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Amgen earnings rose 3% vs. a year earlier to $1.89 a share. Analysts had seen a 5% drop. Sales, which Wall Street expected to be flat, grew 5% to $4.8 billion.
The biotech said 2013 revenue will be "at the upper end" of the range of $17.8 billion to $18.2 billion, with EPS at $7.30-$7.45. Consensus called for sales of $18 billion and earnings of $7.29.
U.S. sales of Amgen's drugs, led by neutropenia treatments Neulasta and Neupogen along with rheumatoid-arthritis drug Enbrel, did better relative to consensus than foreign. However, in an e-mail to clients ISI Group analyst Mark Schoenebaum noted that a one-time Medicaid adjustment added at least $185 million to revenue in Q2, accounting for much of the beat.
Amgen is the biggest member of IBD's highly rated Medical-Biomed/Biotech industry. Its shares have risen 29% this year, though that lags the group's leaders such as Celgene (CELG), up 85%.
Amgen fell 2% late after closing nearly 2% higher at 111.20.
Pfizer Managing Decline
Earlier Tuesday, Enbrel's co-marketer Pfizer (PFE) reported adjusted EPS of 56 cents, down 5% but beating estimates by a penny. Sales fell 7% to $13 billion, in line with consensus. Pfizer, beset by patent losses the last few years, guided full-year sales of $50.8 billion to $52.8 billion, down from $56.9 billion last year, with EPS holding steady in the $2.10-$2.20 range.
The report followed Pfizer's announcement Monday that it's splitting one of its two major divisions. The company had already parsed its massively diverse businesses into a "value" portion and an "innovation" portion, which investors generally took as a sign that it would eventually divide into two separate companies. The new restructuring will further split the innovation branch into a division that includes vaccines, cancer drugs and consumer health care, and another that includes all other drugs whose patents are good past 2015.
"The oncology business and the vaccine business have a very distinct culture," CEO Ian Read told analysts Tuesday. "They are smaller businesses that I wanted to make sure didn't get subsumed into a large primary-care business."
Read also said that after an advisory panel to the European Commission last week voted against approving its new rheumatoid-arthritis pill there, Pfizer will spend the next few years gathering safety data before it resubmits its application. Xeljanz was launched in the U.S. earlier this year.
Pfizer's stock rose 0.4% to close at 29.67.
Januvia Sales Solid
Another big pharma, Merck (MRK), said revenue dropped 11% to $11 billion, slightly under analysts' consensus of $11.2 billion. Profit fell 20% vs. last year due to patent losses, but the 84 cents a share beat estimates by 2 cents.
Going into Q2, Wall Street was buzzing about Merck's Januvia/Janumet diabetes franchise, which provides about 10% of the drug giant's revenue. In March, the FDA said it was scrutinizing unpublished data pointing to a possible link between Januvia and pancreatic cancer, leading to fears that doctors would be more reluctant to prescribe the drug.
Nonetheless, U.S. sales in this category beat consensus by rising 8.6% vs. a year earlier. Sales outside the U.S. rose a surprisingly weak 2%, but Merck executives on the analyst conference call blamed foreign-exchange rates, and said operating sales rose 11%. Nonetheless, the currency issue is serious enough that Merck cut its 2013 revenue forecast for that reason. It now sees a 5%-6% drop from last year's $47.3 billion, vs. earlier guidance of a 3% slide.
Merck affirmed its EPS guidance of $3.45-$3.55 vs. last year's $3.82. Merck shares rose initially but closed down 0.6% at 48.05.


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Melbourne, May 14 (ANI): Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds has one week and a handful of Indian Premier League games to force his way into the Ashes squad.
Symonds has three Twenty20 matches for the Deccan Chargers to win over the national selectors and unseat fellow all rounders Shane Watson or Andrew McDonald in the touring party to be named next Wednesday.
Symonds, who turns 34 next month, still has that X-factor quality that has allowed him to be easily forgiven for sins that would have ended a lesser cricketer's career.
His selection for June's World Twenty20 showed he is still well thought of and skipper Ricky Ponting has shown enormous faith in him in the past.
"He's coming to the Twenty20 tournament, so I guess that's another opportunity to stake a claim for the Ashes," Fox Sports quoted vice-captain Michael Clarke, as saying.
"I'd definitely support him if he was selected," Clarke added.
Symonds' path to the Ashes looked to have been cleared when Watson injured his groin in the United Arab Emirates this month. But Cricket Australia medical staff cleared him of a serious injury on Wednesday.
The other piece in the puzzle is Andrew McDonald.
The Victorian won a fan in Ponting by sticking to his role with the ball in Australia's surprise 2-1 Test series win in South Africa in March.
He also showed signs of finding his feet with the bat with a half century in the final Test in Cape Town although his talents are not of the same calibre as Watson and Symonds.
The rest of the squad looks to be fairly straight forward. (ANI)

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eCommerce in Sri Lanka
Kaymu welcomes you to the comprehensive report on modern day e-commerce trends in Sri Lanka. What the future of e-commerce holds in the forthcoming era can be defined by the connected consumers, however Kaymu has created this report based on the geo-targeted e-commerce trends across Sri Lanka by carrying out an in-depth analysis of the trends demonstrated by the e-commerce community in Sri Lanka during the recent couple of years. This report intends to educate e-commerce entrepreneurs as well as those who are, in any other way, associated with this rapidly developing industry in the region.
The e-commerce industry is profoundly impacted by the rise of social networks and the proliferation of mobile devices at an enormously large scale. Since mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have made a vast number of choices and plenty of information available at fingertips, consumers are leaving behind traces and records of their behaviors, preferences and interests; and this report aims to capture and analyze all these trends.
As modern e-commerce strategies across the globe are a result of the online activity of consumers and the resulting data record, it is a good idea for current as well as future e-commerce entrepreneurs to study this report and consequently craft effectual strategies for their online businesses. The market dynamics mentioned in the report are at the epicenter of key developments that we believe, define the e-commerce trends for the modern day and provide a sound basis for future forecasting.
Kaymu, the largest online marketplace of Sri Lanka aims on providing a single platform to buyers and sellers across the globe to buy/sell products with the ease of a few mouse-clicks. Kaymu has multiple e-commerce domains spread across many countries worldwide. Backed by the world's largest Internet incubator, Rocket Internet, this online marketplace has been successful in generating substantial amount of traffic on all its domains worldwide.
Through the research conducted by Kaymu and the facts collated, it can be observed that the population falling between the age brackets of 25-34 years account for the highest number of users, with the 35-44 and 18-24 bracket falling at second and third places respectively. One of the primary reasons behind this observation is the fact that people falling in the age bracket of 25-34 years are more inclined towards technology and its usage. These people are at the forefront of technological revolution and are more open towards online shopping.
Interest of people in e-commerce among various age brackets in Sri Lanka
If we look at the overall e-commerce activity in terms of gender and compare the males vs females ratio for e-commerce in Sri Lanka, we can observe that out of the total e-commerce activities carried out, 68% comprised of males, with females involved in only 32% of the total. However, if we compare the average e-commerce conversion rate1 between the two genders, we will be amazed to figure out that it was nearly similar.
Activity of male vs female in e-commerce across Sri Lanka
E-commerce Conversion Rate: The percentage of website visitors that actually buy online. For example, if hundred visitors landed on a website and only two of them purchased the product, the e-Commerce conversion rate would be 2%.
Colombo being the capital as well as metropolitan city of Sri Lanka, prevails the list of yearly e-commerce activity in the country with 31% of total traffic followed by Kandy at 16%. Galle which is less populated as compared to Colombo and Kandy, stands at third place with 13% of the country's total e-commerce activity each year. Other cities with the highest inclination towards e-commerce following Colombo, Kandy and Galle include Kurunegela and Moratuwa with 8% and 7% respectively.
60% of the e-commerce transactions2 are carried out in three major cities of Sri Lanka.
- Colombo
- Kandy
- Galle
Statistics showing geo-targeted e-commerce trends in Sri Lanka
By classifying modern day e-commerce trends in Sri Lanka with respect to users' interests, Kaymu observed that technophiles3 lead the list with 7% of the total e-commerce activity in the country, followed by TV lovers with 6%, news junkies & avid readers with 5%, shutterbugs and South Asian film fans4 with 4.5%, shoppers and travel buffs with 4%, mobile enthusiasts and movie lovers with 3.5% and music lovers/world music fans with 3% share of the total e-commerce activity across Sri Lanka.
There are several other classifications that consist of less than 3% share of the shopping profile. The following graph shows more than 65% of the major affinity categories for e-commerce in Sri Lanka.
E-commerce trends in Sri Lanka with respect to affinity
Technophiles: People who are enthusiastic about new technology.
Shutterbugs: Enthusiastic photographers, who love to take and upload pictures. Work around photography and may also work as professional photographers.
Movie Lovers: People who love to watch movies on a regular basis, are up-to-date on upcoming movies and have in-depth knowledge about movie celebrities.
Music Lovers: People interested in a specific type of music genre (for example: rock, trance, classical, or pop), watching movies, are up-to-date with music industry news and events.
TV Lovers: People who follow television dramas and shows on a regular basis.
E-commerce trends across Sri Lanka pertaining to in-market segment have remained much inclined towards electronics and mobile phones lately. The facts show that online customers in Sri Lanka are mostly interested in searching about and purchasing consumer electronics & mobile phones, followed by used motor vehicles, employment, apparel & accessories, real estate/residential properties for sale, education/post-secondary education, travel/hotels & accommodations, dating services, computers & peripherals and motor vehicles by brand respectively.
E-commerce trends in Sri Lanka with respect to market segment
While conducting analysis of Sri Lanka's e-commerce trends with respect to user behavior, it has been concluded that the conversion rate of returning visitors5 has remained double than the first time visitors. To be more specific: it is 130% more than that of the new customers.
Moreover, the average session duration for the new visitors6 is 3 minutes, whereas for the returning visitors, it is 6.5 minutes. There are several reasons for high session time7 and better conversion rate for return visitors. A few important reasons are:
Out of the total e-commerce visits in a year, 51% are estimated to be new visitors, whereas the remaining 49% are returning visitors. One of the reasons for considerably good percentage of returning visitors is the low number of e-commerce competitors in Sri Lanka. Visitors have limited options available for online shopping stores.
|User Type
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|E-commerce conversion rate
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|Returning visitor
|3.00% - 3.40%
New vs returning visitors segmentation with session duration and conversion rate
Visitors who spend 0 to 10 seconds on e-commerce websites account for the highest percentage. As per findings, reasons for spending less than 10 seconds for the majority percentage of the traffic are:
Most of the e-commerce transactions fall under 61-600 seconds sessions.
|Session Duration
|Page Views
|0-10 seconds
|11-30 seconds
|31-60 seconds
|61-180 seconds
|181-600 seconds
|601-1800 seconds
|1801+ seconds
With regards to frequency, all sessions with count one are new visitors on e-commerce websites, however those with count equal to or greater than 2 are repeat visitors Kaymu e-commerce survey10 indicates that:
|Count of Sessions
|Page Views
|1 - 2
|3 - 5
|6 - 8
When it comes to operating systems used for browsing e-commerce websites in Sri Lanka, Microsoft Windows leads the list and accounts for 73% of the total sessions, the average time duration and the e-commerce conversion rate of Microsoft Windows are also quite high. Microsoft Windows is closely followed by the Android operating system with 18% sessions. The rest of e-commerce traffic in Sri Lanka comes from other operating systems including iOS, Macintosh, Linux, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Nokia OS.
With rapid evolution of technology and the advent of new and advanced software, people make use of different internet browsers to surf the World Wide Web. Our research reveals that Google Chrome is the most popular internet browser in Sri Lanka with 57% of the total e-commerce visitors using this software, followed by Mozilla Firefox at second place with 20% of the total e-commerce visitors in Sri Lanka. The rest of the 23% e-commerce traffic in Sri Lanka comes via Android Browser, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Opera Mini, UC Browser, Safari (inn-app) and Maxthon respectively. Moreover, Maxthon, Opera Mini and Google Chrome lead the list of the average session duration of e-commerce users, respectively. The conversion rate of Opera Mini and Maxthon remained the highest, followed closely by Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox
Safari (inn-app): When a page is viewed using Mobile Safari within another app. For example, if you use the facebook iOS app, when you click on a shared blog post, it will open the site, without passing over to the Mobile Safari app. This visit would then show as "Safari (in app)".
As a result of the research conducted by Kaymu with regards to devices used for browsing e-commerce websites each year, personal computers such as desktops and laptops lead the list with 75% of total annual traffic followed by mobile phones and tablets with 21% and 4% respectively.
E-commerce conversion statistics with respect to devices prove that visitors prefer using mobile devices and tablets to gather product information, conduct research about the product specs and compare prices, whereas they find it more convenient to use desktop personal computers and laptops to finally make an online purchase.
Further analyzing mobile traffic (which is 21% of overall e-commerce traffic in Sri Lanka) reveals that Apple iPhones remain the most used mobile device with 13% of the total sessions followed by Apple iPads with 7% sessions and Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 with 4% sessions. Other Samsung galaxy phones, Huawei Honor 3C and many other smartphones were also used throughout the year in e-commerce sessions and conversions. Although Android phones are more common and affordable yet Apple iOS devices are leading the mobile e-commerce market.
Furthermore it is imperative to note that e-commerce traffic from mobile devices in Sri Lanka is expected to increase due to the launch of 3G and 4G services in the country.
Free channels are more conversion oriented because unpaid visitors have somehow themselves initiated the buying process, or showed interest to know more about the product(s). The interest is initiated by subscribing to the newsletters, establishing connection with the website's social pages, or specifically searching for a product on search engines. Search engines publish paid advertisements on search engine result pages (SERPs), but, organic results are considered more trustworthy and authentic as compared to the paid ads; this, in turn, results in better conversion rate for organic traffic as compared to the paid search ads.
Let's explain each channel to have better insight of each traffic medium.
Tip: E-commerce professionals looking for increasing the overall conversion rate should focus more on free traffic generating channels. Specifically, search engine optimization (SEO), increasing newsletter subscriber base and social media marketing.
Sessions: Number of times users visited websites. For example: If a user visited a website three times, then it would be counted as three sessions. If five users visited a website seven times, it will be counted as seven sessions.
As per findings of Kaymu Sri Lanka, hardly 14% of the total online customers would prefer to buy from the website they have ordered before (unless and until they had some issue with product quality or delivery). Rest 86% would like to conduct online research and make price comparisons, look for package deals and special promotional offers before they could finally make a decision.
Brand loyal VS Promiscuous Customers
Sri Lankan people usually make online purchases between 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM. According to the research, almost half of the total e-commerce sessions in Sri Lanka are recorded at timings between 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM.
Apart from the traffic, this peak time also has the maximum e-commerce transactions. The time during afternoon and evening has maximum traffic and orders as there is no considerable fluctuation in conversion rates of hours with more traffic.
Traffic during hour of day
If we have a look at the peak web traffic days in Sri Lanka, we'll figure out that Tuesday remains the busiest day in terms of e-commerce traffic followed by Wednesday and Monday.
>Change in traffic depending on the days of week
Since e-commerce traffic does not define the peak conversion days, Kaymu conducted a separate research and collected facts and figures to find out that Monday and Friday are the top e-commerce conversion days in Sri Lanka with Monday leading the list, followed closely by Friday.
Change in conversion rate depending on the day of week
After having a look at the quarterly trends, it has been found that watches remained the top selling items in Sri Lanka throughout the year alongside clothing. Moreover, mobile phones & accessories, jewelry, electronic devices and health & beauty products have also grabbed significant shares of online business in Sri Lanka during the recent couple of years.
Each year, watches led the list in the first quarter, followed by phone accessories and clothing.
During the second quarter, Clothing peaked the list of top selling products followed by watches and electronic devices.
Watches remained dominant even in the third quarter followed closely by phone accessories.
In the fourth and final quarter of the year, phone accessories peaked in the list of top selling products in Sri Lanka followed by watches.
Just like seasons have their impact on the type e-commerce transactions around the world, the special occasions also greatly boost up the sales. Occasions such as Tamil New Year (Sinhala and Buddhist new year during mid April), Holi, New Year and Full Moon Poya Day festivals provide great opportunities to e-commerce entrepreneurs across Sri Lanka to generate adequate profits and sales.
There is a considerable boost in sales of occasion related products each year. However, Sri Lanka being a tropical country with no major influence of season on sales of apparel. As per the research, Saree is the most common, popular, and in-deamnd traditional women dress in Sri Lanka.
During cricket world cup 2015 (end of first quarter and start of second quarter), there was larger number of sales for Sri Lanka cricket t-shirts, cricket bats, balls, cricket kits and accessories. Also, sales of football related products started to grow by the end of second quarter of 2014, owing to the upcoming FIFA World Cup.
The top payment methods in Sri Lanka are:
As per Google Trends for the year 2013, 2014 and 2015. Mobiles and dresses remain much more in demand across Sri Lanka as compared to laptops and watches.
Top & rising web searches related to shopping across Sri Lanka, from 2013 to 2015.
'Mobile' related top search queries in Sri Lanka, for the recent years include "mobile phone", "mobile phones", "samsung", "samsung mobile", "mobile facebook" and "nokia mobile". "Mobile phone" being the top searched keyword of the year makes it evident that a large number of consumers visited online shopping stores and marketplaces to find out about latest mobile phone models hitting the market.
Laptops are among the top searched electronics products in Sri Lanka along with the mobile phones.The top search queries related to laptops in Sri Lanka include "laptop lanka", "laptop sri lanka", "hp", "hp laptop", "laptop price" and "dell laptop".
The rising (trending) keywords in Sri Lanka with regards to the laptop category are "ikman.lk laptop", "abans", "abans laptop", "lenovo laptop", "lenovo" and "abans sri lanka".
Watches are not just among the top searched items in Sri Lanka, but are also among the top selling online products. The top searches with regards to watches include "watches sri lanka", "ebay watches", "ladies watches", "titan watches", "titan" and "wrist watches".
The top trending (rising) keywords with regards to watches in Sri Lanka include "ikman.lk watches", "edifice watches", "ebay watches", "ladies watches", "mens watches" and "rolex watches prices" respectively.
Clothing remains one of the leading product categories in Sri Lanka's e-commerce sector. It has been observed that "dress up", "girls", "girls dress", "games", "without dress" and "dress up games" remained top search queries during all four quarters of each year.
The rising (trending) keywords for this category in Sri Lanka include "lace dress", "long dress", "frock designs", "saree designs", "dress styles" and "party dress" respectively.
The following graph shows overall search trends for Sri Lanka on Google.lk. A closer look on the trend shows more than double volume as compared to the start of 2013, which means, at-least 100% growth in search engine searches across Sri Lanka.
As per Google Transparency Report, fraction of worldwide traffic for Google search in Sri Lanka is normalized roughly between 25 and 45.
According to the in-depth e-commerce analysis conducted by Kaymu Sri Lanka, it can be concluded that the average conversion rate from all traffic channels lays within 1.30% to 3.40% (reference: New vs Return Traffic). This conversion rate is established when the customers add products to the cart and confirm the order.
However, there are also some online visitors who add products to the cart but do not actually confirm it. The visitors, who do not confirm the order after adding products to the cart, account for about 52% of the converting traffic. These visitors spend time on e-commerce websites and add products to the cart but log out and abandon their shopping carts. On the other hand, 48% of the remaining converting visitors reach the final phase of payment and complete the purchase procedure.
Estimated percentage of confirmed and paid orders
Sri Lankan e-Commerce market is expected to achieve more than 72% growth in e-commerce transactions in the near future. This consensus is based on 10% exponential growth in e-commerce transactions for each passing quarter.
Effective growth during 2014 and expected growth for 2015 and 2016


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Anyone have issues with their heel bone?
I broke my left heel (calcaneus) 11 years ago and have subtalar arthritis as a result. My ankle gets more and more sore as the day goes on to the point where it eventually feels like nothing is there.
I've started riding switch more to help (i'm regular footed), but am curious if anyone else on the board has gone through this? If so, how have you managed? Did you change your style at all?
At 33, I refuse to let this keep me from riding. But I had a major setback Sunday (couldn't walk after I pulled my boot off), so I feel like it may be time to try something different...other than not snowboarding of course :)
right after snowboarding that day the right edge for my inside right heel hurt so bad i thought i fractured it, also hurt to step on it or put on my shoes.
I have never broken anything (possible fractured rib right now, though), but have developed plantar fasciitis in my right heel. I ride regular, so I'm mostly fine when I ride. But whenever I try to practice switch, that's when my heel hurts more and more. I can barely walk at the end of the day. Taking my boot off is a bitch, and after a few hours of driving back... I hop walk. It hurts me to walk for a few days. Obviously, it's worth it.
I go running often enough that if I just don't do switch very much, I'm pretty much fine. I also do my old physical therapy exercises from after I had surgery on my ankle. Do you have any physical therapy exercises you can do to help with the pain?
Can you describe more what the pain feels like, and where? If it's similarish, I can share what I do to help.
A little over 13 years ago I got hit by a car, snapped my left shin in half. I have a rod that runs the length of my shin inside the big bone. (they took my knee apart and drilled all the way down to my ankle) When I first got my own gear, I got some very stiff older Vans (Hi-standard) at the end of the day, my left ankle (I'm goofy) would kill, I think that super stiff boot was wearing out my weak ankle. I switched to Nitro Anthems this year and the problem has almost completely disappeared. These are very soft boots, and took me awhile to get used to the lag in response vs. the stiffer boots. It was really no big deal after a few runs, and the lack of major pain at the end of the day is wonderful. Softer boots may help, or something like super feet inserts to cushion the heel better.
I never had proper PT after this happened. I was a senior in college and the doctors didn't seem too concerned with rehab (surprisingly). I've noticed my ankle can roll easily so I've been trying to work more on my balance with that foot lately.
If you already have subtalar joint arthritis you might want to consider having that joint surgically fused.
I think with the softer boots there is less resistance to flex that doesn't work my lower leg/ankle near as hard. Have you tried any inserts to cushion the impacts? They also make wedges designed to reduce heel lift, might give those a shot. Obviously I'm not a Dr. I'm a construction guy so the only "real" advise I can legally dispense is "Duct tape that bad boy up and git r done" :laugh:
Other then that I'd say see a real Doc.
Did the fracture go into the joint?
Joint fusion is like absolute last resort, because they don't work very often. And if they get rid of the local pain, they'll usually cause other problems like knee or hip pain.
Cartilage needs movement in order to get the nutrients it needs, so get your foot mobilized everyday. Put it in hot water and get someone to pull on your heel and do like figure 8s on the joint.
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission first suggested four years ago that public companies could eventually use the global standards, known as IFRS. Now, however, the agency's staff has delivered a new working paper describing the idea of "condorsement." It's supposed to be a combination of "convergence" and "endorsement," but it might be better named "rejectstinance," for obstinately rejecting a global standard.
The SEC plan would have key elements of IFRS brought into the U.S. accounting literature, which would remain supreme. The country's standards-setter, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, would remain as the entity empowered to decide which rules U.S. companies must follow.
Major Canadian companies thought they'd be moving away from the days when, due to the differences between U.S. and Canadian generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), their financial statements weren't directly comparable with their southern peers' books. If the U.S. takes the "condorsement" approach, however, they'll be back in the same boat.
(To be fair, Peter Martin, the director of accounting standards at the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, says that Canada decided to embrace the global standard regardless of whether the U.S. went along or not.)
There are some distinct differences between IFRS and both U.S. and the old Canadian GAAP. To name a few: IFRS bans an inventory-valuation method that lets companies take advantage of declining costs; IFRS allows profit-boosting reversals of certain writedowns; IFRS makes the cash-flow statement harder to evaluate because interest expense can appear anywhere on it.
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Anthony Scilipoti, the executive vice-president of Veritas Investment Research Corp., sighs and smiles. "They're not going to adopt it until it's Americanized, because they want to be in charge – there's only one way, and that's the American way. Didn't you know that?"
Mr. Scilipoti allows the U.S., which has often been vigorous by Canadian standards in going after its scofflaws, doesn't want to lose that power to oversee its regulation. And indeed, some of the concern about IFRS comes not from regulated companies, which often try their best to soften or evade the accounting rules, but from regulatory hawks.
Jack T. Ciesielski, who runs The Analyst's Accounting Observer, has written to the SEC to express his concern about its approach in "condorsing" IFRS. He's concerned that industry-specific guidance in U.S. GAAP developed over many years is at risk of elimination. "Specialized accounting standards develop for a reason, usually because generalized accounting standards aren't sufficient."
Mr. Ciesielski argues that the European Union's approach to IFRS allows it to "carve out" pieces of the regulatory literature that it thinks are unsuitable, which it has done in one case related to accounting for financial hedges.
"How 'global' are such accounting standards anyway?" he asks. With the EU and U.S. constituting 52 per cent of global market capitalization, nearly half the world would be using a variation of IFRS. "The goal of one set of standards in the whole world is unrealistic, even in the best of circumstances."
When Canada embraced IFRS, it addressed the concerns of small, privately held domestic concerns by creating a "private-company GAAP," while making Canadian public companies adopt IFRS. No such solution seems imminent in the U.S., suggesting that IFRS may be abandoned in the name of not over-burdening small business.
But despite the SEC's reluctance to embrace IFRS for U.S. companies, it has allowed foreign issuers – including Canadian companies – to list on U.S. exchanges if they use the international standards. It was not a privilege extended to companies using Canadian GAAP.
"We haven't stepped backward by IFRS, whether the U.S. [adopts it]or not," Mr. Scilipoti said. Canadian companies' decision to embrace the international standards "opens the door to raise capital to list in the U.S. – you can list nearly anywhere in the world, whether the U.S. comes or not."Report Typo/Error
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- Stan RosenbergMass. State Senate Majority Leader
- Joseph F. WagnerA Mass. representative from Chicopee
- Robert A. DeLeo.Mass. Speaker of the House
- Governor Deval Patrick (Governor of Massachusetts)Governor of Massachusetts
Stop the reinstatement of tolls between exits 1 & 6 on the Mass. Turnpike
The Massachusetts government is planning on reinstating tolls on the Mass Pike from exit 1 to 6 on October 15, 2013. We'd like to repeal the plan. Most people who commute locally on the Mass. Pike will soon pay more than $200 a year to over $900 in tolls just so they can drive back-and-forth to work. With the slow economy, it puts even more pressure on struggling families who are already trying to make ends meet.
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We hope you will also be in attendance at the meetings regarding the reinstatement of tolls on Wednesday, September 10 at Lee High School, or at the MassMutual Center in Springfield on Wednesday, September 12. Both events are being held from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.. We would like to voice our opinions to you in person.
We are not happy about the toll reinstatements. Here are some examples of why these tolls will be taxing to local Western MA families.
Driving from Chicopee to the Holyoke Mall will cost you roughly $133/yr in new tolls. That's $133 more a full-time worker will have to pay to get to work.
A worker who drives from Westfield to Chicopee will have to pay 90 cents for every round trip. For a full-time employee that's roughly $240/year. That can be a car payment for struggling middle class families.
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One hour later, at the party, I walk up the stairs in to a big meeting hall. There are so many people, quite different from the small cafe from before. Everyone is shining and graceful and in my new dress I join that crowd. A few people dance on the varnished floor while others eat at long tables situated around the room. Many people stand talking or watching the dancers in awe, because they in their simple lives have never learned to dance.
A group of my friends meet me in the corner, giggling. I have very few sensible friends, I think that I am sensible for all of us, but one of them. Poppy is sensible and clever. She always knows what to do and is a talentedd performer. The rest of them are slightly mad, crazy, bonkers, psychopathic, you get the idea. Tonight they seem relatively calm, but that's what we thought last time. You do not want to know. So there I am, stood with my friends, and then one of them says,
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Turning we all looked for her new hottie. That's when I saw him. It was the guy from the cafe. This was obviously the man my friend was transfixed on. I turned my head to hide from him. But he must have seen me, because there was a little scream from my freind, then the frantic checking of teeth and hair from all of them.
He introduced himself to us, giving me a smile as he started the small talk. I was too embarrassed to say much, and soon excused myself to get a drink. However, just a few minutes later, he followed me.
"Hello again."
"Um, hi. Look, thanks for this afternoon."
"No problem. I was wondering, whether you would like to go out for dinner sometime."
"Oh," I was so flustered I had to think for a moment before I could actually speak, "Yeah, that would be, great."
He smiled. "Saturday evening? Pick you up at eight?"
"Yeah, um, great."
We chatted, and he told me of his new career as an actor, while I told him about the new film I was doing. My friends swooped down and took me away for details not long after, but I refused to give them any. My cafe man had just asked me out, and I'd said yes. I was happy.