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Baylor, Oregon flame out of BCS
Baylor and Oregon took beatings at Oklahoma State and Arizona respectively, likely ruining their BCS hopes.
After USC gave Oregon a second chance at the Pac-12 title, the Ducks went to Arizona looking to take advantage of that gift.
Instead, they coughed it up in spectacular fashion, losing 42-16. That, combined with Stanford's win over Cal, gave the Cardinal the Pac-12 North title and a spot in the conference championship game. Meanwhile, Oregon can likely make plans for the Alamo Bowl.
That is where the Ducks are in the current bowl projections. At 11-1, Oregon may have worked well for the Orange Bowl, but at 10-2, Ducks fans may not be as willing to make the very long trip.
Meanwhile, the battle for No. 3 in the BCS behind Florida State cleared up after Baylor got blown out at Oklahoma State. That could cost the Bears the Big 12 title and a BCS berth. Because of a relatively small fan base, Baylor is an unlikely at-large team if Wisconsin is available. The cheeseheads are huge draws in Florida and would be tough for the Orange Bowl to pass on, even for a higher rated Baylor. Baylor can still win the league by winning out and getting help from Oklahoma.
Other teams clinched conference championship game berths Saturday.
The Big Ten is set. Ohio State will face Michigan State for the title on Dec. 7 after both teams won Saturday.
Florida State has been locked in to the ACC title game for a couple weeks, but Duke took another step toward joining them with a win at Wake Forest. Duke can clinch next week if it beats North Carolina.
Fresno State and Northern Illinois both clinched spots in their respective conference title games this week. The Huskies did it Wednesday, while the Bulldogs got it done Saturday.
Also, What The Florida?? The Gators lost to Georgia Southern. Not Georgia. Georgia Southern. That eliminated them from bowl consideration for the first time in 22 years.
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This section of the blog describes what things might look like if the new playoff system were in effect this year. It's different than the regular bowl projections in that it is based on current data. Beginning next year, a selection committee will not only select and seed a playoff, but also put together matchups for the other four bowls in the playoff rotation. The five major conference champions are all automatically placed in one of those six bowls. The American conference is not part of that group. The highest rated team from outside those leagues (as determined by the selection committee) is also guaranteed a spot.
If a playoff started today, it would probably look like this:
Sugar (Iron) Bowl: No. 1 Alabama vs No. 4 Auburn
Rose Bowl: No. 2 Florida State vs No. 3 Ohio State
Cotton Bowl: Oklahoma State vs Missouri
Orange Bowl: Clemson vs Michigan State
Fiesta Bowl: Stanford vs South Carolina
Chick-Fil-A Bowl: Baylor vs UCF
Alabama-Auburn in a semifinal? They probably haven't built the stadium big enough to host that game.
Note that I have UCF instead of either Fresno State or Northern Illinois, both of which are higher ranked in the current BCS. That's the kind of strength of schedule selection I expect the committee to try to make. Obviously, we won't know until they make one.
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Forest Grove High School has maintained nearly the same graduation rate over the past five years, varying from 72 to 73 percent, according to the Oregon Department of Education.
The Department of Education released its annual graduation rate/drop out data last week, which looks at students who graduate in four and five years, among other data. Results for the class of 2012 showed graduation rates across the state have stagnated and Forest Grove is no exception.
In 2011, the state set a goal of requiring 100 percent of students to complete high school by 2025.
Few other schools in Washington County have the same level of challenges as Forest Grove -- high poverty rate, significant number of English language learners. The closest is Aloha High School in Beaverton.
Both schools have poverty rates of at least 60 percent and nearly 6 percent of their students are English language learners. And both have nearly identical graduation rates.
Forest Grove Assistant Superintendent John O'Neill focused on the good news. The high school made progress with its limited English students who took an extra year to graduate.
About half graduated in four years, but 70 percent got a diploma in five years, well above the state's 60 percent.
These students are "pulling double duty," O'Neill said. In addition to learning English, they're trying to complete 24 credits to graduate. The extra year is the key.
The district has several programs in place to catch kids before they drop out, but the percentage of students in poverty who left before graduating increased as did the percentage of Latino students.
Budget cuts have made it more difficult, O'Neill said.
"The budget reductions have presented challenges in maintaining previous levels of student support in terms of class sizes, number of counselors, support staff to help monitor student attendance and number of administrators who follow up on truancy before it gets out of hand," he said.
O'Neill said he worries about the future.
"How do we make further reductions without impacting the success of our students and the graduation rate, drop out rate and five-year completion," he said.

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Although Mitt Romney's history with Bain Captal is widely known, one aspect of his leadership at Bain has received scant scrutiny.
The problem has to do with the way average people understand capitalism. Most people believe when free market capitalism works properly, investors should lose money when companies fail. Private equity companies like Bain sometimes flip this basic premise of capitalism on its head.
In 1992, Bain acquired Ampad, the American Pad & Paper Co. Employing hundreds of workers, the company was profitable when Bain took over. Bain was able to borrow $400 million against the company, a debt burden Ampad could not repay. By 2001, Ampad was forced to close its doors, their stockholders were wiped out and workers were jobless — but Bain made $100 million on an initial investment of $5 million.
Perhaps Ampad could have been saved if Bain had pumped some of its excessive profit back into the company. While Romney may not have been at the helm of Bain when Ampad went under, Romney carries some responsibility for the destruction of those American jobs. According to the Los Angeles Times, "Sometimes Bain investors gained even when companies slid into bankruptcy."
Apparently, Romney sees nothing wrong with this version of capitalsm. Voters, however, may interpret this as a permutation of capitalism, another example of the 1 percent rigging the system for their own profit at the expense of workers. Considering his background at Bain, it's harder for Romney to make the case that he cares about average Americans.
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Top-tier scraps in the UFC aren't won and lost solely in the trenches of training camp.
Truth be told, the best fighters take every feasible measure—including eliminating social distractions and partaking in extreme dieting rituals—to ensure their fight-night performances are maximized.
These fighters always obey their coaches and mentors—wise choices that usually pay dividends come fight night.
Along the same lines, the men and woman, on this list, avoid taking shortcuts or getting caught in unsavory social scenarios. These fighters, in others words, typically distance themselves from performance enhancing drugs and stay clean in the eyes of the law.
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- Low cost options for pasture weed control explored
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• Bottom-end GPS units can be purchased for $1,200 or so, says John Byrd, Extension research professor of plant and soil sciences at Mississippi State University, and will provide a basic level of accuracy for spraying. Their usefulness is not limited to spraying, he notes; they can also be used for fertilizer applications as well as overseeding forage grasses and legumes.
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JOHN BYRD, Extension research professor of plant and soil sciences at Mississippi State University, explains how a boomless sprayer mounted on an ATV and a low-end GPS system can be used for economical pasture weed control.
Stopping foxtail seedhead formation
In looking at ways to more economically suppress seedhead production of foxtail and maintain forage that cows will graze, he says, "We looked at applying a 33 percent Roundup solution with a rope wick applicator.
"This is one of the cheapest options right now — you can treat a lot of acres for very little money."
Ironweed is another difficult weed to control in pastures, particularly clovers, said Tony Thompson, retired NRCS district conservationist and cattleman.
"Spraying for weeds can also kill clover," he notes, "and with a rope wick applicator, we can apply herbicide to the taller weeds without affecting the clover. These applicators can be useful in controlling weeds while maintaining a stand of clover."
Thompson said he has used a rope wick applicator made by Rosco at Lyon, Miss., and has found it very effective for pasture weed control. The company says its applicators used one-third of the usual amount of chemical per application, offer selective weed control with no overspray, and are environmentally safe.
Robert Oakley, district inspector for the Mississippi Bureau of Plant Industry at Starkville, cautioned that producers who transport baled hay into states that don't have established populations of fire ants will need to have that hay inspected and certified as fire ant-free before it will be allowed into those states.
"Because of the Midwest drought, a lot of hay is being moved into those states — particularly Missouri and northern Arkansas," he says. "The USDA has a fire ant quarantine in place that restricts movement of baled hay into areas that don't have established fire ant populations."
Prior to being inspected, Mississippi hay must be removed from direct contact with the soil — preferably within 24 hours of baling — and placed on concrete, pallets, tires, or plastic. It should be separated and stacked by truckloads, and a certificate of inspection is required for each truckload.
"It's strongly recommended," Oakley says, "that the area surrounding the storage site be treated for fire ants to discourage them from moving into the hay."
Anyone anticipating shipping baled hay to these quarantine areas should contact the Bureau of Plant Industry in advance of shipment for detailed instructions, he says. Otherwise, the hay will be denied entry into those areas.


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20 Google Hangout Ideas To Differentiate Your Brand
Google Hangout – the interactive and collaborative video tool – can help you differentiate your brand and create personalized experiences with your team, clients, and customers and get you more business as a result. Not sure how to leverage Google Hangout in your marketing strategy? Get started with these 20 ideas:
For Your Internal Team
Company meetings: Extend your company culture & peronality to remote teams
Employee interviews: A more personalized approach to hiring remote employees
Brainstorming sessions: Pull in a remote creative team and leverage Google Hangout's collaboration tools (whiteboard, screen sharing)… for better idea sharing.
Client facing
Client meetings: Connect face to face and personalize your relationships with remote clients
Sales presentations: Build trust and grow your business nationally/globally without traveling
Marketing & Events
Webinars: Generate leads by showcasing your expertise – Become an industry authority Expert Panel: Organize & moderate a panel of industry experts
Show series: Weekly/monthly webinars or panels – Interactive brand management
Open office hours: Lead generation and relationship building strategy
Intro consultations: Attract remote clients with an 'in person' consultation
CEO corner: 'Pull back the curtain' – Connect with your customers top down
Live product samplings: Get creative! Check out the Cadbury Chocolate Tasting on Air Hangout
Focus groups: Research new ideas and get raw feedback from customers around the world
Giveaway: Reward your viewers with giveaways – show prizes on camera or giveaway live
Product launch: Host a launch party with your customers and community
Live demo: For marketing or tutorial purposes – Product extra's for new customers
Press conference: Invite select journalists to talk about newsworthy company issues
Customer Facing
Customer Service: Step it up a notch – Attentive and customer focused – Invite customers to talk
Tutorials: Personalized product tutorials or technical help
Customer Q&A: Host group Q&A sessions for new products or services or FAQs
Additional resources:
How to Use Google+ Hangouts for Your Business via Social Media Examiner
6 ways brands should use Google+ hangouts via Ragan's PR Daily
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Maybe Holland will be forced to make a trade.
Our offence sucks. On D we can call up Ouellet, Almqvist and Sproul. On offence we can call up Glendening to play on the 4th line and that's our 1 option. If a trade is made it would be to get better forwards, but alas, no one wants Holland's brain farts.


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Judge orders security measures at old hospital building
Pre-trial hearing of the city's citation against Hospital Service District 1 over condition of the former Moosa Hospital building has been continued until Aug. 25.
On Sept. 12, 2007, the city issued a ticket to the district under its then-new criminal statute designed to encourage owners to clean-up property deemed a nuisance by the building inspector.
The hospital building has been empty since the Acadian Medical Center opened in March 2006.
At the latest pre-trial hearing, on May 12, City Judge Lynette Feucht ordered that Phase 2 of a report from the Department of Environmental Quality regarding asbestos removal at the building be submitted. In lieu of that, she ordered written correspondence as to why it is not available.
According to the minutes, she also ordered a fence erected around the property perimeter, or a weekly report from the district to the city for the purpose of addressing any damage or vandalism issues and for agreement on what action should be taken regarding possible repairs. This is conditioned on a weekly inspection by the Sheriff's Department.
Meanwhile, the district told the court it had a bid of $7,800 for closing door and window entrances to the structure.
The judge also asked for proof within a month of contact with state legislators regarding possible funds for assistance with the building, which has been savaged by vandals and thieves since it closed.


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Betty Ford is as beautiful inside as she is outside (PEOPLE, March 26). This lady is magic!
Kathy Reid
Marion, Ind.
The Fords have a government-paid staff of 12? Now I do not begrudge Mrs. Ford making money. As a true capitalist, I admire her for it. But why should I, as a taxpayer, pay for her maids?
Marguerite A. Brock
New Orleans
The Fords pay for their household staff of three and Mrs. Ford's personal secretary. The government-paid staff works in the office.—ED.
Is anyone else sick to death of the continuing confessions of Betty Ford?
Nancy Lottman
Villa Park, Calif.
Alan Arkin
It is incredible that you devoted that much space to Alan Arkin yet never reminded us of the most moving performance ever on the screen—his deaf-mute in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
Anne Kramer
Ambler, Pa.
Miss America
I'd like to applaud. Rather than adding to the glitter of the Miss America image, you showed us what hard work it entails. The Kylene Barker I knew at Virginia Tech was no plastic "American dream." Even then, she was hardworking, ambitious and unspoiled.
Kathe Sadler-Wright
Lakewood, N.J.
Miss Tarheel Twirling Camp East? Does this mean she twirled tarheels at a camp in the East? No, silly, this means she twirled while tarheeled at a—and so forth. The comic relief helped me to get through this article, but barely.
Linda Vinton
St. Louis
The Bee Gees
Although you did throw in a nice comment here and there, your overall review of the Bee Gees' new album Spirits Having Flown conveys pure jealousy. I realize you are entitled to your opinion, but couldn't it have been established without those cheap shots? Really, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. To quote the words of a famous magazine (any guesses?), "The Bee Gees have got it all."
T. Sexton
Port Orchard, Wash.
The Jaycees
Sally Funk's attempt to breach the Jaycees' bastion would be laughable were it not for the fact that I believe she is serious. Why does she find an all-male organization so repugnant? What about the all-female Junior League, Rebekahs, DAR, Rainbow Girls?
Peter Fulton Foss
I have a solution for the girls. How about the "Jaycettes"?
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William Loeb
I am sorry to see valuable space devoted to this self-appointed political judge. There should be no one man able to make or break anyone's career, and even mentioning his paper gives glory to a political scandal sheet.
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It's nice to see an unbiased story on William Loeb. You've shown me things I never knew about a truly intriguing man, and my own father worked for him for 10 years.
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Michael Blumenthal
I, too, was in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation and knew Mr. Blumenthal and his family. It is a shame that he mentioned only bad things like prostitution, opium, gambling. He forgot to say that there was almost no crime in the Jewish community. The people were poor, yes, but their extraordinary generosity and sharing made possible a school, food, a hospital. Even the doctors worked free among the more than 25,000 refugees.
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Abraham Carmel
It's refreshing to know a learned clergyman (a priest) has found Judaism "the mother faith that has not been improved upon." As a convert, I wholeheartedly agree. And it's so nice not feeling guilty about things over which we have no control, i.e., original sin.
Barbara Eagle
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I would like to enlighten those who were not English schoolboys on the subject of conkers (chestnuts). They were not simply for hoarding. One collected the biggest and hardest ones, soaked them in vinegar to make them even harder, threaded them on a string and proceeded to play the ancient game of conkers. One person held his conker by its string end while his opponent attempted to bash it with his own conker. This went on in turns until one of the conkers split. Scores were kept as to how many games each conker won, and it was a proud owner indeed who possessed the "champion conker" at the end of the season.
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Clearly the modern electronic computer couldn't have been built before electronics existed, but it's not clear why computers powered by steam or clockwork weren't invented earlier. Tom Körner speculates on the historical reasons why computers were invented when they were.
Fluid mechanics is the study of flows in both liquids and gases, and is therefore enormously important in understanding many natural phenomena, as well as in industrial applications. Geophysicist Herbert Huppert tells us what happens when two fluids of different densities meet, for example when volcanos erupt and hot ash-laden air is poured out into the atmosphere.
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If you watch a steam engine, you may not know how it works but you can soon get a fairly good idea of its behaviour, and you can predict its future behaviour accurately. Even though you don't understand its workings, you can see it's a pretty simple machine, so you can trust it to behave in a simple way: you have confidence in your predictions based on a short sample of its behaviour.


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Texas had most Border Patrol arrests in 2013
McALLEN, Texas -- Central American immigrants crossing into the United States illegally in South Texas drove an increase in Border Patrol apprehensions in 2013, according to data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The Border Patrol made 420,789 apprehensions in the fiscal year that ended in September. That is a 16 percent increase from the previous year but still 42 percent below 2008. As usual, more than 98 percent of those arrests were made on the Southwest border. And no place saw more arrests than Texas.
Agents in Texas made 235,567 arrests. For much of the past decade, Arizona had been the busiest section of the Mexican border. Agents there made 125,942 arrests in 2013.
Border Patrol made a total of 414,397 arrests in 2013 on the Southwest border. In 2012, Border Patrol made 356,873 arrests there and 327,577 in 2011.
In October, Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher said much of the increase was caused by an influx of would-be immigrants from Central America who had been arrested in South Texas.
While apprehensions of Mexican citizens remained nearly unchanged, arrests of immigrants from other countries, including Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, rose 55 percent. Limited economic opportunities and widespread gang and drug cartel violence in Central America have driven tens of thousands north along a dangerous route through Mexico.
Border Patrol has responded by sending additional manpower and technology to South Texas, where stations had at times been overwhelmed as agents hit a bottleneck processing those they had arrested.
A fleet of unmanned drones patrol the border, and the agency has deployed repurposed surveillance technology from the Department of Defense.


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Discretion is key to this lower Manhattan hotspot: The unassuming entrance is modeled after an antique store and the girls manning the door might just be models. But further inside, the glass-ceiling dining room, delicious small plates and a creative cocktail list aren't the only things that lure stars like Kim Kardashian and Ashley Olsen. The second floor lounge boasts an exclusive DJ booth for private parties, and don't miss the free champagne bar in the ladies room!
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Here's a look at some recent noteworthy stories from other media in southwest Michigan:
LaRue Ford, 49, has been in the Berrien County Jail since Dec. 18 for using profanity in the clerk's office. The ACLU is working on the case and a representative said Ford's actions aren't enough for her to be charged with contempt of court. [Leader Publications]
Police are searching for a man who posed as a sheriff deputy and attempted to rob the Walmart in Sturgis Wednesday night. [Sturgis Journal]
Keith Lintz, 28, has been found competent to stand trial in the 2010 murders of John and Carolyn Tarwacki of Niles. Lintz will be back in court on Jan. 22. [WSBT News]


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Intraday Market Notes: A Special Divvy Play -- November 30 1 commentNov 30, 2012 4:19 PM
4:00 pm ET: There's not a lot happening in the market despite the fact that today marks the end of the month as well as the date of some index rebalancing. There's been little movement probably because volume has been unusually light. This is likely due to headline risk jitters (and rightly so) concerning the fiscal cliff. This headline risk will likely be plaguing the market for the next several weeks or until Congress can come to some sort of agreement. Today's jump in volatility could be reflecting this uncertainty.
I was hoping that the SPX could move back into the Buy zone but it appears as if all the major averages have lost steam. Taking a break to digest recent gains is certainly not unexpected. Hopefully the indices will be able to get back on the Santa rally track next week.
Trade Note: One way to play special dividends
The prospect of higher taxes on dividends is leading many cash-rich companies to push 2013 dividend payouts into a big one-time so-called "special" dividend payable to shareholders by the end of this year. Although many of these dividends seem enticing, now is not the time to buy the stock just for the dividend capture. The first (and most obvious) reason is that the price you'll be paying for the stock already reflects the expected payout. The second (and not so obvious) reason is that extremely large dividends being offered by small companies could be a sign that it's in trouble. In this case, the special dividend is a way to reward insiders holding the stock with a nice payday at a lower tax rate. If you decide to jump into this type of stock, you could well end up getting burned after dividend distribution.
So, is there a safer way to take advantage of the special dividend? Yes, there is, or I wouldn't be writing about it. One of the best ways is to wait until the ex-dividend date which is the first day that shareholders are allowed to sell their stock and still collect the dividend. Typically, the selling pressure is so intense that it depresses the price to an oversold level making it your chance to pick up a stock that you want to own at a discount. The caveat to this strategy is to make sure that you're buying a company you don't mind holding for a while. An options strategy is to write a cash-secured put before the ex-date at a strike you wouldn't mind paying for the stock. The income you receive from selling the put lowers your cost basis for entry.
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FirstIn Wireless Technologies, Inc. (OTC: FINW) to attack the over 70 Billion dollar cellular long distance and roaming charges market for cellular user. "FirstIn is primed and ready to launch its smart phones applications which will save users a minimum of 50% over regular carrier costs and carve itself into the niche market of discount cellular long distance and roaming charges said FirstIn president André Beauchesne. "The timing for FirstIn's product launch comes at a time when travel communications costs are on the rise due to ever growing business and leisure travels. In 2014 the cellular long distance and roaming market will surpass a staggering 70 billion dollars." The average cellular cost for a business traveler is over 800$ a week. FirstIn's application is targeted to the traveler niche market, it is easy to install and will save any traveler over 50% on roaming and long-distance charges, added Mr Beauchesne.
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Pope Benedict, trying to defuse a controversy over a bishop who denies the Holocaust, said Thursday "any denial or minimization of this terrible crime is intolerable," especially if it comes from a clergyman.
The pope also confirmed for the first time that he was planning to visit Israel. Vatican sources say the trip is expected for May. It would be the first by a pope since John Paul visited in 2000.
Benedict made the comments in his first meeting with Jews since the controversy over traditionalist Bishop Richard Williamson began in late January. Williamson denies the full extent of the Holocaust and says there were no gas chambers.
The pope told Jewish leaders: "The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah (Holocaust) was a crime against humanity. This should be clear to everyone, especially to those standing in the tradition of the Holy Scriptures ..."
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My apologizes, you are correct sir. It's not an elbow, but the principle point is the same. He targeted the head, which you are not allowed to do, regardless if it's the shoulder. You can tell Thornton specifically targeted the head and only the head.
watch the new vid i posted, no elbow what so ever, shoulder to chest/jaw
If Kronwall and Stuart can drive their shoulders into other player's chests, so can these players.


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Former prime minister Jean Chretien is celebrating his 80th birthday today.
Chretien, who was PM for more than a decade between 1993 and 2003, says he had a party with 80 family and friends Friday night in Montreal to mark the occasion.
The native of Shawinigan says he's in good health and would have gone skiing today if weren't for the freezing rain.
A charity fundraiser in his honour is planned for later this month in Toronto.
Chretien was first elected as a Liberal MP nearly 50 years ago, in April 1963.
He now works at a law firm in Ottawa and says he's still leaned on by politicians for advice, though he won't say who has sought his guidance.
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An iconic painting of Berwick is set to fetch between £600,000 and £800,000 when it is sold at auction at the end of the month.
'A Market Place, Berwick-upon-Tweed', painted by LS Lowry in 1935, is among 15 Lowry's due to be sold by London auction house Sotheby's on March 25.
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1876) visited Berwick many times from the mid 1930s until the summer before he died. The town inspired the renowned painter to produce a fascinating group of over 30 drawings and paintings - a feat commemorated by The Berwick Lowry Trail.
Lowry's connection with the town is due to be further celebrated at The Granary Gallery this summer, with new exhibition 'L.S Lowry in Berwick & Northumberland' set to run from June to September.
For the first time the exhibition will bring together in Berwick original works produced by Lowry during his time in the town. And organisers are hoping that 'A Market Place, Berwick-upon-Tweed' could become the Pièce de résistance. James Lowther, head of visual art at Berwick Visual Art, said: "Sotheby's have kindly agreed to put details about our forthcoming Lowry exhibition at the Granary Gallery in the auction catalogue – and we're keeping our fingers crossed that whoever buys the work will let us show such an iconic painting in the exhibition."
The paintings for sale are from the late A.J Thompson's collection, and include 'Piccadilly Circus, London, 1960' which has an estimate of between £4-6million. In total, the 15 pieces are expected to realise in excess of £15 million.
Frances Christie, head of modern and post war British art department at Sotheby's, said: "It is a great honour to offer such a supreme group of paintings by L.S. Lowry.
"Thompson was a collector who truly understood Lowry's vision and he had a real instinct to hone in on the very best examples of the artist's work. As such there is a remarkable consistency of quality throughout the collection, which encompasses the very broad range of themes and subjects that Lowry explored so deftly."
Sotheby's have a pre-sale exhibition of the paintings, available to view on March 20-21 & 23-25.


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The Effectiveness of Non‐Traditional Monetary Policy Measures: The Case of the Bank of Japan
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Japanese Economic Review, Vol. 63, Issue 1, pp. 1-22, 2012
This paper summarizes non‐traditional monetary policy measures adopted by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) during the last 2 decades and by other G7 central banks since the start of the current global financial turmoil and analyses the effectiveness of such measures. The paper begins with a typology of policies usable near the zero lower bound on interest rates. They are: (i) forward guidance of future policy rates; (ii) targeted asset purchases; and (iii) quantitative easing. Using this typology, I review the measures adopted by the BOJ and other central banks. I then offer a news analysis of the effects of the measures adopted by the BOJ on asset prices, comparing them with those adopted by the Fed. Many of the measures, with the exception of strategy (iii), are shown to have moved asset prices in the expected directions. Another exception is that most of the monetary easing measures failed to weaken the yen. Despite some effects on asset prices, however, the measures have failed to stop the deflationary trend of the Japanese economy clearly. I discuss some possible reasons for this and more general implications for monetary policy.
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UPDATE (Sept. 23, 2015): Skip this post. It's all wrong. All I had to do was fill the trap with sugar water and jam, not cat food or anything gross like that. Only a few honey bees got trapped inside. Read How To Kill Wasps for all the details.
I bought a wasp trap because wasps (or yellow jackets) have been showing up in larger numbers around our hives for the past week. The young hives could be at risk if we didn't have entrance reducers on them. We partially reduced the entrances on the full hives. They should be okay. I bought the "Green Earth" Yellow Jacket Wasp Trap and Lure as extra production, though.
The plastic trap costs about $10, but it isn't much good without the bait that cost another $6. (Not including the bait with the trap seems a bit deceiving to me.) I followed the directions and added apple juice and some meat (cat food) into the base of the trap. Then I added the $6 packet of wasp lure. Then I hung it up about twenty feet from the hives and hoped for the best. That was last weekend.
I checked the trap today and found 3 honey bees and 4 wasps in it.
|The bottom of the wasp trap.
I've got wasps flying all around the backyard now, and this thing only caught four wasps after a week? I'm not impressed. It also trapped three of our honey bees. I'm taking the trap down and dumping it today. It was a waste of money.
Adding apple juice (or any kind of sweet fruit juice) will also attract honey bees. I'm not inclined to spend another $6 for a tiny packet of wasp lure to try it out again. But if I do use it again, probably next spring, I won't add any fruit juice. I'll just use the wasp lure. That's it for now.
UPDATE (Sept. 19/11): I figured out how to make the wasp trap work.
You have to put it in an area where it will be in the sun for most of the day. The plastic acts like a green house and heats up the bait so the wasps can get smell it from a distance. We still have plenty of wasps around the hives, but the trap has been filling up fast since I moved it into a sunny spot (it's hanging off the side of our fence about 20 feet from the back of the hives). I still wouldn't add sweet smelling fruit juice that will attract bees (maybe just a bit of water to give the wasps something to drown in), but that's it. Put the trap in a sunny spot and it works. They don't tell you that in the directions.


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Pirates rookie starter Cole impresses in debut
PITTSBURGH -- Gerrit Cole took a shutout into the seventh inning of his major league debut and hit a two-run single in his first at-bat tonight, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to an 8-2 victory in front of a festive crowd.
The top pick in the 2011 draft, Cole allowed two runs and seven hits in 6 1/3 innings after being called up from Triple-A Indianapolis earlier in the day. He began his highly touted career with a three-pitch strikeout -- all 96-mph fastballs -- of Gregor Blanco and struck out two overall. He did not walk a batter.
Pedro Alvarez went 3-for-3 with a home run to back Cole. Starling Marte also homered and Andrew McCutchen and Russell Martin had two hits each.


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Fooala tries to bridge the gap between online food ordering and local restaurants. When I first heard their idea at last year's AlphaLab demo day, I was like "Wow that's a great idea"! A lot of small restaurants do not have the time or the money to launch a platform to take orders online. Even if they did, trying to promote the fact that they could take orders that way would also be costly and time consuming.
Fooala provides an open online ordering system to restaurants as a Software as a Service. This means there is no hardware or software the restaurant needs to install. Fooala ties in to what the restaurant already does to take orders by phone and fax. They take it another step to help the restaurant integrate the system on an existing website.
Now here is where Fooala get interesting, the restaurant can also tie into a network of high quality websites and applications to engage and attract new customers. A great example of this is CollegeBite.com and the Facebook game Bite Bandit.
Fooala created College Bite to provide online ordering for delivery and pickup from local restaurants. Right now it's only in Pittsburgh but they plan to launch in other cities soon. I could take the time to explain how the site works, but if you just go to it, it's self explanatory. Think of it as an interactive menu section of a phonebook (if anyone still uses one of those giant wastes of paper anymore).
Another great example, Bite Bandit creates an interactive food ordering experience. The recently launched Facebook game gives away valuable coupons for orders from CollegeBite.com. They tell me the game has reached thousands of people and has given away thousands of dollars since they launched it a few weeks ago.
The game is setup like a slot machine and with each spin you can win up to $10 off your net order from College Bite. You only get 5 credits a day but you can score you self some more by promoting the game and your winnings.
Fooala is making it easy for small restaurants to reach an audience they would have never been able to reach themselves. I'm really looking forward to watching what this local startup will do next.
They wouldn't give me details but they tell me they are working on a few major deals with publishers to use their system. I am thinking it's going to be some kind of widget that the publisher could tie in with their food section. If this is true, then this would give restaurants another great way to reach customers.


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Journo found on roof next to building
Allen Myerson, a 47-year-old business editor at the New York Times, fell from the top floor of the paper's midtown Manhattan building to his death early Thursday morning.
Police are treating the incident as a possible suicide.
According to newspaper spokeswoman Catherine Mathis, Myerson's body was discovered on the parking garage roof next to the Times building on West 43rd Street just before 10 a.m. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - An Anaheim school board has approved a resolution to bill foreign countries for the cost of educating illegal immigrants.
Board members of the Anaheim Union High School District voted 4-1 to approve the measure during a raucous three-hour meeting Thursday.
"Somewhere along the line, somebody has to stand up to the federal and state government," Board Trustee Robert Stewart said.
The resolution asks the Immigration and Naturalization Service to count the number of illegal immigrants who attend district schools and determine their native countries.
It also demands the federal government reimburse the district for the cost of educating the immigrants and negotiate with their native countries to recover the money.
The INS has said it is unlikely the resolution will be enforced.
The sole dissenter, E.L. "Slim" Terrell, said he opposed the measure "100 percent" and chided his colleagues for writing and supporting it.
"To come up with something that was this divisive was a little thoughtless of us," he said.
The INS estimates 2 million of the nation's 3.9 million illegal immigrants live in California. Although there are no statistics on the number of those attending public schools, officials estimate that up to one in six California students are illegal immigrants.
Educators say the Anaheim resolution, if successful, could inspire other districts to try to recover costs of educating illegal immigrants and expand programs that would benefit all students at a time when schools are crowded and financially burdened.
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Apparently NTBackup can't see the media in the tape device.
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Is he able to backup to that tape when you use NTBackup interactively?
This could be caused by corrupted RSM database, try stopping RSM service
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William Beaumont Army Medical Center has established a centralized appointment center that will handle all medical appointment scheduling for our local beneficiary population. Instead of having our patients call multiple numbers to schedule appointments, our patients need to know just one of two numbers, 915 742-CARE (2273), or toll-free 1 800 831-0919. These numbers will put our patients in contact with our appointment center staff who can assist our patient with either their primary care or specialty care appointment needs.
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A Muslim student group at the University of California, Irvine, has been suspended for disrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren back in February.
Eleven members of the Muslim Student Union were arrested for heckling Oren, calling him a "murderer" and a "war criminal" while he talked about Middle East peace.
The group will not be allowed to operate on campus next year and those arrested could face criminal charges. Some of those charges could include: disorderly conduct, obstructing university activities and furnishing false information.
"It really does have very lasting constitutional implications," MSU attorney Reem Salahi said. "It's a chilling effect for Muslims on campus and their right to associate."
The university's disciplinary committee also ruled the student group must complete 50 hours of community service.
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The state House of Representatives has made another strong pitch for cutting the legislative session, and by an overwhelming margin. And this year, the House would take its proposal to the voters.
You know it would pass.
The proposal would cut the legislative session by two full months. Instead of January-June, the session would extend from February to May. Because the starting date set forth in the state Constitution would be changed, the plan would require a statewide referendum.
The shorter session would force the Legislature to make priorities, pace itself and restrain the impulse to public bloviation in the legislative chambers.
Actually, the House does a good job of getting its work done, and in recent years has taken one or two weeks off, saving the taxpayers a substantial sum as a result.
But the Senate typically lags far behind on the efficiency front, and all too often attempts to finish some of its most important business as the session is coming to its deadline to end.
And that often means that important legislation either doesn't get done, or is done too hurriedly.
The Senate's inability to conduct its business in a timely manner has derailed major reform legislation.
Unfortunately, even as the House has regularly approved measures to shorten the session, the Senate has failed to even consider the notion. The latest vote in the House, incidentally, was 91-9.
The Constitution clearly envisioned a shorter session when it stated that legislators were to be paid for 40 days of legislative work. A shorter session supports the idea of a citizen Legislature whose members don't have to be full-time legislators.
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Hi folks, I have an xml like this which <a> <b1> <x>1</x> <y>hi</y> <z>hello</z> </b1> <b2> <x>1</x> <y>hi</y> <z>hello</z> </b2> <b3> <x>2</x> <y>u</y> <z>king</z> </b3> <b4> <x>3</x> <y>hi</y> <z>queen</z> </b4> </a> when i transform i have to get a result like this <group> <b4> <x>1</x> <y>hi</y> <z>hello</z> </b4> <b4> <x>2</x> <y>u</y> <z>king</z> </b4> <b4> <x>3</x> <y>hi</y> <z>queen</z> </b4> </group> for this i used an xpath like this <xsl:for-each select="//x[not(. = following::x)]"> <xsl:variable name="pos"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:variable> which gets me all the unique x values now when i write a statement like the below <xsl:value-of select="//y[//x=$pos]"/> this statement does not work for me it gives me the same value for all the y's like it gives me <group> <b4> <x>1</x> <y>hi</y> <z>hello</z> </b4> <b4> <x>2</x> <y>hi</y> <z>king</z> </b4> <b4> <x>3</x> <y>hi</y> <z>queen</z> </b4> </group> can anyone tell me what is wrong please... Thanx Spencer _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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APSV 1080 - Appliance Motors (2-2-3)
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Cody Rhodes comments on the mustache
phoenixnewtimes.com posted an interview with WWE superstar Cody Rhodes. Here is an excerpt:
So how's your mustache doing?
It's growing. The first few weeks of having it were pretty tacky and it really wasn't there as much as it might have appeared on TV. But now it's actually [there]. It's weird because I never seen any of the men in my family with facial hair, so I guess from my mom's side it's pretty thick.
Did Dusty or Dustin never rocked a mustache during their careers?
Dustin does that little Val Kilmer kind of thing, the scraggly hair-type thing on the face [a soul patch] and so does my dad occasionally. They've never grown things in a full flush manner. I don't think I've ever seen my dad with a lot of facial hair.
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Watch the video of the viral campaign targeting the Ugandan rebel chief.
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This is the kind of self-serving propaganda film that many companies indulge in. After all, who better to blow your trumpet than yourself.


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Masters of form
A painterly passion to capture the beauty and power of great racehorses has turned up a talented new name in equine art
February 12 2013
Jamie Reid
Shortly before Christmas, an illustrious collection of horse racing's great and good assembled at York racecourse for the 242nd Gimcrack Dinner. The classy black-tie event, one of the smartest occasions in the Turf calendar, is named after the legendary racehorse who was born in 1760 and won 27 of his 36 races in a career that spanned 11 years. A small but muscular grey, renowned for his courage, Gimcrack never actually won a race on the Knavesmire. But York's patron, the second Marquess of Rockingham – who found time to be prime minister as well as a racing fanatic – was so inspired by the horse that he founded both a club and a race in his honour. The historic Gimcrack Stakes is a £150,000 contest for two-year-olds over six furlongs and takes place at York's Ebor Festival in August. The owner of the winning horse is traditionally invited to make a speech at the Gimcrack Dinner, an opportunity many use to assess the health of British racing.
Gimcrack was also immortalised in his lifetime by George Stubbs, acknowledged as Britain's greatest sporting artist, who executed five studies of the horse. The most famous, entitled Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath with a Trainer, a Stable-Lad and a Jockey, was auctioned at Christie's in 2011 for a cool £22.4m. But the custodians of the Turf have retained many other Stubbs paintings and several of them hang in the Jockey Club Rooms in Newmarket. By comparison, much of what now passes for equine art on sale at big race meetings such as Cheltenham and Ascot, is mediocre at best – which is why it's so exciting to discover the work of the Gloucestershire-based artist Emma Kennaway, whose reputation has hitherto revolved around her human portraits, including those of famous thespians Timothy West and Dame Judi Dench. A few years ago, inspired by a trip to Kentucky, Kennaway started painting racehorses, both in action and at rest, and the results are stunning. She learnt her craft at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and shares with Stubbs an understanding of anatomy, capturing brilliantly the beauty and latent power of the thoroughbred.
In April 2011, Kennaway took a sketchpad down to the track before the Qipco 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket. As every form student knows, that's the race that Frankel won by six lengths, from which Kennaway fashioned a superb portrait of the runners bursting out of the stalls, Frankel's pink and green silks already well to the fore. An exhibition of her work was held at the Cavalry and Guards Club last year, and she's currently working on a new range of equine portraits. Her work can be viewed at www.masterart-brokers.com.
There will, of course, be no Frankel to grace the stage at Newmarket or York this coming flat-racing season now that the maestro is playing the role of an equine Lothario, covering mares at £120,000 a time at Banstead Manor Stud. I doubt we shall see his like, or a horse comparable to Gimcrack for that matter, again in my lifetime. But the champion jockey Richard Hughes assures me that Toronado is his best chance yet of winning the Derby, and the Richard Hannon-trained colt could be each-way value for Epsom in June at 16-1 with Ladbrokes.


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The dynamic DecoDe-and-Forward (DDF) relaying protocol is a relatively new cooperative scheme which has been shown to achieve promising theoretical results in terms of diversity-multiplexing gain tradeoff and error rates. The case of a single relay has been extensively studied in the literature and several techniques to approach the optimum performance have been proposed. Until recently, however, a practical implementation for the case of several relays had been considered to be much more challenging. A rotation-based DDF technique, suitable for any number of relays, has been recently proposed which promises to overcome important implementation hurdles.
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US: Kellogg sales fall sends shares sliding
- Kellogg sales missed Wall Street forecasts
- Continued pressure on US breakfast sales
- Underlying earnings improved
- Maintained FY guidance
Kellogg breakfast sales still under pressure in US
Shares in Kellogg fell in early trading in New York after the US food giant reported lower-than-expected first-quarter sales.
Kellogg booked a 3.1% fall in revenue to US$3.74bn for the quarter to 29 March. The consensus forecast among Wall Street analysts was for the Special K owner's sales to drop 1.3%.
Internal net sales, a company metric that excludes the effects of foreign currency translation, M&A and integration costs, decreased by 2.4%.
Kellogg has seen sales of its core breakfast foods products come under pressure, notably in North America, in recent quarters - and the first three months of 2014 was no different.
The company's US morning foods business saw sales drop 5.5% when measured by its internal sales metric.
Underlying operating profit and earnings per share rose year-on-year.
Shares in Kellogg were down 1.45% at $65.86 at 11:07 ET
Kellogg Company Reports First Quarter 2014 Results, Reaffirms Full-Year Guidance
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., May 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Kellogg Company (NYSE: K) today announced first-quarter results for earnings per share that were greater than the company's expectations; results for operating profit were in-line with expectations. First quarter 2014 reported net sales decreased by 3.1 percent to $3.7 billion. Internal net sales,* which exclude the effects of foreign currency translation, acquisitions, dispositions, and integration costs, decreased by 2.4 percent over the same period. First quarter 2014 operating profit was $614 million, a reported increase of 22.1 percent; this increase was driven primarily by the impact that asset returns and changes in interest rates had on pension plans. Underlying internal operating profit,* which excludes the effects of foreign currency translation, acquisitions, dispositions, mark-to-market accounting, integration costs, and costs associated with Project K, decreased by 5.5 percent. As expected, the decline in underlying internal operating profit was largely the result of lower sales and the timing of costs of goods sold in the period.
Reported earnings for the first quarter 2014 were $406 million, or $1.12 per diluted share, an increase of 32 percent from the $0.85 per diluted share reported in the first quarter of last year. This quarter's reported earnings per share included an impact from mark-to-market of $0.22 per share, partially offset by $0.10 per share of costs associated with Project K and approximately $0.01 per share of integration costs related to the acquisition of Pringles. Excluding these items, comparable first quarter 2014 earnings* were $1.01 per share, greater than the company's expectations as the result of the impact of a $0.03 per share benefit in Other Income and Expense.
"Our results for operating profit and earnings in the first quarter were broadly in-line with the expectations we highlighted on the last earnings call," said John Bryant, Kellogg Company's president and chief executive officer. "In addition, we've made great progress with Project K and we've developed strong investment plans for the remainder of the year. As a result, we've reaffirmed our guidance for the full year and expect top-line performance to improve over time."
* Internal sales growth, underlying internal operating profit growth, comparable earnings, underlying effective tax rate and cash flow are all non-GAAP financial measures. See the tables herein for important information regarding these measures and a full reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP measure.
North America
Net sales posted by Kellogg North America were $2.5 billion in the first quarter, a reported decrease of 2.9 percent; internal net sales decreased by 2.4 percent. The U.S. Morning Foods segment posted an internal net sales decline of 5.5 percent. Internal net sales in the U.S. Snacks segment increased by 0.3 percent. The U.S. Specialty Channels segment posted a 1.7 percent internal net sales decline in the quarter and the North America Other segment, which is comprised of the U.S. Frozen Foods and Canadian businesses, posted a 2.1 percent decrease in internal net sales. Reported operating profit in North America decreased by 9.4 percent; internal operating profit declined by 6.1 percent, largely as the result of lower sales and the timing of costs of goods sold.
Reported net sales increased by 2.3 percent in Europe in the quarter; internal net sales decreased by 1.7 percent. In Latin America, reported net sales decreased by 9.8 percent and internal net sales decreased by 5.3 percent, reflecting the impact of an increased food tax in Mexico. Reported net sales in Asia Pacific decreased by 10.7 percent and internal net sales decreased by 1.4 percent.
Interest and Tax
Kellogg's interest expense was $52 million in the first quarter. The underlying tax rate* in the first quarter of 2014 was 28.8 percent.
Cash flow
Cash flow,* a non-GAAP measure defined as cash from operating activities less capital expenditures, was $171 million for the quarter, and was in-line with expectations. It is still anticipated that cash flow for the year will be in a range between $1.0 and $1.1 billion.
Kellogg repurchased $321 million of shares during the first quarter, far exceeding option proceeds of $32 million.
Kellogg Reaffirms Full-Year 2014 Guidance
The company reaffirmed its guidance for full-year internal net sales growth of approximately one percent. Underlying internal operating profit growth is still expected to be in a range between zero and two percent. Currency-neutral comparable earnings per share growth is still expected to be between one and three percent. Integration costs associated with the acquisition of the Pringles business are still expected to be in a range between $0.07 and $0.09 per share. Costs associated with Project K are still expected to be in a range between $0.60 and $0.65 per share. As a result, earnings excluding the impact of mark-to-market accounting, integration costs, Project K and other items impacting comparability are still anticipated to be between $3.89 and $3.97 per share. This year's 53rd week is still expected to add approximately $0.08per share to earnings. As a result, the company continues to expect an earnings range including the impact of the 53rd week of between $3.97 and $4.05 per share, which the company estimates is in line with the Bloomberg consensus estimate.
Conference Call / Webcast
Kellogg will host a conference call to discuss these results on Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time. The conference call and accompanying presentation slides will be broadcast live over the Internet at http://investor.kelloggs.com. Analysts and institutional investors may participate in the Q&A session by dialing (877) 270-2148 in the U.S., and (412) 902-6510 outside of the U.S. Members of the media and the public are invited to attend in a listen-only mode. Rebroadcast information is available at http://investor.kelloggs.com.
About Kellogg Company
At Kellogg Company (NYSE: K), we are driven to enrich and delight the world through foods and brands that matter. With 2013 sales of approximately $14.8 billion, Kellogg is the world's leading cereal company; second largest producer of cookies and crackers; a leading producer of savory snacks; and a leading North American frozen foods company. Every day, our well-loved brands nourish families so they can flourish and thrive. These brands include Kellogg's®, Keebler®, Special K®, Pringles®, Frosted Flakes®, Pop-Tarts®, Corn Flakes®, Rice Krispies®, Kashi®, Cheez-It®, Eggo®, Coco Pops®, Mini-Wheats®, and many more. To learn more about our responsible business leadership, foods that delight and how we strive to make a difference in our communities around the world, visit www.kelloggcompany.com.
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JERUSALEM, Israel - Six weeks after a Palestinian Authority policeman opened fire on Jewish worshippers traveling to Joseph's Tomb, 15 Knesset members from the Land of Israel Lobby visited the site on Tuesday.
Ben-Yosef Livnat, 25, was killed and four others injured in what Israel later called a terror attack.
Joseph's Tomb, located in the P.A.-controlled city of Nablus (biblical Shechem), is supposed to be a protected Jewish holy site according to Israeli-Palestinian agreements. Israelis wanting to visit the site -- believed to be the burial place of the Jewish patriarch -- must coordinate their visit with Israeli security forces.
Among the MKs taking part in the visit were Aryeh Eldad, Danny Danon, Tzipi Hotovely, and Ze'ev Elki. Shomron (Samaria) Chief Rabbi Elyakim Levanon and Gershon Mesika, head of the Shomron Regional Council who arranged the visit, also took part.
Tuesday's visit -- coordinated with Israeli and P.A. security forces -- was the first daylight visit in many years, according to Shomron Liaison Office Executive Director Yaakov David Ha'ivri.
In a statement released by his office, Ha'ivri said Tuesday's visit was especially significant coming six weeks after Livnat's untimely death.
"Today's visit is made all the more significant in that it comes merely a month and a half after the murder of Yosef Livnat, a religious Jew, who was killed by Palestinian Authority forces while making his way to the Tomb, unarmed, with the intent to peacefully worship at the site," Ha'ivri said in a statement released by his office.
Livnat, 25, was the nephew of Sports and Culture Minister Limor Livnat, who called the attack "cold blooded murder."
"Today's event sends a clear message that the Jewish people clings fiercely to its holy sites and will continue to do so in spite of the violent and often murderous attempts of our enemies to break the bond between the people of Israel and their land," he said.
Netanyahu Demands Justice in Livnat Murder
P.A. Policeman Kills One Israeli, Injures Four
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Yes, you heard it here first, your very own 76ers traded Willie Green on Thursday along with Center Jason Smith. In return, the Sixers will receive Darius Songaila and Craig Brackins, the 21st selection in this years draft. Brackins was originally drafted by the Oklahoma City Thunder before being traded to the New Orleans Hornets. This marks Brackins second trade before every suiting up for an NBA team. Songaila is merely an expiring contract for the Sixers but Brackins is an interesting piece. Last season for Iowa State, Brackins averaged 16.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per game.
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Highway Safety Initiatives
Trunk Packing: A Matter of Officer Survival
By Richard J. Ashton, Chief of Police (Retired), Frederick, Maryland; and Grant/Technical Management Manager, IACP
hose officers assigned to fleet cruisers often are frustrated, to say the least, when they pop their cruisers' trunks at crash scenes to find no road flares. More often than not, they see, untethered, such motley items as crowbars, fire extinguishers, first-aid kits, jacks, loose ammunition, measuring devices, shovels, shotguns, and tire irons. They may or may not complain to their supervisors, who may or may not address the issue. However, regardless of the supervisors' responses, this situation undoubtedly will recur.
Regrettably, this state of affairs has existed for decades and is not perceived by law enforcement as especially serious. As a matter of fact, 85 percent of 80 law enforcement agencies surveyed by the Arizona Department of Public Safety in October 2002 had not promulgated guidelines for packing equipment in the trunks of their cruisers. However, improper trunk packing jeopardizes officers' safety and is directly related to their survival.
Investigations of the tragic deaths of at least 14 law enforcement officers in the fiery, high-speed, high-impact rear-end collisions involving Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors (CVPIs) and its peer vehicle, the discontinued Chevrolet Caprice, between 1993 and 20022 identified unsafe trunk-packing as the cause or a contributing factor in two-thirds of these deaths.3 Ford developed its optional Trunk Pack to mitigate the risk of necessary equipment items puncturing and igniting CVPI fuel tanks when they are stored laterally as opposed to longitudinally. It also provides a free Police Interceptor Equipment Mounting Guide, as well as Police Interceptor Modifier Guides for 2008, 2009, and 2010 CVPIs, to assist with the proper and safe installation of aftermarket equipment (see figure 1).
Ford's Equipment Mounting Guide:
Ford's Modifiers Guides:
Upfitting is a major issue, particularly for those agencies that outsource their cruisers locally for modification. Agencies often depend on well-intentioned local businesses to tailor new cruisers to the agencies' needs. Unfortunately, not every upfitter possesses the expertise necessary to properly install the requisite items, which can lead to subsequent problems. For example, a CVPI owned by the Powell, Ohio, Police Department burned on March 28, 2005. An investigation revealed that a sheet-metal mounting screw used to secure an aftermarket power source had pierced the Ford wiring harness; and that the wiring harness itself had been detached, moved, and not reattached. The aftermarket installer had mounted the power source in the "No Fasteners Allowed" area of the aforementioned equipment mounting guide.4 Agencies must ensure that items in cruisers' trunks are affixed firmly and secured with fasteners strong enough to withstand crashes, so sharp-edged metal from flimsy clasps installed with inadequate bolts, nuts, or screws cannot puncture fuel system components.
Despite these recommendations to minimize trunk problems, Murphy's Law sometimes still prevails. Traditional road flares pose a fire danger when they are carried inappropriately in cruisers' trunks.5 For example, uncapped and improperly stored flares ignited in the trunks of Tucson, Arizona, police cruisers twice in a period of 15 days in 2003.6 Moreover, the cruiser in which Torrance, California, police officers Mark Athan and Hector Bermudez were riding on November 6, 2002, exploded in flames after it was struck in the rear at a red traffic signal by a suspected intoxicated driver. Fortunately, Officer Athan was able to rescue his unconscious partner.7 The preliminary findings of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) revealed that the force of the impact caused a 24-inch crowbar stored in the CVPI's trunk to rupture the wall of the trunk and travel all the way through its fuel tank.8
Ford commands 75 percent of the police car market.9 Even though the CVPI will be retired after the 2011 model year and replaced by a new, purpose-built Police Interceptor, it will be used by law enforcement well into the future, especially in light of the economic constraints under which agencies currently are operating. Therefore, agencies need to ensure that their officers are provided with the best equipment and that officers use it safely. While many situations arise during officers' careers over which they regrettably have little or no control, driving cruisers with improperly packed trunks should never be one of them.
Forty-one percent more officers were killed accidentally than feloniously (746 versus 530) between 1999 and 2008,10 and 66 percent of those killed accidentally in that decade (492 officers) died in automobile and motorcycle crashes.11 Officers must remain ever cognizant that the autopsies of two Florida Highway Patrol troopers and four Arizona law enforcement officers killed in the aforementioned fiery, high-speed, high-impact rear-end collisions revealed that they had sustained non–life threatening injuries, but they had succumbed to the fires that engulfed their cruisers. 12 Remember, improper trunk packing was the cause or a contributing factor in two-thirds of these 14 deaths.
All officers need to be taught to safely stow essential items of equipment in their cruisers' trunks, and supervisors thereafter need to hold accountable those they lead daily by conducting regular and frequent inspections of cruisers' trunks and by immediately initiating corrective action when any deviation from a safe practice is identified. Improper trunk packing is a serious officer safety issue and a matter of officer survival; proactive responses can reduce the number of preventable, accidental officer deaths and injuries. ■
1Ford Motor Company, "ADPS Police Practices Survey," https://www.fleet.ford.com/showroom/CVPI/TrafficStop.asp#ADPS (accessed June 6, 2010).2The Center for Auto Safety, "MY 1992-2001 Ford Crown Victoria, Lincoln Town Car, Mercury Grand Marquis Fatal Fire Crashes, 1993-2002," http://www.autosafety.org/uploads/CVFARS.pdf (accessed June 9, 2010).3Ford's Director of Design Analysis Brian Geraghty, facsimile to the author, June 13, 2003.4Mr. Geraghty, director of Design and Analysis Office of Ford Motor Company, summarized the investigation at the June 22, 2005, meeting of the IACP Law Enforcement Stops and Safety Subcommittee (LESSS).5Dr. Charlie Mesloh et al., Evaluation of Chemical and Electric Flares, report to the National Institute of Justice, Document No. 224277 (2008), 10, http://www.ice4safety.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/roadflareevaldoj.pdf (accessed June 5, 2010).6Jeff Corey et al., "Tucson Arizona Flare Experiment," SWAFS Journal 25, no. 2 ( July 2003): 27–34.7Larry Altman, "Torrance Police Officer Saves Partner from Blazing Car," Daily Breeze, November 8, 2002, http://www.firepanel.net/images/11-7-02%20-torrance_ca_crash.pdf (accessed June 6, 2010).8Patrick A. Shortall and Frank S. Borris, "Preliminary Findings Announced in Review of Torrance Police Ford Crown Victoria Patrol Car Fire," press release, Torrance Police Department and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, November 25, 2002, 1.9Brent Snavely, "Ford Confirms New Patrol Car Will Replace Crown Vic in 2011," Detroit Free Press, reprinted on PoliceOne.com, November 16, 2009, http://www.policeone.com/police-products/vehicles/articles/1966103-Ford-confirms-new-patrol -car-will-replace-Crown-Vic-in-2011 (accessed June 5, 2010).10Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted 2008, October 2009, table 1, http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/killed/2008/data/table_01.html (accessed June 11, 2010); FBI, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted 2008, October 2009, table 48, http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/killed/2008/data/table_48.html (accessed June 11, 2010).11FBI, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted 2008, October 2009, table 63, http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/killed/2008/data/table_63.html (accessed June 11, 2010).12Lieutenant James D. Wells Jr., "Rear End Collision Study—1999," July 26, 1999, and September 16, 1999, revision, 5 and 19; minutes of September 10–11, 2003, LESSS meeting, 1.Please cite as: Richard J. Ashton, "Trunk Packing: A Matter of Officer Survival," The Police Chief 77 (August 2010): 136-138, http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/CPIM0810/index.php#/136-138 (insert access date).Top
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Richard J. Ashton, "Trunk Packing: A Matter of Officer Survival," The Police Chief 77 (August 2010): 136-138, http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/CPIM0810/index.php#/136-138 (insert access date).
From The Police Chief, vol. LXXVII, no. 8, August 2010. Copyright held by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 515 North Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA.


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