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Atmospheric CO2 and Climate: Taylor Dome Ice Core, AntarcticaEntry ID: NSIDC-0315
Abstract: Using new and existing ice core CO2 data from 65 - 30 ka BP a new chronology for Taylor Dome ice core CO2 is established and synchronized with Greenland ice core records to study how high latitude climate change and the carbon cycle were linked during the last glacial period. The new data and chronology should provide a better target for models attempting to explain CO2 variability and abrupt climate change.
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Dataset Originator/Creator: Ahn, J. and E. J. Brook.
Dataset Title: Atmospheric CO2 and Climate: Taylor Dome Ice Core, Antarctica
Dataset Series Name: NSIDC-0315
Dataset Release Date: 2007-11-05
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Version: 1
Dataset DOI: doi:10.7265/N5542KJKOnline Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0315
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Phone: 541-737-8197
Email: brooke at geo.oregonstate.edu
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Department of Geosciences 130 Wilkinson Hall
City: Corvallis
Province or State: OR
Postal Code: 97331-5506
Country: USA
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City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Ahn, J. and Brook, E. J., Atmospheric CO2 and climate from 65 to 30 ka B.P., Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L10703, doi:10.1029/2007GL029551 (2007)
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Delicious! Not as heavy as traditional croutons. My son and husband were eating them by the handfuls.
These were easy to make! I used one whole wheat hot dog bun so I didn't really measure the seasonings, I just dumped them together. The bun was frozen, and I cut cubes out of it using a vegetable chopper; it was probably too fresh which is why the croutons were so light and airy, which isn't a BAD thing -- but they'd sop up liquid way too fast. I don't think they could be put in soup, because they'd get instantly soggy! Overall a good recipe, though. Thanks for posting.
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Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Joseph Huber officially swore in former state Sen. Joe Simitian as Santa Clara County supervisor at a ceremony in Palo Alto, Sunday, March 17.
"I would like to believe that there was some debate over whether to come to the swearing in of a second-term supervisor two months into his term rather than be on Air Force Two on the way to Vatican City," said Simitian, who previously served on the board from 1997 to 2000.
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IRVING – The New York State Department of Transportation has announced that new traffic patterns are scheduled to begin Wednesday, at the intersection of Route 5&20 and Route 438 on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation of Indians.
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Welcome to the website of the German Embassy in Yangon. In Germany, the "Land of Ideas", we place major emphasis on education, science, research and development. With its good infrastructure and central location in Europe, Germany is one of the world's most attractive bases for business. Its beautiful urban and rural landscapes combining age old traditions and experimental modern culture, make a trip to Germany a unique experience. Germany has something for everyone - so why not pay us a visit?
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Statement by Foreign Minister Frank‑Walter Steinmeier on the death of Roman Herzog:
I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Roman Herzog. We have lost a great constitutional law expert, politi...
Foreign Minister Steinmeier on the death of Roman Herzog
German Ambassador Christian-Ludwig Weber-Lortsch inaugurated the completion of the first phase of the "Rural Development Programme".
Germany is the first partner of Myanmar to support a project of rural roads construction. So far, the German Government has supported Myanmar with EUR 28.2 million grant funds and committed additional EUR 10 million grant funds – a total of over 41 million US-Dollars – after the flooding in 2015 to develop rural areas by upgrading and constructing rural roads in Southern Shan State.
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Finally the the Goethe Institut has started working on the renovation of the Goethe Villa - with the symbolic ground breaking. Ambassador Christian-Ludwig Weber-Lortsch signed the contract with the local construction company so the work can begin. Obviously not without getting the blessings! Congratulations!
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Another year of German Unity has passed, as well as another year of consistent ties between Germany and Myanmar.
In our "Gazette" (download below), we want to present some of the German players in the country and let them tell you their successful stories.
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German Embassy hereby would like to say Thank You to all those who supported us celebrating the German National Day. We express sincere gratitude to MRTV who provided the Myanmar National Anthem in or...
German National Day 2016
On the Day of German Unity we remember all that we have achieved in the last few years of our history. We celebrate the desire for freedom voiced by the people in Leipzig, Plauen, Berlin and many other towns and cities in the GDR.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany and the overcoming of the division of Europe into East and West: without a doubt, these events marked a historic watershed whose impact stretched far beyond Germany's borders.
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Ambassador H.E Mr. Christian Ludwig Weber Lortsch joined the Yangon Chief Minister H.E U Phyoe Min Thein visit to Myanmar Journalism Institute (MJI).
The Chief Minister held talks with the German Ambassador, the French Ambassador H.E Mr.Olivier Richard and the MJI Executive Directors and called on how the regional government can support the Institute to upgrade. He appreciated the support of Germany and France, saying that the Institute will bring the Journalism stronger to develop Myanmar as Democracy country in the midst of transition.
The Myanmar Journalism Institute (MJI) celebrated the graduation of the first fulltime diploma students on Thursday, 21st of July 2016.19 graduates received their degrees after one year of intensive studies on journalism.
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Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development Gerd Müller visited Myanmar and met the President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Htin Kyaw and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi in Nay Pyi Taw. He also participated in the German-Myanmar dialog on economics in Yangon.Here are some impressions.
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Myanmar's media landscape is in the middle of a dynamic transition period. Could the shift of political power (from the former military government to Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy) hinder or even stop this process? Participants of a Media Dalog "Empowerment of Community Media - Gender Issues & Freedom of Expression", hosted by DW Akademie's Deputy Director Ute
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On 1 January 2016 Germany has assumed the Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co‑operation in Europe (OSCE) and is therefore be responsible for steering the Organization safely through the stormy tides of crises and challenges in 2016. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has presented the details of the Chairmanship's programme to the 57 OSCE participating States in Vienna on 14 January 2016.
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First Rifle Season Success Takes Hit From Warm, Dry Weather
The first season of Colorado's four big game seasons has ended and in most areas of the state biologists have not seen as high of harvest rates as they were hoping for. Hot, dry weather has helped many of the 350,000 elk that inhabit Colorado avoid hunters. Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) officials believe hunters for the upcoming season will need to concentrate their efforts on higher elevations and areas with dark timber as long as the mild weather continues.
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Hoosier hunters traveling out of state in search of big game should be aware of new deer and elk import restrictions.
Recent Rains Bolster Conditions for Deer
With much-needed rainfall scattered throughout the state during the last few months, range conditions more resemble late spring than early fall, which bodes well for Texas' deer herd. For hunters who rely on supplemental food sources to pattern deer, however, those conditions could present a challenge, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologists.
Clarifying the Unit 32 Deer Hunt
Deer hunters pursuing their quarry in Unit 32 should be aware that doe hunting is allowed in only a small portion of the unit. A footnote in this year's rule book has been overlooked by some hunters, leaving them with the impression that the entire unit is open to antlerless deer hunting.
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General Deer Hunting Season Open
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Digital River (NASDAQ:DRIV)
Q3 2012 Earnings Call
November 01, 2012 4:45 pm ET
Ed Merritt - Vice President of Investor Relations
Thomas F. Madison - Lead Director, Chairman of Audit Committee, Chairman of Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee, Member of Finance Committee and Member of Compensation Committee
Joel A. Ronning - Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Thomas M. Donnelly - President and Chief Operating Officer
Stephan B. Schulz - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Treasurer
Philip Winslow - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division
Shyam Patil - Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Research Division
Charles Eugene Munster - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division
Gregor Schauer - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Digital River Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded.
I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Ed Merritt from Digital River. Sir, you may begin.
Ed Merritt
Thanks, and welcome to Digital River's Third Quarter 2012 Earnings Call. I'm Ed Merritt, Digital River's Vice President of Investor Relations. Joining us on the call today from Digital River is Tom Madison, our Lead Director and newly named interim CEO; Joel Ronning, our Founder; Tom Donnelly, our President and Chief Operating Officer; and Stephan Schulz, our Chief Financial Officer.
I'd like to remind you that there may be statements made during the course of this conference call that are not historical facts and are forward-looking in nature. These statements relate to the company's future growth and financial results and may contain the words believe, anticipate, expect, guidance and similar words. These statements involve both known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results to differ materially from expectations.
For a detailed review of these risks, please refer to the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Also, a webcast of our call today will be available on the Investor Relations section of Digital River's corporate website.
With that, I'll turn the call over to Tom Madison.
Thomas F. Madison
Thanks, Ed. And thanks to all of you for joining us today. In addition to our quarter 3 earnings and updated guidance, today we announced a leadership change, and I wanted to join today's call to give you the board's perspective on these events.
We announced that Joel Ronning is stepping down as CEO of Digital River, and that I will serve as interim CEO as we conduct a search for a permanent successor. Joel will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board until year end when he will step down from the Board of Directors. On behalf of the board, I would like to recognize Joel for all that he's done, both for his vision in founding Digital River in 1994 and for his invaluable contributions in building the company into a $400 million global enterprise. Digital River is now an industry leader in online commerce and global payments, thanks to that vision. Joel is a brilliant entrepreneur, who has taken the company a long way over the past 18 years. We deeply appreciate his hard work, dedication and commitment to creating the strong company that Digital River is today.
In light of Joel's departure, the board has began a search to find a permanent CEO. We will consider both internal and external candidates and have retained Spencer Stuart, a leading executive search firm, to assist us. Our goal is to identify a CEO who will build on our strong foundation, an executive with a deep focus on strategy execution and a track record of generating shareholder value.
In the meantime, I will serve as interim CEO working with Digital River's strong management team to ensure continuity until a permanent replacement is named.
I will now turn the call over to Joel, who would like make a few comments. Joel?
Joel A. Ronning
Great. Thanks, Tom, and good afternoon, everyone. I'd just like to spend a few minutes reflecting on my past 18 years at Digital River. In 1994, I started this company with a vision that products would be sold over the internet or at that time was a precursor to the internet, at the earliest stages of online commerce. Today, that vision has resulted in a company with almost $400 million in revenue, offices all over the world and partnerships with some of the leading consumer brands around the globe.
Most importantly, I've had an opportunity to work with some of the best talent, hands down, in Global Commerce. I'm talking about our employees. It's been wonderful to work with this group of individuals, who over the years have established themselves as the go-to experts in solving the toughest issues in e-commerce. I've had the privilege of being part of this company for many years, and I know firsthand that it has just scratched the surface of its potential and has tremendous opportunity to grow for years to come.
Thank you again. And now I will turn the call back to Tom Madison.
Thomas F. Madison
Thanks, Joel. In a minute, I'll turn the call over the Tom Donnelly to provide detailed insight into our results and business strategy and how we see the evolving -- that evolving during the next several quarters. And then Stephan Schulz will discuss our third quarter financial results. But before I do, I'd like to provide the board's perspective on our performance and expectations.
We had a good third quarter and expect to end 2012 with results consistent with earlier guidance. However, as we look to 2013, we are facing some headwinds due to macroeconomic conditions, client attrition, as well as a necessary ramp up in investments to ensure our technology infrastructure keeps up with where we want to and need to be.
Tom Donnelly will review the specific initiatives we're taking to address some significant challenges we see next year. But I do want to be clear, the board and management team are focused on executing these initiatives and are committed to delivering shareholder value.
While we recognize the need to make changes in our business, importantly, Digital River will be executing off of a strong business foundation. We have a solid base of clients, representing some of the world's most impressive brands and we have a growing pipeline of new clients. Our business is supported by more than 15 years of global commerce experience and success. And finally, we are on a very solid financial footing with over $700 million of cash and investments on our balance sheet.
In addition, we have a strong team to help us drive the company forward. In particular, I'm pleased to have a great partner in Tom Donnelly, our former CFO and currently our President and Chief Operating Officer. As the board conducts its search for a permanent CEO, Tom will play a key role and is an internal candidate for the permanent position. I look forward to working closely with him in the months ahead.
And with that, I'd like to turn the call over to Tom Donnelly.
Thomas M. Donnelly
Thanks, Tom. I'm pleased we exceeded our revenue and earnings guidance for the third quarter. We delivered revenue of $91.7 million, which was $700,000 better than the high-end of our guidance range. We also performed well from an earnings perspective, meeting the top end of our non-GAAP EPS guidance by $0.02 per share.
The performance in our top line revenue can be attributed to Enterprise Commerce which performed slightly better than our expectations, driven primarily by new product launches from a few key clients. And we continued to see strong revenue growth in World Payments, which increased 30% year-over-year using constant currencies.
As we've noted on previous calls, Payments continues to perform well for us and we're deeply committed to this space. To help accelerate our growth, in September, we announced our intent to acquire Canadian-based LML Payment Systems in an all cash transaction valued at about $102.8 million. Netting out LML's cash, our expected out-of-pocket will be closer to $72 million. LML has a great SMB payment processing platform with rapid client on boarding capabilities. Today, their online processing business is growing nicely at about 29% year-over-year and they support more than 14,000 online merchants.
Additionally, they have a great mobile payment solution gaining traction in Canada and deep relationships with Toronto-Dominion Bank and Wells Fargo.
After the acquisition is closed, which we expect to take place in early 2013, our combined companies will process over $20 billion in online transactions.
Now moving on to what we see in the fourth quarter. We have better visibility in the fourth quarter in terms of launches and holiday promotions. We expect to see higher traffic on key selling days, but also believe we'll see some consumer pricing pressure and lower average order values on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Many bricks-and-mortar retailers have announced pricing initiatives to match internet pricing on select products. We'll be monitoring this closely to see how we can help our clients drive more sales during the holiday season.
I think it's important we take a minute to speak about 2013. Like many companies, we continue to have concerns about the overall softness in the economy, especially in Europe, as well as the recent decline in PC sales. We've seen some client attrition in 2012 and this could continue to next year. Additionally, our supporting business revenue has declined in 2012 and we expect a similar decline in 2013. Taking all of these challenges into consideration, we believe it will be difficult to achieve revenue growth next year, including LML Payments revenue.
Following our normal process, we'll provide more detail in 2013 financial guidance on our next earnings call. However, today we think it's important to share the plans we currently have in place and the actions that we are taking right now to solidify existing revenues and aggressively respond to trends we're seeing in the market. We've mapped out 3 key actions we'll undertake, which include some technology initiatives designed to deliver more flexible solutions to our clients at reduced costs.
First, we expect to maintain a level of investment in our core infrastructure in 2013 similar to the amount we spent in 2012. As part of our technology roadmap, we will continue to rearchitect our core Global Commerce platform and its underlying databases to further increase stability and performance. We'll significantly enhance our processing capacity so we can deliver greater throughput on large volume days. We'll integrate LML's capabilities into our global payments offering. And finally, continue our global expansion with an emphasis on moving into Russia.
The second action we are taking is to transition our architecture and platform toward a more modular plug-and-play commerce ecosystem. We are unbundling core components and making them available to clients on an à la carte basis and adjusting our pricing strategy accordingly. This will allow us to connect our solution to even more service providers in the industry, enabling us to dramatically expand our commerce and payment services and their addressable markets. All of these initiatives are based on client and market feedback.
We will also reduce operating expenses. Some of the initiatives I just noted will involve incremental investment, but we know we need to rationalize expenses in light of expected revenue. As I stated earlier, we've already started this transition and we expect that it will continue throughout 2013. We'll provide more details on these initiatives and update you on our progress on the next earnings call in early February.
The initiatives I discussed are designed to address client retention, advance our technology offering and help return us to growth in the future.
Moving on to our pipeline and operations. Our pipeline for Digital, Physical and Payments continues to look strong as more companies realize selling direct to the end buyer is a necessary revenue channel. Digital River's global expertise continues to resonate well with our prospects and client base.
During the third quarter, in Digital, we signed many new and expanded agreements. We grew our relationship with Siemens, Novell, Corel, Individual Software and Grass Valley. We also signed multiyear extensions with 2 of our top clients, Trend Micro and Kaspersky. Microsoft, our largest software customer, continues to be a valued and strategic partner. For microsoftstore.com, we are now live internationally in 20 countries and territories, most recently launching the U.K., Germany, France and The Netherlands.
In the third quarter, we benefited from a strong back-to-school season.
Moving onto Physical. In the third quarter, we grew our relationship with Lenovo, expanding their business across Europe. We secured a new finished goods contract with Acer for North America and Europe. We expanded our relationship with Samsung, where we are now managing U.S. sales for their e-commerce site. And just this week, we signed a global multiyear e-commerce agreement with ASUS.
In addition, we signed a new agreement with Johnson Health Tech. This company is our first client in the fitness and sports industry, as well as Asia's #1 and the world's #3 fitness equipment manufacturer and marketer.
Payments is another area where we made great progress. In the third quarter, we signed new or expanded agreements such as -- with companies such as RIM, Brother, BurgerMap, Nu skin, Swatch, Isagenix, Vistaprint and Intrepid Travel. As I mentioned earlier World Payments grew their revenue 30% year-over-year and they saw an increase of 44% in transaction volume. They also continued to expand their global payment footprint through new relationships in the U.S. with Wells Fargo merchant services, and in Asia, with National Australia Bank. All in all, we made solid progress in a number of areas during the third quarter.
Now I'll turn the call over to Stephan.
Stephan B. Schulz
Thank you, Tom, and good afternoon, everyone. Third quarter revenue came in ahead of our guidance at $91.7 million, which is slightly above our guidance range of $88 million to $91 million. As a percentage of total revenue, international revenue decreased slightly to 45.8% from 46.2% in the same period last year. Softer sales in Europe drove this slight decline.
Enterprise revenue in the third quarter was $71.7 million, which was down from $72.5 million or 1% compared to last year. On a constant currency basis, Enterprise revenue was $74 million and represented an increase of about 2% over last year's revenue of $72.5 million.
Within Enterprise Commerce and using constant currencies, Digital Commerce, consisting primarily of software and games, increased about 2% from last year's third quarter. Physical Commerce declined about 13% from last year and as we mentioned on our last earnings call, we see a very strong new business pipeline and had some solid Q3 wins within Consumer Electronics, but current revenue has been negatively impacted by client bankruptcies and some soft product launches by some key clients.
World Payments increased 30% from last year. We continue to see significant growth opportunities in the Payments space and are investing accordingly as evidenced by our agreement to acquire LML Payments. I'll discuss this more in a few moments.
Support revenue ended the quarter at $20 million. As expected, support revenue declined about 13% from last year's third quarter levels. Total cost and expenses were well-managed but did increase about $400,000 from last year. We incurred several onetime items in our expenses this year that offset our expense management efforts. Some of these onetime items include $750,000 for a legal settlement, $600,000 related to fees associated with our pending acquisition of LML Payments and $1.7 million in consulting fees related to our technology and marketing initiatives. Excluding these nonrecurring items, our expenses would have declined by $2.7 million from last year's level.
GAAP net loss for the third quarter totaled $734,000 or a loss of $0.02 per share. This was at the better end of our GAAP guidance range for a loss between $0.09 to $0.02 per share. We earned $0.15 per share in the third quarter last year.
Now switching to non-GAAP earnings. In the third quarter, our non-GAAP net income totaled $6.6 million or $0.20 per share, also beating the top end of our guidance range, which was $0.12 to $0.18 per share. We earned $0.23 per share in the third quarter of last year.
Now turning to cash and cash flow, our net cash used in operating activities for the first 3 quarters of 2012 was $24.3 million as compared to net cash provided by operations of $5.1 million last year. Lower net income and changes in working capital were the primary drivers of the change. Excluding the impact of working capital changes, our operating cash flows were lower than last year's level by $12.8 million. Similar to previous years, we anticipate an improvement in operating cash flow in Q4 that will turn the year-to-date usage of cash into a full-year positive cash flow on sequential improvements in earnings and working capital changes.
Our operating cash flow is highly dependent on changes in working capital. This is especially true on changes that result from timing differences between payments we receive on our clients behalf and the remittance of those funds to our clients. This timing usually works in our favor during the holiday season in Q4 and conversely works against us in other quarters.
As of September 30, 2012, cash and investments totaled $756 million. This was down about $64 million from the end of last year, primarily due to the timing of client payable remittances I mentioned earlier and the 2011 share repurchase program. Total cash and investments, excluding client cash and certain long-term investments, was about $609 million at September 30, 2012.
On our second quarter earnings call, we announced our Board of Directors had authorized a new $100 million common stock repurchase program. While our acquisition of LML Payments will not alter our share buyback plan going forward, we did not repurchase any common stock in light of our negotiations to acquire LML. Repurchases under this program will be opportunistic, similar to previous repurchases, and we have no predetermined end date for the share repurchase program.
Capital expenditures were $8.2 million in the third quarter and we anticipate spending about $25 million for capital expenditures this year, mainly investing in IT projects that support our initiatives to improve our scalability and system performance.
As noted earlier, on September 24, we announced the signing of a definitive agreement for Digital River to acquire LML Payment Systems in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $102.8 million, pending approval by the LML shareholders. After adjusting for cash on LML's balance sheet, we believe the final acquisition cost will be around $72 million. We believe there are natural synergies in our businesses, including the combination of their online transaction payment processing solution and our World Payments solution.
If the LML shareholders approve the acquisition, we expect to close early in Q1. Accordingly, we anticipate no revenue in our 2012 guidance from LML but expect this acquisition to be accretive to our 2013 earnings.
Now for some color on the remainder of 2012. For the fourth quarter, we expect revenue to be in the range of $96 million to $100 million. At the top end of this range, Enterprise Commerce would account for about $81 million and the support businesses would account for about $19 million. GAAP EPS to range from $0.08 to $0.15 per share, assuming a GAAP tax rate of 17%, and non-GAAP EPS in the range of $0.25 to $0.31 per share, assuming a non-GAAP tax rate of 21% and excluding charges from acquisition-related intangible amortization, LML acquisition fees and stock compensation expense.
For the full year, we now expect revenue to fall between $381 million and $385 million. GAAP EPS to be between $0.20 and $0.27 per share and non-GAAP EPS to range from $0.96 and $1.01 per share, excluding charges from acquisition-related intangible amortization, LML acquisition fees, litigation settlements, stock compensation and restructuring charges incurred during early 2012.
While our current revenue estimates for the full year of 2012 fall within the ranges we provided last quarter, the high end of both GAAP and non-GAAP EPS are now expected to come in lower than our previous high-end guidance. GAAP EPS has been impacted by the onetime expenses I mentioned earlier, including a legal settlement and LML acquisition costs. Additionally, both GAAP and non-GAAP EPS have been reduced due to the planned investments in our technology infrastructure that Tom Donnelly mentioned earlier. Again, we will provide more details surrounding our 2013 financials on our next call.
Now I'll turn the call back over to Tom Madison.
Thomas F. Madison
Thanks, Stephan. Before we move on to take your questions, I want to recap a few key points.
Number one, we produced good third quarter results and do expect a solid fourth quarter. Number two, we are conducting a search for a new CEO and I will be the interim CEO until the search is concluded. Number three, we gave you some color on initiatives we are undertaking to strengthen our technology and processes that will enable us to better serve existing customers and drive their revenue growth. And number four, we know we have a lot of work ahead of us and face some significant challenges, but are very confident we have the right strategy and management team in place to execute to our plan and deliver attractive and sustainable shareholder value over time.
Okay, now let's move on to Q&A. As we have in the past, we'll ask each participant to ask only one question with one follow-up question, if you like.
Operator, please open the lines.
Question-and-Answer Session
[Operator Instructions] The first question comes from Philip Winslow from Credit Suisse.
Philip Winslow - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division
I just wanted to clarify a point. I believe next year you said you guys potentially struggle to grow year-over-year and was is even including LML Payments. I mean, if I look at their last -- your quarterly filing, LML was doing $5.5 million, $6 million a quarter, so if I bake in, call it, 11 months of that into next year's numbers, it's a pretty meaningful drop and just call it organic revenue growth or I mean revenue decline actually next year. Just could you -- am I doing the math right there? And also what is driving that sort of decline and why do you have that sort of visibility into it?
Stephan B. Schulz
Yes, so, Phil, this is Stephan. I'll take that one. Tom Donnelly in his prepared remarks talked about 2 things that we see going into next year. Number one, we see economic conditions that I think a lot of other companies have talked about in their earnings calls, especially the calls that occurred here as it relates to Q3. So we are factoring that into our thoughts for 2013. In addition, we have seen some attrition in our own client base that Tom mentioned as well, that as that we factor that in to our 2013 numbers, we do see an organic -- potentially an organic decline in our revenue base. And so that is what went into our numbers, and that is what we're putting forth in terms of -- in terms of our guidance. And then in addition, Tom mentioned one other aspect which is the third aspect, which I failed to mention earlier. And that is our supporting businesses are -- declined 13% this quarter. And we expect that trend to continue into 2013, which is also a big contributor to what we see in 2013.
Thomas M. Donnelly
I'd say, Phil, too, I mean, we -- at the same time we do have some good things going on. We had some pretty significant wins in the Physical space this year, and we got a new operating system that it's very difficult to predict how well it's going to perform and impact PC sales. And we also got an upcoming Office launch by our largest client. So those are kind of your bookends there.
Our next question comes from Shyam Patil from Raymond James.
Shyam Patil - Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Research Division
I was just wondering if maybe you could provide us with a little bit of an update on the Microsoft relationship. I apologize if I'm asking something that's maybe been asked before. I actually hopped on the call a little bit late, but could you maybe just update us on what you're hearing from them and how that has been since you guys opened the U.S. store?
Thomas M. Donnelly
Yes, sure. We've been running the U.S. store all year. The relationship is very strong. They obviously just had some significant launches of new products, one being the operating system, the other being a tablet. We've been beavering away launching international locales. I mentioned on the call, we're now live in the U.K., Germany, France and Netherlands most recently. And we're going to continue to be launching locales through mid-February of next year and we're very hopeful, not only for our relationship with Microsoft, but for a large portion of our client base that the new operating system is super successful. And we sure hope that it is.
Shyam Patil - Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Research Division
Okay. Great. And then if I could just have one more follow-up, can you just talk about that you're seeing in the consumer electronic business and what your expectations are going forward.
Thomas M. Donnelly
Yes. I mean, the revenue was down this quarter but it was largely due to some kind of what I would call acute client issues. We had one major client that's in bankruptcy and we have some other clients that haven't done so well in this recent market. Having said that, our largest pipeline in the company, both closed and from an opportunity perspective, is in that category. We expanded our relationships, as I said, last quarter with Lenovo, Acer and Samsung, and just this week, signed an agreement with ASUS. And there is more to come, I think, there. So we're feeling good about that. The most difficult thing to predict is how big, how fast with these clients. But there seems to be a growing market interest in going direct to buyer. I think largely brought on by the activities of their big competitor, Apple.
Our next question comes from Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray.
Charles Eugene Munster - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division
You mentioned some of the attrition from the customer base. And is there any way to see how much of that is maybe macro related or a shift just in terms of how your customers are approaching, how they do business? I mean, is any sort of bigger picture themes we should take away from what -- the feedback that you've heard from some of your customers?
Thomas M. Donnelly
Yes, keep in mind we announced some attrition at the midyear, right? And we did have what I would call smaller clients, but meaningful clients, that did go to competitors. We also forced a pretty sizable amount of attrition in our Shareware bid -- business which is now in the supporting business line. And this was business that the company didn't want to be engaged with. They were products that may or may not violate copyrights and the company just made a choice to exit that business. I think it was the right case. I don't think there is a general theme or a cause for alarm. But we do have some clients where we do a piece of their business and not all of their business. And I think that's always a risk and an opportunity, right? You can lose some or you can gain some, depending on how their efforts go. And so I think we're just being cautious. In 2011 and '10 we saw very little of this activity, either competitive or internal solution base, and we have seen some this year. And that will run -- that will be will a headwind next year, because remember we are a SaaS business, right? And when you lose a chunk of revenue, it takes a while to build it back up because you got to win the new client or expand the existing client and get the run rate backup and that just ends up being a bit of revenue headwind.
Charles Eugene Munster - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division
Okay. And I guess, just kind of a follow up, that doesn't sound like the customers have any specific message. But some of these, the themes that had been kind of put on the marketplace about just how software is being shifting to apps and all that, and you guys have said all along you believe that, that is the future and you will be well positioned for it. Is there anything that's changed, I think, in terms of how that is playing out? I mean, you've talked before that it will happen but it's going to take longer than people think. Is that still your belief?
Thomas M. Donnelly
Yes. I mean our data and outside data that we've seen would indicate that the software market is still a growth market, and that largely today, apps are incremental and really in different categories of what I would call software than the company is in. I think as far as apps longer term, yes, with these hardware device manufacturers, I think we're in a good position. We have, for instance, an app loaded on one of our major CE company's tablets, right, which is kind of exciting. But overall, we think it still is incremental. I will say digital has been a little soft in advance of the operating system release. And I think a lot really ties back to, do we have what we saw when Windows 7 launched here? Do we have a reinvigoration of PC buying and/or tablet buying and/or phone buying? That's kind of in our sweet spot which is really around the Microsoft operating system.
Charles Eugene Munster - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division
Okay. Just one final, final question. In terms of -- I know you talked about it earlier in the call too, but there's been pent-up demand for software. People have been on hold because of that obviously. Typically, when would you start to see some sort of benefit in 2013 based on that?
Thomas M. Donnelly
I think -- there's a couple of things that are probably going to help the first half: One is we expect the launch of Office, which should be helpful; and number two, if there is a solid holiday in PCs, the time when consumers are most likely to buy software tends to be around or post the purchase of that new PC. We'll just have to see how the fourth quarter plays out. I know myself, I'm waiting to get my daughters each a new PC and I waited for the new operating system. So we're cautious but hopeful that we have a really good operating system launch here.
And we have one last call and that will come from Colin Sebastian from R.W. Baird.
Gregor Schauer - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division
Gregor Schauer, I'm actually filling in for Colin today. And the question I have is regarding the emergence of the Android and iOS platforms. I know you previously thought there were opportunities to monetize that platform. But how should we think about how Digital River would begin to change the strategy in the situation where the PC platform continues to lose ground at the expense of those platforms? Do you still feel as optimistic as you previously did about the opportunities to play in potential app stores or so forth? Or is there -- if that were to happen, would that require a very significant change in strategy? Of course, the future is not -- it's yet to be told but...
Thomas M. Donnelly
Yes. So I mean, as to games or software products, we sell a lot of products for the Apple operating system. We even sell some Microsoft products that run on the Apple operating system. We do think we are positioned well with Microsoft with the announcement of all of their tablets and all the new tablets. And as long as we're taking manufacturers direct-to-consumer and they're creating digital products, we should have an opportunity to be able to play in that space. And we have had several wins this year. We talked about a few of them on our prior calls in that space. But certainly nothing is moving in terms of revenue dollars like Apple is right now. There's a lot of free downloads in the app world, particularly on the Android operating system. We are seeing some opportunity to provide marketing services where the apps themselves become kind of the starter package into the full version app. And the beauty of the Microsoft operating system is really commerce can be conducted outside of their ecosystem, which is opposite of Apple where although that happens in a few cases, it is kind of prohibited by Apple as a practice. So I will say, we are more exposed to Microsoft and their OEM partners than clearly we are to Apple.
Gregor Schauer - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division
Right. Okay. And one quick follow-up. Just regarding the platform rearchitecting that you mentioned, the databases and some of the other fundamental technologies. Could you give us some sense of what timeframe you guys expecting this rearchitecting or overhauling to occur and what the practical implications are on the operations of the business, as you're managing your current business while you are trying to reimplement a new platform?
Thomas M. Donnelly
Right. Well I don't think -- I don't want you to think that we're reimplementing a new platform. We think we have plenty of capabilities in the existing platform. What we talked about is really what we started with the payment and payment related value-added services kind of pulling them out of a platform that served many services -- many service needs holistically to a client base. Where we see the market going is the market wants to consume, in some cases, not in all, more best-of-breed solutions. So we believe we need to open up our platform, for instance, to be able to integrate very effectively and easy with third-party content management systems. A specific example would be our content management system is good and just fine for a large percentage of our clients. But certain larger clients that have high-end graphic and workflow needs would like to use a third-party content management system. And today, we actually do integrate with third-party content management systems on many of our larger sites. What we're doing is really just operationalizing that and creating a framework for how our merchandising capability can be injected up into that content management system and productizing that and making it easier for customers to plug in different components of their overall e-commerce system rather than depending on Digital River for all components. Does that make sense?
I'm showing no further questions at this time. I'd like to hand the conference back over for any closing remarks.
Ed Merritt
Thanks to everyone for participating in this call. Before we close today, I just want to mention that Digital River will be participating on November 13th in New York City at the RBC Capital Markets Software and Services Day, and you'll have an opportunity to hear management speak about our business there. Thanks for joining us today and this concludes Digital River's Third Quarter 2012 Earnings Call.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for participating in today's conference. This concludes our program. You may all disconnect and have a wonderful day.
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NIDDK's core values emphasize maintaining a strong investigator initiated R01 program, preserving a stable pool of talented new investigators, supporting key clinical studies and trials, and continuing strong support of training and career development programs, consistent with the vision of NIDDK Director, Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers (see Vision).
At NIDDK's May 2012 Advisory Council meeting, NIDDK's Deputy Director, Dr. Gregory Germino, highlighted these values and reviewed NIDDK's resource focus on areas supporting the core values.
Following that presentation, the NIDDK generated additional data on application and funding trends to help our research community understand application and funding dynamics over recent years and demonstrate the NIDDK's commitment to research and programs associated with the NIDDK's core values and posted these data on the NIDDK website. The NIDDK updates the charts on its website annually; the data shown here were recently updated to include Fiscal Year (FY) 2015.
With the exception of Figure 8 (which includes initiative data), the data in all charts exclude initiatives (i.e., Requests for Applications), grants funded through the Special Statutory Funding Program for Type 1 Diabetes, and funds appropriated through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
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Note: "Applications" shown in the chart above include all applications that scored 50th percentile or better. Unscored applications, scored applications with no percentiles, and applications scoring above the 50th percentile are not shown (48 percent [n=1,332] of the applications received were unscored or scored above the 50th percentile). No unscored applications were funded in FY 2015.
The NIDDK nominal payline in FY 2015 was the 13th percentile for established investigators and the 18th percentilefor Early Stage Investigators (ESIs). The payline and additional programmatic scrutiny for R01 applications requesting more than $500,000 in direct costs are substantially more stringent. These data show that the NIDDK closely adheres to its payline, but does exercise some programmatic discretion to reach for a limited number of especially innovative or programmatically important applications.
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To generate the data for Figure 2, applications were placed into "percentile bins" as follows: Bin 1-5 includes all applications with percentile scores from 0.1 to 5.0, Bin 6-10 includes applications with percentile scores from 5.1 to 10.0, etc. Only applications that scored 50th percentile or better were included in the analysis.
The data demonstrate steep deflections in the percentage of applications funded at the nominal payline for each year. The R01 paylines for the years included in Figure 2 are shown in the table below.
Note: In FY 2012, the NIDDK began focusing on Early Stage Investigators (ESIs; see definition of and benefits conveyed to ESIs on the NIH "New and Early Stage Investigator Policies"), which is a subset of New Investigators (see also Figures 11 and 12).
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Only funded applications are considered in the data set charted in Figure 3. Percentile bin size equals one percentile and there is no overlap between bins. Percentiles with decimal places were summed into the next highest integral percentile as follows: 0.1-0.9 was summed into 1, 1.1-1.9 was summed into 2, etc. These cumulative funding data again demonstrate that the vast majority of applications funded by the NIDDK fall within the payline, but that the NIDDK does exercise some programmatic discretion to reach for a limited number of especially innovative or programmatically important applications.
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Overall, the total number of R01 grants funded by the NIDDK has increased by slightly more than 20 percent since FY 1997. The major portion of this increase occurred during the years of the NIH budget doubling (FYs 1998-2003). Over the past 5 years, there has been a slight decline in the number of grants funded. In the past, approximately half of the competing grants funded by the NIDDK were new (Type 1) awards, but since FY 2009 that proportion has risen to what is now well over half.
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Figure 5 shows a substantial increase in the number of competing R01 applications received by the NIDDK between FYs 1998 and 2006. After approximately 5 years of relatively flat growth prior to FY 2013, the number of applications increased in FYs 2013-2015. Much of the observed increase between FY 1998 and FY 2006 and between FY 2013 and FY 2015 was largely due to new (Type 1) applications. Submission rates for competing renewal applications fluctuated somewhat between FY 1998 and FY 2014, but, overall, the numbers of renewal applications have remained relatively flat. It should be noted that only one amendment and resubmission of an application was allowed after January 25, 2009. The full implementation of the NIH policy eliminating a second amended application is coincident with a rise in "New" competing R01 applications in FY 2010.
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Figure 6 shows that NIDDK expenditures on R01 grants have increased markedly (147 percent) since FY 1995. This is because the NIDDK is funding a larger number of these awards (Figure 4) and also because the median cost of an R01 has increased substantially (Figure 7).
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Figure 7 illustrates that the median cost of R01 awards has increased approximately 85 percent since FY 1995. Since FY 2004, the number of grants receiving $500,000 or more in total costs has gone from 5 percent of the total number of awards to 19 percent of the total awarded R01s. The number of grants receiving $250,000 or less in total costs has declined from 20 percent of the total awards to 8 percent.
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Figure 8 shows that relative funding levels of most NIDDK extramural research categories have remained fairly stable since FY 2003. These data were presented to the NIDDK's Advisory Council in May 2012 in the context of the NIDDK's core values. The NIDDK core values emphasize maintaining a strong investigator initiated R01 program, preserving a stable pool of talented new investigators, supporting key clinical studies and trials (support is generally represented in the Initiatives and Contracts categories), and continuing strong support of training and career development programs. Figures 9 to 12 illustrate other examples of how the NIDDK's portfolio has reflected NIDDK core values over time.
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Figure 9 shows that the number of Principal Investigators (PIs) supported by at least one R01 remained relatively stable between FYs 2003 and 2009. In FYs 2010 and 2011, there were increases in the numbers of PIs supported with an NIDDK R01. It should be noted that in FY 2008 NIH, for the first time, began making multiple principal investigator R01 awards to support team science projects. The observed increases in numbers of PIs supported by the NIDDK in FYs 2010 and 2011 are largely attributable to multiple principal investigator R01 awards. The subsequent declines in FYs 2012-2015 are likely due in large part to paylines that became more stringent (i.e., after FY 2011) and inflationary pressures in the context of flat or declining budgets.
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Figure 10 shows that while application rates for New Investigators have remained fairly high, there was a deceleration in the number of New Investigator awards between FYs 2003 and 2006. Starting in FY 2007, the NIH and the NIDDK established new policies focused on New Investigators and these policies appear effective in mitigating downward pressures on New Investigator awards. The decrease in number of New Investigator awards in FY 2012 reflects a decrease in the number of applications from New Investigators that year. Numbers of New Investigator applications and awards recovered somewhat in FY 2013 through FY 2015, although in FY 2015 the number of New Investigator awards did not keep pace with increased numbers of applications and in fact there was a slight decline in the number of New Investigator awards. In addition, in FY 2012 NIH and NIDDK began focusing on Early Stage Investigators (ESIs; see definition of and benefits conveyed to ESIs on the NIH "New and Early Stage Investigator Policies"), which is a subset of New Investigators (see table associated with Figure 2 and Figures 11 and 12). It should be noted that the data in this chart count applications and awards, not persons.
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Comparison of Figures 10 and 11 shows that while the subset of ESI applications fell in FY 2012 essentially in proportion to the total drop in New Investigator applications, the proportional drop in number of awards to ESIs was not as great. This is attributable in part to the NIDDK's differential payline for ESI applications (see Figure 2 and the "NIDDK Policies Related to First-Time Investigator Support" at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/new_investigators/index.htm). The number of ESI awards in FY 2013 was essentially flat compared with the number of ESI awards in FY 2012, and the number of ESI awards in FY 2014 increased approximately 54 percent compared to FY 2013 ESI award numbers. In FY 2015, the number of ESI awards dipped slightly compared to FY 2014; however the number of ESI awards in FY 2015 remains over 30 percent higher than the number in FY 2013.
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Figure 12 shows that the NIDDK's differential payline for ESIs from FY 2012 to FY 2015 (see Figure 2 and the "NIDDK Policies Related to First-Time Investigator Support" at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/new_investigators/index.htm) has been effective in continuing to enhance ESI representation among New Investigator awards.
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Figure 13 demonstrates that the NIDDK commits a substantial proportion of its research funding to the support of clinical research involving human subjects. For the purpose of this analysis, we used the definition described in Kotchen et al, JAMA 2004 Feb; 291(7):836-43 and included all studies coded as using Human Subjects (HS+).
Figures 14A to 14D demonstrate that the NIDDK's commitment to training and developing the careers of the next generation of scientists remains strong. Figure 14A shows that overall support of training and career development programs has increased since FY 2003 and that the slight deceleration of T awards support was offset by an increase in support of F awards (by design). Figures 14B and D illustrate that the numbers of NIDDK T awards and associated training slots have decreased somewhat since FY 2012 as the NIDDK enhanced support of F awards. Figure 14C shows that while the numbers of NIDDK K08 (Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award) awards decreased between FYs 2003 and 2013, the numbers of K01 (Mentored Research Scientist Development Award) and K23 (Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award) increased. The NIDDK will continue to monitor carefully its training and career development programs to ensure appropriate balance.
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Note: T32 awards made in FY 2015 continue into FY 2016. The total numbers of T32 slots are reported at the end of the award period. Therefore, the FY 2015 information on T32 slots will not be available until later in FY 2016; thus, unlike the previous charts, FY 2015 data are not included here.
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