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SBC Revenue Exceeds Expectations for Third Straight Quarter of Fiscal 2012
For Immediate Release: November 7, 2012
WESTFORD, Mass. – Sonus Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:SONS, news, filings), a global leader in SIP communications, today announced results for the third quarter ended September 28, 2012.
Results are reported on a consolidated basis and include the partial quarter financial effect of Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. ("NET"), an acquisition which closed on August 24, 2012. A table providing stand-alone Sonus and stand-alone NET results is provided in the supplementary financial data on the IR page of the Company's website.
Third Quarter Consolidated 2012 Highlights (including NET)
- Total revenue was $57.0 million.
- Total SBC revenue, including maintenance and services, was $25.4 million, compared to $19.1 million in the second quarter of 2012 and $13.9 million in the third quarter of 2011.
- SBC product revenue was $20.4 million, compared to $13.5 million in the second quarter of 2012 and $10.4 million in the third quarter of 2011.
- SBC product revenue was a record 61% of total product revenue.
- Won 40 new customers in the quarter, 11 for Sonus and 29 for NET (post-acquisition).
- Sonus SBC 5100 and Sonus SBC 5200 Certified in Microsoft's Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program for Microsoft Lync Server 2010; together with Sonus SBC 1000 and Sonus SBC 2000 represents the largest portfolio of MS Lync certified SBCs on the market.
Revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2012 was $57.0 million, compared to $57.6 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2012 and $66.4 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2011. The GAAP net loss for the third quarter of fiscal 2012 was $15.6 million, or $0.06 per share, compared to a GAAP net loss of $11.7 million, or $0.04 per share, in the second quarter of 2012 and GAAP net income of $1.9 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, in the third quarter of fiscal 2011. The non-GAAP net loss for the third quarter of fiscal 2012 was $6.3 million, or $0.02 per share, compared to a non-GAAP net loss of $8.6 million, or $0.03 per share, in the second quarter of fiscal 2012 and non-GAAP net income of $4.1 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, in the third quarter of fiscal 2011.
2012 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Outlook
The Company's outlook is based on current indications for its business, which may change during the current quarter. All figures are non-GAAP and include the partial quarter effect of NET in the third quarter of 2012 and the anticipated full quarter effect of NET in the fourth quarter of 2012. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP to GAAP outlook and a statement on the use of non-GAAP financial measures are included at the end of this press release.
|Fourth Quarter 2012
|Current Guidance
|Total Revenue
|$77 to $81 million
|SBC Total Revenue
|$25 to $26 million
|SBC Product Revenue
|$21 to $22 million
|NET Total Revenue (incl. in Total Revenue)
NET SBC Total Revenue (incl. in SBC Total Revenue)
|$10 million
$4 million
|Gross Margin
|Operating Expenses
|$44 to $45 million
|Diluted EPS
|$0.00 to $0.01
|Cash & Investments
|$270 million
|Diluted shares
|282 million
|Full Year 2012
|Current Guidance
|Total Revenue
|$256 to $260 million
|SBC Total Revenue
|$87 to $88 million
|SBC Product Revenue
|$68 to $69 million
|NET Total Revenue (incl. in Total Revenue)
NET SBC Total Revenue (incl. in SBC Total Revenue)
|$17 million
$6 million
|Gross Margin
|Operating Expenses
|$170 to $171 million
|Basic EPS
|$(0.06) to $(0.07)
|Cash & Investments
|$270 million
|Diluted shares
|280 million
In August 2012, the Company initiated a plan to streamline operations and reduce operating costs, including a corporate-wide restructuring plan. In the third quarter of fiscal 2012 the Company recorded restructuring expenses of $2.0 million for severance and related expenses and the consolidation of its France offices. The Company expects to record additional restructuring expenses of $6.0 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, comprised of approximately $5 million for facility-related charges and $1 million for severance and other related charges.
"Sonus proved this quarter that our SBC growth engine is continuing to grow faster than the market. We continue to compete very effectively and grow our market share," said Ray Dolan, President and Chief Executive Officer. "This continued momentum will enable us to more rapidly transition our business from legacy Media Gateway toward a profitable SBC growth company."
Conference Call Details
Date: November 7, 2012
Time: 8:30 am (ET)
Dial-in number: 800 908 8402
International Callers: +1 212 231 2936
Replay information: A telephone playback of the call will be available shortly following the conference call until November 21, 2012 and can be accessed by calling 800 633 8284 or +1 402 977 9140 for international callers. The reservation number for the replay is 21606654. A webcast replay of the conference call will also be available shortly following the conference call on the Company's Investor Relations Web site in the Events & Presentations – Archived Events section.
Accounting Period: As of the beginning of fiscal 2012, the Company began reporting its first, second and third quarters on a 4-4-5 basis, with the quarter ending on the Friday closest to the last day of each third month. The Company's fiscal year-end is December 31.
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About Sonus Networks
Sonus helps the world's leading communications service providers and enterprises embrace the next generation of SIP-based solutions including VoIP, video and Unified Communications through secure, reliable and scalable IP networks. With customers around the globe and 15 years of experience transforming networks to IP, Sonus has enabled service providers to capture and retain users and both service providers and enterprises to generate significant ROI. Sonus products include session border controllers, policy/routing servers, subscriber feature servers and media and signaling gateways. Sonus products are supported by a global services team with experience in design, deployment and maintenance of some of the world's largest and most complex IP networks. For more information, visit www.sonus.net or call 1-855-GO-SONUS.
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The information in this release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this report are forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing, the words "anticipates", "believes", "could", "estimates", "expects", "intends", "may", "plans", "seeks", "projects" and other similar language, whether in the negative or affirmative, are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.
Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the following: plans, objectives, outlook, goals, strategies, future events or performance, growth in market share, trends, investments, customer growth, operational performance and costs, liquidity and financial positions, competition, estimated expenditures and investments, impacts of laws, rules and regulations, revenues and earnings, performance and other statements that are other than statements of historical facts. Forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and assumptions regarding our business, the economy and other future conditions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. They are neither statements of historical fact nor guarantees or assurances of future performance. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including, but not limited to, the timing of our recognition of revenues; our ability to recruit and retain key personnel; difficulties supporting our new strategic focus on channel sales; difficulties retaining and expanding our customer base; difficulties leveraging market opportunities; restructuring activities; our ability to realize benefits from acquisitions (including with respect to our acquisition of Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.); litigation; actions taken by significant stockholders; difficulties providing solutions that meet the needs of customers; market acceptance of our products and services; rapid technological and market change; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; our ability to maintain partner, reseller, distribution and vendor support and supply relationships; higher risks in international operations and markets; the impact of increased competition; currency fluctuations; changes in the market price of our common stock; and/or failure or circumvention of our controls and procedures. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in these forward-looking statements are discussed in Part I, Item 2 "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations", Part I, Item 3 "Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk" and Part II, Item 1A "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law. We therefore caution you against relying on any of these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made.
Sonus is a registered trademark of Sonus Networks, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
Discussion of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Sonus management uses a number of different financial measures, both GAAP and non-GAAP, in analyzing and assessing the overall performance of the business, making operating decisions, planning and forecasting future periods, and determining payments under compensation programs. Our annual financial plan is prepared both on a GAAP and non-GAAP basis, and the non-GAAP annual financial plan is approved by our board of directors. Continuous budgeting and forecasting for revenue and expenses are conducted on a consistent non-GAAP basis (in addition to GAAP) and actual results on a non-GAAP basis are assessed against the annual financial plan. We consider the use of non-GAAP financial measures helpful in assessing the core performance of our continuing operations and liquidity, and when planning and forecasting future periods. By continuing operations we mean the ongoing results of the business excluding certain costs, including, but not limited to: stock-based compensation, amortization of intangible assets, depreciation expense related to the fair value write-up of acquired property and equipment, acquisition-related costs and restructuring. We also consider the use of non-GAAP earnings per share helpful in assessing the organic performance of the continuing operations of our business. By organic performance we mean performance as if we had owned an acquired business in the same period a year ago. While our management uses these non-GAAP financial measures as a tool to enhance their understanding of certain aspects of our financial performance, our management does not consider these measures to be a substitute for, or superior to, GAAP measures. In addition, our presentations of these measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies. These non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered alternatives for, or in isolation from, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP.
Investors are cautioned that there are material limitations associated with the use of non-GAAP financial measures as an analytical tool. In particular, many of the adjustments to Sonus' financial measures reflect the exclusion of items that are recurring and will be reflected in our financial results for the foreseeable future.
Stock-based compensation is different from other forms of compensation, as it is a non-cash expense. For example, a cash salary generally has a fixed and unvarying cash cost. In contrast, the expense associated with an equity-based award is generally unrelated to the amount of cash ultimately received by the employee, and the cost to us is based on a stock-based compensation valuation methodology and underlying assumptions that may vary over time. We believe that excluding non-cash stock-based compensation expense from our operating results facilitates the ability of readers of our financial statements to compare our operating results to our historical results and to other companies in our industry.
We exclude the amortization of acquired intangible assets from non-GAAP expense and income measures. These amounts are inconsistent in amount and frequency and are significantly impacted by the timing and size of acquisitions. Although we exclude amortization of acquired intangible assets from our non-GAAP expenses, we believe that it is important for investors to understand that intangible assets contribute to revenue generation. We believe that excluding the non-cash amortization of intangible assets facilitates the comparison of our financial results to our historical operating results and to other companies in our industry as if the acquired intangible assets had been developed internally rather than acquired, and provides meaningful information regarding our liquidity.
As part of the assessment of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in connection with the NET acquisition, we were required to increase the aggregate fair value of acquired property and equipment by $2.0 million. The acquired property and equipment is being depreciated over a weighted average useful life of approximately 2.5 years. We believe that excluding the incremental depreciation expense resulting from the fair value write-up of this acquired property and equipment facilitates the comparison of our operating results to our historical results and to other companies in our industry.
We consider certain transition, integration and other acquisition-related costs to be unpredictable and dependent on a significant number of factors that may be outside of our control. We do not consider these acquisition-related costs to be related to the organic continuing operations of the acquired business and accordingly, we believe they are generally not relevant in assessing or estimating the long-term performance of the acquired assets. In addition, the size, complexity and/or volume of an acquisition, which often drives the magnitude of acquisition-related costs, may not be indicative of such future costs. By excluding acquisition-related costs from our non-GAAP measures, management is able to evaluate our ability to utilize our existing assets and estimate the long-term value that acquired assets will generate for the Company.
We recorded $2.0 million of restructuring expense in the third quarter of fiscal 2012 and expect to record approximately $6 million of restructuring expense in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 for facilities associated with the continuing integration of NET, severance and related costs. We believe that
excluding restructuring expenses facilitates the comparison of our financial results to our historical operating results and to other companies in our industry and provides meaningful information regarding our liquidity.
We believe that providing non-GAAP information to investors, in addition to the GAAP presentation, will allow investors to view the financial results in the way management views the operating results. We further believe that providing this information helps investors to better understand our financial performance and evaluate the efficacy of the methodology and information used by our management to evaluate and measure such performance.
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A lot of my time is spent advocating for the aviation infrastructure that we count on to fly around Alaska. Airports, nav aids, weather stations, Flight Service, weather cameras, etc. are all things that we use and often take for granted. But where did they come from? If you are at all interested in that question, check out Jack Jefford's book Winging It, originally published in 1981, but more recently released in paperback.
Jack Jefford came to Alaska in the fall of 1937, to take a job flying for Hans Mirow in Nome. Like many pilots of the time he learned to fly by shear persistence. Jefford kicked around the mid-west trying any way he could to make flying into a career—including a stint as a barn-stormer—before coming north. Travel to and from Alaska at that time was by ship. Once arriving in Nome, the airplane was pressed into almost around-the-clock service transporting miners to the creeks for the short summer season. Aviation was all by visual reference, when the weather allowed. "City" airports were located at the larger communities like Fairbanks, Anchorage, Nome, Bethel. In-between, the airports literally were "fields" or gravel bars; frozen rivers, lakes and sea-ice in the winter months.
Pre-1940, radios were just starting to be installed in airplanes. Not the VHF radios we know today, but HF radios initially requiring the pilot to learn Morse Code. Even that was greatly appreciated, Jefford explains, when he crashed in the mountains east of Nome in severe winter conditions. The distress call he tapped out in code eventually brought local natives on dog teams to his rescue, ending his six day ordeal.
In the spring of 1940, Jefford made a change that corresponded with a huge growth spurt in aviation infrastructure development. He was hired by the Civil Aeronautics Authority (precursor to the FAA), as an Airways Flight Inspector just as the country was headed into World War II. This was the start of his government career which "…would span thirty two years and over twenty thousand flying hours." It put him in the cat-bird seat during the establishment of the initial airway structure that linked Alaska to Seattle, and connected the communities across the state.
The Japanese invading the Aleutian Islands certainly kicked military activity into high gear. A number of Jefford's stories involve building the airports and airways down the chain. The federal DLAND (Development of Landing Areas for National Defense) Program started in 1940, and poured $400 million into the development and improvement of military airfields across the nation. Over two dozen airports in Alaska were constructed or improved under that program, many of which would later be turned over to the Territory (and eventually the State). Jefford spent considerable time shuttling engineers and equipment between these construction projects. Airstrips constructed under the DLAND program included King Salmon, Cordova, McGrath, Galena, Northway and Moses Point, to name a few.
At the same time, radio ranges to establish IFR airways were under construction. These were low-frequency ranges that operated with dots and dashes to define the different "beams" leading to the station.
Not only did Jefford help site these facilities and transport the teams in to construct them, his job included flight checking and hauling the supplies to the technicians, specialists and families that staffed the network of facilities. Some of the most compelling stories center around rescue missions.
One memorable event took place on December 11, 1950. The CAA manager at the Illiamna station, also a relatively new private pilot, crashed his Piper Clipper near the small community of Nondalton, on the shores of Lake Clark– badly injuring himself and his passenger. The military flew a doctor to Illiamna, who was transported by dog sled to treat the injured pilot and passenger. He reported that the pilot was in critical condition, not stable enough for dog sled transport, and in need of air evacuation to Anchorage. Snow and icing, severe enough to force a military rescue helicopter to retreat, thwarted an earlier rescue attempt. Departing from Anchorage in the FAA's DC-3, Jefford encountered moderate icing as he crossed the Alaska Range but made the approach into Illiamna, which was reporting a 500 foot ceiling and less than a mile visibility. He managed to land and waited for conditions to improve. Reports from the doctor advised that the injured pilot probably wouldn't survive the night if he couldn't get advanced medical attention. After testing the snow cover on the unplowed crosswind runway at Illiamna in a truck, Jefford asked the residents of Nondalton to put out an array of gas lanterns on the lake ice in front of the village. The flight crew calculated how many minutes they could fly the north leg of the low-frequency range before arriving at Nondalton, knowing that beyond were the peaks of the Alaska Range. Jefford took off and flew the prescribed number minutes before being forced to circle back—without seeing any lights. On the second try he extended slightly, and just as he started his turn back, a crew member spotted the lanterns, allowing them to land on the unconsolidated snow. The deceleration in the unpacked snow made for a very short landing roll, requiring all of Jeffords talents to keep the Dug from nosing over. After loading the patient and doctor, it took multiple attempts before they were able to get airborne, and make the trip back across the mountains to Anchorage.
This book is not a traditional biography, but was developed from many hours of tape-recorded stories Jefford told over a five year period. It reads as though you were listening to the master story teller himself. He and the CAA/FAA employees of that era transformed Alaskan aviation, allowing the development of more reliable service. Low frequency airways gave way to VOR-based airways that are now the "legacy system" we are watching transition to space-based navigation. Even though Alaska still has a sparse network of infrastructure in comparison to the lower-48 states, it is good to look back and appreciate what aviation was like in earlier times. A big THANK YOU to Jack's daughter Carmen Jefford Fisher, who with the assistance of her husband Mark and the late Cliff Cernick, made it possible for the rest of us to enjoy Jack Jefford's stories—and have a greater appreciation for the men and women who developed aviation system we rely on today!


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Westminster College will not request or accept from any lender any assistance with call center staffing or financial aid office staffing. A lender may provide professional development training for financial aid administrators, educational counseling materials, financial literacy materials, or debt management materials to borrowers, provided that such materials disclose to borrowers the identification of any lender that assisted in preparing or providing such materials, or staffing services on a short-term, nonrecurring basis to assist Westminster college with financial aid-related functions during emergencies or disasters.
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Westminster College, a member of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA), also adheres to NASFAA's Code of Conduct for Financial Aid Professionals listed below:
An institutional financial aid professional is expected to always maintain exemplary standards of professional conduct in all aspects of carrying out his or her responsibilities, specifically including all dealings with any entities involved in any manner in student financial aid, regardless of whether such entities are involved in a government sponsored, subsidized, or regulated activity. In doing so, a financial aid professional should:
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Ensure that the information he or she provides is accurate, unbiased, and does not reflect any preference arising from actual or potential personal gain.
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Westminster College's traditional undergraduate, adult studies, and graduate programs are approved for GI education benefits and military tuition assistance by veterans, active duty personnel, or qualifying dependents. Westminster College participates in the Yellow Ribbon program.
Veterans and those currently in the military service may be eligible to receive undergraduate elective credit for Basic Training and formal education gained in the military. Eligibility will depend upon review by the College Registrar and is based upon The American Council on Education's (ACE) recommendations for military training and experience to be considered for college credit.
Westminster College awards college credit for passing scores on CLEP/DANTES exams in relevant subject areas. The College Board will provide military service members with transcripts that document CLEP exam results.
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www.gibill.va.gov is an excellent source for Veteran's information. You can easily navigate the site to find information regarding the various VA programs. Some of the programs included are the Montgomery GI Bill™-Active Duty (Chapter 30), Montgomery GI Bill™ - Selective Reserve (Chapter 1606), Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Chapter 31), the Reserve Education Assistance Program (REAP; Chapter 1607), the Veterans Education Assistance Program (VEAP; Chapter 32) and other educational benefits for Survivors' and Dependents Educational Assistance Program (DEA; Chapter 35). If you are a child of a member of the Armed Forces that died in the line of duty on or after September 11, 2001 you may be eligible for benefits under the Marine Gunnery John David Fry Scholarship Program.
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If you qualify for 100% of the Post-9/11 GI Bill™, you qualify for the Yellow Ribbon Program. The Yellow Ribbon Program allows colleges and universities to enter into an agreement with the Veterans Affairs to fund tuition and fees. Therefore the student not only receives funds from the VA but the school will match the contribution by 50% of the difference after the cap. To qualify you must serve in an aggregate period of active duty of at least 36 months after September 10, 2001 and be honorably discharged. Or if you are a dependent of an eligible Service Member they can transfer their benefits to you. To check your eligibility or complete the Transfer of Entitlement form, please visit the //www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/yellow_ribbon.asp website.
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Once you receive notification of your specific VA Program, you may find that you still need additional funding for your education. At that point you may decide to complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form. This can be done at www.fafsa.gov. By entering the Westminster College Title IV code of 003392, a copy of your completed FAFSA form will be sent to our institution. We will in turn send you an award letter listing your specific financial aid package. Some of the various types of financial aid that you may qualify for would be Federal Pell Grants, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG), State Grants, Federal Subsidized and Unsubsidized Stafford Loans.
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The Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) is awarded to aid students with exceptional financial need. A student must be registered at least half time and academic progress is required for renewal. This is a non-repayable grant.
State Grants are non-repayable awards based on financial need and full time student status. If you live in Pennsylvania you must file the FAFSA form by May 1st to be considered for this award.
Federal Subsidized and Unsubsidized Stafford Loans have fixed interest rates and are determined by the students need. Repayment begins six months after a student ceases to be enrolled at least half time. The student has ten years to repay the loan. A Subsidized Stafford Loan is awarded on the basis of financial need. You are not charged any interest while you are enrolled in school at least half time, during a grace period, or during authorized periods of deferment. An Unsubsidized Stafford Loan is not awarded on the basis of need. You have an option of paying the interest while you are in school or deferring the loan until repayment. You will be charged interest from the time the loan is disbursed until it is paid in full.
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When hackers and spooks met, sparks often fly. But given the revelations about NSA spying courtesy of Edward Snowden, the atmosphere this year is ripe for conflagration.
Jeff Moss, founder of the two largest hacker confabs on the planet, Black Hat and Defcon, has politely asked the feds to stay away this year. In a brief post to the Defcon site this week, Moss (aka TheDarkTangent) requested a "time-out" to avoid ugly confrontations between pierced and PO'd hackers and the Brylcreem and Brogans brigade.
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He wrote:
When it comes to sharing and socializing with feds, recent revelations have made many in the community uncomfortable about this relationship. Therefore, I think it would be best for everyone involved if the feds call a "time-out" and not attend DEF CON this year.
This will give everybody time to think about how we got here, and what comes next.
That inspired a lively conversation on Twitter. Some Twitter cynics see this as a pure marketing ploy:
Others noted Moss's own connections to his Big Brother -- he's a member of the Department of Homeland Security's advisory council -- and ask, what constitutes a fed, exactly? As a contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton, which received nearly $6 billion in federal funds last year, wasn't Ed Snowden also a fed?
While not exactly BFFs, the relationship between the hacker community and the society of spooks has warmed up over time. Feds have attended Defcon every year since it began in 1992, though it took them a few years (goaded by the event's popular "spot the fed" contest) to come out of the closet. The reason is simple: That's where the talent is. And our government desperately needs tech talent, for good or ill.


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Jennifer Lopez Denies Engagement Rumors
The singer shoots down rumors she's engaged to Casper Smart by quoting her hit song
Jenny from the Block won't be walking down the aisle any time soon.
"Rumors!!! Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got," Jennifer Lopez wrote on her website Friday in response to buzz boyfriend Casper Smart popped the question. "No engagement!"
After quoting her 2002 R&B hit (and posting a white-hot self-portrait without any bling on her ring finger), Lopez asked fans, "What's the best way to stop a false rumor?"
Chatter that Lopez, 42, and Smart, 25 – who've been romantically linked since last November – were taking the next step first heated up in March, when a fake Tweet from fashion designer Roberto Cavalli seemed to suggest the two were engaged. (A source close to Lopez then confirmed to PEOPLE that the reports were false.)
Since then, Lopez has been photographed stepping out with a questionable ring on her finger.
But rumors aside, it appears to be a lasting sweet romance for the couple, who shared candy (and some cozy moments) last weekend in Las Vegas.


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By Elaine Trigiani
Pasta with Asparagus, Artichokes and Fava Beans
Mix lemon juice with water in a large bowl. To prevent artichokes from browning, dip them in lemon water as you work. Reserve the prepared artichokes in the lemon water.
Rinse and prepare artichokes by cutting off the tough top part of the leaves, about 1 to 1 1/2 inches. Peel away and discard the tough outer leaves until you reach the light green tender leaves. At the bottom, trim the stem, leaving 1 to 2 inches; trim the remaining stem and the bottom of the artichoke of all rough dark green parts and bruised areas. Chop the artichoke lengthwise into 4 wedges. Remove the choke from each wedge if necessary, and slice it into small cubes.
When asparagus is just tender, drain the cubed artichokes from their water and add them to the asparagus. Cook them for just a minute or two and let all of the broth evaporate.
Boil pasta in salted water. When pasta is almost cooked through, add a couple of tablespoons of the pasta cooking water to the saute pan with the vegetables. When the pasta is cooked al dente, drain it and add it to the saute pan.
Toss the pasta with the vegetables over medium heat, adding more olive oil, pepper, and the fava beans. When the pasta has absorbed the water in the pan and some of the oil, and you notice a little sauce has formed, serve immediately.
Other notes: I use the tiny chokeless artichokes called morellini, tender enough to eat raw; and bacelli, which are fresh fava beans that are only eaten raw. The fava beans should come in their long, furry pod and be small and sweet without having to peel them. If they are large with a thick, opaque, bitter skin, then they should be peeled and dried for use in winter with other recipes, not this one. If these aren't available, use whatever sweet, tender spring vegetables you can get. Shuck some new sweet peas out of their pods. Use any artichokes you can find; just make sure you pare them down to the tender, edible bits. And use any fresh beans you like, blanching them first if necessary. Or skip the beans, and it's still good. You can even skip the artichokes if you like. Peas and pepper with good oil on homemade pasta is one of my favorite springtime pastas.
Yield: 2 servings


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- providing AIX PTFs along with a GUI Motif interface for managing them.
The IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- has AIX Level 2 Security fixes along with a host of research and files relating to other IBM products.
AIX Public Domain Software Library
- has probably the largest collection of binaries and ported source code for freeware/shareware applications for AIX on the Internet.
- a humongous Anonymous FTP site and serves as the home site for the freeware monitor performance monitoring application by Jussi Maki.
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I didn't plan my holiday very well. I didn't know what I wanted to do so I more or less decided to just "go with the flow". One consequence of this was finding out sumo tickets and the Studio Ghibli museum that I later thought to go were sold out.
We kept a look out at the ticket shops and found a pair of inflated price tickets. They were cheaper than most tickets we saw but later found out they were seats in the last row of the sumo arena.
We decided to go to Ryogoku via the water bus from Odaiba. Catching the train to Tamachi, we walked across the rainbow bridge to Odaiba. The waterbus was popular so we had to book a later time about an hour later which gave us a bit more time to look around here and less time to watch sumo :(
There happened to be a Mexican festival with music, stalls and wrestling. We had a nice syrup slurpy to cool us down from all the walking. We walked to the big Gundam for the obligatory photo and had a look around Venus Fort. Unfortunately we got separated here and almost missed the departure of our water bus!
It was my first time to take the water bus on Tokyo Bay. There are two kinds of water bus. One where it looks like some kind of spacecraft (where you cannot go outside), and the other allows you to walk around the roof. Thankfully we had the latter type which allowed me to take photos from the really unique perspective of the bay. Highly recommended. More information about the water bus can be found here.
Although arriving at the arena later than we hoped, we still managed to see plenty of wrestling matches. Even though I've seen it before I didn't get bored. It's one of those things that you only really see in Japan so always worthwhile. Even though we were in the last row, the view was still good. This time I bought my camera with battery along with my super zoom lens so pictures turned out great.
After sumo we went to Yoyogi because I wanted to have yakiniku at least once this trip. We opted for the cheapest place, Gut's Soul. You know it's cheap when the whole place is filled with high school students :P


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The Guest Who Is a Guest No Longer
Where have they gone, the literary characters eking out their miserable existence in Germany as guest workers and immigrants, asking for understanding and acceptance, struggling to maintain their identity in alien surroundings, defying their host country? Ever since the 1960s we had grown used to these fictitious fellow citizens; even if there were few who read their stories, they were just as present as their counterparts in real life. But in the past few years they have become less common in the works of writers working in German as a second language.
Can this be put down solely to the fact that immigration to Germany is in decline across the boards, while the immigrants living, working and writing here are now in their third generation, increasingly speaking German as their native language? Or has the literature of the immigrants, only just discovered in the 1980s, finally achieved "normality" – has it become an integral part of German-language literature without the stigma of eccentricity and marginality?
Blazing new paths
In 1995 the "Kanak Movement", instigated mainly by Feridun Zaimoğlu, gave a completely new direction to the history of immigrant literature in Germany. Far removed from the "guest worker literature" of the 1960s, lacking the overly political impetus of the "literature of concernedness" (Franco Biondi / Rafik Schami) or the desire for a literature that mediates between the cultures (Yüksel Pazarkaya), many works by authors from immigrant backgrounds are blazing new paths.
Identity issues are detached from the quest for individuality; the fictional scenes are no longer animated by the semantics of Self and Other. The "clash of cultures" has ceased to be the central issue – relieving the literary characters (and, evidently, the real-life writers themselves) from the pressure to integrate or assimilate.
In the year 2000 two anthologies marked a major "turn" away from an "immigrant" or "foreigner" literature: Döner in Walhalla: Texte aus einer anderen deutschen Literatur, i.e. Kebab in Valhalla. Texts from a different German Literature (ed. by Ilija Trojanow) and MorgenLand: Neueste deutsche Literatur, i.e. Morning-Land. Contemporary German Literature (ed. by Jamal Tuschick). Both books give prominent mention to these changes. Ilija Trojanow introduces his anthology with the question: "What traces are left by the guest who is a guest no longer?" and MorgenLand asserts – clearly and radically – "If they're too foreign, you're too German."
Wog speak from the margins of society
We are looking neither at the search for ways to integrate into German society nor at the defiant gesture of self-assertion, as in Zaimoğlu's fictitious documentation Kanak Sprak: 24 Mißtöne vom Rande der Gesellschaft (Wog Speak: 24 Discords from the Margins of Society, 1995), or Koppstoff: Kanak Sprak vom Rande der Gesellschaft (Koppstoff: Wog Speak from the Margins of Society, 1998) – here the very subheadings testify to "immigrant literature's" self-proclaimed independence and marginality. The works in the two anthologies are as far removed from this stance as are other examples of "contemporary German literature".
Yet another tendency emerges in these anthologies, one for which the foundations were laid in the 1990s: the authors' increasingly diverse biographical backgrounds. National origins hardly play any role now; straightforward reasons for immigration such as the search for work or politically motivated flight have become almost impossible to identify.
Moreover, many of these young writers belong to the so-called second and third generations; many were born in Germany, and as a rule most write in German. How can they be expected to develop the common point of view or shared aims that have been repeatedly been called for over the past 30 years?
Focus on everyday life
As a result, by this point it seems inadmissible to speak of an "immigrant literature" in Germany; it has also ceased to be a "literature of the Other" or a literature of cultural mediation. It no longer requires an ideology, political or moral pretensions, historical continuity or national identity; it no longer needs to pass judgment on actions or mourn the failure of communication, it can focus on everyday life and create group identities – thus emancipating itself from the traditions of immigrant literature and becoming "normal".
Of course, many books still focus on the topic of immigration, such as Vladimir Vertlib's Zwischenstationen (Intermediate Stops) (1999) and Das besondere Gedächtnis der Rosa Masur (The Remarkable Memory of Rosa Masur) (2001) or Ilija Trojanow's Die Welt ist groß (The World Is Big) und Rettung lauert überall (Salvation Lurks Everywhere) (1996).
As early as 1998 Heidi Rösch coined the term "systemic migration" for works like these that draw from a specific immigrant background, namely the transition from former "East Bloc" countries to capitalism.
These examples are not representative, however, as is readily apparent from the novels and short stories of Wladimir Kaminer, Zsusza Bánk, Terézia Mora, Radek Knapp and Dimitré Dinev.
The Berlin which Wladimir Kaminer constructed in his debut Russendisko (Russian Disco) from the year 2000 is distinguished by his boundless curiosity and the novelty of his own daily life, a city in which old and new coexist and merge; there is no "dominant drive" (certainly not a German one!) that might determine modes of thought and behaviour; rather, characters must resort to their own imaginative resources.
In Zsuzsa Bánk's novel The Swimmer (2002, English translation 2005), the three protagonists – father, daughter and son – are sent on a journey across Hungary by the mother's defection to the west, but the focus is on the search for an individual language capable of doing justice to the situation the characters experience and endure, the two children's search for identity on a journey without orientation.
Spatial ties no longer play any role, while the concept of a "homeland" is completely up in the air – all that drives the characters is their search for identity.
Lack of contour and meaning
Terézia Mora's novel All the Days from 2004 goes one step further. In the very first scene the protagonist, Abel Nema, is shown hanging head-down from a tree, looking at the world upside-down – which could be interpreted as a traditional metaphor in the context of a literature that mediates between cultures and seeks differences. But this character is doomed to failure not because he is unable to return to his homeland, as soon becomes clear, but because he is unable to express himself to others, despite the fact that he speaks ten different languages.
Abel Nema serves as a surface on which the wishes and desires of all the other characters are projected, but he himself has a lack of contour and meaning which precisely reflects the semantic emptiness of the novel's topography. Categories such as "homeland" or "foreign country" have ceased to exist – at most there is the impossibility of truly arriving in a country, a space, a system, a society. Thus the option of integrating in to a society, or disassociating oneself from it, is no longer available.
This development is also reflected strikingly by the annual presentation of the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize. This prize, awarded since 1985 by the Robert Bosch Foundation for "major contributions to German literature by authors whose native language is not German", is a reliable indicator of developments in what can no longer be called "immigrant literature" – from Aras Ören and Rafik Schami in 1985 to the 2005 laureates, Feridun Zaimoğlu and Dimitré Dinev.
The shifting profile of the prize-winners goes along with a turn to different subject matter. The focus is no longer on depicting the Self amidst Otherness, but on the exploration of new literary techniques, as demonstrated by the examples of Aglaja Veteranyi, Marica Bodrožiċ and Zsuzsa Bánk, or on a reverse ethnographic analysis of everyday German life, as seen most prominently in the awarding of the prize to Asfa-Wossen Asserate (Manieren, i.e. Manners, 2003).
The Chamisso Prize introduces an interested readership to an exciting new body of literature which, far from being the observations of a guest, is beginning to feel at home in German letters.
Andreas Schumann
© Litrix.de 2006
This article was published on Litrix.de - German literature online.
Andreas Schumann is professor of modern German literature at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
Book Review Feridun Zaimoglu
Turkish-German Writer Makes Language Come Alive
As previously in Great Britain, young writers from migrant families in Germany are now also making their mark, as for instance Turkish-German Feridun Zaimoglu – one of the hottest young writers on the scene today. Anne-Bitt Gerecke read his latest novel
Cultural Globalization
Cultures on the Move
Migration has changed the cultural landscape of the Federal Republic permanently. The German-Turkish youth culture in Berlin is just one of many examples. Regina Römhild reports
Turkish Literature in Germany
The Failings of Turkish Intellectuals and Writers
With a few exceptions, Turkish literature is virtually unknown in Germany. Uli Rothfuss and Achim Martin Wensien ask whether this is due to the function of literature in Turkey or to the subject matter


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OMG, WANT: Colony Grill Pizza, Stamford, Connecticut
Lately I've been putting links to non-Slice pizza reviews in the new(ish) Leftovers link roundups, but something about this photo of a Colony Grill pepperoni pie on Writing With My Mouth Full calls out for its own post to highlight it.
Blogger cia_b spends much of her review dissing pizza in general—to the point that you fear the awesomeness of this photo will outstrip what she has to say about Colony. But at the last minute, she comes around and confirms what seems evident here: that the pizza here rocks.
I have not yet traveled to Stamford for Colony, but this photo makes me want to jump on the train north or take out a Zipcar NOW. Colony is famous for its "hot oil" topping—hot as in "spicy"—which is drizzled all over a pie when you opt for it as a "topping."
You can see the areas where the oil bubbled up and transmogrified the cheese into a pockmarked (and I'm guessing) almost crunchy landscape.
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If I ever got one, it would be on the wall. Are you mounting it?
Well at the end of the day we didn't see a whole lot but I sure did enjoy my time with her in the woods. Take time to take the little ones in the woods both will enjoy it.


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Culinary Uses • Sugar dissolves in water to form syrup, which can be flavoured with fruit pulp or artificial essences. • Candy is usually made of sugar.• A morning cup of tea or coffee is incomplete without sugar. • Apart from taste, sugar also helps retain the colour in ketchup. • It is added while baking foods, to promote yeast growth and to give a golden colour to the crusts.• In soft drinks, it adds mass. • Raw potatoes in restaurant's are dipped in sugar water before frying to give them their crispness. • Add a pinch of sugar to corn, carrots and peas to improve taste. • Reduce the acidic bite of tomato-based barbecue, spaghetti and chilli sauces with a touch of sugar. • Even savoury sauces, soups and gravies can benefit from a little white or brown sugar.• Sugar crystals, creamed with shortening in baked goods, create thousands of tiny air pockets that produce a delicate and satisfying crumb structure and expanded volume.• In shortening-based cakes, sugar delays and controls the temperature at which the batter goes from fluid to solid, allowing the leavening agent (e.g., baking powder) to produce the maximum amount of carbon dioxide. The gas is held inside the air cells of the structure, resulting in a fine, uniformly-grained cake with a soft, smooth crumb texture.• In foam-type cakes, such as angel and sponge, sugar acts as a whipping aid, helping produce light foam that serves as the basic structure of the cake.• Heating sugar causes it to decompose or caramelize, changing the colour from white to yellow and then brown. The flavour and aroma also become especially enchanting! • Sugar is a natural preservative, because it ties up moisture in foods preventing undesired microorganisms from getting a foothold. That is why foods high in sugar such as candies, syrups, icings, jams, jellies and sauces are more immune to spoilage from yeasts and moulds. • Sugar can help prevent lumping and clumping. Instead of individually adding dry ingredients like spices, starch and baking powder to a batter or liquid, first mix them with sugar. • Sugar has some desirable effects on microwave cooking as well. Apart from minimising uneven heating, sugar's unique dielectric properties enable it to produce desired surface browning and crisping. • Sugar is extremely soluble: just a pint of hot water can dissolve five pounds to produce a supersaturated solution. This unique property enables confectioners to almost magically create wonderful syrups, creamy fondants and fudge.How to Store• If stored in an airtight container in a cool, dry place away from sunlight, sugar will last for a very long time.• Technically, it has infinite shelf life, but is better to use within a year as it might clump up and become soggy after that due to prolonged exposure to humidity and moisture. Health BenefitsThe damage sugar does is slow and insidious. 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The release of Falconer's IPA, a beer brewed in tribute to the late Oregon brewing legend Glen Hay Falconer, represents the third time this beer has been available as part of the Rotator IPA Series. Falconer's IPA is an aggressively hopped Northwest IPA that features Falconer's namesake hop blend from HopUnion: Falconer's Flight. Widmer Brothers has brewed the beer annually since 2011 and it has become a favorite in the series, but this release will be the last as the Falconer's Flight hop is being retired after this year. A portion of the proceeds of Falconer's IPA benefits the Glen Hay Falconer Foundation, which provides educational opportunities and scholarships for aspiring and professional brewers.
Old Embalmer Barleywine has been a brewery favorite since it was first brewed in 1999. This year's version of the beer features a yet-to-be-named experimental hop variety known as X-431. In conjunction with the annual barleywine release, Widmer Brothers has released Barrel-Aged Old Embalmer '13, a version aged in pinot noir barrels from Patricia Green Cellars in Oregon's Willamette Valley, a pinot mecca. Aging this barleywine in pinot noir barrels brings the beer to a new level, amplifying the tropical fruit and vanilla notes and giving it a tannic, vinous quality with hints of oak. The two 2013 Old Embalmers are perfect for cellaring and make for a unique side-by-side tasting opportunity.
Downward Spiral is an imperial version of Widmer Brothers Hopside Down IPL aged on new oak spiral, and is the fourth new limited release from the brewery this fall. This aggressively hopped beer was brewed with Cascade hops, both during the boil and again via dry hopping, giving this beer a big, citrusy nose. Aging the beer on new oak spirals lends some oak and vanilla notes to both the flavor and the aroma. Cold fermenting with Widmer Brothers' lager yeast gives Downward Spiral great balance with the clean, crisp finish of a lager.
Each of the four new releases is available for a limited time, in limited quantities. To find out where they are available near you, please visit the Widmer Brothers online beer finder.
Please visit www.widmerbrothers.com for more information, or follow Widmer Brothers Brewing on Facebook. For more information about the Glen Hay Falconer Foundation, visit www.glenfalconerfoundation.org.
About Falconer's IPA :
Glen Falconer was passionate about friends, family, and great IPAs. So in tribute, we've created an IPA worthy of this master brewer. The result is a bright, moderately bitter IPA with stone fruit aromas and a strong malt backbone. We think Glen would approve.
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Downward Spiral is an imperial version of our Hopside Down India-style Pale Lager that was aged on new oak spirals. This bold wood-aged beer is an aggressively hopped, cold-fermented brew that brings together the clean, crisp finish of a lager with the hop character of an IPA, balanced by distinct oak flavors and aromas. Wood is good. Prost!
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Old Embalmer Barleywine Ale has been a favorite since it was first brewed in 1999, and true to its name, is a great beer for the cellar. Brewed with copious amounts of malts, this year's version features X-431 hops, a limited variety that lends tropical, dark red fruit and citrus qualities for brilliant balance and a velvety finish.
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- Original Gravity: 21.5 P
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For this version of our favorite barleywine, we've aged the beer in pinot noir barrels from Patricia Green Cellars, located in Oregon's Willamette Valley, which is regarded worldwide as delivering the highest quality pinot noir. Patricia Green crafts beautiful pinot using grapes from the best vineyards in the valley. The always-present sweet caramel, vanilla, and toffee notes of Old Embalmer are accented by tannic and vinous characters gained from the wine barrels, as well as the dry finish, all accented by an assertive does of X-431 hops.
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Season boneless chicken breast with garlic, salt, pepper, and parmesan cheese. Then bake in an oven until the chicken is done.
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'Doomsday Clock' Moves Closer to Midnight; Guess Why?
The "Doomsday Clock" has been with us since 1947. It is a symbolic construct of the now left-leaning Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group which "was established in 1945 by scientists, engineers, and other experts who had created the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project. They knew about the horrible effects of these new weapons and devoted themselves to warning the public about the consequences of using them."
Most people who know of it probably think that the clock's intent is to symbolize how close the world is to the disaster of nuclear war; that was indeed its sole focus for decades. However, the group just moved the clock from six minutes before midnight to five. Wait until you see why, as sympathetically reported on Tuesday by Doyle Rice at USA Today's Science Fair blog:
Doomsday clock moved closer to midnight
Citing ongoing threats from nuclear proliferation, climate change, and the need to find sustainable and safe sources of energy, scientists moved the "Doomsday Clock" one minute closer to midnight on Tuesday.
The clock was moved from six to five minutes to midnight.
The clock is symbolic and has been maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1947. The closer to a setting of midnight it gets, the closer it is estimated that a global disaster will occur.
The group's press release seems to put "climate change" on an equal footing with nukes (bolds are mine; the original release bolded the entire passage):
Faced with clear and present dangers of nuclear proliferation and climate change, and the need to find sustainable and safe sources of energy, world lead(er)s are failing to change business as usual. Inaction on key issues including climate change, and rising international tensions motivate the movement of the clock. As we see it, the major challenge at the heart of humanity's survival in the 21st century is how to meet energy needs for economic growth in developing and industrial countries without further damaging the climate, exposing people to loss of health and community, and without risking further spread of nuclear weapons, and in fact setting the stage for global reductions."
Apparently these alleged scientists are unconcerned about the data-cooking, politicization, collusion, disclosure-dodging, fundamental intellectual dishonesty, and (what should be the most important problem from their perspective) lack of scientific rigor undergirding "climate science," as revealed in the original Climategate emails of 2009 and the Climategate 2.0 emails two years later.
As happens all too often, what once may arguably have a legitimate enterprise was corrupted decades ago. A look at the graph of the clock's movements during the past 60-plus years indicates that the clock got closest to midnight during the administrations of Eisenhower and Reagan and moved further away during the 1960s and 1990s in administrations mostly controlled by Democrats.
In 2007, the group, apparently in search of further relevance, threw its credibility entirely out the window by adding "climate change" as a potentially dire threat to humanity's continuation. Now they're just another bunch of leftist hacks with pretend legitimacy. It ought to rename itself the Bulletin of Co-opted Scientists. USA Today, the Associated Press and others dutifully carry their water.
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