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General Cable (BGC)
Q3 2010 Earnings Conference Call
November 4, 2010 08:30 am ET
Len Texter – Manager, IR
Greg Kenny – President and CEO
Brian Robinson – EVP, CFO and Treasurer
Shawn Harrison – Longbow Research
Stuart Bush – RBC Capital Markets
Jack Stimac – BB&T Capital Markets
Jeff Beach – Stifel Nicholaus
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Len Texter
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to General Cable's third quarter 2010 earnings conference call. I'm Len Texter, Manager, Investor Relations at General Cable. Joining me this morning are Greg Kenny, our President and Chief Executive Officer; Brian Robinson, our Chief Financial Officer; and Greg Lampert, our President and Chief Executive Officer of General Cable North America.
Many of you have seen a copy of our press release from last night. For those of you who have not, it is available on First Call and our website at generalcable.com. I want to call your attention to our Safe Harbor provisions for forward-looking statements that can be found at the end of our press release. The Safe Harbor provision identifies risk factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from the content of our forward-looking statements. Our current form 10-K reports and other periodic filings on file with the SEC provide further detail about the risk factors related to our business.
During this call, we may refer to adjusted operating income and adjusted EBITDA, which is defined as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, plant rationalizations and other items. These non-GAAP company-defined measures are being provided because management believes these are useful in analyzing the operating performance and cash flow before the impact of various charges. A reconciliation of adjusted operating income and EBITDA to GAAP net income is available on the Investor Relations section of our website at generalcable.com.
The format for today's call will first be some discussion by Greg Kenny about the current business environment. Secondly, Brian Robinson will provide some financial details about the third quarter. And finally, Greg will provide some comments on the company's fourth quarter 2010 outlook and business trends, followed by a question-and-answer period.
We would like to remind everyone that effective January 1, 2010, the company changed its method of valuing all of its inventories that historically used the last-in/first-out method to the average cost method. The company applied this change in accounting principle, retrospectively, to all prior comparative periods discussed here today.
With that, I will now turn the call over to Greg Kenny.
Greg Kenny
Thank you, Len, and good morning. I'm very pleased to report a solid third quarter as demand patterns were better than expected across many parts of our business particularly in the rest of the world and North America segments where sequentially volume was up 16.8% and 8.5% respectively.
I have also encouraged by our expectations for the fourth quarter of 2010 were volumes anticipate to be up sequentially 5% to 8%. This sequentially improving volume would more than offset our normal seasonal demand patterns and that the fourth quarter volumes are typically below those on the third quarter. This fourth quarter result would also represent the first time in nearly two years that we will have reported volume improvement year-over-year in back to back quarters.
For the third quarter 2010, our reported revenues of $1.2 billion and adjusted earnings per share of $0.54 both of which were at the upper end of our expectations. These results include the impact of our planned seasonal reduction and inventory and a traditional summer holiday period in Europe partially offset by the benefit of foreign currency transaction gains in Venezuela, the benefit of cost reduction networks taken in Spain in the first half of the year as well as (accumulated) fact in benefit or our (inaudible) using (inaudible) manufacturing tools.
While demand patterns are encouraging, the frightened environment remains challenging as low levels of overall demand, well-capacity utilization rates in volatile and rising commodity prices persist. Despite the uncertainties surrounding the (inaudible) sustainability of the economic recovery in many developed countries, we are cautiously optimistic, the bottom is occurring in certain of our businesses as marketing conditions in North America improve the benefits of cost reduction efforts in Europe are realized and infrastructure spending in many emerging markets threatens. Also, while our capacity utilization rates remain at low levels, they have improved from the first half of this year and are currently in the range of 65% to 70% on average.
Brian will take you to the details of the financials in a bit. I thought I would spend some time talking about how I currently see our global business environment. Many of the positive trends we identified in the first half have continued into the third quarter particularly as it relates to the stabilization of demand for certain products in South America, Southeast Asia and the United States. We encourage while the ongoing investment and commitment to infrastructure development throughout our raw segment.
In Brazil, economic growth in the ongoing investment in the country's infrastructure in which there have been billions of dollars of investments approved in additional power distribution and power generation projects continue to the strong phase. Also during the third quarter, all the necessary environmental permits were obtained where major Brazilian transmission project totaling more than 150 million which we are expected to begin shipping in the fourth quarter of this year as well as in 2011 and 2012.
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A North Carolina lawmaker introduced a bill Tuesday that would legalize medical marijuana use for qualified patients.
State rep. Kelly Alexander says that while this is the third or fourth time such legislation has been proposed, this may be the first year it truly has a chance of passing. "I think the climate in the state and the climate in the country has significantly changed," he said.
Alexander, a funeral director, says he was motivated to push this bill by meeting the families of people who could have benefitted from medical cannabis. "I've heard stories that have convinced me that this is something that has an overwhelming humanitarian dimension. Plus, there's a lot of evidence that it works. The only reason that it is not available is politics. Not science, not medicine."
If passed, House Bill 84 would allow medical marijuana patients to possess up to 24 ounces and grow for themselves so long as their garden doesn't exceed "250 feet of total garden canopy". Patients would also be able to designate someone else as a caregiver. The program would be open to patients suffering from a wide range of conditions including: cancer, glaucoma, AIDS/HIV, Alzheimer's disease, celiac disease, Crohn's, spinal injuries, and sleep apnea among others. Language in the bill also leaves other conditions open for consideration, so long as the patient has a doctor's recommendation. Alexander's bill would also create licensed, state-regulated medical marijuana centers.
The language not only would protect medical marijuana patients from arrest and prosecution, but it would also prevent them from being denied any rights and privileges at the state level, including occupational licensing. That's a big step that states like Colorado don't have and protects medical marijuana patients who are nurses, teachers and other state-licensed employees. The bill would also protect parents from any charges of neglect or endangerment for simply using state-legal medical cannabis.
North Carolina Rep. Kelly Alexander.
Driving under the influence of cannabis would remain illegal, but the bill's language also says that qualified patients "shall not be considered impaired solely due to the presence of cannabis metabolites" in their system. Also huge in the bill is the charge that the University of North Carolina would conduct "objective scientific research" on the efficacy and safety of medical cannabis use. The study findings would be used in the future to create guidelines for treatment as well as for quality and purity.
The key to the bill passing, Alexander says, is getting bi-partisan support from his colleagues - something he says is more likely than ever. We are beginning to get some new members in the legislature and with some of these folks, they have a more open mind and are willing to look at the evidence before they come to a conclusion."rep
Alexander says that in addition to his efforts, the North Carolina Cannabis Patients Network has gotten the message out to their supporters. Alexander says that by next week, there are some 600 NCCPN members signed up to speak with their various representatives about the issue.
"If indeed we can get this done, it contributes to the momentum to change our overall drug policies," Alexander said. "It is something the time has just come."


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The city of Champaign is working with JSM Development to bring a new building complex to campustown.
The new Campus Center will be built on Lot J, the space near the intersection of Sixth and Green streets. The center will include a hotel, multi-family residential units and retail space.
Pending the finalization of plans by the Champaign City Council, JSM will begin construction of the Campus Center. The center will be composed of two mixed-use buildings connected by a glass bridge and also include a five-story parking garage. Four stories of hotel rooms will extend outward over the building that currently houses Penn Station, 605 S. Sixth St. and Flat Top Grill, 607 S. Sixth St.
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Trying to call a program with no parms that produces HTML output.
Received the following error at compile.
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What am I missing to call a program in ILE.
Does programs have to be bound before compile and if so how?
Code:C callb 'REVTOTAY'
Did you use option 15 or 14 to compile? You should be using option 15.
I used crtbndrpg.
Yeah, that won't work. crtbndrpg is option 14. You first need to use option 15 (CRTRPGMOD) and after the module is created use CRTPGM.
I am writing a CHI program that produces HTML. Can I use crtmod instead og crtbndrpg?
Not sure what you mean by a CHI program. If the program you are talking about is written in RPG then I would assume you need to use CRTRPGMOD.
I'm not talking about compiling the REVTOTAY program... even though you do need to compile that.
I'm talking about the program that contains the CALLB. You need to compile that module using CRTRPGMOD. Then you need to use CRTPGM to "bind" the calling module to REVTOTAY.
For example. I have ModuleA which has a CallB to ModuleB in it.
First I need to compile each module individually using the appropriate compiler. In this case, CRTRPGMOD.
CRTRPGMOD ModuleA
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Now you have two modules called ModuleA & ModuleB.
The next step is to bind those two modules together to create a program.
Sorry meant CGI not CHI.
Let me ask you this question.
Would I be better off using callp and define RPGILE program REVTODAY on D specs.
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To be honest, I have never been a big fan of the callp. I know they are suppose to be very nice and everything but it always seemed like more work than necessary IMO. CallB will give you very nice performance with less work.
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What sets growing businesses apart from those that are stagnating istheir attitude to IT, how much they spend on it and the way they use it,according to a report by Microsoft and Durham Business School.
The study of 400 businesses employing between one and 110 people found thatcompared with non-growth businesses, the enterprises with positive growth weremore likely to tap into a diverse range of sources of IT advice and have agreater appreciation of the benefits of IT.
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Music Review: Breaking Laces - Come Get Some
Published 11:37 am, Friday, April 26, 2013
Hooky melodies and lyrics keep things rocking when things get real, as in "Before You Drown": "Before you drown/You've got to leave your token on the ground/'Cause what's been done is coming back around." Indeed it is. The Beatle-esque "Extra Time" leads into the sad-eyed "Weighted Down" whose jangly sounds keep it above water for the humorous "Mr. Curry is a Cop," one of several songs that evoke high school days. (It even ends with a doo-wop melodic dip.) A youth on his "Post-Graduation March" waxes philosophical: "It is plain [that] things that might make you insane/Will always have room in your brain."
The energy flags now and then on a couple of tunes, but this is one of those albums that generally maintain uptempo energy even as most of it rests in the midtempo range (and even slower). It's precision-crafted power-pop that winks at you. The sort-of-rap number "I Used to Be a Boy Scout" makes the band's ironic side explicit. And it's that attitude that earns them their serious moments. I liked Breaking Laces when I first heard them back in '06; my colleague Fitz liked their 2011 album When You Find Out and interviewed lead singer Billy Hartong; and I like them even more now.
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