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Within days, customers gain the most comprehensive and accurateview of their IT inventory About Walker WhiteWalker White is VP of technology at BDNA. He is responsible for providingguidance to customers to improve efficiency in their IT environments and forensuring that customer feedback is incorporated into BDNAs technology Prior tohis arrival at BDNA, Mr. White was a 12-year veteran of Oracle Corporation.During his tenure at Oracle, he held positions as Vice President of ApplicationsTechnology, Chief Technologist of Oracle Service Industries, Product LineManager for Hewlett-Packard and other technical management positions Mr. He is a graduate of University of California, San Diego, witha B.S in Computer Engineering.

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) UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida seemed resigned to his fate last Saturday night after his light heavyweight title bout with Maurcio "Shogun" Rua.As the two came to the middle of the ring to hear the official decision Machida's head hung low, covering up a busted lip and a face that was beginning to swell with welts.It looked as if the 15-0 fighter was about to be handed loss No. 1 in his career.Then the uniamous decision was handed down 48-47 Machida. The thousands in attendance at the Staples Center began to boo and millions more across the country surely let out a groan as well.Machida had appeared to steal the fight and retained his title in the UFC's 205 lb weight class.This forced UFC President Dana White to reiterate one of his favorite sayings in the post fight press conference. Although he believed Shogun won the fight White pointed out that if you really want to be sure that you won the fight, you don't let it go to the judges.It probably didn't help than instead of encouraging Rua to push the action his corner was telling him he had won every round.While the fight was very technical and at some points even boring, I'd have to agree with White.

Rua had severalopportunities to punish Machida out of his clinch, and appeared to hobble the champion several times with leg kicks, Rua never bothered to press the action.Machida clearly looked more beat down in the fifth and final round of the fight but both fighters were content to circle and look for openings instead of going on the attack.It's not to say that a technical strategy does not work in the UFC, Forrest Griffin used one to take out Quintin Jackson at UFC 86, but both fighters pushed the action in that fight and tried to finish it.While I do not believe Machida won the fight (I had the fight scored 48-47 Rua) I cannot feel much sympathy for Rua. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Northern Trust Corporation(Nasdaq: NTRS) today reported fourth quarter net income per common share of$1.47 compared with net income per common share of $.55 reported in the fourthquarter of 2007.Net income was $342.3 million compared with net income of$125.0 million in the fourth quarter of last year.Operating earnings were$323.3 million, or $1.39 per common share, compared with operating earnings of$219.2 million, or $.97 per common share, in the fourth quarter of last year.Northern Trust is providing operating earnings in order to provide aclearer indication of the results and trends in Northern Trust's corebusinesses, absent adjustments related to Visa, Inc. Waddell, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented,"Despite the extremely difficult economic conditions, our sound balance sheetand prudent business model enabled us to achieve record fourth quarterperformance, and our 2008 full year results were strong in the context of theenvironment.Our client franchise grew throughout the year and our capitalposition at year end was solid.We remain focused on exceeding theexpectations of our clients.As we look forward into 2009, we remain confident in our strategic andcompetitive positioning, notwithstanding a cautious outlook consistent withthe very difficult economic conditions."FOURTH QUARTER PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTSNorthern Trust's fourth quarter consolidated revenues reached $1.15billion, up 18 from last year's fourth quarter, driven by record foreignexchange trading income and record net interest income.Trust, investment andother servicing fees decreased 11 from last year to $488.1 million andrepresented 42 of fourth quarter revenues.Total fee-related incomeincreased 11 to $801.4 million and represented 70 of revenues. The decrease in PFSfees resulted primarily from lower market valuations, offset in part by strongnew business.Northern Trust's total assets under custody were $3.0 trillion and totalmanaged assets were $575.5 billion.C&IS assets under custody totaled $2.7trillion, down 28 from a year ago, and included $1.4 trillion of globalcustody assets, 32 lower than a year ago.C&IS assets under managementtotaled $443.1 billion, a 27 decrease from the prior year.PFS assets undercustody totaled $288.3 billion, a 13 decrease from $332.4 billion in theprior year quarter. PFS assets under management totaled $132.4 billion, an11 decrease from $148.3 billion last year.The above are in comparison tothe twelve month decline in the S&P 500 index of approximately 38 and in theEAFE index (USD) of approximately 45.Foreign exchange trading income reached a record $234.6 million, up 111or $123.4 million from the performance in last year's fourth quarter,reflecting exceptionally high levels of currency volatility.Revenues fromsecurity commissions and trading income totaled $19.6 million.Other operating income equaled $84.1 million compared with $24.8 millionin the same period last year.The current quarter increase primarily reflectsa $33.3 million increase in non-trading foreign exchange gains, $20.6 millionof valuation gains recorded on credit default swap contracts, and a $5.4million increase in commercial loan-related commitment fees.Included in investment security gains (losses) is a $44.4 million chargerecorded to adjust the book values of four asset-backed securities to theirestimated fair values at December 31, 2008, as management determined thesecurities to be other-than-temporarily impaired given their significantlydepressed market values and the uncertainty as to their future performanceunder expected economic conditions.Net interest income for the quarter, stated on a fully taxable equivalentbasis, totaled $348.3 million, up 38 from $252.5 million reported in theprior year quarter, primarily reflecting higher levels of average earningassets and an increase in the net interest margin.Average earning assets of$69.4 billion were 23 higher than a year ago, driven by growth in loans,securities and money market assets.The net interest margin was 2.00, upfrom 1.79 in the prior year quarter, reflecting a widening of the spreadbetween interest rates on short term investments and on overnight fundingsources, including the impact of the Federal Reserve Bank rate reductions.The reserve for credit losses at December 31, 2008 of $251.1 millionincreased $43.6 million from the September 30, 2008 balance.The provisionfor credit losses was $60.0 million in the current quarter and net charge-offstotaled $15.8 million.The current quarter provision primarily reflects loangrowth and the continued weakening in the broader economic environment.An$8.0 million provision was recorded in the prior year fourth quarter and netcharge-offs totaled $2.3 million.Nonperforming loans totaled $96.7 millionat December 31, 2008, compared with $58.8 million at September 30, 2008 and$23.2 million at December 31, 2007.