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WordPress is a pretty simple platform. There isn't a lot of danger or ptifalls associated with it. I don't want to scare anyone but there is one issue that can be quite dire. WordPress may infect you and your site with a disease…Plugin Fever. This plugin fever will start before you know it and will have you mindlessly activating plugin after plugin until the inevitable happens…plugin fever! Symptoms include;
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In some rare cases – outright fatal errors.
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One concern is that, by inviting hackers to trawl all over a new application prior to its launch, you grant them more time to interrogate it and identify weaknesses that they may decide are more valuable if kept to themselves. Once the first big announcement is made detailing who has purchased the application, and where and when the product is to go live, the hacker can use this insight to breach the system and steal the corporate jewels.
A further worry is that, while on the surface it may seem that these companies are being open and honest, if a serious security flaw were identified would they raise the alarm and warn people? It's my belief that they'd fix it quietly, release a patch and hope no one hears about it. The hacker would happily claim the reward, promise a vow of silence and then "sell" the details on the black market leaving any user, while the patch is being developed or if they fail to install the update, with a great big security void in their defenses just waiting to be exploited.
Sometimes it's not even a flaw in the software that can cause problems. If an attack is launched against the application, causing it to fail and reboot, then this denial of service (DOS) attack can be just as costly to your organization as if the application were breached and data stolen.
A final word of warning is that, even if the application isn't hacked today, it doesn't mean that tomorrow they're not going to be able to breach it. Windows Vista is one such example. Microsoft originally hailed it as the most secure operating system it had ever made and we all know what happened next.
A Proactive Approach to Security
IT's never infallible and, for this reason, penetration testing is often heralded as the hero of the hour. That said, technology has moved on and, while still valid in certain circumstances, historical penetration testing techniques are often limited in their effectiveness. Let me explain: A traditional test is executed from outside the network perimeter with the tester seeking applications to attack. However, as these assaults are all from a single IP address, intelligent security software will recognize this behavior as the IP doesn't change. Within the first two or three attempts the source address is blacklisted or firewalled and all subsequent traffic is immaterial as all activities are seen and treated as malicious.
An Intelligent Proactive Approach to Security
There isn't one single piece of advice that is the answer to all of your prayers. Instead, you need two and both need to be conducted simultaneously if your network is to perform in perfect harmony. The two pieces of advice are to combine application testing with intrusion detection.
Intrusion detection, capable of spotting zero-day exploits, must be deployed to audit and test the recognition and response capabilities of your corporate security defenses. It will substantiate that not only is the network security deployed and configured correctly, but that it's capable of protecting the application that you're about to make live or have already launched irrespective of what the service it supports is-be it e-mail, a Web service, anything. The device looks for characteristics in behavior to determine if an incoming request to the product or service is likely to be good and valid, or if it's indicative of malicious behavior. This provides not only reassurance, but all-important proof, that the network security is capable of identifying and mitigating the latest threats and security evasion techniques.
My best advice would be that, instead of relying on others to keep you informed of vulnerabilities in your applications, you must regularly inspect your defenses to make sure they're standing strong. If you don't, the bounty may as well be on your head.
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Pull your hair out in frustration over the court rulings (here and here) ending Paul Vallas' controversial tenure as superintendent of Bridgeport's public schools.
Call it a miscarriage of justice. Accuse state Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis, who presided over the case in which Vallas' critics challenged his qualifications under state law, of overreaching.
Heck, say she obtained her law degree from the inside of a Cracker Jack box if you want.
Don't do what Mayor Bill Finch did and imply that perhaps if the judge had children in city schools she might have ruled differently.
Here's what Finch – one of Vallas' biggest boosters – had to say in a prepared statement yesterday after Bellis, having decided last week Vallas was not qualified for the Bridgeport job, ruled he should immediately vacate his office: "What could this judge, whose children do not attend Bridgeport schools, be possibly thinking?"
The problem with such a statement is that Kenneth Moales, a close ally of Finch's who in April became chairman of the city's school board, sends his own kids to a private school.
"I have the financial means to give my children the best. Why would I not give my children the best? … The best for my sons is at Fairfield Country Day," said Moales said in an April interview.
Moales and his backers will argue his wife teaches in a Bridgeport school and, as minister of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, he has the families of 400 children who do receive a public education to think about.
But the fact remains his own kids don't.
And really, did the mayor need to open up that can of worms with Bellis?
As a colleague of mine here at the Connecticut Post noted, why not claim judges who don't know any murder victims are not qualified to preside over homicide trials?
And if Bellis did have kids in city schools, might that perhaps have been a conflict-of-interest? Would she have had to recuse herself from the Vallas affair?


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DU's Dreams Of Dancing DashedGeorge Fant scored 19 points and Kahlil McDonald 14 to lead Western Kentucky to a 67-63 victory against Denver in a Sun Belt tournament semifinal on Monday night.
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Canadian Cancer Society
The Moose Jaw branch for the Canadian Cancer Society is back in business and open to the public.
The office was closed for several weeks as there was a need to find an administrator, Meagan Rocheleau, to handle the day-to-day operations for the office of the community-based office for the national organization.
"We're fully staffed now and busily recruiting volunteers," Canadian Cancer Society executive director Keith Karasin told the Times-Herald. "We have the daffodil campaign coming up and the Relay for Life."
The daffodil campaign includes fresh flower sales, sales of a new daffodil pin and daffodil day on top of traditional residential canvassing.
Karasin said they are busy taking fresh flower presale orders from businesses for the daffodil campaign, set to take place in March.
The campaign is an annual event always set for March, but the organization needs volunteers in the months leading up to prepare. "We will also have daffodil pins on sale at stores, and then we go into the Relay for Life Campaign starting in May and June," Karasin said.
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By **Tyson Slocum**
By arrangement with Alternet.Org.
[This Wednesday marked 365 days] since the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 workers and triggered the worst environmental disaster our country has ever seen. For 87 of those days, we watched helplessly as the government, BP, and countless contractors failed to stop the oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.
The most disheartening aspect of the whole thing? It could happen again tomorrow.
Sure, President Barack Obama reshuffled the Department of Interior's offshore drilling regulators and issued a deepwater drilling moratorium while making small improvements to safety and environmental reviews in response to the disaster. But that's like rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.
Multiple investigations concluded that lax regulations encouraged BP and its contractors to prioritize expediency and cost-cutting at the expense of worker safety and environmental protection. And recently, we learned that blowout preventers—he one piece of equipment that was supposed to be a fail-safe way to prevent an endless gusher—can fail if the force of oil is too strong.
America needs an energy policy that holds polluters accountable, provides working families with affordable energy, and protects our air and water resources.
Congress still hasn't passed a package of basic drilling-related measures that would substantially improve worker and environmental safety. And the oil industry still hasn't come up with any fail-safe device that works well in deep water.
What will it take?
If the 4 million barrels of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico didn't prompt them to act, would 10 million?
If the 87 days of around-the-clock experts failing to plug the oil didn't trigger change, would 150 days?
If 11 workers killed on the oil rig didn't spark them to enact reforms, would the deaths of a whole fleet of workers?
Must we wait for "BP: The Sequel" to see real change?
Taxpayers are still on the hook for cleanup costs if we have another huge spill because Congress hasn't changed the law that caps oil companies' liabilities at $75 million. That's appalling.
Until regulators are given the authority and resources they need to ensure the safety of deepwater drilling and oil companies invest their record profits into technology that will truly stop an oil spill, it simply isn't prudent to move forward on deepwater drilling.
America needs an energy policy that holds polluters accountable, provides working families with affordable energy, and protects our air and water resources. Deepwater oil drilling fails these tests. We can either continue to appease dirty energy companies or we can invest in rooftop solar, energy efficiency, mass transit, and the electrification of the transportation sector to ensure a safer, cleaner, and more affordable energy future.
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Tyson Slocum is Public Citizen's energy program director. Public Citizen led efforts to boycott BP, organized BP protests on the Hill and at BP's D.C. headquarters, criticized Obama's structuring of the BP escrow fund, pushed to give the oil spill commission subpoena power and relentlessly pushed for Congress to pass legislation based off the commission's recommendations, among other initiatives.
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HENDERSONVILLE — Lawrence George Mallett, 84, left this earth quietly on Jan. 29, 2011, following a valiant battle with cancer.
He is survived by his wife of 62 and a half year; Rosemary (Richardson) whom he met when in military service during World War II; daughter, Carol (Ed) Spurlock, of Texas; son, Leslie (Sherry), of Florida, daughter, Linda (Clinton) Wells, of Michigan, son, Timothy (Tammy), of Kentucky, 13 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; sister, Patricia (David) Drake, of England and seven nieces and nephews.
Lawrie was an avid organist and member of several theatre organ societies. He was instrumental in the restoration of several pipe organs over the years including having a fully functioning one in his homes when in Michigan. He was a design engineer having designed the directional device for the moon rover and the camera system for the lunar module, to name just a couple of his claims to fame.
Lawrie is remembered for his intelligence, talent, charm and dry sense of humor. He and Rosemary immigrated to the United States in 1960 from England and called various areas of the United States home over the years including New Jersey, Michigan, California, and Alabama before retiring to North Carolina in 1998. Lawrie enjoyed building radio controlled scale model ships of which he left a legacy of 12.
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Published On: Jan 16 2013 11:51:00 AM CST
An explosion and fire that destroyed a historic church in Dunn County has been traced to a gas tank.
Fire investigators say there's nothing suspicious or criminal about the LP gas explosion that left the 99-year-old church near Colfax a charred pile of rubble.
A passer-by called the Dunn County Sheriff's Department Saturday about 9 p.m. to report the fire at St. John's Lutheran Church.
The Chippewa Herald says the 60-member congregation is worshipping at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in nearby Ridgeland.
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LAKE CITY---Sheriff deputies are on the lookout for a man they say shot a security guard and a woman and then fled.
Deputies say 29-year-old Robert Dell Church was arguing with two females inside The Elks Lodge on Washington Street in Lake City, when the security guard attempted to break them up.
Deputies say Church and the guard got into a fight and that's when Church went to a vehicle and got a gun.
He then shot the guard and fled.
The bullet passed through the guard and hit a woman.
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Tiffany & Co. (NYSE:TIF)
F2Q09 Earnings Call
August 28, 2009 8:30 am ET
Mark L. Aaron – Vice President of Investor Relations
James N. Fernandez – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Good day everyone, and welcome to this Tiffany and Company second quarter conference call. Today's call is being recorded. Participating on today's call is Mr. Mark Aaron, Vice President of Investor Relations; and Mr. Jim Fernandez, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Mark Aaron. Please go ahead, sir.
Mark L. Aaron
Thank you. Good morning and welcome to our second quarter conference call. Before we continue please note that statements made on this call that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. Actual results might differ materially from the expectations projected in those forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially is set forth in Tiffany's 2008 annual report on Form 10-K and on other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
Okay, now let's move forward. We've previously said that we planned our business cautiously for 2009. This morning we're pleased to say that Tiffany's second quarter sales of $612 million and earnings of $0.46 per share surpassed our expectations. It appears to us that the tide may be slowly turning in our favor. On today's call, Jim and I will comment on these second quarter results and on the full year outlook.
In the quarter, worldwide sales in dollars declined 16% from last year and by 14% on a constant exchange rate basis. This was an improvement from the reported 22% and 18% respective declines in the first quarter, and it bolsters our thinking that we can experience further improvement in the second half due to easier year-over-year comparisons and therefore achieve our full year outlook.
Starting with the Americas, sales declined 23% in the quarter, which met our expectation. Total retail sales in the U.S. declined 26% due to roughly equal declines in the number of transactions and in the average transaction size. However, we were pleased to note a small improvement in the customer conversion rate for the first time in quite a while. Comparable U.S. store sales declined 27%, which improved from a 34% decline in the first quarter and compared with a 4% decline in last year's second quarter.
Within that, aggregate U.S. branch store sales were down 26% without any geographically noteworthy areas of weakness or strength. Sales in the New York flagship store declined by 30% in the quarter for obvious local economic reasons, and comp store sales in the entire nine store New York region declined 29% in the quarter. You may be interested to know that the sales decline in our Wall Street store was identical to the New York flagship.
In last year's second quarter, branch store comps were down 6%, while you may recall that the New York flagship was up 5% as it was benefiting from a strong inflow of European shoppers. The U.S. comp trend ranged from a 31% decline in May to a 25% decline in June and a 24% decline in July. Last year U.S. comps had declined 2%, 6% and 5% in those respective months.
As we've seen in recent quarters, our price stratification analysis continued to show the greatest percentage declines in sales occurring at the highest price ranges. That is over $50,000. And the smallest declines at more accessible price points. From a customer mix perspective, the sales decline was attributed to lower sales to local customers as well as foreign and domestic tourists. However, the New York flagship store felt a disproportionate effect from lower sales to European visitors this year.
The new stores that we've opened in the past year continue to perform well. Two weeks ago we opened a 5,800 square foot store in the Roseville Galleria near Sacramento and were welcomed by a lot of very enthusiastic shoppers. And we're scheduled to open a store in the fourth quarter in the City Center Complex being built in Las Vegas. In addition, we continue to be pleased with customer reactions and operational efficiencies in our new format store in Glendale, California, and as we had previously suggested we recently added a representative engagement ring assortment that addresses the requests from many customers. We're looking forward to opening a similar format store in Seattle's University Village next week.
Also in the Americas, our e-commerce and catalog sales are showing encouraging signs. Combined sales declined 8% in the quarter due to a decline in the number of orders, while the average order size was unchanged from last year. This was better than our expectation, and was an improvement from the previous quarter when sales declined 17%. Catalog circulation declined in the quarter which we'd planned for the full year as well. We instead are relying more on the cost effective marketing benefit from email communications to drive customers to our website and stores.
Lastly in the Americas region, we achieved solid performance from our stores in Canada, Mexico and Brazil and we are pleased with initial results in our new second store in Toronto in the Yorkdale section. So while conditions are still challenging in the Americas, we're pleased that sales trends in the first half have been moving in the direction we've planned, and believe the picture will brighten further in the second half when we compare it to the steep sales declines last year.
Our full year outlook continues to call for a mid-teens percentage sales decline in the Americas including a high-teens comp decline in the U.S., which implies much smaller declines in the second half of the year.
Looking across the oceans, we were pleased with improving sales in Asia-Pacific and Europe. In the Asia-Pacific region, total sales declined 1% in the second quarter, which followed a 9% decline in the first quarter. On a constant exchange rate basis, total sales declined 3% and comp store sales declined 4% with Japan down 11% while the rest of the region was up 5%. The results I'll cover now are all on a constant exchange rate basis. Total sales in Japan declined 13% and comp store sales declined 11% which was somewhat below our expectation and was on top of a 7% comp decline last year. Comps declined throughout the quarter with no meaningful change in the monthly pattern, nor any meaningful difference in comps within or outside Tokyo.
The yen averaged 96 to the $1 in the quarter versus 106 last year which generated a favorable translation effect on sales. Tiffany's business in Japan continues to be affected by softness in their economy and consumer spending, and we continue to plan for similar conditions and results for the full year.
Outside Japan, we experienced solid improvement in other Asia-Pacific markets and as a result total retail sales rose 14% with comp store sales up 5%. This followed a 5% comp decline in the first quarter, was on top of a 13% comp increase last year and it surpassed our expectation. Business remains strong in Australia and China, but as the quarter progressed we also saw solid improvements in most other countries including Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. During the quarter we opened a store on Canton Road in Hong Kong and in July alone it posted the second highest volume of our eight stores in that market. Next month we will open our tenth store in Korea and our plans for later this year include opening our tenth store in China in the city of Schengen and our fifth store in Australia in the Melbourne suburb of Chadstone, all of which should expand our burgeoning success in those countries.
For the total Asia-Pacific region our sales outlook now calls for a low single digit sales decline in dollars, which is a little better than we previously expected. That would include a mid single digit comp decline on a constant exchange rate basis, with Japan performing below the rest of the region.
Things are also looking up for us in Europe, with a total sales increase of 13% in constant currencies but a 4% sales decline when translated back into dollars due to relative strength of the dollar versus European currencies. The 13% increase continues to reflect sales from the seven new stores we opened last year as well as good underlying demand. In fact, comp store sales rose 5% in the quarter, which exceeded our expectation and was on top of a strong 11% increase last year. Despite difficult economic conditions in the UK and continental Europe, we're pleased to be achieving positive comps in London and on the continent, with the largest percentage increase in Italy in the quarter.
The new stores that we opened last year in the UK, Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Spain are generating excellent initial results. We look forward to entering the Netherlands when we open a store in Amsterdam later this year. And we're planning to expand our presence in the UK with the opening of a boutique in Selfridges in Manchester. So we're delighted with our performance in Europe and are now forecasting a low single digit comp increase in constant currencies for the full year, which is a bit better than our previous expectation for no comp store sales growth.
Lastly, sales in our other channel declined 66% in the second quarter. The decline reflected lower wholesale sales of low quality rough diamonds acquired through our sourcing program. Demand in the wholesale market was soft in the quarter which resulted in lower sales and related profitability.
Results for Tiffany's Iridesse business are now shown in discontinued operations.
Though we now expect sales in the other channels to decline approximately 50% for the full year compared with our previous expectation of a 20% decline. That covers our segment sales review.
In terms of product categories, the overall trend with continued relative strength in more accessible price points that was offset by weakness in the highest price points. Within jewelry, the statement category continued to pose the steepest percentage decline, primarily due to a decline in pieces sold and not in the average price. On the other hand, fashion gold and silver jewelry was the best performing category, relatively speaking, with sales about equal to last year.
The engagement jewelry category declined roughly in line with total company sales, and name designer jewelry was a bit below the company average.
One big product launch this year, our big product launch this year actually is the new Keys collection of pendants in silver, gold and platinum with diamonds, ranging from $150 to $15,000. It is enjoying a stellar start. And the recent introduction of Tiffany's new Bezet collection of diamond rings has further expanded our engagement jewelry assortment. And despite the current challenges in the luxury watch market, we are looking forward to the launch of new watch designs this quarter.
We think you'll probably agree that Tiffany's second quarter top line performance was respectable in light of the difficult environment, and that our recent trends may bode well for results later in the year. Lastly, we think that our geographical diversification is a significant advantage. Tiffany has a presence in more than 50 countries through company operated stores in 21 countries, and wholesale distribution to independent retailers in more than 30 additional countries, all of which offer growth potential for Tiffany to serve customers in their local markets as well as when they travel. It is a vast global opportunity for us.
I'm now pleased to turn the call over to Jim.
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Thanks Mark. Despite challenging external conditions, we were pleased that sales in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region came in better than we expected in the quarter. Margins and spending came in pretty close to what we planned for, so it was really the better top line performance that helped to put quarterly earnings above our expectations.
Looking at some details, gross margin in the quarter came in at 55.1%. This was 2.7 points lower than last year and was also a bit lower than our expectation. This was largely due to higher product costs, similar to what we experienced in the first quarter. While it's true that diamond and precious metal costs declined this year, reversing large increases in the prior year, we don't get the benefit in gross margin until we actually sell the product. And based on our rate of inventory turn, we should probably start to see that benefit in the first half of next year.
In addition, as part of our rough diamond sourcing program, wholesale sales and profitability were affected by soft demand in the diamond market for such goods and accordingly we've also adjusted our carrying value for those goods that will be sold in the near future.
SG&A expenses declined 14% in the quarter, partly due to lower staffing expenses and reduced variable expenses tied to lower sales levels. In addition, we've reduced our marketing spending this year as we previously disclosed, but believe our level of advertising and allocation by market is still appropriate to support our objective to increase Tiffany's market share.
In the quarter, we recovered $4.4 million on a loan to Tahera Diamond Corp. that we had written off last year, and that amount is recorded as a gain in SG&A expenses and benefited EPS by $0.02 per share in the quarter. We expect SG&A expenses to decline by a high single digit percentage for the full year. Based on this first half performance, we continue to expect that Tiffany's operating margin from continuing operations will decline in the full year from an adjusted 17.8% last year that excluded one time items, and that the decline will be about evenly divided between a lower gross margin and a higher expense ratio.
Interest and other expenses net rose as we expected to $12 million in the quarter from $3 million last year. The increase primarily resulted from higher interest expense tied to long term debt that we've issued in the past few quarters, and we continue to expect interest and other expenses net to total about $50 million for the full year.
Tiffany's effective income tax rate was 26.7% in the quarter versus 36.9% last year. The rate was lower than we initially planned due to favorable reserve adjustments tied to the conclusion of some tax audits. The lower rate benefited EPS by $0.05 per share in the quarter. We now expect an effective income tax rate of approximately 34% for the full year.
Our net earnings from continuing operations for the second quarter came in at $57 million or $0.46 per diluted share versus $0.64 last year. Even excluding the total of $0.07 per share that resulted from the Tahera gain and the lower tax rate, earnings from continuing operations were still above what we expected due to the better sales results.
In total, Tiffany's sales and earnings performance leads us to increase our outlook for net earnings from continuing operations for the full year from the previous range of $1.50 to $1.60 per diluted share to a new range of $1.65 to $1.75 per diluted share. This includes the forecasted net sales decline of about 10% for the year, combined with the other assumptions we've already mentioned on the call.
I should add that our full year sales forecast assumes no meaningful change in economic conditions from the current environment, so we have not changed our sales and earnings expectations for the second half of the year. And I should also add that we have no plans for store closings.
In terms of our balance sheet, we're on track to achieve the objectives we established at the start of the year. Accounts receivable at July 31 were 23% lower than last year due to lower sales volume, and they are turning at 18 times per year. We're pleased that net inventories at July 31 were just 2% higher than a year ago and have declined 4% since the start of the fiscal year, which is consistent with our objective to reduce inventory this year by a single digit percentage. Our balance sheet shows a high degree of liquidity to support our current business and planned expansion. We finished the second quarter with $334 million of cash and cash equivalents versus $152 million a year ago.
Total short term and long term debt was $752 million versus $639 million last year and during the second quarter we paid off $40 million of maturing long term debt. Capital expenditures were $30 million in the first half of the year compared with $68 million last year due to fewer store openings and other cost containment, and we remain on track to spend about $100 million on CapEx for the full year.
Adding this all up, we remain comfortable that we can achieve our full year forecast to generate approximately $400 million of free cash flow, which we define as cash flow from operating activities less capital expenditures. In addition, a few weeks ago we disclosed in an 8-K filing that Tiffany entered into a new multi-bank credit facility, replacing the one that was up for renewal next year. We decided that $400 million was an adequate level, down from the previous facility's $450 million capacity. But due to strong levels of interest we did increase the number of participating banks from eight to nine.
Summing it all up, we believe that Tiffany is weathering this challenging environment and is positioned well going forward. We have a strong store presence around the world with numerous expansion opportunities. Our brand is respected and desired. Our product designs are renowned, and we have a well developed infrastructure and strong financial position to pursue growth. It should go without saying that we will maintain brand integrity while pursuing those opportunities.
That concludes this conference call. Please note on your calendars that we expect to report Tiffany's third quarter results on November 25. Please feel free to contact Mark with any questions and thank you for listening.
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NORMAN, Okla. — No. 3 Oklahoma has been downright dominant at Owen Field.
For 20 straight games over the course of four years, ending just last month against Missouri, the Sooners (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) hadn't even faced a deficit on their home field. On Saturday night, Texas Tech (4-2, 1-2) will try to prevent Oklahoma from winning its 40th consecutive home game.
The streak started in 2005, after a loss to TCU in the season opener, and has been going since. It has reached the point that players feel a certain amount of pressure to not let it end.
"It's tradition. We can't lose," linebacker Jaydan Bird said. "I mean, we can. But it's a mind-set that we cannot lose here because of the tradition and the players before, what they have set here. We always give that extra effort so we can win it out. It's awesome to know that we've won all that, but it can easily be broken in a day. One day, one bad play."
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Sisu Capital called the police to their headquarters in an attempt to thwart fifteen City supporters who had wanted to hand in a petition and have their questions about the running of Coventry City FC answered.
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Chris Brown released his new single, "Fine China," to iTunes this week. Photo by Michael Loccisano for Getty Images.
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Hardware news tagged Itanium
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Oracle May Cease Support of Popular Linux Distributives Too.
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HP, Itanium Customers Unsure About the Future
Friday, April 22, 2011
Intel and HP May Postpone Itanium Roadmap Update amid Uncertainties – Sources.
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HP and Intel May Have Disagreements over the Future of Itanium
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Intel Relocates Itanium Engineers to Xeon Projects - Sources.
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Mission-Critical Server Specialists Now Work on Intel Xeon
Friday, April 15, 2011
Intel Set to Detail Itanium "Kittson" Later This Month.
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The Future of Itanium Set to Be Revealed
Thursday, April 14, 2011
HP's Clients Demand Oracle to Continue Developing Software for Itanium.
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User Community Speaks Out Against Oracle Decision on Itanium Architecture
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Intel: Xeon Now Has Equal or Better Reliability and Performance than Itanium.
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Intel Continues to Express Commitment to the Itanium As It Gears Up for Major Itanium-Related Announcement
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Intel: Itanium Plans Not Affected by New Xeon Family Chips.
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Even Though Xeon Gains RAS Capabilities, Itanium Remains Important - Intel
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Here is another thing I do not understand. Maybe this is just "I don't understand things" week but - like my strange attraction to Ron at the beach - what is the whoop with beer pong? My only problem with it is it appears to be a modest expenditure to achieve much the same beer game experience that the game "caps" provides for free or that game called, what is it, "idiot" where you slap a playing card on your forehead sitting with others in a circle doing likewise. Yet it is clearly bad bad bad:
The controversy isn't entirely surprising. The point of beer pong is to get your friends drunk — and parents and university administrators generally frown on that sort of thing. Last fall, Georgetown University banned beer pong, specially made beer-pong tables and inordinate numbers of Ping-Pong balls and any other alcohol-related paraphernalia in its on-campus dorms — even in the rooms of students of legal drinking age. The University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Tufts University have also banned drinking games. "We're pleased that Tufts has put this in writing," says Michelle Bowdler, a health administrator at the school. "Although we understand that 21 is the legal drinking age, we don't want our students participating in activities that could do excessive harm to themselves or others."
That is from an article in TIME magazine called "The War Against Beer Pong" and note that it appears to be about imposing standards on adults - sure, they are goof balls but still adults in a democracy. Nice touch about the "inordinate numbers of Ping-Pong balls." Granted, a beer pong manufacturer once gave me fifty bucks or so to run a review but I don't think I am off on this one, am I?
Is it really a war? And if it is a war, why do we only hear about this in relation to campus life and not, you know, an early twenties working Joe in, say, the basement on the weekend beer ponging away with his pals. Is this a crime against youth or only a crime against youth with university degrees in their future. How about grad students - can they pong safely ? And can't one be a social beer ponger? You know, maybe a beer or two and twenty minutes of ponging before you head out to a movie. Must there be a binge? That I do not know - just another thing I do not understand - but whose job is it to decide the eternal question that has plagued mankind, to pong or not to pong?


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We already knew that a lot of people watched the Weather Channel for their Hurricane Irene coverage over the weekend. Brian Stelter at The New York Times reports on the official numbers:
Ratings for the channel soared over the weekend as Irene made landfall three times along the East Coast. Saturday represented the channel's highest-rated whole day in its history. For a quarter-hour that day, as Irene soaked the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the channel had more than four million viewers, surpassing its peak quarter-hour viewership of 3.93 million during Hurricane Katrina.
That beats Fox News's and CNN's ratings by a million viewers. Hype or no hype, that's a lot of eyeballs watching the rain fall. Too many? Ask the media critics--they can't stop arguing about it.


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Mexico's finance secretary said Thursday the government would not object to state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos selling its stake in Spanish energy major Repsol, although he said that decision would be up to Pemex's board.
If Pemex opts to sell its shares in "Repsol, which operates outside Mexico, in order to bring that capital and invest it in opportunities that Pemex will have in Mexico, it wouldn't be a bad decision," Luis Videgaray told Radio Formula.
But that is "a decision that Pemex's Board of Directors must make," he added.
Pemex CEO Emilio Lozoya "is doing what he's obligated to do: explore opportunities," the secretary said.
Lozoya is the one who must explain "Pemex's decisions with respect to its shares in Repsol," Videgaray said in regard to a Spanish media report this week indicating the company's intends to divest its stake.
Pemex is the third-leading shareholder in Repsol with a 9.3 percent stake and it also holds a seat on the company's Board of Directors.
Relations between the two companies have been tense since Pemex doubled its stake in the Spanish oil major as part of a short-lived August 2011 voting alliance with Spanish builder Sacyr.
The heavily indebted construction giant was looking to increase its voting power on Repsol's board as a means of boosting dividend payments, but the pact fell apart months later when Sacyr - under pressure from creditors - was forced to sell half of its 20 percent in Repsol back to the company.
In January 2012, Repsol and Pemex signed an agreement to normalize relations that included a 10-year commitment by the Mexican company to keep its stake in a range of between 5 percent and 10 percent.
Repsol's chief financial officer, Miguel Martinez, said Thursday in Madrid that the Spanish company was "completely open" to improving its relationship with Pemex and reaching agreements on issues that are not working well.
Pemex, which will face competition in Mexico from other oil producers thanks to last year's historic energy overhaul ending its 75-year monopoly, said in March that it planned to invest nearly $28 billion in 2014, mostly on oil and gas exploration and production.
Mexico's oil production has fallen by nearly a quarter from a high of 3.3 million barrels per day in 2004 due to a sharp decline in output at offshore Cantarell, formerly Mexico's most productive field, and a lack of investment. EFE


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USDA Announces ACRE Program States That Meet the Trigger for Corn, Grain Sorghum, Soybeans, Peanuts, Lentils, Dry Peas and Upland Cotton
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the states that have met the revenue triggers allowing farmers to earn Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program payments on planted acres of corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, peanuts, lentils, dry peas and upland cotton if the farm also meets the revenue trigger. These ACRE crops are in addition to wheat, barley and oats, which have been previously announced as meeting the revenue triggers in certain states.
"The ACRE program provides financial and risk management advantages to producers, and those who signed up for ACRE in 2009 will receive payments if state and farm revenue criteria are met," Vilsack said.
Congress established ACRE as part of the 2008 Farm Bill to protect producers from farm market revenue declines. In order for producers to receive ACRE payments, revenue triggers for a commodity must be met on both a state and farm basis. A listing of the states that meet the revenue triggers for the 2009 crops of corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, peanuts, lentils, dry peas and upland cotton is available at http://go.usa.gov/a5M
States that meet the revenue triggers for other commodities will be determined after the 2009-2010 marketing year average price is published by the National Agricultural Statistical Service. The scheduled publishing dates for the 2009-2010 marketing year average prices are as follows:
- Large chickpeas, small chickpeas, sunflower seed, canola, flaxseed, mustard seed, rapeseed, safflower, crambe and sesame seed – November 30, 2010
- Long grain rice, and medium and short grain rice – January 31, 2011
For more information on the ACRE program visit the local FSA office or the website at http://www.fsa.usda.gov/dcp.
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Monsieur changes the on-premise drinking experience. Add a revenue stream or reduce lost sales by installing machines in locations that would be expensive to install a permanent bar.
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Got some time to kill? Well then, maybe you should start exploring the exciting world of papercraft! To get you started, here's a link to 100 free paper models and toys. Once you're done there, you might want to start checking out card modeling, build some skyscraper models, animals and motorcycles and when you get really good, faces of real people such as these. There's even some creative paper modeling websites out there for the kids and people who like Pokemon and Nintendo. And if all those links still aren't enough to satiate your new found lust for papercraft, check out this papercraft search engine for even more designs.
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Hermes, which already produces the world's most expensive functional handbags, the Kelly and the Birkin, has unveiled four new designs, each priced at $1.9 Million.
The miniature totes, which are crafted from gold and studded with thousands of precious stones, double up as high jewellery.
Significantly smaller than the popular leather versions, they are designed to be worn as a bracelet, with the handbag strap resting on the wrist.
It took accessories designer Pierre Hardy, two years to produce the intricate creations. Each of the new designs will only be produced three times.
When asked who he thought would buy the handbags Patrick Thomas, Hermes' CEO replied: "I have no idea. But maybe they will have two bodyguards!"
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Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider #168: 'Pacific Rim,' 'Grown Ups 2,' and more
[Adam Sandler and other giant monsters are the topics of the day on Movie B.S.]
Episode 168: 'Pacific Rim,' 'Grown Ups 2,' 'The Way Way Back'
0:00-2:40 – Introduction; Jeff's beverage sponsor
2:40-5:40 – iTunes review; passive requests for listener submissions
5:40-24:00 – "Pacific Rim" review
24:00-40:20 – "Grown Ups 2″ review
40:20-49:15 – "The Way Way Back" review
49:15-1:03:20 – QOTW (adventures with your friends that would make a good movie), ending with a tangent on Twinkies
1:03:20-1:05:10 – Brief update on the Summer Box Office Challenge, wrap-up and goodbyes
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Man Contracts Ebola Virus After Stealing Cell Phone From Infected Patient!
By Jen Lopez
Today's SMH comes from Uganda where a man really found out that karma's a b***h!
A 40-year-old man stole a $23 cellphone from a patient in the hospital. Little did he know many people were quarantined in that hospital for an Ebola outbreak in the area.
Ebola is a virus that is contagious and can cause hemorrhagic fever. It's symptoms include diarrhea, rash, vomiting, and bleeding from every opening.
The patient reported the phone was missing and shortly died after. Police tracked down the thief through all the phone calls he was making. When they found him, he was already showing symptoms of Ebola. He is currently being treated.
If that doesn't teach him a lesson from stealing, I don't know what will!
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UNITED NATIONS — Congolese troops fleeing the M23 rebels in November raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as young as 6, a U.N. report released yesterday said.
The U.S. Africa Command trained one of the units involved, Commando Battalion 391, in 2010 to be "a model for future reforms within the Congolese armed forces," according to the AFRICOM website.
The U.N. report covered "mass rape, killings, and arbitrary executions and violations resulting from widespread looting," U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.
A report by the U.N. Joint Human Rights Office says most of the rapes took place on Nov. 22-23 in the eastern Congo town of Minova.
Congolese soldiers would loot a house, then one would stand guard as the others raped women and children inside, the report said. "Victims were threatened with death if they shouted; some were raped at gunpoint. Most victims were raped by more than one soldier."
The victims included 33 girls between the ages of 6 and 17, Nesirky said.
During their occupation of Goma and Sake, "M23 combatants perpetrated serious violations of human law and gross human-rights violations," Nesirky said, including at least 59 cases of sexual violence.
In November 2012, the Congolese army was defeated by the M23 rebels who seized the provincial capital of Goma, in eastern Congo. The national army retreated in disorder.
Commanders lost control of their troops, or were unwilling to impose discipline over their men, who regrouped 30 miles south of Goma, in Minova.
The report says 11 Congolese soldiers have been arrested by the Congolese military prosecutor's office, "including two for murder, but only two for related cases of rape." The other charges were not specified.