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We are honored to have been named the Top North American Firm...especially in light of the quality of peers in this category," said Steve Pokorny, Director of Institutional Sales at Sterne Agee. "We are proud of our team members who helped make this recognition a reality." First Coverage's industry-leading platform is a web-based software application that simplifies the way the buy-side captures, organizes and evaluates all types of information coming from their sell-side coverage. The company's annual 'Top Performer Awards' are based solely on market performance and are the only truly objective rankings of the value being generated by sell-side institutions available in the market today. "Sterne Agee has been working hard to assemble a team of high-quality analysts, sales people and traders," Pokorny continues.
IN THE OUTDOORS: February offers host of activities
If you are one of those hunters or anglers who thought February was going to give you a chance to catch up on rest before spring fishing, you might want to double check the outdoor calendar. While the largest and likely most fun event is not open to the public, plenty of outdoor-related activities are available to keep us busy. It starts with the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show and Conference (SHOT Show) in Las Vegas and ends with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation's annual Elk Camp in Reno. After taking its wares to Orlando, Fla., in 2007, the SHOT Show has come back here and begins Saturday at the Las Vegas Convention Center. This show is the shooting and hunting industry's largest trade show and is not open to the public. This year marks the show's 30th anniversary, and it's expected to be the largest show to date, with more than 715,000 square feet of exhibit space where buyers from 50 states and 75 countries will be looking for products to put on their shelves or in the pages of their catalogs.
Huizenga sells 50% stake in Dolphins
Bingham McCutchen aids Miami Dolphins deal [Boston] Bringing NFL back to L.A. is dance of leaps & fits [Buffalo] Huizenga sells Pompano Beach marina site for redevelopment [South Florida] Related Cos. gets $1.4B investment [South Florida] CityNorth tops off phase one [Phoenix] .
Steve Almond To Oprah: "I Don't Give A Shit How Many Books You Sell"
You're the world's leading retailer of inspiration. You're the Wal-Mart of Hope. Literature, though, isn't supposed to be a convenient shopping experience. It's a solitary imaginative endeavor aimed at arousing the anguish hidden inside us, the bad news of our hearts. There's no celebrity shrink on hand to dispense hankies, no empathic host to buzz manage our tears. There's no assurance that our frail human experiment will end in triumph by the final commercial break. You tell me, Oprah: should the Savior of Publishing be available with your basic cable package? I can already hear your fans howling for my head. But from where I'm sitting, you're just another zillionaire narcissist for whom fame (the illusion of unconditional love) has become the true goal and your public acts of good merely the means.
UIL realignment results in a tough 5A and a 3A baseball powerhouse
Calallen, Alice, Flour Bluff, Tuloso-Midway and Kingsville will put some miles on their buses as they travel between 100-150 miles to test their collective mettle against three Laredo teams that have been added into their district fray. And in District 31-3A, Sinton, Falfurrias and Robstown won't have to venture four rounds deep into the baseball playoffs to find competition -- it will be right there on the district schedule. Those are only some of the scenarios set into motion with Friday morning's announcement by the University Interscholastic League of its biennial realignment, a process guaranteed to produce interesting matchups. The UIL adjusts its districts, regions and classes for about 1,200 schools every two years based on enrollment figures collected from the Texas Education Agency.
Briefly... CITY/REGION
The lifeless body of an unidentifed woman was found last night inside a house on Crowson Street near Church Lane in East Germantown. Police investigators said it was unclear how the woman had died. So far this year, the city has recorded 51 homicides. At this point last year, there were 71 murders. Man shot during robbery A man was wounded in a shooting Wednesday night during a robbery at a take-out eatery on 29th Street near Harper in Fairmount, police said. The shooting occurred when a struggle developed between the suspect and his victim during which a bullet ricocheted off his cell phone and struck him in the leg. He was treated at a hospital and released. The suspect, carrying a silver handgun, fled south on 29th Street in a blue/green Oldsmobile or Pontiac minivan.
Hackers deface Microsoft.fr
Hackers on Sunday broke into a part of Microsoft's French website, replacing the front page with online graffiti. The intruders were able to access the server that was running 'http://experts.microsoft.fr/', Microsoft confirmed on Monday. The attack was claimed by Turkish hackers using the handle 'TiTHacK', according to Zone-H, a security website that keeps an archive with screenshots of defaced websites. The attackers were likely able to penetrate the server running the website due to faulty configuration, Microsoft said in a statement on Monday. "Microsoft took the appropriate action to resolve the issue and stop any additional criminal activity," the company said. After breaking in, the attackers defaced the Microsoft website, leaving the following note: "Hi Master (: Your System 0wned By Turkish Hackers! redLine ownz y0u! Special Thanx And Gretz RudeBoy |SacRedSeer| The_Bekir And All Turkish HacKers next target: microsoft.com date: 18/06/2006 @ 19:06 WE WERE HERE...." While so-called website defacements still occur often, they have become less high-profile in recent years as other, financially motivated threats take the spotlight.
E-waiter, where's my food?
Restaurants in Europe, the United States and Japan are testing technology that allows diners to order food directly off screens at their tables, instead of depending on fellow human beings to note their choices, sometimes grumpily or erroneously. Companies that sell the "e-menu" technology argue that besides cutting costs, this approach has a novelty value that can lure younger customers and increase revenue with tantalizing photographs of meals. The idea may be only the latest gimmick in a trade that is driven by consumer appetites and where fads help. But at least for now, it appears to be helping business. In Israel, Conceptic, a privately owned start-up company, has already installed the technology in sushi bars, pubs and family restaurants.
Kessler livid after same-sex legislation hits House floor
But within 24 hours it was yanked off the special, or active, calendar and dispatched to the regular one, essentially killing it for this session.An insider told The Register-Herald that a head count revealed as many as 35 Democrats would have voted against and a like number of Republicans were opposed.Kessler, D-Raleigh, who keeps a huge, well-read Bible on his East Wing office desk, raised the specter of employers forced to hire an HIV-positive job applicant in a sensitive work environment such as a dentists office.But Chairwoman Carrie Webster, D-Kanawha, ruled him out of order and wouldnt let him talk.I want a point of order on you! Kessler shot back, and then Webster slammed down the gavel to silence his line of questioning.My son is a dentist, a livid Kessler said afterward. He hires several hygienists.
Belated Firefox patch coming for (another) protocol handling bug
Mozilla security chief Window Snyder says the "jar:" protocol handler issue that currently haunts Firefox will be fixed very soon in the next refresh of the browser. The problem (see previous coverage) is that Firefox's "jar:" protocol handler does not validate the MIME type of the contents of an archive, which are then executed in the context of the site hosting the archive. This can be exploited to conduct cross-site scripting attacks on sites that allow a user to upload certain files (e.g. .zip, .png, .doc, .odt, .txt). [ ALSO SEE: Firefox feature introduces danger ] On the official Mozilla security blog, Snyder explains the vulnerability and attack vector: Firefox supports the Java Archive URI scheme that allows the addressing of the contents of zip archives.
Omaha Organizers Talk About USA Olympic Swimming Trials in February ...
PHOENIX, Arizona, February 6. OMAHA, Neb., isn't a locale that most people would associate with as the host of the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials. Usually, such an event is located in swimming's meccas such as Austin, Indianapolis or the environs of Southern California. But this year, Omaha plans on making a big splash by hosting the Trials in its city. See why Omaha wanted this event and how it went about landing such a prestigious meet in an interview seen on page 23 of the February issue of Swimming World. The president of Omaha's Sports Commission as well as the chairman of the local organizing committee for the Trials provide a glimpse of the preparations and plans for this summer's spectacular. Once having viewed this video, you will get a whole new perspective on how Omaha plans on making its mark on the map of Olympic Trials venues! .
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