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Ever wonder why sugar is so inexpensive? Well, we're paying its true cost in more ways than one. Here's why you should be concerned about your consumption of sugar and what it means for our global environment. I was shocked to find this out. Please share it with others. The context of this post is from 2 sources: From the magazine VegNews (Sept/Oct. 2008 edition) and East Bay Natural Pages - downloadable here: http://www.naturalpages.com/ftp/East%20Bay%20Natural%20Pages.pdf (Oct. 2007-March 2008 edition)
Sugar beets. That's right, not regular beets, from which we derive vitamin C, iron, and potassium, but sugar beets from which we derive- you guessed it-sugar is a subsidized crop. Sugar beets require four times the land that sugar cane does. Sugar beets cost taxpayers $242 million in subsidies from 1995-2006. (VegNews, p. 44)
In the past two years there has been growing acceptance that global warming is real, that the environment is deteriorating, and that we must do something about it. It is more commonly acknowledged that our lifestyle choices have dire consequences for the planet, as well as our own physical and mental health.
Global warming, deforestation, species extinction, air and water pollution, and the dramatic loss of biodiversity, along with the huge increase of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, respiratory illnesses, depression, learning disabilities and more, are degenerative conditions either caused or exacerbated by the choices we make.
Looking for relief, hundreds of billions of dollars are spent each year to attack, treat, or "cure" these ailments, all the while failing to address the true cause.
But what if we knew the cause(s)? Would we really do something about them? How much are we willing to change?
There may be no one cause, but there is at least one thing that contributes to all the environmental and health concerns mentioned here, and a lot more. And that is sugar.
Sugar (sucrose), the regular white granulated stuff (and high-fructose corn syrup) is perhaps the most dangerous food ingredient on the planet, and may be responsible for more environmental destruction than any other agricultural commodity. Sugar suppresses the immune system, leaches the body of potassium and magnesium, increases the appetite, and is addicting. Plainly put, it is not fit for human consumption.
Globally, we consume around 300,000,000,000 pounds of sugar annually, and each year this total increases by 6,000,000,000. Can you wrap your head around these numbers and imagine how many rainforests and tropical habitats have been destroyed, and the land, air and water pollution caused by the burning fields and intensive use of chemicals in this process?
With sugar consumption comes an increase in appetite. The standard portion size of many foods and beverages has increased 40% from just 20 years ago. In the average three meals, many people now eat the equivalent of 5-6 meals a day!
It is no wonder obesity and diabetes are global epidemics. Over a billion people are overweight, with about 150 million obese, and over 230 million with diabetes, compared to just 30 million in 1985.
This is a staggering statistic, but with one action we can reduce global warming and our environmental impact, reduce world hunger, lose weight, reduce or eliminate the use of many medications for diabetes, heart disease, and other sugar-related illnesses, save lots of money, and greatly increase personal and planetary health and well-being.
That is simply to STOP (or greatly reduce) eating and drinking sugar, including most artificial sweeteners and those foods that contain sugar additives. Support groups such as Food Addicts in Recovery (www.foodaddicts.org) are having great success and are there to help if needed. We are one strung out species, and it may be very difficult to kick the habit as we struggle with our need for a sugar fix. But we can. (Rubin, Jerome, East Bay Natural Pages, p. 2)
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AICPA Supports New Private Company Council; Developing Framework for SMEs
June 13, 2012
Following the announcement by the Financial Accounting Foundation on May 23, 2012 that it would create the Private Company Council, which the American Institute of CPAs supports, the Institute announced its plans the same day to develop an "other comprehensive basis of accounting" (OCBOA) financial reporting framework to meet the needs of some privately held small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as the users of the financial statements of these entities.
"One-size U.S. GAAP does not fit all companies, especially smaller privately held businesses," said Gregory J. Anton, CPA, CGMA, chairman of the board of directors of the AICPA. "We recognize that the FAF has moved in the right direction and the AICPA will continue to be fully engaged with the FAF and the Private Company Council. While doing so, we will also use our resources and expertise to develop an enhanced OCBOA financial reporting framework."
The new Financial Reporting Framework for Small- and Medium-sized Entities, which will be self-contained and which the AICPA expects to expose for comment this fall so it will be ready for use in 2013, may be used by these businesses when U.S. GAAP financial statements are not required or needed. The financial reporting framework will draw upon a blend of accrual income tax methods and other traditional methods of accounting.
The FAF's action stems in large measure from the foundational work conducted by a blue ribbon panel formed in 2009 by the AICPA, the FAF and the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy, which included lenders, investors and owners as well as preparers, auditors and regulators. After receiving the panel's report in January 2011, the FAF gathered input from stakeholders, and released a proposal last fall. The vast majority of stakeholders agreed with the panel that action must be taken to make private company financial statements more relevant, less complex, and cost-beneficial, said AICPA President and CEO Barry C. Melancon, CPA, CGMA.
FAF President and CEO Terri Polley said, "We welcome the AICPA's support for the Private Company Council and for our efforts to improve the standard-setting process for private companies. We also believe that the AICPA's plan to develop a financial reporting framework for smaller private entities, which would be used as a form of OCBOA reporting where appropriate, is an important and complementary undertaking. Taken together, these actions demonstrate the commitment of both organizations to the private company financial reporting constituency."
For more information about the upcoming OCBOA financial reporting framework for smaller businesses, read the June 7, 2012 Journal of Accountancy article and a FAQ and visit the resource page on the AICPA website.


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|WA Seasonal Rainfall Outlook: probabilities for Summer 2005/2006, issued 16th November 2005
50:50 chances for a wetter than average summer
The chances of accumulating at least median rainfall during summer (Dec-Feb) are close to 50% across the entire state of Western Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology announced today (see map). The outlooks are based on relationships between Pacific and Indian Ocean temperatures and Australian rainfall. Recent ocean temperatures have not been sufficiently warmer or cooler than average to produce a strong bias in rainfall outlook odds.
So in years with ocean patterns like the current, about five summers out of ten are expected to be wetter than the median over WA, with about five out of ten being drier.
Outlook confidence is related to the influence of Pacific and Indian Ocean temperatures on seasonal rainfall. During summer, history shows this influence to be moderately consistent across much of WA (see background information).
The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) has risen steadily over the past few months with values of −7 in August, +4 in September and +11 in October. The approximate SOI for the 30 days ending 13th November was +8.
For routine updates on the latest data relating to El Niño, together with details on what the phenomenon is and how it has affected Australia in the past, see the ENSO Wrap-Up.
Click on the map above for a larger version of the map. Use the reload/refresh button to ensure the latest forecast map is displayed.
|More information on this outlook is available from 9.00am to 5.00pm (WST) Monday to Friday by contacting the Climate and Consultancy section in the Bureau's Perth Office: (08) 9263 2222.
THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE SEASONAL OUTLOOK IS EXPECTED BY 19th DECEMBER 2005
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The Insee agency said that unemployment rose from 10.5 percent at the end of 2012. It had originally reported unemployment was 10.6 percent in the fourth quarter.
French President Francois Hollande has promised to reverse the rise in unemployment by the end of this year, but that is looking increasingly unlikely. Some economists say it won't peak until at least next year.
According to Eurostat, the European statistics agency, which calculates the figure differently, unemployment is already at 11 percent in France.
Joblessness has been rising in the country since mid-2011, but France has not seen the astronomically high unemployment rates of its neighbors, like Spain. And it has been slower than other European countries to cut spending and reform its labor market and benefits system.
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One of the biggest ironies of the government shutdown fiasco is that even though an estimated 800,000 federal employees were sent home from work without pay today, the Affordable Care Act's Health Insurance Exchanges opened for business.
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Ag Secretary Vilsack: Farm bill passage critical to ag research
Years ago, I heard a National Cotton Council leader tell a congressional hearing that "We too often cause to happen that which we seek to prevent." The farmer was talking about a provision in that year's farm bill, but truer words were never spoken about the current situation in Washington.
House Republicans were trying to delay the implementation of Obamacare by one year. Instead, they just helped attract more attention to the opening of the exchanges, so much so that the healthcare.gov had to be restarted at one point because so many Americans were trying to get on the health insurance exchange website.
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Firestone Indy Lights To Delay Introduction Of Next-Generation Car
INDIANAPOLIS Firestone Indy Lights has announced that the introduction of its next-generation car will be delayed until after the 2014 season.
"While we have generated quite a bit of interest from a variety of manufacturers, we feel it's best to delay the introduction of the next-generation chassis and engine," said Tony George Jr., director, Firestone Indy Lights. "We want our teams, drivers and manufacturers to be competitive and successful, and if that means taking a step back to create a stronger series to support the economics of this long-termcapital investment as well as a formula that we believe will allow our drivers to transition between Pro Mazda and the IZOD IndyCar Series, then we're willing to make sure the introduction is timed properly."
Series officials, citing the desired attributes of a contemporary chassis with enhanced aerodynamics and technology, announced last May that a request for proposal had been distributed to potential manufacturers and development firms for both engine and chassis. All Firestone Indy Lights competitors currently run a Dallara chassis and a 3.5-liter, normally aspirated V8 engine.
"We continue to spend a considerable amount of time conducting due diligence, taking into account the needs of our teams, drivers, manufacturers and other key constituents to make our series stronger," George said. "This ongoing process has proven just how much people believe in Firestone Indy Lights and the entire Mazda Road to Indy driver development system."
INDYCAR continues to make investments to growFirestone Indy Lights while providing further value to all participants throughout the Mazda Road to Indy system that also includes the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship powered by Mazda and the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires.
This season, Firestone Indy Lights has an improved TV package, with all races televised on NBC Sports Network. The television schedule features enhanced time windows, serving as lead-in programming to IZOD IndyCar Series broadcasts where the schedules allow, showcasing the series to a larger audience. The Freedom 100 on May 24 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will be televised live.
Additionally, INDYCAR recently re-launched the Firestone Indy Lights and Mazda Road to Indy website as part of indycar.com, serving as the go-to resource for news and features on the next generation of the sport's stars.
The Firestone Indy Lights champion, claiming a Mazda Road to Indy scholarship to apply to an IZOD IndyCar Series program, has graduated to the premier series three of the past four years. Tristan Vautier will drive for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports in the 2013 season. Scholarships also were awarded to 2012 Pro Mazda champion Jack Hawksworth and USF2000 champion Matthew Brabham, both of whom will graduate to the next step on the ladder this season.
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A 24-year-old man underwent emergency surgery when a mortar shell fireworks kit exploded in his hand in Pelham Friday night.
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Bogotá, Colombia – Despite objections from a number of human rights groups, Colombia's Congress approved a constitutional amendment giving military courts greater jurisdiction over crimes committed by armed forces members.
Colombia's military has a checkered human rights record that has in the past led U.S. lawmakers to selectively withhold aid from tainted units.
Winning final approval in the Senate by a 57-7 vote, the law is widely considered a gesture by President Juan Manuel Santos to placate the military brass, whose support he needs in peace talks with Colombia's largest leftist rebel group to end a half-century-old conflict.
Santos is expected to sign the legislation this week.
José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director for Human Rights Watch, called the amendment "an unnecessary and premeditated blow to human rights."
"It creates a serious risk of 'false positives' and other military atrocities remaining unpunished," he said. "False positives" refer to killings by soldiers of civilians, often lured into traps with promises of employment, who are later dressed up as leftist rebels to increase units' body counts.
There are hundreds of such cases from the 2000s that coincided with major battlefield gains by Colombia's U.S.-backed military against the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Colombian military units have also colluded with right-wing death squads responsible for the killings of thousands of suspected rebel sympathizers.
"'False positives' are going to end up outside the civil justice system and there's no way around it," said Sen. Parmenio Cuellar of the leftist Polo Democratico party and a former justice minister.
Vivanco lobbied successfully to include language in the amendment that specifies military courts can under no circumstances try cases of crimes against humanity or violations of international humanitarian law, including forced disappearance, sexual violence, torture, forced dislocation and extra-judicial executions.
However, rights activists and leftist lawmakers failed to persuade the bill's sponsors to replace "extra-judicial executions" with the exact names of crimes that are defined in the legal code, such as murder and aggravated murder. Because "extra-judicial execution" is not a crime in the legal code, critics fear hundreds of cases of extra-judicial executions would be transferred from civilian to military courts.
The bill's sponsors say that won't happen.
"This is not an instrument of impunity," said Sen. Juan Manuel Galán, son of the presidential candidate Luís Carlos Galán who was assassinated in 1989 by drug lords. "If cases have no relation with (military) service they should immediately go to civilian courts."
A clause in the constitutional amendment gives authorities a year to determine which prosecutions should pass to military justice.
More than 1,700 extra-judicial execution cases involving nearly 3,000 deaths, the vast majority committed in 2002-2008 during the presidency of Alvaro Uribe, are currently working their way through the civilian justice system.
A scandal over the uncovering of those cases, which the United Nations later called systematic, prompted Uribe in October 2008 to fire three generals and 17 other officers for negligence. The army chief, Gen. Mario Montoya, resigned the next month.
Santos was defense minister at the time.
Rights activists also oppose another element of the amendment that creates a special court comprised of four civilians and four retired military officers that will decide jurisdictional disputes among civilian and military justice systems.
After Santos' signs the law, it is subject to review by the Constitutional Court, which could take months.
The peace talks with the FARC began in November in Cuba after six months of secret talks and Santos has said he will give them a year to succeed or fail.
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NDSU Undergraduate Research Takes Student's Love for Birds to New Heights
Fargo, N.D., September 5, 2013 – Gulls are a familiar sight during seaside strolls, but one NDSU student finds them fascinating and has made the birds the central subject of her undergraduate research.
Nicole Snyder, a junior biochemistry molecular biology and zoology major from Dell Rapids, S.D., has transformed her love for birds into a meaningful research study on Franklin's Gulls. She also may have discovered her future career path.
Franklin's Gulls are small, black-headed gulls of the interior North American prairies. They are a common sight for the region during the summer when they breed. During the winter, they migrate to Central America.
"I'm a big bird person," Snyder said. "I really like studying them. I never knew this is where it would take me."
Under the direction of Wendy Reed, associate professor and head of biological sciences at NDSU, Snyder is a member of a research team trying to determine differences present between Franklin's Gull chicks hatched during early season and late season. Snyder's job was to analyze immune system function and the ability of the chicks to withstand diet restrictions. To do this, she ran a comet assay on the chicks' blood. A comet assay is a sensitive and rapid technique for quantifying and analyzing DNA damage in individual cells. She specifically looked for variances in the amount of cell damage between the two groups.
Both early and late season hatched chicks need to be fully prepared for migration in August despite their age difference. The study is looking at cell damage comparisons to see if late season chicks are giving something up in order to be ready in time.
"I'm still working on analysis, but preliminary data showed that for a certain age period they did show a difference," explained Snyder. "It's really cool that we're getting what we expected."
In January, Snyder gave a poster presentation on her findings at the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology annual conference in San Francisco. The conference allowed Snyder to share her research, but also network and learn from other science professionals from around the nation.
"There were so many different people there from all different branches of science," Snyder said. "I learned all the different methods they were using and I was able to find people who were doing similar projects as me."
As a student-focused institution, NDSU gives undergraduate students the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge research alongside respected authorities in their field. For Snyder, undergraduate research has been a big part of her collegiate experience.
"I have gained all sorts of work and educational experience and I get to be a part of the environment I hope to work in after college." Snyder said of undergraduate research. "It has made me a more well-rounded student and exposed me to a lot of opportunities I would've never had if I hadn't done this."
Snyder plans to continue working on ornithology research during her undergraduate years at NDSU and hopefully conduct future avian projects as a graduate student. Overall, her experience has been a rewarding one.
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It's called "Social CRM, FTW!: How Real Companies Are Going Social and Winning."
The examples are chosen well, as they span a variety of industries -- computer software, high-tech hardware, financial services, and academia -- illustrating that whatever your situation, there's a social approach that can work and deliver results that positively impact your organization.
A lot of my focus is on the technologies that power online communities and social media programs, so it was good to see that the cases also cover a range of vendors, including Jive Software, Lithium Technologies, Salesforce.com, Radian6, and Yammer. Each vendor brings something different to the table, depending on the sponsoring organization's business needs and goals.
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Tyson Foods, Inc. is (NYSE:TSN) the world's largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork products, exporting to over 90 countries. The firm generated $26.7 billion in 2009 revenue, operating five business segments: Chicken; Beef (its largest segment); Pork; Prepared Foods; and Other. Tyson sells to a variety of customers, including retail, food service and even pharmaceutical companies. Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) is the company's largest customer, accounting for 13.8% of overall sales in 2009. In 2007, Tyson got into the biodiesel business by striking a partnership with oil company ConocoPhillips (COP) to produce biodiesel from animal fat, which at its peak could reach 175 million gallons per year for Tyson. The production facility was completed in July 2010 and production is expected to follow shortly thereafter.[1]
In late September 2010, China announced new tariffs on chicken imports from the US of up to 105%. Tyson and other companies are lobbying Congress and China to remove the new tax, which went into effect on September 27. Tyson's imports will be charged a 50.3% duty.[2]
During the week of August 30 2010, Tyson resumed poultry exports to Russia for the first time since a ban on American poultry imports went into effect in January. Tyson has five plants that have been certified by the Russian and US governments, but the exact volume of poultry shipments has not been released.[3]
On August 24, 2010, Tyson recalled 380,000 pounds of roast beef and ham products from Wal-Mart delis due to fears of Listeria bacteria contamination. The majority of the meat was packaged in "Grab and Go" sandwiches. No illnesses have yet been reported and the company believes that the majority of the meat has already been consumed.[4]
Headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas, Tyson Foods entered the meat processing industry in 1935. Since then, the company has become the world's largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork products mostly through a long history of acquisitions, its most recent being the acquisition of IBP, Inc.--now called Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. (TFM)--in 2001. The company is also the second largest publicly traded food company in the Fortune 500, as measured by revenue, and employs 107,000 worldwide. In fiscal 2009, Tyson Foods exported to more than 90 countries, including Canada, Central America, China, the European Union, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan. In 2009, Russia, the fifth-largest importer of US pork, banned most pork imports from the US (including two Tyson plants) after finding traces of a banned antibiotic in some of the exported meat. The ban was lifted in March 2010.[5] In 2010, China announced major anti-dumping tariffs on poultry imported from the US, including Tyson's products.[6]
In the first quarter of 2010,Tyson generated revenues of $6.64 billion, an increase of 1.7%; net income grew to $159 million from a loss of $104 million in Q1 2009. Operating income increased to $314 million from a loss of $198 in the previous year.[7] Sales volume for the quarter increased 4.6% as chicken and beef sales increased; the volume increase accounted for approximately $318 million. The increase in volume however was offset by a 2.7% decrease in average sales price, which decreased revenues by $204 million. [8] Chicken's strong performance was due primarily to a recent international acquisition that increased overall sales and to lower production costs, such as a decrease in the price of grain worth $84 million.[9] Beef sales prices dropped 6.1% during the quarter, but this decrease was more than offset by a 7.2% increase in volume. Both Pork and Processed Foods saw decreased revenues in the quarter as a result of both lower volume and sales prices for the former, and lower average sales price for the latter.[10] On the same day as the earnings report, China announced anti-dumping measures on US chicken producers after finding that American firms are hurting China's domestic chicken producers. Duties charged range up to 105.4% but Tyson is subject to the lowest duty of 43.1%.[11]
In the second quarter of 2010, Tyson generated revenues of $6.92 billion, an increase of 9.7% from Q2 2009; net income grew to $159 million, up from a $119 million loss in the previous year. Operating income for the quarter was $344 million.[12] Overall volume for the quarter decreased by 0.5%, however the average sales price increased by 10.2%. The company successfully improved its efficiency during the quarter to save an estimated $400 million.[13] Chicken sales volume decreased 4.3% as a result of lower export sales, but operating income increased as a result improved efficiency, relatively low grain prices (although slightly higher than Q1) and an increase in the average sales price.[14] The Beef segment increased its operating income to $126 million from $28 million the previous year, but more importantly, the operating margin improved from 1.2% in 2009 to 4.6% in 2010.[15] The improvement was the result of increased export sales, but also significantly improved operation efficiency as a result of closing smaller non-competitve regional plants between 2006-2008.[16] On a smaller scale, the Pork sgement also saw positive results for the quarter with operating income rising from $29 million to $69 million and operating margin improvement form 3.4% to 7.4%. The company attributes the positive results to improved operational efficiency and appropriately gauging the public demand for pork.[17] The Prepared Foods segment also had a very strong quarter with both operaitng income and operating margin for the quarter increasing nearly 100% from Q2 2009.[18]
In the third quarter of 2010, Tyson generated revenues of $7.44 billion, an increase of 11.6% from the previous year; net income increased 89% from Q3 2009 to $248 million. Operating income for the quarter was $507 million.[19] Sales volume for the quarter increased 1.2% but the average sales price increased by more than 10%. The higher sales price was a result of higher material costs for beef, pork, and prepared foods; the cost of live cattle and hogs increased $357 million from last year. Chicken sales volume for the quarter increased 8.1% on higher demand in the US, a recent international acquisition, and Russia's repeal of its ban on US poultry imports. The segment's revenue increased more than 4.5% despite a 3.2% decrease in the average sales price.[20] Beef volume fell more than 5% but a nearly 20% increase in average sales price more than offset the decline in volume. The company is also expecting its beef exports to grow in the coming years, but the major growth this quarter was a result of improved operational efficiency. Revenue from beef increased nearly 13.4%[21] For Pork, volume remained flat but the average sales price increased 31.6% in conjunction with a proportional rise in the cost of live hogs. The segment's revenue increased 31.8%.[22] Sales volume for Prepared Foods increased 1.4% with a 10.3% increase in the average sales price. Revenue for Prepared Foods increased nearly 12%, however the segment's operating income still decreased by $18 million (including a $15 million charge related to the closing of one of the company's plants).[23]
In the fourth quarter of 2010, Tyson generated revenues of $7.44 billion, an increase of 3% from the previous year; net income for the quarter was $215 million, up from a loss of $457 million in Q4 2009. Operating income for the quarter more than doubled to $391 million.[24] Large pricing increases in nearly all segments offset simultaneous declines in volume during the quarter. Overall, volume decreased 6.9% while prices increased 10.8%.[25] For chicken, volume and pricing decreased 0.5% and 0.7%, respectively. Increased consumer demand, an international acquisition, and savings of $78 million from lower grain costs boosted operating income more than triple what it had been in Q4 2009.[26] An 11.8% decrease in volume for Beef was more than offset by net pricing gains of 14.4%. Increased export demand sustained beef sales, which were essentially flat from the previous year - $121 million in 2010 vs. $120 million in 2009 - discounting the one-time charge of $560 million incurred in 2009.[27] Continued export demand for pork allowed net pricing to increase 41.9% in conjunction with an 8.7% decrease in volume. The company expects demand for beef and pork to remain constant in the coming year; since the supply for these markets is relatively inflexible due to the animal's life cycles, the company expects demand to continue to outstrip the supply for the coming year, allowing them to sustain their price increases.[28] Higher raw material prices drove down operating income for the Prepared Foods segment despite a nearly 17% increase in pricing and a 6.7% decrease in volume.[29]
In the first quarter of 2011, Tyson generated revenues of $7.615 billion, an increase of nearly 15% from the previous year; net income for the quarter increased 86% to $298 million. Operating income for the quarter grew 59% to $498 million.[30] A 23% increase in pork pricing was the main driver for the increased sales, however similar pricing increases were seen in Beef and Prepared Foods. Increased demand for Pork and Beef from international buyers led to higher pricing. Pork sales volume increased 6% while the average sales price increased 23%. Beef sales volume was essentially flat, increasing less than 1%, however prices increased 16.4%. Higher operating costs offset this improvement however, and the segment's operating income decreased 2.5% from Q1 2010. Chicken volume grew 8.4% during the quarter but pricing decreased by 0.4%; the segment more than doubled its operating income from the previous year.[31] The company expects beef supplies to decrease by 1-2% during the year, which should maintain the company's higher prices. While the company doesn't expect Pork to be as high as it was this quarter throughout the year, they are predicting that 2011 will be better than normal for this segment. The company's Chicken segment has seen major gains in operating efficiency, however higher corn prices and some oversupply are expected to affect the segment's revenues.[32]
In fiscal 2009, the chicken segment generated $9.6 billion in sales. This business focuses primarily around the processing of live chickens into fresh, frozen and value-added chicken products. Unlike it does with its other segments, Tyson does not purchase live chickens for its chicken segment, instead raising animals itself. This is because there does not exist an active market for live chicken; the animals are not traded on commodities exchanges as do cattle or hogs. Corn and soybean meal are major production costs in the poultry industry, representing roughly 37% of the cost of growing a live chicken. The chicken segment's operating results are affected negatively by higher energy costs and lower prices caused by cycles of oversupply in the world chicken market. Tyson actively manages its breeding stock to respond to cycles in the world chicken market.[33]
In fiscal 2009, the prepared foods segment was the company's smallest sales contributor, generating $2.8 billion in sales. This segment manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products, including pepperoni, beef and pork pizza toppings, pizza crusts, flour and corn tortilla products, appetizers, prepared meals, ethnic foods, soups, sauces, side dishes, meat dishes and processed meats.
In 2007, Tyson created a partnership with oil company ConocoPhillips (COP) to produce biodiesel from animal fat. ConocoPhillips, the third-largest U.S. oil company, said it plans to spend about $100 million over a 3 to 5 year period to prepare several refineries to process the fuel. At full production--estimated at 175 million gallons per year of biodiesel--Tyson expects annual earnings of 4 cents to 16 cents a share from the project. The production facility was completed in July 2010 and production is expected to follow shortly thereafter.[35]
The company's products are marketed and sold to national and regional grocery retailers, regional grocery wholesalers, meat distributors, clubs and warehouse stores, military commissaries, industrial food processing companies, national and regional chain restaurants or their distributors, international export companies and domestic distributors who service restaurants, food service operations such as plant and school cafeterias, convenience stores, hospitals and other vendors.
Tyson Foods' #1 customer is Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), which accounted for approximately 13.8% of the Company's fiscal 2009 consolidated sales. No other single customer or customer group represented greater than 10% of fiscal 2009 consolidated sales.[36]
With each of its products, Tyson Foods must use supply and demand analysis to find the appropriate price that will optimize sales. A variety of other factors can shift the price of the company's products, including product safety and quality, brand identification (marketing), breadth and depth of product offering, customer service and credit terms. Tyson's beef and pork segments must price their products in line with the movements of cattle and pork spot and futures prices on commodities exchanges. Any divergence between Tyson's pricing and spot and futures prices would result in competitors such as Sanderson Farms (SAFM) or Cargill undercutting Tyson. Prepared Foods' prices are therefore much less volatile as competitors cannot quickly begin producing similar value-added products. As this segment represents only a small fraction of Tyson's overall sales, the company is dependent on high cattle and pork prices to grow revenues.
The extreme volatility in corn and soybean prices beginning in 2006-2007 resulted in most livestock and poultry producers losing money in 2008 and 2009, which led to an overall reduction in the size of their herds and flocks. The result of this scale-back is a second consecutive year of reduced available protein; this is the first time in the past 40 years that the US protein supply has decreased for two consecutive years. Tyson expects that this overall reduction in protein supply will lead to higher prices and increased profits.[40] Corn and soybean prices continued to rise throughout 2010, leaving Tyson looking for ways to offset the higher commodity prices. High prices for pork, in part spurred by Russia's reopening to American exports, are expected to cover the majority of the cost increase but continued oversupply in the poultry market has depressed chicken prices.[41]
Any disease outbreak in Tyson's chickens, cattle, or swine will decrease the demand for the company's products and detriment the company's earnings. Furthermore, an outbreak of disease could result in governmental restrictions on the import and export of Tyson's fresh chicken, beef or other products to or from its suppliers, facilities or customers. This could also result in negative publicity that may have an adverse effect on the company's ability to market its products successfully. The company is trying to mitigate this risk by diversifying its livestock production base internationally. By expanding its production facilities to new markets like China, India, and South America, Tyson will be able to continue production during a major disease outbreak.[42]
Rising oil prices increase distribution and processing costs and have a negative impact on overall financial performance. Tyson hopes to mitigate these concerns by developing biodiesel from leftover animal fats with petroleum company ConocoPhillips. The company hopes to begin production at its first ethanol plant in early 2010.[43]
With the 2008 acquisition of three vertical chicken processors in Brazil and the planned acquisition of protein processor Shandong Xinchangn in China, Tyson Foods is gaining world market share. The company is looking to further build its international holdings in pork and red meat, specifically in China, India, and South America. Tyson is well positioned to capitalize on the highly fragmented protein industries in these countries by consolidating smaller companies and increasing their economies of scale. However, with the falling prices of chicken and pork, the company must successfully integrate and any future acquisitions while posting lower revenues.[44][42]
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The U.S. Department of Defense says only 127 Marines have been awarded the Silver Star for combat in Iraq and Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001.
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Kuroh... the vassal of the previous colorless king uses a black hand attack.
The writers left a lot out of the story, so I could be totally wrong. The series is one big plot hole.
Why did Kuroh keep his powers after he disappeared?
The white fox is the colorless king? How? What is he?
The only way I can see the colorless king being the "transparent" king is if he's just the alternate personality of the Silver King. Weismann was a Nazi/German scientist. He lost his sister in the war. He's extremely powerful. He may have divided his power, in order to keep himself from becoming a tyrant. His other side becomes Ichigen Miwa, a hermit. Ichigen snaps and then turns into the White Fox?
Who was the girl/mannequin with the colorless king when the airship crashed? Was/is Weismann crazy?
I think its more likely that the colorless king is the black king and he snapped. Who was Ichigen Miwa? We need some flashback scenes.
What the hell is a strain? If Neko really a cat? Are strain children of Kings or just random animals/people born with powers? What if Neko is just Weismann's daughter? Yeah, he was a hermit but he still had people work for him. The airship didn't maintain itself and people delivered food (at least some drinks) and stuff to him.
|2012-12-28, 13:28
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strains are "special beings who born with a "natural power" without need have a king to give then power this was explained in anime and in manga red memories.
3 thinks still buggin me:
if fox was in the blimp until the blue attack, who was the person who place the bloodied cloth in the closet
again how the old type phone magic appear in the mikoto cell who place on that?
and what happen with the girl/doll who was on the blimp too on the shiro flashback showing fox possession dont show him using her body.
|2012-12-28, 13:34
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I'd be a bit surprised if they toss out our already established characters to go onto completely new ones in a sequel where the former still have unfinished business to take care of. But I suppose only time will tell... it's going to be a while anyway.
|2012-12-28, 13:44
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I don't know about the black king but i do want to know about the green clan and king. on he sword of silver domancles, it looked like red/blue/green were in a triangle format which makes sense cause they are RGB spectrum. The intersection of these 3 colors is white which is where silver's stone was in the domancles sword.
I was surpised not to see the greens especially since Fushimi mentioned it couple of times in episodes before. no doubt their king is probably strong like Suoh and Munakata. He/She is the fifth king in the order of kings. Now will he be the one Munakata will face next season is left to be seen.
|2012-12-28, 15:13
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Neko's background... how did she come to believe she's an actual cat? This needs to be addressed since she's a real person.
Those 3 things bug me too.
-The bloody clothes... what the heck? The body Weismann/Neko named Shiro wasn't from around there. He wasn't from the school. It's not like the Fox lived at the school beforehand and he just landed there by coincidence. No one but Kuro knew he was there and Neko had to build a new identity for him. The Fox wasn't even looking for him. The bloody clothes could be his own clothes, though. He did crash through a roof, he could have been cut. His memories could have been jarred.
- lost on the phone magic.
- the blimp corpse/mannequin. Was Weismann crazy before the Fox switched bodies? Did Fox kill Weismann's wife/lover/girlfriend? Did Weismann have a stand-in doll for his sister? What's going on?
|2012-12-28, 15:48
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Join Date: May 2012
Age: 40
for what i get on her little past flash back and what was told in the red manga, wild strains(most of the case the animals one(strains can be humans and animals) in manga is showed a horse strain very funny), are sometimes hunted by the blue guys because strains are seen dangerous or troublesome beings to be handled and i believe she being aware of her situation, she wanted live in the cat form to pass like a normal cat, because only kings are strong enought to being almost immune to her powers, and because she is a nudist(on episode 2 she say who like like to be naked), and maybe is more easy pass as a little cat than keep her invisible all the times(maybe the amount of power and concentration needed to pass like a little cat is much less than cloak himself invisble for too much time.
- i few more about her background based on the ed song(who is a few about her life before the anime), she lived a lonely life without friends and need keep runing and moving time from time due to her strain nature, shiro was the first person she can trusth(and ending fall in love for what us get), omg nowww all the talk about neko remind me her bad end NNNNOOOOOOOO gora hand u are devilish ppls bring back her shiro i can't stand with neko lonyless and sadness
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|2012-12-28, 17:02
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|2012-12-28, 20:00
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|2012-12-28, 20:12
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I think the white one is called Silver cause he's white racially and a former Nazi scientist. And the Gold one is obviously yellow but calls himself Gold 'cause he's racially Asian. I think they're named in a way to avoid drama over racism since the anime was aired all over the world.
|2012-12-28, 21:24
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"White" is silver and "yellow" is gold because silver and gold are more cool than plain old white and yellow. It's just that, when you're trying to represent colors with spices it's going to be difficult to find anything to use for silver and gold (or blue, for that matter) so white and yellow will have to suffice.
|2012-12-28, 21:52
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Not really. The story has one paradox. Shiro is not an "ultimate life form"(JoJo reference). Even an ultimate life form is dead. An "ultimate life form" can regenerate if he has a piece of body part left. Shiro can regenerate from wound, but red king basically vaporize Shiro. He doesn't have a flesh or bone for the lifecycle. Only his sword remains.
The paradox is Shiro's quote, "only a king can kill another king". His statement(or thoery) is refuted by former blue king's ending. The current blue king also refutes Shiro's statment. He says Kuro can kill a king with his sword, and Kuro is not a king.
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|2012-12-28, 21:56
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|2012-12-29, 00:32
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Why would they avoid "white?"
- Japan and Nazi Germany are portrayed as allies in WW2.
- Weismann is a former Nazi scientist researching paranormal stuff for a Nazi secret society.
- Weismann is ultra pale, super smart, most powerful person in the world... with a WW2 German background.
- he stumbled upon these power trying to create super soldiers for the war.
The producers probably didn't want the heat. "Was Weismann was trying to create the master race?"
I forgot to add.
- The Silver King is named ADOLF!!!
- Adolf Weissmann = Adolf White Man
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|2012-12-29, 01:05
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The fact that the soul made Shiro immortal, and that Weismann's original body was also immortal, would lead one to view that the entity known as Weismann is immortal so long as he remains king.
(Also is would just be painfully depressing if next season Neko is looking for a Shiro who truly is gone...)
The ending is pretty well laid out though in that you cannot allow the Colorless king a chance to escape, and you cannot stab/kill Weismann so no matter how magical Kuro's sword is, it wouldn't have been able to kill Weismann. But, if you blow Weismann to little tiny bits, as per what Mikoto did, you can destroy the body chaining down the Colorless king, leaving it with no where to go but to be destroyed since, as we had seen before, Mikoto's flames could devour the little fox when it tried to usurp his body.
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Ever since the economy turned so sour that a lemon would seem sweet by comparison, I have wondered if there are any entrepreneurs out there with a bold business model that can help get the country back on its feet.
I am happy to report that I recently found two of them. They are Sydney Lippman and Isabella Nuzzo, co-owners of Syd and Izzy's Lemonade Stand, a budding Fortune 500 corporation headquartered in one of the nation's top corporate headquarters, my hometown of Stamford, Conn.
I met them on Scofieldtown Road, where Sydney and Isabella, both 10 and fifth-graders at Northeast Elementary School, had set up shop. In a brilliant advertising ploy designed to attract customers quickly, the girls were shouting and waving their arms as I drove down the street.
As a father who remembers when my two young daughters sold lemonade and made more money than I had in my wallet at the time, mainly because the money in my wallet went to buy their lemonade, I turned around and parked near the stand.
"You're our first customer!" Isabella chirped.
It felt good to get in on the ground floor -- or at least the ground, since that's where the stand was situated -- of such a promising enterprise.
The girls' corporate slogan, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade," was handsomely hand-lettered on the cardboard sign attached to the front of the stand.
"Did you actually make this lemonade?" I asked the two young entrepreneurs, who also had written "Secret recipe!" on a corner of the sign.
"Yes," Sydney assured me.
The tycoons explained that they had squeezed the juice of several lemons into water but that it was taking too much time, so they combined their lemonade with a store-bought brand to come up with their now-not-so-secret (sorry, girls) recipe.
It was uniquely delicious. And worth every penny of the 50 cents they charged per cup.
"We were going to charge $2," Sydney said, "but we thought it would be unfair to overcharge people, so we decided to charge 50 cents."
If you have a fair price, customers will buy more of your product and you will end up making more money, the girls noted.
I was impressed, not only with their business acumen, but with their approach to customer service.
"In business, you don't want to be too grumpy to your customers," Isabella said. "Always smile," she added with, of course, a smile.
At this moment, a woman and her two young daughters came along and bought three cups of Syd and Izzy's lemonade.
"This is very good!" the woman exclaimed. Her daughters agreed.
"If you have a quality product," Sydney confided after they left, "people will buy it."
"Business leaders and politicians could learn a lot from you girls," I said. "If they followed your example of combining quality with fair pricing and good customer service, the economy would rebound."
"We would be happy to give them tips," said Isabella, who is thinking of selling the bracelets she has made out of soda can pop-top rings. She also has a line of colorful duct tape products, including a pocketbook and a wallet.
"She's very entrepreneurial," said Isabella's mom, Gerri Nuzzo, whose older daughter, Ariana, 14, also is creative and would be part of the corporate team.
When I called back later in the afternoon, Gerri reported that Syd and Izzy's Lemonade Stand had grossed $10 in two and a half hours, pretty good considering that Scofieldtown is not a heavily traveled road.
"They did all right," Gerri said.
Sydney's dad, Craig Lippman, concurred when I spoke with him by phone a couple of days later.
"I'm delighted that my daughter understands the supply-and-demand curve," said Craig, who works in financial markets for Thomson Reuters. "I'll go back and cut prices if it will increase business." He paused and added: "I could learn a lot from these girls. The whole country could."
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The AMFAR red carpet at Cannes is looooong. And jammed. It's an international festival. This is the most well attended party of the two weeks. So the press comes from everywhere in the world.
Since it's not a film premiere, celebrities at AMFAR are not required to stop at every outlet for interviews. They're technically not promoting anything and the ones who hate talking to the media just blow by the line, pose at the photo wall, and go inside to drink. Luckily I happened to be assigned beside some Italian presenter Pasquale who for some reason knows f-cking everyone. And they know him back him. Harvey Weinstein came over to Pasquale, Armani talked to Pasquale, everyone loves Pasquale. Back to this is a minute.
So Ebola Paris Hilton arrives. Of course it wants to be interviewed. It starts at the top of the line and stops at every outlet, giving each reporter 2 to 3 minutes each. I work for a tv show. The point of the tv show is to get celebrities on tv, talking. I knew my producer would make me talk to it. And I knew that telling Ebola that it was a piece of sh-t wouldn't exactly be in compliance with my job description. I'm not usually assigned to interview the likes of Ebola so we don't often run into these dilemmas. And I've been fortunate at the major events to have avoided it in the past. Until last night. It's not my style to be unprofessional. Especially at a charity event when I'm part of a crew that's responsible to send good work back home. At the same time, I did not want to be infected by that asshole's miserable virus. We have seen the effects of Ebola infestation. I was worried. And closer it came.
It was just one spot away from me when Spittle arrived. He was whisked through check-in and waved off all interviews, hurriedly headed for the entrance steps when beside me, a voice cried out:
God bless Pasquale. Of course Pasquale, for some reason, like he is with everyone else, is tight with Gerard Butler. And Butler turned, grinned at him, and came right over. Mother. F-cker.
At this point Dylan was forced to shoot Butler. Between Spittle and Ebola, obviously Spittle is the bigger name. As a decision for the show, anyone would make that call. And I had to try and benefit off Pasquale's bonus by inching my mic closer to his, in the hopes perhaps of squeezing out my own soundbite off Pasquale's back. This meant that by the time Ebola arrived at my spot, I was occupied. So it skipped me and went to the next. I was saved. God bless Gerard Butler.
He was animated talking to Pasquale. There was indeed some moisture collecting at the corner of his mouth. And some dandruff on his shoulder. But at that moment, I loved him and Pasquale too, both, because they spared me from disaster.
I did get a quick comment from Spittle at AMFAR but had a much better conversation with him at the Artists for Peace and Justice fundraiser later on. It was 1am. He was in fine spirits. The ultimate Free Man with that sh-t eating expression on his face, spreading his arms wide for the photogs. This is not a man who lacks confidence. Cocky bastard. And of course he was ogling every attractive woman in the vicinity like it was their sole purpose in life to worship him.
To his credit though, because he has been quite active in Haiti, Spittle did stop for interviews even though the pressline at that venue was a f-cking mess. He spent several minutes with me, passionately discussing his work in Haiti, his sponsorship of a school there, and told me that it was an immediate yes when Paul Haggis called him up last week to come support the cause. Spittle just happened to be in the neighbourhood, spending some downtime spraying the good the people of Monaco.
After that he was off, inside the club where he spent the night having manly man time with Russell Crowe and trying to decide between several Euro babes fighting for his attention.
I am still skeeved by his spittle, but I do owe his spittle some gratitude. Spittle saved my ass. A free pass then, perhaps for a few weeks.
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In the Netherlands, state funding has supported design for decades, offering a lifeline to students and giving young practitioners the financial independence to create groundbreaking work. But after a right-wing government took office in 2010 and started slashing those funds, a whole era of Dutch art and design came to an end.
One such project was the identity for the 2011 exhibition "To All Tomorrows Parties," at Tent, a Rotterdam art gallery, which was a reaction to the financial crisis and the cultural-spending cuts. With pasted-up posters and signs that evoked a political rally, Team Thursday created both a sense of motion (the show was mostly performances) and a physical immediacy. Much of their other work—like a print-on-demand stand for the Facing Pages festival and a poster with a 3-D look for a lecture series on online video—shares the same low-cost aesthetics and a tactical, make-do, festive attitude.
Trum and van Esch—who introduce themselves to potential clients and editors alike with friendly FaceTime video messages—admit that "clients are becoming more cautious." Still, the two are able to be both realistic and optimistic about what's to come. In this new era, "not everyone will start their own company," they say, but the "people who really want it will do it."
Walter Green
Walter Green practically grew up at McSweeney's, the sprawling indie-publishing empire founded by Dave Eggers. As a high school student, Green was a tutor at McSweeney's 826 after-school writing program in San Francisco's Mission District. In 2008, he chose an internship at the quarterly in lieu of going to college. Even though he didn't do any design work at first, he was immersed in one of the most innovative design environments in American publishing. Eventually, he started to design some small projects for McSweeney's and others: postcards, back covers of books.
In 2010, Brian McMullen, the McSweeney's art director, called Green back to San Francisco to work on books, magazines, and a variety of other projects. Green ultimately became the co–art director, with McMullen, of the McSweeney's food magazine, Lucky Peach. By 2012, he was the sole art director of the title, but he slid away from regular duties in San Francisco and moved back to New York. He still art directs Lucky Peach, but he has taken on more freelance work for, among others, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Vintage, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He's only 23.
Hogue remembers Green's final exit: "Walter's desk was covered in potted plants. He created a small jungle of his space. Of course, he never watered them, so by the time he left, most were dead or dying. When he cleaned out his desk over the weekend, he placed a dead plant on everyone's desk before he left. Most are still there."
Márcia Novais
In 2010, for her graduation project, Márcia Novais organized the first degree show at the University of Porto's Faculty of Fine Arts in five years. She calls such shows "the epilogue of a student's cycle of life," but in her case that wasn't really so: a year later, on a whim, she applied for a position as the college's resident graphic designer—and got the job.
When the posters started spreading beyond the college's walls to screens (and to pages, should you be reading this on paper) around the world, their audience changed dramatically, and so did hers. But Novais doesn't want to be pigeonholed as a poster designer. Instead, she's interested in making work that deals with the experience of being on the threshold of school and "outside, in the real world." Her identity for the 2012 degree show, "Futuro Não Futuro" (Future No Future), addresses this in a typically oblique style. Pink is the dominant color, but the roving punctuation suggests something darker. With Portugal crippled by austerity-led recession and her friends struggling to find work (most have already left the country), Novais's designs hint at a less than rosy epilogue for the current generation of designers.
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Here's how Critton spends his time: "So, let's say there are ten units of time in a waking day. In my day, maybe three of those are spent making form"—books, typefaces, a fi lm series, a "value-appreciating" book bank. Three of the remaining seven units "are devoted to the brass tacks of studio operation," while another is spent on "pedagogy and instruction and the planning thereof." (He currently teaches at Rutgers University and the School of Visual Arts' new Products of Design M.F.A. program.) His final three non–form-making time-units are "put toward general idea-fostering and the search for other notions and prospects and nodes of connection among disciplines." This means no less than "looking and writing and reading and copying and talking and listening and playing and performing and courting and watching and showing and moving and eating and drinking." So, like, Everything.


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CBS says the colorful, outspoken Christie will make his first appearance with Letterman on Monday.
The guest shot follows numerous jokes by Letterman at the expense of Christie and his ample girth.
Christie termed his plumpness "fair game" for comedians at a 2011 news conference. But maybe he'll arrive for "Late Show" with some droll observations of his own to target Letterman.
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