logo should have to following high-level concepts come to their mind: elegance, honesty, dependability, vitality, genius, innovation
We would not like to see simple earth representations or simple 3D/Cad artifacts. But a earth diagonally (like a globe) separated between a real earth picture from space and the other half a VR/AR style-overlayed-computerized world could be one possible idea.
Winner should provide all possible formats especially vector format / layered AI
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Gerics, Fairfield Prep shut out Amity 1-0
FAIRFIELD -- For four innings Thursday afternoon, Fairfield Prep had been begging -- screaming -- for a two-out hit in its game against Amity, ranked No. 2 in the state.
The Jesuits had left runners in scoring position each of the first four innings, only for Spartans' ace Mike Concato to find a way to pitch out of trouble unscathed.
Fittingly enough, the game's only run came without the virtue of a base hit.
In the bottom of the fifth, Fairfield Prep's Chris Collins scored from third on an errant pickoff attempt and the Jesuits hung on to win 1-0 behind David Gerics' four-hit shutout.
"We didn't put our hits together, but we were able to scratch out a run and that's what counts," Collins said.
Collins reached on an error to start the fifth. He then stole second -- with his slide kicking away the throw from Amity (9-2) catcher Chris Cimmino.
In the first inning, Concato picked off Collins -- as well as another Jesuit runner in the fourth -- and threw over numerous times before the fifth-inning stolen base.
"I saw a bunch of moves from him," Collins said. "I definitely had a good read on him. He probably tried to pick me off seven times."
Collins moved to third on Shawn Blake's groundout to first and scored when Concato's pickoff attempt at third base sailed into foul territory.
Given a 1-0 lead, Gerics seemed to get better as the game wore on. Three of the senior righty's five strikeouts came in the sixth and seventh innings.
"Once I was confident with my fastball, I was able to get my curveball over, too," Gerics said. "Once that confidence is built up, it feels like your fastball is that much faster. Once that's in control you can work both sides of the plate. When your fielders are making all the plays, you feel like you can't go wrong."
Amity's best chance came in the fifth when Keith Klebart missed a home run to left by a few feet, settling instead for a two-out double despite a diving attempt at the fence by Prep's Chris Sutay. Gerics bounced back to strike out Jake Russo to strand Klebart at second.
The loss ended the Spartans' six-game winning streak.
"(Gerics) was awesome, but we have to at least swing at more strikes," Amity coach Sal Coppola said. "When a pitcher's in a groove like that -- and he's good -- you can't help him. You can't give him the first strike."
Both of Amity's losses have come by one run.
Fairfield Prep (9-3), which moved into the state poll this week at No. 10, responded from a loss to Law on Wednesday. The Jesuits' improved attitude from the opening pitch on Thursday impressed coach Rudy Mauritz.
"When you put pressure on, things can break in your favor," he said "That's what happened to us today."
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Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain
And still they come and go: and this is all I know
Dusk in the rain-soaked garden
Everyone suddenly burst out singing
Fall in! Now get a move on. (Curse the rain.)
Fires in the dark you build; tall quivering flames
Frail Travellers, deftly flickering over the flowers
Have you forgotten yet?
I dreamt I saw a huge grey boat in silence steaming
If you could crowd them into forty lines!
I heard a clash, and a cry
I love all things that pass: their briefness is
I never asked you to be perfectdid I?
In the grey summer garden I shall find you
I stood with the Dead, so forsaken and still
Ive had a good bump round; my little horse
I was near the King that day. I saw him snatch
O beauty doomed and perfect for an hour
Out in the blustering darkness, on the deck
Sleep; and my song shall build about your bed
Sleepless I listen to the surge and drone
Some Brave, awake in you to-night
Squire nagged and bullied till I went to fight
They are gathering round
They know not the green leaves
This jobs the best Ive done. He bent his head
Voices moving about in the quiet house
When I was young my heart and head were light
When you are standing at your heros grave
Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled
You like my bird-sung gardens: wings and flowers
Your dextrous wit will haunt us long
You think I cannot understand. Ah, but I do
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As a senior, you'll prepare for post-college life by acquiring the job search strategies and survival skills that are essential for artists. You'll create a catalogue to market your work, participate in gallery talks, and learn the techniques involved in gallery and museum exhibition. Your Bachelor of Fine Arts studies will culminate in a professional-level exhibit of your artwork, which will be installed in the University's gallery at the end of the academic year.


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"What year did we snatch the president of the Congo's airplane?" Nick Popovich asks. Outside, chilly rain soaks the pastures of his rolling Indiana country estate. From a pond with a gushing fountain, waterfowl honk faintly.
From This Story
An assistant rifles through records as Popovich assures me cheerfully, "We're not going back to central Africa soon. There's still a death warrant out for me."
Driving to Valparaiso on a two-lane blacktop, I saw only a sign with the name of Popovich's horse farm. But once I turned off the road, drove up the driveway, and entered this opulent ranch-style residence, I found a global operation ticking with the stealthy clockwork of a CIA front. From these headquarters, Popovich plots to repossess some of the world's largest aircraft. If you've been leasing a $150 million jumbo jet and missed a few payments recently, you might want to glance outside and make sure it's still there.
Popovich once flew everything from DC-8s to a Braniff Airways 747. Looking at this intense, bearded man, who favors loose-fitting flowered shirts, I had a hard time picturing him in a blue suit with braid on the sleeves, filing flight plans at a corporate hub. "I felt like a bus driver," he says. Offered a share in a Caribbean startup, he bailed on the big airlines and plunged into the shark tank of small charter ops. Some requisite financial wrangling left him owing a favor to a U.S. bank. One day in 1979, the bankers called to collect: A Sri Lankan airline was in default on two 747s, and the banker asked Popovich to bring them home.
He recruited some pilot friends and ad-libbed a grab of the colossal aircraft. Afterward, the banker advised him that for his next repo, he should charge three times as much. Popovich never looked back. He formed Sage-Popovich, Inc. (Sage is the surname of his now-ex wife), and the company has gone on to seize more than 1,200 airliners. "When times are bad," Popovich says, "it's good for us."
The company is brought in when the dunning has run its course—the bank has sent all the official warnings, and the airline has been through the default process. It's surprising how commonly airliners get behind the eight ball, says Al Nigro. For 25 years Nigro managed leasing and financing of commercial aircraft at institutions like Bank of America and Deutsche Bank; he used to hire Popovich, and now he works for him as his vice president. "If an airline has a weak summer travel season," says Nigro, "you can pretty well predict they're going to struggle through the winter and may fall behind on their payments." Maybe a new competitor is sapping market share, or a plane-buying binge has left a carrier with a fiscal morning-after. On the other hand, he adds, "Some of them are just downright crooks. Just because the airplane is physically big, that doesn't mean the company that's leasing it is big—or particularly honest."
Sage-Popovich carries out about 50 recoveries a year, some of multiple aircraft. The most common target are Boeing 737s, but Popovich and his team retrieve everything from 747s to luxury executive jets. Chasing smaller stuff—the "tinker toys"—isn't cost-efficient for an operation that keeps as many as 60 people in the field at a time.
An airline's financial failure is messy, dragging down livelihoods and futures. Individual pilots and mechanics idled by a repo do get Popovich's sympathy (and sometimes offers of temporary employment). But he also says: "It's just business. It's just a financial situation." He and his team scheme airliner repossessions with cool calculation around a glossy mahogany conference table.
When banks hire the company, they don't delve too deeply into how the job will be executed. "Not that we would ever do anything illegal," Popovich says, "but they'd just rather not know how we did it. The rule is 'Don't ask, don't tell—just get our airplane back.' "
Jennifer Barlow, the company's project planner, masterminds a repossession's complex logistics. There are conference calls with banks and insurers and opinions from lawyers. Then, Barlow says firmly, "We decide what needs to be done." She does not mean putting a strongly worded reminder in the mail.


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Long-time reader, first-time poster. I have a question for the more experienced Latinists:
I'm at an intermediate stage in my skills with the language, and since I'm about to graduate I may not have the opportunity to take another university-level course in Latin. Thus, I will have to rely on my self-teaching skills to take me further. My main issue when I encounter a text is vocabulary; unless the sentence is particularly idiomatic, the grammar isn't usually a problem.
Here I draw to my point: for those of you who find vocabulary less of an issue, did you build up your mental store of words through reading and recognition with a dictionary, or did you laboriously memorize lists of unfamiliar vocabulary gathered from the texts you read?
To put it more precisely: in the long-term building of vocabulary is it sufficient simply to look up new words as they arise, or is it necessary to spend time assembling and memorizing word lists?


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The spider family Theraphosidae (tarantulas) includes 947 described species (Platnick 2014), including around 55 species in North America north of Mexico (Prentice 2005). In North America, the native species, all in the genus Aphonopelma, occur west of the Mississippi River from the southern border of the United States north to the approximate midline through Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado and somewhat farther north in Utah, Nevada, and California. In addition, Brachypelma vagans has been introduced to Florida and appears to be established there (the native range of this species is from Veracruz and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico south along the Gulf Coast to Costa Rica). (Edwards and Hibbard 1999; Prentice 2005). Prentice (2005) notes that Aphonopelma is in need of revision and that the list of species known from the United States probably currently includes many synonyms (e.g., see Wilson et al. 2013; Nentwig 2012 provides one example of the trouble arising from taxonomic confusion in this group) . On the other hand, it seems clear that there are many unrecognized Aphonopelma species (Hamilton et al. 2011; Hendrixson et al. 2013).
Members of both Aphonopelma and Brachypelma live in subterranean burrows. There is no door-like closure at the burrow entrance, but the entrance is often lined with silk. The resident tarantula may keep the entrance covered with a thin silk sheet during the day; the burrow entrance is often plugged with soil during periods of inactivity such as in the winter and, in more arid areas, during the hot summer. When open, the visible silk lining of the burrow entrance helps distinguish these large burrows from those of other animals. (Prentice 2005; Bradley 2013)
Tarantulas are large, pubescent ("downy") mygalomorph spiders with two tarsal claws and, typically, claw tufts on each tarsus (but see Pérez-Miles and Weinmann 2010 and references therein). In most New World tarantulas, there are urticating hairs on the upper rear of the abdomen, whose function has been examined by Bertani and Guadanucci (2013). The chelicerae are robust, especially in females. Tarantulas are nocturnal sit-and-wait predators, rarely found more than a few centimeters from their burrow entrances. Captive Aphonopelma females of several species have matured at a minimum of seven years of age; females continue to molt (often irregularly with increasing age) throughout their lives. After maturity, females continue to live in their burrows, but males wander in search of females to mate with and generally die shortly thereafter. In captivity, individuals of several Aphonopelma species have lived more than 30 years. Mating activity of fall breeding species is generally inhibited when nighttime temperatures drop below 15 C (60 F) and daytime temperatures are above 26 C (80 F). Mating activity of summer breeding species occurs almost exclusively after sunset because of high daytime temperatures. (Prentice 2005)
Machkour-M'Rabet and colleagues assessed the impact of habitat fragmentation on Brachypelma vagans and concluded that, in the case of this particular species in the Mexican Caribbean, human activities have actually had a net positive impact on populations (Machkour-M'Rabet et al. 2012 and references therein).
Although bites from tarantulas rarely produce serious adverse reactions in humans, even quite large dogs have been reported to die after being bitten (Isbister et al. 2003; O'Hagan et al. 2006). Krug and Elston note that for humans, the greatest danger posed by New World tarantulas is generally the defensive barbed urticating hairs that tarantulas of many species can release when threatened, with the greatest threat of serious consequences if these hairs enter the eye; the venom of Old World tarantulas generally produces more serious symptoms in humans than does the venom of New World species (Krug and Elston 2011 and references therein).


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|editHyūga Main Family's Juinjutsu [1]
|Hyūga Sōke no Juinjutsu
|Literal English
|Hyūga Main Family's Cursed Seal Technique
|English anime
|Curse Mark Jutsu
|Alternative names
|Caged Bird Curse Seal (籠の鳥の呪印, Kago no Tori no Juin)[2]
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This seal is branded on all branch house members in the Hyūga clan by members of the main house. The main purpose is to seal the Byakugan at death, so that its secrets never fall into the hands of the enemy. When the Hyūga dies, the seal disappears, sealing away the Byakugan with it.[3][4] The secondary purpose is to control the branch house members, since it can be activated at will by a main house member with a hand seal only known by them to destroy the wearer's brain cells.[5]
The seal is branded on a branch member's forehead when the next heir or heiress of the main house turns three years old, (Neji received his at the age of four on Hinata's third birthday),[6] and is only removed upon their death.[3] Branch house members tend to keep their foreheads concealed because of the seal.
- Because of the seal's resemblance to a manji, which in actuality is a Hindu and Buddhist symbol, but more commonly associated with the inverted Hakenkreuz of the Nazi party — it is replaced with an "X" in the anime version of the series to avoid confusion. It receives the same treatment in Viz's monthly distribution of the English manga, but the original design is retained in Viz's volume compilations. The Viz version of the manga has also taken care to always mention that the symbol is not a swastika whenever it is displayed.
- Ao from Kirigakure killed a member of the Hyūga clan to obtain his Byakugan eye. Whether he killed a main or branch house member is still unknown, but it is however likely that he killed a member of the main house or he removed the eye of a Branch member while his opponent was still alive; whether the Hyūga cursed seal prevents this is unknown.


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August 5, 2013
"Yes, yes, I know you have a c**k and that you like looking at women with large breasts, but how about you help me with my bags since I am on a television show and she is probably a stripper or used to be or wants to be. Of course she probably would give you a more interesting tip."
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Ranking Big Ten Teams through 4 weeks
4 weeks in, the Big Ten looks very different than pre-season rankings and will probably look very different in another 4. Here is my power rankings thus far.
1. OSU (lost to USC at home but has posted two straight shutouts).
2. Iowa (big win in Happy Valley. Let's hope we get the Iowa team from week #1).
3. Michigan (defense is sketchy but Special Teams and Offense look great).
4. Penn State (not sure about this team. Played 3 cup cakes and lost their first real test at home).
5. Wisconsin (4-0 gets them this spot but let's see over the next few weeks. I haven't seen them play and am giving this spot based on overall record).
6. Indiana (best team they have had in a long time/Saturday might say more about Indiana then Michigan).
7. Minnesota (nothing to see here other than Decker)
8. Purdue (nothing to see here).
9. Northwestern (lost to Syracuse).
10. Illinois (2 talented offensive players don;t make up for no team chemistry).
11. MSU (right where they belong).


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We are actively seeking members to join a committee to oversee these activities. Initiative one, The Guadalupe Now Fund, focus is on conservation issue pertaining to the Guadalupe River specifically. The second initiative, The Coldwater Outreach Conservation Fund, is focused on conservation projects outside the immediate Guadalupe River tailrace area that are of interest to GRTU membership. As committee members you will be involved in identifying and organizing conservation projects, formulating strategy, and identifying funding sources.
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Did Jesus teach to 'hate' your family?
Exclusive: Ray Comfort answers questions from skeptics
"I like the one where Jesus says that if you don't hate your family … you're not a real Christian." – John G.
The verse being referred to is Luke 14:26, where Jesus said, "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
This is what's known as "hyperbole." It is a justified statement of exaggeration –contrasting love with hate for the sake of emphasis. It means that you and I should so love God that the love we have for our loved ones should seem like hatred, compared to the love we have for the One who gave those loved ones in the first place. This shows how far we fall short of how loving we should be towards our Creator and how ungrateful we are for the gift of life.
"John Lennon was an atheist, you idiot." – Bipin K.
Most atheists assume that John Lennon was an atheist, probably because of his famous song, "Imagine." I have heard one well-known atheist call it "the atheist's anthem."
I guess he hadn't listened to (or thought about) the words: "Imagine there's no heaven." If I said, "Imagine there's no New York," it means I think that New York exists, but we should imagine (pretend) that it doesn't. John Lennon actually wrote the song as a prayer to God, praying that the world would set aside its differences about countries, wars, religion, etc., and be as one. He shared this in his famous 1980 Playboy interview.
"And since the auto response will be, 'What do atheists do?' here are a few secular charities: Doctors Without Borders, The Red Cross, UNICEF, Amnesty International, Kiva, Goodwill. Me myself, I give to all charities regardless of denomination. Saturday afternoons I volunteer at a hospital. I also do regular clean ups of our waterfront, donate blood and support businesses through Kiva." – Bridgette P.
There is nothing more nauseating than having to listen to someone boast about their own goodness – something called "self-righteousness." Christianity has nothing to do with doing good works.
Some who mistakenly think so quote the book of James, which says that faith without works is dead. However, if they would read the verse in context they would see that it is merely saying that good works are evidence that someone is truly a Christian. We do good works because we have been given everlasting life (from a motivation of gratitude) and not to try and earn everlasting life (trying to bribe God to forgive us by offering our good works).
Please take the time to read this verse carefully (your eternity could depend on your understanding of what it says): "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9).
Check out NeedGod.com if you are interested in eternal life. By the way, there are thousands of secular and Christian charities. You would be hard-pressed to find even one legitimate atheist charity.
Discover Comfort's "You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence but You Can't Make Him Think," autographed, at the WND Superstore!
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