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The Buckle, Inc. BKE, +1.87% announced today that comparable store net sales, for stores open at least one year, for the 4-week period ended February 2, 2019 decreased 2.2 percent from comparable store net sales for the 4-week period ended February 3, 2018. Net sales for the 4-week fiscal month ended February 2, 2019 d... |
Comparable store net sales for the 13-week fourth quarter ended February 2, 2019 decreased 0.6 percent from comparable store net sales for the 13-week period ended February 3, 2018. Net sales for the 13-week fiscal fourth quarter ended February 2, 2019 decreased 6.0 percent to $264.4 million compared to net sales of $2... |
Comparable store net sales for the 52-week year-to-date period ended February 2, 2019 decreased 0.9 percent from comparable store net sales for the 52-week period ended February 3, 2018. Net sales for the 52-week fiscal period ended February 2, 2019 decreased 3.1 percent to $885.5 million from net sales of $913.4 milli... |
Due to the 53 [rd] week in fiscal 2017, comparable store net sales for the month, quarter, and year-to-date periods are compared to the 4-week, 13-week, and 52-week periods ended February 3, 2018 while total net sales are compared to the 5-week, 14-week, and 53-week fiscal periods ended February 3, 2018. |
Offering a unique mix of high-quality, on-trend apparel, accessories, and footwear, Buckle caters to fashion-conscious young men and women. Known as a denim destination, each store carries a wide selection of fits, styles, and finishes from leading denim brands, including the Company’s exclusive brand, BKE. Headquarter... |
The plan was for left-hander Chris Narveson to go down to Triple-A Nashville, get stretched out as a starting pitcher and then provide a boost to the Brewers' beleaguered rotation. |
Coming off an injury to the middle finger of his pitching hand, Narveson didn't perform well enough at Nashville (0-1, 7.00 ERA in five starts) to warrant a return to the Brewers. Instead, they recalled him from that rehab assignment, then outrighted him to Nashville, removing him from their 40-man roster. |
The first beta of iOS 6.1.1 doesn't block the popular new jailbreak, though Apple could be saving that feature for the final version. |
The evasi0n jailbreak is so far safe from the clutches of iOS 6.1.1. |
Released by Apple to developers yesterday, the first beta of the iOS update tweaks Apple's Maps app for Japanese users but otherwise is light on changes. And as tweeted by iOS hacker pod2g, the beta does not block the evasi0n jailbreak, as some feared it might. However, he cautioned people who want to install the evasi... |
6.1.1 beta (10B311) does not fix the jailbreak. It'll probably happen in a future revision. Don't upgrade though, evasi0n won't let you jb. |
Evasi0n is able to jailbreak every iOS 6 and 6.1 device currently on the market, including the iPhone 5, the iPad Mini, the fourth-generation iPad, and the fifth-generation iPod Touch. The tool itself also is considered simple to use, certainly in comparison with other jailbreak methods. |
Apple is likely to try to block evasi0n with the final release of iOS 6.1.1. |
The jailbreak has proven extremely popular, used at least 1.7 million times in just the first day after its release on Monday. The tool was initially scheduled to debut on Sunday. And that's when Apple tweaked its online jailbreak warning page. |
The page cautions potential jailbreakers of the various hazards of the practice, including instability, security vulnerabilities, shortened battery life, unreliable voice and data, disruption of services, and the inability to apply future software updates. |
Apple also warns that jailbreaking violates the end-user license, and as such, the company may deny service to any device running "unauthorized software." |
Treasury prices are falling and yields are rising, but exchange traded fund investors can mitigate the hit in their bonds all0cations if they move down to short-end of the yield curve. |
Interest rates at various points on the yield curve are hovering around their historic lows, with the benchmark 10-year Treasury providing a 2.20% yield, writes Roger Nusbaum for TheStreet. |
Considering the extremely loose Fed monetary policies coupled with the extensive quantitative easing programs, higher interest rates is an inevitable road we will have to deal with. |
ETF investors, though, may utilize funds with short-term maturities to help mitigate the risk since shorter-dated bonds are less price sensitive to interest rate moves. |
For more information on bond funds, visit our bond ETFs category. |
The upgrade on the A66 at Long Newton will go ahead, despite rumours the project could be scrapped. |
The scheme is one of eight major road improvements in the country under threat because of spending cuts. |
A report in a national newspaper this week claimed the projects could be postponed because of the need to divert more money than expected into the crumbling rail network. |
But today a Highways Agency spokesman denied the schemes had been axed. He said: "They are in the Government's Targeted Programme of Improvements and will go ahead. |
"We are planning to start work on them during this financial year. They are at different stages of development, and in the light of the Spending Review we may need to consider when we start on site." |
The Treasury will complete the Spending Review in July. |
In December, ministers agreed to a grade-separated junction at Long Newton, and a new link road between the village and Elton. |
The decision for the controversial road junction at an accident blackspot came five months after a public inquiry. A starting date has not yet been fixed for the £790,000 project. |
I have been looking at the show directory for next week's Internet Telephony Conference & Expo and am very happy to report this event will be one of the best we have produced. When I saw the draft of the directory on the way to the printer I immediately asked my team to have it turned into a PDF so everyone can see it ... |
Most of the links below will get you directly to the PDF which is 17 MB in size so please don't download over dial-up or wireless where you pay per minute. |
My show letter is a great place to start as it gives you the details of what is happening at the show. |
All the top names are in the show... Cisco, Avaya, Time Warner Cable, Mitel, Interactive Intelligence and Dialogic. In addition, the most important open-source communications companies will be exhibiting. |
One of the most fascinating advances in political systems worldwide is the advent of technology like blogs and other web 2.0 initiatives such as social networking and video. But even the old technologies like SMS are coming into play as candidates look for any and every advantage to distance themselves from one another... |
As you can imagine, with so much technology swirling around, making candidates more productive and efficient, we at TMC became mezmerized by it all. It got so interesting to us in fact we decided to categorize all of the stories we ran having to do with election technology. Afer a while we realized we had developed an ... |
I made a logical leap in my headline -- inferring you can get famous -- in this case, written up in Popular Science Magazine if you come to TMC's Los Angeles ITEXPO conference in just over two weeks. Let me explain. |
About a year and a half ago, Ari Zoldan, CEO of Launch 3 Communications -- a company installing global WiMAX networks came to ITEXPO and won an Toyota FJ Cruiser at the show. Now he seems to be popping up everywhere. |
I just read an article in Popular Science Magazine (a great pub BTW) where Zoldan in his new capacity as CEO of Quantum Networks, LLC explains to inventors the best way to go about getting VC money from a firm like his. A few points to consider are -- call the CEO directly and don't give up majority interest. |
Here is the article (look to the right side of the page). |
Oh, and in just over two weeks, ITEXPO will be in full force and this year we are giving away a Toyota Prius to one lucky winner. |
If you thought the battle for the newest computer input method was between gesture-based, keyboard, speech, etc -- you would be missing out on one of the more recent advancements in computer input which is being used by the disabled. And that would be your tongue. Using a magnet and sensors, disabled people can communi... |
I spent some time watching my tongue move in a mirror as I imagined the potentially infinite ways the tongue can move. It is quite possible that the tongue could become a more common method of input but then again, the idea of connecting a magnet to the tip of your tongue is probably not so appealing to the masses. |
What is the future of communications? One acknowledged thought leader in our field is Thomas Howe and his consulting company which bears his name is the place you go when you want to know. Howe and I were recently on a panel together at a conference in San francisco and I was very impressed with what he had to say so I... |
Some of the takeaways from our discussion are that voice mashups are becoming more common and voice will transcend CEBP or communications enabled business processes to the realm of the consumer as well. As this happens, communications becomes the condiment to virtually all applications. |
The excitement here is how this will happen. |
A member of the opposition movement Other Russia has died in prison after reportedly falling from a window, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. |
Prison officials say Rim Shaigalimov, 52, committed suicide, but his relatives think he was killed. |
His wife, Lyudmila Shaigalimova, told RFE/RL that his death "must have been an order from above." She added that the officials “can assert what they will -- that it was an accident or whatever, but that’s a lie. He was killed." |
Shaigalimova said she and her family saw his body at the mortuary. "It was absolutely clear that the death was caused by suffocation," she said. |
She said no prison officials had time to meet with her or other family members to discuss his death. |
Shaigalimov was serving a five-year sentence in Krasnoyarsk Krai for fighting with a police officer. He had been in prison for seven months. |
Shaigalimov was one of the leading Other Russia activists in the central region of Krasnoyarsk, and had led or participated in more than 100 protests, including some in which he demonstrated alone. |
Police prevented NGOs from demonstrating in front of parliament. |
The Azerbaijani parliament has adopted a law on nongovernmental organizations, but eliminated several restrictive amendments that were opposed by NGO officials and international human rights groups, RFE/RL's Azerbaijan Service reports. |
NGOs and international rights groups argued that the amendments would increase the government's control over civil society in Azerbaijan. |
Some parliament deputies labeled the legislation as "progressive" while others expressed concern about the recent trend of changes viewed as undemocratic to the religion law and the mass media law. |
The rejected proposals would have banned NGOs from receiving more than 50 percent of their funding from abroad; required all NGOs to register with the state; and prohibited the activities of foreign NGOs in Azerbaijan unless their activities were based on a "relevant international agreement." |
About 100 people representing civil society groups began a protest on June 30 in front of the parliament building that was forcibly interrupted by plainclothes police, who destroyed the protesters’ signs. |
Three NGO staffers were allowed to deliver a resolution expressing their opposition to the restrictive amendments to parliament. |
Meanwhile, parliament also adopted amendments to the religion law which prohibit people educated in foreign countries from heading religious bodies, changes that were opposed by religious groups. |
Picketers from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers stand outside Lobby 7 on Wednesday afternoon. Members of the electricians’ union have been protesting MIT’s contracting practices for over five weeks. |
The Undergraduate Association has reversed its stance and is providing detailed vote counts on the Senate and Class of 2013 elections, UA Election Commissioner Sun K. Kim ’11 said on Wednesday. |
At 6:56 a.m., long before most undergrads stumble out of bed, an electrician from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) stepped off the bus at 77 Mass Ave. He joined the group of workmen waiting on the stairs of Lobby 7, all of whom shared his same shift. At 7 a.m. sharp, his workday began — not th... |
MIT Undergoes Reaccreditation Visit: a Breeze! |
On Wednesday the New England Association of Schools and Colleges completed its review of MIT, as part of MIT’s bid for reaccreditation. Before the NEASC’s arrival, President Susan Hockfield noted in her State of the Institute address that she hadn’t “broken a sweat” over the outcome. |
MIT’s endowment investments lost 17 percent of their value in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 index dropped 28 percent of its value over the same period. This was the first fiscal year since 2003 that net investment return to the endowment was negative. In the 2000s, MIT’s endowmen... |
The research builds on Yan's previous work on the effects of stress on neuronal communication and function. |
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A University at Buffalo neuroscientist has received $2 million to find out how stress affects cognition and mental function. |
Zhen Yan, PhD, professor of physiology and neuroscience in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, was awarded a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health. |
The goal of the grant is to explore the molecular basis of the complex effects of stress. In particular, Yan will investigate factors that determine the switch from the positive effects of acute stress to the negative effects of prolonged stress, and how they might be mitigated. The work builds on Yan’s previous work o... |
In particular, Yan and her colleagues will explore in animal models whether that transition may be mediated by the loss of key signaling molecules. The loss of those molecules could result from the upregulation of a specific enzyme that occurs in response to prolonged stress exposure. |
“We will examine whether inhibiting that enzyme may be a potential therapeutic strategy for rescuing the deleterious effects of chronic stress on cognitive and mental function,” says Yan. |
She also will study a family of compounds, currently used in cancer treatment that can rescue the physiological and behavioral deficits induced by repeated stress. |
Yan and her colleagues will investigate these and related compounds as potential therapies for stress-related disorders, such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety. |
The path to power in the House runs through a few dozen districts, as Democrats look to gain the 23 seats they need to win control. |
After the first polls close in the eastern US, the tallies will start revealing clues to where Americans stand in 2018 on immigration, healthcare, gender equality in the #MeToo era – and who they want representing them in Washington in the next two years of Donald Trump’s presidency. |
A Lexington-area battle is one of the most competitive and expensive races in the country, pitting the third-term Republican Andy Barr against Democrat Amy McGrath, a retired US marines fighter pilot. Trump won the sixth district by more than 15% in 2016 but with the help of carefully shaped campaign ads that went vira... |
Dave Brat upset the House majority leader, Eric Cantor, in a 2014 Republican primary. Now it’s Brat’s turn to fight for re-election to the Richmond-area district, against Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer who is one of a record number of women running for Congress this year. |
North Carolina’s ninth district became a key election bellwether when the Rev Mark Harris narrowly ousted three-term representative Robert Pittenger in the Republican primary, giving Democrats a wider opening in solidly red territory. Democrats answered with Dan McCready, an Iraq war veteran, solar energy company found... |
It’s a rematch in central Ohio’s 12th district between Republican Troy Balderson and Democrat Danny O’Connor. Balderson won short-term control of the seat in August in a special election after Pat Tiberi retired. Republicans in the district appear divided over the president, making the seat vulnerable to a Democrat who... |
National Republicans and Democrats are pouring major resources into the Miami-area 27th district, held since 1989 by the retiring Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. The Democratic nominee, Clinton administration health secretary Donna Shalala, has ramped up her Spanish-language advertising and Hillary Clinton campaigned f... |
Along with California and Pennsylvania, suburb-filled New Jersey is a key battleground. Two seats are open, vacated by veteran Republicans Frank LoBiondo and Rodney Frelinghuysen, and could fall to the Democrats. Keep a close eye on the third district, south of Trenton, which twice voted for Barack Obama but went for T... |
Democrats have reason to believe they can flip as many as six seats in the Keystone state. A state supreme court decision in January threw out six-year-old congressional district boundaries as unconstitutionally drawn to benefit Republicans. The replacement districts approved by the court’s Democratic majority have cre... |
Trump and the House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, loom large over a race in north-eastern Kansas. Democrat Paul Davis, the former state House minority leader, and Republican Steve Watkins, an army veteran and engineer, are battling for the seat vacated by retiring Democrat Lynn Jenkins. Davis has said he will not su... |
Four House seats could flip from one party to the other in this traditionally Democratic stronghold. For evidence of Democratic gains, look to the state’s booming suburbs. Clinton won Minnesota’s third district west of Minnesota by 9%. Republican Erik Paulsen is under heavy pressure from Democrat Dean Phillips there. P... |
The second district seat left open by Republican Steve Pearce, who is running for governor, offers a look at how the parties fare along the border with Mexico, where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans. Pearce attracted support from Hispanics and the region’s oil and gas interests. But the race between Democrat ... |
This deep-blue state offers a look at how race and Trump’s clout are playing out in the president’s home state. North of New York City in the 19th district, an ad released last month by the Republican National Congressional Committee showed clips of Democrat Antonio Delgado performing songs from a 2006 rap album under ... |
In the 22nd district, first-term representative Claudia Tenney, an early Trump supporter, is drawing comparisons to the president by brashly suggesting some people who commit mass murders are Democrats and promoting a petition to lock up Clinton. But in a close race against Anthony Brindisi, the state assemblyman argue... |
One Iowa race offers a test of whether a Trump-style advocate for immigration limits can win. Republican Steve King is keeping a low profile in his bid for a ninth term, his success suddenly in question after he was engulfed in controversy for his support of white nationalists. But Democrats, hoping to flip two other s... |
Democrats have targeted a string of Republican-held districts that went to Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. One such battleground is in the nation’s fruit-and-nut basket, the Central Valley, where Republican Jeff Denham is trying to keep Josh Harder from taking his job. Fallout from supreme court justice Bret... |
In another test of GOP clout in a rapidly diversifying district, Dana Rohrabacher’s re-election is in question for the first time in 30 years. A wave of new and more diverse residents and divisions over Trump and the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct have produced a strong challenge from Democrat Harley Rouda. ... |
South-west Washington’s third district offers a test of whether the Tea Party-driven Republican House takeover in 2010 survives. Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler, first elected that year and twice re-elected with more than 60% of the vote, has been out-raised in campaign funding by Democrat Carolyn Long. Herrera Beutle... |
• This article was amended on 6 November 2011 to clarify the location of New York’s 22nd district. The original article said it was a Buffalo-area district; in fact, the district includes Utica, Rome and Binghamton – but not Buffalo. |
CAIRO – Egyptian police and Muslim Brotherhood group say three top leaders, including the organizations No. 2, and 10 provincial senior members have been arrested in a dawn sweep in Cairo and five other provinces. |
Police arrested Monday the newly elected deputy leader, Mahmoud Ezzat, and two other members of the top-level Guidance Council, Essam el-Erian and Abdul-Rahman el-Bir. |
A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to the media, said they were arrested for engaging in banned political activity. |
The Brotherhood was banned in 1954 but is somewhat tolerated by the state. Its candidates are allowed to run for parliament as independents and in 2005 won 20 percent of the seats, making them Egypt's largest opposition bloc. |
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) - With Washington mired in gridlock and markets flashing all sorts of warning signs, the majority of Americans expects 2019 to be a grim one for their finances, according to a new study. |
Just over 55 per cent of people in the United States do not see their economic situation improving this year, a new Bankrate.com report found. |
That slice includes 11.7 per cent who believe their prospects will worsen and 43.7 per cent who believe it will stay about the same. |
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